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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

have ideas of their own regard
ing location, form and structural
Individuality. They want modern
conveniences, of course, but not
at the sacrifice of taste.
: To most people, a home repre-
sents the one available outlet for
personality. They don't want it
made by somebody else, according
to model No. g., or No. SO, and
stuck down on a fiat lot, with two
arbor vitae or colored cement
shrubs at the front door.
Home can not be subordinated
completely to rationalism without
losing the atmosphere which
makes it genuine and attractive.
Take the fireplace, for instance,
which wastes heat and is a nui-
sance to keep clean. You can
go to work and prove that it is
uneconomic, but you can't con-
vince most folks that they ought
to forego the privilege of sitting
in front of it and dreaming over
the embe1s.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Homes Most Important

HOMES probably are the most
IL important structures we
build. They are places where
character is formed and where
social concepts take root, vastly
more DEPENDENT on atmosphere
than gadgets. They go to the
bedrock of life.
A new system of home purchase
and home financing would do
more good than a new system of
producing the bare structure, par
ticularly one which left little or
nc room for self-expression.
1t is more important that people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
THE DRY COMPROMISE"

Democratic senators are toying with the idea of
adopting the Hoover Republican proposal for re-
vision of the eighteenth amendment to provide for
perpetual federal policing of dry states.
Senator Joseph Robinson, the Democratic leader,
tect dry states would be advanced as a "compro-
mise" The Glass-Hoover revision plan resolution
is suggested.
Such a plan is no compromise, it is a surrender to
the overwhelmingly repudiated drys and treason to
the Democratic platform and pledges. It would con-
tinue our costly federal police and spy force, with it's
system of informers, overlapping and, not infre-
quently, bribery and blackmal.
The Webb-Kenyon act, already on the law books
and still in force, forbids shipment of liquor into dry
states, and can and will be enforced through usual
federal channels, after national prohibition is re-
pealed.
But it is important to note that this method of
protecting dry states is done under the commerce
clause of the Constitution. The big thing. is to
knock out and keep out of the Constitution petty
police regulations as to what we shall drink-or
eat, or believe.
Analysis of Mondays straight repeal vote in the
house showed conclusively that lame duck Repub-
licans and southern Democratic drys combined to
thwart the mandate of the November election and
the pledge of the victorious Democratic party for
return of liquor control to the states.
Votes in support of any measure to tinker with
the eighteenth amendment in the winter session
of congress will come from the same groups.
Friends of prohibition reform should beware of
Greeks bearing gifts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

highly uncouth, got real JOY out ms FEHOUsoN
it. we anguish while trying to do well the precise
steps taught by the professors.
we do not enjoy golf, because we want to be
Bobby Jones. We do not enjoy football or baseball
or horse racing, because we are gambling spectators
and not active participants. And gambling is too
nerve-racking to be enjoyable, while only play
ers get any real fun out Of sport.
VXTE do not enjoy our parties, because there are
w SO many fool rules We have to follow to enter
tain properly. Fun slid out the window when the
butler came in at the door.
And, as a last blow, the only delightful pastime
left us. contract bridge, is being ruined by the ex-
perts. The whole game, once so pleasant, has be-
come a medley Of rules and signals and countings
and problems. so that it is almost as bad as having
to 20 through Rays Third Part Arithmetic all over
again.
we used to sit down to a friendly foursome in
which every one did the best she could. We had, a
little talk, a little laughter, a little friendliness on
the side, and went home cheered and happy.
Now grim faces and frozen stares discourage any
natural exuberance. a funereal silence must be pre-
served. we sit like a bunch OF undertakers over a
corpse, and leave, at last. madder than March hares.
Let the experts gloom over their mummifed con-
tract. AS for me. I'll take a good, rowdy game Of
pitch for fun any day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

who took a sunen pleasure in thumbng their noses at the voters who
had turned them out.
The significant and dangerous thing is that thirty-three Democrats
who were reelected in November calmly violated the platform pledge
and voted against repeal I am not speaking merely of the subject
OF prohibition. This demonstration cuts a great deal deeper than that.
1t is an indication of the enormous cyncism which pervades Ameri-
can politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
NJ. E. Tracy Says:

