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INGO—BIG BUSINESS nr game of bingo started out as an amusing and harmless diversion. It is still an amusing diversion but no longer harmless.

Professional gamblers, realizing the lucrative “take” available in the field, have taken it over in Indianapolis. As a result bingo has become big business. Some of these games have taken to running both day and night. The operators have found the business so profitable they are even hauling customers to their evening’s diversion in taxicabs. As in all such gambling contests, where the prospect of a lucky evening is a powerful lure, the chief victims are those who can least afford to gamble. Daily there is new evidence that individuals of limited means are losing money set aside for rent, food and clothing in the quest for sudden riches. The number of those hurt grows steadily larger. i ‘We presume to offer no advice on what should be done other than that it is time the authorities review what is _ happening. It is a problem that will have to be dealt with - precisely as they have had to deal with any other big-time - gambling scheme. For the gamblers and racketeers are = ~ taking over.

TIME FIGHTS FOR PEACE

HE most popular sport today is the guessing contest: Is there going to be a war soon? If so, when and where?

= If war breaks out, it will be because Hitler and Musso“lini believe the time has come to strike. And there are signs that even they might be asking themselves if. they “haven't missed Jhe boat. ? Germany and Italy are beset by difficulties. Financially, economically and politically, things are not all the dictators ~could wish. Germany’s public debt is mounting dizzily. The an“nual national income is around 70 billion marks, but the ~Government is spending approximately half that much on “current expenses. It is estimated that more than $6,000,2000,000 a year is being poured into war equipment. This frenzied financing, of course, is being done by closing the frontiers to exchange and forcing paper to circulate round and a in a sort of fiscal cyclone, the end “of which no man can see. 3 Small wonder, then, that observers in Germany report increasing fension among the public—as if the people were “living on the crumbling edge of a smoking volcano. - They Sdon’t quite see where it will all stop, or what, if snyining, they can do about it. 3 Italy’s situation, we are told, is somewhat siriiar, “Neither power has the-necessary raw materials to keep peacetime industries going, let alone wage a major war. And the lack of foreign exchange, together with the grow-| -ing unpopularity abroad of barter methods, limits the “amount they can import. Already on a quasi-ration basis, “economically speaking, something has got to happen, and “soon, to get them out of their impasse. They can’t go on Aike this forever. : : Will Hitler and Mussolini draw swords and try to cut their way out? Or will they Seek an exit via peace and “diplomacy? The answer, of course, must come from Rome and “Berlin. It may be wishful thinking but it seems to us that “with each passing day the chances of a victorious totali“tarian war are growing slimmer. For as the internal trou“bles of the dictators tend to pile up, the democracies should ‘be growing stronger. Time is fighting on . the side of peace.

‘OUR BOYS’ TOWN RGANIZATION of Boys’ Town groups in various sections of Indianapolis by the Recreation Department iis a thoroughly worth-while movement. One of the first of these finds Harry Hall, 13-year-old : “honor pupil at School 73, functioning expertly as the Mayor “of the Northeast Community Center organization. He also is judge of a court which imposes penaliies for nirociibng =of the rules. E Obviously this kind of Citing can be invaluable to the boys who take part, instilling an early knowledge of governmental affairs and developing qualities that should “make for better citizens. We wish the Recreation “Department success in this enterprise.

“WASHINGTON TRAGEDY! MERGENCIES in Washington are nothing new, but the x one confronting Secretary Hopkins’ Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is at least different. % This branch of the Commerce Department spends some “three million dollars a year to collect information about foreign trade for the benefit of American businessmen. “With more than three months of the current fiscal year to go, it seems the bureau has spent so large a part of its % Jappropriation on salaries that it’s out of money for paper on which to- print the information. A sad predicament, surely, but there must be some escape, short of a new appropriation by Congress. Judging by the Washington output of bulletins, booklets, press reeases, printed speeches by Congressmen, income-tax blanks, questionnaires, etc., etc, other Government departments _ =must be still plentifully supplied with paper. Maybe Mr. 3 opkins can borrow a few million sheets to keep the Bureau Sof Foreign and Domestic Commerce going. Another way, of course, might be to cut off some of the salaries.

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] UDGE CHARLES J. KARABELL of Municipal Court attracted deserved attention yesterday when he 2znunce that he intends to revoke the drivers’ licenses of all

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By Westbrook Pegler

Considering lts Great Value to the Nation Tobacco Indusiry Likely To Survive Attacks by Ickes.

