Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1937 — Page 11

Vagabond FROM INDIANA

ERNIE: PYLE

NEW YORK, April 7.—For nearly 10 years Rudy Vallee has been one of the top numbers in the entertainment world. And today he is still right up there among the leaders. I went to one of his Thursday night broadcasts just to see how he works! Vallee doesn’t pay much attention to the audience. Acknowledging applause, he makes a half-turn, and smiles a little. He is busy all i time. Even while he’s singing, one arm is continuously directing the orchestra, or bringing some per=former up into position. When others are before the microphone, Vallee talks with the control room via French telephone, to get re- . ports on tone and volume. Vallee is a terrific worker. For many years he put in 18. hours a day. He was able to do it through a naturally strong physique, and Mr. Pyle through taking excellent care of himself. He smokes, and will take a drink to be sociable, but that’s about all His program is still a full one. He and his orchestra do a lot of night-club openings, and out-of-town dances, and several weeks of vaudeville each year. Every Tuesday night he goes to Boston to lecture ‘to a class studying how to attain success in the entertainment world. Vallee is a smart businessman: His investments have turned out well. Certainly he is rich enough to : quit right now and never worry again about money. And that brings us to a question. Vallee is the only one who has ever really answered it for me. “What keeps you driving on,” I asked him, “when you've already achieved fame, and all the money you can use? I, for instance, would want to stop, and go sit by the side of the road. Or way back from the ‘road. Why do you go on?”

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ALLEE’'S answer took an hour, and was full of history and remembered incidents and psychologies. I don’t know whether I can faithfully summarize it or not. Success is Rudy Vallee’s life. is based on a sense of personal achievement. started out to be a success, and just being a success is probably the main force in his life. Not success for the purpose of basking in it, but success for the purpose of quenching his own thirst for doing and learning and achieving. Vallee worships Walter B. Pitkin. There's the tipoff to his character. Have a plan. Learn how to use your talents. Don’t float. Pitkin’s “The Secret of Achievement’ is Vallee’s| Bible. He has several hundred copies, and gives them away to friends. He gave one to me. Vallee says money isn’t his objective. Fame isn’t the whole thing either. Fame is, of course, one of the gauges by which he can measure accomplishment. But Vallee is pretty independent of his public; more so than most stars.

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PEasonal achievement is the main thing—putting your native talents to use, improving your abilities, learning, doing, succeeding—that'’s what Vallee’s life psychology is made of. When he takes a bow, he says, he isn't doing it for himself, but for the generations of talent behind . him, for the seeds of ability sown in him by his ancestors—bowing for his heredity, and his early environment, and the training that allowed him to put his talent to use. Vallee loves .the entertainment business. Prominence in it has been his goal ever since he was a little boy. That's what he’s on earth for. That's why . he doesn’t stop. For| Vallee to go sit by ‘the side of the road would be for him to wither and die. And I imagine he would feel he was letting Dr. Pitkin down.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

ASHINGTON, Tue¢sday—We were only seven at dinner last night and in consequence had a really good discussion, centered primarily around the situation in.coal mining areas and possible electric power developments. I returned to my desk after dinner with the firm intention of getting a great deal of work done. I succeeded in paying my bills, balancing my check ‘books and writing thre: personal letters.. Then my son, James, came in, and though he said he was sleepy and going home at once, somehow or other the time slipped away and it was well after 11 when he left. It was a little before 1 when I finally stopped work with the realization that I was not going to finish in any case and might just as well go to bed. Up early this morning, and very much tempted, because the skies were clear and it felt deliciously warm and sunny, to forget there was work to do and to go on the bridle path. I restrained myself, however, and after the usual round of morning consultations, at about 11:30 I clesed my door and set myself 0 do some serious work. Even though closed doors may mean that no one may dare to come to talk to me, the telephone is "still active and I answered questions as to evening refreshments and various other little items of importance to the household. Suddenly I looked at my clock and it was 12:55 and I was due at the Senate Office Building for lunch with Mrs. Garner and the Senate ladies at 1 o’clock. To say that I hurried is putting it mildly, and I was only 10 minutes late. We had our usual very pleasant party and I think we are all looking forward to the picnic which the ladies of the Cabinet and I-give late in May. They demanded that I find something as interesting to read to them this year as the letter from Mrs. Alma Woods Johnson of Rogers, Ark. which was published in the Forum last August, and which I read to them before publication. After lunch, I went with a friend for albrief visit to the new Interior Department Building. The Secretary showed us his office and many points of interest. I think the decoration and color scheme is restrained and simple, enough color but not too much. It is pleasing and restful.

