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C i e lA'jh t and the Prop!* Will h ’rut Rhone RI It 5.V.1 Their Oirn It ay WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1935. THE ROBERTS SCHOOL T ETTING conti acts for the James E. Roberts - L ' School for Crippled Children was an act appropriate to Thanksgiving. Not only is new construction sorely needed, but so are special facilities for handicapped children. And since the money for the school comes in part from an estate there is the element of personal compassion in the event. There <s no finer public or private undertaking than smoothing the way for youngsters starting life at a physical disadvantage. The only remedy for handicaps is education. When one considers what crippled persons, the blind, the deaf and others have accomplished through education one feels spurred toward helping all defectives along the road. We understand that the Roberts School will be a model offering all that modern science can give for the ciipplcd. It should make the people of Indianapolis feel proud. OLIVE BRANCH GROWS THORNS (SHORTLY after passage of the bitterly contested Utility Holding Company Act in the last Congress, SEC Chairman Landis adopted a conciliatory attitude, expressing himself in a radio speech in such language as this: “Tlie grant of these powers (those contained in the holding company law) was intended to correct recognized and disastrous abuses—abuses that did exist and to a degree that made of them a national scandal. It is as foolish to deny their existence as to regard the Holding Company Act, as some of its opponents have, as an effort relentlessly to destroy the good with the bad. And there is so much good in this industry that will not only be untouched but immensely improved by the elimination of the bad. Indeed, it is easy io rind numerous examples of wise, efficient and trustworthy management and of companies which truly deserve to be called public service corporations.” But to this conciliatory approach and to other appeals for co-operation that followed, the holding companies answered first by sniping at the law's constitutionality in a one-sided Baltimore court proceeding to which the government was not even a party of interest, and later by a multitude of injunction suits filed in courts throughout the land. Tired of this harassment, the SEC yesterday discarded the olive branch and placed a legal sword in the hands of a man who is the type that will relish using it. He is Robert H. Jackson, a lawyer whose custom it is to ask no quarter, and give none. With the same gusto he displayed when, as counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau, he went after Andrew W. Mellon for three million dollars in income taxes, Mr. Jackson yesterday moved into the enemy’s stronghold—the lower judicial district of New York which embraces Wall Street —and filed suit to compel the far-flung Electric Bond and Share Cos. to register with the SEC as the holding company law provides. Big holding company interests should have a wholesome respect for Mr. Jackson's legal prowess. They need only recall some of the tilts they had with him when he was a practicing lawyer in Jamestown, N. Y„ representing small local utilities in court battles with the giants. If Mr. Jackson handles them roughly in court, the holding companies can't complain. They asked for it.

THE ENGLISH MEETING r I ''he National Council of Teachers of English is the guest of the city for a short convention this week, bringing here some of the country's distinguished university men and women. The delegates are to discuss the teaching of English in a changing curriculum. That is one way of stating one of the difficult problems of teaching today. From a time when students expected to have four years of English in high school and four in college, we have reached a place where it is hard to get into a course as much English as the student needs. Other subjects—notably economics and political science—have been crowding English. So have the natural sciences. The leisure necessary for the mastery of English is lacking. Such elements as spelling, punctuation and simple sentence structure elude many business and professional people today because they were educated during the time when English was losing its formei high place. We don't know what the council can do about it but we hope the concentration of so much wisdom and experience at this meeting ma\ biing about an improvement. WORTHY LITTLE PAPERS THE little newspapers published at CCC camps in Indiana give anew sidelight on the work going on there. They are much like high school papers and show the same effort to raise the morale of the young. Editorial? and other articles in CCC papers that have come to our attention have the forward look. The camp members and staffs are thinking of the day when these young men will return to their homes and to private employment. One of the editors was writing about the work the members are expected to do for the government in exchange for their food, shelter, clothing and wages. He spoke of the eight hours a day. with the hour out for lunch, and he was urging the members to give the full eight hours of honest work so they would form the right work habit for the future. Possibly many had never been told that giving the full measure is as necessary to character as telling the truth. The camp staffs are to be commended for fostering the CCC newspapers. They help give the camps a tone. ONE DRY CELEBRATION WILKINSBURG. Pa, is a heavily populated borough adjoining Pittsburgh. Its main street is one of the main streets of Pittsburgh and most of its residents work in the city. A stranger would not know whether he was in the one or the other. The Wllkinsburg people have just held a civic „ celebration and for a reason interesting even this far away. Thousands met to hear speeches and lLten to

