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THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936.

7 YEABS OF TEACHING

an unusual “story behind the story” in ppc ntment of ne<t year's teaching perIndianapolis public: schools,

1s the story of 12 veteran teachers who have .

total of 417 years of teaching service to the polis schools and who, having reached the limit, are retiring. These veterans also gave years of teaching service outside of the school Their average tenure with the Indianapolis 1 f bout 35 years each. ntendent Paul C. Stetson read this “honor of retiring Veterans to the School Board the night: = 3 Florence H. Fitch, director of art, 33 years

Le Dunn, principal of School 52, 42 years. 8 Maty. K. Brigham, School 72, eighth grade,

a Love, Shortridge. righ School, English

Geneviers Weems, home économics teacher,

Minnie Dodson, grades, 35 years.

School 33, - seventh and

Clara Fischer, School 2, seventh and eighth

Mgry Macardl, principal of School 50, 30

Margaret Whitford, School 41, seventh and ~ grades, 33 years. ~ Maude’ ‘Moudy, princigel of School 75, 32

s. Hise, Manual Training High School, drafter, 26 years. etirement of these veterans will cause s of citizens, including many of the city’s prominent, to recall some school-day incident ‘remember the early training these teachers m. We believe we express the sentiment of tire community when we commend these teachtheir long and useful service in the schools.

"A TIME FOR EXTRA CARE ANDS of automobiles will be streaming Indianapolis during the next two days, ng the Speedway crowds. Highways will be . and streets congested with traffic. So

Indianapolis is preparing a welcome for these

“caution and safe driving should be a keyhe plans. Motorists sometimes have found : for ‘the 500-mile race isemore Yun vie event they came to see.

WHAT'S IN A NAME? line Democrats, who claim a monopoly on Jeffersonian’ principles, have long insisted that ent Roosevelt is not a Democrat. : ough many Republican rank-and-filers voted Roosevelt, Republican leaders have declared

that the Grand Old Party claims no'kinship {

7 politics. At times they have sympa-so-called orthodox Democrats by

Oc alist national convention in Cleverman Thomas, Socialist presidential candi- : Eeayest, Socialist national chairman, and Hoan, Socialist Mayor- of Milwaukee,

= a vigorous denunciation of Mr. ‘Roosevelt |

Mr. Roosevelt stands for. ‘vote ‘for Roosevelt,” said Mayor Hoan, “is. . . it for him to go ahead: with his various extrying to put ther capitalists out of the

Roosevelt is not a Democrat, not a Repot a Socialist, then he must be just unlabeled American. And he'll probably. X ‘November with nobody: except Amerg for “him. HER MAJESTY and fitting that the sea-going Britons be thrilling with every pulse-beat of the their ‘great Queen Mary as she plows c toward New York. a noble vessel, “as sweet as English alr os her” Of course, she's’ not quite the g afloat, but she almost is. France's is a bit longer and broader of beam, but

Mary is taller and, the Britons hope, nd she boasts of three churches, a res:

- an acre and a half, swimming |

as ‘well as cabin passengers, fire‘no end of other innovations. at our own country, land of skyscrap- | other gargantuan creations, should g- with France and England dn big

‘tax was mere futility When ‘tax values were ex-

hausted.” This act came as a godsend to debt-ridden localities, Under it, with approval of 51 per cent

of their. security holders, they could submit debt-

adjustment ‘plans to Federal District Courts; upon approval of the court after hearings, the adjustment plan would | become effective when approved by 73 per cent” of the ‘security holders. Far states wanted this act, and no plan could have been approved without the state’s consent. To hold that this act's “purpose must be thwarted by the courts because of a supposed affront to the dignity of a state, though the state disclaims the affront and is doing all it can to keep the law alive, is to make dignity a doubtful blessing,” said the minority.

~The new act’s benefits were more indirect than

direct. Pending before the Federal Courts were petitions from only 84 taxing districts, of which 23 were incorporated cities and towns, a small proportion of the debt-afflicted units. But because of the ‘act's

‘very presence on the books many other localities

were reaching settlements satisfactory to both taxpayers and debtors. " The high court's decision will doy the return of solvency [to many localities that over-borrowed and over-built in the carefree Harding-Coolidge era. And it will pile more burdens on the Federal government’s. back because of the fiscal weakness of these communities. Possibly some less adequate’ legislation can be substituted by Congress, looking toward Federal regulation of bondholders’ committees. Legalism again has delayed recovery.

