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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
PHILADELPHIA

HEWLETT praises Philadelphia,
T. l. and Pasadena, Cal, as the two
American cities which have worked
out a prevailing type of residential
architecture.
philadelphia, he says, has done
it by staying close to the stone ma
terials and design which started
there in the citys early growth.
Pasadena, while entertaining adc~
quate variety, has achieved a dis
tinctive type of building which read
lily shows the influence of Spanish
and Mexican architecture"
No doubt many visitors, without
analvzing the subject as Hewlett has
done, have been impressed by the
distinctive character Of these two
cities.
Hewlett also has word to say
about skyscraperS. The rule today
seems to be bigger and bigger sky
ScraperS.
Hewlett believes that cities soon
will have to grapple with the prob
lem of the height to which they will
permit skyscrapers will rise.
Many city planners now realize
that they have a difficult problem
on their hands.
Big skyscrapers call for new
transportation facilities. But as soon
as the facilities are furnished they
serve as an impetus to the build
;vo Of ,,oCva ctucpTaY prc
Just how the problem can be
eventually solved, no one seems to
know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
Three Hundred Per Cent

-r,ero are indications that the spring thaws Will
,ooee q new food Of power company propaganda upon
the land. 49,.
The president of the National Electric Light AsSo-
.,otio, Matthew S. Sloan, warned his organization III
a sneecb the other night that the pubic ooeS hoV
mite understand the reason for so many mergers anu
holding company combinations in the utility business
and in some cases is looking at them with dlSapproVa
So. Sloan says we must Strive to convince every
oodv that we are bound to operate the utilities lor
The benefit of the public
A a first step in this campaign to convince
everybody Sloan goes on to assert that mergers and
nominations have been undertaken ain order to pro-
1,cs and permit economy in raising capital, to bring
about economies and betterments in operation 10
stimulate the marketing of products through unified
control and management, or for all these reasons
lowered prices" he says, ARE not possible without
overed costs and increasing sales Mergers and hold
ing companies are one result of the great need 1or
lowered costs"
We will bear up as we'll as We can under the COM
ing attempt to convince everybody. Utility companies
have an unassaabe right to state their case as often
and as well as they can.
Nobody. of course. will make business of con-
vincng everybody of the significance Of facts the fed
eraI trade commission Juat has disclosed The public
is left to seek out for itself this other side of the
question before becoming convinced of anything and
few will take the trouble to do so.
But when the propaganda breakers rise and beat
upon the citadels of public opinion fact at least
from the trade commissions inquiry should be kept in
mind It is this
Records of the first holding company ever to be
examined by public agency disclosed that the COM
psny makes 800 per cent profit its charge to sub
salaries for services undertaken ito bring about
omies in operation"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
1T SEEMS TO ME By HE FEo9f%

quell them in my role of strict and
impartial chairman.
The senator was arguing that
prohibition was by now SO firmly
established in the United States
that people were not even disposed
to discuss it any longer.
Outside of the wet city of New
York, he maintained that no one
took any interest in the problem
why, only last night" thundered
the gentleman from Iowa, II de-
bated prohibition in a town scarcely
twenty miles from New York City,
and there were only ten people in
the audience"
At this point the senator made an
unfortunate pause, for it gave just
the opening necessary for high
pitched voice in the gallery, which
piped up to say, Didn't you figure,
senator, that maybe that was your
fault?"
Again it seemed to me that
Brookhart was unfortunate in the
material which he employed about
his rife team. That was a very
long story. 1t seems that the Iowa
national guardsmen, under the lead
ership of the senator, did not shoot
so very well III their first match.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25

