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THURSDAY. JANUARY 9, 1938

OLD HICKORY XT' VERY so often in their short history as a nation the plain American people have found it necessary to rouse themselves and drive the exploiters and self-seekers from their temple of government. The first time was in 1828. when Andrew Jackson emerged from his Tennessee woods and led his roughneck followers in battle against the growing Hamiltonian plutocracy. He found that the Clays and the Biddles and the rest were gradually making his people s country safe for privilege. As President he attacked the money-changers of his day. He warred on the idea of fanatical states’ rights as represented by the North Carolina nullification revolt. He set up his own “Brain Trust,’’ called it the “Kitchen Cabinet.” He made many mistakes, for he was forced to feel his way and govern largely by experimentation. But he had courage, and today he is writ as one of the great Americans. It would seem to be a far cry from this backwoodsman to the well-born and hard-nursed Brahman from Hyde Park who is finishing his first term in the White House. But last night, at the Jackson Day dinner in Washington, he spoke as an authentic leader of the plain people, a worthy successor to Old Hickory. Though the language of his address dealt with Jackson it is easily modernized. Such words as these fit the situation we see in 1936 as they fitted the campaigns of a century ago: “An overwhelming proportion of the material power of the country was arrayed against him. “The great media for the dissemination of information and the molding of public opinion fought him. “Musty reaction disapproved him. "Hollow and outworn traditionalism shook a trembling linger at him. “Tlie beneficiaries of the abuses to which he put an end pursued him with all the violence that political passions can generate.” But that, it should be borne in mind, was Roosevelt speaking about Andrew Jackson. In what he said directly about the issue of today his address was restrained, especially so in light of the critical event of this week. Regarding the Supreme Court and AAA he spoke softly, though he did not overlook the fact that there were both majority and minority opinions when he said: “I know you will not be surprised by lack of comment on my part tonight on the decision by the Supreme Court two days ago. I can not render offhand judgment without studying, with the utmost care, two of the most momentous opinions ever rendered in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States.” Whether Old Hickory would have been that mild we doubt. But the spirit of Old Hickory was in the conclusion of the Jackson Day address: “The people of America know the heart and purpose of their government. We will not retreat.” TO IMPROVE BASKETBALL THE movement to eliminate the center jump from basketball has much in its favor. By putting the ball in play in any one of a number of ways, the referee could remove the disadvantage of the team which had not been able to find a giant for a center. He also could prevent some dangerous fouls which sometimes are deliberate when the heat Is on the young players. Whether the tip-off is removed by the rules committee is not so important to the spectator as changes which will prevent stalling with the zone defense and give back to the game a larger measure of the old thrills which made it so popular. More players on each team would be required by a faster game because the boys would not be able to stand it for as many minutes as they do now. But that would only give more opportunities for students to make the squad BONUS AND TAXES IN spite of the AAA decision's threat to add one billion dollars to the public debt and write more red ink on the Federal ledger, the dauntless veterans of the World War predict that before the month is out they will be jingling bonus money in their jeans. The small band in Congress that hitherto has sustained presidential vetoes on this issue appears to have grown steadily thinner under fire of the veterans’ lobby and its threats of election reprisals. The various schemes now being discussed for cashing the half-matured bonus certificates differ in degree only. And it is unlikely that Congressmen eager to get this troublesome issue behind them will quibble long over a few 7 million dollars. Very few of them, it seems, have stopped to think that as they settle this issue they create anew one, no less vexing —the issue of additional taxation. Yet President Roosevelt has repeatedly warned that if Congress incurs any obligations additional to those budgeted, extra taxes will be asked for to protect the government's credit. If he hews to that policy, the nation’s taxpayers may show less patience than has its Congress. Supporters of the bonus payment contend that is not anew obligation, but merely liquidation of a debt already contracted for. In his veto of the Patman bill last session, the President turned this argument inside out. tt tt tt bill before me,” he said, “provides for the -*• immediate payment of the 1945 value of the certificates. It means paying 81,600.000,000 more than the present value of the certificates ... it drects payment to the veterans rs a much larger sum than was contemplated in the 1924 settlement (the original adjusted compensation law). It is nothing less than a complete abandonment of that settlement. It is a new straight gratuity or bounty to the amount of $1,600,000,000. It destroys the insurance protection for the dependents of the veterans provided in the original plan. For the remaining period of 10 years they will have lost this insurance. . . . “If I, as an individual, owe you. an individual member of the Congress, SIOOO payable in 1945, it is not a correct statement for you to tell me that I owe you SIOOO today If I put $750 into a government. savings bond today and make that bond out Ua your name you win get SIOOO on the due <*Ue, 10

