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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936

TWO MORE DAYS OU have only a few days of this cold and zestful weather before Christmas to help others not so fortunate. In the Clothe-A-Child and the Mile-of-Dimes campaigns, The Indianapolis Times offers you two means to that end. Nearly 900 children already have been clothed. There is no duplication of gifts, because each case is checked

thoroughly with all other charitable enterprises. As the dime line on E. Washington-st grows hourly, it means more children will be warmly clothed this Christmas.

Clothe-A-Child and Mile-of-Dimes have become In-

dianapolis institutions and they offer you a convenient way to catch up that part of vour Christmas activity you might

most easily let slip—your charity.

THE RICH KNOW A BARGAIN

UNITED STATES savings bonds were devised to enable

people of limited means to invest in their government.

In the 21 months the bonds have been on the market, pur-

chases have been made by some 700,000 investors, but by no means are all of them in the low-income category. The rich, who want to stay that way, have found the Baby Bonds to be very attractive investments. banks and trust companies and other fiduciaries. Banks own 6 per cent of all of the $690,000,000 worth of Baby Bonds that have been sold to date. Postmasters report that a great many wealthy individuals are purchasing the maximum—=$10,000 worth a year. Some of us who can less afford to take chances might do well to emulate this latest example by which the rich get richer. Very few of us have an idle $750 to use in buying a bond that can be cashed in 10 years hence for $1000. But some of us have $75 that we can profitably save by buving a $100 bond, and more of us have $37.50, the price of a $50 bond, and still more of us $18.75, with which to purchase a $25 certificate. They're for sale at every

postoffice.

A PRESENT WORTH WHILE SINCE Christmas is the time when elders’ thoughts turn toward their children it is fitting that this rich country’s attention be called to a campaign to free thousands of youngsters from the burden of daily toil for wages. The National Child Labor Committee is organizing for what it hopes will be the final drive to ratify the Child Labor Amendment, which awaits ratisfication by only 12 more states. Indiana already has approved it. In 1937 the legislatures of 19 states that have not ratified will meet. The Crildren’s Bureau of the Department of Labor reports an increase of more than 150 per cent in the number of 14 and 15-vear-old children certified for employment in the first five months of this year over the corresponding five months of 1935, when the NRA code standard was in effect. Studies made by the Child Labor Committee reveal exploitation of children as young as 10 to 14 in the lumber, turpentine and woodworking industries in certain southern states. of manual labor of youngsters in beet sugar fields of Colorado and Nebraska, of the sweating of children in some of the cities. With favorable action by 12 of the 19 legislatures meeting next year this disgrace of child labor can be wiped

out once and for all.

LAND CAN BE TOO DEAR

NE very important reason, why the Administration should make haste slowly in its farm tenancy program

is the absolute necessity of getting the land cheap.

For that reason we are glad the old Bankhead bill did Passage of that measure, making avail- Ergon edge A

able a billion dollars of Federal credit to purchase farms | : able a billion ‘de P | gallant sacrifice, far, far from the gaiety of heedless for landless tenants, would have added several dollars an acre to the asking price of land throughout the tenancyThere are many landowners, notably banks

and insurance companies, that would like nothing better |

not become law.

ridden areas.

than to unload their holdings on the government.

So have |

The purpose of the Administration, as we understand | Fo and on sas

it. is to make it possible for renters and sharecroppers to | re-establish themselves as farm owners, to enable families |

now dispossessed to sink their roots into soil which they

can reasonably hope some day to own, debt free. And that can not be done without limiting strictly the money in- |

vested in the land.

