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GONE WITH THE WATERS HE Ohio and its tributaries, the little waters, are amuck again. Their muddy floods are tearing down to the Mississippi, destroying farms, homes, towns, lives and millions in wealth. The obvious losses are negligible compared with the damage done the topsoil of the watersheds, basic wealth carried off forever to the sea. Recently the Soil Conservation Service estimated that 400 million tons of soil material are washed down the Mississippi into the Gulf annually. What can the Government do to save this precious and irreplaceable wealth? First, it can do the obvious emer-

gency tasks as laid out in the Army engineers’ program

for this region. Their seven-year program calls for reservoirs in the valley’s upper regions. Last Congress “authorized” $30,000,000 for the first year’s work, but made no appropriation. The War Department budget contains the same item this year. More important over the long range is what Secretary Wallace And other conservationists want, reforestation of the watersheds. Trees and other soil covering are natural reservoirs. We are paying for our forbears’ crimes in slashing, burning and gutting the watersheds of these natural controls, the forests. Congress and the States affected should co-operate in the supplementary immediate and long-range controls—reservoirs and reforestation. For many decades Nature let us off with an occasional reminder, but in recent years floods have come with increasing frequency and increasing devastation. That is not because the rainfall has been greater. The same amount of rainfall a generation or so ago filtered through the protective sod, seeped into underground streams and followed its leisurely course down Nature’s channels to the sea. Today these rain waters hit and run, skimming the soil’s surface as they go. : It was only 10 months ago that the floods swept down

the Monongahela and Allegheny and converged on. helpless

Pittsburgh, paralyzing the industrial, commercial and. domestic life of that city, sweeping all before its turbulent rush down the Ohio Valley, destroying property worth hundreds of millions of dollars, drowning scores of human beings. At that time there were such high resolves in high places to do big things to prevent another such disaster. But this is all that has happened. since then: Congress passed a law; the surveyors went up into the hills with their instruments, and the experts wrangled over whether to build little reservoirs or large ones, or plant trees, and where. : | How long must we suffer this waste while jarring theorists debate?

‘A WELL-EARNED HONOR

O more appropriate selection could have been made than the appointment by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes of Col. Richard Lieber of Indianapolis to fill a vacancy on the Advisory Board of National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments. Col. Lieber has won distinction for his state and for himself by his conservation work. He is known as the father of the Indiana Conservation Department and the State parks system. As president of the National Conference on State Parks, he speaks for a large group of leaders in this field. Col. Lieber will be of valuable service to the Advisory Board in planning the preservation of the country’s historic resources. !

POSTGRADUATE DENTAL EDUCATION

OR 58 years dental education has been carried on continuously in Indianapolis in the institution which since 1925 has been the Indiana University School of Dentistry. Year after year Hoosier dentists come to Indianapolis, as they did a few days ago, for the University’s postgraduate training. This time they learned of a new local anesthetic to reduce pain. They saw demonstrations of other advances in dental science. The visitors inspected the new children's clinic at the dental school, equipped by the U. S. Public Health Service as a national center for studying children’s diseases. The new pathological and histological research laboratories were opened for the first time.

The contribution which the school has made to dentistry.

was recognized by President William Lowe Bryan of Indiana University when he told the dentists, “You have done your part in making America acknowledged leader of the world in dentistry.”

GOOD MUSIC NOT “HIGH BROW”

FEW hundred persons last night heard the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra here. It was grand entertainment—for those who could go. But every summer thousands of St. Louis residents enjoy the excellent music of this orchestra in a series of outdoor programs. Music is becoming a possession of all the public. The radio and other agencies have helped train America’s ear. The two park concerts by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra last Summer received tremendous response, Good music no longer is “high brow” entertainment for a select few.

Most cities the size of Indianapolis—and many smaller cities—now have organized, well-conducted musical programs, in public parks, auditoriums and other places. WPA projects have helped stimulate public music consciousness. It was estimated recently that more than 140 cities have WPA-sponsored symphony orchestras, and many of these cities are working to make them permanent parts of municipal recreation. | The trend toward municipal symphonies has been marked, but except for large cities with long-established symphony orchestras, few communities have better orchestras than Indianapolis. Renewed efforts should be made to bring this music to all the people.

