Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1938 — Page 11

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1938

THE WPA TRAFFIC SURVEY : HAT $135,000 has been authorized for a WPA traffic survey in Indianapolis is exceedingly good news to a City that is increasingly concerned over the slaughter going on in its streets. : Such a survey is essential if the City. is to find ou

ways of reducing accidents and fatalities and of eliminating.

hazardous traffic conditions. But a survey by itself is of little benefit. It is useful only if it is intelligently directed, intelligently interpreted and intelligently applied. That calls for the services of a trained traffic engineer. Consequently the “key” to its ~ usefulness lies in the man the City must hire with the ~ $10,000 which is the City’s share of the survey cost. If a | first-rate man is retained, then the proposed study will be worth many times the money spent, . i But neither is the job finished with a $135,000 survey and the hiring of a competent traffic expert. The mere collection and analyses of accident facts will not reduce accidents. But it will permit an intelligent approach to - the problem and permit the application of known techniques - that bring about a reduction in accidents. That means, in brief, the City Administration must be willing to carry out the engineer's recommendations as rapidly as possible, even though the price of safety for all of us may seem high.

CAREFUL, CHIEF!

HE recent action of the courts in freeing two women held under nonexisting ‘mental vagrancy”’ charges ~ brings to light a loose and dangerous method of procedure - by our Police Department. : No matter how well-intentioned the police may have been, or how humane a service they thought they were doing the individual, it is nevertheless shocking to learn that one of these women was held on such grounds for Seven months and another for almost two. For inevitably there will come a day when, under such free-wheeling methods of justice, the police may decide to hold some of us for “mental vagrancy” because they do not like the color of our neckwear or our opinions. In fact, we invite that kind of treatment if we do not see to it that our liberties are safeguarded.

- AN AMERICAN MUNICH? Es A NUMBER of highly organized peace groups in coalition have attacked President Roosevelt’s national defense doctrine as dangerous “hysteria,” Well, let’s have a look. | : Following the World War, there was a clearly defined ‘and highly laudable ground swell in the direction of peace and disarmament. President Wilson started the ball roll_ing by embodying his idea in both his Fourteen Points and the preamble of the Peace of Paris. And this newspaper is proud to recall that it supported the Wilsonian principle both then and afterward. | But there was a practical side to his ideal. What ~ Président Wilson called for was disarmament “to the lowest point consistént with domestic safety.” And the great powers couldn’t agree on how that was to be brought about. Thus, as the years rolled by, the peace groups had some influence on arms limitation in the democrati¢ countries, but none whatéver in the others, the result béing completely to destroy the balance to such an exterit that this year the world came within two hours of another general war. Influenced by their collective peace proponents, demo- ~ eratie Britain and France had leaned more and more heavily on the League of Nations, while Germany, Italy and Japan turned their backs on Geneva and armed themselves ~ to the teeth. When Japan invaded Manchuria and the League did nothing, France and Britain were too weak to ~ take a firm stand against the aggressor. When Italy took ~ Ethiopia, Britain was forced to retreat in the Mediterranean. inte Sudetenland, both France and Britain stood helpless while the rest of the world cried shame on them for their

: “petrayal.” ; 2 8 8 2 8 8

NDEED, many of the very people who had fought hardest = against British and French rearmament while the totalitarian states were piling up weapons day and night, were loudest in their condemnation of the “shameful surrender” ‘at Munich.’ : ~~ Yet Britain and France had no option except war, for which they were not prepared while Germany quite defifitely was. War this past summer would hardly have ved Czechoslovakia. The chances are that it would have ofied democracy. Certain of thé world’s *strongest powers foday defiaitely have turned their backs on the Wilsonian ideal of | peace and disarmament. They are openly bent on conyest. They are on the look-out for inadequately defended iches, territorial and economic. Wishing won't bring security. China’s 450,000,000 inhabitants wanted peace. But look at what is happening to them now. We do not believe that 2 per cent of the American ple want to pay a heavy armament bill. But unless and il the others show some signs of willingness to stop 1 ing and join with us in a general limitation, we cannot ord to lag too far behind. We must not become “hysrical’’ about it, of course. On the contrary. But we must

