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TUEBDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1936. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS BECAUSE Senator Hiram Johnson is a very human fellow, possessed of that human trait of believing that any one who agrees with him is a very learned fellow, the public has been treated to a peep into the star chamber proceedings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A few days ago John Bassett Moore's appraisal of the pending neutrality legislation was presented to the committee in secret session. Mr. Moores picturesque castigations, such as "a curious blend of homicidal and suicidal mania,” dovetailed so flatteringly with the Senator's own prejudices on the subject that the Senator couldn't resist the temptation to let the public in on a good thing. We are glad he couldn't; glad he went natural, violated the secrecy of his committee and released Mr. Moore's statement to the press with a grand flourish, describing that former World Court member as “the greatest living authority on international law.” We applaud the Senator’s modesty in admitting that he has a peer in his chosen field. We applaud also his service in letting the public get a glimpse of a proceeding which vitally affects public interest. Rut. why should the public have to be thankful for only occasional glimpses at the transaction of public business? No public business that we can think of is more Important, than that affecting peace and war—as the neutrality legislation does. Several other witnesses—some more influential than Mr. Moore —have gone in through and come back out of those closed doors of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Among them have been some of the hired public servants who run our state department. Yet the public knows nothing whatever of what they testified. nutt WHY shouldn't the committee and the State Department take the public into their confidence? True, there may be some confidential documents, publicatien of which might needlessly upset delicate relationships within the family of nations. But it is very much in the public interest that the issues and arguments be brought into the open, because ours is a democracy and the people have a right to determine what policies thev wish to follow on the path of neutrality. If we go to war to defend that will-of-the-wisp, freedom of the seas, which Senator Johnson and Mr. Moore idolize, or to pull out of the fire the chestnuts of the League of Nations—as Messrs. Johnson and Moore seem to think the proposed neutrality legislation is designed to do—the drafted youth of the land, not the Senators of this committee, will be found on the front lines scratching cooties and disentangling barbed wire. The Foreign Relations Committee is not the only one guilty of star chamber tactics. The Senate and House Agriculture Committees, after secret mumbojumbo rites over the corpse of the AAA, reported out a substitute farm program, without bothering with the usual democratic procedure of permitting private citizens to express their views at open hearings. The attitude of Congress seems to be: The people be damned; they only pay the bills.

FIGURE IT OUT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S handwriting, as revealed in his bonus message to Congress, is so unusual that it has set would-be graphologists to studying it. The President forms each letter of each word separately instead of running them together into words, as most people do. The effect is almost like printing. So marked is this characteristic that even the three curves of the “m” are made separately, like three different letters set close together. Books on graphology say that when words are broken thus intuition or even inspiration is implied, with a tendency to fly at conclusions and make snap judgments —often good. Most books on graphology' warn that handwriting can no* be relied on to reveal all the fine points of character, and that a single sample of writing may give e completely unfair picture of a person. They then proceed to outline a few broad principles which they believe fairly reliable. On this basis the President's message can be taken as revealing neatness and distinct individuality. The last lines slope down very slightly, an indication of pessimism which is perhaps not surprising in a message vetoing the bonus. a a tt THE slant of the letters, rather more pronounced than in normal writing, indicates an affectionate nature. The letters are small; this, the book says, means power of concentration, refinement, and excellent. mental qualities in general. Downstrokes are firm. The books say this indicates strong will. Words are well spaced, an indication of an orderly mind. In most cases initial atrokes—approaches to letters—are omitted; this is called an indication of high mental development. Lower loops that bend to the right instead of the left are said to indicate an altruistic nature, and again when the tops of the letters a. and. g. and o are left open, as some of Mr. Roosevelt's are. the graphologists see a generous and outspoken person. When the tops are closed, tactfulness is indicated. Most of the small e's in the message are made like the Greek epsilon—a sign that the writer thirsts for knowledge, according to the books. Is are dotted moderately close to the letter, supposedly indicating a moderate sense of caution. The stems of the t's are lightly crossed with highplaced straight lines, denoting care and consistency and an excellent imagination. There, for what it’s worth, is a digest of what several books on the subject have to say on characteristics to be found in the Roosevelt writing. It may be worth nothing, for the President -wrote the message in bed one morning, and that may account for the slant. OUR FLAG IS STILL THERE A L SMITH urges a comparison of the 1932 Socialist platform with New Deal performances. Read ’em, he says, and weep for an America gone red Well, we have, and we rise to reassure Mr. Smith and his Liberty League that our flag is still there. The Socialists demanded public ownership of mines, forests, oil, power, utilities, communications i-’.d “other basic industries." These all still repose

