Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1934 — Page 10

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MONDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1934 MARIHUANA SUCCESSFUL Federal narcotic rails over tne week-end furnish fresh material for discussion at the national conference on crime, convening in Washington today. Tr fflc in habit-forming drugs is condem ted by all civilized peoples. Yet, orfcai lzed society's war against it is not always as relentless as it should be. Recently an American delegate at Geneva had to speak almost insultingly to force the hands of other powers which sought an easing of international opium restrictions. The United States has been a leader In world co-operation against narcotics. Developments of the last few days demonstrate our Government means business at home, as well as abroad. The national crime conference should give special attention to marihuana, a drug in which there has been an alarming spread of traffic. This weed is as much a menace as the deadlier opium and morphine. In some respects it is more so, because it can be cultivated easily in waste regions, wrapped in harmless-looking cigarets, sold at low prices by street peddlers whose customers include school children. It promotes degeneracy and insanity in Its addicts, whose numbers are multiplying in many cities. Thirty-four states have laws forbidding sale of marihuana. An effective check on this evil will not be possible until all states act. A “model" narcotics statute, drafted at the 1932 conference on uniform state laws, provides strict control over the deadlier drugs and an optional prohibition against marihuana. This law, indorsed by medical and pharmaceutical organizations and the American Bar Association, lias been adopted by four states—Florida, Nevada, New York and New Jersey. Its adoption by all states is urged by the Federal Narcotics Bureau, which now has no control over marihuana except through customs laws and through assistance to state enforcement officers. Effective Federal-State co-operation to stamp out traffic in this crime-provoking drug merits serious consideration by those who are in Washington planning against lawlessness.

EDUCATION ABOVE SPORTS NOW that the smoke ol the football season is dying avav, it is worth while to heed some remarks mat> recently by President James Rowland Angell of Yale on the subject of intercollegiate athletics. ‘ The young man who wishes to give all his time and energy to sports is quite entitled to do so. if he can afford it” says President Angell, “but he has no place in a really reputable college where intellectual development is the primary concern. ‘‘A collegiate institution of which this Is not true is a traitor to its trust.” This provides about as good a yardstick for the measurement of "over-emphasis” as you could wish. College, in other words, is a place for study, and football is a game the students play in their spare time, for fun. The college which enrolls students who are there primarily to play football, and who accept college work as a necessary evil, is, as President Angell says, being false to its trust. MILITARY TRAINING REMAINS 'T'HE case of conscientious objectors to miliA tary drill in student training corps at land grant colleges and universities seems to be settled rather decisively by the Supreme Court’s ruling. Land grant institutions, says the court, are within their rights in making such training compulsory, and the student who doesn't like it can conform—or quit. At the moment the only recourse for the student whose religious belief does not countenance war or the preparation for war would seem to be to get his education elsewhere. The court has spoken, and that part of the case is closed. Whether compulsory military drill properly has a place in the curriculum of a university may be another question, which regents of such institutions can examine at their leisure. Their t right to impose it if they choose is now unquestioned. The only question remaining is whether they should exercise that right. A COLONY’S RIGHTS Senator antonio r. barcelo of Puerto Rico returns from a meeting with President Roosevelt and announces that Washington intends to treat the Puerto Ricans just as it has treated the Pilipino6—make them ready for self-support and self-government and then. If the islanders wish it, give them independence. No announcement to this effect has yet edme from Washington, and it is of course possible that the Senator misinterpreted the President’s remarks. But the mere fact that he could make such a statement without creating a perfect furore at Washington shows how greatly the world’s viewpoint toward the possession of overseas colonies has changed in the last few generations. Originally a colony was looked upon as the unqualified possession of the home government. It existed only for the sake of the homeland; it was to be exploited as the homeland wished, and it could not conceivably have any voice in the manner. It was because this notion was accepted as a matter of course that the action of the American colonists in 1775. in taking up arms for a decent portion of self-government, seemed such a wicked and unnatural thing to King George 111 and his council. Even alter the Americana had made their protest good and established their independence, the old idea was slow to change. Tne

