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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Sp0nker is Selfish

THE truth of the matter Is that
Il father or mother Furnishes
his or her children just for his or
her own convenience make them
something less of nuisance around
the house.
Even the system of putting Willie
to bed at 7 o'clock in the evening
isn't just for Willie's health and
well being. 1t represents an attempt
to get him out of the way and
keep him quiet, if possible, so that
the bridge game can begin right
after dinner
This notion that there is a special
kind of morality in early hours
runs all through society. Many
mayors and police commissioners
fall for it. Even in New York we
have a o'clock curfew law for all
night clubs and cabarets.
H. I. Phillips of the Sun once ex-
planned that this is based on the
theory that if a gunman can't make
up his mind whom he's going to
shoot before a. m. he deserves to
be put out.
Copyright. 1893. BY The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
1t Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. June PA child
IN psychologist in Chicago has
been making an investigation to find
out how many different WAYS
child can ANNOY a parent. [
don't know whether he figures it
double if both parents are annoyed.
AT any rate, he's figured out 2,124
ways
His system was to ask the CO.
operation of thirty-two persons.
Each went around with a little
notebook and kept a record for
each day. Whenever Junior got
on their nerves. they put a small
cross in the book and then sent the
details to the inquiring pSycholo-
giSt.
The doctor admits that in some
cases the parents got the children
coming and going. Thus one mother
would confess her annoyance be-
cause the small boy of the house
was so dreadfully dirty and mtidy,
while the father sent in the COM
plant that his young daughter was
always Combing her hair and fixing
herself up. It seems there's TO
pleasing parents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
M. E.TracySays:

DEOPLE understand the language they speak.
l. In gangdom, that means the gun. Society
has little choice in the medium Of cOmmunica-
tion if 1t wishes to make itself perfectly clear.
When gangster has something really i'm
portant to say to an associate, a victim, or the
law, he shoots. Neither is he bothered much by
the possibility of bystanders getting hurt.
The Kansas City affair, in which four officers
were killed, is one of the many Illustrations of
the methods by which gangdonl seeks to impress
people with its ruthlessness and power.
The object of the scrimmage was for revenge
on captured convict.
Gangdom kills for propaganda purposes. The
life of an unlucky comrade, whether taken by
friend or foe, is just charged to overhead.
Frank Nash was saved from going back to
Leavenworth by losing his life No doubt his
would-be rescuers would have preferred it other
wise. STILL it was an effective broadcast of fear.
EEAR is the chief stock in trade of organized
Il terrorism 1t makes the holdup little
easier, the prosecuting witness a little more
hesitant, the racket safer. Also, it is an effec-
tive method by which to control industry and
enforce a code Of ethics.
Gangdom calculates the value Of a f1rst-class
shooting scrape in much the same way the
ordinary business man calculates that Of a full
page adj 1t is institutional publicity, in which the
successful getaway counts for more than the
Damage, dill OPEN CI1d16I4SG w NOlAStltAOCQ
authority.
The desire to sustain bootlegging at any cost
has caused millions Of people to regard this
particular form of violence indiferently.
Many an otherwise reasonable citizen has
fooled himself into thinking that most of the
gang killings were caused by quarrels for
monopoly of the liquor trade in some particular
place.
Time and again, it has been asserted that
gangsters would presently kill one another of, if
let alone.
OUCH notion rests on two assumptions, both
- false Gangdom is just as willing to run
a racket in milk as liquor. and is interested pr1-
marily in holding the law at arms length, no
matter what the excuse or issue.
While bootlegging furnished the inspiration
and the necessary revenue with which to start,
gangdom since has long ceased to regard it as
the exclusive or even the most profitable field
of operations.
Gangdom is dedicated to profit in every law
less way, and for that reason, is bound to pro-
tect and support every lawless activity. 1t has
no object except to prey on people.
child kidnapped for ransom, a prison break
for recruits, poultry dealer paying for protec
ton, witness scared into silence, politician
bought with the promise of votes, all go into the
hopper as part of the great game, with death
threats as the most persuasive argument.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Parents Are SO Touchy
4 IMAGINE that this record {

T IMAGINE that this record of
Il 2,124 devices to annoy the
grownups all could be summed up
in the old story of the father who
was oppressed by a prolonged ST
lence in the playroom and shouted
upstairs, Johnny, whatever it is
you're doing, stop it right away"
And it seems to me that this COM
pilatiOn would have a more scien-
tiic aspect if it included some &C
count of the number Of ways in
which parent can annoy a child.
There should have been little
notebooks fer the Riddles. so that
they could do some jotting on their
own account. And whenever the
command came, Go upstairs and
wash your face, and don't forget
the back of your ears'-when that
happened some father or mother
would get black mark in the book.
The whole thing bOils down to
this: Small persons and large ones
have varied interests. It's rather a
pity that children are not constitu-
tionally capable of living in little
kennel behind the house. It's nom
sense to expect divergent genera
tons to get along without friction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Platitude
BY EUGENE RICHART

