Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1937 — Page 39
FRIDAY, NOV. §, 1937
‘WERE SOFTIES, IDA M. TARBELL DECLARES AT 80
Last of ‘Muckrakers’ Says Political Corruption Is Still Problem.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (U. P)—A stately, gray-haired woman of 80 squared her slender shoulders today and with a touch of scorn in her voice declared, “The trouble with this country is we're soft.” It was Ida M. Tarbell, last of the “muckrakers,” giving a birthday interview. “We think we have got to be upholstered against life,” she said. “We can't stand cold. We can't stand hunger. We can't stand hardships. Everything comes too easy.” But she could have excused herself from the charge of softness. After more than half a century of literary toil she is still working. “I have three books in progress now,” she said, indicating a dictaphone beside the crowded desk in her “workshop” apartment. The woman whose “History of the Standard Oil Company” is a monument of “trust-busting” days, smiled when the term “muckrakers” was mentioned.
Wrote Many Exposes
President Theodore Roosevelt applied it to her and other writers of the era whose “editorial jaunts” about the country resulted in exposes of industrial greed and corruption in cities. “We could use a little muckraking of the old kind today,” she said. “Political corruption and industrial pig-headedness still exist.” Among other problems she listed race prejudice, violence in labor relations, destruction of cultures in dictator countries and the inequitable distribution of wealth in the “richest country in the world.” But the most distressing mani-
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the “deterioration of our national character.” Did we learn anything from the depression? she was asked. “That's one of the melancholy things. I can’t see that we have. The Government has attempted too many things at once and the result is economic and political con-
fusion.” Pleased at Elections
But the election victories of Mayor ¥. H. La Guardia and Thomas E. Dewey in New York City, she said, were “very encouraging.” The political defeat of the Committee for Industrial Organization in Detroit did not surprise Miss Tarbell. The C. I. O. she said, “is too violent.” Industrial relations are “on a war basis,” and, she added, “there is no more excuse for war in industry than there is for war between nations.” Labor, industrial and diplomatic leaders all should commit themselves to policies of ‘genuine cooperation, conciliation and refusal to go to war,” she said. “When are you going to stop working and start resting?” Miss Tarbell was asked. “I can't stop,” she said. “I don’t some under social security.”
COMMITTEE TO STUDY SECURITY PROBLENS
Old-Age Pension Provisions May Be Attacked.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (U. P.) — The Social Security Advisory Committee, representing labor, employers and the public-at-large, meets today to discuss the problems and recent attacks on the Government’s huge social security program. Two new attacks on the old-age benefits provisions were expected. Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) will present to the Committee a survey he has made of the old-age reserve account—a backlog of accumulated taxes and interest calculated to reach $47,000,000,000, in 1980 —and offer his arguments in favor of a pay-as-you-go policy. Labor leaders from the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization will offer programs designed to hasten the date when old-age benefits will begin, increase the monthly benefits and expand the act to include other classes of workers.
LAWRENCEBURG HIT BY SECOND BLAZE
LAWRENCEBURG, Nov. 5 (U. P.) —Damage of $600 resulted from a fire which destroyed the John Oberting Cafe last night, the second blaze in as many nights to threaten Lawrenceburg’'s downtown section. Two cooks, Patrick Ashford, Superior, Wis.,, and Charles Burke, Lawrenceburg, were forced to slide down a drain pipe from a second story window to escape the flames. In Wednesday night's fire, a grocery store, a law office and the Federal Employment Agency were damaged to the extent of $25,000.
Fire Destroys Club
Near Lafayette
LAFAYETTE, Nov. 5 (U.P)—A fire destroyed the Crystal Springs clubhouse four miles south of Lafayette yesterday with loss estimated at $2000.
