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Evening star., 1934-07-29
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

In view of the part, negative but
effective, played by Roscoe Conkling
Roscoe conkling as Of Of I James CSC 6.
a Prohibitionist. nrs SIaine y ,or ,aS .ne
so years ago, the following in The
Star Of July 20. 1884, Is Of interest 10
political historians:
Mr.. Conkling's position in politics
has been discovered. Ever since the
Republican National Convention the
public has been assured, with great
postttveness, that Roscoe Conkling
would support James @. Blaine. The
public has not yet discovered any In
dications OF this kind. Indeed there
is substantial reason to believe that
MIR. Conkling would have supported
Associate Justice Field had the Demo-
Gratis nominated him, and that Eome
OF the Democrats were informed Of
this fact. Justice Field was not
nominated, and Mr.. Conkling has
been too much absorbed in that
law practice of his to say a word
about politics or give any indication
Of his intentions. But at length he
has taken the public into his conf
dence. A temperance orator at Ocean
Grove made speech the other day
for St. John and Daniel. Mr.. Conk-
ling acted as a patron Of this meeting,
sitting on the platform, enthusiastic
ally applauding the orators attacks
on the drink flend and finally con-
graduating the orator very cordially.
Beyond all doubt Mr. Conkling Is for
st. John, Daniel and prohibition. Mr..
Conkling was not formerly proli-
bitioniSt, but the influence Of his
friend, r. B. Hayes, must have had its
effect"
"A telegram from London" says
The Star OF August 2, 1884, furnished
the distressing
Naval Attaehe at Intelligence the
London Legation. %inister OSnes cay ,,.,sIS snsI
was unable, on account of rheuna-
tism, to attend the Prince Of Wales
garden party, adding the coElsolatory
information that the American EN-
bassy was represented on the mo-
mentous occasion by the two secre-
taries and the naval attache of the
legation. Is there such an ornamental
appendage to the United States Leea-
ton in London or elsewhere as naval
attache'? Or can 1t be that, for want
OF something to do, some of our
naval officers are masqueradinR in the
borrowed plumage Of that character?
The latest edition Of the official regis
ter does not seem to mention the
existence of any such oftlee as naval
attache in our diplomats service. .
The official register appears to have
been singularly in error. for the post
Of naval attache at London was estab-
hshed in 1882, and from that year
until 1889 it was filled by Lieut..
Comdr. French E. Chadwick.
Evening star., 1934-07-29

No doubt the plain Italian citizen
would like to get back to the day
when Verdi was popularly regarded
as the greatest man that ever lived.
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Peace Conference,

A conference was called one day
In Europe with a grand display.
The lackeys stood in tinsel fine
And pointed to the printed sign
Which signaled each who entered
there,
Here's where you park your Shuss-
gewehr."
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Good advice" said Uncle Eben.
needs team work. One man must
be smart enough TO give it and an
other must have sense enough TO
take it."
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"A telegram from London" says
The Star Of August 2. 1884, furnished
Evening star., 1934-07-29

So what the country is about to
witness, judged By the studied con-
clusions of important Washington on
cials, is this:
There will be pressure ON many
Industrial prices. The cut in steel
prices. 3p textile prices. In automo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06

torist who let his car get out of control, car
omed into marching column of troops and
caused the death Of four men.
This sentence is all the more astounding
when one considers the fact that except in
cases Of counter-revolutionary activity. Rus
sian courts are reluctant to impose the death
penalty at ALL even for cold FLOODED murder
1t isn't likely that very many Americans
would favor the adoption of such stringent
measures in this country. Nevertheless, there
is something to be said for the adoption Of
extreme severity toward the man who handles
his car SO poorly that he destroys the lives Of
his felloW-men.
We have a lot Of public menaces of that
variety in America, and SO far we do not seem
to have found any very effective way of deal
ing with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06

