Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1936 — Page 15

5 ! SCRIPF OWA OWARD | A . Give Light and the People Will Hind Their Own Woy FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1936

FOOTBALL SEASON'S CLIMAX : HE windup of the Hoosier football season tomorrow will

. find interest in the sport at its peak. ‘Indiana University |

lays Purdue at Lafayette, with the traditional Old Oaken Bucket as the center of one of the most colorful gridiron rivalries in the Midwest. wictory over Notre Dame and a claim to the 1936 national championship. ‘National interest will focus on South Bend. Notre ‘Dame bowed to Pittsburgh, and lost to Navy in one of the ason’s great thrillers, but Northwestern, ' conqueror of Minnesota, has had to fight hard for its last three victories.

Both Purdue and Indiana have made ‘enviable records .

ainst outside foes this year. Other ‘ Hoosier colleges, completing their schedules 8t week, had an interesting season. Butley, undefeated, won its third consecutive Indiana Coriference title. Wabash,

e Pauw, Franklin and others contributed to 2 ‘highly successful season.

CENTRALIZED CITY PURC Sd

(CENTRALIZED purchasing of materials, a depression boon to many cities, has been used for years | by Indianfapolis. And now Albert Losche, city purchasing agent, reports that the new central storehouse brought an added isaving of 10 to 15 percent because the sity § is able to buy supplies in larger quantities. The growth of centralized purchasing is: interesting to watch. At the beginning of 1936, 229 cities were using f this system. The trend is fairly new—but it is growing. The plan works for private corporations; it also works for

. Under the old system of hit‘or-miss buying, specifica- : tions varied widely, and it was customary to award con- | tracts—especially small ores for supplies—to friends of : the politicians in power. There have been cases in some | 3 | cities where 10 different city departments have bought coal, for instance, from 10 different companies at 10 dift ferent prices: Publi¢ administration experts agree on the principle of tthe centralized system. As with most human, or political setups, the system’s value depends upon administration.

TRAILERS, SAFETY AND AUTOS FWO features of the Indianapolis Auto Show will repay “ the trouble of a visit. One is the auto, trailer. The her is safety. : A |year ago there’ were about. 100,000 trailors! in use,

Today. Shere

mostly home-made or specially built. 250,000 and predictions are that the 1937. total Fo 500,000.: Most of these will be factory made. The trailer

thas opened an entire new field of manufacture and ‘has | changed the living habits of thousands of families.” Some Sltrailers -are veritable homes on. wheels, luxuriously furBnished. Parlor, bedroom and bath are becorsing standard { : equipment. : Safety features have been multiplied this year to offset the hazard of increased) seed ‘and t6 meet the public outcry against automobile deaths. At the show this year you. will see one-piece, all-stieel bodies; cars built closer to the ground to -diminish SW ying and facilitate handling, new safety interiors with instrument board knobs and buttons {inset to give a flush surface; rubber protection on other i ; floors sealed es and other improvements. th emphasis been so much on

against fumes; better Never before has

psevelt steams southward to cement : between: the two Amerjeas above

jobless America. i . We do not know h Jost country within a { Sitmference Board put

monthly level of WE ‘Harry L. ple

29s, and experts xpd t them to be back to 1 | What with tech ological Sisplacament,

k to 1929 oot Sogo 4 there still will’ be be we bel 4 million jobless. To reduce unemploym t to the | —

: level--about 1,800,000—we would have to| increai

otion 20 per cent above 1929. How then can this \

and: shifting population ‘of unredeemed: ught into the economic body politic?

00ds tg employ our people, unless we aintal ha: JONG of these saine Beokle to buy

Unbeaten Northwestern seeks |

old-time plants were flammable

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler |,

Mr. Pegler Grows Reminiscent About Fires and Cockroaches: in Old Time Newspaper Plants.

