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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY I*, 1936. r “STATE OF CONFUSION” OCORE a truism for Herbert Hoover. He says the state of the nation is a state of confusion. After reading and listening to that flock of Republican speeches delivered in the name of Abraham Lincoln, let’s browse about a bit and attempt some recapitulation about the Republicans and 1936 as that campaign year finds itself after one month and 13 days. And let these rambling remarks be dedicated to St. Valentine. Both the applause machine and reader reaction seem to give the honors to Hoover. The other candidates better look alive. They are being outclassed in wit. humor and epigram, enunciation, pronunciation and radio manners. For example, Vandenbrrg in New York came right after Hoover in Portland. In that particular competition Vandenberg didn't rate; partly because he was too much of that oratorical order which went, passe whpn the ' mike" appeared on the political rostrum, and partly because his speech hadn't been manicured to the fine polish that characterized Hoover's. Like what he says, or dislike it, as a matter of political policy, you’re listening to a different Hoover, to a person you wouldn’t recognize as the pontifical and dolorous deliverer of the 1932 brand of Hooverian oratory. The Jeremiah of that day didn’t smile when he said it. Now he does, and his audiences laugh with him. He is, as then, a prophet of dire things, but nothing so hackneyed as grass In the streets. There is a lilt to his stuff today; class in the way he rings the alarm; lightness in the touch of his attack; fighting with a rapier rather than the pitchfork as of yore. So we would say that on a basis of Lincoln Day oratory by all participating the palm goes to Hoover, as a matter of sheer entertainment, If for no other reason, and that all other contestants, who have kinda been thinking that Hoover was politically dead, had best be sharpening their pencils and currycombing their vocabularies. Incidentally there’s something in the suggestion that Dan Kidney of our staff made, after listening to the Republican hopefuls—that the speakers would have been more appropriate if they had appeared on Benjamin Franklin's birthday because Franklin invented the lightning-rod. a a a XI7E wonder whether they can keep up the pace. ’ * After all. this is the most unusual campaign we have ever seen, in the matter of timing. All those speeches sound like October, not February. October is the time when a presidential contest ordinarily does Its crescendo. But the charging and the viewing and the pointing are all as intense and strident and loud right now ns they customarily are at the climax —and with more than eight months to go. It's pretty nearly an impossible human feat to shout at the top of your voice for eight months. As for what was said, Editorial Writer Max Stern contributes this: SIX MEN OF INDOSTAN It was six men of Indostan. To learning much inclined. Who went to see the elephant <Tho all of them w’ere blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind— JOHN G. SAXE. You remember how the six blind men then described the elephant. To the one who fell against its ■ide the elephant was like a wall. To the others it was like a snake, a tree, a fan, a spear, a rope—depending on whether he encountered his trunk, leg, ear, tusk or tail. Judging from those Lincoln Day speeches, the learned men of the G. O. P. are having the same trouble getting together on what the New Deal is like. To Senator Vandenberg the New Deal is "a third party,’’ whose ‘‘high ministers of state frankly pine for a revolutionary order.” To Col. Frank Knox it’s just the opposite, a tory movement with Roosevelt ‘‘the arch-tory of them all.” To Senator Dickinson it’s a scheme to ‘‘turn our economic system into some hodge-podge of Tugwell collectivism.” To Senator Steiwer it’s a sort of Fascism usurping the rights of states and individuals and wielding the “tools of dictatorship" to forge shackles that “never Will be worn by the free men and women of America.” To Senator Hastings it's a “political autocracy" ■ffking to regiment and control the citizenry through “demagogic appeals to the masses.” To Hoover it’s a “fountain of fear.” AGAIN, THE MISSIONARIES ONE story said that an American missionary and a Canadian missionary had been chained and thrown into a filthy Ethiopian hut, and that the American's wife, their four children and nurse were also held as captives of an Ethiopian tribe. Another story told of the American consul at Addis Ababa protesting about the outrage. And still another said that no one had been chained, but that the missionaries had merely been arrested because they refused to comply with an Ethiopian chieftain’s order to move out of the danger tone, and that they had been treated well and later released. We hope, for the sake of the missionaries, that the latter story is the more accurate. But the important thing for the peace of mind of Americans who have remained at home is that such inflammatory stories are inevitable when Americans persist in remaining in a territory where the soldiers of other nations are fighting. Last July, before the fighting started, our State Department warned Americans in Ethiopia to come home. That prompted us to write what, at the time, we thought was a good editorial, and. viewed in retrospect, we still think a good one—good enough to reprint here: “TIME TO PACK UP” “It’s a long, long way to Ethiopia, and the possibility of young America going over the top in the battle of Addis Ababa seems remote. As remote as did Sarajevo in 1914. So the statement of T. A. Lamble, field director of the Ethiopian mission service, probably is receiving little attention in the U. 8. A., which at the moment is engrossed in such matters as lobby investigations, the victory of Mrs.