t adequately if we wish to avoid a Munich of our very |

FLYING DAYS a : 2. JOHN D. BROCK, a Kansas City manufacturer, set out in 1929 to prove that daily airplane flights are ble in his part of the country. THe other day, Dr. Brock compléted his ninth year of v flying. He had flown on 3287 consecutive days, in hot her and eold, through wind, rain, snow, sleet and dust is. Some days he'd stayed up only a few seconds, orice hé was in the air for 20 hours. namé ought to go near the top on the list of those

When the Nazis marched into Austria, and later.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Los Angeles, Chief Breeding Place Of Dizzy Schemes, Needs a Guardian As in Case of Addle Pated Human.

EW YORK, Nov. 93.—It is heréby earnestly proposed that the U. S. A. would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeléss, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. It is only a wistful thought, but the futility of hoping that this wise step might be taken just adds emphasis to the

nuisance. ; Los Angeles is the source and home of more political, economic and religious idiocy than all the rest of the country put fogether and a concentration point of shiftless and inefficient culls who, being too lazy or lacking the ability to make good in their native regions, drift in expecting to be fed from heaven or the public pantry. he San Francisco, a city of character and manhood,

has suffered greatly from the coolie competition of a |. rival having neither intelligerice nor standards. The |

rest of thé nation, too, has had to contend with the absurdities emanating from Los Angeles. The courts are notorious for the silly conduct of clowns in silk, and adolescent jurors who condone premeditated murder and let killers loose, because they .bawl about love and the religious travesties which thrive in this atmosphere, have mocked sense

and piety for years.

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OWHERE but in Los Angeles could Upton Sin-

clair have gathered the nucleus of a following which seriously threatened an important state with an economic hallucination described by one of his trusted lieutenants as the revolving of wheels within wheels. - This was the plan by which a man with an old windmill who needed a pair of shoes and two pounds of stew meat traded the, K windmill to the owner of a gravel pit who traded gravel to a man building a concrete silo who gave him a calf whose hide became shoes on the feet and whose sinews became stew in the pot of the man whose necessities began the chain of transactions. But Mr. Sinclair's plan was a model of practical distribution by comparison with the fantasies of others which have originated in Los Angeles, at least one of which, according to its author, who ran for Congress, came to him in thundered tones from an unseen speaker, believed to have been God, as he sat waiting his turn to expound his wisdom in a church. ! ; 2 ® 8» OS ANGELES is a region, not a city, with limits ' extended far beyond the practical ability of even a good city administration to govern, and extended for evil motives—not legitimate civic ambition. But neither its size nor the incoherence of its government accounts for the lunacy which is characteristic of the place. Nobody has been able to explain why Los Angeles is peculiarly susceptible to absurdities in all fields, and the solution seems hardly worth the bother. It is like trying to detérmine why a crazy man is crazy, but with a difference. The difference is that the crazy man is recognized to be nuts and is placed under glass, whereas Los Angeles enjoys the rights and freedom of normal communities and sometimes half-convinces people elsewhere there is nothing peculiar. about cutting paper dolls. :

Business By John T. Flynn

U. S. Is Badly in Need of Railroad Policy, but Does Nothing About It.

EW YORK, Nov. 23.—There has probably never. been a country in history which had more problems on its hands than this one. That is understands able. But what is not understandable is that there should be so many problems, even pressing problems, about which the country has no policy.

