Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1939 — Page 17

FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939

Hoosier Vagabond

MESA VERDE PARK, Colo. June 23.—This is one of America’s national parks in which my interest has always been at a white hot standstill. But, like a lot of other smart-alecks ih this world, I didn't know what I was missing. After this T think I'll just trust the Park Service, and wherever it beckons I shall follow. For several years I have been gradually becoming a National Park idiot. I've vet to visit a Nationai Park without coming away enthusiastic. Never once have I been disappointed in what I saw, or the way the Park Servjce was running things. Mesa Verde is no exception. True, it is utterly different from the other parks. Whereas they present the spectacular in nature, Mesa Verde presents the remnants of human beings. But, even though the human beings have been deader than door nails for 700 years, they're still interesting. You go to most of the other parks for a vacation. You don’t come to Mesa Verde for a vacation. That’s what always scared me. I figured it was too drab and archeological and scientific for anybody really to enjoy. But the park people have taken care of that. They present it in a way that is human and enjoyable. Purthermore, this is magnificent country, and youl get scenery in your eyes all right.

A Village of Indians

Mesa Verde Park is in southwestern Colorado. In the past it has been one of the lesser visited parks because the main highways for hundreds of miles around were such as to frighten tourists away. But the roads are all right now. and already this year park attendance is up 45 per cent over last year. In Spanish, “mesa” means table and “verde” means green. A high green tableland—that’s what Mesa Verde Park is. A high green tableland, with vast canyons running through it. The park is approximately 15 miles long and eight miles wide. A zig-zag road runs 20 miles from the main highway in to park headquarters. The road is

Our Town

Anyone sharing my interest in the future of The Drovineial, the brand-new Indianapolis magazine, will be ticklad to learn that Ruth Culmer Dieter, its editor, is now receiving manuscrivts at the rate of 300 a day.

It's all because of her editorial in the current number which ends with the sentence: “The Provincial offers an audience to any Hoosier who combines something to say with the ability to say it. We hope to hear from you.” It worked all right—even better than Mrs. Dieter had hoped, because not only is she receiving manuscripts from all over Indiana, but also a surprising number from people living outside the State. The foreigners, says Mrs. Dieter, nearly always accompany their manuscripts with pedigrees or apologies; in the one case proving that, once upon a time, they had lived in Indiana, and in the other case lamenting their hard luck to have been born somewhere else. You have no idea the amount of inside stuff Mrs. Dieter handed me concerning her new magazine. Mrs. George Stoddard of Crawfordsville, for instance, thought up the magazine's moniker. She got $5 for it. When Mrs. Albert Rabb heard the name of the new paper, she got an inspiration, too, called up Mrs. Dieter and suggested peppering the paper full of Capital P's. ” ” »

Friend Husband Helped

The result was that the first number of The Provincial had four Permanent departments labeled “Provincial Perspective,” “Provincial Parade.” “Prococious Provincials” and “Petticoat Page.” Believe it or not, Mrs. Dieter's husband figured out the title of Petticoat Page. Don’t know what he got for it. I guess I could have found out, but I make it a rigid rule never to mix up in family affairs. Mrs. Dieter's hushand. I don’t mind saving, though, is the psychiatrist now stationed at the Central Hospital. Before that, you may recall, he was connected

Washington

WASHINGTON. June 23 —We have ducked and squirmed and looked the other way, but the hour of decision is drawing close. Are we going to stay in the Far East or are we going to pull out? Are Wwe going to hold the Philippines or leave? Are We ready to see Japan take complete control in the western Pacific? That is the question ‘which we cannot escape answering much longer. Just now the news wires bring in bulletins stating that Japan has captured the last important Chinese seaport. Japan now controls the whole Chinese coast. Britain has been reduced to the humiliating position of having to beg Japan not to strip British citizens and subject them to personal indignities at Tientsin. Japan appears to have decided that now is the time to throw the Occidental out of the Orient. The next step is the rich archinelago—including the Dutch East Indies, with their oil, rubber and tin, the chief source of quinine and other less well-known, but important commodities, which are very necessary to us. We have had access to them through the protection of the British fieet. » ” w