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-This idea
- of the factory-built house is
intriguing, especially for men who
have factories. One only can guess
Why it has not made more head
way. Lumbermen have tried it
on the ready cut" basis, but with
Indifferent success.
For a time it looked as though
the late Mr.. Edison would make
a hit with poured concrete in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Ideals and opinions
expressed in this
column are those Of
one of Americas
most interesting
writers and are
presented b
regard to he /
agreement with the
editorial attitude Of
this a p e r.-The
Editor.

time IN which repeal possibly can be expected, and as yet it isn't even
Oh IL way There is many a slip between the expressed will of the people
and legislative enactment.
TO be sure, even the passage of the repeater would have left a long
road 10 travel but as things stand not a wheel has vet turned It SEEM
10 me that Franklin D. Roosevelt will be impened for the honor of his
party to call a special session.
II tnrty-three supposed Democrats are entitled to run under
aBe colorS and once safely in Office say, THE public be damnedl"
men tnere IS no sense or utility in party platforms.
II all the "musts" are to be regarded as mere "maybes" the voter
from now on VIII do we'll to spare himself from eyestralp and let the
piaOorm . read solennly to the marines and nobody else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Daily Thought

Jesus answered and said unto
him, Verify, verify, ] say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he
can not see the kingdom Of Cod
st. John 3:3.
n = y
TTOW few our real vsanta. ana
II now vast our imaginary onesl
-LaYater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

% oII0IT oLooIOIE.
Possibly some excuse may be found for a man
like Blanton, of Texas, who at least had the
audacity before election to admit that he had
no intention of living up to the repeal blank of
his party's platform.
Seldom has the United States seen such an
emphatic mandate given TO legislators. The re-
suit left not the slightest doubt of The majority
sentiment in regard to prohibition. The Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency was admir-
ably clear in his stand, and so was his platform.
Voters have a right to get what they want.
Through a most cumbersome constitutional ma
chinerv four nr five ..nars t. nho..A IL. -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
The Short Memory of Voters

ME men who betrayed their constituents trust to the fact that
\ American voters are less than elephants, and that in two years
time most OF them will have forgotten what happened in this particu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Wearing just another pillow or two, the street.
corner Santa Clauses appear to be about as hale
and hearty as they did a year ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

Gables from Nice report that Jimmy" walker
gave Miss Betty Compton some sage, if futile. adj
vice when she was 500 ahead at a Casino gaming
table. Wed better quit while we're winning" said
he. Jimmys one fellow who ought to know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

pears likely to encounter similar
resistance. People who want a
home revolt at the thought of
Standardization. They don't think
of it as an investment, or a hos
pital. If they did they would be
content with the cellular perfec-
ton of apartments and hotels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09
Measles

This is the first of six special articles
by DR.. Fishbein on nature and treatment
of measles and precautions to curb its
spread.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

General Chang Kai-shek, head Of the Marking
government, ordered a general shot, after his troops
were defeated. Stern discipline. it is explained. will
put new life in the army. Just the generals way Of
playing put-and-take.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

If you just must worry, you might begin fguril
how to remove those rusty bolts that secure yol
1882 auto license plates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

For bigger and better ways of adding insult to
injury consider the bandits who held up the Jail in
Polk county. Minnesota, and robbed the prisoners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

NEXT - Precautions against
spread.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-09