The 20 states having standard driver’s license laws cut

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their auto death rate an average of 8 per cent from 1934

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

An Inquiry Among Bartenders and Waiters Discloses $50,000 Parties

Of the Rich Are Badly Overvalued.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—A little quiet inquiry among my waiter and bartender friends inclines me sadly to the belief that some of the recent debuts, New Year parties and similar frivolities of the idle rich

were priced by ambulance chasers. It is notorious that when a hustling attorney-at-law comes up with a client who has had $15 worth of skin scraped off his nose, the attorney always sets an

asking price of $50,000. My friends among the waiters and bartenders assure me that it is utterly impossible for a thousand guests to eat and drink even $25,000 worth in a night even though the night be stretched on past the coming of dawn.

It appears that the idle rich sare by no means careless about their buying when they decide to ring the welkin, which may be one of the reasons why they remain rich. ‘The provisions are acquired in the most businesslike manner, with discounts for quantity and cash and though the guests may give their happy spirits full play and do the split and skin the cat from the crystal chandeliers that does not indicate that the host has yielded, too. It appears that, on the contrary, the host will be keeping a cold, impersonal eye on the hired help to make sure that none of them send out full champagne bottles among the dead ones or that if he does not wish to check and tally himself he will hire a bookkeeper with a long, thin nose and a Vermont disposition to do this for him.

Mr. Pegler

2 ” ” > R, if the racket is being thrown in one of the big hotels to introduce some young lady to her old friends and to several hundred total strangers who are not necessarily worth knowing even at a dollar a head, the business arrangement will call for a flat price, per head, including breakage, music and flowers, which latter item gives some salvage when the florist backs up his truck next day to dismantle the charming bower. “They do not all drink champagne,” one of my waiter friends reports. “Lots of them drink whisky and if the host can get a Harvard or Yale or Princeton stag away to a fast start with Scotch or bourbon he is saving money right there because they can hold only so much. “Of course, they all probably will switch to wine after a while, but by the time the joy becomes unconfined you can start running in the cheap champagne covered with napkins. After an hour or so they do not know the difference between house paint and developing fluid.” : #9»

F°E another thing, my waiter and bartender friends tell me that the rare viands and exotic delicacies at such parties are pretty much a figure of speech. The rare viands and exotic delicacies consist mainly of chicken salad, liberally stretched with veal and celery. My friends estimate that you could get by for about 50 cents per head on the salad or a mere $300 for a thousand guests. The music, of course, does some expensive costing for our host, but not enough to justify the estimates which are lightly placed on certain festivities and the power effects are stretched out with storehouse scenery and backdrops and palms. My waiter and bartender friends tell me that you Just ought to see the genial host or hostess scraping up the chicken salad and peering under the tables and behind the doors for concealed champagne after the jolly guests have staggered away from a big debut.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—1 don’t advise anybody to waste time on this piece, It is one of those deadline desperations. What that means is that, because you have to write a piece every day and get it in by a certain hour and because you have neglected to prepare yourself and check your authorities, and all like that, you sit down and ad lib and stall and ballyhoo. My only excuse is that I had to go (1) to the inayguration and sit in the rain, (2) to the buffet luncheon at the White House immediately following, (3) to the parade, (4) to a post-parade White House tea. I figured that among all these I could in some way dodge into my office and write a piece I was stewing over about extending the power of the President on reciprocal trade agreements. I thought I knew something about it until, at lunch, I met the able and earnest Mr. Francis Sayre, the As‘sistant Secretary of State, who is excellently doing

versation, that I was all wet on my: conception of this subject. ; ” » » . N desperation I called “Deac” Parker, editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard, and he told me to write a human interest story about the day. Fine! That's the job of the best corps of reporters in the United _States—men who have spent a lifetinie leatn ) : to try to compe 1€

Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, | but wnll defend to.the death your right to say it--Voltaire.