Philippines Our Concern

Obviously Great Britain—harassed by threats of a new crisis in BEurope—is in no position alone to interpose real resistance to the Japanese march which is now gaining momentum. In this area of rich raw materials which Japan is heading for are the Philippines. That is one definite, tangible, visible chip which we have in the grim game in the Far Fast. We might as well face the situation cold. These are our alternatives:

My Day

HYDE PARK, N. Y., Thursday —VYesterday afternoon, in my reading, I came across four most interesting ‘plays, published by the Dramatists’ Play Service, Inc., primarily for use in schools. The series is called: “America in Action.” The Roosevelt Memorial Association is co-operating with the Authors and Dramatists Guild of America, and the Dramatists’ Play Service in bringing out this series by well-khown playwrights and offering them to the public on a nonroyalty basis. I read four of them and was particularly interested because they dealt with fundamentals which are as vital to America today as they were when our forefathers were founding the country. “Haven of the Spirit” by Merrill Danison, which is the story of Roger Williams’ defense of a Quaker woman

who had been thrown out of the Massachusetts Colony because of her Quakerism; might well be dealing

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By Ernie Pyle

paved, winds around mesa sides for startling views, and is easy driving. Down at park headquarters theres a regular little city. But T'll swear you can stand in front of the museum and hardly see another building. Everything is hidden by trees or humps of land. The park officials and rangers have beautiful hidden homes. Not far away there is a whole village of Navajo Indians who work for the park. The sights

to he seen are well concentrated around Park head- |}

quarters. The Park Service has arranged its program so that you can see everything in a 24-hour stay. Tourists can come, say, late in the afternoon. They can sleep in cabins or in tents at Spruce Tree Lodge. There is no hotel yet, but the main lodge is like a hotel sxcept for sleeping rooms. There is also a large Government camp ground. >» ww W

The Nights Are Cool

At the Lodge, visitors ean sit on the porch and drink highballs. They can eat dinner served by charming waitresses from the various Colorado teachers’ colleges. They can see Indians making rugs and jewelry. They can buy gasoline or groceries. They can muse through one of the nicest museums in the Southwest. Or they can just wander around on foot. At 8 p. m. you can go to a little outdoor ampitheater and sit before a campfire while the Park rangers tell you what it's all about. And, after their talks, half a dozen Indians will get out and dance and whoop for you.

After that, you either go back to the lodge and

drink hot rum punches to keep warm, or else go right to bed. Park headquarters is at an altitude of about 7000 feet, and it's an odd night when you don’t have to sleep under blankets. But the air is wonderful, and you sleep like a petrified log. Next morning at 8 you start on a trip. You drive your own car, and follow a ranger. You don’t drive very far. About six miles the whole forenoon. Most of vour time is spent looking at centuries-old Indian cliff dwellings in caves. You come back to Park headquarters for lunch, and then make another tour in the afternoon. You are back around 4 p. m., which still gives you time to go 125 miles before dark toward wherever you're going. But, personally, I'm staying awhile,

By Anton Scherrer

with the Village of Epileptics at New Castle, and it was there while working with her husband that Mrs. Dieter picked up her profound knowledge of people. (Gosh, I hope my alliteration of P's doesn't escape Mrs, Dieter.) Most of the trouble in this world, says Mrs. Dieter, is caused by people who can’t find an outlet for their emotions. Tt doesn’t necessarily have to take the form of creative writing, but it's as good a way as any, she says. Seems, though, that Mrs. Dieter had the makings of a writer long before she met her husband. She inherited the gift. Her father, for instance, didn’t think anything of spending a year on a sonnet. It was a mighty good sonnet, though. when it was done. Go good, in fact, that John Addington Symonds more than once took the time to write and praise Mr. Culmer’s poetry. > WwW

