Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1938 — Page 10
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Ep FY 5851 Give Light and the People Wilk Find Their Own Way SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1938
WELCOME, LEGIONNAIRES NUSUALLY busy this week as a host, the city today happily turns its attention to the Indiana American Legion and Auxiliary, here for their annual convention. Scheduled for the meeting are two parades, a banquet and ball, a drum and bugle contest, the usual sions and the election of state commanders. Fifteen thousand Legionnaires are expected. Indianapolis extends its welcome te them.
THANKS, MR. CORRIGAN
THANKS, Mr. Corrigan. Thanks not for proving you can fly the right way, not for renewing our interest in aviation, not for stirring up enthusiasm for the Irish and not for that most colorful parade and reception: - But thanks, Mr. Corrigan, for bringing us, in these times of stress and tension, about 18 hours of gaiety and levity, a beneficial tonic we can enjoy even after you and your “crate” have gone.
JUMPY OMETIMES, though rarely, a statement of the obvious creates a sensation. That happened when President Roosevelt at Kingston, Ontario, assured Canada that the United States “will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire.” : The Monroe Doctrine has been our national policy since 1828. While technically Canada did not come under it (existing colonies being excepted), to all practical purposes she has been within its scope all the time. More, in fact, than any Central or Latin American nation, for reasons of race and sustained friendship, If we would invoke the Monroe Doctrine to prevent a foreign nation from taking over Mexico, of course we would act against a similar conquest of Canada—and with much more gusto. ° . The. President's declaration therefore was soimethins that could go without saying. Yet it. seems to have stirred things up. - London papers: give it the dominant play—much more attention than that given in this country—and read inte "it all sorts of wish-thinking interpretations not actually expressed in the words of the declaration’ itself. And the German and Italian press get red in the face about it. 1f Europe weren't i in the worst case of the jitters since the late summer of 1914 the Presidential speech no doubt would have passed without notice—as a friendly gesture amounting to nothing more than reiteration. But when a- -whole continent is ready to scream with suspense even the obvious may become inflammatory.
UNFINISHED PICTURE-STORY WHILE Hitler looks on at the great German war games of 1938; a Berlin newspaper is reprinting photegraphs of Kaiser Wilhelm, in: that once-familiar spiked helmet, watching the maneuvers of 1918—the last big workout of the Imperial German Army before the Warld War. Perhaps it is too much to hope that the same paper will de the logical thing and reprint somé 1918 pictures of the Kaiser hotfooting it for the border with his tail between his legs. And of the empty cupboards and teeming graveyards that were a part of the same story. Nope, we're afraid Herr Goebbels would rather not bring that up. -
BAD NEWS iN HOT WEATHER
BOUT this season every year we are accustomed to reading in the newspapers. Senator Harrison's prediction that there will be no new tax bill at the forthcoming ‘session of Congress. Of course subsequent events have usually proved the Senator a poor prophet, although his prediction has always been comforting warm-weather reading. Fe
But now the Senator from Mississippi, in ruthless disregard of the temperature, has come forward with a prophecy that in this next session there will be a new tax bill, that income-tax exemptions will be cut down and the rates increased. The taxpayer's only consoling thought is Mr. Harrison's bad record as a guesser. Eventually, however, there can be little doubt that such a change in our tax structure as he suggests will have to be undertaken. . A broadening of the income-tax base and a stiffening of the rates are ‘the- ‘logical methods for obtaining more Federal revenue—the only methods in accord with the principle of ability to pay. But if those methods are adopted, along lines often suggested by Senator La Follette, it will mean that two or three million citizens, now subject only te invisible Federal levies, will for the first time pay income taxes; and another million who now pay but a small amount in income taxes will be assessed much larger sums. The income tax is a direct and therefore a painful tax, so one result will be to cause a lot’ more citizens to become a lot more sképtical of Government spending. And that, in turn,
- should force the tax spenders to be a little more careful
in getting their money's worth.
JUDGES
"NOBODY hss called: on us to defend the thesis that judges are human beings after all, but we feel constrained to submit the following evidence: Judge Joseph E. McGarry of Chicago, recognizing a prisoner before him on a minor charge as the pitcher who
had beaned him in a baseball game 24 years ago, dismissed
the charge. : And Traffic J udge Julius M. Kovachy of Cleveland, informed that a defendant had ripped the seat of his pants while changing a tire on the way to court, allowed the man to sit down while the: charge was heard and a 3 fine imposed, instead of making him -stand up with his back the crowded courtroom, :
business Bess’
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Just What Is So Terribly Wrong About a 13-Year-Old Youngster's Yearning to Start a Sea Career? | § EW YORK, Aug. 20—Bobby Stapp, the 13-year- | -
old son of a sea cook, has just finished his fourth eruise as a stowaway and is now in the hands of the law as a parole violater. He stowed away to Europe twicé, then to Savannah and this time to the Caribbean en a 16-day cruise of the Santa Elena.
