Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1936 — Page 14
| (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)
W. HOWARD 2 LUDWELL DENNY EARL D. BAKER President Business Manager
vice, and Audit Buof Circulations.
| SCRIPPS ~ NOWARI Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1636
OOSEVELT AT BUENOS AIRES IME and events have rarely conspired to place an American President upon a more conspicuous spot or provide with a better sounding-board than they gave to Presient Roosevelt yesterday at Buenos Aires. Conditions in the New World, many of them of his own king, have been steadily building up for the last three or four years. On top of that, the world situation today is uch as to add enormous emphasis to the address he traveled so far to’ make. ~ Anticlimax would have been easy. But the President did not disappoint. He never was more effective. His thesis was that plain people everywhere wish to ve in peace with one another—and would, if only given a chance. But statecraft has not kept pace with science. Science has given man wings, and harnessed the very ether fo carry his faintest whisper across continents and seas. But human relations still wabble along as precariously as
: a seventeenth ,century chaise.
It is high time, the President warned, ‘that this should be changed. “If the genius of mankind that has invented the weapons of death can not discover the means of preserving peace,” he said, “civilization as we know it lives in an evil day.” So it is up to the Aaiions: of the New World to point the way. First, they can do it by maintaining peace among themselves. Second, they must strive to prevent the crea-
. tion of those conditions which give rise to war. They must “uphold democracy. They must give citizens political and «religious freedom, opportunity to work, the means to main
tain children in healthy surroundings and to educate them. They must lift living standards. They must free our com-
“merce because commerce is essential to peace. They must
demonstrate to their brethren overseas the folly of the thought that the price of war may be less than the price of
“Democracy,” he said) “is still the hope of the world, nd if we can continue its successful application in this hemisphere it will spread.” And so he laid down what might well be called PanAmerica’s six articles of faith. “Let us affirm,” he said: 1. “That we maintain and defend the democratic form
of constitutional representative government.
2. “That through such government we can more
greatly provide a wider distribution of culture, of education,
of life for our citizens and a more equal opportunity. for.
of thought and of free expression. 8. “That through it we can obtain a greater security’
them to prosper. 4, “That through it we can best foster commerce and the exchange of art and science between nations. 5. “That through it we can avoid the rivalry of arma-
‘ment, avert hatred and encourage good will and true justice.
voyaging 12,000 miles.
6. “That through it we offer hope for peace and a more abundant life to the people of the .whole world.” To give utterance to these tenets, the President is No voyager in all history ever car-
ried a more vital message. | | :
‘BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
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years. figure. As late as 1910, tuberculosis was the most common - cause of death. Now it ranks about seventh or eighth.
HE gay 1036/Christmas seals of the National Tubercu-
losis Association and its 2000 affiliated state and local _ associations are beginning to dress up the mail again. The stickers have helped arouse the country against tuberculosis. That the fight has made great progress in Indiana is clear from these figures given by the Indiana
Division of Public Health:
Tuberculosis Deaths per 100,000 Population 175.7 166.3 174.1 1930 141.9 1935
The rate has fallen steadily, even during depression It dropped below 100 in 1921, and now is half that
Tuberculosis Deaths
- Year 1920 1925
When you get the letter with your 1936 Christmas seals, don’t throw them away. Don’t return them. Use
{ them, and send the Tuberculosis Association the dollar or so
to pay for them at a penny each. Your money will help continue the battle that has
brought marvelous results in 30 years and that must go
ahead to a more complete control of the scourge of tuberculosis.
GUS GENNERICH . HE President always called him “Gus.” bodyguard more vigilant, but he was more than bodyjard, He and his chief were friends, man to man. Their constant association, enforced because a President must sever be left | ‘unprotected, never became irksome to Mr.
pvelt. It might have, easily, if “Gus” had not been
8 sort of person he was. 8 This would be = better comitey If all publi servants 2 as faithful, as devoted to. duty, as August Adolph
ennerich, who left the New York police force 3 become Roosevelt's guard and personal aid, who held that most
flicy s Aires
job for six years, and who died in Buenos seeing the Presiiess saldy Sumugh the I ge
N ever was
CONQU est 75
PLANS
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Finds That Taxi Drivers and Some |
Hotel Workers in N. Y. Are Forced To Be Fingerprinted and: Laments It.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—These dispatches are advised that the two Miamis in Florida are not original in their plan to mug and fingerprint working people, but that certain hotels and apartment houses in New York impose the same requirement on their employes. Taximen, as well, are required to give
particulars which usually are thought of only in connection with the. rite of a convicted men at the prisons. Large, ime personal industries pry into the personal affairs of individuals more closely than would seem to be their right. * Photographs, fingerprints and descriptive particulars in. some cases are sent. to the. Department of Justice, where Mr. Edgar HoO0ver’s Young King Bradys put them through the sausage machine to determine whether the principals have ever been arrested. If a man’s record is on file in Mr. Hoover's bureau, his. chance of obtaining a job is thus de- : stroyed, and he might even be ” locked up again on the ground that his* application
Mr. Pegler
for work shows he was planning to-prowl the room: of some respectable, though plastered, guest and steal |
some jewelry. The unhappy fact is, however, that some police departments record the pictures and prints of people arrested on the most trivial charges, including vagrancy, which is more a misfortune than an offense, and send duplicates to Washington for the files. Vagrancy merely means that a man is without money and without friends in the community where he is picked up, and the additional charge of acting in a suspicious manner may mean only that he was peering wistfully into the window of a bakery.