TOR a long time it generally
L was believed that every child
Evening star., 1932-05-08


authentic and rejected by others.
Shortly before George born the family
was sitting one night at supper when a terrific
thunderstorm broke. Lightning struck the
house and, running down the chimney, killed
young girl who was visiting them. Mary
Washington. sitting across from her guest saw
the girls knife and fork melt and run together
in her hands. Forever afterward, stout hearted
woman though she was, she hid her head and
prayed whenever lightning flashed.
In the first Winter of her marriage George
was born. With his birth Mary Washington,
unknowing, came into her main destiny.
In the two years that Immediately succeeded
two other children were born Elizabeth and
Samuel Later there were two more boys and
second girl. The baby Mildred. died Then
Augustine Washington was stricken with rheu-
matte fever, which carried him off in a few
weeks and left his widow with large family,
at the age when most women are just be-
ginning their married lives.
'She was not the type Of woman who is
merely made a mother" declares Miss Turner,
nor yet the type that achieves motherhood
with difficulty. She belonged definitely to the
larger class that are born mothers. When the
little Washingtons came crowding thick as
huckleberries, she was ready for them. With
all her being she threw herself into the work
of seeing them into the world and after that
sometimes long after, and even then by the
hardest enorts-keeping them there.
Evening star., 1932-05-08

Betty married widower with children. as
her mother, her grandmother and her great
grandmother had done before her.
Shortly after the wedding George went on
q voyage to the West Indies with Lawrence,
who was travelling for his health George had
smallpox while they were away and was SCARED
for life. Lawrence was miserably i'll and died
soon after the trip was finished, bequeathing
Mount Vernon to his beloved brother. 1t was
at this time that George left Ferry Farm to
take up residence at Mount Vernon, giving rise
to the persistent stories that he and his mother
were not on friendly terms.
Critics say that Mary Washington tried to
interrupt the destiny of her famous son. It
is true that she tried to keep him from war.
When the French and Indians warred on the
Colonists and Washington was offered a posi-
ton on the staff of Gen. Braddock, British
commander in charge of the campaign, Mrs.
Washington drove to Mount Vernon from Ferry
Farm long, hard drive and did all she could
to keep him from accepting
George was remarkably like his mother in
strength of mind and body, n resolution and
in force of will. When they clashed it was
with identical weapons, and this time George
was the stronger Mrs. Washington, defeated
returned to Ferry Farm, and her son went OF
to battle.
When the Indian wars were over and the
Revolution broke out Mrs. Washington tried
again to keep George at home. And again she
failed.
When word of victories was brought to her
home and proud citizens read aloud extracts
from enthusiastic letters praising the general
his mother never much flickered an eye
lash.
Gentlemen" she said, there is too much
flattery" Then she added provokingy: "But
George will not forget the lessons that have
taught him."
Miss Turner says she had reference to her
long counselings on the dangers of pride. but
you can hardly blame the citizens for getting
little huffy Then there was the day when q
messenger on horseback galloped into town and
asked the way to Nine. Wsshington's. Breath-
lessly the townspeople surged after him. The
mistress of the little house was in her back
yard, tying up grapevines. Taking the inn
portant-looking packet that was handed her,
she thrust it into the large pocket Of her
hndsey-woolSey skirt.
Mrs. Washington" gasped one of the crowd.
There may have been a battlel"
Very well," responded the old lady blandly,
Continued on Fifteenth Page.
Evening star., 1932-05-08
BY ELEANOR EARLY.

