Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1936 — Page 10

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SATURDAY. JANUARY 25, 1930. NOW TO PAY FOR IT JN his brief handwritten veto of the veterans’ bonus bill. President Roosevelt urged members ‘of Congress to reread his veto message of last May 22. Except that the new bonus bill differs in two respects from the last one, the President said, “the circumstances, arguments and facts remain essentially the same as those fully covered and explained by me only eight months ago." “My convicitions are as impelling today as they were then,’’ he concluded. “Therefore I can not change them.” ; We also have published our reasons for opposing bonus prepayment. They remain the same. Knowing, however, that enough Senators to complete the overriding of the veto, already voted by the House, have long since closed their ears to arguments on the merits of the bonus, we prefer to pass from a lost cause to an Issue which Congress is creating. Therefore, we suggest as an addendum to required congressional reading one short paragraph from the Presid°nt's budget message of three weeks ago. Here it is: "If the Congress enacts legislation at the coming session which will impose additional charges upon the Treasury for which provision is not already made in this budget, I strongly urge that additional taxes be provided to cover such charges. It is important as we emerge from the depression that no new' activities be added to the government unless provision is made for additional revenue to meet their cost.” POLLS AND PROBES r T'HE Administration is wondering w'hether to laugh A off the new technique in political pulse-taking or to regard it seriously. An epidemic of polls and straw ballots is sweeping the country, all professing impartially out differing widely in results. Congress, accustomed to looking with a fishy eye on organized demonstrations of “public opinion,” is talking about investigating. Rep. Walter M. Pierce (D., Ore.) has introduced a resolution creating a committee to determine why these polls are being started, how the people who receive straw ballots are selected, and who determines the manner in which questions are framed. The resolution is pending before the Rules Committee, which presumably will report it if the Administration decides such an inquiry would be useful. Many polls have given an edge to President Roosevelt and his policies, but The Literary Digest reported a majority unfriendly to Roosevelt policies to date, and the newest of the polls, that conducted by Dr, Daniel Starch, is consistently reporting findings, unfavorable to the New Deal. Dr. Starch's poll is one reason for congressional skepticism. Dr. Starch is, among other things, a brother-in-law of Howard C. Hopson of the Associated Gas and Electric Cos., and has figured occasionally in Federal Trade Commission and Senate Lobby Committee investigations of that company. Last spring the Lobby Committee found he was an alternate on the executive committee of A. G. & E. -and one of the three voting trustees of Class B stockholders with whose help the present management is kept in control. The Trade Commission disclosed that his advertising agency receives substantial fees from A. G. & E. operating companies. Last year's investigation was started by discovery that telegrams urging congressmen to oppose the holding company bill were being solicited and paid for by A. G. & E. representatives, and in some cases were signed with names taken from phone books without knowledge of the owners of the names. Dr. Starch's most recent poll purports to show President Roosevelt less popular than his New Deal measures. He reports only 38.6 per cent of the people desirous of seeing Roosevelt re-elected. Earlier polls of his reported that 63 per cent of the people believe taxes too high; that 45.1 per cent Oppose constitutional change to give the government more power, while only 20 per cent favor it; and that Herbert Hoover leads all other candidates as the choice of Republicans for the nomination. “GET IT OVER WITH!” “T"\ON'T go out and quibble over the evidence," roared the young prosecutor to an Alabama Jury at the fourth trial of Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro Negro defendants. “Say to yourselves ’we're tired of this job' and put it behind you. Get it done quick, and protect the fair womanhood of this great state!” One of the Jurymen called out: “Let's come back tonight and get it over with!” They did. and Judge Callaghan sentenced Patterson to 75 years in prison. From this, and from charges of bias hurled at ‘the judge by the defendant’s local counsel, It appears that the seven other defendants ure to be tried in the same atmosphere of passion as has marked the other trials. Yesterday’s shooting certainly will net •lessen that passion. These trials have stirred Alabama for nearly five years. Twice the United States Supreme Court has interceded in behalf of the "due process” which it said was denied the Negroes. We do not blame Alabama for wanting to "get it over with." N But this is not the wnv. Alabama may think she can put this ugly case behind her by sending all the defendants to the gallows or to prison for life. But unless she deals them justice—exact and -impartial and free from race prejudice—the case will plague her. just as the Mooney case has plagued California lor 20 years. Justice can not live in an air surcharged with violence and hate. T. R. AND THE COURTS XTTORDS and deeds of the immortal Teddy wih ’ ’ prove an embarrassment to those Republicans who hail him as their prophet while cheering Federal Court vetoes of New Deal legislation. For, as pointed out by Mayor La Guardia of New York, no President fought harder to keep the courts in their proper place. • ’ < •• • i fHe would not permit the Senate to becom; a court of justice," said Mr. La Guardia at the dedica- |

