Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1936 — Page 12
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(A SORIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) Y W. HOWARD LUDWELL = DENNY EARL D. JAKES President Business Manager
Give Light and the People Will Find Their own Wey TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1036
WINGLESS VICTORY
E Supreme Court by a vote of four to four—Justice
Stone being absent—has upheld New York's right to a law enabling the state to co-operate with the Fed ‘eral government in unemployment insurance. ~~ From one viewpoint this decision is consoling, for it supports to some degree Mr. Dooley’s contention that the
Supreme Court follows the election returns. That is to
y, one or two members of the court who have hitherto voted pretty consistently against all New Deal legislation ust have voted differently yesterday. And that may amount to a concession on their part that, after all, this is
democracy and that the will of the people registered so
emphatically three weeks ago would be the law. = From other points of view the decision is disquieting. Not only were four justices obviously deaf to the voice of the people as expressed at the polls, but there was an accidental quality in the court's performance that does not increase confidence in our court system. The case was decided on an appeal from a court which had upheld the new law. Had the appeal come from a court which had declared “the law invalid the tie voté in the Supreme Court would have meant the law’s death. The law, in this particular gase, was made “constitutional” actually by no decision aft all. It was a narrow squeak for a law which means so much to millions of Americans, a narrow squeak for what the Constitution calls the “general welfare of the United _ States.” A thin thread indeed on which to hang our general welfare. Meantime, however, we can rejoice that the states which have not thus far acted will. be free at their winter legislative sessions to follow the example of New York, Indiana and 14 others. They can carry out the people’s man- - date in this vitally important matter of unemployment in- ~ surance without fear of having their action nullified.
SOCIAL WORK CONFERENCE . HE Indiana State Conference on Social Work, opening . * here Sunday, will discuss public welfare, social security ‘and other phases of social work. : Current interest in the Social Security Act adds special “gignificance to the scheduled visit of Director Frank Bane . ‘of the Federal Social Security Board: Mr. Bane and Gov. McNutt are to discuss the social seeurity program in Indiana and other states. Prof. Harrison A. Dobbs of Chicago University’ ’s School of Social Service Administration alse ; : FORGE SY bject is more nent to the shale and to Indianapolis-—both in need of merit system extensions—than the selection of public personnel, which will be ~ discussed by G. Lyle Belsley, Chicago, director of the Civil Bervice Assembly of the United States and Canada.
& SOLUTION FOR JULIETTA : \ \R. MAX A. BAHR, superintendent of Central State Hospital, takes & realistic view of the Marion, County Sommizsionons’ proposal. to abandon the Julietta Hospital for the Insane and to transfer the Patients to Central Hospital. Says Dr. Bahr: © “The care of the mentally ill has always been a state problem and whenever a local community has undertaken this responsibility it has always been more or less unsatisfactory.” | = Dr. Bahr points out that Central Hospital here already | is crowded. To care for the 882 Julietta: patients, he says, would require two additional buildings, costing $500,000. He says a more feasible solution would be to erect a new state hospital building in the thickly populated Lake County district. This would eliminate overcrowding in the Logansport State Hospital district and in turn relieve the burden at Central Hospital to such an extent that the Julietta patients could be taken in without additional building, he explains. Eventually, the state probably will take over the functions of the Julietta Hospital. The 1987 General Assembly should work out an early solution that will prevent the nroblem from becoming more difficult in She future.
ber of Commerce gvernment’s tasks, quidation of the
E like the new attitude of the C of the United States toward the particularly toward its biggest one, the great burden of unemployment. | We like the Chamber’s promise to perate by help ing to demobilize the estimated army of 4,000,000 jobless y as possible into
prosperity class or group.”
ady employment, high wages and as advantageous to business 52 10
recent past we may tow 0 tod 1 i the other direc g . Tet i giush to do. a : |
- but, up to this time, have got even discovered i relationship between the
between i usen ie and those relating to
ones in the rel sty of States.
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Fair Enough
By. Westbrook Pegler Lord Beaverbrook Imitates Fiction Type of American Go-Getter and His Papers Burlesque Our Own.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-~Lord Beaverbrook, the London publishér, has made a breezy appearance on this shore, attended by big publicity. This will please him because Lord Beaverbrook is more an act than a genuine personality. In England, his act is that of the exaggerated, fiction type of American go-getter, dynamic and sO
busy that he must dictate editorials into a hose at-
tached to a redordiiig machine while the barber scrapes his face. The English are naive about publishers for some fedson anid they think he is a typical American king-maker doing it. the American way Anions tis, the act is the sammie except that Beaverbrook kes to dazzle us with the-spesta ; English lord who Spe gusgh,
carry ‘am’ = be shown the Indias. It sakes the edge off the act, however; to refiiember that Lord Beaverbrook is no Englishman, being a native of New Brunswick, and that under his lordship, whi€h is a political title, he is Max Aitken and no superman but just & newspapér publisher.