a PSYCHOLOGIST examined lot of people and
L n found that very few were satisfied with life
making living if they had it to do over all of which
is merely another way of saying that most people are
discontinued.
Since stay only a little while and since the
going is not rubber tired at best it is tragedy that
a happy frame of mind not be bestowed upon
travellers
If you'll look back, you probably will find that the
only time you've really felt in luck when you
were emerging from some trouble which threatened
to wind your clock
How unSpeakably rich you felt when you were
recovering from that long illness and how radiantly
you going to look upon life once you get your
clothes on and Sauntered down the old pike once
more, but in ninety-nne cases out of one hundred
you were the old kicker the day after you have
resumed the harness.
XXTHAT this psychologist learned is old Adam,
w for every one has the gantlet of the emo
tional reactions to life from the rainbow zeal of
youth to the dull gray futility of age, all of COM
ing to the conclusion along in the fifties that
have utterly failed and that the universe would be
about well of if never had been added thereto.
The man in the country town. seeing the greater
dividends of his city brother regrets that he did not
locate in the metropolis, while the man in the city
seeing what he thinks is the tranquil happiness of
the man in the county seat, VOWS TO select rural
postofice address. should he return to earth.
THE woman who drags around brood OF
4 domestic cares resolves to be prima donna in her
next appearance while the GaliCurcis long after the
incense vanshes resolve to be mothers Of children
should they respond to an encore after death.
So it goes with the complainers, and that's almost
all of US.
The greatest kickers we ever knew were spoiled
nediocres to whom chance crookedneSS gave more
than nature ever intended they should have while the
happiest people we have met were the afflicted and
those whose backs we're bent with burdens.
The only being who escapes the conclusion that
he is small potatoes and few IN hill is the egotist
and he is the greatest of calamities.
The only way to beat the game is to smile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
Times Readers
Voice Vices

Editor Tirnes-A recent salary
boost order that was lost, Strayed or
stolen, brought to the attention of
Marion county taxpayers the pain
full fact that our county judges have
been doing their level best to take
several thousand dollars from the
taxpayers pockets and distribute 1t
among several minor court officials
tho are appointees, 1t seems, Of
these same county judges.
I would like to have these judges
make plausible explanation Of the
why and wherefore Of this peculiar
effort. These minor court officials
already were receiving $4,000 a year.
How many farmers of the county,
or the toiling home owners of the
city, are making any such income?
If those court reporters could not
live on the $4,000 salary, they had
the blessed privileges Of resigning
and there are scores OF competent
men and women who will be only
too glad to take their places.
Most of these judges have been In
office for sixteen years and act as
if life tenure" was ahead Of them.
It is time to call a halt. There
should be placed in nomination, In
opposition to these too liberal dis
pensors of other peoples money,
men of sterling character, pledged
TO forestau this salary grab"
If so, be assured the voters will
do the rest. A change seems not
only imminent, but desirable.
z. P. M'CASLIN.
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and more accurate. And the climax
of the story was that eventually the
team finished fourth.
There was a little restless shut
fling during this long recital, but
no actual interruption.
That came later, when Brookhart
introduced history of the manner
in which he had forced juries in
his home state to bring in verdictS
against rum sellers. even though
they seemed reluctant to convict.
When he had completed the tally
of his triumphs, he paused for ora
torical effect, and a bored voice
from back OF the orchestra ex-
claimed, Tell us some more about
your rifle team"
If New York failed to pass local
enforcement act. then congress
would take over the work and mete
out the punishment which the state
was unwilling to inf1ict.
And yet, only a few seconds later,
the senator was declaiming that he
was Republican of the Lincolnite
sort, and believed in government by
the consent Of the governed. In this
he found no inconsistency whatso-
ever.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
The Supreme Court Candidate

