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TI'r.SDAY DECEMBER 3 1035 CLOTHE A CHILD 'T'HE annual Clothe-a-Child campaign Is now A open. We have hopes that the number of needy children aided thi; Christmas will be greater than the 1205 who w< re clothed in 1934 by gifts from readers of The 'l imes. More money is in circulation. More people are able to do good deeds Yet the number of unfortunate ha' not .shrunk vi lbly. There is some kind of lag between groups which even the best economists have not be f, n able to oiagno.se. Therefore it s imperative, if the need of Indianapolis poor children for clothing is to be met, that those in a position to help remember that recovery has not reached down into the depths. Yet the very poor have children of promise. They are jut, as precious, just as dear to their parents, as the children of privilege. They must he helped, saved, educated, carried forward. The Clothe-a-Child movement, is one way of reaching them. You will help, of course. HOW S THIS FOR A SLOGAN? (CAMPAIGN slogans frequently are directed at the J stomach. “Full dinner pail" of Mark Hanna's time, for example; or, "A chicken in every pot.’’ President Roosevelt in Atlanta said that national surveys prove the average of our citizenship lives today on what would be called by the medical fraternity a third-class diet; that if a second-class diet were substituted we would need to put many acres more than we use today back into cultivation; and that if the whole nat ion could live on a grade A scale of eating we would have to use more land than ever before cultivated to meet the demand for food. To those who are so well-to-do as to be able to enjoy dyspepsia, and fuss at what is on the menu of the “well-stocked club.’’ this condition may seem remote, not to say impossible. But to the millions who are under-nourished it is a very real condition indeed, the ultimate correction of which would be a great accomplishment not only in terms of human happiness, but also in economics. For our basic problem is not one of production. We are all right on that core. The real problem is consumption. As the President said, we are living on a third-class diet—only “for the very simple reason that the masses of the American people have not got the purchasing power to eat more and better food." So, why not another stomach slogan, better perhaps than even the full dinner pail or the chicken in the pot: A first-class diet for all.” Or, “Three squares a day ” That shouldn’t be such an impossible goal for a country as rich in basic resources as ours. ANYTHING UP THE SLEEVE? THE presidency, announces Will Durant, is an outworn institution. Tell it "to Franklin, Will, And by the way, when will the new book be out? INDIANA AT THE STOCK SHOW TNDIANA farmers need not be ashamed of the A standing of the state at the International Livestock, Hay and Grain Show. They did especially well in corn, as the news reports have explained, and a Purdue student rated highest in cattle judging. Through the Farm Bureaus, the 4-H clubs and other agencies, agriculture through many years has been raised from a casual occupation to a science. If the average city man were set down on a farm today and told to make a living he probably would die in the midst of abundance. The college-bred farmer is coming into his own in all states. He is found in increasing numbers in Indiana, putting into practice scientific knowledge garnered in all parts of the earth and given him at the agricultural schools. This stock show reflected increasing prosperity on the farms and found Indiana—men, women, boys and girls -well up in the awards for good products and for ability. LAMSON AND MOONEY THEN young David Lamson was convicted and V sentenced to hang for killing his wife in their Palo Aito cottage the California Supreme Court granted him anew trial on the ground that the State had not made out a case against him. ’lt is better that a guilty man escape than to condemn to death any one who may be innocent," said that august body. This same court now forces counsel for Tom Mooney to spend months of time and big sums of money to prove what is obvious to any one half-way familiar with the legal scandal of his murder conviction 18 years ago. While Lamson possibly is innocent, Mooney certainly is. The habeas corpus hearing now going on in San Franci.co reduces to their ultimate absurdity the murder charges against Mooney. By stipulation the state now admits that only two witnesses ■saw'' Mooney at the bomb scene. These were John MacDonald and the late Frank Oxman. Justice Langdon of the California Supreme Court says that if one of these state witnesses told the truth the other one lied. They both lied. MacDonald swears he lied under coaching by the prosecution. Oxman was a perjurer and suborner of perjury, whose testimony, former Gov. Young says, has been thoroughly discredited. Both Lamson and Mooney are being retried in California, Lamson by a criminal regular court. Mooney by strange proceedings before a lawyer named by the Supreme Court to hear the testimony. Why does the Supreme Court deal justly with the accused Lamson and withhold justice from Mooney? If that court is willing to let a possibly guilty man off • 'vjuld throw open the prison doors to an tone cent man. M. CAREY THOMAS ■JV/fISS M CAREY THOMAS, whose death oc--1 A curred in Philadelphia yesterday, did as much for the advancement of women in and through education as any of the pioneers for women’s rights. She did not found Bryn Mawr College, but she made it what it is—not only a school of the highest standards but a symbol of the modern woman. . Bryn Mawr is a college with a personality, it expresses the personality of Miss Thomas, who raised

