Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1938 — Page 11
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Text of Roosevelt Talk at Marietta
MARIETTA, 0. July (U. P.).—The text of President Roosevelt's address follows: Long before 1788 there were white men here, “spying out this land of Canaan.” An intrepid outpost breed they were—the scouts and the skirmishers of the great American migration. The sight of smoke from neighbor's chimnevs might have
worried them. But Indians and redcoats did not. Long before 1788, at Kaskaskia and Vincennes, with scant help from the seaboard, they had held their beloved wilderness for themselves— and for us—with their own bare hands and their own long rifles. But their symbol is Vincennes, not Marietta.
Here, with all honor to the scouts we celebrate |
and the skirmishers, the coming of a different type of men and women—the first battalions of that organized army of
occupation which transplanted from | little
over the Alleghenies whole civilizations that took root and grew. They were giving expression to a genius for organized colonization, carefully planned and ordered under law.
Came As a Society
The men who came here before 1788 came as Lief Erickson’s men to Vineland, in a spirit all of adventure. But the men and women of the Ohio Company
and women of Bay Company to Boston, an organized society, unafraid to meet temporary adventure, but serious in seeking permanent security for men and women and children and homes Many of them were destined to push on; but most came intending to stay. Such people may not be the first to conquer the earth, but they always last possess it. Right behind the men and women who established Marietta 150 years ago moved that instrument of law and order and co-operation—gov-ernment A representative of the National Government entered Marietta to administer the Northwest Territory the famous NorthOrdinance. And what we are celebrating today this establishment of the first civil government west of the original 13 states. Three _pr ‘ovisions of the North-
unaer west
is
who came to | Marietta came rather like the men | the Massachusetts |
remember. It provided that “no person de- | meaning himself in a peaceable and orderly lested on account of his mode of worship or for religious sentiment in the said territory.”
Education Encouraged
It provides that “religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and means of education shall forever be encouraged.” And it provided for the perpetual prohibition of slavery in the territory. Free, educated, God-fearing men and women—that is what the thirteen states hoped the new we would exemplify, It has well fulfilled that hope. Every generation meets sub- | stantially the same problems una | der its own different set of circumstances. Anyone speculating on our great migration westward is struck with the human parallel between the driving force behind that migration and the driving force behind the great social exploration | we are carrving on today Most of the~people who went out to Ohio in 1788 and who followed
wave on wave for another hundred |
[years went to improve their economic lot. In other words, they were following the same yearning for security which is driving us today. At there was physical risks.
ruts the
the end of the wagon something worth
blackened with half-burned stumps was not high, but it was certain. A family, or at most a township, could be a whole self-sufficing economic system—plenty of food to eat if a man would but reach out and shoot or cultivate it: plenty of warm clothes if the women of the family were willing to spin: always =a tight roof over the family’s head if the little community would respond to the call for a roof-raising.
| Land of Opportunity
Whatever he used was a man's own; he had the solid joy of possession—of owning his home and his
Girl Plunges From 6th Floor And Is Saved ved by Fire Lite Net
NEW YORK (U. P) Ave. and there, hanging by her finger tips from a w Belmont Plaza Hotel, Heads appeared in around, and frightened
begged the girl not to let
July 8
windows all voices
go. But
obviously she couldn't hold on long- | on the |
awaited her firehouse be-
er, and death roof of the two-story low In the washroom of the fire hot Fireman William Stewart he by her screams and ran to his commander, Lieut, Charles J. McKenna, who pushed a button which set gongs ringing. In the dormitory firemen tumbled out of bed, and pulling on their pants and shirts, slid down the pole. “Hold on,” screamed Mr. MecKenna as his men dragged a life | net the roof. “Don’t let go, for | God's sake.”
Fingers Weaken
on
e firemen circled the net and into place. In the window the girl was clingappeared and began reams to hers. The their strength and she plu Her legs struck open French windows on the fifth and fourth floors which turned her over. She plunged into the net head first, was lift ed a few feet by bound,
Nir moved it to whose ledge ing, a man adding his sc girl's fingers lost
ngeaq.
—Screams filled an area of Lexington | in the eerie reflection of
the street lights, was a girl indow ledge « on the Sixth floor of the
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EXCISE POLICE TAKE 19 CARS, 22 STILLS
State Excise Police and officers |
confiscated 22 stills and 19 automobiles during June raids, the department’s monthly report day. One hundred twenty-six persons were arrested on charges of violat-
ing the Indiana Alcoholic beverage |
law. The arrests were made as a result of 4401 investigations, according to data compiled by Homer | Stonebraker, State Excise Police chief. Fines totaling $6339 were assessed | 64 persons convicted of liquor law | violations and 580 days imprisonment handed down
ANDERSON ANDERSON,
MAN ENDS LIFE
July 8 (U. P).— Funeral arrangements were being made today for John McGranahan, 40, a truck driver, who shot himself through the heart with a shotgun at his home here yesterday.
the re- | and came down on her back. |
Dazed blue eves stared around the!
circle of firemen, “Have a drink,” Kenna, offering, with hand, whisky poured from the fire company’s medicinal supplies. “No,” replied the girl, “I never drink.” “Then have a cigaret.” “Thank you.” Mr. McKenna held a and she puffed furiously. denly she seemed to realize had happen~d and hysterical sobs.
