Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1933 — Page 9

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SOVIET UNION CALLED GREAT U. S. MARKET Given Credit, Russia Can Buy $5,000,000,000 Worth, Expert Says. NEEDS 25-YEAR PERIOD Potential American Exports Include Diverse Products. BY WILLIAM PHTLIP SIMMS SrHpps-Howrd Fdltor WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—Given twenty-five-year credit period, Russia can buy $5,000 000,000 worth of goods and services from the United States in the next five years, David Ostrinskv, economist and authority on the Soviet union, toYi administration officials here today. While he admitted this figure represented maximum possibilities, Mr. Ostrinsky observed that it represented a per capita purchase of only $6 a year, or S3O for the entire period. Thus, he said, an analysis of Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff s statement that Russia could quickly absorb $1,000,000,000 worth of goods was, in reality, very conservative. Among the items cited in a table prepared by Mr. Ostrinsky to show possible American exports to Russia were trucks, tractors, farm implements and spare parts, $300,000,000; structural steel and alloys. $300,000.000; locomotives, cars and other railway equipment, SSOO 000,000; automobiles, service station equipment, etc., $500,000,000; rotton and textiles, $350,000,000; mining, oil machinery, etc., $500,000,000. Excellent Credit Risks Electrical equipment, telegraph and telephones, blast furnaces, chemical equipment and so on, represented other huge sums. "Sheer self-interest.” said Mr. Ostrinsky, "makes the Soviet Union an excellent credit risk for the next generation. It willl take Russia at least that long to industrialize herself. Meanwhile, even if for no other reason, she must keep her credit record spotless.” Mr. Ostrinsky told officials, however, that unless liberal credit terms are granted, and an opportunity offered to meet a major part of her commitments in goods payment, Russia obviously could open only a bare fraction of this potential market to the United States. Balances Are Stressed "Patently.” he said to the writer, "in the long run a nation's imports and exports must balance. The soviet union can be no exception to the rule. It is to the interest of the United States, therefore, to make a careful study of the goods it can buy from Russia without injury to its own economy. "In the second place, it should seek to work out triangular trade arrangements as, for example, between the United States, Russia and La tin-America. "If possible, the United States should endeavor to work out a long view trade plan with the Soviet Union, a plan looking forward twenty or twenty-five years. For reasons already indicated. I regard Russia as a relatively safe risk for such a period. Cites Russian Products "Because of the impetus which such trade would give this country's recovery program at this time, an effort should be made to do the maximum possible business with Russia during the next year or so. As prosperity returns, the volume of credit could be reduced. If business slackens, it could be increased a little.” Among Russian products "which the United States might take in increasing quantities. Mr. Ostrinsky cited furs, manganese, pulpwood, caviar and other fish products, silk, rugs, art objects, precious metals, asbestos, casings, bristles and so on. Russia has platinum in abundance and her output of gold is increasing annually. Russia, said Mr. Ostrinsky, plainly has the capacity to absorb, and, under given conditions, to pay for huge purchases. Just how much of this trade Americans will capture, he indicated, will depend entirely upon the terms they are prepared to offer and the backing given them by the government. KAHN EMPLOYES WILL HOLD CHRISTMAS PARTY Proceeds Will Be Used to Aid Needy Families. Employes of the Kahn Tailoring Company will hold a Christmas bazar and dance Friday night in the cafeteria of the Kahn shops, .Capitol avenue and St. Clair street, to raise funds for Christmas baskets for needy families. Andy Wich is chairman of the Christmas committee, which includes Mary Warner, Mona Davidson. Ruth Elliott. Lulu Scherer, Paul Ashley. Margaret Marschke, Julia Maas, Florence Siddons and Rona Clampitt. ‘HANDS UP 7- FAILS TO SCARE DEPUTY Constable Disarms and Captures Bandit Suspect. Ignoring two bandits’ "Hands up” command. Marion Gstermever, 23, of 2615 West Jackson street, deputy constable in Beech Grove, disarmed one bandit and held him for police Saturday night. The other bandit fled. The alleged holdup attempt occurred as Gstermeyer and Miss Gertrude Cox, 4 North Dearborn street, sat in a car in front of a barbecue at 3360 West Morris street. The accused man gave his name as William Halpin. 21. of 1403 Bellefontaine street, Apt. 2. Police said he is under a suspended sentence for burglary.

