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~ IT CAN BE DONE pt : ANOTHER wave of fatal automobile a ¢idents this week has boosted the traffic toll of 1938 to date in Indianapto 21 and the Marion County death list to 35. Council has announced : Memphis, Tenn., as the winner among cities of .its sixth ~ annual traffic safety contest. In view of the seriousness = of oyr local traffic problem it might be well to look at some = of the factors that influenced Memphis’. victory. ; Memphis, with’ a population of about 250,000, had

34 traffic fatalities last year against 50 in 1936 an y

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= onl : it a three-year average (1934-35-36) of 48. - the swift drop? Wel), last year Memphis: eliminated four grade crossings, conducted 100 surveys to locate “visibility obstructions” at danger points, built 36.3 miles of new paving, remarked 40.5 miles of pavement into vehicular lanes;

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ized 50 junior safety councils; installed school safety patrols in 51 elementary and junior high schools; staged 1460 radio broadcasts stressing safety, and printed an-average of four newspaper stories, daily stressing the same theme. Memphis also inspected 95 per cent of all cars registered within the city, under a new law requiring thriceyearly inspections. And the Police Chief has a standing offer of $100 to ~ anybody who can prove that a traffic ticket has been “fixed.” These were some of the reasons why Memphis received = the accolade as “coming the nearest to doing for safety ~ the maximum that could be practicably accomplished” of = any American city. = There is every reason to believe that such a vigorous * attack on Indianapelis’ automobile menace would bring

. similar results here.

- AGAIN, THE PUMP BILLION and a half dollars for the RFC to lend to industries and railroads, with or without collateral. That plan is embodied in a bill now nearing final approval ~ by Congress. ; A billion and a half dollars for the PWA to lend to " municipalities for public works projects, on a 50-year basis, . without interest. That plan is now on Mr. Roosevelt's desk. . More billions for WPA to spend, in an enlarged work- - relief program. The details of that plan will unfold soon. ; Thus is a new pump-priming drive shaping up. Only a few months ago the Roosevelt Administration - was determined to take the Government out of lending and ~ spending activities. Then the big political push was toward ~ a balanced budget. : - But today we see Mr. Roosevelt reaching again for the - old pumphandle. Baffled by a “recession” that has turned suddenly into a depression, he remembers that once before the pump did the job—or at least seemed to do the job, for awhile. The situation is desperate. Eleven million or more are unemployed. Business is bad, and not getting better.

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: And the pump is handy.

: But before Congress and the country gives approval ~ to a new priming spree, it might be a good idea for all of us to take a long look down the barrel of that pump. 3 When Mr. Roosevelt started his first pump-priming | job, the nation’s debt was approximately $22,000,000,000. : Today the gross public debt stands at $37,556,302,154. How large that debt will be when the spending-lending program now being planned is finished, no one knows. What, then, is the alternative? For something must be ~ done to start the country once more on the upgrade. We find ourselves as worried and puzzled as Mr. Roose- : velt must be. But it does seem to us that the country - should profit from what experience has taught—namely, = that pump-priming alone does not produce a lasting eco- = nomic prosperity. 2

: ” s 2 2 HERE have been of late some signs that this depression : may be scraping bottom. Business spokesmen have : been saying that, if given a fair chance, private enterprise - will take hold and pull the country out of this slump. They + have asked that laws which have been proved to be bad for : the country be repealed. Our crazy-quilt of enterprise-kill-ing, job-destroying taxes, they have said, should be rez pealed, and a sane tax law enacted. They have asked that E the Government give special help to such sick industries as = building construction and the railroads. They have asked = that Mr. Roosevelt call a halt to verbal attacks. z A sane tax law is now before the Senate. The building = industry is just beginning to feel the good effects of the £ Government’s housing program. And Administration ex--perts are trying to work out a solution to the railroad _ problem. : : So, as an alternative at least worth trying, we suggest: 3 First, that the President ask and Congress appropriate adequate funds to care for the millions of persons who are in immediate distress because of this depression; Second, that the President exert his leadership to speed ~along the business-encouraging moves that have been

