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FRIDAY. MAY 1. 1830. BETTER HEALTH /''OBSERVANCE of Child Health Week, opening today under direction of the Child Welfare Committee of the Marion County Medical Society, is a good time for stock-taking. The occasion comes this year with special significance. Dr. Martha M. Eliot of the United States Children’s Bureau says the United States has the second highest maternal aeath rate in the civilized worlo The infant death rate in rural areas is increating. Chuu Health Week, then, flings anew challenge to ua in 1936. There is no excuse for many of these deaths, lor lack of knowledge and proper care are the chief causes • U B rjUT there is another side to the health picture. During the depression years, when there was fear of physical breakdown among our people, general health actually improved, the life span increased and the death rate declined. The average life expectancy has increased from about 45 years in 1900 to more than 63. Knowledge of the better use of foods spread rapidly during the years when food was scarce. The vast relief program provided basic necessities. Despite the tragic condition of which Dr. Eliot speaks, the total Infant death rate is lower than before the depression. Medical and educational work combine to give the child a better physical start in life than ever before. But obviously these gains are not enough. 'The activities of recent yea<rs must be extended. Child Health Week is an excellent time to stress thp need for balanced diet, cleanliness, proper rest and recreation, and physical examinations. AGAINST LYNCHING THE recent lynching of Lint Shaw, Georgia Negro, is cited by Senator VanNuys as anew argument for passage of his resolution to appropriate $7500 for a Senate investigation of lynching. Senator VanNuys, who piloted the CostiganWagner anti-lynching bill through the Judiciary Committee, Introduced the resolution to give the bill impetus for passage after it was stalled by a threat of filibuster by Southern Senators. The VanNuys resolution is now in the Audit and Control Committee, of which Senator Byrnes (D., S. C.) is chairman. The lynching of this Negro again proves that states are incapable of handling the lynching problem,” Senator VanNuys said. ‘‘l intend to bring this to Senator Byrnes' attention. The Costigan-Wagner bill will pass eventually. We should pass it right now.” A petition to bring out a similar measure in the House Is being circulated by Rep. Cavagan <D., N. Y.), its author. Several others are pending in committee. Lynching should be made a Federal crime. STATE PARKS OPEN r |''HE Indiana State Park system, one of the finest in .the country, officially opens its nineteenth season today. Last year more than a million people enjoyed the scenic beauty and historic background of the Indiana parks. Nearly half the visitors were from other states. Os the total, about 770,000 aided the upkeep and operation of the parks by paying the 10-cent admission fee. * The large pre-season crowds at the parks presage a record attendance lor 1936. Facilities have been extended and Improved. Natural beauty has not been sacrificed but camping and picnic areas hav p been provided, trails and bridle paths built, cottages constructed. The parks should be a greater factor thn ever this year in the outdoor recreational life of Indiana. THE BEST POSSIBLE SENATOR WAGNERS selection as chairman of the Democratic convention's resolutions committee Is important news. The New Yorker Is one of this country’s few militant liberal statesmen. Monuments to his vision and energy are such measures as the railroad retirement, NIRA-pubiie works program, employment exchange, social security, national labor relations, antilynching, housing and other measures that seek to modernize and humanize the American system. With Senator Wagner in charge of its platformwriting, the Democratic Party might, on paper at least, become what so many of its members hope for it, a vehicle of orderly change to a more workable democracy.

DR. M’QUEEN’S RESIGNATION 'T'HE resignation of Dr. William - McQueen as superintendent of the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital, effective June 1, is a definite loss to the institution and the community. Associated with the hospital for IS years, and its head since Feb. 1, 1933, Dr. McQueen leaves this important post to protect his own health. A successor should be appointed who - will continue the management of the hospital at its present high standards. HUNGRY MEN TJRESIDENT HOOVER had his bonus army in Anacostia Flats, and now the New - Jersey Legislature has its relief invaders in the Assembly chamber. The cycle has swung around completely, from a policy of no relief back to no relief again, and Trenton today may profit from the distressing example at Washington in 1932. The issue lies between economy and hunger. Critics of relief, complaining that it saps individual initiative, preaching their doctrine of economy paramount, have made some of their bitterest attacks against the New Deal billions spent to create jobs and feed the hungry. But Trenton appeals now as an object lesson of what might have happened not merely in <one atata capital, but all over the country if the dynamics of hunger had not been recognized. Taxpayers are tired of putting up relief money,

