Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1933 — Page 21

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Sometimes pvpn publishers do ' not know thp idpntity of the au- j thors of somp books. Whpn Wil- ' liam Farquhar Payson, publisher, j announced the publication date | of "Madame Tahiti.” Mme. Yvonne de Saint-Cyr was listed | as the illustrator. Now it develops that she is co-author with Andre de Wissant. Sells for $2. mm* ERNEST R GROVES and Gladys 1 Hoagland Groves, authors of •‘Sex In Childhood,” tackle their subject in a direct method right at the beginning with the statement that sex "is a part of the child 1 physically and psychologically from his hour of birth.” I am recommending this book j after searching for five years for | such a treatise. I have received many ; letters asking me to recommend a book dealing with sex in childhood, i My recommendation is based up-1 on the fact that I consider Pro- | fessor and Mrs. Groves to be trust- j ed counsellors for American men j and women upon this subject. This book has been written with! the idea of giving to parents scien- j tiflc, as well as common sense information with which to guide them in so rearing their children j that dangers will be averted and the critical factors of sex development used to a healthy and harmonious development of the child's personality. The authors present their infor- [ mation in non-technical language, i As far as possible the vocabulary of thp speciaist is avoided. In this i way the task of applying the knowledge is made easier for the; parent.

Among the subjects treated are children’s erogenous zones, jealousy, preference for the parent ot opposite sex, exhibitioni. m, influence of bad companions, modesty, how to deal with sex curiosity, adolescence, sexual abnormalities in children, and many other subjects. In the chapter on ' Mother's Boy and Father's Girl," the authors discuss masculine and feminine characteristics and give evidence of “the struggle every one feels at times against the imitations of one's sex." “We all have some masculine and some feminine traits," the authors contend, “and the degree to which we swing to our normal pole or its opposite is determined in part by the happenings of our early childhood and by the reception our childish reactions got from interested adults. This goes much farther back than the age of speech.” I believe that this chapter is one of the best in the entire book because it deals with a subject on which few people have definite information. "Sex in Childhood” is published by the Macauley Company. ana IF you happen to be looking for the meanest husband in the world, you will find him in the novel, “Suspicion." by Dominique Dunois, recently published by Macaulay. Gerard Delville did not beat his wife Madeleine with a club, but he used a more deadly weapon. Gerard was a past master at the art of mental torture. By this devilish method. Delville transformed his wife from a good, honest mate into a cheat—a cheat in the fullest meaning of the word. Jealous of everything his wife did. Gerard punished her in a most amazing way. Constantly be questioned her love and loyalty and at the climax of this campaign of torture, he even questioned her purity. Madeleine's defeat was made more humiliating because she was untrue on one occasion with an ugly character of Paris. When she made her confession. Gerard dismally realized that his wife had been faithful until he practically had forced her into an act which was foreign to her nature. “Suspicion” is not pleasant reading. but it has been powerfully written. While reading the book. I wanted to throw Gerard out of the house. And the tragedy of the entire story is that Gerard and Madeleine loved each other. PLANE FALLS 3.000 FEET: AVIATOR SAFE Pilot Stays in Craft to Prevent Heavy Crash Damage. By I'nitrd Prritt CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Nov. 3 —Lee Haynes. Dallas iTex.i aviator, miraculously escaped serious injury when the airplane he was flying in an air show fell 3.000 feet here "late yesterday and crashed on North Tryor street, a few yards from a large manufacturing plant. Haynes said he did not use his parachute for fear the plane would get out of control and do heavy damage as it crashed. Suffering only head bruises and a sprained back, the aviator was able to walk from an ambulance into a hospital. Motor failure was blamed for the crash.