tion of the Roosevelt Memorial Hall. “And he would not permit the court to transform itself into a legislative body. Through his energetic action he endeavored to keep the legislative, the executive and the Judicial branches of government marching abreast, each in its own path. He would not permit the Constitution to be used as an instrument of oppression or as a justification for special privilege.” Would not the President who advocated the recall of judicial decisions and fought for a reversal of the Knight decision emasculating the anti-trust laws, today be again wielding the Big Stick? Listen to some of T. R.'s views: nun I "'HE rapid changes in our social and industrial A life . . . have made it necessary, in applying to concrete cases the great rule of right laid down in our Constitution, there should be a full understanding and appreciation of the new conditions to which the rules are applied. . . . Our judicial system is sound and effective to the core. . . . There are, however, some members of the judicial body who have lagged behind in the understanding of those great and vital changes In the body politic . . . judges, like executives and legislators, should hold sound views on questions of public policy w'hich are of vital interest to the people.”—From his 1903 message to Congress. “It was necessary to reverse the Knight case in the interests of the people against monopoly and privilege. Just as it had been necessary to reverse the Dred Scott case in the interest of the people against slavery and privilege.”—PYom his autobiography. “. . . Little permanent good can be done by any party which worships the states’ rights fetish or which fails to regard the state, like the county or the municipality, as merely a convenient unit for self-government, while in all national matters, of Importance to the whole people, the nation is to be supreme over state, county and town alike."—From his autobiography. “I did not usurp power, but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power. In other words. I acted for the public welfare . . . unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition.”—From his autobiography. “When, as the result of years of education and debate, a majority of the people have decided upon a remedy for an evil from which they suffer, and have chosen a legislature and executive pledged to embody that remedy by law, and the law has been finally passed and approved, I regard it as monstrous that a bench of judges shall then say to the people ‘‘you must begin all over again’.’'—From his Carnegie Hall speech on March 20. 1912. UNCONSTITUTIONAL? QINCE the Tennessee Valley Authority “yardstick" was set up the three private power companies in the area have made almost phenomenal progress, largely as a result of rate reductions. Tennessee Electric Power Cos. ranks thirtieth in the country for number of domestic meters, yet, after TV A pointed the way, this company rose to first place in the entire country in increased kilowatt hours sold per residential customer. It ranked first in electric ranges sold, second in refrigerators, third in water heaters, and all in an area with comparatively low spendable income. Georgia Power Cos. ranks twenty-third, yet at the end of the first year of rate reductions it had sold more refrigerators than any company in the country. It was first in water heater sales; second in electric ranges. In sales of kilowatt hours per customer, it ranks first among all companies east of the Rockies. It is 50 per cent ahead of the national average in this respect. Alabama Power Cos. is smaller, than the two others,, with only 76,000 customers, yet it has far outstripped its class since the rates went down under the TVA example. It is fortieth among the nation's utilities in number of meters served yet it ranks fourth in refrigerator sales. Or it can be put another way. Georgia Power, for example, increased refrigerator sales the first year of rate cuts 176 per cent; water heaters, 1472 per cent, and electric ranges 576 per cent, and during 1935 these companies showed increasing progress. This then is the "menace” of the TVA, Its “destructive competition’’ that is said to jeopardize every utility company m the country. Because of this “danger,” the Supreme Court has been asked to wreck it.