PUBLIC LIERARY PRESENTS— | HOSE who like tc believe that lands: of unexploited beauties yet remain will read with delight BEYOND THE RIVIERA, by Helena Maxwell (Scribner). They may also vish that this book might escape the notice of careless tippers who may see in it an invitation to invade Sou hern Provence. Persuade them, if one can, merely to read of the fruit, the wine, the lau jhter of "this land of the troubadours, of women gathiring jasmine flowers under the pale stars of dawn fo' the perfumers of Grasse. In the bare hill towns th: mistral shrieks down through steep and stony street. Dolmen fombs of prehistoric men, medieval towers :.nd ancient churches whisper of the past as they crumble slowly into dust. The clack of wooden shoes, the click of knitting needles, and the simple talk of the Prcvencal over wine and soup and snails present a contrast to the life of the present.

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OVING a land z1d thrilling to it so ardently

that she wished to meet an inhabitant who had forgotten to die, in ¢rder to hear the story in its entirety, should have enabled Mrs. Blair Niles to write a travel book of merit and magic. That is exactly what she has given us in PERUVIAN PAGEANT (Bobbs-Merrill). Ages are swept away and civilizations are brought to life, fluid with action and convincing in detail.

The Inca Empire is revived. With a selective and .

dramatic power reminiscent of Voltaire’s “Alzire,” Mrs. Niles recalls the days of the viceroys of Spain. To announce this book at any time would be an event, but it is particularly interesting now because it happens to appear simultaneously with the Maya exhibit at the Centra! Library. A reality is given to this literary “journey in time,” when we are Jprivileged the actual ’ hands.

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INDIANA’ S SYNDIC ALISM CASE Counsel for Paul Buiash Asks Court Uphold Right of Free Speech

(Editorial, Page 12)

Paul Butash, a magazine salesman, was convicted at Angola last summer under the 1919 Indiana criminal syndicalism law and

sentenced to one to five years.

American Civil Liberties Union

attorneys are conducting his appeal before the Indiana Supreme Court while Butash waits in prison. Because it is one of the important civil liberties cases in America today, the statement of the case and the conclusion contained in the Butash appeal brief

are given here.

BUTASH VS. INDIANA

“STATEMENT OF CASE” HIS was a criminal prosecution by the State of Indiana against Paul Butash, appellant here, in which he was charged by affidavit with violating Section 10-1302 of Burns’ Indiana Statutes 1933. Said section reads as

follows:

“It shall be unlawful for any person to advocate or incite, or to write with intent to forward such purpose, to print, publish, sell, or distribute any document, book, circular, paper, journal or other written or printed communica-

tion in or by which there is advocated or incited, the overthrow by force or violence, or by physical injury to personal property, or by the general cessation of industry, of the government of the United States, of the State of Indiana, or all government.’ (1919, p. 588, 2.)

“That any person or persons convicted of violating any section of this act shall be fined not more than $5000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.’ (1919, p. 588, 3.) “The appellant was found guilty by a jury, and judgment was entered upon the verdict, and the appellant was committed to the State Prison for a term not less than one year nor more than five (5) years, where he is now confined. n u ” "Tl appellant relies upon the errors specified in the assignment of errors attached to the record filed in this Court, to wit: The trial Court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the second amended affidayvit, because: “(a) The Statute under which the appellant was prosecuted is contrary to the Constitution of the State of Indiana, Sections 1, 3, 9 and 31 of Article I. “(b) It is contrary to the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. “(c) The affidavit is not indorsed by the Prosecuting Attorney -of Steuben County where it was filed and where the prosecution took place (Rec. 4-5), and hence the judgment is contrary to law. “The trial Court erred in overruling defendant’s motion at the close of the State’s evidence, and again at the close of all the evidence to instruct the jury to find the defendant not guilty, because the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict and judgment; “The trial Court erred in overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial;

“The trial Court erred in permitting the State to call the defendant as a witness, thus compelling him to testify against himself (Rec. 70).”

