Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1936 — Page 12
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1¢36.
BECAUSE THE COUNCIL “SAVED” $400 NDIANAPOLIS was in the humiliating position yesterday of seeing Mayqr Kern unable to take part in the program or vote on the resolutions at the United States Mayors’ Conference which he attended in Washington.
The reason was that the City Council last summer refused to pay the $400 annual dues required for support of the conference—leaving Indianapolis as the only city of its size which fails to get the benefits of this helpful municipal - organization. The Mayors’ Conference is a dominant influence in progressive city movements today. Indianapolis needs the co-operation of such an organization.
EXPERT HELP ON TRAFFIC
"HE best news that accident-ridden Indianapolis has heard recently is the announcement that Lieut. Frank Kreml, nationally known accident prevention expert, is to survey the city’s traffic problem in an effort to reduce the high automobile death rate. Police Chief Morrissey said Lieut. Kreml also has been invited to conduct an accidentprevention and investigation school for local trafic officers.
By getting experts to analyze traffic hazards and work out safety plans, Indianapolis is using the formula that has proved successful in accident reduction in other cities. Lieut. Kreml worked out a program by which Evanston, Ill, changed from a city of excessive accidents to one of the country’s safest communities. He taught Louisville police how to present traffic case evidence in court and helped that city correct a loose enforcement system. His traffic survey and recommendations at South Bend have helped make that city the safest of its size in Indiana. Lieut. Kreml now is connected with Purdue University Research Department. Indianapolis welcomes the opportunity to hear an expert diagnosis of its traffic ills.
TONIC FOR A SICK WORLD
PEAKING in New York, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles laid down what, in his opinion, should be the three fundamental requisites of this nation’s permanent foreign policy. “First, the perfecting of a relationship between the 21 American republics based solely upon mutual trust, upon a reciprocal and scrupulous regard for their equal rights as sovereign democracies, upon economic interdependence, and upon their joint recognition of the similarity of the problems they confront in the world at large. . “Second, the cultivation and maintenance of friendship and understanding with all other nations. “Finally, co-operation with every other nation in the world, without political entanglement, but at the same time in no spirit of narrow isolatien, in restoring and maintaining unimpaired the channels of healthy world trade, in all salutary social and humanitarian objectives, and above all, in furthering the cause of peace.” In’ the long view, the future of the United States is bound up with the future of the Americas, in peace and in war. If we are to be secure, we must have the friendship of the rest of the nations of this hemisphere.’ If we are to prosper, we want their increasing trade. And if we can not live in peace and understanding with our neighbors, we are not going to be able to get aléng with the rest of the world.
NO LONGER “UNTOUCHABLE” HE manifest fact that the Constitution or the Supreme Court or both stand in the way of certain of the New Deal objectives which were so overpoweringly approved by the Nov. 3 election returns has already raised some interesting discussion from several quarters, One contention: That the Constitution itself, in the very portion which creates the nation’s court system, confers on Congress the power to break the barrier without resorting to the slow process of amendment. } The Supreme Court is the only court created by the Constitution. The inferior courts are the direct creatures of Congress (under the Constitution). And the Constitution limits the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to subjects not involved in the New Deal. All other jurisdiction—called appellate as distinct from original—is exercifed by sufferance of Congress, which can make such exceptions and regulations as it desires. Therefore, if Congress so chooses, it can confine the Supreme Court to cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and those in which a state may be a party—cases of original jurisdiction—and so say that beyond that the Supreme Court shall not go. In other words Congress can put itself in the position of deciding on the constitutionality of its own acts except as those acts might affect subjects in which the Supreme Court does have original jurisdiction. Or, as Gen. Hugh Johnson points out, Congress could leave with. the court the right to declare laws unconstitutional but, exercising the power to regulate in matters of jurisdiction, could specify that the majority rule within the court should no longer prevail, and that unconstitution“ality could be declared, for example, only by a two-thirds
