Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1939 — Page 10
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Gradual Filtration Inte Economie System Urged for College Students To Relieve Annual Graduation Rush.
EW YORK, July 1--The number of young men and women who are heing unloaded onto an overcrowded job market as the college crop of 1939 is about a quarter of a million, just about equal to the total enrollment of regular college students in 1910 and four times the graduation class of that year. They emerge into a world in which a college education is no longer a distinction, as it was in 1910. A story is told of a new office boy in a New York newspaper shop who was asked to fill in a data form for the office files and in the space marked “home address” wrote “The Harvard Club.” Aside from the depression which members of the New Deal finally are coming to call more and more baldly “the collapse of American capitalism,” and aside from the factor known as technological disemployment, the graduates of today are embarrassed by their own numbers. They constitute a huge mass, and, for all that is said about the exploitation of child labor, they find that business, work and affairs are in the hands of older people, most of whom did not go to college but came to grips with life several years younger.
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SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1939
INTELLIGENT SOCIAL WORK HE County Department of Public Welfare has proved how to deliver efficient public service in the handling of the Colored Orphans’ Home and the Children’s Guardians’ Home. Transferred from the control of the County Commissioners last April 1, the Negro home had 98 children within its doors. Today there are only 13 in the orphanage and Public Welfare Director Thomas L. Neal believes that a home with a maximum capacity of 10 will be sufficient for future needs. Under Mr. Neal's placement plan, the Welfare Department went to work tracing relatives, checking case histories and needs and investigating applications from would-be foster parents. The result has been intelligent placements | into foster homes or into institutions which are far better | equipped to handle the children. | The Department took over the Guardians’ Home in | December, 1936. There were 199 children there at that time. |
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T has been suggested by some educators that the timing of education, like the automatic timing of a three-minute egg, is a mistake and that the jam of fresh-taught talent could be alleviated by the wider adoption of a method which would certify students and trickle them out throughout the year. ‘This would seriously impair the solemnity and horseplay of graduation exercises and reunions, and the gain might not be worth the sacrifice to those who deliver inspirational taiks and receive honorary degrees. An important flaw in the present svsiem lies in the fact that so many young and uncommonly intelligent people remain entirely aloof from the practical fight for a start in life until they are from 22 to 23 years old. Certainly a great number of the generation which is now moving into the 50s and which still clings to the management of business in this country had no such patience and restraint. As of 1910 or 120, the college enroilment was small,
Using the Neal system, the Welfare Department has reduced this number to approximately 60. Mr. Neal hopes that by Sept. 1, the number will be reduced to 50. and most men of that group went to work early. Some Raymond F. Clapp, Community Fund manager, esti- | Of them. in later years, realized that they were defi- ; ” “4 : tort. | cient and studied mail order courses in secret, and mates that the County will save about $43,000 a year undet | some just bulled their way through, learning by exMr. Neal's handling of the situation. He terms it “the best | perience as they went. argument I've seen in a long time for intelligent social | work.”
Indianapolis will agree whole-heartedly.
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HERE was a sense of prejudice among self-made employers against college-trained applicants on the suspicion that the college graduate thought he knew it all and wanted to start at the top.
The prejudice exists no longer, and its disappear- | ance is due in large part to the willing enthusiasm | of the new graduates to tackle almost any sort of |
THE NEUTRALITY BILL
WE think the House of Representatives made a bad mis- | take last night when it wrote into the Administration Neutrality Bill a provision forbidding exports of arms and ammunition to belligerents. We think so because that action may conceivably contribute to the starting of another European war. For it Impatience and discouragement must harass the notifies Adolf Hitler that at least one branch of Congress | graduates first year out of college even in the best (including Indianapolis’ Rep. Louis Ludlow) is opposed to | of times, however. He is not a hoy now, hut a man,
work and at small wages. But there is acute job fear among the older men, particularly the unedu- | cated or noneducated, who have risen to the top of | their earning powers and are now hanging on, | knowing that if they should lose out they might be | on the street for months or years. Men of this class | have a clannish disposition to plav ball out of old | friendship and for mutual protection.