£ * j&t if \ f ®*T- C* safely in private hands. The Administration even withholds support from the Wheeler bill for government ownership of railways. The Socialists demanded in farmers’ behalf the social ownership of grain elevators, stockyards and packing houses; the elimination of middlemen; longterm, low-interest loans to farmers; weather insurance; farm land planning. Compare these with the New Deal s farm program. The Socialists demanded constitutional changes to curb the Supreme Court's power to veto acts of Congress; proportional representation; direct election of the President; the initiative and referendum; an amendment permitting the Federal government to provide social insurance and take over basic industries. While Republicans and Democrats alike are discussing some of these matters in Congress, the Administration has proposed none of them. The Socialists demanded much higher income and inheritance tax; taxation of government securities; socialization of credit and curency; government acquisition of the Federal Reserve System. Instead the Administration gave us a political tax program which fails miserably to meet revenue needs; a somewhat stronger bank control act and the insurance of bank deposits, but the banks are still privately owned. The Socialists demanded a 10-billion wurk relief program, a 30-hour week, old-age pensions for all past 60, health and maternity insurance systems, .jobless insurance with government contributions, moratoriums for non-payment ot taxes, an antilynching law. These proposals, though supported by many non-Socialists, were too strong meat for the Administration. The New Deal’s social program has been under fire of the Socialists, Townsendites, EPICs, Longites and Coughlinites as far too mild. It is, in many respects, more conservative than the Bull Moose program of 1912. A careful perusal of “the record” should convince A1 that, far from going red, the government at Washington is just trying to catch up with his own program at Albany. THE WALKATHON 'T'HANKS to the campaign the good old custom of taking a walk is coming back. Democrat A1 Smith, all dressed up like a Republican, has reached for his shiny new opera hat and cane and started from his East Side sidewalks to stroll along Riverside Drive. Democrat John W. Davis has started taking his regular constitutionals. Republican Ogden Mills has left b s Hamiltonian crowd for a walk with the old-fashioned States’ Righters. Gov. Gene Talmadge is marching through Georgia all out qf step with the boys of his party. Hoover, the Hermit of Palo Alto, has come out of retirement to take long-distance hikes in training for the 1936 marathon. Ham Fish dismounted his star-spangled hobby and Bill Borah his mustang to walk with each other, whither no one knows. Doc Townsend still threatens to pack up his medicine kit and leave the old parties to their aches and pains and start an OARP Party of his own. Even the United States Marine Band caught the habit, and walked out on 500 patriotic ladies in Washington because Bainbridge Colby had made a political speech under their auspices, attacking the New Deal. The Great, American Public is walking round and round, but chiefly it’s edging away from the radio toward the door that leads outside where it can get a breath of fresh air.

