Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1935 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HEHOOD BROUN I RATHER suspect that some publisher gave it to me. You see I hung around the edge of the t A. N. P. A. convention and I certainly could have caught It there. It's called the unsleeping sickness and you toss and turn all night in a horrid fear that somebody is doing something to the freedom of the press. In extreme cases the patient, when he does doze off. is addicted to walking in his sleep and even going out to make speeches. At any rate I found myself very restless up at Scram Lodge in Connecticut and I decided that perhaps I had been in the country too

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long and needed a touch of New York. Accordingly, I started down t-efore dawn, and it was just around a a m. that I committed my great transgression. All I can say in my own defense is that I just didn't know the conditions. We passed a kid on a bicycle who was delivering papers. He looked about 10 years old and I turned and said to a friend in the car. “That’s a damn shame. A child of that age has no business being up at this hour delivering papers. He ought to be home in bed.”

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There’s no use in my pretending that I didn't say it. Maybe I was drunk or nearly half awake. And the irony of it all is that if I had taken one of the boy’s papers <1 didn’t learn till later that he should be referred to as a ’little merchant ) I might have come across the speech of Jerome D. Barnum, new president of the Publishers’ Association, and been saved from uttering my seditious words. a a a All for Edit cal ion SPEAKING for himself a„d his associates Mr. Barnum said: "We have constantly kept in mind the welfare of the boys of this country who engage in the delivery and sale of newspapers. Each decade sees several million boys engaged in the sale and delivery of newspapers. While undoubtedly there have been some abuses, there have been untold benefits. The American newspaper boy is an intelligent, progressive, independent and alert future citizen. We have sought to retain for him his opportunity to employ his spare time so as to become a more valuable citizen. With those who would deny him such an opportunity and as an alternative throw him on charity or public relief, we would not discuss the question. With those who might seek to abuse him in his effort to progress and make a man of himself, we have no sympathy, and to such we will lend no support.” Spoken like a man and a publisher! It cleared tip the entire problem for me. You see I had started out with the wholly erroneous notion that 10 and 12-year-old kids were used in suburban delivery routes because they were cheaper. I had heard that there were a great many adults out of work and I supposed that it might be a good idea to put them on the job even if it cost a little more. I suppose there are a great many children who have some spare time along about 5 a. m. and it had oeen my notion that they ought to keep it spare and reserve it for sleeping. As I keep telling you, I hadn’t yet read Mr. Barr.um’s explanation that it is all a great campaign of education and training in good citizenship. st n a Why Mention Child Labor? AND it's lucky I did see his speech this time because as you read, now that he's go', the whole thing settled in such a satisfactory manner all around, he won't even consent to discuss the subject any more. And can you blame him. Mr. Barnum is the president of the Publishers’ Association and he can't be bothered going around discussin? child labor. He has to keep all his time clear in order to talk about the freedom of the press. Asa matter of fact Mr. Barnum says that the use of young boys in the sale and delivery of newspapers has nothing on earth to do with child labor. “The work done,” he explains, “is outside of school hours and not in competition with adults. Nor is it to be compared for one moment to that done by children in mills, mines and sweatshops, during long hours of the day when they should be in school.” He’s quite right about that. I don't believe a Child in a mill or a sweatshop gets nearly as much training in citizenship. I guess the mill owners don't even bother to talk about it. They leave that to the publishers. Mr. Barnum is quite right, the work is not as wide as a church door, but sometimes when I watch 6ome spindly “little merchant” peddling his wares at dawn I wonder if maybe it isn't as deep as a grave. Mr. Barnum is right, all too right, the child has made a man of himself.

