Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1937 — Page 4

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COMPLAINS OF WASTE IN SHERIFF'S CARS

By Tired Taxpayer

I watched an investigation being made by the Sheriff the other eve-

trol as much total wealth as there is in the State of Illinois. The big robber barons certainly don’t like the thought of sneak thieves and petty pickpockets emulating their 19th Century career of crime, And to make matters even more ludicrous, our highly inconsistent President arises and shouts, “I hate war!” (“wah” was his pronunciation) while deliberately going out of his way to sponsor more hundreds of millions for our super-

ning. There were two cars on the scene, and the Sheriff himself was there, the leisurely investigation | taking more than one-half hour. | All this time, the motors of both | cars were idling and a man was sitting in each of the cars who could | have turned the switch off. | Any mechanic will tell you that | this is ruinous to a motor, but even | if it weren't, what about the gaso- | line being wasted? This is a typi- | cal incident of the waste of this | type in other cars in both the | Sheriff's office and in the Police] - Department. I have seen police | motorcycles stand running for 15 | minutes. Just public money, boys, | so don't worry about it! {

MOTORS MUST BE RUN, SHERIFF SAYS By Sheriff Otte Ray For mechanical reasons, it is necessary that the motors be left running in our emergency cars. We must have our State police radio turned on at all times. If the mo- | tor were turned off, the extra-heavy | generator used on the radio would | run down the car battery during the | course of an ordinary investigation. | un

= CLAIMS WORKERS ARE THE GOVERNMENT | By A. J. McKinnon |

is something better | than that for the laboring man | when he wakes up to the fact that he is the government, and that all Congressmen, Senators, and the | President are our servants. When | these servants hold a high head | and believe they are something | above us and can pull a dictator stunt on us, then it is time for | workers who are the government to | get busy and co-operate by means | of petitions in our next election | and get what we want, and not let | dictators or politicians promise us | this and that and forget all about those promises. | Petitions in our next elections will get the worker just what he wants, right when he wants it.

” » ® BLAMES DEMOCRACIES

FOR THREAT OF WAR By ‘“‘Debunker” Day after day we are being bombarded via the newspapers with the World War species of propaganda that Germany, Italy and Japan are the three bellicose bad-boys of the earth, and that England, France | and the U. S. A. are the three sweet | sisters of purity, peace and light! | Buncombe! | The British, French—yes, and our own country—have succeeded in | shooting, rifling and otherwise | phenagling their way into posses- | sion of three-fourths of the earth’s | lands of milk and honey. Germany owns a very ordinary strip of Central Europe equal in area to California; Italy possesses a few rocky, flea-plagued chunks of real estate in Africa, while that bugbear of our naval admirals, Japan, doesn't con-

de luxe offensive Navy. Then his humble State Department timorously squeaks, “Yes, sir, righto, sir,” to England's latest demand, and our tie-up with the Big Shots is more complete. I predict that if a war of major proportions should erupt now, F. D. R. and Viscount ’ull would have us in it on the side of the noble “democracies,” England and France, within three months.

England is the Dillinger of imperial land-thievery, while Germany is that fellow you read about who gets 60 days on the State Farm for petty larceny.

rr 2 5 M'NUTT TOLD TRUTH, EDITORIAL SAYS From the New York Herald Tribune

If the Administration harbors any animosity toward former Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, it must be viewing with satisfaction his latest adventure as High Commissioner to the Philippines. A month ago he was the scapegoat in the transmittal of a decision of the Administration respecting the. relative rank of American and Philippine officials. The incident brought undeserved ridicule upon him. This time he has stepped into a hornets’ nest of his own by asserting that “democracy in the Philippines is only a matter of form and not of substance.” To his credit be it said that the anger which he has aroused among the Filipino politicians is owing to the fact that he dared to speak the truth. His was a simple statement of fact, but for reasons of their own the politicians do mot care to have this fact emphasized.

