Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1940 — Page 14
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Tes GARMELITA, iba March 28.—My first |" night in ‘the jurig vat what the writers might call -€Xc gly pictur - A stranger oh Garr ita is such a rarity that it “looked for a while as a there weren't, an extra : =| hammock or cot to be found in : the entire Peten. But around 6 o'clock Manuel showed up with a cot, made of heavy canvas tacked onto a wooden sawhorse effect. I'm not sure they hadn't just made it that afternoon. They. rummaged up three gunny sacks for me to lie on, and the chicle man sent over a blan-
ket (I suspect it was his only
|". one). The sawhorse, incidentally, was made of mahogany! .. Ed Robinson and the native PE radio operator and the gang fore- ~ man all sleep in the same room, which is the dirtfloored “office” and radio room of TACA. My -cot . Went in there, too. © Manuel spent an hour getting the mosquito net strung from the roof-pole and fixed just right, around my bed.: We all turned in early. The radio operator *_ blew out the lantern. Robinson said to listen for the baboons, and he said he heard them howl twice, but I couldn't hear anything. Sometimes, they say, the monkeys get on ihe roof and pound on it. We went to sleep. | Fo 8 n= = < : : Fried Chicken Indiana Style. They had warned me it got cold at night. couldn’t really believe it, for this is practically at sea level and the day heat is sticky and terrific. But cold it does gef, | | I awakened at'1 a. m. It was dawn before I got to sleep again. 'I was ‘so cold I felt like whimpering. Finally I reached out and got my clothes and put them on over my pajamas. And then there was the incident of the fried chicken. Ed Robinson said over our lunch of rice and tortillas that we should have fried chicken for supper, except that. od couldn’t stand it the way Mercedes fried it.’ Me cedes is the native girl who does the
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Our Town
EVERY NE I ALMOST decide that things are getting better, something turns up to revive my doubts. ‘The latest thing to upset me was an item in “Inside Indianapolis,” the column the -crystalgazing office bo runs. It appears every day on the HT M other side of this page. It isn’t = ! every day, however, that you run across an item as nerve-rack-ing as the one that got me down. - More specifically, the item that got me down was about the bulletin Adolph Seidensticker received the other day—the one which called attention to the pernicious practice of those who write rn addresses on the back of" envelopes. The| Third Assistant Postmaster General of the United States of America says it has to stop.
* the Third Assistant P. M. G of better. On the other hand, I can’t ‘help ‘feeling little peeted that the postoffice] people were selfish enough to consider only the plight of their employees. What about the unwarranted loss of: tifhe ane labor on the part of :those who do business with the postoffice Custor
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Climbihg to Mt. Everest.
I wonder whether the people at Washington, seated in their ivory towers, know that I have to climb 17 steps to buy a postage stamp—a distance of something like eight feet if the truth. were told. And that, mind you, is the shortest route. ‘If I enter the building by way of the Meridian St. entrance, it necessitates climb of six (6) more steps. To put it graphically so that everybody can under- | stand—maybe even the people at Washington—it--means that any number of persons, around here, in-| cluding myself, have climbed to the top’ of Mt.