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SEES PEACE OF THE WORLD IN JEOPARDY

By a Subscriber

A certain writer seems to fear choosing between democracy and fascism. He quotes Westbrook Pegler in an attempt to uphold a weak neutral stand. He should read Mr. Pegler’s article of Jan. 8 and he will see a change of Mr. Pegler’s viewpoint. There is no honest neutrality in- a fight between democracy and fascism, and it is futileto talk of peace when such men as Hitler, Mussolini and Gen. Franco run wild and rattle sabers under our noses. Collective security among the democratic nations and strict econoniic boycott against democracy’s enemies would soon put a stop to fascism. Any statement that the legal Spanish’ government is communistic is false or willfully misleading. The Spanish tangle is the result of Fascist invasion and an attempt to impose a dictatorship on people that chose democracy. The Baldwin government of England has failed so far to take a firin stand and co-operate with other democracies. It reminds me of the vorm that paid no heed to earthquakes or storms while on a long journey of a yard but stopped in tear of a quivering leaf in its path. I refer to the world upheaval of the Edward-Simpson affair. Mussolini states that democracy is ridiculous. Under fascism a dictator does the thinking and the people are just robots. Under a democracy one has a chance to advance his security and peace. Who is ridiculous, Mussolini, or are we?

#2 ANSWERS SULLIVAN CHARGES AGAINST WORKERS ALLIANCE

By Hartford Larison, State Organizer, Workers Alliance of Indiana In The Times of Jan. 13 Mark Sullivan ‘asks questions about the Workers Alliance of America and leaves them unanswered. Such questions must be answered in defense of our organization. Mr. Sullivan wonders who thought of the march to Washington. The march to Washington is in answer to many requests from local unions throughout the nation who realize that the cuts on WPA may be merely

WPA was only a subsistence wage

(Times readers are invited to | is not supporting the 13-month calexpress their views in these col- | endar. umns, religious controversies ex- | A new arrangement of the 12cluded. Make your letter short, | month calendar called “The World so all can have a chance. Letters | Calendar,” is being considered for must be signed, but names will be | adoption by the United States and withheld on request.) i by leading foreign nations. Calendar reform on the perpetual 12-month equal-quarter basis has 40 per since th titution of | Won support and approval in Engthe WPA and the oo by thesgriond, France, Germany, Holland, workers remaining about the same Belgium, Scandinavia, Greece, Turas they were in the beginning of | Key, Switzerland and elsewhere

the work, it is easy to see that the pegughont The world) fond... th present wage is inadequate. If the € Ureh of (tngland, the ‘American Episcopal Church and ‘other Christian denominations, un-

when prices were low, the same der the leadership of the Universal

wage paid at the present time must

be below subsistence standards. In!

Christian Council, are advocating that calendar reform be enacted in

.11939—to include a fixed date for | Easter. The Roman Catholic Church is favorable to the reform and labor {organizations supported the movement through a recent meeting at | Santiago, Chile, and under the world’ leadership of the Interna-

the Workers Alliance for a larger appropriation and a 20 per cent increase in wages must be justifiable ” ” ”

SUBSTITUTION OF LOUIS FOR

BRADDOCK ASKED | tional Labor Office at Geneva. By a Fight Fan | It would surprise no one in It seems to me that the best way Washington should President Rooseto settle this boycott of the Schmel- | Velt use his great power to carry ing-Braddock fight would be to re- | this reform through to-international tire Braddock and let Schmeling 'doPtion during the next few and Louis fight in June for the 'nonths. world championship. n i 2 2 = The real peeve of the Nazi-haters | BAN KED is that they know Jim Braddock AT FOR Nis doesn’t have a chance against | Schmeling and they cannot bear the By X. Y. Z., Crawfordsville idea of the belt going to Germany ‘It teaches disrespect for sacred under the. pretense that BraddoCk \ihings when brewers and distillers

i : ight Is toe bes: american heavyweigh ‘ore allowed to name their products

A Schmeling-Louis fight would be after religious denominations. There something different. The Nazi- should be no Quaker Beer, Methohaters might boycott this fight also, | dist Whisky or Baptist Rum. It is but just the same, they would turn | an insult to these noble institutions out in great numbers to see the to name alcoholic drinks after them. German knocked colder than & Our lawmakers should stop such refrigerated mackerel. || practices by preventing the sale of ? a =» | beverages bearing such names.

