Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1937 — Page 12

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TUESDAY, NOV. 23, 1937

MAKESHIFT MINDED? O much has been accomplished through sheer traffic law enforcement in recent months that we wish it were not necessary to point out so many failures. But unfortunately, it will be our job to criticize City officials until they see fit to spend the money and manpower needed to establish a permanent system of traffic control in Indianapolis. So far most of their efforts have been like treating a broken leg with a shot in the arm. Lieut. Franklin M. Kreml, in a letter to The Times yesterday, said it was “useless” to install a scientific accident prevention system here until City officials show a “willingness” to supply necessary equipment. This nationally famed safety expert was invited here months ago by Chief Morrissey and former Mayor Kern. Lieut. Kreml offered to come, with his staff, at no expense to the City, and set up a permanent program. He attended one preliminary meeting here; his representatives came for two others. But City Council refused to supply the straw of men and equipment with which these experts could make the lasting bricks of traffic safety. Under extreme public pressure, the City is proceeding with a makeshift program. While the results are gratifying, there is no guarantee of permanence or full effectiveness. Mayor Boetcher inherited the traffic problem at its worst, the safety program in its infancy. His record depends as much on how he meets this problem as upon any other single issue. Certainly some means can be found to bring Lieut. Kreml or other competent experts here at once to do the job.

CHASE THAT WOLF!

“HE mayors of leading cities seem to be in much the same case as the boy in the fable who cried “wolf! wolf!” too often. The mayors have made so many demands for more Fed-

eral unemployment relief money that their latest resolution | | ficial morals.

| not establish a defensive state lot-

is not getting the attention it deserves. This time they are talking about a very real, very dangergus wolf. Here, briefly is the situation: 1. The Federal Government, which promised to provide

money to do the job completely—not even when there were more than three million people on WPA payrolls. At this time WPA, trying to obey Congress and make a $1,500,000,"000 relief appropriation last a full 12 months, has cut its payrolls under 1,500,000. 2. Many lecal governments claim to be straining their resources to the breaking point at the job assigned to them, which is to provide direct relief to unemployable persons. They are doing little or nothing for employables left out of the Federal program. 3. And now the wolf appears—a recession in business and industry which is throwing still more employable people out of private jobs, with its present appropriation, WPA can increase its payrolls to two million, for a time in midwinter. The mayors fear that won't be nearly enough to meet the real need if unemployment continues to grow. So they resolve that, unless the depression is halted, WPA must provide far more work relief jobs than are now planned, and Congress must vote more relief money. 5 n un un 8 n UT if Congress does vote more relief money it must increase Federal taxes or accept responsibility for making this year’s Government deficit bigger, and for destroying hope of a balanced budget next year. Higher taxes or bigger deficits might speed up the recession and make unemployment worse. Or, the Government might abandon work relief and spread the money now available more thinly in a direct relief dole. More unbalanced budgets, or more taxes, or the dole— we hope no choice will have to be made among these evils. And, as the mayors’ resolution indicates, no such choice will be necessary-—if the recession is halted, if business and in-

to work instead of laying them off. The thing to do is to chase that wolf away—now.

CHERRY TREE ‘TRAITORS’ EP. VIRGINTA JENCKES' proposal to chop down Washington's beautiful Japanese cherry trees would

be amusing except for the war-breeding hate psychology |

it insinuates.

‘The pink-blossoming trees have become a “symbol of |

traitorism and disloyalty,” Indiana's woman member of Congress from Terre Haute is quoted as telling the D. A. R. She would cut them down to show the world how we stand on the Japanese-Chinese war. So the cherry trees that Japan sent as a goodwill gift to America 30 years ago have become subversive influences! Thousands of unsuspecting Tidal Basin visitors have been inhaling Nipponese propaganda when they thought it was the fragrance of pink petals! Someone suggests we should also do something about the more destructive Japanese beetle, the competitive Spanish onion, or the ‘fascist” Brazil nut. . We believe one of Mrs. Jenckes’ feminine colleagues expressed the opinion of most Americans when she said that killing the cherry trees would be like slashing a great Italian painting because of a dislike for Mussolini.