music because the voters had turned down liquor. They did not want taverns in their town of homes. And they were jubilant over the majority decision. It just goes to show that no blanket opinion on liquor is reasonable. Repeal came with a suddenness that took many persons off their feet. It seemed to be right; and one after another of the states accepted it. But there are drys, after all. And they have a habit of going to the polls. The wets should be aware of opposite sentiment and do everything possible to keep the liquor traffic under such control that it will not encourage a general uprising. We note that in the Wilkinsburg dry jubilee ministers of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish congregations took part. THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW T TNITED STATES policy, it is now said, will be to restrict to normal-time quotas the export of socalled key materials to belligerents. Pending further drastic action by the League of Nations, or the revision of our own neutrality law broadening and clarifying its application, this would appear prudent. Postponement of the League embargo on oil and other key products to Italy, after various United States officials had warned American interests to cease such shipments, left the United States somewhat out on a limb, with the result that Italy declared that we had ceased to be neutral. The aim of Congress in passing the neutrality law last August was to keep America out of foreign quarrels. The aim of the President, he himself said, is to “discourage” wars wherever they may occur, but that “despite whatever happens on continents overseas, the United States shall and must remain , . . unentangled and free.” The American people have shown themselves overwhelmingly in favor of these objectives. But so straight and narrow is the path of neutrality that unless we watch our step we can easily stumble. In attempting to keep ahead of the procession, we are risking the very thing we are trying to preserve, namely our neutral position. Our tendency to be caught on a limb—whether in Manchuria, Africa or elsewhere —we suspect is due largely to our fear of being charged with co-operating with the League. To avoid that vastly over-rated political bugaboo, we seem inclined to try to guess what the others are going to do and then do it first. It is both awkward and dangerous. If we are not to co-op*,rate with the League openly and above board we should define our own neutrality policy, broaden the law enabling it to function, then apply it without fear or favor to any and all belligerents in line with our predetermined plan. Like it or not, that is the only path to complete and effective neutrality. JUSTICE FOR A JUDGE BEN LINDSEY has been reinstated as an attorney by the Supreme Court of Colorado. Disbarred in 1929, he went to California where he was elected to a judgeship. Lindsey's “offense” was that he took a realistic view of the problems of youth in a period when youth’s offenses were being settled by the specific application ot the law. He was really a prophet, with the conduct of his Juvenile Court in Denver—a prophet before his time. Today most people appreciate that with the frequent breakdown in family life there must be a great latitude of judgment on the part of courts in cases ot delinquency. Society's duty is to salvage, rather than to punish. JUDGES DO DISAGREE npHE law is tlie law, it is said, and even though laymen, lawyers and minor magistrates dispute the meaning of the law, the correct answer always can be found by consulting the nine eminent jurists who sit on the United States Supreme Court. Yet in nine decisions handed down by that tribunal recently, those nine justices disagreed with each other. In four of the decisions, the division was 5 to 4. None of the cases referred to involved broad questions of policy or constitutionality. They merely involved differences of opinion as to the meaning of written statutes. All of which seems to indicate that judicature is something less than an exact science.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON T AM told there are husbands who welcome suggestions that the stairs be painted or the living room papered or the furniture done over. Mine was never like that. However, as every woman knows, there comes the moment when a wife must take things into her own hands, let the results be what they may. Such a moment arrived at our house this fall. After a severe struggle with the opposition and the inner woman, who very much dislikes discord, I summoned, first, my determination and next the carpenters and paper hangers. By night the house was in such a state that I almost deplored the deed myself. And I thought the roof would go from the masculine blasts let loose at the dinner hour. According to the boss’ verdict everything was wrong, and we were apt to finish the job in the poorheuse, but the biggest bone of contention was the proposed addition of bookshelves, new paint and paper to the paternal sanctuary known in domestic circles as ‘‘The Fraid Hole” because it is a refuge from feminine interference. What if the place was messy—raged the complaint—it suited him. didn't it? He liked part of his books on the floor. Dust never bothered him or his friends. He wanted it known once and for all that he did not wish, indeed he would not have, his belongings disturbed. But living with a man upward of 20 years teaches you to distinguish between real anger and mere bluster. So. although relations were a little strained for some days, I proceeded with my program, as any woman does who knows herself to be in the right. The bookshelves went in, the place was repapered, all to the thundering silence of the man who was to pay for it. And what, do you ask. were the consequences of my rash act? Precisely what I had expected. Now, as visitors are shown over a clean and charming room, without a single expression of compunction the head of the house takes all the compliments to himself and by Christmas will really believe he thought up the whole idea. No child wants to fail. Failure means only one thing; that someone has blundered; someone has failed to show the child off to advant ge on his own level of ability to succeed.—Dr. F. L. Patry, New York psychiatrist. One glory will always remain in the crown of Mr. Roosevelt; he did do something about it (the depression). The value of that precedent is inestimable.—Gen. Hugh Johnson. The war in Africa is a necessity. If we conquer one-half Abyssinia, we shall send there, in 100 years, 5,000,000 Italians.—Dr. Giovanni Macerata, Venice.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

