The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-03


These we're stirring timeS-the
years of l9O3-04-with the newly
formed Big Business interests of
the Mckinley era facing for the
first time foe intrenched in the
White House.
STATES STEEL had
- been formed in 1901. Corpo-
rations were expanding and bat
ting to keep labor unions from
doing the same. The Panama
canal was being built and Amer
lea. now a first rate power, was
entering her boom days Of world
trade.
All of which meant exactly
nothing so far as the fair pages
of the Harvard Crimson were con-
cerned under the editorship of F.
D. Roosevelt, '04.
About the time that Franz"
Roosevelt assumed the managing
editors chair in the Crimson Of
fee, his distant cousin was de-
livering his executive message to
the Fifty-eighth congress, urging
on the legislators the evangel of
the Square Deal" forerunner OF
the New Deal"
THE consistent policy of the
national government, so far as it
has the power, is to hold in check
the INSCRIPTIONS man, whether
employer or employee, but to re-
fuse to weaken individual initia-
tive or to hamper or cramp the
industrial development of the
country" Theodore Roosevelt said.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSE-
II WELT assumed the manag-
ing editOrShip on Feb. 10, 1903.
That day the leading editorial was
devoted to sports, as were about
90 per cent of the total during his
regime both as managing editor
and president of The Crimson.
The baseball team received at
tention in that first editorial. 1t
pointed out that Coach Wendell
couldn't give every player a berth
on the varsity team, but all
should come out and play with
their class teams.
There is much experience to be
gained by a season on one OF these
teams, and good spirited work by
a number of men should have
great effect on the development
of future university mines" the
editorial concluded.
A second editorial on the same
day advised seniors to hurry over
to Tupper's and have their class
pictures taken.
On the second day of the Roose-
welt editorship, all editorials were
devoted to sports" if you count
chess.
Not long thereafter, however,
the editorial column took on a
slightly more academic tinge. A
book sale at the Cooperative
Store made a news item on the
front page and the editor COM
mented from his corner as fol-
lows:
1t will pay any one whether
or not he has definite ideas of
forming a regular library, to look
over these books on the chance
that he may procure something
decidedly worth having"
Red Fox ale was advertised in
the edition as being o. K. and
there were bargains offered in
pewter breakers, stems and ash
trays.
PHILOSOPHY of life, under the
L Roosevelt editorShip, first en-
tiers the picture when seniors are
advised to write short biographies
of themselves for the class record.
Many men have had expert
ences which have had a great
effect upon their characters and
their views of life; the mere
change from school to college in
most cases alters a mans ideas
decidedly"
How true this is can be no bet
ter illustrated than in the career
to be carved out by the young edi-
tor. who showed no interest in the
things which he has since come
to perSonify.
A Harvard conservative and ira
ditionaliSt he remainded during
his newspaper days on the Grim
son. Then came politics. war and
personal suffering, from which
emerged the present President,
who has made his nameSake's
"progreSSiviSm" seem rather pallld.
Even suggestions of change were
resented by the Crimson editors
back in the Roosevelt days. An
other Harvard publication, called
the Advocate. had published an
article on "Athleticism," which
was scored roundly in a front
page review from which the fol-
lowing is taken:
The leading editorial would lag
less lamely were there any evident
need for its making or if it eStab-
liShed its case and proved that
undergraduate life would be bet
ter by loading the scholar and not
the athlete with college honors. "
Nor were the stories in the Ad-
vocate any good either. in the
opinion of the reviewer, which
seems a far cry from codes of fair
competition as provided under
President Roosevelt's NRA in
1894.
THAT President Roosevelt has
Il not been SUFFICIENT of a ira
ditionalist in his administrations
interpretations Of the Constitu-
ton is another of the charges
hurled by New Deal critics.
When he was editor, his paper
emphasized the Importance of ira
dition to the point where an edi-
torisl advised the freshman class
not To adopt a constitution at all.
II said:
Unless the committee appoint
ed to consider this subject fnd
some places in which decided fe-