“CONCLUSION”

N conclusion, we urge upon this honorable*~Court the desirability of granting toleration and liberality to all kinds of beliefs and opinions and their free expression. After all, it is the radicals of history who are most admired and venerated. Voltaire is honored and esteemed for his declaration that he disagreed with the ideas and theories propounded by his correspondent, but that he would give his life for the right of his correspondent to utter those ideas and principles. “We pay homage to John Milton for writing that he esteemed and valued liberty of thought, opinion and conscience above all other liberties. It is commonly agreed that our Revolution of 1776 was successful largely hecause of the radical writings and utterances of’ Thomas Paine. . Qur own Benjamin Franklin said during the course of the Revolution of 1776, that ‘If we do not hang together, we will surely hang separately.’ Patrick Henry is revered for saying, ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’ ” ” ”

'R. CLARENCE S. DARROW, in his brief in the case of Ex rel. Williams, quoted in footnote on page 147 of Leon Whipple, Our Ancient Liberties, said: “‘Free governments and their statutes are not prostrated at a blow by the onslaught of tyranny. They ' are attacked insidiouvsly #* % % One right is taken away under one pretense and another destroyed under another pretense # % %* The forces of reaction and despotism are ever skulking along the line of Progress, ready for any occasion that may come that will warrant an attack in the name of the very principles under which humanity is marching.’ “It is a serious thing to suspend any of the fundamental . civil

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rights and liberties. The right to the writ of habeas corpus can lawfully be suspended only in time of war, The ancient civil liberties of freedom of thought, speech, press and assembly should not be suspended save in the gravest crisis and times of the most acute danger to the continued integrity of the State.

“Construing and applying the

~ statute as was done in the case at

bar, amounts to a suspension of the most precious of our ancient liberties anc the ones which are most essential to the happiness and well-beinz of the individual. No harm or detriment could possibly result to the community where the defendant uttered the thoughts and used the language for which he was prosecuted. The fact that he was convicted in Steuben County, indicates that that very community was in need of training in toleration and liberality of thought and expression. No good can possibly have resulted to that community from the conviction and imprisonment of the defendant: for the thoughts and words which he uttered.

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“HE spirit of toleration and . liberality towards the discussion of all kinds of political, social, economic, and other controversial matters, including the reform of

PROTECTION OF MEN HELD NEXT MOVE IN MINIMUM WAGE LAWS

By EDITORIAL RESEARCH : REPORTS OW that the legality of minimum wage legislation for women and minors which follows the pattern: of the law adopted in” the state of Washington has been _established beyond the peradventure of a constitutional doubt, the next nfgve unquestionably will be the attempted extension of this type of

protection to adult male workers.

President Roosevelt himself gave the cue recently when he made clear his desire that minimum legislation for both sexes be revived and passed by Congress, and be administered as a national undertaking. Herein lies another constitutional hurdle, for the Supreme Court thus far has conceded only the right of states te enact such protective statutes. Regardless of what may or may not be done in the future by the Federal Government, it is significant that inclusion of men in minimum wage legislation already has been proposed in two legislatures— New York and Texas. ‘The new Texas bill, not yet passed, includes both sexes without discrimination. Republicans in the New York State Senate attached to the Fischel minimum wage bill, now pending as a substitute for the Wald bill invalidated by the Supreme Court last year, an amendment extending its provisions to men. This amendment was opposed by the Senate Democrats, decision in the Washington state case, Republicans announeed willingness to withdraw it and support the Fischel bill as originally written. They did, however, “note with interest” the fact ‘that the President “has expressed the. view which we have urged for so long—that minimum wages should protect men as well as women.” There is no minimum industrial wage law in Indiana and none has been! attempted in recent years. There are, of course, minimum wage laws that apply to certain public employees, such as school teachers.

