Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1933 — Page 1

CITY FIRMS SLASH PRICES ON ‘FAKE’ BLENDS OF LIQUOR Retail Druggists’ Protest After Expose by The Times Brings 40-Cent Cut in Cost of Pint Here. TRUE MIXTURES REMAIN AT $1.85 Dealers Indorse Proposed Ordinance Against Misbranding of Whisky; ‘Bought in Good Faith,’ They Say. Prices of some so-called whisky blends have fallen fromj $1.85 a pint to .$1.45 a pint, following a series of stories j by The Times revealing that some of the alleged blends' were nothing but raw alcohol, water and coloring matter. Protests to wholesale drug firms by the Indianapolis Retail Drug Association is believed to have caused the slump in prices. The scale for true blended whiskies, several of which are on the market, remains unchanged.

Pointing out that retail druggists bought the alleged blends in good faith, Albert C. Fritz, secretary of the drug association, asserted today: j “We will be the first to condemn cheating of the public, if we learn from The Times or any other source in the future that liquor is being mislabeled.” Mr. Fritz also declared the retail drug association is in favor of the proposed city ordinance fixing a i penalty for ‘‘offering for sale any i misbranded blended whisky, beer I or wine. Members of the Wholesale Drug- ; gists Association also are in favor j of the ordinance "in general,” it is , reported. Agreeing with Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer and sponsor of the proposed ordinance,, members of both drug association | are reported of the opinion that j ‘‘something should be done for their ; protection from distilleries mis- j branding products.” One wholesaler asserted: "We bought the ‘blends' in good faith j and were not a party to any at- j tempt to fool the public." HE LEARNS ABOUT CITY FROM MAYOR SULLIVAN Captain of Cruiser Indianapolis Pays Get-Acquainted Visit. The skipper of the U. S. S. City of Indianapolis ought to know something about the city for which his cruiser is named. So concluded Captain J. M Smeallie, U. S. N.. who was taken on a tour of inspection of the city today by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. The cruiser City of Indianapolis is in port in Los Angeles harbor and Captain Smeallie is en route to his home in Washington to spend the Christmas holidays. "I've been embarrassed by people from Indiana coming aboard the Indianapolis and talking about the Monument." laughingly explained Captain Sr.ieallie. "I thought I ought to know something about the city.” POLICEMAN PUTS OUT WHITE HOUSE BLAZE Small Fir, in Waste Taper Room Easily Extinguished. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 21—A small fire in the waste paper room under the White House executive offices was extinguished early today by one of th? grounds policemen. There was no damage, but the blaze served to recall that four years ago Christmas eve the White House executive offices was heavily damaged by a fire. The policeman was called to the blaze today when the fire alarm began ringing. He unreeled a small hose and put out the blaze in a moment. It was several hours later before the fire became generally known.

PROSPERITY RETURNS IN POSTOFFICE BUSINESS Stamp Sales More Than One-Fifth Hifcher in Christmas Spurt. Indication of better business conditions was shown in the increase *of postal receipts for the Christmas season. The stamp sale this yeai has been more than 21 p?r cent higher than for the similar period last year. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker said today. There was an increase of $9,898 in stamp sales for the period from Dec. 16 to 20 inclusive. Stamp sales cm Dec. 20 exceeded that of any day in 1932. he said. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 16 Black Hawk 25 Bowling School 26 Bridge 9 Broun 15 Classified 22. 23 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 26 Curious World 25 Editorial 16 Financial 24 Hickman-Theaters 21 Hunting fi Lippmann 24 Pegler 16 Radio Sports 20. 21 State News 12 ®roman s Pages 18, 19

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Door Jam-b Shopper Gets In, but Can’t Get Out. MR. ROBERT THOPY, of The Times editorial staff, today was engaged in denying indignantly that he got lost last night in a revolving door of a downtown department store. The services of Mr. Thopy, who is a corpulent young gentleman weighing nearly 200 pounds, were drafted in The Times Clothe-a-Child campaign and he was out doing a little buying. He had four or five bundles in his arms and while he managed to get into the door compartment successfully, getting out was another matter. The store foreman had to collapse the folding compartments to extricate Mr. Thopy. The latter insists, however, that he did not lose his way and that the bundles were entirley responsible.

