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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-26
Hours

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLNICK
So much have I loved hours With
you:
Young virgin dawns rising from
the sea Of night,
CARRIED in vestal robes Of gold and
rose
With souls immaculate and white.
And I have loved high moons spent
together
Clothed in robes OF hot desire, ~,
With blue sky, scorching over
head;
Life a consuming quenchless fire.
And I have loved the drip Of after
Moons slow gold
Spent on the crest Of q steep
brown hill.
Watching far below the calm, blus
lake
A turquoise, motionless and still.
And I have loved the violet peace
Of dusk;
My hand in yours; beauty a sharp
knife
Carving out my heart with purple
color,
Etching promise Of esctatic life.
And have loved nights too beau-
tiful TO bear
When love was solely ours u
make or mar. -
When we found God putting ouf
lips together: =
And all MISUNDERSTANDING foG
3 start
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-26
Health Safety in Air Stressed

passenger before he gets on the
plane and that all the usual rules
regarding vaccinations against
smallpox and typhoid fever will be
observed.
Health officials know already that
rats and mosquitoes get aboard air
planes. leaving infected areas. 1t
now is well established that rats
may convey plague and that
mosquitoes may spread yellow fever
and malaria. Hence, it is necessary
to subject planes travelling from in
fected tropical areas to thorough
fumigation, preferably with some
such substance as hydrocyanic gas,
which completely destroys the rats
and insects.
A final problem for the airplanes
from the point of view Of sanitary
control is the disposal Of sewage
en- route. 1t is impossible to carry
enough water for flushing purposes.
Most airplanes, therefore, de-
velop a system whereby sewage is
dropped into closed tanks or cans
containing disinfectants and this
material is disposed of suitably by
burning or by the usual disposal
methods when the airplanes arrive
at their terminals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-26
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT

OFFICIALS in charge of Yellowstone Park
have little bit Of evidence to support
the belief that prosperity is returning to the
land They found it in the roll Of visitors to
the park.
For three consecutive years the number of
visitors to Yellowstone declined Until 1890
there had been a steady annual increase; for
the next three years the trend was reversed,
mirroring the general decline in business con-
ditions.
Now, however. things are looking up So
far this year, the number of visitors at YELL
lowstone is Aba above the total for 1892,
every state in the Union being represented.
Yellowstone is one Of the nations greatest
Fairgrounds. If more people are taking adj
vantage Of it this year than last, it stands to
reason that things are getting better.
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It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-I feel
~ certain sympathy with the
NurmiS.
AS I understand the cables from
Finland, Paavo and his wife are
about to part because their infant
son has feet which seem too small
for a potential distance runner.
hope that Mr.. Nurmi has not for
gotten the fact that in all proba-
bility they will grow larger. There
has been further commotion,
believe. because Paavo drew up a
special diet for the child which is
Objectionable to both mother and
son.
When NlIrmi was at the height OF
his fame in America he was reputed
to live upon a diet of black bread
and dried fish. Nurtured by such
Spartan fare, he easily outdiStanced
other amateurs, who went for gou=
lash on occasion.
Yet. though I sympathize with
Nurmi, I must side with the wife
and child. 1 hope my heart is suffi-
GENTLY flexible to bleed in several
directions at the same time. I under
stand the innermost feelings of the
mighty Paavo, and at the same time
I am neither deaf nor blind to the
fundamental justice Of the smaller
Finlander when he made his great
decision and cried out to his athletic
parent, Il say it's herring. and say
to he'll with it,
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1t Simply Can't Be Done

THE Finnish phantom has
l. studded his toe upon a false
concept which has brought tragedy
into the lives of many other fathers.
He has labored under the delusion
that it is ever possible for the indi-
vidual to survive precisely and ex-
actly through progeny. After all,
there is always the fact of a counter
claim. No son can be his father
down to the last detail, since the
complication and confusion OF
motherhood also come into the
equation.
Painters who make the decision
that Junior shall pick up the palette
and carry on the paternal tradition
are doomed to disappointment. AS
like as not the young one won't want
to be a painter at all And that may
be the better way Far sharper than
any serpent'S tooth is the anguish
of an Academician who raises up an
offspring to paint nudes descending
StaircaseS.
Once upon time I knew a column
1st who had son, and when the lad
was or the father said, Il hope
that he'll grow up to be a newspaper
columniSt''
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WHETHER you already have
w felt the exhilaration of travel
by air or not, you can feel certain
that your air trips in the future
will be as safe, from health view
point, as are your Journeys by rail
and steamship.
Governments realize that travel
by air has introduced new factors
in the transmission of disease, and
they are not slow in their investi-
cations Of how best to control this
situation.
Since speed is one of the reasons
for travelling by airplane rather
than by land or sea, it is highly
desirable that the sanitary control
so should be arranged as not to
waste time. It also is necessary
that airplanes always arrive and
leave at certain ports where suitable
facilities are available and where
both passengers and plane may be
under proper control.
This is an exceedingly difficult
matter to handle. 1t no doubt will
be necessary to have very stringent
laws, adequate police forces and re-
spectacle penalties to bring about
compliance with regulations and
thereby suitable control Of airplane
traffic.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

