Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1937 — Page 9

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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

Uprooting of 'Curse of Idleness' Mormon Ideal in Taking Members Off Government and Church Doles.

ALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 22.—The Mormon Church is extremely rich. If it merely wanted to show off, it could instantly take every one of its members off public relief, and easily care for them out of church funds. Since it is not doing this, it seems to me

Proper Firing One

you must grant the church's sincerity in not thinking

of public acclaim.

And you also must grant

its off-relief program on a re-estab- | lishment of the Mormon principle

that all must work, helping each other; that the program is not one of merely creating a church dole. The Mormons deny they are trying to transfer their people from Government relief to church relief.

They do hope to get all their people |

off Government relief, but by method of making them self-sup-porting, not by putting them on church relief, President Heber J it this way: “Our primary purpose in organizing the Church Security Plan was to set up a system under which the curse of idleness would be done away With, the evils of a dole abolished. and independence, industry, thrift and self-respect be once more established amongst our people “The aim of the church is to help people help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our membership.” But the Mormons cannot do it without some Kind of dole. no matter what they call it. For Mormons get sick, too, and Mormons get old. and Mormons are affected by world economic conditions, and some Mormons aren't as efficient as others.

Program Is for Mutual Help

What they will do, I gather, is take care of their helpless in a less shameful way than the rest of us do. For instance. one official told me if vou went around asking the aged Mormons how thev would like to spend their remaining days, they would answer almost without exception, "Working in the Temple.” They don’t mean they must work in the Temple Building. They mean they would like to work for the church. Indolence is strictly discouraged. As we've already said, work has always been one of the main tenets of the Mormon faith. A Mormon chiseler. I imagine, finds the going tough. A Mormon community can apply the strait-jacket of shame to an indolent one And the program isn't set up on a basis of pay for work done. The whole policy of the church is, “Give what you can, and in return you get what vou need.” President Grant says if every Mormon were to give $1 a year the church could care for all of its own poor. That would be $750,000. Which is about $9.50 a year each for the 80,000. and seems extravagantly low. “How could you do it?” I asked the leaders of the Security Program. “Because the people must help themselves,” was the answer.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr. Pyle

Court of Woman Juvenile Judge

Is Interesting Memphis Institution. EMPHIS, Tenn, Sunday.-—There is nothing Southern about Memphis. The climate was cold and snappy yesterday and made one move quickly. Having picked up a large batch of mail from Washington in St. Louis last night, Mrs. Scheider and I spent no idle moments. From the time we had seen

the !

Grant says |

the committee of ladies about last night's lecture and |

were interviewed by the press until lunch, we were very busy.

At 145 p. m. IT started for Judge Camille Kelly's |

juvenile court. There was no session today, but 1 have always wanted to see where this only woman judge of a juvenile court in the South presided.

It is |

a cheerful, homelike building and one where I imagine

a woman like Judge Kelly can do the kind of work she thinks should be done to save the vouth of this country from slipping downgrade. From there we went to the crippled children's hospital, a charming, light, bright, building. There is a

lovely garden at the back and another hospital for |

adults just a short walk across the children's playground. “Adults” means anyone over 14, My little friend, Bobby Holland, with his mother beside him, sat up in his bed in the boys’ ward. He will soon have his brace off and be able to go home,

With pride, he |

showed me his scrapbook, in which he has collected | all his treasures, and his mother proudly pointed to a |

poem which he has written.

Dr. Campbell and the woman who started this hos- |

pital with only $12,000 must feel

achievements.

Visits Model Penal Farm

proud of their |

From there we went to a building on the State |

Fair Grounds where the NYA youngsters were working on floats for a children's parade which takes place next week. Then we went to the county penal farm. This is certainly a model farm and I have seen nothing like it in any other county, It is a model state institution on a smaller scale. There are separate buildings for men and women and there is work provided for everyone. The county hospital, which is really the for the indigent aged, we did not visit. But it also looked like a model institution. On the way back we stopped at a Negro school built bv WPA labor. There the NYA youngsters carried out a garden and canning project for the benefit of their school lunches. It would have done credit to any county 4-H Club. A glimpse at the housing project and a presentation by some art students of some of their work, and here endeth a full afternoon. A speech last night, and this morning we left for Pickwick dam. .

