Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1936 — Page 19
(A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) Ww. HOWARD LUDWELL DENNY President Editor Business Manager
Price in Marion County,
Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936
INDIANA HISTORY CONFERENCE EN did Indiana become a state? The monthly bulletin of the Indiana Historical Bureau publishes an interesting discussion of this question in connection with the eighteenth annual Indiana History Conference opening here today. The 1935 General Assembly designated Dec. 11 as Indiana Day. It was on Dec. 11, 1816, that President James
ison signed the resolution for admission of Indiana into
the Union. “The transformation of the territory into a state, however,” says the Indiana History Bulletin, “was not an instantaneous affair. Indeed, may not Indiana be said to have become a state some months before it was admitted into the Union? The Constitutional Convention at Corydon adopted a state Constitution without submitting it to the electors for ratification. This Constitution became effective June 29 when the convention which created it ended its long existence. “The organization of the state was not effected, of course, until after June 29. The election of the Governor and other state and county officers was held Aug. 5. The first state General Assembly convened Nov. 4 and the Gov-
“ ernor, Jonathan Jennings, was formally inducted into of-:
fice Nov. 7. “Dec. 11, however, the date of the formal admission of Indiana into the Union, is the most appropriate selection for the birthday of the state. It well may mark for . us the end of the long period of governmental and terri- ~ torial change and uncertainty which preceded the maturity of full-fledged statehood.
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8 ” ” - un J OUND builders had come and gone, leaving the enigma
of their earthworks here, as elsewhere, in the central area of the continent. Other Indian tribes had drifted in
and out and fought for possession of the valley of the.
Wabash. The French had explored rivers and portages,
traded with the Indians, extended the thinly spread domain |
of the Catholic Church and cultivated a few acres around the three posts at Kekionga (Fort Wayne), Ouiatenon (lately reconstructed near Lafayette) and historic Vincennes. They struggled in vain to keep the English out. vi “No sooner had the English gained possession than they drove the colonists to revolt and Indiana became the scene of a decisive battle for possession of the Old North‘west by the United States. The Ordinance of 1787 pro-
vided for the government of the newly acquired territory, but its administration was crude and difficult. . . . At last;
‘by 1816, the day had dawned of a long period of peaceful . development on a firm ‘foundation of democratic state and x national government.” 4 Reviewing this and other colorful phases of Indiana history, the conference today and tomorrow should make ‘us more conscious of the significant part our state has played in the country’s development. *
WHITHER EDWARD? SAID one of the first London comments on the abdica- * tion—*“The King is dead, long live the King!” k But is King Edward VIII officially dead? . Will he, who “had so endeared himself to his subjects, fade out, and as the international experts are now saying, go into exile “and spend the rest of his days on ‘soil that is not “forever England” ? Will that be the fate of the one whose leaving is described by such an English authority as John Drinkwater as “the most violent shock in our history”? Or will
he appear again in British affairs, looming large because 0
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He is young, be it remembered, as compared to Stanley Baldwin and the Archbishop of Canterbury and the others ho have ushered him out. = It is not as if King Edward had been commonplace. Being a high-paid puppet after all was not his role. Had he fitted comfortably into the symbol pattern, the situation created by his abdication would have been merely another in which the world so soon forgets, and “long live” the next King would have been the easy and obvious answer. But he was not ordinary. He was no royal robot. Whatever we may think about the Simpson aspect of the case, the manner of his departure demonstrated strength in great measure, not weakness.
If things from now on go smoothly, if Edwards
“successor takes hold of the job which is set before him, ) oblivion with the woman for whom he resigned as Imperator may be the lot of David Windsor. .But if British affairs become ruffled, if the government
ich forced the abdication fails to click, then there may’
a powerful pull of memory—the memory of a young ‘who carried a briefcase over the seven seas to “sell” 3 empire, who as Prince and as King demonstrated more ection for the lowliest than for the highest of his subts, and who thereby bound to himself the affections of e masses of the empire over which in theory he ruled which in practice calls for a symbol which he refused
plops the situation. It does seem clear, however, that ould Edward come back it would not be in the royal pacity, but as a citizen. Anyway, where Edward goes n here is to us quite the most fascinating phase in all
whole series of events which in both the political and | mental sense rivaled in interest any other 2¢ hours :
EARL D BAKER |
It is too much to hope to pierce all the fog Which now
ENE "STOOD ABOUT ALL OF THIS PMGOING To! GET Back INTO JUNE. ‘WHERE You
BELONG!
