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MONDAY, JULY 18, 1938

BETTER TRANSPORTATION ITH ceremonies today at its recently completed garage building, Indianapolis Railways dedicates its modernized transportation system. The modernization program, started in 1932, has included the installation of much new equipment, the speeding up of service and the general improvement of facilities. Today the city’s transportation system ranks among the nation’s leaders. Credit is due the company for recognizing and meeting

a public need.

INSULL ’ ‘ HF F it hadn't been for Insull there might have been no TVA, no Bonneville. no PWA loans to municipalities, no bitter Governmental feud with the utilities, no “death sentence.” One can let his imagination run riot in the realm of might-have-been, on the occasion of the passing of the man who loomed =o large and then shrank so small. Certain it is, we believe, that the blowup of the structure he had built, coming at the time it did, when supermen were falling on all sides, gave reform its biggest target and changed its biggest impetus. Insull started in the electrical business under Edison. Had Insull put his emphasis, as did Edison, on the scientific and service side, he might never have grown so great as he did, but he never would have died as he did, with a 4-cent subway ticket in his hand. Edison chose the laboratory; Insull, promotion and In the two we see mirrored the right and the that new force which Edison had

finance. wrong of marvelous vitalized. From the laboratory—and in the operating end— nothing but progress. In the financial, the promotional end, loss and misery for a multitude of investors; trouble, ultimate sadness, defeat and disgrace for Insull who, in his exploitation of the inventor's greatest gift to man, over-

reached himself,

rye . | Fhrough the vears, come sleet, or snow or rain, the

service—the scientific—part of the industry kept nobly at it, In the meanwhile all this was being capitalized in an expansion program by financiers who never climbed a pole and never met a kilowatt. But much didn’t. And the greatest of the failures was the empire of Insull. The electrical industry is living today through a new

Much of the financing stood up.

phase. ‘ As for the future, the problem seems not complicated for the private utilities—if they've learned a lesson. Just bring the financing standards up to those of the fellow who fixes the transformer.

UNDERSTANDING? NE of the things that most impressed him as he traveled across the country, said President Roosevelt, *‘was the growing understanding that everybody seems to have of our national problems.” It would be good to believe. Mr. Roosevelt was speaking of the specific fact that streams rising in the Rocky Mountain flow through many states on their way to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, or westward to the Pacific, and that use and control of their waters concern all of these states. For what he has done to help all Americans realize that such problems as these rivers present are not local or sectional, but national, the President deserves great credit. But there are other national problems. The unemployed: Iow can they be restored to a normal, independent way of life? Depressions: What is their real cause, and how can we break the cycle of booms and busts? Agriculture: How convert from curse to blessing the ility of America’s fields to produce abundance? Labor: and at the same time preserve industrial peace? Business: How reap the advantages of mass production

and eflicient distribution but escape the evils of monopo-

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states and their people: Ilow use the great

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need, but avoid cultivating in them an unbreakable habit of dependence? The budget: When and how can it be balanced, and what will happen if it is not balanced? Yes, it would be good to believe that everybody has a growing understanding of these national problems.

HOW TO GET RESULTS HAROLD L. ICKES is one Cabinet officer who at times has a way of demonstrating that he means business. The officials of some communities and counties California apparently thought Mr. Ickes had his tongue in his cheek when he announced some time ago that lobbyists must not be employed in connection with PWA allotments. They employed a lobbyist who claimed special ability to get results from the PWA Washington office. The Interior Secretary-PWA Administrator didn’t waste any more words. lle cracked down, suspending the applications for eight PWA projects in California. We can’t help contrasting that decisive action with the gentle slap on the wrist administered the two Kentucky WPA subordinates who were caught playing politics with relief.

Fortunately such hypocrisy does not prevail through- | Paul D. Shriver, Colorado WPA director, the |

out WPA. other day fired a WPA supervisor for ordering WPA workers to type political letters for the Pueblo County Democratic Central Committee, The Ickes-Shriver technique gets results in taking the gravy and politics out of the handling of public moneys. Unctuous speeches and pious declarations, such as we have had lately from Harry Hopkins and Aubrey Williams and the Kentucky WPA bosses, don't get results—for the simple reason that the subordinate money-spenders naturally think the higher-ups don’t want results.

