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THURSuAY. .T’F.BRUARY 6, 1936

ROBERT A. BUTLER death of Robert A. Butler, president of the Columbia Club, is a distinct loss to Indianapolis. More than most men, he was a part of the heart of the city. His life and hi? work were important to it. If there is any one who can take his place, it is only because he was wise enough to train another generation to it. This great city has been nourished on such wisdom. 30 MILLION MAIDS T. P. MORGAN defines the leisure class as includ- ** ing all those who can afford to keep a maid and estimates that there arc 30 million such families. "If you destroy the leisure class, you destroy civilization,” he warns. His definition of what constitutes leisure is a bit of surprise in that it does not include grouse shooting. But no more surprising than his statistics. We will assume that a maid can be employed by any family wnose Income is $2500 a year or more, although that assumption would bring a figure which would exceed what the last census showed for domestic servants employed. Asa matter of fact $2500 won’t leave much for other luxuries such as automobiles and night clubs—after the groceries have been bought and the rent paid and the clothing provided and the rest of the necessities taken care of. But we have to pick some figure, just as Mr. Morgan did. So we’ll say $2500. Probably what you’d get in the way of help in that bracket would be more of a hired girl than a maid. Anyway, we are at $2500 and we are in the leisure class. Now the tables show that there are in round numbers in the United States of America altogether 27,500,000 fami’ies of two or more persons. So Mr. Morgan is 2,500,000 over, at the start, and has that many more maids than there are families. Os the total, 20,000,000 families get less than $2500 a year. Leaving 7,500,000 who "don’t have to do their own work” and can loaf around and play pitch while t.he dishes are being done, and be leisurely and save civilization. It does look as if we are pretty near the precipice, with only a few million maids between us and barbarism. But we might as wall be philosophical about it. As Mr. Morgan himself says in the same interview, “Civilizations have died before, but th.ey always came back.” Biology can’t be blocked just because a lot of people have to work for a living. The thing that really worries us is the statistical inaccuracy of our bankers. We have a right to expect a banker to be up on his figures. BORAH IN OHIO (From the Cleveland Press) THE announcement that Senator William E. Borah and Col. Frank Knox will be candidates for President in the Republican primary in Ohio should be welcomed by all who believe the presidential primary should be a genuinely effective instrument of government. The Idaho Senator's candidacy in Ohio state will present a direct and positive challenge to the Brown-Schorr program to elect an uninstructed delegation to the national convention at Cleveland. It means that the Republican voters of this state will be permitted a choice at the polls between a hand-picked, boss-dominated delegation, and a delegation openly and honestly pledged to a serious candidate for the presidency. The issue will be clean-cut. Delegates pledged to Senator Borah, for example, will vote for Borah so long as he is before the convention with a chance to win the nomination. The uninstructed delegates now slated to go on the ticket will vote as they are told to vote by the political clique in temporary control of the Republican State Central Committee — after these politicians have decided how to cast Ohio's vote to serve best their individual interests and viewpoint. If a majority of the delegates to the national convention are pledged to actual presidential candidates there will be a reasonable prospect that -fie party nominee will be the eventual popular choice of the convention. If a majority of the delegates arc uninstructed, and under the control of a handful of political traders, then the nominee will be selected in a smoke-filled room in the wee hours of the morning, with the convention itself resolving into a rubber-stamp ratification proceeding. Thus Senator Borah promises to be more than a candidate in his own right, at least in Ohio. By throwing down the gauntlet to the hand-picked slate he will become the champion of free expression at the polls. We should likewise be pleased to see Gov. Alf Landon, Senator Vandenberg and other Republican aspirants make an open fight for votes in this state. BRONSON CUTTING LA FOLLETTE BORN to Senator and Mrs. Robert M. La Follette a seven-pound son, Bronson Cutting La Follette. We hope to live long enough to hear from this young man. He will achieve greatness if he does credit to his given name—if he follows in the path of the gentlemanly, scholarly late Senator from New Mexico. Or xf he proves to be as much a son of his father as Robert M-, has proved to be a chip off the older Bob. And should he, by some miracle, combine the intellect, vigor, integrity and statesmanship of all three, he will be such a man as few generations have offered to our country. THE COURT DIVIDES 'T'HE Supreme Court has extended its sway over state taxing powers by reducing a North Dakota levy on the Great Northern Railroad, in belated recognition of the 1929 stock market collapse. Justice Pierce Butler, ex-railroad lawyer from St. * Paul and a Harding appointee, read the majority * opinion in a six-three decision, which again ■ : cemented the Brandeis-Stone-Cardozo liberal bloc. • Justice Harlan Fiske Stone in the minority opin- ■ ion condemned the court majority for setting aside a state tax for the first time, under the due process clause, merely because the assessment was considered : too high, and not because it was discriminatory or unfair. The ruling was in striking contrast with last spring’s majority decision by the same six justices in the Baltimore Telephone case, rejecting a state com-

