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SCRIPPS = HOWARD] a Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937

'TOWNSEND—34TH GOVERNOR >. MAY not be a great Governor. Great Governors are made by crises and we want no crises in our affairs. But I do hope to be known as a good Governor. I look forward to that duty, day by day, in which I may guide, perhaps direct, the acts which make government the servant of the people.” = : The man who today became Indiana’s 34th Governor outlined this philosophy recently at his home town of Marion. 2 Statesmanship does not depend upon the spectacular. Townsend has a chance to add a measure of greatness to his administration. There is a job to be done. True, the pattern has been cut, the governmental structure formed. But further improvements and refinements are needed. The biggest task of all is honest, efficient and progressive administration of today’s complicated functions of state. In this effort, the new Governor is bolstered by his overwhelming victory at the polls. : Townsend's opportunity lies in being Governor of all the people of Indiana, and not of one party or faction; in seeking counsel but making his own decisions; in wise leadership.

DEPAUW CENTENNIAL EPAUW UNIVERSITY today celebrates a century. of growth and educational achievement. Just 100 years ago yesterday, the Indiana General Assembly gave the Methodist Episcopal Church a charter to establish a university to be conducted on “the most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations.” : - From the original Indiana Asbury University, starting with one instructor and five students, the university has grown to its present high scholastic standing. Fittingly, the American Association of University Professors has lifted the technical ban which placed DePauw on its ineligible list two years ago in controversy over dismissal of a faculty member. ; A nation-wide broadcast today opened the centennial program that will continue through June. Many nationally known persons, DePauw alumni, will participate. Twentyseven hundred clergymen have been invited to take part in a preaching mission at the Greencastle school this week. Indiana, and friends of DePauw everywhere, congratulate this progressive institution and wish success to its new president, Dr. Clyde E. Wildman.

1937 LICENSE PLATES ONTRASTING with the parade of new color schemes for automobiles, there is a surprising preponderance of sober coloring in 1937 license plates. Indiana and 25 other states use black either for lettering or background. White is used by 22 states, and these two colors in combination are found on the plates of eight states. Indiana, with gold on black, also is one of 11 states using one shade or another of yellow. 2 jo But somber or not, the new plates are supposed to be on all cars now, as the deadline was Dec. 31. Getting a driving license this year is as easy a formality as getting license plates. The tragically ineffective drivers’ license law is one reason for the State’s shameful auto accident record. We hope the Legislature will see to it that driving licenses are not passed out next year until physical examinations prove an applieant’s competency.

“COMPREHENSIVE OVERHAULING” LETS try to draw a few of the current threads together and make a pattern. The President in his opening message to Congress stressed: his plan to modernize and improve the executive branch of the Government, to bring about a “comprehensive overhauling’ of the administrative machinery. Then, in his budget message which followed, he emphasized that re-employment in private industry must. of necessity be the solution of the unemployment problem in a society which does not propose to let any American family starve; And—if such re-employment can be accomplished, then the national budget can be balanced. We suggest a careful look at two Cabinet divisions— Commerce and Labor. For, as the proposition relates to increased private employment, the increase will be attained only as the volume of the nation’s industry is enlarged. The governmental agency most closely related to increased volume obviously is the Department of Commerce. It should function in such a way that Government and busi‘ness would team together in building up the “gross,” from which the Government can draw taxes for balancing the budget. : So the first job in an “overhauling,” we should say, would be an inspection of how the Commerce Department is operating. Next—it is a cinch that the employment situation is not being improved by the rapidly spreading strikes and shutdowns. The latest survey says 150,000 are out of work because of labor disputes. It is impossible to compute the full damage in terms of decreased purchasing power. So, any agency which can with justice settle a labor difficulty is contributing immeasurably toward re-employ-ment, increased purchasing power, balanced budget, and all the other benign phases of recovery. And that’s where the Labor Department comes in. In the railway industry, for example, there has been but one minor strike in 10 years, because of the efficient efforts of the Railway Labor Mediation Board. If the same degree of industrial peace could have been accomplished by the conciliation division of thé Department of Labor the millions of waste through industrial warfare—millions too great to compute—would have been saved. With those two departments properly modernized and improved, the unemployment and budget headaches may » very conceivably be cured. And should that end be attained we will be nearer to the economic millenium than any of those now living have ever been, Si oid

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

It Was Kind of Union League Club To Invite Select Democrats to Join, but What It Should Do Is Die.

