Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1936 — Page 23
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UITE ALL RIGHT!” HIS is written at an hour when an atinouicement mo‘mentous to England and the whole British Empire is at
We don’t ordinarily like to risk a prophecy, but we are to try one here—that no matter what the announcement may say, or how sensational it may be, the British Empire will proceed to the business of empire with a much more than fair degree of efficiency.
The ship of British state will sail on. It has too much ‘momentum to be more than merely slowed up a bit by such ah event as just one King not taking as per schedule the crown which weighs five pounds with its 2800 diamonds and the bejeweled scepter with its star of India. Something much more potent than King, Queen, symbol or scepter carries England and the empire through these crises. ~~ It is that national “quite all right” psychology; that superiority complex which sometimes is so offensive to others; that thing which is manifested in the rising inflection at the end of the Englishman's sentence; that - capacity for successfully whistling through ‘the graveyard; that deeply rooted self-respect’ by which a calamity can be rationalized into a triutaph. . While we must confess that the average American te considerable sadistic, satisfaction out of seeing a Britisher _ 8lip on a banana peel; while the smugness of “his cere- ~ monial irritates; and while an awkward predicament for . him frequently becomes a comic predicament in the view _ of the outside onlooker, nevertheless the “net” is admiration for the, way he can take it and still come back with head high,
BUY ‘AUTO PLATES NOW VERY year, despite appeals to buy auto licenses early, ~~ there is a last-minute rush. This was encouraged a few years ago by the practice of granting time extensions. ‘And even then there was a rush at the end of each extension period. The fact that there have been no extensions during the last three years adds weight to Gov. McNutt’s warning that there will be none after the Dec. 31 deadline. + The 1937 Indiana plates went on sale today.- Get yours
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| STREET SIGNS STREET signs, heretofore supplied by the Indianapolis Power and Light Co., become a responsibility of the city under the city’s new light contract.
A program to eliminate more than 500 street name.
juplications in Marion County is under way. - The next step _ should be more adequate signs in many places. When Chicago attempted a well-planned street sign . campaign recently, it found that 427 street names were on 149 “‘broken link” streets, and that 40 names were duplicates or sounded alike. But Chicago has done a fine job
on its Loop district signs, which are of ‘perforated metal
and illuminated on street lamp standards, similar to the . plan successfully used in Indianapolis. Asin most cities, the motorist or pedestrian in Indianapolis has the most difficulty in the less populous areas. Milwaukee's excellent program of city-wide street naming and numbering is considered by experts to epitomize the best procedure. The work ‘was undertaken only after prolonged research and testing of materials as to durability and cost. Tests are being made here, and a metal sign, ~ painted black and yellow, is being considered. . Another problem is that the automobile age must be taken into account with street signs. Too many standards may not be erected upon already overcrowded streets, without danger of obstructing traffic signs and other guides for motorists. Nor may police and fire call boxes he obscured.
There are many reasons why the present proulie of
mounting street signs and lights on the same standards Should be continued.
CIVILIZATION AT LAST vy
VERY past civilization, starting with a group of vigorous rural people, has created great cities. These have sucked from the rural regions their best human stock and their wealth. The faith and earnestness of the ‘country people, transplanted, have lost . vigor. The civilizations
We need not hope- that our Aincrican Story: will be
different, unless we make it different—unless we act to preserve a.rural civilization deeply rooted in the life-giving soil. Farm communities ‘hold the possibility of doing that.
A land tenure system, under which the land can not be mortgaged, but making anpual credit available when |
General Hugh Johnson Says —
Fixing of Retail Prices on Trade-Marked Products, i Uphe! The Supreme, Court, 1s @unetally, Anti Six, but There. AN xce
needs it, gives the farmer a security he has never had. Is all that a dream? Once it may have been, but no ger. communities being set up by the Resettlement Administrapn.