mission's use of depression price-indexes in rate calculations. In that case Justice Stone for the three liberals pointed out that in prosperous times courts and commissions used rising prices as “persuasive evidence of fair value,” and added: “I see no reason for concluding that they are of less weight in times of declining prices." Lawyers believe the railroad decision, cutting 10 million dollars off the road's assessment, eventually may react adversely to the carriers, because the currently rising stock and bond prices will give state commissions a reason to increase tax assessments. n n tt JN the same session this week the court struck down a Louisiana depression law of 1932 providing for a more even distribution of funds among building and loan shareholders who sought to withdraw their money all at once. Justice Roberts, author of the ruling which knocked out AAA as an invasion of states’ rights, held that the state here had sought under its police power to impair a contract. In a third important decision the court upheld the power of a state to tax the Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s Holdings of national bank stock, bought up in the bank crash to save the banks. This ruling, by Justice Cardozo, expressly stated that the court was not ruling on the validity of the RFC itself. The Great Northern decision upheld the state on all but one point—its failure to heed the reduced earning power of the road as shown by stock market quotations. Justice Butler told of the calamitous fall in stock prices as reported by Dow-Jones, and concluded that the assessment was “grossly excessive” and a violation of the due process provision of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Butler was one of the four judges who dissented three years ago from the court’s five-man decisions that Minnesota’s mortgage moratorium law and New York’s milk control act, both depression laws, were valid attempts to mend some of the ravages of economic dislocation. Yesterday’s Stone-Brandeis-Cardozo dissent cited dozens of decisions by the court that the Constitution protects no one against too-high taxes, and said flatly that no differentiation could be made between an assessment that was too high and a tax that was too high. It argued that a state has as much right to maintain a high valuation as it has to increase the rate of tax, if it desires the revenue. The decision accentuates the schism in the court, which is expected to be again apparent in the delayed TVA decision. The first half-term of couft has seen a half-score of these divided decisions, an abnormally large number. WELCOME TO THE QUEENFISH! 'T'HANKS to the chivalry of the old South the United States Senate is to have two lady members instead of one. Mrs. Rose Long, widow of Huey, has been appointed to his unexpired term, and soon will join Mrs. Hattie Caraway in that formerly exclusive men’s club. We are not particularly impressed with the sentimentality that proffers the widows of Representatives and Senators their husbands’ seats as law makers. Some times it works well, as in the cases of Congresswomen Kahn and Rogers, both ol whom have carried on so ably that their constituents have sent them back again and again. The widow Caraway, though not given to speech-making, also has a fine voting record. In other cases it hasn’t done so well. There should be many more women lawmakers than there are. But they should be selected because of their own records, not those of their husbands. Mrs. Long, however, promises to be popular. She is described as a pretty, amiable, motherly type of young woman, endowed with tact and intelligence. It is said she will carry on the Share-the-Wealth crusade, but doubtless in a voice such as Shakespeare described as “soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in a woman.” And, we might add, in a man. LIMITS TO A JUDGE’S WISDOM IN Newark, a court order separated a mother from her children on the grounds that she is and a radical. It was in a divorce case involving Mrs. Mabel Eaton and her husband, Warren. Said the judge: “There is no question, to my mind, that the petitioner had submitted herself to become thoroughly imbued with communistic and atheistic doctrines. . . . The petitioner is, of course, ‘a mistress of her own soul.* But she is not privilegeu to instill into the minds of these young children, against the will of their father, doctrines looked upon with abhorrence.” The children were delivered into the custody of their father. If a conservative New Jersey judge can so rule against a radical parent, what is to prevent a Minnesota Farmer-Labor judge from ruling against a conservative parent? What is to keep a Southern Democratic jurist from snatching children from the arms of a Republican mother? And if an atheist may be adjudged unfit for parental responsibilities, what protection would a Presbyterian parent have before an agnostic on the bench? In handling such domestic disputes, would not judges be on safe grounds to confine their rulings to parental qualifications more tangible than political and religious doctrines which a particular judge might abhor? A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson KNITTING, once again the vogue, should never be done except by very old women. They alone seem able to bring to it that air of detachment which raises it from an occupation to an art. Is there anything more soothing than to see a sweet-faced elderly lady beside an open fire, regarding her family with tolerant affection while her fingers leisurely manipulate the slender needles amid bright-colored yarn? Her very serenity ennobles her task. She proceeds so casually that she does not seem to work at all, but to enjoy a pleasant pastime to which she brings the same devotion that the artist who labors for love rather than money bestows on his craft. It is the way all knitting should be done. But these younger women—how ruthless they are, and with what passionate intensity they attack the job! Obviously they are at it for one reason only, to get the garment finished. Their energy reminds you of war days. Perhaps for that very reason it has all the earmarks of an emotional orgy. No lady of the old regime would have done that. And truly the sight of half a dozen knitters with grim mouths and downcast eyes, in any audience, must be absolutely repellant to the speaker. We can imagine n? might feel as the tumbril prisoner did when he caught sight of Madame La Farge and her revolutionary companions energetically knitting as they made ready to count his head as next on the list of the guillotine’s victims. Surely the sin of thoughtlessness is a grievous one —and with it we must charge the Knitting Brigade. Or perhaps they only need a lessCp in good manners.

