Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1937 — Page 14
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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
MONDAY, DEC. 20, 1937
DR. WICKS, COMMUNITY LEADER
ATER 32 years Dr. Wicks of All Souls Unitarian Church |
has become a community institution. Announcement of his decision to retire from the pastorate comes as a surprise to a whole generation of Indianapolis citizens Who know him. Fortunately he will not retire into inactivity. In addition to continuing in the church as minister emeritus, he says he will keep up his wide activities in social service. That, indeed, is good news. He is recognized as an outstanding figure in cultural and social movements of civic progress. Indianapolis cannot afford to lose Dr. Wicks’ liberal leadership. We need more men like him,
PROMISING TOO MUCH
E confess our inability to understand the Farm Bill, now making its way through Congress. That inabil-
ity is shared by most of the Senators and Representatives
who are debating and voting on the bill. We do not know how dangerous the principles embodied in the bill may prove to be. We are sure there must be
some very dangerous ones, for even Secretary Wallace warns.
that it contains “an element of the same thing” that makes ~ for fascism and autocracy. But we do know two things about the bill: 1. It threatens to be dishonest by holding out to farmers a promise of benefits which may, under certain entirely possible circumstances, cost so much that the Government simply cannot afford to provide them. 2. It threatens to endanger the credit of the Government by leaving the door open for Congress to appropriate unlimited sums of money in an attempt to keep the promise to the farmers. : Some advocates of the bill admit that keeping that promise, under the entirely possible circumstances referred to above, might cost two billion dollars a year or more. But President Roosevelt has told Congress, in effect, this: “You should hold the cost of farm relief under this bill to 500 million dollars a year. That is all the Government can afford with its present revenues. If you make the cost of farm relief more than 500 million dollars a year, you will have to provide the additional revenue by new taxes.” Here are two more things we know: 1. Congress has no present intention of voting new taxes for farm relief. 2. The House has failed, and the Senate has reflsed, to write into the bill a definite provision limiting spending under it to 500 million dollars a year or to amy other amount. Therefore, if the bill passes Congress and goes to the President without any limit on spending, he should do what he has already plainly warned Congress he will do. He should veto the bill,
A CHRISTMAS GIFT SOUND s sentiment and sound business sense join in pleading with Congress to enact the pending Steagall Housing Bill before it adjourns for the holidays. Better and cheaper homes would be made possible under this proposed amendment to the Federal Housing Act. Its liberalized financing plan would enable a man with around ‘$500 cash to build a $4000 home and pay for it at 514 per cent interest in around 20 years. Given cheaper material costs and stabilized labor we might then look forward to a great and Invigorating rehousing boom in the spring. President Roosevelt says we need to build 800,000 new homes ‘a year for the next five years.. That many homes at $4000 each would prime private industry’s underworked pump with huge calls on raw materials, machinery, consumer goods and labor. We all want the best houses we can afford to own or rent. And millions of families will spend this Christmas in shanties and tenements too shabby to be worthy the name of home. We do not believe the Wagner-Steagall bill alone will do this great rehousing job. But it will help.
ARMY OF THE FUTURE?
ow many of the billions spent in New Deal emergency proj America’s capital equipment no one can know. But we venture that one of the most enriching of these public enterprises will prove to have been the Civilian Conservation Corps. More than reports, have been benefited by this first of the Roosevelt adventures in conservation. These enrollees were taken ofit of city byways and bread lines and sent out into the forests and plains to fight the good fight against nature’s adversaries. : An idea of the extent of their rebuilding may be gained from the reforestation records, disclosing that in the pres-
ent fiscal year the CCC Planted 365 million trees-—one .
‘million trees a day!
' The CCC has been extend until 1940, and a pending
_ bill would make it a permanent Government institution. We
hope we can afford to keep it, for it is making the pation a |’
safer, richer and more habitable place. Perhaps some day we will have only such a standing | atmy as this to police the out-of-doors against the real
mesnios of thevate infest of vo sefist Nrpotpetical human |
other busiress: whereas Washin
Wagner-
ts have gone into permanent enrichment of
{wo million young men, Director Fechner
For Enouoh
By Westbrook Pegler
Political and Social Aspirations Keep Nation's Capital in Turmoil; Columnist Finds Pretense Rampant.
