Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1936 — Page 15

Washington

(Ernie Pyle, Page Two) BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

% VV ASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—One Roosevelt

experiment has gone the wav of all flesh. |

Last January the President changed historic procedure and converted his annual message to Congress into an evening fireside radio chat. Senators and Representatives, who previously had dozed through annual messages Just after lunch, objected to being used as a mere studio audience to supply mike applause. They said it was like Hitler Roosevelt may burn his fingers often but never more than once on

the same hot stove. So his coming message will be delivered in per-

son at a regular afternoon session |

on Jan. 6, in the good old Amerfcan way. Because Roosevelt's second inangural comes two weeks later, dopesters think this message will be comparatively unexciting. That, although a little difficult for any Roosevelt, would also be in the best American tradition, It may contain some warnings about the international situation, consider-

Mr. Clapper

ghle about the budget and bread-and-butter details, |

and a graceful bow

toward the era of good feeling |

which seems at the moment to be a strictly American

institution, Presidential discretion in foreign affairs is something entirely different from discretion in domestic matters. With perfect safety, Congress can give the President broad latitude in domestic administration. It can always withdraw such delegation of power. Not =o in foreign relations. After the President commits the country, Congress is helpless. Hence, in

neutrality legislation, sentiment is developing against |

handing the President too much rope. Senator Vandenberg has taken the lead in this opposition.

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Faces Reality

FACING conditions as they I frankly punctures the hokum about “freedom of the spac’ and the flag-waving theory that an Amerfean munitions salesman has the right to go anywhere he pleases and that if he is hurt the United gtates should send the Army and Navy to avenge his injury, Vandenberg fixing our policy

are,

importance of To lot the

also emphasizes the before trouble begins.

Vandenberg

Prosident decide it after war has begun would help | or iniure one belligerent or another and put us in |

the light of taking sides. To make known cur policy in advance places every one on notice. nu J »

Oats for Supreme Court

FEHR Administration is about to dangle a bag of I oats before members of the Supreme Court in the hope that some will follow it right out of the temple of justice and make way on the bench for younger brains Chairman Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee is preparing to push his bill providing for re{irement of Supreme Court Justices at the age of 70 after 10 vears of service. They can resign now and usually they receive full pay. But thas is at the mercy of Congress, so some justices might hesifate to take the chance. Sumners would, in effect, guarantee full pay during retirement. Then the Adminigtration would wait expectantly for certain justices to take the hint.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day |

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

OSTON. Mass., Tuesday.—The air is clear and

cooler today, there is much more snap in it than ! year it will be about $1,330,000,

we had in the last few days and I think it is more seasonable and probably healthier. My son James

arrived vesterday from Washington and last night |

Ethel du Pont, he and I dined together.

labor amendment; Party opposed

child Women's

such as the

the National to that

cach other, even their ardor for further excitement

was dampened and they decided bed was more ap- |

propriate than the movies. I am still way behind on my Christmas notes. many people have beeh kind to me that I feel that

I will never be able to express my thanks adequately |

in writing. The most delightful thing of all is that for the remainder of our stay we have moved into the most charmingly comfortable house. Our host, Mr. Edward Filene, left us last night and insisted that we

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1936

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Ind.

REVIEWING THE BUSINESS YEAR

Production and Pay Up But Employment Lags, Flynn Says

(First of a Series)

BY JOHN T. FLYNN (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service Ine)

EW YORK, Dec. 30.—Well, 1937 rounds the corner, Six full years since that uncertain, bewildered New Year's Day which followed the crash. This means it is inventory time in America—time to inspect the shop, the cupboard and the tin box and see what 1936 did for us. Then we may take a long look ahead —a 12-month look—-and try to guess what's in store for us, The chief object of our economic machine is to produce

goods and services for our people.

We are successful or

not in a year in proportion as we have done that.

For every $100 of goods produced in 1935, we produced $114 worth in 1936.

That is all to the good. For every $100 worth of goods we produced in 1933, we produced $143 worth in 1936. This reveals in a simple set of figures

how far we have gone. For every $100 worth of goods we produced in 1929 we produced $91.50 worth in 1936. That shows how far we have yet to go. And, of course, if we want to make our economic machine work at high efficiency we must da better than that, because we were not producing all our people needed in 1929, ” ” ”

