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FRIDAY. NOV. 10. 1933. CLOSE “DOWNTOWN” OFFICE r T''HE issue at Butler university does not lie between Dr. Walter Scott Athearn, dismissed president, and the committee of local trustees. Nor does it hinge upon whether or not Dr. Athearn was all that he should have been as titular head of the institution. The focal point in the whole controversy is whether or not the taxpayers should be asked to continue to support an institution whose actual administrators have shown a genius for involving it in difficulties. No educational institution can be run from two places at the same time. That is what Butler trustees are asking when they put a president on the campus and a "downtown” office in the business district. It is not surprising that the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools has looked askance at an institution thus administered. If, as a result of this last row, the association withdraws its approval from Butler, the university will be branded throughout the educational wdrld as shoddy and second rate. On the basis of their record alone, the local board of directors should resign. The "downtown” office should close forever and sole administration should be vested in a first-class educator. TEXAS GUINAN TEXAS GUINAN, foremost female exponent of the night club era, gaudy if you please and rampant, now dead, helps date an important American period. The whole period was freakish. But its flashy characters were leaders in a practical rebellion against the bigotry of the Volstead era. Texas Guinan helped make prohibition seem not only ridiculous but futile, even as she elevated to public view a great crowd of shallow and brazen citizenry grouped by herself in one of her most typical categories—- " Big Butter and Egg Men from the West.” She glorified the brazen and the mediocre, the inebriate and the strident. She contribnted to current language and affected the trend of American manners or lack of manners. “Give the little girl a big hand!” "Hello, sucker!” tawdry now with usage, the Guinan jargon and manner expresses a large element of our noble population under the stress of a great social hysteria. And the physician who attended Texas Guinan in her last hours relayed this to the wearers of the white ribbon: "She told me that she had never touched alcohol in her life.” And to readers at large he added, "Miss Guinan was one of the finest and most grateful patients I have ever attended.” An epitaph for a woman. An epitaph for an era.

DEATH OF A CRIMINAL IT is a common statement that “crime doesn't pay”; and sometimes, when one reads about the money that gangsters and stick-up men have to spend, the statement sounds rather silly. But every so often something happens to indicate that in the long run it is true, after all. The other day, for example, an aged derelict was killed by a taxi in New York. Taken to the morgue, he was identified as one John Cunningham, with a string of aliases; and the interesting part about it is that the man used to be one of the most notorious and successful of American burglars. He started out in this career fifty years ago, and for years he was known as “the Boston Burglar.” His exploits were many and lucrative; at one time the police called him America s best-dressed burglar. And he wound up a penniless and ragged old man, a typical Bowery bum, who died without money in his pockets or food in his stomach! WHERE IS OUR SPIRIT? A MAN who listens attentively to the heat of some of the arguments for and against the recovery program hardly can help wondering, now and then, if anything has happened to the traditional American spirit of courage and determination. According to some arguments, the NRA and its allied measures are the law and the prophets, and we shall go down to chaos and confusion if we depart from them for an instant. According to others, the NRA is a tragic mistake and all our cherished institutions are doomed unless we speedily renounce it and get back to something else. There is a growing tendency, in other words, to see the whole recovery program in straight blacks and whites; a tendency to look on the mechanics of the effort, instead of on the spirit back of it, as the all-important thing. Americans were not that way in the past. For generations this country was famous throughout the world for a thing referred to as the American spirit.” ’Probably no two people meant precisely the same thing when they referred to this spirit; but in the main they meant that indomitable air of determination and optimism which made the nation ready to try anything once—the spirit which, if one program failed, had no hesitation in trying a second, a third, or a fourth until it hit on the winning combination. That was the spirit that conquered a continent and erected a society which, for all its faults, remains one of the fine achievements of the race. And it's a little hard to tee why it can't be invoked again today. Suppose the NRA should prove a flop. Suppose the farm program fails: suppose the currency stabilization scheme wont work, or the public works scheme, or the other experiments now bemg made. What of it? We hare the determination to succeed. We

