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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11, 1937

THE BAKER-CANCILLA CONVICTIONS HE assault and battery convictions of Joel A. Baker and Peter Cancilla are a victory for orderly processes of government. Both men were given the maximum $1000 fine for Cancilla’s brutal assault on a public official who was trying to reform the Welfare Department patronage racket. But the cases are not only important as putting an end to intimidation and strong-arm methods in local publie affiairs. Baker and Cancilla were but the fronts for more powerful political forces. Certain of these forces were discredited in the wave of public resentment that followed the Baker-Cancilla disclosures. Others, we believe, will be repudiated when the public gets a chance to vote on their

records.

FOR A BELT HIGHWAY Y banning trucks from College Ave. the City Council seems to have opened a veritable Pandora’s box of traffic ills. More accurately, the enforcement of the College Ave. ordinance forces the City to face a truck routing problem that has long existed. The problem could not have been ignored much longer. And the howl of indignation that is coming from residents of other North Side streets as the trucks filter into town gives hope of a showdown. There is no easy solution. Obviously, Indianapolis can-

nqQt erect transportation barriers without injuring its busi- |

ness growth. Trucking into and through the city should be made easier, not harder. An essential service, trucking seems destined to grow in volume rather than diminish. Perhaps there is no immediate answer that would be satisfactory or fair to all concerned. But a workable com-

promise for a safe and adequate route into the city should |

be reached as soon as possible. The larger task ahead seems clear. The steady increase of passenger cars, plus bus, streetcar and truck

traffic, bottlenecks downtown areas, slows up traffic and |

increases accident hazards.

American planning officials advocate comprehensive | traffic zone schedules, under which passenger cars would | ™® however, and neither did the rubber tee with a

be restricted to certain streets and trucks and streetcars |

to others, but no city has yet adopted such a schedule. The “boulevard” or

burgh, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Toledo and Louisville. and bus traffic is restricted to certain streets, but passenger cars are not restricted. The system is used to some extent in Indianapolis. Some’ cities have established permanent

routings by ordinance; others leave it to administrative | order, changing routings from time to time to meet chang- | Use of alleys as thoroughfares for loading | and unloading, and prohibitions against daytime downtown |

ing conditions.

truck traffic, are common provisions.

Detroit is one of the first cities to seek a comprehensive | “use plan” for city streets, assigning trucks to wide streets |

where streetcars and other forms of commercial transport create traffic problems, and reserving other streets and highways for private and passenger vehicles. This program has not been completed. Most engineers and traffic experts agree that the longrange solution for Indianapolis will include a belt highway around the city. This is a state as well as a local obligation. The cost would be considerable. achieved overnight. But an organized effort toward that goal should be started at once.

THE LAW OF SUCCESS HOSE on all sides in this time of stress who are now challenging public opinion in daring deeds may take comfort from the age-old fact that if they do succeed the people will forget their mistakes and acclaim them as statesmen and heroes. The biographer Emil Ludwig illustrated this law of success by recalling the headlines of a Paris newspaper as Napoleon, escaped from Elba, marched toward the capital of France. These read: “The Monster has escaped from his place of exile.” “The Corsican wolf has landed at Cannes.” “The Tiger appeared at Gap; troops were sent against him; the wretched adventurer ended his career in the mountains.” “The fiend has actually, thanks to treachery, been able to get as far as Grenoble.” “The tyrant has reached Lyons, where horror paralyzed all attempt at resistance.” “The usurper has dared to advance within 150 miles of the capital.” “Bonaparte moves northward with rapid strides, but he will never reach Paris.” “Tomorrow Napoleon will be at our gates.” “His Imperial and Royal Majesty arrived yesterday at the Tuileries, amid the praises of his joyful and faithful subjects.” Asked for a statement, Napoleon said: “As far as Grenoble I was an adventurer; at Grenoble I was a Prince.”

NEW PRINCIPAL AT TECHNICAL ANSON H. ANDERSON was one of the eight teachers at Arsenal Technical High School when the school opened in 1912 with 183 students. As Tech has grown to be a great school, Mr. Anderson has grown with it, as a teacher for 25 years, as head of the mathematics department since 1920, as vice principal since 1931. He has demonstrated ability as a leader and school executive. It was fitting that Principal DeWitt S. Morgan's elevation to the superintendency of Indianapolis public schools should be followed by the choice of a man from the ranks as Mr. Morgan's successor. The public will congratulate Mr. Anderson and wish him continued success.

It looks as if Congress wants to hurry and adjourn before the members start to read some of the bills they

‘are passing.

ty, 3 cents a copy: deliv- |

“selective thoroughfare” system | is used in such cities as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Pitts- |

Truck | | hole, lost for good.