INDIANA, MICHIGAN BEER PARLEY OPENS
LANSING, Mich., Nov. 5 (U, P.). —Tndiana and Michigan representatives meet here today to discuss possible circumvention of Michigan’s new antidiscriminatory beer law. At the State Liquor Control Commission’s office, representatives of the Commission and Attorney General’'s departments of both States were to argue with brewers’ counsels concerning a method of setting aside Indiana’s present discriminatory act to prevent financial loss to Indiana beer manufacturers, largest Importers of beer into this state.
Their infantiy held back by Chinese resistance, the Japanese blast anti a road to Shanghai. The flames and smoke of villages mark the advance. Foe and noncombatants alike are targets.
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stem the foe's advance.
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‘REVOLT’ PREDICTED IN SPECIAL SESSION
WARSAW, Nov. 5 (U. P.)—Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, of the Second Indiana District, told Republican Party workers here last night that the special congressional session opening Nov. 16 will be one of revolt against President Roosevelt.
“People of the nation will see more revolt and independent action in the special session than in all the years of the New Deal,” he said.
“Congress is going to turn on the dreamy-eyed, star-eyed boys who are long on education and short on experience,” he declared. “If Roosevelt had not been so stubborn about the Court Packing Bill which kept Congress in session five long months, a special session might not have been necessary.” Arch Bobbit, newly elected State Republican Chairman, also spoke,
16TH CENTURY ART ON VIEW AT HERRON
An exhibit of 16th and 19th Century artists opened today at the John Herron Art Institute in the south and west galleries of the institute. About 150 members of the Indianapolis Art Association viewed the exhibit last night. Some of the paintings are owned by the institution and others have been loaned by private families.
'SERGEANT'S WIFE
S BURNED IN FIRE
Blaze Sweeps Through Frame House at Fort.
Burned on the hands when fire swept through a two-family frame apartment at Ft. Benjamin Harrison today, Mrs. Nan Reik, wife of Sergt. Marcus Reik, was taken to the Post Hospital for treatment. The Post Hospital reported her burns were not serious. The apartment was in flames when help arrived. The apartment was located west of the parade grounds, near the C. M. T. C. camp site. Post fire aparatus extinguished the blaze, The adjoining apartment was damaged by water, but only slightly by fire. It is occupied by Sergt. Ernie K. Thorton, his wife and two children, Mary Ernestine, 9, and Jefferson, 7 weeks. Sergt. Thornton was on duty at the time, and his family escaped without injury. It was reported that Sergt. Reik and his two children, Catherine, 5, and Marcus J., were not at home when the fire started. A military board will be appointed
to determine cause of the fire and estimate loss, it was announced.
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MICE BLAMED FOR FIRE
Mice gnawing on matches were blamed by firemen for starting a blaze today in the home of Jessie Carpenter, 223 Spring St. Loss was $50. Firemen said they believed mice had carried matches into a
nest between a ceiling and floor above,
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NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (U.P.).—One of Vice President John N. Garner's | boyhood associates, whose father | called him the “blacksheep of the family” because he wouldn't “study and amount to something like Johnny,” came back to the United States today satisfied after a 25year absence in South America that he had “done all right anyhow.” He was William Lewis, weatherbeaten and grizzled owner of a 10,-000-acre ranch at Concepcion in the disputed Gran Chaco area of Paraguay. He returned on the Munson liner Southern Cross. Garner's father was Lewis’ father's attorney. The two boys grew up together in Uvalde, Tex. Lewis’ father wanted him to study law, “like Johnny,” but the love of cattle | | proved too strong. | - He did work in Garner's office a | | while, Lewis said, “but instead of | Johnny's teaching me the law I
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[to use a rope. I did pretty well, | too, because Johnny won first prize [in a dude roping contest at a rodeo . h ‘ [in 1902.” “Hell, IT think I've done pretty well, and I'm going to stop off in | | Washington on my way to Texas to
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BELGRADE, Nov. 5 (U, P).—Saving a black cat nearly cost the life of Mehmed Masho, a tramway conductor of Sarajevo. As his tramcar was rounding the corner of Voyvoda Stepe St, Mehmed saw the cat com-
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