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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
ADD UT MILES
OF HIGHWAY TO
STATE SYSTEM
Action of Commission to
Give Jobs to Many,
Official Says.

Forecast of Ralph Simpson, as
sistant state highway director, that
5000 men will be employed this year
in road maintenance work, was
strengthened Thursday when the
state highway commission voted to
add TT miles of roads to those
which it will maintain.
Officials said mileage will be
placed under state control between
March / and May /.
Among roads to be added to the
state system follow:
Road 1886. Danyille to road 43. near
Raecoon. PA miles.
Road IS, Charlottesville to wingate, lis
Road a4s. Lewis to Middletown. 1913
Road n. Sheridan to road 81. 1915
Road So. Pendleton, Modoc. Lynn TO the
Ohio state line. 53.8 miles.
Road 267. Mooresville to Plainheld. II
Road 244. Andersonville to road 20.
near Shelbyville, 2l.1 miles.
Road III. Connersville to road So. >l4,8
Road 80. Sheridan. Noblesville to Pendle-
Road A. shelbyvilIe to Rushville. 1926
Road 20. from road 81 near Kokomo
70 road near. Paramount. 24.3 miles.
Road 26. Portland TO the Ohio state line.
Road $50. Shoals to Bedford. 23.5 miles.
Road %, Columbus to Bedford, AZ miles.
Road 2o2. Edinburg to road 35, 1875 miles.
Koad "a, Franklin to shelbyville. 1874
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
LAWYER FIGHTS
SCULPTURE BILL
Carl Mote ResiSts $1,000
Claim for Statues.

Wether a husband must pay
$4,000 for four bronze statues of
his wife and three children as
necessary house furnishings" to-
day puzzled Superior Judge Russell
j. Ryan.
The four pieces of art were Or
dered from Miss Myra r. Richards,
sculptress, who has field suit against
Carl H. Mote, attorney, of 1850
North Delaware.
Ryan set the case for trial today,
but learned attorneys may settle
the question of what constitutes
necessary furnishings" for a home.
The complaint alleges the bronze
group was necessary for Mote and
his family to maintain their stand
ard of living"
Mote charges he did not know Of
contract made by his wife, Mrs.
Mary Fl. Mote, with Miss Richards.
Mote, however, claims the credit
was given to his wife and not to
him, as the husband.
Seeking $4,000 damages, Miss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Cured NOW?

If Roy Coleman, a miner
employee Of the Grant Coal
Mining Company in 1916, is
alive today he viii receive
$500 compensation for injuries
suffered while employed by the
company.
After nearly seventeen years
of waiting for a final court de-
ciSion, the case was ended
Thursday when the supreme
court upheld a ruling by a
Vigo county superior judge,
awarding Coleman $7.35 a week
for 500 weeks.
The Vigo county ruling, Sus-
tanning constitutionality of the
state compensation law, was
appealed to the supreme court
in 1926, and final briefs of the
case were filed in 1927. After
five years the case was de-
cided today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26

ages that III effects would not re-
suit from drinking the water in
which the paper had been soaked.
This was countered with an ar
gument that physicians claimed the
youth died from chronic poisoning
and that repeated doses of the
solution would have been sufficient
to bring death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
EMMETT BRANCH
FUNERAL TODAY
State Leaders Will Pay Last
HonorS at MartinSviIIe.
By United Press

By United Press
MARTINSvILLE, Ind. Feb. o.
Scores of prominent state political
leaders gathered here today in final
tribute to Emmett F. Branch, for
mer Governor of Indiana, who died
Tuesday of a heart attack.
Funeral services we're to he held
at 2:30. 1t was planned originally
to hold the rites It the home, but
later it was decided to hold the fu-
neral in the Martinsville Christian
church, with the Rev. E. L. Day
officiating.
Led by Governor Harry G.. Leslie.
a special committee of the Indiana
general assembly came for the rites.
During his political career Branch
served three terms in the assembly,
one as Speaker of the House. .
A special detail of state police was
o-dered to escort the funeral posses
sion.
Burial was to be in Hill Dale ceme-
terry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26

