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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16

may be drawn into over the far east more
deadly and expensive than the Civil war
Such are the staggering issues which will face
Mr.. Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the afternoon of
March 4, 1888. We only can wish him well and get
what encouragement may be secured from the fact
that he is far better equipped by experience and far
better advised than was Abraham Lincoln
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

In other days, they called it
conversion; in the jargon of to-
day it is adjustment to life. No
matter the name; the birthday of
man is when he comes to him
self, accepts himself, and makes
his life count as a thing unique,
original, vital.
1t is not how long we live that
matters, but how much we live,
how much meaning we put into
life as we catch it on the fly.
Copyright 1888. by United Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
How Surveyor Works

How Surveyor W OTES
An analogy will make the meth
cd clear. Let us suppose that a
surveyor on one bank of river
wishes to know the exact distance
to a tree on the other side. He
will proceed as follows:
First, he will measure off a base
line on his side of the river. Then
he will set up his surveying in
strument at one end of the line
and sight at the tree, measuring
the angle between it and the base
line. Then he will do the same
thing from the other end of the
line.
He now has a triangle of which
his line isa in the base and the
tree the apex. He knows the
length of the base line and the
two angles which he has meas
ured. 1t is then a simple matter
to calculate, by trigonometry, the
distance to the apex of the tri-
angle, which is the tree.
we Cd1l Apply JA4Ao SdAllC l1COA4OO
to finding the distance to the sun.
At the same instant, an astrono-
mer in New York and one in San
Francisco point their telescopes at
the sun, noting the angle at which
their telescopes are inclined.
They now have triangle like
the surveyor had. The distance
from New York to San Francisco
is their base line. The telescope
readings give the two angles. All
they need do now is calculate the
distance to the apex Of their tri-
angle, which is the distance to the
sun.
1t would seem at first that the
distances of stars might be OBJ
tanned in the same way. But the
stars are so far away that the
base line from New York to San
Francisco is far too short.
However, once we know the dis
lance to the sun, which, Of course,
is the radius Of the earth's orbit,
we can make use Of that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
Daily Thought

A new heart also will I give you,
and new spirit will put within
you: and I will take away the
stony heart out of your flesh and
L will give you an heart of flesh
Ezekiel 1926.
COMPASSION, the fairest asso-
~ ciate of the heart.-Paine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
NJ. E. Tracy Says:
WAR DEBT RELIEF IS ILLUSION

AFEFoLLY built up propaganda has led
- many Americans to believe that they viii
seC something OF tangible benefit in exchange
IoI cancellation or reduction of war debts
tt;t.a5cIers' politicians and dealists have COM
0iiieo 10 promote the illusonment
som, some OF them are sincere. but others are
uals, it is much ike the clever campaion nv
wnch We were Unanswered into the war. Not
mat we should or could hn,.n I.ort 60 e -
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o Va we made assuming the defeat Of
elLaiS would mean to to
'i'I 'ie elimination OF a particular
was necessary to stop German imperialism
tISeo hte The deuson that human
paved lhe way for tragic disappointment '
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16

For many married man. international diplomacy
pales into nsgncance beside the strategy displayed
by the young Indianian who took his bride on a
4,50o-nile "httcn-hike honeymoon"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16

they live and how it got this way.
A decade ago they read "Grau-
stark" and didn't care.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-16
Child Needs Good Nap Until He Is 4

This is the first of two articles by DR..
Fishbein on sleep for children.
The Washington times., 1933-12-11
Lawyers, Legislatures and
LyncherS
Or, Why We Have Mobs

