Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1933 — Page 13

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E. M. Dclafield A book that is being read these days is “A Good Man's Love,” by E. M. Delaficld and published by Harper and Brothers. It is a satire, nicely written, on society and marriage. It was recently one of the months selections of the Book League of America. tt tt o BY WALTER I). HICKMAN EVERY time I open a copy of “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” I seem to think of the old fashioned home, years ago. when mother made her own bread, jams and apple butter and Dad put gallons of apple eider away in the cellar side by side * with cabbage, apples, pumpkins add the like. Have just received the 1933 edition of "The Old Farmer's Almanac,” by Robert B. Thomas and published by the almanac company at Boston, Mass. This is the one hundredth and forty-first year that this almanac has been published and I am of the opinion that if I had every edition for those many years I would own an invaluable history of the life of this nation. The new almanac for this year, contains “advice to the ladies 137 years ago” and it was published in the almanac in 1796. This advice is so priceless because it belongs to the corset and long flannel nightgown period of home life that I will give you several of the startling rules of conduct as set down in 1796. tt tt tt The good wife should first—“she should be like a snail, always keep within her own house: but she should not be like a snail to carry all she has upon her back.” And also—“she should be like a town clock, always keep time and regularity; but she should not be like a town clock, to speak so loud, that all the town may hear her.” The quaintness of this advice makes one wonder how we ever got suffrage and the vote for women. What they laughed at in 1793? Well, this was published in the al/manac in 1793—“A clergyman observed to his friend, that upon the last Sabbath, he was much disturbed by a cow who looked in at the door, and bellowed in his face. 'Sir,' says the other, 'a calf has no right in the pulpit.’ ” Do we laugh at this one in 1933? Let me know’. Well, anyway the joke they laughed at in 1793 is and was clean. You will be in error if you get the . jnpression that this 1933 almanac is :Vivolous and sill' 7 tt tt tt Each month has advice to the farmer or to his wife on how 7 to shell peas so as to save time. During the month of July, the farmer is warned against rabies and in December he is told how to spend his long eve- , nings at home with his family and of the advantages of having “wholesome and cheering” apple cider in the cellar. Os course most of the advice is for farmers and others living in the New England states, but the homely wisdom of years and years is national in appeal. It may seem strange to “review” an almanac, but I got myself criticized for reviewing a cook book some years ago and then proceeding to make biscuits. The cook book was o. k. but my biscuits—Well, well, well. "The Old Farmer's Almanac” for 1933 sells for 15 cents. This almanac goes on the shelf ,in my own library marked "Books I ' Want to Keep.” a a a Based on sales reports in their stores all over the country, Ermtano's. New York, lists the folio mg as the best sellers in fiction: “Flowering Wilderness,” by Galsworthy; “Munity on the Bounty," by Nordhoff and Hall; “Public Faces,” by Harold Nicolson; “Never Ask the End,” by Isbale Peterson; “Peter Ashley,” by Du Bose Heyward, and “Invitation to the Waltz." by Rosamond Lehmann. tt ft e Have received word from Liveright, Inc., that Theodore Dreiser has written anew novel. The Stoic.” as the third volume of “The of Desire,” of which “The Financier" was the first volume, and “The Titan," the second. Publication date is not announced as yet. a u a Now we know the name of one of the authors of “Washington Merry-Go-Round" series, according to an announcement by Liveright, Inc. The publisher announces that in March he w 7 ill releave "The American Diplomatic Game," by Drew Pearson, co-author of "Washington Merry -Go - Round” an n “More Merry-Go-Round.” and former correspondent for the Baltimore Sun in Washington, and by Constantine Brown, former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. It is claimed this book “is’ an exposure of the entire field of our foreign relations" and “it touches off a gunpowder blast from which there will be powerful repercussions.” m a a The mid-winter issue of “The Hound and Horn,” the edition for January. February and March, contains a startling article relative to ‘the present status of American *- civilization." The article is called * America Deserta,” and ts by Muriel Draper.