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

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Roosevelt's Is an Unusual Case; Few Men Elected as Progressives Refuse to Turn to Conservatism.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, July 18.—When he denounced the “lunatic fringe” in his Oklahoma speech, Roosevelt was taking a sideswipe at Rep. Gomer Smith's candidacy for the Senate, which was a sort of echo of the late Huey Long's show. To a good many people Roosevelt himself seems to be a part of the “lunatic fringe,” but those who think so are people who would have regarded the income tax and the Federal Reserve Board as socialistic. In any kind of sane perspective Roosevelt appears in the middle of the road, a little to the left of center perhaps of the path which all democratic governments are traveling. Cranks thrive during hard times. Roosevelt stood between the country and the Huey Longs and the Townsends during the early years of his Administration. He was able to take enough wind out of their sails to check their force. Recovery withered their panaceas, During the jast year medicine men nave been coming up again on the recession wave. From Roosevelt's train in the West, Correspondent Thomas L. Stokes reported a new crop of “friends of the people,” some of them having backdoor keys to bigbusiness support. A combination of returning recovery and Roosevelt's continued battling appears to be keeping them down. n ” 5 N this sense Roosevelt serves as a balance wheel in these times, a fact which astute observers from abroad like Thomas Magn and Emil Ludwig see clearly but which we in the thick of political wrangling do not realize. Had Roosevelt let up on his program after his reelection and settled back to take it easy he probably by now would have been sainted as a conservative like Senator Burke of Nebraska, who got into the Senate as a New Dealer and then let down. Roosevelt has kept on going. That is unusual in politics. Time after time men have been elected as progressives and then have settled down to conservatism. Very few are strong enough to go on after they have climbed to success. Roosevelt's refusal to quit has embittered many of his critics who otherwise might have been ready to make peace after the 1938 election. s ” »

UT by the same token it is this very thing that probably accounts for Roosevelt's ability to sustain his popularity among the mass of voters in face of a drastic recession. And with that support he is trying to reshape the Democratic Party and stamp the New Deal indelibly upon it so that it will carry on. The Democratic Party machinery is in many places controlled by bosses who have no more in common with Roosevelt than Hoover has. Hague, Pendergast and numerous others are not New Dealers but are simply going along wherever the loot is. Roosevelt is trying to infuse some progressive leaders into this organization and is trying to increase the number of Democratic officeholders who have some liberalism of their own, while at the same time steering clear of the crackpots. It isn't an easy job.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Monopoly Action Impossible Unless Corporation Laws Are Corrected.

EW YORK, July 18 —The monopoly hunters in Washington will not get very far in their adventure if they fail to put every' section of our corporation laws under the microscope. Monopoly hunts always spend most of their time with things called trusts—huge corporative structures dominating some important field of production. And this leads to the fact that too much time is gpent in all these hunts with hugeness, bigness, This is because the hunters are in search of what may be called absolute monopoly. There is no such thing. There is also no such thing as absolute competition. The thing to seek is monopoly practices, monopoly habits. And the chief instrument of these things is the corporation laws of the states. It might be very well argued that, even if everyone became convinced of the evil of these laws, it would be impossible to do anything about them, first because they affect too vast and powerful an element in the population and second, because these laws form such a tangle of bones all through and around our whole industrial system that it would be impossible to change them without ripping our whole business structure to bits. There is another basis of doubt. This is that the Federal Government, as things stand, cannot do anything very effective. No power can really reach the problem save the 48 states and they cannot be induced to act. All this may be true. But one other fact is true. Without the correction of the corporation laws and the traditional abuses and new abuses legal under them utterly nothing can be done about monopoly or monopoly practices and habits in business.

U. S. Must Make First Move

Because that is so a beginning must be made somewhere, however small, That beginning must The first step is to explore fully and publish widely the relationship between the corporation laws and thie monopoly problem. between the monopoly problem and the small as well as the large offenders. The next step is to find a way to put as many curbs on the interstate employment of these vicious corporation laws as is possible. This will leave plenty to be done. But the next step may be easier. But it is a giant task. succeeded very far against it. On the contrary, 60 vears ago the nation was uncompromisingly against all forms of monopoly practices. Today, without realizing it, the nation seems to be either tolerant of them or actually in favor of them. There are social philosophers who think it the most serious problem of our time.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE future looks dark for the boys, poor things. At the 31st annual session of the Home Economics Association, in Pittsburgh, it was announced that men, whether they like it or not, will have to do a share of the housework.

