Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1938 — Page 10
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1938
. DANGER IN PENNSYLVANIA . QOMETHING must be very rotten in the State of Pennsylvania, where Governor George H. Earle is going to * amazing lengths to prevent a grand jury investigation of * his'administration. © ' © Jove This Democratic Governor and his Democratic Legisla- | ture are attempting to destroy the grand jury as a weapon against corruption in government. That is of vital interest “to the people of every state. If Governor Earle can do that, - other Governors will be tempted to try it. The charges Governor Earle is fighting to keep a grand jury from considering were made first by Democrats, during "the bitter Pennsylvania primary campaign last spring. | Acting on those charges a Republican district attorney prepared for submission to a grand jury at Harrisburg, the state capital, evidence which he says would justify the indictment of the Governor, the Democratic state chairman and a dozen other state and party officials on charges of conspiracy, graft, extortion and blackmail. Governor Earle has battled for nearly three months to block the grand jury investigation. He has denounced judges, Republican and Democratic alike, for refusing to interfere~with it. Now, with the grand jury scheduled to begin work in two weeks, he has called the Legislature in special session. : And the Legislature, two-thirds of its members Democrats, is obediently rushing through a series of measures (described elsewhere in this paper by Robert Taylor, a special correspondent at Harrisburg) which are designed to make it impossible for any Pennsylvania grand jury to conduct an effective investigation of the state department. . The Governor plans further to have the Legislature appoint a committee of its own to investigate his Administration. That of course, since the Governor controls the Legislature, can be nothing but a whitewash. Governor Earle protests that the grand jury movement is a conspiracy by Republicans to destroy his “little New Deal” and by the courts to dominate the executive and legislative branches of the state government. The situation, we have noe doubt, is full of politics. The Republicans, fighting to regain control of the second largest state, are making the most of it. And the Governor, it seems to us, is playing directly into their hands. That, however, is of concern only to the people of Pennsylvania. The attack on the grand jury system is of national concern. : The grand jury is one of our oldest institutions, as fundamental as Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. It is
the supreme investigating body, representing the ‘whole |
people—their ultimate safeguard, not only against ordinary crime but against public corruption. It can indict even the prosecutors who conduct it and the judges who convene it. To say, as Governor Earle does, that the grand jury shall be shorn of power and that charges involving state officials shall be disposed of by a Legislature dominated by those same officials, seems absurd. It is worse than that. It threatens to establish one of the most dangerous precedents in Anrerican history. The Pennsylvania Legislature is hurrying to pass the Governor's measures before the people of Pennsylvania become aroused to effective protest. We hope the citizens of that state will be equally quick to make their indignation felt at Harrisburg. : :
ANOTHER YOUTH DROWNED
ATHING in unguarded streams and pools has taken another Marion County life. The drowning of an 11-year-old youth yesterday in White River one-fourth of a mile from a supervised beach followed by less than a week the death of a 10-year-old boy in Fall Creek. Police are maintaining a strict vigilance over such death traps, with authority to order any bathers into the Crime Prevention Bureau. Parents have been urged to co-operate by emphasizing to their children the perils of unsupervised dips.’
It remains for the swimmers themselves to outlaw
these danger spots.
DRINKING—DRIVING : : N about 40 per cent of the automobile fatalities in New York City last year the victims were found to have been drinking alcoholic beverages, reports Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, chief medical examiner. Nor One out of every three pedestrians killed in highway accidents had “traces or more” of alcohol in their brains, when autopsies were performed. The percentage of drivers who had used liquors before accidents in which they died was even higher. These are frightful statistics, emphasizing the profound truth that drinking and driving, or even drinking and walking, cannot go safely together. Yet we well remember the predictions made by many prohibitionists that repeal would convert the country’s streets and highways into scenes of slaughter worse than anything ever known before. Those predictions do not seem to have come true. Repeal Associates, for instance, assert that Medical
(Safety Council figures show 21 traffic deaths for every’
10,000 gallons. of gasoline consumed in 1936, while in 1938, ‘a prohibition year, there were 22 traffic deaths for every 10,000, gallons of gasoline used.
_ The ‘American Petroleum Institute reports, for the first six months of 1938, 20 to 25 per cent fewer highway.
deaths than in the corresponding months of 19387. It believes that this decline must be due to “greater safetyconsciousness on the part of pedestrians and drivers,” and
- predicts that if the present trend continues the traffic toll |
this year will be 7000 to 8000 below last year’s. 1] ~The prohibitionists were right about the danger of mixing alcohol and gasoline. What they did not realize or
did not care to admit, we suspect, was the vast amount of
drinking’ and driving done under prohibition. Conditions could hardly be worse than they were then, and there is reason to hope that they are getting better,
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
Italian Amateur Football Teams
Know: Better Than to Lose a Game:
When Playing Outside the Country.