Mr. Pegler
In England, Beaverbrook is known as the man’
who introduced Américan methods Bit American néwspaper men in England realize what he really did introduce was a gum-chewing, well-I-guess burlesque of American journalism. The Beaverbrook pattérn sold niewspapets, however, so othér publishers copied, not is, but him, and the result is something that is neither British nor American but a pretty terrible thing of its own. The popular English papers aré suckers for ancient publicity plants siich as the Hardy 61d spavin about the dancer who insures her
legs for a million. dollars,
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UT, ofr particular’ intérést to Americans at the time of Max Aftketi’s visit to the United States in the role of British lord is the fact that the English papers. of the so-called American pattern make a specialty of American scandal and pho copy dnd Pletiree a News psofi divorce and their WS riothing about and explained
own King. Mr. Aifken says pen any censorship of the Simpson
that the Ameriedn stories about the woman and he,
Ring were based on interpretation. t, of colirse you ean interpret a story by th I a a erie 2 Stary oy tion of pictiites on 4 page and they go in for ihterpretation With great lywood, Reno 6r Néw York. So it
i locks as though ihe Betiish press fecogmilses : Hunting ground for scandal E Ba%ard,
yERHAPS becatise I Have joved rather intimate glimpses of some famous Be uane.2 few who were what Wé called the nut 14m In | dined ta disso importance of
unt the _Beaver-
Moreover, the man is & politieal flirt, for not long ago he was playing Jootie WI} aqdii Hitler and you
would have thought he had full authority to the British Empire, nd nov the men who ond so rey
attractive the savage Sictater, Who institution which is dear
any result Hyg T ] 855i, dot § det it > ar
enthiisiasm when the story affects
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T he Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will on defend to the death your ‘right to say it—Voltaire.
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INSTITUTE, SECRETARY SAYS By Waller 6. Tower, Executive Sesietaty, Amerfoan ‘Ion #nd Steel Institute In the issue of The Times of Oct. 81 is an article by John T. Flynn, written in such & steel indus ef “orders” isSiled and eiforesd by: the Americar: Iron and Steel Institute.
Flynn has made similar charges préviously, but even an apparent fixation on his part does not make an untruth true. 1
He says, “When the NRA gob unasta way fe eel men gn to
course, , that the steel, industry } nothing to do with the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act and the individual members of the industty had no choicé other than to adopt a code because that act was thé law of the land. The code adopted was ted in full knowledge and with thé e¢o-opéra-tion of responsible representatives of the National Beoayeey Adminis a hi Flynn $ t steel products were hat Jrioes of board of direétors of the American Iron and Steel Institute, which ad« ministered the code. Such an imipica has absolutely no basis in
Flynn’ article . s wotild lead the easual reader to believe that the steel
industry is still operating under ‘He
proviSions 52 me Sted Coe, impression 84
Impression as Hiss the Bee
His charges are 50 far from th truth that we can not let the go ° unchallenged. The facts are avails Shie 36 any ofis Wh Wishes 10 seek
£ ve ROOSEVELT SMILE WINS A TRIBUTE Se Mus Shits Susnial ill
y as to create |
#t ATRED 18 the vies of narrow se “1H EERE
(Nimes readers fe dfe invited to éxpréss their ows § in these columiis, Felifions controversies excluded. yotit letter short, so all can have a chifice. Letters
must be signed, but riames will be withheld on request.)
one by somé queer actions of another and that p es certain effects upon the first.” But a betfer Saucaied person would define it as ty pledsing and delightful
8. quali : which causes Pleasure and delight
fo others. The people of the United States
were not acting queerly in their
choice of the President, but qtitte positively. Mr. Roosevelt has a contagious smile and a chafming one. It is uhdffected and simple. It would be funny to see a Président wearing such a halo as Mrs. German sug-
gests or the garments of Moses, but Lie of 1 - e doesn’t put & Président into he a a ¢-shiow.
1 agree with the old gentleman whom Ernie Pyle interviewed before the election and who said, “It don’t matter who's elected President—if there’s goin’ there's goin’ to be one.” But even if Roosevelt eain’t save us from thé downfall of the whole world, he can keep us smiling even =. a circus ring.