It's in the Blood

Mrs. Dieter's mother, it turns out, was a writer, too. She was a faster worker, however, and it annoyed Mr. Culmer no end to find he had a wife who wouldn't take a year to revise her work. It might have ended in a domestic tragedy, says Mrs. Dieter, had not Mother Culmer promised never to submit her work for publication without her husband’s approval. To get around it, Mother ‘Culmer resorted to pseudonyms. And among Mrs. Dieter's fondest memories is the recollection of her father praising certain stories in The Atlantic, only to learn that his speedy wife had written them. It turns out, too, that Robert Aley, former president of Butler, was Mrs. Dieter's uncle. And that, according to the theory and practice of Burke's Peerage—to say nothing of the Ahmanach de Gotha— makes Maxweli Aley, former editor of the Woman's Companion. her cousin. It runs in the family. As for Mrs. Dieter's being a bona fide Hoosier, she's got the goods, too. Her great-great-great grandmother, Eleanor Brewster Dunn, for instance, came to Indiana in 1809 and put the town of Shencer on the map. Indeed, the only flaw I was able to find in Mrs. Dieter's background is the historical fact that Blue Dick. the kid who raised sc much Ned during Cromwell's reign, was also one of her relatives.

By Raymond Clapper

First, we can say that Japan is destined to dominate the Orient and the adjacent raw-material

supplies, as we dominate the Western Hemisphere and as Hitler dominates the continent of Europe. That means, in time, that we will have to obtain rubber for our automobile industry and tin for industrial purposes at the pleasure of Japan. That means that we will be able to sell goods in eastern Asia subject to Japanese conditions. It means that the politicians in the Philippines will turn to Tokyo to make the best terms of surrender they can. 5 ® »

Choice Is Not Easy

If we are going to take that course, then we can forget at once about the Far Bast and this present crisis there and begin putting our own eeonomic affairs in shape for the drastic readjustment that would be certain to come. We ‘would better begin developing the rubber industry inh Brazil, begin devising practical substitutes for tin. We would better pull our Navy back to the Pearl Harbor line and dig in behind it to make the Western Hemisphere a self-contained economy. Or the second alternative we can take a chance on making a stand, take a chance on the British being able to put up some resistance on their own, apply the strongest threats of pressure on Japan, threaten to cut off cotton—which would be a blow to our South —to cut off munitions and industrial exports to Japan, which would be a blow to our industry inh the North. and get our Navy in position to meet any retaliation that might result from such a course. Neither of these choices is easy, Both are loaded with risk. Yet suppose we continue to drift, to wait and hope. That is what Britain did. Japan, as did Hitler, will continue to press on. We will be subjected to constant pushing around. And in the end we will be eased out of the Philippines and the whole Far st.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

pant in the United States of today and Roger Williams’ voice needs to be heard in our land. “Seeing the Elephant,” by Dan Totheroh, is perhaps a little less pertinent to the moment, for ‘we are more familiar with the courage displayed by those who made the trip across the continent to California in 49. Yet, the spirit of the mother in this play made me think immediately of the mother in “Grapes of Wrath,” “Ship Forever Sailing” by Stanley Young, deals with the compact signed on board the “Mayflower,” a bit of history which we db not think about enough. “We'd Never Be Happy Otherwise” by E. P. ‘Conkle, is a defense of the freedom of the press in ah era when it cost a man his life to print that in which he believed. Nothing as drastic as that will probably be demanded of any citizen today, and vet I have seen the day when a man had to choose between his beliefs and their expression and financial ruin. I have not as yet said anything about the death of Miss Grace Abbott, but I feel that I want to pay a tribute to one of the great women of our day. Much of the success of the Children’s Bureau in the Depart-

force of character. No ohe Who Kijgw her could

ment of Labor has been due to her wisddm, tact and [Seven billions. Any payments which veipjoan' be ‘tet from the nb

persons) lies in the shadow of the Manhattan and ‘Queens,

The Queensbridge Project of the New York City Housing Authority, showh above in its present uncompleted state, is an example of a building enterprise in which construction and operating costs are so arranged that the rents are expected to recover them for the Government. This vast development (5702 apartments sheltering about 20,800

Queensborough Bridge which links

Claims Business Shaky—

Due to Fear Over Fate of Dollar

Ceaselass war on all forms controls.

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corporate incomes.

money to Congress.