President Roosevelt made speech last week to the Federal
Council Of Churches of Christ in which he depored ynchng
and called it "a vile form of collective murder"
The Presidents speech like all his speeches, good
We thought especially applicable to lynchngs in the
South where the offender pretty certain to get either the
death penalty life imprisonment from the courts get
it swiftly
Lynchings in those circumstances superfuous say
the least.
But wish that the President his remarks on mob law
in general had said about the delays and oophoes
the criminal courts the obsolete rules of evidence which still
obtain and se horde of crooked lawyers whose main idea
not to advance justice but to obstruct it.
We think these conditions everybody knows exist
Indictment to mob violence and expect
violence of that sort until the people regain confidence
in the administration of the criminal law.
We don't to give Mr. Roosevelt unsolicited advice
we leave that to what's left of the Republican Party
but hope that time when he is not too busy he will
read the riot to the various State associations and
State legislatures who are primarily to blame for the evil
conditions in courts today.
Bar associations have habit of passing pious resolutions
about simplifying legal procedure and raising the ethics of
their they to get beyond the
luton stage.
Most State legislatures also full Of lawyers who know
what's wrong with the coubut who generally block any
attempt to reform them.
Earle W. Evans president of the American Bar Associa-
feel that WE ought to be responsible for the crooks
profession don't know but what the public and the
papers right ~
Well, they ARE right MIR. Evans and if the lawyers can't
or won't clean house. get the legislatures to do it, the
public will take the law into It's hands every and
then, with such results as saw at San Jose
Mob action is ugly. We don't defend it. But the break
down OF our criminal courts is ugly oo and
that in the last analysis the lawyers and legislatures are to
blame for it, and for the mob action which consequence
Of it.
Lawyers and lawmakers won't relish being held responsible
for ynchngs but lot Of laymen beginning think
that the weight Of evidence points their way nevertheless
The Washington times., 1933-12-11
The Human Side of the News
Romulus- s-Reno-Gettysburg- -Chanel-the Bible
By EdUin C.. Hill

Southern Confederacy reached
its high tide and began to re-
cede. Thousands gather to
celebrate the SEVENTEEN ami
versary of a striking event.
That event was the rising from
his place on a rude speakers
stand of a tall, gaunt man and
his delivering a very short ora
ton, to which little attention
was paid at the time, but which
was to become one of the great
classics of the English Ian.
guage.
The battlefield was Gettys-
burg. The man was Abraham
Lincoln. His very short ora
ton was the Gettysburg Ad-
dress. Grand, ons of Lincoln,
Of General Meade, who com.
manded the Union Army; Of
General Lee, who commanded
the forces of the Confederacy,
and of General U. S. Grant,
were present at the celebration.
It takes all kinds of news
to make a world. From Paris
we hear that the platinum
blonde is doomed, or rather
the hairs of her head. Women
are to wear green hair by night
and bright red by day. So the
hairdresSerS have decreed.
News from Paris also that
the woman whose very name
is a synonym for style is to
take unto herself a husband.
Gabrielle Chanel, fashion die
tator, is to be married to Paul
Tribe, a painter and decorator.
Mankind's Past
Year after year the archae-
ologists, the eager scientists who
delve among the ruins and
fragments of buried civilizations
seeking the truth about the long
past of mankind, turn up dis
coveries which support the literal
truth of the Old Testament.
Very interesting are some Of
these new discoveries.
We know now that Jericho
was destroyed about the middle
of the Bronze Age, BIC. 1400,
and that the brick walls Of Jer-
icho actually did fall down,
shaken down by an earthquake
which must have looked like a
considerable miracle to the be-
sieging forces of Hebrews.
All of this and much more
was cleaned from the stone
tablets used by Sahmilat, Sem
itic foreman of a mine, man
who lived $500 years ago, near
Mount Sinai. This man devised
an alphabet of twenty-seven
letters to keep his records and
make his reports to his Egyptian
employer. It spread north
ward and started on it's world
wide journey with sea-going
Phoenician merchants.
Copyright, 1893. King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-12-11
Public Wrath Threatens
Local Government System
Bv James T. Williams, J.

M-Gdjusted units of government
is a costly folly.
cit Wil enrdge the 1888 tax
payer to think that in his met
ropolitan area there are a hum
dred governments With taxing
and bonding poWer uDhere one
Would do.
eff he liUes in a rural Sec
tiOn Where 10 counties could be
joined and yet every inhdbitdnt
be nearer the county seat than
he could hGUe been in any
county so years ago, he is 60
ing to inquire Gngrily why there
should be 10 jdils, 10 sherifFS,
10 clerks, 10 treGsurers, whers
one of each would be amply
sufficient.
Public Trough
"He uUiH wunt to know why
n'ori6und townships should be
kept 0liUe by artificial respira-
tioD Tin the form of State did)
IOhen it wOuld be cheaper TO
put them out of pain at once.
"And if he halls from State
GOith five to ten thousand school
Districts, one for every dozen
farm families, he is going to
nutter in his sleep about the
incubus Which the mud-rOGd age
has fastened upon him.
"Et wiN be much more diff
cult than formerly for local
office holders to cGjole the
average citizen with talk about
good old Polk county or local
self-goUernment. He WiH be
much more loGths than usual to
heed the wGrnings of party
leaders that to lay hands on
the county is to disrupt the
party machine. He wOn't eVen
listen to the pitiful, personal
pleas from office holders about
to be displaced; he'll say, IT'S
cheaper to feed them on the
dole thun at the public trough"
When thousands of Amer.
leans are losing their homes
because they are unable to pay
their tax bills, when millions Of
young Americans are growing
up without schooling because
the money to support public
education is being squandered to
pay the salaries and expenses Of
a horde of useless county and
local politicians, when teachers
are paid less than a living wage
or paid nothing at all, when the
public is denied the protection
of an adequate and effective
State constabulary, is it any Won
der that the tide of righteous
indignation is rising against an
obsolete system of county and
local government which was
"built up in the days of the OK
cart" but in the days OF the
automobile has degenerated
into a political racket?
Copyright. 1898. The Washington Ttms''
The Washington times., 1933-12-11

