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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-14

down our institutions of govern
ment?"
It is the Colonel's proud boast
that of all G. o. P. aspirants he
is anti-New Deal Enemy Nc. 1.
But. having beaten the war
drums and sounded the call to
arms, Knox now finds himself
like so many other leaders in
battle, elbowed out of the lime
light. Even a victory in today's
Illinois primary will make no real
change in the situation.
The trouble with Col. Knox is
that he has gone about building
himself up as a candidate as he
had gone about building himself
up as a newspaper executive.
And the two fields are entirely
different.
TINE Colonel is one of the
u Shrewdest and most success
full newspaper publishers in the
country. His progress up to the
ownership of The Chicago Daily
News was no accident. He built up
the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald,
then bought the Manchester IN.
H0 Leader, became an important
executive in the Hearst c,ganiza-
ton, and during this time, dabbled
a bit in Republican politics.
Meanwhile Walter Strong, pub
Usher of The Chicago Daily News,
died, specifying in his will that
the employees of the paper be given
the first opportunity to buy it.
Senator George Moses, G.. o. P.
mogul, also a New Hampshire
publisher, recommended Knox,
and after consultation between
Dawes and Hoover, Knox got the
job-and the paper.
II NOX has been as big a sue
m cess with The Chicago Daily
News as he was with everything in
life-except politics. He has won
the respect of his men, but not
their love. They talk glowingly
about their paper, but not about
their publisher.
During the Hoover Administra-
ton, one idea was uppermost in
Knox mind: friendship for the
man in the White House. There
was nothing he would not do for
Herbert Hoover.
This has continued since Hoover
left Office. In fact, when Negley
Farson, one of the most brilliant
members of The Daily News for
eign staff, wrote critical review
of HooYer's book In a London
paper, Knox discharged him by
cable-which may have been a
blessing to Farson, for he prompt
ly sat down and wrote new best
seller. THE Way of a Transgres-
sor."
THERE are two big reasons
Il why Knox will get nowhere
politically:
: !. He lacks popular appeal.
2. He lacks organized political
backing.
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Of the other two leading candi-
dates, Borah is weak in political
organization but has strong popu-
lar support. Gov. Landon has
public straightforward less of it
than Borah-but makes up for it
by powerful political underpin-
nings.
Col. Knox, on the other hand,
lacks both. He is direct, concise,
efficient. He has charm and some
sense of humor, but the man in
the street does not warm up to
him as they do to Borah, Landon
or Roosevelt. There is certain
aloofness, an element of calcula-
ton which discourages personal
enthusiasm.
A food of canned publicity has
been poured out by his campaign
managers to humanize Knox. He
has been painted as happy-go-
lucky Rough Rider, a debonair
newspaper man and boon COM
panion
But it has not worked. To the
public at large, Knox has con-
tinued to be only name.
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F.D.R. Emphasizes
3 Things in Talk
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, April 14-Three things stand
w out in President Roosevelts address to the
young Democrats at Baltimore.
First: He emphasizes e-employment as the most
pressing domestic problem, in much the same terms
it has been discussed in this column repeatedly
Then-without referring at all to the Supreme
Courts NRA decision, he adds that the government
must give and Will give consideration To such sub
jects the length of the working week, the stability
Of employment on an annual basis and the pay
ment of at least adequate minimum wages. AS has
been repeatedly said in this place. President Roose-
welt is determined to make another attempt to deal
with this question il spite of the failure of NRA
Second: He appears TO be endeavoring to heal
the breach with the business world instead of WIDEN
ing it he did IN his last annual message and his
Jackson Day address. he says at Baltimore that
most business men believe with the Administration
in greater purchasing power on the part of more
people, and that one form of attacking the problem
is ito work in unity" toward this end. Again, dis
cuSsing the conflict between those who say the gov
eminent should do nothing and those who say it
should do everything, Mr.. Roosevelt says: Common
dictates avoidance of both extremes" Last
" he puts it in his ideal political creed that "class
hatredS be done away with
Third: There is the appeal to the spirit. of youth
to keep on dreaming the vision of greater and finer
America, to believe that poverty be leSSened that
the disgrace of involuntary unemployment can be
wiped out, that peace at home and abroad can be
Northumberland that one day a generation may
possess this land blessed beyond anything know,
with those thngs-material and spiritual-that make
mans life abundant"
No doubt that sounds like hokum to the hard
bitten business man who wants to know how the
corporation tax is going to hit him. Maybe so. But
does nation live by bread alone even if it gets the
bread?
nNE OF the great qualities about Roosevelt
~ which offsets some of the sorry misfortunes of
administration that the New Deal has scents his
ABILITY to stir and invgorate the spirit of the nation
ms gift was effective in the early period of the
Aoministra on, when he pulled the country out of
shel-shock and helped it regain its nerve
This is the same quality that makes great in
dustrial leader or great solder-the power to put
courage into his people and to arouse in them the
vision Of large achievement
THAT is the secret of the rebirth of Russia Ger
Il many and Italy under the dictators
OF course Roosevelt has no dictatorship and no
censorship He must make terms with Congress
with the Supreme Court and above all with the yot-
ers on election day. And there's place on the bal
lot to vote no" He doesn't have it as easy as
dictator
Yet, ike every figure who has vitality Influenced
tie course OF nation, he Is able to inspire sense
81 public welfare about the business Of government
making II something more than an eternal haggle
wiis the tax collector,
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ports or landing fields under con-
ditions which otherwise would spell
tragedy.
The Federal Anyways System pro-
vides the following aids for the
pilot who flies along them:
Rotating beacon lights at ap-
proximately 15-mile intervals.
intermediate landing fields SO
located, relative to airports, that
landing areas are available at in
tervals of approximately so miles.
Radio communications stations
for weather broadcasts and emer-
gency messages to aircraft.
Radio range beacons for direc-
tional guidance.
Radio marker beacons for as
sistance in locating strategic points,
such as intermediate landing fields.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-14
Boring From Within