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

PROFILE: She is 76 years old, my informant tells me, and has lived alone on a farm near Boonville for the last 25 years since her husband died. Mostly she is alone with her livestock, among which is a cow named Buttercup and a turkey hen named Esther. In one room there are 25 hens, each one named, and they have more or less taken it over. Buttercup has one room to herself. The third room belongs to the wToman—to her and her two cats, to Esther and to 12 young chickens. My informant says each member of the oddly assorted family knows its own name. They are, more or less, in constant touch with one another because there are no doors between the rooms. In her own room—if one can so identify it—the woman has a chair, a cooking stove, a few boxes and a folding bed. She has turned the bed over to the 12 young chicks and she sleeps sitting in her chair. They appreciate that, and do a lot of overtime roosting, just to please her. tt # n r T''HE lady is healthy in spite of her age, and declares she expects to live longer than her father did, which was 86 going on 87. She says she speaks almost all the time with the spirits, and through them keeps in touch with her deceased relatives and friends. She asked the spirits recently, for goodness’ sake, to bring about a mild winter, but the spirits told her they didn’t have anything to do with climate. They didn’t, either. For years Warrick County officials have decided each fall that she should be removed to the Warrick County Infirmary, but each time she pleads rationally and, earnestly to be allowed to stay at her home with her animals, and they always let her. She says she will be lonesome with a lot of people around. tt a T>ONE YARD! Maybe you think butchers have a good time at their work. Some of them might. But they have a considerable thorn in their side all the lime. It’s bones. Up north every one wants bones. The butcher can’t get enough of them. They bring a penny a pound. And every one who has a dog 0 r more wants them. Butchers have made a rule that it’s first come first served. In Irvington, the problem is more complicated. There are more dogs and fewer bones. Moreover there is an indisposition on the part of dog owners to pay for the bones. Thus, Mr. Whoosis, who has pet dogs A, B and C, and puppy D, will be seen by Mr. Whatsis carrying a bag of bones out of the store. Mr. Whatsis has pet dogs E and F, himself, so he goes to the butcher counter and asks for bones. u tt “VX/'E have none right now, sir,” the butcher says, “but I’ll save some for you.” Mr. Whatsis gets surly. “Well,” he says, “I just saw- him (meaning Mr. Whosis) leave with enough to build a museum exhibit. Why give him all of them?” The butcher says he’s sorry. That’s what happens, whether you believe it or not. I think the best way to do would be to turn all the dogs loose around the bone box and let them settle the matter in their own way. I’ll bet fewer feelings would be hurt. OTHER OPINION Budget Politics [South Bend Tribune] If the President’s demand for taxes to finance the veterans* bonus shocked any individuals or interests the shock can be attributed only to the individuals’ or interests’ lack of perception of reasonably plain facts. In the budget message early last month Mr. Roosevelt’s “promise” of no new taxation was qualified. When conditions then operative