BY EUGENE RICHART
Surely" I thought, such fires Of
faith as these
That burn in me will leave a mark
forever.
Surely" I thought, times cruel
wizardries
That break so many ties will touch
ours never"
Surely" you said, through sor-
row and want and fasting,
Through trials that eat loves
heart like fatal acid,
Our love-ours, ours, alone!-is
lasting,
Stanch as a rock. like a calm lake
deep and placid"
All that was long ago. 1t has been
so long
That I hardly remember the fran-
tic fooishness
Fainter than faint last echoes OF &
song.
Worn quite as threadbare as your
favorite dress.
Even the memory's almost faded
now.
Loves pink petal fallen from the
bough. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
All Right IN Moderation

I'M not unfriendly to children. I'm
Il much more friendly than the
inquiring psychologist, who seems
disposed to put the fault entirely ON
one side. If sit down to read
a murder mystery melodrama and
a small son of mine wants to beat
a drum around the house at the
same time there is a clash.
am, let's say, right in the middle
of the chapter where the radio an
nOuncer is found in the middle of
Studio 6, lying on the floor, with
an ivory paper knife through his
heart. It's a good story. I can't
tell how it's going to turn out. There
are so many persons to suspect. Al
most anybody would like to kill
radio broadcaster if he got good
chance.
And just at that moment there
comes to my ears the raucous sound
of Junior beating his drum.
Don't beat that blame druml" <
shout at him. He comes back with
the wholly illogical query Of, why
nOt?"
Now, in such circumstances the
average parent is stumped for an
answer. He's inclined to give one
which isn't wholly truthful. He may
say that it's wrong to beat drum.
And that God doesn't like little boys
who make too much noise. That's
stretching the imagination.
The parent = ought to be wise
enough to put morals out of the
question. I think his proper reply
should run like this: II want 10
read a book, and you want to beat
a drum. I'm a great deal bigger
and stronger than you are can
lick the life out of you And so I'm
going to read the book, and you're
not going to beat the drum"
That's a fair and square answer.
1t represents the parent as bully,
which he usually is. But it doesn't
make him a hypocrite at the same
time.
Lots Of children don't mind spank
ings so much. What they resent
is the moral oyerlay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
your right say voltaire

Furthermore, any person familiar
with pension rules and regulations
knows that it is a rank statement
and that so far as the brother get
ting the $50 pension and many more
similar cases is concerned it is all
bull, bunk, blarney and baloney.
A veterans bureau officer today told
The Times that the maximum pension for
a, Spanish war veteran case. total dis
ability, is $72.
This official stated that he had known
Of cases where one man took, another
mans discharge and used it advantage
ously. but in his experience the vioator
always had been ,9und out.
This official did not know how a vet
eran or his brother. as described in the
letter, could "wangle" $40 a month OFT Ct
the government From s25 10 $50 is the
usual pension for Spanish war vets, he
declared. The veterans in the $50 Up
bracket are hospitalized cases, in need
of attendants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Premature Babies Later in Developing

than full-term infants during the
first year.
They average walking and talking
about six months later, and are
somewhat slower in learning to CO.
ordinate.
There are, of course, many
hazards associated with being born
prematurely, but nature seems to do
her best to enable such children to
catch up, so that eventually they do
become equal to children born after
normal time
1t is interesting, in this connec-
ton, to realize that some of the
greatest men of history were born
prematurely including Charles OAR
win, the French philosopher Renan
and the great military leader Ma
poleon, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
SILVER AND WORLD TRADE

THE American delegations proposal at
London for an international plan to re-
habilitate silver yet may turn out to be one
of the best ideas advanced at the world
economic conference.
The warm support given the plan by such
nations as India, China, and MeXico-to say
nothing of that which comes from European
countries like Germany and Itay-indicates
the important position that silver still holds
in many parts of the world as monetary
base.
Raise silver's value, and you automatically
increase the purchasing power of vast sec
tions of the worlds population.
With that accomplished a very substan-
tial increase in international trade could be
expected to follow.
And since a revival of international trade
is one Of the prime aims of the conference,
the possibilities inherent in the silver re-
Mobilization scheme are ,easy to comprehend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