The high cost of living and high standard of living in middle-class America are responsible. An increasing number of mamas are bringing home paychecks, which makes it papa’s duty to take his turn at the dishes. Now, I ask you, what could be fairer (or harder) on the dishes? From observation I can assert that men will never prove as expert at women's work as women are at men’s, unless they undergo a complete change,

The average girl of ordinary intelligence can strike out in business and expect to do 'pretty well for herself. In many cases she will attain a fair success. Thousands of sprucely dressed, well-groomed, charming women do a man’s work all day and then go home and get through a good job of women’s work before bedtime. I am sorry to say that the men are not so capable. They may don the aprons, they may even cook (for many are fond of that), but their housekeeping is a good deal like Mayor Hague's democracy—better for talk than performance. One shudders to think what the American home would become if the men ever decided to take so much as half the responsibility for its care. Imagine, if you can endure the thought, what the closets would resemble by the end of the second week. The vision is too much. The hope of a better social order does not lie in this direction. The scheme, swell as it sounds, will leave most women cold. I feel certain I could never tolerate a home kept by a man nor a world peopled with male housekeepers.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

COMES TO DEFENSE OF POETS By R. F. I read with interest the letter regarding vour lack of taste in selecting poetry and I heartily disagree with the writer of that letter. In the first place his use of English shows just how little he really knows about composition or writing; for instance the sentence “I can't give you a workable rule for determining when poetry is poetry but it's a cinch to tell when it ‘ain't’ ” The correct words should

be “is not” or “isn't.” I wonder if he knows there is] nothing paid for any of the poetry | and if there was money involved, | no doubt the best would appear and | the amateur would never get a | chance, 1 do agree some of the poetry | | used does not even make sense but | much of it is very good. I think | those written by Virginia Kidwell, Maude Courtney Waddell and Virginia Potter are very good, and I| have read their poetry in other | papers and magazines. I also wonder if Smiley Fowler of | Greenshurg knows Teddy Hill is a child poet of very few summers? More power to you and your selection of poetry. It suits most of us everyday folks. ” 5 ” BELIEVES ROCKET BOMBS MAY BE KEY TO PEACE By W. F. Weiland Battleships are considered the greatest war machines. They are very expensive and cannot be afforded by small nations. The world would be benefitted if it were proven that they are very vulnerable to bombs dropped by the much cheaper heavier-than-air craft. Why should the stronger nations be permitted to float their forts? Bombs dropped from a practical height on large size battleships do not do sufficient damage because they do not penetrate before exploding. A bomb which misses and explodes alongside of the ship may do much more damage. Rocket-motored bombs should attain sufficient velocity to penetrate aeck armor. The chief objection is that rockets to date do not show | sufficient directional stability, It is my opinion that rockets shot toward gravity are more easily con-

gravity. If so, rocket motored bombs may be made sufficiently accurate to destroy world sea power, It would be most desirable to restrict the use of such bombs to attack on battleships but this cannot be done. However, if such a power-

ful war device can be afforded by

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con« troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

small nations then the world has a defense weapon comparable to the machine gun for discouraging aggression. The general distribution of war devices may force world cooperation. Even the United States would be forced to abandon its pol-

| icy of isolation.

¥ ¥ # INDIANA'S COURT SYSTEM CRITICIZED By M. D. Each vear the law universities of the diana pour forth their finished product of many young men and women with the highest ideals of a life's work in an honorable profes

schools and state of In-

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But they are only rudely awakened to find that all they have believed, cherished and pictured from the study and absorption of decisions which had been weighed upon the scales of justice was only Z2 myth. This period will go down in history as the biggest disgrace to the fair name of Indiana—a period when the rights of habeas corpus were taken away from the citizen. You may talk of the courts of Russia, and of Germany with its Hitlerized courts, but none of them has

EARLY MORNING By ROBERT O. LEVELL A field of grass so bright and green, The fog was heavy and drawing nigh, sunlight made a mighty scene As red as fire up in the sky.

When

The fog was thick as smoke could be Across the field along the way,

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When morning brought the dawn of day.

DAILY THOUGHT

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.—I Corinthians 3:8.