T'vEAD cats flying at NRA are worrying the country’s smarter business men more than any one else. It is their first duty to keep in touch with what the people of the country are thinking and they have not failed to notice that the, • leftward swing started a year ago is becoming more pronounced each week. Except for the duller Industrialists who neither learn nor forget, they realize that if any change occurs at this time it will not be a change back toward the "good old days” of unrestrained individualism. Walter Teagle. president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, addressing the Academy of Political Science this week, warned that industry is on a one-way street and can not turn back. He said it must find a way to distribute its rewards more justly and regulate Its own affairs more efficiently, if it is to keep government interference to a minimum. Harriman, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, speaking on the same program, likewise urged business men to stop thinking and saying that the recovery program is going to blov; up. Donald R. Richberg, NRA’s general counsel, put it baldly when he said. “The employer who is still devoting his best energies to preventing his employes from exercising the right of collective bargaining is the best ally whom the

have shown that our vast and heterogeneous people can achieve unity in, a time of crisis. We have shown that our democratic system can provide swift and forceful action when it is needed. We have shown that we have the stomach to make drastic experiments. Why must we assume that our salvation stands or falls on the success (or on the abandonment) of one particular plan? We have reaffirmed our common purpose, our strength, and our loyalty. If the old spirit lives, we can be confident of ultimate victory—if not on one road, then on another. IN THE AMERICAN IDIOM r>AUL WHITEMAN, in announcing an imA pressive annual prize for new musical compositions in the modern American idiom, said: “We have done nothing to assure a future for American music.” He himself has done much. In his own words, he has pioneered in the preparation of jazz music for the concert hall “in an effort to give it a structure and style lifting it from the ordinary class of dance hall tunes.” He has tried for years “to put American music on a definite plane—one apart from the raucous and blatant jazz that characterized the Tn Pan Alley product of that period.” The contest calls for an orchestral composition and is open to musicians, amateur or professional. 30 years old or under. The prize is a gold medal and a scholarship to one of five important mysical conservatories and enough money to live on for a year. The important thing is that Mr. Whiteman restricts the compositions to the modern American idiom. This is of greatest importance in whatever art. Too many prizes are designed to sendithe young Americans off to Rome or Paris, there to break with the live new artistic growth in this country and to take on the artistic culture of another civilization. In these times of swift intercommunication the best in international artistic growth spreads to this country from other countries. The young American does not need to go abroad for it. He will do most for himself and for art by helping create an indigenous American art. Paul Whiteman knows this from experience and instinct. The prize he offers should do much to attract national attention to the great importance of an American art growing up out of the American soil. Why does General Johnson talk so much about dead cats? Are we mice or are we men? Since General Balbo has done so well as commander of Italy's air forces, Mussolini has decided to give him the air. One of the requirements for recognition of Russia should be that Russia take back her “Song of the Volga Boatmen.” The idea of the United States protesting the acquittal of Samuel Insull in his trial for extradition! Greece is actually Insullted. When Banker Wiggin sold Chase National stock short for a personal profit of $4,000,000, he must have figured, “Let Chase go chase itself.” One thing the nudists may boast about—nothing can be found on them. Hold on to those no-good “gilt-edged” stock certificates. If gold goes high enough, .you may still be able to use the gilt. In London, many girls are taking fencing lessons during their noon hour, thus making it their lunge hour. Hands up for Hiller, yell the Nazis. It's a holdup, cry the people. An aerial performer in an Oklahoma circus fell for a girl in the audience. And she went up in the air for him. Machine Gun Kelley Bill be kept ‘in solitary” until after Christmas. How many a husband envies him! A Chicago woman refuses to leave prison because she has nothing to wear. Well, we are going back to the nineties. Sidney Franklin, America's bullfighter, is returning to New York. But too late for the election campaign. A tunnel will be built between the White House and the State Department building in Washington, to permit officials to dodge the ram and embarrassing questioners. Many a mode is only another version of Sousa's favorite march; that is, “The Stars and Tripe Forever.”