THE question constantly is raised
Il as to whether babies born pre-
maturely have mentalities as good
as those of infants born after the
usual time.
In a recent review Of the subject,
DR.. Arnold Gesell points out that
the normal time before birth is
about forty weeks, but that cases
are on record of birth with survi-
val after twenty-four weeks.
To find out whether babies born
after six, seven or eight months de-
velop mentally as well as those born
after nine months, examinations
were made regularly on a number
Of such babies.
Two children born prematurely
were studied regularly for period
of two years. One child at the age
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
So They Say

I will continue to sing until no
body will listen, and then go out
into the desert and yodel.-Mme.
Ernestine Schumann-H eink, on her
72d birthday.
Homeless young men rowing about
the country are becoming a menace
to legitimate hoboes; they don't live
up to the rules and regulations of
the road-Morris Lazarowitz, self
styled King of the Hoboes."
One of the chief reasons for bet
ter health among women is the
change in women's styles from the
tight fitting wasp waists to sensible
loose-fitting clothes.-Dr. w. w.
Bauer, director of the bureau of
public health of the American Medi-
cal Association.
1t is significant that since the de-
preston began one out of every
six banks has failed, one out Of
every forty-f1ve hospitals has closed,
one out of every twenty-five bust
ness and industrial concerns has be-
come bankrupt, out only one out
of every 2,344 churches has closed
its doors.-Dr. George Linn Kieffer,
in the Christian Herald.
Today the best education is none
too good for the young American;
he will need it all. And the country
needs to have him have it; for it
requires trained intelligence as
never before.-United States Su-
preme Court Justice Benjamin N.
Cardozo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
A WOman's Viewpoint ::

ON the other hand, when we i'm
" agine that every girl can be
developed into a trade genius, we
go to the opposite and equally fool
ish extreme. Most of them have
no qualifications for professional
life. 1 have no doubt that hundreds
Of excellent housekeepers are max
ing grand business fops.
And as an encouraging point of
Mrs. Bartons argument, let us con-
slider that the girl who is educated
and trained to be queen of the home
might find it much easier to grab a
fairy prince-which would be some
thing.
The whole mistake was made,
suppose, when We began TO talk as
if marriage was NOT a career for
women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

TN her excellent column on child
L culture, Olive Roberts Barton
points out that whereas IS per cent
of our girls marry, we educate them
strenuouSly and persistently for ev-
erything but marriage.
1t is stupid, this insistence that
each girl shall have solid geometry
and physics and botany and Latin,
while We give her no practical in
struction in the homemaking arts
and the difficult job CT managing a
husband and family.
But it seems to me it might be
almost as fatal to assume that every
maid would profit from the domestic
education. After all, girls are not
alike. Some of them are entirely
untitled for household roles, but are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

capable Of making other valuable
contributions to society.
The fault of our educational sys-
tenn; as l see it, is that We put forth
SO little effort to discover what the
individual is best fitted for, by
nature. From time immemorial there
have been soft, gracious, homestead
ly inclined women, but each era has
also produced its managerial types.
I long have suspected that the
reason the early Catholic nunneries
were so popular was because they
were the only places at that time
where women could exercise any
executive ability unhindered. And
the manner in which some of the
lady abesses ran their converts is
ample proof of their natural bust
ness capacity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

Of months resembled in behavior
equipment child of months, but
many of the difficulties might have
been due merely to the fact that
it was seriously under weight.
One physician investigated the
mental equipment Of almost 400
premature infants and found THAI
in general they do not develop as
well as infants born after the nor
NAL time. Their mentality is likely
to develop a little later.
However, the majority Of pre-
mature infants born after eight
months without injuries at birth
undergo normal mental develop
ment, but progress more slowly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
BO1 Politics
BY Leroy McAlIister and Eliza F. Miller,
New Carlisle and Olive Township Library
Board.

BY Leroy McAIIster and Eliza f. Miller
New Carlisle and Olive Township Library
Board.
EOVERNOR PAUL V. MNUTT:
" We wish hereby to file a most
vigorous and emphatic protest
against your dismissing from the
state library service such persons as
Miss Henley, Miss Hazel Warren
and Director Louis j. Bailey.
The placing of state library
service in politics and dismissing
such persons as those before men
toned after years and years of
faithful and efficient work and
being responsible as Mr.. Bailey is
for the erection of the state library
and historical building is in our
minds partisan politics at it's worst
and We condemn it in no uncertain
terms.
In dismissing such outstanding
persons and substituting unframed
and, in most cases, inefficient ap-
pointees, you are putting our state
library back to where it was thirty
years ago, and we protest this
practice most vigorously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

