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SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1937

THE HOUSING JOB AHEAD TYTo the lap of the Indiana General Assembly and most of the 41 other Legislatures which convene this month, the Federal Government apparently intends to drop the difficult housing problem. Edward H. Foley Jr. of the Public Works Administration told the National Association of Housing Officials at Philadelphia recently that PWA was preparing to turn over its low-rent housing projects to state and local authorities. Indianapolis is totally unprepared to take over the big Lockefield Gardens project. Indiana is one of 13 states whose Legislatures failed or refused to enact housing legislation during 1935 and 1936. As a result, the city is left without even the rudiments of necessary enabling laws. State and local authorities cannot say the proposed PWA move comes as a surprise. Administrator Ickes in 1933 said he hoped housing projects would be launched ‘through local initiative “by a body of citizens who realize that action must eventually be guided by state, county or municipal authority.” The PWA developments, he said, should be undertaken only in cities where it was likely that local authorities would later take them over. Ickes in 1934 asked all Governors to recommend legislation permitting their cities to establish housing authorities. Only 21 states—not including Indiana—have enacted housing authority laws. Twelve of these limit authorities to certain cities, and most of the other nine with more com- .. prehensive acts will have to amend their laws to permit full = participation in a national housing program. ; The least the new Legislature can do is to enact the needed enabling legislation. If public housing is to be localized, much work remains to be done. :

THE FEW INJURE THE MANY MEREDITH NICHOLSON, U. S. Minister to Venezuela, : home for a visit, called upon the Indianapolis Bar Association the other day for a cleanup in its own ranks. : “There is a condition in Indianapolis respecting the +. unethical and dishonest practices of some lawyers that calls ~ for immediate and serious consideration,” he said. “We have lawyers, and not just a few, who every day - are taking money from people who can ill afford to pay, with the knowledge that they do not intend to render any service. : “We have lawyers who day by day are collecting money for clients and failing to account therefor, amounting, of course, to plain embezzlement. We have lawyers who are, in other ways, violating not only the law, but every ethical principle of the practice of law and we smugly sit by and allow it to continue. These things must be stopped and it behooves the Indianapolis Bar Association, the Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis, the State Bar Association and each individual attorney to bend every effort toward the immediate stopping of this practice.” . The bar has done much recently to raise standards by getting stricter requirements for those entering the profession. It can do still more by following Mr. Nicholson's suggestion. .

QUIXOTIC NIPPON APAN is said to be concerned over American naval plans. Reports that the two new United States battleships soon to be laid down may mount 16-inch guns are said to have startled Japanese naval authorities. It means, some of them are inclined to think, that America may be planning “to adopt cross-ocean tactics, using capital ships and monster guns.” ; Japan seems to have forgotten that she, not the United States, called this particular tune. It was Japan who balked. It was she who scrapped the naval limitation treaties in order to gain a free hand to build a navy “suited to her special needs.” Japan having declared herself out, Britain, America and France last year nevertheless proceeded to hold a conference of their own at London. : They proposed to build only as other nations might force them to build in order to maintain their relative strength. Yesterday Italy fell in line. Only Japan continues to hold out. Why? Can it mean that she herself contemplates heavier guns? Z She cannot reasonably expdct to have her apple and eat it too.

THE TRUCE AT LANSING FT HE armistice which Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan has achieved in the General Motors strike means nothing more than that for 15 days the two sides will cease fighting and sit around the same table to discuss their differences. : Yet that is a great gain for the workers who are losing wages, for the company which is losing profits, and for the public which has been taking it on the chin. Credit goes to the Governor, whose patience, persistence and persuasiveness effected the truce. Credit goes also to the union leaders and the G. M. C. managers who, to break the deadlock, made concessions which a few days ago they were swearing they never would make. When the bargainers meet Monday to begin their : peaceable negotiations they will still be, figuratively speak- ~ ing, miles apart. Both sides will have to do much more yielding before there can be a meeting of minds that will . permit a resumption of operations. And until that industry resumes, our economic recovery will be seriously retarded.