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= Third, that he call off the dogs and reassure business ~of his desire to co-operate. 5 We may be wrong, but we have a feeling that the Ad“ministration and the country will get farther that way than

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by reaching again for a big lending-spending pumphandle. THE ORGANIZING SPIRIT qn her column yesterday Mrs. Roosevelt told how Franklin = Jr., making a surprise visit to the White House, was undecided whether to stay the night, and how— Son £ “In my organizing spirit, I started to make his plans #for him. He looked at me with the funniest expression fand said: ‘1 dons like being organized. I'm going to flip

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Za coin’. . Meanwhile, young Franklin’s dad is in his reorganizing “spirit, and Congress is looking at him with the funniest xpression—and. perhaps the whole country might have 1 relieved

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By Westbroo | Your C umnist Has a Good Hunting

He Would Like to Relate at T e Adventurers' Club Some Night.

3 / YORK, April 8—News of the capture of four giant pandas in China reminds me of a | Hunting experience which I must not forget to relate to Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. some might before a good crackling fire at the Adventurers’ Club. Several years ago Col. Roosevelt led an expedition into the wilds of China looking for a panda, apparently under the impression that a panda was a sort of dragon, for the adventurers all grew whiskers and looked like Gen. Grant by the time they came out lugging the pelt of a little thing which they had surprised in its sleep and shot. In justice to young Ted it must be reported that he claims the panda was not asleep but crouching to spring and that he did write an interesting book about his long walk in China. Well, one day several years ago my friend Paul Gallico brought Mrs. Gallico into town from the suburbs to be near the hospital when their baby came and, having been told that a lady’s every whim should be humored at such a time, he popped into 2 high-toned pet shop to buy a cat just because Mrs. Gallico remarked that it was funny. 2 = 2 . : «9 WANT that cat in the window. Wrap it up. How much?” he said and the guy said, “That is a genuine imported Siamese cat—3$75.” My pal spun around three times, but bought the cat and a wooden cage and took it home by hand to the hotel where they were stopping. There he opened the cage and with a wild cry of “Pf-f-t! miarow-ow! the brute leaped across the room, into the fireplace and up the chimney. Well, Paul called the manager and the engineer, and he himself went from floor to floor knocking at the doors of rooms on the same flue and getting in-

dames from Boston. : So that night, while the rest were playing ‘bridge, I went to the drug store and got a can of sardines, a bottle of milk and some catnip and set it on the hearth, and nothing happened until the rest of us had gone home. The Gallicos were turned in and just going to sleep when he hears a terrible spitting and yowling and crashing in the sitting room and went tearing in there in the dark, fell over a chair and landed on the hearth in a dive, where he slammed the fire screen over the opening. All cut and bleeding, he then switched on the light, and there was this dizzy cat bouncing all over the place and knocking down vases and things and squawking its trapped it in the cage and then discovered that his loving helpmeet was crying. ” ” » «gpAUL, do we have to keep that cat?” she says. “No, puddin’,’ he says. “I thought you wanted it.” : “Me?” she says. “It’s a terrible cat. I just said 1 thought it was funny.” The guy had told Paul that if he didn’t like the cat he could return it, so next morning Paul takes the cat back, and the guy says, “Oh, well, what I meant was you could apply the $75 toward the purchase of some other pet.” But everything they had cost more. Even a waltzing mouse was $90. - Baboons were $200, parrots $100 and so forth. . : Paul realized he was stuck, selected a Boston bull at $150, paid the guy $75 more, and that night took the dog out for the air in Central Park. He slipped the leash, the dog tore off in the dark, and that was the last he ever saw of the mutt and his $150.

Business By John T. Fiynn

Government Subsidies Won't Solve

The Railroads’ Financial Problem.

