Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1938 — Page 14

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Give Light and the Pools Will Find Their Own Wag = °° THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1938

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AUSTROKUO

HE full story of Herr Hitler's bloodless coup in Austria is yet to be told. And what will happen next can only be surmised. But. enough is known to make it appear that

: the lovely little country astride the Danube has now become a sort of European Manchukuo with Germany in the role of -

Japan, the Nazis is still in doubt, there may be more light on that ~ when the Feuhrer goes on the air Sunday at Berlin, in the presence of his specially summoned dummy Reichstag. .

From this distance what is happening seems to be something of -an all-round compromise. Ten years or more,

ago, Hitler swore that Austria would have “to return to the great German motherland,” cost what jt might. France said “anschluss,” or union of Austria with Germany, would mean war. Britain definitely announced her opposition. In 1934 Mussolini mobilized 48,000 men on the Austrian border and told the world that the moment German troops crossed the frontier from ‘the north, his own legions would start smarching through Brenner Pass from the south. Through all this Austria herself, which has fewer inhabitants than New York City, has been'a mere pawn. Numerous signs of an approaching decision have appeared lately. The British Government is actively seeking the pacification of Europe along realistic lines. Some bitte ills may have to be swallowed here and there. But bitter

pi if not too bitter—are better than a new world war.

So it may be that what is happening to Austria fits into

this general picture. ¥ may be that Germany is to be al-- _ lowed a new and closer relation with Austria, but not quite |

“anschluss.” Germany will still recognize the “independence” of Austria—as Japan recognizes the “independence”

of Manchukuo—and Britain, France and Italy probably will

~ not press their objections too hard.

In this way the hand-to-mouth existence of European ‘ peace can be kept going a little longer. And every day that.

. peace endures means just so > much time gained in which® to : head off war, ;

DR. EDMUND D. CLARK HE death of Dr. Edmund-D. Clark, a leading Hoosier surgeon for four decades, is a loss to his profession and to the community. - He contributed much to the advancement of medical practice in Indiana, and also found time to participate in many civic and social moyements. - Dr. Clark was associated with the old Indiana Medical College and was a faculty member of the Indiana University School of Medicine since he helped organize it in 1912. He was a member of numerous medical societies and his work received recognition at many stages of his long and useful career. One of these occasions was his citation by

the French Government and Gen. Pershing for his distin-: guished World War record in France, where he had charge : A more recent honor was the |

of a large base hospital. presidency of the Indiana Medical Association, which he held last year. Many friends also recall his services as secretary of the Indianapolis Board of Health, shortly after his arrival here in 1896. It is not necessary to weigh such men with fine scales to know their worth. Dr. Clark's work is his monument, and his greatest eulogy. : :

THE LYNCH BILL IS LYNCHED THE antilynch bill filibuster continues its listless way today following a second futile effort to bring the issue to a vote. - And the measure ‘appears | io be doomed for this Congress. ‘We can’t find much to cheer in this 86 days of Senatorial free speech. For certainly there is no triumph of democracy in “keeping from a vote a measure that had overwhelming public support both in and out of the Senate. Nor in the parade of politics, sectionalism, demagoguery and race prejudice. One little victory for Yun rights can be counted i behalf of this misadventure. There has not been a single lynching in the United States since it began. - Indeed, proponents of the bill say five attempted lynchings weré prevented by fear that a lynching would result in its passage. If five lives have been saved the loss of time and patience has not been in vain. | -

DOCTOR OF PRESIDENTS FoR years it was a large part of Dr. Cary T. Graysons duty to look out for the health and well-being of Presidents. During the Taft Administration he was assigned to the Presidential yacht as physician. Woodrow Wilson called him back to the White House, and under hig direc-

tion built up reserve strength to carry him through strains

which it had seemed he would be unable to stand. . The |

doctor became one of the war President’s closest gonfidants,

and was with him through the Paris Peace Conference. Dr. Grayson was appointed a rear admiral in 1918. . Twelve years later he retired to private practice, but in 1935 his friend Franklin D. Roosevelt named him chairman of the American Red Cross, and he was director of Presi- - dent Roosevelt's second inaugural celebration. Now he is dead, at the age of 59. Few men in public life have been. better liked and more trusted, and few American careers have been more admirable than his,

THE DUKE’S WISH |

THE Duke of Windsor, taking notice of a report, dates ~** that he and the Duchess are expecting a blessed event.

