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TUESDAY. MAY U. IIM. CLEANING THE SLATE r T~'HE capture of Thomas H. Robinson Jr. in Glendale, Cal., last night by Department of Justice agents cleans the slate of big-time criminals wanted by the Federal government. Charged with the kidnaping of Mrs. .Mice Speed Stoll. Louisville society woman, Oct. 10, 1934, Robinson eluded officers longer than most of the others who have been taken in the relentless roundup by J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal agents. Part of the $50,000 ransom, which was paid before Mrs. Stoll was released in an Indianapolis apartment, was found on Robinson. One after another, the so-called big shots of the underworld have collapsed before the drive of the Federal agents during the last 10 days: Alvin Karpis in No"’ Orleans, Harry Campbell in Toledo, William Mahan in San Francisco. And as in the arrests of these others, Robinson showed the traits of a cringing, hunted man rather than the supposed daring of a big shot when finally tracked down. CLUB CONVENTION fOMEN in recent years have shown an interest in current affairs as broad as that of men. Not content merely with knowing what men are doing in various fields, they have assumed leadership in many social and governmental reforms. We wonder if men have been as progressive in keeping up with what women are doing. The program of the annual convention of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs, opening here today, deserves the interest of all thinking citizens. An insight into the tempo of this movement is given by Mrs. John L. Whitehurst of Baltimore, Md. t department of education chairman of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and one of the leading convention speakers. She says: “The greatest contribution the club women of this country have to make during this chaotic transitional period is first to educate themselves as to the proposed changes for the economic and social reconstruction, and then to try to educate the vast number of citizens who have not had educational advantages. Also to create public sentiment for greater emphasis on the allied subjects of government and of public affairs in our schools.” * # m \ ND certainly it is an advanced view which Miss Willie A. Lawson, youth committee chairman of the General Federation, takes when she says: “Youth today is freer from superficialities and is accepting its responsibilities with the sanest and happiest philosophy of any generation that I have contacted.” Her subject here tonight is, “Youth Speaks.” Public forums on education, plans for pushing the merit system and talks on political parties, traffic safety and fingerprinting add further interest to the program—arranged by Mrs. Frederick G. Balz, state president, and other federation officers. One of the best things the convention docs is to bring together representatives of all federated clubs of the state. Many are from very small clubs in rural communities. To all members, and to these particularly, the convention offers a contact with outstanding women of the country and with what they are doing. Every club has a departmental tieup with these national projects.

VISIT THE HOSPITALS BECAUSE the spirit behind the modern hospital is that of Florence Nightingale, who pioneered in modern nursing and hospital methods, National Hospital Day is observed today on the anniversary of her birth. Indianapolis hospitals are holding open house. Gov. McNutt and Mayor Kern issued proclamations urging people to visit the institutions and learn what they are doing. The function of the modern hospital was well described in the invitation issued by the Indiana State Medical Association: “Without the equipment, the personnel and above all the spirit of research and progress that characterizes the hospital, our land still would be swept by pestilence and plague, for the hospital is the bulwark against epidemic and widespread disease as well as a haven for those whom the doctor can not serve adequately at home or in his office.” Visit the hospitals today and learn how welltrained doctors, nurses and other workers are protecting your health. RUBBER STAMP SPENDING TJ'OR three years now the Army and Navy have practically written their own tickets in the matter of military expenditures. With almost no opposition Congress has Just approved the spending of nearly a billion dollars for defense purposes in the fiscal year 1934. There always has been in Congress a strong militarist bloc which favored appropriating whatever sums the Army and Navy asked. But until aboift two years ago there was also a smaller but just as vigorous group of anti-militarists who challenged and helped to curb military spending. Why has this latter group lost in numbers, in vigor and in influence? There appear to be several contributing factors—the trend toward international chaos, marked by the rise of dictatorships and imperial ambitions abroad; the breakdown of the world’s peace machinery and the scrapping of armament limitation pacts; the growing fear that another world war is in the making and might break out any day in the Orient or Europe, and the determination that the United States prepare itself for any eventuality and last, though not least, the general public spending tempo, which seemingly has caused Congress to lose its sense of proportion when dealing with the taxpayers’ credit. For our own part, we believe in adequate defense. We believe that we should have an Army capable of becoming the nucleus of an efficient mobilization in an emergency. We believe that we should have a Navy strong enough to defend our shores and the shores of territorial dependencies. We do not undertake here to say that, under the circumstances, our military budgets are larger than they need to be. But we do not like to see a farce made of democ-