thought that distant colonists had right# of their own, and that whether they should remain colonies or become independent states must depend, in the long run, on their own wishes, was one which the rulers of the world resisted stoutly. But It made progress, nevertheless. Today Uncle Sam stands committed to set the Philippines free in the near future. Proud England offers anew measure of self-government to India. And now it Is hinted that Puerto Rico may follow the Filipinos, out from under the American flag, If her people wish it. And whether this latest prediction be substantiated or not, it at least is a significant highlight of anew mental attitude. The right of any people to complete freedom, In other words. Is now taken for granted. And since the tide has set so strongly In that can the freedom-denying dictators of Europe be anything but temporary vexations? In the long run, will not the spirit of the times be too much for them? "T BIGGER GAME FOR UNCLE SAM IT Is worth noticing that, at Just about the time when Baby Face Nelson was dying an unlamented death from Uncle Sam’s bullets, New York’s most notorious “beer baron,” Dutch Schultz, was surrendering to the authorities on an Income tax evasion charge and was languishing in jail for want of $50,000 bail Two types of criminals are represented here. Nelson was of the old Jesse James type —lawless, quick-shooting freebooter, a strongarm man pure and simple. Schultz, on the other hand, is of the big business variety of crook; the Capone type, which killed and slugged only Incidentally to the main business of producing and selling. This second type probably represents a greater menace to our institutions than the first. The downfall of Nelson was spectacular; that of Dutch Schultz is actually more of a feather in the cap.

CATCH CANCER EARLY ONE of the most dangerous things about cancer is that people have been too thoroughly persuaded that it is utterly Incurable. Feeling that way about it, and fearing the malady so greatly, many people fail to seek medical attention in time—and their fear of an incurable disease is translated into fact. Dr. Ira Kaplan, director of the New York City Cancer Institute, remarked recently that fully 40 per cent of the cancer cases now being cared for as hopeless would not be in that state if patients were educated to seek aid from the proper sources in time. In order to provide that education, New York health authorities designated the last month as "Cancer Month.” Health authorities are convinced that if both public and doctors can be educated to recognize the first danger signal.; of cancer, and if the public can be safeguarded from quacks, the cancer death rate can be reduced. INJURED GRIDIRON HEROES A YOUTH in a blue sweater hurled himself upon a storm of knees in a football game last week. Knees smashed into his back, his side and swept on. He lay still on the side lines while someone tossed a blanket over him. At last they picked him up and took him away to a hospital where surgeons found a crushed kidney and removed it. Blood from a teammate was pumped into his shattered frame.. He has a better than even chance to live — less than an even chance in life. It is unlikely he ever will play football again and he is a professional football player. Doctors say he never will be strong again. His team will pay his hospital bills, his salary for the last game—and after that he must look out for himself. The situation obviously is unfair. It is even more unfair in college football. Smashing knees and shoulders take their toll. Boys leave school with silver plates in their heads. They leave with permanent headaches —some leave in long boxes. The percentage of college, football men killed in action is not large, but the score of permanent injuries is rather larger than the public knows. The fact that there are any demands action. Most business firms are forced by law to maintain accident Insurance for employes. Football has become big business. Hundreds of thusands of dollars flow into university stadia every autumn Saturday. There is the constant plaint that this money is used to finance the fencing teams, the wrestlers and the crew. Is not the Injured foodball player entitled to as much consideration? At least he has earned the money. College and professional football teams should voluntarily take out insurance or set aside a certain portion of their receipts to build up a reserve fund to compensate, insofar as money can compensate, a young man for lifetime damage. If they do not, legislation should compel them to take this step as it did industry. After the cheers have died away and the stadium has emptied, there is no more romance in a broken back received off tackle than there is in a hand cut off in a factory, AERIAL WATERMARKS and most plausible theory of the cause behind the forced landing of Lieutenant Ulm and his companions near Hawaii is that the flieis may have mistaken one ship, near the Islands, for another much farther away. Making estimates of distance accordingly, the Star of Australia is believed to have overshot in the night the tiny specks of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. When disaster caught up with the fliers they were on a flight aimed at the establishment of commercial trans-oceanic routes from California to Hawaii. Such overwater routes will come shortly. When they do. seaplanes will need, more tljan they do now, every available bit of information about their position. Why not have ine name of every ship in the world painted on its superstructure in letters readable from the air? Over the land, cities and enterprising buildings -do this today. Even with radio communication operating 99 per cent of the time such additional checks are useful. Why not make every ship at sea a watermark? The assassination of a high Soviet official embarrasses those who have been blaming the Communists ior all such murders. -