VV ASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Whatever the state of the nation may be and whatever the state of the world, the capital of the
republic is feeling no pain at this writing
beyond the pangs of political and social ambition and the familiar tremors of chronic katzenjammer. Washington is unlike any other capital in the world. There is more Government help on hand
than in any other seat of government and the officials, the statesmen and heads of bureaus get around more freely than in London, Pgris or Rome. The British Government must have a large payroll in London, for example, and = undoubtedly there are times when the man at the next table in the cocktail room or the restaurant is someone down in Whitehall. But these other cities ‘have g- # p X ton’s only business is thé"Govern- * Mr. Pegler ment and the care and feeding of 3 those who work in‘the Government offices. And ‘it is a small city with few places of public resort for a personnel unusually restless. Some of the careers are short and men out of obscure circumstances are eager to see and be seen and identified as persons of importance for a moment, aware they will be forgotten soon and forever. There are well-dressed people vaguely described as lobbyists and what Chey do is a mystery. 2 8 8 HE large impression, though, is not of lobbying or mystery, and certainly not of worry over the responsibility of the most important government in the world, but of social excitement and bitter personal feyds between men and women who have fallen out over conflicts of authority and prestige or social precedence. Some of the unknowns who went whooping to the capifal to save the nation in the first Roosevelt Administration, have been shuffled back by now, and new marvels have come into tackle the confusion of a government grown so complex that it is impossible for anyone but a few earnest students of such things to remember who is of was who, So there is more talk of personal failure and who didn’t get a bid to the White House than of wages and hours or the recession which is the name applied to a depression when it plays a return engagement.
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HE big topic, after a few idle words have been
said about the Panay incident is the President's reception to the diplomatic corps, a dreadful mockery, at which the agents of some countries which are cutting one arother’s throat or preparing to do so at the first opportunity, showed up in a pretense of amity with swords clanking and medals tinkling on uniforms too preposterous for a comedian in a knockout movie. This one wore horsefeathers in his hat and tactfully avoided meeting that one with the red shawl looped over his shoulder as their countrymen a long way off were blasting each other in an undeclared war. And afterward there was a reception at historic Decatur House, the home of Mrs. Trukton Beale. At Mrs. Beale’s reception, where nobody got a drink, the light from the gas jets flickered over polished floors and vases of lilies because there is no electricity in his toric Decafur House. And as soon as the victims could breal: away: they took it on the run to some
. place where they coul¢l tank up.
Is this & scratchy picture and out of drawing? If 50, thanks hecause that is the scene I have been trying to give you,
— THE INDIANAPOLI TIMES — “Not a Gentleman i in the Whole Car !’—By Herblock
TE Y po NTHET 2
The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
(EDITOR'S NOTE—The follow/ing are a few of the hundreds of letters received by The Times Clothe-A-Child headquarters from those in need, those wishing to contribute, and those telling of families in distress.)
CHILD, 11, TELLS NEED OF HIS OWN FAMILY By a Brother
I would like to have some new clothes and shoes so I could go to school like other boys. I am 11 years old and have been out of school for a week because I am barefooted and my two sisters need clothes, too. They are wearing their summer dresses to school and they need shoes and stockings, too, and my little brother, 5, has no clothes to go outdoors these cold days. There are four of us children be-
sides my brother, 16, who has no : like a hain, with not: enough bed
clothes to sleep under and only one |
work now; he got laid off. My father works part time on the WPA and don’t make enough to buy us
-| any clothes. I wish somebody would noth- §
come after us;. we never | ing for Thanksgiving. e would like some good warm clothes like other children for Christmas. Our ages 13, 8, 5 and myself, 11. : 8 8 8 MOTHER OF FAMILY OF 10 APPEALS FOR CLOTHES By Mrs. D. L. H. Would you please consider dressing my children? I have two boys and two girls in grade school. I have a family of 10 and one son is working on WPA. My husband hasn’t had steady employment Zor five years and is in poor health. I think you are doing a wonderful thing and may God bless everyone who helps in this campaign. un DESCRIBES DISTRESS OF FAMILY OF EIGHT By Helper I am writing: about a real poor family in distress. There is a large family of them—five boys, one little girl and the parents. There are
three boys and the father able and |
willing to work at anything, but none of them has any work at all They even have to carry their
water and are living in a shack | that a friend let them have. Now, | Smoke above the roofs, wave bent, |
if there is any kind person who
wants to clothe a child or two, the |
little girl is 3 years old and a pretty child but has never had anything
to put on to look like what she].
should. The little boy is five and
can’t talk. Next year he will be|
school age and they have no way to have him cared for. Another boy the school board is going to get clothed this week. ¢ They have always had bad luck. The three older boys and father will do any kind of work. They are poor, Sood heared good workers,
(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.)
and honest and good natured. They won't have much of a Christmas unless some good person can’ help them. iL have a family of my own and my husband's work is down. We have had a pretty hard time this year ourselves, but if we could do anything for poor people we sure would, We have children and hate to see poor children without clothes. The shack this family.lives in is
heating stove to keep them warm. I don’t see why they haven't all gotten pneumonia long ago. ss = = ONE WHO HAS HELPED OTHERS NOW NEEDS HELP By a Needy Mother 1 have a T-year-old girl, and we are on relief and my husband cannot find work for our support. The only work we have had since June is four weeks part time. My child
“is in need of winter shoes and un-
derwear for school. I live with my mother who is a widow and supported by my sister who gets a few days’ work each week. : I have always placed my dimes
‘in the Mile-of-Dimes each year,
but I am one of the unfortunate ones this year that needs a- lift. Whether you can help us with my little girl or not, may luck be with your fine co-operation to the poor children of Indianapolis.