racy. And that Is what happens when any executive department, military or civil, draws a draft on the taxpayers and walks off with a congressional rubber stamp signature without adequate scrutiny and challenge. More resistance to spending of all kinds is needed in Congress. Especially that type of spending which tends to build up vested interests and fixed charges. It is the duty of Congress not only to challenge the necessity of vast military expenditures in a nation which is at peace with its relatively disarmed neighbors and separated by two oceans from the armed portion of the world, but also to make sure that American citizens are getting a dollar’s worth of defense for every tax dollar spent for that purpose. For instance, the light of public debate might well be shed upon the wisdom of what looks like an inefficient pork-barrel setup of 120 small Army posts scattered over the country, and 10 Army post-grad-uate schools in 10 different places. Also, Congress, justifying our own military expansion by pointing to the record-breaking rearmament of other powers, might very well give more thought than it apparently has to the effect which our activities have upon theirs. We know we will not use our military machine for offensive purposes. But the jingoists in other countries are not apt to take our word for it. F. D. R. AND THE TAX BILL “T SAY to you, ‘do something’; and when you have A done something, if it works, do it some more;' and if it does not work, do something else.” So said President Roosevelt at Baltimore. He was phrasing in different words that same fine philosophy which he expressed in his first month in office when he declared that he would be the first to acknowledge when an Administration policy failed to show the hoped-for results. Anew note that was indeed in high authority; a most human and reassuring one. We believe the President will apply that philosophy this week to the tax bill. It Is inconceivable that under the circumstances he will use his influence to push that measure through. On March 3 in a message to Congress he enunciated anew taxation principle, having to do with the assessment of corporate earnings. “Such a revision,” he said, “would effect great simplification of our tax procedure, in corporate accounting, and in the understanding of the whole subject by the citizens of the nation.” He stressed the interest of the small stockholder and of small business as important reasons for his proposal. Asa principle, the President’s statement was clear. nun nnHE matter went to the Ways and Means CommitA tee of the House, where under the Constitution all revenue measures must originate. Out of that committee came what probably will rank for all time as the most complex document ever issued in the name of law. And now, after extensive hearings before a public and beleaguered Senate Finance Committee seeking to understand and to clarify, we have not clarification, but confusion worse confounded. And we witness committeemen at first favorable to the principle the President expressed falling away in their support and joining in the almost universal condemnation. And out of all the maze, about the only thing certain is that the bill if written into the statutes would have the effect of exactly reversing the objectives expressed in the President’s original message. It would not simplify the tax procedure. It would not work in the interest of the small stockholder. It would not work in the interest of small business. We are convinced that a President who suffers neither from pride of authorship nor an omniscience complex will see just one thing to do and that is—“dc something else.” * PERSONAL SECURITY and state legislation for social security serves to emphasize the individual’s need for a program of personal security for himself and family. Social legislation is in no way intended to discourage or take the place of individual saving for the future. That this is true is shown by the latest figures on life insurance. With Indianapolis now observing Life Insurance Week, it is interesting to note that Hoosiers last year paid or invested more than $122,000,000 in premiums for all types of insurance protection. Last year 63,000,000 persons in the United States paid out $3,521,000,000 in life insurance premiums. This represented more than 7 per cent of the national income. Americans bought nearly $15,000,000,000 of new life insurance protection last year, exceeding the high point of 1929. More than one hundred billion dollars of life insurance now is in force. An index to the extent to which insurance is being used to provide individual security is that fact that out of $2,600,000,000 paid out by insurance companies in 1935, $1,700,000,000 was paid to living policyholders. These figures illustrate how saving for personal security is a major factor in national economic security.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson A GIRL at the Colorado Springs convention of the Y. W. C. A. set off a torpedo when she said her modern mothers have not sufficient knowledge to help their daughters cope with the problems of life. Some mothers are disturbed, others indifferent and still others plain mad. Current opinion holds that the young lady didn’t know what she was talking about. “If a mother,” said the woman behind the teapot, “teaches a girl to be honest, brave and fine she will be in a position to meet any problem. These young people seem to think their parents never had to lick life, although most of us had done it long before they were born.” Yet the woman behind the teapot has never licked life. Everything she possesses was handed her on a silver platter. Graduating from college in the late eighties, she lived at the home of her father, a rich man, until, at 22, she married an aggressive boy who was taken into the firm and is now a big merchant. Living in a lovely home, with an ample allowance for spending money and two children safely educated and married, her most strenuous exercise is “presiding at the tea table,” while a check written on her husband's bank account yearly is the extent of her social service. Would she know how to advise a daughter about the real facts of present-day economic, social or sex life? I am inclined to think not, especially if that daughter had to make her own living. For that woman, and there are many like her, exists in a padded cell—a cell of smugness, built for her by the labor of others. It is secure and comfortable; only the echoes of reality penetrate there. The girl at Colorado Springs was right. No generation can teach its children very much. Too wide a chasm separates them.