The denial got small space in the papers. Another

item, given small space, concerns the girlhood home of \ “Warfield in Baltimore. The house was opened last year as a museum, admission $1. Then the fee was

Duke has expressed the wish that the public :

interest. fn. him. any

While the extent of Austria's gotorced surrender to-

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Your Columnist Wonders Just How:

‘James Roosevelt Earned the Right

To Speak for the Administration.

(CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Judging by numerous signs, the time is ripe to realize that

there is such an office as that of Crown

“Prince "in the erican system and’ to

acknowledge Jimmy "Roosevelt a. the. ne, “| states quite “frankly the move is

. to bear that honor. In the manner. of little Prince Mike of Yumanla and’ many another precocious military prodigy of the courts of the old world, James became a leutenant colonel of the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve overnight by his father’s appointment. This is a rank ‘to which other officers of either the regular establishment or the reserve could not reasonably aspire without. many years of faithful service, but in the case of a prince it is: customary to’ skip the lower grades so that the inevitable ap_pointment' to the rank field ‘marshal a few years later will not seem too abrupt. # J And at his current rate of advancement ovef the laggard Mr. Pefler /files of the service he should expect to receive his baton well before the reign is out—a weapon which, for sentiment’s sake, might well be made in the form of an out-size fountain pen. Insurance men all carry -fountain pens. - Prince James has taken gracefully" to the authority of heir of a royal house. ~ 3 { 2 "8 EVER elected to any office nor otherwise acknowledged by the people of the democracy ‘as anything more than a prosperous young insurance man, the prince attended to that oversight himself a month ago. when he issued -a statement in Massachusetts. “The statement that the Administration or ‘myself might support a Republican candidate for the Governorship is absurd and ridiculous,” James declared in a formal manifesto. “I will support those elected by the people at the primary and in the regular election campaign.” In what capacity will. he support those elected by the people? Surely not in the capacity of insurance salesman, for insurance salesmen are not. qualified, as such, to issue such pronouncements with such solemnity and assurance. Quite obviously, James accepts from his own hand and that of his sire a position of much more importance and influence in the affairs of Massachusetts. ’ :

2 8 = E speaks for the Administration and himself both, and his assumption of authority has been so suave that up to date there has been no disposition to

ask when he = as elected, what or upon what public

service or e on of popular will he bases his selfacknowledged influence. James has been taken inte a palace and, like the former Prince of Wales, who took jis schooling for the kingship in errands devised to ballyhoo him for

the crown, is being brought along’ at a rapid rate. Never elected, never even a candidate, but merely the son of the President, which was neither an office nor a distinction of itself before, he speaks for the Admin-

" istration, for himself and for both together in a man-

ner to suggest that by. some invisible writing on the ballot he became the Rnspoken second choice in the . mandate of ’36.

Business—By John

Various Provisions of Farm Bill Disturb Texas and Oilelibna Farmersi Government Has Not Learned the Impossibility of Minute Regulation.

USTIN, Tex, Feb. 17—Out here in this large agricultural and cotton section of Texas and Oklafioma, the farmers seem to be disturbed a litle about the provisions of the Farm Bill—not so much the ‘general policy of the bill itself as about the things that may be possible under it. One- farm leader called my attention to the following provision of the bill: “If. milk cows in a County and on ‘dividual farms exceed the normal number, soil conserving

crops planted on diverted acres may be .only ' for production of products to be consumed on the

farm. The farmer is allowed to feed products of

- diverted acres only to poultry and livestock other than dairy stock. The Secretary may forbid feeding to other livestock if conditions of competition develop which, in his discretion, so warrant.” The meaning of this is with forebodings. It reveals at least that the Ad-

ministration has not learned the lesson.of not at- |

{ampting o 1oguiaie in detail the operations of men $annok. possibly sontyel. i . 8 8

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

/ ‘SYRACUSE’ PREFERRED

TO ‘WAWASEE"

| By. Ww. Ballard, Syracuse, Ind.