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Flynn's Recovery Plan

of monovoly and private trade

Cleaning up the three great investment industries—building construction, railroad and utilities, including read justment of building wage scales and working conditions, war on labor rackets, war on material and subcontractor combinatiohs. drastic reorganization of the railroads and a definitive policy about utilities.

A Government spending and investment program in which the ‘distinction between spending and investment is carefully preserved—all spending to be paid for out of taxes and all investment out of borrowed funds.

Reorganization of the whole Federal tax structure so that all taxes coliccted at the points at which money is spent or invested shall be abolished and, save in special cases, taxes shall be levied on incomes of all brackets, in such a way as to bring about equalization between individual and

’ Revision of the Social Security Act, to lighten the tax burden involved without lessening the benefits.

But an end to all uncertainty about the fate of the dollar both as to further devaluation or the issuance of currency against the gold profit and the return of control over

Put an end to all American war scares and check the expenditure of further sums on war preparations.

In the case of farm relief, adopt the principle that the Government will abandon all attempts to peg farm prices.

By John T. Flynn

(Written for NEA Service) to all uncertainty about

valuation, but the issuance of ‘currency against the gold profit.

To this end the President's power over the dollar should be ended and Congress should re-

(Last of a Series)

THE Government should put an end, once and for all,

the fate of the dollar.

This includes not merely the matter of further de-

sume its control over that subject. But this is not nearly so serious as the possibility of the conversion of the last and future gold profits into currency. The fear of that should be definitely end-

WASHINGTON, June 23 (NEA). — Few noticed it at the time, but the Social Security amendments, just voted by the House carry with them the seeds of a great deal of trouble for the not-distant future, The House put the amendments] through by the almost unanimous vote of 361 to 2, It liberalized old- | age insurance benefits, deferred the tax increase that was due to go into effect next January, and sent the revisions along to the Senate with everybody happy. But it made practically inevitlable a thundering tax increase— or 8 new bulge ih the annual deficit | | —a few vears from now. Old age insurance is financed by a 2 per cent payroll tax, collectetd half from the employer and half from the employee. This was to have gone to 3 per cent next January. That boost was candelled; the tax is how due to jump to 4 per cent in 1943, 5 per cent in 1946, ahd 6 per cent in 1949,

Collections Down

Meanwhile, benefit payments were boosted. Payments begin next Jan. 1, instead of in 1942, as originally scheduled. Furthermore, benefits are to be based on the beneficiary's average wage rather than his total tax contribution. Summed up, this means that, during the next 15 years, the Government will pay in old age insurance just less than $15,000,000,000 as compared ‘with the $6,500,000,000 it would pay if the law were not amended. But ‘while adding to the outgo, the amendments knock $825000,000 off the money the Government will colfect inh payroll taxes during 1940, 1941, and 1942. At ‘the end of 1955, benefit payments will begih to exceed payroll tax collections. Originally, the fabulous $47,000.000.000 revolving fund was to have made up the difference.

Big Reserve Dead Now

That fund is dead, now-—it will never be larger thah about six or

Tax or Deficit Rise Seen Due to Security Revision

By BRUCE CATTON |

shrunken benefit fund, will have to be met by regular Government appropriations—or by regular Government borrowing. But this is only the beginning. Go back to those pay roll taxes, and | bear in mind that they are sceduled to go up in graduated steps until, in 1949, they are three times their present size. This spring they were to have gone up by 50 per cent. The House declined to vote that increase, on the ground that it would be a damaging thing for business. But, ih 1943, it will face the duty of jumpihg the tax, not by 50 per ¢ent, but by 100 per cent—with further increases due ih 1946 and 1949. If anything on earth is politically certain, it is that there will be tremendous pressure to cancel those increases inh pay roll taxes as they fall due. If the action of the House this spring is ahy criterion, the increases won't be voted. And it goes without saying, of course, that benefit payments won't be cut. Which will mean that the old age insurance system will cease to pay for itself long before 1955—which is the point at which payments will exceed collections even if all the increases are voted as scheduled. When that happens, the Government can do one of two things: provide hew taxes — income taxes, sales taxes, or what-not—to make up the difference , . Or borrow money for it. Which somehow ‘makes the day of reduced taxes and a balanced budget look awfully remote.