The Alternative ——An Editorial -

left wing Socialists or Communists have in this country. “Such an employer simply is driving his employes and the unemployed to the ballot box, or to even more direct means of using political power, not merely to control, but to destroy the economic power with which they are being repressed.” Brain-Truster A. A. Berle Jr., in a current article presents complete government control of all production, all consumption, and all labor as the one possible alternative if the present recovery program fails. He adds that the men in charge of formulating that program are not afraid of names or tags, but only determined to evolve an economic system that actually will work—that will satisfy the "legitimate needs of a huge mass of people all of whom are entitled to their right to live.” The alternative to NRA has a far more ominous implication for business men devoted to the old order than anything President Roosevelt has ever suggested doing. NRA is a sane, intelligent attempt to form a fair working partnership of capital, labor and government; to find, as Mr. Richberg puts it, “a half-way house of Democratic co-opera-tion and self-discipline between the anarchy of irresponsible individualism and the tyranny of state socialism.” If this effort fails the business men with most to lose will be largely responsible.

THE MAYOR OF GORNJE SELO HP HE antithesis of Hugo’s story of Jean Valjean, who went to the galleys for stealing a loaf of bread and, escaping, became a revered town mayor, has been sent from Belgrade. A mayor of 60 in the town of Gornje Selo has just been exposed as head of a dangerous band of robbers which for years has been eluding police sent by the same mayor in pursuit of them. For seventeen years respected Janjo Korac, father of six children, had been mayor of Gornje Selo. For many years he had accumulated wealth as leader of the band of robbers. A question on politeness undid him. He ceased to raise his hat in answer to greetings. Inquisitiveness penetrated the barrier of honor and reverence, and the townspeople discovered that their mayor was keeping his hat on to conceal a •wound inflicted in a night time encounter with his own police. To say the least, Mayor Korac presents an agreeable variation of the politician who at no personal risk of a gash in the head gets his palm greased richly by sly and indirect processes. Mayor Korac may yet become the central figure in an operetta, novel or short story, whereas about the best the tin-box variety of political brigand can hope for is immortalization in the report of some graft-finding inquiry. HOMES WORSE THAN JAILS ONE of the most shocking disclosures of recent weeks is the story of the women textile workers in Alabama who refused to leave the jail where they had been confined because it was more comfortable than their own homes. These women—arrested after an outburst of violence in connection with a cotton mill strike at Mobile—'were offered their freedom on bond and turned it down. “We have running hot water in jail for baths, which beats heating water in a tin pail and washing in a laundry tub all hollow,” one of them explained. When you reflect on what a dismal place the ordinary county jail is, and then reflect further on the fact that even such accommodations seemed to these women preferable to their own homes, you get an appalling glimpse at the living conditions with which some American citizens must put up. It took two years for Philippine courts to conduct a $500,000 bank fraud trial. What a waste of time! In America we don't bother about such trials at-all.