were taken into consideration by readers of the message the necessity of additional taxation in the near future was plain. One condition was the impending adverse Supreme Court decision on AAA processing taxes. Another was the certainty of immediate bonus payment legislation. In that message, Mr. Roosevelt told Congress that “based on existing laws it is my belief that no new taxes, over and above present taxes, are either advisable or necessary.” That “based on existing lav/s” was significant. Elsewhere in the same message the President referred indirectly to the possibility that the Supreme Court would kill the AAA processing taxes, an event that would seriously unbalance the budget. He chose to ignore the bonus certainty. It was a political budget. Those who interpreted it as anything else were deceiving themselves. On Prosperity (Aubrey Williams. National Youth Administration director, in a speech at Buffalo.) Even in 1929, that false-faced Nirvana toward which the Bourbons still yearn, the Brookings Institution has revealed not more than 10 per cent of all our people were financially able to enjoy a liberal lHHik. . .

FROM THE BLUE EAGLE’S ASHES

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(Times reaiers are invited to empress their views in these columns, relifiious controversies excluded. Make pour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2SO words or less. Your letter must be sianed, but names will be withheld on rcaucst.) tt tt tt URGES’ FORMATION OF NEW COMMUNITY CLUBS By Times Reader I wonder why writers to the Hoosier Forum stick to the same old subjects—politics, utilities or some bill sponsored by some far-off Senator? Why can’t this fine writing be used to further companionship and to make new friends? In this city there are hundreds of men who don’t know what is going on right in their neighborhood; don’t even know who lives in the house a few doors down the street. Men will gather by the dozens to hear some soap-box speaker, regardless of what he is saying; but the chances are they don’t know the man who stands next to them. There are many fine community houses in Indianapolis that furnish ideal spots for men to gather and do the things necessary to make a better community. For example, in West Indianapolis the Men’s Club of Rhodius Park has done a lot of good. It would be a fine thing for the city of Indianapolis if every community would make an effort to sponsor such a club. KNEW LINDBERGH SR. IN HOME TOWN By E. F. Crossen This article is in reference to the name of Charles A. Lindbergh discussed in The Times Forum of Jan. 24. The Minnesota highway commissioners have a large signboard erected in front of the August Lindbergh homestead on No. 3 highway one mile west of Melrose, Minn., announcing that August Lindbergh, grandfather of Charles A. Lindbergh who flew to Paris, settled there in 1861, coming direct from Malmo, Sweden. My father settled in Melrose in 1869 and I was born there in 1871. We were neighbors of the Lindbergh family many years. The WTiter worked with Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., while he was earning money to pay his expenses through the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. After graduating he practiced law at St. Cloud. Minn., one year. He later moved to Little Falls, was elected prosecutor of that county and served five terms in Congress.