IN southern California thirty-siX hour rain
fall filed the arroyos with sudden floods.
swept through towns and cities drowning
thirty-ni people and doing more damage
than the earthquake last March. E. c. Eaton,
Los Angeles county food control engineer,
attributed the disaster to a cloudburst over an
area recently stripped of protective covering
by a forest fire.
This and other floods are due more to
mans folly than to natures whins. Rivers
all over America which used to run blue and
clear now hUrl their silt-laden torrents against
their banks every winter, endangering life and
property in river settlements, washing away
for all time millions of dollars worth of soil
wealth every year. Damage from erosion alone
has destroyed permanently lands equal to the
size of England, costing America in annual
soil wealth more than $400000 900.
Why? Because our rugged individualists of
the past have cut away the forests that used
to hold back the waters in natural storage
reservoirs and left the hills naked to the eIe-
ments.
For years American conservationists have
urged that We save America from the fate Of
China by conserving our forests and planting
new growth on the denuded areas Govern
ment erosion control projects and the civilian
conservation corps work now mark long
delayed beginning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06

CENATOR WILLARD TYDINGs of Mary
= land plans to seek modification of the
famous Mann act in the present session of
congress.
This law was passed to strike a blow at the
white slave traffic Unfortunately, it also
has been a boon to blackmailers. 1t is pos
sible to prosecute under it a man who never
has dreamed of having the shadow of a con-
nection with the organized vice traffic; and
INSCRIPTIONS folk have used this fact as
lever to extort money from men guilty of
nothing more than indiscretions.
It goes without saying, of course, that in
revising the law care must be taken to leave
it an effective club against commercialzed
vice rings.
Senator Tydings believes it is possible to
amend the law so as to destroy its usefulness
for blackmailers without weakening its useful
ness in the field for which it was designed
1t is to be hoped that he succeeds in his plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06
DANGERS TO DEMOCRACY

IF one question overshadows all others to.
4 day it is the future of democracy.
Yet, in discussing it, few persons penetrate
to the root of the matter as surely as did DR..
L. R. Alderman, director of emergency educa-
tional programs for the federal relief admin
istration in recent address
IF democracy is to be safe, the average
intelligence must be increased said Or. Al
dernan
"It is we'll that many of our people really
are getting frightened when they consider the
prospects for failure of democracy. We
can, if we will but put our talents to it, so
strengthen the average citizen that democracy
will succeed. If we fail, we again may begin
the slow cycle that we read about of mankind
working his way out from the dark ages Let
us not ask ourselves what comes after
democracy but ask ourselves what we may do
to save democracy"
DR.. Alderman's answer to his own question
is more much more education of both
adults and children. He points out that more
than a quarter of a million residents of this
country can not read or write in any Ian
guage; that probably twice that number are
unable to read a newspaper or write a letter,
and that there are probably millions of adults
who do not possess the knowledge taught in
elementary schools
And this condition is not a result of the
depression. DR.. Alderman reminds us that
one-fifth of the counties of the United States
made no progress in fighting illiteracy be-
tween the years 1920 and 1890; that one-sxth
of the counties actually had more illiterates at
the end of that PERIOD and that our COM
pulsory school attendance laws give us no
right to believe complacently that we have
done all we or should do in the matter.
Under his direction relief and civil works
funds are being used to employ forty thousand
teachers who will instruct young people and
unemployed adults.
DR.. Alderman probably is right in believing
that this expenditure of public money is far
more important to the public welfare than any
of the other programs taken for putting idle
persons to work. It should pay the biggest
dividends of any new deal investment yet
made. This democracy is racing with time in
attempting to prepare thousands of its citizens
to defend and preserve it, and it is scarcely
possible to imagine too much money being
spent for this purpose.
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Oppression During Depression