honest unionists to throw their racketeering
leaders out Of the organization. But this Is
extremely difficult The best Jobs are given
TO the friends Of the racketeers to gain and
hold their loyalty.
Critics are attacked as "anti- union" and
If they persist they are suspended from the
union. Hired thugs beat up those who criticise
the crooked cars at labor meetings In case
a local does purge itself Of corrupt leadership,
It Is as likely as not that the purified local
will be declared irregular by the higher au-
thorities In the union hierarchy. new and
regular" local will be formed with the old
gang back in control Further the labor
crooks are, like other racketeers firmly in
trenched with the political bosses.
Union labor and collective bargaining may
be regarded correctly as an inevitable and de-
sirable item in modern economic life. But it
is high time that the cause of labor should
be freed from the incubus of the scoundrels
who have even less loyalty to the cause Of
labor than have the moguls of the open-shop
industries.
We may, at the same time note that if the
day of the labor racketeer should come to a
speedy end it is also desirable that we should
have no more Of the one type who is even
lower in the ranking of degenerateS, namely,
the labor spy employed by industrialists to
foment trouble In union ranks
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

The problem is not so difficult
now as it will be in the future. For
the present, the cost Of travel by
airplane is such that the passen-
gers involved usually are of fairly
well-to-do type who are likely to
be clean and we'll and civilized.
However, there is nothing to pre-
vent even the cleanest people from
travelling from an area in South
America or Africa, in which yellow
fever or plague may exist. into such
countries as the European nations
and the United States.
1t will be necessary always to
have proper surveillance Of such
passengers, both at the port of de-
parture and at the port Of arrival.
1t has been suggested that health
officers in communities in which
such passengers arrive keep records
Of the passengers until the time
when the incubation period for the
serious epidemic disease is passed.
It is taken for granted that there
will be suitable inspection of the
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ON THE WAY
chance.

THE time has just about come when 1t is
possible to survey the whole field Of re-
cent government endeavor and get line
And while such survey reveals good deal
of progress toward entirely new fields, it
contains very little to delight the radical or
to frighten the conservative.
The various acts taken at Washington be-
gin to drop into place. now. and their inter-
relationship begins to be clear. Let's have
look at some of them.
A rigid scheme Of production control and
price adjustment in the great oil industry
is getting under way.
Production control is being exercised In
broad. sweeping way over agricultural COM
modities.
The cotton textile industry voluntarily has
given to the MIRA power to veto the install
lation Of additional productive machinery In
any unit of the business.
Senator Robert F. Wagner, chairman Of
the National Labor Board, has served no
tice that NRA penalties can be used to en-
force the boards decisions in industrial dis
putes, and he adds that the conduct Of both
business and labor now is a matter Of pub
lie interest"
The Federal Trade Commission is begin
ming to investigate the salaries OF executives
and directors in practically every big cor
poration which does an interstate business.
Lump all these things together and add
them to such plans as the Muscle Shoals
scheme the federal housing plan, the sub
zsstence farms" program of Interior Secretary
Harold Ickes, and similar ventures, and what
do you getP You get coherent, definite and
spirited advance toward that glittering alb
straction, a planned society.
Now a planned society is a new thing
under the sun, on this side of the Atlantic.
Yet the form which this plan is taking Is
not In the least frightening.
1t certainly is not Socialism; 1t certainly Is
not Fascism; 1t seems to be. in fact. new
and diStinctively American effort to solve
problem which has driven many other nations
to dictatorship. II it works. it will be a great
achievement.
II It fails. It will leave US In good posi-
ton to try something else.
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M. E.Tracy Says:
A EUROPEAN war is not imminent, eSpe- |
~ cially If the United States stands aloof.