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Our Town By ANTON SCHERRER

THIS department is ready to report, but not comment, on the lady last week who removed her necklace before stepping on the scales in front of George Marott’s shoe shop. M tt tt THE movie people, always a bit confused when it comes to recording essentials, let us down again last week—this time in the “Great Ziegfeld.” There was the chance, for instance, of recording the time the great Sandow went out of his way at the Chicago Fair to meet Dr. Horace R. (Frank) Allen of Indianapolis. "Allen,” said the great Sandow, “I want to shake hands with the Strong Man of Harvard; maybe, I can learn something.” tt tt tt DR. CHARLES R. BIRD, over in the Hume-Mansur Building, says you don’t have to go to heathen countries for evidence of superstition. There’s plenty of it right here if you know where to look for it, says Doc. Doc once wrote a piece about it for a magazine and got the surprise of his life seeing it in print. He not only told about the superstitions but showed how they cut into the doctors’ business, and its made everybody feel sorry for the doctors ever since. Doc came right out and named his worst competitors, especially those he left behind in another Midwestern state where Doc practiced before he came here. There was old “Uncle” Asa Rauh, for instance. He was one of the worst. “Uncle” could cure erysipelas just by burning a handful of hickory sticks and charging the patient for it. And a Mr. Seaman could stop hemorrhages. He lived a good way out in the country and limited his practice to consultation. Never made any calls. The patient had to be brought to him on horseback and if it was a bad hemorrhage you can bet your sweet life he was Drought pretty fast, says Doc. When the patient arrived, Mr. Seaman had a look and the hemorrhage stopped. s tt tt tt SEAMAN didn’t know that ■*YA Dr. Bird knew that blood tends to clot in the pressure of air and that with loss of blood the vascular tension falls and nature stops the hornorrhage. See? And who, asks Doc, can’t remember the use of a bucket of water untler the bed to cure night sweats? Or the use of cobwebs to stop bleeding? Doc doesn’t approve of the cobwebs but he isn’t scared of the other superstitions. Most of them don’t do any harm, he says. Fact is, he believes many of them did some good in their day because “they had the effect of soothing a perturbed mind, thus saving a situation from helplessness.” Sounds pretty broad-minded for a doctor.