His father follows the sea as ship's cook, and a keen | ~
psychologist might judge from the boy's conduct that he wants to be a sailor of some kind himself. It is just an idea, but worth exploring. Now, it would be easy enough to sneer it through, sarcastic to the bhettom of this space, but I think I will change needles and remark that it is, in words of one syllable, a terrible note when the law assumes that a kid is somehow crazy and wayward because at the age of 13 he has decided what he wants to do in life and reveals impatience to get started. The
British merchant marine takes younger boys than
Bobhy Stapp into training ships for brief preliminary teaching in the manners and languages of the sea, and soon has them aboard sea boats bound just everywhere. ® 8 = UT the Stapp boy was marked for queer when he returned from his second voyage to Europe and was turned over to psychiatrists to have his head felt, on the gssumption that a boy with definite ambition needed curing. Now he is in the hands of the children’s court, and as a parole breaker at that, and would seem to be nicely on his way to immurements with a lot of little thieves who might exert g whole-
some influence and correct his abnormal yearning |
to ride boats. He has a good report in all other respects, being bright, polite and fluent in two languages, and although it might be rather hard on his mother to lose him to the sea so soon, this country is crowded with the proud descendants of boys who ran away to sea at about the same age a few generations ago.
HE irony of the case is that in al our schools
educators put in their time year after year: splashing education over hundreds of thousands of intelligent and amiable young drifters who haven't the faintest idea what they expect to try to de for a living after the meter readings say they have been educated up ta the mark, The pedagogues use cunning wiles to draw them out, and special boards ef yendetectives call in rather well-grown pupils—still in school a} an age when their grandparents. were raising families—to tickle their imagination and search their responses for clues to their aptitudes. ;
And so every year thousands of them are dumped out of school, too highly taught for strong-back jobs but with no preference hetween one line of work and another, just so the hours aren't tog long and the pay is enough to permit early marriage. This is not to ridicule the misfortune of the poor graduates who never give a thought to the future or who think of it but can’t concentrate on one ambition. But there is hardly any need to heap ridicule on a mental hahit of those wha are supposed to know something about youth who hold that a boy with a craving for a particular calling must be loaded to the plimsell with useless lessons and branded incorrigible for a show of adventurous initiative.
Business By John T, Flynn
Three Reforms in Social Security Legislation Urged by Economist.
EW YORK, Aug. 20.—Prof. James W. Horwitz of the Harvard Business-School has just made a report on a study of unemployment insurance in which hé recommends that a national instead of a state system should be adopted. A strange statement appeared in a neighboring column to the effect'that the present social security laws were the result of the most painstaking study and that if there are defects in these laws it is because the President preferred to force action rather than wait for the perfect law. Of course, this statement is utterly without any foundation in fact. Pirst of all, every student of social security had a just ground for hoping that social security laws would be among the very first to be adopted in 1833. Then -everybody favored social security laws. But sueh laws were not presented for one reason alone—the President of the United States refused to support them. It was not until after the middle of 183% that the law was passed. As to the ‘painstaking and careful study so mich advertised, at the very outset the President's emissary ordered the commisson of scholars and business< men named to study social security not even to con=sider a national system of unemployment insurance. Without any study of the subject, before the study began and without any support for his position by a single authority on social security, the President closed the door on even a study of the subject of a national system. :
Bill Drafted Hurriedly
Buf the committee did study it and I believe unanimously recommended a national system. But their recommendations were unceremoniously thrown out of the window and the whole subject handed over to a young Labor Department lawyer who hurriedly drafted the bill which was offered. It was so incoherent and obscure that certain able Con-
.gressional leaders said they couldn’t make out what
it was all about. The Congressional committees rewrote it as hest they could and what emerged was a system which has so many defects that it is doubtful whether, as Abraham Epstein, the ieading authority on social security in the country, says, the system does not now actually do more harm to the economic machine than good. If Congress has any fhdependence left, it will as soon as it convenes name a committee or commission |
+ to examine the shocking misfit of social security and
report on means of correcting it. Three fundamental reforms are necessary. First, the old-age ‘assistance grants to states should be revised and an honest and decent. and nen-political administration of them hrought about. Second, the shameful old-age reserve fund should be abolished. Third, as Prof. Horwitz reports, the unemployment Insurance plan should be orgahized as a national system.