Therefare, we believe it is essential to success of the

program that the government undertake its program with moderate annual appropriations, to the end that it can buy land in a competitive market. While we might sympathize with the large landholder who wants to be bailed out, who perhaps has such a heavy investment in his land that he can not see any possible way of making a profit on that investment, vet we should not do our sympathizing at the expense of the tenant whose rehabilitation is at stake. If

those now in that predicament can’t make the land pay,

| along some moving pictures of how we do for the

to pull out with the same per-acre debt hanging over, plus | FoerdoR In A Br on and educate the

how can a tenant farmer, starting from scratch, be expected

the added debt he will have to incur to build a home and warns, and buy equipment and livestock ?

Under the best possible circumstances it will be diffi- |

cult enough helping men, unaccustomed to the business responsibilities of ownership and management, to become successful farm owners and operators. They should not pe burdened with debt too heavy to bear. And the hest

way to start in making their burdengybearable is by

VY ing the land at fair prices, 5

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

New Ambassador to Russia Is Making Preparations in True Byrd Spirit But Without Thoroughness.

EW YORK, Dec. 22.—Mr. Joseph Davies, the new ambassador to Moscow, has set about his preparations for a two-year sojourn in darkest Russia in the true Admiral Byrd spirit but without that detailed thor-

oughness which sometimes makes the difference between the happy ending and disaster. Mr. and Mrs. Davies are taking 2000 pints of preserved cream and a supply of canted goods but there is no mention of gum drops or pemmican, tallow candles or snow shovels, and the haphazardness of their stores might defeat their mission in the end. It would be a terrible thing if these brave adventurers of the diplomatic service should discover too late that they forgot the crank for the ice-cream freezer and perish miserably at their posts, each one blaming the other. ¥et, such things have happened to other hardy spirits in similar daring expeditions. They start out on the best of terms but the trials and hardships of existence amid the eternal snows often made for asperity and one might say, “You told me you put that crank in with the spare emeralds.” And the other might answer, with a trace of impatience, “I saw you with it the last thing before we left. You were using it to nail down the lid of that crate of tiaras. I told you we wouldn't need all those tiaras.” ” » 2 HE adventurous spirit of Mr. and Mrs. Davies seems too fine to be sacrificed to chance with many experienced explorers at hand who could check their stores for omissions and throw out supplies, such as superfluous tiaras, with which they might be overloaded. There is Capt. Bob Bartlett, that stout and knotty mariner who has selected the Arctic seas for many a desperate adventure. There is Admiral Byrd himself, who knows to the last clipping just how many scrapbooks may be needed and how much glue. There is young Teddy Roosevelt, who walked all over China pursuing a giant panda only to be asked when he got home, "Is that a panda? It looks like a sealyham.” The important thing in adventures of this kind is to anticipate and provide against every emergency and sometimes bold explorers suffer from the omission of the most commonplace articles. Are Mr. and Mrs. Davies taking plenty of matches? What about collarbuttons, front and back, as well as studs? Needles and thread? Toilet articles? A corkscrew? An ices pick and tongs? How are they going to build any igloo for the long Russian winters without an ice pick and tongs?

wi Mr. Pegler

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ND have they plenty of bearskin robes to throw |

to the wolves when they are pursued across the icy tundra in their sleigh, and ammunition with which There should also be a silver bullet among the ammunition for that last desperate

and voluptuous Palm Beach. Every explorer carries gifts for the natives and, although the five-and-ten is a familiar institution here, its mouse-traps and colored coat-hangers, shiny

| eggr-beaters and kettles would fascinate and win the

simple moujiks of the Moscow foreign office. Of course, the head man himself will require a better present. A $5 phonograph would do very well and trade concessions, fabulous goldfields and oil and fishing rights for the United States of America.