EW YORK, April 8—Subsidies for everybody seem to be the order of the day. The greatest single market in America now for equipment of all sorts is the American railroads. But they can’t buy what they need because they have exhausted their credit Therefore the railroad workers, doubtless inspired by the railroad managements, come forward with a plan to have the Government subsidize the railroads to the tune of half<a billion dollars a year. Up to now the roads have been literally subsidized by grants of credit from the RFC upon collateral which no sound banker would consider. The Government has taken over four or five billion dollars of farm and home mortgages which no banker in his sound senses would consider for a moment. The Government has financed states and cities—making loans and grants of billions with and without security, while states and cities have boasted that they have balanced their budgets because the Government has assumed many oftheir burdens. ’ Farmers have been subsidized and are still being subsidized and, for that matter, the whole business .world has been subsidized because the great sums expended on relief find their way into their cash registers. without delay. Now it is proposed to subsidize the raiiroads directly by handing them half a billion

dollars a year upon security which is absolutely non-

existent.

Debt Burdens will Remain

What will be the result of this? It will merely mean that the roads will be enabled to expend what the Government hands them. And if the Government hands them half a billion that will be only a fraction of what they need. Méantime their vast and paralyzing debt burdens will remain. And after a year or two or three at the most, the whole thing will sink down again in one vast collapse. : One of the worst blunders of the Hoover Adminis tration and of the Roosevelt Administration in its early days was the failure to deal realistically with the roads, to recognize that an immense part of them is utterly and hopelessly crushed under the load of debt and that, serious as it may seem, it would.be an act of economic mercy to put them through the wringer— do precisely what is done by every intelligent business concern confronted with this problem. Had this been done the roads would now be in the market for equipment. : : Instead the whole problem was turned over to the tender mercies of a group of raiiroad lawyers. The inevitable has resulted. The roads are worse off today than ever. Subsidize them as is proposed by the brotherhoods and three years from now they will be still worse off. :

A Woman's

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson i F all the flowers that beautify the earth, lilacs are

cause they are rare in the temperamental climate of “my home state. Year after year the buds put out too soon Deceived by the warm sunshine of early Feb ruary, the shoots venture forth until a bitter night falls, frost nips them and they die before they are

This year there is a riot of blossoms. The other day when I went walking * through an abandoned garden hedged by their purple plumes. I felt like a queen surrounded by regal ur ; FE Because their time of

the world was glamorous crowding.

where it once had stood. The garden they used to shrubs around them had died, untended and forgotten. -love were gone. Only the lilacs remained to speak of the hands that had planted them were crumbling to

dust. A person who had loved them pow, is alive n eed fe

sulted by retired English colonels and haughty old

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? the loveliest. They are especially so to me be-

lilacs seem more precious -and their scent arouses |. nostalgic dreams. ‘Odorous whiffs flick back the cur~ { tain of the years; memories of bygone springs, when.| with ferns and flowers, come Long ago the house these trees guarded had | = burned. Only blackened earth and bricks showed | = ,. grace so charmingly had fallen into decay; other | pov No one came here any more. Life and laughter and |

a past that had been both beautiful and good. I knew |

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BELIEVES CIRCUS SUITABLE EASTER ENTERTAINMENT By M. R. K. . I have been a reader of your paper for about five years and have

publication. During the last few

days some of the best people of our fair city noticed to their surprise

Easter Sunday. They are complaining about a circus which is very interesting, educational and entertaining, but they haven't said a thing about the shows and pool rooms which will operate on Easter Sunday, not mentioning several other things which are a lot worse than a good clean circus. od Another thing I cannot understand is the war on our downtown pet, the pigeon. Are some of our neighbors so hard-hearted and cold that they would deprive a pigeon of its life? Did they ever walk in the park and feed them? If so, I can not comprehend how they could take such a stand against them.