HAT did the man who works for wages get out of all this? Well, for one thing, the increase in wages paid out—that is, in total pay rolls—was just about the same as the increase in production. But the increase in the number of men was not as large. In other words, production increased 14 per cent, pay rolls increased 14 per cent and employment increased 7 per cent. An interesting explanation of this is, first, that wages were increased in some industries and, second, that more skilled men were put to work this last year in proportion to their numbers than common labor. Our economic machine should produce houses, buildings for our use. In this it has been most backward for the las six years. The construction industry has been most seriously hit. But it improved in 1936. If you state this improvement in percentages it seems large. Private building construction will total almost twice as much as in 1935. But

| the actual amount of building is

So |

not yet sufficiently large to be important. In 1935 private construction was $698.000,000. This

000. That is, in 1935 we did about $5 worth of building .or every person in the country while in 1936 we did about $9 worth. » ” ” LONG with this rising tide of production many other forces went upward. Business profits are best since 1930. 1 have visited many parts of the country, talked with busi-

| ness men. They confess to profits on the best scale in five vears.

Corporations are paying dividends, peying accumulations of deferred preferred dividends; some are paying bonuses. Earnings of 125 corporations— leaders in industry—were $243. 000,000 in 1935. In 1836 they will be around $350,000,000. Even the railroads are begin ning to shed the red ink. Twenty-

| six systems showed deficits every | quarter last year save the last.

They have shown profits every

| quarter for 1936.

And of course all this activity is reflected on the stock ticker. At the beginning of 1936 you might have gone out and bought one each of 300 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, and invested $7800 in the venture, By the end of November they would have been worth $10,300. Or you might have bought a share each of 50 leading or most active stocks for $11,400. By the end of November they would have been worth $14,000. Strangest of all phenomena is the growth of bank deposits—so strange that later we must trv to explain them. July 1, 1935. all banks held $45,522,000,000. July 1, 1936, they held in deposits $51, 335,000,000—a rise of $5,813,000,000. ” e ” HUS we are richer Jor the production of more grods, more services, more income. But the year 1936 is important for one very significant phentmenon —the definite shedding of our depression crepe, the passing of the depression spirit, the rise of the boom spirit. And wherever you go you are struck by this amazing transformation of mood. Go to Detroit; the automobile men tell you this year's sales will top those of 1935 by 11 per cent—the best year since 1929—and a better year ahead. Go to Schenectady or East Pittsburgh and they will tell you the electrical equipment industry will show a 25 per cent rise in 1936. The machine tool huilders will tell you that business was better than 1929 and that they are sure 1937 will be still better. Go to the steel towns Pittsburgh, Homestead, Braddock, McKeesport, Bethlehem, Gary, Birmingham—and you find an air of unrestrained optimism pervading the regions, the mills working

Times Photo by Wheeler.

Construction is rushed at Federal Building annex here.

three shifts a day, operations at the highest mark since 1830. ” ” ” AILROADS are buying equipment once more — 45.000 freight cars against only about 8000 in 1935, and 250 locomotives against about 65 in 1935 and two in one of our depression years. Go to New England or Georgia or South or North Carolina, and you will be told the textile trade is closing the best year it has had

since the war. And thus it goes. And under the impact of these

HACK AND

JUNGLE ON

BLAST WAY THROUGH

mounting activities and the gaiety and cheer of the Christmas spirit, apparently the last shreds of mourning over the great disaster which began in 1920 have been swept away. And with it all prices rise— wheat $1.16 before Christmas last year, $1.50 this year; corn 81

cents last year, $1.22 this year; coffee up 30 per cent; steel up from $29 to $32 a ton and further rises promised; copper, lead, zinc, tin, wool, rubber, gasoline—most

" ther.

commodities up and going fur-

1s this good or bad? Weii, good or bad, it is fact and it is, of course, a sign of rising demand.

Its consequences we will see later. Even foreign trade is up—not very much or in any important way—but it runs with the general rise. ‘ Of course, in a broad picture of this vast nation, there are bright spots and dark spots. What these are, what are the causes behind all this movement, what are the new problems which arise out of it, we will see in the next article.

Next—Government Spending.

Sullivan Urges Roosevelt

To Stick

to Relief Cuts

Qur Town

BY ANTON SCHERRER

OILED down without benefit of by-way observations, the “Story of the Ring,” hinted at in yesterday’s column, amounts to this: Some 60 years ago, a bachelor, residing in lodgings with a German family on the South Side, went to the police with a charge against the

hired girl of the place. She had stolen his ring, he

said. It appeared that the lodger occupied the parlor on the first floor and slept in the next room; that one night, having undressed by the open fire and wound up his watch, he placed it, with his chain and two seals and a ring attached to it, on the mantelpiece and jumped in bed. In the morning, the ring was gone. As he was in the habit of sleeping with the folding doors between the rooms ajar, and was always a light sleeper he was reasonably sure that no one had entered his apartment, except, possibly the servant who had come in early, as usual, to lay the table for his breakfast in the front room. The servant was so nice and neat, so gentle and pretty and well-conducted, that he hesitated accusing her: but the moral certainty he entertained of her guilt and the great value he set on the ring, detere mined him to conquer his scruples.