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POLUIN Key

The Hoosier Forum

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

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU MR. SMITH By Chester Smith I am writing to The Times to express my appreciation for the’ courtesy and complete efficiency of its

| news and the way it keeps us posted

on what is going on around us. . . . As one who has had expgrience as a shut-in, I say that a good newspaper goes a long way toward making one happy. . . . Let's not forget the carrier boys either, for they are a big part of the paper, for after I have been shut in all day let me tell you, it is good to have a smiling paper boy give me a hearty hello. Friends, you may get peeved at the carrier boy, but remember, he brings your paper every day, rain, shine, wind or snow, and you don’t hear him complain. . . . I wish to express my gratitude to The Times’ boys and especially to Norman Bess, the boy who brings my paper. As I said, I am an invalid, and it is nice to have the paper brought to my bed daily. Fellow readers, I ask you to think a little before you “hop” on the paper boy for being a little late. Remember, the streets may be slick. When he comes, ask him inside to fold his papers and see the grateful smile on his face as he thanks YOu. + » If I have a letter to mail, the boy gladly drops it in a box as he passes. My friends, such things as this deserve praise. In my mind, the paper boy is very important. Here's a Merry Christmas to The Times and its carriers.

* » = TIMES COLUMNISTS STOOD ALL THEY COULD

By Harvey Green The most unfortunate incident that ever happened to England, so I am told, happenea when those fellows accused American newspaper men of being the authors of a melodrama which they created. That accusation was too much ior four of The Times columnists to endure. They formed a four-man committee of Westbrook Pegler, Raymond Clapper, Mark Sullivan and Heywood Broun. (I listed Broun last because his imagination looked up and saw former President Hoover and he became so busily engaged in chas-

ing Hoover that he lost track of the | original subject.) Nevertheless, when Pegler, Clapper and Sullivan finished planning their mental strategy, they met the issue with blood in their eyes. So warlike were they that even Mrs. Walter Ferguson looked on with wonderment, seeming to say, “I didn't know it was in you.” » » » AN ENGLISHWOMAN SPEAKS HER MIND By “Another Englishwoman”

Here's one Englishwoman who is sick of this ranting about “the king can do no wrong.” It isn't the first

(Times readers are invited to | express their views in these col-

umns, religious controversies excluded. Make your leiter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be { withheld on request.) | | time a smart woman has made a | sap out of an English king, and | there have been kings who lost | their thrones because of over-am-bitious women. But to try to make a hero out of a silly, middle-aged man, and a heroine out of a woman who knows how to do well for herself is past understanding. None of our papers have played up the truth—they’'ve been so crazy to make it the world's greatest romance. The truth of the matter is that it was the talk of London for months. Judging by the letters I've been receiving, I had a big news story and did not know it. But it was thought that it would pass, as many affairs have. I didn’t see any of our papers telling that when the king first met Mrs. Simpson she was happily married, at least so her friends say. The king knew this, but working on that old plan that the king can do no wrong, he broke another man’s home. And the lady, whom we are told is so well bred, with an eye for finding gold in the kingdom, made a goat of her husband. The powder keg almost exploded at the time of King George's death, but it was thought that King Edward would wake up to the fact that such things were over for him and would take the job he's spent his life in training for. He knew what England expected of him. He bowed a proud nation’s head in shame and muffed the chance of being the best-loved king of modern times.

» & » DEPLORES ABDICATION

OF KING EDWARD By “The Englishwoman’ The King has abdicated. Gone with him are the hopes of millions who looked upon him as their savior and protector. What a pity that { the sob story writers, with their silly | Cinderella plots, could not have {urged the King to more renuncia- | tion and less romance for the sake of millions whom he has deserted. All the prince-and-poor-girl stories have ended differently. The

HEDONIC ADVICE

BY MAUD C. WADDELL Wisely take life's joys today, Look not too far ahead; Grasp pleasures while you may, Before you're too long dead.

DAILY THOUGHT But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ve me, ye hypocrites?—St. Matthew 22:18.

No degree of temptation justifies any degree of sin.—N. P. Willis,

poor girl refuses to allow the prince to sacrifice his country for her, instead of encouraging him to almost the last hour. ] Wallis will be remembered and live to be despised more than she is now. How stable are the affections of a woman who has married twice and divorced twice since 1918?