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIX-

IP you are a victim of the stress and strain of the times, and find yourself in a particularly nervous condition, the best relief is to relax. Doctors know that this is the first step in relieving various types of spasmodic disturbances. Several special systems of relaxation have been developed and promoted for the purpose, but there It no magic formula. Nevertheless, there are a few simple conditions which you should observe to obtain the best results. First of all, you must have a quiet room in which you should lie with your eyes closed. This serves to diminish distraction and also enables you to concentrate easily on your share in the performance. an a 'T'HEN you should breathe easily 20 or 30 times, until you reach your usual rhythm of breathing during sleep. When you have reached this stage, any person who might be aiding you to gain relaxation should stroke the muscles in the direction of the fibers while you let yourself go completely limp. You should lie loosely, as if you were to sink through the bed or the couch. When you have reached this condition, in which you lie like a dead weight, your attendant may then help you relax the muscles of the head and face. Frowns and wrinkles of concentration are stroked away. The muscles which set the jaws and make the mouth firm usually are most difficult to relax. It is also difficult to relax the muscles of the neck. These may be loosened by lifting and lowering your head until it drops easily of its own weight. a u a THEN you should go or> toward relaxation of a" the muscles, including those of thighs and arms. Eventually you will learn to relax each group of muscles in turn, and finally you will be able to develop a completely relaxed condition of yourself. After you have learned to relax, you should regularly go through the rhythmical breathing of sleep and the process of relaxation. You will then require about 15 minutes to reach a completely relaxed state, after which you should fall easily into natural sleep. It is highly desirable that you get some outdoor exercise daily. This is an especially good aid to sound sleep at night. But do not carry the exercise to a point of exhaustion or such great fatigue that relaxation becomes impossible.

Questions and Answers

Q —What is the cost to the government of educating a cadet at the United States Military Academy, and a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy? A— Cadets, approximately $19,000, and midshipmen about $14,000. Q —Name the authors of the quotations: "Life is short, yet sweet;" and "So free we seem, so fettered fast we are." A—The first is from Euripides, a Greek tragic dramatist, and the second is from Martial's ‘ Epigrams."

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WAR PHOTOS FROM THE CHACO aaananaaa a a a a a a > These extraordinary photos were obtained exclusively for NEA Service and The Indianapolis Times by Post Wheeler, veteran American diplomat and author. The apparent youth of these soldiers and the grimness of their conflict are a revelation of the magnitude of operations. All photos copyright, 1935, by NEA Service.

In a jungle ramp these Paraguayan youths listen to a comrade’s guitar during a lull in the fighting of the Chaco campaign.

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In an airport literally hewed out of the jungle. Paraguayan planes poise ready to hop; practically all are grounded by now.

A priest gives God's blessing on Paraguayan boys kneeling on the Asuncion drill ground before starting for the front.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON, April 30.—Enactment of a bonus bill will be welcomed by New Deal liberals for a reason that the veterans would never guess. They hope that the bonus will give them their long-sought opening for a sweeping revision of the tax laws. Young Henry Morgenthau paved the way for this in his appearance before the Senate Finance Committee. He warned that if the bonus were passed, higher taxes would be necessary.

This wall play right into leftwing hands. Once tax legislation becomes an order of business, they are in a position to bring out the far-reaching program they have been trying for months to persuade the President to back. Furthermore, if the liberals once get their program on the floors of Congress, many members who secretly oppose drastic overhauling of the tax system won’t dare vote against it in the open. To do so would be political dynamite in next year’s elections. That is why such Senators as Pat Harrison. Joe Robinson and Josiah Bailey pooh-pooh Mr. Morgenthau’s argument, airily insist that the bonus can be managed without new taxes. The undercover maneuvering over this should be both important and amusing. OOP PRIVATE polls regarding the Wagner labor disputes bill indicate that it has a good chance of passing if it can ever be brought to a vote. This depends upon Old Guard Democratic leaders in the Senate, none of whom are too enthusiastic about it. The bill will be reported out of committee shortly and will soon face the test. Meanwhile there is some interesting behjnH-t}- scenes dickering between Secret, y Frances Perkins and backers of the bill. No Cabinet officer likes to see his department weakened and Miss Perkins is no exception. Therefore, she is opposed to the Wagner bill, unless the new Labor Relations Board, which it will establish, is placed under her Labor Department. v u u r> this the Wagnerites are strenuously opposed. They claim that a labor board subordinate to the Labor Department would subject it to political pressure. They want the board completely independent—similar to the Supreme Court. So they have proposed a swap to Miss Perkins—as follows;