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Mr. Pegler Makes the ‘Proposal
That Organized Labor Should * Assume Responsibility for Its Actions.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—C. M. Chester, the president of the National Association of Manufacturers, in his speech to the annual
convention of that body, lightly flicked a
topic which deserves a thorough mauling-
around from some one who understands the personality of labor and feels no obligation to be tactful. Mr. Chester put in a hurried suggestion that organized labor should assume responsibility for its
actions, then rushed onto other matters, as ‘though in fear that some one might have heard him. . He announced the end of the depression and a large degree of re-employment and, on tHe whole, indicated a glad, pious resolve to do good, be nice, love his neighbor ang seek new horizons; hand-in-hand with the hired help. A charming oration and an unexpected joy to those whe took in earnest the campaign forebodings of the opposition. It accepted the election returns with smiling grace, not sullen resignation, and filled te oom iD the song of birds. T ester’s speech consisted largely of generalities, but. then, so do Mr. Roosevelt's bed-time stories, for particulars are too much to expect in such wide discussions, but the one was no less handseme than the President’s. ' And now that the camel has made the difficult passage through the needle’s eye, it is only Christian to ‘shove over for Brother Chester, pass him a hymn book and sell him a deck of tickets for the oyster supper, keeping our hand on our watch,
Mr. Pegler
however, Enowing that he will do the same with us.
8 2 ” THE refines. to the obligations of labor, if developed would tend to show that although labor usually ‘has the sympathy of the public in its ‘brawls with soulless corporations, it is not always noble or even honest or in the right! Yet, unions may and do gum up the wheels of industry at the whim of any
impulsive leader who wants to get his name before the public, somstimes in defiant violation of the
agreements which the unions dictated and which are.
binding on the boss. The unions often fight among themselves and do
‘their scrapping on other people's property, ‘and in some cases the union is nothing but the private
racket of a few idle grafters who are ‘nevertheless able to stick placards on hungry-looking pickets and give the employer a bad name. ae
# 8 = ) SER Jer now in: New York the picket is a common sight walking up and down before some big or
little store proclaiming that the man inside is unfair to moving picture operators, button-hole. makers or waiters, a broad statement, damaging to the business |
of the place which, if uttered by & newspaper, would
be grounds for a libel aétion. - It may mean ‘only that |
the theater owner refused to hire a’ needless and
possibly incompetent hand to sit by and watch an
other employe do one man’s work. It may mean that some foreman fired some poisonous grumbler in the button-hole factory for gossiping | ‘about the boss on
maker is a difficult case in which to arouse sympathy for the employer. They aren't the noblest type of boss, but then their help aren't orchid, either. And
The “Hoosier Forum
il wholly disagree with. what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
BEAUTY BOARD SCORED BY OPERATOR : By a Beauty Operator - There is a law against cruelty to animals, but what about human beings? The Beauty Culturist Board of Examiners herds hundreds of girls into a beauty supply house for “examination” I am an operator and went there to be a “model” for a student friend who was called
in for examination. Well, the girls
not only had to pay about $20 for medical examination -and license, but had to be humiliated by the Beauty Examining Board. And it has been that way for the last few
examinations, It is a good opportunity for the Beauty Culturist Local Union to do something “real” for the operators of Indiana. - ‘The board gets enough money to
-/ hire a proper. room to. hold these | :
examinations, less waste, more necessities, less. of technicalities and more common sense. There are too many medical ‘and legal influences and not enough consideration for the beauticians. who made the law and the jobs. for the ‘inspectors ahd examiners. e I am mentioning inspectors, I may say. we have some
| pretty dirty shops in Inatangpolis
Where are the inspectors? money paid in for nothing? Where is the union? Why are they not after the board? ‘I don’t belong to the union but I will gladly join 'if they do some work in the interest
of the operators, who have no fit
working conditions and work very long hours for no wages, just a little commission and. very little too. Many of the girls work for as little as 10 cents an hour for the long hours we are asked to work. A’girl who makes $10 a week is doing fairly well and one who [gets $15 to $18 makes top wages. that she has to work about 60 hours a .week for not more than 20 to 30 cents an hour. Maybe we have too many operators and too many beauty schools. The State Board should use better methods to help us.
(The Board of Examiners refused to make a statement in reply—THE EDITOR.)
4 ‘MRS. SIMPSON FINDS | DEFENDER HERE . ‘By Claude E. Knoy, Clayton
England accepted American youth for cannon fodder during the great. war; sending some of their bodies back, marked “unknown.” She greedily accepted all the
| gre=="=-ks we could: ‘scrape up and
now she shys they sé nob Worth paying back.
Government Felt King Was "Te
NJEW YORK CITY, Dec. 11—Take & hard-boiled
(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 Teyuest.) !