THE TIME HAS COME PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S words indorsing the League of Women Voters’ nation-wide campaign in behalf of the merit system should echo not only through Washington, but throughout the land. “It matters not,” he said, “what political party is in power by the elective will of the people, the government functions for all, and there can be no question of greater moment, or broader effect, than the maintenance, strengthening and extension of the merit system, established in the competitive principles of the Civil Service Act, whose fifty-third birthday anniversary is being celebrated this month.” Critics may call this lip service, and point to Washington as a spoilsman’s paradise. President Roosevelt, however, long has befriended the civil service and has sought to man the emergency bureaus with the best men and women he could find. While partisans have sneered at his experts as Brain Trusters, some members of his own party have criticised him for too often preferring the fit to the faithful. The time has come, however, for the people to demand more brains in government, Federal, state and local. Only the richest democracy in the world could have luxuriated for 100 years in such a welter of pie, pork and party spoilsmanship as we have tolerated. As the budgets bulge and public debts multiply, we must undertake a governmental housecleaning from the bottom upward. We can no longer afford governments that exist only to give jobs to party camp followers. Cities, counties, states and the Federal government should extend the merit system Even when every public dollar hires a dollar's worth of honest, expert service, government will be costly enough. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “IYy|'Y sweetheart is the finest boy I’ve ever known,” said a salesgirl. “The only thing against him is his family, a set of ne'er-do-wells, with a couple of brothers who are definite no-goods, according to my standards. I can’t bear to give him up, yet I am afraid to marry him. There’s so much talk of heredity, it seems that marriage is a very serious business.” And so it is. Any girl with common sense should think a long time about the heritage she may give her children or the woes she may be letting herself in for, by joining a family with a bad background. On the other hand, think how lenient we are with black sheep, with which it is said every decent household is afflicted. May it not be equally true that each obnoxious family can boast a white sheep? Such is generally the case, and these white sheep have more than the average number of difficulties to overcome in their climb to success. In all fairness, this girl's sweetheart should be judged on his individual merits. The- chances are he wil! make a fine man and a good husband. Only one demand should be enforced by the bride: That they live as far as possible from his family, since she knows already it will handicap him and embarrass them both. It often is true that boys with unfortunate heritages are so conscious of their origin and so determined to live Jt down that they become supercitizens, setting worthy standards for their children. We are all a mixture of good and evil. None lack certain blots upon the family escutcheon. We have so many fine and so many shameful traditions, We must learn to look first for that which is obviously good in others, forgetting the bad entirely IX we can.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With THE HOOSIE* EDITOR

"POLITICAL note: Gov. McNutt -*• was keynoting a state Democratic convention, and he was doing all right. The subject was Arthur R. Robinson. That will give you an idea. To one dramatic gesture, esoteric except to orators of proved ability, the Governor gave more than usual emphasis. Bang went the fist. ; Down damped the jaw. Crack jwent a tooth, Next day the Governor was not at ! his office. He was at the office of his favorite dentist. n pINANCIAL note; Someone, -*■ puzzled at the seemingly unfailing money luck of Arthur V. Brown, Indiana National Bank president, sought him out one day to find the answer. I don’t know where the puzzled one popped the question, but I suppose it was in the counting room. That would be a good place. “How do you do it —never seem to fail?” the interviewer asked. Mr. Brown looked out of his shiny eyes and said with utter naivete: “Well, I’ve lived through four depressions.” Once upon a time a man said that the really great fortunes in the country are made out of depressions. It's hard to believe, for people who see a depression only as a wolf. Maybe that word “naivete” was wrong? tt tt u X TOTE on occupational zeal: Chuck Wiggins once was employed as a bouncer in a tavern, “Take no foolishness from any one,” his employer told him. “Keep the place free of all persons who ore making trouble. Don’t let them go too far. Throw them out before they do.”