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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE WYNEKOOPS

Daughter Tells Story of Mother, Now Charged With Murder

FOREWORD: I hesitate to pliec before the public the intimate utorr of my family, which T have considered aaered. Rut so much' has been written that is both unfair and untrue and I have decided to accept this opportunity of telling the facts of my mother s life as they are. Mother alwava has been a kindly and underatandln* person, one to whom her children and friends enuld turn when in trouble, asd for those who have not had the privilege of knowing her as she reallv is. I have attempted to picture her life.—Dr. Catherine Lindsay Wynekoop. a a a BY DR. CATHERINE WYNEKOOP Written exclusively for The Timet and other NEA Serviee Newspapera. (Copyright. 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) WHENEVER my mother talks about her childhood, it is to tell of something that happened on her father’s farm. The farm was near Onarga, 111., and mother was born there Feb. 1, 1871. Her parents were Frank and Frances Catherine Lindsay. She was their third child and first daughter. Grandfather was a well-to-do farmer. chiefly of Scotch extraction, and grandmother was a hard-working, efficient housewife of Scotch and English ancestry. It was the ill health mother suffered as a child that made her decide later to become a doctor—a decision made in the days when it took courage for a woman to study and practice medicine. Asa little girl, she was afflicted much of the time with malaria, and I have heard her tell how her father used to measure out huge doses of powdered quinine on the end of a knife, one such dose to be taken three times daily. How bitter it must have tasted! During these days she became so anemic that she was forced to stay in bed for days at a time. While other children were at school or outdoors playing, mother learned to read. Grandmother would tell her the words and their meanings. Because of her ill health, mother did not go to school until she was 9. Then she entered the Del Ray school. She had unusual knowledge of reading, but was unable to spell, write or do “number work.” a a a ON her second day at school, the 9-year-old girl was called upon to read. She arose from her seat and, in a full, clear voice, read from her primer: "Give me three grains of corn, mother, only three grains of corn. "To keep the little life I have till the coming of the morn.” No sooner were the words out

MOTHER, 3 CHILDREN KILLED AT CROSSING Three Others in Family Are Hurt Critically. By Vnited Press BELLEFONTE. Pa.. Dec. 11.— Four members of the family of Steven Mattis were killed today when Mattis, blinded by a snow storm, drove his automobile on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks near Linden Hall in the path of a train. The dead are Mrs. Harris, and her children. Dorothy, Marie and Billy. Mattis. another son, Earl, and a niece, Helen Mattis, were brought to a hospital here in a critical condition. The accident occurred at a private crossing. CITY MEN HAVE NEW FOREIGN ASSIGNMENTS Henry Beck, Warden Wilson Get Change in Posts. Two Indianapolis men in foreign service of the state department have received new assignments, according to wire dispatches from Washington. Henry A. W. Beck, vice-consul at Tsing Tao. China, now in the United States, has been assigned as vice-consul at Athens. Greece. Warden M. Wilson, son of the Henry Lane Wilson. Indianapolis, former ambassador to Mexico, has been designated first secretary of the legation at The Hague. Netherlands. He has been first secretary at Caracas. Venezuela.

