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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1936.

RESPECT FOR AGE? REHG the new daily feature story on Indiana history on this page today we find Indiana has had “a law to suppress gaming” for the last 141 years. Apparently the age of a law does not Ttcossatily inspire respect for it. ‘

SAFETY ISLANDS

HE $50,000 suit against the city and the Indianapolis Railways, growing. out of: an. automobile collision with one df the steel-and-concrete safety islands, emphasized the problem of protecting pedestrians boarding street cars. Solutions attempted are as varied as traffic conditions and highway construction in’ various cities. Burton W. Marsh; director of safety and traffic engineering for the American Automobile Association, says there is a definite need for safety zones or protection of some kind for both pedestrians and motorists. The United States Bureau of Roads ap--proves several designs for safety islands for arterial highways within cities, but makes their placement mandatory only on. arteries financed with Federal funds. z . On streets where traffic is slow and well controlled, lines painted on the pavement are usually sufficient, because traffic officers are able to supervise the intersections. Louisville and some other cities report satisfactory use of iron posts set either directly -into the pavement or on slightly raised platforms of con- - crete and joined together, fence-like, with chains, : Yet these zones are a menace to motorists, especially if not properly lighted, as the solid posts offer no chance to prevent harm to the motorist or his car, 8 8 =» peor and Baltimore have given much attention to the problem of providing pedestrian protection without endangering motorists. Experiments with several types of zones showed accidenis were redyced by using a raised platform island with a parabolic abutment on each end. ; This type of end construction deflects an oncomfng vehicle without stopping it suddenly or wrecking it completely. The design has been further ime proved by setting flashing lights above the end abutments, by placing side lights near the base of the island and by painting the entire structure in vivid colors. Milwaukee safety officials claim complete elimination ‘of serious accidents to both motorists and pedestrians since safety islands were installed in that. city several years ago. The islands-there are six-inch raised concrete platforms with illuminated .flasher “bumps” or inverted steel-grilled dimples at either end. Police say the islands here, which are similar’ 0 the more approved types, have virtually eliminated the pedestrian. danger. There ‘have been several accidents this year, however, and there was one fatality last October, caused by motor vehicles striking the islands. One of the most important safety factors is the ability of motorists to see the islands seme. distance ahead. While the islands now are lighted by a bulb " sunk into the end abutment, it might be worth while to investigate the advantages of an overhead light which would flluminate the entire end structure.

DR. LINNAEUS N. HINES

HE death at Terre Haute of Dr. Linnaeus N. Hines deprives Indiana of one of the Middle West's most widely known educators. A former principal of Shortridge High School here, and one-time state superintendent of pubiié instruction, Dr. Hines during recent years was best known for his constructive leadership as president (from 1921 to 1934) of Indiana State Teachers Coilege at Terre Haute. He resigned the presidency two years ago because of illness, but 1 ed on the faculty as alumni adviser and director of student activities. Dr. Hines served as president of the American Hygiene Association, was active in peace movements and in the civic affairs of Terre Haute. The people of ‘Noblesville, Evansville. and Indian : apolis, who knew him as a school principal; the’

people of Union City, Hartford City and Crawfords- |

ille, who knew him as superintendent of ‘schools, and’ the people of this and other states who knew of his work in education, will regret to hear of his death.

SOMEBODY VS: SOMEBODY

A" old proverb in. politics is: “You ean. beat somebody with nobody.” ik In » poll conducted shortly Before the Republican convention, the American Institute of Public Opinion found that 55.8 per cent of the voters favored the re-election of President .Roosevelt over the whole field of possible Republican nominees. In a poll since Gov. Landon's nomination, the Institute finds that the percentage favoring Roosevelt

has dropped to 51.8, so proportioned among the states ||

as to indicate an actual electoral majority for the

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nomination but prior to Roosevelt's ‘ rence

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yearning for it.”

