Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1936 — Page 18

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Give Light and the People will Pind Their. Own Way THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936

5 : 7 = JULIETTA—A STATE FUNCTION OUNTY commissioners’ proposal to abandon Julietta Hospital for the Insane and transfer 850 mental cases = to the Central State Hospital on W. Washington-st already = is meeting opposition from the state budget director. When ithe 1937 General Assembly is asked to approve the plan, r= opposition may be expected from other counties _ = Which now do not share this burden. Twice before similar ~ bills have failed to pass. ‘ : The whole question deserves reconsideration. Julietta is said to be the only county-maintained insti- © tution of its kind in the country. It is the constitutional © function of the state, elsewhere and in Indiana, to care for. ~ mental patients. But Marion County established the hos- ~ pital more than 35 years ago to care for incurable patients, : and ever since has borne a disproportionate burden. For ~ Marion County taxpayers not only, maintain Julietta; they pay heavily for the upkeep of state hospitals for the insane. : Over a long period the state should be able to care for ~ these unfortunates more efficiently than a local hospital. “The state’s hospitalization program is vastly larger. It is © better able to hire expert physicians, psychiatrists “and attendants.” The state can provide modern, scientific treat- ¥ ment; the county can not, without an almost prohibitive = . expenditure. With advances in medical science, some cases: * classed as “incurable” today may not be so in the future. State officials and legislators should give the county’s © proposal fresh consideration. Budget Director Brennan protests that Central State-Hospital already is overcrowded. a - But would it not be better to expand these facilities than 2 “to continue a separate hospital that can not fairly be ex5 § pected to give the service needed?

* STILLE NACHT - Cima this year will be saddened because Me, Schumann-Heink’s superb contralto will not float over = : the earth to enrich the season with her singing of Joseph * Mohr’s solemn but joyous hymn, “Stille Nacht.” She has * just laid herself down to sleep through death’s long silent ® night, living only in millions of hearts in many lands. s Schumann-Heink was a great artist and a great soul. 3 There was something earthy and universal about her = character. In her motherly heart there was no room for = hate, not even that glorified hate that some confuse with = patriotism. Death for her was not a tragedy, for she had lived - spaciously for three-quarters of a century. Those who were rivileged to know her and her voice will say with Wordsworth: “But she is in her grave, and, oh, the difference to

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CHOOL BUILDINGS APPROVED THE State Tax Board’s approval of the School Board's $875/000 building program, is welcome news to’ school patrons and parents. : ; During depression years building lagged until there is an estimated overload of 5800 pupils in our high schools. The present program is figured as the minimum needed to relieve overcrowding. The School Board now is ready to . go ahead with plans for a high school building in Irvington - and additions to Washington High School and School 26. & The number of pupils will continue to increase, but this £ construction will make the school housing problem easier : meet i in future budgets. |

| {FORD GUY TUGWELL . HEN in future years the last surviving veterans of the . New Deal, or the Roosevelt era, as it may then be called, ‘gather in reunion to exchange reminiscences and recall old eomrades, we've a notion they “will have this to ‘isay concerning one of the figures of the first four years: “Tugwell could take it.” - They will remember how he enlisted, a debonair lad of 40, filled with youthful ardor to do his bit for a great cause.. He 50 obviously believed in’ the cause, was so ready to do : :or die, that some of the veterans of earlier campaigns shook * their heads with forebdding. > = YIt'N get him,” they said. y that some of them meant that this starry-eyed t would go down in the kind of battle that is waged ngton, that he would fall victim to the political social intrigue that's part of capital life. And When all the forces who resented the philosophy e New Deal had finally converged on the surprised EP essor ‘and made him their personal devil, it t the forebodings were well justified.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Maximum Wage Proposed for College Football Players Seems Extremely Meager to Mr. Pegler.

EW YORK, Nov. 19.—The football colleges are inching toward honesty this year, but the maximum wage of $80 a month proposed for ’varsity men in some sections will have to be revised upward ds soon as

the customers realize that the game has become frankly pro. The sport customer believes that his hero, if he is paid at all, should be paid on the

