Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1936 — Page 10

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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIANA NE thing the new Legislature should do is to make the office of Attorney General elective. That is a job which should not be a trading post for political appointees. The law should be amended at this session.

Meanwhile the state is fortunate in having in Atty. Gen. Lutz a man whose record in office demonstrates unusual ability as a legal expert and as a public servant. He has won national reputation as a leader of the Interstate Commission on Crime, and as author of the model parole law already enacted by 12 states. : In every case in which the varied and important Indiana legislation of 1933, 1935 and 1936 sessions has been challenged in the state and Federal courts, it has been upheld as constitutional. Few other states have been so well served. But the competence of Atty. Gen. Lutz, or the possibility that he will be named to succeed himself, can not alter the defective law which makes that office appointive. . The Attorney General represents not only the Governor or an administration—he represents the citizens. He should be a check on the administration/ That is the historic function of his office. Therefore the Attorney General Should be chosen by direct vote of the people.

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SHAKESPEARE SAID IT

HE bard who celebrated the lives and loves and fates of many kings, doubtless foresaw no situation like the one that now grips what he called “this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” . ~~ Yet he said almost all that can be said about the current royal tragi-comedy. These words, for example, might have been written expressly for young Edward VIII: ! “She’s beautiful and therefore to be wooed; she is a woman, therefore to be won.” *‘That I should love a bright particular star, and think to wed it.” But, “I do perceive here a divided duty.” “Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his : humor ? ?” “Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, study to break ‘it and not break my troth.” “The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree.” “I must have liberty withal, as large a charter as the wind.” “Let the world slide—I'll not budge an inch.” : The harried Prime Minister, seeking like Hamlet for #the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King,” might have reminded Edward that: “There’s such divinity “doth hedge a King.” Or that: “Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them—but not for love.” For the lady in the case—she who may become the not ~ 50 merry wife of Windsor—an appropriate quotation might "be: “This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd

the doings of “this senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid,” are reminded again that: “The course of true love never

e, we may say: “Your heart’s desires be with you,” or

“exclaim: “What fools these mortals be!” And the senti--

ts of most of us are expressed by: “If this were played

HE REAL CHOICE” OLUMNIST Frank R. Kent of The Baltimore Sun is not one of our major prophets, but for a long time the conatives have heard him gladly. Let them listen now: Cque choice in this country is no longer between being at or a Republican . . . Nor is the choice between ing pro-Roosevelt: or anti-Roosevelt. The actual choice between letting things develop and developing them— aisses Taine and social legislation . . . “Now then, if conservative property holders are not and tted; if thqy do not want to justify epithets ionary,” ‘Bourbon,’ ‘Tory,’ and ‘creatures of

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) nclied greed,’ hurled at them by the politicians, they | ew things as they are and not as they want them to be. |. they will accept the fact that stocks, | - ak estate ave wk. the only Soria of poDERY}

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Price In Marion County;

“Pve Got Trouble Enough Without You!®_py Kirby

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Hypocrisy of Royal Marriages

Arranged by Statesmen Brought.

Out by Uproar ‘Over Mrs. Simpson.

NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—One profit which we in this country will gain from the current uproar over the English King is a better knowledge of English history and of

the bestial hypocrisy of many sanctified

marriages in the royal set where the matches are arranged by politicians. Wrong it may be in the eyes of the Church of England for the spiritual leader of the British people to marry a woman who has been

divorced not once but twice. But right and holy it would have been for the young man to agree to live with and have children by some total stranger, se=lected by: his statesmen, who would: take certain vows with her lips, but with mental reservations, and perhaps with a personal loathing for the man no less cordial ‘than his for her. Such a wedding could have been celebrated with all the: pomp .of cracking vestments, the reek of incense and the flash and boom of guns, served by soldiers oo sworn to die, if need be, killing Mr. Pegler other men for a good. and pious Having pronounced their sacreligious lies upon the altar, the King and Queen then could go their separate ways, he to a mistress, she to her lover, with the blessing of the bishops and the approval of the politicians. The whole country might know, every garbage man might gossip and joke about the dirty travesty on holy matrimony perpetrated by the statesmen in open conspiracy with the clergy.

» ” ” . HEIR majesties would have to endure one another a few hours in“public now and again and witness the invocation of divine blessing on the colors, the crown and the revenues of the religious establishment or to inspire the people to suffer and die in war, but otherwise the demands on their self-respect would be few. So many religious ceremonies of good and pious

kings are attended by officers with swords and troops

with muskets that thére are always some loyal sub= jects who, in strict decency, would prefer to leave religion out of it. 2 2 ”

UT kings who are spiritual leaders are also the military eaptains of their people and, although the troops are always defenders of the faith and the right, there come occasions when rival armies, both consecrated to the same service, are exhorted to kill each other by rival kings and clergy. Last winter in London when the late good King