time six months, but what is the
direct cause that the state of IN
diana has to punish its citizenship
by buying license plates at once
in the worst period this state ever
knew and when a majority of the
people are in dire need. If this is
to be public policy, when the gov
eminent is trying to put money
into the state, I believe it is high
time that our state officials wake
up to common sense and good be-
havior at least, based upon past
history as to what has been done,
with reference to buying automo-
bile license plates, and l believe
that every citizen should remem-
Der who is at fault and who has
brought this about.
This is oppression during a
time of depression and certainly
our state officials are aware of the
fact, and while it is against the
law, it is no crime. 1t is a neces-
sity that they can not avoid.
Many Of them have to go to work
in their automobiles, but it bars
them from making a living. This
is serious; more so than possibly
what the people are thinking of
who are enforcing the law. Is this
new deal?
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later with a desire to join the
bands. the uniforms and the pa
rades," she has written. and adds.
Armies Of foresters and farmers
and mills with model workers in
stead Of militaristic playthings
would be a far better influence
upon children"
1t would be difficult to ques-
ton the wisdom Of this sugges-
ton. Even the toy manufacturers
will find it hard to reply.
For a country that has pro-
fessed such faith in psychology,
we show a lamentable lack Of
effort to profit by its lessons.
When We are ready to put even a
little trust in sages such as Freud,
Adler, Watson and Wolfe; when
We truly believe that children are
shaped by the influences Of in
fancy, then we shall regard as a
serious danger the effect of war
toys and war education upon them
and their world.
1t always has seemed to me
that toy guns given to little
boys expressed a depraved and
barbaric taste. Yet all of our
children have them. In their
playing they make those hid
eous gestures Of death which are
so much more terrible because
they are done innocently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06

By Ward B. Hiner.
At no time during the history of
Indiana has the citizenship been
so hard-pressed for money and in
dire need, but it seems as though
our salaried officials have no vision
as to what is being done to the
automobile owner.
First, the automobile has a per-
sonal property tax, then there is a
special tax that the government
collects before it comes to the
user, then there is a gasoline tax,
a state license, a drivers license
and title fee, and the people are
to be clasSed as criminals and ar
rested if they appear on the high
ways they paid for without 1884
license.
That is not the worst of it. Some
poor man who can not pay his
poll tax or other taxes can not
get his license until he goes and
pays them. Whoever heard of
such bankrupt court procedure as
this? In barring possibly 100000
automobiles from using the roads,
which will be done, the state is
losing one-ffth or more of the
gasoline tax.
Now it is fact that laws should
be observed. The state of Mich
igan last year extended license
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06
WAR EXPENSES-AND PEACE

before We go into double pneumonia from
- the chill which one Republican senator
said is being thrown over the nation by the
Presidents ten-bilion-d dollar budget let's take
look at another emergency in which large
spending occurred.
When We entered the World war our ex-
penses jumped from less than billion to
more than fifteen billions average annually
for -19l9-more than five billions yearly
greater than the present sum.
Most of that money went for war. It was
blown up, burned up, loaned up, and other
wise destroyed.
For the ten billions involved in the Presi-
dents peace-time emergency program at least
we will have some bridges and roads and pub
lie buildings, and domestic instead Of foreign
loans.
Instead Of death and shattered bodies and
pensions we will have a rehabilitated army
of unemployed larger than the army that
went "over there"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06
BACK TO SIMPLICITY

GEORGE WASHINGTON borrowed $4,000
~ from a friend in Alexandria and set out
by coach to New York to greet the first con-
gress jefferson walked across a muddy,
stump-dotted field in Washington to deliver
his message.
1t was in this early American tradition, not
in the latter day one of high hats and gold
braids that Roosevelt met congress Wednes-
day.
The congressional silk-toppers were ready
to ride down to the White House and escort
him solemnly back to Capitol Hill He waved
the ceremony aside and laughingly told
Senator Robinson by phone that he would be
up in a minute.
The first Presidents, fresh from their bat
ties with royalty. disdained the least show of
ponlp in the young republic. With strutting
little dictators afunting their power in drawn
swords and fixed bayonets all over Europe,
President Roosevelt remembers that real power
is rooted not in fear but in the faith of the
plain people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06
CHILDREN FIRST