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Second Section

(Third of a Series)

By William Crabb N Nov. 10 Indianapolis smoked and sneezed in the heaviest pall of smoke it ever has seen. Industry and railroads were partly responsible. But a survey by the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League and the City Combustion Engineer's office, placed most of the blame on homeowners and storekeepers. Several years ago, the League recognized the fact that smoke abatement work, like charity, should begin at home. It began an educational campaign to teach homeowners the proper methods of firing cheaper grades of coal. It appointed a technical committee composed of Charles Brossman, consulting engineer; W. A, Hanley, Eli Lilly & Co., engineering director, and J. P. Brown, League inspector, to compile a set of rules for correct firing of small furnaces. The suggestions follow: In starting the fire, clean out the grate and ashpit. Place coal in the firepot, sloping from grate to fire door and using small lumps of coal, none larger than the fist. Throw a small wad of paper on the coal at the lower edge of the pile, cover with a little kindling and light the paper. The fire then will spread up the surface of the coal. Leave the drafts on until the coal is well ignited and leave the fire door ajar. » HE fresh coal ignites from the sides next to the red hot coal. Fire creeps back and over the top of the new coal. Smoke and gas from the new coal pass through the flame of the hot coal and are burned, producing heat otherwise wasted. For regular firing, shake the grate and clear back a portion of the firepot with a poker. This works the ashes down through the grate. About two inches of ashes should be left under the coals on the grate. The live coal should be pushed back and fresh coal placed in front, piling up the small lumps near the fire door. The check draft door should be left open as much as the weather permits. When you are going out for the evening, or before retiring, pile the fresh coal high in front of the fire. Sprinkle a little fine coal, or slack over the top. Check the draft and leave the slide in the fire door open. ” on ou NOTHER method of proper firing, the committee says, is to work a depression in the center of the fire, moving the hot fire to the sides of the firepot. Heap the fresh coal in the depression, piling it up like an inverted bowl. This method leaves a ring of hot coals around the fresh coal, helping to ignite and consume the volatiles which cause smoke and soot, if they are not consumed. Its merit lies in the fact that it brings the hottest part of the fire against the metal firepot and keeps the temperature up until the new charge of coal starts burning. Most furnaces have a draft door into the ashpit, a damper within the smoke pipe, and a check door opening in the side of the smoke pipe. The draft door and the damper in the pipe are opened to permit the air to pass through the furnace. The check door is opened when all drafts are off. The purpose of

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER

Smoke—City's Public Enemy No. 1

Way to Combat City's Black Menace

ity

One of the positions for the check draft after firing is shown above. With his left hand, the demonstrator points to the butterfly damper, which should be between the check draft and the smoke outlet.

Dense smoke, sometimes combined with fog, forces

British Conservatives

Indianapolis

residents to wade through “smog” like this on their way to work. This photo was taken at 8 a. m. and the sun still hadn’t pierced the gloom.

this is to eliminate the draft of air through the furnace. These must be regulated according to weather conditions, and the requirements of each individual furnace. The greater the draft of air, the faster the coal will burn. ” » HE League's committee also sets forth seven rules for firing all types of coal. They are: 1. Never smother the fire with coal when refueling. 2. Keep the ashpit clean. 3. Leave about half the coals exposed when refueling.

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House) by Morris Fishbein, Times health columnist |

and American Medical Journal editor.