Washingt: WASHINGTON, March 28. — Tub-thumping Republican Presidential candidates, when they can't think of anything else to say, warn that this Administration is destroying the free competitive system, That is funny for tyo reasons. i | First, the bland assumption that we have been having free competition doesn’t square with the fact that our business struc‘ture is crisscrossed with price controls, privately instituted and privately maintained, through patent ° controls, resale price - agreements, trade-association price posting, and dozens of in“direct devices. Second, there is taking place under this Administration now one of the most energetic efforts ! ever made in Washington to re‘store free| competition by rescuing it from these (restraints, Under | Assistant Attorney General Thurman .Arnold ‘a realistic attempt is being made to enforce the anti-trust laws, not only against business groups but against labor unions which hitherto have been considered hiduchable dynamite. ” ”
A Broad Decision
Thus we have on Monday the U. S. Supreme Court ruling that the Ethyl Gasoline Corp. violated the anti-trust laws through its system of licensing jobbers, with the effect of controlling prices and suppressing (competition among users of its patented automobile fuel. It is a broad decision which Government Is ers say goes far jo the oil jndustry, |
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: My Day {
NEW YORK CITY, 5 —While I flew up to New York yesterday afternoon, I suddenly realized that it was March 26, and that I had seen some
rather remarkable figures oh Which the President had based a letter which he wrpte to Chairman Hinckley of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. You probably heard this letter read over the radio. I corroborate the conclusions reached in my| capacity as an ordinary traveler who has watched the co-operation between the personnel of the airlines and this Federal Government Department,
It is another illustration of the fact that if people really want to work together, one can | expect remarkable achievements. At 2:48 a. m. on Tuesday March 26, the airlines of the United States had carried during the 12 preceding months two million passengers by air without a single fatal accident to passenger or employee. This is really a remarkable record | a I think will prove the correctness of Chairkley’s theory that, once you recognize the basi limitations of flight, air transportation can be lly the safest kind of transport. my point of view, we should always have t of; jEeplans constantly kept iy order; the
Vagabond
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So I said, “Well now that you remind me, I was somewhat of a chicken {rier in ‘my younger days. Of course I'm sort of out of practice . ” But “Robinson had gone. He was already .out-in the cook-shack, telling Mercedes to have a chicken | killed and dressed and awaiting His Highness the Frier by 5:30 that afternoon. - That evening we lay in our hammocks and’ talked and talked till it grew dark. It was 6:30 before food even occurred to us, and then we thought of the! chicken. Everybody else had eaten. We beat it over to the cook-shack, and sure enough, there Was the bird, all cleaned. A kind of battlefield ecstasy seized us. 1 threw off | my ‘sweater, rolled up my sleeves, called for two pans of water and a butcher knife. | |
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And Boy, Was It Good! |
Ed held the lantern, and Mercedes poked up the fire, while I dismembered the chicken into regulation . Indiana frying pieces. Then I washed it twice (Mer= cedes was aghast) and salted it, and rolled each piec in flour. The hut was dark, and I fried ‘mainly by feel. Mercedes stuck with us like a leech. She held the skillet handle for me, she kept putting in more wood, she fanned the smoke out of my eyes. The chicken began to sizzle and crackle and smell good. I thought Rohinson would do a handspring. Remember, he "hadn’t eaten an honesi=lo-goofness. meal in six weeks. The “stove” was a hard-mud tough about waisthigh, with flat steel sheets laid over it. The -flame: came up between the sheets, and that’s where you sat the skillet. There wasn’t any stove pipe. The smoke just came out. Mercedes kept poking in more wood. She seemed a little skeptical at first; a then her admiration grew. For |do you know I've méver fried a better chicken in my (life? I guess I must have been inspired. would Have been pitfful to let Robinson down. And I believe I'd rather have flunked: before Metropolitan audience than fail before Mercedes. | But| it came out perfectly. Along toward the end I said [to Robinson, “What do you want to eat with it?” He said, “Nothing at all. : Just chicken.” And he got, chicken. | } | : |
+ By Anton Scherrer
Everest (29,141 feet) just to get a postage stamp— in the course of their lives, I mean. | So much for the labor involved. As for the':time lost, it’s unbelievable. If I had the time I lost in going up the .postoffice steps, it would be more than enough to read the for volumes of Carl Sandburg’s “Life, of Lincoln.” That isn’t all, though. Thus far I've only climbed the steps. I still have to get inside the postoffice. ‘Having been brought up to believe that all doors to public buildings should open out, I obey an ancient impulse and pull= Nothing happens, I try again and still the door refuses te budge. By this time I look around for help and learn that the postoffice doors contrary to accepted practice—to say nothing of all building laws on the subject—open in instead of out, the way they should. The loss of time, I don’t mind saying, is considerable. Just how much, I've never taken the trouble to figure out, but I'll wager it’s a durn sight more than the “unwarranted amount of time and labor in turning over the mail” to read the return address on the back side of an envelope. | |
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Getting: Ont Is Worse. ~ |
Finklly I get inside the postoffice. Granting that 1 find a stamp window right away, I transact my business .with reasonable dispatch. - After which comes the terrifying problem of getting out of the ‘postoffice. ° Getting out of the postoffice is just as complicated las getting in and entails the same loss of time. Even more, because anybody knows that when you're on top of Mt. Everest, it takes longer to get down than it did to get up. As for the door, I always push it to get out. It doesn’t work that way. For some unaccountable reason you have to pull a postoffice doot to get out. When T get home, I discover that the postoffice clerk sold me a block of stamps with a narrow strip of sticky paper along the edge, the removal of which ~takes hor so much time that I sometimes wonder whet I haven't given the ppstdfiice people the | greater’ Yard of my life.