2 =» ! URGES RECOMMITMENT OF REORGANIZATION: BILL By Bewildered “3 Possibly I am confessing abyssmal ignorance, but just why is there so much bother about the Reorganization Bill? ] : ; I am sure the President wouldn’t want to be a “dictator” as charged nor would he want the executive

we remember only too well what was put over on the people of Indiana by a Reorganization Bill without the proper restrictions, so we are more than ever confused by the turn of events. Sl; A reorganization of the executive department is necessary, so we are for reecommitment of the bill. ® * =»

URGES RE-ELECTION OF JUDGE COX By William M. Rucker : I think Earl E. Cox should be reelected judge of Marion Circuit Court. During his term of office he has given justice to all, regardless of creed and color. 2 ! 2 2 SEES MORE ACCIDENTS WITH REMOVAL OF SAFETY ZONES By R. B. T.

Since orders to remove the safety zones in the downtown district, I

people either the future.

trolley comes up to the street intersection, you can see the people

to get on these cars. I note that

never expressed my opinions in your

that a circus was coming to town on’

department ready for his successor | | to establish a dictatorship. However,

can see where we will have more | killed or injured in|

When a streetcar or ‘trackless

running in between autos in order |

(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.) ou!

the parking zones have been set up nearly 50 feet to allow more parking space. This is just inviting more accidents instead of decreasing them. : I only wish we had some officials who would give the pedestrians a break. Let’s decrease the number of accidents by eliminating jay walking. Rr : 2 I only hope that this next election will put some broad-minded men in office who will try to help the poorer class of people. 2 ® » SEES MANY POSSIBILITIES IN COLLEGE INSURANCE FIELD

“| By B. C. © A group of students at Washing-|

ton University, St. Louis, is peddling

‘insurance policies which offer pro-

tection against flunking any subject in the curriculum. That's fine, as far as it goes. But one ought to expect a more ambitious enterprise than that from the age-group that is supposed to look with condescension on anything resembling a half-way measure. Why not, also: Insurance against insomnia at Monday morning classes? ~ ce against forgetting everything you went to college to learn, a month after graduation? Insurance against remembering

ANEMONE By JOSEPHINE D. MOTLEY

Because a chill wind whipped my heart When your sweet face I found, And dreams, like molding foresi leaves, Lay dead upon the ground; Though spring was yet a phantom thought : That danced ahead of sight, You laughed in spite of everything And bloomed for sheer delight

Of hoping that warm days were

‘near Ta And birds would once more wing; Anemone, for me, you are The fairest flower of spring.

DAILY THOUGHT Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.—Luke 6:30.

™IVE what you have. To some ¥ one it may be better than you dare to think.—Longfellow.

the things you never had the slightest use for but had to absorb in order to get a degree? Insurance against postgraduate unemployment? The field has limitless possibilities. 8 u s READER SAYS MISTAKE KEEPS HIM JOBLESS By F. L. I was called to work on the WPA March 1. My father and mother are both sick. There are five of us in the family. The priority was for me, but a mistake was made by the Commission Office on Washington St. The work slip called for my father. We have done everything possible to try and get this mistake in name corrected, and I have been

seem to get anywhere. They told me there I'd just have to wait until I was investigated again,

» » » SAYS WAR OVER MEXICAN TROUBLE IS UNLIKELY By Wondering I, too, wonder what our Government will do in the case of the Mexican trouble. American oil and mining interests have so long exploited Mexican labor and resources

that the problem of dealing justice will be a very hard one. Of one thing I am certain, Congress will not be likely to plunge the country into war on account of it, nor will “dollar diplomacy” be obvious, if at all, -

BS 8:8 PROTESTS ATTACK ON BINGO : By H. R. Hendricks

I'm another defender of bingo and wish to support P. G. and also Mrs. W. A. Collins. As I see it, bingo is much more desirable than the numbers racket, baseball pools, race track and other large gambles, controlled by big fellows. Most anyone knows that your chances are about a 1000 to 1 of ever hitting with them. Why should they squawk about a little bingo game?