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ECONOMY PLAN DRAFTED FOR PARK SYSTEM Sallee Suggests Closing of All Golf Links During Winter. Approval of an economy program which will save taxpayers several thousand dollars annually will be sought from the park board by A. C. Sallee, park superintendent, next Thursday. Included in the program is the closing of all golf courses during winter months, renting of Coffin course as a private concession, and closing of neighborhood community houses. In addition, the board will be asked to relinquish its maintenance of several boulevard streets to the board of works, and to turn over outlying streets to die county highway department. Action on the municipal golf courses was suggested recently by The Times in a seres of articles on the city budget. Woodstock Pays $6,000 The city now is obtaining $6,000 annual revenue from rental paid by the Woodstock Club, and a similar arrangement could be worked out for Coffin, it is said, especially since the course is regarded as one of the sportiest in the country. Some time ago, the board approved an order closing South Grove course during the winter, with Riverside to remain open the year around. A petition bearing several hundred names has been received asking for retention of winter playing at South Grove, Mr. Sallee said, but investigation shows that most of the signers were nontaxpayers, caddies and concessonaires. Check on Players Made A check on players last Sunday will be presented to the board by Mr. Sallee to show that an insufficient number of players use the winter course to justify its continuance. The move to close the community houses, in w-hich heat, light and water, as well as maintenance, are supplied by the city, probably will be opposed by civic organizations, Mr. Sallee admits. He pointed out, however, that the majority of the organizations which use community houses for meetings have urged reductions in city expenses. Although the cast of maintaining the boulevards and outlying streets eventually will be borne by taxpayers, the relinquishing of the responsibility to the works board and county will reduce park board expenditures materially, Mr. Sallee said.

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THE GOOD OLD DAYS-WHICH ONES?

Old-Time Imbibers Ponder Drinking Styles After Repeal

BY A. J. LIEBLING Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 3. That page of the local newspapers which drew the widest comment on Oct. 5, was an advertisement which appeared in all. Park & Tilford was spending money to advertise liquors accepting orders for delivery after the formality of repeal. Ordinary citizens of both sexes: solid lawyers, speakeasy bartenders, lady bridge addicts, young fellows off trucks, manicure girls, seedy men who live in reminiscence, all then realized that prohibition was finished. Newspaper e -orialists had been saying so for a long time, but space costs them nothing, and the New Yorker distrusts talk that is cheap. On subways, over dinner tables, over bars, on street corners, people said with an air of knowing triumph, “It’s back.” They meant not merely legal liquor, but a legendary or ill-re-membered past order of things—the “good old days.” n a a EVERYBODY believes in the good old days. But “the good old days" vary according to a man’s age. so that a man of 60 will fix their date around wide-open 1900; a man of 50 will pick 1910, the effulgent era of the lobster palaces; and gentlemen in early middle-age will insist there were no old days better than those of the “shimmeshawobble” and the tango teas, just before the United States entered the World war. Each has a vague, hopeful notion that his kind of good old day will come back. But most of us (see United States census. 1930) are under 35. So most of the people who said “It's back” had no personal memory of any pre-prohibition “good old days.” For them, the past is a past en bloc as contrasted with the present. Jim Fisk and Diamond Jim Brady; Lydio Thompson and Lillian Russell; McGurk's Suicide Hall and Raines Law sandwiches; the Gilsey House and the Case de l'Opera, John L. Sullivan and Whisk Broom ll—all these episodes and institutions, disparate in time, are telecoped in the glamorous, hazy association. an u TO a public fed up on the present, all the old days seem good. Repeal will change night life as radically as prohibition altered it. But which variety of "good old days” will return or whether there will be something entirely new—well, a lot of restaurant men would like to know.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1933

Quiet and dignity, associated with pre-prohibition New York by some of the dreamers on old times, will scarcely be the ticket. That era passed out in 1899, when Delmonico’s, the single colossus bestriding New York’s restaurant world at Twenty-sixth street, with one foot on Fifth avenue and the other on Broadway, abdicated its position in the town’s night life by moving up into a quiet residential district Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue. Twenty-sixth street was the very hub of the .theatrical and hotel district, which ran, roughly, from Eighteenth street to Fortieth street. Delmonico’s had a position of dominance never attained by any New York restaurant before or since. No writer feared offending another restaurateur by calling Delmonico’s "the leading restaurant of this hemisphere.” It was acknowledged. B B B ‘‘✓CHARLES (Charles Crist Delmonico) is as quiet and reserved as he wishes his patrons to be.” a contemporary wrote. Mr.