TT is too soon to try to say how successful
our recovery program has been. The real
test of the program will be what happens to
our children, says Grace Abbott, chief of the
childrens bureau of the United States labor
department..
There is evidence, she says, that malnutri-
ton was increasing during the last year. Six
million children were living on relief and
some of them had been dependent on relief
for four years-"a very long time in the life
of a child"
Permitting this we have permitted out
rageouS waste of our greatest natural re-
source. 1t remains to be seen how much we
can salvage. If millions of the next genera
ton are to be stunted, invaded, to lack the
moral and ethical qualities which only secure
home life can give, if they are to be rendered
unfit permanently to play part in the life
of a great democracy then our recovery pro-
gram may have come too late.
This task of salvage is the one to which
we should bend our greatest most urgent eff
forts. Enough has not been done until we
have made sure that every child has daily food
sufficient in quality and amount to nourish it
to healthy manhood or womanhood, and an
environment calculated to make the adult
useful member of society.
We have no cause to be connplacent yet,
but we have, at last, made start.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06
SACRIFICE OF POLITICS


DROBABLY the most significant single
l. thing about Mayor La Guardias inaugu-
raj in New York was his blunt prediction: Il
never shall be re-elected.'
That brief remark, taken in conjunction
with the new mayors policies, contains
whole volume of commentary on municipal
policies as it is practiced in America.
The reasons for the new mayors pessimistic
prediction are simple.
He aims to give New York clean and eff
ficient administration He is going to reduce
the number of city employees by approximate
" 10000
He is going to cut salaries, abolish useless
boards and commissions, consolidate city de-
partments, end the reign of graft in the let
ting of contracts and the buying of supplies,
remove politics from the police department.
He is going, in short. to do those simple
things which obviously and indisputably are
proper for a mayor to do.
But we have built up the kind of system in
our municipal politics which makes it very
unlikely that any administration can do those
very proper and necessary things and win re-
election.
To succeed in American municipal politics,
as general thing, mayor must consent to
certain amount of inefficiency, certain
amount of favoritism, and certain amount OF
outright corruption IN his government.
The extent to which he puts UP with those
things varies from city to city, naturally; but
the man who, like La Guardia, boldly proposes
to abolish them entirely is a great rarity, and
he takes it for granted at the start that he
can not be reelected.
We have had a great deal Of talk in the
last year about a new deal" about a new
suirit that is entering our conduct of national
affairs. Nowhere do we need such change
any more than in our system of local gov
eminent.
We need not only politicians who are coura-
Ceous enough to put principle above sue
cess of their own careers: We need public
opinion that will support such men when they
do appear and give them the backing they
must have.
The piping times in which money was SO
plentiful that we could afford to support
wasteful and grating city governments have
gone now. and there is not much chance that
they will return soon.
It is up to us to cut our cloth to suit our
nurse: to hunt for and support politicians will
ing to take office with the prediction. 7 never
shall be reelected.
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SATURDAY. JAN s. 1884
THE YARDSTICK WORKS

ne PRESIDENTS power yardstick is working
Within six months since its creation. the
Tennessee Valley Authority has scaled down
electricity bills in that area by hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars.
written into the contract announced yes
terday between the IVA and three common
wealth and southern operating companies in
the Tennessee valley was provision that the
operating company in Tennessee should re-
ouce its rates.to The same level that the Ala
bama and Georgia companies recently had
reduced theirs.
1t was revealed that the Alabama and
Georgia reductions, ordered by the state
utilities commissions. were due to the IVA
The reductions amounted to from IS to %
per cent of old rates
Amusingly, the Tennessee commission in
whose area the latest reduction was negotiated
directly with the IVA, reported to the state
legislature last year that Is per cent cut
would destroy the companys financial sta
bility
The new IVA contract with the power
companies is important not only because if
lowers rates and assures a quick market for
Muscle Shoals electricity but also because it
Shows that the new power deal does not mean
ruthless destruction of present property values.
IVA has the authority to go right ahead
duplicating lines and services; it has the
money as well. But it chose wisely to put
Into action its now famous power policy to
carry out the orders of congress to provide
consumers with cheap electricity, and yet as
Director David E. Lilientha said:
Avoid the destruction of prudent invest
ment in privately owned public utilities"
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I achoUy disopprove of vhot you say and pcU
defend to the death yOm right to sag it-VoItoire