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ms HOW YOU TAKE IT

JA, SED 1. e would accep, ihe presidental sie, nation from his .OARP flock now meeting in Cleveland, Dr. Townsend said he would only oni the , indergianiing tha} bs ood resign the day after he et cxpliing, “Because I want | lives few years longer. That job is terrible. 1t

On the sam¢ day a President was showing the world how this terrible ‘job can be done. He was off to the North: Atlantic where; far from the madding crowd, he will sail, swim and fish from the chartered schooner Sewanna, accompanied only by his three. sons. For two weeks he will live a sailor's Jife, dressed In “the oldest clothes I've got” and free from all landlubber worries. The gift of play is a great boon, and this President has it. No President ever worked harder at his job, none has relaxed more completely when on vacation. He likes the soothing expanse of the ocean “where none intrudes,” and snug little harbors to tuck himself into for the night. He likes to swim and he: likes «to fish. : “A little work, a little play “To keep us going--and so good day.” That’s a good ryle for most of us. For & President who must do much more than a little work, Shsre must be at least a little play.

NOW IS THE TIME

T seems, according to reports from City Hall, that some past administration filled the Police and Fire Departments with Republicans, _ So—t{o even the score—the current class of candidates for these departments is composed of Dem"ocrats. The original selections were made by ‘the Mayor, approved by the Safety Board and then handed to the Merit Commission for examination, . The reason the political affiliations must be bal-’ anced, according to city officials, is that an old law requiring a bipartisan division of the jobs was not repealed by the 1935 act establishing. the merit plan of choosing personnel, It seems to us that if the bi-partisan clause meant so little in the past that a politically lop-sided personnel could be built up, the clause should not be - used now as an excuse for failure to establish a true merit system. Anyway, counting the present class, the Jobs are supposed to be about evenly divided between Demo=crats and Republicans. It would appear an ideal ‘ time to forget partisanship and begin making these appointments on the basis of merit alone.

MR. HAMILTON, AGAIN! EPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN HAMILTON today h blamed the Democratic Administration for the threatened food shortage aa s result of the drought” —says a dispatch from Chicago. : Again we desire to venture in with that same bit of cautionary advice which® we. proffered .to young Hamilton just the other day. Don’t be a Pletcher, Ia cyglone , hits, or an epidemic of summer flu

hoppers flourish, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be ‘broken: at the cistern— don’t try to put all the guilt on the Democrats. There is a limit to a public’s capacity to swallow, . and silence sometimes is as golden in politics as in other walks of life. You gave us a thrill, Mr. Hamilton, at Gieveand: you brought a note of freshness into the stale atmosphere of the old order. Don't let your environment get you. Don't’ “go native.” Don’t, as somebody said about a politician once, get afflicted with the hoof and mouth disease, so that ‘every time you open your mouth you Pe your foot in it.

HOMO AMERICANUS “HERE are about 40 million of us American males of voting age, and about 23 million of us live “in cities. Different as we are from each other we all have a fixed notion of what we would like to be. And that, whether he likes it or not, a presidential candidate must try to become. Out of our own nostalgia for the pastoral past \ and pride in the city civilization pf the present the . préss agents have created the ideal ‘American male, He is half-urban, half-rural; a sugcessful ‘business man in his fortunate forties with a yen for the plains and the trout stream; a tobacco ‘smoker,’ preferably of a curved pipe; a good ‘husband ane father;

~ has not pitied the bashful; solemn-eyed Hoover as he ‘stood. hip-deep in the Rapidan, peering over his - high’ collar at the cameraman? Or Cautious Cal as he sweated in store clothes pitching hay on his: Vermont farm? And now poor Alf ‘must take the stage retailored for the. campaign. We are glad they dda’ pick on. us 0 run for. President.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT : SBy Mrs. Walter Fotgusmmermsesecd,

Mi mis 4 we | then WORT Mn Wik hse

Often’ this role has proved a trying one. Who, ;