. ® » WHAT--NO BLUE BLOOD? JUST ASK QUEEN MARY By V. W.

I believe just what J. F. L. said in a Forum letter Dec. 9... . Just why should King Edward not have married Mrs. Simpson and still remain King? . . . There is no such thing as “blue blood.” As a wife and mother, Queen Mary is not one bit better than my dear mother. You don’t see our President Roosevelt interfering with his children's love affairs, nor does he think he is better than the American people—that is why I like and respect our President. . ..

" ® =» HE'S GOT A LITTLE LIST; DO YOU HAVE ONE? By M. S.

While the subject is still up I have in mind some abdications that might come in handy on this side of the Atlantic. For example— Certain very elderly Supreme Court justices, appointed by Presidents long dead. Th2 cop who lets the speeder go tearing by, but stops traffic to indulge his sadistic vocabulary on some minor offender. The employer who still says it's none of the public's business if he chooses to employ children and operate sweatshops and refuses to treat with recognized spokesmen of his workers’'s unions. The union official who makes contracts only to tear them up as scraps of paper when the occasion seems to suit his ends. A few ‘members of the government at Washington who are sut of touch with New Deal principles, yet hang on in order to advance their personal ends. The jingo who says that what this country needs is a good war, and the alleged patriot who says that what it needs is another Mussolini— And you probably have some of your own . ” ” ” SUBSCRIBER DUBIOUS OF ‘MERIT SYSTEM’ By a Subscriber

We see by the papers that Indiana’s “merit system” is to be strengthened. We wonder if it's the same species of merit system that existed before the recent election. . + » Many citizens still doubt the “merit” of Indiana's merit system. Yet, we have no doubt as to the strength of it. . . . The Governor-

elect has the appearance of the “Old Hickory” type of public serv- | ant, rather than the pink-tea | { type of politician. However, we | | shall see what we shall see.

General Hugh Johnson Says —

It Doesn't Matter That Davies Is Taking Groceries to Moscow With Him; What Does Matter Is That He Should Be Ambassador Like Morrow.

EW YORK, Dec, 22.—To this column, it doesn't seem a matter of diplomatic life or death that Joe Davies shipped a carload of canned groceries ahead of him to Moscow for the embassy or had the plumber scrap some antique wash-hand stands and install a dozen noiseless toilets and monumental bathtubs. That doesn't—as has been suggested—

imply any such insult as that the Bolos don't keep

cows or know what a bathroom is for. Except that no proconsul of the republic can afford to be ridiculous, these are matters minor in somparison with what the new ambassador will do after he gets to Russia. He says he is going to take

hairy proletariat at stand-up supper

very informal, unassuming and simple—but educational

ever.

The best of our recent ambassadors was Dwight Morrow. He went to Mexico at a time when, because of two invasions in undeclared war, it was practically open season on Americans everywhere out of sight and protection of the city police. By trying to under- | stand their problems and being sympathetic and helpful about all of them-—and by remaining the plain, friendly, common-sense sort of every-day American he had always been-he managed to work out one of | the greatest reversals of sentiment in one nation toward another in tic annals. It had its

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Mr. Broun Is Disturbed at the Re-election of John D. M. Hamilton As Republican National Chairman,

EW YORK, Dec. 22.+~I hate to see the Republicans go wrong. Of course, 1 mean wronger. This would be a dreary world if there were no G. O. P. elephants at which to shoot. The task of columnist

would be 10 times more difficult if this wild life were allowed to dwindle and to die. And so I am aghast at the re-election of John D. M. Hamil ton as chairman. The vote, I read, was 74 to 2-= representing, I suppose, the mi= nority of Maine and Vermont. It would be decidedly unfair to Mr. Hamilton to suggest that his mistakes were responsible for the defeat of Gov. Landon, I do not know whether he could have done any better if he had been the most skillful chairman ever known to politics. But he couldn't have done any worse, and so the burden of proof rests on Mr. John D. M, Hamilton.