A Women's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Fergusen
PEAKING of shopping, it seems to me it’s high time we dropped that cliche, “The customer is always right.” I know of nothing that has worked more harm to the feminine character. Statistics—and how I hate ‘em—prove that a good many socalled ladies deserve no medals for politeness in their dealings with shop girls, and that many a highly respected sister practices a special brand of dishonesty which, I am sorry to say, is confined to the petticoated crowd,
One of the worst of her little tricks is taking mer-.
chandise out on approval, using and then re 35 I've gone to the trouble of questioning the women in several stores and they verify the rc To be sure all of them are close-mouthed (for high-
grade diplomacy no one can equal the suave women ;
in the higher-priced ready-to-wear shops) and reluc-
tant to let out information. By dint of painful per- :
severance, however, you gather that they do not think any toc well of some of our moneyed dames—in the faser of ethics, fairness, consideration and justice, an, Neither do I. Neither would you if you knew what they were up to some of the time. The “Charge It” brigade are the worst offenders. Sometimes when a Woman gets the coveted gown or coat or gewgaw home she i§ faced with the knowlage that her allowance is overdrawn, and the thought of what Friend Husband will say when he finds out the price of the purchase gives her cold feet, And so, Blter ras couple or three days, she hastens to return cle.
Less coneentration on the Emily Post sort of man-
' ners and # 8 little more study of moral ethics would
thing for the great Ameri ustom "to become a racket with Aor.
profession?
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will | defend to the death your right to say it. —Voltaire.. :
SEEKS BAN ON : BINGO GAMES - ‘By Taxpayer : I think ‘it's about time some-
games. I'm sure there are other husbands who feel the same as I do about them.
than she does on the table. There's one family on our street with eight children, and they live on the county. These bingo games are hard on a poor man’s pocketbook. If bingo is permitted why don't authorities let people play slot machines and other money ‘rackets? There really isn’t any difference.
else could you call i? oe 8 PROTESTS WPA TRUCK POLICY © P By WPA Worker : “Everyone :- knows: ‘that. work is scarce: and many “poor people “are dependent on WPA for work. There are: foremien, filling station. owners, men who own farms, and men with good jobs whose wives are working, who own trucks and hire drivers and have them working on WPA. Contractors have most, if not all, -their trucks en WPA. Some get many truck contracts; some get nene. This work was started to help the poor man—not the contractors, | men with large farms, filling station owners and men able to help themselves. The WPA is now using only trucks with hydraulic dump beds, Trucks with gravity dump beds (the peor man’s truck) will not be used till more trucks are needed. People who can afford trucks “with ‘hydraulic beds are buying them every day. These beds cost from: $225 to $300, and the poor man cannot buy one on $60 a month. To buy one on payments a man must own the truck, free of loans or mortgages, and present -the title: then i impossible to make the payments, the company takes the truck as well as the body, and all that’s paid on it. The hydraulic beds may look bet-
but they don't do any more wark, as they will haul load for load, and about the same amount, and with a $1 set of chains will spread gravel
‘I'just as well. Something should be done about |
this. g 2 » ® x SEES WHALES BECOMING VICTIMS OF PROGRESS By Richard Hollander What would Cap'n Ahab say? What mouth at this latest
backhand slap at’ his grand old The days of Moby
thing is done about these bingo|
My wife spends more on bingo:
If it isn't a gambling game, What |
it is{
ter than those with gravity dumps, |
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cone troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be . withheld en request)
Dick and the statis of the whalers are indeed in the dim past. 0 The Cominerce Department reports development of a device to make ‘floating radio stations out of dead whales lost hy whaling expeditions. a miniature Uliga-short-wave radio transmitter mounted at the upper end of b flag harpoon. Thus, burdened by modernity, the carcass of leviathan will float the seas, wearily sending out reports of its position to nearby ships. No more; then, will whales con-
tinue. a menace, even unto death ‘land beyond, where the souls of
square-riggers and their masters must be waiting with a certain ‘commiserating sympathy, born of battles long ago. It must be progress. s & =. : TODAY'S YOUTH NOT UNLIKE YESTERDAY'S, BEARER. SAYS By E.- 8. : The marality of Ameriegn vouth has been discussed: time and time again, by the alder people who de net understand youth as does youth itself. Thus, immorality in American youth is a subject to be discussed by youth. Taking economic conditions into consideration, modern youth has excuse for being the way it is, which isn't as bad as it been maliciously accused of being.. 3 Pilled with fire and eagerness, youth today is by np means unique or so. entirely different from the youth of yesterday. It’s just that today’s youngsters are
THE REASON By PEGGY ANN COOK Once long ago, As you well know, I listened to my heart— ~ Where now I wait : And hesitate— » You fajled to do your part. -
cop
So for awhile— . If 1 just smile— : And seem to doubt it's I That you love true, : Just prove you do And I'll not pass you by!
