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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1937

DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK

EATH is commonplace. Even mass disasters are head-

lines for only a day or t) But now and then there and poignancy that they live Such was the sinking of “steamer afloat went down wi Such another was the

outside the harbor of Sydney,

Wo. pccur tragedies of such drama on in the memories of men. he Titanic, when the greatest

ith! 1500 helpless humans.

reck of the Duncan Dunbar, sailing ship, with its cargo

of wives, daughters and brides; to-be returning from England, all dressed in their finery ready to debark into the

arms of loved ones. Of thai “The tale is told to every and it will continue to be tol tions; | the heartbreak that is in it And so Mark Twain mig} of the Hindenburg—a perilou

the buffeting of wind and thi n

land of the home port before,

ONE CITY’S TRAFFIC yAYONNE, N. J., eliminate

but it will never gro

[, Mark Twain wrote: str anger that passes the spot,

sld, custom cannot stale it, cannot perish out of it.” nt have written of the tragedy s and nerve-wracking voyage; understorms behind, the solid and then flames, smoke, ashes.

REMEDY d its traffic lights in January,

1936, dnd for the first quarter of 1937 had no traffic

deaths, the National Safety Indianapolis’ death toll

Council reports. of pedestrians has increased

about one-third during 1937 land driver and passenger

. fatalities about one-fourth in for safety. The Bayonne police chief the elimination of lights. dianapolis trattic police oo)

state highways run throu

h Indianapolis,

the face of intensified efforts

altrititos his city’s record to

Capt. Lewis Johnson of the .In-

that because 16 national and traffic lights

are essential if cross traffic is to move. Surveys here show, however, Capt. Johnson says, that

when lights are installed, increase. He thinks a par tial be the replacing of some red main arteries and stop Jayonne is a city

ccidents at that intersection $ lution of the problem would lights with flasher signals on

's on side streets.

arni ox 91,000 with a police force of 178,

which works out at aby ut one policeman for every 500

citizens, Indianapolis with a lation of 371,000 has on

police force of 511 and a popu-

officer for about every 700.

Perhaps. what Indi: anapolis needs is fewer lights and

‘more PhAaper.

Ww E N OMINATE

OR America’s i Fanje, Fred Pennington and Ben

Fulcher, courage has saved their sta of another lynching.

two obscure Geprgia farmers

whose quiet Y and nation from the stain

Near Midville, in casterh Georgia, a mob of whites.

had gathered to seize and ly

suspected of attacking a white woman.

nch a young Negro farmhand |

The two farmers

took the fugitive Negro in their car and drove over back roads around Burke County until they could turn him over to the Sheriff, who, in turn, escorted him to Savannah.

“A bright spot in the |

Eleazer of the Interracial opr ans in Atlanta,

more and more are being pr

ynching situation,” Said R. B. “is that evented by intelligent’ citizens

like these two and by conscientious officers of the law.” Another bright spot is the strong feeling in Congress

that only a Federal antilynching law will suffice! to stamp | itrouble is there are too few

out such lawlessness.: The

Penningtons and Fulchers around when they are needed.

THE PRICE OF SPEED

MERICANS who find viy

tue in dashing through life dat

the speed of a streamlined bolt of lightning should

pause| and ‘consider a table public by the Census Bureau.

of vital statistics just made This reveals that our national

No. 1] killer is heart disease and that its ravages are in-

creasing year by year.

in a 286,360 Americans died of heart disease; in | ; in 1935, 312,333. Trailing far behind was “cancer = killed 144,065 in 1935. once a mighty

. 3,12

193%,

“only | tuberculosis, steadily.

Of the 10 great killers scourge, is declining

What do these statistics reveal but the human body's

rebellion against the tempo

of our times? The average

urbanite of professional class is keyed up from the time he dashes from his hastily consumed breakfast to the time he sinks exhausted into a chair for the cocktail hour. Life

+ has become for him a farrago brakes, quick lunches and litt

of jangling phones, screeching le irritants, W hat mechanized

industry means to the heart and nerves; of the modern factory worker is told in another set of statistics showing how many are cast on the scrap-heap in middle age.

| Now that we're growin

g up, why can’t we abandon

the juvenile ideals of the jazz age and slow life down a bit?