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MOVE TO CUT | ARMY BUDGET IS PUT ASIDE House Committee May Be Called to Account for Ignoring Economy. LARGE FUND FOR GUARD Millions Above Figures of Hoover Allotted for Militia Work. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Though a year’s study of the federal budget problem has brought about widespread recognition that costs of past and future wars must be curtailed if j any appreciable saving is to be ac- | complished, the house appropriaI tions committee has failed to renew | the recommendations for cuts in the war department budget which it sponsored last year. The committee has abandoned its insistence that the number of ; army officers be reduced by 2,000. A dispute between house and senate on this point tied up final passage of the war department appropriation bill for 1933 until after the fiscal year commenced. The house, which has supported the economy recommendation, finally gave in to the senate. In spite of the committee’s failure to reiterate its position, the issue j may be raised again from the floor ;of the house. A number of I anonymous army officers testified | last year that the efficiency of the I army would be increased by the cut | rather than lessened. National Guard Boost Is Issue The committee also may be called j to account for its recommendation j that funds for the national guard |be increased $9,134,831 over the | amount estimated by President Hoover’s budget. Mr. Hoover proposed reducing the number of drills to twenty-two a year and reducing attendance at summer camps. The committee has restored funds to provide for fortyeight drills, as at present, and to continue camps as in the past. It includes a deficiency appro- ; priation of $2,200,000 to carry the j national guard through the presI ent fiscal year. The argument which broke out in December as to the extent to which jthe war department is laying plans based on the- possibility of interj nal disorders may break out again when this appropriation comes bel fore the house. A net reduction of $6,696,613 under the budget figure has been recommended and the committee says it made the total cults of about j $16,000,000. most of which it set I aside for the national guard. No Funds for Camps It allowed no funds for the citizens’ military training camps, | and cut subsistence and camp ration I allowance for the R. O. T. C. Attempts to reduce the C. M. T. C. last week were defeated overwhelmingly by both houses and may be again this year. The committee proposes cutting by more than 50 per cent the allowance for military intelligence, eliminating all funds for entertaining in foregn captals. However, it includes the usual appropriation for i j thirteen hostesses and seven librar- \ | ians for the department of welfare j I of enlisted men. } It provides new funds for motor- : j izing all field artillery regiment'. I claiming that this expenditure will ■ : pay for itself in a year, in future ; econoomies No money is included j for purchase of horses and mules. The committee describes its bill as “largely a pay measure,” adding that j “we must provide a reasonable 1 amount of modern implementation j for training purposes and for immediate availability on what we hear as M-day.” M-day is described as mobilization day at the start of any hostilities. FIGHT RABIES SPREAD Hi/ United Pr •? MT. VERNON, Ind., Jan. 13. Posey county was under quarantine for rabies today with fifteen persons taking pasteur treatments. Three cities, including Mt. Vernon, reported outbreaks of rabies among dogs, swine and cattle.

Move to Lift Load Off Farmer Pushed in House

1 By Svripp-Notear<i Xrtcspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 13—With Henry Morgenthau Jr., agricultural i advisor to President-Elect Roosevelt, back in town, the movement to asj sist farmers ease their mortgage debt burden moved ahead a little today. The house judiciary committee started consideration of the plan to readjust bankruptcy laws to help all debtors, including farmers; and the so-called • Roosevelt plan." to scale down farm mortgages and debts, was in the final stages of drafting. Meanwhile, the Democrats plan to raise farm prices, embodied in the domestic allotment farm relief bill, was en route to the senate. This measure is designed to levy taxes of about a billion dollars on consumers, to be paid over to producers of farm products named in the measure. These include wheat, cotton, hogs, tobacco, butter fats, rice and peanuts. The farmer will receive these taxes as "adjustment certificates," which will represent the difference i between current prices and a socalled “parity" price, determined by striking a ratio between farm prices paid and received now and in prewar days. The bill passed the house Thursday nicht by a vote of 203 to 150, after it v as assailed vehemently as a "gigantic sales tax." Its sponsors, i including Morgenthau, have con-