EW YORK, July '27—The Italian Football Federation has fined the Ambrosiana Club, holder of the national championship and defender of Fascist honor and prestige, for doing a Guadalajara in a contest with the Yugoslavs. The Ambrosianas lost, 9 to 0. As punishment they will have to pay 5000 lire. They also have been forbidden to play outside Italy, where foreigners might see them and receive an unSonvining impressioni of Fascist invincibility, until pt. 30. :
The fining of amateur athletes for failure on the °
field will seem grotesque to Americans, who have often accused themselves of over-emphasis on sports
but _haye never regarded an athletic defeat as a
national ‘calamity or a victory as a triumph for the state. ; 5
The Fascists and Nazis take a more serious view, however. The Fascist football clubs are part of the
regime, and players who go abroad to represent Italy |
must come back with their shields or on them. "The Fascist prestige ‘has been a distinct handicap to Italian sportsmanship on several notable occaions. Intended to act as wings on their heels—and Fascist sport has produced some notable heels—it has often served as a heavy burden when the invincible sportsmen felt they had to win or go home in disgrace. Under the Fascist code it is a disgrace to lose fairly and gallantly but an honor to win by any means. ! : ® 8 = Sl : HE chivalry by which the decadent democracies set so much stor® was abandoned early in the reign of the Duce, when a gallant gesture brought unpleasant results. On that occasion an Austrian soccer team from Innsbruck beat a Fascist team from Milan, and the Milan club thought it would be pretty to send the Austrians a substantial token of friendship. The Milanese were long on chivalry but short on tact, however, for the token took the form of an enormous cast statute of Mussolini which was shipped PF. O. B. Milan. : : Not only was the Innsbruck team to poor to pay the freight, which was considerable, but a statue of Mussolini, who had forbidden the native Tyrolean yodel among the captive Austrians in Italy, was the very thing that all Austrians wanted least. For a combination of both reasons the Innsbruckers refused to accept the monument. They said they considered the statue an insult, and the Milanese said this telegram was an insult to them. ; A nameless peacemaker finally hit upon a happy solution. The Innsbruckers ordered a foundry co cast a set of whiskers for the statue and changed the detested Mussolini into the beloved Gambrinus, the inventor of beer.
» 2 2 ATER, however, the Viennese team had the ill manners to beat another group of fascism’s defenders, and this time the press of Rome took up the outrage frankly as such, threatening to block a loan to Austria which was then under consideration
by the League of Nations.
In the last Olympic Games in Berlin Mussolini’s invincibles ganged a referee during a game with the Americans. And nobody who was present will forget the cutlery shower which descended from the galleries in Madison Square Garden the night that an American amateur boxer badly defeated the Fascist flyweight champion, Edelweiss Drodriguez. These episodes are trivial to the victors, who usually are able to win without undue exultation, &ut they are little Guadalajaras to the Duce, and the Ambrosiana Club has been guilty of a grave betrayal of a sacred trust. :
Business By John T. Flynn
No Persecution in First Execution Expected Under 'Death Sentence’.
EW YORK, July 27—It is just’ three years ago since the headlines were reeking with denunciations of the Administration’s Public Utility Holding Company Act and the famed “death sentence.” Now, after three years, the Commission entrusted with the job gets around to its first execution. The victim marked for the death sentence is an offender who already has nearly hanged himself. : It will be remembered: that” the object of that act was to simplify public utility: holding company structures. It was to render impossible such structures as the far-flung Insull edifice or the Associated Gas collection of utilities. The Commission was to study existing systems and as soon as possible after January, 1938, limit utility systems to single integrated systems unless special circumstances enumerated in, the act existed. Unfortunately, during the first year or so. of the act little or nothing was done. When William O. Douglas became chairman of the SEC a more vigorous administration of the act was undertaken. And now. the Commission undertakes to apply this badly named “death sentence” to the Utilities Power & Light Corp., an old Associated Gas subsidiary, now part of Mr. Odlum’s Atlas Corp. £0 ‘Of course there is no reason in finance, business or nature for the existence of such a thing as the Utilities Power & Light Corp. It began operating some small companies in New Jersey. Presently it turned up operating others in such widely separated spots as South Dakota, Connecticut, Texas, Nova Scotia and England.