ABOVE ALL

MSS PAULINE CROOK, head of the Personal Grooming Department at Stephens College in Missouri, is quoted as follows: “The well-groomed woman should, above all other things, wash her neck. Too many women slight their necks. In the morning they think they’re clean and merely apply an oval of make-up, which stands out in sharp outline.” It may be so. We haven't noticed the necks of many well-groomed women lately—not since well-groomed women started wearing their present hats. Nothing seems able to compete for attention with such hats.

| the others with a state lottery. | tage exists in the fact that neither Nevada's books nor

| the prosperity of the bootlegger.

| amendment, | states, requires several years more.

| cause uncertainty and delay.

Talking Turkey !-By Talburt

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TUESDAY, NOV. 23, 1987

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By Westbrook Pegler

Nevada, Lacking Hypocrisy, Has Chance to Grab Cash by Lottery, And Pegler Asks for No Apologies.

EW YORK, Nov. 23.—These dispatches recently contained a reference to the absence of fancy morals in the State of Nevada and a suggestion that, of all our states, this

one was best prepared to get the jump on This advan-

her public opinion ever had been cluttered with artiNew York, on the other hand, could

tery to reverse the flow of New

York money to Nevada's public | treasury in less than half a dozen : | years. work relief for employable persons, has never spent enough |

First, it would be necessary to convince the people that their moral objections to lotteries were really unimportant, a process which would take time and pressure. But even believers in prohibition eventually waived their objections to repeal in favor of the revenue and in resentment against If Nevada were to start a state Mr. Pegler lottery today her tickets would sell in New York by the million in spite of everything the Postoffice Department, the Department of Justice and the New York State Government might do to exclude them. Nevada would get rich, and the people of New York—and other states, of course—would compel themselves to abandon a principle by way of retaliation and self-protection. In this they would be assisted by reminders that, after all, the antilottery laws and sentiment were not any of their doing, but an inheritance from a generation long dead.

n n o UT, having prepared public sentiment, the proponents of defensive lotteries would have to proceed through the tedious method of constitutional which, in New York and some other

Meanwhile, Nevada would be cleaning up, and by the time the other states could get into serious competitive action Nevada would have sucked the orange fairly dry and be heeled for a taxless existence far into the future. I mentioned Florida as another possible pioneer, but Florida is hampered by an hypocrisy which would Florida's principles and customs are no better than those of Nevada. She has gambling joints, but tolerates them on the graft and

| corruption system instead of accepting the name along with the game. Nevada is frank and forthright, whereas Florida | pretends to respectability.

§ A NGELY. there appears to be no book dealing with the innate character and the present day

A . . : ; ' habits of Nevada, a lack which I trust will be re- | dustry regain momentum, if private enterprise puts people | 1 pb people | | press agents, who describe her on their letterheads as

paired by some author in search of a character. Her

“one sound state,” give only a rather statistical and

materialistic hint of the story in boasting of an existence comparable to that of Monte Carlo. where |

there is no state income tax, no inheritance tax, no stock transfer tax, and a per capita tax of wealth the highest in the country. Fugitive tax slaves are invited to establish legal residence in Nevada, and the names are cited of many wealthy runaways who have done so already As to the fascinating character of the state, the presentment is slightly apologetic, ‘defending Reno as being no better or worse than any other city of equal size. That is a little disappointing. I hope Nevada Is not going to start casting bouquets at herself. Florida never has fooled anybody, and Nevada's frankness has been one of her charms.

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The Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

what you say, but will

PUTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR | RECOVERY ON CONGRESS By R. F. Paine There is much talk about “a recession in business,” “a slipping | backward of the progress toward | normalcy,” etc, and there are strong symptoms that such is the | |trend. There are even reports that | President Roosevelt is considering |

to express

troversies

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

| is great, public welfare is greater {and if interest can be aroused and | the proper pressure applied to our | legislative bodies, laws can be made |'to stop the sale of cars to persons | who are not competent to under- | stand the simplest rules of safety. | Make the manufacturer and his dealers responsible for their share of accidents, and for putting their products in the hands of person:

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Letters must

| the application of more billions to | | the condition, even if balancing of | "the budget has to be put on the