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‘BILL’ IS HELD PRISONER BY DEPRESSION

Jobless Lad, Legally Free, to Be Forced Out of Boys' School

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Upper Left—John Tooley, the boy who was banished from Gibson county for a $3 theft, and how’ he looks since he’s grown a haircut at the Plainfield Boys’ school. ♦ Upper Center—“ Bill,” the boy with no place so go,

BY ARCH STEINEL HE'S the bov without a chance. Indiana has stamped "paid in full” on his record at the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield. For one year he has been due to go out into the world and demonstrate that he can beat back, but no one will take him. The army and the navy turned him down. Employers, depres-sion-haunted, have refused to give him opportunity to show the training and good record inculcated in him during his eight years in the boys’ school. But on November of this year the state will shove him out into a world of breadlines, job hunters and force him to battle, without home or guiding hand, against the tentacles of poverty, crifne and hopelessness. They call him just plain “Bill” at the boys’ school. Bill has a number—ll,oo9. a a BUT standards in kindliness, discipline and character building change over the years and for the first time in sixtyfive years of the state’s operation of a school of correction, the numbers have been dropped from the 425 boys at' the Plainfield school. The new system of keeping records on the boys by names instead of numbers was instituted by O. A. Negus, superintendent of the school, within the last six weeks. But although Bill has ceased to be a “number,” he sees no hope, nor does Negus, for opportunity to show what his 155 pounds of man power can do in the marts of business. Bill could be placed on a farm, but he isn't a farm boy. He is a finished cobbler through training in the school's shop. He can use a typewriter. He can clerk in a store. He’d make a brawny sailor, a burly soldier. But enlistments are at low ebb, and so there's no chance for him in the uniform. For an entire year, all +he months of good credits that have

tended that the burden involved will be no greater than consumers bore in pre-war times. The “Roosevelt plan” for meeting the farm debt situation is being drafted by Fred Lee, attorney for farm organizations which support it and the domestic allotment plan. But before being submitted to a standing committee of the house it probably will be discussed a-gain by the informal Democratic committee on farm relief.

Barbers Ask State Ban on Bootlegging of Hair Bobs

T>OOTLEGGERS, whether of liquor or haircuts, are decidedly in disrepute at the present session of the legislature. And from bills proposed for passage at the present general assembly it is evident that the roundhouse haircut and the convict clip are about to go the way of "home brew' and hip-pocket flask sellers. Backed by James G. Shanessy, general president of the Journeymen Barbers' International Union, a bill has been brought to attention of the solons for a barber board, to be composed of three members. Indiana is one of the ten states in the Union without laws con-

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made him eligible for parole, Negus and the boys’ school staff have searched for a job for him. a a tt “ttte almost thought we had W one at an Indianapolis plant, but the superintendent died the day he promised Bill a job and now that promise has been carried to the grave,” Negus explained. Periodically, Bill is permitted to leave the institution to hunt a place for himself in a world he hardly knows, but he always returns empty-handed and shrugging his shoulders at the futility of combating a system that gives him no opportunity to show what he can do. “I’ll be 21 in November, won’t I, Mr. Negus? Then I’ll have to go. I’d rather stay here than join the line of jobless. I’d have a clean bed, good food, here. But they won't let me stay,” Bill explained in the superintendent's office today. Bill’s story is one of youthful incorrigibility, of the vigor of the adolescence that couldn't be tied down to routine. Deviltry and not dishonesty placed him in Plainfield at the age of 12. He came from a home in St. Joseph county that was broken to bits by death and life, too. n a a HIS father, a construction engineer, erected a home in South Bend and paid for it. He had approximately $2,000 in the bank the day he died. Bill was at Plainfield when the father died. Later he went to his home to find his mother. He could not find her. No one at the bank knew of his father’s account, nor the whereabouts of his mother. A cold gravestone, an aunt who did not know where his mother was, two brothers who had dropped out of his life, left “Bill” without family. The boys’ school became his parent. Negus became his fathermother and the state of Indiana his godfather. But godfather says that Bill must go on his own in November and his father-mother can’t figure out what's going to become of the youth. PERPLEXED by the problem, Negus today explained the ease with which the majority of the boys of the school are placed on farms during their period of parole from the school until they attain the age of 21. "Outside of Bill, there's only one other boy at the school that we can't place. He's in about the same boat as Bill. He's not fitted to become a farmer or to even attempt farming. He's ready to take a man's job in the world of trade," he said. The school has 600 boys out on parole. The 600 look to the two field agents of the school as their