years from now. My debt to you today, therefore, can not under the remotest possibility be considered more man $750.” Except for the fact that any plan for payment this year will go into effect nine years before maturity, instead of 10. and allowing for a corresponding variation in round figures, what the President said last year applies with equal force to whatever cash payment plan Congress evolves this year. Pointed and timely also are his repeated warnings that the unemployed, including both veterans and non-veterans, have first call on the nation's resources, and that while the government goes deeply into debt to meet this primary obligation, it is unwise and unjust to go still deeper into debt to provide a bounty for a special group, Irrespective of the riches or rags of the individuals in that group. THE LEAGUE S DILEMMA TAMES G. M'DONALD, high commissioner for Ger- ** man refugees, has laid upon the doorstep of the League of Nations one of the most difficult and delicate problems in Geneva’s history. Huncreds of thousands of Jewish and other German citizens, he declared in his letter of resignation, today face poverty and misery as a result of Nazi persecution. Common humanity, he avers, demands that “world opinion, acting through the League of Nations and its member states and other countries, move to avert the existing and impending tragedies.” Continuing, he declares that “more than half a million persons, against whom no charge can be made except that they are not what the National Socialists choose to regard as ‘Nordic,’ are being crushed.” And, in the last two years, “conditions which create refugees have developed so catastrophically that a reconsideration by the League of Nations of the entire situation is essential.” Nor can the problem be taken care of outside Germany, warns Mr. McDonald. “In the present economic conditions of the world, the European states, and even those overseas,” he says, “have only a limited power of absorption of refugees. The problem must be tackled at its source if disaster is to be avoided.” Seldom have graver words on a more humanitarian subject been addressed to the League. Vet the League will be hard put to make adequate reply. The heart of the world is sad for the victims of the Nazi drive, but the hands of the League and of outsiders generally are not free. There are, to express it mildly, difficulties in the way. At this moment there are at least three countries whose drastic domestic policies have caused, or are causing, heart-burnings the world over. The Soviet Union has “abolished God” and torn down most of its churches. Mexico is charged with persecuting her millions of Catholics and other religionists. And Nazidom is depriving its Jews and other “nonAryans” of their citizenship and driving them often penniless into exile. Two of these nations are members of the League. Only Germany is outside. Will the League be able to intervene in what Germany calls her domestic affairs without intervening in what the U. S. S. R. and Mexico call their domestic affairs? If the League moves against her members, will they remain members? If the League aqjs against all three, and the member states resign,- will the alleged abuses cease? We merely pose these questions. We <ia not answer them. To do so is far beyond us. We only know that our sympathies are with those who demand freedom of speech and of conscience, in politics and in religion, and that we hope—rather than expect—that the League can find a cure. PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPY /qpO Eli Lilly & Cos., Indianapolis owes a vote of thanks. By giving funds to remodel and modernize the contagious disease ward at City Hospital this corporation make’s direct contribution to the welfare of the city. Improvement of the ward has been needed for years, but the hospital could not find the money. A Lilly physician saw the need and urged its fulfillment cn the company. The response is a practical philanthropy that will be applauded generally. THE BLIND IN THE WPA THAT was an inspiring story in The Times about the Works Progress Administration preparing books in Braille in the State Library. It called attention to the fact that the blind can be taught to make the Braille dots when dictated to by a reader. It also publicized the effort of the Administration to include all persons in need, regardless of their physical condition, in the all-embracing program. Throughout the country are many blind stenographers who take dictation direct to the typewriter. They are remarkable examples of the education of the blind. In many colleges blind men and women are working for their degrees. They put to shame, by their determination, persons with all their faculties who do not appreciate the opportunities. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson THERE are excellent women who pride themselves on their failure to manage their children. It is perhaps their most boasted virtue. At any moment of the day you can hear them extolling this weakness, which they name Mother Love. Try as they may, they are not able to resist the force of maternal affection which sweeps away their will. I, too, belong to this multitude, which gives me the right to speak my mind. And my mind often tells me it may be laziness instead of love that prevents us from doing right by our children. It's a great deal easier, let me tell you, to talk about how dearly we love them, than it is to teach them obedience, uprightness and good manners. Here’s exactly where the professors and writers have the edge on mothers, too. Formulating rules for raising a family is mere play compared to enforcing them. Mastering a youngster is actually one of the hardest jobs on earth, especially when your heart is soft. Give any 2-year-old his head a few times, and he's off. rampaging through the house, stubbornly flouting your wishes, and very clever at getting his own way. Let him go like this long enough and he will develop a will of iron which a too-affectionate mother can not break. • Patient effort, everlasting watchfulness and indomitable determination —thesr are the qualities necessary for the proper bringing up of children. Yet how many women have them? Mighty few. And fewer still are honest enough to admit it. We steadily refuse to look at facts, and so make excuses for ourselues. saying we can’t bear to punish Jimmy since it breaks our hearts to see him cry, or that we let Susie have her way so much because she’s never been a well child. Yet we fail to bring up excellent children nowadays for the same reason we fail at a great many otter things—most of us are just plain lazy. We are on our way back; not just by pure chance, not by a mere turn of a wheel and a cycle. We are coming back soundly because we planned it that way, and don’t let anybody tell you differently.— President Roosevelt,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