To overthrow the obsolete
system of county and local gov
ernment in this country, which
is a hand-me-down from the
days of the OK cart and has
been we'll named "the dark con-
tinent Of American politics"
three forces are essential:
First. The leadership in every
State Of an honest, fearless and
able governor armed with the
firm resolve to simplify the
whole structure Of government
within the State;
Second. The cooperation Of q
free legislature-One which is
uncOntaminated and untram-
meled by a majority made up
Of county and local OfficehOld-
ers striving to hold their use
less and expensive jobs;
Third. An aroused, informed
and organized public sentiment
that will support the leadership
Of the governor and compel the
cooperation of the legislature in
providing for an Independent
and competent survey Of the
organization and administration
of State, county and local gov
ernment, and in amending the
constitution and the laws in the
light of the facts developed by
the survey.
Wanted: Leaders
In all the States of the Union,
except California, Montana,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North
Carolina, Rhode Island and Vir-
ginia, the able secretary of the
National Municipal League
finds, that, after a survey has
been completed, "a constitu-
tional amendment is literally
the first step toward Substan-
tial alteration of the present
structure of local government"
But the people of the several
States will not finch from
changing their constitutions or
revising their laws, if only they
can raise up the leadership OF
an honest, strong and able gov
ernor, whom county and local
officeholderS cannot terrorize
and whom the sinister forces
of special privilege cannot cor
rupt.
One of the pioneers in the
exploration of "the dark conti-
nent of American politics" is
Thomas H. Reed, professor Of
political science in the Univer-
sity of Michigan. He speaks
for millions Of his tax-ridden
fellow citizens in 5000 counties
and $4,000 townships, who are
paying taxes to 250,00O sepa-
rate governments in this coun-
try, when he says:
"Depression has made the
American people suddenly tax
conscious. The public is wakina
up to the knoWledRs that the
perPetuGtiOn Of unnseeSSaTy and
The Washington times., 1933-12-11
LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

War-then all my savings were
wiped out in a bank failure
then my job went. I was ter
rified. But gradually I began
to realize that it wasn't the va
riouS losses, themselves, that
were beating me, BUT MY At
TITUDE TOWARD THOSE
LOSSES. Fear-that was the
thing I had to fight.
st did fight it. I did over
come it. And now I rejoice
because that CHASTITY fear of
poverty can no longer possess
me. I'm still as poor as ever
but I don't FEEL POOR.
"I KNOW NOW THAT WE
ARE POVERTY STRICKEN
IN ATTITUDE MANY TIMES
WHEN WE HAVE MONEY
AVAILABLE IN THE BANK.
To-day I am not a victim
of poverty in my THINKING.
I still have the same ability
to enjoy the wonderful parks,
municipal concerts available
to the public at no cost to the
individual, the privilege of a
house of worship. opportunities
to further education (Y. w.
c. A. leisure classes: public
library; public schools, the
fun Of wearing remodelled
clothing, utilizing wisely the
food allotted to us, enhancing
our drab apartment with col
orful cretonneS and inexpen-
sive yet lovely pictures. And
lastly and the greatest joy Of
all, sharing the activities Of
my growing son."
A great letter? I'll say! The
medicine for what's ailing most
of US.
That poor feeling" - how
often I've had it. At the craziest
times! Not when I was really
poor, with no shoe to my care
less heel, no roof over my
happy head. Many a day. then,
I went hungry-and didn't give
a darn. And then, contrariwiSe,
when I've been sitting pref
tiest-my soul has whimpered
in rags!
"FEELING POOR"-t there's
the Big Bad Wolf that gets us
all. But he'll never be able
to huff n puff and blow YOUR
house down-as long as you
can meet him with grin!
Copyright. 1888, King Features
Syndicate Incl
The Washington times., 1933-12-11

