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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
HEALTH SERVICE =
Habits Formed Early by Children

that its parents know exactly what
they are doing and, when it begins
to understand finds out why they
do it, is going to be a much more
happy child and at the same time
a much more efficient member Of
the community.
Beyond the physical and mental
factors associated with the rearing
of the normal child, there are the
tremendous problems concerning
the handicapped that already have
been mentioned.
l. The progress Of medical science
has made possible a great service
to these unfortunate children. The
crippled are repaired by the new
reconstructive surgery; the hard of
hearing are taught the reading Of
lips, and is some instances aided by
electrical devices; the child with
impaired vision is provided with
suitable lenses.
Those weakened by rheumatic dis
orders and heart disease are taught
proper conservation Of their energy
and given occupations suitable to
their state of life; the asthmatic
may be studied by modern methods
to determine the substance to which
they are peculiarly sensitive and in
some instances desensitized; the
child that breathes badly because OF
enlarged adenoids and whose throat
is infected constantly, can be made
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
Hoover's Pledge

Another President has another Muscle Shoals bill
to make law or kill. Coolidge killed one. What will
Hoover do?
BY the very nature of this shoals compromise and
particularly because of what he said about this prob
lem during the campaign Hoover the President must
sign the bill or repudiate Hoover the candidate.
The President has said he does not favor govern
ment operation general proposition, but indicated
he would favor it special instance such Muscle
Shoals if it were necessary as the byproduct of some
major national purpose
The Shoals compromise offers not one such major
purpose" but three: Flood control, navigation and
manufacture of cheap fertilizer for farmers.
The President has said he does not favor the Norris
bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals. The
compromise is not the Norris bill. It is truly
compromise between government operation and pri
vate operation than any bill heretofore agreed on in
congress-
While it provides that the government shall operate
the power facilities at Muscle Shoals all sections Of
the measure pertaining to operation of the nitrate
plants by the government suspended until the
President makes a lease for these plants. And this
suspension continues for fifty years when the lease is
made
Probably never before has President been given
such wide powers to dispose of a government prop
erty to private concern es this Muscle Shoals
promise gives Hoover to lease the fertilizer facilities
there
Moreover the compromise is test of whether any
part of the Muscle Shoals properties ever be
leased. If, after twelve months no lease is
mated under the liberal terms of the compromise, it
must be agreed generally that lease never can be
made.
And then even the most vigorous opponents of
government operation viii be forced to the conclusion
that such operation is preferable to allowing the
valuable plants to disntegrate.
And above all, this is another test of Hoover on
the power issue
He can not meet the issue by pocket veto, as
mas been limited He can not meet it by any sort of
veto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
Prohibition Is Legal. But

Few viii be surprised grieved by the unani-
nous decision yesterday of the United States supreme
court upholdng the constitutional validity of the
eighteenth amendment.
There will be little surprise because the same high
court in its earlier decision in the celebrated national
prohibition cases held that "the amendment by lawful
proposal and ratification has become part of the
Constitution"
And only last month the able justices of the United
States circuit court of appeals in New York also unani-
mously sustained the consttutionalty Of the amend
ment.
Probably not even Federal Judge William CLARK
Of Newark will be surprised that he was reversed
by the supreme court. For Judge Carks logic it viii
be recalled, leaned much more heavily on political
philosophy than upon the law at issue.
Clark's basic argument that the tenth amendment
limited congress power under Article of the Con-
stituton to fix the method Of ratifying subsequent
amendments does not hold water
AS the supreme court pointed out every amend
ent has been ratified by the acts Of state legislatures
including all the amendments after the tenth and
including those touching individual rights of citizens
We believe with Judge Clark that the unused
method of ratification by state conventions is bet
ter and more democratic method than by state legis-
latures But, unfortunately, under the Constitution
it is not the only way and not the way which con-
gress hitherto has chosen.
The great educational value Of Clark's opinion is
not destroyed by the supreme courts decision For as
Clark himself said in his decision:
Even if this opinion meets with cold reception
in the appellate courts hope that 1t at least will
have the effect of focusing the countrys thought upon
the neglected method of considering constitutional
amendments in conventions"
That applies to all future amendments
AS for the eighteenth amendment, we believe that
most intelligent prohibition opponents will welcome
the supreme court decision. They realize that eff
fective abolition of the dry amendment can not be
achieved by legal technicalty but only by outright
repeal. And repeal is coming
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
VOiceIeSs Indiana.