REJUVENATION IS NEEDED A LTHOUGH Messrs. Talmadge and Kirby may not be permitted to broadcast their Georgia “grass roots” convention over “Dr.” Brinkley's Mexican radio station, we hope they do take the doctor into camp. To keep from dying of premature senility, the Talmadge-Kirby movement may have need of the doctor’s goat gland treatment. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT Bv Mrs. Walter Ferguson TF you should see grandma treasuring family mementos, don't jeer. Go, instead, to some place such as Mount Vernon. Gaze upon a national shrine and give thanks for grandmother's sentimental reverence for the past. It was women who saved Mount Vernon from slow decay and what might easily have been ultimate destruction. Stirred long ago by the concern of Ann Cunningham, first a few and then many women throughout Virginia and the South realized the need for preserving the home of George Washington so that future generations might have kindled within them the desire for justice and liberty which flamed so high in him. Today the scenes of Washington's life are visited annually by thousands. They are hallowed not only by his greatness but also by the devotion to his memory which has been expressed in the labor of their restoration. It takes money to build shrines. But long before the need for money is there, some urge far more important must be planted in the public consciousness. We musi fee lthat our past can not be cast aside and forgotten and that we live, at least in part, by the example of those who have gone before us. Tenderness for the long ago is kept alive in the race by women's sentimental regard for all our little links with ancestral tradition. In their homes, a hundred small objects are cherished by them. These objects, which generally are handed down from mother to daughter, and from father to son. may have no significance for outsiders. They may be intrinsically valueless but they are precious to those who can endow them with romantic memories. It is the mothers instinct which moves the housewife to treasure heirlooms and to save her baby’s curl or little shoe. This same instinct, working in a larger way, actuates groups of women to mark the graves of pathfinders and to keep for posterity certain places sacred to the memory of the great. About each treasure in the Washington Museum, looked at with such reverence by sightseers, lingers a feminine aroma. Besides the spirits of the Washington family, the ghosts of many women who believed in keeping safe the precious little intimate items of family life walk over the preensward of Mount Vernon.

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TTISTORICAL note: j A News boys calling extras through the residential sections at night when you are all settled by the fire are the nearest we have to the Colonial town criers, and they give you a bow and arrow feeling, at that. About all you can understand of what they say, though, is extra, and you just naturally assume that there's something wrong with the I way things are going. They’d never make a Paul Revere! # m n Tt/TUSICAL note: One brewery has its trucks equipped with trick horns that blow the first bar of “How Dry I Am.” Then they wait at the curb and the tavern owner, Identifying the sound, comes out and says how much he wants. Pretty smart alecky! n u TI7EATHER note: ’ ’ If there ever is a time that brings the answer to the stirring question, “Are pedestrians people?" it is in the middle of a cold, boisterous snow- storm. Then perfect strangers get pretty chummy, blustering along in the swirl, and they find that they can mutually curse auto drivers who don't start stopping far enough from corners and who force walkers to wait or be wounded. They also commiserate with each other over how late the traction company has made them to w r ork, which sometimes runs into important minutes when the snow flies, 'T'HE other morning, for instance, -*• when it was snowing and the street car service was practically paralyzed, a group of people were waiting in a store at Illinois and Washington-sts. One elderly man was peevish about the whole thing. He fidgeted and finally turned to a young lady and conversed with her. Then he went through the group and finally engaged in a conversation with a younger man. Then he returned to the girl and said: “That man over there is going the same way we are, I think we can take a cab.” And they did. tt n tt note: A friend of mine tells me there are but two tallyhoes left in the city for general hire and he’s not right sure of those. They were, he knows, about a couple of years ago, but he’s lost track of them. It worries him, too, because he used to drive them for the young blades who attended dances now and then out of town. The tallyho, he said, was nothing to fool with, either. One he was driving hit some fresh gravel and overturned, dumping the whole crowd across a fence into a field. No one was hurt; no one was even mad. he said. They all helped right the thing and climbed back to the tottering top for the rest of the trip. n u •T OOT NOTE: Months ago. the city desk of The Times found it necessary to put in repeated long-distance calls by phone to a point in Montana. The service was good and the rewrite man thought everything was going to be all right. However, just as he was about to receive the news for which the company had been spending lots of dollars, the line open to the little Western town went dead. Every one in the office, of course, thought some wise guy nad cut a wire. Well, the other cay the A. T. & T. house organ came into the office and there, on the front page, was an explanation of what probably had happened. Crows build their nests in the poles and short-circuit the lines. Thus The Times was scooped by a crow. OTHER OPINION NEW DEAL (Rashville Republicans] The wit who called Jim Farley’s Jackson Day dinners “The Last Supper” must have had in mind the terrific reaction against the New Deal as shown in the Literary Digest poll. The final report in this national poll furnishes a headache to President Roosevelt. In the first place, the poll has been an acurate guage : in the past two elections, and secondly. of the 48 states, only 11 states I of the solid South, and Utah, which has only four electoral votes, voted for the New Deal policies. Indiana voted a percentage of 59.65 against the New Deal. A remarkable point in the poll j just closed is that interest was so I high that almost two million votes were counted, an increase of nearly 60 per cent over the number cast in the 1934 poll. The Indiana swing from the New Deal is shown by the vote in 1932, which was for Roosevelt by 54.67, i and in 1934, which gave his policies indorsement by 52.09 per cent, and j the 1935-36 poll, which votes against j his policies for the first time, giv- 1 tog him only 40.53 per cent favorable votes. i >■. ■...