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Her Labor Department will get control of the organization set up by the new social security bill provided she relinquishes claim to the new labor board. Miss Perkins very much wants to administer the social security bill. But the House Ways and Means Committee, irked at her demands, took jurisdiction out of her hands and put it under an independent agency. Senate backers of the Wagner bill now plan to give the social security administration back to the lady. They hope this will appease her for their insisten s upon taking the labor board away. n n a THE Louisiana Kingfish was explaining to colleagues on the Democratic side of the Senate what an important party figure he is. "I do not want "three Democrats to become engaged in an argument, because I do not want the harmony of the party disrupted. I am a leader of the Democratic party—one of its titular leaders.” “Did the Senator say ‘kickular* leaders?” inquired Texas’ “Long Tom” Connolly. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) millefTmust appear IN CRIMINAL COURT City Trust Cos. Former President to Be Arraigned Despite Illness. Although James W. Noel, attorney for Dick Miller, president of the defunct City Trust Cos., pleaded yesterday that his client was subject to serious heart attacks. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker ruled that Mr. Miller must appear for arraignment next Monday if “he is at all fit.” “My client may oe able to come to court, but I am not so sure he will be able to do so.” Mr. Noel said. Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer replied. “Oh, it won t be much of a efrain.” Judge Baker said he was anxious to hold arraignments as soon as possible and that Mr. Noel could file any motions Monday, also.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1935

By NEA Service THOUSAND men lie dead in the graveyard of the Gran Chaco, the bloody battleground where Bolivia and Paraguay have been locked in a death grip for almost tjiree years. That is almost as many men as the battle casualties of the United States in the World War. It is as though every man in a city the size of Omaha. Neb., or Syracuse. N. Y., were to be killed. The present bitter fighting around Charagua in Bolivia’s southern province of Santa Cruz has seen 40,000 soldiers in action and has added perhaps 2000 to the lengthening lists of the dead. And there is no sign of an end. Across the jungle wastes of the Chaco the tide of war has swept since 1932. At first the well-trained and equipped troops of Bolivia appeared to be making the most gains. They penetrated well into the Chaco, that disputed area that lies between the warring countries. 00 BUT then the Chaco began to fight them. The Bolivians are highlanders, and the savage guerilla warfare of the steaming mazes of the jungle was not to their liking. It neutralized the effect of their better armament, and gave a corresponding advantage to the Paraguayans, who were used to it. For six months the Paraguayans hammered at the line of forts and defenses the Bolivians had built. Toward the end of 1934 and the beginning of this year, they began to break through, and succeeded in gaining almost all the Chaco. Desperate at this threat of invasion, Bolivia braced, and her green and untried troops appear to have halted the Paraguayan advance in the present series of battles from Charagua to Villa Montes, along a 125-mile front. 000 AS the losses mount, the Bolivian advantage would seem to increase, despite her 30.000 prisoners in Paraguayan camps and the decimation of her early and veteran armies. For Paraguay has only a million people, and despite the desperate loyalty and head-long bravery sacrifices of her people, they can not furnish cannon-meat forever. Bolivia controls the air, Paraguay’s air force having been wiped out. Unless effective mediation comes, however, from the neighboring South American countries of Argentina, Chile and perhaps Brazil, from the United States, or from the League of Nations, it is more than possible that both these countries will fight each other into mutual destruction. In that case, the Chaco may remain an unsettled South American Alsace-Lorraine, to plague the peace of the western hemisphere for uncounted years to come.

LOCAL BAR GROUP WILL HOLD DINNER Lawyers From Seven Counties to Be Guests of Indianapolis Body. The bench and bar of seven counties adjoining Marion County and members of the Indiana Appellate and Supreme Courts will be guests of the Indianapolis Bar Association at its dinner meeting tomorrow night in the Columbia Club. Speakers will be selected to represent each of the counties and the two high courts. The counties are Shelby, Hendricks, Hamilton, Morgan, Boone, Hancock and Johnson. The meeting will be of a social nature, according to William C. Kern, secretary. President Carl Wilde will preside.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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Field artillery in firing position along the advanced Paraguayan front. Mud and lack of roads are their handicap.

The bullets were whining as the photographer made this picture of a hastj intrenchment at an advanced post in the Chaco.