the funds, built the buildings, and assembled a distinguished faculty But that was not all. She imbued m students and faculty the belief that woman has a place of leadership in all phases of modern society. That is why one finds Bryn Mawr graduates in honorable places in almost every line of professional achievement. BONUS AND BUDGET IYyrOST of the prospective Republican presidential nominees seem to agree on two issues. They would balance the budget and pay the soldiers’ bonus. The two exceptions apparently are Herbert Hoover, who vetoed the bon as when he was President, and S“na‘or Vandenberg of Michigan, who has voted to sustain bonus vetoes. Incidentally, Senator Vandenberg is an exception in another respect. He is the only presidential hope in either party who has advocated taking the hard road to a balanced budget—the road of higher taxation. But other G. O. P. hopefuls seem to disagree only as to method. Gov. Hoffman of New 7 Jersey, for example, has been appointed to a veterans’ committee to lobby the bonus through the next Congress session. That has obvious political advantages. Success of Hoffman's lobby efforts not only would endear the Governor to the veterans, but would also force payment in the current fiscal year, and thereby increase the deficit of the Roosevelt Administration, thus strengthening the campaign criticism which Mr. Hoffman and other balanced-budget apostles hope to heap upon the New Deal. Senator Borah, on the other hand, has not shown much impatience about getting the budget balanced. His record indicates he will continue to vote for the bonus every time it comes up, until it passes, and postpone the problem of budget balancing until after he personally is satisfied that there has been enough inflation. Gov. Landon of Kansas is quite forthright as a budget balancer. But in respect to the bonus he has not yet taken the public into his confidence, although he was prominent at the last American Legion convention. Perhaps events will dispose of the issue before the nominating convention, and he never will have to break his Coolidgean silence. But to Frank Knox goes the distinction of sponsoring the only plant that is a bait both to the taxpayer and the veterans. He, too. would pay the bonus immediately, not by the printing press route nor by anew appropriation, but out of the four billion dollar work relief fund already appropriated. Thus the veterans would get their bonus, and it wouldn’t ccst the taxpayers anything extra. Or would it? The money in hand, now being tendered in subsistence wages to the breadwinners of families on relief, would be passed over to the veterans. If cashing the bonus certificates used up all the money in hand, what would Uncle Sam do? Dig back into his pocket for more, or stand empty handed leaving work projects half completed and leaving relief families to starve? Mr, Knox hasn’t said. THE ROSE BOWL TT is good for football that Southern Methodist A University gets the Rose Bowl invitation. For years the Mustangs have been not only first-class in competition but they also have developed the open game and the passing attack to a high degree. The custom has been for the Western contender, in this case Stanford, to invite the outstanding Eastern team. It happens that the Big Three do not play post-season games and that the Western Conference also prohibits its members from playing in any of the winter bowls. That is one reason so many of the Southern universities have appeared in the Los Angeles stadium. Because there have been so many upsets in the East, among teams not bound by conference rules, Southern Methodist -appears with a clear-cut right to the invitation. The contest will settle nothing, since Princeton and Minnesota seem to be the football cream of the country this year, but it will show that the Rose Bowl nod goes always to the logical team after all the cards have been shuffled. JAMES HENRY BREASTED TAMES HENRY BREASTED, whose death occurred " yesterday, was a Middle Western scholar of the highest accomplishment and reputation. In “Who's Who” he is listed as an Orientalist, but his active mind and his prodigious industry took him into other fields, where he also added vastly to the sum of human knowledge. A native of Illinois, Dr. Breasted, rising in science, gave to the University of Chicago a famous name for explorations and excavations in those mysterious, far-off original places of mankind. He was an example to those who, giving up the thought of a life for monetary gain, devote their years to pure knowledge. And for that reason this great archeologist should be honored. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON T WISH punctuality might become fashionable A again. There’s a great field for reform here, and home women are the biggest culprits. Those who have a couple of maids, a cock and a butler, as well as a chauffeur, are the worst of the lot. too. Having no.hing at all to do. they use up busy people's time doing it. Graciousness is tneir middle name, of course. They pride themselves on being perfect ladies. Yet they will arrive three-quarters of an hour late for an appointment, and greet you with the most disarming nonchalance. Though you may have worked yourself up to the state where you long to break a wrist watch on their heads, they appear so unruffled, and their defenselessness is so marked, that you forgive them all over again. In a good many instances they don’t even apologize. I've seen the laziest good-for-nothings in town hold up luncheons at which professional women, who have to be prompt, were also guests. Since the affair could not start on time, the profession ’ people would be obliged to leave in the middle of the meal Such behavior is considered rude even in the lowest social circles. Society leaders would be doing a fine thing if they set the fashion for promptness at all their affair:. letting the laggards suffer the embarrassment they deserve. Promptness is only a habit, the result of a systematic budgeting of one's time, combined with decent consideration for the rights of other people. Busy individuals are usually prompt, it's those who have nothing to do who are late. But I see no sense in allowing the idle members of society \to regulate the affairs of those who are busy. When promptness once more becomes a virtue, most of us will have better dispositions. If we are forced out of Chicago, it will mean theatergoers can either see theater groups play •’Cinderella" or go to peep shows.—Henry Hull, star of “Tobacco Road,” banned by Chicago’s Mayor. The people in the East might be termed “agnostics" cn the New Deal. —Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Michigan. An original thought is dynamite. If you advance one, it would blow the whole system of education to hell.—Frank Lloyd Wright, famed architect.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