DAILY THOUGHT
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil—II Thessalonians 3:3.
O be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.~-Aeschylus.
more audacious—more ‘apt to show their colors than yesterday's youth. Although modern youth usually satisfies his desires, he still has scruples, and is unusually highminded and seeks chastity as his goal. that the youth
I am contendin, of today is no different from that
of yesterday. I should knaw, or, at least, have some idea, for I am a member of that “flaming youth” set, and proud of it.
2 8 = CALLS ATTENTION TO DANGEROUS "INTERSECTION | By Johnnie 1 would like to call the attention
Bureau to a. dangerous situation existing at the intersection of Mas-
nut St. | These three streets carry an enormous amount of traffic, especially Massachusetts Ave., which is ‘used extensively as a. truck lane. The automatic traffic signal lights
at this corner are made to change in such a way-as to send the Walnut St. traffic into the slipstream. of |- Massachusetts Ave., thus creating a hazardous situation. Can this situation be altered there, either by causing the light for Park Ave; and that fer Walnut St. te work in conjunction to send trafic in the same direction, or hy making
Motorists will welcome a correc-
future, as it will eliminate a really dangerous. situation and will be a great help to them, and to the Po-
of aceidents.’
death trap. ; 2 8 8 x SUSPECTED PROFESSOR'S THEORY LONG AGO By B. C. It's da great comfort, the way science keeps forging along -confirming things the layman always
| suspected but never had the back-
‘ground to preve for himself. The lates: comfort comes from Northwestern University, where. Prof, G. L. Freeman has announced
that experiments have demonstrated that the human being thinks with his muscles as -nuch as he does with his -brain. Why, of coarse. Everybody knows people who certainly do mast of their thinking with their stomach muscles. Congress has a liberal supply of men who think with the muscles of the throat exclusively: -Apprehiensive Europe is currently thinking with the muscles of its nose. And nearly all the dictators whe amount te anything these days
seem to be doing their thinking with their biceps.
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LETS EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR, ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM—
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2 8 8 . 1 CANNOT bring myself to think so, for two reasons, First, the problems that are now in sight but entirely unsolved are well nigh infinite. Second, the physicists show that a large part of nature
cannot be explained by the laws of knowledge; that is, the human mind is so made and operates in
pletely ndgrstand many Wings. 3 2 = = LANCELOT HOGREN, a‘ British bielogist who knows a lot besides biology, shows that fascism,
fanisms are ‘‘retreats from reason” because they do not give that pers
sonal development to the free - : dividual that democracy and only 2 {| democracy can give. He thinks| femoepey Ha Bo been as ve have ‘epine co because we have | ‘bring 2
ful not had enough of it,
enough trained pi Melals i 7
“body.
-inequalities, so they took tae lang for - Negroes’ gratitude to Republicans for emangipation.
of the Police Accident Prevention |
sachusetts Ave, Park Ave, and Wal- ;
this corner have a three-way signal? |
tion of this condition in the near |
lice Department in the prevention : - That intersection is 8 veritable h
such a way that it cannet com- |
communism and all such totalitar- oa
Columnist Sees Wack Gimiladty In the Methods of the President ~ And His Neighbor, Father Divine.
ETHANY BEACH, Del, Aug. 20.—1¢ was probably enly coincidence that Father Divine decided to set up his latest haven for ill-fed, {ll-clothed and {llhoused underprivileged people of the Negro race at Krum Elbow—just across the creek from Mr. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park, but ‘who can say it was not appropriate? : Among the foremost of his great political achievements was Mr. Roosevelt's feat in moving the heavy
and frequently decisive Northern Negro vote from the Republican. to the Democratic column—almost as a It was a perfectly legitimate maneuver. Justas ‘the Republicans had taken the loyal Midwest farmers for granted toe long and done nothing about their granted the loyal
principal element in Mr, Roosevelt's success is that he capitalized on these blunders and reversed these pot icies. He has done much for both groups.
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TPEYOND that there are things in common between :
the mpthods of Mr. Roosevelt and Father Divine. None of his follawers has yet said that the President,
is God, but some of them are willing to accept any- -:
thing he says or proposes almost as readily as though that were true. So also do the exalted Tollowers of Father Divine.
