The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-18
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
McCREADY HUSTON

TN jest, on January 10, this we'll
a intentioned department quoted a
cab driver who was thinking that
the Supreme Courts AAA decision
would prevent the City Council from
limiting the number of taxicabs on
the streets of indianapolis. Right
away comes letter from my good
friend Arthur L. Gilliom, former at
.orney general, and now an attor-
ney interested in the welfare and
services of the street railways.
Of course, was merely quoting
a cab driver, who in these days,
might be doctor of philosophy with
no appointment to be had. One day
not long ago I had to dash up to
the Antlers to meet Dr. H. Z. Carl
son, the basketball coach of Pitt,
and on the way discovered z was
riding behind the wheel of an inter-
rupted medical student WHO had ex-
pected to specialize in psychiatry.
listened en- route to a most ex-
cellent dissertation on dementia
praecox.
MIR. GILLIOM contends, and
vA quite rightly, that the Su-
preme Courts decision does not de-
prive the Indianapolis Council of
the right to regulate the use of our
streets, whether by limiting the
number of cabs or in some other
way. He writes:
eve folks back home have quite
bit of reserved power under which
we can regulate local affairs. I
hope it is clear that in saying to
the boys in Congress that they can't
mess with agriculture until the
states or the people authorize them
to do so, the Supreme Court has not
also said that the Common Coun-
Gil of indianapolis may not by Or
dinance preserve the safe use of
it's public streets :"
Well, at least a thinking cab
driver drew a studied opinion from
a prominent lawyer.
CCOTT OLIVE, son of the new
~ president of the Chamber of
Commerce, escorted me to Short
ridge the other day to talk to the
members of the Press Club. This
is as fine group Of high school
students as have ever seen. They
asked a perfect volley of pertinent
questions, some of which I could not
answer. Looking forward to news
paper work, they revealed that they
were already well informed on the
state of the business.
Afterward Scott showed me
around bit and drove me down.
town. He expects to go to Harvard,
study business administration and
Join his father, George S. Olive, in
public accountancy.
The profession of public account
ancy' is growing in Importance
month by month. The upsetting Of
the processing taxes alone makes
important work for the accountants.
They and the lawyers.
rTIIE boys and girls at Shortridge
L asked me what I thought was
the best preparation for newspaper
work. I do not under-rate the
schools of journalism, although
lately there has been a tendency to
reconsider them. Joseph Medill
Patterson, of the New York Daily
News, not long ago came out with
a blast against the Medill School at
Northwestern, which he helped
found, saying it had not produced
the material hoped for. Columbia
has made journalism a strictly
graduate school. Another university
this year abolished it's department
of journalism and placed the courses
IN the English department.
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MY answer to the question asked
~ by the boys and girls is this
Get all the English, all the history
all the economics and politica
economy you can. With thai
knowledge one is able to appraise
the passing show. In other words
judge the present by the past.