ROTARIANS TO HEAR REAL SILK ENGINEER "Wm or Peace in Industry" to Be Topic Tuesday. Indianapolis Rotarians will hear an address on "War or Peace in Industry," by William Baum, chief engineer with the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, at their luncheon Tuesday in the Claypool. Mr. Baum has achieved a national reputation in the field of industrial management. For fourteen years he was connected with the General Electric Company. Mr. Baum is a member of the faculty of Butler university. YOUTHS HURT IN CRASH Two Are Injured and Alleged Stolen Car Is Wrecked. After telling police a story of being injured when they fell from the back end of a truck, two youths finally admitted they were hurt when a stolen car they were driving was wrecked at Bridgeport last night. The youths gave their names as Woody Hickman, 17, of 1611 Harlan place, and James Lloyd. 17. of 215 West New York street. They were treated at city hospital and slated on charges of vagrancy and vehicle taking. The car was owned by Archie Randall. R. R. 1. Hold Annual Christmas Party Camp one. P. O. of A., will hold Us annual Christmas party tonight at Clark's hall. Twenty-fifth and Station streets. A program and gift exchange will be held. Members of Camps 3, 4 and 5 have been invited.

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than she sat down again, crying. When the teacher asked what was the trouble, mother sobbed out that her father had lots of corn and could give the little boy plenty. Another story I have heard her tell of that first winter at school is about the day a group of boys dared her to take off her shoes and stcokings and walk barefooted along the rails between the hitching posts surrounding the school yard. It was bitter cold but, undaunted, ‘mother stripped off her shoes and stockings and successfully walked on the icy rails. That night her feet were sore and blistered Mother, always explicitly truthful, told grandmotfier just what had happened and I’m sure that, as she listened, my grandmother had an understanding smile. Because she was ill so much, my mother’s attendance at school was very irregular until she was 14. Then she entered the Grand Prairie Seminary and Commercial college at Onarga. She was enrolled as a special student.

Indiana Celebrates Birthday, Looking Back Over 117 Years of Toil, Progress

Territory Grows From 63,897 Population in Thirteen Counties to Wealthy, Powerful State. Indiana is 117 years old today. Behind the bare statement are tragic stories of suffering and bravery as the pioneers pushed their way through the wilderness; triumphant, romantic sages as the state grew from a baby, lustily squalling in a battle-scarred Indian territory, to strong manhood.

President James Madison signed the document that officially made Indiana a state in the Union. Dec. 11, 1816. Indiana, history reveals, was an ideal territory for a state. It was vigorous and with rude simplicity was pushing itself into a powerful domain. Revering the eventful Dec. 11, the general assembly of 1925 set aside that date to be observed by public meetings and exercise by schools and patriotic organizations. And how different a scene presents itself today as the state, passing from the agricultural era into the industrial, has become a powerful and wealthy bulwark in the union of states! In the corridors of the past, before the memory of any living Hoosier, is recorded the prosaic statement that on Dec. 14. 1815 the territorial legislature adopted a memorial asking congress to admit Indiana into the union, declaring that it had exceeded the requisite 60.000 free white population. Long before the abolition movement had broken out into a flaming political battle. Indiana had flung out a challenge for personal liberty. The memorial reads; "And whereas the inhabitants of this territory are principally composed of emigrants from every part of the union, and as various in their customs and sentiments as in their persons, we think it prudent, at this time, to

Women —Join The Times Bowling School

HERE is good news for ambitious women bowlers of Indianapolis, both those wtih experience and especially those who have yet to try the game. The Indianapolis Times will sponsor a school of bowling instruction for women bowlers for six days, starting Saturday. The ‘professor’’ will be Mrs. Floretta D. McCutcheon, world's champion woman bowler, who has been teaching the game of tenpins with success for five years in tours from city to city. The school will be conducted at several Indianapolis alleys. Classes will be held at convenient hours for all. Tuition is free. There will be no charge for attending the classes, either for the instruction or the bowling during the classes, each of which will be of an hour’s duration. Each class will be complete and only one attendance is necessary, but other classes may be attended if the student cares to. The school is especially for beginners. but experienced bowlers will also have opportunity to enroll in classes. Enrollment blanks will be found printed in The Times, starting Tuesday. Mail these to the bowling establishment where you desire to take your instruction. You will be notified of the class to which you have been assigned. This will be according to your convenience if you make your

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933

Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop as she appears today.