An active effort has been started here to change the name of this his-

{torical old lake and summer resort

town from “Syracuse” fo “Wawasee.” The two: places are two miles apart. The sponsors. were not revealed in the first notice in our local paper list week, but an unsigned pamphlet

made to encourage factories to locate here and in advertising to capitalize on Wawasee's far-flung reputation as a summer resort. Why not change to “Chicago” or “Detroit”? Does Indianapolis want to lose a factory payroll, or some unemployment? Do citizens want to pull up stakes, interrupting the children’s school careers and friendships in order to move here and buy groceries? Neither do other ‘towns. Nothing was said about the plan to merchants, property owners and the 100,000 people who visit Wawasee annually, for they have gone for the winter. Yet, should they turn their autos toward Warsaw, Goshen and - other trading centers, Syracuse, alias Wawasee, is sunk, factory or no factory. The election may come as early ~as next month. Should it be favorable, :the town should become “Wawasee” but the postoffice would remain “Syracuse.” Will Mr, Farley violently remove “Wawasee, Ind.” postofice from the lake, where you have addressed mail for two generations? Will he ignore all lake dwellers in their absence, and give the name “Wawasee” to Syracuse, a Republican town? As a citizen of Syracuse and interested in Wawasee, I hereby do my bit.. I oppose the present effort altogether, though under other circumstances I might be very favorable. Ts y .» ” 8 READER WANTS BETTER OLD-AGE PENSIONS

By R. R. Bulgin Indiana has three’ great. groups preparing for action--the political, the aged and the student, The political group will be asking for votes, the aged will be requesting better State pensions, the students will be seeking jobs. Within a comparatively short time: thousands of students will be leaving schools. The future is a golden sunrise to them, full of jobs and prosperity. Let us hope they will not be disappointed, for idleness is a curse to the. individual and

Congress. took cognizance of it. No longer do 500,000 tramp the highways. The future of Indiana's prosperity and happiness is in the hands of the students who will soon leave The ‘school and who should have the obs. It is the sunset hour for elderly people. Long years ago. they left school, found jobs, built homes, raised families; They put money on deposit in the banks, but when they went to the cupboard the

“cupboard was bare.” Many homes,

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In the industrial world, it has ‘be- |’

administration did get on

- | clubs do than to appoint committees

the State. Our President saw it; |

(Ti imes readers are invited to express their views 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

money and farms were “lost. These people know the meanings of the ravages of war, depression and recession. Ninety-five per cent of them are among the best citizens of Indiana.

Where are the jobs for these men and women of 60 years or over?

come an axiomatic tfuth that an applicant for a job who is 60 years of age is “too old ‘to take on.” What chance has the woman of 60? Many domestics are °faithful hard workers. How can they save on a salary of $6 per week? At 50 or 60 years of age’'a woman is treated worse by the - industrial. ‘world than is the man The historian says hat “Indiana is rich in agriculture, education, industry and wealth. He says: nothing about its heart. It has -a heart if it is allowed to function. Here is where the group of politiclans comes in: - The Demorratio e books an old age assistance law—a good step in the right direction. Will the Democrats liberalize it to -advantage of the aged? The Republicans are striving. ‘But for them to say “We believe in a just and adequate old age pension” will not suffice. The word adequate: must be made definite in respect to the Lrg and housing needs of the

a on folks are organizing. f the battle. No better thing

from edch and form .a’ coalition to force this movement for better State pensions. *

MEMORY BOOK By KEN HUGHES Here is a MeMOry=—= i A withering leaf : Between ivory: DAges, $i And a rosebud for Se : Here drops a warm tear Blurring the words; . And with heartbreak Come familiar thoughts coe You are gone, ' But returning are the. spring And the birds! =a

DAILY "THOUGHT

- Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment, of the stranger, . fatherless, and widow. And -ail the people shall say; Amen— Deuteronomy 27:19.