Ra but he comes into the job market as a beginner at permitting: England and France, should they be attacked, to | a time when he must pick up the duty of supporting
buy guns and bullets in this country—even if they offered | his o¥n family or the leftovers of his father's recash on the line and sent their own ships to do the carrying.
In our opinion the House should have accepted the | original idea of the Administration bill that arms exports, | H : instead of being forbidden, should be placed on the same | usiness cash-and-carry basis that the House approved for cotton, | By John T. Fi scrap iron, petroleum and all other shipments to belligerents. | y <ohn le Tiyan
It is argued that such a step would have been lending | potential aid to England and France. But the only alterna- | tive is to strike a blow against peace by promising passive | assistance to Hitler and Mussolini. | the value of the dollar, declared that this would
tragedy of it is th is assurance t itler, while | ; The raged, 0 it is that this a ut Shes to Hitler, hile | put control of the dollar back in Wall Street and it may encourage him to new aggression, is no real indica- | would weaken the defense of the country.
tion of what Congress would sav once th ; 0 | The President launched his policy of pushing up wy Cong the drums began to | the price of gold in October, 1933.
| reason: It was to restore the price level and “when A few months ago a man who certainly is no disciple | V© have restored the price level,” he added, “we shall of President Roosevelt said, in speaking of the European not change its purchasing power during the succeedsituation: | ing generation.”
‘“ % | There was no claim that Wall Street ; If wholesale attack were made upon women and chil: | value of the dollar either at home or brant The dren by the deliberate destruction of cities from the air, |
Fa in fact was that it was “altogether too greatly suc hb : at the mercy of the accidents of international trade, then the indignation of the American people could not be | the internal policies of other nations and by political restrained from action.” | re in es countries.” . cs : ‘ ; ; | ow the President says that by voting to end his That was Herbert Hoover speaking, and we think he | power of devaluation and his right to control the spoke the truth. | dollar, the Senate would return it to Wall Street. Of course that is not so.
The National Defense Plea
The other claim made by the President was that | it would weaken our national defense. This in itself should be another reason for taking the power away from the President. The President seeks to use every power he can marshal to play an active part in the present European mess. He wants the Con- | gress to provide half a billion dollars for loans to | other countries so that he may use these funds upon the political chess board of the world. The Senate voted to replace that power in the hands of Congress where it is placed by the Constitution and where it belongs. Furthermore the President has never used the devaluation power for the purposes for which he asked it—to manage the currency. The content of the dollar was fixed in January, 1934, and it has remained the same since, while prices have gone up and down. whereas if the power were used to manage tie currency the gold content of the dollar would have been changed half a dozen times. The original purpose of the grant of power has been abandoned. The reasons for it now are no longer those which Congress had in mind. The power itself should be revoked.
| enced novice.
Disputes Arguments of Roosevelt On Why He Should Control Dollar.
| EW YORK, July 1—The President, angered at the Senate for voting against his control over
THEY BUTCHERED THE HATCH BILL
EMOCRATS—Sumners of Texas, Celler of New York. Weaver of North Carolina, Healey of Massachusetts. Walter of Pennsylvania, Chandler of Tennessee, McLaughlin of Nebraska, Hobbs of Alabama, Murdock of Utah, Tolan of California, Creal of Kentucky, Byrne of New York, Massingale of Oklahoma, Satterfield of Virginia, Barnes of Illinois, Gibbs of Georgia. Republicans—Springer of Indiana. Guyer of Kansas, Hancock of New York, Michener of Michigan, Robsion of Kentucky. Reed of Illinois, Gwynne of Iowa, Graham of Pennsylvania, Pierce of New York, Monkiewicz of Connecticut.