Unless the legislature passes law creating new
congressional districts the people of this state are
quite likely to have no voice in the national congress
two years hence Politicians who gliby assume that
the twelve members Of congress can be elected at large
may be shocked by the opinion Of very able attorneys
that no such election is possible.
The act of congress ordering new superintendent
of members of the national body says that such mem
bers shall be elected from districts and not by states
This is in keeping with the fundamental idea that
the house of representatives shall be brought near
as possible to the people and thus to be responsive
to their will at all times.
This state now has thirteen members. Two years
hence it will have but twelve 1t is therefore, very
imperative that the state be divided into new dis
tricts.
Political managers who are obsessed with the idea
that there is an advantage in placing blame on the
opposition party for failure to act will probably be
dislsoned at the next election. The people will re-
sent every influence that takes away their right to
representation in government.
Indiana in the past may not have been well rep
resented in congress- but it has had members in that
body to whom appeals could be made. To leave the
state voiceess in national matters is unthnkable.
It is time to lay aside political chickering's and give
the people the right to rule themselves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
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ANNIVERSARY
Capture OF vNCENNES
Feb. 25

Capture OF VNCENNES
Feb. 25
I'm Feb. Is, ITO, George Rogers
~ Clark, with a band Of 200 men,
captured Fl. Vincennes, in Indiana,
from the British.
Clark had undertaken to conquer
the territory northwest of Ohio for
Virginia, which then was held by
the British forts at Detroit, VIM
cennes, Kaskaskia and Cahokia.
The whole region was claimed by
Virginia as part Of its original
charter domain.
Aided by Patrick Henry, then
Governor of that state, Clark COL
lected a small body of frontiersmen
who proposed to fight on their own
responsibility quite independent Of
either Washington or congress.
In KaSkaSkia, H., Clark won the
goodwill Of a French priest through
whose influence the French garri-
son at Vincennes took the oath Of
allegiance to the republic and
hoisted the American flag.
Meanwhile the British recap
tured Vincennes. Clark at once
set out to get it back again.
Marching 200 miles In the dead Of
winter across drowned lands" his
brave band reached the fort nearly
dead from hunger.
After a sharp fight. Clark took the
fnrf This marked the end OF Brit
ISL authority in that section.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
The Tax Problem

The farmers who today are attempting to
impress the legislature with their demands
for tax relief might well be joined in that
effort by small home owners and the delega-
Fion of jobless men which visited the state
Ihouse a few weeks ago.
The farmer is bankrupt. The industrial
worker is in distress. Taxation adds to the
troubles of both.
Back of the proposals to tax incomes Of
persons and corporations is very funda-
mental principle of all taxation. The govern
ment, by necessity, must be paid for by those
who are able to pay.
It would be worse than folly to tax the
personal incomes of workers and leave I'M
touched the corporations created by law and
endowed with the rights of human beings to
do business.
AS to the specific details Of the measures
before the legislature there is room for an
honest division of opinion. The rates may be
TOO high. The exemptions may be too low.
But in principle, they follow just principle
applied to new conditions of society.
Our present tax laws were framed IN a
day when real estate was the only property
and all real estate had practically the same
value.
Society has changed its ways. New con-
ditions exist. The income tax and the corpo-
ration tax merely recognize these changes in
social conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
II H n NnNT DIV FREDERICK
= 49, AO\|A Lands

