Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1936 — Page 19
Glos Light and the People Wil Find Their Ooh Woy THURSDAY, NOVEMBER B, 1036
THIS RECOVERY'BIRD
I'S a fine, fat turkey, this Recovery Bird, that we #8 dows to feast upon today. As we lift our cup to recovery, after seven lean years, the Thanksgiving Day menu reveals— : That for business in Indianapolis, the state and the na“tion, frost’s on the pumpkin and the goose honks high. : Construction in the Indianapolis area is 17 per cent
‘ahead of 1935. Only 10 first-floor storerooms are vacant in
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‘the downtown area. Realtors forecast a heavy building
program for next year. The housing shortage is a spur to
‘residential construction. The Fletcher Trust Co. is to erect ‘8 new building for its Broad Ripple branch.” The corner stone was laid the other day for the big new International Harvester Co. building. The Indiana Farmers Mutual In- ~ surance Co. has broken ground for its new $150,000 building, and other building projects are under way. ; New record totals of persons placed in private employ‘ment have just been recorded by the Indiana State Employment Service, £ City license collections are up $31,000 over last year. A boom in property deed transfers reflects a steady increase dn the purchase of homes and other property. Retail sales for city and state are well ahead of 1985 figures. New car pales, gasoline consumption, telephone and gas and electric tallations, furniture production, bank debits, livestock Feceipts and other barometers show gains all along the ‘business front. Most industries are emerging from the red _ and getting good helpings of profits. New income is pouring out in the form of dividends, bonuses and wage increases. But as we sit down to the groaning table, we should remind the man with the carving knife to take care now and in the future lest he play favorites. We should remember that in “fat years” of the past some members of the national family got most of the white meat and dressing, while the hungriest members were served the neck and. wings. Millions still are sitting a td second table, presided over by Harry Hopkins and local reftef officials.
A little more white meat and fixin’s all around the table
will help make Thanksgiving happier. Happier not only for those down at the foot but also for the more favored ones.
MUSIC HATH CHARMS MONG the things we've never been able to cope with are Einstein’s relativity, Scott’s technocracy and Gertrude Stein's poetry. Hence, it’s good news that Miss Stein's “rebel verse is going to be put to song by an ambitious composer named Ellis Kohs of Yonkers. i Another poet once said: “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” Maybe Composer Kohs will be able to tame Miss Stein’s wild Jiltings and bring them into our low-brow ken. Miss Stein's opera, “Four Saints in Three Acts, ” sort of went over our head. | We hope some day to be able to get out the old guitar and chant feelingly our favorite song: “A rose is a rose is.
. a rose is a rose.” And for an encore a sprightly ballad: ~ “How can a person who was there, before be invited to 3 |
dinner of 207" ABOUT ELEPHANTS
New York Academy of Medicine heard some facts
HE Puen elephants the other evening from Dr. Francis G. Benedict of the Carnegie Institute at Washington, who has observed experiments on 66 circus animals. +. Elephants, said Dr. Benedict, are not afraid of mice. ‘An elephant eats at least 150 pounds of hay and drinks ‘about 50 gallons of water a day. An elephant breathes. five "to six times a minute when lying down ad 10 to 11 times a minute when standing. : The doctor did not say whether it's true, as reported, ‘that an elephant never forgets. But, to switch from the
scientific field to the political, we know one elephant that
a ely will not forget the lessons | the American people have ied to teach it lately. |
LET US GIVE NO THANKS MONG the things for which we are not thankful is news that the returning tide of recovery is sweeping back a
national disgrace we once thought had been banned forever. ‘We refer to the child labor evil, which a report of the Na-
tional Child Labor Committee now says ‘began a rapid comeback as soon as the provisions of the industrial codes were rendered invalid.” In 10 states and 98 cities reporting to the Children’ ¥
Bureau it was found that 8400 children were granted reg- |
ular employment. certificates between January and June of this year, compared with only 8850 for the same period of 1936. Manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile industries absorbed more than one-fourth of these, as compared with 5 per cent in the year of NRA, 1984. Studies cond by the committee in the lumber, » and woodworking industries of certain Southern : n of children “as predatory in
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teams will sell out to an Arnol
‘and Federal judges,
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler | What a Shock It Would-Be if Big
Time Football Team Sold Out to the Gamblers Like 1919 White Sox.
