Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1939 — Page 18
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FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939
MORE BILLIONS NOTHER spending-lending program, in the usual grand manner, but this time involving two of the most illusory and delusory terms in all the history of finance—selfliquidation and contingent liability. If vou absolutely knew that a proposition would be self-liquidating, wouldn't everything be lovely ? But if a project doesn’t happen to liquidate, then the liability ceases to be contingent and becomes actual, grim and harsh, like when you go on another man’s note and he doesn’t pay. Mr. Roosevelt would advance billions more in credit for toll roads, bridges, bypasses, water works, sewage plants, hospitals, foreign loans, land-ownership for farm tenants and what have vou, on the theory that the projects would liquidate themselves. If they didn't, the Government—that is, the U. S. Treasury, the taxpaver—would have to bail them out. But Mr. Roosevelt's proposal is to disguise that unpleasant fact behind the false whiskers of contingency. The so-called self-liquidating loans would not appear now as liabilities on the Treasury's books. There would be & form of ‘Government spending which would seem to cost the Government nothing. But a delayed fuse, so to speak, would be burning. And when, the fuse having burned down to the &nd, some of the projects turned out to be not self-liquidating, the Government would have to come through and add the loss
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Some self-liquidating projects do pay their way. And there's an abundance of private capital, right now, looking for investment in other projects which can be demonstrated as sure self-liquidators. But Mr. Roosevelt's bland assumption that there are billions of dollars worth of such projects lying around the | country, just waiting for Government-guaranteed loans, | gives us almost the same sort of shudders that we get from | the Elmer Thomas greenback-and-silver scheme. For—self-liquidation being a field in which optimists | flourish—we've known of too many propositions that were | undertaken as self-liquidating and that turned out to be not so. And we recall that, among projects recently advocated as self-liquidating, are such ventures as the Florida ship canal and Passamaquoddy. Says a correspondent in Pennsylvania: “The plan to lend money to municipalities for hospitals, sewers and the like is hooey, beacause the cities are already broke trying to put up their share of costs and to equip and maintain projects already built or building.” That's something to think about. ‘And, incidentally, the cities and local governments have had access for vears | to PWA, which makes them free gifts of 45 per cent of the costs of their projects. What reason is there to believe that they have held back a great number of certain self-liquid-ators and will now undertake them with 100 per cent borrowed money ?
| they were creating poverty. | wanted to create poverty?
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
He Is Busy Fashioning a Werld To Be Run by Youth in Which the ‘Elders’ Would Be Retired at 45.
YORK, Juhe 23.—In the new world of society that IT am planning youth will run everything and all persons over 45 or 50 will be retired on pensions from the state and exluded from the polls 8s well as from public office, except that during the transition or take-over period retired individuals may be drafted to show the new crew how the thing works. After that period over-age men and women will be absolutely excluded from ‘public affairs, because experience has shown that they are too conservative, too full of fears for their young and for themselves to permit of optimistic judgment, But don’t you worry, papRy. You will be all right under young management, You just clean out your tesk, turn over the combination of the safe and go on fishing or golfing or whatever. You and mom will get vour checks regularly the first of every month, and don’t be coming around the office saying, “Son, I wouldn't do this or that if I were you,” because we are going to be terribly busy. We are going to town, Yes, we are golhg to retire the old ones from bustness, tod. We haven't decided whether the age will be 45 or 50, but I'm in favor of 45. At that age they are just beginning to lose vigor and confidence, but they may still look pretty good and they put forth & special effort to impose their conservativeness on the world. ¥ ¥ Ww OW, about the voting and office-holding ages of those who will constitute the young world or youth society, T am proposing that each generation shall have a full say in all affairs affecting its own time and the fullest possible privilege to ball up its own life, Then there will be no more of that yapping about generations which were thrown into the caldron of war by their elders, generations who inherited a mismanaged and disordered world from unwise and guilty elders and generations which lost or, anyway, mislaid their souls. These generations are going to take full responsibility, and if they desire to Hold a war for themselves it is going to be their party, and they can pick up the check or hang it on the spike or whatever they want to do about it. And when it is over they needn't look accusingly at the old-timers and say, “You betrayed youth,” because the elders can crack back, “I did no such a thing, I was away fishing at the time.”