HEY are the members of the House Judiciary Com- | mittee. That is the committee which over the last two | davs has done a complete job of butchering the Hatch bill | — the hill designed to take politics out of relief and to stop | people on the Government payroll from functioning as | political henchmen. The butchery, like most reprehensible | / ! deeds, was performed behind closed doors. WwW Vi The committee members refuse to disclose the roll calls | oman s lewpoint showing who voted for what. They refuse even to reveal By Mrs. Walter Ferquson which members were present and which absent. We know 'M glad the sex-predicting papa. Mr. Sidney Fortel Mr. Sumners of Texas was absent because of illness, SO | & of Newark. N. J, got his ears slapped down by we exempt him from criticism. Some of those listed above | Mother Nature. He deserved it. mav have voted against the amendments which take all | Mr. Fortel has been making the front pages for the teeth and purpose out of the Hatch bill. But—this is | Severs) vuinthe iy case thei ne Jen fieured ont Sy : : | the secret of sex predetermination. Expectant par= significant—not one of them to date has publicly repudiated | (coi over the country were awailing the birth of the committee's actions. his child, so they could be sure whether to order blue If any Congressman listed above wishes to renounce | or pink for their own bassinets. responsibility for what the committee did, we shall be glad And then Papa Sidney let them down. He had exto print his statement. For several days we have been | Pected a boy; he had ordered a boy; he had done looking for Congressmen who will make statements favoring | pov 4 he had sade Buble Lhe fach that it Would be & the Hatch bill's purpose of abolishing politics in the Gov-
boy in his household. Instead, a girl appeared, which made it imperative for our latest headliner to slink ernment service. There has been a strange silence in the vicinity of the judiciary committee.
off, a disappointed father and a humiliated prophet. As I say, it served him right. Nobody wants to know the sex of the unborn. It's little enough excitement mothers have, what with there being only two possible kinds of infants, male and female, and it ITs A BIG COUNTRY would be a shame to deprive women of the thrill which follows every series of birth pangs. WO items in the news inspire the above striking if not | When thé doctor says, “It's a strapping boy!" or T ’ tii | in a family where boys predominate when word comes, entirely original thought. | “II's a darling little girl!"—well, there's simply noth The Census Bureau, preparing to count the population | he Jan mint Df Just equals the Tesiing OF pralifiey- ) i . . y ollows. of the United States next year, estimates that it will use | I remember {hat one of the greatest thrills of my 338,198 pencils, 6472 pints of ink, 8300 pounds of paste and | tender years was the birth of an eighth child to a 11,000 typewriter ribbons.
neighboring family whose eldest daughter, after the And the Treasury Department reports a saving of of birth, with expansive and gory elaborations. She
| nasty fashion of little girls, had let me into the secrets : Sante : was one of seven sisters and when it was obvious $18,000,000 in paper, ink, labor and storage space since | another child would soon invade the family circle, paper money was reduced one-third in size just 10 years she nae 2 me, i it's Engines Shjvenine gil, : a i iiia § u 8 ago. It has printed 9,859,917.777 bills in that decade—the | business ‘of having babieer © Co © Stop his
; business of having babies.” denominations ranging from $1 to $100,000—and saved
And the eighth was a boy! ‘They named him pearly $2 on each thousand bills, William Jennings Bryan Brown, honoring the then ®
perennial candidate for the Democratic Party. ©
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CONTENDS EDITORIAL UNFAIR TO DOWD By E. B. 0’Horo, Chicago, NL I have noted your editorial of June
| 27 entitled “The State Prison.”
I appreciate the fact that you have commented on the guards situated at the Indiana State Prison. This remark was no doubt attributed to the fact that you lacked information of conditions prevailing in this institution.
The bill which you advocated
| failed to pass in the last Legislature,
which recommended a merit plan for prison guards. The previous warden suffered numerous escapes due to the reason thct he had insufficient experience. Mr. Dowd was appointed in April. 1938. And I feel that your editorial has done an injustice to a man who
‘has performed such good work and
improved conditions in our institution. This has been his life's work And we do not feel he
hungry politicians.” I hope for fair play and would appreciate your giving Mr. Dowd the
| just dues he is entitled to.