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—Now and again “some earnest alarmist toys with the
dreadful possibility that if gambling on foot-
ball be hot abated, some weak youth or a group of them on one of the big varsity Rothstein and throw the big game as the crooked and underpaid White Sox of 1919 threw the World Series to the Cincinnati: Reds. Practical difficulties would seem Ww
preclude this great American : tragedy but no alarmist can ex-
.aggerate the shock which the peo-
ple would suffer if it should befall, and’ be found out. No perfidy in public office, except, perhaps treason by a Presi dent or bribery in the Supreme Court, could horrify the nation to
the same degree. The wretched
outcasts of the White Sox ball club, Cicotte, Jackson, Risberg, Felsch and the rest, can testify to’ the implacable scorn of American citizens for those who betray their solemn trust in certain fields. ! The seven traitors, as they were popularly held to be, were expelled from organized baseball in 1920 and the sentence made untouchables of them. In the meanwhile, literally hiindreds of local, state prosecutors; aldermen, ‘members of the national ard state legislatures, prohibition administrators, Governors, Mayors and one Cabinet offi-
Mr. Pegler
cer have been either convicted or plainly proved-guilty
of treachery in office: | sn wn’ HOSE who were formally convicted served short terms in prison but the majority, of course, escaped by technicalities or political connivance. But the Americans are more or less used to perfidious conduct by their sworn officials, even on the bench, and none of these many erring brothers had to endure the continuing disgrace which was branded on the seven White Sox. ! The White Sox were not the legal sense, they were th private corporation which paid them notoriously scant wages considering that they are still Topaided
blic officials and, in
as the Ereatess ball club eyer assembled.
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B%: though corruption is tolerated or forgiven jn public office, in banking, financial promotion, pugilism, wrestling and horse-racing, baseball is held
‘to a special’ standard ‘of conduct. Football obviously
comes under the same requirements, although, up to now, treachery, It is strange to observe, however, the natural aptitude for fakery which has been shown by numerous varsity football players who have entered the
wrestling business after leaving the campus. Youths.
who in football gave their all, as the saying goes,
hired employes of a
there has never ‘heen a ‘recorded, case of
The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will : defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
BOOSTS EDUCATION EXTENSION PROGRAM By L. L. Patton, Crawfordsville There has been considerable interest shown recently in matters of education in articles appearing in|‘ the Hoosier Forum. But it seems to me the contributors are passing up
one ‘of the most promising recent
developments in the educational field, I refer to the program of extension courses being promoted by the State Department of Public In-
The purpose of this program seems to be twofold. First, it. will give older people an opportunity to make use of the high school buildings of evenings to carry on the study of such subjects as economics and civics. Secondly, it will encourage the young people, employed part
‘struction.
" | time or unemployed, to spend time
at the school bull instead of at the poolroom and dance hall. Courses in fhop work and home economics will be stressed for the
I'am very ‘enthusiastic about the
| young people. ‘courses proposed for the young pec
ple. - However, I am; afraid courses proposed: for the older peoaS will .be too much of the lecture It is my experience that oldér OE even more than young
.| people, learn little from lectures.
a » » 8 : ACTION OF GROCERS ON TAX UAW CRITICISED By E. A M,
I admire the tenacity of the gro-
cers ‘in their Beinn to get out from under the , income tax. I can not say ‘same for their schemes to nullify the law. They tried to bulldoze the Legislature and coerce the Governor. They were exceedingly active the last campaign to seat a or who proms ised to repeal the law. Now they are
s tax can not be as it would en- : op: and
el DE ra. this
remark, “Yes, it is more expensive,
because taxes. are > What fax is meant-if income? of not comp: gross pr 4 back fn 1032 with. articles today? I ai show a nice in the tax. T have: not notio are -going out of ET of the gross income tax law.
dozen
a publicity campaign to Sone | the sympathy of
‘that on gross the percentage Stisies
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in the mass welfare, They wish to
lower the exemption. by 50 per cent:
and raise the rate as much as 200 per cent, wage earners of $1250 a week, or
every clerk in all. establishments.’ They would shift the burden to
those least able to pay. The spreading of the general tax
base by use of the gross income tax.
was amply sanctioned on last Nov. 3, and I ask that the szemplion bracket rdmain the same as it' is now. eo» » UTILITY OWNERSHIP DEBATE ‘ENLIGHTENING’
By W. H. Richards The debate broadcast Nov. 19 on “Resolved, ‘that the ielectric indus-
try should be publicly’ owned,” in Harry
which Norman Thomas ani : Laidler took the -affirmative and were answered by two ity magnates, was very enlightening The speakers on the negative side wandered from the subject, one of them saying that the postoffice, publicly -owned, had made no progress
THANKSGIVIN’ DAY AT HOME BY RUSS RENNAKER - Unless you've been Byay | from home ‘Upon Thanksgivin' Day— Away from all your folks and kin— Your friends all far away; Unless you've laid’ awake at night With big tears in your eyes, A’ thinkin’ how you'd like to be A’ eatin’ Mother's pies; ‘Unless you've been in foreign lands, Par, far across the foam, :
Why you just can’t appreciate
Thanksgivin’ Day at home.