! ployes, and other advanced meas
ures now operating here.
Socialism, by its continued agita-
ton and propaganda, endeavors to
disorganize the unity of the states
says Mr.. Maddox. Yes, Socialism
does agitate continually for better
living conditions for the working
classes, but scientific Socialism does
seek also to gain its end by lawful
means, never by violence or revolu-
ton, as does Communism. AS to
disorganizing the unity of the
states, that's pure rot, for Socialism
seeks to promote the welfare of the
state and its people, not that Of
few at the expense Of all.
Yes, modern Socialism does fol-
low the principles laid down by the
Constitution, which at the time it
was written was regarded as a dan
gerously revolutionary document,
and which reads:
I'VE, the people of the United
States, in order to form a more per-
feet union, establish justice for
all, not just the few, says Socialism,
insure domestic tranquility, provide
a common defense" although
Socialism is for peace, it realizes
that Utopia is not yet arrived and
therefore will meet conditions as
necessity dictates). promote gen
eral welfare" Socialism puts en-
phaSis on the word "general'D and
secure the blessings Of liberty to
ourselves and cur posterity, do or
dain and establish this Constitution
for the United States Of America. !"
So, Mr.. Maddox, you see that the
Constitution and Socialism are not
SO far apart, and I personally am
convinced that the authors of the
Constitution had in mind exactly
what modern Socialism is trying to
effect.
Furthermore, Mr.. Maddox saws.
Russia is building Socialism" Rus
STA is building Communism. Mr..
Maddox, and it will pay you we'll to
study the difference between the
two.
May state, in closing, that I am
not a Socialist, but a Democrat, and
always have been. Yet I hope to
live to see the day when modern
scientific Socialism will rule the en-
nations Of the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-06
A Woman's Viewpoint
. By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT is Won
II derful. So much SO, in fact,
that I often wish the reporters
could snoop around and find
little fault or two Somehow she
would seem more of a sister wom-
an if there could be discovered
several small flaws in her armor
Of projections.
But if the First Lady continues
to express such philosophy and
common sense as have marked her
public utterances in the last few
months, she will deserve to go
down in history as the Minerva Of
the U. S. A. The ancient god
dess of wisdom really didn't have
anything on Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
All my enthusiasm has been
aroused by her criticism Of war
toys in the current Woman's
Home Companion. She has said
exactly what those who have not
her opportunity TO be heard or
needed have long been thinking.
TINE glamour of the gorgeously
Il dressed toy armies may
create in the boys mind an ex-
element which will carry over
into manhood and may leave him
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to shelter his ignorance behind a
torrent of words.
In the first place, I am certain
he does not even know what so
cialism" really means. This is evil
denced amply by the fact that,
throughout his article, he confuses
Socialism with Communism He
pirates of MARKHAM Socialism as the
kind that produced the French revo-
luton. Perhaps he doesn't know
that this revolution took place in
the 1790's while Karl Marx was
not born until 1918.
He claims there is no Scientific"
Socialism. Quite the contrary. Mod
ern social science has modified the
old MARKHAM principles to fit pres
ent conditions, and incorporated
some of them quite successfully into
the modern governmental picture.
Witness, here in Indiana, the old age
pension. the national bank deposit
insurance law, the pro1t~sharing
plans of factories with their en-