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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
SLIPPING HEROES

WHILE Washington and the East were
" tuning their ears to the sounds issuing
from Springfield, Ill, during one of the most
significant political conferences in recent
years. shrewd Republican leader in the
Middle West was being interviewed about the
chances he thought his party might have for
regaining control of the national Admins
tration in 1896
And one of the most significant statements
he made was this:
"A great national figure or popular hero
begins to slide when doubts about him rise
in peoples minds. When people are certain
he hasn't made good, he's sunk Those who
once applauded him are apt to turn COM
pletely around"
OF course, this student of mass psychology
was referring to the presidency, not alone that
of Franklin D. Roosevelt but of those who
preceded him and will follow him
Look back upon the administrations of
great Presidents of the United States and
you will find circumstances that caused Just
such public loss of confidence that ended in
the downfall of these men.
Washington alone might be considered an
exception, for even the martyred Lincoln
would have faced a growing suspicion and
discomfort in North as well as South, had he
been spared from the assassin's bullet
President Roosevelt came into power on
tide of doubt and lost confidence in the pre-
vious Administration, and now it is his prob
lem to prevent the same feeling from again
pervading the public mind
The broadest smile of which he is capable
the most optimistic statements he could make
would turn to sheer mockery in the face of
growing public discomfort.
This is the problem that has encouraged
his political opponents since the recent United
States Supreme Court decision multiplying
NRA, for it has revealed to them the weak
ness that might very easily lead to the
toboggan.
For this same reason, the aforementioned
political seer was more optimistic over the
Republican chances of victory in 1886 than he
has been at any time since 1892.
And that should encourage the people gen.
orally. for it is healthy sign for the country
at large when the party in control is kept
reminded of its responsibility and its depend
ence on popular content, by the voicings of
its opponents.
President Roosevelt may have no difficulty
in maintaining political control for another
four years. but present tendencies show that
he can't afford to let himself slide too much
in the public's estimation, or even the Repub-
leans might be surprised by the results.
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OPENS FIRE ON
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Nv Alma Bender.

by Alma Bender.
The best answer to the Saturday
Evening Post articles, on how well
we were doing under Hoover and
how much Roosevelt has retarded
prosperity, is a glance at a file of
the magazine.
Just compare the fat, sleek, pros
porous, advertising-flled issues they
have been putting out this last six
months with the thin, anaemic, sad
looking issues Of a year or so ago.
don't know any business enterprise
in the entire United States where
the improvement under the New
Deal has been more noticeable than
in the Post.
Perhaps the Post wants to main
tain its record for being mistaken
about business conditions. Don't
you remember that long series OF
articles they had, before 1929, on
This Is Prosperity" the main
argument they we're trying to prove
was that this country was doing so
well that any kind of financial slump
could never again happen to us.
With a record like that to live up
to, the present series is explainable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14

I American Legion, was one Of the
principal speakers and also chair
man of the resolutions committee
Ed Hayes participated in this
Grass Roots" convention because
he is a dyed-in-the-wool Repub-
lican, but his activities are in no
wise reflection of the American
Legion's attitude in politics.
The American Legion's conStitu-
ton specifically states it is a nom
sectarian and non-political organi-
cation; so, therefore, for the Repub-
lican Grass Roots" conventions at
tempts to try and capture the good
will of the Legion is presumptuous,
false and misleading. Ed Hayes is
absolutely on his own in whatever
activity he may engage and he is
not to be connected with the Amer
lean Legion.
Regardless of the recent bonus
veto, there are still thousands OF
Legionnaires loyal to the Democratic
party. After all, three Republican
Presidents vetoed the bonus as
against one Democratic President, SO
there can't be as great an animosity
built up against Mr.. Roosevelt as
the Grass Rioters" and Ed Hayes
would have you believe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
SPEEDING INTO WAR

