Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1936 — Page 10

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1936 i

THE WORLD'S GREATEST LOVE STORY

“AT long last, I am able to say a few words of my own. I have never wanted to withhold anything, but until now it has not been constitutionally possible for me to ~ speak. : “A few hours ago, I discharged my last duty as King and Emperor, and now that I have been succeeded by my brother, the Duke of York, my first words must be to declare my allegiance to him. This I do with all my heart. “You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind, I did not forget the country or the Empire which as Prince of Wales, and lately as King, I have for 25 years tried to serve. “But you must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to. do without the help and support of the woman I love. And I want you to know that the decision I have made has been mine, and mine-alone. “This was a thing I had to judge entirely for myself. The other person most nearly concerned has tried up to the last to persuade me to take a different course. I have made this, the most serious decision of my life, upon only the single thought of what would in the end be best for all. “This decision has-been made less difficult to me by the sure knowledge that my brother, with his long training in the public affairs of this country, and with his fine qualities, will be able to take my place forthwith without interruption or injury to the life and progress of the Empire. And he has one matchless blessing, enjoyed by so many of you and not bestowed on me—a happy home with his wife and children. “During these hard days, I have been comforted by Her Majesty my mother, and by my family. The ministers of the Crown, and in particular Mr. Baldwin, the Prime Minister, have always treated me with full consideration. There has never been any constitutional difference between me and them and between me and Parliament. Bred in the . constitutional tradition by my father, I should never have allowed any such issues to arise. “Fver since 1 was Prince of Wales, and later on when I occupied the throne, I have been treated with the greatest kindness by all classes of the people, wherever I have lived or journeyed throughout the Empire. For that I am very . grateful. “I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden. It may be some time before I return to my native land, but I shall always follow the fortunes of the British race and Empire with profound interest and if at any time in the future I can be found of service to His Majesty in a private station, I shall not fail. “And now, we all have a new King. I wish him and you, his people, happiness and ‘prosperity with all my heart. “God bless you all! God save the King!”

HOME AND FARM WORKERS S the 26,000,000 American wage and salary workers sit down to the government’s old-age security table they should consider the millions of guests not invited to the feast. We refer particularly to two big classes of exempted wage-earners—domestic servants and farm workers—and also to those groups of low-income persons not covered by the act, such as farmers, small tradesmen and other “selfemployers.” Domestics and farm hands are specifically exempted from the contributory old-age retirement system. - No classes stand more in need of security than low-paid city ‘and farm “help,” yet because of their number (an estimated 6,000,000), the large turnover of employment and the general difficulties of administration, the job is considered too big for the government to tackle now. We think they should be included, yet in view of the tremendous tasks of administering the present act, it is apparent that these forgotten workers must wait until new administrative maghipery can be evolved. It is obvious that some day soon Congress sh enlarge the security program to include home and farm help and.

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also provide a cheap form of over-the-counter annuities on

a voluntary basis. How soon these two amendments can be adopted depends upon the speed with which the present system is put into effective operation.

MRS. VIRGINIA CLAYPOOL MEREDITH IT was with genuine regret that her many friends learned + of the death at Lafayette of Mrs. Virginia Claypool Meredith, affectionately known as “the Queen of American Agriculture” for her distinguished work in home economics “and agriculture. Mrs. Meredith began her career as a farm manager when her husband died in 1882. From her farm near Cambridge City came prize-winning cattle and sheep. She became the country’s-first woman lecturer on farming and livestock. Mrs. ‘Meredith went to the University of Min_nesota in.1906 to organize its department of home economics. She was woman's editor of the Breeders’ Gazette, a founder and honorary president of the Indiana Federation of Clubs and, when she died this week at 88, was Purdue University’s only woman trustee. Honored by many states and organizations, Mrs. Meredith will be long remembered in the fi fields to which she con- : tributed so much. =

PRACTICAL PEACE > presenting an eight-point program to make peace a live ing, forceful factor throughout the Americas, Secretary

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Row Over Mrs. Simpson Affects United States as One of Two Great Democracies, Mr. Pegler Says.