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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 givens nor can extended research be undertaken. Q—How many Ethiopians arc there in the United States? A—The number of Ethiopians is not separately enumerated in the census reports. Q —Does Bedloe’s Island, on which the Statue of Liberty is located, belong to New York State? A—lt is Federal property, and jurisdiction over the island, exclusive of the Statue of Liberty, situated thereon, is vested in the War Department. Q —Under what title was “The Admirable Crichton,” by James M. Barrie, produced on the screen, 2nd who played the leading roles? A—lt was produced in 1919 under the title of “Male and Female.” Gloria Swanson, Thomas, Meighan, and Lila Leo played the leading roles. Q--Was the travel allowance for members of Congress increased in the last session of Cangress? A—No. Representative Mitchell of Tennessee offered an amendment to abolish the mileage allowance, but it was voted down. Q —Has anything been done to prevent eventual tipping of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? t A—Premier Mussolini, in 1927, ap-

Lindbergh Sr. announced himself a candidate for Governor and died while campaigning. tt tt tt DENIES ASSERTION HE IS COMMUNIST By Roger N. Baldwin, director. American Civil Liberties Union, New York. My attention has been called to a statement given wide currency in the Indiana press to the effect that the League Against War and Fascism is a Communist-controlled agency. To prove the point, the membership of a number of Communists on its controlling board is cited, and among them I am listed. I am not and have not been a Communist. The characterization of certain others is equally inaccurate. It is true that the Communist Party is a member of the League, and that a number of Communists are members of its committees, though in a minority. It is equally true that a pacifist organization like the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, headed by the late Jane Addams, is a member, and that the Cleveland conference was indorsed by the central labor unions of Cleveland, Toledo and other cities and by scores of local unions. The Communists did not fool them. They know that an organization working against war and Fascism must include Communists, though it must be equally true that to be effective. Communists should not dominate it. I make this explanation of facts personally, not for the Civil Liberties Union, which is not part of the League, though a large number of its members are actively interested. tt tt tt SAYS WILL TO ABOLISH POVERTY IS LACKING By a Reader Shall we have pensions or social capitalism? The next six months will witness a repetition of the prosperity-round-the-corner propaganda in the public press. The Townsend OARP groups do not seem to share the views of our prosperity propagandists. Neither do the financial and industrial moguls have visions of another boom, unless Federal expenditures are cut and the country is insulated for the benefit of Tories. Prosperity propaganda may satisfy those who are not suffering from low income, but those who are must be shown. So far we have not discovered

pointed an architectural commission to investigate the state of Pisa’s leaning tower and to find a means of arresting its incline and rendering it safe. The commission made a report in August, 1930, and recommended the injection of cement into the subsoil of clay and sand to fill holes and fissures and provide a firm foundation which the structure has lacked from the beginning. Q —How old is Amelia Earhart Putnam, and how long has she been flying? A—She is 37 years old and has been flying since 1925. Q —What altitude was attained by the ballon flight sponsored by the United States Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society on Nov. 11, 1935? Where did the balloon land? A—The altitude was 72.395 feet. The ascension started in the Black Hills near Rapid City, S. D., and the landing was near Wliite Lake, S. D. The balloon was in the air eight hours and nine minutes. Q —Can the dates of snow storms be forecast from the date and moon's age at the time of the first storm of the season? A—Competent authorties place no credence in long range weather forecasts based on such formulae. Q —Whc is the value of a United States nickel 5-cent piece dated 1867? A—They are valued at 5 to 25 cents.