+ The point we see to all this is that some objective thinking is being done on a very real problem; objective, as distinct from the emotional approach which prevailed during fag the campaign. The “untouchable” idea was killed at the po Heretofore, because of a political tradition which failed prove out—a tradition which said that any discussion of A change in the Constitution or the Supreme Court's power
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By Westbrook Pegler
Advocates Establishment of a Government Ministry of Sport So More Persons Can Play Games.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—There is talk of a government ministry of sports and, conquering an old superstition, I now believe it could be a good thing provided it could be kept non-political and reasonably honest as
to graft in the presence of strong temptation. Under efficient, honest supervision, sport would attract more participants than nowadays and there is no reason why this country should imitate the Ger-
mans and Italians who use sport frankly to develop cannon-fodder and the brood-stock to produce more cannon-fodder. But there can be no doubt that sport would improves the breed of people in this country in :the physical sense if brought to the people by the ‘government because, for all our vaunted athleticism, we are, on the whole, a scrubby lot who point with pride to a small element of famous athletes and kid ourselves into a proud belief that they represent the general run of Americans. Some idealists argue that the mind improves with ‘the body but that is just a wall motto as every athletic director knows. The opportunity for a government ministry or department of sport. lies in the fact that comparatively few Americans play any game often enough. .Most of those who do play are young, but that doesn’t even mean that all the young ones have a chance to play. Initiative is lacking and organization could supply the initiative, the facilities and the program, enlisting in sport not only youth but a great element of men of mature years who are still young enough to play in their spare time.
Mr. Pegler
8 ” ® T is true that we have organizations now, but our Olympic authorities made a messy failure of their responsibility last summer and the limit was reached when Jesse Owens, the Negro runner, was declared to be no amateur merely because he refused to give a
command performance to the intense social embarrassment of the nabobs who had promised to'produce him without consulting his desires. The amateurism of lawn tennis has been a spectacular fake for 20 years with professional amateurs, mainly women, earning better returns, one way or another, than most professional fighters and ball players. In amateur boxing, thousands of kids slam one another for the private profit of individuals and stockholders’ corporations posing as clubs. And college football has become a flagrant reproach to the moral honesty of institutions which are supposed to set a decent example to the young and a robust disgrace to the teaching profession whose most august members annually put their names to false affidavits knowing them to be false.
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HE morals of our sport could hardly be much worse under government supervision and they would be decidedly improved if a ministry or department of sport were to abolish entirely not only the distinction between amateurs and professionals, but the very word “amateur” itself. This would be good riddance because nobody knows what it means except that it does mean hypocrisy. Then all competitions would be “open,” the necessity for polite perjury would be eliminated and the matter of a player's earnings would be something strictly for himself, his paymaster and the tax collector,
I wholly
The Hoosier Forum
disagree with what you say,
defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
but will
SUGGESTS CITY HOSPITAL BECOME COUNTY UNIT By Dr. Frederick E. Jackson I was much interested in your edi-
torial entitled, “Simplification of Government.”
Large ‘endings often have small beginnings. So here in Indiana as good a beginning as any can be the changing of the Indianapolis City Hospital to a county hospital. Such arrangement would equalize the pay for such services as come in from outlying districts, which often receive free services from the taxpayers of the incorporated city. In such an arrangement, incorporated places such as Woodruff-pl and perhaps others would pay a more just part of the costs of hospitalization of many people. Would it not be well at the same time to take the new institution out of the hands of party politics and party politicians? In my many years of service connected with the City Hospital, I have never yet seen a patient suffering from Democratic pneumonia or Republican malaria, but I have seen many employes suffering from the complications of “partyitis.”
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SUGGESTS NAZIS PROVIDE LIGHT FOR GERMANS By H. 8.
Necessity, the mother of invention, seems to be getting rather prolific in Germany. - Several scientific advances have been announced recently in the Fatherland.