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INIMUM wage legislation for men involves many factors of controversy aside from the question of its constitutional validity. Since the inception of the minimum wage movement 25 years ago, trade unions themselves, relying = upon the strength of their own organizations, have opposed “government interference” in wage problems involving men. Prior to the depression, they al-

ways: said (in effect): “

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wages for womep, surely, but we can take care of mén.” Birth of the New Deal reversed that stand completely. Labor now welcomes governmental aid in wage problems, as in the Guffey Coal Bill, the NRA, etc. Prominent in this reversal of attitude has been the fact that actual experience with minimum wage legislation has disproved the argument that minimum wages would tend to become maximum wages. Conversely, the National Woman’s Party always has opposed minimum wages for women because men were not included. Their position has been that women are equal under the law, do not require special protective legislation, and that minimum wages for females are apt to lead to their discharge and the substitution of male workers. This organization still maintains its position with unabated vigor and undoubtedly the full weight of its considerable influence will be thrown behind any move to fix identical “bottoms” for male and female remuneration. In the recent session of the Indiana Legislature, Miss Bess Robbins, only feminine legislator, almost single-handedly defeated the bill which would have established maximum hours for women workers. | She contended that there should be no special legislation affecting the working hours of women, : > 2 ”n 2 LL persons interested in labor would like to see minimum wage legislation including all workers, regardless of sex, but there is a practical reason why they will proceed with caution. Namely, doubt as to whether both sexes may be legally covered. Miss Louise Stitt,

minimum wage ‘supervisor for the |

Labor Department’s Women’s Bureau, is to go to Texas soon, armed with certain advice regarding the minimum wage bill now pending there. She will urge that if men are to be included the bill be so phrased as to cover “women and/or men,” so that if part of the law subsequently is invalidated, enough will be left to protect women fully. A similar reasoning is behind. the present move to eliminate protection for men from the New York law. Nobody wants to jeopardize victories already won by asking too much, too quickly. There is, at present, no clear guide as to what the High Court would do with a minimum wage bill affecting men. Both the majority and minority opinions in the Washington case contained certain. Seats Bopeven which

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might be interpreted, perhaps tenuously, as indicating that no constitutional barrier to the inclusion of men exists in the minds of the justices. One argument against the now valid Washington State law was that it did not include men and therefore discriminated in favor of women. This the majority dismissed with these words: “The argument . . . is unavailing. This court, has frequently held that the legislative authority, acting within its proper field, is not bound to extend its regulation to all. cases which it might possibly reach. If the law ‘presumably hits the evil where it is most felt, it is not to be overthrown because there are other instances to which it might have been applied’.” The minority, on the other hand, made capital of the fact that the instant law “created an arbitrary discrimination” by restricting only “the right of women to make contracts as to wages,” asserting emphatically that “difference of sex affords no reasonable ground for making a restriction applicable to wage contracts of all working women, from which like contracts of all workingmen are left free.” Inclusion of men in present or subsequent legislation would, of course, remove this objection.

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As to the argument often advanced that “minimum wages

tend to be maximum wages,” the

weight of the evidence seems to show conclusively that it was and is specious. There is, indeed, a great mass of affirmative data tending to show that the existence . of minima operates in good times to raise wage scales all along the line, and in bad times, to prevent excessive shrinkages of earning power.

2 ” ” TATISTICAL information colcollected annually by the California Industrial Welfare Cormis-

sion established the first of these

points conclusively. Data from Massachusetts (which until 1934 had a nonmandatory

law) not only demonstrates that

“the minimum usually is a distinct. advance over previous rates,” but show striking evidence of actual pay rises all along the line. The experience of Oregon demonstrates definitely’ how minimum wages may maintain pay scales during times of business depression. Even during depression years, minimum wages of 22 to 27% cents hourly were guaranteed women in

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the very foundations of the government of this nation, is abroad in the land. The antipicketing ordinance of the City of Kokomo, Indiana, has been repealed (International Juridical Association Bulletin for July, 1936, page. 3). The antipicketing ordinance of the City of Terre Haute, Indiana, has been held unconstitutional by the Hon. John W. Gerdink of the Circuit Court, ef Vigo County, Indiana. (International ° Juridical Association Bulletin for January, 1937, page T4.) “A bill has been introduced |in the Legislature of the State of Illinois to repeal the Sedition Act under whi the defendants were

convicted in the case of People v.

