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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Apprentice and Master

Ut is not impossible to make some
Il comparison between the current
O'Neill play and that of Sherwood,
because both authors might we'll set
down in the program to the phrase,
With some slight acknowledgment
to the labors of DR.. Sigmund Freud"
To be sure, neither tries to bootleg
the newer theories of unconscious
motivation into his plot. Both are
frankly aware of the debt which
they owe to the little man in Vienna
And so if anybody says that it is
quite impossible to debate the re-
spective merits of incest long drawn
out and a single purple evening in
the life of an exiled princeling, I
may reply that at the very least it
is feasible to compare O'Neill and
Sherwood in the matter of their
comprehension of the psychoana-
lytic theory and its ramifications.
In regard to this point I do not
see how anybody can fail to put
Sherwood far in the lead. Both
Strange Interlude" and Mourning
Becomes Electra" are kindergarten
compositions in SO far as they ex-
plore the secret springs.
Very probably the success of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
The Prohibition Farce Continues

Just what will happen to those responsible Tor
the disappearance of large amounts of liquor from
the custody of federal officers in indianapolis will be
watched with interest by citizens who are becoming
more and more aroused at the CHASTITY farce of pro-
hibition.
The spectacle of the government conhscatng
liquors and then permitting It's agents to either use
or sell its loot is not calculated to amy conf
dence In the law ITSELF the integrity of the govern
ment or the sincerity of the enforcement agencies
The most recent exposure Of the use of confscated
liquors for other purposes than evidence will need
considerable explanation.
Some years ago the government admitted tnaC
100000 worth of whisky had been taken from the
local Federal building. AS matter OF common
knowledge large part of this was used for political
purposes For the theft of some of it, few Janltors
served brief terms in prison.
While not successful in guarding its BOOZE the
government has been quite jealous in its efforts 10
pursue Democratic city administrations.
The arrest of indianapolis officers will be remem-
bered as a dsgraceful effort to dscredlt an ADMIN
istration with which local citizens were satisfied
Why not trot out the conspiracy statute tnaC Is
relied upon in other liquor cases and see just now
far if can be made to stretch in this particular materF
That might at least, result in an amendment to
that particular statute which has been interpreted
in a manner calculated to destroy TRADITIONAL IDEAS
of liberty and law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Blocking Progress

Efforts to replace destructive competition and
overproduction with stabilized prosperity through
economic planning have been jeopardized by six con-
servative supreme court justices.
The courts to decision, smashing Oklahoma's
law for state regulation of the ice industry is de-
csve precedent against the constitutionaty of fed
eral or state action TO save industry from its own
ruthless practices.
Not until the supreme court of nine has a ma
ority of justices who think with Justices Brandeis
and Stone that the United States Constitution does
not and should not prevent revision of economic prac
tees and institutions to meet the changing times, will
there be favorable opportunity to revise our economic
system through democratic and peaceful methods.
The La Toilette proposal for economic planning
70 maintain wages and purchasing power, well as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
the swope and Chamber of Commerce plans to !

the Swope and Chamber of Commerce plans to re-
strict production consumption demands apparently
are covered by the supreme courts new ruling.
The pending Dayis-KeIy bill for government reg
ulation of the soft coal industry involves restriction
Of competition similar to that of the Oklahoma law
The Oklahoma statute requiring a certificate of
public convenience and necessity for establishment
of ice plant in a field where it would compete
with established plant was knocked out by Justice
Sutherland, head of the conservative bloc in these
words:
Plainly a regulation which has the effect of de-
nying or unreasonably curtailing the common right
to engage in lawful private business such as that
under review, can not be held consistent with the
fourteenth amendment"
Recognizing that this ruling prevents effective &C
ton to save American business from its traditional
devil-take the hndmost attitude Justice Brandeis
branched far out in his dissenting opinion
He cited published fears of leaders in this country
that capitalism is lettering cited the swope and
Chamber Of Commerce and other plans for regulating
business
"An agree" he said, that irregularity in employ
ment-the greatest of evils-can not be overcome
unless production and consumption are more nearly
balanced Many insist there must be some form of
economic control. There are plans for proration
There are proposals for stabilization
Il can not believe that the trainers of the
fourteenth amendment or the states which ratified
It, intended to leave us helpless to correct the evils
OF chronological unemployment and excess productive
capacity which the march of invention and discovery
have entailed. There must be power in the states
and the nation to remold, through experimentation
our economic practices and institutions to meet
changing social and economic needs"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
The Cut Must Come