U. S. NOT BACKING i ! # zn 2 13-MONTH CALENDAR PROTESTS PRICE INCREASE

By Charles C. Sutter, Director of The IN COAL AND COKE World Calendar Association, Inc. Ney By J. W. Pierson

York | “« ”» During the latter part of Novem: | Fair nous i Pegler hes en ber a number of = newspaper: | lightened me in the article on Ger-

throughout the country printed ¢| many Jan. 12 in The Times. But

dispatch from Washington entitle¢ “New Calendar Urged by U., §& Cabinet Heads,” in which it was er. roneously stated that the Centra

‘what about the coal situation? Why lithe raise of 50 cents per ton when 'men are being told “No work,” at a

that job. He showed me, in about 10 minutes con- |

the prelude to the complete liquidation of the WPA and resultant hunger and misery throughout the nation. ‘ Mr. David Lasser became the

Statistical Board, a Federal agency | large manufacturing concern near backed up the 13-month calendai fully in its recent proceedings. did no such thing. The Governmen |

me? T1./! A select few big shots rub’ noses in some first-class hotel downtown, eat, drink and merrily call “Home,

president of the organization at the first national convention called to unite the unemployed and WPA organizations of the nation. The second national convention held in Washington, D. C., April 10-15, 1936, as Mr. Sullivan could easily have found out, unanimously elected David Lasser to again lead the organization until the convention of 1937. Mr. Lasser is inspired in his work by the desire to see the elevation of the present standard of living of workers raised to a much higher level compatible with the productive capacity of this country. This is his motive and objectives and we cannot ask for a higher one. With prices raised some 30 and

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General Hugh Johnson Says—

This Column May Be Too Enthusiastic About Franklin Roosevelt Sometimes, but First, Last and Always It's for Eleanor Roosevelt.

Well, is this human interest? ° I.met Uncle Danny Roper whom I have been panning like a drum, and he treated me with all his old fatherly solicitude, which made me feel like 30 cents—Mex.

I talked to Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's

mother, who looks and talks and has a wise philosophy so much like my own mother that I always feel when I see her that I can say whatever I want to say and might get taken over her knee if it was neither godly nor proper and, above all, Christian. » ” ” 2 ! SPOKE to Mrs. Roosevelt who told me that she al« ways read my column and to whom I said I alweysffea hers, and she replied that it could hardly be helped because we usually appear on opposite sides of the same page. In my humble judgment she—of all the Roosevelts —is Teddy reincarnate and that means a lot to me, because what I think of Teddy is this: Every fault he had was a characteristic American fault and the whole of his virtues were American virtues. As a columnist, I may be a little too enthusiastically for Franklin from time to time, especially when he is on the spot, but I make no apologies at all for saying that this column is first; last and plw

OLD MAN WINTER

“By ROBERT O. LEVELL Winter, I don’t care for you, Somehow you make me blue; | With your slush:-and rain and snow, I'm glad when you have to go.

DAILY THOUGHT

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.—Eccle- |

Duty is the grandest of ideas, be: | to get lower rates. cause it implies the idea of God, ¢ || think of how much work and money the soul, of liberty, of responsibility | were spent in this investment to of immortality. —Lacordaire.

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

/{ James.” Then, up goes the price i of coal. I Information about the reduced {liprice of gas. Look out! What price If will the by-products be? “Coke, Get Away From My Door,” will be || my new theme song. ...” = ” ”n DEFENDS LIGHT COMPANY | RATE SCHEDULE | By I. J. L. I think it is ridiculous the way | some of the general public berate \ll the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. They do not

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

~ Wins Bet on Long Shot With Help Of Crystal Gazer but Has Hard Time Collecting in Tony Clubhouse.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—Cable dispatches from Honolulu announce that Mrs, James R. Cromwell, who was born Doris Duke, is about to forswear society and go in for good works. Just what form her phil-

anthropy will take the newspapers have not announced. But it is evident that Mrs. Cromwell pure poses to give up the swallow and follow the squalor instead. Whether her activities prove to be of great