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UT along about then the early crop of this new youth gang will begin ta pick up their tackle
| and move out under the retirement law, and 1 dare
say the new freshman class of citizens, politicians,
| soldiers and all will be tempted to blame them for |
something. I want to be around fishing bv a erick somewhere when that happens, just te hear
Some few members blamed the elders for the big war, but most of them figured that is was just one of those things. And, after the war, in voting for Harding-Coolitdge and so forth they had ho idea that Why would they have They were doing the best they could, and, anyway, that poverty has hit them as hard as it has hit vouth. Well, that is a rough idea of my plan. so smart I want to see youth do its stuff,
Aviation
Youth is
By Maj. Al Williams
Flying in Lighter-Than-Air Ship Over Washington Is Real Thrill.
ASHINGTON, June 23. —Recently I flew in an airship—a lighter-than-air craft, filled with non-inflammable helium gas. The gondola (pilots and passengers’ cabin) is built into the bottom of the hull and has wide windows and comfortable seats. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. maintains and operates five of these little dirigibles (small versions of the Hindenburg— but inflated with the nonburning gas).
This new scheme should be viewed with a cold and fishy eve by the Congress which, after all—and not the President—is responsible for the appropriation of money.
It is no plan to be bum’s-rushed through in the heat of a |
Washington sumnier by lawmakers who wanna go home.
CONFESSION NOT ENOUGH
AVING been caught sucking eggs the National Labor |
The airship T rode in is the Enterprise, in which
| sightseeing passengers may buv flights. Tt has two | motors slightly behind the gondola, and either is suf- | ficient to propel the ship. Filled with helium, this is
the last word in air safetv and comfort. Adjusting ballast to suit the load, we “weighed- " and floated into the summer sky, The visibility was marvelous. This is the first time TI have ever
| really seen Washington, in spite of the fact that 1
| have flown over it for vears. | study details in an airplane. Between glimpses of the city, T turned and sneered | at the motors. I didn't care whether they quit or not
We don't get time to
Relations Board quite condescendingly announces (With | ‘and that's the first time 1 ever sneered at a motor
reservations) that it will go and sin no more. It proclaims modification of certain rules it arrogated
to itself as long as it could get away with them, and to which | and | See the ball hit or thrown, and a fly ball to the out- | field travels in a funny looking arc—a big arc viewad
it stubbornly clung, until pushed by public sentiment Congressional investigation. The whole N. L. R. B. performance has been a striking example of a bureaucracy failing to understand that ours is a Government of laws, not of men. It has performed | like the constable who thinks & search warrant is a lot of silly eircamlocution. That it should at this late date deign to yield in an effort to prevent amendment of the law under which it operates amounts to nothing less than an insult to a Congress that set it up. Congress should immediately write into that law the concession the N. L. R. B. has proffered under fire, and not leave up to the N. L. R. B. the privilege of changing its mind; and write also such other changes as are indicated by the inquiries which brought this begrudging concession from the board. With it should be dovetailed a mediation
svstem which will assure continuity instead of chaos in in- |
dustry. That is a definite and obvious duty of Congress before it adjourns.
A BOUQUET TO MISS KNOX ANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL'S honor society, the Roines (“senior” spelled backward), gathered its members together the other night—from the class of '14 to the recent '39-ers—to pay tribute to the founder of the group, Miss Arda Knox. It was only fitting. Miss Knox is one of the finest women in the Indianapolis schools system. The silvery haired mathematics teacher is admired, respected and beloved by almost every boy who has attended Manual during her teaching career there, She has never been too busy to help out a youngster in his school work or his personal affairs, never too busy to be the school’s No. 1 sports fan, never too busy to sponsor the boys’ honorary society. Indianapolis should consider itself fortunate in having such teachers as Arda Knox.