‘Don’t Hold Him’
“Don’t hold him,” she cried. “I jumped. He had nothing at all to do with It. 2 Bv ime, a doctor and an ambulance had arrived. The girl, exceptionaily good looking, gave her name as Muriel Strong, 24. She was taken to a hospital where it was found that one leg had been broken. Meanwhile, police found that she began her fall from Room 603—assigned to Sidney Smith, a construction firm of Los Angeles. It had been Mr. Smith adding his screams to hers. He told police that he awoke from a sound sleep early this morning and found Miss Strong in his room. He noticed that she had been drinking, he said. He undertook to lecture her about it. This seemed to upset her, he continued, and she ran over to the open French windows, sat down on the ledee, and moved as if to jump. He ran over to try to grab her, but she slipped out, managing to grab the ledge with her fingers. Miss Strong is a former employee of the hotel, but lately unemployed.
said Mr. Mec-
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her
this
Police listed her experience as an |
accident.
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manner shall ever be mo- | so much to get done which men | could not get done alone, that the | | frontiersmen naturally reached out
roads and railroads and | through these new territories—who
| plowing
means of livelikood. And if things | 36 tap b
| which men and women,
showed to-
8 | west Ordinance I always like to )did not pan out there was always Y lan infinite self-sufficiency
beckoning westward—to new land, new game, new opportunity.
Under such conditions there was |
to government as their greatest single instrument of co-operative selfhelp with the aid of which they could get things done. To them the use of government was but another form of the co-operation of good neighbors. Government was an indispensable instrument of their daily lives, of the security of their women and their children and their homes and their opportunities. They looked on government not as a thing apart— as a power over our people. They regarded it as a power of the people, as a democratic expression of organized self-help like a frontier
{ husking bee.
There were worried legalists back in sure it was unconstitutional for the | Federal Government to help to put | canals
were never
sure that the nation would get back the money it was| into development of the natural and human resources of the
| Northwest.
Quotes Abraham Lincoln
But Abraham Lincoln, who in-| carnated the spirit of the people who were actually living in the North- | west Territory, summed up their attitude when he said: “The legitimate | object of government is to do for a |
The standard of | Somininity of people whatever they
life in a log cabin amid fields still | gy).
need to have done, but cannot do at! or cannot do so well, for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.’ Today under new conditions a whole nation, the original 13 states and all the West and South that has grown out of them, is on a mental migration, dissatisfied with old conditions, seeking like the little band that came to Marietta to create new conditions—of security. And again the people see an ally in their own government. Many a man cabin any more; a bank deposit. Scarcely any man can call his neighbors to raise his roof any more —he pays a contractor cash and has to have mortgage financing to find And if that financing 1s of the wrong kind or goes bad—he may need help to save his home from | foreclosure, Once old age was safe because there was always something useful | no matter | how old, might do to earn an honor- | able maintenance. That time is | gone; and some kind of organized
does not own his his possessions are
| help him and each other,
the seaboard towns who were |
old-age insurance has to be provided.
Collective Security
In these perplexities the individual turns, as he has always turned, to the collective security of the willingness of his fellows to co-operate through the use of Government to The spirit of the frontier husking Bee is found
| today in carefully-drafted statutes—
statutes insuring bank deposits; statutes providing mortgage money for homes through FHA; Statutes providing help through HOLC for those in danger of foreclosure. The cavalry captain who protected the log cabins of the northwest is now supplanted by legislators, like Senator Bulkley, toiling over the drafting of such statutes and over the efficiency of government machinery to administer them so that such protection and help of Government can be extended to the full. On a thousand fronts Government —State and Municipal as well as Federal—is playing the same role of the insurer of security for the aver-
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COAST POLICE TRACE
GRAY MURDER GUN
Found Ten Blocks From Scene of Slaying.
HOLLYWOOD, July 8 (U.P) .— Police began a systematic check of | gun shops, hardware stores and |
pawn shops today in seeking to learn where the .32-caliber pistol | that was used to kill King D. Gray,
» | movie cameraman, formerly of In-|checking the number against those
| dianapolis, was purchased.
Although they had the gun and were certain that it was the one] with which the murderer shot Gray, officers had no new clues toward | establishing the identity of the person'who fired it. When it was found in a vacant lot last night 10 blocks from the spot where Gray was killed, the weapon contained no fingerprints. Five cartridges were in it. Two had been fired. The bullet that struck Gray came from the same gun, police said. The place where Gray's assailant may have made his most se- | rious mistake was in failing to file | the serial number oft the pistol. By
at shops where guns are handled, Sollee may be successful in trace | ing it.
BRONZE AGE CANOES FOUND IN ENGLAND
NOTTINGHAM, England, July § (U. P.).—~Two canoes, hewn out of
an oak tree by Bronze Age men | 3000 years ago, have been found in- | tact in the bed of the Rivver Trent. |
They are 20 feet
feet wide. C. W. Phillips, of Cambridge Pre-
long and 2
historic Society, who examined the | canoes for the British Museum, said they were “in an excellent
| state.”
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When you think it through, at
the bottom most of the great pro- | tective statutes of today are in es- |
| sence mutual insurance companies,
and our recent legislation is not a
of mutual selfsettlers of the
healthy practices help of the early Northwest.
Sovereignty in People
| Let us not be afraid to help each |
other—let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials, but the voters of this country. I believe that the American people, not afraid of their own capacity to choose forward-looking representatives to run their Government. want the same co-operative security and have the same courage to achieve it, in 1938 as in 1788. I am sure they know that we will alwavs have a frontier—of social problems —and that we must always move in to bring law and order to it. In that confidence I am pushing on. I am sure you will push on with me.
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