Take the railroads. A modern American railroad might itself be defined as a rollection of problems. But not only has the Government no policy respecting them, it has not’even a semblance of a policy. Here is one consequence of that. The Delaware, Lackawana & Hudson Railroad, like many another, cannot make enough money to pay its taxes to the State of New Jersey or the City of Buffalo. So it asks the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to lend it the money to pay its State and City taxes. This sort of thing has gone on since the RFC was formed by Mr. Hoover. Railroads have borrowed millions to pay taxes to states and cities. They have borrowed millions to pay rents on real estate. They have borrowed money to pay the rentals of roads they were operating. And the RFC has accommodated them apparently whenever they have needed this help. : . - They have borrowed millions to pay interest on bonds and notes, ofttimes to bankers.

Folly Must Be Apparent

I recall protesting against this when the RFC was first organized. The Van Sweringens borrowed $10,000,000 to pay a loan to the Morgans: I was informed, that the reason for that was a profound economic one. It seems that the idea behind it was that this would put money in the bankers’ purse, and then presently the bankers would hate so much money it would be burning a hole in their pockets. And they would start lending it. - a The folly of that must be apparent by now. They have had billions poured into their pockets but they haven't started lending yet. When the RFC paid taxes and rentals for other roads, I was told this was helping cities and states in trouble. The folly of that must also be apparent now. The wholé truth is that the Government not only has no policy about the roads but it refuses to even think seriously about it. : : Had there beenca courageous facing of the problem in 1933 when that was possiblé the roads would be on their way to health now. Instead they are on their way to the boneyard. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“rNHANK goodness, we're a small family,” said the woman carrying the poodle: “If there’s anything I detest, it’s having a tribe of relatives around all the time and I —” Here her companion, the snappy looking number draped in silver fox, interrupted. “Exactly what I say, darling. Just yesterday I said to John, ‘John,’ I said, ‘if you had just one more person in your family to buy Christmas presents for, I'd simply fall in my

tracks.’ I nearly die when I think of all the effort I make thinking up something for the clan. Oh, didn’t

‘I tell you? My dear, John has two sisters and two

brothers and they all have rafts of children. Such a nuisance! I'm glad there’s only mother and me.” For several minutes after, I wondered about John. He kept bobbing about near the surface of my mind until he finally emerged and I could see him, an unknown but whole individual, and the most fortunate member of a trio whose lives had touched my thinking

so lightly through a brief conversation overheard by |

chance. It doesn’t seem fo me we should be thankful we belong to small families, unless we are a little ashamed of our parentage. That's why a long time afterward those words, “Only Mother and me,” rang in my ears. 5 What tragic words they are, really! Sad words, lonesome words, words of evil omen. For there went a woman who had no sisters, no brothers, no nieces, no nephews, no kin who shared common home mémo-

ries with her. Orne must be very sure of oneself to feel

happy over such destitution. Yes, we speak fine words sbout thé brotherhood of an and deyise fine schemes for Security a1

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disagree with what you say,

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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URGES ABOLITION OF STEEL TRAP By Prudence W. Douglas The trapping séason is upon us again, and again weé séék £0 reach the women of Indiana through your columns in a pléa to them to support the movement for the abolishment of the cruel steel trap in the taking of fur. The responsibility rests with women since they are the exclusive wearers of fur. Other states have ordered the humane trap and it is time that Indiana follows suit. We are reminded of the lines: “Poor bleeding paws, bedraggled

fur, Strained eyes that, glazing, begged for aid; Small struggling bodies, choked

and torn— : Was it for this their grace was made?” : : : # = 8 OBJECTS TO BRIGHT LIGHTS ON BRIDGE

By Elinda Se It seems rather obvious that the person or persons in charge are very lax on contracts for electric light bulbs and electricity consumption. How else can one explain the blindingly bright lights along the inner base of the new Shelby-Pleasant Run bridge? Modern the bridge is and modern the electrical equipment—yet modern lighting provides for soft lights below 4nd éven with thé eye level and bright lights; indirectly reflected, above thé eye level. Motorists who usé the bridge agree that those lights are sé bright as to be partially and sometimes completely blinding, Enough so to prevent motorists, temporarily, from seeing the stop and go signal. Must we wait for a serious accident because of these ultra-bright below-the-eye-level lights or will someone please stick a pin in the officials of the street department? Here’s a place for “tax-reducers” to investigate. And leave the schools alone for a while. Their tax, budget and teachers’ wage scale are all among. the lowest of cities of Indianapolis’ size. Their buildings and equipment are far from shining ex-

‘amples, too.