. IN 36 WORDS ILLIONS of words have been spoken and written in explanation of President Roosevelt’s tremendous majority last November. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, speaking the other day before the National Women’s Democratic Club in Washington, put into 36 words the rea- " son for the Presi 'S new mandate to carry on: “The Republicans gave the big interests what they wanted and the people what the Republicans thought they needed. The Democrats are giving the people what they want and the big interests what we now they need.” Pos : : 3 ha |

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Would It Do Any Good for Writers, Like Many Prizefighters, to Call Themselves by Famous Names?

EW YORK, Jan. 16.—One of the hardships of writing as a career is that the new writer, unlike the new prizefighter, always feels bound to start with an unknown name, usually his own, although a few invent pen names which nevertheless are new and possess no prestige at the beginning. Pugilists have neither excessive modesty nor ethical compunction in this matter. On the contrary, they have magnifi-

cent self-esteem and do not doubt that they do honor to the proud names which they adopt. It must be said, too, that this confidence often has been justified by practical performance. This leads me to believe that they may also have been inspired by the glory of the originals and to wonder whether a new poet toiling under the name of Smith might do better as Young Homer. Jim Corbett, the original, was followed by a total stranger, a featherweight, calling himself Young Corbett, while Jim was still current, and engaged in elevating a corner of the drama. Young Corbett, be it admitted, brought no professional discredit to the proud name of Corbett, for he knocked out Terry McGovern, a feat comparable, pound for pound, with “Gentleman Jim's” dispatch of John L. Sullivan. On the social side of things Young Corbett was less faithful to his model, and it may be that Jim sometimes permitted himself a secret wish that his hamesake had used his own name in private life. Young Corbett, in turn, was succeeded by a welterweight within the last few years who solved an awkward problem rather neatly hy calling himself not Young Corbett but Young Corbett II. I believe he,

too, won the championship of his class, adding luster to the name.

Mr. Pegler

2 » ” JocE ‘DEMPSEY, “The Old Nonpareil,” a middle= weight, who sleeps in a lonely grave out West, lost nothing by the fact that William Harrison Dempsey called himself Jack. First, however, Barney Dempsey, a brother of William Harrison, undertook to emulate the greatness of The Nonpareil and, finding himself unworthy, retired in favor of the man who is now one of the leading citizens of the United States. There have been two Sharkeys since Tom, both calling themselves Jack however, which may have been a touch of modesty on their part, indicating that they hoped to resemble but did not expect to equal him. The first Jack Sharkey, an Italian bantamweight, barely failed to win the championship and, from the standpoint of professional merit, was much more worthy than the next one, who did win the heavyweight title. The bantamweight Jack Sharkey fought with great abandon, made $300,000, disposed of it with equal abandon and had vanished by the time Joseof Paul Cuckoschav, the heavyweight, of Lithuanian descent, adopted the surname of the Irish sailor. ” ”n un

WE had a middleweight once who called himself Italian Joe Gans but this seems to have been an unfortunate selection on his part for he was not the type in any sense. I do not know whether young writers would be inspired by great names but in the gymnasiums where young fighters train, there are always new Dempseys and Leonards and I wonder if any students in the classroom ever sign their essays boldly “By Irish Anatole France,” or “By Young Katharine Brush.”

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, butt will defend to the death your right to say fo Vigiutre,

FRANK PLAYED POLITICS, READER CHARGES By a Reader When a man tries to follow the middle of the road, as the La Folette boys have tried to do, he receives no mercy from either the Democratic or Republican press. Perhaps that is why the public is so poorly informed on the Frank case at the University of Wisconsin. It seems to me that the public should be reminded ‘that President Frank got his job at the university by playing politics. He started as a progressive and lost his job as a reactionary. His whole record is that of a political opportunist. He played politics with his students and the politicians, He took an active part in political campaigns and he, no one else, is responsible for making his a political job. We have come to have many of these ‘“‘carpetbag” college presidents who assume the dignity of authority on some controversial subject and travel over the country on the payroll of a political party, spreading propaganda. The fate of ex-Presi-dent Frank may well be a warning against this type of prostitution: of the dignity of college presidents. In addition, it must be added that teachers and educators throughout the country will side with the La Follettes, not Frank, on the program of education to be adopted at the University -of Wisconsin. The only politics injected into the issue were injected by Frank.