Moody over Helen Jacobs, heat records end what the Bupreme Court is likely to do to AAA. “Mr. Lambie declares that missionaries in Addis Ababa will not heed the warning of the State Department that American missionaries get out of the war-threatened land. “At first this seems an heroic attitude for Mr. Lambie and the missionaries to take. But a second thought is very much in order. "Whether it be the sinking of a Lusitania with Americans aboard or the bumping off of a missionary in a far distant clime, the American people have a Mabit of seeing red. Tis such stuff that wars are made of. Every American in a war zone is a spark that may touch off the fife and drum, the parade down Fifth-av, and ‘lt won’t be over till it’s over over there.’ “Getting into war is seldom, if ever, a process of pure reason. It is emotional. Should those missionaries get what innocent bystanders usually get, the glands that control the national temper would start to throb. And if the fate of the missionaries were sensational enough, there might be the makin’s of another such urge as changed ‘He kept us out of war’ into ‘Ships and more ships.’ “After all, everything is -relative. In all Ethiopia there are just 125 Americans. Most of them are missionaries. So we have a mathematical proposition—--125 million Americans potentially endangered by 125. The proposition is all wrong. Even at the risk of a lew unsaved Ethiopian souls, it’s all wrong. It is time for Mr. Lambie’s party to start packing.” THE GOOSE SQUAWKS r J' , HE day of easy tax picking from the pockets of American motorists is coming to an end. Just 17 years ago this month, the gasoline tax was discovered —Oregon initiated a levy of 1 cent a gallon, to be used for highways. Like most tax ideas, this one spread fast. Before long every state in the Union was taking a cut from the proceeds of the gasoline pump and, in some states, so were counties and municipalities. In the last days of the Hoover Administration, the Federal government reached out with a gasoline tax and also levies on motor oil, automobiles and appliances. Very few' of these taxes, once levied, ever were withdrawn. They were added to. In one state the gasoline tax climbed to 7 cents a gallon. At first the motorist hailed these taxes as good business for him. Better roads reduced his operating costs, made motoring pleasant and efficient. But the motorist was such a willing tax goose that lawmakers couldn't resist using some of those easily plucked dollars for purposes other than building and maintaining roads. And when the motorist found out what was happening, he began to squawk. And now, to translate those individual squawks into a collective and effective protest, Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile Association, urges the millions of vehicle owners and operators to band together for political action. Even before Mr. Henry sounded his call to arms, measures to reduce taxes paid by highway users had been introduced in six of the eight state Legislatures now in session. The pickings will not be easy henceforth. KNIGHTHOOD FLOWERS AGAIN A LOGICAL sequence to Mr. Morgan's plea for a leisure class was a meeting recently held in the Waldorf-Astoria of the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry. Among the things we’ve lacked in this young republic are ancestors. The O. A. A. A. is going to remedy that. For SSO, announces Mrs. Gregor MacGregor, an officer of the order, you may join and receive “a beautiful badge.” All you need is to shake the old family tree for an “armorial ancestor” and present the papers. The only other duty is to sit with your peers at an annual luncheon. If you want to join our new knighthood don’t get discouraged if, like Mark Twain, you find one of your ancestors hanging by his neck to the family tree. Most any kind of ancestor will do as a subsubstitute for a feudal baron. Among the badges proudly displayed at this meeting were some marked: “Descendents of Andrew Jackson.” Can’t you just see Old Hickory of the Tennessee backwoods grimacing from his grave? HATS OFF! we nominate Joseph S. Cortelyou of Haworth, N. J., as Puplic Friend No. 1. For this citizen has driven 500,000 miles in more than 100 different makes of automobiles during the past 38 years without so much as denting a fender or earning a traffic cop’s dirty look. Even his wife has learned the technique, and for 18 years she has not had an accident. It’s quite simple, according to Mr. Cortelyou. You just drive carefully, that’s all. Sometimes 50 miles on hour is safe, other times 20 miles is dangerous. Driving cars unfit for the road is a menace. Drivers proving themselves safe.should be given certificates, with lowered insurance rates, he thinks. There should be uniform traffic laws. The National Safety Council has just reported that, deaths from accidents during 1935 totaled 99,000, with property losses of three billions. Heading the list were motor vehicle deaths. These reached an all-time high of 36,400 killed. We hope more men like Mr. Cortelyou will ride the streets and highways in 1936. A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson OSSIP and its evils has become a trite subject. VJ Nevertheless it is still a burning one for many mothers who write in to tell their worries. “What is to be done,” they cry, “about women who repeat news and twist it so it can destroy the reputation of good girls? How can their vicious tongues be stopped?" They can’t be stopped. But they can be ignored. We shall always have with us shallow-minded, coldhearted women who delight in peddling bad news. Half the time they are not conscious of the harm they do. They carry trivial tale' exaggerate foolish incidents only because they are too petty to be concerned with constructive affairs. Nothing short of murder can rid us of their prying eyes, or silence their spiteful tongues. But for every one we squelched, two more would take her place. The important point is this. We must teach our daughters to conduct themselves so they need not fear gossip—and always to expect it. Everybody is talked about, and often in an unkind manner. But such talk never hurts the person with a good record and a clear conscience. If you are not vulnerable, no ordinary small-time tattle-tales can work havoc in your life. Women are super-sensitiw to random remarks, a trait which often has made them miserable. We expect only glowingly complimentary remarks to be j made about us. in spite of the fact that our remarks about others do not always fall into that category. Every mother may as well resign herself to facts. Sooner or later the clacking tongues will start in on you. Women still put their heads together cackling like geese over a tidbit and you or your girl may be the tidbit. So long as young people are high spirited, doing risky, daring and dangerous things which invite comment even when their motives are innocent, and so long as tongues can wag. we'll have gossips. Forget them. They always end by biting j themselves to death.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With THE HOOSIER EDITOR