OR the most part fraud in the system

end secures for its companions. repentance anf shame~C. Sim-

AVERAGE PERSONS TERMED HOLLYWOOD'S ‘DEAH PUBLIC’ By ‘Kitchen Cyne © Mrs. Walter Ferguson workers | in her column if Washington, New York and Hollywood ever think of us, the 96 inches of dog wagged by the 4 inches of tail in these cities. Certainly not, Mrs. Ferguson. We

: -|lares only what makes them tick.

One's: heart, liver, stomach, etc,

never are mentioned in polite so-

ciety—only abused. To Hollywood we: are the moronie but “deah public”—an animated box

office; to New York we are simply |

hicks and suckers, and to Washington we are just dumb voters. Now do you know, Mrs. Ferguson? sn os » Uren REMOVAL OF CONSUMPTION TAXES. By M. M. Some Administration. leaders in Washington seem to be fingering

the idea of imposing a Federal tax |.

on fuel oil,

L At. 1 cent a gallon, it is ‘estimated

such a tax would yield about $165,000,000 annually. I can understand why Rep. Pat Boland, the Democratic whip, is

urging the tax. He comes from a |

coal-producing region of Pennsylvanja. It is evident why the United Mine Workers and their president, John L. Lewis, favor restricting the use of this fuel that competes with ‘coal. It is easy to see why Rep. Boland damns fuel oil as a “luxury,” and cites the inevitable depletion of our petroleum resources as a reason for imposition of the tax. It is also true that the Treasury needs additional .revenue, and that this need will be greater by $250,000,000 when Congress appropriates that sum for relief this year.

~But.none of these things justifies |

the imposition of another sales tax —and especially a discriminatory sales tax. Now, if ever, the Federal Government should begin getting rid ‘of sales taxes. They already exist in too great number—the curse of our Federal revenue system. A courageous and far-seeing Congress, uninfluenced by the political

| myth: that taxes should not be im-

posed in an election ‘year, should use the forthcoming general revenue

| revision bill as the vehicle for re-:

moving existing taxes on consumption. And of substituting for them not more sales taxes—such as the

‘| fuel oil tax now proposed—but fair

and adequate income taxes in persons: in the so-called brackets.” And by bringing into the income-tax fold those millions who ‘are now: outside, and should be in. This broadening of the base automatically will increase income as- | sessments’ all the way to the top brackets. - Only ‘with such Mores jicome-tax gram our eral revenue po Ru fair instrument it should’ be; only thus will the Treasury. be .of a stable income,

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Says— Admiral Grayson Not Only Was a

‘Great Physician, but a Sort of Safety Valve on Executive Engines,

| YA ASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The passing of Cary Grayson takes away a fine and

decent wisdom. It helped to guide matters of

the greatest moment. He was a man men

‘naturally trust with their confidences. °°

Five of those men were President—Theo-

‘ dore and Franklin Roosevelt, Willlam H. Taft, Calvin

Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson—to three of ‘them ‘he

: was physician as well as guide, philosopher and friend,

Sage, faithful and human, he also had learned the lesson of St. . James: “Behold we put bits in the horses’ mouths that they may obey, . + . Behold also the ships which ..gre turned about with a very smali helm. . , , Even so the tongue is a little ‘member... but the tongue can no man tame . «Who is a wise man . ., among you? Let him show out of ‘a’ good cone

versation his works with. meekness -

of wisdom,” Cary Grayson Soniidfiod that - Johnso dangerous little member and for Hugh Johnsin that reason the greatest confided