How the artist visualized notables of the period greeting the New Year at the old Case Martin on New Year’s eve, 1905. In the picture, left to right, one was supposed to discern Lillian Russell, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Caruso, Blanche Bates (on the table), Edna May, John Drew', Lulu Glaser (also apparently on a table), and Mme. Sembrich. The picture is reproduced from the files of the old World.

Delmonico, tall, thin, pale, with a dark chin heard, resembled Philip II of Spain in gloom and stately dignity. All was quiet within his austere precincts. Banishment from Delmonico’s “meant social ostracism by the great world of central New York City.” Banishment ensued upon loud talking, profanity or refusal to pay a check. The house had an "undeviating rule” against serving a woman alone after 5 o’clock, and another against serving a man and woman together in a private room. One of the Delmonico dynasty refused the use of a private dining room to Mr. and Mrs. August Belmont, after he had known Mr. Belmont forty years. “At Delmonico’s, every New

Yorker belonging to a certain set is presumed to be a gentleman. The blacklist means absolute ostracism from the one place every New York swell and about every gentleman visitor wants to enter almost every evening.” Such social outcasts often sent their mothers or sisters to entreat Mr. Delmonico’s clemency for them. Never, before Delmonico s moved uptown, were gentlemen permitted to smoke in the main dining room where there were ladies. The only attractions of the place w’ere excellent food and wines—and snobbery. BUB SO strong was the last, that sharp criminal lawyers like Abe Hummel, tin box politicians

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like Blue-Eyed Billy Sheehan and jockeys like Snapper Garrison submitted eagerly to every restriction so that they might be considered part of the social swim. John Klages, white-whiskered, bald head waiter of the men’s case, could shrivel a Tammany sachem at a glance. Bitterly nocturnal New York complained when Del’s moved to the fastnesses, but the patrons did not follow. Forty-Fourth street was too far from the White Way for the sports and too near home for the swells. The restaurant went into bankruptcy in 1923, and the famous bar, where Richard Croker of Tammany and Ward McAlister, inventor of the Four Hundred, alike parked their elbows, sold for ssl. Exit Del’s from the Rialto, enter the first crude automobiles, and exeunt dignity and quiet from Broadway. They may never come (Turn to Page 24)

COBAN REGIME IS PERILED BY HAVANA RIOTS Fall of San Martin Reign Appears Inevitable to Citizens. By United Preas HAVANA. Cuba. Nov. 3.—Downfall of the regime of President Grau San Martin appeared inevitable today as Havana seethed jvith disorder, bombings, shootings and political unrest. More than a score of bombs have been exploded and hundreds of shots fired in the last twenty-four hours. Rifle and pistol firing in the center of Havana intermittently between speeding automobiles and troops guarding the streets kept the inhabitants on edge. The people seemed heartily sick of the state of semi-anarchy here and in the provinces, and were in nervous fear of a serious uprising. There j was no accurate check on the number of casualties, but numerous perj sons were reported injured, and a I policeman. Jesus Garcia, who was | to have been married Saturday, died | from last night’s bomb explosion at police headquarters. Night resorts, including the wellknown Sloppy joe’s, mostly were closed shortly after midnight and the city has lost much of its air of gay night life. An air of defeat prevailed and many persons were asking American newspaper correspondents, "when will your marines land?” Labor unrest and sabotage were reported, also, from various points in the provinces. Troops patrolled the streets of Cienfuegos, where consumers were on strike against using electricity, demanding a 40 per cent rate reduction.

ASK $30,000 DAMAGES Auto Accident Is Basis for Suits by Women. An automobile accident last March is the basis of two damage suits filed in Marion county courts yesterday by Ella and Margaret McCarthy against Walter P. Morton, 4012 Central avenue. Each plaintiff asks $15,000 damages for personal injuries sustained, it is alleged, when their car was struck by one driven by Mr. Morton. CHICKEN DINNER SLATED Broad Ripple Christian Church to Entertain Tonight. Broad Ripple Christian church. Sixty-second street and Carrollton avenue, will give a fried chicken dinner, starting at 5 tonight. The dinner w r ill cost 25 cents. The public is invited.