Unless you've known a pang o' fear Down’ in ‘your heart somewhere,
{That when you do ‘go home next
year :
: Your mother won't be there;
Mnless’ your beays cried ou for Upon hanksgivin’ Day; ; Unless. you've caught yourself a thinkin’ Words that you can not say,
A’ in on the & |'A’ prayin’ you were back aga
‘An’ never more to roam, ny Jad Jus sant Spwediate
!| Thanksgivin'’ Day Dey at home. Hat. grocers |
DAILY THOUGHT
When pride cometh, then com-
eth shame: but with the lowly is
general Wisdom. ~Ergvests un: 2.
Such a rate would’ ‘catch | Sm
in 150 years, as it still. sells stamps unwrapped, notwithstanding the fact that our grandfathers paid much higher rates and that the parcel post greatly improved the service ‘and that employes receive better pay than is paid by privately
owned industries and have pensions |
on retirement. The only point made by the utility speakers was that the electric companies pay immense sums in taxes. They failed to say that those immense sums are taken from the consumers, and that large salaries are also paid to presidents who do not, preside, and directors who co not direct, and stockholders who do nothing to earn their dividends. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Laidler clinched their argument by facts and figures showing the advantage
-| to the publie in. better service, lower
rates and higher wages to employes
: | of the publicly owned plants.
Of course, the utilities put forward in this debate their best speakers and their best and strongest arguments for private control, but it could hardly. be called a de‘bate. The logic was all on one side, and Mr. Thomas and Mr. - Laldler were not answered.
88 8 : UNEMPLOYMENT ARGUMENT FOR VU. 8. CO-OPERATIVES By H. 8S.
. Mr. Kline L. Roberts, in Times of ‘Nov. 20, closes his -argu-
ment against co-operatives as fol--
lows: . “As long as our conditions represent such an enormous ‘ade vance over those existing 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.” ,On the same page, I read an editorial stating that although we are
now within 10 per cent of the pro- |
duction level of 1929, 30,000,000 men, women and children in this country are existing on local relief or at the $50 monthly level of WPA jobs. The same article states that in September nearly. 9,000,000 in this dountry were jobless, Sweden, to which Mr. Roberts referred, has a few thousand unemployed, . What better refutation of his argument can we ask?
I quite agree with Ms. German when she says that it is unbelievable how blind, deaf and dumb some people can be. . . . Mrs. German compares the Presigent to Moses, * SU ean say »
]/ Hafvard ‘and Yale.
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abroad,
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By Heywood Broun ~~
Finds Professional Football Fasfer and More Skillful Than College Game
and Rejoices in “the Discovery,
EW YORK, Nov. 26—I saw my first football game of the season Sunday. The boys quite frankly were not dying for dear old Green Bay or even for Mr. Mara, They weré. out there playing for their salaries just like big league baseball teams, It is trie saying that money isn't everything, and yet the Giants and the Packers played football with as mach zest as any college eleven.’ It seems to me « ; as if they played‘with a great ie ~ more skill, although this is a ques tion for the experts. Hewett, © the Columbia’ coaching staff, be ards the guess that Minnesota
might give ithe Packers a run for their. m
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: the game was startling ‘the . amount. of excitement which it engendered. Once upon a ‘time I thought that pro foot vary dull. In fact, t e same. about most -footh “The only games : .were contests be- - {ween ‘and Princeton and Frequently I said with area that I wouldn't walk across the street to see any alien aggregation such as Min-
. Mr. Broun
/| nesota and Northwestern. To be sure, nobody asked ‘I me, and they never turned up across the street.
‘I walked a good deal farther than one block to see Mara’s Giants and the Green Bay Packers. Mr. ‘Reynolds, the dean of sports commentators, was my host, and I assume he gets his tickets free, but he must pay a fearful price in toll and anguish in order
- to use them. For hours I was puffing up one ramp
after another, like -any mountain goat, and then walked precariously along a ledge. . Fortunately, no printed communication from President Mara comes with the football tickets ard no moral suasion is employed in the matter of alco-
-holic stimulants. Strangely enough, there honestly
seems to be less drinking at the pro football games than at the college contests. Perhaps that a Afar a, Tho Togier io $008 10 4 ‘professional is under no obligation to whip Rimselt into a henay. 2 r E doesn’t have to and up and help spell out an H or a Y by waving a colored handkerchief. M of all, he is under no compulsion whatsoever to any song which says that the dear old team will to the death and the last chalk line while the seis behind the mountains and the Tver flows down € sea. ‘It is pleasant to discover what a volume of vocal
. excitement can be produced in a football crowd which
is not regimented by cheer leaders. It seemed to me that the din set up for the Giants when they started a scoring drive was just as great as that to be heard in
‘the Yale Bowl or the Palmer Stadi
pre Se Can”