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Mr. Scherrer

Girl ‘Put Out’

HE girl was quite put out when charged with the crime. The landlady, too, got mad, and took the side of the girl, Indeed, she abused her boarder in such a manner that he, in turn, got mad, with the result that everybody was mad. That moved the boarder to bring the whole thing to a head. Which is why he went to the police.

The police said it looked pretty bad for the girl, and that's exactly the way it turned out, because when the case came to trial, the girl was sent up for six months. Five or six weeks after the hired girl had been in jail and everybody had lost interest in her, her accuser went into Anthony Bal's bakery, near the Union Station. to stock up on tid-bits as was his custom, While he was pausing, deliberating between his pur= chases, the sun burst forth and shot one of its beams along the floor, bringing into light an object which glistened vividly in a crack of the floor,

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Finds Ring

E took his knife, inserted the point of it between the boards, and to his utter amazement brought forth the missing ring. He hurried home, checked up on his diary and discovered that on the evening of the very night he was robbed, he had been in Bal’'s bakery. What had happened, of course, was that the chain containing the seals and the ring had come in contact with the edge of the counter and thus liberated the ring from its hold; that it had fallen, been trodden under the feet of the visitors to the shop, and in this way had been wedged between the boards of the flooring. The man had never put the ring on the mantelpiece. See? Well, the man didn’t know what to do next, but the way things turned out, he did exactly the right thing. He hurried to the jail, told his story, and, of course, after that, there was nothing to do but set the giri free. That's where the story stopped when we kids heard it the first time. Apparently, it didn't make the hit our Irish story-teller had anticipated, because, I dis tinctly remember, that in the second telling, the story had a surprise ending. Anyway, in the second telling, and ever thereafter, the remorseful man offered the girl his hand and married her,

/ vv A Woman's View BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON !

“T\OR the first time in my life I deliberately signed my name to a lie.” Surprised, I regarded Frances, vivid as a dahlia, across the luncheon table. Her recent change in position, which was to her great financial advantage, must have gone to her head. She went on: “I'm not given to lying, you know, The boss wouldn't have me in the firm if I were. But having been with Forrester & Co. during the whole

ROAD EXPLORING TRIP

tire route as far north as Mexico City. It is practically complete from there to Laredo.

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HEY had a hundred narrow escapes from death. e ~ They killed wild hogs and rendered their fat for motor lubricant when stalled in the jungle with no oil available.

They cajoled kerosene and alcohol from natives when the gasoline ran out, and made their cars run with this fuel. They hacked their way through jungles and. blasted their way through mountain passes with dynamite, . They rafted their two Model-T Fords over rivers, and fought death in the form of dysentery, yellow fever, malaria, and wild animals. Their pet dogs all died of snakebite or disease. use it to help further actual conUnited States southward. They learned Spanish to supple- | struction of the road.

S80 Commander Leonidas Borges ment their native Portuguese. 2. de Oliviera, Observer Francisco 8 1 Lopes de la Cruz, and Mechanic TARTING with government Mario Fava had to hack, blast, push, sponsorship, that backing was ferry and fight their way to make | withdrawn when revolution swept the trip in the eight years and eight | their native Sao Paulo, and they months which ended with their ar- | had to push on with their own rerival at the international border at sources, together with such backLaredo, Texas. ing as was given by the countries They mapped and charted the en- | through which they passed.

take possession. So I am writing this in a room one side of which fs practically a great window overlooking the Charles River. An open fire makes a cheerful gathering spot. I imagine everybody is as interested as I was in the newspaper accounts this morning of the loophole in our neutrality law which allows airplanes to be shipped to Spain. It only shows how difficult it is to frame any law which will really accomplish the intent of the framers without frequent revisions When people complain to me, as they frequently do, that laws such as the Social Security Act are faulty in certain points, I wonder why they expect them to be anything else. In the case of legislation dealing with entirely new objectives the methods chosen are quite probable to prove faulty when actuallv in operation. I have just been hearing an account of the children's party held vesterday at the White House. I am sorry indeed that I had to miss it, for they all seem to have had such a good time, but I am very grateful that my two daughters-in-law are taking over so many of my White House social activities. I think the guests at today's tea will probably have as good a time as the children had yesterday because of the novelty in hostesses. Franklin Jr. continues to progress and I hope by the end of the week to start for Washington. .