Enough has been disclosed before the public serv-
Ice commission TO make reduction in water rates
not only just, hut imperative
The theory that the people must pay this COM
pany more in hard times than in prosperous days
Is in keeping with the whole conduct of this com
pany since its entrance to the city.
The company takes from the city treasury an
amount of money that will soon be reflected in loss
Of jobs to mary city employees and a reduction in
salaries.
The rates are higher than in most other cities
which have private ownership and Of course, greatly
in excess Of those which have municipal plants.
Comparison of rates is one method Of determining
the fairness of rates.
The charge for utility service is one of the chief
causes Of high taxes. The city not get down to
a business basis and balanced budget unless the
same rate of dchation that has come to other bust
ness is applied to the utility charges
AS far as the private customer is concerned, mis-
utility bills of impending confscation of
property in many instances.
The water company, under the theory for which
It fought in the courts, have defense against
a reduction 1t obtained the right to charge on what
it called the cost reproduction The cost of repro
ducing its plant today would be far below the figure
fixed in days o. inflated prices of labor and materials.
A deep cut in water rates, to be followed by an
even deeper cut in electric rates. imperative If this
reduction can not be obtained by the present system
of regulation, the people will be forced to public
ownership as the one means Of escape.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
LOGICAL Place

GINCE many exhibits are fur
~ nished free of cost by manu-
1acturers, and the number Of COL
leges, universities, high schools
preparatory, church and special
schools as well as of ambitious in
dividuals requesting exhibits NAV
become appallingly large the logical
place to put exhibits on location for
the greatest good to the greatest
number is in a museum.
This may serve as a nucleus of
assemblage for material too scarce
100 valuable, Or too bulky for re-
ported transport and can also func-
ton as loan center for smaller pv-
hlolts suitable for schools. societies
and other civic purposes" Miss
Doyle continues.
Lastly, the character of n7uee,,r,
EXHIBITS is changing vastly. There
IS action, light, color, and life where
formerly rows of bottles or Other
artlcleS were as dead as the shelves
upon which they rested. totally
lacking in power to attract and in.
struct the type of observer or et1,-
cent with which we now have tn
deal. "
a lew museums in the United
states do have the right sort Of
chemistry exhibits and it is certain
mat others will follow speedily in =
country reported to be setting tho
pace IN the use of the museum as
radiating center for general Scien-
Dlllc education, not the least part of
which is chemistry"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
One Citadel Is CAPTURED
7 EFT physicians squabble as thew

I EFT physicians squabble as they
IL please as to whether psycho-
analysis is a science and an organic
factor IN modern medicine. I
wouldn't know about that. But 7
am convinced that it is a perma-
nent contribution to fiction and the
drama.
Whatever becomes of its clinical
use, 1t has won its enduring spurs
as literary method
And so we have right to ask the
dramatic practitioners to combine
both delicacy of touch with depth
of discovery.
When Reunion at Vienna was
done, felt that I knew the hero
Of the play completely. 1t is no
handicap, of course, that the role
rs portrayed by Alfred Lunt. who
gives the finest performances to be
seen hereabouts at the moment.
And the moment is likely to be a
long one. 1t is my conviction that
he understands to the full the fact
that here is an opportunity to do
full-length portrait.
1t is a play which offers many
opportunities for laughter. That is
not a dramatic crime, although
some feel that if a thing is true
it can not also be humorous. Why
should that be?
1 am not willing to admit that
the world can be seen in its entirety
only by frowning folk, and I am
certain that one may smile and
smile and be a genius.
(Copvright. 1892. by The Tines
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edy. Possibly I am not saying very
much for its emotional appeal if
I record the fact that it made me
cry. 1 am, in the theater, one of
the readiest of weepers.
Though the notices of the critics
were glowing and highly favorable,
the printed reports fooled me a
little as to the nature of the en-
tertainment which I was to see.
The reviews led me to believe
that I was to watch a slightly FIR
cical entertainment, in which the
butt of the foolery would be a de-
cadent archduke of the house of
Hapsburg. Distinctly I got the i'm
preston that Sherwood had writ
ten spool on the folly of egotism.
That is not the manner in which
the play strikes me. The Rudolph
of the play seems to me one Of
the most glamorous characters
known to the modern theater. After
all, no man is fool when he COM
prehends the precise nature and di-
mansions of his own particular sort
Of folly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Just Every Day Sense
XXLHEN tribulations come upon US, we some
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

