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TUESDAY, OCT. 5, 1937

MAKE STREETS SAFER

WO week-end traffic deaths brought Marion County's auto fatality list for the year to 111, equal to the record high figure of Oct. 5, 1936. The toll is mounting steadily throughout the state and nation. The National Safety Council estimates 24,520 killed during the first eight months of this year, 11 per cent more than for the same period last year. The increase for Indiana was 91. The fact that automobile travel has increased even more than the death list is small comfort. The unsolved problem continues to be one of the most apalling facing’ citizens and governmental agencies today. ~ Out of this grim picture come a few encouraging developments. One is the effectiveness of the sustained safety drive in Indianapolis. The Police Accident Prevention Bureau reports that Indianapolis traffic increased 19 per cent between July 1 and Sept. 30, but that accidents decreased 15 per cent, injuries dropped 31 per cent and fatalities 36 per cent, compared with the same period last year. This meant a saving of nine lives in the city. The intensive State Police campaign also brought results—a reduction of 24 in August traffic deaths. But the efforts are still too scattered and unorganized. The present drive here must continue, but it should be augmented by the scientific program that has been promised from outside experts. Much can be accomplished i in the remaining months of 1937.

MEDIATION WINS AGAIN

OR the second time this year mediation by the Government under the successful Railway Labor Act has proved itself a leaven for industrial peace.

On the heels of an agreement negotiated by the Government that brought the 800,000 railroadmen of the nonoperating crafts a wage increase of 8.3 per cent, announcement is made from Chicago that the 250,000 unionists of the “Big Five” operating brotherhoods have accepted a compromise raise of 6.6 per cent. Pointing to rising living costs, higher carrier earnings and increased human strain from speedier transportation, the operating groups demanded a 20 per cent increase. The railroads refused, and the men voted to strike. In accordance with the Railway Labor Act's stop-look-listen formula, the National Mediation Board again proffered its services, and sent one of its members, Dr. William M. Leiserson, to Chicago to mediate. After two months of give-and-take argument the men agreed to the lesser raise, and called off the strike. Thus, instead of a repetition of such destructive wars as the Pullman strike of 1893 and the shopmen’s strike of 1922, we have substantial victory all around through negotiation. The two labor groups win about $135,000,000 in wage raises. The rail owners carry on without a costly breakdown of commerce. And thereby the public is served. Some day when employers and labor in other industries affecting the public have developed the same stabilized relationship and self-discipline as the rail carriers and their men have achieved, such mediation machinery will be set up by Congress in the interest of general peace by agreement. And\lhen strikes will be the exception instead of the rule.

WE'RE ALL A-TWITTER HE Duke and Duchess of Windsor are coming to America in mid-November, and are we excited! Eminént statesmen, generals, scientists, poets and reformers from abroad have visited us—Herriot, Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Foch, Joffre, Balfour, H. G. Wells, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Einstein, Lin Yutang and hundreds more. None has made the flutter that this ex-king of England and his lady fair are likely to make. Reams will be printed. Doubtless even Mr. Justice Black will be forgotten. It isn’t only that we're all snobs at heart. It is that we're all romantic, and in common with the world we love a lover. - Here comes the hero of a great modern romance. The Duke, a shy and serious young man, is not an

exhibitionist, and isn’t coming to make a royal show of |

himself. Instead, he announces he will study our “housing and working conditions.” Well, we have plenty of both. Let us hope that he advertises these instead of himself, as he did the condition in the Welsh mines. If he does he will be more than ever welcome.

BUT NOT TOO MUCH HASTE

ASTE seems to be important from every angle, President Roosevelt said yesterday in North Dakota, if new farm/ legislation i§ to affect the 1938 crops. The inference is that Mr. Roosevelt will call Congress in special session to enact a crop surplus control law. Haste is important. It is more important, however, that whatever new legislation Congress enacts for the benefit of agriculture should be wise, workable and fair. There is, at this time, no program generally agreed upon. Secretary Wallace’s plan for an “ever-normal granary” and a “parity income” for agriculture is not very well understood. Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are holding hearings in various parts of the country to get the reactions of farmers to this and other plans. To summon Congress into special session to pass farm legislation before the agriculture committees of the two houses are ready to report a bill would seem to be haste

without purpose.