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Somehow, T remember best . the

smells ‘of Pinkpank’s second-hand}

book ‘shop. It was & heady smell like that of musk incorporating, as

[it were, the thousand flavors of the that yiined the

thousand books shelves,

“The smell . never was quite ‘the :

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od disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the. death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

same because the books never were

quite the same, Sometimes, the per-

fume of the French novels came to the top; sometimes, the poignant scent of the Russian books; sometimes the’ lavender memories of English stories. It depended altogether on the way Mr. Pkpank’s stock moved. . Sometimes by chance--pertiaps, by design, who knows—Mr, Pinkpank achieved what I always shall remember ‘as. the perfect bouquet of books. When “that happened, there was no.smell like it in town, unless, perchance, it was the smell in Mr. Engelbach’s second-hand

book shop. I PICKED the hottest day last Week to have a look at Lockefield, which, if you don’t remember, is the name of the Federal housing project in the northwest part of town op-~ posite the City Hospital. Among other things, I wanted to see what Merritt Harrison and Earl Russ, the architects, were up to, I knew, of course, that they had something pretty good up their sleeves, but you could have knocked me over when I discovered that it was a heliotropic house. A heliotropic house, as its piokogls cal origin indicates (which is ‘another thing I had to dig out for my-

self) is a house that reacts to the |

stimuli of light: In'other words; it’s

{ thriller, . | Home aS TunniE under the title,

their views in these columns. religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short. so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letier must be signed. but mames will be withheld on reouest.) & 8" SEES DOG LAW DIFFICULT ‘TO ‘ENFORCE x ; By Harold W. Brady ) The statement by Dr. ‘Hermsn G. Morgan on the proposed rabies inoclution ordinance is one with which all can agree since it points out the beautiful result that is aimed at by the ordinance.

‘pletely overlooks. ihe. ‘practical assome one suggest how we are

even more than a small percentage of them. The joker is that the pro-

“licensing ordinance. in ‘the .main are not giving us the| Sared | for by being Tenced and

a house so ‘designed and oriented gins

that it can be depended upon to trap | the magimym amount of light and air. That is iy the housdes in Lackfield don’t face the streets the ‘way | other houses do in Indianapolis. They're set at scientific angles like s0 many traps, watching like lookouts for whatever may turn up’ in the way of a southwest breeze. It looks pretty good in theory, and 1 don’t see why it shouldn't work in practice, providing, of course, that the ' southwest breeze everybody's

talking about isn’t gu other myth. Ask The Times

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QHow many in the electoral college? . A—Twenty-two, | Q—How does Rep. Kvale' of Minnesota- pronounce his name? _ A~"Qualley.’ Q—~When- was Armistice Day, Nor. 1, made a. holiday? 4 . A—~President Harding signed a resolution ‘making n a holiday on Nov. 4, 1921... : = Q—How- many. persons ister to the radio in’ the United. States and in the world? . = A—About 18,000,000 ‘Homes are equipped with radios in United

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many votes has Californin:

hich attack people "are not: lid, either. This is ‘proved by

rests weré made for harboring a vicious dog. In every single instance the charge is also’ made that the dog was not licensed. Another very pertinent thing is that only a small percentage of the dogs are licensed anyway. This is due to the tremendous practical problem of enforcing this law. It is all very well to smugly say: “It can be done. Let the police do it.” But the plain, simple common sense fact is that it ‘will not be done, either with or without our beautiful new ordinance. I am entirely in sympathy with

distressing thing. But I am con-

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Wan your child gets an infected ‘ear, call the doctor. That is the safest thing to do, when so tender a part of the head as the human ear is concerned. Even in the simple matter of cleaning the baby’s ears, you must be extremely careful, and you should know the proper technic to

It is safe enough to go. 3 further, and wash out accumulated and wax ,or other material that’ ‘may have Souten into the ear by aceident,

of parle: acid—{wo

, (Times readers are invited to evpress

By Sue Sue:

However, the good doctor : com~ pect- of ‘the problem. Please let |. to get all the dogs immunized a

posed law will be linked with the. In the first place, ‘Heensed dogs. day. trouble as they are already a

streets. Nine times ott of ten, on] its report of April 20,

the news items recently where ar-

the end desired, as dog biting is a

juse’ 50° as not to harm the baby.