‘By Raymond Clapper
They believe it will prevent patent | ‘pools from | losing used to control products and prices after more than one resale and thus end one of the most far-reaching devices for suppressing competition. And on Tuesday we have Justice Peyton Gordon, of the U. S. District Court here, holding that labor unions are subject to the anti-trust laws when they begin to monkey with restraints of | [trade that go beyond matters of wages and hours and other legitimate objects of trade unions. This. opinion, if finally sustained by the higher courts, will establish the| power of the Governinent to prosecute labor uniops for monopolistic Praciices, of which there are pleiity,)
” ” » | Not Aimed at Unions | This is no drive against labor gins but against racketeering, as when union regulations attempt to prevent installation of factory-painted kitchens; re-
quire the hiring of unnecessary | labor; compel a farmer hauling his crop to market to hire a member
_ of the teamsters’ union to sit on the truck with hii
i: when he crosses the city line. In the Chicago milk case a labor union was Charged with combining with “distributors to ‘withhold milk from dealers who refused to join the price-fixing ring.” Indictments at Detroit were obtained against eight tile-manufacturing companies, three contractors’ associations, and two A. F. of L. unions, accused ¢ of conspiring to drive independent manufacturers out of business by cutting off their. supplies and their abor. Republican Presidential candidates like Styles Bridges and Taft are voluntedring to restore the American way of life by getting rid of the New Deal. Maybe Thurman Arnold is beating them to it with his two-horned antitrust drive against private suppression of free competition,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
best of pilots; and obedience to the safety ies oid down, even when tempted by. circumstances to take just a slight risk. I'am ‘delighted to take this opportunity to congratulate all the officials and personnel of our commercial airlines which have mage such an enviable record this year. Another branch of the Government whieh has been much in Board. I im:
terested in the families of the poor miners who were|.
killed in the St.| Clairesville, O., tragedy. Seventy-two out of the 74 missing miners were fully insured under the Social Security Act. Two have not yet identified. Fifty-seven applications have been [received by the board, 42 for monthly benefits. Of these, 41 were widows and 85 children were included in these families. Only ‘one claim was for a parent. There were 15 lump sum payments, 11 to widows with three children and four to parents. These monthly payments range from $20 to $60, and 17 of the claims have been fully developed and ready to pay. The operation of the Social Security Act makes me truly grateful. I am leaving for Seattle, Wash., at noon today. Miss Thompson. left Washington by train last night. We will be in Chicago together for a few hours of rest this afternoon and then; all through the night, I shall be flying across the continent. This is always a fascinating experience and the cal at the other end is a happy ope, for I plan to be with my Seattle
By Ernie oT
PETERS TORUN
FOR GOVERNOR
Successor Expected to Be Selected Next Week; Record Praised.
The resignation of R. Earl Peters|
as Federal Housing Administrator for Indiana was accepted today by Stewart McDonald, FHA administrator in Washington. Mr. Peters submitted his resignation to become a candidate for the
|| Democratic gubernatorial nomina-
tion. His resignation will become effective next Monday, at the same time he announces formally his candidacy for Governor. The Peters-for-Governor rally, at which he will forfhally announce his candidacy, will be held at 8 p. m. Monday evening in the Catholic Community Center at Ft. Wayne. Walter Vetter. Peters-for-Governor ‘Club president, said yesterday that delegates from every Indiana Congressional district would atte d.