KEEPING THE PURPOSE CLEAR

ONGRESS seems to be dangerous provisions of

waking up gradually to the the original “war profits” bills.

| The Senate Military Affairs Committee has deleted

fr om its measure

emergelcy powers over industry which

the President might have exercised in advance of war. The House Military Affairs Committee has taken all draft provisions out of its bill, eliminating labor's fear that

it, too, might be conscripted and its ‘wages fixed.

It has

i to all that come, for genera- |

'guaranteed freedom of the press in war as well as in peace. It nas turned thumbs down on the pernicious wartime tax originally proposed which would have let industry keep ‘all its peacetime profits and 5 per cent additional without ‘paying a war tax. If the two bills are revised in the Senate Finance Committee—as seems probable—to provide drastic income and | corporation taxes in event of war, they may eventually ‘accomplish the purpose professed by their sponsors, to | take away from industry the hope of profit from war. | Unless this is accomplished, it would be better to have : no i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES A Watched Pot That May Boil Over—sy Herblock

2 FRIDAY, MAY: 7 0 All Quiet Along the Potomac By Talburt

Fair Enoug hl

By Westbrook eh

Burlesque Devotees Should Not Take On Too Hard, for 20 Years Ago We Had Blue Laws That Were Blue Laws

NEW YORK, May 7.—The suppression of dirty burlesque may strike some of our citizens as more oppression by the same blue-nosed witch-burners who inflicted prohibition on the land, but a quick canvass will

show that the country is much more tolerant today than it was 20 years ago. Prize fighting was then forbidden in many states which now permit the slashing tigers to attack one

another with furious lefts and rights to the face and body. Horse racing was narrowed down to New York, Maryland, Kentucky and New Orleans, and recently had been forbidden in New York. Sunday baseball was illegal in New York, and dog racing with the mechanical bunny luring the feeble-minded heund, was not yet known. Nowaday both the dogs and slots operate openly in many localities, either with or without the sanction of the law. In places where they violate the law they 1 pay graft. I The strict morals of the nation began to relax shortly after the war.” It may be hard to realize it now but’ in 1919° New York was a very strait-laced city.. Racing was just barely permitted, and was looked upon as a snrail sin, but betting was illegal and, therefore, more or less clandestine. The ball clubs drew their schedules so as to avcid Sundays

Mr. Pegler

‘in New York, and prize fighting was officially immoral.

Then Jimmy Walker put through a Sunday basehall law and followed this with his prize fight law, two feats. of liberal legislation which later made him Mayor. At that time fighting was legal in the twin cities. of Minnesota and in Milwaukee, but Chicago was not to have fights or racing for several years. ” un 2

FP HERE were some small fights in Texas, but all persons implicated in these productions took a

i chance of going to jail for violation of a law adopted

by a special session of the Legislature in 1898.

The Texans were intensely moral in some respects in the wild and woolly days of ’98, and when it was proposed to present the Corbett-Fitzsimmons hout there the Legislature was summoned for the sole purpose of passing a law against this disgraceful spectacle. So the show was finally moved up into Nevada, whose state motto always has been “anything goes.” Nevada is remarkably honest abolt such matters. Up to a few years ago Virginia's antiprize fight law was so strict that even the spectators could be sent to prison, and the possession of a set of gloves could be interpreted as evidence of intent to commit a grievous offense against the peace and dignity of the State. 8 ”® 8

Ife years ago it was beyond imagination that Ohic would permit racing with open betting, and these sinful devices seemed to have been cast out of the New England states forever. Since then, however, New Hampshire, of all states, has felt a stir of sporting blood, and has legalized racing with mutuels, and there are tracks in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well. Massachusetts even has®dog races and good old Maine, which repealed prohibition after many years, gambles in pools on the trotters. A backward glance thus reveals that restrictions existed 20 or 25 years ago which would be considered intolerable now.

- because “maverick”

The Hoosier Forum

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

MULE’S A COLT EVEN WHEN IT’S A MULE By Everett Stoneburner

The pictures on Page 5 of The Times April 15 show a young mule and its mother, but it was described as a colt. I've seen several colts and mules raised on my father's farm, but never heard of a young mule being called a colt. I left the farm 10 years ago and at that time a mule and a colt were two distinctly different animals. I think I know my mules.