For this pps. use a solution .

vinced that the only net result of this law would be to simply add an inoculation fee to the veterinarians to the $2 now required by the city for the many thousands of law-abid-ing people who! love dogs and ‘desire to own one. Dog biting from natural ‘causes, heat, ‘thirst; fright, teasing, . etc, will be. with us. again next summer, and péople will continue {o take the Pasteur treatment for PISEaUsionary reasons.

CITES AUTHORITIES OPPOSED TO DOG VACCINATION

M. Farrell, President, ion Investigation League .

‘»In your issue of June 25, under

the caption “Council to. Consider

Dog. Immutization,” it is said: “A

‘proposed measure to curb:the spread

of rabies by requiring that all dogs | in the city be immunized is to be

‘considered by the City Council, Ed-

ward : A. Raub, president, said to:

“The National Sportsman for

April and Hunting and. Fishing for Apri and May op posed the

“Standard ' measures Sich ns ime

‘pounding and’ proper disposal of

stray dogs, licensing and quarantine regulations vigorously enforced must be employed. We do not advocate promiscuous use of vaccine. Occasional reactions from thesuse of the vaccine have been observed.” “The board of animal industries of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and Lieut. Col. Kelser of Harvard are all opposed to the use of vaccine as a preventive.” (See letter. in the Saugus (Mass.) Herald, June 21, 1935.) In a booklet, published by National Sportsman by William A. Bruette, M. D. C. (former ‘assistant

to Dr. A. D. Melvin, chief of the

United States Bureau of Animal Ind dustry), it is said: e Department of Agriculture in 1925. made an. investigation of the vaccines then being widely dis-

‘| tributed as preventives of rabies. Its} report declared that these injections |

were useless as preventives and quite likely to become dangerous as distributors of the disease. In spite of the results of these authorized investigations, the campaign for the compulsory use of rabies vace

-cines 1s being carried on with ruth-

less disregard for the safety. of ihe

public, “The veterinarian who

disregards the reports of the government's:

pathologists, and testimony of “the bacteriologists, in this and].

d | other countries, of the dangers at‘tendant upon the use‘of rabies vac-

cines, is a menace | to the Som in which he : The quantity

has been injected into the dogs of this country will never be known, but. the increase of rabies has been coincident with the use of the oneshot vaccination and when the secretary of Agriculture ordered his investigation, it had already reached alarming proportions. The report published in 1925 and now a part of the public health records declared that the vaccines tested would not control the disease. It also declared that susceptible dogs were in danger of rabies infection, if given the preventive vaccine even in an attenuated fixed virus form, while in other cases increased susceptibility to the disease was indicated. we .® REPLIES TO FORUM ARTICLE By Harry J. Gasper hy Well, after reading Paul Masters article flaying the New Deal as being undemocratic, I'll bet ‘he either wears a brown derby or is not a Democrat at all He says Roosevelt's criticism is coming” from sound-th g ‘men of both parties: Let Al Smith, Ely and. a few other sound thinking

: | mén go take a walk, ‘with the Re-|. publican party. The New Deal can

more than balance that with" the good graces of such. men as Norris, Johnson, LaFollette, men who have ‘mad颒 ‘real records’ for ‘themselves and have put party politics after public welfare. . If putting men to work and raising our standard of living is un= democratic, then’ thank God for it. Every sound-thinking person should be out working for this man Roosevelt, not as a Democrat or Republican, but as a citizen who is interested in government for all the people. So lets Ee.