basis of his turnstile power and a pay roll of, say $30,000 to a squad ob athletes who play to gate receipts ranging between $250,000 and $1,000,000 a season is just enough to indicate the college as an enemy of the working man. Football, on this scale, ceases to be amateur sport and becomes a form of coolie labor with the college in the role of a grasping, soulless corporation. - Of course, it is a gain when certain colleges are willing to admit the bare fact that they hire their football men. The customers have known, or strongly suspected, as much for some years, and football being the national institution that it is, there is progress in the willingness to concede the obvious. The football player works for the profit of not only the college but for the railroads, the gas and automobile companies, the hotels, roadhouses, restaurants, florists, telegraph companies, newspapers and ticket printers. The Chamber of Commerce frankly regards the team as a business asset, and, in some cases, is grateful enough to put ug*a pot of a few thousand dollars a year to pay star players. 5 R ® N many cases, thie head coach receives a percentage of the gate receipts, in addition to his base pay, and this is not to argue that he is undeserving, for most coaches are career-men, and colleges are merciless employers which a5oeps no substitutes for success

in football. i But up to this time it has never been admitted that-a player with great personal box office appeal or B. O,, as they call it in the show business, deserved a percentage of the gate. He may have been paid, but at most he received no more than a pre fighter or a minor league baseball player whereas,

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being.paid at all, he deserved as much as he was

worth. This might be as little as $1200 a year for a colorless guard or blocking back or $50,000 a year for a box office athlete such as Red Grange, Red {Cagle or Bobby Grayson. ” = 2 ND. 10 Argue that fi is bad for astudest ioimaks so much money so early in life is to fall back on theory. Nobody has yet established the the precise age at which it is good for a young man to make his pile, and the principle on which most of us proceed is to get it while the getting is good. Any agreement between So that football players may be paid, but not paid more than $80 a month, or any other arbitrary and niggardly figure, as compared to his B. O., is plainly contrary to the spirit of the country and its laws. It smacks; of a conspiracy to restrict wages, me Noga are yery Peiy in Proportion io She WikIBAS Yale.

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wholly disagree with what you say, but wall defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

HELP COMMUNITY FUND, WRITER URGES il By Mrs. ‘A. C. - I believe that if those who are not

doing their duty in the Community

nation-wide radio broadcasts for these funds, first by President Roosevelt and then by Governor Landon, they surely would change their minds and give: generously to. the Indianapolis chest. A gift through organized charity gives help, wisely administered, to aestitute families, the sick, the

| homeless and the aged.

Just now there is real danger that the present Indianapolis Community

ure would be ] some of our citizens ignore their res bility for their less fortunate“fellows. » “8 2 COMMENDS , TERRE HAUTE OFFICIALS’ ACTION By Robert J. Miller I wonder how any true American citizen can truly and conscientious~ ly deplore the Terre Haute incidents. . ‘My forefath fought to make this a nation with liberty and justice for all. . . . Their reaction to an incident such as this would have made stale eggs smell like violets. The Communists cry, “Give us freedom: of speech.

Russia—as long ‘as they are careful to uphold communism. ‘Trotsky’s followers sought to overthrow communism. Where are they now? Tolerating communism is as foolish as allowing a malignant neoplasm to grow-unchecked; the organism which harbors and nourishes it is sooner or later destroyed. I'm for more men like Mayor

deserve medals, not criticism. FJ ” FJ ROOSEVELT’S. FOREIGN POLICY IS PRAISED By Daniel Francis ‘Clancy, Logansport President Roosevelt is attempting to make America foreign-affairs conscious? It’s about time.

For 160 years, since President Washington gave birth to our one

been the clown and simpleton in the drama of international aff

* the couneil halls of the world, Yes, it is| logical that we should do so, but I}

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Beecher and Chief Yates. They.

American diplomatist has not only

but we have suffered horribly and |

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fallacy of Washington’s diplomatic | doctrine.

The Republicans sneeringly called Roosevelt a superman. He’ll have to be a superman to wrest this fallacy from the citizens of the great republic and cram interest in their fellowbeings’ affairs down their throats. For, regardless of the professions of brotherly. love and humanitarianism, the American does not care the snap of his fingers what happens to the rest of the world. The common, traditional words run, “What they do in Europe is no concern of ours. Let them take care of themselves! It’s none of our affair!” Washington's foreign policy, the isolation theory and the unquenchable ignorance and egotism of the American citizen have been the direct cause of all of our exterior troubles and wars, and for the death of hundreds of thousands of m The path to peace is not isola= tion. Isolation, in practice, only results in our being drawn into war willy-nilly at the beckoning of for-

‘eign statesmen of superior intellect

and experience, as, for an ignominious example, our: “entry” into the Great War. We must give our diplomats facilities for gaining experience, by

WINTER SUMMONS BY MARY WARD The ‘geese have flown over, And blackbirds are calling From cover to cover : Where brown léaves are falling,

Calling clans to maneuver Toward south lands enthralling.