XXIHEN trbulatlonS come upon us, we sometimes
w let go of inspiration. And in zeal to get
back to fundamentals, smother the very qualities
that could bring about our salvation.
I have in mind two small cities that have closed
their public libraries to economiZe This is the very
opposite of sense because it stiles thinking
and education, the only two things that can help
man in emergency.
Then there number of towns, counties and
even cities that firing all married women teachers
regardless of their experience their qualifications
Now if our schools are kept up for the purpose of
furnishing jobs, this may be all very we'll But if
as 1 always had supposed, they maintained to
educate the children then nothing could be more
disastrous. To make children the victims of our
lack of vision seems to me particularly tragic
1t should make difference whatever about the
status, the creed the age of a teacher The only
thing that should count is whether he she knows
how to teach.
A ND surprisingly small number of people do
L n Teaching is of the high arts. Unless it is
born in the individual no amount of cultivation can
create it.
Many college professors for instance are well in
formed, scholarly, and masters of their particular
lines, but they not good teachers. They have no
power to give out to others the things they know
They can not inspire their pupils. They do not
possess that spark that must be part of them to
kindle within the young desire to gain knowledge
Doubtless there are many married women who are
very poor instructors. But there must be many who
have the teaching gift They should be dis
charged
If there ever was time in our history when We
needed good teachers, 1t is today. The only rule
that should apply in their hiring their firing is the
i'divduels fitness for a most important job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Parrot Fever Is Menace to Lives

been in contact with a parrakeet,
but had nursed a patient suffering
from the disease.
Symptoms of the disease as it &C.
CURED in California were the same
as those in psittacosis elsewhere.
The person suddenly becomes ill
with severe headache, fever and
chllls, then the whole body begins
to ache, coughing begins and then
there is consolidation in the lung
similar to pneumonia.
AS the disease becomes more Sc
we're, the patient may develop de-
lirium. Since the condition begins
like influenza or pneumonia, that
is the diagnosis most frequently
made until the case suddenly re-
veals its special character.
Death occurs in from one week
to fourteen days in the fatal cases.
and those patients who recover
must undergo long convalescence
because of the weakening character
OF the disease.
Most of the parrots responsible
for the outbreak in the eastern part
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Questions and
Answers
when should frees be nrnned2

N"eh Snould trees be pruned?
Inc general pruning of trees
other than fruit trees is disconr-
aged, except to remove dead wood
or correct faulty growth where the
Tree Is too close to building or
us shape is bad, or for some SINH
lar reason. Dead wood NAV be re-
moved at any time. When PRUNING
Is necessary for other reasons If
should be done about midsummer
How do native whites. forsicr
born whites and Negro residents
compare in the population of Chi
cago?
Chicago has 2,275,674 native white
842'O57 foreign born white and 233-
9O3 Negroes.
What is the meaning of the name
Myra?
Weeping.
Can an enlisted man In the
United States army marry?
He must obtain permission fro.
his commanding officer to do so.
Who pitched the first game Ct
the 1880 world series?
Grove for Philadelphia and
Grimes for st. Louis.
Where did the quotation ''by their
fruits ye shall know them Origi-
nate?
In the Bible, Matthew 7:16 and
What is the average life span of
gold fish?
Five years is a fair average. but
they have been known to live as
long as fifteen to twenty years in
an ordinary fish globe.
What is pumpernickel?
A coarse. acid and nourishing
bread made from unbolted rye.
What is the population OF CIeve-
land, o.?
eO0,4 APO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Everybody in the
middle classes these days has a plan
for the reform of society. Invari-
ably the plans are designed to pre-
vent the continuance or the recur-
renee of capitalistic crisis like the
present.
And invariably they are designed
to accomplish this end without
hurting a iot the interests of the
planners. The primary motive be-
hind these plans is, indeed, not the
abolition of present social evils, but
rather the preservation of present
social classes.
Did not Karl Marx analyze this
motive long ago? "a part of the
bourgeoisie," Marx wrote, els de-
Sirous of redressing social griev-
ances to secure the continued exist
ence of bourgeois society.
ITO this section belong econ
omists, philanthropistS, humani-
tarians, improvers of the condition
Of the working class, organizers of
charity, members of societies for
the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails, temperance fanatics, hole
and-corner reformerS of every
imaginable kind"
This class, Marx goes on to say,
desires the existing state of So
ciety minus its revolutionary and
disintegrating elements" In other
words, what this class wants is to
continue and perpetuate the pres
ent system of mass exploitation, at
the same time making it safe and
genteel; safe, that is to say, for
its own class interests.
The futility of all these hopes Of
reform is contained in the inability
of the people agitating them, first
of all, to reform themselves. And
they can't reform themselves, no
matter what their private will in
the matter, because they are in
the clutch of the superior power
of economic circumstance.
To perpetuate the capitalistic sys-
TEN. which is fundamentally what
these people want, is to perpetuate
the impotence of their hopes for
reform JOAN DAVIS.
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of the United States in 1929 came
from South America. The parrots
responsible for the present epidemic
may have come in the first place
from the orient.
However, there now is reason to
believe that domestic birds devel-
oped in California have become in
fected and that they are being
shipped from California to other
places.
For instance, there were three
cases of pSittacosis in New York
City with one death during October
and November. 1881, and all birds
involved had come to New York
from San Francisco.
In January, 1882, there was a case
in Oregon brought on by birds sent
from San Francisco.
The California board of public
health has adopted regulations con-
trolling importation and expectation
of love birds and parrots, prohibit
ing importation and expectation of
such birds from California for six
months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
HotheadS Dangerous