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<Times readers are invited to exptes t their views in these columnc religious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2 50 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt tt PROBLEMS OF LINDBERGH’S NAME ANSWERED By John B. Koonce About four weeks ago, Walter Winchell in his Sunday evening broadcast said Charles A. Lindbergh’s name was not Charles A. Lindbergh before his non-stop flight to Paris. If so, what was his name, when did he change it, and what was his father's name? Thanks very much. According to all available records in the hands of The Col. Lindbergh’s name has always been Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Some of his intimates have called him Augustus instead of Charles. His father was Rep. Charles Lindbergh. —Editor. tt tt tt WOULD RAISE PAY OF POLICE, FIREMEN By Oscar F. Stevenson . Returning prosperity with its high cost of living and steadily increasing revenues from taxation make the immediate consideration of the restoration of police and firemen’s salaries to the pre-depres-sion scale imperative. Although municipalities are still compelled to continue some of the economies forced upon them by the depression, they no longer are forced to keep their police and firemen at a reduced standard of living. The members of these departments have borne their part of the depression. They accepted their reduced pay without protest, and continued to perform their hazardous duties with efficiency and loyalty. Some of them have been killed and wounded. To a great extent, their sacrifices have gone unnoticed. They died without expecting public homage, and received none, for to them the almost daily encounter with danger is a routine matter. In every other respect they are normal human beings. And they

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or Information to The Indianapolis Times Home Service Burean, 1013 Thirteenthst. N. W.. Washington. D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q —Where is the highest hill in Indiana ? A—The highest elevation in Indiana, 1285 feet, is in the southern part of Randolph County. Q —Do cattle have teeth in the upper jaw? A—No. In grazing, the vegetation is pulled rather than cut, by the lower teeth which press on the tough membrane covering the upper jaw. Q —How large was Noah’s Ark? A—The dimensions are given as 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits, a cubit being about 18 inches, or the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Riduced to feet, these dimensions are 450 by 75 by 45 feet. Q —ls Thanksgiving Day always the last Thursday in November? A—Yes. Q —What is spirit of salt? A—That is an old chemical term for hydrochloric acid, so called because it is obtained from salt and sulphuric acid. Q—When did the United States first issue 5-cent pieces? A—ln 1866. Q—Name the president of the United States Steel Corp. A—William A. Irvin. Q —When did the Tay bridge disaster occur and what was the cause? A—Dec. 28, 1879. It was Sunday evening and a terrible storm was partly responsible for the collapse of the bridge while a train was on it. Q—How many dimes were minted at the San Francisco Mint in 1894?