LESSINGS ever wait on various deeds, and though late, a sure reward succeeds.—Congreve.

anything on us. Something must be done, and that soon, or we, a free-born American citizenry, will find ourselves bound with chains and fetters from which our courts by their recent acts offer no hope of relief, Fellow citizens, now is the time to speak up. As a lawyer for the past 32 years in the corts of Indiana, I beseech you to get busy. ” ” n

SUGGESTS READER

MOVE TO JERSEY CITY By N. G. For many moons E. F. M. and 1 have often been at odds in our opinions, and I have wondered why he was so conservative and bitterly anti-Roosevelt, He let the cat out of the bag when in a letter to The Times he championed the cause of Mayor Hague, Nazi dictator of Jersey City. Now he has the right to champion the suppression of free speech, free press and peaceful assembly, for that is his American inheritance, Yet, how anyone could talk of preserving Americanism and the great principles it involves, and then champion the cause of Mayor Hague, is beyond me. If to be a good American citizen one must see as Nazi Hague, then E. F. M. must feel as if he is in a foreign land out here in Indiana. I would suggest that for case of mind, he should move to Jersey City where he would feel more at home with Kuhn and Hague. We Hoosiers will get along some way. ” ” on ‘CRASH HELMETS’ PROPOSED FOR MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS By Howard H. Bates The hazards in connection with the duty of the motorcycle police officer are great, and of late a number of splendid men have been hurt and one officer has died as a result of injuries. Some of these injuries are to the skull and head and might be

| mininiized if the head could be pro-

tected in some way. Why not devise some sort of a “crash helmet” along the same pattern worn by the race car drivers and issue it to all officers mounted on cycles? With a little effort a helmet could be devised that would protect from the elements, and at the same time give the officer a chance to avoid serious injury. I will gladly contribute to a fund to purchase these helmets, provided those in authority decide to try them.

“FUE STORY OE HEREDITY; TUE SMITHS

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

TAS THERE EVER A PERSON ENTIRELY FREE

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PROBABLY 50 million persons Parents who make high scores have have been given tests of intelli- | more children who make high scores gence and these tend strongly to|than do the children of low-score show that mental speed is inherited. | parents. Intelligence—or rather the '

capacity to become intelligent with effort and education—is made up of hosts of separate, inherited elements, but children of quick-think-ing parents are more likely to re-

ceive a large number and be quick thinkers than are the children of slow-thinking parents,

o ” ” 3 IN A personality study reported recently by Dr. A. H. Maslow, of Brooklyn, he concluded that the conservatives were more romantic, more religious, polite and goodhumored; while the radicals were

less religious, less romantic and lower than conservatives in sex morals. Well, decide for yourself which set of qualities would make the better husbands. ” ” n NOT UNLESS he was an idiot or insane. Some people have less actual troubles than others although those who have the most actual troubles often have the fewest real troubles. Their troubles don’t trouble them much, that Is,

they meet them bravely and cheerfully and solve them. Others let

little troubles down them.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Your Correspondent Presents One Side of the Case of an Ex-Army Officer Who Was Court-Martialed.

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 18.—This is only one side of the famous Carter case in which one of the most brilliant officers in the Army Engineer Corps was sent to the penitentiary, ruined and disgraced nearly 40 years ago. A proper showing of the other side might make it look silly. But there has been a singular squelching of the other side. Yet, on Carter's version, the incident is a disgrace to the court-martial system and the otherwise unblemished record of the Engineer Corps. Oberlin M., Carter is now a broken old man and has vainly devoted the latter part of his life in an effort to get a judicial review of his case. He can’t get if because the civil courts have no authority to review the findings of a court-martial. The court-martial system is a separate judiciary, independent of the courts. It rarely is unjust but, subject only to Presidential disapproval, it can be just as unfair as any Russian or German purging machine,

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ORTY years ago, Capt. Oberlin M. Carter was one of the wonder-children of the Army. He had a wealthy wife, which meant a large independent in= come. For his brilliant work he was jumped over the heads of seniors to the most desirable assigne ments. The Engineers used to be a snooty lot any=way and Carter was a very “oiled and curled Assyrian bull” of that aristocracy. He was popular only with himself, He sailed to Europe on some highly perfumed mission and a successor was sent to Savanah to “get” him, The only charge on which the court-martial convicted Carter was ‘embezzlement,’ on the ground that he had let a contractor use different material than the specifications called for. It was proved to be ridiculous to the point of absurdity and some leading lawyers who officially examined the record for President McKinley, and several courts have found, that there was no evidence at all to sustain the vere dict. That is hardly contested by anybody.