A ANNOUNCEMENT in Berlin of new plans
n for INFLAMMATION of the German army
is a reminder that the world may never again
see immobile warfare Of the kind on view in
the last war.
The new German army aims at speed. Mo-
tor vehicles are being provided in the I'M
heard-of ratio of two cars for every four in
fantrymen. Artillery is being motorized: the
tank corps is being vastly expanded; the un-
DERIVING principle is that the next war will
be an affair of rapid movement. with the side
which is able to strike the quickest winning
an overwhelming advantage.
All of this is an indication that military
science once more is getting back to its time
honored fundamentals-vhich General For
rest expressed so aptly with his remark about
getting there first with the most men.
The conditions under which the last war
was fought were abnormal. Never again. let
US hope, viii young men be killed by the mil
lions simply because armies are too swollen
and cumbersome to do anything but engage
In slugging match.
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who receive no government aid and
many subsisting on charity.
The President also asserts that the
veteran who is disabled owes his
condition to the war. Rightly so,
certainly in the case of the combat
veteran. But the Presidents own
constringent regulations make it
difficult, if not impossible, to prove
a service connection. It is obvious
that he is not unwittingly cruelty
ing the combat veteran.
To this great President of ours the
world conflict was a war without
sacrifice and certainly without hor-
ror. Conjectural would have been
his message had he tasted the Bit
terness of war and embittered would
have been his emotions had he wit
messed the ghastliness of mutilated
bodies diffused and splitting blood in
profusion to satisfy the covetouS de-
mands of money changers.
Had those patriots been spared
that super test of patriotism they,
too, though disabled. would be
obliged to cast their lot with those
free from the ravages of war and in
the darkest days of their adverSitieS
share with reluctance the aims OBJ
tanned in the bread lines. That is
the price of glory and the unwaver-
ine philosophy of Him who weighs
the claims of all in the scales of
equity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
FRIDAY. JUNE u. 1855.
TWENTY YEARS LATE

NV order Of the American people. the SEN
ID ate today considers the Administrators
economic security bill. designed to cushion
some q million families against the major
hazards and vicissitudes Of life"
The House speedily passed this important
measure. 372 to 80. The Senate would be
wise 20 act with equal dispatch. For none
Of President Roosevelt's must" measures Is
more sorely needed. or more popular.
The Senate committees bill is a decided
Improvement on the one passed by the House
It attacks the social problems Of INDECENT
old age. unemployment, blindness, illness and
childhood dependency.
To help the present generation OF aged
poor. it offers out Of the Federal treasury
subsidy 10 states Of as much as SIS Tor each
pensioned person past 65. To provide self
liquidating old-age security system for the
future II proposes a Federal reserve fund into
which employers and workers would con-
tribute pay roll taxes 10 support industry's
retired veterans Finally, it offers to others
the opportunity TO buy cheap government
annuities. These provisions should help to
close the doors Of poor houses, which are so
costly 20 the puo-c anu 50 Unsatisfactory "
unfortunate inmates.
The unemployment insurance section is
frankly an experiment in Federal-state CO.
operation. To encourage the states to enact
unemployment insurance laws. it provides
Federal pay roll tax. Of which 30 per cent
would be RENTED to states with jobless in
surance systems States are given wide lat
itude TO try out plans that fit the regional
or industrial needs Of each.
The bill would benefit thousands of needy
blind through Federal subsidies to states.
It triples Federal appropriations for public
health. 1t revives the infant-naternity care
provisions Of the now lapsed Sheppard
Towner act. provides funds for rehabilitat-
ing crippled children. and increases a hun
dred-fold Federal contributions for child
welfare
The bill has many defects. Some are due
to the need for economy others % the Su-
preme Courts rigid limits on Federal powers.
The measure does not guarantee security to
every family. but it will soften the blows of
economic adversely.
II is the product Of a years sincere and
expert effort. Its imperfections can be ironed
out later. as other countries have improved
similar measures.
The United States is 20 years or more be-
hind advanced industrial countries in adopt
ing a national social security system Fur
Their delay would only add to relief burdens,
economic unbalance and human fears.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
ANYBODY SEEN KELLY?