IN Irvington the other evening to -*■ see some friends whose baby is learning to walk at 11 months, I was astonished, for I had been under the impression that babies did not walk that young. But this was a strictly modern baby and I could not help thinking how the baby business has changed in almost every respect. During the summer I made the acquaintance of a baby ■who at five months had been brought from Honolulu and across the Continent, eating these new scientific baby foods all the way. She seemed as healthy and as contented as any baby I could recall from the times when mothers nursed their children. It appears that science can take complete charge of a baby from the moment of its birth. If the parents have the money and can pay the doctor, apparently all they need to do is be around occasionally to see that the child does not forget who they are. nun HHAKING care of a baby under modern conditions is more like servicing a car than old-fash-ioned parenthood. a a a profession has advanced more ' steadily than medicine and surgery. And no professional group keeps a more watchful eye on improvements in practice and technique than the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association. The way the doctors can keep people alive today is really distressing. One can tnink quickly of a number of persons whose presence makes one regret the progress of medical art. B tt B /\ ROUND the Circle one is apt to run into Bill Stormont, who was christened Lowell H. Nobody seems to know why he should be called Bill but that’s the way things go. His grandfather was the veteran Gil Stormont and his father Harry K. Stormont, once one of the better city editors of the town. Bill’s first recollection is of sitting on his father’s desk in a newspaper office. Would not first recollections of a lot of people make an interesting list? Mine is of being taken for a walk by an aunt and told that when we got back to the house I would find a baby sister there. I didn’t ask how it got there; I just took for granted it was all right. Nowadays a toddler wouldn’t have to be notified. B B B BILL was one of the first Indianapolis men to get into motion pictures. He was in promotion work in the earlier days of the silents but he could have been in the other end. Once in the Astor Hotel in New York he was mistaken for Valentino. Now he is an advertising manager. We went to see “Mutiny on the Bounty” and afterward there was the usual disagreement in the party about the merits of the picture. One had found it a bit dull and described how he felt about it by saying they should have written in a part for “Popeye, the Sailorman.” BBS ONE of the pleasures of going to the pictures is the argument afterward. Every man is his own casting director and every woman has her say. Especially if Bill Powell is in the cast. The trouble is, with these double features, the mind of the tired business man becomes so confused that he can not put on a real argument with his wife on the way home. Sullen silence and damage to the garage doors are apt to ensue.