88 R. HOOVER'S bureau claims an almost perfect record of identification from cards, so it may be seen that it is possible for a man to be forever branded as a criminal, or at best. as an undesirable, merely because he yan out of money in Macon or Montgomery a long time ago. The Young King Bradys serving under the eye that never sleeps insist that the bureau does not retain for its files the records of innocent
persons submitted for comparison.
Mr, Hoover may be scrupulous, but he might sometime drift off into the movies and his. successor might be an old-fashioned cop with no chivalrous ideas about the rights of innocent people. Once a man’s fingerprints are filed they may generally be regarded as a
permanent entry, even though the police go through
the motions of giving them back and expunging them from the record. 2 8
ND there appears to be no more reason to file the
pedigrees of workingmen in certain crafts than:
to mug and print the hotel guests, the lessees of apartments and the passengers who ride in the cabs. As matters stand just now, the taximen of New York
City, although unrecognized as a corps d’elite, prob-
ably are the purest group in the city, with the possible exception of the cops themselves, who also are required to furnish intimate perticulars and stand in-
-spestion: without notice. : A blameless life from the beginning of time to the.
date of those presents which hang in the little illuminated frame in the taxi is a prerequisite for a job pushing a hack through New York traffic 10 or 12 hours a day for a variable commission plus variable tips. It seems too much to ask, considering the return,
when financiers and statesmen, potentially much more
dangerous to the possessions and i Shon Jom 29) Jeane,
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what You ys but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
‘SEES WORLD PEACE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE ‘By JH. 8. John B. Kennedy's " declaration that “wars are made by nations striving for business,” indicates a serious derangement in the ‘economic structure. of international commerce. The exchange of products between nations should be the means of creating good will and higher living standards for all nations.
The exchange of goods that creates war is that of exchange which creates disadvantages for some other nation. - Exploitive exchange creates the necessity for armies and navies and demands their use to make war if a nation fails to make the grade in the economic exploitive struggle. Peace talk is futile if the nations of .the world continue to insist on. an economy of exploitation at home and abroad. - The natural and inevitable consequence of the exploitive struggle is fascism and war.
§ | Better than a League of Nations or -| peace conferences would be the cre-
ation of an. “international trade acceptance corporation,” set up by all the nations of the world, through which all Intemational trade would be transacted. XN woud create an undreamed of market for goods for all nations and eliminate the basic cause of wars, as Mr. Kennedy so clearly stated it. » # = GREED BLOCKS WAY
TO RECOVERY, WRITER SAYS. By J. Collins
Roosevelt's coattails pulled many
into office. Why don’t they help
him? He is working hard to find a way so at least one in every family may be a bread earner. Those whom he helped are blocking his way with their personal greed.
Office holders and - appointed |
ward-heelers have relatives on pay rolls, while the precinct man who does all the work gets the proverbial “what the boy shot at” Some families receive two pays, pension |= and salary. Some even have additional revenue from investments or business. They are surplus freight in the wagon Robsevelt is trying to pull out of the rut. One trouble with our democratic form of government is that it permits too many chameleons to run it. They change their colors often and he pe people don’t si for what
the ‘kings fight
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bracket taxpayers were reluctant ‘to fork over to his majesty. . Cardinal Richelieu went rough-shod after the nobles in the interests of Louis XIII. Louis XIV had to deprive his nobles of their inheritances. King John fought them at Runnymede, and although he lost, the rights he surrender
became the rights of all English-
men. Charles II pestered his nobles |:
for appropriations to support ‘his
‘lovely land expensive Nell Gwynn.
Our own democratic Roosevelt has this single thing in common with of history—his running th the American econom: lords for taxes and other concessions to help the masses.
If young Edward is out to build up power to back his marriage to our Wally he is going after it’ in the right places. His recent armistice speeeh in Albert Hall, his review of the fleet and his trip through the impoverished mining towns of Wales all are endearing him more
than ever to the sovereign people of |
England. Mr. Maxton may be correct
when he asserts that with such
backing, the lords and the church to the contrary, “He will win.” In love, perhaps, as in war, that Ling is safest who has the people with him.sw ¥ AT TIMES, HIS DEFINITION SEEMS CORRECT By Walker Stone : The description of the dreary sameness of life which you quoted recently from the Pi Lide column of The Albuquerque Tribune calls to mind a philosophic observation
time Sociali “Life,” he you dig in the “get enough money to buy enough food to provide enough strength to dig in the ditch.”