~
is the 200th anniversary of the
birth Of "The Father of Our Country"
But back of Washington stood his mother
Mary Ball Washington-an intrepid woman,
with eyes blue and jaw as strong as her
dauntless sons. To-Day is Mothers day and a
fitting time for the true story of the misunder-
stood mother of Washington
For history has given some erroneous i'm
pressions of Mary Bail. 1t has been said that
she was a tyrannical woman, albeit a woman
Of courage and indomitable will.
1t is difficult to say how much man de-
rives from his mother. But it is probable that
Washingtons greatness came from some of
those hard" attributes the critics have scorned
in Mary Ball.
h IANCY BYRD TURNER'S ancestors knew
~ the mother of Washington when she was
Mary Ball And the stories they told did not
jibe with history as Nancy read it in the books.
Determined to learn the truth, Miss Turner
and Sidney Gum went delving through the
records. Nancy Byrd Turner, a native vir-
ginian, is New England historian and author.
They found ancient diaries and yellowed
letters. They even found an old woman whose
great-grandfather a servant in Of Mrs.
May WaShin tons house Patient research
finally brought to light the full record of the
mother of George Washington, and the col
Iaborators now present new portrait of
much-maligned woman.
Mary Ball, destined time to produce much
Of the glory of America undisturbed by any
sense of her own significance opened her eyes
on q cold November morning in 1907. There
was no fuss nor feather over babies in those
days. Marys father and mother already had
seven children by former marriages and infants
were an old story. Her father was old enough
to be her grandfather, her brothers and sisters
old enough to be her parents.
They say Mary was beautiful girl There
d q legend that she was called "the rose of
Epping Forest" and the belle of the Northern
Neck" Epping Forest was the home of her
father, Col Joseph Ball. The Northern Neck
is q strip of land down on the ocean shore
Of Virginia, edged on the north by the Potomac
River and the south by the Rappahannock.
A notable Neck it is. too. Never in history,
perhaps have so much worth and valor come
out of so small an area in so short time.
Those little green acres have produced Presi-
dents, statesmen and soldiers. They produced
Mary Ball Washington. They produced her
son and his paternal forbears. Incidentally.
they also produced Nancy Byrd Turner.
When she was %, Mary Ball became en-
gagged, and so missed, by the narrowest margin,
being classified old maid.
Eighteen was the correct marrying age OF
woman" says Miss Turner. Girls who passed
their twentieth year unattached did so at their
peril, for by that time the shelf, bleak de-
pository of the unclaimed, loomed dangerously
near"
Mary married widower and went home
with him to readymade family. There were
two big boys Lawrence and Augustine, and
little girl named Jane The baby, Butler, had
died shortly before.
Evening star., 1932-05-08

NOUNG LAWRENCE WASHINGTON, Angus
tines eldest son, stood now head of the
family. He was a gallant fellow, educated in
England, q veteran of that country's South
American wars large landowner in Virginia
and gentleman of no small Importance In
the year following his fathers death he
married Anne Fairfax and went to live with
her at Mount Vernon. Lawrence kept in con-
slant touch with his stepmother and her child
rem, and was especially devoted to George,
who paid long visits at Mount Vernon, thereby
strengthening the cruel rurnor that he was
unhappy at home.
The persistent legend that Mrs. Washington
was forbidding owes its origin, according to
Miss Turner in the reactions of another
Lawrence Washington, a young cousin, who
was Georges playmate. This boy was frankly
and horribly afraid of Mrs. Washington, and
Miss Turner believes 1t may have been due to
an occasional birching administered without
discrimination when the young Washingtons
grew too obstreperous.
Meantime George was growing into young
giant, and Betty. at II, was singulary like him.
The story Is still handed around Virginia that
when she was q midle-aged woman Betty used
to say: do you want to see Gen. Washing
ton in the twinkling of an eye?" and then,
with her hair knotted quickly into que, with
the tilt of three-cornered hat and the hutter
Of cape, she would stand before them. the
living image of the commander -in-chief of the
Continental Army.
Evening star., 1932-05-08

TERRY FARM offered a good background for
! the stupendous job. Its fine soil yielded
bountiful support for growing family. House
hold help was plentiful of course; every gentle
man farmer of those days owned numerous
servants. But there were cooking and cleaning
to be superintended, weaving and sewing, pre-
serving churning, the curing of meat, the pre-
pairing and drying of vegetables, the care CT
numerous children. Three women OF average
ability might have had the oversight OF Ferry
Farm and have failed to find a single idle
moment in whole working day.
But Mary Washington was woman of strong
mind and dauntless nature. When in other
days people called her awe-inspiring and
little hard as people did, they failed to take
into consideration the sudden and big readjust-
ment that may have helped to create that ap-
parent sternness. 1t has been said that she
was a strict dsciplinarian and that she had
a mania for method. Perhaps that is true.
The times sanctioned strict discipline, and she
was without the benefit of modern psychology
in dealing with her willful little fatherless boys.
AS to method, responsibility breeds system.
The Washington times., 1932-04-16
Map of Early Washington
Found, Changes Seen