Editor's Note—The animal pic-: tured was a mule, but the State Veterinarian says it is just as regular to call young mules “colts” as to use that term for young horses. ” ” ”

SUPPORTS RENAMING OF HORS D’OEUVRES

By a Reader

Congressman Maury Maverick started something when he suggested recently that hors doeuvres —those oddments of the dinner table, which few Americans can pronounce and no one can predict— be renamed in simpler form. Mr. Maverick suggested “dingle doos.” But now comes no less a gastronomic authority than George Rector, famous New York restaurateur, to urge that they be called “mavericks” in honor of the Congressman. This, says Mr. Rector, would . be fitting for two reasons. First, as a tribute to the Congressman: second, is a good old American word: meaning an unbranded stray horse or steer which has wandered off by himself and is any man’s for the taking. This, he points out, is a perfect description of a tray full of antipasto, canapes, anchovies, and similar odds and ends. I hope his campaign succeeds. Waiter—a tray of mavericks, i you please. = ” »

HATS OFF, JUDGE RULES By “Dissenter”

One of the weirdest court decisions I can recall offhand was recorded in New York the other day, when a magistrate held that a man who failed to remove: his hat in a bar in the presence of ladies was guilty of disorderly conduct. The culprit in question, it seems, was taking his ease in a Second Ave. bar, his hat tilted comfortably back off his brow, when a feminine customer came in. The man failed to uncover, and, when the proprietor requested him to do so, he got a bit tough about it. The police finally drew cards in the affair, the man was lugged off to court—and the pearl of judicial wisdom mentioned above was the result. Now I may be old-fashioned and woefully back-numberish, but I can’t help feeling that a woman who insists that men uncover in her. pres-

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Administration Has Been Playing With Certain Disaffected Minorities, And Democratic Party Might Desert It Unless Regulars Get Attention

ASHINGTON, May 7.—A blessing to this country is that ours is a two-party system. Except

on particular subjects, we have no minority pressure.

blocs “fenagling” substantial and _continuing control of our Government. Roughly, there are two central political principles. First is the idea of control by the good, the wise and

the beneficent on the theory that the passions of the’

mob are not fit to rule. theory of the G. O. P. The Democratic theory is that the good, the wise and the beneficent usually contrive to get theirs before they let the mass get anything and that the “peepul” can be trusted to rule—at least within limits. _There are inconsistencies. The Democrats have been guilty of slavocracy. The Republicans have been tarred with populism. ‘As my father used to say, “The Democrats are -a disorganized mob, the Republicans a Srgatjesd appetite—but sometimes each Torgsis to e itself.”

Usually that is the basic

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MITTING this qualification, the Democratic color is “liberal” and the Republican “conservative.” There are- about 17,000,000 die-hards on the Republican side—that is their lease on, life. There is the Solid South which is the Democratic ace in the hole. In between is the cave of Adullam. That was where King David went when he started his Huey Long campaign against King Saul: “And every one that was

in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every '

one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them.”

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one corral enough of the Adullamites to add to the old back log and insure a victorious majority. This Administration has done the cave of Adullam stuff to beat King David. But with a difference. The question Bourbons of the manner born are asking now is, “Does the Democratic dog wag the tail of Adullam

or the other way round.”

Is the Administration ready to ditch the Democratic Party in favor of the cave-dwellers? It has It might be well to consider that most of the Adullamites who have been driving Administration policy have never been elected

done a lot in that direction.

by anyhody.

Mr. Wallace, the reputed choice in the royal suc- | His appointment was a

cession, is a Republican. sop to Republican progressives.

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Mest of the rest of the Praetorian guards are

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ence has one excellent recourse in such a situation. She can stay out of bars. # aa CLAIMS UNIONS AIDED SPANISH DEMOCRACY

By Agapito Rey,

The part played by organized iabor in the present Spanish struggle should prove of value to us in view of the overpublicized strikes in this country. Spain became considerably industrialized during the last 50 years, and the result was a rapid growth in labor unions. In 1901 they had 32,000 affiliates, 78,000 in 1911, a total of 240,000 in 1921 and more than 3,000,000 in 1936. & Labor unions in Spain, as elsewhere in Europe, have political aspirations. They want the social and economic improvements of the working classes made permanent through appropriate legislation. In addition to a few independent unions there are in Spain two big national labor federations. They resemble in many respects Jour A. F. of L. and C. I. O. These two big unions are the General Union of Workers (U, G. T.) and the National Confederation of Workers (C. N. T.). The former is allied with the Socialist Party, the latter _is syndicalist in nature. The difference between these two organizations consisted primarily in their ultimate aims.