have families whom they are anxious co support in a manner befitting an American citizen. But, for example, in a city where their salaries have been reduced, that is out of the question. They can not afford to pay the rent demanded in a decent neighborhood, and buy really good food and clothing for their families. Luxuries of life are out of the question. Men who are worried constantly about financial matters, who can not feel the pride of providing for their families at a fair American standard of living, can not continue forever to put forth their best efforts. When they are called upon to meet the most rigid requirements that may be demanded of any profession, and they consecrate their lives to public service, it certainly is unreasonable to reduce them to an income that provides only the barest of necessities for themselves and their families. The police department of Indianapolis has a wonderful record throughout the United States and the efforts of the firemen during the National Board of Fire Underwriter’s tests give Indianapolis one of the lowest insurance rates for a city of this size in the United States. Why not restore the police and fireman’s pay? o u a DECLARES WETS HAVE NOT FULFILLED PROMISES By H. S. Bonsib The wets have been good on promises, but have fallen short on fulfilling them. They came as “an angel of light,” deceiving the very elect, if possible—getting many to believe a lie to be damned. On the temperance question they w T ere going to give us anew deal, but it was a dirty deal. They were going to bring about great reforms by repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. but it was a deform. They were go.ng to balance the budget with beer, but have they? They were false prophets. Repeal will do away with bootiegging, but now we have more bootleggers than ever, and the higher the license the more bootleggers you will have. So liquor is not the remedy. They said, “all we w’ant is light wine and beer.” Has that proven

Q —Give the names of the children of General Grant. A—Frederick Dent, Ulysses Jr., Jesse R. and Nellie. Q —What is the origin of the custom of hanging up stockings for Christmas gifts? A—Little Dutch children were taught to put their wooden shoes by the fireside on Christmas Eve because Santa Claus would leave no gifts unless he saw the shoes all in a row. Parents probably created this custom as a method of getting children to bed on Christmas night. English children who had no wooden shoes substituted stockings. From England the custom comes to us m America. Q —What is an albino? A—The term was first applied by the Portuguese to the white Negroes of West Africa. It is now applied to an individual in whom there is congenital deficiency of pigment in skin, hair, iris and choroid of the eye. The skin is abnormally pale, and the hair is white or pale flaxen, and the iris is pink. Albinism is found in many races as a rare condition. It is sometimes a family trait. It occurs frequently among rabbits, mice, birds and other lower animals. Q —How did the English custom of bringing in and burning a Yule log at Christmas originate? A—From the Scandinavians who. at the feast of Juul. kindled a great fire in honor of Thor. The Goths and Saxons called the festival Jul. and thus the word “Yule” and “Yuletide” is derived. Q —What is the address of Walter Scott (Death Valley Scotty)? A—Grapevine Canyon, Cal. Q—From which Indian language Is the name Canoochee and what does it mean? A—lt is a Creek Indian name meaning ‘little graves.” Q—ls the air pressure in the interior of the earth greater than at the surface? & A—Yes. I .If • 1