Chuck used to take a lot, of instructions from his seconds in the ring. He followed these instructions out, just as he had those. Every' or.e who got tough, Chuck bounced. One night the boss, somewhat on the loose, came into his own plate to buy a drink. He bought the rounds. Then he got a bit bleary and began to make trouble. Chuck sensed something was wrong. He located the seat of the trouble. It was his boss. He was out of line. So Chuck bounced him. He kept his job, too. tt v tt TT" IND to not-so-dumb animals note: On Feb. 1, a Kentucky-av dog was trying to get a noonday bone from a hotel ashcan. But he was having no luck because the lid was loosely on in such a way that he could not quite reach it. Along came two beautiful girls, smartly sartorial against the cold. As they approached the dog and his problem they noticed. One of them took compassion. When she came to the dog, and the can, which was three feet high, she lifted a fur-booted foot and kicked off the cover. It made a clatter, but the dog stood his ground. She went on, giggling and pretty. He got the bone. I got this item.

OTHER OPINION The People and the Constitution [Marion Chronicle] In vetoing the soldiers’ bonus bill, President Roosevelt set himself up as holding different ideas than the Congress which, shortly afterward, overrode the veto by more than the required two-thirds majority. He has the right of veto under the Constitution of the United States and he was within the limits of the powers delegated to him. In a similar way. the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the NRA and afterward the AAA. The court was entirely within the limits of its powers in so doing. Yet at the time of the NRA ruling, the President wailed loudly. His braintrusters protested at what they declared was a demonstration of too much power vested in a few men. Yet the two situations are virtually analogous. The President vetoed a bill enacted by Congress which action he considered perfectly justified. The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional certain legislation enacted by Congress. There is some evidence of the power of the peqple represented, as well as the power of the Constitution. The people and the Constitution are thrown together in a manner which should warn the President that this is still a government of laws and not an autocracy where the ideas of one man take precedence over the people and properlyconstituted limitations. u * On Liberalism [Got. London, at Topeka. Jan. 29] Unfortunately, how as always, there are people today calling themselves liberal who regard any suggestion of economy as reactionary. They seem to think willingness to throw other people’s money around without any consideration of value received is a peculiar sign of a pure heart.

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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.

(Timet readers are invited to express their views in these columns, relinious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.) a a tt SMITH’S ADDRESS CALLED DISILLUSIONMENT By M. H. Rush. Anderson I do not commend the New Deal; but I commend the Liberty League address by Alfred E. Smith even less, for obviously the brain under the brown derby is bitter. It is even irrational. I do not think that a man is rational if in one breath he says that he has no ax to grind, and with the next bream proceeds to grind his ax with vehemence. It is true, I suppose, that A1 Smith is an ardent patriot. But patriotism misdirected has caused a great deal of our grief in the last few decades. Let it not be forgotton, though, that A1 is a snrewd politician; to me, the combination of patriot and politician smells odiously and ominously of trouble. I belong to this “rank and file” for whom Mr. Smith is so solicitous, but I can not connect my “rank and file” in the same category with the Liberty League, which includes the Duponts, the Raskobs, the Vanderbilts, the Aldrichs, the Fleming, the Weirs, the. Gadsens and many other baronistic industrialists and bankers. I know that any one who represents such an oligarchy positively does not represent a democratic rank and file. Unfortunately Mr. Smith has unwittingly gotten away from the rank and file; he is no longer one of us—he has passed us up for bigness, power and dominance. True, the “rank and file” has power and dominance hidden somewhere in its midst, but we w'ho compose it are such an unwieldy mass that we may never assert our strength. Mr. Smith recognized in the Liberty League something more tangible and cogent than anything the rank and file had to offer. I once admired A1 Smith; I considered him a political Carnegie. I thought, too, that he might some day shape this rank and file into a coherent group. The thought was perished by the Liberty League address. Mr. Smith proved definitely therein that he preferred swank to rank. And somewhere it, has been said truly that no man can serve two masters—not even Alfred E. Smith, perennially potential candidate.