.WINTER ON THE CITY By VERL ARLEN
I'll take no pastoral loveliness That wakes the poets’ pity— Give me the chilly ugliness Of winter on the city.
The lines of autos sprawling, The trolleys’ brittle clank; And the dirty sunlight crawling Up the Merchants National Bank.
Like a blackened stubbled crop— The slush along the pavement And the patterns in the lop.
DAILY THOUGHT
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one. another, enie one another. — Galatians
\NVY makes Aus see what. will serve to accuse others, and not 2s what may Jusily them. —Bishop Wilson.
PUTS MILE-OF-DIMES PLEA IN VERSE By Mrs. Wilbert Sarber
Golly, Christmas will soon be here, And I ain’t got but a dime.
I can't: get no more if I tried ever
80 hard, ans mom says there jest amy e.
A Hat give a me e this fer gettin’ his at
- He said: “Here, kid, go buy you some candy.” An’ I said “Oh, thank y’ sir, but I got a better idea. I got one that sure is a dandy.
But now I dunno—oh, it was swell all right But I can’t do it; it won't go round.
There's mom and pop an’ the twins
an’ Mary, An’ Joey an’ Jessie, an’ even Floppy, the hound.
We got happiness there at our ‘house.
We ain't so bad. of—come to. ink,
An’ we got clothes; they're clean|
and mom patches them ‘An pop don’t smoke nor drink.
Say, there's a kid—ain't as big as Look i) im shiver, I'll bet he’s cold.
I ain’t so very warm myself, But that kid ain't very old.
Mom says there’s lots more like him, All over this'whole town. I'd like to help ’em hut I'm too poor— Say!—1 believe I'll “lay my dime down.
Here's rows. o’ dimes to help poor
folks, Mine might help jest a little bit. God loves the children—ragged ones, too. : Golly, yes, I believe I'll do it. ® ” ®
‘WIDOW NEEDS CLOTHES
FOR TWO CHILDREN By One In Want : You helped me last Christmas with
‘my boy and girl and I appreciated
it ever so much. - Last July I lost my husband, leaving me with three little children. Could you refer me to the party that took care of my little girl ‘last year? They did so much to make our Xmas a happy one and I know they'd like to know our whereabouts. It's just about all 1 can do to meet expenses since
.my husband was killed, He was an
auto accident victim. : My children are unde: 10 years | old. I do hope you have record of the firm and department that took care of us last Christmas. I don’t know any other way to contact Jem, ‘and they besame friends to
' Washington
By Rodney Dutcher
Antimenepoly Bill May Be Pushed As "Roosevelt Issue" for 1938; Gov. Aiken Denies He's Worried,
dential hints, platform promises and a great deal of exploration, the Administra. tion is as far as ever from a concrete pro--’ posal to Congress for legislation to “curb” monopoly and replace present ineffective "antitrust laws. Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers are still fishing
around for the best method of discouraging ° ‘concens trations of. economic -power—and:
dent and Assistant Attorney Gen- , eral Robert H. Jackson, head of tha. * Justice Department’s antitrust secs tion, - discussed the issue at length.
The best .reason- for thinking. that an .antimonopoly. bill will be:
fact that Mr. Roosevelt wants a “Roosevelt issue” for the 1838 Consgressional campaigns. ~The monop=* oly issue would be a good one. Itc ties up with the high cost of living: and price increases such as‘at least” helped bring on the depression. If any antimonopoly program is agreed upon it will almost surely seek to hit at monopoly by use of the taxing power., Inter= corporate dividend and ‘graduated corporation taxes might be used. But it also has been seriously proposed in confer~ences that a graduated prohibitive tax might be laid: upon any corporation which does more than a stipus lated percentage of the business in its Industry, 2 2 o NOVERNOR GEORGE D. AIKEN of Vermont, who * wants a Republican Party house-cleaning, re-: minds you of Alf Landon of Kansas. At least, several
correspondents who traveled with Mr. Landon in the
Mr. Dutcher
a very strong resemblance. - : The . Vermonter’s features—although Somewinb more rugged, his eyeglasses, gray hair and especially his mouth, his disarming smile and conversational style were all cited as points of similarity. ; Yet none of Mr. Aiken’s interviewers saw. ‘him as a Presidential possibility. Aside from the fact that Vermont has only three electoral votes and is far from pivotal, he frankly admitted “I don’t know as much about the problems! of labor as I wish I did”; and “I don’t know how far we should go in farm’ legisla«= tion—it’s in- the experimental stage.” : News photographers posed him in every conceivable position, but he finally ai when they asked him to “look worried.” “I may look bewildered,” said the Governor, “but
Fm not worri » » 8 NOL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH established a new high for dodging photographers when he attended the Carnegie Institution meeting in W: mn. His first move to avoid them was his entrance fo ths Institution at 7:30 a. m. for a meeting which ‘at 10. All day he refused to come. out and finally had his dress suit sent in so he wouldn't: have: to “leave the building to prepare for a banquet. ° 4, is Cameragien stood ous int bitter cold: the. eVe= ning they & bonfire to keep warm. Em ~ Pinally at 10:30 Lindbergh: dashed oub s side door,
back to their offices.
