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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-11
VOTING HELP

liver since the 1882 election the political
II seers and soothsayers have been scan
ming the skies for portents of that long
awaited realignment of political parties.
Just now the signs seem to be multiplying.
In New York, the Daily News reports that
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia will run for re-
election in 1887 as a Democrat, with full New
Deal support-and, apparently, with the re-
suit that Tammany Hall may find itself, to
the vast surprise Of the boys in the ward clubs,
a Republican outfit.
While all of this goes on there are re-
peated reports of an attempt to establish an
understanding between Republicans and con-
sentative Democrats. How much fire there
may be back of all this smoke is far from
clear. but the rImors have even gone to the
length of saying that Al Smith and Herbert
Hoover will find themselves under the same
banner in another year.
All of these reports may be quite ground
less. But the frequency with which they
are made does indicate that politics is in fer
ment, with an ever-increasing number of po-
ntical leaders finding themselves dissatisfied
with the existing lineup.
And from whatever angle you view the
scene, you must admit that our political life
would be in a more healthy condition if the
two great parties could manage to swap about
half of their adherents with each other.
A political party ought to be as nearly
homogeneous group IS possible. Its major
policies should command almost complete sup
port from its members; its name should stand
for a definite program, so that when man
uses the label the public would be able to
classify him.
That doesn't begin to be true today. Sen
ator Glass and President Roosevelt are both
Democrats, as are Al Smith and Huey Long.
beyond recognition, say that these four con-
stitute a like-minded group? And are Sen
ator Norris. Ogden Mills, Senator La Toilette
and Herbert Hoover members Of the same
party in anything but name?
During the next few years the American
people must make fundamental decisions
about their government and their social or
ganization. 1t will not be easy to make those
decisions: it will be almost impossible if the
two parties remain formless and disunited,
as they are now.
regrouping, which would make one
party definitely representative of one school
of thought and the other party definitely
representative of the opposing school, would
make our task of charting our course for the
coming generation infinitely simpler.
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CLASS OF '35

THIS leafy month of June. with its brides,
budgets and other bewildering things,
brings also the countrys important annual
human harvest-its million or so young grad
yates of high schools. colleges and universities.
The depression graduates have been likened
to those of the lost generation" of the war
years. Last June and this. commencement
orators have developed a more hopeful note,
backing their exhortations to success with
statistics that indicate a timid returning of
prosperity. One speaker this week told a New
York graduating class that theirs was the
luckiest in ten years. Those stepping forth
in the first half of the decade were plunged
into a crazy world those of the latter half
into PROSTATE world. Now things are be-
ginning to look normal again.
Normal? What a trumpet call to youth
These young people should know that their
world can never be normal" in the old sense
"Old things are passed away, and all things
are become new The outgoing seniors face
a world radically different from that of their
elder brothers.
The class of '35 is another war class. The
reconstruction times call its members to a
war on poverty, slums, disease, disorder, in
security greed and injustice. 1t isn't pretty
world-but it's their oyster.
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The Book World

DOCKS concerning the World War are COM
y ing faster and faster all the time and now
on the scene is Paths of Glory" by Humphrey
Cobb and it is well worth notice for it is one Of
the most moving of all the war stories.
Paths of Glory" viking Press; $3.50 is the
story Of a French regiment, tired and battered
after a siege in the front line, being sent back
into action and failing on the attack The COM
man from each to be court-martialed and the
resulting episodes are tremendously dramatic
and effective.
An emotionally disturbing book, paths of
Glory is told without melodrama and with SIM
pie dignity. 1t is literature in the finest sense.
NON-TECHNICAL and highly informative is
IN Progress of Archaeology" by Stanley Cas-
son CMcGraw-Hill; so. 1t is a valuable little
volume, only little over 100 pages long, for any
one who wants a talking interest with
archaeology.
The book outlines the fundamentals of
developments. Written in simple and interest
ing language, Progress Of Archaeology" is bound
to be blessing for those who long have wanted
felt unwilling to dig through seemingly endless
tones.
A STORY intended for those who love to see
n tie fair little lady triumph over the big
strong man is "A Dream Come True" by Pamela
Wynne Doubleday. Doran so.
1t is pleasant work of fiction, not very deep,
but still entertaining enough to draw some praise.
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THINGS can gel almost unbelievably