Langston, old~--
in Oklahoma.
SIMILE BY MAUDE C. WADDELL As silvered frost and murky fog will lift and fade when warmed
Before the slanting morning sun—'
likewise, grief and pain Before the glow of friendship’s fire Will. soon: dissolve aud ebb.
to the knights and barons’
a place where |
STOVES POOR BANKS, WRITER POINTS OUT By R. A. ; ‘Americans as a rule haven't money to burn—but, according to. the
United States Treasury, you'd never:
think it. Every. year, about this time, wails of woe come floating from throughout the United States. The burden of most of these laments is that
mother or father had cached money in a stove, furnace, or hearth, and absentmindedly had started a fire. And could Mr. Uncle Sam please redeem their charred savings? Just the. other day, in Ottumwa, Ia., a waitress lighted a fire in a stove, to heat some food, and cremated $1200 which the tavern owner had saved to purchase: an automobile. va
While Treasury officials’ have been | -
able to“satvage a lot from the ashes, they probably wish citizens would use a little more forethought in their method of saving for a rainy day. EJ 2 WARNS AGAINST NEXT DEPRESSION By F. M. Kirkendall, Dayton, O. ~ Events of the coming four years
will be less sensational than those of |
the last four. The “setup” is far-reaching, but it will not materialize so rapidly. The WPA, PWA, AAA and other alpha-
petic combinations brought quick re-
lief to many of the most unfortunate
people on the earth, - ‘Our latest data reveal profits up
: 40 per cent, production up 14 and : re-employment up 4 per cent. This}
is -a repstition. of what occurred from 1925 to 1930. Another tailspin is inevitable. . Urge the workers who earn less than $1000 a year to incur no liabilities they can’t liquidate prior to 1942. We are now coming out of cur thirteenth - depression. I have Wweathereq six of them. iw
” 2 = ‘BIG COST SEEN FOR HAPHAZARD PROGRESS By N. J. D. : Because the oitch of progress is not a uniform. advance, 1 we pay a
‘| tremendous cost.
. Development of the automobile and the hway have not kept hand in hand, for instance. As a result, the fact that our roads are not able
is ‘lone of the major reasons for our ‘tragedies.
highway
‘As another illustration, 10 persons were killed and some 65 in-
{urea “ue SUA Sov wun » nem telescoped,
train crashed into, and a wooden elevated passenger car in
| Chicago. Steel railway cars did not immediately displace all
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By Heywood Broun ~~ .
It Seems to Me
John |Boettiger Becoming Hearst Editor. Has Nothing to Do With Administration ‘or Its Policies,
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Editors have beéii kind but there has been some lifting of the eyebrows about the more recent activities of members: of the Roosevelt family. Het@ ‘and there I have even heard it suggested
that a turn to the right on the part of the Chief Executive is indicated by decisions made by his son and his son-in-law. . I.am inclined to scoff at such irrelevant testis
mony. It arises out of an oldfashion&d conception of the status ‘of the family. In the horse-ande buggy period possibly a son-in-law became one of the circle. Today he is merely a man who has hap= ; pened to marry your daughter. “v'“Some have held that it must be very embarrassing to Frankl ~ Roosevelt to have John Boettigef accept the post of publisher ‘of Mr. Hearst's Seattle newspaper, - don’t see why. It seems to me that a son-in-law is just about as rev on a relative as a fifth cousin; and that branch of the Roosevely family never found any difficulty in speaking its mind during the last campaign. If the time comes when the Seattle Post-Intelli-gencer is after the Administration hammer and tongs 1 will admit that I can conceive of what might be called a situation in the Boettiger household. If son< in-law John writes an editorial calling President Roosevelt a Communist and a traitor to American institutions ‘Mrs. Boettiger might possibly say at breakfast, “John, don’t you think you were just a wee bit severe on father this morning?’ * # Ww » Lr the young publisher could settle that very simply by replying politely, “My dear, you attend to your society news and Ill run the editorial page as usual: And while we're on that subject I think you made a mess of handling the. Smith-Gars finkus wedding. If you can’t do the job I'll get somes body‘ who can.” As a matter of fact, Mr. Boettiger tn his capacity as a newspaper man has never made any commif=
ments to the New Deal. As I remember, Tt
reps ortorial job was in the Washingtori bureau of the Chicago Tribune, a paper just as hostile to the Presi« dent as the Hearst chain was before election. I don’f happen to know ‘whether John Boettiger was. 5 sympathy with the policies of Col. McCormick, bus there is no record that he ever hung around the présg club bawling out the attitude of his employer. 77 According to the announcement of William Rahw dolph Hearst, Boettiger is to have a free hand Nf molding the policies of the paper which has been intrusted to him. That's as may be; but I see nothi« ing in the arrangement which binds the new pubs lisher to support the Administration thick and thin through all its Setbulations,
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Rooseveits: ave. ” always been highly indie
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