# = 5 CLAIMS HOOVER SEEKS NOTORIETY By William Lemon

Ex-President Hoover, in order tc get some neforiety, has picked for his boy friends. European dictators. Yet he dares criticize President Roosevelt as having dictator ideas. A few Democratic family quarreis have renewed his hopes. ° We can’t forget him, but could forgive him as America’s most forgotten man, even by his former Republican crowd of calamity howlers.

born. Given favorable weather, however, no flower is ff more generous with its fayors than the Oklahoma lilac.”| |

Lo a a - IF THEY OI ER AVE om Mane HUH, I wou NH T WE DO FROM YO!

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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‘and very worst persons would be women although the average morality of both sexes would be the a fascinating suggestion at least. i x 2 0B ”

'~A I AGREE with Mark A. May,

Director Institute of Human Relations, who says, “In the motion

‘| picture are combined the two great

channels of learning—sight and -sound—which, ‘enriched by color, ‘music and dramatic effects, present the lessons of school and life with a power and a vitality that is un‘equalled by any other medium of education.” Dr, May thinks all schools should be equipped for mo‘tion pictures the same as with books 2 8 8 YES, more women than men develop general feelings of jealousy and inferiority toward others because more women than men . live subjective, introverted

| lives; and introverts tend more than

extraverts to ‘make unfavorable of ther ay

to the office three times, but can’t |’

FRIDAY, APR, 8, 1938

Gen. Johnson +

Says— is Beautifully Diversified in Its

Industries, Syracuse, N. Y. Is An Almost Depression-Proof City.

YRACUSE, N. Y., April 8.—Syracuse, N. Y., comes nearer being depression-proof than any city I have seen. Ifs Mayor told me that less than 5 per cent of its families are on relief. In many cities the percentage is 20 per cent. Heads of its leading industries estimate production running at 85 per cent of so-called “normal.” . Rates for common labor—the lowest hourly rate—are said to average 50 cents on a generally observed 40-hour week. Relatively that

is excellent. There is not much unionization and very little labor trouble. Yet it is plain to see that this is a very citadel of feudalists, economic royalists and denizens of well-stocked clubs. Democrats are scarce and third New Dealers are raser still. The only two other towns I have seen that seem to keep an economic keel so even, are Hartford, Conn, and Mayfield, Ky. in Senator ‘Barkley's stamping ground. Hartford is an exception. It is the center of the insurance business and that has work to do in

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HE reason Syracuse and Mayfield stand so firm is plain to see. They ee Saaront on no one, or even a dozen, industries. They are balanced between agriculture and industry. Farming is relatively far more important to Mayfield than to Syracuse and, of cqurse, Mayfield is much smaller. But this New York town is beautifully diversified in its industries. I came here indirectly from Cincinnati and Detroit. The latter is very largely dependent on the concentra=tion there of the biggest part. of the automobile in dustry. Cincinnati has most of the great machinetool industry, but has much more diversification than Detroit. 1. ' Looking at all these towns—precisely to the degree that they depend on a few large, rather than on many small industries, are they distressed by this depression. Detroit is the saddest city I have seen. Cine cinnati is hit almost as hard. : _ Politics has nothing to do with it. New Deal or old deal has nothing to do with it. Republicans and economic royalists are as scarce in Mayfield as Demo= crats and third New Dealers are in Syracuse. Economics is the only consideration, and diversification is the only answer to the question of stability for any city. : » ” ” F course, the rule works the other way too. When business is good and the mills run merrily, the cities of industrial concentration go ahead much farther than those of more even balance, But ‘what most people seek is security and stability.

