Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1936 — Page 14
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1936
A LICENSE LAW WITH ‘TEETH’
HE National Safety Council, in a recent study of the results of drivers’ license legislation, found that 24,000
lives would have been saved and nearly a million injuries.
prevented during the last ten years had the national trend in auto accidents kept pace with reductions made in states
~ having standard drivers’ license laws.
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Indiana, with a shamefully high accident record, does
With other states
~ similarly remiss, we have helped boost the nation’s traffic
~ toll te record heights.
. Twenty states and the District of Columbia having license laws with “teeth” have led in the safety movement. In no case has one of these standard laws been repealed or
weakened by legislative action, measures appears unquestioned.
so the popularity of such
The Indiana license law needs particularly a clause for examination of drivers and a stronger provision for sus-
pension or revocation of licenses for bad driving.
The 1937 Legislature should make this one of its first
orders of business.
RUSSELL B. HARRISON
THE death of Russell B. Harrison at 82 breaks another
link in the chain of a farhous Hoosier family.’
Mr.
Harrison was the son of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States; a great-grandson of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, and a great-great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of
the Declaration of Independence.
Russell B. Harrison carried on the family traditions in a long and varied career. Educated in mining and engineer-
ing, he was named superintendent of the United States
Assay Office at Helena, Mont., in 1878. He published the _ Helena Daily Journal while there and also studied law. After service in the Spanish-American War, where he won the rank of colonel, he began the practice of law in Indianapolis. He was, vice consul and counsel for the Mexican government. Active in Republican politics, Mr. Harrison served in both branches of the General Assembly. He Yool : a deep
interest in public affairs.
at his passing.
MR. BALL GOES TO TOWN
We share with his family and his many friends sorrow
Gone BALL makes fruit jars at Muncie. ‘He did a
land-office business back in the days when homecanned fruits and vegetables lined the cellars of all frugal
American housewives. when prohibition came.
And although his own liberal contributions to the -
He continued to do a big business
cause helped to bring and keep prohibition, George Ball also took repeal in his stride and turned out bottle con-
tainers for the legal spirits.
In fact George Ball seems to do very well whenevei But he must be wonder-
and wherever he turns his dollars.
ing now, at 74, why he trifled away so much of his time and talents in the comparatively small business of making fruit jars and being the financial angel of Republicans in
Indiana.
For George Ball never worked as much magic with as ~ few dollars as in his first real adventure into grand-scale
finance,
The adventure started a little more than a year ~ ago when Ball, to help his friend O. P. Van Sweringen re~
tain control of a railroad empire, dug into his pocket and bought up the Van Sweringen securities at auction, in somewhat the same manner that the reader might lend a friend a quarter to buy lunch. And lo, when Van Sweringen died a few weeks ago, Ball found himself, perhaps somewhat to his bewilderment, in control of 249 corporations
with a book value of some three billion dollars—with off-
setting debts of course—including seven large railroad lines, with 23,000 miles of track, and numerous bus lines,
street railway lines, coal mines, grain Slevators, hotels.
All for an outlay of $274, 000!
ACHIEVEMENT AT BUENOS AIRES
THE Buenos Aires conference is already a success. If the delegates do nothing more than return to their respective homes with the new Inter-American peace pact already initialed, they will ‘have to their credit one of the most important accomplishments in the history of the
Western Hemisphere.
But. the harmony that. prevails, the spirit o give and - take and co-operation, encourage belief that there will be : other great achievements before the conference adjourns.
‘The simplicity and informality of the peace agreement,
of the minds of all.
The terms are brief. . . . The treaty provides merely:
in this hemisphere. Yet, without even the mention of it, these simple provisions mark the end of the historic Mon-
: op its wholehearted acceptance, indicate that it was not uct of any one man or any one delegation, but a |
AGAINST MONOPOLY. ,
Lue UPTOITS RESIGNS BOR. DO LL THE ing
THE FACTS Ajo ITS
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Common. People Are No More Immune to Gossip Than Kings, Mr. Pegler Informs Edward.
EW YORK, Dec. 14.—1It is not likely that ex-King Edward ever will know the life - of the common man because that is one life, at least, which does not begin at 40. It begins at the beginning, and princes are auto‘matically excluded from the delights of obscurity and poverty. These delights sometimes are
Junimportant people are immune to gossip, ‘care and the restrictions of convention, somebody has been deceiving him. = Even if Edward had been George. X. Spelvin of 99 Zero-st and he had chased around with a neighbor’s wife, taking her out in his flivver on summer nights, dancing to the radio at the barbeb cue stand and parking a while up a side road on the way home, the news would ‘have spread and there would have been a scandal in his set. The common man’s mother gets wind of it in time and she weeps and carries on, imploring him not to throw his future away on that woman. The boss calls him and tells him his conduct is giving ‘the store a bad name and that he will have to quit either her or the job. The woman gets-a divorce to marry him, but in the end they too are compelled to pull up stakes, move to some other city and start over. Nobody needs telling that Edward's Job as Prince and as King was a full-time burden. The task of wiggling into the tight pants and grotesque fur hats, strapping on epaulets and sword and, in general, serving as clothes-horse for the military traditions of the Empire was monotonous and a physical strain. He had to visit nurseries and chirp to the kiddies, pttend bazars, sit through horrible dinners and make himself courteous to some of the most suffocating bores on earth year after year. But, on his days and nights off, he could suit his own pleasure witlt the assurance of absolute privacy as long as he, himself, was willing to exercise reasonable care. » 8 » Bi a man who was constantly on parade before the world in his business hours, fame and publicity sometimes became almost unbearable. He got sick of seeing his own face in the papers. Yet, George X. Spelvin of 99 Zero-st is not to be envied. For one thing, he pines for recognition and regards publicity as a mark of success. For another, ‘he is worried about the rent, the insurance, and the installment on the radio or the car, and, for still ‘another, his hangovers shake him the same way that
Mr. Pegler
at noon, long 2 after Mr. Spelvin has flutreported for uy at the
2 ne probasiy. what - Mr.. Windsor wants, without knowing just what, are the comfort and security
his teted into his clothes, and store.