1,500,000 Members

The Socialists aspired to a.large degree of socialization through political action, while the syndicalists aimed at the control of the means of production by the workers themselves. The syndicalists dominated

VIGNETTE

By ELIZABETH JOHNSON Her arm upheld she greets the dawn And still she holds on high The torch when the nights come on. Remote and strong she stays Alone within the sky And keeps the watch always. The lady on the monument stands Star-feted and moon-kissed, Aloof and free from trivial man’s Forever restless days And enigmatic. ways.

DAILY THOUGHT

For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.—Mark 6:50.

Bloomington

T is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.—Witherspoon.

busting drive.

in Catalonia and the Socialists in the rest of Spain. They both claimed a membership of 1,500,000 when hostilities started. Besides these two large federations there were other organizations seeking followers among laborers.. When the Army revolt broke out July 18, 1936, the labor unions rallied to the support of the Government. Over 90 per cent of the Army revolted against the republic, but the workers by sheer numbers were able to subdue the revolt in the large industrial cities. The labor unions organized militias that have been the mainstays of the legal government.

Fights for Existence Organized labor, while defending

the Spanish democratic republic, is

in reality fighting for existence. While the Government was not radical enough to suit the extremists, still it was a democracy which guaranteed freedom of association and expression to all. Should a military dictator come into power labor unions and political parties would be suppressed as they have been already in the territory controlled by -the Rebels. Hundreds have been massacred for this crime. This explains why labor unions, regardless of ultimate aims or philosophies, rallied to the support of Spanish democracy.

» n o STATE OPERATION OF MONOPOLIES URGED By a Consumer T The rate case now before the Public Service Commission is a sample of “regulating” monopolies. We finally came to the place in our socalled competitive economy where we destroyed competition in those fields where competition was im-

practical because of duplication of

service, property and man power. The only mistake in our procedure was that we did not go far enough. The reason for establishing a monopoly is one of increasing the value of the service rendered by creating public benefit. When any business attains the stage of a monopoly, or when a

monopoly can serve the public interests more efficiently, it_should be

a matter of public ownership as.

well as public profit. Our experience with public utilities has shown us that the public and private interests are always opposed. In establishing the rates charged the monopoly’s customers, the good will of the State and the commission’s guesses, together with the

‘utility’s guesses are the determin-

ing factors. Real protection of the people will not be attained until the State sets up its own corporation to operate the monopolies on a basis of complete public interest, rather than trying to umpire the battle between private and public interests.

It Seems to The

‘By Heywood Broun

8 Writer: Gets Up Early and Finds

There Is No Truth in Old Saw About Early Bird Getting Worm

ST AMFORD, Conn. May T.—In America we are adage addicts. I do not purpose to lash out and try to bring all the proverbs tumbling down, but I have grown so annoyed at the remark that the early bird catches the worm that 1 decided to put it to the test.

I.don't mean that I disguised myself as a worm or that I imitated bird calls. I just got. up early one morning. The fallacy as to the success of the more precipitate of our feathered friends rests upon a lack of research. The average American who lives in the suburbs makes the 8:48 train. Crossing.the lawn of his front yard in a great hurry, - he sees no worm and only a few belated ‘birds. It is easy for him to accept the axiom that the early. bird catches the worm. The careerist identifies himself with the early bird” "LHe goes to the office promptly edch morning in order to earn a living wage and, for that hatter, to catch approbation rather than hell. And it comforts him to think that he is one with the starlings and the robins and that the way of the world is to. rise early in order to provide provender for the’. little nest. : * Not for the world would I callously disturb the. illusions of anyone who has put something down and. is paying the balance just like rent. But sooner or later the facts must catch Gp. with us, and the story - of the early bird and the worm -s sheer bunk. Ab. least it isn’t true in Stamford, Conn. . I rose at 6:30 yesterday -and went “straight to. the apple orchard in my yellow pajamas.” There was ; not a bird in sight. Any early bird would have been: doomed to disappointment, because there rasns a8 worm’ in sight at 6:30. 5

Mr. Broun

on " o AVING been brought 'up on the dature books, I assumed that a bird's first duty was to his family. and friends. I pictured the head of a nest as flying out at dawn to bring worms and other goodies to his faithful mate who sat at home upon the eggs. This was a very business-like and self-centered:

“robin, and I made the surmise that he was known

among his associates. as P. J. At any rate, P. J, ate a hearty breakfast all by himself. He kept sticking his beak into the grass and coming up with something edible each time. Every now and then Re would strike a bad grub or worm, and then he would holler bloody murder

and complain that the ‘service wasn’t what it used

to be.