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Lessons of the World War are remembered in the Chaco, as the elaborate scope of this Paraguayan trench system proves.

SPUDS FROM IDAHO? MISREPRESENTATION! LOCAL WOMAN PAYS

Rece illy Mrs. George Sheffer, 3311 Graceland-av, bought what she thought were Idaho potatoes at a neighborhood grocery. Yesterday she noticed a small hole in one of the potatoes. Imbedded in the center of the potato was a scrap of paper sealed in cellophane. On the paper was written, “Write us when you find this. We received 35 cents a 100 pounds. What did you pay? H. Schultz, Sand Lake, Mich.” Mrs. Sheffer said she would write Mr. Schultz and inform him that she paid 25 cents for 10 pounds.'

SHARECROPPER PROBE BY ‘G’ MEN IS DEMANDED President Asked to Order Investigation by Department of Justice. By Scrippx-llaward Sewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 30.—President Roosevelt was asked today to order a Department of Justice investigation of the treatment of sharecroppers in Arkansas and other states. The People’s Lobby urged him to have investigations made of “breaches of the peace, the actions of local authorities, and violations of AAA contracts.” The letter to the President cited the unpublished report of Mrs. Mary Conner Myers for the AAA as proof that tenant farmers have been driven off farms, exploited and persecuted by landlords “apparently with the connivance of local officials.” GOLDSMITH TALKS AT KIRSHBAUM CENTER Executive Secretary of Chicago Jewish Charities Addresses Group. “The people in the year 2000 will live at a slower pace than we do today because mechanical genius will have perfected machines that will be indispensable and commonplace,” Samuel A. Goldsmith, executive secretary of Jewish charities in Chicago, said last night at the Jewish Federation meeting at Kirshbaum Community Center. New directors elected last night to serve three-year terms are Walter E. Wolf, Dr. R. A. Solomon, Ben X. Cohen, Ernest Cohn, M. C. Furscott, Sol Goldsmith and I. F. Kahn. CONSUMERS’ CLUB T 0 HOLD ANNUAL MEETING Group Will Convene at Farm Bureau Building Thursday. First annual meeting of the Consumers Co-operative Club of Indianapolis will be held in the Farm Bureau Building at 8:15 Thursday night. Members of anew executive! board and auditing committee will be elected. Speakers will be the Rev. Ellis Cowling, Thomtowm, and C. E. Oldham, Federal field investigator. KERN INSPECTS PARKS Municipal Playgrounds Also Viewed by Mayor and Recreation Group. Mayor John W. Kern and the new City Recreation Committee inspected the Indianapolis municipal playgrounds yesterday afternoon in preparation for the opening of the season in June. Eighteen parks and playgrounds were visited.

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Er Re<'ocd-Clas *t /Ice. Indianapolis, Ind.

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLCR THE best contribution to the light humor of the country which has come out of Washington since Prof. Mordecai Ezekiel’s attempt to control the birth-rate in the barn yaud by means of an imaginary black sphere swinging in an arc above a hypothetical line has been offered by Mr. E. Claude Babcock. president of the American Federation of Government Employes.c Prof. Ezekiel, r .'expert in the Department of Agriculture. considered all the ponderable factors, but

was unable to place a fixed value on the emotional processes of the common pig. With the facts of life, commerce and biology he was thoroughly familiar and to each he assigned a definite mathematical importance rer~''sented by such symbols as X a.. Y. But the element of love remained an unknown quantity, signified only by a printer's doo-dad. so his formula, representing profound scientific study, was abandoned after a grave debate in the Senate. It was Senator Long, a statesman who boasts of having re-