Show Wasn't Well Run
There was neither geographic nor industrial nor economic integration in the ramshackle collection. There was nothing in its setup which made for efficiency. The only reason was the financial! one—the common use of the holding company to exploit many properties. There was $18,000,00 of preferred stock, $30,000,000 of debentures and around $2,200,000 of common stock running the show. The show wasn't very well run and finally landed in the bankrupt court, where it now languishes. No one has been able to suggest a feasible scheme for reorganization. So now the SEC has stepped in and taken steps to force the separation of all these operating units into geographic and industrial integrated units. The case of the company is sé bad that its principal large stockholder admits it hasn't a leg to stand on, There is; therefore, nothing in this case which will justify the people who like to shout about all the terrible things the Administration is doing to business, using this as another case of Federal prosecution.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
THE customary excuse appeared after the Joan Crawford-Franchot Tone separation. One house isn’t big enough for two careers—which, by implication at leass, always puts the blame on the woman. , It doesn’t exactly enhance the glory of men either, if you ask me, because it shows them up as cry-babies who can’t stand feminine competition, especially if it exists under the same roof. . It is undeniably true that in Hollywood the few marriages that stick are those in which the husband has the career and the wife remains at home, where it was once believed every ‘woman belonged. Also, it is hardly fair to base any of eur conclusions about divorce on the California records, since we are convinced that a great many of the glamorous men and women of thé movies dct like spoiled children. They do, however, offer us more examples of the two-career home than we can find elsewhere. And from all reports, it's tumbling down. “Why?”, our reason may inquire. To that there can be only one reply: . “Because the average mdn has to be the only big shot in the household or he won't play.” This fact stands out in any study of modern marriage problems. We can’t escape it ever, so we may as well talk about it with as much intelligence as al be brought to & subject of such emotional magniM : ry 0h : iE These are
obstacle to happiness is to educate the boys to that women ar people das such
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Obviously then, ‘the only ‘method of rounding this | | nk
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times of bitter adjustments for men and |: women, "It is generally conceded that the latter will never return to the fireside ways of their mothers,
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: 4 ~ ® : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
ASKS UNIVERSITY BRANCH FOR LAKE COUNTY By Interested : A fight, it is said, will center in
the Senate during this week to elimthe pump prim- |
inate what is call ing appropriation bill of $251,000 to found a northern branch of Indiana University in Lake County. Foes charge that this bill will be the opening wedge for a com-
plete University in Lake County.
From my point of view as one familiar with Lake County, I believe .it is no more than just that the State should provide the Uni-
_ versity branch for Lake County students, if it can afford it.
Lake County gets very few State insti-
tutions because of its geographical
position, but there is little if any complaint. Even if the charge should be true that it would be an
opening wedge for a complete uhi-
versity there, it would still be no
more than fair to this populous sec-
tion of the state and such can hardly ‘come under the -classifiof “pork barrel” appropriating. 5yAs I get the report of the De-
partment of Public Instruction,
there are in Indiana 30 colleges and universities; all but eight of these are allowed State grants (which make tuition more reasonable to the student). These colleges are concentrated for the most part in the
central part of the state. Not one is
located in Lake County though it contains three of the State’s eight
second class cities, and has a high
school enrollment of more than 15,000, second only to that of Indianapolis and Marion County, which has about 18,000. Incidentally all our other second class cities have unjversities within or near them. Proportionately,, Indianapolis is unusually well served with institutions of higher learning. The character of Lake County’s industries—steel and oil—seem to
‘have identified it more with the
Chicago area and at times it seems hardly to be considered by the rest of the state as part of it.
There is a night school branch of I. U. in East Chicago now, but a
full time branch is needed very much in my estimation and I think
I am in agreement with local educators of Lake County.
It is not the tuition of a univer-
sity that keeps students from benefiting from a college education, but
the expenses attendant to living away from home. With employment all but nonexistent to young untrained workers, a good many students could continue their schooling if it could be done without the additional expense of leaving home. : :
2 8 s OBJECTS TO PHRASE, ‘PRIME THE PUMP By L. S. Todd . *
Who coined the political phrase, “prime the pump”? Every time that President Roose-
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM—
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velt asks for an appropriation to keep helpless women and children from starvation, some news reporter comes out in bold headlines that Roosevelt is “priming the pump.” Governor Townsend, in a called session of the General Assembly asked for an appropriation of $7,300,000 and. few state papers have said anything about Townsend’s “priming the pump.” Just a short time ago the Mayor of Chicago asked for an appropriation of $7,450,000 which the press said would be. one million dollars per ‘month short for relief. Not a newspaper said anything about “priming the pump.” I am not sure, but I think Cleveland was asked for $10,500,000 for relief and not a word in any paper about Cleveland “priming the pump? A great many. phrases like this one are hatched in the brain of a 2x4 reporter, unreliable from every standpoint. There is much said about President Roosevelt’s spending spree. I want to say that what Roosevelt has spent to redeem a bankrupt na-
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER
By H. B. SWAISGOOD Whene'er we chance to meet a friend, - We talk about the weather. -When conversation seems to end, We talk about the weather. - After a lot of silly chatter About the things that do not matter, After we criticize or flatter, We talk about the weather.
