The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-16
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10 nave a rev MOVERS or garden,
even attempted to nave a pretty
yard or decent surroundings?
1 personally have seen my efforts
to raise flowers destroyed by these
maligned little children" my hedge
destroyed, my windows broken,
garbage and trash thrown in my
yard. Why doesn't Casey suggest
some effort on the part of the
parents to train these urchins to
help beautify city, instead Of the
reverse? I, too, wonder, like many
others, why the parents make no
effort at least to modify their wan
ton destruction.
ANGELO MARINCE,
1926 South State.
Editor Times
ITO the six voters, as they can
- themselves: You are probably
the type of folk who say that pro-
hibition can not be enforced. Have
you tried to enforce it? No, you've
probably left it for some one else
to do.
The eighteenth amendment was
not, and is not, an injustice. 1t
was put into the Constitution by
the same methods as the other
amendments. You are not a stu
dent Of history or you would have
known that. The Anti-Saloon
League and the Methodist Board of
Temperance and Morals have done
more than you six men ever will be
able to do. 1t is people like you
that are hindering them.
The eighteenth amendment is not
being enforced by some people,
neither are the Ten Commandments
obeyed by all people You can't
throw the Ten Commandments out
of the Bible because a lot of folk
haven't enough will power to obey
them.
In connection with crime, I have
this to say: Drinkers make the
bootleggers, and drinkers, not drys,
make the gangster.
PETE AND PAT.
Editor Times
r READ the article Of Ray Tucker
Il on the organization of the next
house of representatives.
Why publish anything to arouse
81 fr,ly
have one country, especially since
the Spanish American and World
wars.
Suppose a so-called southern man
is elected Speaker? Has the So
called north "a divine right to the
position?
And why not tell it right? Mr.
Tucker says the last northern Demo-
cratic Speaker was General N. P.
Banks in 1857 and 1858.
Records are available to any one,
but people read their favorite news
paper and expect to believe what
they read.
was born almost ten years after
the date named and I recall five
Democratic speakers in that time
Michael G. Kerr of New Albany,
Ind, and Samuel j. Randall, Penn
Sylvania, northerners; Benton J.
McMillen of Tennessee and Charles
Crisp of Georgia, southerners, and
Champ Clark of Missouri, a border
state.
There may have been others, but
don't call them to mind.
Let us forget north, south. east
and west, and count ability and
service. FRANK R. HALE.
Editor Times
THE news item in yesterdays
Il Times states that "A. B. Good,
business director of our city schools,
predicts shortening of the school
year at least eight weeks. AS a
parent as well as a taxpayer, this is
about the first real ray of hope for
both the children and the long
suffering taxpayers.
Just why a nine-month school
year is necessary never has been
explained accurately. 1t is no doubt
a system developed by officials and
those directly benefited in
monetary way, just as our present
state college system has expanded
to an overburdening degree in the
last few years.
According to most physicians who
specialize in children, a nine-month
school term is much too long, start
ing as it does during the hottest
and dryest period in September and
ending from the middle to latter
part of June.
Last year my wife and I kept our
son out each afternoon the second
week of school, as we felt that
room temperature of 90 to 90 de-
greeS plus forty-odd pupils in one
room not only was facilitating, but
also uncomfortable. This year
school started Sept. 2, and fortunate
ly we had rather cool weather.
I have observed during my sons
six years in school that very little
progress was made for the first two
or three weeks in the fall and when
warm summer days start in May
and June there again is a lack of
concentration, progress, and de-
velopment in his school work.
Taking the present school term
from the teachers standpoint, with
the reduction in wages, there should
be reduction in weeks of duty.
Perhaps the necessary pruning
down of expenditures in our schools
will be the means of our getting
back to what was in former years
considered a normal school term of
approximately eight months. My
guess is We would have fewer
physically defective children and
their education would not suffer.
w. G. K.