V ASHINGTON, March 10.—In one of his orations 7 on the duties and derelictions of the press Harold Ickes insisted that dishonest motives and not objective editorial judgment caused a majority of the

. |wpewspapers to dead-hook a story about -cigarets

which, in the words of an authority that he quoted, was sensational enough to “make tobzcco users’ flesh creep.” I am not going into that argument again, because

those who believe that the story was suppressed and not merely spiked will continue to believe that the editors who omitted it did s0 out of consideration for those who buy space to advertise cigarets. There is no proof to unconvince them, Fowever, it follows that if Mr. Ickes regards the cigaret as a great menace to health he must favor the abolition of the industry and of the trade in other forms of tobacco as well. Ee does not press that point, however, and if he were to do so he probably would catch a swift sock from the mild and friendly Secretary of the Treasury, Mr, Henry Morgenthau, who last year collected in taxes from the manufacture of tobacco, including cigarets, more than half a billion dollars. Even Mr. Roosevelt, a cigaret smoker himself, might reach across the table and whang Mr. Ickes one at the next Cabinet meeting, for the tobacco habit is one whose abolition would wreck not only the New Deal but rattle the United States.

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Mr. Ickes spends, would lose $568,181,000 a year, vast areas of tobacco land in nine states would become a fresh problem to poor Henry Wallace, thou= sands of tobacco field hands and factory workers employéd not only in tobacco manulacturg@ but in dependent operations would be thrown onto relief or WPA, and there would be ghastly consequences in many other directions. The half-billion of taxes on cigarets and tobacco manufacture is about half the size of the Treasury's take from the individual income taxes and about half the size of the corporation income tax revenue. Moreover, individuals and corporations in the tobacco trade are large contributors to the individual and corporation income tax, and if their income were cut off those totals would drop sharply. Tobacco stores pay real estate taxes, consume heat and light, employ thousands of clerks and require the services of a great number and variety of workers along a line extending back to the plantation fields and 2 ong side lines into the paper box, packet, label, cellophane, ink, art, writing and typographical trades. 2 2 »

HE cancellation of all cigaret and tobacco advertising would break many papers and magazines whose margin between profit and loss is no greater than their income from tobacco copy. The editorial, mechanical and advertising staffs then would be on the street. Other papers and magazines, losing their income, would have to fire workers proportionately, and the load of their support would be shifted almost bodily to the Government. Tobacco and liquor pay in the form of direct Treasury taxes alone more than a billion a year, which is more than one-sixth of the total. So what difference would it make if the story that was likely to make the users’ flesh creep was suppressed or just omitted? This country supports itself largely by its vices and would preserve its arteries at the sacrifice of its existence as a nation.

Business By John T. Flynn

Germany, Facing Serious Fiscal Crisis, Pays Debts in = Script.

EW YORK, March 10.—Dr. Zinssei* wrote a book called “Rats, Lice and History” in which he described how more wars had been won by rats and lice than by arms and men. He might have added that money is entitled to a place in this triumvirate of destructive instruments in war. Rats and lice spread disease. Disease—called the plague, but probably typhus—decimated the armies of Pericles and brought defeat to Athens in the great Doloptrtnesiat war. Disease has been ruining armies ever since. But money does the same thing. And money is doing things to Germany now. Perhaps one might say lack of money is doing things to her. A nation which operates under the capitalist system, with private persons owning and operating enterprises, must have profit or they will not stay in business. In Germany the money of the Government seems to be running low. When a Government cannot pay its biils it very soon loses favor. Germany has used almost every known device thus far to provide itself with funds without surrendering to inflation. But now for the last three or four months even all these stratagems have not sufficed. Contractors doing work for the Government on roads, production of materials, buildings, have gone to the Ministry of Finance for their money only to find there was none there. The ministry therefore adopted the expedient of giving these contractors their payments in script— I. 0. U.'s—without even benefit of interest. It is reported that these I. O. U.’s have already totaled more than a billion marks.

Dangerous Stage Reached

Obviously the contractors who receive payment from the Government with such script cannot pay their workers' with it. They cannot make profits this way. They have been able to deposit some of it with banks las collateral for loans already outstanding. But as’ this paper bears no interest the banks do not want it. By what means will the Government compel contractors to take contracts when it cannot pay them and when ‘they cannot, make a profit? The Government can compel a workman to work. It can draft him and put him in the Army. It can seize the contractor and compel him to work for the Government as a foreman or manager. But it cannot possibly compel him to remain a contractor when his profits are gone and he is bankrupt. It is at this dangerous stage that the German economy has now arrived.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ANY champions of freedom have gone unher-