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—It was indeed kind of the Union League Club of New York to let down the bars to a select list of Democrats, but there probably will be some Democrats who will not stampede to take advan-

tage of the concession. Judging by the returns of the last election it might be suspected that the old-line Union Leaguers are suffering from lonesomeness and have had to sacrifice a sacred principle

to get a quorum. But the Union League would know best, as to that. ; I always thought the club looked a little dreary and have sometimes wondered whether the ancient Union Leaguers visibie at the windows were alive or the work of the taxidermist. It was the last club to which I would have aspired but that is merely a personal feeling and it is possible that the indifference was mutual. But if I may be permitted to examine another man's emotions, I doubt that Al Smith feels any great elation at being : tapped for Bones as you might say. Al was an East Side boy and a Tammany Sheriff and Governor and, though he has wavered in matters of discipline these last few years, joining the Union League would be a solemn step. It would mean postacy, for the Union League stands in relation to Tammany Hall much the same as a rich and stylish Episcopal Church stands to an Irish Catholic parish down by the gas: house. They may claim that the difference is merely a matter of authority and that the faith is fundamentally the same, but a man who has been brought up Tammany must take his soul out for a long walk for hours of conflict when confronted with the question.

Mr. Pegler

” 2 ” T is said that the Union League offers membership to those Democrats who can be depended upon to subscribe to principles of broad-minded Americanism. That is an ambiguous term, however, for Americanism is anything you make it and covers the activities of the Ku-Klux Klan, the Civil Liberties Union, the American Legion, the Republican Party and the New Deal. It also covers Huey Long and William Hale Thompson. a But wouldn't you think that after all these years the Union League would disband entirely, settle its debts, auction off the old leather chairs and lace curtains and the cracked oil portraits of Thad Stevens,

set up an endowment for the servants and call it a day? The Union League has a bad history and, being unable to repudiate that history, remains merely a source of aggravation and a reminder of the worst experience in the life of the republic, the reconstruction era when it sent carpet-baggers and organizers into the South to foment bloody tragedy and create distrust and hatred which is not dead even today.

‘8 ” J \ HE principles of broad-minded Americanism were not uppermost in the Union League Club in the time of its greatest activity, for surely no member of the club believes today that the motives of its agents were altruistic and patriotic then.

The Union League was rough, tough, vicious and unscrupulous in its youth and now that it has got religion and mellowed and grown senile, with its talk of taking in Democrats whom it once regarded as blood enemies, it owes a patriotic duty to the country to haul off and die.

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The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with whai you say, but will defend to the death your right 'o say it—Voltaire.

MAJORITY OF ANDERSON WORKERS HELD OPPOSED

‘TO STRIKE

By Guide Lamper, Anderson It is too bad the General Motors labor controversy here can’t be settled like that of the Indiana Railroad. I feel certain that the ma-

jority opposed to the strike would’

equal, if not surpass, that in the traction case. Through my association with the Guide Lamp and Delco-Remy workers I know that the average Anderson General Motors employee is satisfied with his wages, working conditions and treatment by the company. He appreciates the attitude of General Motors, the fine shops in which he works and all of the safety features and other devices created and installed for his benefit, - Contrary . to your news. articles, apparently obtained from Hugh Thompson and his band of maicontents, the strikers find very little sympathy. . ,. : Residents of Anderson are vers