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

THOSE who receive Invitations to White House receptions and dinners have often been struck by the beautiful Spencerian writing in which their names are traced. So skilful is this writing that one has difficulty in knowing where engraving ends and penmanship begins. Mr. Adrian Barclay Tolley, who is known as “America's p.-emiir penman,” is responsible for the beautiful writing. The other day he explained ; something about his job to Dan Kidney of The Times. It seems he studied writing for years until he perfected the art. He uses an offset pen and frer quently writes out invitations for hours at a time. He has been writing the names and addresses of White House guests since 1911. ' “Do you drink?” he war asked, Mr. Kidney wondering how or.e could write exquisitely with a hang-over. “Oh, no,” replied Mr. Tolley. “I never .ouch a drop. I used to smoke but I had to quit because it gave me the jitters. You can't write when you have the jitters, you know.” “So you never get the jitters?" “Oh, yes,” Mr. Tolley frankly admitted. “I get the jitters occasionally.” At such times, the master penman simpl* pushes back his desk and waits until his nerves settle down. Then he resumes writing the names of some 3000 persons who attend each White House reception. a a a SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MORGENTHAU is following the regime of Swedish Minister Bostrom these days—strenuous walks in the winter sunshine. Each morning Secretary Morgenthau’s car stops at Dupont Circle. Out steps Mr. Morgenthau, followed by a little red cocker spaniel. The car drives on. Morgenthau and the little red spaniel walk down to the Treasury Department. There the car picks up the spaniel and Mr. Morgenthau strides into his office. The only difference between Mr. Morgenthau’s and Mr. Bostrom’s regime is that the Swedish Minister follows up his walks 'with a Swedish massage and a hot tub, whereas, unfortunately, there are no hot tubs or Swedish masseurs in the Treasury Department. a a a SOLICITOR GENERAL BIGGS showed that he is one of the most astute lawyers in the Capital. Mr. Biggs was arguing a tax case before the Supreme Court. During his argument, he end &'ored to prove that the “spirit” of the law was on his side. “Just a moment,” interrupted Associate Justice Sutherland, leaning forward. “It Is the intent of the law t#iat is in question.” “Your Honor," said Mr. Biggs, “I supposed that the words ‘intent’ and ‘spirit’ in this instance might be used synonymously.” But this interpretation war. frowned upon. Shrewd Mr. Biggs said nothing at the time. Later, however, he rose and began reading three decisions of the Supreme Court. “It is the intent and spirit of this law,” ran the wording of each decision. Justice Sutherland remained silent during the reading of two decisions. At the third, he lifted his head and asked: “What does this decision have reference to?” “Holy Trinity Church, your Honor!” smiled Mr. Biggs. He won the case.