IT’S CALLED SPORTSMANSHIP N the life of sport, you are supposed to learn how to take the hard luck with the good, the bitter with the sweet. Lou Gehrig learned. This day he is a greater figure than he ever was before, though he will never play another game of baseball. No one could take the bad news more bravely, more cheerfully, than Lou Gehrig. The greatest first baseman in baseball history is also a great an, i ' di
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| off the ground). | We stopped at 1200 feet over the center field | bleachers of the Washington ball park, watching the Senators and the Chicago White Sox mingle. I could
from above.
Useful in Directing Traffic Details of evervthing below fascinated me. mobile traffic, when viewed from a swiftly airplane, appears stationary. Not so from an airship
Autd-
| Hp along or standing still in the air. You can
1 exactly what's going on, Handling traffic from the air has a very practical aspect, incidentally, and Washington, New York, and Miami are among the cities which have made good use of this idea. Traffic experts have gone aloft in airships and from points of vantage studied the flow of cars on occasions when great tangles threatened. By short wave radid their observations were flashed to ground crews, which carried out instructions. The airship can do something that ne wings can do in remaining aloft at zero miles per hour, Great | dirigibles, inflated with helium, could carry 20.000 pounds of useful load across the dceans today. versus the hoped for 4000 pounds useful load of an 87.000pound flying boat. Think that over,
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
1 from the “Wife's-Right-to-a-Job” debaters. I'tn glad to report that the pros and cons are about evenly divided. All correspondents take an economic approach to the problem. They want wives kicked out of industry, not because they are opposed to wives working, but because they believe jobs should be filled by single women and men. Or they quote statistics to prove that few married women who are not supporting others are employed and that those who are swell the consumers’ ranks and, therefore, help rather than hinder business. All these arguments, of course, are just so much fiddle-faddle., Tt is impossible to debate economic is= sues without taking into consideration the element of human nature. And the issue at stake, the impor= tant issue, is not the job but the home. Can anything be done to teach young girls that their true destiny lies always within the domestic circle? Under our present educational system is it
possible to impress the truth upon them-—the truth being that motherhood is more important to the individual than social pleasures or even & successful career? :
At this point T'm afraid the girls would respond | With a loud Bronx cheer. Being part and parcel of all | America, they aren't apt to feel they should follow the line of duty when everyone else seems to be taking | |
his pleasure, Therefore, in order to sell them on the idea of domesticity, we shall have to prove that it has its rewards. And what, pray, are they? 1 the men the Single ‘women can think up a
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the | answer, because youth forgets that youth isn't per- | | manent,
moving |
HE mail is cluttered these dav: with angry blasts |
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 193)
Tune Bride By Talburt
Gen. Johnson Says— Phenomenal Growth of Texas
Is Proof That the Old Ecomomy Can Function if Given a Chance.
USTIN, Tex, June 25-<Texas {xy not depressionA proof but, judging what you can see and hear in a couple of days, it is further aut af the dumps than any state T have seen, COohsfdering its size, that 1 saving a lot. Tt is the fashion to say that we used to get out of depressions through the safety valve of the Western Frontier, The busted and unemployed simply mis grated and started all over again, But it 1s alsd the fashion to say that there are ho more frontiers and that we will have to find some other way out. To the extent that there is truth in that theory, it overlooks the biggest and most obvious piece of geography in America=the state of Texas. Texas was, and still remains, one of the greatest reservoirs of undeveloped raw resources in the world. For some reason it was long heglected—a sleeping frontier. Tt has surged forward during the depression just as the Old West advanced during the more terri= ble depression of the early Nineties, CE ART of it was luck=the upsurge »f the oil hus