GROWING DIMES TO BRING CHEER Eleven Rows of Silver, All for Children's Clothes —and More Coming. Two thousand dollars, all dimes, lie on the sidewalk in front of L. S. Ayres & Cos., and S. S. Kresge stores on Washington street. Eleven rows, 100 feet in length, with a good start on the twelfth row pave the sidewalk and brave rain, wind and foosteps of passersby in the Mile-of-Dimes campaign for of The Indianapolis Times. Approximately TWO HUNDRED children will be provided at least one warm outfit by the dimes that have been laid there from the pocketbooks and change purses of a cosmopolite city. And the lines continue to grow, dime by dime, row on row. The lunch hours of office employes and girl clerks are shortened by Mile of Dimes as they come to the LINE to see the growth and contribute odd change from their lunches in order that needy school children of the city may be warm. Clothe-a-Child provided the line so that every one might take part in the yearly movement to dress children of the needy. All of the dimes will be spent in city department stores. Not a dime goes out of town. Expert shoppers will see that each dime is stretched thin in order that many may bt* cared for. Call Riley 5551 if you want another gift method in Clothe-a-Child.

RAHKE DECISION IS UNDER ADVISEMENT Defense Attorneys Argue Jeopardy Question. After hearing several hours of oral argument by state and defense attrnevs. Special Judee Alex Cavins took under advisement until next Thursday his decision in the case of Emil Rahke. alleged Indianapolis "baseball pool king." The attorneys for the defense. Clyde Karrer and Harvey Grabill. argued points cited in their briefs on the question of Rahke's form >r jeopardy arising from a dismissal of lottery charges against n.m .n municipal court several months ago. RAIL GUARD. INJURED. SAVES CRACK TRAIN Skull Fractured in Landslide. Signal Man Flags Express. By l niird Prr*n OAKDALE. Term.. Dec. 21.—A railway signal man. suffering from a possibly fractured skull, heroically averted a wreck of the crack Ponce De Leon Passenger train. Detroit to Miami, today, by flagging the flier io safety before it reached a landslide which had wrecked his rail motor car and caused his injury.

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BABSON URGES SURTAX CHANGE Offers Three-Point Plan to Help Initiative in Business. Hi/ United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 21. —Exemption of the business man from surtax payments for certain lines of endeavor would result in work for 3.000,000 men and women, Roger Babson, noted economist, told President Roosevelt today. Explaining that business in general was showing a healthy tone, Mr. Babson submitted a three-point program designed to stimulate initiative in industry. It would call for exemption of surtax payments for the following: 1. Money spent in increasing the sale of agricultural products. 2. Money spent on building homes not exceeding SIO,OOO in value. 3. Money advanced to meet industrial pay rolls when banks turn down loans for pay rolls. "The dropping off of this surtax,” Mr. Babson said, "would mean that it would cost the government about $100,000,000 in revenue, but for every dollar lost in taxes there would be an increase in business 100 per cent.” He argued that every dollar put into surtaxes means that much less for the business man to carry on worth-while experiments with. U. S. AGENTS PROBE STEEL CO. ELECTION Government to Act if Laws Were Violated. By T nitvd Prcx* WASHINGTON. Dec. 21.—Attor-ney-General Homer S. Cummings today promised that action would be instituted against the Weirton Steel Company if reports now being studied by the justice department indicate the company had violated any laws in a recent election of workers’ representatives at its plants.

DEPUTY CORONER IN CAR CRASH; UNHURT Driver Held After Wreck With Police Car. Car of Dr. John E. Wyttenbach. deputy coroner, was damaged in a collision today as he was en route to investigate the death of George Johnson, 60, of 432 North Beville avenue. Dr. Wyttenbach's car was in collision with a car driven by Milton R. Vest. 74. 3219 East Michigan streett. who was arrested on charges of failing to stop at a preferential tsreet and failing to give a police car right of way. The accident occurred at Keystone avenue and Tenth street. Mr. Vest sustained leg injuries. Mr. Johnson fell dead as result of a heart attack while walking in the 25.00 block East Tenth street. He was slugged several years ago by bandits who raided the L. S. Ayres store, where he was employed, and had not been well sicen, police said. Homan Swallows Poison Mrs. Ruth Good. 26, giving her address as the Ambassador apartments, Ninth and Pennsylvania streets, is in city hospital suffering from poisoning. She told physicians she swallowe*d bichloride of mercury tablets.