it Trenton hesitated to levy taxes or make appropriations for the state's share of relief. Some da;s ago it adjourned, leaving the relief cupboard bare. So the destitute began to straggle in immediately in a demonstration of protest and appeal They took the Assembly chamber for their dormitory and sent their voice echoing through its spaces in noisy burlesque of legislative inaction. And they say unless something is done "thfere’ll be trouble.” Relief often has been wasteful and hard to justify. But Trenton is a challenge to all those who have been wanting to cut off relief and get back to the good old ways of 1932. Reorganize relief—yes, and put it on a more efficient, economical basis if it can be done. But relief Itself is here to stay for a long time and the problem has to be met whether we like it or not. MUSIC SPECTACLE COLOSSAL! The biggest thing of its kind ever attempted! Such superlatives usually are reserved for sports events, circuses, conventions and such. This time they apply to the spectacle of a 125 grand piano ensemble which will feature the opening of Music Week observance at Butler Fieldhouse Sunday. A total of 825 pianists will appear on the program in various groups. With the big fieldhouse floor as a stage, 225 pianists will play together on And because nothing of this kind ever has been done before on such a scale, hundreds if music-lovers are coming to the city by special train to see and hear it. The ensemble will not be solely a colorful spectacle. It should stimulate interest of children in piano study. It will be good training in ensemble work. Proceeds will go to the scholarship and student loan funds of. Sigma Alpha lota, national professional music sorority, sponsor of the program. BUM A S a prr'ude to Music Week, the Indiana Federatlon of Music Clubs this week gave further evidence of Indiana's interest in music at its annual state convention here. Commenting on the excellence of one phase of this program, James Thrasher, music editor of The Times, says: “After hearing the two sessions devoted to Hoosier composer, at the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs convention, one was impressed by the enthusiastic enterprise, as well as talent, that the music disclosed.” BOOTS VS. NAME TT takes more than a broad-brimmed hat, cowboy A boots and two six-guns to keep a man named Percival from being called “sissy.” For Rep. Percy Lee Gassaway (D„ Okla.) has all of these things, together with a reputation as a fighter, yet he has just been dubbed “sissy” in the public prints. Rep. Gassaway announced that Seminole, Okla., would get no postofftce from him after he learned that Mayor J. N, Harber was going to seek his seat in the House. Later he relented and said the postoffice would be built. Whereupon a reporter for The Seminole Producer asked George Killingsworth, among others, what he thought about it. George said: “Yes, I’m glad to get the postofflee, but that won’t change my mind about Percy. I think he is a sissy.” “SIMPLIFYING” TAXATION—III "TF the undistributed net income is a percentage of A the adjusted net income which is more than 20 and less than 30 (and such percentage is not shown in the foregoing table) the tax shall be a percentage of the adjusted net income equal to the sum of 3.5, plus four-tenths of the amount by which the percentage which the undistributed net income is of the adjusted net income exceeds 20.” (From the new Federal tax bill.) A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson r I ''HERE is a tendency among older people to berate youngsters for their fault-finding. A veteran columnist recently made some stern remarks about whining adolescents, reminding us that the legend of the Good Old Days was merely a fable and that all men and women of the past generation worked hard for success. In a manner of speaking, this- is true. But it is quite as stupid to insist that opportunty beckons all worthy girls and boys today as it is for the boys and girls to argue there is no such critter. We do live in a different world from that of yesterday. Steady application, dogged determination and arduous labor still are needed to get ahead, but they are not nearly so dependable as they used to be. Mr. Rockefeller, we are told, slaved in his youth for a pittance. Yet slaving for a pittance in an age of expansion is not the same thing as slaving for a pittance in an age of machinery. It can not be denied that millions of men, as frugal and industrious as ever Mr. Rockefeller was, face a grim truth he never encountered. They know they probably will always be slaving for a pittance, and thisknowledge can take the starch out of the most am. bitious person. Moreover, if Mr. Rockefeller were young today he might become a rich man, by good luck aided by his acquisitive instincts, but he could never, by any chance, be the oil king of the world. The reason is simple. He thrived in an era of rugged individualism when physical frontiers were many; we live in an age of corporations when physical frontiers are few. Over-populated countries have not the same opportunities for young people that pioneer countries offer. Today no mao can separate his fortune from the fortune of his neighbor. Society must rise as a whole or the individual can be assured of no permanent well teeing. we had something the young of this generation do not have—a sense of security and a sure knowledge that the man who was willing to work always could eat. HEARD IN CONGRESS O EP. TREADWAY (R., Mass.); The Secretary of the Treasury was conspicuous by his absence (from House tax hearings). He became suddenly ill just before the hearings opened and, by recuperating at a fashionable Southern resort, was able to return to the city, quite by coincidence, just as the hearings closed. It will be interesting to find out whether he will appear before the Finance Committee in the other body. Possibly he will have a relapse about the time they start their hearings. Humph! (Laughter and applause.) • mm SENATOR DICKINSON (R.. Ia.): A manufacturer er, so the story goes, claimed that he was packing a 50-50 product of horse meat and rabbit. When asked what he meant by “50-80,” he explained that he ground up one horse and one rabbit. • mm 1} EP. HOLLISTER (R., O.): You can drive a