foolishness which amount to hard work, and the obscurity of George X. Spelvin of Zero-st. I foresee for Mr. Windsor no such obscurity as he longs for, ‘unless he should hole up in one of the crazy countries where a dictator would guard his privacy with oStifia); sommands backed up by ‘he offiia) executioner.
N= YORK ory, ‘Dee. '14—The National Association
Progress the “co-ordinator for . wie he bighen- taki slat of imdugiey wis & un
exaggerated, anyway, and if Edward imagines that
a King is shaken when he pries open one eye with
of his old royal position but none of the ceremonial a ‘| complex and difficult, It is
‘of Manufacturers met in New York | | with ‘most of the reconditioned captains of industry | A ar met on the same day in Washingtén under | co-operation”—but 3 RE
"The. Hoosier Forum
“I wholly disagree with what you. say, but will | - defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.
COUNTIES MUST SHARE IN SECURITY EXPENSE By Perry Rule The proposal to relieve the counties of paying any portion of the Social Security expense is preposterous under the present home-rule method of administering the expendituges. If the expenditures not now assumed by the national and state governments shall be paid out of the state it would become imperative that the state and national governments assume full . jurisdiction of administration of the Social Security program. The home-rule stuff that -we hear so much about has been worn threadbare and has, in the administration of the Social
Security program as in other under= |
takings, failed miserably to promote economy, efficiency and uniformity which is so essential in the promotion of equity in the collection and
disbursement of funds raised elses
where and disbursed by home-rule in. local units. For instance, Daviess County has
60 pensioners per thousand with an |;
average pension payment of $22, while Carroll County has 50 per thousand with an average of $14 per pensioner. This disparity exists throughout the state. Those who are clamoring for fdhds from the state general funds must not object to state control, which is essential to uniform admi stration. A tax could be placed on luxuries that would raise a fund sufficiently large to displace the present 15-cent state’ property tax levy, then, if need be, coun ties could increase their Property levy as much as 15 cents per hundred for Social Security purposes without increasing the sum now col-
1lected.
2 = = SAYS HEAD TEST FOR
RABIES PROVES NOTHING
By Sue M. Farrell, President, Vivisection Investigation League, New York City
In the Nov. Times, under the caption of “Dog Quarantine Set,” it is said: “A 15day quarantine has been placed on all dogs in this city following the report from state chemist that a
large German police dog killed here’|’
had rabies.” The germ of rabies has not been found, but it is claimed that if the so-called negri bodies are found in a dog’s brain, it is a case of rabies.
As a matter of fact, the mere head :
examination means very little, as
‘ the negri bodies are found in the| heads of perfectly normal dogs and | sometimes are absent, in the heads ;
of dogs having all Symploms of rabies.
This - procedure easy to declare it a case of rabies and, at the same time, induce the person} bitten to have the dangerous and
| expensive Pasteur treatment, as il-|of
{ lustrated in the following from The
General l Hugh Johnson RE)
wis aly al ‘The Manufacturers’ Declaration of Co-operation With As | Isn't’ All ‘I's Cracked Up to Be, but I's Step in Ameren ten, s to pot the nid Jn
Right rll
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Bergen Evening Record, May 22, 1934, Hackensack, N. J.:
Caption: “Noisy Protest Wins De-
lay on Dog Ordinance.” “The meet-~
ing was overwhelmingly opposed > . Dr. Charles Higgins of
the compulsory inoculation dogs). Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, N. Y., manufacturers of serum, was also at the meeting. , . . Dr. Higgins, on questioning by the Mayor, said that as an expert, he would invariably report a dog either ‘suspicious
or positive’ with rabies. He said he |
would never examine a dog's head and sags result. was negative 3
: SEEKS ANSWER 0.