EW YORK, Dec. 12.—It will be hard for our friends the British to admit that the row over Mrs. Simpson was our affair as well as theirs, but a little quiet inspection of the case will convince them that the

decision, either way, was bound to affect not only us but the rest of the world, The British Empire, saving certain awkward variations in the outposts, is the only other great democracy in rea-

sonably good political, social and military health. Anything which threatens to impair the character: of that democracy or to blow the empire into scattered and defenseless units in a world of prowling bandits immediately affects this country. Unlike the British publishers, Rothermere and Beaverbrook, I claim no right to negotiate military alliances, but it may as well be recognized that we, and the British, represent everything that dictators hate. Dictatorship is spreading and spoiling for a fight and the mere existence of the British Empire as a strong, sound democracy is a comfort which this country would not fully appreciate until it vanished, leaving us alone. We do nag one another but we have in common free courts, the right to. vote, religious freedorn, free speech and a free press. We speak the same language and read the same literature and we are envied and detested by the same potential enemies because our success with popular government is a constant.refutation of every article on which they take their stand. » 2. = O when the King began to sulk and pull down his lip, this country immediately had an interest which was not only historical, but practical, although, for «candor’s special sake, I will admit that the popular interest ended with the delicious scandal of the crush. And we shouldn't be blamed even for that because, after all, the scandal wasn’t any of our doing, but the sole responsibility of a man who always has shown a preference for the hard and flashy social parasites of his own country and ours. He is said to have shown some earnest sympathy with the poor in England, but they were poor throughout his term as Prince of Wales when he was playing the drums in night clubs, and certainly on his visits to the United States the Prince never sought the company of earnest Americans. ” » 8 HE King was asked to make only a nominal sacrifice for love. Kings are allowed to have their unofficial love-life without prejudice where the regulations make formal marriage inconvenient, a concession not available to common people. But he made an issue of a personal determination. Yet, thousands of younger people in whom romance was fresh and as dear as very life have given up marriage during his time in his country to support and care for aged parents or because they couldn't get work to support themselves and children. Probably the crown won't suffer after all, however

stuffy York may be. It has been put in its place and the sort of reform which Edward is said to have projected can come from the people. But, though the British press has been first wrong, then hysterical, the nation gains respect for fighting out a dangerous, humiliating issue without flinching at a time when external dangers might have dictated a compromise of principle in a people of less character.

Mr. Pegler

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

HOLDS PRIEST REVEALED WEALTH CONCENTRATION By L. L. Patton, Crawfordsville Pat Hogan says he can “state the law in full to explode the Coughlin ‘program of banking reform.” Even if he could do this, it would mean nothing. It is not a question of what the law is, but rather a question of what the law should be. Ocsasionslly, in America, we change

laws. 3 ‘While I am no admirer of the radio priest, I believe, we Americans owe him a vote of thanks for doing two things.” First for pointing out the enormous concentration of wealth that has taken place in this nation during the last half century. Secondly, for arousing public opinion to a vague understanding that something unjust about our financial system has enabled this enormous ‘concentration. For instance, what American is not a little uneasy about the fact that our economic system has made: it possible for J. P. Morgan, in the span of a short lifetime, to have gained control of 20 per cent of the national wealth? Perhaps we owe more to Father Coughlin than to any other American for our salvation from the spirit. of “bigness” which was leading us to further and further centralization of wealth. He brought to the masses ‘facts not available through popular newspapers and magazines. There is no doubt but what millions followed him in his crusade for banking reform. If they did not follow him at the election, it was because the priest had brought too many other issues into his campaign.