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Our Town By ANTCN SCHERREt.

T\R. HORACE R. ALLEN is known the world over as “Frank.” Even the telephone people recognize the fact, for they take care of it in a parenthetical note in their directory. It’s about the only human touch in their whole book. Doc’s alias is almost as old as he is. At any rate, Doc was only 3 years old when his father realized the mistake at the baptism and took steps to rectify it. The baptismal name didn’t seem to fit the frankest boy ever born in Indianapolis, said Doc’s father. Anyway, that’s the legend. • mm A FTER that, Doc’s life shapes itself into two big and equal parts, namely: The period he spent in school and the period he spent out of school. Doc went through Yale, Harvard and Columbia, not counting such trivia as prep schools, and is today, perhaps, the best exhibit we have of what American education can do to an Indianapoiis boy away from home. Doc carries the scars of a dozen degrees to show what he's been through. In his day, Doc was the Strong Man of Harvard. As such, he could tear the big Boston directory into tiny bits in 48 seconds, a pack of playing bards In 14 seconds. It would be asking too much of Doc to do the same thing now* because the Boston directory is a lot bigger now than it was then but he still does the card trick. Maybe you don’t realize it but a deck of cards just stands still.

THAT'S nothing, however. Doc can do anything anybody else has done and then some. In his spare time he paints pictures, whittles wood, models in clay and composes abstruse dissertations on the fourth dimension which don't always agree with Einstein. Doc says they don’t have to. Besides all this, Doc runs a shop where he fixes up broken necks and fallen arches that come to his door. We probably forgot to tell you that Doc is also Interested in orthopedics. That is why he went to Columbia. Doc’s house is crowded with examples' of his creative genius. He sleeps in a swinging bed which is suspended from the ceiling and he bathes in a room decorated with murals of flying fishes and mermaids or, at least, what Doc thinks mermaids should look like. Doc’s bed is a museum piece and a triumph of his own wood carving. It is literally covered with carved elephants, camels and monkeys, of saints and sinners all moving in a general but undetermined direction. Doc calls it “The Sense of Civilization.” Doc didn’t have anything but ? jack-knife to do it with. What’s more, everything he does is done on a diet of buttermilk and grapefruit. • MM T'VOC is very fond of animals and loves to participate in their pains and pleasures. In his Columbia days he was the most frequent visitor the Central Park Zoo ever had and it got so finally that the keepers depended on Doc for advice. Doc kept a telephone near his bed just for that purpose but don’t get the idea that Doc is that kind of a doctor. One night we like to recall, Doc was called to the Zoo to extract a thorn from the left foot of his pet elephant. It was a very simple operation, says Doc, and it wouldn’t be worth mentioning except for what happened 40 years later when a circus came to Indianapolis. Doc goes to every circus. He e* . afford to because he never p- more than 50 cents for a seat. • MM 'fTTELL, on the night we’re tell- * ing about, Doc was in his 50-cent seat in time to see the start of the grand entrance parade. When the herd of elephants came to Doc’s section, one of the beasts started trumpeting and before anybody knew wliat the excitement was about a monstrous trunk shot out, picked up Doc and carried him to the reserved seat section. Doc says the elephant had a little scar on his left foot which he judges was about 40 years old.