George V was carried through the West End, even in. . death that wasted little man was surrounded and fol--lowed for miles by a mingling of the holy men of the |

empire and the tough guys, the champion, wholesale killers, of all the earth. The professional killers took the show, doddering old field marshals hardly able to drag their dry bones over the four-mile course, admirals, generals, princes and "diplomatic conspirators against peace, sanity and all the decent objectives toward which civilization strives. They came in plumes and horse-feathers, with swords clanking against their calves, to conduct the little old King to his grave where

the clergy intoned God's blessing, while-fsom a dis- |

Why Doesn't Mrs. Simpson Gome Homee or Go to Tahiti ¢ or Somewhere? She Has Chance to Do a Great Thing by Removing Herself From Scene. |

ASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— Mrs. Simpson has

Re > : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

TROUBLES OF EARLIER MONARCHS RECALLED By Bertram Benedict. For centuries the English people have insisted on the prerogative of sitting in personal judgment on their King. - Yet. Englishmen have often condoned personal weakness in a ruler otherwise popular. While the monarchy was still thought of as absolute, the personal lives of the. English ‘Kings often had deep-lying political repercussions. The marital adventures of Henry VIII had much to do with the course which his reign took, and his determination to divorce his first wife was largely responsible for taking England away from Rome into Protestantism. Resentment at Charles I finally culminated in flat revolution against him and ‘his ‘execution for treason in 1649.- His judges paid little heed to his claim that he was King by inheritance, ahd informed him that he ruled by election of the people. James II Forced to Flee Three years after James II ascended the throne in 1685, an open rebellion broke out against him, and he fled the country. Parliament

ruled that flight was equivalent ‘to

abdication, and the throne was bestowed jointly upon William, Prince of Orange, and his wife, Anne. The new rulers offered no opposition when the Act of Settlement of 1701 gave the succession, after their deaths, if without issue, to the Electress of Hanover (granddaughter of James I) and her descendants. The act excluded Roman Catholics from the- throne, and required the monarch to join the communion of the Church of England. George IV, as Prince of Wales.

.| had secretly married Mrs, Fitzher-

bert, a Catholic, in 1785. While the prince was living openly with her, the marriage was regarded only as a morganatic one. - Without taking any steps to dissolve the secret marriage, the prince officially married the Princess Caroline of Brunswick. The two soon separated, and the relations between them became a pilbric scandal. Regent Is Hissed In 1806. the charge was conclusively disproved that the princess had given birth to an illegitimate child. In- 1812, after Géorge III's ‘mind, long affected, had completely given away, Parliament made the Prince of Wales regent — king in everything but name. He excluded his wife from court, with the result that the City of London and other

- public bodies openly addressed mes-

sages of sympathy to her. The regent was roundly hissed in the streets, and on one occasion the

windows of his carriage were broken ;

by a mob. When George IV acceded in 1820, he ordered prayers for-his wife as

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

tion against the King was almost boundless. Yet public opinion turned against the Queen the following year, when she tried to force her way into Westminster Abbey for her husband’s coronation. ~ Victoria’s Troubles Early in the reign of the young Queen Victoria, an attempt to regulate the ruler’s domestic affairs developed - into a political ‘crisis. In 1839 the Whig ministry was defeated in a vote in Commons, and Sir Roo-

‘ért Peel for the Tories tried to form

a ministry. He demanded that the Queen first dismiss several influential Whig ladies of her bedchamber. The Queen resisted this attempt to regulate her private life, and Sir Robert informed Parliament that he could not take office because he did not have the Queen’s confidence. Commons, however, rallied to their sovereign, and the Whig ministry came back into power. However, “its prestige was low, for some people feared that the Queen

was in the grip of a palace coterie,

and some Tory hisses were heard when the Queen rode in state to Ascot. Her ministry’s suggestion that she marry was influential with Victoria, and although Albert was more than

FAREWELL : BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK We say farewell tonight with no harsh words To mar the twilight shelter of an hour, Lit only by this rose-leaf, petaled flame, That flares into a rare, flower.

exotic

Your Jowersd head is passionate and dar Against the white line of your stubborn throat. Oh something rises, Wigem, mad, and stark : So that I can not voice one crying note. We said that love was dead, its magic spen That we Dent say farewell, and

leave it so. If farewell I this poignant sacra-

ment, * 1 can not bear at last, to2let vou go!

" DAILY THOUGHT

Be ye strong, therefore, and let not your hands be weak; for your work shall be rewarded. —- II Chronicles 15:7.

LESSINGS ever wait on virtuous deeds and, though late, a sure reward succeeds—Congreve.

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acceptable to her, he had previously been indicated as acceptable to the ministry.