why our economic system does not deliver a decent standard of living for every one willing to work. We take it for granted that something will happen—we do not know what —that will restore the fabled prosperity of 1928. Our boast of private initiative as the only method for meeting our economic needs is forcefully contradicted when we see forced unemployment for many millions of our people. To meet our social needs, we have largely substituted public control of those agencies which furnish our social needs. We do not yet regard some of our most urgent social needs as equally important for social control, as we do such matters as schools, libraries, roads, fire protection, parks, postal service, sanitary service, police protection, lighthouses, public hospitals, asylums, veterans’ homes and other such items. Social intelligence has not yet caught up with social need in all the avenues which supply our goods and services. Private initiative based upon personal gain is not responsible for the greatest achievements of the race. Our scientists are responsible for the advance of civilization, by seeking and giving knowledge without regard to personal gain. One Louis Pasteur is worth more than 1000 men who grow financially rich, while their fellow men are reduced to poverty at their expense. We have the power, knowledge and machinery to abolish poverty now. The oniy thing we lack is the will to do so. BY MARY WARD Love, you flippantly tossed a valentine Over the barricade built with such art— A golden shaft you tossed, with a gay design,' Love, and it found a heart, it found a heart. DAILY THOUGHT And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!—St.Matthew xxiv, 19. IF you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.—Charles Simmons.

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FEB. 6, 1936

Your... Health By dr- morris fishbein

MOTHERS who have to feed babies artificially will find, on the market, many prepared mixtures of milk and sugar. Many of these—malted milk and sweetened condensed milk, for instance—have a very high sugar content. but insufficient protein. If you feed such preparations to your baby, it is likely to grow rapidly and be fat, but will not be as healthy as the Infant fed with proper amounts of protein. In most instances, artificial mixtures imitate human milk, but some of them provide, in addition, necessary vitamins and mineral salts which may be deficient in human milk. With most artificial mixtures, it is merely necessary to add water in specified amounts. Artificial mixtures, incidentally, are slightly more expensive than formulas prepared at home. tt tt JN artificial milk mixtures, at least two ounces of milk are required for each pound of body weight in 24 hours. Artificial feeding may begin wh,en your baby is quite young, or at the end of weaning. By the time the baby is taking a quart of milk a day, other foods should be added gradually, so that more milk is unnecessary. Here are some simple suggestions in artificial feeding which mothers and nurses generally should follow: The baby should have plenty of water. At each feeding, It should take two or three ounces of material more than its age in months. It is seldom desirable, however, to give the little one more than seven ounces of the mixture at a feeding, at any age. A baby 4 months old weighs about 12 pounds. Therefore, its formula will include 24 ounces of milk, 1% ounces of sugar, and enough water to make five feedings of 6!(? ounces each, or six feedings of 6 ounces each.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

OUT of the depression has come a new understanding of the role which American forests can play in the economic life of the nation, according to F. A. Silcox, chief of the United States forest service. The forest service this month is celebrating its thirty-first birthday. He points out, however, that the government’s first step in forestry was taken 60 years ago. During the depression, the forests were called upon as a vast reservoir of relief work, he says. On April 17, 1933, the first Civilian Conservation Corps camp was established. “With the man-power and the funds made available through the CCC program and through emergency allotments, the long-term program of the forest service for the protection and improvement of the nation’s forests has been advanced by many years,” he continues. tt n tt “'T'HROUGH the past year’s -I- manifestation of the capacity of the forests for absorbing labor on productive and non-competitive projects, we are materially helped along our way toward that time w'hen the forest, managed for continuous yield of their resources, can be counted upon to protect and sustain their share of the economic and social life and the happiness of millions of Americans. America is a forest nation, says Chief Forester Silcox, reminding us that the first emblem chosen for the nation was the famous Pine Tree flag. The government stepped into the field of forestry on Aug. 15, 1876, when Congress authorized the appointment of a “man of approved attainments with a view of ascertaining the annual amount of consumption, importation and exportation of timber and other forest products, the probable supply for future wants, the means best adapted to their preservation and renewal, the influence of forests upon climate and the measures that have been successfully applied in foreign countries, or that may be deemed applicable to this country, for the preservation and restoration or planting of forests." The job was given to Dr. F. B. Hough, one of the pioneers in urging forest conservation.

By George Clar