Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1936 — Page 14

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maybe you size them up wrong at first, and

would have to chan 1 liked Knoxville, Very much. It’s an & really, but the people 80 nice.

t cloud of smog G and fog) over the city. : : en you get up in the morn hough you'd been

But the people are grand. They are friendly and courteous. In stores the clerks are so decent. So ur rent from some bigger places

know. Queer about B , too. Mr. Pylé When I drove over the hill and : " looked down upon Birmingham for thé first time I decided I had been misled, For the city was clean and clear, the streets were wide and modern, the residential sections were beautiful. This was no Pittsburgh bot the South. “When I drove over the hill again, and looked down, Birmingham looked like the cartoons of Hell. It was one hideous, appalling cloud of yellowishblack smoke, roaring up out of hundreds of big chimneys, Pittsburgh is pale beside it. . 2 Reason: The first time there was no business. The last time there was business. Jimmy Mills, the Birmingham editor, says he wishes it would get so smoky he'd have to bring an extra shirt to the office and change at lunch time.

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Man Bites Dog

N Florence, Ala., there was a little ad in the classified column of the daily paper, saying: “WANTED—To get in touch with Fuller brush man.” | : After all these years of Fuller brush men wanting to get in touch with other people, now somebody wants to get in touch with the ' Fuller brush man. The millenium has come. The man bites the dog. You can add this to the list of grand and glorious feelings: When you see an auto start skidding on a snowy road, and make three or four big sashays back and forth, and then ram head-on into a bank, and you see dirt and wheels dnd oil flying, and the car leaps over backward and lands upside down and rolls over and. over, and [then everything lies quiet and still; and you stop your car and run as fast as you in there and touching smashed-up ‘people, but knowing you have to because nobody else is around, and you run up to the wreck and just as you get there a door is pushed up a little and a woman sticks her head out and says “Nobody hurt!” Boy is that one grand and glorious feeling!

Car Door Heavy

AD another thing: Do you know how hard it is to get people out of a car on its side, even when they're able to help themselves? The door, you know, has to be lifted up instead of out. And maybe you think a car door isn't heavy, and isn’t hard to pull up. It takes one person to hold the door up, and another one to help the people

out. Above all other things, I hate hotels which have those spring handles on the ‘water faucets. The kind where, if you let go, the water stops. Have you ever tried to hold some tooth powder in the palm of your left hand, and a toothbrugh in your right hand, and then see what you've got left to turn the water” faucet with while you hold thetoothbrush under it?

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day BY ROOSEVELT ;

OSTON, Thursday—One never can be too sure of one’s plans. I was sitting in my secretary’s living toom at Hyde Park ednesday noon, when the telephone rang and my mother-in-law told me in jJome excitement that she had just received a message Jor me that Franklin Jr. had some kind of sinus rouble and had gone to the hospital. Luckily, she knew the name of the hospital, so I salled up: Phillips House in Boston and talked first to my son, and then to the doctor, and decided I had better emerge from the tables of mail which surrounded me and take a flying trip to Boston. Having just settled down to three days in one dlace, and having decid I had ample time to do all the work before me Wednesday and enjoy a family.

reunion Thanksgiving Day, I had to do a certain.

Immediately after lunch I in-law’s, Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt’s house, where my mother-in-law was lunching, and spent three-quarters of an hour with them. I arranged for Mrs. James Roosevelt to speak on the radio this morning in my place. Then I went back to the cottage, sat at my desk till 4:45, when a rather bewildered gentleman knocked at the door. He is a poet and writer by profession, but not finding these professions always lucratiye he had done a number of other things. When I got his letter saying he was now my near neighbor in Rhinebeck and wished to talk to me, I invited him to come and bring his wife for tea at 5 o'clock Wednesday aft came alone, however, and got lost, which

amount of rearranging. went over to my sister;

. blamed entirely on his artistic tem

was getting dark and o was and apologetic, but we had tea he thawed out I discovered that his p was to find out how a gentleman who is a poet could yun a farm and make it pay.