John J. Parker, Judge of the United States court
OF appeals for the Fourth circuit has been named by
the President to succeed the late Justice Sanford on
the supreme court. He appears to be a young man
of ability and good character with the reported back
ing of Chairman Huston of the Republican national
committee and southern Republican leaders.
He is not, however the type Of eminent jurist and
exponent of fundamental constitutional rights which
the country expected Hoover to appoint.
If Judge Parker is a brilliant lawyer, if he has
unusual capacity as juriSt he did not show it in
his 1873 rather routine decisions the circuit bench
Taking his record as whole it is neither very good
very bad.
That is nothing against Parker as man,
a private lawyer or even perhaps circuit Judge
But it is, or should be. against him nominee for
the supreme court. For only the very best are fit
for that high tribunal
AS the country is well aware since the senate
debate over the Hughes nomination, the supreme
court long since has become a super-congress. 1t is
much more than court passing legal techni-
cates. 1t is policy-formng and law-making body
not representative OF responsible to the public
From it there is no appeal on earth.
The supreme court has been dominated by
jorty which places property rights above human
rights That reactionary majority has done violence
to the Constitution and to the laws of congress by
injecting its social and economic prejudces into the
Constitution and the statutes.
And there has been none to protest this desecra-
ion of American principles except that brilliant but
powereSs minority-Holmes, Brandeis and some
times Stone.
So today the supreme court sits above the land,
mighty and untouchable immune from the construc-
live criticism which is the life of all democratic
institutions.
In such national extremity, the appointment of
a new Justice becomes a most solemn and serious
undertaking. The responsibility resting the
President in his choice is grave, and the responsibility
resting on the senate in its confirmation is no less
The President in our Judgment, has not found
the right man in John j. Parker. The senate under
the duty laid upon it by the Constitution, can not
do other than subject Parker's record to the most
extensive and careful committee examination. The
senate duty not derived from any suspicion regard
ing his personal character, which all assume is
unimpeachable.
But the senates Job is to establish beyond doubt
that there is nothing in his record in his present
conception of the office, to indicate that he would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
Clean Sport

TT was not the most mannerly as
J. semblage I have ever seen, but
there was no real malice in its atti-
tude toward the dry debater, and
Senator Brookhart did not help out
much by his technique in handling
a crowd.
I was amazed at the ineptitude
of the man. Surely Smith Wildman
Brookhart has engaged in enough
rough-and- tumble politics not to be
disturbed by a sudden question OF
even few scattering boos.
From this particular statesman ]
expected no great store of logic, but
it did not seem to me much to an
ticipate fuency and some concep-
ton of mob psychology.
For instance, it did not seem to
me either the height of tact OF
truthfulness for him to intimate
that the people in the gallery must
be drunk simply because they inter-
rupted him now and then.
1t is by no means impossible to
disagree with Smith Wildman
Brookhart on no greater stimulus
than beverages containing not more
than one-half Of l per cent of alco-
hol by volume.
The wholly sober chairman dis
agreed with him violently, even
though silently. The presence of the
senator cramped my style little
In previous experiences as a chair
man it always has been my custom
to slip out for minute or so, once
the rebuttal is under way, and sneak
a drink.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
Lesson for j, S,

NEITHER should We Americans
~ take the position that there
is nothing for us to learn in Ger
many'S performance.
The Europa and the Bremen were
built without a subsidy.
If a beaten, debt-ridden nation
can do that, why can't we?
We came out of the war with the
greatest merchant fleet ever con-
Structed, while Germany came out
Of it with practically nothing.
At the end of eleven years, Ger
many sends two of the biggest anc
finest ships ever constructed into
our ports, while a large percentage
Of our fleet rusts away in idleness
American capitalists say that we
can't develop a merchant marine
without a big navy and specia
favors by the government. Perhaps
we can't but Germany can.
Now what is the answer?
We have a bigger coast line thar
Germany, ship more goods to foreign
ports, and require more raw ma
terial in exchange.
We have a greater surplus OF
wealth, and presumably just as able
engineers.
But the fact remains that we, who
were helped rather than hurt BY
the war, have been unable to de-
velop q merchant marine in keeping
with our capacity and needs, while
Germany is resuming the place she
occupied in 1914.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
NJ. E. Tracy
Germany Makes Remarkable
Comeback at Sea, Lesson
for United States IN the
Europa and the Bremen.
SAYS:

NLAUDIUS H. HUSTON says he
~ won't resign as chairman of
the Republican national committee
not now, at any rate.
The Democrats naturally are de-
lighted, while his own crowd is just
as naturally embarrassed.
Some Republican leaders argue
that it would be unwise for him to
resign under fire.
Others declare that he might just
as well get out now as postpone
the agony.
The issue of his retirement seems
to be purely question of time.
President Hoover certainly has
been unfortunate in some of the
aids and associates wished upon
him.
Not only that, but he has been
equally unfortunate because of his
partyS legislative program.
Many people think that he should
have interfered long ere this, not
only with regard to the tariff bill,
but with regard to some other i'm
portant measures.
President Hoover apparently has
proceeded on the theory that the
executive should not interfere with
congress.
In that respect, he obeys the
Constitution, but whether he obeys
the fashion of today is another, and
more debatable matter.
The two most popular Presidents
in recent years - Roosevelt and
Wilson-Seldom permitted congress
to suffer from lack of advice, but
if congress showed the slightest
Discrimination to take it, they gen.
orally put on the screws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
Care at Childbirth Cuts Blindness

/ of infantile blindness as a result of
venereal disease.
In practically every civilized state
in the world, the physician or the
midwife is required to drop into the
eyes of the child at birth an
antiseptic to control such infection.
AS a result Of this, the number
of cases of infantile blindness
have been decreased, but there are
still enough blind children under
5 years of age to make the
problem Of their care serious
matter.
In Switzerland an organization
has made a special study of the
care of the blind child under 5
years of age and has emphasized
particularly the necessity for teach
ing the child to live as nearly like
a normal child as possible, dressing
itself, eating alone, playing with
normal children in the open air,
walking, and trying to make it free
of the terrible solitude that almost
inevitably is the lot of those who
can not see.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The degree of blindness that
renders a man unfit to carry on
ordinary work is less than the
amount wich may prevent a child
from becoming educated.
The eyes of children are changing
as they grow, and this fact also
must be kept in mind in considering
blindness.
The countries of the world vary in
their legal definition Of what con-
stitutes ability to see, in their sys-
tern of finding out how many blind
persons there may be in a commu-
nifty at any given time, and in other
ways.
Nobody knows exactly how many
blind persons there may be in the
world, but of a total population of
1853, 1867, 565 people in the countries
concerned, there were 801, 443 blind
people, or about 104 blind people to
every 100000 of the population.
Due to the systematic campaign
throughout the world in the last
twenty years, there is less and less
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
SZZZ-E1-Rr%SS>s,
HTd oAHt btrItset-i
ANNIVERSARY
H4tt2+4tt1
ANNUNCIATION DAY

ON March 25, according to bib
~ lical tradition, the angel
Gabriel announced to the Virgin
Mary the incarna ton Of Chris.
The earliest authentic evidence OF
the celebration Of the feast Of the
Annunciation is in a canon Of the
Council of Toledo, Spain, held in
656.
For long period this day marked
the beginning of the legal year in
England, where it became known as
Lady day. In 1910 the Synod Of
Worcester forbade all Servile work
on that day, and the various pro-
vincial and diocesan councils in
England confirmed the edict.
Always highly observed In Eng
land, Lady day has come to have
fiscal as we'll as religious significance
for it is observed there as the first
quarter of the year for rents and
other payments.
The pay days in England have
been arbitrarily fixed on Lady day.
Midsummer day, Michaelnas day
and Christmas because it is believed
such important days are better as
reminders Of duty to landlords than
the 30th or 3lst Of the month would
likely be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
Simplicity