Dr. Fishbein estimates that throughout life a hu- |

man being eats 1400 times his body weight. Enor-

mously important, then, considering this great con- | sumption of food, is the intelligence which one uses ! in choosing and balancing these elements which mean |

life, health and happiness. Only in the last 50 years has our knowledge of foods been developed; as recently as 25 years ago the word vitamin was coined. A resume of the information accumulated during the period is presented in a practical manual for everyday use. Vitamin, calory and food value charts give important information clearly. Sample menus for gaining and reducing weight and for use in disease conditions are added to chapters which vigorously “debunk” freak diets and widely believed food fallacies. 5 LJ = N interesting study of the Iriéh people from the anthropological and sociological viewpoint is THE TRISH COUNTRYMAN (Macmillan) by Conrad Arensberg. This book represents the lectures given by Mr. Arensberg, a member of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University, at the Lowell Institute in Boston. The description and explanation of Ireland’s history and her customs furnished by this writer differ from those found in the usual volume on this fascinating and somewhat imcomprehensible country. He is here attempting a study in social anthropology, which, in his own words, “is a shift from a history of forms and institutions to a study of behaviour.” Because Irish culture of today is a mixture of ancient Celtic and modern ways of living. the Irishman is an unusually interesting case study. This book is one which will satisfy both the student and the general reader.

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4. Keep the air moistener filled with clean walter, 5. Don't shake the grate excessively. 6. Don't put big lumps in the furnace or stove. 7. Sift the ashes and save the coal. And the committee admonishes homeowners thus: “Smoke and soot is your own money going out the chimney, By careful firing much smoke, soot and waste, with its consequent damage, can be avoided.” NEXT—Smoke and the Death Rate,

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dialecticians.

They doubt the practical wisdom of {gg per cent. present rigid form, and were some-

put the subject of tax avoidance in {striking at tax avoidance

They pointed out objections. Government, bull its way through, took the ob- | its bill into a straight 5 per cent | HE “Government tax on profit, superimposed on the | |regular corporation income tax. This | “bond washing.” So it

businessmen with little complaint.

profits with a graduated revised measure abandoned that. its practical way, the Government ened.

longed controversy. dom would be bound to leave one influ-|that basis. ential section of the country nurs- | ing a festering grievance.

Mr. Roosevelt and the British Con- [Roosevelt has. servatives in that they both seek by the money without tearing the nasocial and economic reforms to keep 'tion into warring classes.

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Chronicler Pays Visit to Synagog, Makes Some Mistakes and Learns A Few Odd Things He Didn't Know.

TT wasn't until the other day, so help me, that 1 saw the inside of an orthodox

synagog. 1 had been prowling around the South Side in the neighborhood of Meridian and

Morris Sts., when straight out of another dimension, like an apparition, came a herd of kids, and walked into what looked like a church. None of

them appeared to be more than 5 years old. Obeying an ancient impulse, I sneaked in with the kids, and I played my part so well that I passed for one of them. I don’t care whether vou believe it or not. The kids, 33 of them (34 with me), turned out to be the Nathan Morris Kindergarten; the church,

| the Congregation Knesses Israel at

| the kids’ conventional contact

St., which leaves for Miss Grace responsible for with

1023 S. Meridian me to account Brown, the lady

Mr. Scherrer

the church. Miss Brown runs the kindergarten system of Ine dianapolis. It surprised me, too, because like the rest of vou I had been brought up to believe that a kindergarten sort of runs itself. I know better now, The truth is that it couldn't run at all without Miss Brown. Not around Thanksgiving time, anyway, It was a couple of years ago, I believe, that Miss Brown took a notion that the kids of Indianapolis ought to see the inside of a church. That's when Thanksgiving popped into her head as the best time to put her plan into execution. That's why, too, the

i kindergartens of Indianapolis are making their an-

| nual pilgrimages this week.

“There is no smoke in coke,” Roy O. Johnson, Smoke Abatement | League attorney says. Here is a league member demonstrating show to fire properly with coke. You fill the furnace as full of fuel as possible. :