ONE regret about the passing of the AAA is that it may—unless a substitute is found—cut short some very able work at Purdue. When the time came to help the Indiana farmer under the provisions of the act the agricultural experts at the university went into action. While it may be impossible under any new Federal or state set-up to keep up the payments to the farmer, we sincerely hope that some of the benefits from Purdue's service will be salvaged. I thought of this when consuming a very excellent- dish of pig’s knuckles and sauer kraut. This product of the farm I esteem highly and I would not want anything to interfere with its steady arrival at the market. Over the pig’s knuckles we got to talking about two other delicacies which seem to have disappeared from the American scene—one being jowl and the other backbone. It is time to revive backbone. tt tt u JUST in case anybody stops you on the street and asks, you should have ready the following information: The U. S. S. Indianapolis has a ship’s newspaper called “The Hoosier.” The vessel carries more than 700 men and requires for a week’s mess 700 dozen eggs, 4900 pounds of beef, 450 pounds of coffee and 1260 pounds of sugar. In command is Capt. W. S. McClintic. The edition of “The Hoosier” at hand regrets that the ship's basketball team is not doing well. That should ba corrected at once. Since Indianapolis is the basketball capital of the United States a ship bearing its name should have the championship of the fleet. a tt u IUR. AND MRS. JOHN A. ST. CLAIR of Indianapolis recently came on a document dated Nov. 23, 1798, bearing the signature of President John Adams. It is a major’s commission, issued to one Adam Hoops, a Revolutionary soldier, giving him an appointment in the Army after the war. Such a find, reminding us of the durability of the nation, is reassuring coming the week when the Supreme Court scared the people out of their wits. tt tt tt TT'ROM “The Hoosier Farmer’’ I gently lift the following piece of humor which, unfortunately, is r*ot credited to its author. Whoever wrote the piece has a genuine talent for fun in print. On the Cow 'T'HE cow is a female quadruped with an alto voice and a countenance in which there is no guile. She* collaborates with the pump in the production of a liquid called milk, provides the filler for hash, and at last is skinned by those she has benefited, as mortals commonly are. The young cow is called a calf, and is used in the manufacture of a chicken salad. The cow’s tail is mounted aft and has a universal joint. It is used to disturb marauding flies, and the tassel on the end has unique educational value. Persons who milk cows and come often in contact with the tassel have vocabularies of peculiar and impressive force. The cow has two stomachs. The one on the ground floor is used as a warehouse and has no other function. When this one is filled the cow retires to a quiet place where her ill manners will occasion no comment and devotes herself to belching. The raw material thus conveyed for the second time to the interior of her face is pulverized and delivered to the auxiliary stomach, where it is converted into'cow. The cow has no upper plate. All of her teeth are parked in the lower part of her face. This arrangement was perfected by an efficiency expert to keep her from gumming things up. Asa result, she bites up and gums down. OTHER OPINION The Biggest News (South Bend Tribune] In designating the United States Supreme Court ruhngs on New Deal legislation as the “outstanding news” of 1935 newspaper editors showed good judgment. Above all, in the editors’ estimation, was the checking of the trend toward dictatorship in the New Deal. The Supreme Court justices, in the unanimous NRA decision, made it plain that they could not be stampeded by brain trusters, supercilous executives or demagogic “follow r ing the leader” legislators. The people and those.who were trying to mislead the people were forcibly reminded that the constitution can not be hysterically suspended and that its amendment is dependent upon deliberate action by the people instead of the whims of temporary office holders. That contributed to the revival of recovery from the depression. Incidentally it looks as if the Supreme Court will be prominent again at the end of this year in the "outstanding news” zone.