Lloyd, 304 Til. 23. (Legislative Synopsis and Digest issued |by Legislative Reference Bureau of the State of Illinois, February 4, 1937, page 22.) “A bill has been passed by the lower house of the Legislature lof the State of Washington repealing the Sedition Law of that State. Bills have been introduced in the States of Oregoh, California and Pennsylvania to repeal the Sedition Laws of those states. The repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law of Idaho was defeated by only four (4) votes (Labor Defender, March, 1937, page 3).

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BILL to repeal the Sedition Act of the State of Indiana, under which the defendant in this case was prosecuted, was introduced in the Legislature of Indiana (Labor Defender, March, 1937, page | 3; Daily Worker, Feb. 186, 1937, page 5). | “We have referred, in the course

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ment, to a number of dissenting opinions. We are aware, of course, that the decisions in which these dissenting opinions were filed are not clear authorities in favor |of our position in the case at bar. We do contend, however, that, none of these decisions are inconsistent with our argument in this case. “In many of the cases, although the decision affirmed the conviction of the accused, nevertheless there is language, which we have referred to, which we believe indicates that the court rendering the decision would in all probability decide differently at the present time. “The dissenting opinions seem

John H. Kingsbury

to have a tone of toleration, liberality, reasonableness, and sound common sense, as well as progressiveness, which commend them to the judgment of an ordinary reasonable man, as being more in harmony with the spirit of the times.

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E urge this Court to adopt the ‘clear and present danger’ test, as expounded in the Schenck case, 249 U. S. 47, supra, and to apply this test in this case. If the Court does so, we feel confident that the Court will see that there existed no clear and present danger, such as justified the application of the statute to the defendant. Clearly no overt act was committed by the defendant, no overt act resulted from the expression. by him of his political, social and economic opinions. “His address or discussion contained no appeal to his listeners to engage in any overt act at the time nor any reasonably foreseeable time in the future, and his remarks had obviously no tendency to instigate any overt act against the Government of the United States or the State of Indiana, even indirectly or remotely. “We urge this Court to decide this case in the light of the opinion in the case of DeJonge v. Oregon, supra, which announces the view of all liberal-minded people that unlimited freedom of discussion of matters of vital interest to the citizens of this country should be permitted so long as they fall short of actual overt acts or incitement to actual overt acts immediately or within a period of time too short for free discussion to overcome the fallacies inherent in the language used by the speaker. 2 4 ” S additional grounds we again respectfully call the attention of this Court to the fatal defect in the affidavit upon which the defendant was prosecuted; and we also again call the attention of this Court to the grave, serious and prejudicial error committed by the trial Court in allowing the prosecuting attorney to call the defendant to the witness stand to testify against himself. Upon these grounds we submit that at the very least the judgment of the lower court should be reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. “We further respectfully submit that the statute under which this defendant was convicted should be held by this honorable Court to be in conflict with the letter and the spirit of the Constitution of the State of Indiana and of the Constitution of the United States, and

in conflict with the fundamental

political institutions of this nation, and the most advanced and approved opinions of the liberal minded peoplé of this country. Upon these grounds we urge that the judgment of guilty against the defendant be reversed. “Respectfully submitted, John H. Kingsbury of Indianapolis, Albert M. Block of Gary, attorneys for appellant. “David J. Bentall of Chicago, Hart E. Baker of Chicago, counsel for appellant.”

Flynn Outlines Stand of Defenders of Sit-Down

By JOHN T. FLYNN Times Special Writer.