WHO’S POLITICKING NOW?

ESTERDAY we observed that Republican National Committeeman Curtis, having come forward with specific charges of politics in relief with names and dates and places, was entitled to Specific answers .from the WPA administrator. ~~ Now that Harry Hopkins has replied, with names and dates. and places, labeling each specific charge as a specific lie, giving his own version of exactly what happened in each instance, it would seem that Mr. Curtis and the Republican National ‘Committee shouid produce piootmif any.

NEEDED—A BUILDING BOOM

ONSTRUCTION and real estate activities in Ine dianapolis are reported running 50 per cent ahead of 1935. Eighty-thtee building permits for residences totaling $507,150 were issued during the last four months. Realtors, observing Real Estate Week, foresee a marked upswing in home construction in Indiana. : Federal: Housing Administration officials in Washington, scanning similar signs elsewhere, see danger of a shortage of skilled building mechanics. This would be news if true. We fear it comes under the head of wishful thinking.

Normally, 1,500,000 men depend directly on the building industry; 5,000,000 indirectly. Fully 50 per cent of these are unemployed, in spite of a 15 per cent general improvement in recent months. A continued increase of building activity here and in other localities would help absorb these jobless skilled workmen.

But far from discouraging action by Congress this new housing activity should spur passage of the Wagner-Ellenbogen slum-abatement bill this session. A real home building boom is needed, not only for housing the middle-bracket and well-to-do famlies, but even more for the low-income groups. Private capital and FHA can finance the families with Incomes. of $2500 a year and upward. It is the 71

per cent of our families who get less than $2500 that

the government must help to get decent homes.

The Wagner-Ellenbogen program does not compete with private capital. It supplements it. Together private capital and government. anti-slum subsidies can rehouse the home-hungry in dwellings worthy and. fit. for. ambitious and- self-respecting Americans. The cities, with government credit and grants, should quit subsidizing crime, disease, delinquency and other evils that grow in slums and begin subsidizing decent living conditions. Congress should pass the Wagner-Ellenbogen bill this session.

WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

T= little is heard of -the work of Community Fund agencies from one fund-raising campaign to the next. The following report on what your Community Fund dollars have been doing during

. the last six months in some of these agencies there-

fore is interesting. Your money— Gave 8933 days’ care to babies and. 4383 dave’ care to their mothers. Gave 13,137 days’ care to children in nurseries; took care of 1117 neglected and homeless children. Made possible 33,527 visits for nursing and medical care to the sick. : Gave 22,982 days’ care to aged men and women. Took care of 2442 families in need of help. %e Gave 93,516 meals to the homeless; provided 32,216 lodgings. : . Day by day, these and other services are A Possible by the fund contributions.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson F all things! John Erskine, the author, goes out ~~ to Oklahoma and finds a housewife who doesn’t belong to a woman's club, It is said he intends to . write her up in his next book as an oddity. To Mr. Erskine, women are divided into two groups—those who join clubs and remain stupid, and those who are intelligent and stay out of them altogether. No one will deny that it takes a high grade mental resistence to withstand organization salesmanship. One must have some special occupation outside office or household routine to give a fillip to

life.

The housewife who lacks such a hobby needs

‘the whiplash of club interest to take her out of fa-

miliar ruts, since it is generally acknowledged that ‘the woman who only looks after her family does ! very badly indeed. Four walls can restrict our mental as well as cur physical adventurings, and the ‘husband and children of our dear little homebodies _generally lead sad lives. Mamma so often takes “care of them the way the jailer takes care of his ‘charges—with an inflexible severity. : Women who belong to clubs are in the main _pleasanter to live with than the devotees who for-

| “ever are burning incense to their lares and penates.