face completely covered, and ii cameramen went.
General Hugh Johnson Says—
True Story Shows Courage of Pershing in Expedition After Villa; ; ‘He Obeyed Shackling Orders and Thereby Won Generalship: of Armies.
surgeon who acted also as chief of staff watched |
EW YORK, Dec. 20.—Many Peqieate ask me to -explein why Gen. Pershing didn g ‘em back alive when he raced into Ea in 1916 after Pancho Villa and his marauders. Smarting under the aid we gave Carranza to de-
feat him in Sonora, Villa with 600 Dorados descended -
on Columbus, N, M., burning, Jurdering and robbing, ‘The weakened and surprised 3
fitally rallied, drcve him out, pursued him on es until Villa re
amunition gave out and then returned. tired and waited a week, in a defensive position, for ‘the battle that would bring war. Lo Pursuit in force was delayed for fearly two weeks
for assemkling of troops and supplies and in wrang- | Jing with (Carranza, who later claimed he never eon- |
sented to sur punitive expedition, which was finally formed under command of Brig. Jag) pon ot permitted to was ni BL ct 10 DO Dra oye fue railroad cut Villa off. He had to follow Villa's peny tracks.
the meantime Vil, suming thee weuld be 0 Durango, d ‘sl ;
them go!
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lawful mate,
TAMFORD, Conn.
. 20.—Connecticut is my while Manhattan is only a party
Gen. John REZ er
ho could nave | 1
‘Tremendous international torces, never yet clearly explained, were moving under the surface in 1916. Germany wanted to embroil us with Mexico to keep us busy 2 hon home. Carranza began concentrating his troops on Gen. Pershing’s 500-mile line of communi cations. A s clash occurred at Carrizal. Two
by Mexicans. Gen. Pershing prepared. to march on Chihuahua. War hung in the balance, ; Pioeaetlle Xi JUDDENLY Ge. ing rcsivd tae mst 1 matkalle ordels ever given 2 neld general
fila
ginning to surge up fault may not lie wh "England. I got out of bed on the wrong side. There
ostile country, attacked and en |
girl, and so I think Tl be going back to New York pretty soon. Don't misunderstand me. I like it up
‘here. Sure, I love it, but that shouldn’t mean that’
I have to spend the entire winter on the ice. If a certain n for the night clubs is beto the tip ef my ears the ly with the climate of New
had been the obligation to make a speech at a meet-
preliminary Aoi feel, because the place scares the life out of me. If the Tying, and if it isn’t that's w Worse, : . of aviators an
bh ygah that is ter
According to Heywood Botan
Winter Sports Are All Right, but They Have No Place in the’ Home. If You Insist on Being Snowed in You'd Better Choose a. Skyscraper,
A heavy frost will sometimes put its schedule out’ of kilter. And,unlike the faithful letter carrier, its: Switt appointed rounds can ve Stayed 2.8 sleet and! 5 C. - Gree 22 This time we ‘made 3 ) ‘
of a potential Jares. ns Hie oud e wan! ort, a ariothek hound for Darien. “You won't care if T' take the: others fi said Fred. I'm beginning to wonder just: 46 that I got in the. habit of always saying, “Never. me.” By now it seems to’ be be taken. for rant fd. . . Sy po : 7 ne etn to a a we sa 1 ink landscape before Fred drew up and said, “I guess’ you won't mind if I don’t go. up the driveway. That; road of yours is prety treacherous.” Helos seashing; the house -I found that out. Of course, all the doors were locked. 2 kovp eid Connie she shouldn’t ‘read those tabloid stories about’ bathtub murders, although right now that “doesn’t: matter so much, hesauas ou FOL wales MIL Warking:
of bitters, oct ad aR oe teen Su In almost ho time I was being shaken into wake
VW ASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Despite Presi-.
getting nowhere. This.can be said . in spite of the fact that the Presi -
during F. D. R.’s recent fishing trip.’
offered to the next Congress is the
‘last campaign and then interviewed Mr. Aiken found :