tHeH TIeUS m tH6S6 Columns. MAKE your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ 1oords or less.J
BY B.sP. Brown.
Through your paper I wish to
congratulate viii Craig for his ar
ticle in Mondays issue of the Star.
In my opinion he is right about
high salaries and high wages. We
never can break this panic by high
prices, brought on by the war, when
everything went up to the break
ing point.
Now let us go back to the panic
in 1873 brought on by the Civil war.
In 1869 and 1870 everything was
high, but when the soldiers got to
work and planting, everything
came down. Wages got very low
Men were working for $3.50 to So
day and were well satisfied, al
ways had plenty to eat, working
eight hours day and six days a
week, DuG ITO luAuI1eS.
Now let us start all over again
by making just living wages for
every man who wants to work,
starting at the iron mines, then
transportation and steel mills and
lumber camps. All could be re-
duced down to Is cents an hour.
making cheaper goods of all kinds.
The farmer could by on the basis
of what he received for his
produce.
Let us show the world we can
produce goods as cheaply and as
good as any country in the world
I know the labor unions will say
sweatshop wages. Walking the
streets is worse than sweatshops
Let's put two men to work at Is
cents an hour where one man is
working at so cents. Are not two
men better customers than one.
Let's all go to work at $12 a week
and make things that we can SELL
BY Volunteer Soldier.
In a recent issue of The Times in
the Center, Walter F. Smith, con-
demning the pensions of the Span
iSh war veterans, like hundreds who
have spoken their part in criticism
of all soldier favors, prevaricateS a.
plenty in his hatred of ex-soldiers.
He states that he knows soldier
who was in the SpaniSh-Americar
conflict and Who was advised that
if he sent in his discharge he would
be granted a pension of $50; that
he did not send it in, but that his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Daily Thought

The way of the wicked is as
darkness; they know not at what
they stumble.-Proverbs, 4:19.
THO see and listen to the wicked
l. is already the beginning of
edneSs.-Confuciu
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

Those noiseless street cars that Chicago is
getting ready to introduce certainly should
mark an important step in that citys war on
rackets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
WALL STREET ABUSES

WTALL STREET probably never was the
focus for more public disapproval than
has been the case this year.
If left 20 fritter itself out In sporadic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

brother did and that the brother
now is drawing the 500 pension.
Mr.. Smith writes that he knows
OF many such cases. In the first
place, as I understand the Span
iSh-American pension rules, the
maximum is $72. If Mr.. Smith
knows he is right in making such
statements as he did, he is in the
clear, bat the pension department at
Washington surely will rake him
prove his statement, as I am now
calling It's attention to it and mail
ing it the page Of your paper con-
tanning the letter
1t is up to Mr.. Smith to show the
government the one particular case
to which he refers and the many
more that he says he knows of. If
he knows of these cases, I am sure
that he is the only one who does.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

mystery of the great American home is
how a daughter who is too tired to wash the
supper dishes nevertheless has plenty of energy
to go out and dance until a. M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

The theory that opposites make the hap
piest marriages seems to be borne out by the
fact that you seldom see a family quarrel when
the wife is large and the husband small.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

Evidently the news that the new deal
frowns upon overproduction hasn't yet reached
Lima, O., where hen has just laid an egg
seven inches around and weighs nine ounces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.
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:: The Message Center ::
: I wholly disapprove Of what YOU saw and

(Times readers are inrfted to cypress
their rie,cs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 4oords or leSs.J
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-09
AT THE MOVIES

heart set on marrying Cooky and
making him big time fighter, takes
him in hand.
Honey knows as much about the
fight game as her Pop, fight man.
ager, and when he meets an accidental
death Honey runs his gym to cancel
his debts. But the gang won't let a
girl manage them and they walk out
There's nobody left but Cooky, q mere
sparrlng partner, so that, when q
bout comes along, Honey gives Cooky
his first chance. She gives him good
advice and severe training and he
wins. That was the last time Cooky
mentioned lunch wagons! From then
on his wagon was hitched to a big
time star.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-02-09
Champ Rises, Falls
In Capitol Picture

From small town chump to big
town champ and back to where he
started, sadder but wiser and finally
primed to start the climb to success
all over again-that's the story told
with much heart interest, sympathy
thrilling punch and bolsterous COM
edy in THE Big Timer" the Column
bia picture featuring Ben Lyon. Con-
stance Cummings and Thelma Todd
at the Capitol theatre tomorrow.
At first, fighting is merely means
to an end. Then Honey Baldwin, a
determined young lady who has her