alded to their tombs. Among them, I have no doubt, future historians will include the men of 1939 who refuse to pay alimony. A part of the applause we have given so generously to women willing to suffer for the cause of feminine independence must now go to men who, for a principle in which they believe, are ready to cry with Anthony Kline of Erie, Pa.: “Ill rot in jail before I support her.” As! a class, lawyers seem unsympathetic to their martyred brothers. Maybe that’s because their profession” brings them into contact with so many no-accoutits. When I was in Houston, Judge Allan Hannay {old me that in his experience the average man was willing to support his children but rebelled at being asked to hand out regular sums to a former wife. As we might expect, some ne’er-do-wells try to evade all responsibility, and it is there the court does its best Work when it forces them to behave like decent fathers. In a social order where divorce is so easily obtained, plain justice demands that a woman should relieve her husband of her support unless she can prove she has lost her earning power in his service. Alimony is incongruous in the modern marital scheme. If a woman is allowed equal rights and cpporfunities with men, why should an ex-husband be expected to provide a livelihood for an able-bodied wife after the two have decided to call quits to their marriage? Equitable property settlements should be compulsory, of course. The woman who has worked and economized and, therefore, helped a man accumulate a home or savings during’ a period of years, undeniably deserves half of such property, just as the part-

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ASHINGTON, March 10.—The greatest flood of fan mail that this column ever drew was not

~ lon any of its “heavy bottomed”. or “smart aleck”

i ® \ The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

UPHOLDS DIXIE'S STAND ON FREIGHT RATES By C. C. Sherman

Southern industry since the Sixties has been retarded by excessive freight rates which average 38 per cent higher than those enjoyed by the Middle West. Surely we Hoosiers don’t want an unfair, underhand advantage such as this.

dustry does not mean a development of competition as much as a development of new markets. This nation grew great through equality of opportunity—not through political

” 2 8 VETERAN OPPOSES CCC MILITARIZATION By Ex-Soldier Repeatedly squelched in the past, the proposal to include military training in the CCC regime has bobbegy up again. Though no responsible military authority has asked or even indorsed the plan, it continues to be

advanced. Congress cannot too definitely reject this proposal, once and for all. It is bad in theory. It is bad in practice. First, the theory. Not even the most rabid backers of increased armament have as yet suggested universal military service for the United States. Yet it is proposed to subject to military training a single class of young men—those who have not been able to find a place in industrial life. - This is undemocratic. If military training is to be established on anything like a universal basis, then let all youths be subject to it. Even the totalitarian states do this, and at its worst, their military program has the merit of taking everybody without distinction. The draft of World War days -at least had the merit of taking everybody. But this proposal would train as soldiers a particular segment of the country’s youth, leaving those in

touched. To advance any such program in a democratic country, whose foundation is in the equal treatment of all regardless of their circumstances, is a grave mistake. Second, the practical side. The value of any such training, with six hours a week of military training sandwiched in with the regular week’s work, is highly doubtful. The CCC is a work program. If is and is meant to be a civilian program, as indicated plainly by its name “Civilian Conservation Corps.” The aim is to furnish productive work to young men who have not been able to find a place in regular

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much as possible to qualify them for regular jobs when they get out. Military training doesn’t fit into this picture at all. It would merely

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military training of any value

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The CCC has done a fine job, as almost everybody admits. To mix it all up (at great expense) with military training, would ruin its record as a work organization, provide no worth-while military resources to the nation, and flout the basic dem-

l|ocratic principle that if one young

man owes military service to his country, all owe it.

2 ” ” WIDOW GRATEFUL FOR PENSION LAW By Mrs. Kathryn Lowe

May I please express my gratitude to-the persons who made the widow’s pension in this dear, old Indianapolis possible. - My husband died three years ago next July, leaving me with three small sons, ages 1. 2 and 4 years. Since then I have been able to be independent by budgeting my money carefully and arn able to spend all my time with iny babies who need me so much, I do not know who is responsible for this, but maybe someone may read this who does know and will thank them for me. I am so truly grateful.

RAIN

| By ALTA BOLING Dark and dreary is the rain As it courses down my windowpane. No cheery sunbeam now = peeps through From up above in Jieaven’ s blue.

But why should I worry and fret? Our God of love is up there yet; Watching over us, one and all,

Caring for each, both great and|

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DAILY THOUGHT

So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.—I Kings 10:23, 24.

