Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1931 — Page 12

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WORKING WIVES RECEIVE PRAISE, CONDEMNATION Conflicting Opinions Are Expressed in Times Contest Letters. The battle Is on in earnest! The mailman staggered into The Times office this morning with scores of letters, debating the burning question, “Should Wives Work?” The chorus of “she shoulds” rang loud, but from the other camp there came an equally loud cry of “she shouldn't.” The best letter in the affirmative will win a $lO bill for the writer in The Times contest. The best letter in the negative will win a like sum for its author. The dead line is next Thusrday, any letter postmarked up to midnight being given consideration by the judges. Two For, Two Against Here are four opinions, two for and two against, the first one from Ida S. Broo, 508 Indiana Trust building; The Constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happines. All women are not housekeepers, any more than all men are farmers. Why limit to married women the theory that employment is only for those in actual need? To be logical, It must include every man who has a competence. In a crisis such as exists today, this line of reasoning appears sound, but it is as irrational as it would be to discard machines and build roads by hand—as actually W’as suggested recently. If we discard the steam shovel for the pick, shall we not discard the pick and build roads with teaspoons? It is impossible to go backward. Factories now do the spinning, the weaving, the baking the candle making and most of the duties that belong to the married woman. Men have taken her occupation out of the home and she has followed. The Lord created for Adam a helpmate, and through the ages woman has been honored in proportion to the way she shared her husband’s burdens. Only a wife wholly unworthy of the name will live a life of ease watching her husband bear a double burden when she has the ability to help in making that provision for the future which is necessary to peace of mind, God and our Constitution have given her that right. Who dares deprive her thereof? He Opposes Ii Frank Shuppert, St. Paul, Ind., has a different argument: I have tliree reasons for thinking a married woman’s place is in the home. She may be taking ! a man or a girl’s job. She may .sacrifice motherhood, { or she may make a worthless | man of her husband. If she wants a career, let her i stay single. The two conflict and cause many divorces. A wife should work, declares Kathryn Offutt, 5406 Carrollton avenue; Certainly a wife should work. Any married woman with pluck enough to take care of a million home tasks, and work on the outside deserves much credit. She isn’t working for pleasure, but with the thought of avoiding the poorhouse, or taking care of mother and father. Nowadays a woman 35 years old can not find a job, unless she is especially prepared and with years of experience. Therefore, if a woman has labored and won herself a paying position and can help pay for the home and nest- I egg, who should begrudge her S “making hay while the' sun j shines?” If every one had the courage | and will power to forsake just j a few good times, for a more I comfortable old age before it is j too late, there wouldn’t be so j many wanting the wife’s job. Place Is in Home The wife’s place is in the home, j in the view of Beulah Reynolds, | 418 Guaranty building. There are few things in life j which warrant the wife’s working. I The inability of the husband is j one; the need of the wife’s help j to support the family is another. I say that, except for these reasons, the wife's place is in the home. Husband wants to come home in the evening and find a nice, neat-looking home, and a freshlooking and clean wife. These aren’t to be found if the wife has been out working all day. Something may happen in the office, in the factory, or wherever she may work that would make her feel grouchy, and have a lack of interest in the home. If she Is tired, she can not be fresh looking. Another reason a wife should not work if these conditions do not prevail in the home Is that she is keeping some other person out of a a job who really is needy. In reality, all the married women are working for today, in most cases, is to make their own spending money. They want to feel independent toward their husbands. If they would only stop to think, they would realize that their husbands took it upon themselves to take care of their wives when they married them. So. in conclusion, I say, let the married women run the homes, and the single girls run the business world. Wives, change your occupation when you change your name! Make your home what it should be. and you can, IF YOU TRY! DAY FUNERAL IS HELD Rites Held at Home for World War Veteran Who Killed Self. Funeral services were held Wednesday for Elihew E. Day, 40, of 1134 North Arsenal avenue, World war veteran, who committed suicide Sunday. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Contracts for Bridges Awarded E. A. Mariani A* Cos., Richmond, has been awarded a $30,310.79 contract by the state highway department for construction of four bridges on State Road 18, near , Bryant to Jay county.

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Praise for his bravery in capturing an armed bandit suspect Wednesday, was bestowed upon detective George Mueller today by Police Chief Jerry Kinney and high police officials. Mueller, unarmed, seized the suspect, Virgil King, 22, of 1223 East Market street, before he could pull the trigger of a .38-caliber revolver King brandished, and held him, arms pinioned at his side, until other officers arrived.

CITY PIONEER DEAD Theodore Harrison, 86, to Be Buried Saturday. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary for Theodore F. Harrison, 86, real estate dealer and developer of the Mapleton district, north of Thirty-fourth street, who died Wednesday at his home, 48 West Thirtieth street. Born in Harrison comity, which was named for his family, Mr. Harrison came to Indianapolis more than sixty years ago. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Eliza A. Harrison, and two daughters, Mrs. Florence Hause of Los Angeles, Cal., and Mrs. C. O. Wilson of Beaumont, Tex.