Richards alleges only $1,400 Of the
total bill has been paid.
Plaster casts of the bronze group,
she alleges, are being used by the
family, although delivery of the
bronze figures awaits settlement Of
the contract.
She states the art work was COM
pleted Nov. 80, 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
FRESHMEN GET REWARD
Eighteen. at De Paw r Elected
To Phi Eta Sigma.
By Times Special

By ItUe5 bpeCtuJ
GREENCASTLE, Ind; Feb. 90
Eighteen freshmen at De Paw uni
versity have been elected to Phi Eta
Sigma, national scholastic fraternity.
Eligibility is based on number of
points each student makes, an aver
age of half "a" and half "B" work
being required. Sophomores will
have charge of the initiation and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
banquet program which will be held
Mo tnh .

MdICl 4.
Freshmen meeting the requirements are:
Walter Dengel. Jacksonville; Charles R.
Brown, Louisville. KY; John w. Christen-
sen, Hammond; John M. Derby. Deerfeld.
Ill; Dale Harris. Elkhart; Grover Hart
man, Brookston; Clayton HUFF Martins
Vile; Orrin A. Manifold, ingalls,; Harold
T. Porter, Peru; Alan l.. Ritter, Switz City;
Bert Sappenheld, Oaktown:@ Robert H.
Schlundt, Evansville; Phillip D. Taylor,
South Bend; Earl r. Trump. Arcanum, o.;
Harlan S. White, Larwell; Edward F. Will
son. Rushville; Thomas F. Wood. Sey-
mour; and Harold r. Milburn. Hoopeston,
I'll
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Big Scramble

oy CHfIetI Press
HAMILTON, Mo-, Feb. 26.-
NJ. E. Beniger had scrambled
eggs-63,720 Of them-when
the big freight truck he was
driving overturned and rolled
down an eight-foot embank-
ment three miles west of here.
The truck was carrying 1T
cases of eggs for Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
REAS0NER I%NAUGURATED
Succeeds DR.. Fletcher Hodges as
Head of Patriotic Society.

Head of Patriotic Society.
Inauguration of Mark H. ReaSoner
as president of the Indiana Society
of the Sons of the American Revo-
luton was held Thursday night in
the Propylaeum.
Reasoner succeeded DR.. Fletcher
Hodges. A dinner, playlet and
Washington program were features
of the Inauguration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Gold PunctuYe

By United Press
BUTTE, Mont, Feb. 90.
Dave T. Kelley has had trouble
with a tire on his truck for a
week. Finally he examined
the casing closely and dis
covered a gold nugget lodged
there. Now he wonders where
it was picked up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
On Being Specific About Mr.. Hoover