IIUEY LONG, who started out with the
boast that he could stand and talk longer
than the Senate could sit and listen, crumpled
at the end of 1871 hours. If his lungs and
tongue had held out 2i5 hours longer, he could
have established a new an-tine record in SEN
ate flibustering But he faltered
Things were different back in the days
when men were men and fiagpole sitters were
the heroes Of the hour. We remember one
Flagpole Kelly, who. when he mounted perch
made it a point of honor not to climb down
until he had set new worlds sitting record.
Night followed day and sun followed sleet, but
Flagpole Kelly squatted on and on and on. He
was made of stern stuff.
How did Kelly happen to be overlooked in
the search for senatorial timber?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
WELL. WELL

ID UGGEO individuslism may be on the run
IN elsewhere. but the prize ring hews to the
orthodox tradition
Here was Jimmy BraddOck on relief last
winter. taking a Federal handout 10 buy his
three babies milk. and mighty FESTIVE under
such augmentation. He had been a conner once
in the boxing t-ade. but as in some other
trades the bigger fellows presently put him
out Of business. So he fell back on the gov
eminent
But not for long.
Last night Mr.. Braddock. a Stool under
dos, crawled through the ropes against Mar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
A LABOR COURT

TIME labor relations court" provided in the
l. Wagner bill can work effectively for in
dustrial peace only if it is set up as an indie
pendent body. The Senate recognized this;
he House bill makes the court" subservient
70 the Labor Department.
Secretary Perkins is eager to expand her
Labor Department. She has ample opportu-
mites to do this without violating the nom
partisan spirit of the Wagner bill Her de-
partment will take on new duties under the
projected social security law. 1t should build
~ an effective public employment service as
an adjunct to unemployment insurance. And,
under the Presidents program, it can expand
the United States Cancellation Service.
With 100000 more to spend the depart
ment's Cancellation service can be enlarged
and improved. Nothing is more important in
strike prevention now than a corps of trained,
intelligent and tactful medators.
The labor court" under the Wagner bill
belongs in no political department. It's func-
tons are to administer fair practice rules in
collective bargaining. These are quasi judicial
in exactly the same sense as the Federal
Trade Commissions. and it would be as il
logical to put this board in the Labor Depart
ment as to put the Federal Trade Commits
sion in the Commerce Department.
To make this court" a part of the Labor
Department would lend color of partisanship
to what must be impartial if it is to succeed.
The House should follow the Senate's lead
and give independence to the Labor Rela-
tions Board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
POSt-MemOrial
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
My friends have laid their flowers
on the mound
AS if the purple fragrance and
bright hue
When touched by May day rain and
evening dew
Could penetrate; with process OF
osmosis seep down through
To those who lie so still, one with
the ground.
Tomorrow when the sunrise beats
the grass
They will have dropped upon their
wilted stems
And cast their rainbow petalled
anadems
AS ancient princes scattered dark yet
golden tombs with gems.
Tomorrow without glory all Will
pass.
o gather blossoms for the lonely
dead
If it is not for show but memory!
But pluck mine for those whose
eyes can see
Whose lips may curve at them with
laughter coral gay and free
It is by beauty's kindness life Is ieoI
And If while lying there the loved
could know,
Would they not in their loving wish
it so?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
THE SITUATION is
NOT so BAD, HE SAYS
By Reformed Republican Leg

BY Reformed Republican Legionnaire.
Lest you forget" you fellows who
were hungry back in the glorious
Constitutional days" of Herbert
Hoover and the gold standard, don't
forget it was this same Lincoln
Shrine at Springfield, Ill, where
the much ballyhooed Grass Root"
Republican convention was held,
that gave Franklin D. Roosevelt an
overwhelming, landslide vote.
1t might be wise to remember
that the psychologists of the party
purposely gave this convention that
sweet, honey old name to beguile
YOU into. believing that they are just
plain folk and are not at all in
terested in restoring the gold stand
ard, giving back millions Of dollars
in taxes to the millionaires, letting
the poor take care of the poor, and
committing all the other heartlesS,
ruthless, economic crimes, under
the label of rugged individualism.
I should like to say a word here
concerning other tricks employed
to befog and confuse the average
newspaper reader. In every news
story, it is played up that Ed Hayes,
former national commander Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
SUPREME COURT STILL
WILL HAVE ITS HALO
RX Reader