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, N. W'., Washington, D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor ' ran extended research be undertaken. Q —How can wicker furniture be cleaned before painting? A—Use a solution of washing soda and warm water—about one rounded tablespoon of washing soda to a quart of water. Q—What is a touchback in football? A—lt is made when a free ball or a ball legally in the possession of a player guarding his own goal becomes dead, any part of its being on. above, or behind the goal line, provided the impetus which sent it to or across the line was given by an opponent. Q—ls there any authority for the spelling “Gibralter,” with an *e” in the final syllable? A—Gibraltar is the only authorized spelling. Q —When is it proper for a gentleman to remove his hat in an elevator? A—When he is in a club, hotel or apartment-house elevator. In business buildings and stores the ele--1 vator is regarded as a public place,

TALK CAN’T CHANGE FACTS, SOCIALIST SAYS. By Forrest S. Rogers, Secretary of the Socialist Party of Indiana. Senator Carter Glass was addressing the United States Senate. His wisps of white hair swung with his heavy head as he thundered; his fists flailed through the air and pounded on the table; his knuckles bled. He was defending the “integrity and veracity” of Woodrow Wilson. He was denouncing those who were guilty of “dirt-daubing” the sepulchre of Woodrow Wilson by charging that the war President had falsified when he said he knew nothing of Europe’s secret treaties. That Woodrow Wilson falsified is beyond question. That he knew of the back-door pacts is clear. That he secretly favored the allies while he preached neutrality is fact. That he determined to bring America into the trenches while campaigning for re-election on the slogan, “He kept us out of war,” is written in bold script on the documents of the State Department. All this the Senate munitions investigation has proved beyond doubt. None of the legislative rhetoric can wipe out Woodrow Wilson’s record of deception. We need not speak of Mr. Wilson’s motives, for modern economic forces never stop their determined course to consider the wishes of any single man. Dollars demand a diplomacy all their own, and when commerce needs a war to sustain it, no individual’s integrity can halt its outbreak. After all s said and done, the declarations of war come not from the Capitol in Washington, but from the Capital in Wall Street. That Woodrow Wilson falsified is hardly shocking in an age accustomed to statesmanship. That any man should dare to say it, however, is intolerable to those who practice statesmanship. When Eugene Victor Debs revealed these things in the very hours when the truth was needed, Mr. Wilson punished him in the name of the law. When Socialists spoke out the truth, they were hounded into prison cells. But truth makes its way into strange places, even into the halls of the United States Senate. So it was that Carter Glass shook his fist in the face of truth, thundered his little piece, pounded his knuckles on the table and then held out his bleeding hand to the newspaper men to be photographed. But a little blood on a Senator’s hand will not wipe out the memory of a nation's bleeding heart nor

where it is not necessary to remove one’s hat. Q —Has Joe E. Brown, the movie actor;, any children? A—He has two sons and two; daughters, one of the latter being , an adopted child, Q —Where was Nino Martini, the ; opera singer, born? How old is he, ; and what is his general appearance | and the range of his voice? A—He was born in Verona, Italy, : and is 29 years old; tall, slender, | and has dark dair and olive-green eyes. His range covers more than two octaves, extending to F above ! high C. Q —Do oysters and lobsters belong to the same group of shellfish? A—Shellfish may be classed in two groups, bivalve and mollusks, and crustaceans. In the first group are oysters, mussels, clams and scai- ; lops: and in the second group, 100I sters, crabs and shrimps. Q—Who wrote the popular ballad, “My Wild Irish Rose”? A—lt was composed and published by Chauncey Olcott. Q —Has Canada a larger area than the United States? A—Canada has 3.684,463 square ; miles and continental United S'ates has 3,025.78$ and including Alaska it has 3,613,189.