2 8 8 : 45 MILLION PEOPLE CAN'T BE WRONG, WRITER SAYS By. A. B. B., Frankfort
For “crying out ot Tottd,” can’t take it on the chin Hike a brave iti on Be wrong Surely 45 mitilon people can’t
Speaking of éirclises Sirctises Jo might elephant cati how pack read and start on his long, long ¢ jour, He won't be back I giiéss the Be ua old United States
Here Again” ahd my how they did sing it, 40 million sirong!
BEREFT
I stood inside a windy’ field When stérs were Flown from out
‘tHe night; er i oT thee 1 stood in qusking, staring fright,
Across the windy dark was flung The Sapul ie of mc
To taunt meé with a love
DAILY THOUGHT
t hateth Me hateth aiter sors, 3 John 15:23.
to be a revolusion,
This 1s"from a Roosevelt and Mc1 Nutt admirer to Mrs. Mabel Ger-
‘moving the
are still singing, “Happy Days Are
To stab with longing all my i
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PROTEST IS TOO LATE, WRITER DECLARES By EB C., Columbis, Ind.
An open letter to Mrs. Mabel Gérman:
‘Pish! Tush! And a couple of tuts! Mabel, I thought the election was done and over with and the hatchet buried. Methinks you do protest too much as this late hour.
You are 100 per cent right, Mabel, about one thing: There are none so blind and dedf as they who refuse to see and hear. Ther why not open your eyes and take your fingers out of yotir ears and follow the example of your erstwhile leader? Didn't you hear about Landon’s congréatulatory telegram to F. Di. R. election night?
I've gloried in Pat Hogan's letters to the Forum, and if you will tell me why he and so many other Republicans voted for: Roosevelt, I'll then explain to you why So many leading Demodrats disowned the Ad-
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SAYS COURT THWARTED WILL OF PEOPLE /
By Perry Rule, Secretary, Législative Commiittée, Indidnd State Grangé The Dé¢mocratic Party fathered legislation that created the NRA, the AAA and recognized the right of collective bargaining. The misinterpretation of the intent of the Constitution and the assumed rights of tHe court to abrogite legiflation thwarted the will of - thé people.
The election returns were partly a protest against the court’s action and an ultimatum to ail political ou | Parties to evolve or die. If the Demotrdt Party does not maké a new énd workable NRA, AAA and co)-| lective bargaining act either by reition- of the Sours constitu mendment, Republican the
people’s ey Yl recognise oll
re-establish itself cease to be reac tionary,
? Ts #08 ROOSEVELT CRITICISM By B. A. T. You don’t haté President Roose[welt Mrs, Gea, his our Iming victory your grapes. ~ You are Fights it is sure unbelievable how blind, deaf and dumb ne “This Jimmy Cafouros is positive President Roosevelt will save the world.” You Jud I know he has
It Seems to Me
‘By Heywood Broun
Favors Madison Amendment Giving Congress Power of Reversal Over Decisions of the ‘Supreme Court,
NEW YORK, Nov. 241 have frequently, expressed the hope that we are about to have free, fill and clear discussion of the problem of the United States Constitution and the necessity of amendment. And so-I reserve the right to change my mind. But at the moment I'm for the principle of the Madison amendment, ; I know that many people say that it is silly to
talk about amendments, since 13 states can act as & barrier. Ade mitting that certain changes have béen made in our own time, these -- have not touched truly funda‘mental conditions. : I am not altogether convinced ~ by ‘this argument: Thé sweep fe. which included everything but ¥ Maine and Vermont may mean 72 that there ean be afi impetus * which will set practically the whole country swinging in the |. same direction. Nor can it be altogether true that the Southern states will fight fo the death against anything which séems to threaten states’ rights by as much as a little finger. Aftér all, most of them msde an exception in the case of prohibition, I.
I am a Supreme Court baiter only on éccasion. It would not be a good idea to strip that body of all power, Indeed, my réspeét for the founding fathers is so great that I think Ammeriéa should refurn to their notions and eliminate the frills brought in by Marshall and othéf innévators. To whom can
We Inehé SprTepriatel turn for advi y ce than to James
Mr. Broun
gs 8 =» ARE account ‘of ‘the conditions. Congress has
always had the power t6 override a preston
veto, Once this was ‘dlmost not at all. Until the time of no oflly two Pre ’ ye, o Jobtison efly 6 Presidents had had
; ; now »” tly prevails a President's “No
Te po" antages of this procedure Would be: (1) We would have a democratic govern- [| Ment ihroligh elected rather than appointed officials;
Supreme Court would be slow to override for fear that ft in turn would be overridden: 8) 16 w Save nite opinions that. could be by thie laymen, hetatite the