EW YORK, April 7.—The sitdown strike threatens to split the Administration wider open than the Court issue. The more conservative groups among the President's supporters are inh, arms about the sitdown strike, first because they don't like it and second because they are incensed at labor for putting such an embarrassing baby on the step of their friends in the Administration. Those who defend the sit-down strike do it on one of two grounds. The first group admit that it is illegal—an illegal entry upon or possession of other people’s property. But they assert that labor as such, while it has many natural rights, has not had those rights given legal support. It has not legal rights. Property, on the other hand, has plenty of legal rights. Thus it is a one-sided situation. As labor is given no recognition by the law, they argue, it is justified in taking its protection into its own hands.

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HE other group of defenders insist that the sit-in strike is actually legal. The argument is ingenious and is spun of very tenuous threads. It runs thus: Today we do not have the old relationship between the individual employer and a small group of his workers. We have a vast industrial plant and that plant exists in relationship to two large sets of persons—the stockholders (owners) and the laborers, both of them great groups of persons. Ou « of this 8 SORdiilon a new situ

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ation has arisen called the industrial relation. And just as the stockholders have an interest in the property as owners, the workers have an interest in the same property as workers. ” n 2 HEN a strike starts the issue is not a legal one but an economic and social one. The place for it therefore is not the courts. The courts therefore should not undertake to adjudicate the issue but should leave it to some administrative agency of the Government. Therefore they are not justified in issuing injunctions against the sit-in strikers. If therefore the workers occupy the plant in good faith, not to seize or confiscate it, but merely to prevent employers from operating the plant pending settlement, they are doing no more than asserting a right which grows out of the industrial relation, It must be confessed that this last legal argument is pretty thinly drawn out. I can go along with the principle that the workers have rights growing out of this industrial relation and these rights ought to be recognized by the law. But it seems fairly clear that the law has not yet recognized them. The sensible course for the state and Federal Governments, therefore, is to pro-

vide laws recognizing the workers’|

right, not to sit down in the plant, but to enjoy genuine collective barg.

Qur Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

\XCEPT for Louis Goldsmith, I wouldn't

‘ be able to tell you that 7 5 per cent of the underwear worn by Indianapolis husbands is bought by their women folks. To be sure, most of it has to be exchanged, but Mr. Goldsmith has become reconciled to that, too. He says it’s bound to happen as long as women think they know more about the size of their husbands than he does.

Mr. Goldsmith doesn’t know why the women of Indianapolis should ‘feel that way about him, because if the truth were known, Mr. Goldsmith knows the number of every man around here. Keeps them right in the back of his head, he says. Mr. Goldsmith ought to know, because he’s been selling underwear for the Strauss people for the last 36 years. Which is equivalent to saying that he has handled everything from red flannels (sin- Myr. Scherrer gle and double breasted) to shorts, a euphemism ine vented by a planned society to indicate what we're going through now. Or, to put it still another way: Mr. Goldsmith knows everything about the private lives of Indiane apolis men, starting as far back as Benjamin Harrie son and including some as modern as Meredith Nicholson. 2 Mr. Harrison always insisted on having longe . | sleeved, heavy fleece-lined underwear, says Mr. Goldsmith. What's more, he insisted on long-legged drawers, too, whereas Mr. Nicholson, today, goes in for a broadcloth, short-sleeved union suit, size 46. It sets him back $2.50 a set. Mr. Goldsmith was hurt that Mr. Nicholson didn’t call on him the last time he was in town. He's over it now, because he’s got it figured out .that maybe... Mf. Nicholson was too busy to see everybody. All the same, Eddie Rickenbacker never fails to call on him when he’s in town. And Peter De Paolo, living way out in California, is perfectly content to have Mr, Goldsmith pick his underwear for him. Pete weais a 38 shirt and 32 drawers. ® " u