Commissioner McNutt's words echo the convictions of all students of Philippine affairs. Never was there a greater political delusion than the idea that it was possible to impose upon a primitive people a democratic form of government modeled on American state constitutions and have it work as it does in America. Even if the Filipine politicians had been as eager to promote democracy as they were to consolidate their own arbitrary rule, it would not have been possible to impose democracy on the

Filipinos, for the simple reason that the forms of democracy are not the same as the substance, and the substance can be won only by a long apprenticeship in local self-gov-ernment out of which modern democratic forms have evolved. The world is full of examples of unsuccessful attempts to impose democratic forms upon people lacking democratic traditions. The record of the Filipinos is certainly no worse than that of other peoples who started their democratic experiments from a higher cultural level than did the Filipinos. The resentment against Commissioner McNutt’s remarks was not, therefore, because they were in any sense an affront to Filipino pride. Rather were the Filipino politicians angry because if true democracy were to take root in the Philippines it would be much more difficult for them to hold their sway and feather their own nests. Hence, by rushing to the attack against Commissioner McNutt they pose once more as the true champions and exponents of democracy and seem to belie his charge. It is quite possible that they may derive an extra measure of selfsatisfaction from the thought that in making Governor McNutt seem like a ridiculous reactionary they may be pleasing the Great White Father in Washington. In the meantime, any rift between the American representative in Manila and his Government at home plays directly into the hands of the Filipino politicians. un » n PANHANDLERS VEX CITIZEN By R. H W. Is Indianapolis the “panhandlers’ paradise?” Has the word gone out that this is an easy town for bums? That even the most obnoxious panhandlers will not be molested by the police? It is most annoying and disturbing to be cornered by an aggressive panhandler, both during the day and night, on most any block along W. Washington or Illinois St. They have become so bold that they follow a man right into the vestibule of the Claypool Hotel. Why not have a police officer, perhaps in plain clothes, stationed at the corner of W. Washington and Illinois Sts. to arrest these panhandlers for vagrancy? Or is it that Indianapolis does not have a vagrancy law? ” ”n 5 BLAMES LIQUOR FOR ACCIDENTS By H. L. Seeger

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* ww ANALYZES REASONS FOR AUTO ACCIDENTS By R. H. Whitson

Apropos of the rise in local automobile accidents and deaths and the agitation for accident prevention work: While traffic regulations and traffic lights will help to a certain degree, the human element is the most important factor as illustrated in the two following instances: I was in Milwaukee recently and was amazed at the utter lack of traffic signal lights and of traffic regulations. Why, Indianapolis was wonderfully modern in comparison. Milwaukee, with greater population, had only five signal lights along its main business street and practically none along its residential streets or boulevards.

Motorists were permitted to make any kind of turns they wished and drive or park along any street. Yet Milwaukee ranked second among the safest cities. And which ranked first? New York City. That traffic juggernaut, with its steady stream of hundreds of thousands of cars, narrow streets and its avalanche of pedestrians.

Result of Education

Why? First, because they have been cultivated to be more thoughtful and less irresponsible. Irrespective of traffic lights or regulations, they are considerate of their fellowmen and of good manners, and with more respect for law and order. This really is an indictment of Indiana educational institutions. Ethical and intellectual culture in the schools, particularly in the smaller counties, is evidently lacking, not only in teaching consideration for others and in good manners, but also in cultivating an interest in avocations and recreations that will not force the students after leaving school, to seek an outlet or satisfaction for their vivacity

in reckless driving, drinking, immorality and crime. Second: You would not issue a gun permit to an ex-murderer? Why not revoke, completely, the licenses of deliberately reckless and drunken drivers and habitual speeders. And before licenses are issued the car should be tested, so as to eliminate the $50 ancient wreck, the vehicles of accidents and crime.

® ® =» TAKES CYNICAL VIEW OF GOVERNMENT By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport

On the second reading of ‘“Prejudices: Third Series,” by H. L. Mencken, I find the following: “. . . the administration of justice in the republic is stupid, dishonest, and against all reason and equity—and from this judgment I except no more than 30 judges, including two upon the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States.” That must have sounded rather unreasonable to most readers back in 1922 when it was published. How does it sound now, in 1937, upon reviewing the rather odd reversal of the policy of the Supreme Court when it came into the New Deal's line of fire? Some say that the explanation to the Court's abrupt change of tone is that the New Dealers have started to plug up the holes in their legislation—others say that the explanation is that the Nine Old Worthies want to keep their seats. Personally, I'll take the latter explanation—being, when musing upon the honesty of the government, a sad-eyed cynic. =n ” » HOLDS MARRIAGE LAW IS EMBARRASSING By E. O.

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