Says Successor to Be Na ed
Mr. Peters said: -he expect d an t|acting FHA administrator . be chosen next week. He said he knew nothing of rumors: that the] position would not be filled permanently until after the primary election. In his letter accepting the resignation, Mr. McDonald said: . “I cannot tell you how much it really depresses me io have to seriously consider accepting your resignation. . . . “You have been with the FHA from the start and Indiana has been one of the outstanding states in FHA achievement. All this has been due to your wise management and faithful and industrious cooperation. . . .
No Reply Yet From F. D. R.
“I can only accede to your wishes and accept your resignation as of |
the close of business Aprif® 1, as]
you |suggested. I know that .you wil Imake a success of any future operation that you attempt and our best wishes fallow you in all your ventures.” Mr. Peters said’ ‘that he also had written a letter to President Roosevelt telling him how much he enjoyed working in the Administration for the last. seven years, but that he had not yet received a reply.
HOLDUP SUSPECT PUT UNDER $25,000 BOND
John Robert Watson, 23, San Jose, Cal., charged with the holdup and robber y_ yesterday of the Fame Clothing" Store, 402-404 E. Washington St., was bound to the Grand Jury today under $25,000 bond on a charge of robbery. Meanwhile, detectives expected to question him about other crimes here. Watson is charged with robbing Morris and Max Shalansky of $26 in their clothing store yesterday. Police said both have identified the youth who was captured a few minutes- after the robbery. Watson claimed he came to Indianapolis Monday from St. Louis on a freight train, but detectives said they doubted his story. Victims ‘of two recent holdups were .unable: to identify him last night, but ‘others are to view him today or tomorrow. No suspects are held in the hold-
up and $400. robbery yesterday at|!
Rainey's Diner, 111 W. Michigan
night, but Grover C. Rainey: and other victims in the robbery were’ unable to identify them. -
LAST MINE VICTIM FOUND |
NEFFS, O., March 28 (U. P.).— The last of the 72 miners who perished in an explosion at the Willow
‘| Grove Coal Mine on March 16 was
removed from the mine today,
Music Benefits 14 000 Children.
"From a few of the 14,000 Indianapolis school children who have heard the Indianapolis ymphony Orchestra this year, Fabien Sevitzky chooses volunteers to sing at one of the recent children’s concerts in the Murat. Continuation | lof symphenic music for these and thousands of other children is one of the reasons for the current campaign
SYMPHONY FUND
Yean Captains to Annsubes Pledges After Luncheon At Athenaeum.
Results of the first two days’ work in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s maintenance fund drive was to be. made known at the workgrs’ first report meeting today. : Team captains. .were to announce pledges solicited by the 250 campaigners following luncheon at the Athenaeum at 12:30 p. m. Although no official report has been made previous to the meeting, Charles J. Lynn, general chairman of the drive, said yesterday [that ‘results are very encouraging.”
Equally enthusiastic are Wallace O. Lee and ‘Kurt Panzer, vice chair-
of the women’s division, and Mrs. A. W. Noling, vice chairman. Reports were expected not only from the volunteer workers, but also from the special gifts committee, | which functions under the chairmanship of Dr. G. H. A. Clowes and which has made solicitations for the maintenance fund during the last three seasons. : ; Working on a four-point program of the orchestra’s financial, cultural, civic and state-wide function, solicitors are recruiting contributions from a large circle of music lovers and friends of the orchestra. It is the aim of the present campaign to place the orchestra's support upon a more general public foundation.
PEMOLAY OFFICERS WILL BE INSTALLED
Indianapolis Chapter, Order of
3 p. m. Sunday at the DeMolay Chapter House, 1017 Broadway. Gene Baker, retiring master councilor, will preside. : ‘Officers are: Eugene Tiffany, master councilor; Richard DeVault, senior councilor; William Carder, junior councilor; Harold Huffman, treasurer; Howard Edwards, senior deacon; William Hixon, junior deacon; Russell Wolls, senior steward; Francis Storms, junior steward; ‘Thomas Luck, chaplain; Roy Richards, almoner; Aribert Young, mar-
|St. Two suspects were arrested last | "Dal
. Other officers are: William Bran‘non, standard bearer; Dale Hessong, orator; Robert Lay, first preceptor; Joe Church, second preceptor; Richard Cassell, third preceptor; Eugene
| Saxton, fourth preceptor; John Ol-
son, fifth preceptor; Jack Humrickhouse, sixth preceptor; Jack Flint, seventh preceptor; William
Kennedy, sentinel, and Lambert L.