Four years later, at graduation, she represented her class in the commencement exercises and delivered an address in German. Besides studying, mother always shared in the work at home. Grandmother believed that all young girls should learn to cook and sew and do housework. The summer mother was 15, grandmother found it necessary to be away for several weeks taking care of a sick relative, a a * IT was during harvest time and mother was left with the entire responsibility of the household. She managed it all, too—as well as taking care of her 2-year-old brother! In spite of all this, mother had a good time. No party was complete unless “Alice” was there. She was a beautiful, slim girl, with auburn hair, and she had a happy disposition and remarkable enthusiasm for life. The spring of her senior year at the seminary, mother was very ill with a ruptured appendix and peritonitis. It was during this sickness

express to the general government our attachment to the fundamental principles of legislation prescribed by congress in their ordinance for the government of this territory, particularly as respects personal freedom and involuntary servitude, and hope they may be continued as the basis of the Constitution.” A census taken in 1816 shows that the total population, covering thirteen counties, was 63,897 w r ith 12,112 voters. Knox cuonty, the largest, had 8,068 persons and 1,391 voters. Members of the state constitutional convention met gravely in Corydon, the capital, June 10, 1816, to deliberate on laws. During the heat of the drowsy summer days they met under the cooling shade of an old elm tree on the banks of Big Indian creek. The tree, spreading to 124 feet from tip to tip, and more than fifty feet high, still stands in all its sylvan grandeur. James Jennings, delegate to congress, was elected as Governor over his opponent. Thomas Posey, territorial Governor. The political quarrels and strife that were to burn the pages of Indiana history broke out in its early years. Governor Jennings was appointed by President Monroe as a

wishes known to the bowling management. When Mrs. McCutcheon instructs she gives a short lecture on the game’s fundamentals. She then takes each student and shows her how to address the pins, handle the ball, stride and deliver the ball. The student is given at the first the real fundamentals of bowling such as proper timing, co-ordination of stride and swing, follow through, and all the elements of delivering the ball which is of most importance in aquiring direction. Most of the experienced bowlers today had to learn without the advantage of this start. They just started to bowl, most of them doing some or all of the fundamentals wrong. Beginners in this school will get a proper start from the greatest instructor in the game, man or woman. a u u THE following classes will be held: Saturday—lo a. m., Parkway Recreation, Thirty-fourth at Illinois; 7:30 p. m.. Fountain Square Recreation. Fountain Square theater building. Dec. 18—Noon. 3 and 6 p. m., Pritchett’s Recreation. Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. Dec. 19—2 p. m., Uptown Recreation. 4169 College avenue; 5:30 p. m., Illinois Recreation, Illinois and Ohio streets, p. m., In-

fwhich came near to costing her life), that she made up her mind to become a doctor if her life were spared. She was 18 then. She would have begun studying medicine as soon as she was graduated from the seminary, but her father objected. He said her health would not stand the strain. This could not stop mother. She bought a fine set of books on anatomy (which she still has) and pored over them every evening. Her days were filled with the routine work of the farm. * , # * SOMETIMES when something in the books was not clear to her, she would get help from the family physician. He was an Austrian and a graduate of the University of Jena. Until she was 21. mother respected grandfather's decision about her studying medicine. Then she came to Chicago and enrolled in Northwestern University Women’s Medical School.

commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the Indians. When he returned to Corydon from the pow-wow there was his loyal Lieutenant-Governor, Christopher Harrison, blandly occupying the gubernatorial office. The usurper shrewdly had construed that the commission task was in violation with a constitutional provision that a Governor could not hold any federal office. After much clamoring and bonfire demonstratins, the title pushing back and forth, Governor Jennigs triumphantly moved back into his office. TRANSIENTS TREATED AT WHEELER MISSION Organization Is Working With City Hospital. Patients receiving medical aid at the Wheeler City Rescue Mission amounted to 1,432 from July 24 to Dec. 1, According to a recent report. The Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, missidh superintendent, said the medical department was founded in July with the intention of preventing the spread of infectious disease by transients. The department, however, has gradually assumed the aspect of a general clinic. Mr. Eberhardt pointed out that the mission does not compete with the city hospital dispensary, but works with it. Norman R. Booher, senior student at the Indiana university school of medicine, and the visiting staff of the city hospital carry on the work.

diana Recreation, Indiana theater building. Dec. 20—10 a. m., Parkway Recreation, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets; 2 p. m., Uptown Recreation, 4169 College avenue, and 3:30 p. m., Parkway Recreation, Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets. Dec. 21—Noon, 2 and 4 p. m., Pritchett’s Recreation, Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. Dec. 22—1 p. m., Fountain Square Recreation, Fountain Square theater building; 3 p. m., Parkway Recreation. Thirtyfourth and Illinois streets, and 6 p. m., Illinois Recreation, Illinois and Ohio streets. A series of exhibition games will be played by Mrs. McCutcheon. The schedule follows: Saturday, 3 P. M.—Parkway Recreation; Floretta McCutcheon vs. Oscar Behrens. Sunday, 3 P. M.—Pritchett Recreation: Floretta McCutcheon vs. Jess Pritchett. Sunday. 8 P. M.—lndiana Recreation; Floretta McCutcheon vs. John Blue. a a a MRS. M’CUTCHEON today gives the first of her lessons through The Times: "During the next few days I will give bowling hints through the columns of this newspaper, but before going into the proper method of holding a ball and making the delivery, it would perhaps be well to say a few words about the game.

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She was obliged to work to pay for her living as well as her school expenses, because her father still was flatly opposed to her effort to become a doctor. Throughout her years of study at the university, her father continued to disapprove her pursuit. In spite of this discouragement mother was graduated with honors in 1895. She was given a post as instructor at the university and continued to teach there until she developed tuberculosis. To overcome this she was sent to Denver. It was during her senior year at Northwestern that one day mother was sent by a professor to the College of Physicians and Surgeons to obtain some embryology slides. The slides had been prepared by Frank Eldridge Wynekoop, who also was working his way through medical school. That day my mother and father met for the first time. NEXT —Romance in the Operating Room. .

FARM CHIEF LAUDS ROOSEVELT POLICIES AAA Is 'Magna Charta of Agriculture,’ He Says. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—Commendation of the Roosevelt administration’s agricultural recovery policies was the keynote today of the opening session of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s fifteenth annual convention. Edward A. O'Neal, president of the federation, termed the agricultural adjustment act the "magna charta of American agriculture—its charter of freedom from domination of predatory business interests, it§ guarantee of economic equality with other groups.”

ENGINEERS TO VISIT PLANTS AT ANDERSON General Electric Representatives Will Speak at Meeting. Members of the Indiana section, Society of Automotive Engineers, will meet at the Anderson hotel, Anderson, Thursday night following visits in the afternoon to the Guide Lamp Corporation and the Delco-Remy plants. Willard C. Brown of the General Electric Company will talk on "The Well Lighted Motor Vehicle.” Held on Assault Charge Austin Summit, 52, of 322 South Noble street, was under arrest today on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill, on complaint of Andrew Reecer, 53, of 316 South Noble street, that Summit cut him on the neck.