Ralston’s Bow-Tie

R. GOLDSMITH’S knowledge of Indianapolis men doesn’t stop with underwear, however. Sam Ralston, for instance, always came to Mr. Goldsmith and had him put a gusset in his black bow-tie. Seems that the manufacturers never had Mr. Ralston in mind when they designed neckties. Senator Kern, too, got all his things from Mr, Goldsmith, but strangely enough, Mr. Goldsmith never saw much of him. Mrs. Kern bought all her husband's” things—see? Mr. G. remembers that the Senator was very particular about his suspenders and always insisted (by way of his wife, of course) on having the two-inch wide ones with the heavy webbing. They were known as “Police and Firemen’s” brand at the time. Mr. Goldsmith says he’ll never forget the first time he waited on Tom Taggart. Mr. G. had never been introduced to Mr: T., and right off the bat, Mr. Taggart addressed him by name. Mr. Goldsmith guesses it was the politician in him.

z n 2 : Booth Tarkington ‘Perfect Buyer’

N many respects, however, Booth Tarkington is Mr. Goldsmith’s notion of a perfect buyer. Mr. Tarking= ton doesn’t look at anything he buys and never did.He just trusts Mr. Goldsmith. It’s worked out all right so far, because Mr. Goldsmith can’t remember that Mr. Tarkington ever returned anything. James Whitcomb Riley, too, always waited in line to have Mr. Goldsmith wait on him, especially when it came to buying detachable cuffs. Seems that Mr. Riley was awful finicky about the fit of his cuffs.

/ . A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HE indefatigable Walter Pitkin has written ane ’ other book around his favorite numerical formula, “Careers After Forty” (Whittlesley House), in which he makes some pertinent indictments of women. Beginning with the accusation that we have dis= qualified ourselves for careers by failing to remember that such high achievements are not the only hone orable modes of human activity but a special do= main .of endeavor calling for special people, he continues: | “Women who have grown up in the school of hard knocks have a fair chance at all careers for which they possess necessary physical and mental abilities, Those raised in well-to-do and wealthy families are, as a rule, doomed from the ‘start. Theirs is the bitter misfortune of having an easy time as children, of being coddled, of skipping all hard work, of being considered fair enough to shine in Hollywood or at least the Junior League. They are bred to be para= sites in a fool's paradise. : “Iiiving entirely on surpluses which other people have accumulated (usually by hard work), such well to-do women have patterned their lives and careers to fit a surplus economy. Let the surplus disappear and the pattern becomes useless. The poor women

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out grass, idlers without other people’s money on which to idle.” > It seems to me this point is well taken. : For a good many young women these days appear to have the idea that any work outside the home is desirable and honorable while anything in the home is humiliating. The Grand Lady tradition, greatly altered in transit, has been handed down to us, and most wells to-do families have brought up their girls to be parae sites. Thousands of good industrious men have ace tually died for the idea, harassed into their graves trying to set their daughters up in the local smart set. Mr. Pitkin’s call for a return to reality in the field of women’s education is especially timely, cone sidering the present confused state of world society, It is not likely that a sizeable proportion of feminine population in any country can exist very long withe out doing a little real work—and sad as it may seem, most of our important work these days is home work,

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

Editor American Medical. Assn. Journal

ALARIA probably has destroyed more people and more nations than almost any other disease. According to recent figures, the death rates for malaria in nine Southern States varied from 17.2 in 1918 to 9.8 in 1930. For the whole United States, the figures average about 2.5 per 100,000 people. Those who are sick with malaria myst be protected from mosquito bites with suitable screens. Places in which mosquitoes breed should be drained, and oil spread over such water as can not be removed by drainage. . The malarial mosquito usually bites -at dusk, In summer resorts where the population is mixed, people: may come from many localities, and ‘some may be infected with malaria. If these people and then others are bitten by mosquitoes, the malaria

. may be widely spread as the vacationists return tg

their homes in different parts of the country. In malaria the chief reliance in treatment must be placed on quinine, a drug introduced in 1630 by the Countess of Cinchon, after whom its source is named. Quinine comes from the cinchona bark. People who are constantly exposed to malaria in tropical areas take quinine every day, one hour before sunset, so as to have the protective drug in their blood should they happen to be bitten by a mosquito. People in malarial areas also screen their beds at night and, if possible, keep. the air moving with electric fans. They also wear suitable clothing, snd face iv to avoid being bitten.