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victory and defeat.

may quite conceivably turn the tide for or against our

becoming involved. I'or instance: During the World War, relations between the United States and Mexico were strained. Most of the time they bordered on war, Indeed, twice during that period—once when we fired on Vera Cruz, and again when Gen. Pershing’s punitive column invaded her soil—we were at war with her. ” ” 8 AKING advantage of the situation Germany brazenly used Mexico as a base from which to attack the United States. Zimmermann, German under secretary of foreign affairs, instructed his minister in Mexico City to-form an alliance . with

Mexico in the event of hostilities between Germany and the United States. « - . Texas, New Mexico and Arizona were to be the price. He was further instructed to induce Japan to drop the Allies and join Mexico

(Second of a Series) y 2 =n ‘ Nov. 27.—The ripening accord between the United States and Latin America, which it is hoped the Buenos Aires conference will mature still further, might in time of war spell the difference between

Or it might even keep the United States out of war. For just as surely as the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 contributed to the security of every country from the Rio Grande | to the Strait of Magellan, today the friendship of those same nations can do the same for us. : With the world on the ragged edge of war, the great concern of the American government is to remain neutral. | If so, the attitude of the rest of the Americas toward us |

and Germany. Japan could invade America via Mexico.

In view of widespréad discussion of the O'Mahoney Federal incorporation bill, The Indianapolis Times asked its author to discuss the objectives of the measure, *

BY JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY ° Ue 8. Senator from Wyoming T° establish a real foundation for social justice In national commerce it is not necessary to put a dog collar on business. As a maftter of fact the bill would mean less rather than more centralized control. Indeed, it is my own conviction that this measure may be made the basis of ‘a real charter of freeaom for both labor and industry. It is perhaps only natural that the word “license,” which has been used so often in connection with the Federal incorporation bill, should mean to the average person the power in some government official to exercise personal judgment as to whether cr not a license should issue. Such, however, is not ordinarily the case. When the applicant for a license complies with the conditions which are laid down by law as the basis {for its issuance, the license is ordinarily granted. Such’ would be the case with respect to the Federal system of incorporation contemplated by this measure. It probably would have been bettcr public psychology had I, in drafting the measure, used the words “supplemental charter” rather than the word “license.” That phrase would have conveyed a better picture of the proposal, which is simply: (1) To provide a system of national charters for national commerce whereby certain fundamental ents shall be laid down for

{tw be created in the future: and

(3) to provide for the issuance of

| licenses or supplemental charters to

corporations already existing and engaged in the commerce to be affected by the bill the fundamental conditions which it is believed

|should be met by every corporation [which engages in commerce among

the states.

Incorporation Bill Would Mean Real ‘Democracy, Author Says

‘tution no state has any

The next world war certainly would place the United States in even greater peril. With every passing year the weapons of war.

are improving. The United States | |

is becoming more and more vuluerable. becoming richer and more worth attacking—provided the chances of victory are good. World economic competition is becoming fiercer, and the elimination of America from the field would mean that her share of trade could- ‘be’ divided among the victors. I am not attempting to raise a war scare.” What I am trying to do is to show that as America’s position becomes more dangerous, her need for friendship and understanding within this hemisphere increases in. proportion. In the past, the government at Washington has often followed a stupid, short-sighted policy. Contrary to its own‘ best interest, at times it has gone out. of its way to make enemies in Latin America, instead of friends.

commerce with foreign nations and among the sevéral states and. with the Indian tribes.” 3 The great bulk of %

merce: is carried on by ¢ By virtue of ‘the

regulate commerce among the states yet corporations created. by tie states actually exercise this power which . the Constitution. denies to the states from which these corporations have derived their very existenice. PL as A corporation charter is a econtract between a state government and natura! persons: who desire: to have the privilege of conducting business in the corporate form. The state has‘ the right to make any requirement which it sees fit. as the condition for the issuance of a charter. 2

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INCE the power to do business in the corporate form is not a natural right but a privilege granted by some government and since the Federal Constitution grants to the “Pederal government jurisdiction‘ of the entire field of commerce amo the states, charters for carrying on that sort of business should be issued only by the government which has jurisdiction of the field, namely the Federal government. - In issuing the corporate contract the Federal government has the right to Say to natural persons who want to engage in commerce among the states as a corporation that before receiving the privilege to do so they shall deal fairly with ‘their employes, with their investors and with the general public. = When a charter is granted either originally or by way of license as provided in this measure the recipient of that charter will then know exactly what its 3 running

‘and it will not have to nning constantly to Washington to lay its case before a board or a commisSon ihe members of which’ ve. a bad case of indigestion upon - the morning on which the emissaries have the bad fortune to

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RMER Administrations have ridden roughshod over Latin American susceptibilities. Even the Monroe Doctrine, which when properly invoked should have aroused only gratitude among the peoples whose liberties it helped to safeguard, was often used as an excuse for intervention to protect speculative dollar investments. = : ‘Thus our southern neighbors can not be greatly blamed for beginning to fear rather than trust us. We need not wonder if they smiled wryly when Washington officials spoke soft promises. To a vast majority, even the most: friendly gestures on our part were. believed to hide selfish motives. Our protestations of democracy.