The project could not be ;

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIME | Here’s That Man Again—By Talburt

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 11, 1937

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Columnist, but the Game Remains a Fascinating Agony Nevertheless.

venirs of my futile though always earnest career in golf is a little jewelry trick with which it was customary once upon a time to mold tees of sand. Tees thus molded were firmer than those

| made with the fingers, and this jewelry was supposed

to cut several strokes off one's score. It didn't help

small nest in which the golf ball reposed, nor the silver peg which was attached to a silver spike by a silver chain. The first time out with my silver outfit, I hit the peg a terrible lick, and, blam, away went the peg, chain and spike into a water

Another souvenir still around somewhere is a thing like a gold card of honorary life membership in the National Association of Deputy Game Wardens. It was engraved with something like a rainbow, with numerals along the hump. You were sup-

Mr. Pegler

posed to pull this out, squint through a hole in the middle, divide by two, and thus decide which iron !

club to use from where you were. As I am verv bad at mathematics—see expense account—I made some bad miscalculations, used the wrong clubs and lost many strokes. My enthusiasm for golf has dissolved into resigna-

| tion now, and I am able to smile over my striving

and optimism, with which I clutched at new inventions. Everybddy was golf crazy then, and it seemed

| that most of the business in the country was done on

the fairways or swampy meadow. » » » T was the “big-shot” era, and a man had a sort of feeling that he was getting on in the world when he would meet casually in the locker room of a golf club over a quart highball glass someone who was vice president of a big ballbearing company which regularly advertised in color in the Saturday Evening Post. But golf now is just a game that a few people play for fun if they can get time after scuffling for a living. It isn't much fun, though. It is a fascinating agony. for even the best of them are always moaning and

approach that took a bad hop into a quarry. in the big-shot days a man had to dress in a masquerade costume to distinguish himself from the hired help. Bloomers, of course, were practically compulsory, usually those enormous, double-breasted squarerigeers, tweedy and garish, which called for long ribald stockings preferably with tassels.

» ” un 1 mE was a period along about the time when Carnarvon was ghouling around in King Tut's grave when the golf costumes came out with a line of sweaters adorned with picture-writing, and, to make matters worse, the stylish hat for these ensembles was a cross between the French beret and the tam o'shianter, These were supposed to take strokes off your game, too, and so were the golf shoes which had fringes on the tongues and spikes set a certain way. The spikes were intended to keep the feet firmly planted for the pivot, but sometimes they anchored a man so fast that he would pull his spine out of joint and spend six months in some hospital. I have had lessons, too, but nothing ever did any good. If I had any manhosd I would give all my tackle to some kid, but I suppose my widow will be the one to do it when I am gone.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 11.—The President is right that it is folly to lend Federal money on farm crops at very high prices unless, coupled with the lending, there is some plan to keep those prices from going lower. The idea of keeping up the prices of products which nature produces every year by lending money to hold the crop off the market is clearly cockeyed—in both theory and practice, The mere presence of an overwhelming farm surplus hanging over the market depresses prices, whether it is for sale or temporarily withheld from sale. Every buyer knows that whenever the surplus is dumped on

the market the price will crack and that so long as it exists it may be dumped at anytime. Also, the price of these great world products—cotton, wheat, corn (pork), ete.—isn't made in our markets. It is made by competitive conditions all over the world. Look at the way the price of wheat gyrates on weather and crop reports from Argentina, Canada, or even Russia. Farm prices are high right now because of shortage conditions elsewhere and not because of balanced conditions here. As a matter of fact, they are high here in the face of what looks like one of the biggest crops in our history.

SIDE from theory, the scheme has been proved cockeyed in practice every time it has been tried.

That is why Mr. Wallace's ever-normal granary plan is dangerous nongense, That is why the. Presiden

EW YORK, Aug. 11.-—Among the sou- |

bleeding internally over some putt that hung or an’

The Hoosier Forum

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

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troversies

(Times readers are invited their these columns, reiigious conexcluded. your letter short, so all can | have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) | "9