try offsetting the great slump in cotton. But there fs a lot more than that in the forward march of this state. There was a tremendous acreage of very rich ®oil that had somehow been overlooked, Above all, there were shrewd and energetic Jeaders, of whom men like Jesse Jones and Amon Carter are sxamples. Texas ix a sort of religion with them. Amon Carter made F't, Worth his private personal Job, just as Jesse Jones adopted Houston, There was no such bell-wether in Dallas, but there was a thou= sand-man team of substantial Texanz there all just as devoted to the idea that Texas—and especially Dal= Jas=~hadn't even started vet, There Was a similar religion in Austin and San Antonio and it finally caught on throughout the empire, I don't want ta go ga-ga about this and T haven't been subsidized, high=powersd or even approached to write this by any Chamber of Commerce or anybody else. This is just spontaneous combustion under my own steam in a world elsewhere go dreaiy, " nw HE advance of Houston during this dspression has no parallel in the record of progress of any other city-=pven during the fabulous days of Tos Angeles and the great 1020 delusion everywhere, A great new national metropolis is being put on the map. Tt seems that this city has almost everything and the world fs just becoming aware of it, 1 have ho more than a sentimental interest fh Texas. IT had heard these stories vaguely, 1 cama here to check on them=not to boost Texas, but be= cauxe if, somewhere in this country, the sun ix really
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with whet you say, but will shining, it is a bt more fun to he writing about that defend to the death your ight to soy it.<Voltaire, Hen to be hanging crepe on the gloomy situation else | Where, Tt is more than just the fun in writing. Our hew and the workers held down to a peonomiec planners say that our traditional Amarioan hare cost of existence, deprived of | gystem won't work any more to pull us out of depresall the pleasant things of life and sions and =0 thay have to take it apart and put iv compelled to weigh carefully the| together again, Texas fs a very big proof that they expenditure of a nickel. | are wrong. They took more money out thah they put Human welfare for all is of more | in and Texas went ahead in the old way==hot berauss importance than the accumulation | —put in spite of them.
of useless millions in the hands of cc It Seems to Me
a greedy few, There must be a By Heywood Broun
says GOVERNOR'S TALK WAS NAUSEATING | By R. W, Weber | Could Governor Townsend have {been thinking of himself when, in his speech to the Townsend delegates, he advised them to ‘beware of false friends"? For cheap hypocrisy, for pretending to say what he did not mean, IT have seen nothing equaling “our”|
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must ba sighed, but names will be withheld oh request.)
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change, There is only one way out, | Ys Sevhos. Sin Vn J Exception It Taken to Contention y Jasper Dougla ut the change without injury BLAMES LIQUOR TOR During the last 10 years of a con- any and put it within the power of : | : race | pleasant and friendly, and the preliminary jokes go (pensive than beer or wine. (You can ‘capitalist profit system and enabling ONLY A TRADITION Ph AROURH.
Call it socialism, communism, or hy | any other name, but the people col- | Governor's speech to the Townsend | lectively must, through their repre- | ite delegates, I feel just a little RAPS VANDENBERG'S Bn wa oe Di of pro= hauseated, | 3 . ' uction and distribution. rom VEARENG THAN The question is how to bring y Ethics Are Not Aided by Legislation, NEED OF INSTITUTIONS lai ; oy all to enjoy the benefits of our re- | Bs Viney & Woreh UT YhIH we adn well oall | Coes, mmohinery, skill and abil | EW YORK, June 33-1 was talking before the : oiy Dna ; |‘hormal” there have been a 8core jy to produce plenty and have it | Rotary Club and they had the Kiwanis ih, The A recent Hoosier Forum writer ad- or plans suggested, ostensibly for | distributed to those who oan use Lions couldn't come because they were electing offi voouted a bill doubling the tax On fo lleviation of the distress of the it. cers, but 1 did meet one lone ijdon at the bar before Bil ISveEgs i is OE. Nil Jn VER Choe FHeuo. "Wilh the luncheon began, Boring from within along the ) or 15 per cent alcohol, thus SSeS, "Ly Case : : : t front ix a fairly tough job. Everybody is making whisky 10 tithes more ex- & View to bolstering