THINGS can get almost unbelievably topSy-
turvy in this modern world, and nowhere
is the fact illustrated quite sharply as in
the recent news dispatch from Akron, N. Y.
telling how the state of New York is spending
sI71 a week to teach the Seneca Indians how
TO make arrowheads.
The Senecas have established center on
the Tonawanda reservation for the revival Of
ancient tribal crafts. They are producing
bows, beadwork, ornaments, and so on, just
as their ancestors used to; but they have dis
covered that not an Indian in the tribe knows
how to make arrowheads out of flint.
So white teachers have been called in, white
mems books have been dug up-and the noble
red men are relearning one of the most i'm
portant of their old, stone-age crafts from
white men.
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SLUNIS STILL STAND

HEARINGS on the new Wagner slum abate-
Il ment bill are less important in their
promise Of early action than in emphasizing
one Of the disappointments in the New Deal.
Nothing. We are convinced. is more impor-
tant than 70 rehouse Americas slum-dwel-
ing masses in decent. cheap and livable quar-
tiers. Experts estimate that nine million fam
flies should be rehoused. This is not only
recovery problem. II is one related TO habitual
poverty. TO disease and 70 crime.
Today. two years after PwA set out to
rae a few blighted areas OF our cities. less
than one thousand persons have been re-
housed OF the original $50 million dollar al
lotment-a small enough sum for so great an
sdventure-sOme seven million dollars has
gone into actual homes under seven limited
dividend. or private. corporation projects.
Another i've million dollars Is being spent by
the government in two Atlanta SUM clearance
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A MONOPOLY is PRODDED

THE Edison Electric Institute. leader of the
u opposition to the Tennessee Valley Author
ity and the Administration power program, has
given the Tennessee Electric Power Co. the
Coffin award for establishing "one of the most,
If not the most. remarkable sales increases in
residential, commercial and industrial power in
the history of the electric industry.
The company. which serves much of the
Tennessee valley area. co-operated with The
iva. It reduced its regular rates and estab-
hShed lower promotion" rates to stimulate
consumption. II co-operated heartily with the
Electric Home and Farm Authority in develop
ment and sale Of low-priced electrical equip
ment
David z Lilienthal power director Of IVA,
pointedly asks the electric industry several ques-
tons. demanding that they reconcile their IVA
opposition with the Conn award.
II the IVA is as destructive of the private
power business as charged, he asks, how does
II happen that in the whole nation the prize
winning examples Of increased business have
occurred in the three IVA states Of Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama
he asks how the industry can be so sure OF
IN the valley area consumption has increased
80 per cent in a single year.
rs It not fact that if the same results in
increased use Of electricity could be obtained in
other sections Of the country by private power
companies as are obtained in the IVA area
that a tremendous step toward recovery would
be taken through increase in production Of
electrical sppliances?" Mr.. Lilienthal inquiries.
Are not the people Of the United States
entitled 10 good craftsmanship on the part Of
the private utilities. and should the not ac-
knowledge that TIE prosperity Of private power
companies in the IVA area is due in consider
able part 10 rate reductions and the spotlight
q public attention. which has moved these
companies TO move out o. lethargy due to
monopoly"
The public and members of Congress now
considering the Roosevelt power program have
a right 70 the answers-f any.
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rrEsDAY. JUNE Il. 1915.
CHANGE IS NOT sACRILEGE