Warning —Cold Ahead! Don’t Forget the Children!

WARNING! You felt it last night as sure as you see danger signals ahead at railway crossings. It tvas as much of a warning as signs of - s curve" are on highways. It was the warning of winter with snappy breezes ihst pulled at well-kept overcoats bit mocked at the ragged coats of needy school children of the city. And besides being a warning it was a Christmasy reminder sent to those who might forget childhood and its susceptibility to colds, pneumonia and other disease. It was a warning that the time draws to a close when citizens may joi- Clothe-a-Child of The Indianapolis Times to send children of the jobless to school in-

Cloudy tonight, becoming fair tomorrow; somewhat warmer tonight.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933

BUTLER UNIVERSITY WILL STAY IN NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION; EDUCATORS END INVESTIGATION

‘More Cops May Be Slain, but We’ll Get Mob,’ Leach Asserts

‘I May Be Next,’ Says Police Head, Grimly, but Terror Gang Will Be Caught Soon’; Death of Eugene Teague Is Mourned. Captain Matt Leach of the state police today prepared to stamp out the reign of terror created by a gang of escaped Indiana convicts, as elaborate plans for their capture went forward. “We’ll get ’em all,” said Captain Leach grimly, “but it will cost the lives of more state policemen, just as it did

poor Teague’s life yesterday. I may be next.” Deeply affected by the death of Eugene Teague, young Indianapolis state policeman, who was shot accidentally by a fellow officer when state police yesterday captured Edward Shouse, member of the “terror mob,” and two girl companions in Paris, 111., Captain Leach revealed today that Teague was the victim of an “air-tight” trap. Trap Carefully Laid “The convict never could have gotten away,” said Captain Leach. “Not even if the whole mob had been there. I was sick of reading how they had evaded police traps in Chicago and determined they never would get out of this one.” “From tips, we knew that Shouse and others would be in Paris yesterday morning to stick up a bank. They had planned it for the day before, but got in town after the bank closed. I had men strung along the street, each with his individual orders. “The instructions were that no one wag to shoot until the officer preceding him in the order of firing either had emptied his gun or killed the convicts. This was done to prevent a lot of wild shooting. “Poor Teague was number one man. He was stationed directly in the rear of Shouse's car as it pulled up in front of the France hotel. The order’s were ‘shoot to kill.’ Teague performed his duty perfectly. Steps Into Line of Fire His only error was that he became too anxious to immediately effect the arrest of the convict. He fired several shots at the car, which pierced the windshield, but miraculously missed Shouse.” “It was his turn to stop shooting and the turn of the next man, Lieutenant Chester Butler, to open fire. Butler followed his instructions and began shooting, but Teague, in overzealousness, ran around the side of the convict’s car and attempted to open the door, no doubt intending to drag Shouse bodily from the car. “He stepped directly into the Are of Butler's shotgun. That’s all there was to it. But poor Teague is dead. Butler Is Grief-Stricken “And other state policemen will be dead before this is over,” said Leach w r ith a characteristic earnest shake of his head. “Other cops have met their death before young Teague. And other cops are going to go right along meeting death. “The hazards of police work are plain. Cops know all about the hazards when they enlist. Teague did his duty and he was killed. And that's all there is to it.” “Give me all the biame. I’m the man who killed Teague,” said Lieut. Chet Butler, overcome with grief at state police headquarters today. His slight frame trembled and his face, white and tense, quivered with emotion. “My God,” he cried, his feelings breaking through habitual stoicism, “he was my friend and I killed him.” Shouse Taken to Prison Lieutenant Butler tried ’to tell how the tragic accident happened, but the effort was too much. He buried his head in his arms and sobbed convulsively. Shouse removed under heavy guard to the Indiana state prison at Michigan City last night. His two women companions. Ruth Spencer. San Francisco, and Mrs. Frances Colin, Ft. Wayne, are held for questioning. “The ‘terror mob’ is on the run,"

stead of to bed to keep them warm. Saturday night at 6 is the deadline to clothe your boy or girl. The list still Is long. The telephones ring repeatedly for garments for children. The mailman is weary with tramping to The Times office with Santa Claus letters. And as appeals for aid pour in, hundreds of Clothe-a-Child donors go into shambles of homes to take a child to their heart and warm him or her bodily with wearing apparel. a an EVERY city store finds its quota of Clothe-a-Child folk finding anew happiness in the practicality of the gift and the appreciation expressed by the recipients.