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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to exptess their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make Hour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 25 0 ivords or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reauest.) tt tt tt ASKS HONESTY IN TOWNSEND ARTICLES By B. J. Crane, Carmel Since you seem determined to write about the Townsend Pension plan in your paper (Mr. John Flynn especially) why not attend some of their meetings and learn some of the real facts instead of having to distort them? Mr. Flynn wrote the other day that the farmer would not be giving up a job to a younger person but said not a word about the machinery, cars, tractors, trucks, houses, etc., that this plan would enable him to buy and thus give employment to many, many people. If you rre going to write about this plar in your paper, why not be honest enough to tell the truth about it. You will lose many subscribers if you continue in this way. tt tt a WE LL BACK F. D. R„ HE PLEDGES By G. A. G. I read an editorial in your paper by Mr. Martin R. Kuehn of Richmond. I would like to say that if I were Mr. Kuehn, before I would call the followers of Roosevelt blind, I would have my own eyes tested. The followers of Roosevelt are the most wide-awake and keen-sighted of all. They can not only look and see what has been accomplished, but can also look into the future and see what it will bring with Roosevelt at the helm. By Mr. Kuehn repeating what Hugh Johnson said about most of Roosevelt’s recovery policies going haywire, I take it that he agrees with him. That is evidence of total blindness. Any one who can not look around him and see that this country is recovering is totally blind. What is the purpose of these blind pessimists? It is simple: They merely want to throw the control of this country back into the hands of big holding companies, big business. When that is done, the poor man’s interest will be eliminated, and there will be another scramble for wealth and power and eventually another depression. I say, does common sense tell us to follow such principles as that? How are we going to ascend to a plane where every man can be assured of a job at a prosperous wage if periodical depressions come along and send him right back where he started from? Something is going to have to be done to stop these periodical depressions, if it means changing the Constitution. The G O. P. will never do this because the men who cause these depressions are at the head of it. The only way they will do it is for the man they elect to jump over the fence and pay no attention to party principle. You should have said Roosevelt’s

