Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1936 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1036

CLOTHE-A-CHILD CAMPAIGN OPENS I 1930, the first year of the depression, The Indianapolis Times organized its annual Christmas campaign— Clothe-A-Child—to give citizens an opportunity to help needy children. It has proved a Christmas gift that lasts long after the holiday season ends.

The purpose remains the same today, with The Times acting as your personal agent in entering the homes of children or permitting you to go into a home yourself and spend your contribution as you see fit in outfitting a boy or girl between the ages of 5 and 12. The names of the children are provided by the Indianapolis Community Fund ‘relief agencies. They are checked by the public school social service department and crosschecked by the Christmas Clearing House to avoid dupli- - cation of gifts. The response of the Clothe-A-Child donors. prompted The Times to start its Mile-Of-Dimes, a 100-foot line of 10-cent pieces, in 1933. The dimes are placed on the sidewalk at Washington and Meridian-sts and left there until Christmas. Shoppers clothe needy children on the strength of the contributions during the campaign. Since the beginning of Clothe-A-Child in 1930, the cam. paign has clothed 4460 children, a number equal to omnetenth of the city’s grade school population. Co The Mile-Of-Dimes, Sidewalk Santa of the fund, has

collected $9362 in three "years. Approximately $15,000 has been donated, in addition to the Dime Fund.

i Last year the campaign topped its records by clothing 1241 children.

The 1936 Clothe-A-Child campaign opens today. Your participation can help make it a bigger Santa than ever.

SHAMEFUL RECORD

AMERICA, in 1936, is making one all-time record of which we must be heartily ashamed. Traffic deaths this year will number 37,500—an increase of 500 over the bad year 1935, so the National Safety Council estimates.

Indianapolis has contributed heavily to the slaughter. Relatively, the Marion County auto accident toll is even more discouraging than the national figure, with 147 fatalities in 1936 compared with 135 at this time last year.

True, the national rate of increase will be smaller than it has been since 1932. It’s true that the death rate has in‘creased much less rapidly than gasoline consumption. And it’s true, apparently, that city streets have become. a little safer, with fatalities in small towns and on ‘open highways responsible for the ghastly gain.

But all that is unimportant compared to the butchery of 37,500 human beings and the maiming of hundreds of thousands more by carelessness and speed. Horrified by the death toll that civil war is taking in Spain, we have

small reason to congratulate ourselves on our superior

civilization so long as we can not or will not control ourselves and our automobiles.

THEY'LL HAVE TO HURRY! HAT with doubts and dawdling and the playing of poli-

tics a number of states are going to wake up on Jan. 1°

to find that the unemployment insurance train has gone and left them behind. On that date the Federal tax on n employers, under the unemployment insurance titles of the Social Security Act, starts yielding its wealth of security reserves. Every eligible employer of eight or more persons must then begin paying into the Federal Treasury a pay roll tax of 1 per cent. In those states that have passed approved unemployment insurance laws, such employers may get a Federal credit up to 90 per cent of all their contributions into state funds. There- * fore, enterprising states with approved systems will keep all but.10 per cent of the tax within the borders of their own states. The others will watch their wealth start flowing toward Washington. As the matter stands, only 16 states and the District “of Columbia have enacted laws and 32 states have failed to do so. These laws cover about 8,000,000 workers out of a possible 18,000,000 eligibles in the United States. The enterprising states—Alabama, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, . Texas, Utah, Wisconsin (and D. C.) —will make 90 per cent . use of the revenues for paying unemployment benefits. The reserve funds of the laggard states will lose to the Federal | treasury a total of about $130,000,000 next year. * 2 The Social Security Board holds that éxtension of the deadline would be unfair to the complying states, and Atty. - Gén. Cummings has informed Pennsylvania's attorney gen- | eral that extension would create “serious problems.” Certainly early action by Congress can not be expected.

HE committee that picked the 12 greatest Ametiesh inventors to honor in celebration of our 100-year-old patent system did more than recall our debt to these men. The committee honored, at the same time, the American thi that made the work of the 12 men possible, and that pdreedom of the mind. Practically all these “twelve against the gods” had : n poor boys. The only capital most of them had was

their brains. But on their ideas grew great projects— | hole industries and cities, transcontinental railroads,

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By Westbrook: Pegler

Mr. Pegler Finds Nazis' Objection To Russian Death Sentence on German Saboteur Quite Puzzling.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—The Nazis will have to be patient with those of us who were a little confused by their anger at the Russians for passing sentence of death on Emil Stickling, their spy and saboteur. This Ger-

man patriot wrecked some Russian coal mines, killing 16 men, and, according to the Nazis’ own custom in such cases, should have been executed. If a Russian had done likewise in Germany the

Nazi government. would have seized upon the incident as a foul blow at the Reich, and after a brisk trial the man would have been introduced to the courtly Old World figure in the full dress suit, whe would have spat on his hands and lopped the scoundrel’s head off. Barring their preference for the ax, which makes an unduly messy job of a ceremony which is difficult at best, the Germans would have been in the right, too. The Nazis recognize the impossibility of relieving such trying incidents and have gone to an extreme which not only is their privilege but an expression. of their character.