TODAY’S SCIENCE By Science Service—

BUSINESS conditions are improving and sunspots are on the increase. Thus once again, the correspondence between business activity and solar activity is brought into the limelight. Dr. Loring B. Andrews, executive secretary of the Harvard Observatory, calls attention to the fact that the last sunspot maximum occurred in 1928 when prosperity was at its height. After 1928 sunspots began to decline in number and the minimum was reached in 1933. After 1933 the spots began to increase again in number. Many economists believe that the depression hit bottom and the upward business swing began in 1933. It is perhaps worth remembeving in the light of all this that the present sunspot cycle is scheduled to reach its maximum in 1939. In this connection it may be recalled that some economists have predicted that the present upward swing would reach its peak about 1940. A few years ago Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, well-known American astronomer, made a comparison of the sunspot record for the last 50 years with the record of business activity for the same period as prepared by Col. Leonard P. Ayres. Dr. Stetson found that four of the five depressions which occurred in the period took jlace from one and one-half to two years after a sunspot minimum. The depression of 1922 was the exception, occurring four years after a sunspot minimum. Sir William Herschel, famous British astronomer of the early Nineteenth Century, made a similar study in which he found a correlation between sunspots and the price of wheat. MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE! BY F. F. M’DONALD Imagination’s flights intrigue— Dreams yield fascination sweet; Yet fancy’s bliss, while it soothes the soul. May blest reality defeat. So ever pray and strive and work— Make your cherished dreams come true; Lest Time’s swift wings in a world of fact, Beat down and slay the heart of you! DAILY THOUGHT Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word.—St. Luke 2:29. PACE is rarely denied to the peaceful.—Schiller.

The Hoosier Forum 1 disapprove of ivhat you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

ITimes readers are invited to expresi their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chmce. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names wilt be withheld on reaucst.) tt tt tt ANSWERS SUNDAY CIRCUS PROTEST By O. W. In answer to “A Mother” about the circus on Sunday. How much worse is a circus on Sunday than to go to church and then drive to Brown County or some other sightseeing place which is free? A lot of working people don’t have cars and wouldn’t go to church any way, so let eYery one be their own judge whether it is a circus or a ten-mile-an-hour Sunday driver doing free sight seeing. tt tt tt COMMENDS EDITORIAL ON SYPHILIS By Spokesman Hearty applause for The Indianapolis Times’ courageous editorial “A Major Menace,” of April 21. Such a straightforward presentation of facts on syphilis merits comment. This particular contribution to the mail bag is an expression of several persons strongly in favor of The Times continuing its stand. A novel trend in venereal disease publicity is revealed by several items appearing recently: Time magazine, January 27, 1936, issue carried an interesting account of the conference of the American Social Hygiene Association in January. The March bulletin of the Massachusetts Society for Social Hygiene lauded Time magazine and New York Times, as well as New York News for ably reporting the conference without mincing words. The March 23 issue of Time reported the New York News having found syphilis "alive with reader interest” which resulted in an edu-

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN 'T'HE baby’s mental development is especially significant, because the type of mind indicates the activities which the child may undertake. A child with a quick mind will be successful in doing things that require ability to think quickly. Frequently such children will be lean, because their activity bums up a great deal of energy. Some people are likely to call this type of child nervous, while actually its reactions are a part of its character. A child with a slow mind will be interested in activities that require concentration, but not .speed. There are still other children who seem to care little about learning and whose minds are definitely superficial in character. Parents should study the traits of their child and make the most of the kind of mind that it has. By the age of five months, some babies will resent interference with their activities. This is an indication that training is necessary.