he cities, in the purchases of Tabet cement, furniture,
abi rural society—a foundation Rpon Which | ation can renew itself and endure. - dad i a wi}
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By Westbrook Pegler :
Mr. Pegler Explains That Lord Rothermere Is a New Lord and Likes to Throw His Weight About. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Just in case
America might overrate the importance
of the anti-American campaign which is running in Lord Rothermere’s English newspapers in connection with the King’s crush,
it would be well for us to understand somesomething about Lord Rothermere. He is lord all right, but not in the American understanding of the title. " Rothermere, like Lord Beaverbrook, his rival in the publishing business, is a Johnny-come-lately Lord. - His real name is Harmsworth, and he was the bookkeeper and business office man for his brother Alf, that great’ English journalist, who . became Lord Northcliffe. Beaverbrook’s real name is Max Aitken, and he is a Canadian promoter and business man, not a journalist. The title of lord doesn’t mean much, really Rothermere’s brother, Alf, was Mr. Pegler a real newspaper man. who undoubtedly would have plastered the current story of the King and Mrs. Simpson all over his papers right from the start instead of trying to suppress it. To Rothermere and Beaverbrook there would have been no personal danger in printing the King story, but in the years since the war these two have built up a tremendous circulation and have become very conscious of their muscle. 8 -n 3 HEY like to think of themselves as unofficial and rival foreign ministers, each one in the interests of his own string of papers, and the people are led to believe that if they drop into some foreign country and recelve a courtesy invitation to talk to the head man, the British Empire is negotiating a military alliance or trade agreement. It is mostly suggestion, Rothermere’s biggest paper politically is the Daily Mail, and you would have to study the Mail a while
to believe that. there could be anything like it and
also study the English common people to understand how such a paper could possess inflience. We are in the habit of thinking of the American tabloid as
something vulgar and irresponsible, but that is care~
less thinking,* and probably a flash-back to old The Graphic was a
honey, to be sure, and the grossest thing in American
journalism since the days when James Gordon Ben--
nett ran ads for prostitutes in the old Herald. The tabloids which we have today are still carrying the target for the Graphic, but at that, none of them can be classified with Rothermere’s Daily Mail.
NEmrmass, it is Rothermere who is now blaming on the American newspapers the reluctance ofthe British Solunjes to accept Mrs. Simpson as their Queen; accusing us of vulgarity and on. He doesn’t cite chapter and verse on the vulgarity and distortion, but apparently refers to the enthusiastic
> Stentment, of the greatest. story of its Xind siuce
bill passed by
° : ® The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
NOT ALL SINGERS
‘OF “OH SUSANNAH”
By RB. 8. 5. Brasil *
Mrs. Mabel German writes. as if she. were peeved over. the results of the ‘last election. She seems to think that all of us have to‘be able to sing “Susannah” and vote for Landon if we are to qualify Americans Millions think otherwise. According to Mrs. German we are really citizens of Russia and ought to move fo that country, led bythe
‘| President, Tugwell, Wallace, Ickes
and the rest of the Cabinet, who are “reds, Communists and unconstitutionalist These ideas are’ “familiar, however.
| When Jefferson was fighting the.
battles of the people against the class asking for special privileges, the opposition called him and his followers Jacobins, Atheist Revolutionists and so on, These are the. pet names that economic royalists of all ages call any person or: group of persons who stand for the equal rights of all the people. : Mrs, German says we aren’t really Democrats, but just think we are or rather, we falsely claim to be Democrats. The forefathers of some of us voted for Jefferson and Jackson and we think we are Democrats, Jeffersonian Democrats and ‘we ‘are’ proud of the fact that we are also Rooseveltian Democrats . . . What section of the Constitution gives any one person or group of persons the ‘right to say that any Congress and signed by. the President is not a law? She also says that we voted blindly, thoughtlessly and didn’t even know our platform. . We weren't so
blind that we couldn’ see the dif-:
ference between the years 1932 and 1936, nor so dumb that we didn’t remember the dreadful days_of ‘31 and ‘32... Speaking of McNutt, Mrs. German ‘will have to admit that he didn’t put on the same kind of a show that our governors put on in the gay 1920's. We are much prouder of the way our state gov-| ernment is administered now than we were then. We aren’t ashamed that we are Hoosiers now, Watch Paul V. in 1940... .
2 8 = HAS EXPLANATION ON BADGE CONTROVERSY By James P, Courtney
Recently The Times published a
letter by Orville B. Wood, who wants to know hy ‘men who never have ive ud:
cording 10. news: dispaiches Tecently, one of our lawmakers in Washington was sent to jail for selling aphointineiis $0 West Poin, here officers - and gentlemen are created. H Bas Is iho as, porr
YaRy (war wear; i
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies ex-
"cluded. Make your letter short,
so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
haps promoters of fake veteran organizations obtained their permits to sell*badges by similar methods. As to making people believe—the sellers know that the Holy Bible and the American flag protect them from suspicion and that the majority of American people are honest. . . . Every war. gives our country .a large supply of eligibles for tall story clubs. War with Spain ought to receive 8 champion’s medal, as the country has been made to believe that it lasted until July 4, 1902, according to the history taught in our schools. : ® ow THINKS HUTCHESON'S ARGUMENT UNREASONABLE By a Reader: William ‘L. Hutcheson; ¢ dictator of the carpenters’ union, opposes the
| Black-Connery bill because, he says,
“If Congress can fix a six-hour day, it can order a ten-hour day.” This sounds’ so much like the Re- | publican hedging in the recent political campaign that one can not help‘but wonder if it was not a subconscious flash-back to one of the “scare stories” that Mr. Hufcheson recited for the Republicans in the campaign. Mr. Hutcheson might as well have said that if Congress can make labor unions legal, it can also make theni illegal—or that if Congress can make child labor illegal, it also can make it compulsory. The only significance back of this remark is that he disapproves of any attempt to improve the general welfare of labor by legislation—that he would
" HEART-SONG
BY F. F. WDONALD Your love undergirds me when I am faint— Its abiding warmth clings around ‘me when sad; Though I sorrow and weep—my heart shall sing That you honor me, Darling—and ‘wish me glad!