‘in him without: restraint in exchange for his “good conversation, his works with meekness of wisdom.” He: knew more portentuous secrets than any man of his time. He was a stabilizing influence, a safety valve, a sort of governor of executive steam OS 2 = 8

HE” was a great physician. ‘Men engaged him riot so much to make them well as to keep them from illness—and, as I often have thought, just for the sake of his companionship and counsel. Many- have wondered why Calvin Coolidge wrote, “I do not choose to run.” Dr. Grayson and Mr. Coolidge knew even when 'the President's personal physician didn’t—and ° perhaps not two other people on earth. The reason came to.light quietly and sadly, but suddenly, at Northampton in January, 1933. It ‘was Dr.‘ (irayson who sat beside the striokesi Woodrow Wilson when the administratiop of a great government came out of a. sick room where few. more . than he and one other entered. is 8 8 #

O the dwindling little circle, however torn by. dise

agreement, which remains over in Washington from the war Administration of Wilson, this is a, bite

ter blow. Coupled with the death of Joe Rolston + :

and so many more, it seems an implacable crumbling of an old comradeship in a high endeavor—a slow sputtering out of the members of an spire | of friend‘ship. Franklin Roosevelt ‘look for a sympathy, s unselfish but as dependable Grayson’s, He, too, must feel to the bottom of nis heart this crumbling of a circle of intimate. personal defense for he has lost other important intimates— -

. just as have the Admiral’s other friends, Admiral.

Grayson, though never insistent about any matter of . opinion, was liberal but never radical. He was one of : too few remaining ties: between the old order and the ‘new. For that reason alone, anong many Siers; his :

going is a grees; national loss.

Ascrdig to Heywood Broun

“Even With Blue and Gray Tickets, One Can't Get Up to the Sun Porch’ AF Hialeah, So It's Impossible to. Report on Mayor Hague's Activities. :

to fill the soul |

section mens this. It & farmer under the. 36

want the farmer to make any money out of those crops, since he has been paid by the Govetnment to

' grow them and the Government wants them to grow.

But when the crop grows, there it is on the farm. Now. this section of the law says that the farmer can feed these crops to his chickens and to his horse or Mule oF ven is sheep or Hogs, 1 he has them, ‘But

.| he cannot feed them to the cows. And he can feed them to his hogs and chickens consumed

and sheep only if those animals are ‘on the Tasm of thelz fran age consumed-on the form.

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JO the Sovernment is going to ‘prevent. the part farmer from feeding the crop to his cow while

feeding it fo his hog no one has said.’ It can be accomplished by an espionage system which-would have

to be infinitely greater than the prohibition onfGrte.

ment system.

Of course it is evident that some regulations must | by made of tho present capitalist system. But the Government ‘learned by this such.

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it “Pet, A7-Piank ‘Hague is here, but he ‘doesn’t’ seem to be boasting about it. The Mayor of Josey City has made no public appearances. ; He has been passing his vacation even more quietly than could be expected. It is true‘that he has visited the race track, After -all, it has been written that the Mayor neither: smokes nor drinks, So austere a dic- : relaxation, and it is rumored mate's bet if the price is right. 8 bosition to affirm or

restricted section of racing fans that all hen. is true, a all ‘American tracks

ress badge gets

among or under it. But only the last: divide the patrons |

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to buy a drink. Hialeah provides oly a soft drink and light wine bar for the masses, since they might ‘otherwise forget themselves and make a noise. The. gallery of demi-gods is further split by the Jpesenes: of a small pen into which only members of ‘and Field Club are permitted to enter. But above all

. this is a promenade deck or sun porch. This I have

never seen, but a journalist who was allowed to in-

an extremely Tefined ¥oy.,; SA me R

AYOR HAGUE sat at the ‘pinnacle. of Olympus, and who wished to go upstairs, if only i ‘peek at the ‘great man, were ror and told to: “remain in their De with: ‘the Accord-

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