8 WELD IN THEFT OF 25 TONS OF COPPER

KNOX, Thi, June 23 (U. P). Fight men ‘were held today pending charges of stealing 25 tons of copper wire froth abandoned telephone lines ih Starke, Pulaski ahd Porter counties. Police satd the ‘men have been

roll [$tripping the lines for three months he and Bellin tie Wire ws Junk Lh

Here is a general view of the Guntersville Dam and a portion of the

reservoir area, part of the gread

TVA ‘water control project. Economist Flynn argues that the utilities should know just how far the Gov. ernment intends to go in such hydroelectric ‘developments.

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ed by a declaration by both party leaderships. ® ww 8 for farm troubles—at least one reform should be inaugurated. There should be an end to all price fixing, including price pegging on the major crops, subsidy payments and price pegging through the Surplus Commodity Corp. Tn fact. the whole policy of price pegging throughout industry and agriculture should be ruthlessly fought everywhere. Not least important among recovery plans should be an end at once to the policy of frightening the American people about war. The Administration has pretty generally convinced the people

NEW CASTLE BARMAN ACCUSED OF MURDER

NEW CASTLE, Ind. June 23 (U. P) —Cleve Denny, 28-year-old New Castle bartender, today was under indictment for second degree murder voted by the Henry County Grand Jury. He was charged with slugging James Witham, 34, of New Castle, June 10, with a pool cue during an argument in the tavern in which he works.

that if another ¥Xuropean war breaks out we are sure to get into it. Thus we are being more and more weakened by adding to our

own troubles the dislocations inherent in European war scares. The incessant talk about possible invasions and fears of foreigh foes and the accompany - ing orgy of war expenditures should be ended. ¥ mw PFENHE Social Security Act has been somewhat improved by the adoption of the reform so long urged here—namely, the abolition of the 47-billion-dollar reserve. But the act is still full of imperfections, The reforms urged by the recent advisory council should be adopted.

Businessmen fear to invest dollars whose value thay suddenly arbitrarily be changed.

INCOMES IN 1935-38

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Percentages of the population and the incomes on which the Government may draw for taxes are shown in this chart which tha Public AWairs Cominittee published in ifs pamphlet entitied, “Our Taxes=and What They Buy.”

Congress, inh addition, should make a firm stand against such movements as the Townsend Plan. That, ih its extreme form, has been squelched. But it will bob ub again. Leaders of all parties should unite in opposition to this 50 that the country may be ase sured of the hopelessness of the plan.

PROWLER IS SOUGHT

EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 238 (U. P) —Police today searched for a prowler ‘who chloroformed Mrs. Alma Cenot after entering her apartment through a window. She vas found in the hall of the building by neighbors. Mrs. Genot said that when sne reached for a phone to call police, some one pressed down the receiver with one hand and held a chloro-forme-saturated cloth ‘against her face with the other,

LOCAL MAN RECEIVES 5 YEARS IN BURGLARY,

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, June 23 (U. P.) —Charles Conroy, 22, of Tn= dianapolis, today faced a five-year prison term as a result of his plea of guilty to a hurglary charge. Oonroy and Marcellus Headley, 25, of Bloomington, were charged with robbing & liquor store here. Headw ley was returned to the state ree formatory as a parole violator.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What river forms the greater part of the northern bouhdary of Oregon? 2—What fort of government is a monarchy? 3—_How many lines should a limerick have? 4 What is the correct pronunciation of the ‘word lithography? 5—What is idolatry? > 8—Who finished second in the recent 500-<thile Indianapolis auto race? 7—What is the hame for the process of burning? 8—Which is longer, a U. 8. statute or nautical mile? ¥ B® Ww Answers 1. —Columbia River. 2A system of government in which a single person fs sovereign, 3—Five. 4—1.i-thog’-ra-fi; graf-i. 5—The worship of idols. 8—Jimmy Snyder. 7—Combustion. 8—Nautical mile.

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