We glory in his spunk for standing his ground. Theis alibi is that she is a divorcee, but it was their law and their court that divorced her. Have they one law that frees a woman and another that prohibits her re-
marrying? : According to the signs of the times, England soon will be wanting ‘some more of our youths for cannon fodder and some more of our greenbacks to purchase food for their army. They will no doubt get it. Barnum, the great showman, said a sucker was ‘horn every minute in America and that somees there were twins. I .think land could say. the same thing with more facts to back their statement. ® 8 URGES CITIZENS SHUN PAST, LOOK TO FUTURE By Hank Hirdtack : Mrs. German's reply to criticism of her previous letter in the Forum is most commendable as an epitome of the case against Mr. Roosevelt, The Republican leaders and Mr. Hearst spent several months saying what she said in a few paragraphs. There is something lacking, however. That is perspective. Most of the stand-patters, whose ideas Mrs. German very ably summarized, entertain such opinions because they can not achieve that difficult ‘art of viewing things as a whole. They live-in the present, a hazy idea of the past and think very little about the future. The mak of a better world holds no interes for them. Their own little world is good enough for them and they assme it ‘to be good enough for
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DAILY THOUGHT
in the sordid slums of our great cities, for example, that there are some who do not find it so good. Such conditions and others even worse do not disturb the complacency of patriots. It is plain that any attempt to alleviate such evils
{is un-American and that any one
who acts to remedy oppression and unnec human misery is clearly a traitor to our form of government. Yes, it is easy to understand why they have apprehension for that “chi smile.” But time and change wait for no man, not. even for patriotic ones. For centuries the earth has been changing and there is no reason to believe that the process suddenly has ‘ended. - Our real need now is not for a people who, lost in a transition they can not comprehend, lift their voices in a futile plea for maintenance of the status quo. Rather, we need a citizenry capable
of facing the future honestly, de-.
termined that the change shall be for the best. ; Surely the situation is not improved by invoking our forefathers. They faced the great changes of their day.
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‘| HOLDS SIMPSON AFFAIR
TOPS ALL U. S, COMEDY By B. C. The English long have enjoyed the indoor sport of looking down their extensive noses at the quaint goings on in these crude United States, and remarking that some things are really done evah so much bettah in London. : We do furnish our share of the world’s: comedy, "of course. Occa-
sionally we pop up with a Huey Long to receive, in green silk paJamas, the skipper of a visiting
| warship; or we send a Zioncheck to
Congress, or bring forth a. technocracy pipe , or find some other way of provoking condescending mirth abroad, ‘But we never yet have created a world crisis by rowing about whether a woman who has two living exhusbands is to occupy our White House as the country’s No. 1 woman. In spite of its immensely serious aspect, the great Wally Simpson affair has just the faintest but most unmistakable flavor of Graustark. It might have been devised by Robert W. Chambers, with music by Sigmund Romberg. That it should be happening in England, of all places, is enough IC Jake a-aupreme court justice chuckle : Sie. HITS DRUNKEN DRIVING : By H. S. Bonsib The Times editorially shows the 37,500 traffic deaths this year to be a shame. An increase of 500 over the bad year of 1935, according to the National Safety Council estimates. But you don’t mention the cause of most of the accidents — . If that were cut out. ‘it would help a great deal. No drinking driver has clear vision—-no matter how little he has had. The next Legislature should put a Stop to drinkers driving.
It Seems to Me. By Heywood Broun
American Lawyers Ought fo Form Some Sort of Guild Unlike Bar Association, Mr. Broun Suggests.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—It seems to me that American lawyers ought to get together into some sort of society or guild. Of. all the professions law pays the least. There is not much room at the top and none at all
at the bottom. Obviously, too many lawyers are turned out by the educational factories every year. This is said with a full knowledge of the fact that sofhe of the good schools impose very strict requirements and that in a few states, at least, the bar exams are difficult. There is no excuse for a thirdclass law school. Even the good schools would serve the community better if they proceeded to weed out all those who have no chance to find a living wage in the law, © - In addition to economic issues the right kind of lawyers’ guild "could be extremely useful in raise ing the ethical standards of the profession. Perhaps one good step at the very: start would be to quit labeling it a- profession and recognize the calling as one more of the highly skilled crafts. Certainly the average lawyer is not an artist. If the legal craft is to be organized along useful lines it must turn a deaf ear to those who undertake to say that the group in any way take on the aspect of a Park-av club. That has been tried already. I am well aware of the existence of the American Bar Association. Indeed, that is my chief reason for saying that lawyers should get together in an effective craft society. They might even call it a union if they want to. The name does not matter just so long as they study the present ‘Bar Association and profit hy the function which it performs in constituting an almost perfect horrible example. My complaint is not based wholly on the fact that the leadership of the Bar Association has been, without a break, reactionary. Well, we won't about that word, either, Have it your own way. * -actionary” is stricken from the record, and we call the leadership “conservative.” 8 8 = ER the present setup the ruling Seip in
is not necessarily a rap at big business. 1 Simply argue that there ought to remain a legal point of view as opposed to a purely commercial
biggest gadget maker in’ America. ly business point of view Mr. x to take much interest in the
hy no right to be neutral or indifferent. American Bar’Association quite recently refused even 10 look nto he ease.
¥ The Washington Merry- Go-Round Sontor Charles MeNlary and Rep. Butrand Stab Wl Coniu 1 ‘Be Republican Floor Leaders
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