“We must hasten, however, to qualify this statement with a big IF. That is, if they possess sufficient restraint to regard their organizations as leisure-time ‘occupations instead of sacred causes : .© Most of us, alas, do not do this. ' So long as organizations take up so such of .women's interest it seems to me a _ great mistake ‘never to have participated in them at all. It’s rather a8 if, living in the 1930's, one had never seen a ball

be i. OF i This much is obvious. Uns, |

‘being an invasion of states’ rights, the

"QOur Town

'S high time T was saying some-

ments in the-Block store because if I don’t everybody else will find it out first, There is a lot to tell, especially it you have the luck to have Vernon Kniptash take you around the way he did me. Mr. Kniptash is the superintendent representing the architects, Vonnegut, Bohn & Mueller, and what he doesn’t know about his job isn’t worth knowing. At any rate, he made everything plausible—

| even the sub-basement which runs

40 feet under ground. The fact of the matter is that you can't be with Mr. Kniptash five minutes without suspecting that the Block people have been up to something. And that’s probably what made my adventure so exciting because nothing tweaks my attention quite $0 much as the recurrent discovery that our department stores are always up to something. Well, it turns out that the Block people have not only been up to something but a lot besides which, for want of a better name, is euphemistically known as “modern architecture.” And it’s all very impressive once you sense its signifi-

cance. .

HE significance of modern architecture is something I've always wanted to discuss but never quite got to because of the many architects around. My only reason for tackling the subject today is the probability that architects don't read this column and because the subject needs clarifying without any interference on the part of architects. To sense the slgnificatics of modern architecture, or indeed that of the Block people, is to realize what the Machine Age has done to architecture as a whole. Up to the coming of the machine, architecture was definitely a sculptural art. It Js so no longer. At least, not like: it used to be. ‘Which doesn’t mean that architecture has suffered. Quite the contrary, for if signs count for anything it already appears that the machine has compensations of its own, éven if it is responsible for the loss of the craftsman’s touch. ” ” 8 ACHINES can not, of course, prociuce the craftsman’s touch. Instead, they express, perhaps better than ever before, the inherent and precise quality of materials—the grain of wood, the ductility of metal, the crystalline structure - of stone and marble. Certainly, the machine achieves surfaces never suspected before and

a viglin which has timbre added to its tone. . Even-‘the carving. when it occurs in modern architecture has the abstract quality of music and mathematics. And the remarkable thing is how readily it is understood by those very people who we always thought depended on literary values for their appreciation of ornament. The fact of the matter is the logic of modern architecture is much more a part of our makeup than any one is willing to admit. ”» » » : ‘ F COURSE, Mr. Kniptash didn’t rhapsodize ‘the way I do. He was more sensible and stayed with the basic facts—the facts, for instance, that the Block people used miles of “white bronze;” that the walls are lined with Loredo Chiero marble; that their” bases are Red Levanto; that the .granite is Norwegian Black; that the—but go see for yourself.

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Q=—I§ Lanny Ross married? .A—Yes, to Olive White.

Q—What capital and chief city,

founded in 1567, was almost destroyed by an earthquake in 1812? A—Caracas, Venezuela. Q—Can a person who has been legally naturalized in the United States deported for a crime committed after naturalization?

A—No. Q—How much did tHe United States pay for Alaska?

A—Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7,200,000.

water? ~ A~It appears from 0.03 A ob oy ia, per ton. |. Q—Does the word psychosis necessarily imply insanity? A—The word may be used to de-

the effect on architecture is that of,

Q—How much gold is Shere in sea

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. ‘ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE~This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that. Leming, ALLAS, May 28—A new profession has been born. It hasn’t- any official name yet, and as far as I can learn, there is only one man who started on the ground floor and has stuck with fit. The profession, if I may name it, is that of “Master Salesman of Expositions.” Its sole exponent to date is Paul Massman. He has been helping run world’s fairs, or expositions as we call them, for the last five years. He is the only executive vho has been with all three of the recent big expositions—Chicago, San Diego and Dallas. And he’s going on to New York for their 1940 blowout. Massman is in charge of the con=cessions and exhibits department . of the Texas Centennial. He is the

{ -| most harassed man on the grounds.

. | ? pi - | The Hoosier Forum "1 disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your vight to say it.—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short. so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will de withheld on -request.) 2 ® ® BALANCED BUDGET VITAL, JOHNSON, SAYS By Hugh 8. Johnson, Tulsa, Okla.