# a =» LAUDS TRUCK DRIVERS FOR SAFETY RECORD

By Ryan B, Hall, Safety Director, Indiana Motor Traffic Association : In a recent Forum column a letter appeared under the signature 6of FH. S. condemning oversize trucks direct menaces to highway safety. May I call to the attention of the author of this letter a few pertinent facts. None of these represent personal opinions, but come from authentic sources backed by columns of accurate figures, regulations and testimony. In the first place, there are no oversize trucks in Indiana. Certain rules have been established by the Indiana State Highway Commission which limit the overall length, width, height and weight of any combination of vehicles. These are deemed adequate by Commission officials to protect roads and the motoring public. : Second, H. S. laments the fact that truck operators are not compelled to carry insurance. In this he is in ‘error. The Public Service Commission of Indiana requires that every truck operator must carry adequate property ‘damage and public liability insurance before he may be granted a certificate or can operate over Hoosier highways. The Interstate Commerce Commission and all State commis-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

National Labor Relations Board Is Conspicuous by Its Absence in G. M. Strike; Controversy on Proper Bargaining Unit May Be Reason.

EW YORK, Jan. 16.—One astonishing aspect of the General Motors strike is that the machinery set up by the Government to prevent such shattering economic war isn’t working. The Department of Labor has sent in conciliators but, ‘except for the Assistant Secretary of Labor, the conciliators don’t concillate very effectively. In any case they haven’t conciliated at all in this one,

This piece isn’t referring to them all. Our nationally organized department for handling these matters is the National Labor Relations Board. It is con= spicuous by its absence and its silence in the greatest and most threatening of the very sort of situations

which it was designed to compose and prevent. Why? ” ” ” == are three angles to such an imbroglio;

management, labor and government—in this case the Labor Relations Board. The principal labor de-

-mand was that the company recognize the GC. I. O.

union as an exclusive agency for collective bargain-~ ing oe Ypion was entitled to that only if a ity ol employees were its members. The statuto way to find out about that was for the Labor tory to determine the Question, which it may do in’ any way it chooses—either by h$lding an election or. by

lon membership records with the

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sions have ‘issued similar requirements. Third, criticism is given of companies that force their drivers to work 24 or more consecutive hours.

No trucking company of good repute allows its men to be on the job more than 16 hours without having 12 hours of unbroken rest before returning to duty. The Interstate Commerce Cemmission is now conducting hearings throughout the United States from which will result definite rules as to how long a driver may remain on his truck. The industry welcomes this type of regulation. Fourth, I am certain that H. S. has overlooked the fact that some 2000. truck drivers enrolled in the Indiana Motor Traffic Asscciation safety campaign last year established a world’s record of 70 million accidentless miles of driving. Indiana truck drivers for two consecutive years have been declared the safest in the Union by American Trucking Associations. Yet, the State of Indiana has one of the five worst accident records in the country. ‘Indiana during 1936 showed a 10.2 per cent increase in accident

[fatalities over 1935, but accidents in

which trucks were involved have been steadily decreasing. These indisputable facts prove conclusively that the trucking industry of Indiana is doing its utmost to enforce and promote highway safety. However, it is not a task for any one man or industry. All highway users must co-operate to secure safer and saner motoring during 1937. Truck operators, driv-

TRUSTFULLY

By MARY WARD I would I were a shepherdess, So I could tend the sheep, And I would show my faithfulness To all within my keep.

At night I would bring to the vale The gentle little friends, And watch and pray till skies grew : pale, : As when the sun ascends.

And when the sun was fairly high, Then onward we would press So trustfully the sheep and I, Were I a shepherdess. :

DAILY THOUGHT

But behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.—St. Luke 22:21.