THERE are matters of common knowledge in
l. caulif1ower circles in New York and notorious
In the movie industry and the freedom of the press
thus is threatened more seriously from within than
ny any current action of the executive legislative
branch of the government. The percentage of these
grafers is small, but the scandal is great and the
reputation of the American press suffers dispropor-
tlonatey for the conduct of few members who are
not the type and never did belong
Our journalism is the best in the world on tina
average.
don't think there is any present danger that our
press will be censored licensed but in view of the
present hard-boed attitude of the citizens it be-
moves all OF us to keep our motives reasonably Clean
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until it is abolished suddenly in Italy Germany
Russia, Austria and other countries. We NAV find
1ault with the professional ethics of some of our pub
fishers from time to time and this is not to deny that
we nave some local dictators in the newspaper BUSH
ness who have run things with high and unscrupu.
ious hand for little while. But in this coun-
try has any one paper or chain of papers been able
TO control the national government and the little
Mussonis and Hitlers either die or lose their power
through the angry opposition of honest publishers
whose zeal for reform redeems for the press the sins
of the erring brother
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-14
Washington Merry Go-Round
DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

VX7ASHINGTON, April IA
w fellow newspaper publisher,
who has known Col. Frank Knox
for many years, recently re-
marked: 81 wonder if Frank
hasn't scooped himself on the
Republican nomination."
The probabilities are that he
has.
AS far back as April last year,
'Knox headquarters" were in evi-
dence at the American Newspa-
per Publishers Convention. AS
far back as July, long before Gov.
Landon or Senator Borah had
tossed their hats in the ring, Col.
Knox was storming at Roosevelt:
upon what does this our Gaze
sar feed? What madness has
seized upon him? Does he not
see how dangerously close this
comes to conspiracy to break
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back. Sometimes when he got ready
to turn back, the fog was so thick
that he didn't know where to turn.
Today, fog has no terror for the
transport pilot. His weather reports
by radio tell him when to expect it
and what Co do. His directional
radio equipment enable him to fly
right through it.
The atmosphere is a great ocean
of air. 1t is that and nothing more
to the layman. But for the pilot,
radio has marked off definite lanes
in that ocean, veritable roads as
definite as any road of concrete run
ming across the countryside.
We must understand these roads
of the air, both to understand the
present status of aviation and to
visualize the future.
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EhZnough'
by
WESIbR0Ok PEGLER

I DON'T know all the details of the at
tempt to seize and pore over the private
and confidential correspondence of William
Randolph Hearst, but just offhand I would
be willing to join in deploring the outrage,
not that it needs any help, what with his
great staff of writers and cartoonsts his movie and
raolo interests and his gift of vigorous protest
in open letters to himself When Mr. Hearst decides
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-14
A SUNSHINE ART

Until radio came to the aid of
~ aviation, the art of flying was
a sunshine art. Given a nice, clear
sunny day and things were easy for
the pilot. Night flying was a risky
business but possible if the weather
stayed clear.
Changes in the weather were the
things which the pilots feared most.
Leaving an airport where the
weather was nice and clear, the pilot
found himself running into clouds,
rain, fog. Sometimes he turned
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10 uepIore something IN earnest
that is a good time for timid souls
to stand from under for he COM
mands a formidable corps with a
tremendous power of indignation
and the motto on the house flag
is Whose Bread I Eat, His Song I
Sing"
So I will just say in regard to
Mr.. Hearst'S strident protest that
l think so too. and go on to sug-
gest that the freedom of the press
which he is now defending also
imposes certain heavy obligations
on the owners of the press.
The freedom of the press is
moro r1rociO,,c thai, ,~oo,.Ia ...,:,.
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celIent entertalnment. The TACT
that there are many lines and
scenes which command laughter
takes nothing away from the
driving force. And yet the end
is blank wall The dramatist ca
reens furiously into a blind alley.
If l understand the play truly,
Bob Sherwood says that in the
end nationalism makes imbeciles
of us all and when the pinch
comes each returns to his own
colors.
1t would be stupid indeed not
to admit this tendency on the
part of human beings. 1t is easy
To rnf1antaah her. rn1nn Mhn caid
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ROTATING BEACONS