It doesn’t seem to do much good, This talk about the weather. We couldn’t change it if we would, The ever present weather. The summers still are hot and dry, Thermometers are very high, We simply mop our brows and sigh, oo And talk about the weather.
DAILY THOUGHT
Speak ye every man the ‘truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.—Zechariah 8:16.
RUTH is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies —Dryden.
YOU'VE BEEN BATCHIN' IT A LONG TIME, DOC!
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| help people is to aid them to solve
tion under “Herb” would not be a drop in the bucket compared with the wealth lost in defunct banks, farms and property values. I know one bank building that cost $100,000 which was sold at a liquidating sale for $5500. The same liquiddting agent sold at auction $220,000 worth of notes, chattels and fixtures for the pitiful sum of $3900. The bank fixtures alone cost twice that amount. When Hoover retired as President by the vote of the people the well was dry and there was nothing with which to “prime the pump.” You cannot prime a pump with 30-cent wheat, 15-cent corn, threecent hogs and other farm products in proportion. “Herb” tried to prime the pump by buying a‘seat on the Board of Trade, but that was a huge joke. * Will some of your readers tell me who coined the political -phrase “prime the pump”? RR OBJECTS TO BROUN'S VIEWS ON LIBERALISM By John L. Niblack : : Good old Uncle Heywood Broun, who is at his best when describing a coon-dog baying the Connecticut moon or the exhilarating effects of a trip to a saloon in New York: City, occasionally gives us a glimpse of his true feelings, a violent antipathy to the American form of governpment. His attitude is one with that of our ‘United States Senator, Shay Minton, who nobly expressed the New Deal attitude when he said, “you can’t eat the Constitution.” (By the way, you can’t eat the Sermon on the Mount or the Teh Commandments, either.) : When Uncle Heywood undertook
out of the liberal ranks, he spread himself out a little too thin. He said in Saturday's Times, “It is not to be denied that the gentleman from Montana has an imposing record as a stanch fighter for liberal causes. Something has happened in the last two years. . . . Wheeler’s op-
has been extensive, and has not been confined to his voting record.” It may be that Senator Wheeler, in his opposition to some parts of the New Deal, is still the true liberal. If I am right, the word liberal derives from the same Latin root as liberty. Maybe Senator Wheeler still believes in the Rill of Rights which has been disregarded so much by the New Deal. Maybe the Senator believes in a government of ‘laws, and not of men or of one man. It is possible that the Montanan believes that the courts of the United States should be free and independent of the executive. True-liberal-ism believes in liberty, not prison dungeons and Siberian exile for nonconformists such as obtain in that dear old Russia, the birthplace of a lot of ideas for which Uncle Heywood continually plugs.
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average of two years. The writers and engineers follow closely—a little over two years—while the doctors, lawyers, businessmen, politicians and educators seem a little more tient or else more deeply bereaved, as they endure widowerhood nearly two and a half years. 3 La me : ‘DR. EDWARD K. STRONG Stanford psychologist, shows that the best way to influence and
their problems intheir own way and in their own frame-work of life. Business leadership, he thinks, often to problem bf employees’ tn its WHERE EXPERTS have shown criminals were mentally irresponsible they should be sentenced not to punishment; but to confine-
to read Senator Wheeler of Montana |
position to the Roosevelt program |.
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The British" Government Realizes Thet Among Equals“ Takes Two To Co-operate, but Ours Does Not.
ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 21—I wrote here 49 yesterday about what appears to me to be a folly —of excusing our debt and tax burden in the false assertion that mother England has a greater one. An equal nonsense seems to me to he the frequently repeated statement that business in this country is resistant to Government, while business in Britain supports its Government. Say Surely business and. Government co-operate. in . Britain.. Napoleon may have been exaggerating when he said England was a nation of shopkeepers, But if what he meant was that the Government of d believes that the best way to advance the fortunes of the people of England is to advance the business of England, then he spoke only a platitude. Thus it has always. been. : : It has not ‘been -so in our country recently. Government, has- plainly taken the position that a political administration by various feats of economic magic can do far more for its people than what we call “good business” can do. The absurdity of that is plenteously plain in the fact that,-after spending $20,000,000,000. and: following that principle to the ultimate, the average man is worse off than ever.
