Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1939 — Page 4

IT'S GRAND DAY FOR M'NUTT AND ALL CONGERNED

Followers Crowd City From All Points; 35,000 Cluster at Circle.

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they were to play. Most buildings downtown and all streetlight standards were decorated with flags.

Persons interested in the ceremony wore large paper badges which bore the legend “Welcome Paul.” Everything was very informal.

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The whole downtown seemed early

in the morning to have caught the parade spirit and storekeepers in some sections were standing outside their establishments consulting their watches and waiting for things to happen.

workmen still sawing at the the

As late as 10 a. m. were hammering and speaker's stand on

Hotel marquee. While

hawkers were

English

peddling

large brown McNutt badges on the

Circle, others were peddling horns.

State offices were stripped to skeleton staffs bv 10 o'clock. City Hall also turned out en masse. But at the Court House, business went on as usual in the Courts.

By 10:15, police estimated there were hetween 3000 and 4000 persons gathered in the Circle,

One of the last bits of decorations toe be put up in the flagdraped downtown section was a huge banner bearing the words “Welcome Home, Paul” strung across Meridian St. from the Business Branch Library. Against the white outline of the State of Inadiana in the same banner were tre

words “Back Home Again in Indi-

ana.”

Stationed at Ohio and Meridian Sts, Traffic Policeman Harold Olson smilingly explained to inquirers that the gardenia he wore was not because of the celebration particularly, hut was ane that had been given him by a nearby florist shop, a daily gift for six years.

A flaxen-haired girl, not more than 10. was standing in the cool shade of the Republican Columbia Club with her father waiting for the parade. “Do you think theyll care if we stand here father?” she asked, watching the impressively dressed doorman. Her father looked at the doorman and then at the Club itself and replied smiling: “No. dear. I don't think they'll care at all.”

The news reel cameras were set up on the Monument steps across from the Hotel English marquee early in the morning. said: All

One cynical Republican “Qure T know how they do it.

the precinet workers go to the Circle”

and waich all the State employees march in.”

The speakers’ platform was descrihed as “gorgeous.” American flags fringed with white tassles draped down from the sides and front. The floor was hanked with palms and other green plants

The amateur picture {akers swarmed over the Circle like bees.

Twa City Hospital ambulances with internes were stationed at Meridian and Market Sts. just off the Circle. to treat persons who might be injured.

Several bands serenaded the large

crowd while it waited for the parade to start. Among their favorites were “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” ang “Happy Daves Are Here Again.” When they plaved “Back Home Again in Indiana” most of the crowd joined in and sang lustily. The crowd found considerable relief from the heat in a cool breeze which swept down Meridian St. and around the Circle. Various Democratic County organizations and street hawkers gave away and sold thousands of badges, flags and banners, reading “Welcome McNutt.” The Hotel English was festooned with American flags and the balcony was almost hidden by multicolored bunting. Every inch of open space in the State House was covered with flags, bunting and banners.

The City Hall was almost uninhahited. Only a skeleton staff held forth as clerks. officials and elevator hoys turned out for the welcome. Some that remained, however, were glad to be ‘working. “You see that sun.” 3 coatless clerk remarked. “And you see this office and that fan. Me, I'm part of the skeleton staff and glad of it.” Work was supposed to resume promptly at 2 p. m. at the Hall, but most emplovees were skeptical.

DRYS PLAN DRIVE FOR LOGAL OPTION

BATTLE GROUND. Ind.. June 30 (U.P.).—The Indiana Anti-Saloon League will inaugurate a vigorous campaign for lecal option next fall, L. E. York, superintendent, indicated today. He said the campaign would be formulated at meetings of various state organizations favoring temperance. He spoke before the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church last nizht and deseribed plans for the campaign. The conference adopted a commending the league's work. “We must begin now our cam-

paign for a local option law by world today the prayer of every sane mocracy have a chance to develop; |

nominating and electing a sympathetic legislature.” Mr. York said. “a pall will be issued soon for a conference of all forces and individuals and wavs and means will be

Philippine High Commissioner is his daughter, Louise,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | Commissioner Happy as He Sets Foot Again on Soil of His Native Indiana

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Times Photos.

Seated (left to right), are his wife, mother and father.

Paul V. McNutt's return from the Philippines brought a family reunion with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McNutt. Standing beside the |

Text of McNutt’'s Home-Coming Address

Nutt’s address at the homecoming celebration on Moni:nent Circle todeu follows:

what this occasion demands. Words cannot express the heartfelt appreciation of this welcome. Tears do not relieve the emotional stress of returning to this company of friends, whose devotion, loyalty and helpfulness have sustained, inspired and comforted us through the years. This is home. There is no place like it on the face of the earth, no place which has such an abundance of what all men hold precious, of what contributes to the fullness of civilized life. During the last two vears on countless occasions there has come a mental picture of the mantelpiece of the T. C. Steele home in Brown County, which bears this legend: “Every morning I take off my hat to the beauty of the world.” With the picture has come the thought, “Every morning I take off my hat to the beauty and greatness of America and of a particularlv dear spot called Indiana.” There is no jov as great as that of returning to the homeland. no welcome as soul-stirring as that from old friends.