Leach declared. ‘‘l have information concerning them which leads me to believe that they are running short of money, too. They blew thousands of dollars in on women since their escape. We know a lot about their movements now. It’s only a matter of time until we arrest or kill them all.’” Before going to the home of the slain state trooper today to help the family make arrangements for the last rites, Captain Matt Leach said that his additional information on the “terror mob" included reports that the gang had split in Chicago and were living in separate quarters. "They all are armed to the teeth,” said Captain Leach, "and I understand they have hired a ‘gobetween’ who runs from house to house to tell them when to assemble at a given spot.” Captain Leach showed reporters a watch which he said he found while searching Shouse. The watch bore the name of “Russell B. Mutchler.” A knife and chain and a Masonic emblem were also found among Shouses' possessions. Captain Leach disclosed that Lieutenant Butler, sick with grief over the killing of his brother officer, had been taken to a private hospital operated by Dr. A. C. Arnett at Lafayette, where he was reported improved today.

EX-BANK PRESIDENT HELD IN MAIL THEFT Federal Agents Make Arrest on Chicago Warrant. By I nihil I‘rexx SAN ANTONTO. Tex., Dec. 21. S. D. Bonner, so mer president of the Commercial National Bank of San Antonio, was held here today by federal officers in connection with a $500,000 mail robbery in the Chicago loop district, Dec. 6, 1932. Bonner was arrested on a fugitive warrant from Chicago. John Cunningham, prominent San Antonio attorney, notified of Bonner’s arrest while on a train between here and Austin, Tex., sent word he w’ould return here at once to face a charge similar to that against Bonner. Bonner and Cunningham were indicted in state courts here in October, on five counts in connection with alleged theft of five SIOO,OOO bonds from a New York bank. The bonds asseriedly were traced to the Commercial National bank here. CITY STUDENT INJURED Auto Collides With Bus on Road in New York. By Time * Special WEST LEBANON. N. Y., Dec. 21. —Russell Talbott, 1114 West Thirtyfourth street, Indianaoplis, a student at Harvard university, is recovering from injuries which he received here yesterday while riding in a car driven by William Morton, Marietta, 111. Mr. Morton's car collided with an Albany-Pittsfield bus and skidded into a tree. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 31 10 a. m 31 7a. m 31 11 a. m 32 8 a m 30 12 (noon).. 35 9 a. m 30 1 p. m 39

One donor was so pleased with his girl that after dressing her up, he had her photo taken and sent it to The Times. His letter said: “I got a great kick from shopping with and entertaining the little child you gave me in your campaign. She was a bundle of sweetness done up in clean but scanty and outworn garments. We feel that your campaign is not only praiseworthy but necessary, as there are many families like the one of our little girl.” You. too, can have your “bundle of sweetness” in Clothe-a-Child by calling Riley 5551. You may not get all curly hair. She may have freckles. She may even have a snub-nose but the sweetness will come when you see