KNOW. YOUR INDIANAPOLIS There are approximately 800 manufacturing : establishments in Indiangpolis, according to estimates, turning out products with an estimated value of

enfers = © Found in- Apes BY SCIENCE SERVICE ASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Brains VV. of the three highest apes, orang-utan, gorilla and chimpanzee, show beginnings of a ‘part of the structure that controls speech. It is not found in the brain of any other kind of ape or monkey. ~ This 1s’ among the results of an exhaustive study of the large collection of primate brains at the United States National Museum, carried on by Dr. Cornelius® J. Connolly, professor of ‘physical anthropology at the Catholic University of Amer‘ica, and announced to the scientific world in the ‘American Journal of Physical Anthropology. ; The Museum collection of brains, accumulated during fngny years by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, afforded Dr. Connolly unique opportunities in his study. Many earlier generalizations about the brain structures of ape and monkey. species ha NY on the examination of a single brain. whereas Dr, Connolly was in most instances able to compare several brains of any given* species. He was thus in position to correct a number of preexisting errors. : a a s 2s centered in a particular part of the area.: It. is marked off from the rest of the brain by. definitely located

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and love of liberty were believed to be a cloak for Yankee imperialPresident Roosevelt has gone a long way to disabuse Latin-Amer-ican minds. . He not only said Uncle Sam would’ be a good neighbor; he proved it. He is continuing to prove iit. ‘Never in the history of the Western Hemisphere have relations between the

| Information on Social Security * Applications to Be Confidential

(Seventh of a Series)

EN Mr. Worker fills out the ‘VV application for a Social Be-

of those employes for: wi eral old-age benefits begin to accrue Jan. 1, 1937, under the Social Security Act—he can rest assured that the information he gives will be treated in a confidential manner by the Social Security Board. - The same assurance is made to employers, who, on Nov. 16, were given blanks entitled “Employer's Application for Identification Num-+ ber.” Shy The 10s} : of Re yo has 2 pam application, and can choose any one of a number which will insure pri-

vacy in regard to the information given. aks

Loyalty fo Huey Rewarded With Election to Senate

BY NED BROOKS ASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—~When Allen J. Ellender takes his seat in the Senate Jan. 5 he will be reaping the reward of loyalty to Huey P. Long. : Hes

Had: Huey lived, Ellender would |

have remained Speaker in the

Louisiana House of Representatives,

carrying out the Kingfish’s. orders. That much Huey had ordained. Long's assassination in 1935, and

the subsequent scramble for his}

legacy of suthority, lifted Ellender | cent,

Americas been quite as promising as now. It is in this atmosphere that the Inter-American Peace Conference will open at Buenos Aires on Dec. 1 in the presence of President Roosevelt, Segretary of State Hull and the delegates of the 20 other republics.

Tomorrow—Billions in American Trade.

LYE can put his application in a Sealed invelope addressed to his local postmaster and mail it. _ He can deliver it fo the postoffice Hejoan § ganization * ated. . He can hand it to his employer.

He can hand it to a letter earrier. In none of these instances is he required to pay postage. As a matter of fact, the information given on the application is probably less detailed than the in-

it to the labor or-: which he is affili-

formation which the employer al- |

ready has in his personnel files. Only a few simple questions are asked, such as name and address; date and place of birth, and father’s and mother’s full names.

NEXT: Wage earner cautioned against losing card. What assurance has John Smith that his account is not going to be claimed by another John Smith?