New building, save as to Govern-

ment subsidized projects, is falling | |off. Business is not borrowing

a thrill out of speed; that he en- | joyed easing his inferiority complex o,. annual reports. | by shooting two tons of metal— | mounted on rubber—through the | pr AMES ADMINISTRATION |air at the rate of a mile in 31 seconds, and that no system of brakes can stop it and save him and his | | passengers from death or terrible |

he has no adequale idea that injury in a car accident too often consists of crushed bones, broken backs, smashed skulls, leaving the victims worse off than if] they had been killed outright. Peril on Highway

- {and the ghastly figures of 37,000

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FOR SLAP AT BUSINESS | By M. H. R. Anderson

| could think of to ruin you and make

This lad is typical of many who | ministration, which has done every- | infest the fine highways of Indiana, | thing it could think of to ham-

| who at once become public menaces, |

| dead and a half million injured will | soon be reduced to a minimum in

What would you do if vou were | | my neighbor and T did everything 1]

| you look bad in the eyes of the | like |

| There is uncertainty as to the ef- | fects of the contemplated and going trade deals with the foreign peoples. is not a slot machine. mal conditions, it knows where it is at and has convictions as to

Legitimate business | Under nor- |

| where it is coming out, and it is |

| perfectly natural that it should hold back as to investment and extention when lacking reliable assurance as to certainties, .h But, recession is like a child’ {| snowball; it increases in size and speed so long as permitted to roll without interference The para- | mount endeavor of Congress should be the stopping of the business re-

NE nm LR ey string private industry, is now comurable in the country | ing forward and asking favors of There are other traffic pests—the| those whom it tried to cripple. drunken driver, the sleepyhead, and Can you imagine the President he ECO DO oO oem. | Smiling his billion dollar smile and mate nuisance and peril is the| saying so coyly to the industrialists: brainless calf who “cuts her loose’ | “My friends, I have taxed vou at a rate of speed beyond any pos-| through my playful Congress to the si A e I about ‘this prob- | point of confiscation, but it was just lem? Plenty Such persons may pe 8 joke and really, now, my kept from driving. precisely as they friends. I don't bear you any ill-will. may be kept from the ownership Cross my heart! and promiscuous use of other lethal | Urges Harmony weapons—and the motor car has| «Now, boys, let's get together, it’s certainly earned the right to be peginning to look like a tough win-

dear |

| cession snowball. classed as lethal! All this not as a brief for business | so much as for the many millions | who finally depend upon business. | | The welfare of the country requires | the prompt rectification of the New | | Deal's proven mistakes, else all of | {the New Deal's great accomplish- | | ments may prove to be discredited | and futile.

No wind to fly

> * » | SPEEDER’'S REMARK | DRAWS PROTEST

| By Hector, Crawfordsville An immature employee of a local | | concern was overheard telling a} | group of friends of his experiences with his new car: “I got her up to 116 miles on a| stretch of straight road; then I ‘tried her out on that bad double |curve east of town, She made 65, on the curve, but I believe she can | | beat that. I'll give her another | tryout next Sunday.” | According to the speedometer, the | dealer had not underrated the ca- | | pabilities of the car, and the boy was telling the truth. That much! he knew. | But he didn't know the accounts]

omy 24:14,

| of road tragedies which are printed |ter than a pound of preaching.—

daily. He only realized that he got Bulwer.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Antilynching Bill Is Simply “Trick of New Deal to Dominate South: Measure Is Attempt to Break Down U. S. Principle of Dual Government.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—I have spoken analyzing the main objections to the Antilynching Bill, and Mr. Mark Sullivan has written on it very clearly. But there has been a considerable request that it be discussed here again, so, at the risk of repetition, here goes, The public thinks this is a bill to make lynching a Federal crime. The principal poll of public opinion, which is frequently cited as showing a 70 per cent majority, asked “Do you favor making lynching a Federal crime?” This bill does no such thing. It defines lynching as three or more persons taking and injuring or killing a person charged with, suspected or convicted of a crime. When this happens, the responsible state or municipal officer who wilfully neglected his duty, or failed to arrest the lynchers, can be tried by a Federal Court and, if convicted, sent to the penitentiary as a felon. Also, in behalf of any person so injured or killed, the U. S. Attorney General, using Federal funds, can bring a civil suit against any town where such a thing occurred and collect damages up to $10,000.