Mr. Pegler

An

execution which did not shed actual gore would seem .

evasive and not quite sincere in their eyes. So when then kill a man or woman they make death as disastrous as possible to the victim. The civilized races have given up trying to understand this trait of their nature, and even t studious experts who strive to comprehend hay been unable to explain the Nazi. ; #8 = = wo eh HE question being still open, it is too much to expect that the Nazis should show intelligent consistency in this matter of the death penalty for murder and sabotige. After all, there is very little differerice between the Nazi German and the Communist Russian. Both scorn freedom, detest honesty, perse-

. cute manhood and deny reason. Their courts are

fundamentally alike in the respect that they abhor truth, and the German assassin of the Russian miners was tried under conditions similar to those which a Russian murderer would have met in Germany. Not only that, but the Russians in this case complied throughout with the very same procedure which the Germans follow in such matters and arrived at a sentence which the Nazis would duplicate under like circumstances. That is not the puzzle, however. The puzzle is how the Germans can find any ground for objecting to a verdict which does honor to their own beliefs and customs. Last week they were angry over the bestowal of the Nobel prize on one of their favorite victims, and by a strange, unpredictable twist, arrived at the conclusion that this award was a rebuke to their beliefs and therefore an act of hostility to their country. i o » » ; T gets very difficult to avoid giving offense to the Nazi state, and the Russians may have thought that the death sentence in this case was a pleasant gesture toward the Reich, indorsing, as it plainly did, the Nazis’ own concept of things. Yet, for all this friendly indorsement. of their own beliefs by a foreign nation, there was great indignation in Berlin, and the

Russians hastily commuted the man’s sentence to 10 |

ears. y In this country it would seem that the likeliest method of winning Hitler's fi up a féw hundred of the export lerism, damn our ] and strive to create dissension among Americans, for that is the Nazi way of it wih \oublesome joreigners in ther own land.

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J ® . | s The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will ’ defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

THOUGHTLESSNESS BLAMED FOR FATAL ACCIDENTS By R.‘'W. Ade, Bridgeport

I am an oil truck driver, and I have traveled city streets and highways for 25 years, and have seen many accidents. ‘I have given much thought to how and why they happen and who is to blame for them. I have found out that it can be summed up in one word: Thoughtlessness. I was half a block south of Ray-mond-st, coming north on Shelby-st when little Dickie Hopson was killed. Hdd fate put me a little ahead, the

| terrible accident might have hap-

pened to me. I know how the driver felt, as I was. standing beside him while he described the accident to the officer with Dickie at our feet. The driver could hardly talk, he was so broken. This was not a case of carelessness. There was nothing the man could do in the time in which he had to act. . The same thing happened to me, only it happened to be a spitz dog who ran under my. front wheel instead of a child. Before I could brake the truck I had passed over the body by three feet. Now I declare war on this demon Thoughtlessness. I believe The Times could do much to awaken the mothers, jaywalkers, smart aleck auto drivers and dreamers by placing in .bold type on Page 1 what the horrors of thoughtlessness are, and also by urging .civic clubs to place signs at street intersections, reading, “Look! Think Before Crossing!”

I also think churches could help

by lecturing on safety, movies by | Will ;

illustrating it, filling stations by windshield cards. If we all get behind this 100 per cent, I believe we can awaken these thoughtless people to foresight and safety. I see in The Times that over 225 have been arrested. The details in any case you read point to thoughtlessnéss. Let's do away with it.

2 » 2 ROOSEVELT'S SMILE IS MISLEADING, SHE SAYS, By Mrs. Mabel German

Miss Biddy Dunning takes it for granted I am uneducated and don’t know the value of a smile, particularly the Roosevelt smile and charm. I humbly admit I can not be classed with the “educated,” but I can use the little education I possess and the common sense I was born with to enlighten myself on a subject I don’t undeystand. At present I am more concerned as to whether we are to’rémain a free people, governed by the constitutional government which cost ers. untold hardships to is mere important to

Ea fs the ng th in of the péeple, so he smiled, smiled, smiled. When a Président boasts of his “power,” ;

General Hugh Johnson Says—

England and Germany Are Taking Steps to Conserve: Food Supply in Anticipation of War, This |s-a Vital to Them as Preparation of Arinies,

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he did a few days before the election; I for one can see deeper than the smile. Miss Dunning failed to see the comparison of Roosevelt and the Ringmaster. The man has not kept his oath of office; he has betrayed the Democratic Party and has the nerve to call his Administration Democratic. One by one, the people’s rights have been taken away. States’ rights, under the Constitution, have nearly vanished. Now comes the latest un-American scheme, the Social Security Act. Of course that budget must be oalanced, and there is another election coming in 1940 and the Treasury must be filled again. That will take oodles of money and smiles and charm. One step more and we have a dic tator as surely as Russia has. Elect this man for life—and what's to prevent, with the power he has? There you have a dictator in full bloom. Most dictators frown, but this one smiles. All this I eather from Roosevelt's own words. .