HEARTBREAK HOUSE T IKE Ko-Ko, the Mikado’s Lord High Executioner, who was sentenced to decapitate himself with his own snickersnee, the Nebraska Legislature must meet in January to bisect itself. The sovereign voters of Nebraska, led by that inveterate reformer, Senator Norris, so decreed at the last election. They amended their Constitution so that instead of two houses of 133 members their Legislature shall consist of one house of not more than 50 lawmakers. In vain the State Senators had voted two to one against the plan, and the Lower House four to one against it. Now that Nebraska has broken the ice other states are likely to go unicameral. In California, Minnesota and elsewhere reformers are starting to talk. Members of the American Political Science Association voted six to one for the one-house plan. Experts working under the National Municipal League recently drafted a model state constitution. A feature of this is the one-chamber legislature. They find that it is cheaper, more efficient, less easy for political bosses to dominate. “A division of power between the two houses leads to a division of responsibility, to political trades, to ‘passing the buck,’” said the league report. This growing movement contains good news for the taxpayers, but heartbreaks for the legislators. As Ko-Ko sang of his own pending execution: "Here’s a how-de-do!” By the crowds that thronged the streets for th£ wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, any American stranger in London might have thought the event was the funeral of some racketeer. The Duchess of Kent got nearly one thousand wedding presents, and still we’ll bet she’ll go out and buy things for the house. The president of Bolivia has resigned--as presidents resign in most of the South American countries. And when a South American president quits, he, contrary to the famous Coolidge saying, chooses to run—or else. That 13-year-old mother of Ezra, 111., ought to make plans for claiming the annual youngest grandmother award about 14 years from now. If Japan breaks the Washington naval treaty, Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee says he’ll ask Congress to approve the building of five ships to every three of Japan’s. Five to three the people lose! Upton Sinclair is setting out to tell how he got Jicked in California—rather, how he got licked in Washington. Dr. F. E. Wright of the Carnegie Institution says the moon is a cold, dead body, although it does warm the hearts of many a loving couple. The wealthy Princess Mdivani says she keeps her weight down by not eating for as long as three weeks, while the poor complain. The Soviet Government deprived a town’s lax officials of their government power, and no one knew the difference. H-mm. We.d know the difference in many of our cities. What may be keeping Huey Long from taking in more territory than Louisiana is his inability to find the American equivalent for II Duce or Der Fuehrer. A woman driver in Kansas City collided with four cars at one time. Women generally are good drivers, but when they’re not, they mrJte it worth while.

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(Times readers are invited to express tlieir views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less ) a a a EXPLAINS SITUATION OF BEAUTICIANS By Mrs. Monta B. Barnard. In your issue of Dec. 5, 1934, some one under the signature of “Well Wisher” gives his views in regard to the beauticians of this state. He stated the movement of tte barbers to organize the beauticians is potential dynamite and should he left alone, and that the beauticians would lose their identity, or words to that effect. This person is trying to becloud the issue further and was evidently deaf if he attended the meeting in Tomlinson Hall. It was stated very clearly and emphatically at that meeting that the Journeymen Barbers International Union of America was only assisting in organizing the beauticians, and as soon as they have organized 10 local units in this or any other state, they would be granted a separate charter by the American Federation of Labor, and then would be free to elect their own officers and conduct their own affairs; and, further, that they would then be able to promote their own legislation without interference from racketeers and professional lobbyists and obtain needed legislation without cost to beauty shop owners and operators. Asa beautician of this state, Ido not know of anything any fairer or clearer than that. Why should not the operators have their own organization the same as musicians, school teachers and other groups? The outstanding reason of their failures in the past has been the confusion caused by both shop owners and operators in the same organization and with the operators as servile members of those organizations. There should be two separate and distinct organizations working together for their mutual welfare. If "Well Wisher’ or any beautician of this city -wants to know all the facts, they may do so by attending a mass meeting k> which all beauticians of this city are invited in the Rainbow room of the Severin, at 8 p. m., Monday, Dec. 10. a tt tt OUR MR. STEINEL HAS A CRITIC By W. M. Knox. To Mr. Arch Steinel, Times staff writer: “Wrap a pound of butter and throw in a box of matches, Mr. Grocer.” Oh. yeh! Now, Mr. Steinel, please don’t be so harsh on us. Kindly have a little respect for the intelligence of us unfortunate victims of forced unemployment. How well we know that the $3.84 does not buy as much groceries today as $3.49 would buy a year ago i because of advanced prices. Please, either disco rinue that dis- ! honest and disrespectae’e series of articles or else get honest and repectable. ana OBJECTS TO PRESENT SYSTEM OF RELIEF By a Relief Worker. There are throe things I don’t understand. First; Why are they putting those mattresies in storage by the thousands instead of giving them to needy families? I noticed a warehouse almost full of new mattresses and rats were eating holes in them. My visitor took my order for a I mattress almost two months ago, and a month later I saw her and her excuse was that they weren’t distributing jmy now. Second: Why can’t the relief