FACE-LIFTING WE salute Rep. Louis Ludlow for his effective work in persuading the Treasury Department to give the Indianapolis Federal Building a thorough cleaning, so the original building will match the new wing that is being built. ‘Otherwise, the half-new, half-old building might have become a civic eyesore.

ASSShsks,

ASSShsks, pe SavcersLl

The Liberal View

By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

With War Staring World in Face It Grows Imperative That Mankind

Choose Between Utopia and Chaos.

EW YORK, Oct. 5.—The present crisis makes it imperative for thinking persons to try to get their bearings in our complicated and rapidiy shifting age. For the first time in history mankind

literally faces a rather immediate choice between Utopia and chaos. Our machine age is running wild, both in domestic and foreign affairs, because we persist in trying to control it by social thinking and

institutions which arose in a premechanical era. If we reconstruct our thinking and institutions and make them as up-to-date as our machinery we can control the latter and subject it to the service of man. This will give us plenty and security at

“home and péace among the peo-

ples of the world. If we fail to modernize our institutions, chaos and mass misery inevitably lie ahead of us. There are at present three major social and economic policies through which civilized man is attempting to deal with the present world crisis — fascism, communism and the so-called middle way of reformed capitalism and co-operation. While liberals and democrats must certainly prefer the last method, it requires a great deal of optimism to be able to believe that it will triumph in the end. It has been tried and proved successful only in a few small and homogeneous States, especially Sweden. The United States is the only laige country which has seriously experimented with the middle way. Here the program has been too timid and moderate to achieve far-reaching reforms, and even the mild experimentation has aroused violent opposition, . 2 a = OREOVER, even if we believe that the middle way is sound and would inevitably succeed if given time, there is every prospect that its progress will be frustrated by world war before it has time enough to triumph. Therefore, whether we like it or not, it seems that the crisis. in world history is narrowing down to a struggle betwéen communism and fascism, with the countries which loosely adhere to the middle way procedure likely to line up with either Russia or the Fascist states. The major threat of war arises from the inevitable trend of fascism toward international war. Since fascism rests upon an attempt to perpetuate an unworkable economic system by force, it must sooner or later run down, its end being hastened by vast expenditures for armaments and public works. oH 0» » ISCONTENT grows with greater tax burdens and lowered living standards. The dictator then faces the alternative of flight or foreign war and will almost surely choose the latter. The menacing attitude of Fascist dictators forces ‘Russia to arm to the teeth in self-deferise. Other countries line up with the Fascists or with Russia, thus dividing Europe into two great armed camps as it was in 1914. Another world war, while ‘perhaps not absolutely inevitable, seems so overwhelmingly probable that any intelligent discussion of the human future must be predicated upon its occurrénce within a decade at the outside.

Dr. Barnes

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Hugo Black Charges His Accusers With Intolerance for Attacking Him; The Justice's Record Reveals He Has Said: 'Once Biased, Always Biased."

ASHINGTON, Oct. 5—"“Guilty as charged!” This Black business is being talked to death but not enough attention has been paid to the actual sense of His Honor Hugo's astonishing defiance. The Bill of Rights is of great importance. Any- | body who starts anything against the right of religion 'is a menace. While he was away somebody did start something—a concerted effort to fan the flame of prejudice. How? By trying to tell people that. Mr. Black is intolerant. His Senatorial record refutes that. He did” join the Klan but later resigned. . The unsolicited “card” (permanent Klan membership card) given to him after his nomination to the Senate is not a membership. He has no racial prejudices. And now, so far as he is concerned, the discussion ends forever. Loe NHAT is a paraphrase of the pifie which some Democratic politicians had the cool crust to call a frank and sufficient answer. It was Mr. Black who put on the livery of organized intolerance. His defense is to accuse his accusers of intolerance for telling on him. It is they, not he, says Hugo, who “fan the fires” of prejudice. : -His sour screed is packed with similar Showings o of that kind of mind. He never regarded his “unso-

licited” Permanent Klan ‘membership card as meaning . :

® : : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. —Voltaire.