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SEES GREATER ISSUE THAN SALARIES IN FOOTBALL

By Bruce Catton

Algng about this time of year, when the last football player's last bruise has been put away for the winter in a solution of arnica, there is always an argument about the ethics of big-time college football. Just now the argument is going off on a new tac It is being argued that colleges ought to put their football players openly on the pay roll, to get away from the hypocrisy of an “amateur” sport in which the bulk of the stars are secretly getling paid for their services. Such a step would at least have the virtue of frankness. But before we get too enthusiastic about it, we might pause to reflect that it would leave the biggest problem of all completely unsolved.

soluble one of trying to reconcile a million-dollar sport with that cloistered’ and intellectual Simos phere which is supposed to be college’s reason for existence. College football, as it exists today, is a great professional enter- | tainment enterprise. It has thrown up dozens of ball parks larger than

major place in the nation’s amuse-

That problem is the almost in-|

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ment. program. It counts its gate receipts by the million. A venture ‘of that kind is a pro-

fessional sport no matter what we |

choose to call it. Unquestionably, the air would be cleared if colleges admitted the professionalism, openly paid the performers according to their drawing power, and stopped talking in muted terms about amateurism. i But the tail would still be wagging the dog. College football as it exists today is merely a symptom of our failure to understand what a college is supposed to be. If we continue to look on the college ‘as a glorified country club, where raw youth is taught how to wear clothes, is given an urbane polish, and is prepared for a bond salesman’s success, we can’t hope to take the contradictions out of the college football picture. . ”» ” 2 CALLS ROOSEVELT AID OF “COMMON PEOPLE” By Pat Hogan Mrs. Mabel German says Susannah was kidnaped and plowed under. No, Mabel, Susannah was caught in that terrible landslide Nov. 3, and if she digs out in 150 years she will disown the Republican Party, for there is no such party. It is true that there are thousands of good loyal Republicans, but the ringleaders are only a clique of mugwumps who have forsaken the principles of the party. * - Abraham Lincoln must groan in his grave when G. O. P. spokesmen link his name with their flimsy schemes and transparent purposes. Lincoln set up a government of, by and for the people. He once said,

I NEVER KNEW BY VIRGINIA POTTER I never knew how lonely I could be Till you were gone, How empty were the hours, How long till dawn.

I never knew I cared so much, Until the endless miles Kept me from frequent basking In your smiles,

But now it’s plain and simple, I understand it, too— It's all because I love you truly, But till now I never knew.

DAILY THOUGHT

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted ~ St. Luke 14:11.

all the causes which conspire to blind man’s 3 emis judg.

those built by the professional |the weak baseball leagues. It has taken a |rules,

“The Lord must love the common people because he made so many of them.” ~ Now Mabel, how about the millicns of common people who were thrown out of work and begged bread and soup while prosperity was just around the corner and the economic royalists lived in luxury, controlled industry, the money market and the government? My father, grandfather and greatgrandfather fought tyranny, too. We went to France to pull the bankers’ chestnuts out of the Kaiser's inferno under the excuse of making the nation safe for democracy, but in reality we made it the safest piace in the world for hypocrisy. The same hypocrites who waxed fat while our comrades bled and died in France refused to hear us, feed us or employ us. They drove us out of Washington.. They brought a Santa Claus out of Kansas. and made a monkey out-of him in an attempt to set up a puppet government with the same old gang pulling the strings. This stuff, Mabel, got our goat, instead of our vote. The “common people” know that Roosevelt is the only man since Lincoln who has their interests at keart because he has proved it. Per-

| haps that’s why 75 per cent of the

people voiced their approval. Moreover, not a single statesman has left the ' Democratic Party. Instead, every statesman in the Republican Party has left it for the New Deal Party—call it what you will. ” s 2 FEW ACCIDENTS WHEN ROADS ARE BAD, BELIEF By F. 1 G.

A queer quirk of the motor traffic problem is the fact that the fewest accidents take place at times when conditions on the highway are worst. - An advance taste of winter weather—snow, sleet and cold—swept over part of the Middle West recently; and immediately traffic accident figures dropped almost out of sight. The roads were icy, visibility was bad, it was perilously easy to put a

car into a skid—but for several days |,

no one was killed and hardly any serious accidents were recorded. The explanation is clear. When streets and roads are slippery, motorists drive carefully. They are willing to spend an extra five minutes on the highway, for the sake of safety. 2 =» 8 SEES TOWNSEND AS REAL LEADER

By J. E. W., Union City ’

Cliff Townsend will be the only Governor in the United States who can be said to have carried the weight of an under-handed opposition with an unpopular Goyernor and a most “unpopular” tax system. This is our Hoosier leader! Cliff Townsend! Our chief, Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the power of the greatest President as an executive drawing t | them to him, recéived the largest plurality ever given a leader. Ours, for ® os inued Democratic leadership and Suidarivel

‘and reply, “Oh, yes, I do.”