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Leisure Time Is Problem

By Forrest Coburn. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s recent citation of “appalling conditions among our young people” should be taken to heart by every citizen. Perhaps Mrs. Roosevelt’s comparison of life today with that of a generation ago is a trifle misleading, but her position can not be disputed. The fact that too many boys and girls are subjected to environments which are not constructive, to say the least, is indeed appalling. But it is not an insuperable difficulty, nor one which we can afford to ignore. Far from turning back to more of "the good old days,” Mrs. Roosevelt suggests practical ways of attempting to cope with the situation today. She says, “Group singing and dramatics are perhaps the best outlets at this age.” How many Times readers are aware of an organization in Indianapolis which has for its slogan, “Better homes, citizens and communities through a better appreciation of the arts?”

workers get Reel Cross orders for clothes and bed clothes? They refuse to give the relief worker a Red Cross order because he makes a weekly wage, but a large family can not be maintained on the wages. If it can be done, I would like some of those visitors to take the same amount of money a relief worker gets and support a family of nine or ten on it and do all they expect us to do. If they can, I’ll be glad to try it myself. I’m no slacker. And the last thing is why is it that they give the surplus food to wage relief workers during the summer months, then in the winter months take it away from them? I know of a man who hasn’t been on the FERA and has been working all the year for $lB a week and is still working. He’s getting Red Cross orders, trustee orders, while relief workers have been getting from $6 to sl2 a week and they can’t get any of these orders. a a a GREAT TASK OF EMPLOYMENT FACES ENTIRE NATION By James H. Job, BeelsvUle. There is no denying that the greatest problem before us today is how to provide jobs for all who are willing and able to work. It is a foregone conclusion that the present method of borrowing money to hire men to do such work as digging ditches along the public hignways is doomed, to fail for the simple reason that such foolishness can not go on much longer. And, even if it could, it would not thus enable our people to live much above the starvation point, much less proyide themselves with decent clothes and become home owners, or pay rent. About 20 years ago Thomas A. Edison made some surprising predictions, which for the most part already have been realized. The time is near at hand for the fulfillment of his last and most important of all his predictions. He said, “There will be no poverty in’ the world a hundred years from now. Asa result of a machine age, I predict a world flooded with food, clothing, shelter and luxuries. There is no limit to the cheapness with which things can be made. . . . but there will be one trouble—a few will have too much and the rest not! enough. Inventors can give the j world wealth, but the Government will have to regulate it. There will be some big experiments tried in the Government within the next 50 years.” He ends his predictions by saying, “There are stormy days ahead for the man who would take what another makes.” There are three v&ys by which about 2 per cent of our people now

[/ wholly disapprove of what you say and will 1 defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire. J

| The Indianapolis Guild and Circuit is working for that very goal. Chief among its activities at present is that of building up the Little Theater movement, by organizing amateur dramatic groups for mutual benefit and co-operation. It works by encouraging profitable and entertaining use of spare time and energy, very similar to the thought suggested by Mrs. Roosevelt. Conceived a year ago by a small group of young people, the idea behind this organization has spread rapidly. It is indorsed by several well-known citizens whose integrity can not be questioned. Any individual or group having congenial interests may affiliate. While the Indianapolis Guild and Circuit is still young, it is gaining momentum. It is undertaking a difficult task, a task slow of realization. Because it is on the right track in the solution of our problems, it deserves the support of conscientious citizens.