2 2 2 URGES COINAGE OF SURPLUS SILVER By Wallacé Two-Price Advocate To keep the silver purchasé of the Government ‘ from becoming another wholesale loss write-off, like the 2800 million washup the RFC made with one stroke of the pen, may I suggést that the two billion ounces of silver be coined into 50 cent piéces, which only cost the Government 30 to 35 cents, and these be distributed to Class Two

{ment deeper into debt as the paper-

‘equivalént to WPA for capital.

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

buyers who aré to buy Henry Wallace’s oppressive cotton and food surpluses? | That will solve the silvér surplus, satisfy the cry for profit of the retailers who now object, and move the goods to those who must have them. It’s solid money; too. It will jingle in the pocket and give us the feeling of liaving money. It is as good as the existing silver paper money and won't throw the Govern-

money-bond currency does. It will stay in circulation and stop need for pump priming. We have everything but enough redl money. { #8 » : TAX EXEMPT BONDS BRING PROTEST By Anti-Socialist | Instead of promoting fundamental

changes in our economic system |

that will preserve all that is good in Capitalism, we “crib” Gréat Britain’s rearmament plan at a cost of five billion tax-exempt bonds, putting railroads, utilities, ship builder§ and steel makers on what is Assuming a large Army and Navy is needed, it is apparent that invested capital is most vulnerable

SELF-PITY By ANNA E. YOUNG When you are inclinéd to feel sorta blue

And feel you must pity yourself Just forget for a time that being

called you, : ¢ sight, on a

Put him up out of shelf.

The moment, you forget to be sorry for you You will find just as true as can e | That for others, there's really things you could do That belote — you just couldn't see

DAILY THOUGHT

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but 8 woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.— Proverbs 31:30.

BEAUTIFUL and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship

and first subject to attack, yet for this defense, one-third of our invested capital, represented by nontaxable bonds on which no tax is levied, pays nothing to maintain the Army and Navy for its own defense, In the last analysis, thé cost is paid in reducéd standards of living. The péoplé will buy less food, fewer houses, fewer automobiles. Ridiculous! : : 2 8 8 VOTER CRITICAL OF G. O. P. TACTICS By C. S. I am a Christian, indépendent voter in Marion County, and believed the Republicans about vice and corruption in the County. But never again. g : They were beaten, and their propaganda and tactics in defeat aré scandalous. They are - job hungry and came so’close to winning that they will go to any extreme to taste victory. I will never vote their ticket again and I know there are thousands like me. , ” ® ” CHAMBERLAIN PEACE STAND DEFENDED By Willard A. Scott ; In all the unjust criticism being directed at Prime Minister Chamberlain, I am beginning to think that some of our ‘‘peaceé loving citizens” dre nothing more than barbarians in disguisé. ‘Why should the world be made a battlefield in order to protect a féw miillion péoplé? Why weren’t the democrati¢ nations ready to také up arms when Hitler marched into Austria? Wheén Mussolini marched into Ethiopia?

| When Japan invaded China?

After making comparisons you will realize that there are only a fraction of the people involved in Czechoslovakia, as there are in the above mentioned countries. There are still a few level-headed people existing in this old world yet, thank heaven for that. " Do these critics of Mr. Chamberlain think. that the combined strength of Britain and France: would be an even contest against Germany . and Italy and ‘possibly Japan, who take children out of their cradles and teach them the fine points of war? I ‘say nay. Why all this bluffing about powerful war machines? Why not bring it out into_.the light and let the people know just what peace-loving nations need in armaments to compete with the war-advocating countries? China is an answer to what can happen to a nation that is inadequately prepared. : England and France now realize the might of Germany and Italy, therefore will maké every effort to keép the dove of peace alivé while

of God and the true glory of angels.—Hermes. ;

they arm with unprecedented speed.