office of Public Buildings and
Parks with the uncovering in the
vaults of an original Dawning
map bearing signatures of Presi-
dent Millard Fillmore.
Drawn in 1851 by A. J. Down
ing, father of the Downing
plan" for the development of
Washington's park system, the
badly deteriorated map, yellowed
with age, was found in the
archives Of the United States
engineers office.
President Fillmore annotated
the plan in his own handwriting
the same year and again in 1853
signified hearty approval.
Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., chair
man of the Park and Planning
Commission, whose efforts to find
the map resulted in its discovery
today, pointed out amazing SINH
larity between the early plans
and those being followed today.
The Monument and Smith
sonian grounds are nearly iden-
tical with Downing's drawing, but
Fountain Park" has disappeared.
The present museum site was
labelled the Smithsonian pleasure
grounds"
The Washington times., 1932-04-16
BOND BILL
FACES FIGHT

The taxi cab responsibility bill.
requiring all taxicab operators in
the District to give insurance or
bond guaranteeing ability to pay
damages in case of accidents, will
go on the Senate calendar Mon
day but faces a contest and may
be modified before passage.
Favorable report on the bill was
ordered at yesterdays meeting of
the Senate District Committee, but
both Senator Kean (R.) New Jer-
sey, and Senator Bankhead CR0
Alabama, said they wanted more
time to study the measure.
The amendment of Peoples
Counsel Keech, making it manda-
tory upon the Public Utilities
Commission to require insurance
of all drivers was inserted. Chair
man Patrick, of the commission,
said the word discretion" was
preferable.
The Washington times., 1932-04-16
PLANS
DRAF TED IN
THE HOUSE
2 Alternative Measures Cited;
Direct Pay-Cut, 5-Day Week
Proposals Outlined

President Hoover's economy
bill was placed into draft form
by the Bureau of the Budget in
the legislative drafting service
of the House today, following
joint discussions of retrench.
ment by Administration repre-
Sentatives and the House
Economy Committee.
Two alternative methods of Sc.
curing reduced expenses in execu-
tive establishments have been in,
cluded. One is the direct pay.
cut providing for a reduction OF
II per cent after the first $1,000
has been excepted.
Five-Day-Week Plan
The other is the five-day-week
plan and staggered furlough plan,
with wages fixed accordingly.
The latter plan would be ap-
plicable to all employees except
rural mail carriers, enlisted forces
of the military services, and all
civil employees receiving $1,00 per
annum or less.
Provision is also made to
suspend all automatic and ad-
miniStrative promotion, the fill.
ing of vacancies, the retiring of
Superanuated employees, and all
increases in travelling and sub
Sistance allowances made in the
past six years.
All provisions for extra pay for
overtime and night service are
also suspended and elimination is
placed on the pay of retired Off
GERS who hold appointative posi-
tionS.
The draft also includes amend
ments to the World War Veterans
and Pensions act, reducing allow
anceS or pensions and free hos
pitalization privileges to persons
having positions whereby they can
make living income.
Various provisions are made for
other economies, including a plan
to have a naval board determin-
ing what land naval stations may
be closed.
Approved by Committee
The committee has already ap,
proved these proposals, with some
modification. Chairman McDuf-
fie CD of Alabama, however
was adamant against Mr.. Hoover's
request for authority to reorgan-
ize departments. He insisted
that the Executive submit a spe-
cific plan to Congress.
The committee was sharply
divided over the pay cut or fur
Tough, the Army-Navy consolida.
ton, and Mr.. Hoover's request
for authority. 1t voted 4 to 3 for
Army-Navy consolidation, with
one Republican favoring it and
one Democrat in opposition.