BEAUTY SLAIN, KNIFE PINNING HER TO FLOOR Cross Carved in Forehead of 18-Year-Old Girl, Killed at Bakery. By I'nitrd Press BOSTON. Dec. 21.—The body of a beautifui 18-year-old girl was found pinned to the floor of a bakery by a bread knife through her throat early today. A second knife had been used to ■ carve a cross in her forehead. The victim was Ethel Zuckerman, who recently graduated from high j school and went to work in the j bakery of Benjamin Bickofsky which j is near Boston's Chinatown. The 1 body was discovered by two of her friends. Today, police broadcast a request for the arrest for questioning of a 21-year-old musician, described as; Dick Brown. They said they under- j stood that he was the sweetheart, j or a former sweetheart of the slain; girl. Detectives said they were com- j pletely mystified. The girl had been alone in the bakery during the evening. Bickofsky said $8 was missing from the cash register, but j police did not believe robbery was | the motive. Found by Young Friends A former taxi driver who visited ; the bakery nightly to buy stale j bread for his dog was sought for j questioning, although detectives j said there was nothing to connect j him with the crime except that he ! had made his usual visit. Earlier, the girl had telephoned her em- j ployer that he was there but there i was no stale bread. She was told to give him fresh. Four bakers were at work on the floor below, but they told police their bread machines prevented { them from hearing any screams, ! which might have come from above, j A heavy rain was falling and the street outside was deserted when Bessie Stern, 15, and Alexander j Polishronis, 16, arrived at the shop, i They saw no one there. Bessie | moved farther into the store, and i found the body. The victim lay on her back. Nearby was the second knife—the one which had been used to slash the | cross on her forehead. Gang Theory Discarded Police said the cross resembled that slashed on gangland victims to designate a “double-crosser.” At the same time they expressed doubt that it was an underworld killing. Ethel's body was clad in an apronlike dress. One of her shoes was found several feet away and police said there were other signs of a struggle. Preliminary examination indicated the girl was not criminally attacked. Medical Examiner Timothy Leary ascribed death to severance of the jugular vein and of the medulla oblongata, the bulbous continuation of the spinal cord in the skull. A theory that a rejected suitor slew Ethel was favored by Police Superintendent Martin H. King. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zuckerman said, however, they knew of no suitors. A few hours after the body was found a young man walked into city hospital and asked to be treated for a cut hand. Police questioned him but later announced he had been eliminated. BLOOD POISONING IS FATAL TO EXPLORER Knud Rasmussen Authority on All Eskimo Tribes. By United Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 21. —Knud Rausmssen, 55. famo'is explorer, died today of blood poisoning. He became ill two months ago in Greenland and came here for treatment. From 1902 to 1924 Rasmussen visited every Eskimo ribe. Arriving at Seattle, Wash., in 1924 from Alaska, he reached the end of a, three-year journey in the far north, during which he went by schooner, dog team and on foot along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts from Greenland to Siberia.

her so proud of anew pair of shoes that she keeps, eyes peeled on the pavement while walking away front a store in order to keep the new footwear in sight. U B tt COMMUNITY FUND relief agencies can not give needy children of the city a Christmas party. They must depend on their funds to spread their work over an entire year. Office groups, sororities and families can band together in Clothe-a-Child. If you just can’t shop for your boy or girl, then The Times will do it for you. Mail checks payable to “Clothe-a-Child, Indianapolis Times.” New donors, sending the campaign well on its way to the FOUR

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No Reason Now Exists for Suspension, Unimpeachable Source Informs Times; Athearn Report Made Public. BOARD OF DIRECTORS ATTACKED ‘Dream of Establishing Great Urban School Shattered,’ He Asserts in Document to Body. Following investigation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, there now exists no reason for suspension of Butler university from the association, The Times learned today from an unimpeachable source. Two nationally known educators have been in Indianapolis several days looking into the Butler situation, The Times learned.

Formal action will be taken at a meeting of the association directors soon, it was learned. In a report of his stewardship made public today Dr. Walter Scott Athearn, dismissed president of Butler, reiterated his charges of “‘dual control" at the university, and pointed out alleged evils undermining educational progress at the institution. The report was filed today with the secretary of the North Central Association. Additional copies have been sent to the university board of directors, according to Dr. Athearn, and is Editorial policy of The Indianolis Times in the Butler university dispute is made clear in an editorial appearing on Page 16. also addressed to the "faculties, alumni and friends of Butler university and to the officers of national education standardizing boards in compliance with the provision of the bylaws of Butler university. Prior to publicizing the report. Dr. Athearn told The Times he had requested an impartial tribunal of five nationally-known educators who would conduct an exhaustive examination into the affairs of the university. Dr. Athearn, It was learned, recommended that the survey com-

BUTLER BOARD HEAD TO STUDY REPORT Hilton U. Brown Disclaims Knowledge of Contents. Hilton U. Brown, president of the Butler university board of directors, in commenting on Dr. Walter Athearn's report, said that the sev-enty-six-page report had just come to him —three days after it had been supplied to others. He did not yet know its contents, h said, expressing t/.e hope that it “would not reflect on the admirlstration of that distinguished educator (predecessor to Dr. Athearn), Dr. Robert J. Aley, who had led the recent foi-ward educational movement of the university and had so successfully administered its affairs for ten years, until failing health obliged him to retire.” “Leaving out the president of the board, the outstanding character of the membership of the board of directors and the recognized ability of Dean J. Putnam, who has succeeded Dr. Athearn, give guarantee that no efforts to cripple the institution will be effective,” Mr. Brown said. “In the meantime, assurances from the faculty, students and alumni have come to the board and to the acting president in such volumee as to indicate relief that a new executive had been installled at the university." Woodin's Condition Unchanged Rtj f niti and Prr** TTJCSON. Ariz.. Dec. 21.—Condition of William H. Woodin. secretary of the treasury, confined to the desert sanitarium here for nearly a week with a throat ailment, was reported unchanged today.