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CITY JUDGES BLAST AWAY AT BONDSMEN Demand to Be Made for Cash Only to Stop Practices. Move to force professional bondsment to provide only cash bonds in municipal courts was to be taken today by Judges Clifton R. Cameron and Paul C. Wetter. The order was to be prepared , later in the day by the judges, following a series of conferences and is interpreted as the most severe blow administered to the professionals by the judges to stop unethical practices in their courts. “Persons who frequently sign bonds for pay will be required to put up cash bonds under the order that Cameron and I will issue,” Wetter announced. “Under this system the cash from fortified bonds immediately will be turned over to the public school fund.” State Has Gone to Court “It will break up the practice of bondsmen doing nothing for the state but collecting feees and paying little or nothing when the bonds are forfeited.” Wetter said that under the system of property bonds the state “has collected quite a bit of money on forfeited bail.” It frequently has been necessary for the state to go into court under the forfeiture. During a campaign on bondsmen several months ago, it was revealed that the amount of bonds provided by some bondsmen is many times the value of their property. Has Sliced Revenue Wetter said the practice of permitting court bailiffs to release on their own recognizance persons slated on misdemeanors “has proved highly successful.” The courts now have in force an order that when a defendant is slated on a series of charges, only the highest bond on one of the counts is necessary, which, according to the judges, has sliced revenue of professional bondsmen.

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Continued delay of Governor Harr:/ G. Leslie in either reappointing Paul C. Wetter as judge of municipal court four or naming his i successor, and speculation as to ; what will occur, are the most preva- | lent topics of conversation among Indianapolis attorneys. From the viewpoint of the average citizen of Indianapolis, this appointment is much more important than others still awaiting action by the Governor. a tt a Since expiration of Wetter’s term on Jan. 1, George V. Coffin, Marion county G. O. P. boss, has been exerting pressure through every possible source to obtain his reappointment. From all Indications, the Governor has not forgiven the Coffin organization for the woeful showing he made in Marion county in the 1928 election and at present is averse to appointing a member of the organization to any post. sum Three names, of the score submitted, which are said *to be receiving Leslie’s consideration, are those of William S. McMaster, formerly superior court judge; John F. Engelke, former probation officer and unsuccessful candidate for the G. O. P. nomination for the probate bench, and Floyd Mannon, former deputy prosecutor. McMaster, appointed to superior court four when Byron K. Elliott resigned in 1929, has indicated he is averse to an appointment to the municipal criminal bench. His friends say, however, that if Leslie desires to appoint him, Judge Dan V. White of municipal court two, a civil court, can be moved to Wetter’s place and McMaster could assume the civil bench. Measuring seventy feet from tip to tip of its wings, the world’s largest gliding plane is being built in Germany.

RINGLING NOT HI6HBROW; JUST KING' ‘Mr. John’ Likes Culture, but Balks at Title of ‘Elite.’ By NEA Service NEW YORK, April 10.—“Mr. John” has come back to town from his Florida estates to take possession of an office in which amusement history is remade every year. For “Mr. John” is John Rungling, who became John Ringling through a typographical error committed many years ago. All the Runglings, harness makers from Germany who settled in Baraboo, Wis., became Ringlings—and Ringlings they have stayed. But “Mr. John,” last of the five brothers, is a shy,—even timid —man where interviews are concerned. One would imagine that, after all the years of trouping and ballyhoo and press-agentry, he would be hardboiled and expansive. Instead of which he runs to the sanctuary of his office at the very idea that he may be quoted. Which is why it becomes a bit difficult to state, with any degree of accuracy, what happens in this throne-room of the white tops. Certain it is that “Mr. Jolm” smokes one cigar after another, and they are of a costly brand especially made to suit his tastes. And certain it is that at this season of year he has much to think about and much to attend to, now that the winter work in Sarasota, Fla., has been cleaned up and the many tent shows he is interested in get ready for the road. In his own way, “Mr. John” is a huge production in at least three rings and four stages. While the tanbark and canvas are his chief

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interests, he has made himself a unique show-world figure by showing an amazing interest in art and literature. Who ever expected a showman to have the largest individual collection of Rubens? Or to read the philosophers and the modem psycho-analysts, including Freud? Well, “Mr. John” does. Every one has heard of his fabulous Florida showpiace, where the marble was quarried from the temples of ancient Greece and Italy. Many a year ago, so the story goes, Mr. John was looking over the color work on those flashy and alluring billboard posters that can be seen about the country-side when circus season is on. The quality of the reproduction didn't suit him. He began to make inquiries.

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Why couldn’t he have better color and better scenes? He called in some artists and talked with them. He began to hear about reproductions in paintings. And then he got into books that had to do with great masters. Not only did he improve his billboard product, but he began to get a great Interest in paintings. His fortune grew. He had money to buy the great works of art. He became the sixth richest man in the world. He had still more money. He could buy original art works I for half a milllion. He became al- ■ most an expert. That’s but one side of the man —he owns a railroad of his own and* big oil fields; he is said to remember the salary and name of every person in his circus employ;

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