IT and wisdom are born with a Inan.~Selden,

OPPOSES NONRELIEFERS ON WPA JOBS By Observer : I am wondering what the general public might think or say if they knew some of the things that are going on in the offices of the WPA. All kinds of criticism is directed at the poor relief workers, who were humiliated and stood in lines in all kind of weather, facing all the red tape necessary for them to go through in order to receive a small dole to keep body and soul together. Must they be condemned by the outsider, while never hearing comments on the nonrelief worker who receives the big end of the horn and ‘lords it over the relief person while receiving’ the benefits supposed to be for them? Why are these nonrelief- people allowed to remain on the program, for the majority have other incomes or means of living? Do not think for one minute there aren’t enough educated relief people to head the personnel of Indiana. There are all kinds of educated persons with degrees in any line you can mention who through no fault .of their own were forced to go on relief, but still fully qualified to hold any WPA job in the State. Their employment would eliminate some of the wasteful spending and give help where it was first intended to be given. ; 2 8 = THAT SWING SESSION DRAWS A PROTEST By Disgusted And so the honorable and august Senate and House Representatives of the Legislature of this sovereigns State of Indiana developed into a cheap and hilarious burlesque performance and circus! At a cost of $10 per day for 61 days for each of thése representa-| tives of the people, this certainly was not what the taxpayers of the State might have deemed to be right and proper. ' ” 2 ” HE'D LIKE A VOICE ON FOREIGN WAR By Joseph E. Kane As one who will “do the fighting” in our next salvation of the world’s democracy may I voice hearty disagreement with your editorial “Handicapping Ourselves”? Personally, I

would like to vote on whether I want to fight or not, before I'm shipped to Europe. The case of invasion is entirely different, but with that exception, wherein it is contained, the Ludlow resolution should

be passed.

SHOULD YOUR ao! 8 1 THEY always are sis when they learn that Prof. Lewis M. Terman, of Stanford, whose research I recently wrote,

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

GAN ONE GET THE MOST OUT OF LIFE IF HE |S-ALWAYS THINKING OF HIS *

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mairied lives, all but 212 had scores on the Marital Happiness Test above the medium or middle point and he had Simenlty in finding 150 'w

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of the husbands and 85 per cent of the wives stated they regarded their

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NO. ‘This habit of mind, if

carried to extreme, absolutely prevents one from enjoying the

present. You will find that such a person is always .a chronic worrier, an introvert, and that everything that happens that does not seem to promote that promised future brings him irritation, fears and discouragement. Of course, one should plan for the future and work for it, but if it is held constantly in mind, to the exclusion of all else, it will defeat itself because it will cause him to overlook the things all around him which would aid him to achieve the very thing he wants, namely, the promotion of his future. 8 8 8

NO. The eye was one of the latest organs to develop in the course of animal evolution. It began among the lower animals as a mere spot on the skin that was sensitive to light and later in the higher animals—serpents, fishes, birds and, finally, mammals—it grew into a wonderful organ. But most wild animals still find the sense of smell and hearing more valuable than

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discussions of political, military or economic problems.

It was one on a sentence of death by Judge Roy Bean,

“the law west of the Pecos.” Hundreds of letters have come in giving varied versions and ascribing : them to various judges. - Today came what purports to be an actual official transcript of a sentence by Federal Judge Parker at Ft. Smith, Ark. in whose juris-

|] diction was the old Indian Territory, then undoubtedly

the toughest judicial district in the United States. Here it is: Judge Parker: “Jose Maniah, stand up. You have been found guilty of a most heinous crime. It will soon be springtime, Jose, and down in the wild woods will be heard the bellowing of the .frisky bull and the artless prattle of children as they come merrily home from school. But you won't hear any of it because, Jase, you won’t be here. The violets will soon be abloom on the hillside. Nature wiil have donned her fairest garments, but you won’t see any

‘| of these, Jose. You won’t be here. After happy sum=

But don’t let that cause It. is customary to invoke the tender mercies of a higher court. But if I thought that God Almighty would have any compassion on a wretch like you, I would never think or speak of him again—you saddle-colored son of a so-and-so. Jose, on the sixth of this coming month, I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead. Take him away.”