BLACK CALLED UNFIT FOR HIGHEST COURT

By M. H. R., Anderson

. After listening to the .programs |.

which radio audiences wildly applaud, after frequently reading in the papers of child-marriages, after driving on the highways amid the motor maniacs, after hearing some of the evangelistic chauvinists, after overhearing the gossip of my neighbors, after viewing the stepchildren from Hollywood Stewbrains, after contemplating the cause and effect of our redundant laws, I am almost willing to capitulate to the hairbrained idea that Hugo Black wouid make a Supreme Court Justice worthy of his country’s heterogeneous constituency. Seriously, the polemic question concerning Hugo Black and the Supreme Court is reduced to this: Any man who has no more intelligence than to accept the narrow code of the Ku-Klux Klan cannot possibly be fitted to weigh justice on the bench of the highest court for a nation made up of foreigners, Negroes, Catholics, Jews and Protestants. ” on ”

BELIEVES FARLEY WOULD MAKE GOOD AUTO BUILDER By Daniel Francis Clancey, Logansport

After all, some. politicians only have two major faults—lying at election time and stealing between

elections. And, of course, cne mi- |.

nor fault—smiling too much. . .

| The last I heard of it, no one was

willing to pay $100,000 for the privilege of sponsoring the World Series. It looks like radio-adver-tisers are running low on cash, or the Americans are turning to more serious things—probably the advertisers are low on cash. , .. So Jim Farley is going to work for an auto company? Well, well, he'll be a good man in that line—Jim always could keep a machine in running order and well oiled. ... “Lel thy servants be such as thou mayest

command, and entértain none about

thee but those to whom thou givest wages,” said Sir Walter Raleigh. Our politicians follow his advice, I'd say. ... . . Summer's over, and straw hats, striped ties, tricolor shirts and white shoes have all disappeared from the American scene. And those who wore white shoes were pretty lucky, because, but for one thing, I would surely have marked 'em out as vacuum-headed, 100 per cent American, herd-minded, sillybillies—the reason I kept quiet was that I wore a pair myself. » ” » REPORTS ‘KLAMATH’ HAS NO RELATION TO BLACK By D. K. Naming a Federal reclamation project “Klamath” had nothing to do with the Black appointment. . Rep. Sumners told the American Bar Association that “the Jeople” have lost control of the U. S. Gov-

what it said. He didn’t keep it! and return it?

and Kleagled to get office.

Did he decline i

No—like many politicians of that time, he Klanned He took all the advan-

(Times readers are invited . to express their views in “these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be . withheld on request.)

ernment. Maybe he meant those present. . . . Some Southern statesmen seem to feel that Uncle Sam should be too busy handling their cotton problem to bother about wages and hours. » ” ” BLACK-KLAN AFFAIR HELD SEASON’S BEST JOKE

By Reader, Frankfort The Hugo Black-Klan issue has proved to be the biggest joke of “he

‘season.

What there is in Klanship to de-

prive one of his citizenship or eligibility for Supreme Court member-

ship, nobody knows. Yet the opponents of the President, including Republicans and Republican-Demo-

crats, have been dressing up to go to’ town ‘ever. since Justice Black's appointment was approved. And

PRAYER FOR CHINA By RUTH SHELTON

Out through the land grim, ugly . rumors seep— War—undeclared—but war, is being done! Shall Chinése mother wring her hands and weep? Shall Chinese father and his plodding son -

-Watch, in dumb, stricken, cringing,

hating shame, Strange death-birds their sunny sky, And villages flare into licking flame, And fellow-men go straggling homeless by? Or shall they, seizing up broadsword and gun, Haste i ‘defend the great land that they love, Though children die and crimson rivers run? We do not know . . . God above, Look Thou on China tenderly, we Pray: Undeclared war may come to us some day.