‘@ : when the attempt was made to impeach the Kingfish, Ellender, as floor leader, led his fight in the House. The impeachment was voted but the Senate killed it. ; .Ellender will enter the Senate

C. F. Schmidt's brewery horses. know whereof 1 speak because 1 saw Schmidt's stable grow from a collection 50 horses to something more than 80. Wi is to say that I saw his brewery grow fr 60,000 barrels a year to almost double that capaci . Mr. Schmidt, I suppose, started in a very sm way with something like two horses, but if he d I have no of it. In~ br ] deed, it always seemed to me that Mr. Schmidt's ;

3 - or : it was that sprang from the head of Jupiter clad in full armor, . : Mr. Schmidt's stable was. the grandest sight this town ever had, or ever will have, for that matter, And I think it was generally so acknowledged, because when Groyer Cleveland visited us in 1884, : was en for granted that the Mr. Scherrer best way to show him a goed time | ; z was to haul him around in a carriage pulled by sia of Mr. Schmidt's horses. It was also taken for granted that big Jack Willis would tool the coach that day and that's exactly what happened. It goes without saying that all of Mr. Schmidt horses were good, but nothing ever, equaled the § that pulled Mr. Cleveland around. They were a kind of Percheron type, picked for size and color. Their gait was slow and well thought out, about the tempe of the third movement in Beethoven's Opus 26. never saw their tempo equaled by any other ho and, of course, not by hums sings, unless, perchan it was the sure, meas and dignified tread Judge E. B. Martin be : : » »

Had to Be Powerful

HE horses had to'be big and ‘ powerful beca L Mr. Schmidt’s brewery was on the hill formed by McCarty, Alabama and Wyoming-sts. ‘It was very thoughtful of Mr. Schmidt to put his brewery there, because without a hill it wouldn't have been possible for us kids to see the stuff the horses were made of. At that, the hill’ didn’t bring out all their stuff, That was because the horses didn’t have to pull SO hard going up the hill as they did going down. The barrels were empty on the way up.. See? Even so, always thought it very considerate of Mr. Schmidt. | Besides being the most fortunate place .in town for a brewery, Mr. Schmidt's hill was also the best coast ing place in winter, The grade of the hill was § right for a bobsled and it was nothing for us kids to start at the head of Alabama-st and coast way beyond Delaware-st. Given a decent east wind on our backs, Ye Sula sometimes land pretty close to the J. M. & Ij racks. ; | :

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W JE usually made it a point to arrive at Mr. Schmidt's Rill right after school and stay there until supper time. The funny part of it was that in all that time we never saw Mr. Schmidt's horses going up or down the hill. And that’s how we discovered that there wasn’t any Mr. Schmidt. : ih Instead, there was a Mrs. Schmidt—the “Widow Schmidt,” they called her. You can imagine our s prise when we learned that a woman had to tend all those horses, to say nothing of I besides. Well, believe it or not, it was the Wid Schmidt who gave orders that nothing was to inter: fere with our coasting and that was why, all d the winter, the horses had to ita i the long wa) Sround to get to and from their stables, = ere’s practically nothing left of Schmidt's brews ery today. Instead, the Eli Lilly buildings sprawl al over the hill. I guess we ought to be mighty glad they do, but, somehow, they can’t ever take the place o Widow Schmidt’s brewery. 4

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Hoosier Yesterdays

NOVEMBER 27

Jrl=s FORSEE, one of the leading characters of . early Indianapolis, inserted an unusual adver= tisement in the Indianapolis Gazette Nov. 27, 1827.

* “James Forsee, attorney at law,” the announce= ment read, “having recommended his professional labors, offers his services to his friends generally. He will attend the several courts within the Fifth Judi= cial Circuit, and may be found at his office in the second story of Paxton and Bates’ brick building in the town of ‘Indianapolis, at any hour, except whilst on the circuit. . : . “Such business as many be entrusted to his care in the Marion Circuit, except in criminal cases, will meet with the joint services of James Whitcomb.” Mr. Whitcomb, then a young lawyer, later became the first Indiana Governor to be elected by the Democratic Party. * Early reminiscences of Indianapolis by J. H. B. Nowland, a chatty book about early Indianapolis found in the Smith Memorial Library, says that Lawyer Forsee came from Elkhorn, Ky. and wore a ‘coon skin cap. : : The cap was so large, the book says, that Forsee looked - like he was carrying a big ‘coon on his head. A large man with red hair and a ruddy complexion, Forsee boasted that he was a self-made

man, ' EA ; . His advice to his son Paul while plowing a fi is typical. “Paul, take an object and plow direct it,” Forsee said. “Then your furrow will be straigl Just so in life, Peter, you must take an object 2 plow straight to it. It was so with me, my sc I took the law for an object. 1 plowed straight my furrows were even.” =. ~ He was a familiar sight driving his team of t steers and an old gray mare to town with a los of wood—By T. C. |