” ” ” ‘OSE replied: “That I have taken human life IT do ‘not deny; but it was under circumstances of the greatest provocation, So determined was this court to add another to its already long list of slaughtered victims, that I early foresaw that my doom was sealed. You have sat there through the proceedings of this hellish farce with a ghoulish glee portrayed on your every feature. You and your jury remind me more of a lot of buzzards hovering over an expected victim than a body of men supposed to guard the principles of justice. “Half-starved hyenas, you cannot break my lofty spirit. Referring to the odor of flowers and the tinkling of bells, you have announced to the world that I am to be hanged. As I gaze into your bloated, whisky-be-fuzzled faces, I am not surprised at your. verdict or your actions. With mock solemnity and cruel sarcasm, you have consigned me to an ignominious death. Very well, you disheveled barbarian, you wild-eyed, peak-nosed, carnivorous combination of man and beast,- I want you to understand that your words have no terror for me. . ” ” 2 ! OU tell me that on Friday, the sixth of March, I am to be taken to the place from whence I came and be hanged by the neck until I am dead, dead, and you did not even have the grace to add ‘May God have mercy on your soul.’ “I say to you that on Friday, the sixth of March, I will not be taken to the place from whence I came because, as you truly say, I won’t be here. And as for hanging by the neck until I am dead, dead, dead—you can kiss my foot until it is red, red, red; and nay God blast your dirty old soul.” According to this account, Jose Maniah escaped into the Arbuckle Mountains three Qays later.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

~ He's Got That Slick-Paper Mssetive Phobia and Is Doomed, Writer Fears.

EW YORK, March 10.—His face was familiar, and yet in some strange way the fellow’s aspect had vastly changed since last I knew him on a newspaper, “You can’t be Bill Driggings?” I asked. , He replied glooniily that he both could and was. “My, my,” I exclaimed. “I've got a toothache myself, but what's wrong with you?” | “A toothache!” he said, and laughed mirthlessly. “Youre lucky. Even in your case some dentist can

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kill the nerve, but for my complaint there is ne

remedy known tp science.” Mr. Driggings looked around to see if any editor was lurking behind him, and then he confided, “T'vegot slick-paper phobia.” He was annoyed at my puzzled look. “Don’t try to play innocent with me,” he complained. “You've got it and there are not niore than five former reporters alive today who have escaped its ravages. You see, the notion obtained that I was on my way up. The editor of a large monthly magazine had recognized my native worth and chosen me as a staff writer. He told me that it would be just the same thing I had been doing for years. One little word after another. “The first symptom of slick-paper phobia is a curious numbnéss. It begins in the knuckles and travels very rapidly to the brain, Then you hear voices. The

most persistent one keeps whispering, ‘This has got to = ¢

he good. You're writing for a magazine.’ And then another one chimes in with the reminder. ‘We have ° more than two million circulation, and don’t you forget you will be illustrated.’

Grabbing at a Straw

“Sometimes the rash doesn’t come until the sec= ond or third day. You break out all over with ade verbs and adjectives. It is impossible to set down anything simple, such as, ‘He leaves a wife and two children and was a member of the Elks for 20 years.’ Instead you begin to lug in ‘sorrowful cypress trees,” ‘the. moaning March wind’ and ‘sullen skies. In other words, some vile sorcerer has transformed you into a ham editor of the late Bulwer-Lytton.” “And is there no hope?” I inquired anxiously. “There’s just one chance,” said Mr. Driggings, “and I mean to grasp it. I'm going to Palm Beach, and

every night I shall force my way into some swanky

party and then hurry home. Arrived at my hotel room, I shall rush to the typewriter. “At my side will be a loaded revolver, and if a single adjective slips into my copy a resounding roar will ring out above the soft sibilance of the gentle Caribbean breeze, and in a grotesque heap there will fall the inert and lifeless form of poor, frustrated William Driggings.” : 1 guess Bill's a goner.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

HILE all now recognize the fact that the human being must have vitamins in hi§ diet in order to resist infectious disease and avoid the effects on human tissues due to vitamin deficiencies, few people stop to realize that animals must also have viiaming #0 be healthful. Development of foods for domestic animals containing the necessary vitamins has come to be a large industry. Just'as human beings differ one from the other in. ability to eat and absorb vitamins, so also do animals differ, not. only ndivigualls, but also as species. A deficiency. of ‘vitamin A a: the diet of the hue ‘man being may result in the symptom known as night blindness. For the average domestic animal night

blindness may not be serious, but ‘it may be exceed ingly important for the “horse used for driving at night. A horse fed largely ‘on field-cured hay and

| oats. both of which are low in vitamin A, might have

difficulty in seeing well at night. : Most farm animals get their vitamin A trom the carotin of green plants, from yellow roots and from yellow corn. Animals which live on ‘meat get most of their vitamin A from liver ‘and other glandular ore gans. Muscle meats not rich: ‘inyitamin A. Therefore dogs particularly do ‘well if lied wily extra Ver ol Exactly as human peng fail to-grow well, and develop various symptoms as’ a result of vitamin B dee ficiency, so also do all of the domestic animals. Studies of domestic oma in the United States that there is lit d of vitamin dee