.THE rotating beacon lights, use
Il full only in clear weather or
when the pilot is below the ceiling
in bad weather, are familiar sights
to all persons who have been up in
planes at night or toured the coun-
try roads by auto.
A steel skeleton tower, usually 81
feet high, holds the rotating search
light unit upon its top. Two types
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AIDS ARE LISTED

TINE official name of these roads
Il is 1.-THE Federal Anyways Sys-
tenn" It embraces $4,000 miles of
lighted and radio-equipped air
routes. They make things easier for
the pilots even when the sun is
shining. Their help is even more
welcome at night. And day or
night, when fog or mist or rain or
snow create poor visibility, they
arc indispensable. They make it
possible for planes to reach air.
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Haywood BR0lN

NEW YORK, April IA saw Robert E.
Sherwoods Idiots Delight" yester-
day, and it seemed to me one of the most
brilliant plays of fine season. But it let
me down good deal at the end The mood
was one of despair.
Here is a savage attack upon the cruelty and
stupidity of war. 1t is doubly effective because
Sherwood has managed to make his poemic an ex-
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bowling wind to whlrl the falling snow INTO
spirals and pile the drifts around fence cor
ners and trees.
Country roads are deserted Traffic city
streets falls to minimum. People prefer to be in
doors nights like these. It's great night to sit
close to the fire and turn on the radio.
If you listen outdoors, you may hear the plain
tive whistle of locomotive in the distance Pierre
inc the swirlinp snow with it's powerful headlight,
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Far Above Blizzard and Storm, Transports
Wing Way Along Well-Marked Courses
of Federal Anyways System.
BY DAVID DIETZ
Scripps-HOUdrd Science Editor

OUT of the frozen plains of the Canadian Northwest
- sweeps the blizzard Down goes the thermometer
makes its icy the badands of the West
the corn fields of Kansas the brosd farms and the busy
towns of the East
gray sky turns black as invisible sun sinks behind
snowbound horizon at the end of the day. The darkness
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-14

The regular Bridge Lesson
will be found today on Page
Eleven.
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For above the blizzard, above the
storm clouds, up where the sky is
clear, the giant transports of the
air service are winging their way.
Across hills and rivers, cities and
towns, the great planes keep going.
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SECOND
OF A
SERIES

is speeding along the cleaning rails marvellous
lights keeps the rail-
only
drifts block service disrupted
will when the wind
airplane far overhead
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Weather reporting service, involv-
ing the use of teletypewriter cir
cults and pointto- point radio.
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THERE are two big reasons
Il why Knox will get nowhere
politically:
! ]. He lacks popular appeal.
?. He lacks organized political
lacking.
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WASHINGTON, April 14.-Three things stand
w out in President Roosevelt's address to the
young Democrats at Baltimore
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
Judges and Labor Laws

The w%ell-known difficulties confronting the
workers in securing the enactment of labor leg
islation is again illustrated in the decision of
the New York Court of Appeals holding uncon-
stitutional the bill which passed the last legis-
lature giving the voters of New York City an
opportunity to vote on the question of putting
the city Fire Department on three-platoon
basis, with an eight-hour day and one day of
rest in seven for its members.
The measure, which has been actively sup
ported by the New York City fire fighters for
many years, was contested in the lower court on
the grounds that the eight-hour day would i'm
peril the public interest and waste the property
and funds of New York City and that the pro-
posed referendum was unconstitutional.
In the challenge of the constitutionality of the
referendum a provision in the state constitution
was cited which says that the Legislature may
not pass any law relating to the property, af-
fairs and government of a city which is a special
or local, either in terms or effect, except on an
emergency message from the governor and the
concurrent action of two-thirds of the members
Of each house of the legislature"
Governor Lehman did not submit the pro-
posal to the legislature in an emergency mes
sage" and the anti-labor group which was OPP
posed to the referendum challenged it's consti-
tutionality on this technically.
The lower court held that the working hours
Of firemen would be reduced under the three
platoon system to a point more conducive to
their physical and mental resources, that their
efficiency and health would be improved, and
that thereby the welfare of New York City
would be subserved under these benefits. The
court therefore concluded that the subject of
the statute was a matter Of state concern, and
not merely a municipal concern.
The Court of Appeals, in an opinion written
by Judge Crouch, overruled the lower court
and held that inasmuch as Governor Lehman
did not submit the proposal to the Legislature
in an emergency message the law providing
for the t%hree-platoon referendum was u%nconsti-
wtutional.
When organized labor has to jump both the
legislative and judicial hurdles to secure labor
legislation, the exercise of meticulous care with
regard to every detail in the procedure is evil
IDENTIFY of supreme Importance.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
Bankers and the People