Tackle Tax Problem

healthy functioning ‘Times “Special ‘Writer |system, there is a difference also. | Here the Conservatives, springing ONDON, Nov. 22.—British Con-|r.on the business class, have sought servatives find it difficult to un- |a)ways to protect it—-but to protect derstand the policy which American {it py insisting upon social and ecoRepublicans have pursued toward | nomic reform which would remove Mr, Roosevelt, i

capitalism a

By Raymond Clapper

They see much in |just complaints against the system. the New Deal that is like their own | This does not mean the businessprogram here and cannot under-|man is coddled. Hardly, Corporastand why American Republicans |tions pay a 25 per cent normal have attacked it practically in its |profits tax, the same as the individentirety as undermining American ya] income tax. In addition is the democracy. They are doing much special 5 per cent national-defense the same thing in England as Mr. contribution on corporation profits Roosevelt is in America and con-|of more than $10.000 a year, with a sider that they are saving British [og per cent abatement if the profit democracy from socialism. That is |js Jess than $60,000. And what the when they discuss it in theoretical |pyusinessman takes to himself in| terms, which is seldom, as they are | pyofits, after these taxes, is again | practical realists rather than parlor [hit by the personal income tax with | [its basic 25 per cent rate, with a | Where they are disposed fo ques- gliding scale supertax on incomes | tion Mr. Roosevelt, is in taxation. | above $10.000 up to something like | We don’t know what

the undistributed-profits tax in its |yea] taxes are. | In the tax bill last year the Gov- | {ernment included several provisions | . Nobody | terms of personal scandal. was pilloried individually as an un- | Here Mr. Roosevelt, like the Amer- | patriotic tax-dodger. The Govern-

what horrified at his atiempt to

josh Republicans, might also learn |ment simply struck at abuses which rom Take for illustration the attempt of | “bond washing.” the Conservative Government (6 tax | practice to escape dividend income | excess profits to raise money for re- |taxes—there being no capital gains armament. a complicated scheme of graduated |djvidend time a taxes aimed to hit the growth

the British existed, such

It had been

knew as

Conservatives. | every one

profits. Businessmen

instead of trying

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estimated it was losing $5,000,000 a year by | provided | by [that owners of securities would be liable to tax on the accrued divi- | dends, even though the securities | N theory, the Government origi-|were not actually in their possession nally sought to penalize excessive {when dividends were paid. Depre- | tax, The | ciation allowances also were tight- | Pensions assigned by hus- |

preferred to yield and avoid pro- | bands to their wives ean no longer | It saw no wis- [go in the wife's “earned income” | a policy which [and receive exemption allowance on |

jections into consideration, revised |

modified form was accepted

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in pursuing

Thus the British Conservative | Government is wrestling with the If there are similarities between same problems of taxation that Mr. But it is able to get

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson HE First Lady is on her second lecture tour. Although as a citizen I disapprove of the Presi-

| dent's wife turning professional, at

the same time I admire the spunk |

and stamina of any woman in her position who deliberately undertakes one of the most difficult and thankless of jobs. That is, I would

admire it if I thought there were any great necessity done. y Just ‘why any person as busy, useful and happy as Eleanor Roosevelt would want to go a-lecturing is beyond me. If she travels for the information she can get, to discover the trends of opinion in various parts of the country or to keep her finger on the pulse of the peoble. she has chosen g poor method of doing so. One never gets any too good a view of the common human level from a platform. Any lecturer puts himself in an uncomfortable situation when he is under the direction of a manager, because he is selling his wares and those who pay to hear him expect to get a great deal more than they sometimes deserve for their money. If disappointed, they are quick to mention it. However fine the motives behind these lectures may be, we wish for her sake that Mrs. Roosevelt would

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abandon them. They will never per-

mit her to find out very much of what goes on in the American mind, and they do allow her husband’s enemies to see her at a disadvantage—for while Mrs. Roose-

velt is a great woman, she is not a

Jasper—By Frank Owen

Cepr. 1937 by United Feature Syndleate, Tne. 11-22%

"He won't say how he got in there—but he wants this ‘guy

‘Sergeant’ to stop answering every, time he calls his girl!"

And finally, that's why I found myself in an orthodox synagog the other day.