ITO those who cry Save the Constitution"
whenever discussion arises about posi-
bic change in that document We would refer TO
Article V Of the Constitution itself.
That article. which provides for amendment.
seems 70 settle the question Of whether it is
Eaorilege 70 talk about change.
But for the benefit Of the ones Who still
insist It is. We recommend the following writ
ten in 1916 BY Thomas Jefferson. as the best
thing We have ever read on the subject:
some men look at Constitutions with
sanctimonious reverence. and deem them like
the ARK Of the Covenant. too sacred 70 be
touched. They ascribe 10 the men Of the pre-
oeding age a wisdom more than human. and
suppose what they did to be beyond amend
ment
I knew that age well: I belonged to IT, ard
labored with It. II deserved well OF its coun-
tn. Il was very ike the present. but without
the experience Of the present; and 40 years Of
experience in government is worth a century
Of book-reading; and this they would say
themselves. were they 10 rise from the dead. . .
Laws and institutions must go hand in
hand with the progress Of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, mors en-
Lghtened. as new discoveries are made new
truths disclosed, and manners ard opinions
change with the change Of circumstances. in
stitutions must advance also. and keep pace
with the times. We might as well require a
man to wear still the coat which fitted him
when boy as civilized society to remain even
under re gin.sn Of their ancestors. It is
this prepcsteicns IDEA which has lately deluged
Europe in blood Let us follow no such ex-
amples. nor weakly believe that one genera
ton is not as capable as another of taking
care Of itself. and o. ordering its own affairs.
Each generation is as independent of the
one preceding. as that was Of all which had
gone before. Il has then. like them. a right to
choose icr Itself the form Of government it be-
Ieves most promOtive Of its own happiness
and 1t is for the peace and good Of mankind.
that ? solemn opportunity of doing this
should be provided by the Constitution: so
that It may be handed on which periodical
repairs. from generation to generation, to the
end Of time. If anything human can so long
endure"
The issue raised by the Supreme Courts
NRA decision does not at all involve proposal
to junk the Constitution. It merely involves a
question Of whether the people of this nation.
under the Constitution itself want to make
another change therein.
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Sanitation Program Landed

pull Their two forenen, one a
white man, carrying city ward
in his hand, the other Negro,
whose real source OF power never
learned. Both seemed stepped in
the notion that public service was
only politics. Here was the first
test of our board. We put over
them superintendent, Truly No
Ian, who had our ideas about pol
itics in city work and was not
man to be trifled with. The story
how politics was frozen out; how
at least half of the force, includ-
ing the two foremen, became Sepa-
rated from our service in the OPP
Grafton; how we got eight hours of
actual work, instead of six; how
acting under Nolan's advice, we
completely revolutionized the col
lection service, is most interesting
but can not be given in detail.
All the work in our department
thus became purely business
transaction"
So effective have Mr. Swift's
ideas been of carrying on the city
departments on business princi-
pies, that during all these inter-
vening years and various political
changes, the sanitary department
has been uninterruptedly con-
Quoted to the satisfaction Of our
citizens and so attested in a let
ter addressed to Truly Nolan, SUI
perintendent of the ash and gar
bage collection department, from
Reginald H. Sullivan, retiring
Mayor of Indianapolis, spread on
the boards meeting minutes OF
Dec. 81, 1884, which letter contains
the following:
Your department has done its
work so thoroughly and well that
the public is satisfied. This
means a great deal, as you are en-
gagged in line Of work where the
public can only be pleased by
very high degree of efficiency"
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ROOSEVELT is FRIEND
OF COMMON PEOPLE