trolling the barber profession, sanitation of shops, or health of the workers who live by their shears and razor. nan DURING the boom of the bob fad among women, every house around the corner became an unlicensed beauty shop, with a housewife dividing her time between shouting at her children, "Now, Johnny, keep out of the cookie jar,” and "How did you want the back of your neck clipped, close and high?" Anyone with the price of a pair of shears or clippers could become a bobber of locks and with this the barbers claim came the resultant advent of their first business depression.

working at the finishing bench in the shoe shop of the school. Upper Right—O. H. Negus, superintendent of the school, who is attempting to secure employment for “Bill’’ and other graduates of the school.

foster parents. The agents are guardians against their abuse at the hands of employers and a curb against any one seeking to give the boys poor living quartern. and insufficient spending monejy. Boys placed on farms receive sl3 monthly wage in summertime, board, lodging and clothing. In the winter months the monthly wage is cut to spending money. One boy of the school has a banking account at the present time of $l5O from money earned on a farm. o a a ESCAPES from the school are considerably lower than from institutions of similar kind in the nation. One eastern correctional school averages twenty escapes monthly. The escapes in 1932 from Plainfield totaled sixteen.

Three Election Bills Are Given Favorable Reports

Three important bills affecting elections were recommended for passage today to the state senate by its committee on elections. The White-Webb bill, designed to eliminate mushroom po 1 iti ca 1 parties, provides that signatures of 1 per cent cf the total vote for secE, J, KLINE, RAIL LABORHEAD, DEAD Served Brotherhood Here for Forty Years. Following an illness of several weeks, Edwin J. Kline, 74, of 1217 Congress avenue, financial secretary of the local organization of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen for forty years, died Thursday in the Methodist hospital. He was a member of the Indianapolis local of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, the North Park lodge No. 646. F. and A. M., the Scottish Rite, Murat Shrine, the Odd Fellows and the Seventh Christian church. Funeral services will be held in the North Park Masonic Temple, Thirtieth and Clifton streets, at 2 p. m. Monday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Dr. Soland to Lebanon Bp Times Special LEBANON. Ind.. Jan. 13.—Dr. Emerson J. Soland. Indianapolis eye specialist, will take charge of the McDaniel Jewelry Company's optometry business here, according to an announcement by Francis McDaniel of the company Thursday.

They claim that this unfair competition of unskilled labor, that ordinarily was confined to washing pots and pans or cooking the husband's supper, hit them in years of prosperity and resulted in empty barber chairs. The proposed law would compel beauty shops to hire licensed hair trimmers. The beauticians are in favor of the law, for they are furthering an act before the legislature that will weed out the home beauty shop, with its giving of permanents between the heating of waffle irons and frying the noon meal of mush. a a a INDIANA rejected a former attempt to obtain a barbers license law.

Lower Left—One of school's cadets dressing down the mountain lion—the school museum’s prized possession. Lower Right—The new greenhouse at the Plainfield institution that has added florists as another occupation for which boys can be fitted.