* ‘The Harlem “diety” feeds his flocks. No one seems to know just where the maney comes from and Father Divine doesn’t seem to care. He just finds it in a box or under his pillow and that is enough for him. It hasn't been mueh more difficult for Mr. Roosevelt to t the money to feed his flocks either. He doesn't “ nd it in any box but it can be written up en the Treasury debt ledgers with an adding machine, pain-
| lessly collected from the wages of workers for social
“security” and then spent for current expenses, or simply magicked out of thin air by changing the
d “content of the dollar, In this regard Father Bivins 2 is a poor piker.
ss . } ; Re is a little of the same emotional appeal in both cases also. Mr. Roosevelt's most ardent followers do not hypnotize themselves by any such ecstatic chant as: “Peace, it's wonderful,” but some do have their catch phrases. in which they so confidently believe that it is a waste of time to attempt to eriticize or discuss them. ' Finally, there are no hosses in Father Divine's heaven except the dark all-highest himself. His word goes and if there is any argument about it the solution is simple. The dissenter gets swiftly kicked out’ of heaven. Exactly the same process seems now to be going on in the third New Deal heaven. ? There is a lot more than a wise-cracking comparison in -all this. Most Germans regard Hitler with much the same emotional adoration of the Harlem. heaveneers for Father Divine and of many third New ‘Dealers for Mr. Roosevelt. If isn’t hard to get into that state with the President. I once was almast there - myself. It makes a crusading elation in which any- = thing might happen. . But does it make the best and soundest Government?
|It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun -
Roosevelt Wants the Fans to See ; Who Is Whe in the Political Ring.
JEW YORK, Aug. 20.—At. the end of his 15-round fight with Lou Ambers it became apparent that = Henry Armstrong was just a bit confused. ‘He wan~ “dered into the wrong corner, and the referee took him by the elbow and set him right. No ane in tha large and highly critical audience took any exception to ‘this part of the proceedings. It seemed the natural and the logical thing to do. : And I have the same feeling about the: Roosevelt reorganization, which has heen called a purge. In the case of Lewis against Tydings, far instance, the « President is doing nothing more than make the firm suggestion that the gentleman frém Havre de Grace should proceed forthwith to the spot where his han--dlers await him and where his special water bucket is situated. At the moment Tydings is 8 long way from the platform on which he was elected, and he has shown no signs of heading home. There is no hint of the prodigal’s return. In the case of John J. Soonpar there is
both neutral cormers as well. 3 titles, but Mr. O'Connor wants te cover even more territory. Not content with being the champion of Tammany Hall, John J. also would be the plumed knight of the Republican :machine and stand in the role of Horatius for the Housewives’ League. ; And so I can see no justice in the contention that Raasevelt would emulate the political modes of ated solini and set up a single political party in the Un Er States. On the contrary, it is clearly evident that the
‘President is doing his level best to see that the fans. .
have a chance to get a contest.
Purple Trunks vs, the Black Far from suppressing the practices of democracy he heightens them. Instead of shadow boxing he would have a program of houts between boys ready to -:- go in and slug. Mareover, he favors the sensible regulation of the Boxing Commission that ene should wear the purple trunks and one the black, so that even the rooters in the top gallery can distinguish ‘which is which. . Res Critics of Mr. Roosevelt's earnest efforts to restore the two-party s;'stem assert piously that it is the privilege of the voter to decide just who shall represent him. But who has denied that? Surely the . President has made no suggestion that in the 16th or - . ‘elsewhere there should be that peace and perfeet har- -
“meny which come only with death er dictatorship.
On the contrary, he would insure for the voter the : chance to be something better than Hobson limited
to the choice of the Tiger or the Tiger. ~
| Watching Your Health
| By Dr. Morris Fishbein |
OT long ago the newspapers reported the; — ~ ofea young girl who died in a fatal attack of . asilina 15 mindtes after heing sung | ba ke un recognized as felation of hyperseniivity, o or of tn . fuins 0 wn as. Er
a = of allergy. ts no i eas % just Why we become sensitive te to-ong gUb-. stance and not- sensitive to another. “5s Sea Some people are Ie stbsitive “to one specific ltem—. fer example, stra Yei they may be sensitive . to strawberries i Dersies one part of the try. and not to SHAVHeriies grown in some other i :
the tne ips and irs Sin
: Bo. asthmatic symptoms that: i atch tne ¢ longo are re. Jarkicularly noticeable. There 0 ugh - : cough,