M. E. Tracy Says:

1 HARDLY think that “Gram” Dunham, who died in Norway, Me., the other day. would thank me or any one else to write an obituary. She was not that kind, as is plainly proved by the rather heroic way in which she lived down fame and withstood disaster during the last few years of her life. Though brought into prominence by the reflected glory of her husband ‘‘Mellie,” she was by far the stronger of the two. You remember “Mellie,” of course, and how he won the patronage of Henry Ford by first winning the old fiddlers’ championship of Maine. That was eight years ago, and “Mellie” already had passed the three score and ten mark. He had enough vitality left, however, to carry out a vaudeville contract in which “Gram” danced some old steps to his fiddling and which netted the couple $25,000. tt a * AFTER this short whirl with the bright lights, the Dunhams went back to enjoy a peaceful old age in Norway, but the same capricious fate which had brought them such good fortune suddenly turned sour. First they took up some mortgages for relatives and friends, which would have been all right if a cold-blooded acquaintance hadn't disposed of the rest of their competence by the simple art of forging checks. Then their old home burned and “Mellie,” who was sick with a cold at the time, would have lost his life, had not old “Gram” waked him up and hustled him out in time. As it was, he survived the experience only a few months, dying practically penniltess within five years after becoming "well off.” a a a A LESS sturdy soul would have broken under the strain of such diversified and rapid experiences in the twilight of life, but not “Gram" Dunham. With the philosophical observation that “it could be worse." and “we can go visiting now T ANARUS, like we alw’ays wanted to,” she began all over again at the age of 73, saving enough out of the scrap heap to build anew little house and resuming the tasks of taking care of it. When she got a little time and the weather was right, she would go fishing or unsling the old rifle to try for a deer. That’s about all there is to tell, except as one has enough imagination to sense the grit between the lines, to feel the presence of a character which would not be beat n, or alibi itself with the thought that society had failed. One can only speculate on the proposition of whether this country would be in such a pickle if it contained a larger percentage of “Gram” Dunhams.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25C words or less.) By Interested Citizen At a time when civic-minded citizens are seeing the need of the adaptation of university curricula to the changing needs of the community, the news of the release of Dr. Walter S. Athearn from the presidency of Butler university is a shock to many of us who are interested in the adult-education program. In his brief administration, there has been a distinct trend in shaping the content of courses to meet present-day needs, both of the youth in the undergraduate school and of the adult in the community. At a time when tremendous social changes are upon us, the ability to make such an adaptation is a paramount qualification in the president of a university. That quality Dr. Athearn possesses. Whatever deficiencies may be found by a critical board of trustees can scarcely balance that first qualification. Because there is such confusion in all walks of life today we are writing you to ask that your paper help the public, interested in Butler university’s future, to understand the issues at stake. A shocked public has a right to understand, if it is expected to support the institutions of the community. By Cecil F. Scott Thanks, Mr. J. L. H., for your comments of Oct. 26. There is much to be learned by the general public in regard to the police’ and fire departments and your mention of employes of Indianapolis living out of town is one big reason for the vacant houses. If any one wishes to verify this, let him go to tiie city limits on any paved highway and see people leaving town between the hours of 5 and 7 p. m. Before an applicant is considered for appointment in either department he must show that he is a resident of Indianapolis and has been for three years. After appoint-

WHEN your boy rides an imaginary broncho around the house, and your girl tries to swing her hips in Mae West fashion, you have before you two examples of the effect psychologists say the movies have on growing children. In fact, a recent investigation shows the sexual emotions of children are stirred up by movies, particularly during the adolescent years. This investigation was made by W. S. Dysinger and Christian A. Ruckmick of the University of lowa. Children from 6 years to adults over 50 were tested as to their response to certain types of motion pictures. One picture was a slapstick comedy; the other, a passionate oriental love drama containing about twelve love scenes, including some ribaldry and debauchery. The children were tested also on tragedies, pictures with danger, detective dramas, and similar scenes. Apparently children under 9 years of age are affected little, if at all, by erotic factors in motion pictures. However, as children reach adolescence, they unquestionably are

THAT a nation of any consequence should this year celebrate Armistoce day seems to me a travesty. In each instance it will be a tribute to war instead of peace. The gestures men make mean nothing when their hearts are filled with duplicity. And is it not duplicity for us to pray for peace when all our preparations are directed toward conflict and all our thoughts are filled with rancor? While we occupy ourselves with the business of war, we*insult those who died for the greatest of all lost causes, if we pretend to long for amity. To many young people born since < 1914. the World war was an excit-

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Films Affect Adolescent Children

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Buck-Passing By Hartwell Forrest Baker This hullabaloo that has been raised by many newspapers over the recent crime wave shows nothing but a very flagrant example of passing the buck. It is reminiscent of an old story which will bear repeating here. A meager-faced gentleman was being shaved by an Irish barber. The barber thrust his finger into the gentleman's mouth to push out and make accessible his sunken cheek. The barber's hand slipped and he made a generous incision in the old fellow’s face. Showing his finger, dripping blood, he cried: "Damn, Murphy, look here! You’ve made me cut my finger.” Is it not just possible that a crime wave or a prison break could have happened under an administration of the G. O. P.?

ment he must remain a resident and pay taxes within the corporation limits. The policeman works eight hours a day, seven days each week and must during all occasions carry his credentials and act as a peace officer while off duty. They also get special details that make them work as much as twelve to fourteen hours a day. The fireman works eighty-four hours each week, or an average of twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and is subject to call at all times. Theater and other details are on his time off. I might state that much is said by people about their rights as taxpayers. The police and firemen get this slam almost every day. The truth of the matter is that they are 100 per cent taxpayers and chances are 10 to 7 pay on more honest assessments than the man who broadcasts his tax obligation. If the real estate companies and the employers of this city would get together possibly the empty houses could be filled and they could pay their taxes. Also the present out-of-town employe would pay taxes and do his shopping here.