benefit to the community I cane not say, but she herself may make "a partial escape from a life of boredom. At least, that is my no- - tion. I went to the opening of Hialeah Park when I was in Florida, and all the headlines said the crowd was very doggy. I am sure that Mr. Joseph Widener wanted to cater to the better classes. I got ° into the clubhouse on a newse paper pass, and it was my misfor= tune to win a $2 bet on the first race. When I searched for the windows of redemption they wera not to be found. Indeed, every« body looked at me askance, and finaily a uniformed attendant whispered in my ear that the $2 cashiers could be found down in the cellar of the building. Before attempting the arduous journey I sat down and wrote a little letter of apology to Mr. Widener, I felt that he deserved an explanation. And, as a matter of fact, the humble transaction in which I engaged was wholly an accident. In the lobby of the hotel, on the previous afternoon, I ran into a crystal gazer. It takes all sorts of people to make a Miami. “How are you, Heywood?” said Prince Hassam, “And how is Quent Reynolds?” It seems that the Prince used to be a reporter on the City News. Of course, he isn’t really a Prince. His name is Pete. “You may not believe in this,” said Pete, “but I'm really pretty good. Try me out. Ask me a question.” “How are you?” I inquired.

un ” ” ITHOUT bothering to look into the ball he ree plied, “I'm very well, but you don’t look so hot yourself. I thought you were down here for your health, and you have the circles under your eyes. I imagine that maybe you were over to the opening of the Royal Palm Club last night. He still insisted that I ask a question. “Can I ask something frivolous—something that I really don’t care anything about?” I inquired. “Sure,” said Prince Hassam, and he handed me a paper and a pencil. I wrote, “Who will win the first race at Hialeah tomorrow.” He took the paper from my hand. After that Pete went into a slight trance and fixed his eyes on the glass ball. In a strange voice which he never used when he was on the City News he muttered, “I seem to see a great deal of motion. It is some kind of cone test. I see the letter ‘H.”’ Could it be Hialeah Park?” ” ” » NODDED, and Pete proceeded to go into a much deeper trance. Twice he tapped his forehead, and then he said in deep chest tones, “it will be the horse least expected.” : “You mean the longest shot in the race?” I asked, Prince Hassam merely repeated. “It will be the horse least expected.” Sis At Hialeah the next afternoon I looked at the board which shows the odds, and three horses were quoted at 30 to 1. Which was the least expected? That was my problem. But I'm a bit of a psychic myself, and so I bought one $2 ticket on each. Septims won and paid $62. And that is why I had to disgrace Mr. Widener’s swagger crowd in running around and shouting in a loud and vulgar voice, “Where are the $2 windows?” 1 -

Mr. Broun

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Britain, Awed by Realization Another War May Be Just Around Corner, Is Staging Drive to Create Pro-English Sentiment in U. §S,

ii lly Drew Pearson ONDON, Jali. 22.—Rearmarment is not the only important war preparation undertaken by the British. Very ietly, they are mobilizing the greatest drive for Ha iiils-Across-the-Sea sentiment in history. i! After ignorinj: it for 19 years, the British suddenly have discovered ‘he importance of American friendship. It is n¢i uppermost in the press, in the speeches of stat tmen, the attitude of diplomats. A series of lun-heiltis are being arranged at the House of Commons wl fire visiting Americans can listen to peans of prais¢ for their country. Where Ameri‘iins were mud before, they are now treated with de rence, even with respect.

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EASON for lhis sudden kowtowing, of course, is ‘rie realization that another war is just around the corner. The United tes is the only country in the world where money an: large-scale war materials are available. So Britai! is out to break down the present American prejuilice against throwing good money after bad in Euibpe.* : It will be a /Zugh job, but the British can be as

Thinking Englishmen actually are beginning to wonder whether the greatest error of their post-war

diplomacy was failure to continue war debt payments

to the United States. ” » ” . A DELEGATION of Britishers scheduled to visit the United States to strengthen “the common ‘bond between the English-speaking peoples,” first called upon U. 8. Ambassador Robert Bingham to ask. his advice, . Fs “If you go over to lecture the American people,” he said, “you might as well stay at home. We are tired of being lectured to. But if you go to learn about, the United States and the American people, the trip should be a great success.” To others who requested Ambassador Bingham’s advice regarding the improvement of Anglo-American relations, he replied: : “Instead of spreading propaganda in the United States, learn something abou‘ the United: States. In our high schools no student can graduate without a course in English history and English literature, But your schools teach nothing of American history or American literature.” . oy The British are a bit worried by the fact that al though hundreds of prominent Americans go through London every year—including Senators, Cabinet mem-