A EUROPEAN war is not imminent, espe-
IN cially If the United States stands aloof
Germany is in no position to make war, while
France would shrink from the responsibility OF
starting war over any issue thus far raised.
The assumption that Germany intends to re-
arm in spite of her treaty obligations is bridge
to be crossed when we get to it.
Wise statesmen, not only here but abroad
will conf1ne themselves to realities.
Nothing has happened except Gernany's
withdrawal from the disarmament conference
when her petition for equality" was turned down.
That leaves everybody exactly where everybody
was before the conference opened.
What Germany will do next is q matter Of
pure gueSswork on our part. The chances are
that Germany doesn't know herself.
She will hold an election, Of course, the result
Of which is a foregone conclusion, but that
people.
FRENCH critics already have propheSied the
Il greatest armament race in all history, but
who is going to do the racing?
More pertinent, perhaps, who has been doing
the racing for the last dozen years?
According to the best information available,
Europe is we'll armed; better armed, in fact,
than it was when the World war broke out but
with Germany out of the picture.
There has been no noticeable subsiding Of
the armament race outside of Germany, not
withstanding all the treaties, pacts and con-
ferenceS.
1t strains the imagination to suppose that
Germany won't get going again If things keep
on as they are, or that war could be averted
very long II she did.
That brings us to the cr,ix Of the problem,
which is honest, genuine disarmament
DISARMANfENT is what the allies prom
- ised when they wrote the treaty Of YER
sailles and forced Germany to sign it.
They have not kept their promise, as the men
under arms, the newly constructed forts, the gas
in storage, the war planes ready for fight and
the enormous expenditures for military purposes
plainly show. They have haggled and horse
traded, but without one substantial move for the
general reduction of their fighting forces.
As Russian delegate told his conferees sew
sral years ago, "the way to disarm is to dsarm"
Conversation devoted to minor phases of the
problem do not mean thing.
The size of guns Is not very important as
long as nations agree to use the same size and
keep an adequate supply on hand.
Great minds merely have exported them
selves out Of sense Of common honesty, with
al this chatter about technicalities.
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THURSDAY. OCT. 20. 1888.
GIVE HIM A CHANCE

THE very day on which the President took
- his first step toward a managed currency
was chosen by Senator Thomas and his dis
ciples to demand Of the President immediate
currency initiation. When the President first
announced his gold purchase plan the senator
was inclined TO give this plan trial before
pushing the direct currency imitation panacea.
But within few hours the senator had topped
back to his extremist position.
We are not prepared to say that this coun-
try never will come to direct currency initiation
Indeed. If other methods fail, it now seems
probable that the administration with the sup
port Of the nation will go on to that dangerous
expedient as last resort. AS a last resort it
would be justified, in our judgment.
But-currency initiation or no currency in
hation-it would be unwise to intrust the fate
of this country to dogmatists with panacea
type of mind who see the solution Of our vastly
complex economic problems solely In terms of
currency.
The President is on much nrmer ground
because he sees the monetary difficulty as part
Of the larger problem-a needed financial re-
other reforms, all of which combined may pro-
duce recovery on a permanent basis.
For the currency infationist, or any one
else, TO say that the Presidents monetary pol
icy is inadequate before it has been tried is not
only unfair but unintelligent.
Although the President was not altogether
clear In explaining the new policy he was
a. fvtO int ;e aio iVoAo
to protect the dollar from undue foreign in
huences and control. The other is his inten-
ton to raise domestic price levels. AS to the
first point, there seems to be general agree
ment that the Roosevelt policy has a good
chance of success. AS to the second point, the
initial result has been to raise domestic prices.
Whether that result is only temporary re-
mains to be seen.
Obviously. however, the success or failure
OF the Roosevelt gold purchase method In
raising and maintaining commodity price
levels will depend, in part, upon the skill Of
the administration and, in part, upon eco
nonnic conditions not now practicable.
Under the circumstances serious economists
and responsible financial experts are watch
ing the experiment with open minds. They
are not condemning 1t; neither are they guar
anteeng 100 per cent success
The task is to find our way step by step
in this monetary matter, Just as we are find
ing our way step by step on the farm and in
dustrial front.
1t is the great virtue Of President Roose-
welt in his monetary policy, as in his other
policies, he is making progress with an open
mind. He is moving. The least the currency
imitation extremists can do is to give him a
chance.
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A HOMECOMING

THERE was something rather honey"
Land appealing about the way in which the
little town Of Meeker. Okla, extended its
homecoming greetings to Carl Hubbell, hero
Of the world series.
Hubben, IL seems. drove in at night, I'M
noticed. and parked on the main stem by the
corner drug store. In few minutes the folks
knew that he was back and most Of the
towns $50 inhabitants strolled around to shasess
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-26
Que tiOnS and
AnSWe rS

Care there any Jews in Italy?
A-Out of a population of A.
1885 in Italy, 47,485 are Jews.
Q-What kind Of time Is used
in the Panama canal zone?
A-Eastern standard.
Care pre-war Russian rubles
of any value?
A-No.
Q-Where do ships get drinking
water on long voyages?
A ships fresh water supply
is carried in tanks, or it often is
evaporated from the salty sea
water.
O-What is the difference be-
tween a double house and du-
pick?
A double house is two sepa-
rate houses attached to each
other. A duplex house is one
house divided into two apart
ments, up and down.
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;: A Woman's Viewpoint {:

IF the turmoil Of the present left
l. us any capacity for introspection,
we surely would find ourselves feel
ing sorry for the Republicans.
Never was there a more woeful,
hapleSs- appearing lot.
C. o. P. has come to stand for
Gaunt Old Party. You can almost
hear the Elephants bones rafting.
The proud Old Guard has dwindled
to a handful of limping veterans
whose swords are furnished and
whose platforms have crumbled.
They Just wouldn't listen to their
mamaS, and look at them now!
Under the leadership Of the Pres
ident, the Democrats, if they con-
tinue to use good sense, viii acquire,
perhaps permanently. the bulk of
the woman vote in the United
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promises and short on action. al
though nobody knows better than
they that nice words butter no bread,
their rewards to feminine workers
usually took the form Of gallant
speeches and bombastic compli-
mentS.
Woman's failure to take proper
advantage of her political oppor-
tunities has furnished the critics
with plenty of material for their
scathing remarks. The facts have
justified their position.
In spite Of this, however. only the
most obtuse person can think that
women will not be a tremendous
force in all party campaigns in the
future. And the gentlemen never
should forget that we are not formed
by nature for conservatives.
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only q Minor Tragedu

a ND, as a matter of fact, the boy
L n did just that and made quite
go OF it up to the time he went
TO Atlanta. The old man told ma
the story with tears in his ewes
assured him that the situation
might have been much more tragic.
You see, it's distinctly possible if
Wilbur had turned out to be a ter
rlole columnist that would have
saddened his father, and If Wilbur
was whirlwind that might have
been even more annoying.
The same thing should be said to
Paavo Nurmi. Long-diStance run
nerS and columnists have something
In common. One Is enough in any
family.
Copyright. 1888. by The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-26

his hand and ask him about the world series.
Then, next day. they had . celebration,
clirnaxed by a ball game, In which New Yorks
doughty southpaw took part.
And all of this, somehow, had a delightfully."-
American favor. The return Of the home town
hero, the handshaking the celebration, and
the ball game-for some reason or other. it's
all very good to read about.
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The Bog GreaU Older

liz OOy grew OlQer, ana this
n columnist whom I knew waxed
ancient and more ancient. Natural
~, he died several years ago. At
least, that was the rumor.
But before he passed beyond life
and by-lines he called his son to
his side one day and said, Wilbur.
I'm not the man used to be-" ~
The lad agreed with this state~
ment little more readily than his
father might have wished. How
ever, there was nothing for the old
gentleman to do except to 90 on
in the same mood which had been.
established.
I'm not very much longer for
this world or even the newspaper
business" said the parent. "Of late
I've been pasting up too many Of
my old columns. People are be-
ginning to notice it,"
i think those are your best ones.
Arthur" answered Wilbur. with
rather more f1lial devotion than
tact.
That's as may be-" said the
ancient columniSt, but here's where
you come in. I want you to write.
the column. I don't mean ghost
write it, you understand. You're to
sign your own name and collect the
pay, less 20 per cent commission.
think the column needs new ideas
ana fresher point of view than I
can muster"
The lad made no answer. 'Weu?"
said the old man. "Weu?"
Rather, I can't lie to you. T
WouIon,t be caught dead being a
columnist."
What on earth do you want to
be, Wilbur"
Il have a chance to team I'D
WIN college friend in bootlegging
City" ot'0S
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BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

States. If we are only reasonably
grateful, they should have our loyal
ty. During his eleven months in
Office Mr.. Roosevelt has given more
recognition to women than the OPP
position gave in seven times seven
years.
- =
OF all their many mistakes Of
~ judgment this one will prove
most costly for the Republicans.
They gained a reputation for altru-
ism by championing the rights Of
the Negro, but it remained for the
woman's suffrage amendment to be
written into the Constitution during
a Democratic administration, and
for another Democratic President to
give It vital meaning.
The Republicans were long on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-26
THE MARGOLD GAG

INTERIOR SECRETARY HAROLD ICKES
relations with the press are pleasant and
fortnight.
He quickly realized the affront to the press
and the new deal in the order of Nathan Mar
gold, interior department solicitor, which pro-
hibited workers in two bureaus there from
even talking with correspondents. 1t was, in
deed, as the secretary said, "unhappily
phraSed"
That he intends to keep confidential in
formation confidential and at the same time
apply the "rue of reason" to this ridiculous
order, Is itself reasonable.
But the happy" situation will not be reme-
died until the order is withdrawn.