The good people Of Rome,
Georgia, fear the wrath of
Mussolini Of Rome, italy, and
the way Of it Is this. Some
years ago Mussolini presented
to the city Of Rome, Georgia,
a copy Of the famous statue Of
the Capitoline Wolf supplying
lacteal nourishment to the twin
boys, Romulus and Remus.
With many folk the statue was
never popular. Some objected
because the sculptor hadn't put
the boys in pants. forgetting
that pants are modern inven-
tion. Others objected to the
wolf, as a particularly big bad
wolf.
So it went. And now a mis-
creant. with little respect for
Mussolini or the legend of
Rome's founding, has stolen one
of the trouserleSs bronge boys.
Nobody knows whether it was
Romulus that was taken or
Remus one Of them has gone,
and Rome, Georgia, is hoping
that Mussolini will not find
out about it.
Fur Farmers
Three thousand fur farmers
in the United States and fif-
teen hundred in Canada are
convinced that prosperity is
actually back again. The Win
ter trade will come up to about
10 per cent of what it was in
the boom year Of 1929. Peo-
pie are buying furs again and
paying good prices for them.
Mink fur, dark brown, silky
and lustrous, rates with silver
fox as the most fashionable and
popular.
The mink is a long-bodied,
Short-legged, arch-backed men,
ber Of the weasel family and
likes nothing better than a
fight. 1t takes from seventy
five to one hundred pelts to
make a coat, and the pelts
now range from $5 to $40
apiece. That's the kind of pros
peritv that militant Miles Reno,
leader of the farm revolt, would
like to get for thousands of
farmers out West.
A very blue -blooded gentle
man is this generalissimo Of
the embattled farmers. He is
direct descendant of a cour-
tier of Louis the Fourteenth,
who DOTTED his silks and satins
to sail across the sea and map
for Louis his vast province of
Louisiana.
The family lived in Virginia
and scattered over the South
and West, and came to be
known as Reno, rather than
Renault.
Interesting tableau on that
old battlefield where the
The Washington times., 1933-12-11
No Swinging Doors
Nor Steel Ones Either

The District Commissioners in their public hearings the
alcohol control BILL have received wealth Of suggestions
for handling the "new deal" in liquor
As result of these suggestions they undoubtedly will be
bile concrete and acceptable plan to Congress
when that body
The thing which has been demonstrated above all
others the hearings that the people Of the District of
Columbia do NOT want the preprohbtion saloon to come
back with the returning alcoholic beverages.
Of that determination there be doubt,
Virtually every witness the hearings whether speaking
for large group himself individually has pronounced
his views on this subject in uncertain terms.
There is likewise apparent result Of the hearings the
determination of Washgtonns that the alcohol control plan
Eha be designed eliminate the prohibition saloon
the speakeasy.
These vicious elements have place the scheme
Of things.
The swinging doors of the bar and the steecoated
doors Of the spekeasy may remain exhibits in the
but they must longer be the symbol of going
busnes-for the business which they syboed too often
meant crime and distress
So long Commissioners and the Congress keep
mind the need of preventing the return of the
saloon and of eliminating the speakeasy and the booeggr
will probably have satisfactory liquor control law in
the National Capital
OF course something than law will be required to
purge Washington of the speakeasy evil
We shall have to have restoration Of respect for the law
respect which dealt sad blow by the sumptuary egs
jation under which we have lived in recent years.
As has been pointed out in the District hearings the bootleg
Industry did not flourish upon the strength Of the rats
who engaged in that industry fourished upon the
dollars Of the purchasers Of illicit liquor.
IT, under repeal the prices Of liquor exorbitan
make it too difficult to obtain legal liquor shall invite
dollars to continue to flow into the pockets Of the boot
logger.
We have in Maryland the danger Of excessive prices
In that State county dspensares charging for
liquor than drug stores in Washington They harg
ing about twice much booteggers in Washington
Presumably the liquor of better quality in Maryland but
the educaon which Americans received upon prohibition
such to make them discount quality and depend to
large extent upon price their guide in drinking.
We will eliminate the illicit liquor industry by
charging excessive prices for legal beverages.
hearings sounded warning against trying too much
ground in the liquor control law itself That warning should
be needed.
Once rule governing liquor written into the law by Con-
gess delay and difficulty will be encountered in repeating it,
regardless Of its unworkabity
the law written upon broad basis and the details
left to regulations to be imposed either by the
by the board set up especially to deal with the problem
there will be less rgidty and greater likelihood changing
the regulations to meet any problems which may arise
The Washington times., 1933-12-11