TF there is anything better designed to take the joy out of life it is a set of X-rays of what one fatuously calls one's teeth. Dental and photographic art has advanced so far in recent years that the | dentist can show you a most dis--1 heartening set of views. I ha*r just been to a premier showing of my own film and I am temporarily distraught. I probably shall recover, but just now I would like to j meet the fellow who perfected the der.cal X-ray. You go along for years, thinking you have taken care of your teeth and then, in an unguarded moment, : you submit to having your whole mouth photographed. And when j you go back for the showing you discover you haven't any teeth at ! all. Not what a dentist would call ! teeth. And you are told that what other ailments you have probably come from your infected teeth. I am the son of a dentist, but the ; dear old man passed away before the era of deploring the patient’s 1 teeth. He never had an X-ray machine. a o a r rHEN there was this eye man | A who said I shouldn't read in bed. All I wanted from him was a pair of glasses and I came away with my only pleasure outlawed. Well, we’ll just ignore that. A man with tooth trouble is not going to be deprived of his only compensaj tion. What shall a fellow do in those wee sma’ hours when sleep eludes : him? Shall he pad down to the i living room, looking like a wraith in dressing gown, his hair all j tousled, and in doing so awaken all j the innocents in the household? No; | he must lie there and suffer, with : all the sins of his past rushing like | a cinema across his mind, or switch ; on the bed-head lamp and read. One remedy would be a sitting room adjoining the bedroom. But as long as America is on an eightroom house basis it is reading in bed or nothing. What the medicoes ought to do is find something beside sedatives that will insure against the awful hours of wakefulness. You see, I’m not talking about reading oneself to sleep in the fore part of the night. It’s the wakeful after-part when reading seems the only way out. And it has its merits. An Indianapolis man got through Anthony Adverse by a succession of sessions all between two and four in the morning. That enabled him to boast that he had read it, so what if it did shorten his life. a tt # j A LOCAL man was returning by A motor from a long Western trip with his family. He had some car trouble and turned into a garage in a village to get some repairs. The garage man asked him if he would give him some help moving a stove. The Hoosier agreed, thinking the stove was in the building. Whereupon the garage keeper bowed him into a truck and dashed three miles into the country to a farm house where the stove was. Then the pair dashed back and work was begun on the customer’s car. Our friend's wife naturally thought her husband i had been kidnaped. To cap the climax the owner of ! the stove blithely offered his cus--1 tomer a quarter, a a The worst part of writing a piece I like this is being stuck for a last paragraph or a last line. I wonder |if this will do? One of my friends ! who gets around town a good deal has been talking to musicians in night clubs. He says an accordionist has to have two instruments because an accordion has to have a rest once in a while or it won’t function. Some people think an accordion should have a permanent rest. OTHER OPINION On Tariffs ID. W. Ellsworth] The protective tariff, ever since the turn of the century, has constituted as drastic an experiment in economic planning as could well be imagined. Those who rail at the economic planning under the New Deal, however much their complaints may be justified in particular instances, can not come into court with clean hands as long as , they insist on the divine right and magic power of tariff protection. The same observation applies with almost equal force to the question of regimentation, about which so much is heard these days. If proj tec five tariffs are not a form of ’ regimentation, we should like to know how else to describe them. Regimentation, as we understand ! the popularly accepted meaning of | that term, is a process whereby individuals. partnerships and corporations, for some purposes which the political party in power conceives to be for the common good, are prohibited from engaging to certain otherwise perfectly legitimate business transactions. . . . Consequently, the protective tariff constitutes a form of restriction and repressing of individual freedom.