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HAT isn't the point, The point is that, after the President had referred the case for advice to Wayne McVeigh and Judge Edmonds and they had reported no evidence of guilt, but evidence wholly incompatible with guilt, the Attorney General recommended approval of the sentence on the ground that a secret special investigation had convinced him that Carter had received a “kick-back” from the contrace tor—a wholly new charge, not made or tried before the court and of which there was no evidence in the record. On that advice the conviction was approved and Carter went to the pen. There later appeared suspicious circumstances about other contracts and the case is obscured by other civil suits, Stripped of all these, however, what you have here is a man ruined and imprisoned on charges never tried. It smells of bureaucratic tyranny, Perhaps there is some sufficient answer to all this, If there is it ought to be made and, if there is not, it is up to the Secretary of War to correct this ape parent stain on the record of the judge advocate gene eral’'s department and that of the corps of engineers,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

In a Small World Shaking Hands Is More Sensible Than Fighting.

NY YORK, July 18.-—Aviation is going to make or break civilization, Within the bounds of not particularly fantastic imagination it is possible to envisage a co-operative world of peace and plenty or imperialistic tyranny. The old catchwords crumble. The theory of complete isolation for America is built upon the notion that the Atlantic is broad and the Pacific even wider, 1 am not denying that these are still damp spots upon the surface of the globe, and that as yet there are no regular excursion tours going around the earth in three days and 19 hours. It is not altogether startling that flying has progressed sufficiently to enable Hughes to halve the time of Lindbergh to Paris. But it is amazing to note that the record of Wiley Post, established as recently as 1933, has also been split in twain, This rate of progression, naturally, cannot be maintained, but the globe is definitely smaller than it was when Magellan sprinted his way around in three years and 27 days, and it will be further reduced with= in our decade. Indeed, by the curious circular tendency of history modern invention is scaling the earth back to the size which it assumed in the speculation of ancient man. Now there is a Northwest Passage to India, and the phase “the known world” has practically lost all meaning. Just what the military and naval experts will say about the new range and speed of the airplane I do not know. The cities of our land still present difficult problems of attack by bombers from abroad,

A Victory for Democracy.

But we no longer live behind a Chinese Wal!. Nor is there any other kind of fence, either charitable or spiteful, by which one people can immolate them= selves from the ideas of their neighbors. The new freedom of communication can be a bless= ing or a curse, but if humankind is capable of sanity, which I devoully believe, the advance of applied sci= ence should also mean an advance in applied civiliza= tion. The triumph of Howard Hughes and his associates is a victory for democracy on the basis of first re= turns, Fascism, in spite of its eagerness to engulf outlying territories, depends upon the parochial notion of exaggerated nationalism. In the long run, at any rate, the tightening of the world's dimensions should mean a lessening of local pride and prejudice, As the oceans begin to dry up and the mountains are dwarfed we draw closer to the others.who have shipped with us upon this rolling planet. In a little world we can, to be sure, fly at each other's throat. But we can also shake hands, which would be much more sensible,

Watching Your Health :

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HE entire gastro-intestinal tract of a human being is from 25 to 30 feet long. Nine or 10 inches of this make up the esophagus, which goes from the throat to the stomach, and the stomach itself is about the same length. This represents 4 considerable area over which it is possible for cancer to appear, because the lining of the intestines is of the type of cells which may give rise to cancer. Apparently cancers appear more often in those

portions of the intestines where the material which passes along may stagnate or set up irritation. These are the places particularly where the intestines be= come narrow. We know today that little is to be accomplished in the control of cancer of the stomach or of the intestines unless the condition is discovered early, Certain types of cancer are less difficult to control because they grow slowly and because they maké their presence known by bleeding. Others make their presence known by producing obstruction of the bowel at an early date. . Cancers that are hard to recognize are the small, hard cancers which do not bleed and which produce little irritation or obstruction until they have become so large that they produce complete obstruction. Nevertheless, the outlook is not hopeless because we are learning more and mare about the changes which occur in the development of new growths irf the intestines and stomach. . We have a great many new tools which scientists are able to use in studying these tissues. Moreover, we have now the : X-ray, which ig most useful in determining the presence of ne growths in the gastro-intestinal tract. ge: There are more new methods for attacking can< cers in the esophagus. -

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