HERE is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that

trusted to his truth.—Byron.

| eri and this association need and welcome the co-operation of everyong in helping wipe out Indiana's bloody record. } 2 n F DEFENDS BUS DRIVERS | By Mrs. N. M. W. In answer to E. R. E. I¥ it were possible for you to know what these bus operators go through, I don’t think you would be so quick to give them a slam. It's very few fatal accidents you hear of them haging. . . . It's possible that the reason the officer didn’t make an arrest was that the driver didn't run a red light. If you had to drive by the strict rules. they. have to obey, I doiibt that you would even be on the road today to run a light. ... I know some very good drivers, but] they have all been caught at ond time or another by police. I belieye in traffic safety as much as anione, but I believe in giving credit where credit is due.

| ” on ” YOUTH COUNCIL OUTLINES PEACE POLICY

By Paul Boughton, Co-Chairman, Indianapolis Youth Peace Council We, the young people of Indianapolis, are the potential victims of fuilire conflicts and who are therefore vitally interested’in participa= tion for peace, hereby declare our puinose to be: 10 bring together the young people| in united effort and open discussion for the mutual interest of local and universal tranquillity. It has been made apparent that peiice is not merely an absence cf visible conflict; therefore, our council shall strive not only for the abglition of actual war, but to establish a peaceful-thinking spirit in the souls of the young people, the future leaders of the earth. We herewith dedicate our supreme endeavor to the building of a warles world through the education of citizens to believe in peace, want peice and will whole-heartedly strive for peace. ... “he council, together with similar organizations throughout the nation, hopes to establish a peacethinking people who will far outnuinber the militarists of the wo ja. 2 ie

| 2 2 2 ASKS DEATH PENALTY IN BEIGHT SLAYING By a Citizen

Al a law-abiding citizen of InSigfia porn I trust that the streets and highways will be made safe froin madmen, morons and killers, sucli as the man or men who killed Witliam H. Bright, a good citizen, in gold blood. The full penalty of the law should be given the killer or killgrs and any accessory to the act. For such men capital punishment is # light penalty. May our law do its fluty.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Dr. Glenn Frank Won at Least Moral Victory at Wisconsin, for Student Body Supported Him,

EW YORK, Jan. 16.—There are heavier men in the educational field than Dr, Glenn Frank. He is a person of great charm who took to the University of Wisconsin no deep quality eof scholarship, But the executive of a modern American university .need not be a savant. Certainly one of the chief functions of any college head is to stimulate the imagination and capture the loyalty of the student body. In this

respect Glenn Frank seems to have succeeded admirably.

It has been said that Dr. Frank nurses political ambitions, but Woodrow Wilson was an excellent president of Princeton before he went to the White House. I am not suggesting that the ousted head of Wisconsin is a man of comparable caliber.

But when the authorities at Maglison offered the post to the young magazine editor his personality was pretty well known to a fair-sized section of the public, Dr. Frank has been no better and no worse' as president of Wisconsin than might be expected. ~~ One or two have told me that Dr. Frank is being used by reactionary forces as a club to. discredit the liberal La Follettes. That’s as may be. ®*Personally, I always have had difficulty in making out just which side of a public question Glenn Frank was espousing, because he deals in rather long and gaudy sentences which do not mean a great deal when they are added up.

Perhaps I am a little unfair to him, because on one occasion I remember that he spoke clearly and courageously on an important situation in education, He went to Atlantic City a day or so after Dr. Charles Beard had assailed William Randolph Hearst because of his attacks on liberal teachers. I sicked a reporter friend of mine on Glenn. The reporter said, “Dr. Frank, what did you think of the speech Charles Beard made about Hearst?” Without batting an eye Glenn smiled and said, “I thought it was fine. I wish I had said it myself.”