EW YORK, ‘Nov. 20.—Something has reminded me of Mr. Roosevelt's remark about fire-trap newspaper plants that day early in his reign when Bert McCormick, the head man of the Chicago Tribune,

4 needled him about some proposition in the

New Deal and made him sore. And that reminds me that although we used to have some great fires waiting

_ for the match around the country, Mr. Roosevelt ‘was

badly out of line and out of date because we are really very sump*fuous nowadays. But, ‘even though some of the hly: in- , the only ‘newspaper fire that I Be) Scored. in Mires

side We had a pretty: big old orl building ang oN hg nn or 12 years ago, but fife engines '. po : - were just ordinary t outside eu Pegler ‘our windows and nobody paid : ei ‘much attention for an hour or so. The fire was ‘shooting up the elevator shafts and the World staff. upstairs. were driven out, but down on ‘the third floor nobody realized how bad the firs had been until it was over, and the United Press wires were not interrupted. Mr. Roosevelt probably was thinking of ancient buildings such as the dreadful old goat’s nest in which the Chicago Daily News was published in Vic=tor Lawson's day and the Chicago American plant of Mr. Hearst's early days in town.

used to keep barrels of benzine and collodion in the cellar of the American plant and the sound of the bells and the big, clattering horses in the. street outside was extremely personal to people work- ' ing upstairs in that rickety old crate. But though. they did have fires occasionally, the firemen would dive Fleit In and slap them down: and the SEplosian;

ny control. legislation. For private |

| ernmental subsidies:

the |ble responsibilities as to undistrib- “ pied LSarnings tax, franchise

| enterprise favors;. only equal opportunity in 4 gompetitive fields under

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disaifree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say #—Voltaire.

‘EXPLAINS ATTITUDE ON CO-OPERATIVES'

By Kline L. Roberts, Executive Vice President, American Bituminous Retail ‘Coal Merchants Association, Ine., Chicago

My attention has been called to a communication in The Hoosier Porum of Nov. 4 on my recent discussion. of- the Consumer Co-

| operative Movement before an In-

‘dianapolis audience of trade associa-

tion representativ As it Shelli ativan happens, the writer plunged into the discussion ‘with only a superficial knowledge ot what I said and the®position I rep-|

resent. As. a matter of fact in all’

my addresses and printed manuscripts, it is made quite plain that we have no quarrel with the. cooperative type of business organiza-

‘ftion' as such. It is made equally

‘plain that we are or any. 06 of | any. business organization w. one competing unit advan another equally legitimate. » i ‘a In speaking on consumer co-

VES over

“5 operatives, I. made it plain that or- | ganized business groups of evety

kind must study the co-operative

movement and direct their attention to the unfair granting of finan- |

cial help and advantageous exemptions by state Legislatures and the Congress. 1 recommend that associations ... representing . privately ‘owned business should demand equal opportunity under the law so that established business ‘would enjoy. at least an even break. We conterid that privately owned business is entitled to equal opportunity under the law. . 1 pany under existifig laws is required to file Federal and state income tax Tepors, we know we have the right to expect a “competing ‘co-operative | to do likewise. - There should be absolutely equita-

taxes all regulatory laws, such as the ratory Act or the Guffey

we are not any

the law. the most ardent ad of ves must agree that this

+ [ven oe By ‘Hs in accord with the democratic 5 ‘principles of our governmental faith. > we are.

an. Sur present discussion, not talking about the old estab-co-operative which has been

- Jiskea ‘ | in the field for many years. We in-

\D~" | sist, however, that the newly reTee od enthusiasts,

= |tives, to which they are referring| {eel ia 0 of essful

5 who offer co-| 1 eration as a panaces for all our |ALYEing

political and economic ills, do not know what they arg co-opera-

the co-operative ad te

If a com-

{Times readers are invited 0 express their views in these col- , religious controversies excluded. Make your letter. short, “so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withngld on request.)