{ NENERAL SMEDLEY BUFFERS speech at South
- Bend was very disappointing to the lovers of
raw meat, Tor he didn't say thing which disturbed
rS @ OF nations nothing for which the gov
eminent VIII have to apologize
Wherever you go you witness the spread OF the
III Haplt OF topping trees and it will not be
long until the tree follows its forest brother to ami
hilation. " 'i'4ii-
Some organization, the Izaak Walton League for
instance should come to the rescue of our deenseess
friends. '''410'
ITO top tree is to kill it by inches
1t makes brave effort to come back, but the
loSt II can 40 Is to raise crop Of sprouts around
Vhe amputated surface and meanwhile it dies back.
1t is hutohery pure and simple.
The death OF Louis Wolheim, the actor, as result
OF radical dieting should ladies and gentlemen
With heavy cargoes to tighten the same with care
kind y o''''
Mrs. Nature emphasized her attitude very strong
~ In the case OF the late Senator Boise Penrose of
Pennsylvania.
Penrose was built like battleship and should have
lived century but he scuted his ship with dssipa-
la and went out at So.
GENATOR SAIOOT comes out strongly against the
- further reduction of European debts. which is
rather proper right now for if we can't use public
money to feed our own when they are hungry most
assuredly we should not give charity ball for the
benefit Of foreigners.
The convicts in San Quentin prison in California
have gone in for candy ahead of everything else
But it's too late. If they had concentrated on gum
drops years ago instead Of hooch and dope they
would now be roaming the wide open spaces without
restraint.
IN spite of the dire predictions of Secretary Mellon
regarding the effects of letting the soldiers bor-
row more money on their certificates stocks went up
immediately after the house of representatives voted
for the proposition
This sham battle at Panama between warships is
sham in more ways than one, for II the canal ever
is attacked 1t viii be from the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
The Wagner Laws

II President Hoover signs the employment agency
Dill, Senator Wagner's preliminary program for re-
ducing future unemployment will be complete His
other bills now law provide for better labor statistics
and staggering Of public works.
This does not mean the end of unemployment We
must 80 long way experimenting, rejecting and
planning, before we have done all that may be done
10 rid our industrial civilization of its worst disease
1t does mean that we have made start For the
first time We have done something besides discuss
unemployment.
This depression will not pass without at least
small effort 70 avoid depressions in the future.
The Wagner program Is sound and helpful It
offers no spectacular remedies. Its dement's probably
VIII make themselves felt 50 gradually that we never
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
DR.. / con CannheLl

A RECENT opinion upon the
IN subject was expressed by DR..
Leon Campbell. one of the astron-
omers at the famous Harvard OBJ
servatory.
Campbell says that sit is ridicu-
lous to believe that our earth is the
only peopled planet
Our work proves that Mars is
not a cold planet in the sense that
it has no life" DR.. Campbell says.
1.-THE atmosphere which observa-
lions show exists on Mars is a liv-
able one.
1.-THE temperature in the middle
of the day is about so degrees above
zero, Fahrenheit. Tt ranges down
ward 100 degrees"
DR.. Campbell points out that this
same temperature range exists on
earth. Temperature changes, how
ever, are more violent on Mars, the
change from maximum to minimum
occurring in single day.
This fact has caused some as
trononers to have doubts concern
ing life on Mars. but DR.. Campbell
continues:
Astronomers generally agree now
that Mars has some form of life.
If you see evidence of vegetation,
you usually find that to be true.
Venus has about as good a
chance of sustaining life as docs
Mars.
1--WE have no right to assume that
we are the only people in the uni
verse"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
NJ. E. Tracy