WHY 18 WEATHERMAN LIKE HOOVER? By Mary K. Rickett This relief being promised us by. the weatherman is somewhat reminiscent of the Jprosperity promised us for so long by Herbert Hoover —Jjust around the corner, eh what?

THE LET-DOWN BY IRENE GEIGER : I came and brought a gift to you— I thought your eyes said “Yes,” Brignt hope and trust within me

’

Desire, T must confess. .

~ I'he very kindness of your mien

Just warmed me to the core, My expectdtion was so keen— ‘Success was almost sure.

But now, I know sad failure’s sting 3

And ‘ disappointment’s blush, Within my. ears your harsh words

~Ting— 1 wil not buy a brush!” 2

sDotuthy Difuey i= by: way 9f ecoming Mary = Roberts Rinehart, er ih she doesn't think so. She's writing her sixth

Siria} HOW. Her fifth one, a real in’ - Woman's

“Mystery in Crockford.” She is the wife ‘of Milton MacKaye, the magazine writer) the mother: of Bill, 388 2. Yeuréold- Eo undoubtedly will be Governor o Oklahoma some day; the daughter of L..C. Disney, who ought to be r (except he's a : Republican); and the niece of Wesley Disney, the Congressman: -. The MacKayes fled to a Cone necticut farm five. years .ago, after some 10 years. among -the newspapers of Washington and New York. They're in their early thirties, and ey lead’ a happy helter-skelter e Writing is really just a diversion for ‘Dorothy. The old ‘man makes enough at his writing to keep sev= ‘eral wolves from the door.” ‘She really gets scared rigid some nights, she gets so carried away in her own plots. She lives right | through all these murder sitiiations, and sometimes MacKaye may come in and say something to her, and it'll be half a minute before she can Ie herself out of deep; weird world she is making up.

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o™ she gets sleepy while writing, and just flops down somewhere with the story still full in her mind. And then she starts dreaming about it. It's nothing at all for MacKaye to get up to ine vestigate a scream, and find Dorothy sitting straight up on a couch. The MacKayes’ 100-year-old farmhouse, back among the trees 100 miles from New York, does all it can to help the illusion, . Dorothy laid the scene for in Crockford” right in the old house, and that made it terrible. ‘She got 80 she could see things coming out from behind her own doors. She and her’ husband have “offices” in the house, where they work, - His is on the second floor, but hers is downstairs, and her desk is right by: ‘the’ window, and a mysterious masked fiend could reacn through the screen some dark night

|and cut’ her throat as easy as -pie.

Dorothy has loved mystery stories all her life. An aunt of hers was telling me one day how Dorothy used to come home from school in Muskogee, Okla... She’s be walking along réading. - She’d come to ‘a corner, but, she'd never stop reading. She'd just stop and feel arqund for the curb with ‘her ‘toe, and go clear across the street that way. - » ” ” T took Dorothy tvro years to write ‘the story that’s running now. But she just did it of: ‘hand, how and then, the way you'd ‘hook a rug when you had nothing else to do. She says she can do this next one m, vo months if she really gets at it Dorothy says that from all the figuring she has done on her fictional killings, she is convinced ° there is only one logical motive for murder, and that is money. None of us around the house here agreed with her (we said hate was the main: reason), but then we're not ‘potential murderers like her. The hardest thing for her to learn to write was about fights. She just didn’t know what men did in a fight, and hence she couldn't desufibe one. So she put billows on the floor, . and told her hired girl to knock her down. ,The girl didn’t want to do it. But Dorothy commanded her; So the maid would sock her (sort of lightly, I imagine), and Dorothy would gpa] on: the pillows, and remember just how she fell, and ‘then jump up and write. it down.

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* INDIANA HISTORY

[Rianas first anti-gambling law was adopted by the judges and Governor of the Northwest Territory. on July 18, 1795. It was called “A law to Siippress Gaming” ang it obi ana contrac the geloing of