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(Times rentiers are invited to ervress their views in these columns, relif/ious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 230 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) a tt a EUROPE IS BLAMED FOR UNREST IN U. S. By Allen Henry Majors Europe, with its age-old jealousy, has caused the greater part of the financial and industrial unrest in the United States today. Lax immigration laws, violated treaties, promotions of Europe, such as the league of Nations and the World Court, are indirect attempts of foreign nations to estop or cancel World War debts. American capital with investments in European countries, doubtful value of foreign bonds on the world market and diplomatic negotiations to stabilize currency, show the American public that private citizens are an integral part of the settlement of World War debts. From the economic viewpoint, the future of American finance and industry depend upon the settlement of past debts of American business to alien nations. To realize this end, the Department of State should work harmoniously with American keys of business, keeping in mind the investments of United States and the past World War debts. The united front of American capital, co-operating with the govenment of United States, will restore confidence of the investing public and also restore value of local and international contracts or trade treaties. a tt AN EARNEST PLEA FOR A JOB By Times Reader I read your paper every night, and especially the Forum, and I have been reading about + he 1934 layoff at the Big Four shops in Beech Grove. I was laid off in July, 1934, also. I am unemployed, on direct relief, and have a family of six small children. I was buying my home and lost it because I could not make any payments and two of my children are down in bed sick, with no

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nourishment whatsoever to give them. I belonged to Union Local 51 during the period I worked at the Big Four shops. In the last 10 or more years I averaged only from five to eight days a month. I paid my dues just the same and I went without things that I needed for myself and for my family. In July. 1934, they called a meeting, and never notified we men who were laid off. We fellows who were laid off were satisfied with three or four days a week. Now they are working six days and they are still grabbing the extra day and Sunday also when they can get it. I would advise you boys not to break the Third Commandment: “Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day,” and to all of you who believe that way I would say give us poor fellows a break once, and pray for the unemployed and those poor innocent children who are starving, with no clothes and no fuel to keep them warm. We would like to hear from the union leader of Local 51 and see how he feels about getting us work. That’s what we want—work. tt a a ANTI-ROOSEVELT PROPAGANDA FOUND AMUSING By Theodore L. Moritz I was very much amused by the propaganda against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. First, they speak of him as not balancing the budget. The question is whether to balance the budget or let the people starve. The President has chosen to not Jet people starve. Second, they speak of him as not having kept his campaign promises. I believe the President would like to cut the government cost 25 per cent, but what would the 25 per cent do who would be thrown off the pay roll? They would join the relief rolls and there would be created a revolving list of relief roll [ versus relief roll. Third, the vested interests cry about his “guinea pig” experiments, i It is better for somebody to try to get us out of a rut than to have the same conservative thought we have had for the last 50 years. Changing Hoover for John Davis or even Al Smith is like having the same horse with different harness. Fourth, the biggest laugh is

fresco in a church at Treviso, painted in 1352, shows two mounted lenses with their handles riveted together and fixed in front of his eyes. Evidently a form of spectacles was known by that time. Q—Do pigs always have brown eyes? A—Generally they do. but occasionally one or tw T o in a litter will have blue eyes, and in rare instances, a hog will have one. blue and one brown eye. Q—How much fuel oil does the “Normandie" consume each hour? A—Fifty-seven to 60 tons. Q —What does the name Robert mean? A—Of shining fame. Q —Who is the president of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and where are its headquarters? A—Mrs. W. A. Becker is president, and the headquarters are in Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C. Q —What relation is my nephew's wife to me? A—Your niece by marriage. Q—What is the correct interpretation of the end of the story, “The Lady and the Tiger”? A—Frank R. Stockton, the author, has never divulged his meaning, although many efforts were made to get him to answer the question. Once a hostess had ice cream in molds of ladies and timers, and asked him which he preferred, but he avoided the issue by taking both.