BY Reader.
I wonder if the Grass Rooters"
have heard the rumblings of a
probable Abandonment of the name
Republican" as a party name and
the substituting of a name some
thing like the American Liberty
Party" featuring Al Smith, John w.
Davis and the like.
How fitting that the Grass Root
ers" should select the seat of Lin
coins tomb as the place to found
their roots and draw sustenance
from this great statesman.
The Indiana delegation, like
many other Indiana delegations, is
obsessed with its Importance Qndi-
ana still thinks it is pivotal state)
and blinded with political-minded-
ness, stands aloof lest it might be-
come involved. 1t is there and yet
not there, camped 80 miles from
Springfield, manned with a goodly
number of Old Guard leaders. They
are not ready to cast their lot with
the Grass Rooters" just yet but are
willing to be good fellows ever ready
to concur with the convention on
their opinion of the Democrats, the
Constitution and the Supreme
Court. Since we have been informed
that Arthur Robinson is to be a
candidate for President We do not
have to wonder any longer why he
did not attend the convention, as
all candidates were barred.
The Republican party thus re-
claimed by the Grass Rooters' will
continue to be the only original G..
o. P. grounded in Lincoln principles.
I presume the elephant will con-
tinue as the chief animal of the
show.
Imagine the discontinue Of the
Liberty Leaguers, their issue, lib
erty and rugged individualism all
swallowed up. Not even the Consti-
tuition and the Supreme Court left
for them.
Never mind, dear voters. Don't
worry. Even though we have a
Liberty League" ticket and a
Grass Root" Republican ticket
both in the field, both parties viii
alike fix halo around the Supreme
Court and preach the sanctity Of
the Constitution and all who would
will have the opportunity Of giving
vent to their emotions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
China Rises From Depths

tons were lending their support to
the bandit element that ruled
within. So her only redemption
was from a nation of her own race
which would be strong enough to
discipline her and also save her
from foreign invasion and eco
nomic domination. Japan, realiz-
ing this, took it upon herself to
reclaim China for civilization.
Japan has been denounced by
the so-called shrewd diplomats OF
Europe and America, roared at by
the big, bad Russian bear that.
incidentally does more roaring
than clawing; and, of course, ia
pan must turn a deaf ear to those
who decry her actions. She is too
busy accomplishing a job which
should have been done centuries
before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
The Book World

TOR thrills there is little in sight to match Il
l. Speak for the Silent" prisoners of the
soviets) by Vladimir Tchernavin CHale, CASH
man & Flint; $3.50.
Purporting to be an expose of the dreaded
9. P. U. in Soviet Russia, Il Speak for the
Silent" rings true throughout its pages Tcher-
navin relates how he and his wife were thrown
into prison by the G. P. U and how he later was
sent to a government-operatedf fisheries and
from where he eventually escaped to freedom.
Tchernavin recounts many sadistic forms of
torture devised by the Sovets terrorstic secret
police to wiring confessions from completely
Innocent men, He shows how the q. P. U. runs
its fisheries with slave labor (prisoners) and goes
on to relate how he craftily worked his way into
the leaders confidence, all the While plotting
his escape with his wife
1t is an important book as a contemporary
document of human life. 1t is actually thriller
EAMED as England's No. l historian, H. A L.
Il Fisher has just published the first volume of
what he intends to be three-voume digest of
European history from Neolithic man to Stain
and Hitler. His first volume is Ancient and
Medieval" (Houghton- Mif1in; $D.
Mr.. Fishers first volume of his trilogy Che
is now I'D has been written for both students
and scholars, but it probably will appeal more to
those in the latter category Tor the British his
torian has penned his first offering with the
apparent idea that his readers already have
-ood groundwork of the field he covers.
Mr.. Fishers style is lucid and logical and
his writing is notable for its condensation. 1t is
a valuable, scholarly work.
FINEST Western story of the week is BLACK
L Belle Rides the Uplands" by Vingie E. Roe
Doubleday, Doran; so. The scene is southern
Utah; the heroine, the beautiful Black Belle
Dawson; the villain, big Jake Wager, and the
hero young Sheriff Stan AnSel, smart, brave,
and real Western fighter.
1t is a fast-moving, gun-fled story and the
followers of the old, romantic West will be
bouncing on their chairs beautiful Belle and
the sheriff trail big Jake'S outlaws to a final
free-shooting windup.
THOSE readers who followed Maj. L. L. B.
l. Angas 1.-The Coming American Boom" in
The Indianapolis Times several months ago, will
be interested to know that Maj Angas' latest
financial work The Boom Begins" has just
been published by Simon g. Schuster; 81. 1t is
the sequel to his first book and undoubtedly will
attract wide interest in American financial
circles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
G.. o. p. AND AAA