Some readers have been rather annoyed at blanket
indictments of Herbert Hoover as President of the
United States. They demand bill of particulars,
specifying just those things which Mr.. Hoover has
done as President which mark him out a servant
Of predatory interests rather than servant of the
broad American public.
Such an invitation ought to be a delight to any
liberal whatever his political affiliations. But sin
gle column could contain more than sample of his
misdeeds Here is list of few of the more notable
and obvious:
He made no effort to check the mad speculative
mania which ran for nearly eight months after his
Inauguration before the bubble collapsed, bringing
those disastrous results with which we are all too
we'll acquainted.
When calamity overlook the heels of the
speculative New Jerusalem, Mr.. Hoover did not
the nation of its difficulties or responsibilities. He
assured us that it was only passing cloud which
neither required any feats of leadership his part
any thought and sacrifice the part of the public.
He signed the Hawley- smoot tariff BILL the most
htrocious of its sort in national history
This cut heavily into our foreign trade and made it
difficult for debtors abroad to pay principal in
terest on their debt. 1t encouraged migration of
American capital abroad increase foreign competi-
ton with American labor and boost unemployment in
this country.
He advocated tax reduction at a time when there
was but a small surplus, when all informed persons
knew that the economic slump would produce
deficit and when the existing surplus should have
been applied to reducing the national debt.
He resoutely opposed extensive appropriations for
really necessary public works, designed to provide
ployment, increase labor income produce rise in
purchasing power and help on the return of pros
perty.
This he did, though this public works program
was approved by the best economic opinion socioog-
ical advice and craftsmanship of the nation well
by Mr. Hoovers own alleged profession, the engineers
of the country.
He strenuously opposed federal aid for the unem-
ployed, though he knew that much of the cost of
caring for the poor in local communities would have
to be paid by those of small incomes, and even in
part, by the unemployed themselves in the form of
indirect taxes.
He packed plan to give billions to the Recon-
sructon Finance Corporation whose policy in large
part, to shift the shaky loans made voluntarily
by bankers to the already grooming back of Uncle
Sam himself. The bankers thus were saved from the
consequences Of their own irresponsible or unwse
action.
Further, the corporation put in the hands of
the very group chiefly responsible for the policies
which landed US in the big slump And theseamillons
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13

were aLocated cheerfully at the very time when Mr.
Hoover was maintaining an almost misery restraint
on relief and public works appropriations which
might have helped the masses
He packed the federal power commission with M
orous opponents of public ownership and operation
He went back on his specific promises to recommend
legislation for public ownership ana operation of the
Muscle Shoals power project Indeed he appointed
committee to 'renvestigate" the proposition. for
the obvious purpose of blocking the Norris bill
He opposed or postponed, even in the last ses-
sion Of congress, federal credit for nonproft under
takings through threat of a Veto so as to insure
prohts to capital needless of the fact that such ac
ton might increase or perpetuate unemployment
He stated at the much-touted White House con-
ference on child labor that 100000 children in the
that this was due to the ignorance of parents rather
than to the poverty of the latter produced by our
negotiable economic system
He demanded furoughs for government enploves
thus reducing the already low income of faithful
eral servants. While making much of voluntary
cut IN his own salary he maintains much the most
expensive White House retinue bureaucracy and
equipage in our national history
He sought to invoke in his behalf the natriotic
sentiments Of the nation by his soke-screen of evict
ing the bonus army thus dstractng public attention
from MS feeble efforts to take any significant action to
lessen unemployment.
He has dsregarded expert economic onnion
throughout his administration while posing as the
expert OF experts and the great apostle of
by commissions of experts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
The Storm Center
nation.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said of the
supreme court 1T quiet here but it is the quiet of
3 storm center"
Holmes referring to the calm in the center of
hurricane. It was good figure Not much goes
on in the courts little chamber in the senate wing of
the Capitol except legal argument.
The manners of lawyers and attendants, even of
the justices themselves highly respectful of the
court, its traditions and its high authority.
Now, today, they laying the corner stone of a
new and monumental supreme court building on
Capitol HILL across the plaza. huge steel skeleton
already has been erected soon massive blocks of
carved stone will be placed to create huge and i'm
posing hall of justice which will house the most pow
erful tribunal in the world
In its stately halls and courtroom, nine men will
preside the destinies of all the people. This
court can-and does, if it desires-say nay to the
President the congress, and the whole people
It can-and often does-stop reform of our eco
nomc, governmental and legal institutions in mid
flight, its Interpretation of what the trainers
Of the Constitution intended to decide 14O years ago.
The money of the people this court rules so abso-
utely is providing it with $120O0O0O building.
The possibility has been suggested that such mon
ument further may insulate the justices from the
people and their needs
The life tenure and omnipotence of the justices
make this fear more than fantasy.
The answer lies in selection of human and hui
judges who will be cognizant of the rights
of people than have most of those in recent history;
who will see that human rights paramount to
property rights; who will enable changing institutions
to meet the demands of a changing civilization.
The only way to insure such a supreme court under
our present system to elect Presidents who will ap
point and senators who will confirm fOrward-lookng
JUDGES
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
A President Untouched