much irked by the action of a few |

hundred persons in throwing 11,500 out of work, ” 8-8 DESCRIBES MISSOURI'S FIRST MULESTA CELEBRATION By Missourian Down at Excelsior Springs, Mo. they’ve been holding history’s first Mulesta. A Mulesta, if anyone wants to know, is a festival dedicated to the glorification of the American mule. I can think of no animal less in need of being glorified, or less likely to appreciate human efforts in that direction.- Being, as some sage has said, without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity, the mule displays a singular indifference to public opinion. Kind words and language hot enough to fry asbestos, alike, leave the average mule calm and unmoved. What Missouri really is glorifying is itself, as the state which claims to produce more and better mules than any other, And thats all right. Missouri is pleased, and there’s absolutely no danger that the mules will get puffed up with false pride. ” 2 2 FEARS RETURN OF WAR MAY IMPERIL CIVILIZATION By G. B. P. x After reading the startling news from Europe I find this in an address by President James Rowland Angell of Yale, who, saying that one morning the country may awaken to find the world again in flames “with the red hand of war , spread over the face of civilization,” continues: “All these circumstances point to the significant truth, that in our day and generation the frontiers of eth-

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General Hugh Johnson Says—

Psychiatrists Who Cracked For Children Seems to Be

ASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The other day, a DSychiatrist guy made the headlines by cracking down on “Alice in Wonderland.” He said she was the creation of a sadist delighting in cruelty and mutilations and, therefore, unfit for children. Fairy tales and Mother Goose, he thinks, are o. k, for kids—but not Alice. She is too bloody.

Not one person in a thousand knows exactly what

“sadist” means. It means a ‘person—like Dr, Jekyl “turned into Mr. Hyde—so terrible that his true description would not be allowed in print. This column, will, therefore, not attempt to define him further than to say that, with all his glee in calculated and inhuman cruelty, no regular union sadist would have the heart to brand on the “pure, unclouded brow” of Alice a mark that would make her hideous to many generations of children who have hitherto adored her, and take her away from countless generations of children yet to come. ; > » ” =

O° course, nobody could do that successfully. But it has recently become a fashion among little high-brow sirs who, by no other device could possibly make themselves known to a greater number of people than they could impose upon and bulldoze in per -80m, to-attempt: hieve ‘a place ubli 5

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in ‘hese columns, religious contro: :rsies excluded. Make your leiler short, so all can have a chanc, Letters must be signed, but nan es will be withheld ort request.) .

ics and religion are to be found not s0 much in the life ard conduct of the individual man as in the deportment of nations and in the activities of political, socia’ and economic groups. $l “This is the area whei? gusts of uncontrollable passion sw.iep over a people, and in the face of every aictate of intelligence plunge a nation into the maelstrom )f war, or into other hardly less | = alamiious courses. It is the happy hunting ground of the demagog wl ose power for evil the radio has m iitiplied a thousand fold. 1 “Far more than the murely eco-

WHY MUST WILLIAM GO

TO THE GYM’

By F. F. MACDON/ LD Now why must William jo to the

gym A For his exercise and his da ly swim? There he hurdles the bars and runs the track And hardens the muscles of arms and back. il Alas—the furnace needs cire each day—' } Orne for which he’d 1iot have to pay!) Firing it often would keep t ie house warm i And strengthen the muscles of back and arm.

Of course, there’s nothilig like “keeping fit.” ro iH But there is kindling and :irewood to split! What is so cozy when staring up

late As a cheerful fire ablaze in the grate?

About the house there’s 1iany a chore | Needing man-power for & month or more; But William's idea of “keejiing in trim” Is a strenuqus workout dcwn at the gym!

So—for the chores I must hire a man : And manage the household {5s best I can: ig But why must William go o the

gym For his exercise and his daily swim?

DAILY THOUGHT

God hath promised pardin to him that repenteth, but He hath not promised repentance tg him that sinneth.—Anselm.