Before the depression, varying amounts Vbetween three and -eight billions of dollars were invested annually by the public, through the

New York Stock Exchange alone,

in starting new businesses or expanding old ones. That money made employment. :

The depression cut that off and partial recovery has not restored it. There can’t be normal re-employ-ment until it is restored. Billions available for investment are piling up. Investors are afraid to invest because the Federal government continues to spend without stint and seems to care nothing about a balanced budget. Almost everybody believes that it can’t continue to do that without monetary inflation and a new crash. As long as the Federal practice and that general belief continues,

new investment of several billions

a year is. unlikely. Unless there is such investment, the Federal government will have to spend two or three billions to prevent destitution. You can’t say ‘the answer is, “Balance the budget by cutting out vast spending,” because you can't let 20 per cent of our people starve and agricultural distress grow worse. You can’t say, “Go’ on spending

without stint,” because it prevents

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN NE of the essential factors involved in nursing a baby is to see that he is neither overfed nor underfed. Of the two, however, underfeeding is the more difficult, to correct.

+ One method is to stimulate the | breasts by means of a pump. An-

other is to improve the mother’s physical condition:' In that event, also, it may be advisable for the mother to be relieved of her child's care except for feeding. The child may be given some supplementary food. Niirsing, however, should be attempted regularly so as to give the breasts the stimulation that comes from the suckling of the baby. A baby that is getting too much milk will vomit, or regurgitate some of the food. Sometimes he will have colic. Usually, however, the overabundance of milk lessens after the first few days. If the milk remains in overabundant amounts, the milk that the baby takes may be reduced by shortening the time of nursing. The excess supply may be suitably disposed of

In a few cases, the baby may seem to be overfed due to the fact that there is too much fat in the milk. In this case, the doctor may direct the addition of water to the diet before nursing.

TI HERE are, however, few cases in which breast milk is unsuitable for digestion. If a mother gs been eating garlic, the milk

"| persuade confident reinvestment?”

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normal recovery and threatens an even worse condition. The vital question is: “Can we, by prudence and economy, sO manage the Federal finances as to relieve destitution, on the one hand, and on the other, at least point toward a balance between income and outgo with sufficient assurance to

It is entirely possible. But the

present policies of this Administra--

tion do not look in that direction. They seem to look toward continued unlimited spending. There doesn’t yet seem to be any clear policy at

all in the onbuRIiion

”

‘| NEW DEAL MEASURES HELD

NO BASIC CHANGE By H. L. 8S. Despite the barnstorming staged by certain conservative business and political gentlemen, there has been no fundamental change made in the operation of our economic structure. Everything that has been attempted by New Dealers has had as its primary purpose the saving of the present économic organization. No real change has been made that will stop the coming and going of the “business cycle.” Greater booms and deeper depressions are inevitable as the natural sequence of operating industry primarily’ in the interest of the producers. The only serious change made in softening the fall during depressions

has been the “socialism” introduced |

into the capitalistic structure, by which the government's resources have been used to bolster the false capital of private industry, through loans by the RFC, the HOLC, the FCA, plus the doles to industry through public works and doles to labor on relief work. There is only one way to operate capitalism successfully. That way is to let it adjust itself from its excesses in building false capital struc-

tures that can not be supported by |-

consumers. This adjustment is harsh because it means heavy losses to investors who thought they had sound investment savings, and the loss of jobs to workers who failed to provide their own security, depending upon the entreprenuer to see them thrpugh. The New Deal has only complicated capitalism by making it a privately owned but public treas-ury-supported pseudo capitalism. If we want capitalism let's take it straight, without making it socialistic capitalism. Of course it can not work at all without booms and dedressions, either straight or govern=-

1) ment treasury-supported, but if that is what we prefer we will have to pay the fiddler. We are not intel-

ligent enough to distribute the re-

sponsibility and the opportunity of producing our goods for social use. The Swedish have learned the middle way. But we are not Swedish. Hoover started the socialistic

_| capitalism supported by RFC.