parisons, he will: be tess enthusiastic

about attempting to replace the

American standard of living, developed within the eapitalistic system of ‘ free competition existing here, ‘with that found in foreign

couméries even after a long history |

‘of successful; though limited, cooperation. If the~ social and economic conditions of Sweden were to be dupHcated in the United States, I would agree wholeheartedly that the ‘type of limited co-operative development of those countries would. have a, roper place here, As-long, how‘ever, as our ‘conditions represent such an enormous advance ‘over those existing abroad, we shall contend and be in a position to prove

that co-operatism can contribute’

nothing substantial or lasting to the welfare of the American people; that it will on the other hand bring about a general lowering of living standards and average individual incomes. RR a RR a SEES SATURATION POINT FOR AUTOS By Jimmy Catouros "18 a shaft time, pethips if 5.5 war or so, ‘another “saturation poix may have been reached in the automobile industry. There will ‘always be buyers for automobiles. ‘But when high pressure is applied and: most of the prospective buyers purchase

their cars in a given year, the suc- i

ceeding years must suffer, Cars are

being built more durable than. ever E

before. With the onco boom, a reat

many are buying their cars and a great many more will buy in tha zexi. year or 50. Tv may be several

MY INSPIRATION

BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

Oh, thank you, my dear! "You have given'me—

awakening i - By setting free Thoughts of 1ove and such—

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realize such profitable conditions. It seems evident that even if 1938 is ‘as profitable and as favorable or even more favorable than 1937 is apt to become, 1939 will see a falling off which under the present conditions may again last another half dozen years. There being less demand for new automobiles there. will naturally be fewer of them produced. If fewer machines are produced: there will be fewer persons employed in the automobile industry. This: will: in all probability be ‘unfavorable and depressing and act as a check on our present cycle of prosperity. pressure is not necessary in the Ee industry. The. nation is car conscious. Rather than exploit the industry with high prés-

sure there should be an attempt {of

level out sales: over & staggered period of. years: iv « « #2: =n ou wt WORKERS AFRAID TO | DISCLOSE AGES, WRITER SAYS By B. C. : One of the most tragic stories to come out of the world of industry ‘recently is the disclosure that many workers are afraid to fill out their Social Security Act blanks for fear their employers will find out that they are older than they were supposed to be and will fire them. | In many and many a case, the worker’s age is his most jealously guarded secret. In’ many other ‘cases, workers of 48 have given their ‘bosses to understand that, they are 40 or 41. Yor a great many companies ‘have a definite policy of westling out men-~who pass 45. So t number of workers fear that they will lose their Jobs they fill out the security act ‘blanks and give their right ages.

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where only Federal officials may see: them, But what a “commentary on’ industrial practices that fear is! Can we have a more éruel or anti-social custom than the one which heads men for the scrap-héap as soon as they pass the ‘mid-forties?

By Heywood Broun Congress Might Ask Justices of Supreme Court to . Advise If On Constitutional Amendments.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The Constitution was an issue in the last campaign, “lt is true that President Roosevelt did not bring it up and that the Republican declarations on the matter were somewhat more

vigorous than clear. Still the people of the United States did vete for the New Deal in spite of the fact that the Supreme Court has decided that certain 3 chjeciives’ of this dispensation have not yet been framed in constitutional form. : It is even- Possitils that sofnie voted for Roosevelt in the hope | that these objectives may be ob- ! tained by re the ‘measures | rather than touching the fundamental instrument itself. Bug it fa seems to'me that no one ean deny ‘© that the electorate has said at the very least, “Let us look into the twin ‘problem of the courts and the Constitution.and find out: if changes are necessary, and if so what form they should take.” : In the beginning, therefore, there should be an inquiry or hearing for the purpose of clarification. The leaders ship in such an investigation properly lies with the

Mr. Broun,

. Congress of the United States, The legislative brafich

of the government has begn accused of having become a rubber stamp.

Ev admits that our government was ine tended to be one of balanced powers, and now is the proper time to restore co-operation between the legislative and the judicial branch. My good friend Connie, who flunked American history in the first grade, stood in the visitors’ gallery of the House a year ago and said, “Now, I want to get this straight. Those are the congressmen down ‘there, and 'tHey pass the ‘laws, and then the President signs them,

“and, then the Supreme Court: throws: them out.” :

‘SON.

HAVE another close friend who is a cotstits tional lawyer, and he says that Connie is quite

right and that we are now living under a system of all

checks and no balances. Morris Ernst suggests what

‘seems to me the: most sensible and proper way of ape Oonsigby.

Prosching ihe frehlon] of the Gours snd the Some endments were pending in Seventy-fourth Congress. from Senators and