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

All This Stuff About Remembering Names and Faces Seems Highly Unimportant to Our Mr. Broun.

EW YORK, Dec. 12.—They say Jim Farley never forgets a name or a face and that he is the political wizard of his day. Moreover, Jim manages to get the right name with the right face. Franklin

Delano Roosevelt is no slouch at the same thing himself. And he. is also good at politics. "Jimmy Walker was good, but he specialized almost ° entirely in first names, and it is much easier to

remember that a man is “Bill” without having to carry the bur« den of retaining the fact that he is also Abernathy. If you just try out “Tom” or “Dick” or “Harry” on a stranger you'll be right part of the time just through the law of averages. Still, it is risky, Seemingly the most insulting thing you can do to anybody is to call him out of his name. i Honestly, I can’t see why it matters so much, It doesn’t make me mad when people call ‘me Brown, although the name really rhymes with Loon. Howard Brown is acceptable, and I don't even mind, “Hey, you, the fat fellow in the corner.” All this is said a little defensively, because I find, an ugly rumor springing up that I am a no good top-" lofty, stuffed shirt. This could be true, but I deny that it can be proved on the ground most frequently offered. The story, as it comes back to me, is based on the assertion that I never remember anybody, no matter how many times we've been introduced. 7 2 = = HATS a lie. I'm fairly quick at faces. The only trouble is that I can’t place them. Names I don’t retain, but that is because of native stupidity, and not on account of ignorance or ill manners. -I can forget what a Senator is called just as easily as I lose the name of an alderman. Something ought to be done by. law or custom

about the man who comes up to you in a cafe and says, “I'll bet you don’t remember me.” . In such cases I always try to act a little cute and roguish That ought to end the whole brilliant dialogue, but the man who is demand» ing recognition generally thrusts his face forward and continues, “Well, what's my name?” That is the point at which no jury in the world should convict you. But if you kill him I rather imagine you might be sued for it. The verbal rejoinder seems to be indicated. Society in general ought to agree that a fair answer would be, “I don’t know your name. I don’t like your face; Please take it out of my fist.” 8 5 8

F course, if the stranger doesn’t come at you with a direct challenge you can sometimes stall along and catch up, particularly if he happens to go into anecdotes. There was a tall, thin man who sat down with me of his own volition the other day, and he had

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y,z and it seemed that at some time or other we d been buddies. But I couldn't make out whether he was an old schoolmate or somebody who had been around Neufchateau. None of his stories had any particular point or cast much light on our mutual background. But the ast one ended up with his wife saying to him, “Why, Jack Mosely, whatever made you do it?” So, of course, I imagine his name was Jack Mosely, That is, if his wife happens to have a good for faces. Incidentally, if there really 48 a Jack Mosely anywhere around New York he isn't the man I mean. 1 Just. zmvenied a name to sufi the Elfoums

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General Hugh Johnson Says —

American Manufacturers’ Declaration They Want to Co-operate With The Government Is All to the Seed | but Deoite Plan Must Be Evolved.

YORK, Dec. 12—The whole tenor of the American Manufacturers’ meeting is co-opera-

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The Washington Merry- Go- Round.

Jittery Higher-Ups of Commerce Department Are, Sitting on Volar of Story Resulting From Probe in Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Trade.

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retary Dan Roper and demanded a sweeping inves-

H. Colt McLean, head of the Paris office, was dered to return instanter to Washingtoh and ex-

P When he arrived the probe got under way. su Sur= posted. outside the doar of the hearing