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— UT of the intimate knowledge and understands ing with which Carleton Beals wrote “Mexican Maze,” pronounced the most authoritative of ‘books on present day Mexico, he has now written the novel, THE STONES AWAKE (Lippincott), This story of Esperanza, daughter of the village oe Milpa Verde, lying at the foot of twin velcanoes, } epitomizes Mexico's longing and struggle for liberty ; SR and education against the sinister forces of tyranny and oppression. Scenes shift from the primitive village in the mountains to the intrigue and sophistication of Mexfeo City, Always the faithful spirit of Espernanza searches for truth and freedom. The multiplicity of other characters brings a certain confusion to the reader, but that effect may well be only the more faithful a projection of Mexico's travail. At last the stones upon the “Smoking Mountain.” worshiped as gods in the village legends—gods who would some day awake and rescue their people—"al« most seemed to stir,” and hope stirred with them.

HREE generations of Maine farmers had owned the Ashburn farm, and their best qualities are centered in Charlie Ashburn, the central figure in the Dodd, Mead $10,000 prize novel, THE OLD ASHBURN PLACE, by Margaret Flint. “Old Pop” is the maine stay of the family until his death, when the mantle falls on Charlie. Morris, the strikingly handsome brother, and Elsie, Morris’ weak-chinned wife, constitute the main personal problem, when Morris falls in love with the city-bred Marian, and to “make” Charlie. A railroad crossing solution to the quadrangle; and Charlie settles down to his bachelor existence with Marian his only excitement. Mra, Flint tells a simple and moving story which the tragedy is relieved by continuous somedy and the slow action is enlivened | he © and the sense of

course of my career I suppose I'm still something of a babe-in-the-wood business woman. But learning fast, my hearty! “When I went in yesterday to sign the contract with the new firm I was twittery. So it wasn’t exactly calming to my nerves when Mr. R—— yelled at me, just as I was forming the figures on the line which asked me to give my age. “‘Good heavens, woman!’ he said, ‘You're surely not going to put down your real age. Why, you don't look more than 28’ . “So I put down 28—1I, who will be 37 next month, with 10 vears’ business experience behind me. Well, I was downright mad when I went out of that place. What are those men hiring me for—my complexion or my business experience, There are thousands of pretty chorus-girl types in this town, if that’s what they need. But they want the benefit of the years I've trained myself in every detail of their trade; that’s why they're taking me away from the Forrester & Co. “They know I'm more than 28. No 28-year-old man or woman could have the record I've made in the trade. The whole foolish pose maddens me. Why are practical business men so inconsistent? They want girls so young they're hardly out of the cradle, and expect them to know as much as seasoned veterans. They're always talking about feminine incompetence, too, basing their conclusions on the work of 17-year-olds. Of course those youngsters are incompetent. Hasn't it taken more than 50 years for the president of the firm to find out all he knows? “Well I've got the job. T'll slave for the company because I'm made that way. So long as IL look 28 everything will be all right, I suppose, But what happens when I look my honest 40?” Frances was so angry I dared say nothing. Besides, what was there to say?

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

T is not at all certain that a child with adenoids is mentally deficient. Enlargement of the adenoids, however, tends to give him an expression known as an “adenoid face,” which in itself is associated with stupidity. A youngster with such an expression has his mouth open all the time, his eyes staring and a little dull. The lines leading from the sides of the nose to the mouth -are smooth, exaggerating the narrowness of

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Re-, which took physical possession of cent developments a b o u t| the capitol buildings in the state WPA begin with an attempt made | capitals of Wisconsin, New Jersey to reduce the number on the rolls; and Pennsylvania. and thereby the expenditures. Fol- Meantime in Washington, Preslowing the election, President | ident Roosevelt said he would ask Roosevelt, taking account of in-| Congress for $500,000,000 to care for creased business activity, instructed | the five months from Feb. 1 to July WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins | 1. This would be at the rate of to reduce materially the number of | $100,000,000 a month, a material re- | persons on his rolls. Mr. Hopkins | duction from the present pace of acted. Throughout the country | expenditure. about 150,000 were taken off by Dec. ® a = 5. At once resistance arose. Several | ¢ ON Mr. Roosevelt's announcemayors, including Mr. La Guardia ment, WPA Administrator

of New York, said in effect that per- Ho } pkins said $750,000,000 would be sons dismissed from the Federal| o.jaq Mr. Roosevelt softened his