"Bowling is a participant’s game. In most games the many watch, the few perform; but in bowling the many bowl. If you watch the game very long, you begin to want to take part in it, too. It is a game in which many entire families join. It is an ideal way for husband and wife or young couples to spend an evening. The very fact that it does not take unusual strength or ability to get not only pleasure, but good scores, gives the game a universal appeal. “Also bowling is unique in that, while in most forms of competition you have to take your opponent’s ball, as in basket ball, tennis, volley ball or baseball, your opponent making it difficult for you as he can; but in bowling, you have no opponents, only competitors, because you have your own ball and can use all your skill without being hampered with opposition. You can practice as much as you please! without the inconvenience of changing into special uniforms or apparel, and your success in the game depends upon your own efforts entirely. “Also bowling is a game that is unique in that nobody ever has betn able to perfect it to the point where he rolls high scores all the time. On the other hand the low average bowler oftentimes run into wonderful scores. Three years ago in Buffalo, N. Y., a girl in league play rolled a perfect score -of 300. Yet she had only a .130 league average.

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2,250,000 CHILDREN LACK % SCHOOL FACILITIES, SAYS 1 EDUCATION COMMISSIONER Millions More Attend Shortened Sessions While Boards Seek Cash to Pay Teachers and Repair Building; 200,000 TEACHERS ARE JOBLESS j Zook Fears Catastrophe Has Reached SucK Proportions That Effects Will Be Felt in U. S. for Generation. Following is the first of srvrral stories drtailing thr depression-horn crisis h American education, which Is closing schools all over the nation, marring the education of many children, and throwing teachers upon charity. BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—School this winter does not Txist for more than two and one-quarter million American children, according to George F. Zook, commissioner of education in the department of interior.

CAFE OWNER IS SENTTO PRISON ‘Witnesses Have Not Been Frank,’ Says Judge Baker. Declaring that witnesses “had not been frank,” Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker Saturday sentenced Frank Poleni, 32, restaurant operator at 3259 Madison avenue, to serve one to ten years in Indiana state prison for assault and battery with intent to kill, Poleni was arrested Oct. 29 after he is alleged to have shot Alfred G. Mueller. 42, during an argument in the restaurant, over a Dill for fixtures. Lawrence Shaw, defense attorney, declared he would appeal the case. Mueller was shot in the hand, arm and chest, when he is said to have reached into his coat while starting toward Poleni.

Mixed; Fixed Coats Collared, Hats Hooked in Melee.

OFFICIALSPof the Indianapolis Athletic Club today had a flock of new gray hairs, as result of a mad scramble for hats and coats following a sorority dance Saturday night. Becoming impatient at checkroom routine, several guests vaulted the counter and helped themselves. Then the “serve-self” idea became general, and In the scramble many mixtups occurred. One brawny 200-pounder drew a size 36 overcoat in the “fish pond,’” instead oi his own larger $350 black seal garment. Club officials reported that all exchanges had been made satisfactorily yesterday. c i t y’maTchosen INSURANCE OFFICIAL National Association Elects Vincent Whitsitt Chairman. Association of Life Insurance Presidents elected Vincent P. Whitsitt, son of Mrs. Martha Whitsitt, 4621 College avenue, as chairman of the executive committee and manager at the twenty-seventh annual convention held in New York, according to word received here. He succeeds George T. Wright. Mr. Whitsitt, who has been connected with the organization thirteen years, had been assistant manager and general counsel for the last two years. He was born in Salem, the son of the late Rev. W. M. Whitsitt. After graduation from De Pauw, Mr. Whitsitt became affiliated with the Grain Dealers National Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Indianapolis. He is a graduate of the Columbia university law school.

“'T'WO years ago in St. Louis •*- the girl who won the singles championship of the Womens International Bowling Congress, making a world's record in so doing, rolled her first 600 series, getting 668. The game encourages the beginner and the weaker bowler. "The thousands of women now bowling are proof of the fact that bowling has ceased to be a game for men only. Women have found and are finding that bowling is not only an exhilarating game, but the finest kind of exercise as well. It gives women an ideal type of exercise, combined with pleasure and friendly association during the winter months. This sounds like an advertisement, but it happens to be true. "One circumstance that is making possible and pleasant the pastime of bowling for women is that recreation parlors throughout the country today are wonderfully improved over the old-time bowling alley. All modern bowling establishments have special accommodations for women and give special attention to them. It is possible for women to get competent instruction similar to the instruction on golf links, and without charge. “Speaking of golf and bowling, there are no two games that are more alike in their fundamentals* than these two games. I will devote the next discussion to this similiarity.”