I think he might have plaved along somewhat more fruitful lines. The fact that he and Gov. Su Landon hated each other's innards didn’t help much. Moreover, the sage of Kansas William Allen White, barely managed to stay on the reservation, Fortunately for John D. M. Hamilton Bill White is not a drinking man. His dossier on John D. M. Hamilton was complete and acrimonious but Mr. White has come to be a conformer, And 50 he sat comparatively silent on a pique in Emporia drinking nothing and merely eating his words. The leaders of the Republican Party made one slight error which turned out to be tragic. They appointed a committee to call upon Gov. Landon somewhat belatedly, to inform him that he was running: The error of the party chiefs lay in their

faiiure to send anybody around to te he wasn't. II Hamilton that

Mr. Broun

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arr up until the time the votes were tabulated John D. M. Hamilton functioned in a dream world. Seemingly he was under the impression that he had been nominated in Cleveland, and that he was making the race in collaboration with an obscure Kansan named Alfred Mossman Landon. John D. M, Hamilton set the pace of the campaign, announced the issues and made all the vital statements. On election night, even when the water had come up over his chin—sort of rounding of the Horn—John D. M. stood on the burning deck insisting that he smelled no smoke, and so there could not be a fire.

In spite of the landslide figures I remained worried about the outcome for at least 24 hours, since it seemed possible that Mr. Hamilton might secede, carrying with him two suitcases, a small steamer trunk and a copy of the Literary Digest. ” un ” VEN a jaundiced observer must admit that he was at big hit in Cleveland. He sold himself as a red-hot coal in the flaming youth movement. He was a character whom John Held Jr. might have drawn back in the brave days when Scott Fitzgerald was new come out of Princeton and set in his pursuit of that territory which lies this side of Paradise. To a convention made up largely of men physically fit for wheelchairs and mentally conditioned ta kiddie-cars John D. M. Hamilton seemed a young man and a liberal. But it must be remembered that this was a convention which looked for a little while in the direction of Ogden Mills, and then said, “Not on your life! We won't take a chance with a Red

| like that.”

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Rep. Sam Rayburn Is Sure Angry at Cummings for

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

V\/ ASHINGTON, Det. 22.—Rep. Sam Rayburn will be the Democratic floor leader of the new House. The election of the able, Administration-supported Texan is now definitely assured. He has 182 pledged votes, 14 more than the required majority. By Jan. 4, when the 335 House Democrats hold their caucus, Rayburn’s electoral strength will top 220 and may be as high as 250. Tammanyite John O'Connor, runner-up in the contest, is assured at present of only 60 to 75 votes. Foreseeing defeat, emissaries of O'Connor have oeen feeling out close friends of Rayburn on a deal. They propose that if and when Raybum becomes Speaker of the House, he will back O'Cohnor for floor leader. In return O'Connor will support. Rayburn in-

the present contest, 4 The proposition has been flatly turned down.

of Democratic Floor Leadership; Labor Is

Failure to Enforce Anti-Strike-Breaker Act,

Byrns, this measure was one of labor's big triumphs last session. The law prohibits the transportation of strike breakers across state lines. "

TT act has been on the statute books nearly sx months, but to date Cummings has yet to insti« tute a single prosecution. Unionites are up in arms. over this procrastination for two reasons. One, of course, is Cummings’ failure to crack down on alleged violators of the law. The other is that une til the law is put to an actual test in the courts, there is no way of knowing whether it meets the purpose for which it was enacted. " Cummings can not plead any lack of complaints on which to proceed. Less than a month after the passage of the law, striking unionists at en, N. J, filed charges that it was being violated a radio manufacturer, Also, at hearings just concluded by the National Labor Relations Board on the Remington-Rand strike, there was extensive testimony charging that strike DreaRers ete posses re or state. One wit= ness, a strike CO! , frankly admitted that he had supplied Rot a with strike breakers.