WPA would become charges on the earlier announcement by saying that cities. Some mayors said the cities amounts in addition to the $500,

did not have the necessary funds. Whether they had or not, the 000000 Would be found here and mayors were fairly certain to make there among unused balances of outery. appropriations for various purIn any city, money paid out by Pees. resident Bovesvelt. and the Federal WPA is looked upon as opki conferred. an advantage. The point of view of Afterward, Mr. Hopkins was quoted : as saying that “from my point of

ne Tro is Ue Same a5 Wai of view, we never have enough to take chambers of commerce and some |¢are of the unemployed. local newspapers. To want as much |, Lis about brings the situation up money as they can get from the toaate It is apparent that through vernment—whether it be |F61iel there have been set up sevFederal sovern i eral vested interests. The groups

relief money, soldiers’ bonus, api who think they have vested claims propriations for new postoffices or| =", ° Treasury include: Those on

become a common oy of has communities, poli- | relief, friends and relatives of those ticians and others. on relief, mayors of cities and offiSo, added to the outcry from cials of communities into which remayors came protests from mem- lief money comes, congressmen who bers of Congress. get credit for bringing government = money into their districts, the small SOveRRIES officials who have jobs administering relief which they v nd spok of ae eniulives sig pieomen would lose if relief is reduced. fairly important artists and authors, # = = not themselves on relief, united in HAT happens now? It is clear an open letter to the President tak- business has improved to a ing the ground that no artist or au- | point ‘where there can not now be thor must be removed from the re-| as much need for relief. President lief rolls so long as he wishes to re- | Roosevelt’ wishes to reduce relief exmain on. Indeed, they took the po- | penditures. If he wants to hard sition that the Federal government | enough, he can probably do so. But must never retire from payments to | he will need to be more firm than artists—that subsidy to artists, such | he was, for example, about the the face and thinness of the nose, and thus tending as now practiced for relief purposes, | soldiers’ bonus. ! to enhance the appearance of stupidity. Moreover, must be a permanent public policy. i constant breathing through the mouth may make the Further and vigorous protest, in palate high and pointed, and thus interfere with some cases taking the form of vio- proper growth of the teeth. lence, came from groups of bene- It should be obvious, therefore, that definitely enficlaries of relief. There were ‘sit larged or inflamed adenoids ought to be removed. down” strikes of WPA workers Since this condition usually is associated with enabout to be dismissed, sympathetic larged and inflamed tonsils, tonsils and adenoids “sit down” strikes of their asso- often are removed at one operation. This type of ciates. There were demonstrations operation has been done so frequently that it is known by groups of smaller public officials in all hospitals as the “T and A” operation. adminstering relief. Some of them Removal of a child’s adenoids is not at all a diffidemanded not merely no reduction, cult operating procedure with a special but actual increase. It is announced and is carried out under an ete. require a very lone time. or ih : The degree of improvement that a cH may show following this procedure is so obvious and significant that any one who has once noted it would never hesi« tateJwhen confronted with the necessity of

BY JACK PARK NEA Service Correspondent russ: Tex., Dec. 30.—Way back in 1928 B. C. (Before the Crash), eight years and eight months ‘ago, three men started on a motor trip. They are just finishing it. For the first time they have succeeded in uniting Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the United States by a continuous auto journey. The 14,000 miles they traveled, nearly 6000 of it over mere cattle, pack, and foot trails across mountins and through jungles, will some gay be traveled by means of a continuous improved auto road, the Pan-American Highway.

Eventually it will run from Alaska down through Canada, Mexico, Cen= tral and South America. But today only 7845 miles are improved road, with 500 more under construction, in the section from the

Yet these three intrepid Brazilians accomplished their mission without a major accident or illness and contributed a splendid step forward in the uniting of the Americas. Oliviera is a reserve officer in the Brazilian army, a military college graduate and engineer. Cruz is a skilled topographer, and Fava an spert mechanic, During the entire trip they made three general highway maps. In addition, they made maps of each region, on which they recorded rainfall, altitude, angle of descent or descent, crops, topographic records, and other information that will be vital to road-building engineers when they get around to constructing the highway. Their invaluable data will be turned over to the Pan-American Union in Washington, which will

” HE three men started from Rio de Janeiro on April 16, 1928. Their job was to work northward along projected routes of the PanAmerican Highway through Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.

URTHER protest came from

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS

In Marion County outside of Indianapolis are 42 schools with 365 teachers. Of that number there are 31 grade schools with 10,000 pupils and 11 high schoois with 2000 pupils. Nearly 10,000 pupils are transported daily in school busses, safeguarded by a junior of 650.

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organized march on Washington, to arrive Jan. 15. This movement is under the sponsorship of persons who,