Christie, scribe.
REPORT-IS NEAR
. tion about their families,
men; Mrs. G. H. A. Clowes, head |
DeMolay, will install new officers at|
for | Publie contributions to the. ¢ Symphony orchestra’s maintenance fund. -
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Revived Boom for Jackson) Also Termed- Political ‘Straw in Wind.
Strange maneuverings behind the. scenes give color to a growing ime pression that President Roosevelt ig engaged seriously in analyzing Demy ocratic Presidential timber. This has strengthened the cons viction of many politicians that he
. _ |does not intend to seek renominae
Count Babies, B. Census Order
VASHINGTON, March :28 (U. P.).—Census Director William L. Austin issued special “don’t-for-get-baby” instructions today to enumerators who begin the decen-
nial population count next Tugsday. Babies sometimes are the deciding factor in controversies between communities fighting neck-and-neck battles for population honors. * Because it has been the Bureau's experience that thousands "of mothers forget their infants when furnishing informaMr. Austin issued instructions for enumerators to bring up the:subject of babies at each house. He seeks to avoid having citizens of a ‘losing, community ‘scream “foul” because the census enumerator failed to list Mrs. Jones’ new baby. Another problem involving babies was cleared up by the instructions: Who shall be counted? Mr. Austin ruled that all persons alive at 12:01 a. m., April 1, will be counted. Babies born upto midnight March 31 will be recorded in the census of 1940; those born afterward will be out of luck until the next census in 1950.
HOOSIERS TO PUT 24 PHOTOS ON EXHIBIT
Twenty-four amateur photographers of the state have submitted prints which have been selected for the Hoosier “Honor Panel” mn the 1940 Kodak Exhibit April’ 4-7 in the Claypool Hotel. | From 4 group of more than 200
prints submitted, the judges ‘have’ picked 21 for the éxhibits. Each of
the judges has added one of his own prints to complete the panel. The judges are W. H. Beck, chairman; E. A. Robertson, and L. H. Ridgway, all of Indianapolis. Those whose prints will be in the exhibit include H. Brouhard, Grace Custer, Ray Doyle, R. W. Faulkner, L. J. Foster, Robert Koepper, Mr. and Mrs. PF. G. Lacey, M. J. Luichinger, Sheldon Miner, Harold Oertel, E. Ostling, Thornton Rust, Irl Smith, Brandt Steele, W. B. Trembley, Bernard Meyers, R. D. Akerman, C. Mollinelli, Margaret, Rector, J. N. Sanders and Rex Dauberspeck.
The local panel will be added to
the traveling Kodak Exhibit of more than 200 black and white and color prints. The exhibit, which will be open daily from 11 a. m. to 10 p. m,, will be free to the public.
SOVIET ENVOY RECALLED
PARIS, March 28 (U, P.).—Soviet Ambassador Jacob Souritz today received formal orders for his recall to Russia. He was expected to depart in 48 hours although final arrangements for his leaving were not yet complete.
U.S. REPORTS BUSINESS -DIP
Rate of Decline ‘Slackens in his District, Says Federal Reserve.
N Industrial activity in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, including Indiana, durin Februgry showed further declines\ from the high levels reached during the closing months of 1939, the Reserve District report showed today. However, the report, says, there recently has been considerable evidence of a slackening in the rate of decline. District employment in February was down only fractionally froth January, steel mill operations held steady through most of and automobile production has tinued at a high level, though n t expanding as much as is os expected in March. The Seventh Reserve District includes the states of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. There was a further decline in employment and payroils in February at reporting District industries,
Jpbut it was at a much slower rate
than was shown in January, being less than one per. cent for both number of workers. and wages paid.