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IneleM a 3-eent itarap fr reply when addressing any question tt fnet er information to The Indianapolis Tinea Washington Sorr'je Bureau, I#l3 13that. N. W.. Wa*!dngtea. D. C. Legal and medical adrieo can not ho given, ner •an extended research he undertaken. Q —What is the source of the quotation: “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”? A—They are the words of the defeated king in Shakespeare’s “Richard ni," Act V, Scene 4. Q —Where can I get information about tile service record of a Civil War veteran? A—Write to the Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D. C., stating the veteran's full

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cational campaign by that news organ. The April 6 issue of Time carried a story of the new Surgeon-General, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., highlighting his intention to “tackle the taboo” on publicizing the havoc of social disease and its treatment. Os special interest was The Indianapolis Times “A Major Menace” with its implication that a local editor joins the vital crusade. Anxiously we watch The Indianapolis Times. tt n HE DOESN’T AGREE WITH G. O. P. SPEAKER By G. J. B. This is addressed to Mrs. George B. Simmons, of Marshall, Mo. Don’t you find it pretty easy to call any one a “red” who does not agree with your ideas? I suppose, then, that I am a “red,” for I surely do not agree with your speech before the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. My family came to America in 1634. Since that time one or more of my direct line has been in every major war America has waged. I was in the Spanish-American and the World Wars, a captain of field artillery in the latter. Mrs. Simmons, I love my country and my home as much as you do yours. We always have been Republicans, my father having voted for Lincoln in 1860. The Roosevelt Administration has done nothing for me personally. In fact the small pension I had from the Spanish-Ameri-can War was taken away from me in that Administration. But Mrs. Simmons, I know, and every one else knows, who reads anything else than Republican “canned” propaganda, that America is at the crossroads. Would you have called Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams “reds” because they recognized a similar fact in 1775? No student of economics, whether he is conservative,

AT the end of the sixth month, the baby will sit for a moment without support for its back, reach for things that it wants, and pound on the furniture. When the baby gets old enough and strong enough to be playful, it needs even more attention than it did previously, During the seventh, eighth and ninth months, the baby is able to express its satisfaction in several ways, and becomes more interested in sounds, so that it enjoys bells and pounding. At the eighth month, the mother suddenly will discover that the baby will play peekaboo and can be taught io clap its hands. This usually creates a great sensation in the home, but not nearly so great as that which occurs during the ninth month when the baby suddenly starts to crawl or to sit up alone, when it learns to wave “bye-bye” and to tell its family, by the tone of its voice, that it is pleased or satisfied. A 10-month-old baby will recognize its own name, and, by the age of 1 year, other names as well.

name, the state lrom which he enlisted, and any other information that would hoip identify him. Q—About what quantity of denatured alcohol is used annually in the United Btates in the arts and Industry? A—About 100,000,000 gallons. Q —ls Gracie Allen blond or brunette? A—Brunette. Q —What is the unit of currency In Switzerland? A—The gold f-anc. Q—Would it be possible to use olive oil in an automobile crankcase? A—lt is not suitable lor steh use.

liberal or radical will deny that nothing short of the “Black Death” or a “World War” ever will solve the unemployment problem under the present political setup. Is it socialism or communism to recognize this fact and to take steps accordingly? The principle of the NRA (shortening hours for all labor) is correct. (Probably not as much could be said for its administration.) But what shall we do about the whole matter? I doubt if even you object much to what America already has socialized; viz., its schools, its postoffice system and its crime detection agencies. Then why should you be so bitter against socialized coal mines, electrical power and medicine? The Republican Party seemingly has no plan to take up this slack in unemployment, except the working of natural laws. In anew country where demand is equal to or greater afchan supply these laws will work, but they are not working today in modern nations. Why does Germany accept Hitler, Italy accept Mussolini and Russia accept Lenin? It is because personal liberty is not so important to the people of those countries as is enough food to keep their childen from starving. And, Mrs. Simmons, just as soon as the 10 millions unemployed with their 30 millions of dependents are taken off “relief” (if a substitute is not provided) and left to starve, the mild “regimentation” of the Roosevelt Administration will not be so important, either. The proper steps taken today may save us from the cataclysm of tomorrow. Today there is no important group advocating the abolition of property rights, religion, and the sanctity of the home; tomorrow if something permanent is not done to relieve that 40 millions on relief, some half-baked idea, with the possible abolition of all of those institutions we hold most dear, may be forced upon us. The Roosevelt Administration with all of its mistakes has not, like the ostrich, covered its head with sand at the approach of this world crisis. Heaven save us from the do-nothing policy of another Hoover.