Millions more have had their school year shortened by boards of education seeking desperately, hut vainly, for the cash to pay teachers’ salaries and keep schoolhouses in repair, information obtained from Mr. Zook showed. When the school season opened this fall, about 2,000 rural school houses had their doors boarded. Zook said. As the season progressed many more schools were abandoned. Others took long vacations, some began charging tuition, which the poorer students could not afford, and many curtailed their teaching staffs by dropping important parts of their curriculum. Zook Fears Effects Zook fears that the educational catastrophe has reached such proportions that its effects will be felt upon the country for a generation. Loss of a year or of two years* schooling by a 14-year-old boy, foi instance, affects him the rest of his life, he said. In 90 per cent of the cases it is estimated that he will forget his education, seek a job and thus rob himself of a chance for success. Even should he return to the classroom once it opens again, he will be behind the boy whose education proceeded without interruption. The depression reached the school later than it did industry or agriculture. It is wreaking greatest havoc in the schools after recovery already has started elsewhere. Terms Greatly Shortened Closing outright of thousands of schools perhaps is the most sensational aspect of the situation. Almost as serious is the fact that school terms in practically every great American city are from one to two months shorter than they were before the depression. One state has an average of forty-four pupils per teacher. The average for five states is more than forty. With more than 200.000 registered teachers out of jobs and thousands more working without salaries, most of the rest are receiving pay lower than the blue eagle minimum for common day laborers. Chicago has been most publicized for its failure to pay teachers. One committed suicide because she was hungry. Others endured untold hardships. Nearly as bitter have been the experiences of school ma’ams in many other cities. Average pay for a rural teacher this winter is $750 a year, but 84,000 will receive less than $450, while in at least eighteen states teachers are being paid in warrants, cashable if at all at discounts ranging from 5 per cent up. Salaries in many states have been reduced 20 to 40 per cent, while Michigan intends to lower the pay of her teachers 60 per cent unless more money, somehow, somewhere, is forthcoming. "Had this crisis been precipitated upon us as suddenly and dramatically as in the case of the World war, or even as in the closing of banks from one end of the country to the other last spring, we doubtless should have been aroused to the necessity of doing something about it speedily,” said Zook. "Like most other social ills, however, it has stolen upon us unawares. ‘‘We find ourselve in the grip of a social difficulty from which we shall extricate ourselves only with great pain and effort.”

REALTORS WILL ELECT THREE TO DIRECTORATE ■ ■- * Officers for 1934 to Be Chosen Within Week. Three new directors will be elected at the annual business meeting of the Indianapolis Rea! Estate Board Thursday in the Washington. The directors will be named to succeed Paul L. McCard, Pearl A. Havelick and Noble C. Hilgenberg, retiring. Nominees are Thomas F. Carson, E. E. Brodbeck, Barkley W. Duck, Edson T. Wood Jr., Henry E. Ostrom and Robert L. Mason. Directors will name officers for 1934 at a meeting within a week. TWO - BANDIT SUSPECTS HELD AFTER STICKUF* Young Men Are Arrested Five Minutes After Store Robbery. Arrested within five minutes after they are alleged to have held up the W. L. Line pharmacy, 636 Blake street, Saturday night, two suspects today faced banditry charges. The man, Robert Barker. 22, of 831 Fayette street, and Earl Pierson, 22, of 959 Colton street. we;e arrested by police in a house in the 900 Block Coe street. They were charged with vagrancy. Only a small amount of money was taken in the holdup.