# GLAD POOR PRISONER
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: I | seek to establish and maintain a dollar which will [FOUND A CHAMPION | By William C. Erbecker
It is about time the Police Department found out that just because a poor man gets arrested, they don't have any right to keep
him in jail and refuse to allow him even to call a lawyer. . . .
I am glad to see Judge McNelis attempting to protect the poor man and see that he gets a “square deal” instead of a “raw deal.” I hope the judge does not rest on his laurels now. Keep up the good work, judge, I am glad you at least have the courage to abide by your convicvions. ” ” ”
CALLS TOWNSEND PLAN A “PIPE DREAM"
By B. 8. E.
The situation exists in the minds of the misled Townsendites, in regard to their ultimate ability to control both old political parties, that they may legislate themselves and all others into prosperity by the enactment of foolish and unreasonable pension laws at the expense of those who have labored and saved a substantial part of their earnings. The successful businessman is always alert and makes the proper application of mental and physical
energy that he may be independent
(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 be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
ot all the various schemes devised 0 live in comfort and peace. The Townsend Old Age Pension scheme is just another California fantastic
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lous of all schemes. Getting something for nothing is contrary to the Scriptures, which reads: “Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow.” It is true that many deserving people have met misfortune and cannot provide for themselves and their dependents. But those who are wanting themselves for nothing are only breeding laziness and crime. | Those who need assistance can get it as the law provides for them. If not, ‘there are other agencies set up to [care for the indigent. But why tax everybody under 65 [to support those who do not need outside support as the Dr. Townsend advocates demand? There is not an |iota of reason in their arguments. The candicdate, Democrat or Re-
pipe dream and is the most ridicu- |
publican, who subscribes to such an un-Christian, fly-by-night scheme should be boycotted by the voters even if it requires the crossing of party lines. Let's be charitable to everybody, but do not rob Peter to pay Paul. Many of the Townsend old-age schemers are raving about ur present national debt and argue that their proposed scheme will reduce our present debt. There is as much sense in such an argument as to say you can put out a fire by adding more fire. I take my hat off to all of those courageous members of Congress who voted their convictions when they said “no” even in the presence of Dr. Townsend.
| AGREES WITH CRITIC ON CIVIL LIBERTIES By Joseph P. McCafferty
I thoroughly agree with Mr. McShane in his views on the abuse of citizens’ civil rights by the Indianapolis Police Department and Chief Morrissey. Judge McNelis is in a position to know, and poor, unfortunate people who are thrown in prison still have certain rights which the law gives them. These rights should be obeyed and respected, especially by Chief Morrissey and the Police Department, who are supposed to up-
hold our laws,
New Books at the Library
UST below the equator, its great bulk dwarfed by the width of the mighty Amazon wherein it les, is Marajo, an island kingdom where exists, perhaps uniquely in this day, a 13th Century feudal society. Here, encompassing the island and owned mainly by a dozen or so white families, are the great cattle ranches which support thousands of head of stock and many retainers who work these medieval holdings and look ¢o the rancher, or “White Man,” as they call him, as people of earlier centuries did to their liege lords. Being born, living and dying with a simplicity unheard of in our complicated societies, the dark people of this unusual land live in a world apart, untouched by the crowded struggle of the world's harassed mil. ions. Riding the wide savannahs like demigods. they are magnificent with horses, know the cattle busi-
Side Glances—By Galbraith
ness in every phase, understand how to tame wild oxen to the saddle, how to outwit the crocodile and to hunt the water buffalo.