TODAY’S SCIENCE —BY SCIENCE SERVICE -

T?EW examples in science better | * indicate how chemistry can j | turn a one-time waste product into; a valuable commodity than do the j new super gasolines developed fori military aircraft. These fuels have! smoother performance than any, gasolines which the average automobile owner ever obtains for his ! motor car. At the recent Kansas City meet- | ing of the American Chemical Boi ciety, Dr. Gustav Egloff, petroleum chemist of Chicago, described the [ technical steps whereby these super I fuels for internal combustion engines can be produced from the | hitherto waste gases of petroleum j refineries. Particularly important to military aviation is the increased climbing ability of planes using these new fuels. A 20 per cent additional rate of eiimb is the average. And in combat work in naval and military air- j

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The Hoosier Forum 1 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, relioious controversies excluded. Hake vour letters short so all can have a chance. Limit them to 8.50 words or less. Your letter must he sinned, but names wilt be withheld on reaucst.l • MM NAZI’S LABOR FRONT FINDS DEFENDER By J. Joseph Lang In liberal labor circles, the abolition of labor unions in Germany and the substitution of the Labor Front is regarded as an act of oppression against the working classes. Attacks on the system of labor leaders, especially in our own country, are largely based upon ignorance of facts or fear that the example will be followed in other countries. What primarily led to the dissolution of the German labor unions was the fact that their leaders were many times found to be corrupt and that they were often secret and open allies of Communism. Under the present system, the workers enjoy precisely the same rights and protection as under their former unions, except that their rights and protection are jealously guarded under strict governmental supervision. Strikes are forbidden, but in place of them admirable working machinery for arbitration and adjustment of differences has been installed. This beneficial reform eliminates the hitherto coddling of labor leaders who so often exercised arbitrary and selfish power and authority. Likewise stubborn employers are forbidden the use of that dreaded weapon, the lockout. The theory of this vast Labor

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN THERE is no direct contact between a mother and her unborn baby by way either of the nerves or the blood. The nerves do not connect the mother to the baby. Even the nourishment the baby receives from its mother is not derived directly. Thousands of babies with birthmarks or defects have been born to mothers whose mentality has not the slightest sign of any disturbance. No more babies with birthmarks are born to mothers who have suffered mental upsets, than to mothers who have not sustained such setbacks. Another common superstition is that a baby born during the seventh month can live, while one delivered in the eighth month can not. On the contrary, the longer tLc prenatal perioc, the greater are the baby’s chances of living. Many strange beliefs are associated with determining whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. One holds that the girl’s heart beats more rapidly than 140 times a minute, and that the boy’s heartbeat is slower. It is true that large babies usually have slower rates than small ones, and boys generally are slightly larger than girls; but there is not enough difference to make it pos-