4 # ® » BANKER'S WORDS SEEN SIGN OF PROGRESS By G. B. P.

Please bear in mind, ds you read "the following—thadt it's a banker Speaking. If you de, I beliéve you agree with me ‘that after all, “the world do move”: “It is 4 swing away from the intense individualism of the rights of man toward a limited application of that theory. It seeks to restrain and direct the fréedom of the few ‘for the benefit of the many. . . “The fact is that in this closely knit world of 1936 no man can long keep his work to himself or restrict the effects of it to narrow limits. He can not i a line of action without affecting somebody else. He is no longer living on a frontier, is no longer able to plan for himself alone, no longer

SORROW

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON My sorrow is a deep slim cup Carved from dark ebony - Where aloe wine comes bubbling up Bitter to taste and see If it were cold, clear, oratal glass . Reflecting tear-salt lip, : ~1 could not stand its vitreous mass, 1 could not bear to sip!

DAILY THOUGHT

aie ul ceive : saved thes —8b. Luke 18:42.

LL the strength and force A man comes from his faith

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of th in is is weak. || precede great |

Strong convictions as | detion.—J. F. Clarke.

The Washington Merry-Go

express their views in these col-

free to do as heé pleases, irrespeciive of outside conséquences. . “We still believe that it is the business of évery res ble person to conduct his own affairs according to his own best judgment. But there has grown up a supplementary factor which operates to direct or perhaps control the judgment. . If we wish to avoid the dangers inherent in centralized authority or prescriptive regulation, every man in ‘responsible position must study and restudy his decisions and guide his actions according to his best estimate of the public good. That, I think, is the outstanding inference to be drawn from the wave of opinion which swept the country election day.” The banker is Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of the board, Oluash National Bank of New York City.

= ” n INCREASED GIVING SEEN SIGN OF BETTER TIMES Be B. C. One very excellent sigh of thé times is the fact that contributions to organize charities have gone su%stantially upward this fall. In 78 cities that have been collecting Community Chest subscriptions of late, more than $38,000,000 has ‘been paid in. In most of these cities anal figures are not yet available;

here such figures are at hand, they show that mest citiés have passed

‘| their objectives and have collected

more money than they requested. It has been hard for the charities, in the last féew years, to get the money they nééd. For one thing, people havé not had so much to give; for another, the fact that the government is feeding and shéltering millions of people has led to a mistaken assumption that private charity has less to do. This fall money is more plentiful. It appears, too, that people are realizing that the o1 charities still have a tremendous load to carry, and are contributing acoordingly. RE A a NERVES RELAX, TOO, EXPERTS SAY. By F. J. : When we are tired, we relax and

To prevent excessive. exhaustion, he believes, nature provides for the

“Just a moment, please; my ver, becoming tongue-tied y hurry to a

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Reviews Present Economic Status Of Siamese Twin Who Just Has Been Severed From His Brother,

EW YORK, Dec. 1.—When the circus

comes to town I never walk down the street of the strange people, because I have no liking for physical maladjustment. But I rémember that once I was moved to write a

column, which I liked very much; about the death of the bearded lady in a little town in Oklas homa. You see, only by dying did she come inlo the common heritage of mankind. ‘And I must con= fess now a deep interest in the curjous case of Simplicio Godina, the surviving Siamese twin. Don’t worry. I have no intention of going into any discussion of the work of the surgeons, skillful as it may have been. As a matter of fact, my chief” interest is in the economic statis of Simplicio. It has been said

that in the early days of the twins. |

the doctors advised them that they might be severed quite readily. They refused to submit to an opMr. Broun and immoral if you please, but it - was not unmotivated by business sagacity. Bound to his brother, Simplicio lived what might be called, by some stretch of the imagination: a comfortable life. Now he is no longer a freak but. a man. And his occupation is gone. He becomes just another member of the army of unemployed. Siamese twins are strange, but so is a world in which it is easier for a freak to make a living than it is for an ordinary mortal. Perhaps the word “ordinary” can not properly be used about Simplicio even yet. Here is the only live ing human béing who has actually felt the twinge

and pang of death along the fibers of his own nervous

system, » » .

Pees and playwrights have tried to imagine’ the sensation of dying, and, of course, they have nog whelly succéeded. They were not there. And how, ironically énough, the éxperiénce has come to a mdn who seems to be rather léss than ar ticulate. I have no doubt that very soon will carry a story entitled “Death. is 1 Knew 15" by Simplicio Godina. And yet I fear that the man who felt the breath of the stringér upon his back will’ have recourse to a ghost when he comes to tell of hig experience. wea He has been quoted as saying, “A very strange feeling came over me, and I knew before I turned: to touch Lucio that he had just died.” Perhaps that is all there is to say. Possibly nothe ing more should be attempted. But Simplicio is a man now and not a freak, and 8 seversd Siamese twin): must live. But how? » ® =»

T= surgeons with their knives have cut a new life

eration. This decision was morbid -

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for Simplicio. As a man he now belongs te

that group of living beings which supposedly cons stitutes the noblest work of God. His body and Tsoul have been restored into his own

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