The latest concerns an infra-red ray apparatus which is said to permit seeing in the dark. While an invention of this kind should prove serviceable to humanity,- it suggests an advance which would be of equally great service. Nazi censorship and propaganda being what they are, the German people are figuratively moving in the dark. If a method could be devised of keeping them acquainted with true conditions and progress in Germany and the world at large, it should be an immense boon for the cause of world peace. os ” 4 CROP INSURANCE SEEN WORTHY EXPERIMENT By Reader
Election echoes have not yet died away, but President Roosevelt's crop insurance committee is ‘hard at work on a plan to transform a campaign promise into a performance. The committee, headed by Secretary Wallace, has enlisted the active support of private insurance authorities and the operators of warehouses. Their support will be needed, as will the co-operation of
millions of farmers if a workable
program is to be evolved. It is possible, I believe, to develop a sound plan, But it will not be easy, and I do not blame the farm leaders for being skeptical. It is a gigantic undertaking, and the planners have to feel their way, for
General Hugh Johnson Says—
Economic Strategy Is a Major Aspect of War, but No One in Contact ‘With Government Now Lived Through World War Experience With It.
HIS was done quite as much by economic trades with, and pressure upon neutrals, as by naval blockades and closed frontiers. Thus was Germany cut off from Chilean nitrates, Spanish mules, : ish steel, and oil, rubber and wool. . Jt was a new side of war—silent, unspectacular, unhonored and unsung, But I am not sure ‘ is not the most important of all war’s most
aspects. We became as adept in it as any,
UFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 17—When Winston Churchill stood up in the British Parliament and took the hide off Mr. Baldwin's ministry for inadequate and indecisive control of industrial mo-
bilization behind the British rearmament program,
tion of stabilizing, the value of money as between powers, to keep any of them from on its face. Sometimes it had to do with food supply of beleaguered
th inaintainBritain
hen submarines had ul. them off rom
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there is little experience in this field to guide them. The ultimate objective is an all-risk insurance plan embracing all major crops. But prudence dictates that the committee follow the President's advice and take only one crop at a time, to the end that theories may be tested before they are extended. The goal is well worth this patient striving. To the producers; a sound crop insurance plan, linked with the ever-normal granary idea with premiums assessed in crops in fat years and benefits paid out in crops in lean years, will mean stability of income. To consumers it will mean a steady and ever-abundant' supply of farm products at stable prices. And to all of us, a constant purchasing power in the hands of our farm population will mean more stability for all business, more assurance of profits for middlemen, more security in wages for city workers.
; ¥ 8 = WHAT VALUE EDUCATION? WRITER ASKS By J. R. ;
The three Rs have recgived a body blow. A movie company manager, seeking a man to play the part of a hero who is half monkey, is giving First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the Yankees the once over for the role because he has a swell chest. I'm afraid -the schoolboys who have been dreaming of wealth and
CHURCH OF MY CHILDHOOD DAYS
BY ANNA E. YOUNG There's a wee small corner in my memory book, As I turn the leaves I pause to look; Pictured on the page where memory strays Is the dear little church of my childhood days.
May it greet new faces as the older ones go; . "Tis the will of God; it must be so. But to you I offer just a bit of praise, Dear little church of my childhood days.
DAILY THOUGHT
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.— I Timothy 2:12.
HE dignity of woman consists in being unknown to the world. Her glory is the esteem of her husband; her pleasure. the happiness of her family.—Rousseau.
long before his re1. To cement a
fame and who have been studying hard, believing that education would aid them in their ambition are going to lose a lot of their faith in schools. Charlie Schwab once said, “It's brains that count.” But in this case it's the chest that counts. If Gehrig should be selected at a fabulous salary, I hope it doesn’t cause a lot of boys to quit school and look for jobs lifting heavy weights to develop their chests.
= ” 8 ROOSEVELT A CHARMER, WRITER STATES By Mrs. Mabel German It is surely unbelievable how blind, deaf and dumb some people
can be. This Jimmy Cafourcs is positive Roosevelt will - save the
world, and I am positive he will
not. . . . Roosevelt's name is not mentioned in my Bible, and up to date I don't know of anything he has saved. . . . You would have us believe F. D. R. is a second Moses, l:ading us out of the wilderness, but how
can the blind lead a people out of |/
anything? Yes, I agree with you Roosevelt is a charmer. He has charmed a great many, but there are still a lot of people who refuse to be. .. .
I have never heard of Roosevelt wearing a halo. I have only heard of him wearing a charming stile. Oh, yes, I heard of .him wearing patches on. his sleeves for show. He would sure make a fine ringmaster for a circus, with Paul MecNutt on the flying trapeze!