The American People Really
Do Not Want a Dictator.
but They FHrt With the
Idea Because They Want
Action.
ut. WORTH, Tex, Feb. 25.-
Il Though asking for drought re-
lief, the people of west Texas have
raised great hue and cry over the
description Of their habitat as semi
arid" in certain text books. Not
only that, but they have been sue
cessful to the extent OF making
some Of the publishers take it back
and agree to revision Of the copy.
Queer as this sounds, it is quite
consistent with the facts. There
has been a drought in west Texas,
just as there was in Virginia, south
ern Ohio and many other sections,
but it meant no more in one place
than another.
just now, no one would describe
west Texas as even mildly arid,
whether with regard to water, oil or
hooch. A special report to the
Wickersham commission says that
the market is better for moonshine
than imported stuff, and though it
attributes this to local taste, over
production undoubtedly is the real
cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Governor Leslie
recently stated, or was quoted pub
licly, that information had come to
him that married women were en-
ployed whose husbands we're able to
support them.
We would suggest that state Of
flcerS take a survey of statehouse
Offices and state institutions gen
orally of the departments where
married women are employed. These
ladies wear diamonds, rich furs,
lovely dresses and park good cars
on statehouse space, while their
childless husbands are employed in
gainful occupations and professions.
The officials should check up on
the state board Of charities, the
state industrial board, board Of &C
counts, board of mines, treasurer's
Office, state historical commission,
state board of medical registration,
state board Of nurses registration,
board Of education, board of agri-
culture, etc.
The Federation of Women's Clubs,
Business and Professional Women's
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
Gloomy Outlook in Oil

TdE situation does not look so
y bright for oil men, especially
the little independents. Congress
can't find time to do thing in
their behalf. Garner of Texas says
it's because the Mellon crowd and
the Rockefeller's won't let congress
do anything; that they have the
little fellows right where they want
them, and are making use of the
present situation tc squeeze them
out.
That may be true, Of course, but
congress has been very busy with
its probes and Investigations, not
to mention the task of building
fences for 1882, and just about the
time it appears to have things nicely
cleaned up and can get down to
work, some one is sure to confront
it with wholly unexpected prob
lem.
The oil men might have obtained
something in spite of the MELONS
and Rockefellers if the New York
World hadn't iasinuated that some
senator got paid by somebody for
putting over some deal in connec-
ton with the sugar tariff, but now
Mr.. Borah thinks the senate should
drop everything and find out all
about it, though there isn't so much
as a name to begin with.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
wXTEST OF THE HUpSON-The

INVEST OF THE HUDSON.-The
w lady from Boston looked across
the cleaning swimming pool at Aqua
Caliente, and it was not difficult
choice in the matter of view, for I
was sitting on the other side of the
little table. But after a little while
she turned back and gave me a
frank New England glance.
It was evident that she had a
concern. I am no Winchell, but I
have at least an average curiosity
as to peoples errors, particularly
the transgressions of the sedate.
Our brief acquaintanceship was
perfectly proper and founded on the
fact that her husband had once
published a book through a firm
which had once brought out book
of mine.
waited patiently to hear just
what she had to tell. After long
silence she remarked, ''This morn
ing I did a dreadful thing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25

Clubs and Assembly Women's Club
should act to prohibit hiring Of
married women in all state, county.
city and township Offices and all
city, town and rural schools Of the
state. The competition of young
girl and men teachers with married
women is a situation that is all
wrong.
More young men would turn to
the teaching field If there was a
real mans chance, which the state
should provide, by abolishing these
luxury loving parasites, and work
ing people would not face daily the
set of false standards and extrava-
gance which these greedy women
f1aunt in the faces Of the spinsters
and younger generation, both Of
whom have dependents and ex-
pensive educational requirements
to meet.
Many teachers are from the farm
districts and the Governor should
be keen to sign such a bill and not
call that trading"
JANE FERVOR.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
EarthiS NeighborS
TINE chance of the planet Vent