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HIS DAY IN COURT

admirers had not been doing him enough service, instead of a disservice, Mr. Kuehn. I take it you are one of these men who has never felt the depression, or who has profited by it. Mr. Kuehn, your Republican thoroughbreds and chariots may dazzle us at first with their beauty, but when the race starts you’ll find we are rooting for Roosevelt’s horse and buggy. What we are after is something that will give us service and not a lot of show. We’ll stick by Roosevelt and have no more depressions, Mr. Kuehn. tt tt tt HE LOOKED, THEN HE LAUGHED By Thomas D. McGee He stood on a downtown street corner where the crowd was thickest. In a harsh, dissonant voice he sang two songs, acompanying himself on a guitar. The two songs were “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean” ! and “America.” He was a man in the last stages of destitution. Judging from his exterior, life had rudely buffeted him. Yet he was no mendicant or street fakir. There was nothing cringing or mean about him. His head, if bloody, was unbowed. He had the air of a man conscious of a high mission in life—a man of destiny. He was as wild and uncouth as John the Baptist. His clothes were in tatters, his neck devoid of collar or necktie. His hair was long and matted, his beard blowing and patriarchal. There was a strange light in his deep-set, cavernous, gray eyes that was arresting. It was the expression and gleam often found in the eye of the mad rhapsode the crazed fanatic, or the great genii s. . Thus, undernourished, cadaverous, his frail, emaciated body suggested Mahatma Gandhi. Looking at' the lean, ascetic face one thought of Peter the Hermit, preaching the great crusade. Savanarola flashed across the mind, and the great medieval ages, when men had. fixed convictions, convictions for they were ready, on a moment’s notice, to mount with equanimity the fagot heap, or to ascend the scaffold with a smile and jest on the lips. After a while he stopped singing and harangued the knot of idlers, gathered about him. Here is what he said: “Patriots of America! “I am a representative of the Defenders of the American Constitution. I bring you a most important message. The great crisis is here. Treason is abroad. A conspiracy is on foot, a conspiracy to subvert your liberties, to set up anew slavery in America. “To those of us who are hungTy and necessitous, the New Dealers with Satanic subtlety are proposing: ‘We will appease your hunger, we will clothe your nakedness, if you will but give to us your liberties,

| that the name arose from the fact that turkeys were first handled by I Jewish merchants who called the new birds by the Jewish name for the peacock, tukku. which was corrupted into turkey. The fact is that the name turkey was first applied to guinea fowl, and an English writer supposes that these fowls were called turkey cocks and turkey hens from the fact that ,hey were introduced to London by Bristol traders who dealt chiefly with the Near East and who w r ere popularly called “Turkey merchants.” Q —Name the author of the novel, “The Black Tulip.” A—Alexander Dumas. Q—Give the source of the verse: “Ships that pass in the night And that speak to each other in passing. Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness. So on the ocean of life we meet and pass one another. Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.” A—The Theologian’s Tale from “Tales of a Wayside Inn,” by Longfellow. i I ■

your political fredom.’ Alimentation for regimentation, statism for individualism, that is their proposal.” Then he fell to the ground, fainted, collapsed. A policeman arrived, an ambulance was called. As I turned away my shoe struck something. I stooped down and picked it up. It was the photograph which the man had held aloft in his harangue. And then I smiled all over as I looked at the photograph of the man who was to lead us out of the wilderness. The more I looked the funnier it seemed. The photograph was a recent picture of Herbert C. Hoover. THE PASSING OF TIME ROY O. JOHNSON We have witnessed the passing of another year, With high hopes and ambitions we saw it appear; To some, it is like an old friend gone away, Never to return, but forever to stay, While to others, a reaper of fortunes and gold, A harvester of loved ones for eternity’s fold. Anew year is here; we welcomed it in, It may be an enemy, it may be a friend; It may bring us blessings or may bring us sorrow, Bring poverty today and riches tomorrow; It may bring us sickness or it may bring us health, It may promise position or promise us wealth. But whatever it brings, we must take with a smile, Who knows but that Providence has placed us on trial; Let’s do what we can whether we're weak or we’re strong, Keep sweet, make friends, trust God, let this be our song; The old year is gone, only memories remain; May the new year bring cheer, may we happiness gain. DAILY THOUGHTS For He knew that the chief priests had delivered Him for envy. —St. Mark 15:10. . BASE envy Withers at another’s joy, and hates the excellence it can not reach.—Thomson.