» 2 ” ANSWERS CRITICISM OF PROF. REY By Ralph Banes } In the Forum I read a letter by A. J. McKinnon answering another Forum writer, Robert Collier. The subject was Communism in politics and labor. Mr. McKinnon criticised Mr. Collier because he . supported Prof. Rey of Indiana University who said, “The loyalists of ‘Spain uphold democracy .and the rebels dictatorship.” Mr. McKinnon says, “Nothing could be farther from the truth,” and advises Mr. Collier to ask Henry Ford whether the Loyal-

ists are allowing his plant in Spain |

any democracy and freedom. It seems to me that .Mr. McKinnon fails to understand that the Rebels in Spain are the same class of people as the, Fords, Hearsts, Mellons, duPonts and Landons .in this country, forcing their will ‘upon the working people. ,

2 8 = THINKS 27 MILLIONS CAN'T BE WRONG By Gerald Davis, Winchester To Mrs. Mabel German: ‘I trust that F. D. R.’s smiles: ‘are a nightmare to you. Well, take a rest cure and forget . . . Surely over 27 million people who support the New Deal can’t be wrong. I hardly believe we're drifting into a dictatorship like that of Russia. However—We did need a bit’ of dictating to keep the U. S. A. from utter ruin. Even the Indians wouldn’t have had it after 1929. This is a great country with great people and now that we've gained control again let’s sit back and listen, in on Bob Burns at our leisure and at other times work for a fliture and forget our worries about dictatorship. If that smile still bothers, read the funnies and get a good laugh. I think youll enjoy it—Alf Landon does. .. . s ” ” WRITER UPHOLDS

CRITICISM OF ROOSEVELT By Mabel German : This is an open letter to all my “fans” who write unsigned letters to me, saying nothing worthwhile. When your only defense is vile you are in a sorry

A. R. B.: I can “take” anything that's fair, square and aboveboard but 26 million people can be wrong. You have. your figures wrong. . .. You evade the sensible issues, just as your charming leader did before the recent election. . . . E. A. T.:-1I have never said I “hated” Roosevelt. I only protest his unlawful manner in gaining an end. You are right when you say the United States is on the road to recovery, but it is not because of the New Deal, it is in spite of it. . . . ‘Why don’t you who sign no name, or merely initials, read something to enlighten yourselves? - 8

lt Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun Mr. Broun Wishes Edward and

Wally Would Get Married So He

His

7.—I wish those young

Journalism,

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people would get married or something,

Probably Wally and Edward have no conception of the strain which they are putting on this columnist. And I feel I have just cause for complaint. It has never been my custom to pry into the personal affairs of any man for newspaper purposes. Of course, in private conversation I like gossip even better than the next one, and I'm afraid

it is true that on numerous occa= .

sions I may have said, “Minerva told me this in strictest confidence, I hope you’ll be discreet in passing it. on,” But such breaches of trust were not for publication. I hope my newspaper ethics are a good deal higher than those whiclr animate me in what I humorouslyrefer to as my private life. What I mean to say is that I didn’t peach on Edward. The ‘story drew no comment. from me until it broke in my face in eightcolumn headlines. It is no longer privileged. And yet I have nothing to add to the discussion. Some of my best friends are English, and I am half British myself. Anything one says is sure to be used against him. The sensitivity of the islanders is almost. beyond belief. Talking to them about the King is just as difficult as discussing religion with a Baptist fundamentalist, . But what else is there to discuss at the moment? I've looked through all the papers carefully, and I. find practically nothing but Wally in Baltimore, Wally on a gunboat, Wally’s school days, little Wally and how she grew. In another week I suppose the quintuplets will be complaining that they never get their pictures in the paper. { ”

Mr. Broun

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DID see a headline which said, “Up to Engineers to Save Nation, Asserts Hoover.” But it turned out to be only Herbert. I thought to myself, “With all this Wally stuff going on nobody cares what Mr. Hoover thinks!” Indeed, if the King and the lovely lady were happily married and safely ensconced in a little flat (ring Kelly’s bell and knock on second door to the right, third floor) I still doubt that it would be possible to get much of an audience for the sayings of Herbert Hoover. But how long is this matrimonial muddle going to continue? As a man ambitious to get ahead in journalism I want to write about the labor move= ment in America, the Supreme Court, the Constitu= tion ‘and other issues of real importance, Go on, Edward, get married. “a FJ 2 =

Oo" course, I can not deny that from a newspaper point of view the Wally story is almost too good to be true. Bicsishe xs ing of Sistussing Tow and then what the biggest story in the world might be. Generally it simmers down to the elopement of John D. Rockefeller Sr.-with Peggy Joyce, communication with Mars or scientific proof of survival after death; But the love of the British monarch for his American friend is bigger news than all but the last of the imaginary stories which I have mentioned. Yes, I think Wally tops Mars. You see, the story involves Tove, foreign relations and royalty. Very little could be added to it unless the King can prevail on Mrs. Simpson to marry Adolf Hitler to save the situation. Indeed, it is almost as if some tabloid editor had been such a good boy all tough ihe yoar { he woke on Christmas morning to find Wally the toe of his stocking.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

If Some Senate Liberals Have Their Way, the Career Men of the State - Department Are Headed for a Congressional Investigation This Winter.

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