Keep yourself in the love 0: God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.- -Jude 1:21.

nomic or political issues are at stake. The spiritual progress of mankind is also gravely imperiled. Let no one forget that the Dark Ages followed centuries of high culture. What has happened may happen again.” I hope the bitter cup will not come tc the world again. But the news

from Spain, from Russia, from Italy,:

from Germany, from Japan, and from Britain, is not conducive of better sleep o’ nights. ” » ” LEGAL DEFENSE TALENT OF BEST, IS CLAIM By W. L. Day, Philadelphia With regard to the editorial “Capital Punishment in Indiana,” in a recent ‘issue of The Times, may I ask: Who is Darrow? What is Darrow? The best legal talent defends these men who are sentenced to die.... 8 » ” URGES SUPREME COURT VETO CHECK AS PROTECTION By L. L. Patton, Crawfordsville I would like to remind Mr. Charles Knight, Morgantown, that before 1803 there was no method of putting a “Constitutional” veto on a law except by referendum of the people, in the two manners provided by the Constitution. The argument advanced by Thomas Marshall and the Federalist businessmen for changing this situation, and establishing the

‘| precedent of the Supreme Court

passing on the constitutionality of laws was that the system of referendum was too slow—that the businessmen of 1803 could not tol-

erate the delay. If the principle of Constitutional referendum was too slow for the business of 1803, certainly it is much too slow for the business of today. Millions of dollars are represented in delay of decisions today, where only a handful of dollars was represented by such delays in 1803. For one to advocate the will of the people expressed in referendum as the only check on the power of the court veto is practically the same as advocating no check at all —as making the Supreme Court a sovereign dictator in interpreting the Constitution. The Constitution makes the people, not the Court, sovereign. The principle of Court veto is an admitted infringement upon this sovereignty, but we have come to regard it as a necessary infringement. If, today, many are proposing checks upon the Court veto, it is because they realize the principle of referendum has failed to function as a check. The argument they advance in favor of the check system is the same argument advanced to justify the Court veto—that it is the only manner of protecting the

sovereign will of the people in the

process of government.

Down on 'Alice in Wonderland’ as Unfit in Need of a Good Psychiatrist Himself.

filing the cherished idols of us all—assassins and mutilators of our dearest fancies. What this sort of sadism needs is a good psychiatrist, ~~ : The method is to assert, with a background of scholarly tosh, that the father of his country was a lecher, a miser and a drunk. This is startling, But, as Cal Coolidge once said: “I notice the Washingto: Monument is still there.” a

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HIS professor says that Alice’s complacency to . the Queen’s incontinent orders about everybody —“off with his head”—indicates that Lewis Carrol was a Borgia revelling in blood.. The answer to that is, that never in the two Alice books is anybody hurt— much less killed—except that the walrus and the carpenfer «did eat the oysters—and let him who is without sin cast the first stone. And, oh yes, the nonexistent jabberwock got impaled on a “vorpal blade.” . Alice’s adventures are a whimsical satire of delicious nonsense which, despite Mr. Heywood Broun, is a peculiar delight of childhood. Le Grand Guignol (Mr. Punch to us) is 10 times more deadly but—since

children are, happily, as sexless as the angels—as to all thesé figures of fancy, the nasty implica

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‘MONDAY, JAN.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun |

Stock Arguments Against Child Labor Amendment Are Taken Apart And Shown as Not Wholly Correct.

EW YORK, Jan. 11.—In the matter of the Child Labor Amendment I am all for states’ rights, but I mean the right of a state to enact progressive legislation without interference from its neighbors. Some of the states which now fight against conferring power upon Congress ought to know better. By an ironic coincidence there are two or three communities which would deny the power