HE asl I to * i iconoclast, but I am convinced that the shrill noises which the birds make are not singing in any sense of the word. On the contrary, these high notes constitute profane ute terances thrown in while drawing up a bill of come plaint. : P. J. was evidently in a dither avout the state of the world, although the sky was fair and he seemed: to be making an excellent breakfast. His coat was red, but his attitude decidedly reactionary. His mind appeared to be dwelling upon some golden age during: which the insects and the worms leaped up out of the ground in order to be eaten. Just the business: of having to.bend over annoyed him. . At last he caught sight of me and realized that I was an interloper and not a flowering shrub. This increased his rage, and he hopped upon the nearest low branch and uttered a! denunciation, As far as I could gather, he wanted the Indians back again, Ee was no early bird, but merely a late Republican,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Some Justice Department Officials Opposed to Trust-Busting Drive Put Provision in Appropriation Bill Giving Them Power Over Funds

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, May 7.—Certain Justice Department big-shots apparently don’t see eye to eye with the President on his loudly ballyhooed trust-

Hidden away in the Department's Appropriation Bill is a little provision that will enable these caliphs to hamstring the recently rejuvenated Antitrust Division which prosecutes monopoly cases. For many years it has been the established practice

for Congress to segregate the funds of the Division from the rest of the Justice Department's appropria-

tion, and to vote the money directly to the Division. This whs intended to strengthen its hands in fighting off political interference or departmental sabotage

just as alien to the traditional party. There is ae.

such a thing as playing around with such babies so long and so ardently that your regular mamma slams

the door in your face.

It doesn't seem good strategy. Does the Administration believe that it must forever coddle these strange fish and keep them from flopping clear over the frying pan of their quasi friends into the fire of

their certain enemies?

The Administration may think it needs the support of the disaffected, and undoubtedly it does. But, it lives and breathes and has its being

after all,

; only by grace of old lady Democracy. It would be The trick of political leadership is to herd into | a swell idea to keep the home fires burning brighter.

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UT this year this traditional safeguard is secretly wiped out in the Department's supply measure. Instead of the Division’s funds being separated, they are incorporated in the Department’s general appropriation. This means that beginning July 1 Robert Jackson, the brilliant young lawyer whom the President recently made head of the Antitrust Division, will be siripped of power over the purse-strings of his agency. And that means he will cease to be his own boss and that Attorney General Homer Cummings and his ax-man, Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan, will become the real rulers of the Division. Keenan is the

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man who put over ‘the provision in the secrecy of the House Appropriations Committee. He told the Con gressmen that the measure was desirable to make tne Department's funds “more flexible.” Several weeks ago Jackson signalized his new ree gime by filing suit against the giant Aluminum Corp, Cummings had talked for four years about taking such action, but had done nothing. After July 1, if Jacke son moves to proceed against some other alleged antitrust law violators, Cummings and Keenan will again be in a position to see.that nothing happens. nH HREAT of filibuster against his court bill is not worrying the President. He has ‘already figured out just how he will handle such a maneuver if it develops. 9 He explained his strategy to a caller just before. he went on his fishing trip. The visitor hinted that unless some concessions were made the opposition might resort to filibuster. Roosevelt smiled pleasantly, replied:

“No concessions and no compromises. Filibuster doesn’t worry me. I'can take care of that. I'm off on a fishing trip now. In June, if a filibuster is on, I'll go up to Hyde Park fof a few weeks. If the filibuster still is on in July I'll go to Maine fc dor a couple of weeks fishing. “You see, the filibusterers will have to stay in Washington, but I won't. And as you know it gets mighty hot here. I think you will find there will be no filibuster,” ; pst gu

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