up a decadent TERMS PROFIT SYSTEM | I Tn a IY Toa a {get drunk on beer or wine.) The therich toaccumulate greater riches | " But when vou start talking arganization the going Writer Contihdlen WHE We ASiblegiee OR MRAM Of ve ity | Bs, Previn. wet in | a little more rocky. Rotarians, like members of revenue could be used to build hos- Millions, | ovoice ih the Orowd,” WAVS the |... "Ny ional Manufacturers Association of the Chams | pitals, homes for the aged and other| Now Senator Vandenberg comes Profit system fs (he only natural) wo. of &ommerce, are all for organization for thems humanitarian purposes. lout with a great scheme. He calls system. . . . T ean't be convinced | selves, but rather suspicious if you mention the fact May 1 point out that there is it “profit sharing.” Like all the that it is hatural for hundreds to | that the ¥ame Yight should be extended to other
nothing that is more the cause of other panaceas, it is ax full of holes live in poverty and fear and inse- | you Tndesd, 1t will take someone much more elo= ‘the necessity of the above institu- as a sieve. Tt would only be neces. (curity while dur industrial 1088s | guant than 1 can ever hope to be ta sell businessmen (tions than the liquor traffic. Tt nn- sary for the industrialist to raise hold human welfare at their eM | (he Wagner Act on the basix that it has helped vastly fits men for work, robs them of their (the price so as to give him twice mand. | to afd the unorganized in their efforts to come to= ‘ability to hold jobs and support the percentage of profit and he, 1 can’t belfeve it natural for 30 wainer, families, and makes them objects of could then give a 50 per cent slice per cent of our people to become | And, not knowing that the Kiwanis wax ih on the ‘charity and extra burdens oh the to the workers. Then, the argu- servants to 20 per cent. That is mesting, 1 had zamewhat (actlessly =elacted a text | taxpayer, ment could be used, "If wages are going back to the Middle Ages... fram a speech made on Monday in Boston before thea | Tt causes money to go into illegal lower, profits will be greater and | The profit system is only a tra | national convention of that arder, 1 took the text fh ‘channels of trade -— by spending your share would be greater,” Tt dition-—something that was instiu- | arder to knock it down If T eauld, Dr. Alleh A, Stocks | money for booze which oucht to gb would not give greater buying power mental in its day and its day has dale, of the N. A. M,, told the Kiwaniahs that “ethion (for shoes, for wet goods which ta the masses, hor provide more passed. Tt will have to be stream- are never promoted by public lagislation” ; should go for dry goods, for beer jobs for the unemployed, lined or abolished because the peo-| That fs an interesting point of view but Tather (Which should go for bread and milk.| The profit system is in the throes ple are finding out that wpiritual startlingly anarchical coming from a business vepres=’ | For every dollar in license money af death. Tt has been growing for needs dd not fill the stomach as our | sentative, Such a philosophy, if carried to its logieal received it cost $10 to $15 to pay for a centruy, the rich growing richer upper class would have us belfeve, | extreme, would take down all traffic lights and re= (the extra jails, court costs, crime | move motor cops from the public highways. T cers (prosecution and poverty it directly tainly believe that the ethics of transportation are causes. From any standpoint it is a vastly promoted by legislation, Even if all motorists
bag bargin for the taxpaver and were Ten and women of goodwill 1 should still be in favor of some regulation,
(oh, what a harvest, The higher the | license the more bootleggers and a 3 crime. , . . Spiritual Revival Would Help The liquor traffic has no moral, Th a %elfish world one driver at the tuth tries N which shares its | ”, | cut off the other. Tn a world of amity ach would OVEL which shares its fairy romance and travel when Jim | whit and say, "After you.” and the resulting fam might