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine.

stimulated by love scenes in th*movies. Most authorities on child behavior are convinced that stimulation of the sexual emotions during adolescence is not particularly desired. Scenes of danger and conflict stir emotions among children of all age levels. These studies seem to prove that it is not for the best health of the child to have its emotions overstimulated by certain types of motion pictures, and it seems also to be well established that there must be some restriction on the witnessing of certain pictures by children of various ages. There are great individual differences in emotional reactions to most pictures and many of these are traceable to differences in the type of material shown in the pictures. Moreover, it is not the picture as a whole which arouses definite responses in those who see them, but rather certain types of scenes in the pictures. The investigators mention this

ing event which has been made the background for many thrilling movies. But on the other hand, there are still millions of older earth inhabitants, who can recall the feeling that the foundations of our universe were sinking, and life was a nightmare. They know what war can be. Yet knowing that, they have failed to make it inglorious to their children. The destructions of the last mad orgy were so terrible that they took away even the old meaning of the word peace, which was once synonymous with plenty. For since that time men everywhere have starved and suffered. They are therefore the more ready to

By 1 Times Reader Just a few words about our wonderful police force. I think this man they call Chief Morrissey made a wonderful mistake recently when he sent only twenty policemen out to the home of John Dillinger’s father, to see if John Dillinger was there. He should have sent the entire force. Twenty police isn't enough to capture one man. I have noticed that the Indianapolis policemen are very brave after they have a pair of handcuffs on a fellow. I firmly believe if John Dillinger had been at his father’s home the day those policemen were there, he should have walked out on the porch with a gun. I believe that today the biggest part of those police would be lying out in the city hospital from injuries received from running over one another trying to get away. Editor’s Note— Newspaper reports of the raid reveal that state police were sent to the Dillinger residence. So They Say Hospitals are on their last legs, with free care increasing—Arch Mandel, executive secretary, Dayton Community Chest. I would define a saloon to be a place where neither meals nor lodgings are served, but a place where intoxicating liquor is sold and is drunk perpendicularly United States Senator Henry F. Ashurst. I can not further the plan of certain big business Fascisti to reduce labor to a sort of serfdom by means of overwhelming power of government.—U. S. Senator Henry D. Hatfield. A girl’s best friend is a plate glass window.—Claudette Colbert. No nation can live under ridicule. It can stand criticism, it can meet it and answer it, but it is impossible for it to survive for any length of time against well-directed ridicule. —Alfred E. Smith.

fact particularly, because it has been the custom frequently to excuse certain types of incidents in motion ; pictures on the ground that a picture as a whole, including especially its concluding statements, preaches a moral lesson. Psychologists are convinced that an exciting robbery, an amorous love scene, or the behavior of a drunkard can not be toned down by the concluding words of the picture. To a child the complete effect is not apparent as it is to a person of mature mind. The lowa psychogists say “When a psychoneurotic adolescent is allowed frequently to attend scenes depicting amorous and sometimes questionable romatic episodes, the resultant effects on that individual’s character and development can be nothing but baneful and deplorable.” There seems to be no douot that profound mental and physiological j effects on the emotions are produced jby motion pictures. Unnatural so- | phistication and premature stimu- ■ lation of the body result. Obviously, here is a condition de--1 manding some type of control.

succumb to hate and holy causes. Our dead today are dead indeed, since we seem to have forgotten i what it was they gave their lives for. In many lands where the drums are muffled for heroes, peace has become only the dream of idealists. The Four Horsemen appear again on the world horizon and unless common men and women prepare to resist we shall be swept once more down the precipice of disaster by their* ruthless feet. To pray God to send peace on earth, if we have not the courage to gain and promote it, fc to discredit the intelligence of the Almighty and prove ourselves not only fools i but hypocrites.