Colorful glimpses into this economic Eden, accounts of forays to nearby Brazilian cities, tales of the experiences and reactions of an American couple as guests of the ranch families make up “Feudal Island” (Harcourt) which Desmond Holdridge both writes and illustrates with his own photographs. He is engrossed with the excavations on the island where in closely packed burial mounds an earlier and more vigorous tribe left rich archeological treasure. He likes the little brown children, the fat horses, the zebu cattle, and the sailing canoes which ride with the tide up the muddy tropical rivers. Protected from the sight of ships by a bordering wall of jungle, this strange land, capable of offering succor to thousands of the world’s homeless, lies vast and empty, seeming in retrospect to the
"I don't mind you burying potatoes in the mud and then throwing them in the fire—but for heaven's sake promise me you
won't eat them!"
LR
Holdridges, like a “place visited in a dream.”
THE GOLDEN YEARS By DOROTHY JEFFERS COYLE
I do not ask for riches When I am growing old, Nor platinum nor silver Nor heaps of shiny gold; But just a friendly little house With windows deep and wide, A little book of verses, My loved one by my side. More pleasure perhaps in finery And company fast and gay, But it doesn’t give your soul the room To grow from day to day. The noise keeps one from thinking Brig lights make old eyes grow im, More peaceful it seems is a vaulted church, With the sound. of a well loved hymn. So when some day, I'm old and gray, I'll ask for nothing more, Than the friendly shade of an apple
tree That grows outside my door. DAILY THOUGHT ‘And unto the married .I command, yet not I, but the Lord,
Let not the wife depart from her husband.--Corinthians 7:10.
OT the marriage of convenience, nor the marriage of reason, but the marriage of love. All other marriage, with vows so solemn, with intimacy so close, is but acted
falsehood and varnished sin.— Bulwer.
ee. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1029) §
Gen. Johnson Says—
It's Silly To F. D.
to Give All the Spotlight R. and Dewey When There
Are So Many Others Available.
HILADELPHIA, July 1.—Popular polls on Presis dential possibilities set up their own targets. Do you favor Dewey or Vandenberg or X, Y or Z? Nate urally the man momentarily in the spotlight gets the break. Mr. Roosevelt has been so continuously in the glare that, so far as the Democratic Party is con= cerned, a popular impression is growing that there just isn't anybody else. The same unprecedented publicity has overflowed
party lines and tended to dwarf any Republican possibility. Tom Dewey is an excellent young man, but it certainly argues a dearth of Republican material to suggest that so young a man with a record so short— even though brilliant—is their one white hope. If there are not plenty of good men in both parties the republic has surely fallen on evil days. » » ”
He in Philadelphia I listened to an earnest dee bate about Congressman Bruce Barton. He will bear debating. At the end of that discussion, it seemed to be the unanimous opinion that Bruce has practically everything. His father was a preacher and Bruce never lost his religion. His books: “The Man Nobody Knows” and “The Book Nobody Knows” were as eloquent, simple and sincere preaching as any minister ever did. They were best sellers in their day. Mr. Barton, with neither self-righteousness or paraded piety, is tops among the church people, He is equally esteemed hy those who take their religion on the run. He got to the top in business starting from scratch, His kind of work—advertis=ing—gave him a look-tee at the insides of nearly every kind of human activity. He knows what our economic system is all about. Coming late to politics, he is tarred with none of the political sticks and tricks of some of our statesmen. But he showed & remarkable ability in grass-root campaigning and he has made an admirable public figure of cominon sense, liberalism and restraint, He has as attractive a personality as the prince of charm and if both wrote their own speeches, Bruce could write a better one, I am not plugging for any candidate. I merely cite Mr. Barton to argue that the Republicans are not bankrupt in political talent. No party has any better than Mayor La Guardia or Senator La Follette, ” » »
last week, I heard congenital discussing both Jesse Jones and Jimmie Byrnes. “What's the matter with a man like Senator Byrnes?’ What, indeed? He is one of the ablest and most effective men in the Senate—among its three or four great leaders. You have to think about a Presidential possibility as in the spotlight of his candidacy—not in the relative obscurity of his pres nomination days. The Senator is no showman but he has a mind like a sharp pair of scissors. Again, I am using the Senator only as an example. The Democrats have plenty of as good material as any party could ask. There is not room here to discuss the rest of them. As good a case could be made for Jesse Jones, or Senators Harrison, Wheel~ er or O'Mahoney. Jack Garner is as experienced a statesman with as good a prenomination record as any candidate ever had with the exception of George Washington and Andrew Jackson. The growing ballyhoo that out of 130,000,000 people there is only one fit to be President is simply screwe ball.