Steel Output Drops
Following an unusually high level of operations over most of the winter months, the rate of output in the Chicago district steel mills had fallen to-around 60 per cent by midFebruary but held at not far from that rate through March. Incoming business at steel concerns is reported as slightly improved but still ‘at a level considerably. below the volume of output. There was a general decline in activity at steel and malleable castings firms and new business at malleable castings foundries continued below last year. Bolstered by favorable retail sales, output of automobiles was unusually large for February. Automobile production in March expanded, but not so sharply as is usual
tion, barring some unforeseen nas tional or international devefopment, What Sumner Welles reports about his European trip may have som bearing on his decision. - ¢ There are several straws. in the wind. In Secent, weeks Mr, Hoosevelt has thrown out feelers to visitors about Secretary of State Cordell Hull as a possible successor. though the two men themselves never have said a word about such a possibility,
Hull Given Buildup
importunities of friends who want to make an active campaign on His behalf, is getting a buildup in maj
didates, ' | Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont), himself eager for the nomi
the newspapers when he reiterated, at Los Angeles, that the President,
meets the eye. The Senator recently talked with the President, and the 1940 situa< tion came, somewhat cryptically,
r#h into the discussion.
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Jackson Boom Revived
Mr. Roosevelt has come to the point where he is talking in terms ols “good ticket.” The inference is \that it is a combination that does\ not include himself. Not, to be overlooked, either, is the revived activity’ on behalf of Attorney. General Robert Jackson by the rected the. Roosevelt = third-term campaign At a series of little dine ners Mr. ‘Jackson has been introduced aréund ‘among party People who. count. Bob Jackson has long been | the favorite candidate of this group, if the President does not want to run, He stands very high with the President, but the latter may be ime pressed by the opinion of politically wise party leaders that Mr. Jackson cannot be nominated, even with the President's suppor,
5, hy his silence, and his plitical aids, by entering his name in key primaries, have. proceeded just as might he expected if he only wanted sufficient control in the convention to hame his successor or to veto unacceptable candidates. The maneuvers up to this point do not necessarily ‘mean 2 campaign for -renomina-
because of the high level of dealers’ | “cn
stocks reached by that time. Retail sales of automobiles in the Seventh District have been excellent.
Construction Slower
Despite a sharp gain over Janu-. ary of about one-third in total building contracts awarded in the District, construction activity is running considerably lower than last year, chiefly because of a smaller volume of non-residential projects. District department store sales rose 5 per cent on a daily average basis during: February and maintained a volume about 8 per cent better than last year. Trends in prices of most district
farm products were steady to firm
in February, although hog prices continued weak, reflecting last year’ S|
large pig crop and considerably less fayorable Tebding ratios. :
THE STORY OF DEMOCRACY
By Hendrik Willem van Loon
(ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR)
) CHAPTER 16 HE Latin word, Caesar, was a nickname and it meant “the hairy one.” It must have applied to one cf Caius Julius’ ancestors, for the hero of the Ides of March, judging by his statues, did not have a superfluous hair on his head. All the same, ohce he had become the most important man in
Rome, he gained so greatly in
stature that foc almost two theusand years after his death the heads of the German and Russian nations were known as a kaiser or a Tsar.
We usually say that Caesar intended to make himself the em-
peror of Rome, but we forget that
an imperator in the eyes of the Romans at the beginning of our era was something quite different,
"In ancient Rome, an imperator
was the title by which the Roman legionaries greeted their com-mander-in-chief when he returned - from a victorious campaign. Afterward it became a dignity which the Roman Senate-had the right to bestow upon a particularly successful general, the highest honor in the state. During the days of Augustus (the adopted son of Caesar), when all the power was finally united in the nands of a single man, the imperator began to be regarded not merely the head of the army but also as fhe head of the civil government and thereafter. he acquired| all sorts’ of other titles, such as princeps/ (first citizen of the (state) and pontifex maximus (as head of the established religion of Rome or augustus (the illustrious ‘er the sublime). ery
All this was of course utterly un-Roman |if we think of the Rome of the simple days of Cincinnatus, 'when people consid- | ered that being /a plain Roman citizen was|the Right honor to Which any man F* aspire,
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Temperial 1 Rome died out. Then came the Dark Ages and for 500
years democracy disappeared.