own and control 90 per cent of all the money and wealth of this great country of ours, viz., interest, profit and rent. The safecracker goes about his business of robbery in an unlawful way, while the profit-taker goes about it in a lawful way. Our laws serve to hold in check the safecracker, but the profit-taker goes unmolested. Now, the question arises, how are we to redistribute the wealth of the country and get us out of the depression? Recent investigation has revealed the astounding fact that there are 13 billion dollars on deposit in 26 cf the leading banks in the United States. Our government is now trying to redistribute this money by borrowing and spending it. But like an endless chain it goes right back to them again. Confiscation of all natural resources (land included) and the machinery of production and distribution of wealth, to be owned by the state. I base my claim that such procedure would be just, equitable and right on the fact that God alone created this earth with all its resources—and the hand of labor has prepared them for use. It is the only way out. It is a painful fact. Such a great change will make it necessary for the Government to employ labor and buy and sell their products so that all classes of laborers can exchange ttem on the basis of an even deal without profit either to the producer or to the distributor. For every dollar that any man receives over and above what he has earned fairly is a dollar that someone has earned that he didn’t get. The reason why that laborers are unable to buy back the things they have produced is due to the fact that they are being robbed of the price of their labor. We conclude then, that the Government should own everything in the sense that it now owns the public highways, postoffice buildings and etc. The Government would employ all kinds of labor just as it now employs mail carriers together with all other government employes, and pay them in money issued direct by the Government, and thereby eliminate interest, profit, taxes and rent. Under such a regime every man would have a Government job. Who of us wouldn’t like to have Daily Thought Turn you to the stronghold, ye i prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee.—Zechariah, 9:12. HOPE is the chief blessing of man; and that hope only is rational of which we are sensible that it can not deceive us.—Johnson.

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a Government job? I confess, I would. What has a young man got to hope for under this robber capitalist system? And u r hat have the majority part of our farmers got to lose by confiscating nothing. Under such a regime every individual would have an undivided interest in everything, which would be better than not htfve an interest In anything. Enough can be produced frw us all, then why should we not all have enough? There is nothing tb hinder, but ignorance and selfishness. a a a REFUSED COAL AT COUNTY OFFICE, CHARGE * By Louis Snyder To the Taxpayers of Indiana: Several days ago I went to thie County Unemployment Bureau To get a ton of coal. I was refused. I asked the man in charge why it was that people who own their own homes, hogs, chickens and cows better relief than those who own nothing? *He said, “Don’t try to take relief away from a man who does own his own home.” Mr. Taxpayer, if you look into thte you will find where your money ■•as goipg.

So They Say j

Place any man behind a governmental desk and give him a few million dollars of government money to spend and he is likely to develop the fixation that any one who doer, not approve of the way he does “his job is a public enemy.—President Tyler Dennett of Williams College. Yugoslavia is the country of ohe single nation and one language, with the dialectical differences not greater than those existing between va’fi r ous English or American locality. —Radoye Yankovitch, Yugo-31av consul general in United States. Who made the anarchy in China? It exists because China is one of the best fields for selling guns and munitions.—Major Clement Richard Attlee, M. P. I always have loved poetry.'"l have deplored its decline in this country. Mrs. Hugh Bullock, founder of the Academy of American Poets. All true German women adore him (Hitler). He is so sweet, so gentle, so kind.—Countess Slerstorpff, owner of German ironworks. -- * The science of consumption is still in its cradle—Henry Goddard Leach, magazine editor. LANDSCAPE BY THOMAS E. HALSEY _ Deep tones of azure, streaked With silver gray, Discordant silhouettes of purpled hues, Dull, misty remnants of a fade# day J Cling to a sullen sheen of varied blues. . -i Majestic ruggedness of somber tints, Black grotesque shades upon a sprawl of green, 1 Long angling stretch of drabiness that hints ’ • Os animation, now unheard —unseen. • Such awkwardness in color and design Brushed by an artist, would his fame surcease, Nor could a poet, beauty here tfcfine, Yet God has made of this a master* piece.