Aviation
By Maj. Al Williams
Urges Youngsters Start at Bottom If Planes Appeal to Them as Career.
ASHINGTON, July 1.—There's nothing I'd rather do than plan and chat with youngsters about aviation careers. Many of them write and talk to me. Some are determined to get into this new and thriving enterprise and become its business executives, Some won't be happy unless they turn their creative efforts toe ward aeronautical engineering and design. Many just want to learn how to fly. Those are the normal and natural ambitions of our air-minded youth. But it's concerning the achievement of those ambitions and how to get started that I want to chat with the lads who ask me, “How?” I'm sorry to say that too many youngsters come to me with the fixed idea thai political and friendship pressure, or some kind of shenanigan, is the only way to get into the aviation industry. They seem obsessed with the notion that if they are smart enough to pull the right strings they will become vice presidents of airlines and aircraft companies. There is no mysterious power in Washington sup= posed to see that you learn to fly, whether or not it has any use for you as a fighting airman after you have learned.
And Do It Now
No matter what anyone tells you, this world is solidly based on four foundation stones—one at each corner. Each stone is one letter of the world's age-old secret for success and happiness. All those letters spell the magic word WORK. There never was and never will be another correct answer, Get the ideas out of your head that I or anyone else plus the Government can do a thing about. your career except advise you. If we ease you into a job you are not fit to fill, more able competitors will toss you out. The survival of the fittest is still the field rule of life. All we can hope to accomplish is to try to keep the game FAIR. It's the survival of the fittest all the way to the end, and you'd better get the story straight—and now. If you want to get into aviation, go to the nearest aviation organization of your choice and tell the boss man you are going to work for him, that you've got to work for him, no matter what the job or pay. The best place to start from is “just where you stand.”
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
HAT do we Americans need today to make us healthy? Surgeon General Parran, of the U.S. Health Service, gave us answer to this question ree cently in an address to the American Red Cross. One of our biggest health needs, from the national viewpoint, is to feed the nation’s children ‘‘abundantly and correctly,” he pointed out. Where children are underfed or improperly fed there are found as a result “stunted growth, imperfections in development, sub= normal height, weight and muscular tone, and a proved lack of mental alertness.” Proper and plentiful food is important for the health of adults, too, but the Surgeon General em= phasized the children’s needs because “malnutrition does irremedial damage to them.” There are other health needs. We do not need to fear epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, bubonic plague or even typhoid fever, because we demanded that they be stamped out as soon as methods for doing so were discovered. Methods are known now which, if applied, would prevent many deaths and much disability from other diseases, such as syphilis, cancer, pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis. Syphilis is 86 per cent curable in its early stages, Dr. Parran said. * More than 48,000 lives each year could be saved from cancer deaths if facilities for prompt diagnosis and treatment were available and used. ° j : Diphtheria can now be prevented and some counties and cities have been able to stamp it out entirely. More than 100,000 persons die every year from pneumonia. Even before the discovery of the curative action of sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine on pneumecoccuc pneumonia, health and medical authorities have declared that half the pneumonia deaths could | be prevented if known methods of treatment were applied in time. 2 : Annual deaths from tuberculosis have been re< duced enormously even without a specific drug ar serum. : What. is needed is to apply more widely the known methods for fighting these diseases. Cl rie
OWN South Democrats