SIDE GLANCES

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“/ think it would he nice if our mothers could come and stay with us long enough to really get to know each other ”

.MAY 12, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—Thl* wlaf reporter far Tha Time* gaaa whara he *•“*• when ha pleases, la seareh es *4d sterlss i Seat this mad that. Mexico city, May 12.— The American ‘ Ambassador jot wind of my being in town, and had his secretary call up. “You must have tea with the Ambassador and Mrs. Daniels tomorrow,” said the secretary. I said I was leaving early the next morning. But it appeared the Ambassador was wringing his hands and simply wouldn't live through it if I didn’t come to tea, so I aaid “Oh, all right, I’ll come.” I sat up late jotting down sentences I could use to open the conversation and get things started off smoothly, such as “Well, Mr. Ambassador, how do you like Mexico?” I also had one about “Which has the biggest kick. Mr. Ambassador, tequiia or habanera?” but I decided not to use that one. Anyway, the next afternoon I got a shoesljine, and at 10 minutes after 5 (just fashionably late, you know) I pulled up in front of the Embassy. man A FELLOW in uniform took my hat and looked at it a couple of times as if trying to make up his mind, and then gave me a check. I went up some steps into a big living room, with a fire going in the fireplace. I introduced myself to a tall, nicelooking man who seemed to be there for that purpose, and he took me over and introduced me to Mrs. Daniels, who was talking with a couple of lady friends. Mrs. Daniels caught the name right away, and asked if we liked Mexico, and I said sure, didn’t she. and she said oh she just loved Mexico. I kept wondering when these other people would leave so we could sit down and have our tea. Then the Ambassador came through the door. He shook hands and called me by name, and I said, “Well, Mr. Ambassador, how do you like . . .” but he was already going out ( the other door. I thought that before I got mad and left I’d just see what the Ambassador was in such a hurry about, so I followed him into the next room, and there, you can believe it or not, were at least a hundred people, all standing around holding tea cups and talking. *- ft n ft OH, so this is it, is it? So the Ambassador was just busting for me to have a little quiet tea with him, was he? Oh I see. Well, here I go, right out the door. But just as I was starting I saw a fellow named Lincoln that I had run on to in Cuernavaca, and stopped to talk with him a minute, and while we were talking a fellow in uniform handed me a cup of tea, with a napkin under the saucer, and another fellow came and gave me a French pastry, or something. Then a man and woman came up and Mr. Lincoln introduced them as Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman from Wisconsin, and Mr. Kaufman turned out to be “Uncle Ray,” who writes' the newspaper column for children. Then a girl from Wellesley came over and said she had come to Mexico to stay a year and was studying in the university and living with a Mexican family so she could learn Spanish better. tt tt AND then a young fellow with a camera over his shoulder came up and said he was a photographer and had worked in New York for 10 years but got fed up with it and took a boat to Mexico. He liked it so well he took the next boat back to New York and packed his stuff and got his wife and came back here to live. “See that little Spanish girl over there in the blue suit,” he said. “That’s my wife. She's scared to death among all these Americans.” I said she wasn’t scared any worse than I was. By that time I had drunk two cups of tea and it was a quarter after 6 and I went*over to say goodby to the Ambassador. He shook hands and said “Good-by. Mr. Pyle,” and started to turn away. But I thought, oh no you don’t, so I held onto his hand and said "I think you’re a good friend of my boss, aren’t you?” and he said “Who’s that?” So I told him and he said he certainly was, and what a fine man the boss was, and be sure and tell him hello for me. On the way out I said to Mrs. Daniels, “Don’t these things almost drive you nuts?” and she said, “No, we love them.”

By George Clark