1T is unthinkable that President
Il de Valera of the Irish Free State
would involve his country in war
over the oath Of allegiance, or the
land annuities. 1t is equally I'M
thinkable that the British govern
ment would do so. But such
possibility goes with the issue and
both sides would do we'll to be care
full.
Let nations once get excited and
hotheads can start anything.
This old world has seen patriotism
become a fever too many times over
some inconsequential controversy to
underestimate the risk. Also, it
has seen nations dragged into strife
by some impetuous subordinate who
violated the rules of common sense,
if not actual orders, but who had to
be indicated for the sake of ma
tional honor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
World at Crossroads

THE way in which such disputes
4 are settled during the next
few years is of vital Importance to
civilization
Civilization is headed for reign
of law" or for quick reversion to
the old order.
Japan's stubborn, aggressive at
titude has done much to turn it
in the latter direction. A few more
such cases, and we go hurting back
ward to the kaiserite conception of
statecraft.
Ireland and England have a great
opportunity to offset the damage
done in Manchuria and Shanghai,
as we'll as safeguard the peace and
prosperity of their own people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
No KIDNAPPING Films

The Hays moving picture Office in Hollywood. ac-
cording to the magazine Variety, has warned all
producers to steer clear of films with kidnapping
motif.
1t points out that such f1lms-which might be
expected to appear in quantity following the Lind
oergh case-probably would impant wrong ideas in
certain heads. Hence we shall get none of them
Here is one case where the movies dictatorship
Is acting wisely Less cheering are reports from New
York that We are to get flock of mystery stories
centering about kidnapping
Apart from any other considerations such books
simply will represent way of cashing in on
plt1tul tragedy. Good taste alone ought to keen
them off the market
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Educational Films

MISS DOYLE also praises the
1V1 work being done bv museums
IN Brooklyn, Buffalo, Charleston
Chicago, Erie, Newark, PHILADELPHIA
Rochester and Trenton.
She also calls attention TO the
use OF educational films in a num-
Der of cities, including Cleveland
Chlcago, New York and st. Louis.
Miss Doyle is particularly inter
eSted IN the use q museum material
IN the teaching of chemistry. Her
survey shows that chemical educa-
tors are employing museum material
to an increasing extent.
In this respect, she says, the east
ern states lead, with the middle and
western states second, and the south
third.
A large number of replies to
circular request for information
emanated from colleges and univer-
stiles" Miss Doyle continues. ION
the other hand, an ever-increasino
number is shown of museums for
the public that are recognizing the
Importance of chemistry and its
applied industries.
NO subject is adapted better to
experimental demonstration nor
more in keeping with the spirit of
the times, which demands to be
shown.
Chemistry and the chemical in
duStrieS are suitable for demonstra-
ton In all science museums, includ-
ing children's and public museums.
up to and through the intermediate
schools to colleges, universities and
may serve as repository for re-
search material for the trained spe-
cialist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Treaty at Issue

THE question Of whether mem
Il bers of the Irish parliament
can properly refuse to take an oath
of allegiance to the British king and
whether payment of the land an
nuities can be suspended obviously
rests on an Interpretation of the
treaty by which the Irish Free State
was brought into being.
Thus Ear no breach of contract,
or act of aggression is involved.
President De Valera contends that
the treaty means one thing, while
the British government contends
that it means another.
Such dispute can, and should be
settled in judicial manner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
Chance 10 Heln Peace

IRELAND and England should per-
Il NIT this issue to be adjudicated
not only for their own sakes, but
for the sake of the peace movement.
The peace movement can not
survive many such setbacks as it
has received in the Orient. 1t needs
nothing so badly right now as
chance to demonstrate its effective
ness.
Ireland and England can give it
such chance. They owe that much
to humanity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Mapazine

fASSONAoeAoA auu VI LS&CAAf SAC
Health Magazine.
THE recent increase in parrot
4 fever, or psittacosis, in Cali
fornia and other western states con-
stitutes such a menace to human
health that radical measures must
be taken if its spread is to be
stopped.
Six deaths and six other cases
have been reported from California
within the last few months. All
persons infected, with a single ex-
ception, had been in contact with
recently purchased parrakeets. most
of them bought from itinerant bird
vendors.
In nearly every instance accord
ing to the report of the director of
the California state department of
health, at least one of the birds be-
came i'll and died before the onset
OF the symptoms in the human case.
In one case the person who was
infected with psittacosis had not