An escaped boy loses 1,000 merits upon his return and merits count toward parole and a job, schooling on the outside, and that's the ambiiion of the 425 boys at the school. For every thirteen weeks of good behavior, a boy is given a “cleai” chevron. Bill rates 100 weeks or seven “clear” chevrons. Another cadet—tne school is based on military discipline—who has been publicized in the past and who spent his fifteenth birthday last week at the school is John Tooley of Princeton, the boy who was banished by a judge from Gibson county because he stole $3 worth of tools. The banishment was changed and Tooley was returned to the boys’ school.

retary of state at the last general election be a requirement for obtaining a place on the ballot. Separation of national and state tickets on election ballots and machines, and reducing the deadline for candidates to withdraw from thirty to twenty-five days before a primary, also received favorable committee reports. Another measure reduced salaries of precinct election board members, and provides that they be paid for one-day service only. The house committee on elections returned a favorable report today on the bill providing that the names of the candidates for President and Vice-President be carried on the ballot, instead of those of electors. No recommendation will be contained in the report of the senate committee on county and township business on a bill reducing the number of county councilmen from seven to six and making the council bi-partisan. A bill giving delinquent taxpayers ten years in which to pay, provided the first installment for 1932 is paid, will be recommended for passage to the house today by its committee on ways and means. LECTURES TO BE GIVEN Dr, D. W. Kurtz. World Traveler, Will Speak in City. Dr. D. W. Kurtz of Chicago, world traveler and lecturer, will give a series of lectures on “The ~ Great Doctrines of the Bible” at Grace Church of the Brethren. Capitol avenue and Thirty-second street. First lecture will be given at 7:30 tonight and will continue at same time Saturday and Sunday nights.

Shanessy points out that the man or woman who receives a hair cut in Indiana has no guarantee against the possibility that the operator working on him or her has a communicable disease. Aside from the angle of cleanliness and danger of disease, the licensed barber must know his barbering science, and the barber of today no longer is the barber of Mother Goose, "Barber, barber shave a pig, how many hairs to make a wig?” A board of examiners for barbers. Shanessy says, will bring the profession to a higher level, and do much to alleviate the depression in the trade from ‘ bootleg" shops.

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John, if he continues his good behavior, v ill be eligible for parole within six months. He has been an mmote of the school since July, 1931. a a THE school won't find it hard to place John in the world at large. They'll not have a hard time placing any of the other 425 boys at the school who earn their merit marks. But “Bill”—well, that another problem. “Bill” is almost 21 years old. And when he's 21 in November, the state of Indiana will take a roof from his head, oust him from his lodgings, give him a suit of clean clothes, shoes, underwear, the little money he has to his credit, and push him out of the front door into the street of joblessness and panhandlers.

Cheated Huey So Kingfish Calls German Embassy and Is Assured of Beer.

/?/ T n ited Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The newest tale about Senator Huey Long is a fantastic, but true story of how he gave the German embassy the scare of its life—merely to manufacture a good yarn for a college journalism student. Long telephoned the embassy, and in a thunderous voice in-

formed Counselor Rudolph Leitner that the German government had “insulted” the United States. The diplomat, after several anxious moments, learned that the “insult” was that Long had not been treated to beer when he called at the embassy. Herleston R. Wood, Princeton university student, was eager

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to get a story, and thus enhance his chances of winning a good place on the college paper. Long decided in an instant that ' he would help the young man. He grabbed the telephone. Wood in an article in the Daily Princetonian told what followed: "The Louisianan picked up a telephone and called the German embassy. The following conversation heard from his end of the wire: “ ‘lf the German ambassador isn't in. give me the highest man there. “ Who am I? This is Huey P. Long, United States senator and | former Governor of Louisiana, na- j tional committeeman and King- ; fish. What more do you want? " ‘Hello, are you sure you are j the highest man there? Well, I’ve ; got a little matter to settle with j your government. “ ‘Back in 1930, I had to borrow a dress suit, listen to a seventeengun salute, and then apologize to your government because I happened to have on a pair of greenstriped pajamas when one of your naval officers called. “ ‘Now my government has been insulted. I called on your ambassador. We had a nice quiet little talk and I left. “ ‘Now I read in the paper that people of lesser rank than I, when they called, got a couple of steins of that good, frothy German beer before they left. What I want to know is how are you going to fix it up? •‘ Finp. but when shall I call? “ Don't T.orry, 11 be there.’ ”