OTHER OPINION JOY IN WORK [lndiana Boys’ School Herald] The idea of joy in one's work has long been ridiculed, but nevertheless, it is fast taking root in the minds of many and proving its value and merit. Whether you work in an office or in a factory you can take cheerfulness, willingness and eagerness with you. The day’s burdens are lightened, fatigue is kept away and depression is not given a chance to envelop you. Dissatisfaction is responsible for most aversion to work. When we drown this dissatisfaction in a determination to make our work pleasant by bringing it into an at- | mosphere of joy and happiness, then : and only then can we expect to live life as it should be lived. ON THE NEW DEAL [Bishop Robert E. Luceyl The present Administration has made an earnest effort to control by legislation the conflict and im- ; morality that are rampant in industry. It has tried to help owners, employers and workers; it has desired to eliminate child labor and protect women in industry. At every step the Administration has met with defiance and stupidity. The American business man has j been too free and his excessive freedom has resulted in the growth of unethical and dangerous practices. Now that this swollen and exaggerated freedom is under attack, headstrong men are rushing to the shelter of the dear old Constitution which has been twisted and bent to their satisfaction these many years.

“SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR!”

The Hoosier Forum / wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 200 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reaucst.) nan IT WAS A PLEASURE TO HELP By Arthur M. Bowman, President, Townsend Club JO We, the officers and members of Townsend Club 10. desire to thank you for the publicity given us for our Townsend Clubs Carnival held Nov. 14. 15 and 16 in St. Joseph’s Hall. Our carnival was a success end we feel the publicity given contributed greatly toward making this event successful. May we express through you our appreciation to each one who had any part in our program? nun IN BEHALF OF VIRGINIA’S CURFEW GIRL’ By Mrs. Carrio Washmuth Please allow me a little space in your paper in the interests of the ‘curfew girl,” Edith Maxw'ell. I think every Times reader should sign a petition and send it to the Governor of Virginia to free that poor girl. She had a perfect right to defend her own life against a brutal, drunken father. I am a mother of four children and I believe that girl did no harm, and I think this w’hole nation of ours should turn out and sign a petition to free her. Get busy and start the ball to rolling. not! A TAXICAB DRIVER GIVES HIS SIDE By Terry Wilson Don't you think this hearing, Street Car Cos. versus Cab Companies is an absurd thing? If the City Council passes an ordinance prohibiting cab drivers cruising the streets upon which sti’eet cars and busses pass, that will cause most of our cabs to go out of business, therefore causing a number of men to be out of employment. Our boys don’t want to go on relief. Will you please ask a vote of the people, through your paper, just to see how many people are in favor of such an ordinance? My heme depends very much on my job and so many other boys are the same. non SAYS SECURITY IS FIRST THOUGHT OF MASSES By Thomas D. McGee Ex-President Hoover, Mr. Knox and others leading the war on the New Deal, make the same mistake in their approach to the subject. That mistake, may it be pointed out, is this: They assume that the thing uppermost in the minds of the great American masses is liberty. The assumption is gratuitous and erroneous. It may be a surprise to j these gentlemen, but it is neverthej less true, that the consideration upj permost in the minds of the crowd,