UT during the many centuries of foreign conquest when the Romans had come into confact with the aristocracies and tyrannies of Asia, they had lost most of their former pride in the liberty and freedom of the individual and had been rather im-
pressed by the way in which -
Him foreign, dictators could get - things ‘done, whereas in their own country, with its endlessly deliberating Senate, it. was often completely impossible to pass even the simplest of laws and regulations. “All this again sounds very familiar to us for the same process has been going on right under our noses these last 20 years and has carried us to the point when soon
America, as the last bulwark of
Democracy, may have to fight for its life if it does not want to submit to the will of a foreign dictator. -
And even now, with the sad example of . Europe warning us to stick to our own tried and trusted system of Democracy, there are a surprisingly . large .' number of people in our own land who, like .the Romans of Caesar's day, will tell you, “Well, after all, there is something in this dictator st The trains’ run on time. ne ' 4
They forget that the trains in our own couniry alse run on time, but with infinitely less fuss and circumstance than they do in the dictatorial lands. But they .will only begin to remember this after they have had a couple of years of one-man rule and then it will be too late, for then they
that train unless by special permission of some absurd little fel. low in high leather boots and an
won’t even be allowed to ride on
EVERTHELESS, ancient Rome can teach us a great
deal about jhe possibilities of establishing and maintaining a true forth of democracy among a ‘people who have set out to conquer the world. As long as Rome -had beer: a
smallish city in ‘which the people enjoyed the same social and economic privileges, a rudimentary form of self-government functioned with a great deal of suc-
cess.
But the moment it had become an imperial center inhabited by a few families who owned every-: thing and millions who lived miserably on public charity, there was an end to that dream of a proud and independent citizenry. And after that, the law of Plato began to function.
There was a prolonged struggle between the rich and the poor. This led to an era. of an-
archy until the complete’ sus-
pension of all law and order made the people’ say, “Anything will be better than the present state of chaos!” and made them eager to
‘,accept that dictatorship which
‘then led to the establishment of an imperial form of government.
. That empire in turn perished
because no country can hope to survive unless. it has a reserve ‘of millions ‘of people who have an actual interest in keeping their common country going. Imperial Rome allowed that reserve to die out. was only a question of time when Rome would cease to exist. | Then came the deluge known as the Dark Ages. And for 500 years Democracy disappeared from the face of the earth as if it had never existed.
NEXT: The light of Democracy is practically snuffed out fo 500 Jears, :
After that it |
| The real threat to’ presidential control at the convention was Vice President John Garner, and hy enlisting the President against him in primaries the New Deal politicoes are in the way of squelching his ‘power and influence. The Democratic Party situation lis much better than it was a year ‘ago, with no sharp New Deal and antl-New Deal issues being’ raised aside from the Labor Board controversy, from which (Mr. Roosevelt ‘has kept aloof. This|-is all directed at acnieving some semblance of party harmony for the convention and the campaign. | Criticism of the President-= and it is not loud or insistent-— comes now from the left rather than the right. Democrats are optimistic over the turn of events in the Republican Party, where, from all evidence up
| to this time, the Old Guard, repre=-
sented particilarly by Pennsyle vania’s Joseph N. Pew, Ernest T. Weir and Joseph R, Grundy, is res gaining the ascendency and make ing a beautiful target for the came paign. ~ There is no whipping boy like ‘the interests.”
| KOKOMO POSTMASTER 0. K.'D WASHINGTON, March 28 «(U. P.), —The Senate late yesterday cone firmed the nomination of William W. Workman, Kokomo, Ind, to be postmaster.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—-What office did Robert H. Jacke ' son hold when he was appointed U. S. Attorney General? ' 2—-On ‘what date will the 1st Cene tury begin? 3—Who said, “My kingdom for a - horse”? 4—-What is H20? 5—Name a latge, Rightiess, Aus- | tralian bird 6—Did George Washington §ign | the Declaration of Independence? | 7—What is the male bee called? 8—Name the capital of Norway.
Answers
1—Solicitor General. 2—Jan. 1, 2001, 3—King ‘Richard in Statssperey play : “Richard III 4 Water. 5—0Ostrich. 6—No.
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