And down in the garden ‘The north wind is sweeping, While asters, a cordon, Their. vigil are keeving As Jack Frost comes leaping The path, their new warden. . And I am not grieving Nor my heart deceiving, For I know, or ought to, - That Time must come reaping And gleaming, and fraught too, With joy, peace and sleeping— And clouds only, weeping.

DAILY THOUGHT ooihing. Ver, vey, fay un: to’ you. De, Ly the Father in My name, He will givertt yout. John 16:23.

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Devalued Dollar, Bonus Money, Armament Race in Europe, Undistribyted | Bh,

‘Eamings Tax and Increased Farm Prices Are Behind Rising Stock Market.

ASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 19—~The Administra= |. tion has a right to be concerned about our

taking an active and honorable part ‘in the world’s affairs that they may

‘be able in the future to keep us

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URGES JUNIOR COLLEGE

' | FOR INDIANAPOLIS

By Robert Taylor \ There are nearly 600 junior colleges (schools which specialize ‘in the first two years of college work) in America, and the number is increasing rapidly. Many cities such as Cincinnati, Louisville and others have municipal four-year universities. Why not a municipal ‘junior ‘college in Indianapolis? For most young people leaving high school fo go to work, there is a lapse of months or even years before a job is found. mhis period might well. be passed in a junior college at small expense to. the city. Indianapolis affords marvelous possibiliti 5 the development of & munici junior college. Where in America is there a better place than the centrally located. 76-acre campus of Arsenal Technical High School? In memory of. Milo H. Stuart, Indianapolis educator and founder of Tech, the new institution should bear the name Stuart Junior College. The 600 odd high school post-graduate students would enroll here as first-year college students. Classrooms and facilitiés' of Tech could be used. Additions to the curriculum and the faculty and a new building or two would be the only

| initial expenses.

Stuart Municipal Junior College would not interfere with the universities of Indiana. Its enrollment would ' derive from students who could not otherwise afford to attend college. After: completion of the Stuart two-year facilities, many would enroll in Butler, Indiana, Purdue and other universities to

enrollment of those institutions. Here is a glorious opportuntiy for the women’s clubs in Indianapolis

, A writer said recently in The Times

that Indianapolis lacks adequate leadership. If there is a civic leader. who wishes to disprove this statement, let him now appear advocating this accommodation to the education of future Indianapolis citizenry. [a a

PEOPLE NOT DECEIVED BY STRAW POLLS, WRITER SAYS | By John Hurley, Cutler

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By Heywood Broun .

~~ Compares A. F. of L. President Wiliam Green to Villain in High Hat of Old-Fashioned Melodrama.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—In the familiar melodrama the villain“ in the high hat locked Nellie in ‘a burning building in the first act, tied her to a railroad track in the second and attempted to push her into the

East River in the third. But in the fourth and final act he exclaimed in heartfelt tones, “Nellie, why don’t you trust me?” Much after this manner William Green at Tampa expressed shocked surprise because the C. I. O. unions had failed to attend the A. P. of L. convention. “I ask them,” cooed President Green, “to come back and let us fight out our differences in’ democratic, manly fashion.” Mr. Green seems to forget that - the Executive Council of the © |. American Federation of Labor has | scorned and suspended the C. 1. O, unions and that he nimself announced he had no power to effect | a settlement when an offer was | made that he sit down and nego- :| tiate with John L. Lewis. , © |" ‘Willlam Green has alw#ys been a Whirling dervish in ‘decisions, and just now he alternates between loose and strict construction of the

- constitution: of the: Federation. He now pretends a

Power. Whih, a, Week 4g0. he sid. that ba id ros possess.

. Is the A. F. of L. convention.truly a symbol of poids poTperay 2 Well, not The nters’ now the largest body represented, and to it are. assigned 3000 votes. But those 3000 votes are all in the vest pocket of one man—Dave Hutcheson, the international. ‘president of the union. - Lan ee AX President | | Hutcheson zepiesents: his meme bership by sheer intuition, since his union has not held a convention in seven years. Ome is set for a few weeks ‘the Tampa conclave, and when all the vital issues | ve been decided Dave will come and tell the carpenters what they haye done. However, I am afraid that a of. the: American press is already making the same error which it committed during the presidential campaign. It has been generally admitted that some papers went Woo {ar in the matier: of partisanship in-that cam.

: ‘whipping boy, and John L. Lewis seems to have been elected, fo that : lehman tT rent piu ts Le fight for industrial w

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