make a people forget how its workers, lured on by lies, had been bruised and killed in a war fought in the interest of dollars and commerce. 808 NEGRO’S DEATH CALLED NEEDLESS TORTURE By William A. Fisher, Anderson We blush as we record the fact that in this country where literature, science, morality and Christianity are supposed to have so much influence that the state of North Carolina sent a youthful Alabama Negro into a death chamber in freezing weather. It was an unheated room. He was strapped into a chair wearing only his trunks—his eyes unbandaged. Throwing his head back, inhaling deeply, he coughed and twisted his chest and heaved. This is horrible for a great country. It is a shame that the state of North Carolina would permit a human being to be tortured for 11 minutes. My prayer is that the Giver of Light will remove that law from the books of North Carolina—that the gas execution chamber will be destroyed. BIRTH BY POLLY LOIS NORTON It’s coming* Tonight the young year began her first travail; She moaned, and trembled as in anguish. Long will it be, anxious the watchful waiting, And, like young husband, much floorspace I'll cover Before Mother Nature ushers in the baby Then says, “It's here! A lovely girl! You may come in and see the child called Spring.” DAILY THOUGHT That said he unto them, nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.—St. Luke xxi, 10. AS long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.—Oscar Wilde.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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FEB. 4, 1938

Your... Health By DR. morris fishbeis

IF a baby continued throughout life to grow as rapidly as it does in infancy, it would weigh many tons before its death. That illustrates why children need food for growth as well as energy. A child grows much more rapidly than an adult. Thus the average tot, weighing 7U pounds at birthboys being usually a little larger than girls—doubles Its birth weighs by the end of the fifth month, and trebles it in a year. A baby that is fed on breast milk usually grows a little more rapidly than one who is artificially fed. But if the little one is fed artificially in the proper way, Its rate of growth will equal that of the breast-fed infant. In selecting the diet of your child, other factors, too, must be considered. A new-born baby, while asleep, uses up twice as many calories per pound of weight as its mother does. That expalins why babies have to be well covered when they are asleep. They give off more heat; and, if they are not well covered, the infants use up their body tissues to restore the lost heat. Very tiny babies have to be kept warm with hot water bottles or in incubators. M tt tt AS a child grows, his energy needs increase. The period of adolescence is one of great muscular activity. Whereas a year-old child uses up about 1000 calories daily, at 2 years he needs 1200; at 5, 1500; at 10. 2500. and. at 15 years of age, 3500 calories a day. An excessively thin child may have to take extra amounts of food to gain weight. Thus, of two R-year-olds. a very large boy will need more food than an average-sized one. The more exercise a child has. the more food he should eat. As he grows older, his energy needs will begin to decline and he no longer will need food to support growth, but only for activity and health. Sometimes, though, the habits of eating acquired during the growing period are carried into maturity ,in which case overweight is almost certain to occur. People who do not take much exercise, yet eat large amounts of food, not only gain extra weight, but also develop digestive troubles. These points must be kept in mind in choosing a diet for the child. In addition, there are certain dietary factors essential fori health and growth to be considered. These I shall discuss in later articles in this series.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

MEDICAL men are paying more and more attention to the subject of the difference in constitution of various individuals. Dr. David, Riesman, professor of the history of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, points out. It was only natural, he says, that after the discovery of the importance of germs and the pioneer work of Pasteur and Koch that mast attention should be given to the search for germs and the study of their actions. Asa result of the impetus of these pioneers many germs were discovered, the causes of anthrax, wound infection, cholera, tuberculosis, tetanus, meningitis, pneumonia, malaria, syphilis. African sleeping sickness and others. “In the first flush of enthusiasm created by these epoch-making discoveries the germ was raised to an all-important position as practically the sole factor in disease,” Dr. Riesman writes in the Scientific Monthly. “But in recent times the older idea of constitution has again come into medical consciousness. The germ is necessary but it can only grow if it falls on proper soil. tt tt B “T Y 7TIILE much nonsense is writVV ten about the soil —the human constitution —nonsense that is reminiscent of the nations of the phrenologists, Gall and Spurzheim, the subject is one of vital importance deserving careful study if we are to understand and to master infectious and other diseases.” In the three-quarters of a century since Pasteur and Koch, medicine has made great strides by borrowing from the exact sciences all the discoveries that could help in the study and treatment of disease. Dr. Riesman continues.