HUNDRED mark with 353 children outfitted, follow : General accounting department, Indiana Be!l Telephone Company, four children. Salesmen of Gregg* Cleaner*, boy. C. W. A. clerks, 308 North Meridian, boy. Opperators of Lincoln office of Indiana Beil Telephone Companv, eared (or seven rhildren and took two more. Construction rouneil. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, two boys. Jane and John Scott, hoc. Plant Mainteranre Council, Indiana Bell Telephone Company, two boys and two girl*. Mr. and Mrs. John Newhouse. Cumberland. Ind.. girl. City Engineer's office, eared for three and took one more girl. Raper Commanders. No. 1, Knights of Templar, thrre children. Two Friends, girl. Downstairs store, L. S. Acres Cos., two boys. Pumping department, Indianapolis Water Companv boy. Emp'oyes of alien A. Wilkinson Lumber Company, girl. Employes of International Harvester Companr, boy. Frank Geere. boy.

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j mission be appointed by the United State commissioner of education and the North Central Association. The dream of establishing a great urban university in Indianapolis has been shattered, Dr. Athearn declares in his report, quoting from a recent description of ancient Florence. “It will sire generation after generation of thinkers—leaders who will lift the masses to the capacity i of constructive participation in that | elevated world order of which our prophets dream.” “Such was my dream for Butler | university and Indianapolis,” says Dr. Athearn in his report, “when my administration was abruptly closed |by an edict from the Butler university board of directors on the | evening or Oct. 28.” Prefaced by Letter Dr. Athearn's report is prefaced by a letter addressed to Hilton U. Brown, president, board of directors, Butler university. “Herewith I am handing you a report covering the period of my presidency of Butler university,” reads Dr. Athearn's letter, “in harmony with the provision of the by-laws of “I am submitting this report, also to the national educational stand- [ ardizing agencies.” •Because of the wide publicity ; given to my dismissal and of the failure of the board of directors of Butler university to respond to my request for a statement of the reasons for my dismissal and of its earlier failure to take any action upon my letter of last August, which is mentioned in this report, i and, furthermore, because I have I reason to believe that the board j would be disposed to withhold i from the constituency of the uni- ' versity any report which I might : now present to it, I deem it to be i in the interest of Butler university and the cause of education in general that this report should be given general publicity.” Divided Into Eight Chapters Dr. Athearn's report is divided into eight chapters in which th* following points regarding the university are discussed in detail: 1. "Building a blueprint for an urban university. 2. “An educational policy for a period of depression. 3. “Academic problems and achievements. 4. ‘“University administration. 5. “Moral and religious problems. 6. “The administration of university finances. 7. “The crisis of Oct. 28. 1933. 8. "A concluding statement.” Traces Every Step Tracing every step of his activ- | ities at Butler from the time he received a cablegram at Edinburg, Scotland, on July 9, 1931, notifying him of his election to the presidency of the university, Dr. Athearn, tells, | in detail, of his life at the university and the problems which he encountered there. “From more than two years of | intimate contacts with the problems of Butler university, I am convinced : that there can bf*no successful educational administration of this in- ! stitution until the following steps are taken,” says Dr. Athearn in : conclusion. "1. The charter and by-laws must be thoroughly revised, modernized and brought into harmony with modern educational ideals and practices. “2. The personnel of the board of directors must be changed. Members of the board must be denied the right to hold full-time salaried positions, where they define their duties, fix their salaries and vote to re-elect themselves. Only those persons should sit on the board of directors who find themselves in full sympathy with the revised charter and bylaws. “3. The organization and administration of the finances of the university must be completely reconstructed in harmony with sound business principals and approved educational policies. “4. The debts of the university I must be refunded. In floating its athletic program it mortgaged its ! educational resources. It will be impossible for the institution to meet : its present financial obligations during the next few years without re- : ducing its interest and extending j the term of payment of principal unless large and unexpected dona-, tions are made in the near futureJgi