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mén who fiever had a chance to go to college or

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are fully thé equals in intelligence not only of the average college grad-. uates but often of the superior ones.

‘| As President Conant of Harvard has

urged such men and women should be discoveréd and if necessary put through college at public expense. aT 2 a 4 7 NO. There are plenty of things to be heroic ahout, besides. war. Indeed, modern machines have taken a good deal of the heroism out of war, although there is still enough to attract adventurous volunteers.

Nothing requires greater Hheroism|:

than the fight for social welfare, honesty in government, pure foods, ete, and to prevent racketeering, false advertising, political propa ganda and ‘bunko steering of public generally. All thésé require a high degreé of both mioral and physical heroism. ar 4 8 ® pio NO, it hinders iristead of helps. The véry éffort blocks or switcl és off the train of thought 86 your mind Becomes conscious of the effort itséif. Wheén you ‘say to yourself, “I must solve this problem,” or “I am going to think your mind shunts off from tt bra ou wish it to 5

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_ WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25; 1988 Gen. Johnson Says—

Ws a ‘Pleasure to Agree With - Mr. ‘Ickes in His Desire to Add Giant Tree Area to Sequoia Park.

YORK, Nov. 23—For once, at least, this ¢olumn is completely and enthusiastically in agreement with Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior; : : . : Mr, Ickes wants to buy 5000 acres in the Redwood Mountain district of California and add it to Sequoia National Park to which it is near. The reason the Secretary wants them is that they contain about the last important stand of “big trees” (Sequoia Gigantea) still in private ownership—and they are in danger of

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destruction in lumbering operations. Notwithstanding that “only God can make a free” and that Thomas Jefferson suffered anguish when even a 40-year-old elm was cut to make the city of Washington, we do have to cut some trees if only for kindling wood. - But with proper methods of forestation, the ordinary tree can be made a crop. The forests can repro- - duce themselves on a commercial basis-in 30 or 40 years and in some varieties in 12. But what kind of a crop can you reproduce with trees that grow from 5000 to 6000 years-and at 40 years are just saplings? ? : ’ ® 8» ? : OU must not confuse these giant Sequolas with their cousins the Redwoods (Sequoia Semper virens) which grow on the coast at lower altitudes. These gigantea dare the biggest and oldest living things on the earth. Some were giants, 3000 years old, when

| & gaunt Jew named Jesus walked the dusty roads of

Palestine. :

They grow in little groves at between 8000 and 10,000 feet altitude and they won’t grow any place else. There are pitifully few of them. In spite of their great strength, size and age, they are almost as brittle as a slate-pencil. When they fall, they shatter like glass.” Thus they yield little timber except shingles and short. panels. To: use them for commercial purposes seems almost like a sacrilege. - =. © I was once a superintendent of Sequoia Park and hence guardian of the largest remaining groves. That park was hastily established to stop predatory lumbering operations among those relics of antiquity. That had been many years earlier but, riding through the desolate spots where some of them had been cut by vandals of sentiment was shocking.

#2 8 8 T= commercial value is insignificant but their sentimental and historical value is incalculable. Their bark is of the richest russet color on earth. I shall not forget the first one I saw. I was riding alone through a splendid virgin forest of cedars, and sugar and yellow pine and suddenly and unexpectedly ene countered this great red pillar—3000 years old, 25 feet in diameter and reaching 10 times that distance into fhe sy, 185} Resoribe the sensation. It wag like ooking for the first time into the stupendous gorge of Yosemite or thé Grand Canyon. Ps op There are few, if any, remaining trees outside the area Mr. Ickes wants to buy to add to the biggest grove—Sequoia Park. But the proposed purchase is one of the most perfect and unspoiled groves. He should have that appropriation instantly. It is a thing of concern to the whole country because it is a

priceless and irreplacable national heritage in ‘of being lost forever, : ag danger