true? They said, “repeal prohibition wnd. the saloon will never come back.” And have we not now r something worse than the saloon? And here is another lie. They said under no consideration will we ever allow the return of the bar, the brass rail and curtained windows of the oldtime saloon —an obvious false statement. And they said nobody will be allowed to sell without a license. Today our greatest problem is the unlicensed bootlegger. They also said they were going to control and regulate the traffic. Well, you might as well try to regulate hell. Have they or will they ever regulate It? So what can not be mended must be ended. And here is another lie of the wets: Liquor people will obey local laws. Have they ever obeyed them? In the language of their own leaders, are they not in danger 6f killing the goose that lays the golden egg? And the blackest lie of all of them —“We believe in temperance and moderation.” Shall we then teach moderation to the young people? No, never. Where there is drink there is danger. Did you evei see a hog which wasn’t first a pig? The leopard can’t change his spots. So allow me to reiterate, what can’t be mended must be ended. Pulverize the liquor traffic. Here is another inconsistency of the wets, when they said, vote for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and thus reduce drinking. They also claimed they would reduce taxes and give many a job—a job for what? To make booze, to unfit men to make a living. According to the best authorities, for every dollar revenue for saloon license it costs more than $lO to keep up jails, poorhouses. police officers and other expenses caused directly by drink. Isn't this a bad bargain? Repeal is a failure. SMALL BY MARY R. WHITE A zephyr breath that stirs a bough; A tiny water drop—a grain of sand— The tiny bubbles upon life’s seas. So infinitesimal before the world we stand. The soft winds stir the leafy bough, The bubbles break upon the sea, The tiny water drop must fall, But life goes on—unceasingly. DAILY THOUGHTS THE veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand ! of mercy.—Bulwer. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit: the poison of asps is under their lips.—Romans 3:13.

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Y our.;: Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

T>UYING food properly is not Just a matter of choosing anything ; that tickles the fancy, and laying down the money. The person who does the family marketing must keep | in mind a number of facts. For instance, she mast consider j the varying appetites of dad. mother | and the others. If your father is a laborer, he'll need more food energy I than he would if he were a clerical worker. Brothers and sisters at work all require more calories than those at school. Perhaps Brother Bill's an athlete; if so. he should have more food energy than Harold, the quiet, studious brother. A quart of milk for each child and a pint for each adult will provide one-fourth of the total calories I your family needs each day. Bread ; and cereals furnish another fourth. ! Fruits and vegetables supply one^ J fifth to one-sixth of the calories. If the purse runs low. more dried fruits and canned vegetables may be used. Remember, however, that canned tomatoes, fresh cabbage and potatoes provide vitamin C in large amounts, and that spinach, string beans or green peas, carrots and oranges also afford important vitamins and mineral salts. it m it FATS frequently are expensive, but good milk provides butter fat. If your family gets the amount that it ought to have, mother need not worry so much about the vitamin A that comes from butter. In general, we use too much sugar. Syrup and sugars should constitute about 10 per cent of our total calories. Dietary authorities believe that children particularly need not overemphasize meat. A half ounce of meat for a child 8 to 10 years old. an ounce for one 11 to 14, and two ounces for an older child or grownup, should do very well. Remember. however, that liver and the glandular organs, as well as kidney and heart, are richer in iron and vitamins than muscle meats. Even if the grown-ups don’t get them so often, children should have eggs three or four times a week. Cheese, incidentally, is a concentrated food having the qualities of milk and being especially rich in calcium. a u IN buying food, too, there are other things to be considered. There is, of course, the budget question; division of expense for food needed for actual nourishment, luxuries required for satisfaction of special appetites, and victuals to have on hand for entertainment and social purposes. Regarding the last item, food ha3 come to have a significant place socially in our lives. When you entertain friends at dinner, you like to provide something “extra special." a custom that flourishes even in arctic climes. TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ AS 1936 gets under way. the origin of the world’s supply of petroleum has become a bigger mystery than ever. Evidence now is accumulating to show that the theory for its origin which was most popular in the past will have to be given up. This theory held thßt petroleum had a marine origin, having been formed through the decomposition of fatty oils from marine sources through the action of heat. However. Dr. Benjamin T. Brooks of New York points out that there is good reason to believe that petroleum had a low temperature origin. The theory that heat played a role in the formation of petroleum originated with Engler in Germany in 1885. This theory. Dr. Brooks''said, probably was accepted at the end of the last century because of the common belief then that there was a great superabundance of heat deep in the earth. u a a BUT it recently has been shown that petroleums contain a vaviety of substances which are sensitive to heat and are readily decomposed at relatively low temperatures, Dr. Brooks continues. Among these substances may be mentioned certain labile sulphur compounds. These are substances which are derived from the chlorolphyll or green pigment of plants. The ones present in the petroleum appear to have come from the minute onecelled plants known as algae.

By George Clark