QO far as the branch libraries in the city are concerned, children 6 years old have absorbed all the book learning they need ir one day when it gets to be 6 at night. They’re supposed to be home after that. The other night at 7 a little girl not more than 5 appeared in the branch at 615 E. 42d-st, and, on tiptoes, put her nose on the counter. A librarian saw her, walked over. “What do you want?” she asked. “I want my pencil sharpened,” the child said, and held out a stub. The librarian sharpened it and watched the child leave the building and go two doors down to her home. 0 u n A N Irvington mother told this story on her year-and-a-half-oid child: “I was upstairs and Ann was so quiet that I knew she was in mischief. So I went down and there she was in the kitchen, sitting in the sink. “I was scared to death, because the water was boiling hot in the fawcett. But she was all right. She was sitting under the cold water tap.” n n TN the South, suh, they are nothing if not polite. The radio editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal wired The Times radio editor yesterday for some information. The Times radio editor wired back the information, and thought that was all of it. Two hours later he received another telegram from the Louisville editor. It said: “Thank you.” an tt DENNY sat in a dentist’s office the other day, awaiting his stretch in the chair, and brooding over the unsatisfactory condition of things. He flipped a cigaret butt to the tiled floor some distance from him, and it lay there trailing smoke into the air. A Western Union messenger chanced in, on business, of course. He saw the smoking butt, looked disapprovingly at George, stamped it out, and went on about his duties. nun JOHN McCUTCHEON, the Hoosier •J cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, was at a doings and was introduced to a big, raw-boned fellow. They shook hands. The big fellow squeezed so hard that he bruised the cartoonist’s drawing hand. And next day the pencil wouldn’t behave. That's why Mr. McCutcheon had to stay away from work for three days. nun SOMEBODY’S maid was talking about motion pictures the other day, and something came up about a film story of the desert. The maid lost all of her normally indiscriminate enthusiasm. Some one asked her if she was going to see the film. She shrugged her shoulders and said: “No. I guess not. I hate A-rabs. They’re so sneaky.” nun nPHE Indianapolis Steam Laundry in the early 1860s advertised that “Having the latest laundry machinery, we are prepared to do all kinds of washing on short notice.” And the Ray House, a hotel, advertised that: “The proprietor, Mr. Lambert, being a gentleman of large experience, burthens his table with everything the country affords or the market produces.” n tt ■RJINE host of the post Civil War T*-*- period: Louis Lang's W T ine House, 29 S. Meridian-st, boasted in ads that it was “A pleasant place to enjoy a quiet talk and an invigorating smile.” And just to show that crack about the smile wasn't a mistake, the White Fawn Saloon of the same period, 33 W. Washington-st, lured you this way: “The White Fawn is anew institution just opened in fine style.. A comfortable place to enjoy a quiet talk, pleasant smoke, or invigorating smile.” OTHER OPINION Salutation to Indianapolis [The Kokomo Tribune] The current week brought to Indianapolis the one hundredth anniversary of its incorporation. The event is being recognized fittingly by its official circles and citizens, and its newspapers are bestowing upon the centennial generous and becoming notice. The city was founded a few years before it was incorporated. The act of incorporation acquired for it the distinction of being a separate governmental unit, a status it has maintained continuously since. Its people, therefore, are entitled to take pride in the fact that Indianapolis, as an organized community, has had part in making a hundred years of history. All loyal Hoosiers admire the state's capital city. It has grown steadily with the gathering decades—grown not only in size, but in character; not only in the things of use, but in the things of grace. Its progress culturally has kept pace with its progress materially.