DICTURE the embarrassment of the Re-
publican resolvers at Springfield when
they came to the writing of a farm plank.
They couldn't point with p.ide to the scent
Gotten. lO-cent corn and 3O-cent wheat that
ushercd ont the last Republican Administra-
tion.
They couldn't review with alarm the con-
dition of the farmers under Democratic rule
for in TWO years of the Roosevelt AAA pro-
gram The national farm income has risen al
most three billion dollars above the level of
1892, the last full Republican year.
They couldn't even be specific in condemn
ing the methods of the AAA. for-didnt the
idea OF blowing under surplus cotton originate
in Mr. Hoover's Federal farm board; and
wasn't the policy Of restricting crop production
sponsored by the Republican Secretaries of
Agriculture. Jsrdine and Hyde. and wasn't it
warmly indOrsed in the 1882 Republican plat
forn2
AS a matter OF fact. they didn't dare even
10 speak in derogatory generalities about the
AAA. for hadn't the corn and hog raisers. the
wheat producers. the tobacco growers and the
cotton farmers twice approved the AAA pro-
gram III overwhelming referendum votes?
OF course. the drought did provide grain
OF political comfort. It had burned hay and
other feed crops. forcing the eattlemen to
import some from Canada. So. in careful
words. they blamed the drought on President
Roosevelt:
He has destroyed our food. compelling this,
the greatest food-producing nation on earth.
70 import foodStuffs TO feed our cattle"
But in the end the Springfield platfrom
dralters suggested no change in the AAA farm
policies. Instead. they said:
We hold that no economic advantage Of
agriculture thus far attained shall be sur
rendered
And Just picture the Grass Rioters further
embarrassment when they returned 10 their
h7mes 10 read that Secretary Of Agriculture
Wallace approved their farm plank as fine
Endorsement OF the Roosevelt farm policies,
and suggested that. since everybody seemed 70
think alike. there probably would be no farm
issue between Democrats and Republicans in
the 1885 campaign.
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error tender my apology to Mr..
Campbell.
AS regards the specific case men
toned am sure Mr.. Campbell and
myself are in perfect agreement. II
a man loves another country more
than ours he either should remain
in his native country or have the
good sense to consistently refrain
from making a mockery of our nat
uralization laws. It isn't fair to our
flag, and it isn't fair to the thou
sands of foreign-born who come
here in good faith to escape the Old
World tyranny, and who do unques-
tionably make good citizens once
they become familiar with our high
purpose.
Being an ex-service man and a
member of the American Legion I
stand firmly behind the Legion's
drive against anything and every
thing un-American and I contend
that our native-born Americans
should be given the same treatment
accorded to foreign-born when they
advocate the overthrow of our
Democratic form Of government. We
need no advice from students of
Red propagandists. The greatest
punishment we could inf1ict on these
ill-advised political quacks would be
to make them live under the form of
government they advocate After a
few months of starvation they would
be glad to crawl back on their hands
and knees and kiss the flag they so
wantonly (at least theoretically
trample underfoot Yes, Mr.. Camp
bell, when there is cause to defend
our Uncle Sammy you will find
yours truly right beside you ready
to do and die if necessary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-14
So They Say

The despotism of a majority is
worse than the despotism of one
man, because you can shoot him.
Alfalfa" Bill Murray, former Gov
ernor of Oklahoma.
I'm just bachelor girl and a
home girl.-Mae West.
have no doubt that the ma jority
of the films in the future will be in
color.-Rouben Mamoulian, movie
director.
Give the opera to the movies and
it's lost.-Mary Garden, noted diva.
It is not what the world owes you
but what you owe the world, that ia
the guiding principle if the world Is
to be a place worth living in at all.
Owen D. Young.