DAILY THOUGHT “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle un11 Timothy 3:36, a PY, patient. A PATIENT, r, humble temper ‘gathers marred by ne looked by the Chapin.
and overRSpiting. E i
like ‘to maintain the promotion of the carpenters’ welfare where he, as | the big shot, does all the dickering.’
How well Mr. Hutcheson succeeds:
in selling his propaganda of distrust
of the American government to the
members of his union remains yet to be seen. The carpenters are holding a convention soon, the first in many years. Something may hap-
pen in that convention as amazing
fo Mr. Hutcheson as was the result of the recent election. 8. 8 = QUESTIONS WALLIS’ CHARM IN FACE OF DIVORCES By M. M. C. So much is said about Wallis' charm, birth- and good breeding that a mere reader may be pardoned for inquiring why, with all that charm, et cetera, she failed to hold either of her husbands. The first husband, according to record, deserted her and refused to live with her. The second, accord-
ing to her own recent statement
in a British court, “changed and grew cold” toward her. Will this “charm” then be equal to holding the most ardent Edward, the Xing —or “David,” the man? Incidentally, all these who prate so loudly and defensively about all those qualities in Wallis might be
{ reminded that the British are not especially concerned with the lady's
charm—or her lack of it. Their objections seem to. be based on the glaring fact that she has two divorced husbands at large. One divorced - husband they might tolerate, but - two—well. even the most liberal Britisher apparently considers two divorced . husbands just a little “two” much! @ : nn B= WANTS STOCK SELLERS TO AVOID SURPLUS / By Old Nick It seems to me that some people can make improvements if they only will,
The big sellers of stock can arrange their business so that no day will see an oversupply of stock io sell. 1 see that the Southern citrus fruit sellers have a plan to that effect, s0 why not the stock raisers, too?
Organize and get information from: headquarters when to bring a load of stock to the market. The consumer pays the same for the 7 or
| 10-cent hog.
Our legislators ought to be able to solve our heavy tax problem. In-
the taxpayer? Reduce all official state by one-third and the system - ‘for a year or two. ‘hard-hit. As our great Presigent says, be a “sod Tejghbor” :
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Mr. Broun Prophesies King Will Marry Mrs. Simpson and Also Retain His Crown and Everything,
NEV YORK, Dec. 10.—As one who was pretty nearly right about the last campaign I want to come out boldly and predict that the King will marry Mrs. Simpson and retain his sovereignty. That statement
- started out, “Will keep his crown and also” —but I could see difficulties ahead. i ‘Such a prediction is reckless for one so far’ away from the contest. It is also foolhardy to make"
guesses if you are a grea. deal Bh than an expert in the mat ~ - of British politics. I am moved. + take a chance by developments here at home rather than cables from Great Britain. Henry Mencken has come out for Balds win, and I believe: there is a great deal of money to be made in ‘pering * the predictions of Mencken sight unseen. ~~ In following the lea 3 of Canterbury, Henry L. a. betrays what should be his own traditional loyalty to the city of Baltimore and his unswerving op= position to all members .of "the clergy. The man who fought the good fight at Dayton, Tenn, against the embattled Baptists now falls
to his knees in’ reverence for the canons of the
Saureh of England. Just for a handful of incense e' 16; us. And who is Henry Mencken to defend tradition. in the same article in which he takes sides against a home girl in her modest ambition to be Empress? » ® [4 OREOVER, he talks of mores without takiiig count of the fact that powerful forces have been at work against the Vietorian philosophy of Great Britain. After all, the empire, like the rest of the world, has known motion pictures fof more than a generation... No matter what the average young Eng-. lishman may have learned at Eton or Harrow or less
swagger schools; he has been trained in the cinema palaces to accept the fact that the boy always gets the girl. Abdication simply does not—fit into the scheme of things, and Hollywood is net to be mocked. To be sure, some of the strict constructionists in the matter of England’s constitutional monarchy insist that Edward is no Romeo but a middle-aged man who has gone slightly off his chump. With that cone tention I must Hisagres bier] 3.
I. sen partinns of th American stem of overnment have the laugh on England just now. In years gone by it was pretty hard to answer the argument that an unwritten constitution was much better than an inflexible document of enumerated powers. But it seems that there can be marked differences of opinion concerning the fundamental law even when it is not set down in black and white. Great Britain could possibly find an easy way out of its dilemma if it’ had an eight-man Supreme Court such as the High Bench which is here
‘currently. It would be simple then for that august ecision—the
body to hand a four-to-four di tie, as usual, being in favor of the runner. Under such circumstances Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury would have. their moral victory and the King would have Mrs, Simpson.
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