WHAT BETTER TIME THAN THIS?

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The Hoosier Forum

ITimes reaiers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Hake vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to £SO words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.l tt tt tt DECLARES WAR LEAGUE IS REALLY COMMUNISTIC By Observer. In your issue of Feb. 6, I read with great amusement Roger N. Baldwin’s letter in which he denies that he himself is a Communist and makes the assertion that the socalled League Against War and Fascism is not a Communist controlled agency. I do not challenge Mr. Baldwin’s statement as to himself. As far as the League is concerned, its very name reveals that it is nothing else but a branch of the Communist party, working under the mask of pacifism. There is not a sensible man that is not against war. True, Fascism is bad, but is Communism any more virtuous, and in what respect? The dictatorship of Stalin is neither better nor in any way milder than that of Mussolini c: Hitler. If freedom of press and speech is surpressed in Italy and Germany, so it is in Russia. If the German concentration camps are full of political prisoners, so are the Russian dungeons and so is Siberia. After all. Hitler was brought to power by the vote of the German people, but has Stalin ever held an election in Russia? And is it not true that a handful of Commissars lodged in Kremlin are governing 150 million people without their given consent? tt tt tt PHYSICIAN OPPOSES “MERCY SLAYINGS” By Frank S. Caprio, M. D. Euthanasia is a term that has come into popular use to signify a means of producing the painless, merciful death of one suffering from an apparently incurable disease. Its disciples and those responsible for its proposal would be driving a poisoned arrow into the very heart of the medical profession were they to succeed in bringing about its legal adoption in this country. Euthanasia is legalized murder, supported by ambitious beneficiaries of insurance policies, delusional and fanatic so-called benefactors of humanity, selfish individuals unwilling to undergo the sacrifice of taking care of an incurable invalid, morbid novelists in quest of melodramatic material, and criminal exploiters who would be speculating with human victims for monetary advantages under the protection of a corrupted physician Although a disease may be considered organically incurable, the patient’s mental attitude toward the disease is curable and amenable to treatment. Sedatives and psychotherapy ably administered insures