.of the Government to regulate

child labor and yet were extremely avid to have the Federal men preserve aridity. Some persons who label themselves liberal assert that of course they are against child labor, but that a Federal amendment is the wrong course to pursue. These mottled muddlers would have us believe that young people can be taken out of industry by permitting the less progressive states to catch up in their own good time. But I wonder Whah is gsiaying them. Moreover, the wait-for- % baby theory breaks down upon the Mr. Brom hard and cruel fact that at the moment child labor is increasing. I quote, for instance, from a letter from John W, Wood appearing in the New York Herald Tribune; “a 2 2 se E will all agree wholeheartedly,” writes Mr,

¥ V¥ Wood, “that children should be protected in the

labor they may perform, but| the fact cannot be denied that children under 18 years of age are not harmfully employed where the boys under that age in a family take care of the furnace and the girls assist in household tasks, where these children deliver daily

papers and magazines, assist after school hours in

the light duties of their parents’ small store or shop, or where they help in the farm work.” That is a pretty long sentence by Mr. Wood, and it is filled with many false implications. But right away I want to say that it certainly can be denied that children are wisely engaged when employed to deliver magazines and newspapers. In fact, I think that one of the most vital factors in the fight for the Child Labor Amendment is the problem of the newsboy. In some cases his work may not be burden‘some. In other situations, particularly in the big cities, it is one of the worst kinds of exploitation of the young. at But whether for good or ill, the work of carrying and delivering should be put in the hands of adults, since the press of America has been one of the strongest factors in the fight against reform. To be sure, there are some splendid exceptions in the field of journalism, but at this present day Mr. Barnum of Syracuse, the president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, is forever leaping up to defend the rights of “the little merchants.” ” » ” It must be porne in mind that the Child Labor Amendment is not mandatory, like the Eighteenth, but merely an enabling act. People who assert that it would prevent a boy tending the furnace in ‘his own home are, of course, talking nonsense. One evinces a lack of faith in democracy when he begins to play with the assumption that popular representatives are going to go completely haywire. Mr, Wood pretends to worry that some Congress will make

a law to keep little Martha from helping her mother :

withthe dishes. In the first place, even the silliest Congress never goes cut and commits political suicide. ‘Even under the Constitution, the Government, if it went insane, could do any number of things to cause a national catastrophe.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Making Arms Embargo Apply Only to Spain Is Due to Threatened - Communist-Fascist Conflict in Mexico; Some U. S. Groups Back Fascists.

By Di1:w Pearson and Robert S. Allen, ASH] NGTON, Jan. 11.—The specific mention of ; Speail in the President's message to Congress covered up a strategic retreat of vital importance to U. S. neuti ality, At a pris conference on Dec. 29, President Roosevelt first 1:vealed that immediately upon the convening of (Jongress the Administration would move for the en: tment of a measure broadening the neutrality law o deal with instances of civil conflict. He emphasized that while the immediate object of the proposal weld be to halt the export of arms to Spain, its terms 1;ould be general and would not refer to any particiilar country. Exactly a week later, on Jan. 5, Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

‘informed 1:porters that on the following day he

would intrciiuce the Administration’s proposal to bar the shipme 't of war materials—to Spain. ~ “Becaus(: of certain conditions, and in order to avoid protricted debate and delay,” Senator Pittman explained, ‘'t has been decided tc limit the resolution ain.” et

solely to Si

HE Mexican Government, like the Spanish, is leftist. It has expropriated great estates and distributed the land to landless peasants, sequestered church property and exiled high Catholic dignitaries,” Violently opposed to the Government is a Fascist military group, which has been waiting for a chance to start a revolution. This conspiracy has received considerable financial support from American sources. The Mexican Government claims that one of the chief beneficiaries of these American funds is Nicholas Rodriguez, exiled chief of the Fascist “Golden Shirts.” The United States State and War Departments are in possession of confidential information that Rodriguez, and other anti-Government forces allied with him, were all set to laun®h their revolt-had Roosevelt been defeated or had the Presidency been thrown into the House, as Father Coughlin predicted it would be. : : The President’s overwhelming election blasted this scheme. : “ Although the Fascist revolt failed to materialize in November, the situation in Mexico is still extremé-

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