CALLS WAR DISEASE

We have heen on the other side of what was once known, with some justification, as the good earth, but what has earned in recent years the title “the tragic earth.” The reason for this change may be found in the failure to answer a question which ene of the wise men of Indiana. William Lowe Bryan, has listed for many vears— ‘Why is it that we human beings succeed so much better in conquering nature than in conquering human nature, in dealing with things than in dealing with ourselves and with one anyother.” The first step in answering such a

'question is to find the actual ways |

men contract the disease called war and the actual methods by which

In this tormented. confused, deluded, bewildered and bedeviled

man is for peace, peace at home and where. and only where, Christianity

with all peoples. Shortly after what we thought was the last World War one of the seers of this century said that what he feared was that Amer-

The text of Paul V. Me-|peaceful negotiation and agreement; {16 million people wha owe allegiance that all nations should uphold the to our nation, salute our flag, most slaver among them. They principle of the sanctity of treaties of whom speak our language, sing hard, ploughed back and of faithful observance of agree- our “Star Spangled Banner.” and, held

There was not an exploiter or enworked their profits, and assisted

their counsel

ments and that each nation should what is most important, worship our mightily to lay the foundations of |

2 . respect the rights of others and per- Christian God. And their number is| American culture It is impossible for me to sa¥ form scrupulously its own obliga- growing rapidly.

tions.

PEACE IS NOT ABSTRACT

If these professions are to be practiced by nations, which are, after all, organizations of individuals they should be practiced by the individuals as well. If we are to lead the way to peace we must practice peace at home. We do not

find peace in the abstract. We find which was new to the world of!

it by living and acting it.

| I believe in the destiny of Amer-|

ica, believe in it more profoundly than in anything human. I have faith in the future of America, the same faith which has been the essénce of the American spirit. I scorn the suggestion of surrender to the demands of difficult circumstances. 1 believe we have the power within us to solve our problems with fair-

ness and justice to all. We must not.’

we will not lose our sense of direction. | Please believe me when TI sav. after seeing a portion of this trou-

bled world at close range, that with |

all of our domestic problems, our efforts to cure injustices, our fears, {both imaginary and real, America is the best place on earth in which [to live and work. By comparison {with the rest of the world today, (this is Paradise. To me Indiana is the most precious place in such a Paradise. It |is here that I have found the greatjest peace and satisfaction. Kath{leen, Louise and I return to what we are proud to call our home. end /join our loved ones and our friends {with inexpressible joy.

COMES FROM HAPPY SPOT

{ We have come from one of the few happy spots, the Philippines, a ‘happy spot in an unhappy Orient—

resolution they achieve the health called peace. the one place out there where de-

'cency, democracy and peace reign;

where the orderly processes of de- |

rules the souls of an Eastern people; ‘where, and only where, the peculiar (culture of America holds forth a torch of liberty and the love of fel-

devised for converting resolutions jea would refuse to take the position low man.

into action.”

GREEK INSPIRATION WINS SYDNEY, June 30 (U. P) —T. F.

Higgins, student of St. John's Col-! what is far more important, by ex- southeast corner of Asia.

lege and secretary of the College

of leadership for which she was so

‘eminently fitted both as to resources world’s most beautiful and fertile! and officers who stayed on and | o claim any Philippine trade priviThey form the bold little others who followed begame honest |!68es we might grant Spain. preby precept. and, archipelago which juts out at the merchants. founders of new indus-| vented us from extending special

and ideals. A leader leads

ample. We have said that all na-

The Philippines are 7000 of the islands.

And the archipelago is not so small.

Population has | twice doubled since they came under our flag 40 years ago. ! We took over the Islands through no real choice of our own. Their ‘acquisition was the consequence of {a war waged with Spain on another issue. Perhaps it was not wise; per{haps it was not altogether fortunate for us, but it is a fact of history and we cannot shun its consequences. When the Treaty of Paris confirmed our proprietorship we un‘dertook a noble experiment—one

|colonies and empires. Spain had accomplished little else than the Christianization of the great majority of the people; noth-

irg creditable in the way of schools; !

no marked improvement of health and sanitation: no improvement in the people's standard of living: nothing of what we call political liberty: no substantial participation [in government.