NOV. 10, 1933

It Seems to Me BY HEIWOOD BROUN;

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 —Texas Guinan died in Vancouver forty-eight hours before Litvinoff arrived in Washington. I do not want to strain in reaching for symbols, but these chance happenings earn - to me some suggestion of the passing of an era and the beginning of another. Surely Texas typified the boom times of the Coolidge gold rush. In the days of her glory she made New York a sort of mining town. The little New Englander in Washington issued comforting statements that loans were not overextended, and Guinan cried from the top of her h’gh stool to the arriving customer, "Hello, sucker!” In slightly different form both were saying the same thing. This was the land of easy riches for the lucky. The vein was deep and wide and handsome. Whoopee would never end. aua The Age of Whoopee AS in the case of the President, there was a touch of cynicism lin Miss Guinan. I think that both ; had some inner inkling that the ! party would not last forever. But neither one wanted to be a killjoy i and spoil a perfectly good jam- ! boree. Both remained a little aloof from | the high jinks in which they served las promoters. Even after the acj cession of Hoover. Mr. Coolidge I played the stock market very mild- ! lv and Texas never took a drink in j her life. I knew Texas very well and liked her enormously, but I must confess that I can not remember any comment which she ever made upon the existing social order. When I ran for congress on the Socialist ticket Miss Guinan came out as one of my supporters and made a speech at one of the rallies. I doubt that it touched the fundamental issues. My comrades were more than a little shocked at Guinan's name being coupled with the campaign It seemed to me fitting then, and it still does. If ever there was an authority on the idle rich and the wasting of the wasters Texas Guinan was certainly that woman. Her night clubs did an actual social service in reducing to an absurdity the theory that only the men of means are fit to manage the intricate industrial machinery of this country. I have seen captains of industry and kings of finance flaying leapfrog across the dance floor of Guinan’s club. I do not wish to suggest that Miss Guinan was boring from within when she managed to illustrate so vividly the fundamental triviality of certain rugged individualists. It would be a great deal less than accurate to suggest that I sat at a ringside table concealing a Jeremiahlike fury under my fineraiment. I went to all of Miss Guinan’s various establishments many times and remained late. I went because I had a good time.

Bock to the Source SOMETIMES a little after dawn there would be a small poker game after the big spenders had gone home and the place was closed. In this way I managed to cut down the overhead a little. Contrary to popular superstition, Miss Guinan played poker very badly. Probably after saying, “Hello, suck-" er!” through a long evening she found it restful to draw to three flushes and inside straights. I doubt very much that Texas died rich, because anybody engaged in a profitable racket seems bound and determined to find some other in which the money may be put back into circulation. Texas lost prodigious sums in the stock market, although for a short time she had a fortune. BUB An Expert at Repartee ALTHOUGH never very successful as a stage performer, Texas was an expert as a night club monologist. Naturally, she was not quite as skilled in impromptu as the casual visitor might assume. If somebody went to sleep and fell off his chair Texas was ready with a remark. But she did not have to make one up. The situation had occurred before. Yet when pressed by anything brand new she was equal to the occasion. Texas has been called brazen, but it was more than that. She had superb courage. Once I saw her walk straight between two very dangerous guests who were Just about to shoot it out. Litvinoff is in Washington. The new world of equal opportunity and the redistribution of wealth draws closer. I am for it heart and soul. The jazz age was wicked and monstrous and silly. Unfortunately, I had a good time. (Copyright. 1933, by The Times)

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Questions and Answers Q —Which states lead in the production of com, cotton and tobacco? A —lowa, Illinois and Nebraska lead in corn; Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi lead in cotton, and North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia lead in tobacco. Q—What is the average winter and summer temperature of Los Angeles? A—Winter, 55.9 degrees, and summer, 69.7 degrees. Q—Are there more Protestants than Catholics in Germany? A—According to the latest available figures there were 40,014,677 Protestants and 20,193,334 Roman Catholics. Q—Was the word “speakeasy” coined after the national prohibition law went into effect? A—lt was in use in dry states and in states that had Sunday closing laws before the advent of national prohibition.