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JAN. 9, 1936

Your..: i Health’ By I DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN 2

\CTIVITY of your thyroid giant! depends upon the amount pf iodine you get in your food. \ For this reason, this mineral salt is essential to your body. It is particdlarly essential in the diet* of growing children, and of women who aic going to have babies. The amount of iodine in the human body normally is very small, less than one one-thousandth of'■a gram. When the thyroid gland is over-active, there 1s more than a normal supply of iodine in the blood. When this gland is under-active, the iodine in the blood is below normal. To this extent, the amount of ibdine in the blood is a measure Jf the activity of the gland. Ordinarily your body gets enough iodine in drinking water and In table salt so that you do not ha\’e to seek an additional amount, through food. Certain sections es the country, however, provide glacifir water to a large extent, and tlfls water contains insufficient iodine.a tt a FURTHERMORE, table salt hSs been so refined in many placJs that it also is free from iodine. Z To make up for this deficient table salts can now be purchased with added iodine, thus making sue that the human body will get a sulficient amount of this Some modern table salts haw 7 added to them not only iodine, bjt calcium phosphate, to prevent tfie salt from caking or to enable it In run freely, and a little sodium carbonate to stabilize the iodine thet has been added. Nutritional authorities are convinced that especially prepared ifldized salts of this type are mqst useful in human nutrition. tt it a “2 IN addition to iodine, there a|e potassium and sulphur in tfce human body. But experts are convinced that the average Americsi need not worry about the supply these substances, since they 'ao present in many foods. Sodium and chlorine, which make up common salt, also are quite sufficient in the diet of the average person. There are many arguments that point to the danger of excessive sodium chloride, or table salt, and future articles will discuss tfie various relationships of taking es such salt to disease.

TODAY’S SCIENCE * BY DAVID niFT?

YOU can begin 1936 by adding the name of one more sub-atonSc particle to your vocabulary. ThdSe is now excellent evidence for the existence of the neutrino. Latest experiments in its favor are thcSe carried on by Dr. Bainbridge aljd his associates at the University pf Chicago with the new mass spectregraph. The neutrino might be considered a lightweight neutron. Like the neutron, the neutrino is a neutral particle, possessing weight, or moie exactly, mass, but no electric chargfc. Let us turn back the clock a matter of five years. At the beginning of 1931 physicists were aware of only two types of particles as constituents of the atom. They w STe the electron and proton. The electron was a negative particle and-a lightweight one. The protdh, weighing 1840 times as much was'a heavyweight particle. Its electrical charge was positive. It was then supposed that all atoms were composed of these two fundamental particles, the proton and the electron. a a— NEAR the end of 1931, Dr. J. C. Chadwick and his associates, working at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, discovered the neutron. This particle is electrically neutral. It is a heavyweight particle, having essegtially the mass of a proton. Far some time, there was a question as to whether it was slightly heavffr or lighter. It is now believed to be slightly lighter. In 1933, Dr. Carl D. Anderson, working in Dr. Millikan’s laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, discovered the positron. This is a particle having the same mass as the electron but possessing a positive electric charge. Subsequently, it was suggested by Dr. Millikan that the proton might not be a fundamental particle at all, but a combination of a neutron arid a positron, the neutron contributing most of the mass, and the positron the electric charge. This view, however, remains to.be established.