Rabbi Puts Him Straight The first blunder I committed on entering the synagog was to take off my hat. It wasn’t necessary, said a nice looking gentleman. He turned out to be Rabbi Elias Charry, who had come all the way from his North Side parish to tell us kids how to behave in a synagog. As a matter of fact, the Rabbi pursued the subject of headgear at some length and explained that among the Jews, the wearing of a hat in a church is a sign of great respect to God. After which, of course, there wasn’t anything to do but put my hat where it belongs in a synagog. My blunder wasn’t as bad, though, as that of the kid next to me. He wanted to know what the cuspie dors were for. They're for old men who bring their coughs to church with them. To hear Rabbi Charry explain it, it sounded sensible enough. Well, after that we were told about architecture and liturgy, and it was plenty tough for kids of our age. It turns out that a synagog is a rectangular room, and represents in miniature the form of the temple. At the extreme eastern end, in the direction of Jerusalem, is the Aron hakkodesh, the holy ark, in which are deposited the scrolls of law (Torah) from which the periodical readings are chanted. The ark has a curtain, richly ornamented with two fierce looking lions, the ancient emblem of Judah. There's an eagle, too, and back of his outstretched wings is the everlasting lamp (ner tamid), which keeps burn ing night and day. In the center of the room, also raised ahove the floor like the ark, is a platform from which the law is read. In the rear, and running along the sides of the room, is the gallery for women. Seems the women are separated from the men in a synagog. Rabbi Charry didn't go into that, but I'll bet he knows the reason,

Jane Jordan—

Modern Girl Pictured as Batter

Type for Wife Than Mid-Victorian,

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am complying with your request for more information concerning my earlier question: “Is there danger that the term lady with its significance will pass away?’ What we young men had in mind is so well summed up in the inclosed article that I am including it. I refer pecially to drinking, smoking, and other things indulged in by girls and women of today who come from families that are called “nice.” B. B.

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Answer—The article which this young man ine closes is by Dorothy Dix. The letter, written by college men, claims that of the girls they have known, 75 per cent drank; 80 per cent smoked; 95 per cent necked; 50 to 55 per cent were of easy virtue, and ail liked to hear and tell smutty stories. The young men did not feel that such girls were eligible for wives. Now that I know that your concept of a lady incorporates the Victorian “purity. ideal,” IT must admit that evidence points to the fact that she is passing into history, but I do not feel inclined to wring my hands over the demise. She wasn't adequate to the needs of the men who adored her in public, but sure reptitiously enjoyed themselves with shadier charace ters in private. It is not psychologically healthy for a man’s wife to leave him with the need for*another woman. The Victorian ideal of a woman was too far removed from reality to satisfy. Men simply aren't constituted to be content with angels whose permanent abode is a pedestal. Actually they need a warm, human, redblooded coi._nanion. The trouble with you young men is that actually you want a wife such as the modern girl represents, one who understands your rature and does her ute most to meet you on your own ground: but you're still haunted by the bloodless ideal of a pure, but remote creature. You cannot reconcile reality with ideals and the result is conflict. Young people today are caught in the wheels of change. I have no doubt but that many modern girls have swung too far away from their Victorian mothers, but in the main I regard the change as in the direction of health. To be sure some drink. smoke and neck too much. Nevertheless. many of the girls today are better fitted for marriage than their strait-laced mothers ever were. I regard it as mischievous to teach a boy to treat every girl as his sister. The intrusion of the sister image between a young man and the girl he courts with marriage in view fills him with inhibitions which should not be present. A man’s fixation on his mother or sister has ruined many a husband. Your task as young men is to incorporate all vour love needs in one woman. Your fathers found this a difficult feat, many of them married a good woman and deceived her because she was too good to put up with all phases of his nature. It is too bad vour rigid up-bringing does not enable you to distinguish between the girl who observes moderation in all that she does and the girl who goes to vulgar extremes. JANE JORDAN.

Put vour problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily.

Waller O'Keefe—

HE Japanese hold Shanghai and beyond. They finally managed to straighten out their bullets and the city is theirs. War hasn't been declared, so probably they took over the Chinese metropolis on trial. When you consider the number of noncombatants wounded by their bad marksmanship, it's a wonder that they didn't wake up and find they'd taken London. At present they're rehearsing for the 1940 Olympics and right now every Japanese ‘athlete is trying to see how far he can throw the Chinese border. When they took over the city instead of planting a flag they just hoisted a note of apology.