” ” ” NATURAL GAS DEBATE DISCUSSED BY WRITER By George B. MeDougle, Newcastle
- Newcastle is now using natural gas, and the Courier-Times reports its first month’s bill was less than half what it was for the last month’s use of artificial. I read in the Indianapolis papers some criticism of the city’s gas utility for not dropping artificial in favor of natural gas, and I'd like to.ask if this is not wanting to have your cake and eat it, too. Say the bills were cut in half. The city’s revenue would be cut in half. Let's assume the cost of natural gas to the city would be half its cost for artificial which probably is not true. Then, throw away the money being received from. the sale of by-product coke and other by-products.
With less than half the money coming in and expenses cut in half, would the city still try to pay $8,000,000 for the plant, or would the old owners kindly consent to cut the price to $4,000,000? _If they would not, then the city could not do things by halves! it, the city’s first job is to buy and pay for the plant, and at this dis-
tance it looks as if the city is going
about the job in a sensible way.
As TI understand
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Out Democratic Bettors on Election Stand in Debt to Literary Digest's Mistaken Poli,
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The Literary Die gest admits that its face is red, and on the whole it handles a difficult situation with about as much grace as possible. After all, you can’t expect a magazine to go out and shoot itself.
But the Digest is inaccurate in suggesting that practically all other prognostications fared just as badly. It was a pretty lonely limb on which the Digest found itself. As a matter "of fact, the result was not difficult to predict even though the extent of the landslide might have been surprising. I had not intended to bring the matter up, but this column said repeatedly that Mr. Roosevelt would be re-elected and that he would win easily. As I remember my forecast, it gave Gov. Landon seven states. One factor in its favor the Die gest neglected to mention. It could assert with justice that many deserving Democrats stand deeply in its debt. But for the Digest poll there would have been practically no election betting, and certainly none in the closing days of the canipaign. The election result was not in any sense a sur- ~ prise. It is. true that some large newspapers officially predicted a Landon triumph right up till the end, but these were publications which allowed their ‘emotions to run away with their judgment, News writers were unusually accurate. I talked to dozens of men and women who had covered the political situation in one phase or another, and regardless of the policy of the paper for which they . worked they were 100 per cent convinced that Roose 4 velt would win. I was told that the only single reporter wha honestly believed in a Landon triumph was a man from Kansas City, and that even he wasn't really reporter but an editor.
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TE fact that the Digest was wrong was shocke ing and even terrifying to certain people. I a not speaking now of people who lost money by. following its” tip but of those in whom the shock was deeper and more spiritual. To them it wa as If the sun had failed to come up in the morning or the Supreme Court had scuttled the Constitution I imagine that some people got the impression that the Digest poll was established by Benjamin Franklin, which is not a fact. During the course of arguments I was forever running into the state< ment, “The Digest pcll has always been right, Why shouldn't it be right now?” ¢
” » » ; NSTEAD of answering it was my custom to as a counter question. “What do you mean by ale. ways?” I would inquire. Then it would develop that the Digest had been
Points
Mr. Broun
right as to the result four times, which included
1920, 1924, 1928 and 1932. And while the result was ni there had been rather palpable errors in a 2 I am prguing for a greater amount of scientifig skepticism. Reputations for being uncannily accue rate are built on too slight a foundation, There is no mystery about the Digest poll. Four Jilies. the magazine was lucky, and the fifth time it wasn’
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
President Hopes Buenos Aires Peace Meeting Will Be So Successful as to Be an Object Lesson to Europe; Monroe Doctrine to Be Broadened.
‘By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
ASHINGTON, Nov. 17—In Roosevelt's South America for the Pan-American Conference are two objectives which he began working on
election. close-knit relationship between all
a definition of an aggressor as any nation which sends its troops across its borders into the territory of another. Europe spurned this at the time, now seems
Some informal feelers along these lines have been made to Wi Europe would like to get us to withhold credits, supplies, etc., from any nation
which becomes an aggressor under Roosevelt's defi« ‘nition,
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OW far the President is ready to go H Sone eas, probably he himself does not 2 ie However, it can be put down as definite Fg at least do somethi