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HAT took stamina, for Dr. Frank might have said that he hadn’t read the speech or that it was a subject with which he was not perfectly familiar or any one of a dozen evasive things. Instead he stuck his neck out. I have a feeling that he would not have been ousted from his present post if he had consented to trim and compromise. - However, the question of whether Dr. Frank is a big man or a little man does not really enter into the problem at Madison. I am not even concerned with the respective economic and political views of Dr. Frank and Governor La Follette. I know that the La Follette family is liberal. Its liberality is an heirloom, like an old-fashioned key-winding gold watch,

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EGARDLESS of Phil La Follette’s reputation as a sun-lamp red, his behavior in the Frank case has been a great deal less than decently democratic, Of course, Wisconsin is not the only. offender, but a so-called progressive State ought to be a pioneer in establishing ' the principle of student representation, When a college president is to be chosen, the selection should not be left wholly to any board of regents or. little knot of trustees. The student body ought to be heard, and also the faculty. Even if I were completely convinced that Phil La Follette is carrying the torch of liberalism, I would still indict him for gross stupidity.

Mr. Broun

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

N ore Widows of Ex-Presidents Living Now Than Ever Before; All Six [avited to Inauguration but Only Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Wilson Accepted.

did not ask it and the Labor Board did not move in

under its own steam—which it could have done by |

any one of several devices. Why? The probability is that the union didn’t because it has no majority but only hopes to get one through the pressure of the strike. The company didn’t do it because it probably was advised by counsel that the Wagner Labor Act is unconstitutional and that judging by the experience of others, the Labor Board is far from impartial—having, for example, certified fewer than 30 per cent of the employees of one great company as a “majority.” ! ” 2 ” HE Labor Board didn’t horn in probably because the first question it would be its unavoidable duty to determine is, “What is the appropriate bargaining unit—the separate plants, the whole industry or crafts within the industry?” : But this is the very question over which John Lewis and his C. I. O. split with William Green and his A. F. of L. The whole craft-vs.-vertical-union question would be dumped red-hot and sizzling

squarely on the knees of the Government, as repre-

sented by the Labor Board—which isn’t provided with any asbestos aprons just now, and which decidedly and

distinctly didn’t want any part of this threatened hot

lap—even as a counter-irritant to the hot

By Drew Pearsen and Robert S. Allen

ASHINGTON, Jin. 16—When the Inaugural Committee invited the widows of six deceased Presidents of the United States to the Roosevelt ceremonies next Wednesdey, it did something unique in American politics. il. This is the first time there have been so many extant relicts of Americay Presidents. In previous years there have been five lijiing at one time, but never six until now. They are: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs, Grover Cleveland Preston, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William Howard Watt, Mrs, Woodrow Wilson and Mrs, Calvin Coolidge. | Only two of the ks, Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Wilson, who reside part of a year in Washington, will be present at the inaugutition. The others, because of advanced age and, postibly, poltical feelings, will not n i average age of the Presidential widows is 70 years. Only one, Mrs. Goolidge, is under-60. She is 57.

RS. BENJAMIN

£11 ” ” ARRISON spent two years in the White House\| but not as the First Lady. She was the niece of Mrs, Flarrison, and herself a widow, Mary Scott Lord Dimiick. .She went to the White

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and a wife. President Cleveland died in 1908, eleven years after tHey had left the White House. Five years later Mrs. Preston married a Princeton professor of archaeology, Thomas Jax Preston, who fs still living, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt outdoes Mrs. Harrison in her opposition to the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Last summer, though still lame with a fractured hip, she warmly received Governor Landon at her Oyster Bay estate, and issued a statement vigorously dee nouncing “the President and those such as Messrs, Tugwell and Frankfurter who with him have shaped the New Deal policies.” . ; Born in 1861, she became Theodore Roosevelt's sece ond wife. She is the step-mother of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the mother of Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archie and the late Quentin.

2” ” ” i RS. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, on the other hand, thought she might like ‘to see the parade. It would cost her little effort to attend, for she lives in the old Taft ‘home at 2215 Wyoming ‘Ave, Washington, 3 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson lives in comparative seclusion. Her home on S St. was built by Wilson when he retired from the White House. 3 For Mrs. Calvin Coolidge retirement from the White Hous meant the end of playing a part, In ‘home 1’ Northampton, Mass., Mrs. dge now

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