AGE-OLD QUESTION By Lloyd Brown
reasons underlying , the inevitable association of poverty with material progress moved Henry George to call it “, '. . the riddle which the Sphinx of Fate puts ¢o our civilization and which not to answer is to be destroyed.” The problem may be more simply stated by a single query: Can a people, 40 per cent’ of which is gainfully employed, achieve economic security through dependence wagers alone? ’ For 40 years this question has per- | plexed some of the country’s great‘est minds, but it was not until 1829, when development of the problem
reached an acufe stage and the sub-
sequent depression became chronic, that the public began to take note of the grave social dangers inherent to our industrial system. Security from a financial viewpoint vi a paramount issue, not only to the
‘| factory worker, but to the mer-
. ‘chant employed by the chain store; 25 issue of The to the
doctor and lawyer retained by the. corporation heads of these big industries themselves. For these men were dependent upon their salaries and their jobs were no more secure than
ENEMY BY HARRIETT S0OTT. OLINICK
Is a reptile Coiled, in the stomach ‘Of love.
DAILY THOUGHT But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not’
provision for the flesh, to fullfill the lusts
: thereof. —Romans 13:14.
is ‘the grand and battle of life to teach lust the limits of the Divine law--to Woio Break it into the taste bread of Jdven~-12
An intellectual probing into the | grind,
and even the
the cyclical flux of economic conditions permitted them to be. Hence, the question arises—How
| we are not working? Despite the seeming paradox of
| such a question, this writer, along
with many others who have devoted some thought to the subject, believes that the answer lies in social insurance. Stated as concisely as possible, this term implies protection against industrial accidents, sickness, permanent. invalidity : including blindness, old .age, unems= ployment, death, etc. Necessarily, such insurance “would be compul-
among workers, employers, and the government, ‘would be relatively small, The. results would be re-
y “The Social Security Act, a step in thearight direction, is-now in force. As a plain citizen of Indianapolis, with no party to serve and no ax to i I ask you to write to your Senators: and Congressmen. Tell them why you want social insurance for the sake of your children and your children’s children. For one hundred 'and sixty years the will of the people has solved the ‘major ‘problems of the country.
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READER SAYS EUROPE RETURNS TO BARBARISM
By a Times Reader
' The boasted culture of Europe has produced vultures who are now using Spain as a proving ground for their instruments of death and destruction. They might well have used them on themselves. The buccaneering pirates of the high seas were pikers compared to the modern land-robber-bsrons. :
The whole war machinery of Europe is maintained to encroach
ers.. The black flag ‘of piracy well might be adopted by those who are now engaged in extending their power by force of arms over a smaller nation. Incapable of ordering their own domestic affairs to produce culture, they prepare for and engage in the practice of destroying those that are moving toward a better order, Brains will tell and so will a lack them. If they used half their brains | on development of civilization, Europe might some day become civilized. The barbarians seem to have overrun Europe this year. The fall of the Roman Empire again may be ‘written. Populations which stand for a program of conquest already have fallen from the pinnacles of culture. Compared to the Soviets, {who are engaged in a conquest of natural resources and the extension of culture, these so-called cultured nations are savages. If they have thé goods and deliver them they will Speak louder han’ cannons. or
can our wages be continued while
sory, but the costs, widely distributed |
‘flected in happier homes, healthier | _ tehildren and a more abundant life.
upon the sovereign territory of oth-|:
It Seems | to Me
By Heywood [Broun
Administration Should Remember It Won the Election and Not Hand Out Dismissal Slips for Christmas.
EW YORK, Dec, 14.—Somebody ought to remind the Roosevelt Administration _ that it won the last election. It is quite true that certain issues were dealt with by both" sides in less than a forthright manner, but
one agonized scream of the Republicans: went on throughout the campaign. Hardly a single G. O. P. speech was inde which did not contain an attack on work projects, and particularly those which are known to their enemies as boondoggling. It seems to me just and fair to say that President Roosevelt and his associates have received a mandate to continue boondoggling. And it is the successful side which now seems minded to heed
the b tter complaints of the minority. Of course, the word “boondoggling” was first applied as a pune ishing epithet, but it has always seemed to me sound strategy to accepti a word, even though it is a Contempt, just so long as : e practice which it describes is admirable.’ And so I want to know, “What's the matter with boondoggling?”
Indeed, I think that the hapatest experiments the Federal government have been py in cb]
aid was extended to actors, writers Bid Jas A , musicians and
I am well aware of th e fact that not every one employed in any of these projects is a genius, ” . s or the striking fact about Federal art projects is : the Jigh Salier of the work turned out. ‘Schools ave murals now which were painted for a they rank with the best. | PoE. 2m Punishment has ie on the men and
Mr. Broun
on th aco, tt i, be vell: has announced a cy of not restoring WPA Foie who have Particigatal in strikes and demon. ‘pink dismissal slips for Ct
mas. If it were reall - true that industry is anxious or even capable of el / ting everybody back
back to work there might be some point in talking about | Pederal competiti private industry. pe id wa F . = UT I want to come he hack to what seems to me e gravest error of Col. Somervell. I ref his, attitude toward so-called agitators. This nd Seltine an example for ; bor-baiting in private ine ers at the present time are ases. But when they give a to be treated after the
~ And in very many case a weapon against the thres is to be kissed to death, a fatter envelope he is inf had it long ago but for plan who was frying to g ate to see the Federa a as an employer { 3
nd when the worker gets ‘that he would have 2 bad, nasty man in the’ him to join a union. government in its ca-
Sess. same tactics. The:
government should leave to private en--
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