New Books at the Library legal or inherent right. It is only here by permission. We need no A | oa2 . | more law but the quickest, cheapest tale atmosphere with the grim | Miraculously wins a large sum of oro" Goin “than the first, 1 keep my fingers and the shortest way to get vid of tragedy of a Central European Money in a football pool. | crossed when anybody speaks about “fhotal Yearma= this traffic is to have the right kind | background even now lying under | The young people fare forth on ment » waoauge I Want to know whose morals are to of administration and quit licensing oe Swoiping aoe Ah ae ey RT excite: ut the standard : it, treating it hot as a business but | Ceci oberts’ “They anted to ment, adventure, and a variety of |= v #niritual re through= EE rt one | Live” Wii Te Ban 4 Ve Me 1 Cpl rn WER SPOIL So hth morphine and dope. . . . Let's quit| This is Jim Brown's story—you (he Hungarian aristocracy Who yuu on the command to Jove your Neighbor a WR putting a church on one corner to will remember him from ‘Victoria SHOWer them with so much Attention | (ooo iiont tdeal. 1 am not just spouting phrases if I save souls and a devil's trap on the Four-Thirty,” of which this book fs that their handsome heads are well-| Gro" cen aun or the brotherhood of man, Thers other to undo what the church is a sequel. Cherishing delusions of Nigh turned. is yoalism in divine pronouncements, trying t& do. . . | grandeur, Lizzie, his sweetheart, now | Gay and modern as today's radio ™ gow © ein Sein the beginning wet up an Look out for 1940. Prohibition is become Betty with the discarding of | Program, the story trails its filmy ralwaitile poruited dixciplex and an executive i ‘her ity ; 1. glitter through Paris, Budapest, Organization. He reeru neip ; coming back and coming back to her duties as waitress, is able to in Vier B | pest, committer of apostles and assigned to sach his duties stay. dulge her desire for love ane Viennk Belgrade, Praha But youth. Co cr cinilities, Good intentions without plan
; Bini grasping at aphemaral pleasure and Anil earstully prepared application can suffice only fn Side Glances—By Galbraith
concerned with the romantic tradi- oy tions of ancient And much-lived-in the Most primitive sory of community lands, discovers under gaety's venper | : the stark bones of centuries-old
problems. ‘Watching Your Hea Ith
The author is generous with his By Dr. Morris Fishbein
descriptions of the charms of the cities of the Danube Valley, while of Funkty Ti The. appeal DIAN | 3 JERE are another five questions on health, Five lovely travelog. Yat the wunder- possible answers are given for each guestion, Tt current of unrest and hlarm over| You scora 100 (20 points for each correct answer), you are well informed, Wowever, if your mark ix Jess than 80, you should attempt to learn more about health and disease,
Burope's probable path of conquest, blending imperceptibly ne Sim TS p os the reader ig Bg iy Jim back In 1. Trench mouth fx the name of a mounth that in England with his wholesome old | (A) too wide; (2) that fs tos narrow; (©) that 1s fhOockney mother, preparing once | fected with germs; (d) that results from syphilis; more to take up his duties as porter (@®) that frequently occurs fn ditch diggers, at the Victoria Station. 2. Rabies may be successfully treated by (a) puts ting on a madstone; (b) by applying the hair of a dog (0) by inoculation with the Pasteur treatment, @) by murmuring “abracadabra’; (@) by consulting
SILENCE a fortune teller, 3. Sauerkraut juice is more healthful than tomatd
By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Strange is her way They often say. juice because (a) it contains more vitamin C; (b) con» Some think her proud-- tains more acid; (©) contains more salt; (d) it is hot Above their crowd, . more healthful; @) it fs full of minerals. Words spiteful fall 4. Harelip fs due to the fact that a) the mother Not knowing all. saw a rabbit; (b) the lip failed to grow together; (e) And deeper grows the ohild's grandfather had a harelip; «) it should The grief she knows have been twins; (®) it just happened. Hurts pressed tod hear 5. Germs live () forever; (b) ax long as they have food and water; (@) as long as they have wun» light; @) ax long ax they have rash air; (2) as long
Tor folks to hear. Mitte pain sears deap as they are in the body. ANSWERS
Tn work or sleep. Hey thoughts crowd on. 1 ng, NEV ho — 1. Trench mouth ix an infection n bi gum which was very prevalent fn the trenches during the DAILY THOUGH World War. t be pet 2, The Pasteur method. ? ee Jhuch i wh wet 3. Tt would be more sensible to eat the wausrkra derstanding rather to be chosen instead of drinking the juice. than silver l«-Proverhs 18:18, 4. Malformations of the lip are ith some instances ——— hereditary although they may hot appear in every TE 1s wise who knows the sources generation or fh all the children born in one genera ‘of knowledge «who know wa : hia oft new gory; the
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