Mr. Hoover managed to deliver a long address
Wednesday night on the problems of law and of gov
eminent without mentioning single living issue. His
address to the American Bar Association ratified the
bones Of our great American tradition to frighten
those who dare apply the spirit of liberty now.
Our creaking machinery of government he de-
scribed Of divine inspiration" Those who would
make the government more responsive to the peoples
will, more effective in meeting complex economic
problems unknown to the simpler rural civilization of
our fathers, were branded by the President
menace"
In warning that change would destroy personal
liberty and sweep away the security of savings and
wages" he unaware, apparently that personal
liberty and economic security menaced today under
the system which he called divine.
He could appeal for protection of the supreme
court from entertainments, without seeming to know
the danger Of that courts encroachments upon the
constitutional powers Of congress
He spoke long Of criminals and lawlessness with
out reference to prohibition, which the American Bar
Association and others have found to be a major
source Of lawlessness.
There is something deeply disturbing in the spec
tacle of a President of the United States so I'M
touched by the realities which hold the rest of the
nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -
Warning Given on Use of Lacquer

! and the tank largely have replaced
the use of the hand brush.
However, in homes it still is Gus
tomary to apply these quick drying
lacquerS with the brush, particu-
larly for floors, woodwork, house
hold fixtures, ornaments and leather.
In an analysis of the dangers as
ISOLATED with such lacquer, William
j. Burke points out that the vola-
tile ingredients, that is, those which
evaporate off as gases, constitute
n per cent, and that this may be
increased further before use by add
ing of thinners.
Lacquers are not dangerous ex-
cept for the fact that some of the
substances which they contain burn
easily and explode, and also because
they may be exceedingly poisonous
to the human body. The nitro
cellulose is of this character.
However, the lacquers are also di-
luted and Trimmed by the addition
Of benzol and toluol, and also of
various others, amylS and acetateS,
as we'll as combinations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OLD and young people the most pitiabe VIC
~ tins of the economic disorder For the former
there is little hope unless the several States enact
legislation to help them. For the latter there may be
a glorious future, only being young most OF them
have no tthe power to understand
To the boys and girls only the present is real
They have little consciousness sof past future In
experienced in years they have not acquired the most
blessed lesson of life-that everything, sorrow
passes.
The sense of time hurrying, or of the totalty of
existence, is not their Only today belongs to them,
and if today fails them, then life always must be
awry, disorderly and futile
Thus in many localities now fine young men are
taking their lives because they find no place
for themselves in the scheme of things. Girls are
disappointed and miserable because the time when
nature prompts them to mate goes by and there can
be marriage for them because there jobs for
the boys they could marry.
YOUNG wives with babies in their arms go back
to their parents leaving their equally young hus-
bands depresSe dand hopeless while they face divorce
broken life and dark future
Never has there been time when adults so needed
to exercise wisdom they do now. Generosity and
common sense even more necessary than charity.
The American parent, in every possible case,
should stand ready to help married and daugh-
tiers through this time of STRESS SO that they need not
have recourse to the divorce courts.
Not only is it our collective job to remedy the sit
uation quickly possible, but it is individual
task to assist the youngsters not with sermonzing
but with material aid
job z small one will help with American
reconstruction far than the most generous does
To keep home intact is better than to give to q
score OF scattered charities, e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
Cooperation Needed