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TT Antilynching Bill is attempted under the 14th Amendment. That was one of three amendments that freed the slaves, gave them citizenship and the right to vote, and guaranteed them equal protection of the laws. Under these provisions also, the new radical Republicans after 1865 sought to send Federal officers into the South and enfranchise the whole Negro race as Republicans,

It partly succeeded for 20 years until the courts invalidated most of the legislation. Lynching and mob violence are particularly dangerous and despicable crimes. Few statesmen dare go against what the public has been ballyhooed into believing is an antilynching bill no matter how bad or dangerous it is on other grounds. Due to state action, lynching has almost disappeared—from hundreds of cases years ago, mostly in the North—to nine last year. This, besides being a bad issue, is a fake issue. Why is it raised? » ” 5 HE Negro vote in the four pivotal states of greatest electoral votes is large enough to swing any close election. Negroes now are mostly New

Dealers. Third New Dealers believe this bill will keep

the objections of people who think our system of dua! state and national government should be preserved. They don't want it preserved. They want a modi-

discontents of all kinds. They want to break up the old democracy of the Solid South and rebuild a Third New Deal Party of Negroes, the unemployed, aliens and all those who claim a class grievance—to break down the states and constitutional guarantees and centralize all political power where they can control it. This attempt is just one in a cluster of bills to centralize government and impair the constitutional power of both Congress and the states.

BAS RELIEF By KEN HUGHES

The pdinted leaf toward sky— How still the night! But the frosty moon Brings shadows soon And its pale light— How different, scene! No man can grow Or dimension know Until he thinks— How still the mind! But God may send His light to blend— How different, man!

DAILY THOUGHT

Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.-—Deuteron-

them so permanently, and they care not a hoot for |

fled Fascist front in a Federal dictatorship based on |

ter. There's a lot of votes out there

Although the automobile industry I'm going to’ lose if we don't get > = We're cutting down | (relief, too, so I can't hold 'em that |

|'em some jobs

|way. How about it, boys, if we let | up on the taxes a little bit, will you see me through on this? That surplus profits tax and that corporation gains tax, they were just an idea of one of the boys. But I've punished the boy—I sent him back to college—so see, everything is just jim-dandy. No hard feelings, eh. boys?” At this point the imaginary industrialists eye each other with distinct alarm, and one says to an-

where; maybe he's been listening to some of his own speeches.”

tem is to survive, the Administration must work harmoniously with private industry.

ministration has fact that it cannot

recognized

sistance of the “boys” who supply the jobs for the workers who are voters, who control its destiny.

| sure!

other: “There's a hooker ir it some-

Seriously, if the capitalistic Sys- |

At least, however, the present Ad- | the | solve its most | disturbing problem without the as- |

Merry-Go-Round

By Pearson & Allen

| Antilynching Measure Reason Why | ‘Cotton Ed' Smith's Senate Group | Suddenly Decided to Rush Farm Bill.

| | WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—The President has the Antilynching Bill to thank for the Senate Agriculture Committee's sudden burst of speed in rushing out a farm measure. He could have prodded committee chairman “Cotton Ed” Smith until the cows came home and the mellifluous South Carolinian would have | taken his own sweet time. Senator Smith had told newsmen it would be weeks before his committee would have the farm bill ready But two days later, when the backers of the Antilvnching Bill had forced it before the Senate, “Cotton Ed” was warbling a different tune. “We'll have a bill out by next Monday,” he announced, “even if 1t consists of nothing more than a blank piece of paper with a number. We can work out the details on the floor.” Reason for this abrupt change was: | Ee 4 a barrage of outcries from Southern | EE 1 colleagues that Senator Smith's delay il on the farm bill was playing squarely into the hands of the antilynching bloc. 3 Under the agreement made at the ; close of last session, the farm bill | takes precedence over all other legis- | Robert Allen 1.ti6n The minute it reaches the floor | of the Senate everything else, including the Anti- { lynching Bill, returns to the shelf So “Cotton Ed's” colleagues put the heat on, re- | minded him that he was up for re-election next year, that his opponents wowd make the most of his farm ~ | bill delay and consequent indirect aid to the Anti« lynching Bill. “Cotton Ed” is no dumbbell politically. this in a flash.