Inclose a S-eent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or in' formation to Thu Indianapolis Time* Washinrton Service Bureau, i|3 llthst N. W.. Washington. D. C. Loral and madieal adriee can net bo riven, nor can extendod research bo undertaken. Q—How tall is Lawrence Tibbeti? A—Six feet one inch. Q—Who is President of Fiance; when was he elected; and for what term? A—Albert Franfcois Lebrun was elected President of Francs May 10, 1D32, for a term of seven years. Q—ls it true that a dog was carried over Niagara Falls some years ago and was rescued uninjured in the river below the Falls? A—A large police dog went over Niagara Falls on f le American ride on July 2, 1931, and emerged uninjured. The animal had slipped

Front (30 million members) is that capital and labor are absolutely dependent upon one another and to serve the common interest of both classes, they must work together as a harmonious unit. Should capital attempt to usurp the just rights of labor, or vice versa, the might of the government guarantees justice. Can an honest man of either class ask for a more ideal arrangement? • MM THINKS MR. BEVERIDGE’S ARGUMENT ONE-SIDED By Gerald Wood?, Bedford In the Thursday, April 23, issue of The Indianapolis Times in the department “Why You Should Vote for Me,” Albert J. Beveridge Jr., Republican candidate for the nomination for Congressman of the Twelfth District, makes a. plea for votes which every one should read. His personal platform is exceedingly characteristic of the Republican campaign for 1936. He starts his article by being opposed to an Administration policy and then merely continues enumerating and being opposed to various Administration policies. Never once does he attempt to offer any plan to take the place of the things that he is opposed to. To briefly sum up Mr. Beveridge's and the Republican Party’s campaign, they say that they are against the Democrats and urgently desire to be returned to power.

Among other things Mr. Beveridge is opposed to the Democratic Administration because of the tremendous national debt it has forced upon the country. What

sible to determine which will be boys and which will be girls. The proportion of births of boys to girls runs about 105 to 100. • MM ANOTHER superstition has it that the sex of the baby depends on whether it comes from the glands on the right side of the mother or from those on her left side. This also has been shown to be without basis. Some persons think that the sex of the .baby can be indicated by the shape of the mother. There is no basis for this belief. Nor is there any basis .for the idea that the baby will be born with a loop of the cord around its neck if the mother frequently raises her arms above her head. Babies often are born with one or more loops of cord around the neck, but there is no common explanation for this phenomenon. Very rarely, indeed, does the occurence of a loop of the cord around the neck produce any trouble. Experienced doctors know when to look fpr this and how to take care of the condition. Finally, some people think that a baby always will be lucky or will have second sight, if it is born with a caul, or veil. Anybody who believes in second sight will believe anything.

Prospect ’ Park, and a policeman seeing he had no collar, tried to capture him. The chase led to the Falls, where he jumped into the river and was carried over the cataract. He landed in a whirlpool beyond the rocks and was rescued by a concession owner. He was claimed by his owner, Andrew Terogss. Q—How many marriages were solimnized in the U. S. in 1934? A—According to the American Journal of Sociology, there were 1,248,000. Q — What is the correct way to address a letter to Mary Pickford? A—Miss Mary Pickford, Beverly Hills, Cal. Q—Does the Dominion of Canada pay taxes to England; and does it help to support the British Navy? A-The Dominion pays no taxes

would Mr. Beveridge have done about the millions of unemployed and starving people? When Mr. Roosevelt took office in 1933 the local units of government and charitable organizations were bankrupt attempting to cope with this problem. If Mr. Roosevelt had not Inaugurated his relief and works program, Mr. Beveridge would not today be running for any office under the Constitution which he raves about and fears for. He is further opposed to the New Deal because there have been a great many Republicans replaced by Democrats in various departments of the government. And why shouldn’t this be so? If the Republicans by some unforeseen miracle should return to power this year just how many Democrats do you suppose they would keep on the jpbs they now hold? If Mr. geveridge will just open his eyes and look around he will see that this country is returning to prosperity under the greatest leader and humanitarian it has known since the days of Woodrow Wilson, and the people will vote to retain this great leader in office next November. PREMONITION BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I see the pitfalls in the path of love; The hidden labyrinth, the secret knife. The rocks to chafe your young deifiant heart; The compromises and the ache of life. I see the trampled flower and the bloom Dragged in the dust of giving not your best. I see without a weapon to prevent. This knowledge is a cancer In my breast. DAILY THOUGHT His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.—Psalms 7:16. WICKEDNESS, when properly punished, is disgraceful only to the offender; unpunished, it is disgraceful to the whole community. —Charles Simmons.