DISCRIMINATING parents note
~ these changes and realize the
need for action, DR.. Peter says, but
others fail completely to notice the
changes taking place in the child's
mentality and disposition.
Parents may be assured that all
cases of croSs-eyes can be corrected,
but it requires their heartiest CO.
operation and a willingness to put
aside their prejudice and their lay
ideas" he says.
LAS the treatment of the case is
purely technical matter which
calls for the highest degree of medi-
cal skill, the treatment should be
prescribed and outlined by a physi-
clan specially trained in the treat
ment of the eyes.
THE family doctor first should
be consulted, and he, in turn, can
guide the patient into the proper
medical channels.
To correct cross eyes, treatment
should begin the sixth year, and,
preferably, before the third year.
The great factor in the cure is the
early institutional of treatment, in
contrast with the popular concep-
ton, to give the child a chance to
grow out of the Squint.'
I'm fact, such measures are re-
sponsible for imperfect cures in the
past"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
Questions and
Answers

How many passenger automobiles
and trucks were registered in the
United States and Canada at the
beginning of this year?
AS of Dec. 81, 1881, total registra-
tions in the United States were
25,814,10 including 22,264,294 pass
enger cars, $4,000 buses and $780,
909 trucks. In Canada, total regis
trations, 1,206,836, included 1,024,385
passenger cars, 1,729 buses and
1922 trucks.
When did Eugene V. Debts last run
for President of the United States
and how many votes did he receive?
In 1920, when he received 919,799
votes.
What is the origin and meaning
vi Toby?
From the Greek name Tobias,
meaning goodness of the Lord"
Is there a planet named Minerva?
No
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
What a World!
The news of one day:

Inc news of one day:
Inc interior department reports that young
girl was expelled from school for stating that George
Washington was born at Wakefield (Which is true)
The school board never had heard of anv other
place but Mt. Vernon in connection with the father
of this country.
In st. Paul, John Schultz, serving thirty
day sentence in the Workhouse walks out two weeks
ahead OF time, and the assistant superintendent of
the workhouse says, ooh, the boys often walk out
there's no story in that" and the commissioner of
public works says 1.-THE escape is nothing serious and
I'm willing to forget the whole affair"
Restaurateurs, meeting in convention say that
the reason we have had such extraordinarily good
health during the depression Cor have we? is that
we eat slower and make the food last longer
And down in a Virginia city, Phi D.. whose
father has spent $4,000 his education will operate
a filling station this year. now that he has finished
taking all the under and postgraduate degrees he
ever heard about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13
Treatment Outlined

GTEPS necessary in the treatment
~ of squint, according to DR..
Peter, are as follows: Testing of
vision, fitting of glasses, prevention
Of lowering vision in weak eye,
awakening of the fusion faculty and,
when necessary, operation.
THE layman is not entirely to
blame for his misconceptions as to
the cause of croSs-eyes," he says.
Until recent years, the sequence of
events which led up to squint was
not grasped thoroughly by the aver
age physician.
And perhaps the same lack of
unity on the part of medical adj
visers as to the best method of cor
recting the deformity may be re-
sponsible in part of the popular
prejudice against prescribing of
glasses for young children and
against operating upon the young
child when such procedure is indi-
Gated.
ITO laymen, cross-eyes are the
direct result of some sudden fright,
shock, strong emotion, commissions,
Whooping cough or some other dis
ease of childhood.
Hereditary influences seem to be
unimportant to them, or possibly it
seems only coincidence that the
mother or father, brother or sis
ter, similarly was afflicted in early
childhood
1T is but natural, therefore, that
another child in the same family
may become victim following one
of the causes mentioned"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-13

All lacquer vapors are poisonous
and if inhaled in sufficiently con-
centrated state for a sufficient
length of time will cause poisonous
symptoms, if not death.
They have exceedingly poisonous
effects on the blood and also on
the tissue of the nervous system.
Hence, they never should be used
except where ventilation is ade-
quate.
There are records of cases of
serious illness and death caused by
use of lacquer in a basement room
without adequate ventilation or in
garages or in Workrooms that do
not have proper arrangements for
continuous movement of the air.
Because lacquers burn easily and
explode, it is desirable that the
places in which they are used be
kept scrupulously clean.
Rags, waste, paper and all similar
lnf1ammable material should not be
allowed to remain where they may
come in contact with the lacquer
solutions.