when this propaganda speaks of “they seek to rob the working man of his inalienable right to nappiness.” Do these conservatives think they are giving the working man a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by taking away the necessities of life from him? Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are based on the the ordinary pay envelope that a working man gets. All else is “hot air.” tt a a LOOKS AS IF REAL BATTLE IS COMING j By George Stevens The New Dealers are having a hard time trying to reconcile political guile and intellectual honesty. It looks to me as if the next presidential election will be a contest between the Fascists and the freethinkers. But what a battle it will be! tt a a YOU’VE GOT US IN (OR ON) THE SPOT By “Junior” Please answer the following questions : Is a shop in or on the Circle? Is the Monument in or on the Circle? Does a person live in or on a street? Are the sidewalks in or on the Statehouse grounds? LARGO BY MARY WARD Oh, the largo of the sea, solemn, slow— The trumpet-notes, the note that, ebbing, sighs— The white-winged, silvery over-tones’ rise and flow— How like to music, that in one’s heart lies! DAILY THOUGHTS And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.—Stf. Mark iv, 19. THE only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.— Locke.

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DEC. 3, 1035

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. Ti TASHINGTON. Dec. 3.—The sport—“doping” Supreme Court decisions on New Deal measures now undergoing tests of constitutionality. Everybody, front society matrons to taxi drivers, has an opinion plus a line of argument to back it up All conjectures are pure guesswork. But privately, the New Deal lawyers who are carrying the burden of the legal battling divide the big test into three categories: those they believe they will win; those they expect to lose, andV doubtful ones. The lineup, highly interesting because it represents the inner Administration view, follows: Expected Victories — Tennessee Valley Authority. AAA—Notwithstanding the recent injunction granted by the court to restrain the collection of processing taxes from Louisiana rice millers. Right of the Public Works Administration to condemn land for housing and slum clearance projects. Right of the Public Works Administration to underwrite municipal power projects. Expected Defeats— Bankhead Cotton Control Act— Secretly considered the weakest measure the government has to defend because of its compulsory features. Tobacco Control Act. Potato Control Act —a sincere fight will be made, but the Administration will shed no tears over it if it is torpedoed. Fraz.ier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act—A non-New Deal law which was thrown out by the court last year and passed again in a modified form. Doubtful— Holding Company Act—Most of the government attorneys anticipate a five-to-four decision on this issue, and it may go for or against the New Deal. Wagner Labor Disputes Act— Even some of its sponsors are dubious about the legality of some of its provisions. Guffey Coal Act—lts constitutionality was also seriously questioned when it was before Con-/ gress. " In each of the doubtful issues Adrr.inistrationites are counting heavily on the consideration of public interest to pull them through. The power question is political dynamite, even for the Supreme Court; while the Wagner and Guffey acts affect great groups of individuals. For these reasons the New Dealers believe they may skin through. u a a \ X a recent press conference, Mrs. Roosevelt was asked whether her two younger sons were doing anything toward observing the auto safety campaign waged by their father. Mrs. Roosevelt replied that as far as she knew they were driving very carefully. Whereupon one of Mrs. Roosevelt's obvious newspaper friends spoke up: “Don't you think.” she said, “that should be an ‘off the record’ question?” “I don’t see why,” replied Mrs. Roosevelt. “It was a legitimate news question and should stand as such. \ tt a tt DURING a recent press conference Secretary Ickes was being bombarded with questions regarding the purchase of German steel for PWA projects. Suddenly the door opened and a messenger entered, bearing a huge loving cup. A titter ran through the assembled reporters. Ickes grinned broadly, then said to the messenger with mock severity: “Young man, don’t you know better than to bring that in at this particular time? Don't you realize somebody is sure to say it is made of German silver?” “Well, what is it and what is it made of?” demanded a newsman. “That is the PWA tennis trophy. And just to keep the record straight, it is made of 100 per cent American silver, is the work of 100 per cent American craftsmen and is mounted on a 100 per cent American ebony base.” (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i

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