They get it in these smaller centers to a far greater

extent than in the bigger cities—especially those de=pendent on a single activity. Generally speaking (Syracuse is an exception), they pay for it in Jower wages and incomes. Not= withstanding these wage variations I find much more contentment and good living in these smaller an more stable centers. : ; All these are reasons why we cannot apply any castiron rule of wage-and-labor relations or of any other kind to a country so large and so diverse as the United States. I saw that proved over and over again in the war draft and in NRA and it impresses itself on me daily in my travel to all parts of this country,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun:

Your Columnist Expects to Raise a Bumper Crop of Boulders This Year.

EW YORK, April 8—The old ranch on the ridge 1s being renovated, and so I'm doing my spring . planting by remote control. That is, I am making mental beds of both flowers and vegetables. And when I talk of potatoes I almost seem to see their little heads popping up from the good earth. And in my mind's eye there looms a row of tomalo vines, with the fruit already growing red hcneath the sun. And, of course, there will be corn and carrots, °

- not forgetting melons and eggplant.

The eggplant is a particularly useful vegetable for a suburban farmer. It takes a heap cooking to make an eggplant food. But the eggplant, as it happens, is the favorite vegetable of the Sunday painter who wishes to experiment with still life. ig The recipe is simple.. You take one orange, two dead fish, a blue vase and an eggplant. Group them in combinaticn accerding to taste, and then get started on your masterpiece, The eggplant is particularly appropriate. because in addition to its nae tural color it has a lovely sheen. As yet I have heen delaying my painting as well as my planting. 1 lack the necessary equipment. There is a blue vase in the house, but I haven't got the fish or the vegetables. :

Indians Can’t Be Blamed

Just back of the studio there lies a little pond, and last year we threw some three hundred fingerlings into the icy waters. My own fear was that this exposure might be too severe for such little fishes, but the man from the hatchery said they. simply adored it. But I have been unable to locate a single perch, bass or pickerel. The settlement with all its people has disappeared from the waters under the earth as mysteriously as the Cavalier colonists who first tried to find a home in Virginia. And this more recent tragedy can not very well be ascribed to the Indians,

Possibly the fishes have fallen victims of. their own ferocity in some lakewide encounter. In other words, they tried to live by eating each other. Still, this theory buckles down because of the fact that even in the general encounter the’ biggest fish should still remain. Possibly he is hiding out, realizing that I have arrived and that he has met his master. I must get back to the good earth and gardening, And if until now I have been reluctant about getting down to spade work the explanation is easy. Hereabouts the good earth ish't really very good. And before I can get seeds into the ground I will have to move four or five tons of rock from the patch. We have an amazing crop of pebbles this spring, and even though I work my fingers to the bone, as is my habit, I very much fear that I'm going to raise more boulders than broccoli.

Watching Your Health .

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

p . i : Ma fatigue may result from overwork from Ad a mental point of view, but incidentally also in association with overwork of a physical character of the mind, it may also be the result of what is lled boredom. In addition, there may be mental fatigue due to intoxication of the brain as the result. of overuse of a substance like alcohol or drugs. There are certain activities which seem particularly to bring about fatigue, whereas there dre other forms of mental activity which m to go on indefinitely without disturbing us. [It is possible to tire out the sense of hearing by & continuous shrill noise, but we would be able to. listen almost ine definitely to soft, sweet music. ! It is possible to concentrate for certain lengths of time upon certain kinds of work, but sooner or later there comes a moment Ww it is simply im=possible to continue. In such an instance, a change of occupation may permit rest uring which the fatigue from the previous occupation will disappear, There is one remedy that is important for mental, as well as for all fatigue, and that is rest. + The taking of stimulating drugs i'ke caffeine or bénzedrine will overcome mental fatigue. The use of such agents is, however, like whipping a tired horse, . The taking of food is not a cure for mental fatigue. It places

extra stress on the organs of the body associated - with ‘digestion and absorption. oy Ta

“An alternate is, of course, a change of work or & | f play, but it. must be remembered that ie “Jes stress on tha