3 2 8 » CONSIDERS CAPITALISM FOE OF WORKER By J. E. In answer to the capitalists of the nation who are crying that Fascism and Socialism are destroying our liberty— Capitalized dollars and monopolized industries have made slaves of the laboring class. They try to convince us that the present Administration is depriving us of liberty when the larger portion have not witnessed liberty in the last five years. The poor man’s liberty is the opportunity to work for a living. If Poe working class will ignore politics and vote for just what the capitalists ask them not to, they will get liberty to work and live. Roosevelt is bitter to the wealthy. They have classed him the enemy. So let’s vote for bread and butter. I believe it: will be sound politics in the November election.

REWARD BY MARY WARD All is fragile, Reverently touch— All is magical, Even Scaramouch!

Dreams you banish, If you grasp—. Love may vanish From an iron clasp.

Life here is fleeting— On your guard! Soft your greeting, Peace your reward!

DAILY THOUGHT

Now therefore ‘let it please Thee to bless the house of Thy servant, that it may be before Thee for ever: for Thou blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed forever—1 Chronicles xvii, 27.

RUE blessedness consisteth in a

good life and a happy death.—Solon.

SIDE GLANCES

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By George Clark

He takes more grief than anybody else. His office is a bedlam, and there is always a great pack of people waiting outside, and his phone rings constantly, and his visitors curse and yell and wave their arms at him. But he can take it. ” o ” z HE first part of Massman'’s job is to sell all the exhibit space, millions of square feet of it. Then after it's-sold, he has to act as czar over the building and arranging of the exhibits. He says it is a funny job. - It goes like this: A representative of some big national company comes in. You jump up and smile and turn on the old charm, and get out the cigars, and isn’t it a nice day, and how are all the folks, and I hope you've been well. You're selling him something, you see. But when-a concession man comes / in, you know he wants space, and you know he'll try to chisel you down on the price, so you just freeze up, and stare at him, and be very cold and formal about everything so he can’t get inside of you with his argument. It’s a funny business. Massman is in his thirties. He is tall and rather pale, and keeps in a good humor. He is both admired and pitied by the whole centennial staff, because they know his job is the worst headache. He didn’t get into expositions de= liberately. It just happened. He was graduated from Holy Cross in 1923. Then he went to work for a telephone book printing company. 8 ”» ”

HAT was all right, if it hadn’f . been for the depression. He--woke up one morning to find that... the printing company could get along just fine without him. There vay nothing to do then but play g0 He played on the public links out in Jackson Park, on Chicago's South Side. He struck up a golfing friend= ship’ with an Army officer. The Army man wis stationed at Fort Dearborn, which was going to play a part in the Chifago World's Fair, _ He asked Massman if he would like. . to come over there and go to work. _.. So he started in as a clerk. Thats was in August, 1931. He has been working for expositions ever since. He went up pretty fast. Before he left Chicago he was assistant to the. director. He worked with the Chicago Fair until October, 1934. By that time San Diego had offered him a job, so he quit and went out there, as assistant manager of concessions. Then Dallas heard about him. He came here in May, 1935, and plunged into the Texas Centennial, in full charge of exhibits and concessions, 2 =» »

T first he had to be on the road one week out of four, sell« ing space to the big companies, Then he came in, and started deals ing with small exhibitors and con= : cessionaires. I heard about him - three months ago down in Houston; heard what a hot-shot he .was af dealing with the concession boys. *- His work is about. done. now. All of his big space has been sold. All the little space, too, except a few

{holes here and there.

He says he likes this kind of work, because it keeps him keyed up and enthusiastic. He works day and night, never does anything but. work. Hardly has a chance to see his wife and baby girl, born last year in California. He says it’s an awful anticlimax when opening day comes. He says the minute they open the gates and the crowds flock in, he feels like slaying there.

Today’s Science BY DAVID DIETZ OR the creation of new chemical

compounds, including several new anesthetics, chaulmoogric oi} used in the treatment of leprosy, and other important substances, the,

| Willard Gibbs medal has been:

awarded to Prof. Roger ‘Adams. Dr. Adams, a descendant of the

. J: | Adams family so famous in. Ameri=2

can history, is head of the departes ment of chemistry at the University” of Illinois. The Willard Gibbs Medal”

The medal commemorates the} name of the world's greatest scien«z tists. Josiah Willard Gibbs was pro-= fessor of mathematical physics at$ Yale University from 1871 until hisg death in 1903. His name is not as? well known to the general public as.