DAILY THOUGHT

Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.—Luke 15:10. ®

darkening

but Mighty

HE angels may have wider spheres of action and nobler

++ | forms of duty than ourselves, bul

truth and right to them are one and the same H. Chapin.

nd to us hing. —E.

now they find themselves all dressed up and no place to go. One of the breathless moments was supposed to have been when 1eporters greeted Justice Black at the wharf. Well, what did they get? One of the best jokes about th2 whole fiasco is that the Republicans announced that they would keep still and let the Democrats fight it out. The reason they keep still is because they have to when the Klan issue is stirred. Let no one be deceived into believing they (the Republicans) have been reformed in their methods. A 8 8

CHARGES BINGO AND BEANO REALLY GAMBLING By Interested Reader

Poker, blackjack or keno still would be gambling games even though called by other names. Bingo and beano are disguised names for these games. The only difference is, instead of using a deck of cards, cards with numbers are used. These games are being played by children as well as adults throughout the city. Why is it that Judge Baker in his drive to stop gambling in the city has failed to make any mention in the papers or take any notice to these games? Also if marble games are slot machines as Judge Baker classes them, why does ‘the city issue licenses for them? A license is a legal permit to operate them; also if the Judge holds they. are illegal, will the city refund the license fee paid by the owners? Why should there be exceptions of anything that comes in the ealggory of gambling? . 2 8 ‘#

SCHENECTADY POLICE TO FIGHT FIRES, TOO

By George E. Currier, National Safely Council : When is a policeman not a policeman? . When he is a fireman! Equipped with two-way radios, Schenectady’s (N. Y.) police “prowl” cars often arrive at fires ahead of the Fire Department. City Manager C. A. Harrell called Chief of Police William H. Funston, asked him to equip all prowl cars with a fire extinguisher as part of standard equipment and to have the men instructed in their use. Policemen will fight fires until the firemen arrive. : » » 2 BAR'S ATTITUDE ON CHILD LABOR BRINGS COMMENT

By R. G. The National Bar Association shelved a resolution on Child Labor legislation, admitting that “they were not peculiarly fitted to pass on such legislation.” It is surprising that they admit such fallibility. Reasoning along that line, then, what makes them think they are peculiarly fitted to pass on financial or economie legislation? :

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Accredited Spanish War Dispatch Presented as Evidence That Rebel Franco Is Just Another Fascist.

EW YORK, Oct. 5.—Anybody who has ever done any newspaper work around an army in war time learns to distrust atrocity stories. Rumors travel as fast as ma-

chine gun bullets and go much farther. Ale most invariably it is impossible to run the.. I still re.

tale of horror down to its original source. member wasting two days along the Western Front 1n pursuit of the man who was supposed to have seen.a

Canadian soldier crucified by the -

Germans. There were at least-a dozen British officers who assured me that the story was authentic, but the soldier who had seen it was

always some captain located in »

village 20 kilometers away. Truth will not stand the strain

of being passed through half a hun- -

dred hands. Today Spain stands as a particularly fertile field for the manufacture of atrocity stories. one doubts that the conflict has been extraordinarily brutal, and certain aspects of the campaign consti= tute a kind of guerilla warfare where anything can happen. But the strictness of the

Mr. Broun

censorship and the difficulties of news coverage prac-

tically preclude a reliable check on many of the most blood-curdling yarns which are current among the sympathizers on either side. . = » » : 2 : UT I feel that an exception must be made for the latest report upon the progress of Franco's crue sade to civilize Spain. The story in question comes from a large news agency and carries the caption,

“With Spanish Insurgent Armies,” which would mean .

that it emanated from an accredited reporter with.

“Franco's forces, and that the story had been duly

read and passed by the Spanish Rebel censorship. Franco's Foreign Legion is made up of Italian and German volunteers and men of many other nations. By chance the organization also included a sergeant who happened to be Spanish. He decided to back to his own people, and during the fighting around Madrid he slipped across the lines and joined the Loyalists. A few days later he was recaptured.