know how Elsle Robinson
things had been with her for
the last four years.
A desperate straightforward
she didn't put it that way. Yet
between the lines, one could
read the story Of that old fear
and agony. Widowed-left pen
nileSs with a baby in arms
wha could she do? She did
ever ing. Took chores you'd
hesitate to offer to passing
tramp. Ate scraps. Wore rags.
Slept in any corner she could
find.
But all these handicaps were
trivial beside a menace she car
ried in her own heart.
THAT POOR FEELING"
Being poor didn't matter. But
FEELING POOR-that matter
ed terribly! For that was the
only thing that could really get
her down.
Rags, poor food, a hard bed
why, she might have expert
enced those on any camping
trip, and laughed them off as a
lark. Then they wouldn't have
mattered, because she would
not have let them matter.
But-COULD SHE KEEP
THEM FROM MATTERING
NOW?
COULD SHE FACE THEM
NOW WITH A LAUGH?
COULD SHE REMEMBER
THAT THEY WE'RE JUST
OUTSIDE THINGS WHICH
DIDN'T COUNT. BECAUSE
HER REAL LIFE WAS LIVED
INSIDE, NOT OUTSIDE?
Being poor? Oh, that was
easy. Because that was just
scenery. But feeling poor
that was deadly, because that
got under ones skin. Had she
the courage to keep it out?
She had. She DID. There,
in that simple letter, was the
record of a great fight, a gall
liant victory.
"It's all right now. Elsie"
she said. "At first it seemed as
If everything was over. There
was the loss Of my husband,
who had served In the World
The Washington times., 1933-12-11

to keep the saloon in the home,
or to hand it back to Mike,
Joe or Pete" on the corner.
seems a vital matter.
"Girls Weep Into Glasses!
They Just Adore Bars" ran a
headline in a newspaper re-
Gently; while on the next sheet
another headline read women
Won't Weep Over Old Bars
Knell." Take your choice!
Once upon a time, no perfect
lady would have had any "atti-
tude" whatsoever on this sub
ject. Bars were a mans affair,
and no lady's foot had ever
touched q brass rail. Woman
accepted saloons and bars as
she accepted boards, tobacco
and swearing-all Of which she
regarded as mans prerogatives
and her own bitter dispense
ton.
But since the American home
became the Great National
Speakeasy, lots of domestic gals
have enjoyed polishing up the
brass rail, and dolling up the
taproom with lacquered stools
and potted geraniumS. I know
one private bar that looks like
a reproduction of Central Park
Casino. A woman simply MUST
beautify things-however SIN
full!
It was the WET" HOME
and the nncket flask. far more
The Washington times., 1933-12-11
ONCE OVERS

Don't Offend by RestIessness
Why be such "flutter
budget"-keeping yourself in a
turmoil, and irritating those
around you?
Speeding from one place to
another, hustling, jostling. try
ing to quicken the speed Of
others, you make yourself most
annoying.
Your friends wish you would
be calm, for they are weary Of
watching you.
While others converse, you
ssem to bS thinking Of some.
The Washington times., 1933-12-11

thing to do In a physical way
hands moving, arms jerking,
feet shuffling, rubbing your
chin or behind your ears, or
scratching your elbow or your
knee-perpetual motion.
Then, the questions you ask,
not waiting for an answer. and
the way you try to get others
stirred up to join you in some
activity or other.
The Lets do something" sort
Of person is a pest; the ever
moving person q nuisance.
Sit down and be quiet,
The Washington times., 1933-12-11


And then I
opened a let
ter t he
hastily writ
ten note of a
busy little
woman in her
h ur off.
Shed never
met me. But
something I
had once writ
t e n h a d
helped a bit.
And so she
t h o u ght I
might like to