BY Mrs. Ross S. Ludlow.
imagine Haywood Broun would
be much amused at the TRADE
against his Americanism given by
one Mrs. L. B. Snyder.
From her rabid denunciation Of
the President one can readily recog-
nize the type. I presume the lady
objected to the following brilliant
ouip by Broun: "They killed the
Blue Eagle right enough, but they
also blew the head off the chicken,
which was trying in a feeble way to
f1utter back into every pot, and by
some curious tragic irony one silver
bullet went straight through the
head of American Liberalism. That
Chicken in Every Pot" expression is
very touchy subject to the old
dyed in the wool" Republicans who,
according to Senator Borah, do not
know they are dead.
If the woman has ever been a
student of the Constitution and
constitutional government she must
know that Franklin D. Roosevelt is
not the only President who has
questioned the rulings of the Su-
preme Court. Theodore Roosevelt
called a decision to question in no
uncertain terms, and Judge Suther-
lands terms, when they ruled out
the minimum wage, was bitterly de-
nounced by Chief Justice Taft and
Justice Holmes.
Just because a person is liberal
and believes in that which is best
for the common good does not make
him a Socialist, Communist or a
Facsist. Orderly government means
a government by the majority, and
orderly government does not 'kick
out a President" A patriotic citi-
zen is one who is patriotic enough
not to try to wreck a nation to
gain power as a great many Re
publicans are now doing.
The Supreme Court is not omnip-
otent, and as Christ said the Sab
bath was made for man, so is the
Supreme Court for man and not
man for the Supreme Court. 1t
seems to me that the right kind Of
woman would be anxious for child
labor to be wiped out forever and
childhood made to enjoy the care
free existence God intended it to
enjoy. We are indeed in the horse
and buggy days. Such verdict
might be expected from Hughes, who
still wears whiskers foot long IN
these clean-shaven days.
Many years ago while student
at De Paw University I listened to
orations by the late Albert j. Bev-
eridge on these controversial sub
jects and I can now better under
stand why he left the Republican
party and joined the Bull Moose
party. While in the Senate he was
one of the first to fight for the
adjustment of child labor and his
speeches will go ringing down the
corridors Of time until a more hui
name Supreme Court, one close to
the heart of America, gives just
decision.
The most pathetic figure today
is Ex-President Hoover wandering
over the country with his lightning
rod, childishly denouncing his sue
cessor, and hoping the lightning will
again strike.
Many political observers believe
the Supreme Court decision will help
to re-elect President Roosevelt in
1886, as the result of this decision
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G.. o. p. LAUGHING A
BIT TOO EARLY
By an Observer.

By an Observer.
It's a laugh to hear the Repub-
licans exulting over the Supreme
Court decision outlawing the NRA.
If they would think a little farther
they would see that far from max
ing political capital out Of it they
are going to be up against some I'M
answerable arguments when the
polls open.
If prosperity moves right ahead
in spite of the blow the Democrats
will get the credit. If labor trouble
and uncertainty as to wages, hours
and prices results the Democrats can
honestly say they tried, but were
forestalled by the nine old men.
If the Republicans under Hoover
had even tried, they might have a
leg to stand on. Where is the VIC
tory?
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By James H. Hornstein.
Throughout it's entire existence
the Sanitary Department has been
one branch of the city government
nearly free from political in
fluences.
In order that the citizens of
Indianapolis may continue to &c
ceive the efncient service which
has characterized the Sanitary
Department for so many years, the
consolidation of the Board of
Public Works and the Board of
Sanitation, effective July l, 1885,
should continue as nearly as pos
sible on the basis of merit and
business principles and free from
other influences and purposes.
1t is, therefore, most encourag-
ing to note Mayor Kern's deter
mination to establish a merit SyS-
tenn, based upon efficiency, in the
Police and Fire Departments, and
his unquestionable desire to put
the rest of the city department on
an efficiency basis.
A great deal has been properly
said in the press during the last
few days about the life and works
of William Dudley Foulke, the
champion and advocate of bust
ness principles in all government
departments. In his book entitled
'Lucius B. Swift, American Citi-
zen," to be found in both the ref
erence and circulating department
of our public libraries, the follow
ing statement appears on pages
80 and 81:
I'm May, 1921, the collection of
ashes and garbage was added to
the duties of the sanitary COM
missioners," and Mr.. Swift says
later, in an address at Madison,
Ind: I'VE got with the equip
ment from the Board of Public
Works 90 men, and to a man ac-
tive politicians, each with his
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that count when we would at the
same time be stopping the importa-
ton Of competitive goods.
With these thoughts in mind 1t
can readily be seen that the prob
able outcome would be very favor
able.
If the people of the United States
could be instilled with a very strong
buy American" feeling, it would be
possible to acquire the same results
without legislation, but that IAN not
be expected when the foreign goods
are so much cheaper.
Our Senate voted for nationalism
as against internationalism so let's
do it 10 per cent or as near it as
possible.
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RELIEF WORKERS STILL
COMPLAIN ABOUT SETUP
Rv ]. M. ]