The recklessness, running into financial
turpitude and illegality, frequently manifested
by business men operating as bankers, is dis
closed in the investigation made by Commits
sioner Carl K. Withers of the New Jersey State
Banking Department into the loans made by
the Mechanics Trust Company of Bayonne, N.
j.. which was closed last June and taken over
by the state.
One of the fundamental principles of sound
banking is that adequate security shall be re-
uuired for loans. This is necessary because the
bankers are handling money belonging to the
depositors, who are morally entitled to have
loans made only under conditions which guar
antee their payment.
Another fundamental principle of sound
banking is that directors and officers of banks
shall not abuse their positions of trust by MAX
ing inordinate and insecure loans OF the deposit
tors money to themselves and their friends.
According to the report of Commissioner
Withers, the closing of the Bayonne bank was
caused by the fact that bank officials had vio-
lated these principles with impunity.
He pointed out that on marketable collateral
amounting to only S445,0 600 bank officials had
made loans totaling $2,719,429 and that loans
amounting to 81, 430, 181 on marketable collat-
eral of only S131, 400 were made to II bank di-
~rectors, their affiliated companies, relatives and
close friends.
1t was practices like these revealed by Com
missioner Withers that threw many banks into
bankruptcy during the breakdown of our bank
ing system which eliminated in the forepart
of 1888 and robbed depositors of millions of dol
lars. It is a calamity for public confidence in
bankers that these practices continue even in
a much modified degree.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
GOODYEAR SHUTS DOWN,
THROWING $4,000 OUT; EX-
PECTED TO REOPEN SOON

AKRON-(FP)-A small sit-down
involving four men became a big
sit-down involving $500 and in turn
a lockout of $4,000 as Akron's giant
Goodyear plant closed in the second
great shutdown in a month in the
city's rubber industry. The situation
was regarded as even more charged
with high feeling than when Good
rich slammed shut its gates on Sept.
%.
A connection was seen between
the Goodyear shutdown and plans
of the plant management to reopen
five days later on the day before
election. The rubber companies have
been in a threatening mood toward
labor for some time.
The current disput began when
four men in Goodyear's Plant 2,
scene of some 80 sit-downs in eight
months and battlefield where barri-
cades were once erected as a defense
measure by the workers, sat down
when the company attempted to vio-
late seniority rights. Twelve hours
later, the entire division was not pro-
ducing the accustomed 100000 tires
per day. The company decided to
evacuate them and close down COM
pletely. A seasonal shutdown for
five days had already been planned.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12

for its thousands of employees, by which a
standard of living is set above which they can
never rise-their wages being adjusted upward
and downward according to increases or de-
creases in the cost of living.
According to the complaint of the Federal
Trade Commission the companies were alleged
to have entered into a price-fixing agreement in
1888. The group was described by the Commits
sion as so powerful "that they are able to con-
troll the turbine generator and condenser bust
ness in the United States" the principal pur-
chasers of these products being publicly or
privately owned utilities and municipal, state
and federal governments.
To achieve the elimination of competition
among themselves, the Commission alleged the
group liked and maintained uniform prices as
we'll as uniform performance guarantees for
their products and adhered to prices compiled
by one of the group although such prices bore
no relation to the individual costs of the respec-
tive members of the group in the manufacture
of their products. Moreover, the complaint
charged that the various companies submitted
identical bids for turbine c~ondensers and gen.
orators and resorted to disciplinary action
against any of the companies who failed to
abide by the prices in accordance with the
agreement.
These constantly recurring charges of law
violation made by the government against corp
orations whose directorates include the leaders
of business and industry unavoidably implant
in the mind of the average citizen the regret
table conclusion that these groups regard them
selves as above the laws whose observance is
rightly claimed to be the patriotic duty of every
citizen.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
FILM GROUP ASKS
MORE A MOVIES

ELIZABETH, N. Producers of
motion pictures were asked this
week to ''avoid such films as incite
to war; and to provide the public
with more films that carry the spirit
of peace" in a resolution adopted at
a meeting here of the Finer Films
Federation of New Jersey.
The representatives from film COM
mittees in 10 New Jersey commune
ties declared that there is before
the country at this time no subject
more important than that of peace
and war;" pointed out that films
have great influence in forming the
opinions and stirring the emotions
of millions of our people who each
week sec motion pictures" and
adopted the resolution because com
paratively few films carry a peace
message"