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the relief of aggravating symptoms and sustains life to a peaceful termination. The integrity of the medical profession has been preserved from the day Hippocrates formulated the oath to which all physicians are pledged. The cure for incurables only can be achieved through the inspiration of keeping the profession free from germs of political corruption and unnecessary legal interference. When civilization legalizes the issue of euthanasia, then life for the physician becomes a game of bridge, with murder as a trump and the invalid holding the dummy hand. a a ROOSEVELT IS PRAISED AS GOOD MAN * By Henry Camp Harris, Dallas, Tex. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to some may not seem a good President, but by all, he is acclaimed a good man. His judgment may not function to your satisfaction, but his heart throbs in sympathetic understanding. Asa mender of broken fortunes, he may fall short of your hopes, but as a mender of broken bodies and broken minds, he is at his best. Around his own victory over impairment, modern miracles are performed. Millions pay to dance that thousands .nay be able to walk. America has been awakened to its responsibilities. The child is given a chance, young men camp together with morale intact, and older people will soon receive dividends on lives well invested. When the final election comes and all returns are in, Presidents will become men again. The final ruling by the real Supreme Court of the Universe will decide that at least the life of Roosevelt was constitutional. Franklin Delano Roosevelt has always answered the cry of the crippled and hungry child, aided the aged and encouraged those who are broken in spirit. The life he is living is no doubt pleasing God. o a tt RECALLS EARLY EXAMPLE OF V. S. INFLATION By R. F. Paine The government at Washington is to be seriously worried by at least three propositions for raising money, right away, to pay the war veterans’ bonus. Thus, it is well for! all citizens to consider the pros and cons of the discussion, always remembering that propositions are finally to be at the mercy of the United States Supreme Court. There is in the Congress a considerable bloc that inflation, the issue of paper money, familiarly called “greenbacks,” or “rag-paper” money. ’Tis an easy, simple method of creating more money and, fortunately, American history furnishes an example of the effects of such a method. Our war with the Southern Con-

Breckenridge, who has charge of the Frontier Nursing Association in Kentucky. A—Wendover above Heyden, Leslie County, Kentucky. Q—ls Cheddar another name for hoop cheese? A—Cheddar cheese is often called hoop cheese because the curd is put into tinned iron hoops which are lined with cheesecloth bandages and pressed with great pressure. Q —Which are the permanent and which are the non-permanent members of the Council of the League of Nations? A—The permanent members are the united Kingdom and Northern Ireland. France, Italy and Russia. The non-permanent members are Argentina, Australia, Chile, Mexico, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Czechoslovakia. Q —What are the -alaries of the chief justice and a -sociate justices of the United Sates Supreme Court? , A—The chief Justice receives $20,500 a year and the associate justices receive $20,000.