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MAY 1, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PILE

EDITOR'S NOTE—Thl* r#rlni reporter (or The Tim** *ei whero bo pie tie*. ] when he eleaiet. in icsrtb es odd sterieo j • boot this and that. Guatemala city. May i.— Adolfo Fernandez has been , showing me around. Adolfo Is mA I a guide, but a new-found friend. H® ' is 19 and a fine boy. Adolfo runs a magazine stand in the hotel and he saw my name on the register. After it they had written “Washington, D. C. Periodista.” That means newspaper man. Adolfo came up to see me. For Adolfo has lived 15 of his 19 years in Washington. It is more home to him than his native Guatemala. His father was secretary at the legation there all that time. And just to polish off the coincidence, it turned out that Adolfo for a long time was a ’carrier for the Daily News, the Scripps-Howard paper in Washington. So Adolfo closed up his magazine stand and took me around. We musk have walked five miles. We rode on busses all over the town. • u u WE walked through the Plaza. and stopped in front of the National Palace on the other side. “Who's the president of Gautemala?” I asked Adolfo. “Jorge Übico,” he said. “And he's very popular. He has done a great deal for Guatemala. He has been ( president since 1929, and he’s been elected again until 1943. There aren't likely to be any revolutions while he's president. “See those paved streets? They weren't paved before Übico came in. Just old rough, muddy things. See these traffic cops in their neat j uniforms? Before we was presi- j dent thev were all barefooted.” We went out to the “Relief It's one of the main things in* Guatemala City. It's just like the relief maps made of clay that you see in museums, except this one is made of concrete, and it’s about half a block square, and it is outdoors, built right on the ground, with an iron fence around it. You climb on to a high platform and look down on it. It ‘.hows every peak and river and town in Guatemala. • • • WE went clear to the other end of town to the Archeological Museum. Here is the stuff they have dug out of the Mayan ruins in Guatemala. Huge, grotesque carvings on stone. All kinds of pottery, and jade work, and skulls, and old ' stone implements. We went outside of town a little way to anew ruin they started digging in a few weeks ago. But it was after 5. and they had closed, 1 and we didn't get to see it. We went to the market, and I’m sorry we went. We saw hundreds of women, Indian women, sitting on the pavement, with their baskets of merchandise around them. All . kinds of vegetables and fruits, wilt- 1 ing and decaying in the sun. And dirty children all around. It wasn’t appetizing. We saw one woman with a basket of live iguanas—they’re dragons or lizards, with bodies two feet long and tails equally long, and mean ey .s. They’re hideous. People eat them. These live ones were for sale —to eat. • MM WE walked around the business section, just two blocks away, and such a contrast you never saw. Downtown Guatamala is magnificent. The people on the streets were all in American clothes. Downtown, I saw no more than half a dozen Indians in native garb. In Mexico City you’d see hundreds The streets were smoothly paved. The sidewalks were narrow, but smooth and all blocked out in fancy designs. And the stores—they're a® modern as anything in the States. The streets are clean as a pin, and the stores are shining and spotless., I said to Adolfo: “This city is so , modern, it looks as though they had just wiped out all the old, and started from scratch, building it up again new.” And Adolfo said that’s exactly what happened. An earthquake destroyed the city in 1917. Hardly a building left standing. Thousands of people killed; nobody knows how many. And I didn't even remember about it. And I was sort of carried away with it all, and said I'd uke to live there awhile; but Adolfo says he likes Washington best and that he even thinka in English instead of in Spanish, and that as soon as he can J tie’s going back there and finish school.

By George Clark