HEWLETT is severe in his indict-
= l. ment of present-day tendencies
and speaks his mind plainly. He
continues:
Zone reason for the fantastic and
absurd designs seen in present dav
types of buildings arises from a
desire to Guido or overshadow the
adjoining building, by erecting a
structure that because of its star
Ting and hamboyant nature will at
tract attention at the expense of the
other.
Such practices defeat their own
purpose, for they are a form ~of
architectural diScourteSy.
THE value of the building is en-
HANGED, not by grotesque or startling
design, but by its harmonic rela-
tions to other buildings in the
vicinity"
Simplicity is the great need of
American cities today, Hewlett
thinks.
Greater simplicity, which after
all is the surest measure of good
taste, is needed in our architecture
today" he says.
THE people must be educated to
appreciate such things as simplicity
and harmony, and that is where the
architect, individually as we'll as
through his association, can render
real public service.
THE measure Of progressiveness
of a city is the extent that it is
interested in it's orderly growth
along a definite, far-sighted plan.
I'm encouraging and aiding such
growth the architect because of his
knowledge of what has been done
by cities of the past and his special
training and detailed knowledge
Of materials and the mechanics
Of building, is fitted ideally to act
in an advisory capacity in planning
for the future"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-25
TOR more than three hours I had

TOR more than three hours I had
Il to remain neutral on the sub
ject of prohibition. and the eff
fort nearly ruined me. The occa-
sion was a debate between Clarence
Darrow and Senator Brookhart on
the ACCESSIBILITY of repeating the
eighteenth amendment.
7 have very definite views on that
subject, but as chairman Of the de-
bate it was incumbent upon me to
preserve a wholly impressive front.
In this I assert that I succeeded
beyond my widest dreams. I APP
plauded neither speaker and laughed
at no ones jokes. Still, Senator
Brookhart didn't make any jokes
When unruly spirits in the gallery
heckled the gentleman from Iowa, !
sprang to my feet.
One of the morning papers said
that I numbered up" That's a. lie.
I sprang to my feet and demanded
fair play for the distinguished Wis
itor to our distinguished and fair
city.
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f arm Relief.

NTOR did he seem at all disturbed
IN by his own frank admission
that the Volstead act imposes class
legislation.
In reply to Darrow's plea for per-
Sonal liberty, he said that the law
did not undertake to prevent his
opponent from drinking. He said
that if Darrow wanted to raise his
own barley and brew it, there was
nothing in the statutes to prevent
him
YES" said Darrow. "and sup
pose that presently there will be a
law that If I want a suit of clothes
I must by sheep ranch and raise
my own wool, or go around naked
If the man who grows the grain
Is privileged to indulge in furtive
fermentation, he possesses certain
privileges which are by nature de-
MED to the city chap.
In other words, the Volstead act
seems to be statute designed To
make the dry sections of the United
States wet, and the wet spots dry
Is there any sense in that?
(Copvright. 1890. by The Timesl
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ :
d D-A IL III q
Greater Simplicity Is Needed
IN Architecture of Ameri-
can Cities, Declares J. Mon
roe HelClett.

VARIETY may be the spice OF
life but there is a question as
to how much spice is advisable in
architecture and city planning. At
least, one is led to speculate upon
the matter from the statement of
J. Monroe Hewlett, vice president
of the American Institute of Archi-
tects, who says that America is
suffering from architectural indi-
gestion."
Hewlett, who is an international
figure in the world of art by reason
Of his fine mural paintings, adds
that "a thirst for variety that ap-
pears almost Unsuitable has pro-
duced a hodge-podge in our cities
that bears no resemblance to har-
mony, dignity or individually"
He thinks that this tendency grew
out of a protest against the uni
formity Of a few decades ago. But
like so many protests, so he thinks,
it now has gone to the opposite ex-
IRENE.
Today, he says, American cities
are being dotted with all the va
rietieS Of architectural styles which
the world has evolved in the last
1000 years.
The result, he thinks, is that mo-
notony is again coming to the
front, each city fast becoming a
great hodge podge of various styles.
differing very little from similar
hOdge-podges.