federacy was largely financed with “greenbacks,” which depreciated as their issue increased. After the war and Jeff Davis were wound up, a lawsuit was brought to test whether “greenbacks" were to be a legal tender for the payment of debts. It was, by the way, this issue which caused the inclusion of the clause in bonds and notes making the obligation payable in gold which che United States Supreme Court has recently declared to be of no account. Feb. 7, 1379, the Supreme Court neld the Legal Tender Acts to be unconstitutional, by a vote of four to three. War veterans owned millions of the greenbacks. Business concerns and debtors in general had large supplies of them, and the unconstitutionality of their money certainly raised the deuce. The Civil War heroes suffered through their depreciated money, business concerns folded up and quit and debtors volunteered bankruptcy by the thousands. But on the very day of that four-to-three decision, two new justices were nominated for the United States Supreme Court. Fifteen months later that same court, by a vote of five to four, declared those emasculated Legal Tender Acts to be constitutional in practically every particular. It was nice constitutional fiddling by different brands of lawyers, but the five to four relieved the pressure. Now the question arises as to what the Supreme Court, with its record of reversing itself, may do to the present day veterans’ “greenbacks,” if any. It is, indeed, difficult to suggest a way for the government to get out of its present terrible embarrassment. Perhaps it can resort to pure borrowing; but even that would be a long step toward something like eventually putting our vigorously growing national deficit into bed with the national credit, in midwinter, with all of the blankets on the deficit. I HEARD A BIRD BY MARY WARD I heard a bird—you would not believe— It sang like a thrush, a thrush at eve— A winter bird, yet I heard a thrush— Or was it hope in the frozen brush?

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Now I will explain why you shouldn’t bet on more than half the horses in one race.”

Feb. 14, 1936

Your... Health By DR- MORRIS FISHBEIN

'T'OO many people believe that *- there is a special diet for every disease condition that affects a human being, and that diet alone will cure all sorts oi diseases. No idea could be more mistaken. There is nothing magical about food. The elementary principles of diet have already been explained in the early articles of this series. Instead of classifying diets as being suitable for individual diseases, physicians are much more likely nowadays to classify the diets and then mention the various conditions in which those diets are suitable. There are said to be only five varieties of diet: Reducing, temporary starvation, or semi-starvation; fattening; high roughage; smooth, soft, bland, or non-irritating, and the high vitamin type. nan IT is, of course, possible for those who know feeds and feed qualities to combine them to make the most of the combinations. In general, however, there are certain foods which you should not eat with any kind of diet, if your digestion is easily disturbed. Most people have to depend in their diets on certain fundamental foods. These are bread, milk, cereals, butter, cheese, eggs, the common fruits and vegetables, some meat and some fish. People who are sensitive or at all disturbed by certain foods are likely to suffer from distention of .the abdomen—belching after eating, pain or irritation of the bowel, followed by looseness and soreness at various points in the abdomen. Sometimes there are also canker sores in the mouth and the breath has a heavy or disagreeable odor. Later I shall have more to say about such food sensitivities. Some people object to cabbage and others to onions; still other people know that chocolate always causes them trouble. When you know in advance that a food substance is likely to give you trouble, by all means avoid it.

TODAY'S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

DOG-LIKE creatures, large as bears, tiny pop-eyed forerunners of the monkey, and other weird animals inhabited the Crazy Mountains of central Montana 70,000,000 years ago. Dr. George Gaylord Simpson of the Amencan Museum of Natural History has just completed the task of identifying and naming some 60 of them from the fossils in the Smithsonian Institution. Most of these fossils were collected by the late Dr. James W. Gidley. The weird mammals flourished at the close of the Age of Reptiles when the great dinosaurs and other reptiles of the day had died out, but the mammals of the type now known on earth had not yet appeared. 'J'he vegetation was becoming modern in character, but grass, which was to make possible the great spread of mammal life, still was struggling to obtain a foothold and did not yet cover the Great plains. n m Fourteen species of the socalled bear-dogs or Arctocyonidae, were identified by Dr. Simpson. These included some of the most savage and fearsome creatures the earth has known. Some of them, later than those found in the Crazy Mountains w'ere as large as the pres-ent-day Kodiak bear, the largest of all existing flesh-eating mammals. Six new types of monkey-like creatures, primitive primates to give them their technical name, were discovered by Dr. Simpson. These are among the earliest knowm members of the animal family in which biologists classify man. These primates are all tiny creatures and probably most closely related to the strange night-prowling big-eyed tarsier of the Malay Peninsula. Another group of creatures found were tiny creatures about the size of squirrels with three rows of teeth. DAILY THOUGHT A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. —Ecclesiastes 7:1. DEATH is but the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.—Henry Ward Beecher.