BY ]. NJ. ].
During the last election 1t was
charged that the Democrats would
win because they had subsidized a
large bloc of voters by putting them
on the relief rolls.
I wonder if this is true. All of
the people know who are on relief
rolls seem to be very discontinued.
Most of them believe they are UNI
derpaid and abused by their fore
men.
Biting the hand that feeds you,"
is still favorite sport in this land
of ours.
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The Message Center

(Tfnes readers are united to cypress
their cietos In these columns. Make your
letters short, so oil can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names toiH
be .cithheld at request Of the letter
1criteF.)
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So They Say

The frontiers of human better
ment as yet are but barely pene-
trated by men.-Herbert Hoover.
There is good reason to believe
that our national pastime is not
baseball or football, but the all-year
game of, in rough phase, passing
the buck. Rear Admiral S. K. Ev-
ans, naval chaplain.
I recognize the right of the law
to condemn me, but 1 can not rec
ognize its right to take possession
of my Philippe Vernier,
jailed in France for defying COM
pulsory CONSUMPTION law.
see lots of average middle-class
persons going happily about their
business, oblivious to the rumblings.
In other countries, when the mid
dle-clasS gets hit, they scream for
a dictator. - Dorothy Thompson,
journalist.
am very happy. My husband is
a sportsman, but he cares more for
me than he does for polo-Countess
Won Haugwitz-R eventloW formerly
Barbara Hutton).
I haven't noticed anybody return
ing those checks they get from the
government across state lines.-Sen-
ator Morris Sheppard, Texas.
Directors have turned against the
beautiful girl. In Hollywood beauty
is worth about a dime a dozen. A
girls personality and her ability to
act mean more now than ever.-Syl-
via Sidney, film actress.
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Chicago youth who claimed he was a musi-
clan and tried to pawn instruments was ar
rested because he couldn't play saxophone.
There amt no justice.
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Cats Of a Chicago suburb must carry bells
as a bird protection measure. That plaintive
meow you hear is plea for return to
rugged individualism.
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Children of the North are named for the
first object the mother sees after the child is
born. II that custom was general, there'd be
lot Of men called Hospital Bill.
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British statesman says his country's tied
up with Europe only by reason Of geography.
And the fact that Great Britain has never had
one OF our dust storms.
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Dark Shadow
HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

HARRIET SCOTT OLANIOh
I ran to meet the challenge
The blue sky gave to me;
I tossed my heart to Heaven;
I tossed it high and free.
I sang a mad-cap song note,
Trilled underneath my breath.
I nearly stepped upon a squirrel,
That lay in quiet death.
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will show he is the common peoples
friend and that "salus populi SUI
prema est lex"
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Daily Thought

For I was an hungered, and ye
gave Me meat; I was thirsty, and
We gave Me drink; l was a stranger,
and ye took Me inst. Matthew
25:35.
THE charities that soothe, and
i heal, and bless, lie scattered at
the feet of men like flowers
Wordsworth.
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I haven't noticed anybody return
ing those checks they get from the
government across state lines.-Sen-
ator Morris Sheppard, Texas.
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