: ® = | # HE difference between the British situation and ‘ours is that in England Government, farmers,
don’t hang together, they are sure to hang separately. In this country, years have been spent in an effort to convince the mass of our people that business is a bum and that their salvation lies in the administration bf all things, not merely by a Federal Govérnment but by a Federal governor, tt Among equals, it takes two to co-operate. The British Government realiggs this. Ours does not. Ours now takes the position that in such co-operation as there may be, business must come “crawling on its hands and knees.” That just doesn’t march with American character. | ® x 8 | rp ne may be intangibles but they are none the less true and real. It is wholly unnecessary. As has been remarked here before, no Government in our history even had the degreeyof co-operation from business that was given Mr. Roosevelt in 1933. He simply asked over the radio, one night, for a voluntary maximum hours and minimum wages schedule and the abolition of child labor. He got it to tHe tune of nearly three million jobs within the week, As a great British economist remarked to him, he had been able to do in ‘less than 70 minutes what took the British Government 70 years. Of course that requires some qualification, in view of what happened later. But the qualification doesn’t alter the main fact. Whatever co-operation the British: Government has had from British business is as nothing compared to what the American Government could have from the President's radical adv him that it is better rabble-r sing politics not to appear to be co-operating with business, but eternally to be tableaued as kicking it all over the lot when-
ever possible. .
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun ~All Qualified Voters Should Read A Standard Work on Washington.
\TEW YORK, July 27.—This column has contended several times that we in America are less than experts in the matter ‘of knowing our own. history. There is, of course, a possibility that there will be much talk of precedents in 1940. Indeed, under certain circumstances the impression may prevail that Géorge Washington has taken the stump in opposi= tion to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before these emotional questions arise I. think it might be an excellent idea for every qualified voter to get himself some standard work on Washington and his times and read it from cover to cover. I will if you will. : - It will not Re enough, I think, for any one of us to rely on such history as was learned in the primary grades or high school. These textbooks, skip too much. It seemed to me several years ago that Rupert Hughes did an interesting book upon our first President, even though some of the reviewers assailed Mr. Hughes as a radical and subversive writer who sought to bring the Founding Fathers into disrepute. Rupert Hughes seems to have weathered that storm very nicely, . I think that most of us came away from school under the impression that at the end of George Washington’s second term there was great popular clamor for him to run again and that, though sorely tempted, he put aside a third term in order to set an eternal precedent.
He Longed for the Farm
But the facts, as outlined by Mr. Hughes, are that Washington was sick to death of the job before the end of his first term. He did accept a second term against his will, but it is extremely doubtful that
he could have been elected for a third term even if he had so desired. And he was certainly eager to get away. : Washington's second Administration was not successful. The press of his day attacked him bitterly, and much of the criticism was captious, scurrilous, unfair and untrue. But there was some ground for sound criticism. Washington had aged and had not kept pace with the rapid development of the country. .He knew his work was done and that no great further contribution could come from him. And so he made a wise decision for himself. The men.of his own day did not consider it as the setting of a precedent for all time. : : In a democracy decisions must be reached as of today. Those who lock to the future must consider the past, but they should not use it as the sole compass. And they will be even more illy advised if they employ it as an anchor.
‘Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein
HE Council on Foods, of the American Medical Association has said that food products should never contain toxic contaminations that may endanger health. Fresh fruits and vegetables which have been sprayed with poisonous mixtures to kill particularly moths—should be carefully washed with plenty of water or with some special solvent solution - before they are used. Washing with plain water does not always assure complete removal of all the material Manufacturers now make available to fruit growers dipping- tanks in which the fruit is put into a concentratigh of 1 per cent hydrochloric acid for two or In packing plants in which oranges, grapefruit, apples and other fruits are handled in large amounts, machines are used with flotation-type washers. ; The two materials that have proved most sat factory for the removal of spray residues are. - chloric acid, as already described, and sodium te, and - also fluorine. The sodium silicate solutions are less effective for apples than acid solutions, and sodium silicate is not ge! recommended in the éastern
part of the United States where the spraying material differs from that used in the western portions of the
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a
business and labor are all convinced that if they BR.