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mail is addressed to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, Frederick >l. Kerby. Director, 1013 Thirteenth-st, N. W., Washington. D. C. Q —When was the troop ship “Persic"’ torpedoed, and how many lives were lost? A—Tire torpedoing occurred in September, 1918. but no lives were lost. The ship carried 1999 American troops, mostly from Chicago and Cleveland. Though far out at sea, the ship was beached safely. Q —What cow holds the world's record for the production of butterfat? A—The Australian cow Melba XV of Darbalara is said to hold the record. This cow is of the Milking Shorthorn breed, and her production of butterfat was 1614 1 pounds in 365 days. Q —Can grease spots be removed from papier? A—Scrape„ fine pipe-clay, magnesia, or French chalk on both sides

in this crucial period, is economic security, not political liberty. Among the great army of the unemployed, among the legions of men continually harassed and haunted by the grim specters, hunger and want, freedom is not the great desideratum. Among these it is not a primary but a secondary consideration. Hilaire Belloc in England and Glenn Frank and others in this country have pointed out how important a factor in society human wants and mere animal necessities are. They declare that not only the survival of liberty, but the permanence indeed of our entire Western civilization are jeopardized by gross economic want and insecurity among the masses. In other words whether democracy shall survive or not depends on the ability of our industrial age to bring to the people adequate assurance of well being and plenty in this age of plenty. Esau, we are told, being hungry, sold his precious birthright for a mess of pottage. The disinherited among us may be willing to exchange political freedom for the pottage, represented by food, shelter, security against poverty. A man will surrender almost everything rather than starve. Mr. Belloc suggests that the great danger besetting our society and era. is that the masses may prefer being well-fed. well-sheltered Helots to the status of political free men deprived of these economic necessities. nan URGES WIDE PUBLICITY OF IMPURE FOOD CASES Bv Mrs. Stephen LeVan The stories carried in a recent edition about the spoiled hamburger fed Indianapolis prisoners and the adulterated soda sold to San Franciscans is just the sort of thing we can expect with the weak food and drug laws we have, and with the criminal laxity of the Food and Drug administration. These stories were too big to quash, but the Lord only knows how many more cases of poisoning and illness have been caused by poisonous and adulterated foods and drugs of which we have no knowledge, which were quashed by the producers and a too-tolerant press because it would spoil business. And we’ll get more and more of the same sort of thing if we don’t do something about this food and drug administration. The ScrippsHoward papers are liberal in policy, but even they do not print news which is so necessary for consumers to know; for instance, those producers who are brought into court charged with violating the pure food laws—weakened as they have been. American business men howl about government interference, yet if the consuming public is not to be killed off with impure foods and drugs, cosmetics, etc., they need government interference of the most | stringent kind. Bishop Lucey sums | up the situation so well, I'll quote ; him: “The American business man has

of the paper over the stain and apply a hot iron above it, taking care not to scorch the paper. Another method is to wash the spot with chloroform or benzine, place it between white blotting paper, and then pass a hot iron over it. Q —How do Germany and California compare in area? A—Germany has 185.889 square miles and California has 158,297. Q—How should chestnuts be roasted? A—Make a cross cut through the outer shell and put the chestnuts on a griddle over a hot flame. Shake them from time to time and when the shells are crisp, remove them fiom the fire. Q —Who played the role of “Andre DePons’’ is the motion picture, “Cardinal Richelieu?” A—Cesar Romero; born in New York City, Feb. 15, 1907. He is of Cuban descent, and prior to acting in motion pictures in 1934, he was a ballroom dancer for three years and an actor on the legitimate stage for four years. He is 6 feet, 2 inches tall, weighs 170 pxmnds, has black hail* and brown eye*.

been too free and his excessive freedom has resulted in the growth of unethical and dangerous practices.” If a man shoots another he is duly sentenced, but if the man sells another a poison over the counter under the guise of food, he can not even be apprehended under existing laws unless he sends his product to another state. We, neighborhood housewives, ask that you find out the names of the concerns manufacturing these harmful foods and print them so we may at least be warned. Your newspaper is in the public interest supposedly; then act in the public interest. One case of poisoning FERA workers last summer was beautifully quashed and for all the questioning by readers, nothing was done. We’ll keep pestering until something is done this time, I promise you. THE VIA APPIA BY BERTRAM DAY The Romans built the Via Appia, The “Queen of Roads” as it was proudly named; It led to Rome’s great harbor Ostia, This highway artery is now worldfamed. For miles along its sides are ancient tombs. And Roman Emperors are buried there; Magnificent the sacred marble rooms. In which they lie along this thoroughfare. The daisies grow above the grave of Keats, This poet died in Rome —unhonored Plume! And Shelley's heart so full of love still beats. His epitaph is brief: “Cor Cordium.” So life and death are mingling evermore. And give poetic dreams of days of yore. DAILY THOUGHTS Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.—St. Matthew 19:21. EVERY personal consideration that we allow, costs us heavenly state. We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure. —Emerson.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clarl