HALF MILLION SAVING SHOWN IN ROAD BILL Highway Cost Will Be Cut Sharply. Declares Measure Sponsor. BIDDING PLAN CHANGED State Penal Institutions to Provide Competition on Materials. More than $500,000 in salaries will be saved by the administration in highway department “ripper bill,” it was claimed by Senator Jacob Weiss (Dem.. Indianapolis', one of the senators who introduced the bill in the upper house today. This saving will be made, it was explained by Weiss, through the requirement that bids must be received on all maintenance work. Under the present setup, this work is done bj department employes. Other features which Weiss says wil> mean great savings are that nothing can be bought without competitive bidding, and cement or any other material may be purchased from Indiana penal institutions. All Rut One Rid Alike This year all but one firm bid alike on 1.400.000 barrels of cement. Action on the bids has been delayed because prices are 20 cents a barrel higher than in 1932. Weiss pointed out that with the threat of competition from penal institutions a better price will result. "Using prison-made goods is not mandatory in the measure," he declared. however. Under the bill's provisions the present highway setup is abolished. Instead of a bi-partisan four-mem-ber commission, with a full-time director, a three-member full-time commission is substituted. The full time members will be paid $5,200 a year under the bill. One of the members will be elected to the directorship. Separate departments of maintenance, construction, and executive will be abolished and the entire highway department will function as a whole, Weiss explained. Wage Drop Seen In receiving maintenance bids, I under the new bill, the work must ibe awarded to private contractors j unless the department can do it for I not more than 85 per cent of the ! bid price. Although Weiss said the saving l will be in salaries, the department's I annual reports show curtailment of | maintenance will reduce sharply the | wages paid to common labor. I Payments shown in the annual j report during the fiscal year of 1932, | ended Sept. 30, were as folows: Garage, $280,309; new buildings, ; $26,201; maintenance work wages, $1,430,032; construction, $995,337; commissioners, $7,510; other Salaries, $971,692, and stenographic salaries, $37,645. Senator William Doogs; Thallie W. Druley and James B. Brewster, who introduced a bill repealing the present highway law, will join in supporting the bill providing the new setup, Weiss said. AIRPORT’S PROGRAM FOR 1933 OUTLINED Passengers Clearing Here Increase Almost 5,000, Report Shows. Pointing to an increase in the last year of almost 5,009 in total passengers clearing the Indianapolis airport, Major Charles E. Cox Jr., airport superintendent, Thursday outlined the program of activities for 1933. Main event of the year will be ; two clays of air races, Sept. 9 and JO. Pushmobile racing, begun last year, will be continued, and plans have been made for the setting up of a golf driving range. Passengers clearing the port during 1932 totaled 18,785, as against 13,812 in the previous year. Figures revealed 11,387 transport planes cleared the port last year, and 9,825 in 1931. BONDSMAN FINED $lO ON DRINKING CHARGE 30-Day Jail Term Is Suspended by Judge Cameron. Henry Sleets, 42, Negro bondsman, was fined $lO and costs and given a suspended thirty-day sentence in jail by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron Thursday afternoon on a drunkenness charge preferred after an automobile accident Nov. 18. Sleets was given a year’s probation for Payment of the fine. Charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor and failure to display a drivers license were dismissed on prosecutor's motion. SBO Theft Is Reported Charles R. Dawson, owner of a grocery at £Ol North Gray street, reported to police this morning that the store had been entered Thursday night and SBO which he had hidden was missing.

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