ceived his early raising among the pigs in Winn Parish. La., who pointed out that when a pair of pigs decide that they were made for each other they have no mind for the study of government pamphlets. In such circumstances, the statesman said, love conquers all and the irresistible tide of emotion would sweep away X, Y and all the official regulations that the United States Department of Agriculture might devise in a thousand years like so many hen coops along the Arkansas lowlands in time of flood. 000 Gcltiny to Mr. Babcock — A COLLEAGUE, wishing to be droll about a serious matter, said he could not understand the formula himself and therefore doubted that a pig would be able to understand it, especially with his pulses pounding in his temples, as the lady novelists say. It was better, the Senators decided, to eradicate known pigs than to prevent pigs which were only theoretical, and this eventually was done. Mr. Babcock now comes before the Civil Service Committee of the House of Representatives to claim that sin among the unmarried gentlemen ana ladies who work for the government may be charged to an inhuman law which forbids husband and wife to hold jobs in the public service. Claiming to know of nine couples who had decided to play house rather than get married, and thus avoid the loss of one job a couple, Mr. Babcock would put the blame for this on the government rather than the playmates themselves. ‘ Companionate marriage” was the euphemistic name they use for this procedure, which is a nice name for it, at that. Mr. Babcock did not undertake to guarantee, however, that even if the dual-job law were repealed, this would put an end to unconventional house-holding among those who draw pay from the government. In fact, so far as the report of the controversy reveals, nobody appears to have thought it very important that they should. 000 Oh, Those Job-Hogs THE government is liberal-minded under the present Administration. Caring very little what the employes do on their own time or whom they choose for room mates. The government is not the employes’ pastor any more, a considerable change from the Administrations of the Messrs. Coolidge and Hoover, who required that these hands, including even members of the Cabinet, recite a vow to abstain from alcoholic beverages out of reverence for the policy of the Administration. This made Washington a city of clove-eaters. It is a low price which Mr. Babcock places upon that which has been valued above all the jewels of India and all the gold in the earth when he cites nine ladies in the government service who have surrendered their virtue in order to retain their government wages. There have been ladies like that before and it is not alarming to find that there are nine known cases among a force of 90,000 government employes. The regulation seems a good one notwithstanding the dreadful sacrifice of the nine ladies referred to by Mr. Babcock. Washington is a concentration of the greediest job-hogs in the United States and plural job-holding in one family is still accomplished under all sorts of ingenious dodges. Mr. Babcock’s proposition that Uncle Sam is the sinner in all nine cases seems cruelly unfair to old Mr. Whiskers. Not content to have both the money and the domesticity which is denied to other government hands who obey the conventions, the nine ladies want the government chaplains to do their repenting for them on government time at the taxpayers’ expense.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

Dr Frank Thone. Science Service writer, contributed the following article in lieu of the daily feature by David Dietz, which because of transmission difficulties failed to arrive. MAYBE man descended from a great ape like a chimpanzee or gorilla after all. This point of view which has been rather in eclipse among evolutionists during recent years was readvanced by Prof. William K. Gregory, anatomist of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, speaking before a meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia. Prof. Gregory recognizes two modes in evolution, "undeviating evolution” and “transformation.” Increase in skull capacity from lowest monkeys to man is an example of the first mode. The great changes in the face from monkeys to man exemplify the second. a a a APES' feet, widely different from man’s, have long been held a barrier to man’s evolution from the great apes. But Prof. Gregory thinks that apes’ feet may easily have changed as much as their faces, on the road to becoming human. Like changes may also have taken place in the pelvis. Not all of Prof. Gregory’s colleagues accept his conclusions. Dr William L. Straus Jr., of the Johns Hopkins University, ever, suggested that in some body parts, especially certain muscles, apes are more highly evolved than men. He holds to the view that man and apes separated long ago and that the human stock retained some primitive characters which the apes had to lose in developing the treedwelling way of life. a a a SUPPORT for Dr. Gregory's views was given by a study of the way a chimpanzee uses its foot when walking on its hindlegs, presented by Drs. Herbert Elftman and John Manter of Columbia University. The chimpanzee turns the top of its foot outward and has no sign of longitudinal arch. When its lifts its weight from its heel it shifts it to the toes, not to the ball of the foot, as in man. Used thus the chimpanzee foot shows no signs of turning in the direction of human locomotion. But, added the two scientists: "A detailed examination of the structure of the chimpanzee and human foot reveals such a fundamental similarity as to leave no doubt that the human foot could have evolved from that of an ape.” Q —Who was Yauk? A—The Arabian horse-god. Q —What Is a caucus? A—A private meeting of members of a political party, to select candidates, or concert measures for adoption by the party.

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