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Nazi Criticism of U. S. Women Silly Considering Fashion Set: by Lorelei. NJEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Humor is hardly the long suit .of Nazi propaganda. Indeed, it might add a touch of even greater horror to the present situation, But just the same it is surprising that no one in Germany has been able to stop the ponderousness of some of the official and semiofficial handouts. For instance, consider the latest shaft aimed at this country by the Volkischer Beobachter which attacks: the “American Girl Cult,” and proceeds to say, “Many of these girls consider it their privileged right to entice men tc lead them on in the most improbable way in order finally, laughingly to reject them.” At this point it is necessary to say, “Tut, tut.” : Deplorable conduct of this sort is hardly restricted to the fair sex of the United States. Indeed it is an old Germanic custom celebrated in the mythology which is much in favor at the moment among the Nazis. I am aware that quite recently Heine's poem has been ruled out of order as non-Aryan, but the Lorelei Rock still towers some 500 feét above the Rhine, and Heine did not make up the legend of the young lady who combed her distinctly Nordic tresses with a comb of équally golden luster. « - If ever 4 miss lured on the men only to reject them with mocking laughter it was this same Teutonie siren. And well do I remember hér. The first song I rendered in public was the Lorelei when I was 5, and sang German just as fluently as English. The scheme - was that I could charm my Great Aunt Gretchén who - - was coming over from Hoboken for the family Christe mas party and might remember me in her will. They taught me the chorus and two verses in the event of an encore, : : Cs

And, What of Brunhilda?

Aunt Gretchen was 87 years old, but retained her : teeth and all hér faculties, 5 didn’t ask for the second verse, and so it was laid away in my memory - book. And I'am sire I am not mistakén in thé ° assertion that the alluring blond on the big rock lured sailors to shipwreck and destfuction. The place where my childish soprano used to break was right at the end where I had to point out that this, with per confounded singing; was what the Lorelei had one. 21, # Again the Nazi:editorial writer faces in our dirée« tion when he insists that the “American Girl Cult” includes a national worship of masterful misses. = = - But for a second time the German journalist bee trays an ignorance of the culturé of his native land, How about Brunhilda? Here was a German héroinié who could knock the block off any man in the house, It is true that Wotan put hér to sleep, but he was Sompeliey to use magic rather than a right hook {6 e jaw.

Watching Your Health Watching Your Health By Dr. Morris Fishbein HE human being is not the only animal that hae <+ worms. All of the animals occasionally aré in‘fested and quite frequently the worms that are in the animals are transferred to human beings. When these parasites get into the body, they are capable.of setting up a good deal of harm. ‘Sometimes they get.

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luted, sometimes from the flesh of the animal that is eaten as food by the human being, and sometimes

: Among the worms that are thus trafisferred are the hookworm, the whipworm, the - organisms that cause dysentery, the pinworm, and the pork and beef tapeworms, and the trichinae of infested pork. People who livé in the country are more likely to become infected from the soil than are those who live in the cities.. Fertunately hookworm infestation, which was the chiéf disturber in the Southern portion of the United States, has beeh brought largely Shise

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It-has steadily diminished since scientifie studies were first ‘undertaken many years agen, ~~... On the other hand, there seéms to be evidence thas ' infestation of the human being with thé tapeworm |

| that is acquired from the fresh water fish is ificreass |:ing in the United States. Certainly trichifiosls, Which

comes from eating infécted pork, is increasing .and infestation with ‘the tapeworm of beéf i§ not dimifis ishing although apparently not making much HeadPeople who have tapeworms suffer with disturbs ances of the bowels, loss of sleép, nervousness And Silas symptoms. This condition can be é ing

people will avoid fhe eal of : fresh semiray, smoked, salted