SPAIN RULED HARSHLY

She had ruled harshly amid big and little rebellions and without the affection or understanding of her wards. Our policy was the reverse. | The bugles of war had not quieted {and the acrid smoke of gunpowder | still clouded the rice fields when, wonder of colonial wonders, corporals and sergeants shared their rations with famished natives and {opened schools for the thoughthungry youth of the Philippines. One army transport, the unfor- | gettable “Thomas,” brought not | guns and soldiers, but 600 American schoolteachers. Then followed doctors and sanitariums, engineers, | judges, civil servants and devoted | commissioners and governors —a ‘line of gracious, humanitarian, al- | truistic Americans who saw the | Philippine problem solely as one of | self-sacrifice duty in perfecting a {harmony of welfare between the | motherland and the colony. As I read over the annals of | American occupation, I feel proud {of that list of distant proconsuls | who so honorably acquitted their tasks in so distant an outpost, and {I have felt a humility in joining | their company. | But my pride goes deeper than |the governors. No community has ever harbored a more attractive group of Americans. Ex-soldiers

| tries, miners, lumbermen—a goodly

Its | concourse who believed in the Fili-| Philippines until 1909.

Grecian Society, inspired by the tions should, through voluntary self- {arable land is probably greater than | pino and paid him higher wages

Greek ideals of a healthy mind in restraint, abstain from use by force that of Japan proper, and its total | than he had ever previously earned; | pine goods the moderate advantage a healthy body. clad himself in a in pursuit of policy: that all nations area is about equal

Greeian loin cloth, and ran 15 miles in two one-quarter hours,

| should seek to adjust problems arising if ther relations by processes Cess s of

dx 2hout 6 Ml to that of Great reo apts fs wast by

who believed in the Philippines and ve them.

of a 25 per cent discount on our gave their last ounce “om duties. thought and American ingenuity, | (

in the Orient, | Christianity and American culture. | With the best of intentions, el {anxious to improve the ways and means, the spirit and conscience of |colonial enterprise, the American [regime followed two contradictory |policies. First, the political side. |From 1898 to 1913 we insisted that

|the Filipinos be prepared for self- $i

|government. While the word “independence” seems not to have been (officially used. we read aloud our lown Declaration of Independence, land our schoolteachers taught the (children to recite Patrick Henry's | “Give me liberty or give me death.” | We made no effort to “doctor” his-| tory. We let the Filipinos in on our But, more substan{tially, we established a wide suf-

{frage: we appointed natives as town | presidents and provincial governors |—we nearly forced .them to take posts in their own government. In 1916 we established a very full scheme of self-government on the {American tri-power Democratic Republican model, with a promise of [future independence, and. except for the highest executive and the]

{own great epic.

‘highest judges, we put the whole or- |,

‘ganization into native hands. When ‘and where they failed, they were taught to correct. | And so the process went on until {an autonomous commonwealth gavernment and a definite date of in{dependence was set in pendence Act of 1935. 65,000 American soldiers and 5000 American civil employees in 1900 we came in 1935 to a garrison of less | than 5000 American soldiers and | about 100 American employees, practically all in subordinate positions. | Thus, with good grace and speed we proceeded through participation and partnership to a fixed date, July 4, 1946, for an absolute political international independence.

From some

TRADE ADJUSTED

| Next, the economic policy. The | Philippines were not at first brought jinto our own customs and tariff |area. There was a 10-year promise {in the Treaty of Paris to grant Spain the same Philippine trade | privileges we might grant ourselves.

{ This, together with the most-fav-

| % : : {ored nation clauses in treaties with

Istill other nations, enabling them

{privileges to American goods in the

We did, however, grant Philip-

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—ROGCE

= FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1939"

4 PAVING JOBS

t ‘Also Gets Low Bids Totaling $558,989 on 10 Bridges, Two Underpasses.

Four contracts totaling $548,180 for the paving of 12 miles of high- | ways had been awarded by the State Highway Commission today, At the same time, the Commis=sion received low bids totaling $558,989 for construction of 10 new bridges and two railroad crossing underpasses. Total of the low bids was $900 under the engineer's estimates. Un=|derpasses will be built on Road 30 lat the south edge of Valparaiso, at a cost of $118,845, and on Road 6 at Hobart in Lake County. Both will be on newly constructed dual lane highways. The Commission also received iow | bids totaling $1,013.725 for the pav= (ing of 29 miles of highways. The largest of these projects calls | for construction of a dual! lane (highway on Road 20 between Mich|igan City and South Bend, at a cost of $368,233. Among contracts awarded was one project for a dual lane highway on Road 52 near Monroe, Ind, fat a cost of $183,000.

The Commissioner during a press conference.

DIES WHILE DRIVING CAR

_| EVANSVILLE, Ind. June 30 (U, F. McElroy, selected by T. J. Pen- |, 7 0, cant P. Carlisle, 54, died | dergast to head the city government |

DISCUSS TIME FOR —Pleasa c . die |yeste rom a heart attack suf= M’ELROY SURRENDER | for 13 years, conferred with state's Jerod. I driving his car. The

| attorneys today to decide when Mc- machine left the road and ran inte | Elroy must appear to answeriag ditch. He died less than two KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 30|charges of embezzlement and con- hours after he was returned to his (U. P.).—Attorneys representing H. spiracy. home by a passerby.

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