Drew Pearson

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ENATOR SMITH faces a tough battle in -

South Carolina to hold his seat Young Governor Olin Johnston is after his scalp and is accusing “Cotton Ed” of being an enemy of the farmer. He cites as proof the fact that Senator Smith's committee did nothing about a farm bill last session. Fact is, “Cotton Ed” doesn't want marketing or production control, and would love nothing better than to cudgel the President. But South Carolina farmers are overwhelmingly for control—as Senator Smith learned forcefully at a hearing he conducted in Co=lumbia, S. C., last month. After a speech in which he took some left-handed slaps at regulation, Smith shouted: “I want to know what vou fellows right from the hoe-handle think. How many favor compulsory con= trol?”

very

un 5 # UT of 600 cotton growers present, 575 raised their hands After the meeting, Senator Smith dolefully told a friend: “I wasn't feeling very good before that meet ing, but I'm a sick man now.” The Administration will depend on Louisiana's curly-haired Senator Ellender to carry the ball on thes control issue. The Huey Long protege is a red hot control advocate, urging it at all of the 12 Southern farm hearings. Senator Smith, incidentally, although chairman of the committee, attended only three of these meetings. ' While Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace want a farm bill with teeth, they are chary about going too far. They favor a ‘“‘middle-of-the-road” course. with cotton and tobacco under some form of compulsory control, and grains on a voluntary basis. The chances are strong that this is the kind of a measure Cone gress will pass.

According to Heywood Broun=—

Yule Log Isn't Such Good Timber After All on Which to Hew to the Line;

Confounding the Scoffer

TAMFORD., Conn., Nov. 23.—I worked at least 35 minutes this morning cutting up a tree for firewood, and this makes the first full day I have ever put in at manual labor. Although proud of myself, the man whom I will envy from this day forth is that fellow in the circus who saws a woman in two. There's your true lumberjack After all in addition to the saw I had an ax, an iron crowbar and an old mashie niblick. To be sure, if the man saws the same woman in two at every matinee I assume that in time he becomes familiar with the grain. It was George Kaufman who said that this particular performer was the first ever to use the phrase, “Shall we join the ladies?” Still we are getting off the point which concerns my ordeal and not the job of the man in the circus. The first 10 minutes were easy enough. Indeed, I sang at my work as I raised the ax and let fly.

® » =» UT presently I could no longer continue as the singing woodsman. lungs. Indeed, I felt as I had in the last two and a half minutes of the game against the Yale freshman basketball team which we played 31 years ago. And

so I engaged in the fantasy of pretending that the tree was the Yale (Yule, i. e.) log, and I was the alert Harvard aggregation. Every time I slammed the maple with the crowbar I would cry, “So you're the great Clint Frank, are you?” :

There was no air in my |

Is Merely Playing Inte Doctor's Hands.

But, even so, defeatist thoughts crept in. “Cols | umns are made by fools like me,” IT mused, “but only Paul Bunyan can demolish a tree.” And as I thought of the terrific labor of the loggers who strip the forests td make a newspaper piece possible my face grew very red. But at this point help loomed up over the horizon in the form of a friend. Along the Ridge came driving good old Ten Percent Bye, the literary agent, in his new high-powered car.

u s ” " HAT are you doing, Heywood?” he asked. I eyed him coldly and, answering with more bitterness than wit, replied, “Manicuring my fingernails.” This struck him as funny for several reasons, but even as he laughed he leered. “Don't you know,” he said, “that just down at the foot of the hill there's a little store where you can get a whole armful of logs like that for a quarter? I'll take you down. In fact, T'll lend you the quarter.” I'll grant T was tempted, but I felt that I stood as a symbol for all men and that the time must come for us to make up our minds whether we are | lice or loggers. And so I answered with deeds rather than words. Raising the ax above my head, I took a full swing before 1 let drive at the tree. I didn't miss it by much, but it's lucky I wasn't wearing sneakers. The doctor thinks he can save the big toe and the little one and that with proper nursing I'll be around again in a month, -