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certain sections of the city and es- | pecially the strangers within our gates may definitely know such! | streets at night as well as in daylight. : [cent child. I have just returned form a vaca- | | tion trip to northern Michigan and | | I noted that not only are all state | highway danger signs and direction signs adorned with the “cat eye” re- | flectors, but that in every village | and hamlet every “stop” street is | marked with such cat-eye reflectors [ Furthermore, these stop signs are | | not, as ours, seven feet above the | | pavement (and hence above the level of a driver's eyes) but are not | more than shoulder high to an or- | dinary man. No strange driver (as | I was) could possibly overlook these | | stop signals, and with nighttime | the attention value of these signs | was at least doubled. { I have long contended with Capt. | | Lewis Johnson that the Indianapo- | lis stop signs are both too high and | too “dead” because they cannot be | seen at night. I venture that many citizens who | have occasion to drive to a different | part of the city from the sections | with which they are the most fa- | | miliar, are laying themselves liable | to arrest for running stop streets, | chiefly because they cannot see and | cannot be expected always to know | the preferential thoroughfares. | With strangers this situation | would apply all over the city and | would thus account for many en- | tirely unnecessary collisions, I think The Times could do a] good deed for motorists if it would | take up a crusade for “cat-eye” | | warning signs, erected not higher than five feet from the pavement. b&w LAWS GOVERNING ALIENS DRAW FIRE By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind, The Times of Aug. 2 had a remarkably interesting article about the two young Englishmen who have been made victims of an absurd law. These young men, perfect gentlemen, have harmed no one; instead they have worked their way halfway around the globe, given willing service where it was needed, come here with noble ambitions, and might have settled here and founded a thriving business. But alas, some tactiess policeman picked them up and a less tactless officer held them. Now they must | and will be deported. Meanwhile we have 1000 desperate

aliens who at this moment are perhaps hatching schemes to rob a

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General Hugh Johnson Says—

Wallace's Ever-Normal Granary Plan Dangerous Nonsense, for Foreign Crops Play Major Part in Governing Farm Prices in the United States.

says he won't approve high crop loans without legislation for “‘crop control.” But is that condition to approval any less wrong? Crop control means AAA-—encouraging farmers by payments to plant fewer acres, or to kill their pigs, or

plow under their wheat, corn and cotton, and getting the money for the payments by a sales tax on food

and clothing. » » »

OTHING that can be done by Mr, Wallace, even to the extent of telling every farmer exactly what he may plant of this or that, is a dependable solution of the price problem. While American acreage planted 1s one factor affecting production and price, a greater one affecting price is foreign conditions and as great a one affecting production is weather, The effect of the droughts which entered AAA's activities completely to blanket their effect alone proves that. Cotton may be excepted from this statement. But there the acreage reduction was so drastic as to entice a vast increase in cotton production. in other countries and deprive the South of a big

chunk of its export markets, perhaps forever, The truth is that AAA didn’t work to do what 1t was designed to do. AAA cost $1,500,000,000. Of what use is vast experiment and experience if all that comes out of them is stubborn insistence on repetition of

proved folly?

THE MARCH OF TIME By BARBARA G. GRIFFITH The march of time

march of time We play it on the organ, Pan piped it on a reed.

In sweet romance of sunny

Our first of all the land, With Roosevelts and the du Ponts, United, now we stand.

And far away, where tulips bloom, Near Holland's deep blue sea, A queen and princess found their

And all live happily. Ah, lovely Spain, bloodshed and

Of yours should never be. Dear Russian mother, can’t they Give you back your rosary?

Old Germany, once more to see Free from imposters false, Your striplings fair, With flaxen hair Join in Vienna's waltz,

And in the East, great dragon

Of war, and dying men; Wild golden dragon,

That peace may reign again,

DAILY THOUGHT

diligently commandments of God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded | thee. —Deuteronomy 6:17.

E are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this safe, and happy —Seneca.

| MADDOX ACQUAINTANCE

| dozen banks, put over a neat black- | CRITICIZES POSITION hand plot, hold up a few stores and | gy N. G., Lebanon paymasters, or kidnap some inno- |

Having sat in the presence of | BE. P. Maddox, along with the read-

b | { This gentry we always have With |jne of his letters, I ponder over his | us, and we shall perhaps spend a peing possessed with the “spirit of | few million dollars in catching them | wg» That phrase is often overdone, | in what we know they intend to do, | yoy may recall that most all pa- | then spend a few more millions in | to convict | what we know they have done, and | ever neglect to go back to the days the while we will feed keep them in ma minister 10 | or even all the way back to Miles | spen thousands to guard them. When any law passes the bounds |

| “i v { 4 a & es, them for | rioteers in making fiery speech

them,” of Bunker Hill and Valley Forge, |

Sull more | Standish at Plymouth Rock.

Early “Red” Hunts

Sure, all through the pre-Revolu-tion days there were “Red” hunts | conducted by the crown officials

and the established order It has | always been true that Whenever | reformers dare attack the vested interests of their day, they are persecuted as dangerous revolutionists; but without them would there have been much evolution in social live ing? No, E. F. would never have rubbed shoulders with Sam Adams, but he would have signed the warrant, E. F. was right in the statement that intelligent Americans never would be enslaved. They proved that in 1932 and 1936 when they struck out against their bonds of economic slavery. But he is totally wrong and insults intelligence when he calls everyone a Communist Red who, like Patrick Henry, dares to chal- | lenge the established order of the | day and to demand a better living | for the average man. Let us be careful how we speak about the spirit of "78.

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By Heywood Broun

Broun Pays His Fellow Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt Glowing Tribute; Vouches for First Lady's Sincerity.