- 8. 8 8 ERE is the story as passed by Franco's censor? “His regiment was called out on parade and

he was marched the length of the ranks. Then his‘

battalion was called forward, and in front of his bate

No -

v

talion his company was called out: He was rolled the

length of the company under the feet of the men he: had deserted. He was kicked to death by their hobe--

nailed boots. A bullet or a knife was too good for him, the Legion felt.” Now this thing did not occur up an alley. It was not done in hot blood. There was no breach of disci= pline.- A formal order of the commanding officer was carried out, and far from veiling the incident the

story is proudly given out to the world as an ex- -

ample of the might, glory and power of Franco. It is given out advisedly because it fits into the cardinal tenet of the creed of fascism, . These men would conquer the world by posting terror upon the pathway of mankind. They will have

"their answer, and let. us hear no more from those

who say that Franco is a dedicated soul who fights

only to serve a holy cause,

The ‘Washington Merry- Go- pound

President Roosevelt on Present Tour Purposely Left Behind His Advidaist

He Is Traveling Without Them in Order to Gather Own Impressions, -

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

N RQUTE WITH THE PRESIDENT, Oct. 5.— One significant difference marks this trip from all others Roosevelt has made. His entourage is com-

tage the card gave him. Perhaps, as he did 15 years

later, he deceived Klan Komrades by ‘silence. For he would have been defeated then if he had repudiated the Klan as surely as he would have been defeated for the Court if he had confessed the Klan. » # ” TLXIS HONOR HUGO is not the only Kluxer in the seats of the mighty. At the start of the Klan a lot of good men went wrong. Since this explosion, I'll bet there has been a mighty searching and destruction of old records. | - Mr. Black’s Klanhood-isn't the point. Mr. Black's silent’ fraud is what counts. His suggestion that his Senatorial record proves his devotion to the Bill of Rights doesn’t fit with his unconstitutional, unreasonable and unlawful search and seizure of private telegraph files. What can be done about all this? Nothing. His dropping of all discussion was a tart rebuke to public protest. All we can do is pray that the ordeal ‘has broadened him. But as he himself once implied in

a prejudiced. attempt to prevent confirmation of

‘Hugh Tate to the ICC because he had once been a

corporation wl ok biased, always biased? The

prospect Pleaseth

pletely destitute of brain trusters and Democratic bigwigs. On all previchs Junkets the President was accompaniea by a corps of master minds and party chieftains. Last year Judge Sam Rosenman, original brain truster, took the campaign trip, also one or more Cabinet members and a flock of Senate leaders. His 1935 and 1934 trips equally were well attended. In 1932 his first election campaign trip was chaperoned by a small army of brain trusters and Democratic notables, headed by Prof. Ray Moley. But on the present trip the President is absolutely “on his own.” : Only members of his personal White House staff are with him. There isn’t a political big shot ‘or intellectual on ‘the: train. Everywhere along the route, local leaders and Congressional members have come aboard for a few hours, but that has been the extent of such participation. The President's lone-handed tactics are deliberate. He is purposely traveling unaccompanied in order to glean impressions and reactions strictly for himself. : Ree 3 J OVERNOR! BRAZILLA WORTH. CLARK of Idaho is notoriously absent-minded. “During the President's vist ba Boise, one of the

Secret Service men excitedly rushed through the special train inquiring for Mr. Clark. He found him eating with friends in the dining car. “Governor,” he said, “the President is waiting for Lou, You will recall you were to have lunch with

“Oh, yes,” replied Mr. Clark sheepishly, putting down his napkin. . = ” as : in ROSPECTS for re-election next year for Senator Frederick Steiwer, keynoter at the 1936 Repub= lican convention in Cleveland, are not bright. Oregon is ardently pro-New Deal. Even Senator Charles McNary, popular Republican floor leader, barely scraped through by 4700 votes last year. And he accomplished the feat solely by tending his own nine: saying nothing about Mr. Landon and Mr, Rae Steiwer's likely nemesis is. Willis Mahoney,” handsome, 40-year-old insurance salesman, who came

within a hair's-breadth of snatching Mr. McNary's .

scalp. A New Dealer, Townsendite, I. P. I. C. adherent and what-have-you, Mr. Mahoney already is

.in the field against Mr. Steiwer. He will address any -

gathering from two persons upward.

Despite the gloomy re-election outlook, Mr. Steiwer is stickihg by his anti-Administration guns. Just . before the recent New York miayoralty election, he. made public a telegram he had sent to Senator Royal. Copeland ‘wishing him success. Mr. Steiwer's friends : aired Ms" spui€ ut weaned af ie. poi) in

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