TIME chance Of the planet Venus
Il being inhabited has appealed to
many astronomers. DR.. Seth B.
Nicholson of Mt. Wilson observatory
says that he rather would take his
chances on the planet Venus than
Mars.
Venus and Mars are the earths
immediate neighbors in the solar
system.
The planet Mercury is closest to
the sun. Astronomers fee certain
that this planet is too clos to the
sun for life. Thermocoupl9 meas
urements of its surface indicate
temperatures Of about 800 degrees
above zero.
After Mercury comes Venus, then
our own earth, and then Mars.
Venus is about the same size as the
earth, having a diameter of about
1900 miles.
The telescope indicates that the
planet has a dense atmospher, filled
with clouds. There seems to be
reason for supposing that its at
mosphere contains both water va
por and oxygen.
Mars is about half the size Of
the earth, having a diameter of
1920 miles. It's atmosphere is not
very dense.
Markings on the planets surface
change color with the seasons.
leading such authorities as Professor
Henry Norris Russell Of Princeton
to conclude that they are due to
vegetation
The battle over the canals of Mars
is not settled yet. Some astrono-
mers claim that they exist. Others
deny 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
Home Industry Thriyes

IF dry officials are as successful
l. as they claim in stopping i'm
portation, and if drinking is as prev
alent as they admit, home manu-
facture must be gaining by leaps
and bounds.
Those who have perfected them
selves in this new art, whether for
business, or their own convenience,
doubtless will be glad to learn that
the eighteenth amendment is valid
and that they can continue, with
out fear of competition.
It requires no stretch of the i'm
agination to guess how dreadfully
such hefty boys as "Scarface" AL
Capone would have felt had the
supreme court upheld Judge Clark
and decided that the eighteenth
amendment was null and void.
With national prohibition okeyed,
with President Hoover committed
to stand by it, with Chairman Ras-
kob virtually thwarted in his eff
forts to turn the Democratic party
wet, and with Big BilI' Thompson
renominated and likely to be re-
elected mayor of Chicago, the boot
Logging industry should feel safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
A Pleasure to Lose

THIS may be so, but must have
l. gone to the wrong shops and
lunchrooms The female popula-
ton of Hollywood seemed to me just
average, which is nothing to rave
about.
But let Mexico into competition
and Even New York is nowhere.
Not when stacked against the small
community of Aqua Caliente.
At the race track Mexican girls,
in white trousers and blue coats,
act as betting commissioners and
take your 50 to the window. After
the race is over, they bring back
the $2.40 which you won for place.
But even if you have to tear up all
the tickets it's pleasure to lose in
such beautiful surroundings. Even
the mountains round about the
track are very lovely.
Copyright, 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
IL Duce Advertises

II Mussolinis cohorts in this country are not
careful, Americans going to discover that there
is Fascist terror and dictatorship in Italy For
some years American liberals have tried to advertise
that fact-without success. But Mussolinis am
bassador and other Fascsts here are more successful
Now that the ambassador calls for report on
every obscure American speech of commonplace on
Italy. the hitherto ignored facts are getting big
publicity
1t was supposed that Mussolini and his agents
learned their lesson in the recent Smedley Butler
case-when they were glad to have the generals
court-martial called off rather than stand public
parade of the Mussolini record
But the Italian embassy now has called for a
full report of last Saturdays New York speech bv
Assistant Attorney General OBrian
Thank God we do not live in country such as
Italy where dictatorship of one man can make a
horizontal slice in wages" O'Bran is reported to
have said
mat strikes us under the circumstances as a verv
mild remark which happens to be true.
We are glad that Fascist oficiousness has given
wider publicity to the truth than OBrian could give
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-25
They Want Action

WTE have come to a rather criti-
w cal state of affairs in our
political life because of this feeling
toward congress in relation to the
presidency.
The people really do not want
dictatorship. yet they flirt with the
idea because they do want action.
The only remedy is for congress
to wake up, quit tri1ing, and pay
more attention to important bust
ness.
The people are tired of this end
less parade of probes, most of which
result in little but a waste of time
and money; tired Of the petty
squabbling over petty details while
the nation is confronted with such
big and complex problems.
What they desire is leadership.
They would as soon get it from
congress as anybody. Failing to get
it from congress, they look else
where.