\ YORK, Aug. 11.—Although it may be somewhat unusual newspaper prac tice, I would like to gay a few friendly words It seems to me that people overlook the fact that Eleanor Roosevelt was a considerable person in hep own right long before she became the First Lady, Obe viously, magazines and radio companies seek her services more eagerly now that she is living in the White House, but her name cers tainly was not unknown before her husband became President of the United States, Indeed, most of activities stem back Into causes and organizations in which she was vitally interesived hefore the election of 1932, There seems {o be dence that the author of “My Day” means precisely what that title implies, and it would not sur= prise me to be told that Mrs, Roosevelt moves about in her own orbit, thinking of herself as an individual and being largely unconscious of the fact that she is the wife of the President of the United States. For instance, she has maintained her interest in organizations favoring birth control. And obviously that isn't good national poli« tics. But I believe that by now millions of Americans are ready to accept the fact that the views of Mrs, Roosevelt need not in any way reflect those of her husband.

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N moving about the country by train or automobile Eleanor Roosevelt never asks any favors beyond those which are the right of every traveler. Once I happened to see her checking in on a night train foe some Middle Western city, She was standing in the middie of the line waiting her turn and there was nn Secret Service man there to ery out "Make way for the First Lady" I spied her again at breakfast in the dining car, There was no fuss and noise of waiters jumping to her table with a menu. In fact, I thought that the staff had failed to recognize her, and I said to the Negro who was waiting on me, "Don’t you know that's Mrs. Roosevelt over there?” “Oh, yes, We all know her,” he answered, "she travels with us a lot and we know she doesn't want any fuss made about it.” Some little time ago Eleanor Roosevelt gave a party at the White House for the inmates of a home for delinquent girls, » » »

ASSoroma to Washington rumor, someons among the Democratic political experts urged the First Lady to absent herself from the affair. She refused. “It may be bad politics, but it's a thing I'd like to do as an individual, and =o I'm gomg to do it,” Most startling of all recent Washington episodes was the manner in which Alice Longworth suddenly moved to the defense of her distant cousin at a tea party. One guest at Alice's party assailed Mrs. Roosevelt, She spoke sharply of Eleanor's autobiography, which was running in one of the big magazines “Of course, my dear,” she said, “everybody knows she didn’t write a line of it.” At this point Alice Longworth swung into action. “It's a beautiful piece of work,” said Alice Longworth, "and anybody who thinks Eleanor didn't write every phrase of it is a fool.” The party broke up a few minutes later,

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

Too Much Buck-Passing, From President on Down, Lies Behind Failure Of Congress to Enact Farm Legislative Program at Present Session,

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen |

TASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Behind all the hulla- | baloo and alibis as to why there will not be | farm legislation this session, there is a very simple story. It can be told in three words—too much |

buck-passing, First, the President passed the buck to Secretary Henry Wallace. He passed it to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. They passed it to the old-line farm leaders, and they, in turn, passed it right back, and the run-around started all over again, That in a nutshell is the whole story. Actually, the President has wanted new crop control legislation ever since the Supreme Court axed the AAA. From time to time last winter and spring he dropped remarks to that effect, But whereas he did not hesitate to send specific bills to Congress on Court reorganization, wages and hours, and government reorganization, he was strangely hesitant on the farm question. » » » P Mr. Wallace had bestirred himself and made a real fight there would be a farm bill before Congress today. That much is certain. His failure to be aggressive played squarely into (1) the hands of the old-line farm leaders, and (2) anti-New Deal Democrats who control the House and 1h Committees. Particularly it

| they can to sidestep it. | situation seemed to play into their hands.

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played into the hands of “Cotton Ed” Smith, chairs man of the Senate committee, Both groups privately have a strong dislike for crop contrel and, unless forced, will do everything Also, the general economie

Then, last week, the price of cotton suddenly Overnight the boys were baring their breasts on the barricades roaring for the President to rescue “the little cotton grower ’—and, of course, their own political hides—by directing the Commodity Credit Corp. to make I12-cent-a<pound loans on cotton; in other words, to peg the price at that figure. Senator Smith accompanied a cotton bloc delegas tion to the White House to urge the 12-cent loan on Mr. Roosevelt. The latter talked cold turkey.

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w OU gentlemen,” he said, looking squarely ab Cotton Ed, "have been here more than seven months. You havent done a thing to help the farmer. Now with the price of cotton teetering vou come to me and cry for help “I will not permit the lending of public money unless I am perfectly satisfied that the money will be repaid. There can be no assurance of that unless next year's cotton production is limited. That means that the necessary legislation must be passed befors next spring. You can pass a farm bill now, you can pass it this fall at a special session, or you can pledge that it will be done next January. got to be done.”