“If I wait for him to succeed he might get away, and if I marry him now, he might turn out to be a flop, after all.”

NOV. 27, 1035

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. TITASHINGTON. Nov. 27.—The VV inner Administration scramble for Big Jim Farley's postma - tership—whch he is slated to relinquish shortly after the first of the year—becomes more tense with each passing day. Latest accQunt has Attv Gen. Homer Cummings and Frank Murphy. United States High Commissioner for the Philippines, maneuvering for the place. Murphy has written a close friend indicating that he had hopes of taking Farley's post. Word of this got to Cummings’ ear. He wrote a letter to Murphy, the substance of which was: “As you know, I was originally slated for the Philippine Islam:-. Circumstances intervened and I was made Attorney General. I would like to make a change now and bavin mind seeking the place soon to be vacated by Jim Farley. I wonder if you would object to my recommending your name to the President as my successsor?" Cummings' plan Is a not unlikely possibility. There is much in its favor. It would enable the President to eliminate him from the Justice Department—where Cumnnngs has fared sadly—without being forced to take the drastic step of ousting him from the Cabinet. Murphy, young, ambitious, and with an element of crusading fervor. would be a marked New Deal improvement as Attorney General. In addition there is the fact that he is a Catholic. The President Ins made it clear that he wants to retain one Catholic in his official family, and with Farley's departure there will be none. a tt st BUSINESS colleagues of Edward F. Hutton lost no time in disassociating themselves from his proposal that industry band together in a super-lobby and ’ gang” the New Deal. Twenty-four hours after publication of this call to arms, Colby NT. Chester, president of the General Foods Corp., of which Hutton is chairman, wrote a personal letter to Secretary Dan Roper. Chester informed the Commerce Department head that Hutton was talking only for himself, that he (Chester) and other officials of the firm were attending to business and not meddling in political affairs. Hutton owes his rise to his marriage to Marjorie Post, a breakfast food heiress. He is an uncle of Barbara Hutton, famous as a collector of foreign titles, once Princess Mdivani, now Countess Haugwitz Hardenberg Reventlow. Hutton formerly owned the world's largest yacht, the Tussar, built in Germany at the depth of the depression. The lavishly appointed craft, is, however, no longer in his possession. It went to his wife in a property settlement when they were divorced last year. 808 TWO significant reports were received recently at the White House. One was the general report that business is booming, that electricity output is at anew high, that automobile sales are the highest in five years, that steel production is i up and dividends are at flush tide. | The other report—this one confi- | dential—was laid before the Presij dent by his uncle. Frederic A. Dela- ■ no, who is head of the National Resources Board. This report, titled “Wastage of Human Resources.” listed among other things the following:: 5.000,000 youths of working age without jobs. 4,000,000 adult illiterates in the country. 15.000,000 “vocational misfits.” workers who have small chance for jobs. 9.000,000 persons injured annually in preventable industrial accidents. Over 100.000 sent to jail each year for violent crimes. Between three and four million children totally without schooling. Over 1.000.000 exceptionally talented children lacking opportunity for full development of their gifts. Less than one-fourth of American children receiving the minimum health service, a yearly examination. vaccination and diphtheria immunization. The Resources Board refrains from drawing a moral from these figures. It merely suggests that the disclosures support its view that further research in these fields is desirable. <Copyright. 1935 bv T7n:‘e-1 Fra* :r* Svndicate. Inc i