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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11

JANET HILL breaks her engagement
70 ROLF CARLYLE wncn she learns ne
had been paving attentions 70 BEL
KENDALL. wealthy society girl Janet.
% is secretary 90 BRUCE HAMiLION
advertising manager OF Every Home
Magazine She stlI loves Roll.
JEFF GRANT. Young engineer. saves
her purse from a hOlcgp man ana Sne
and Jef become friends When she
learns Rolf has elOpec with Betty sne
tolls JEFF about her broken engagement
and saws she can never care Tor anyone
else
Hamilton leaves the magazine and Sc
cures a lob for Janet as social secretary
10 his alEte. MRS. CURTIS. It IS sew
erai DAVIS before Janet learns Mrs.
curtis Us Betty Kendall s mother Then
she feeis she should 20 away but cir
cumafances prevent
Rolf and Betty return from their
honeymoon and move 20 their own apart
ment Mrs curtis goes 70 Silver Bav.
a lake resort taking Janet With her
They stay a month.
one evening shortly after their re-
turn Janet goes for a drive with JEFF
They ser man and girl beside
wrecked car JEFF stops and offers 20
take the couple 10 the nearest farm
house The girl ig Betty CARLYLE and
the nam Is VAN BANNISTER.
NOW GO on WITH THE STORY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
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here in this room with me all eve
ming. We we're reading-no, I've got
that wrong. Last night the Ridge
ways were her and the night be-
fore"
Mrs. Curtis words broke off.
Janet did go out that evening, "
she continued, but she told me she
was going to the movies. so you see
it must have been someone else"
Betty's laugh was sneering.
"Moyies-that's what she'd tell
you, Of course. But she wasn't at
the movies when I saw her"
But, Betty. simply can't believe
it. Why, that sort Of thing isn't at
all like herl She's always SO quiet
and reserved"
Betty's voice famed with anger.
so you'd believe her against your
own daughter, would you?"
NO no, it's not that, dear.
simply mean you must have been
mistaken. know you think it was
Janet you saw, but it must have
been someone else. It's so easy to
make mistakes like that. When she
comes back III ask her"
Don't do that!' Betty cut in
shortly. do you think if she were
out with a crowd of hoodlums she'd
tell you about it? If you're so sure
this precious Janet is a saint. I guess
that's all there is to it. But if you
wake up some morning and find the
silverWare or your diamonds gone
don't blame me! I've done the best
l could to warn you"
Mrs. Curtis glanced down at the
diamond ring she was wearing.
oh dear!" she said. L suppose
now I will worry. But you must re-
member Janet came to me with the
highest recommendation from your
uncle. Bruce had known her for a
long time, and he said she was alb
solutely reliable.
Bettys lips formed a narrow
crimson line.
well she said as she arose. I'm
through with the whole affair. I
thought I should tell you what
saw, and I have!"
She walked across the room and
paused, frowning why in heavens
name don't you get some new drap-
cries for this room?" she asked.
Those things are positively archaic.
Nobody's using dark colors any
more"
But I like them" her mother OBJ
jected. And they'll be good for q
long time yet. With things the way
they have been lately, 1 don't like
to go to expense that isn't neces-
Sary"
You ought to have the whole
room done over. And the library.
too. The whole place is motheaten."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11

ITO Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
LOOKING TOWARD PROSPERITY

A WASHINGTON correspondent points out
L n that one of the developments Of the bust
ness revival has been a great increase in the
trade Of public laundries and cleaning and
pressing establishments.
There is a very neat little moral in that
bit Of news
The years Of depression, evidently, failed
to destroy the self-respect Of the man who
had to go without work. For it looks as if
his first thought, on getting a new job, was
to fix up his personal appearance.
He might go about looking seedy when he
didn't have any money, but he had not lost
that regard for his looks which is part of the
ordinary mortal's self-respect.
And as soon as money was coming in regu-
larly once more, he hurried to spruce up and
make himself look like responsible steadily
employed citizen again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
ART FOR THE CRITICS

NNE of the pleasanteSt things about the
~ people of the United States is the fact
that in a time like the present, when history
is being made by wholesale and signs and
portents are crossing the sky so fast that they
tread on one another's heels, they can de-
vote themselves whole-h&rtedly to a little
song about big bad wolf
The song itself is of the simplest. 1t points
no moral, and, if it adorns tale, the tale is
nothing but a moving picture version of an
old nursery fable.
But somehow everybody is going for it,
whistling it, humming it, grinning fondly over
the memory of a couple of pink porkers
dancing across a colored celluloid landscape.
There is, in fact, only one disturbing
thought in connection with it; the thought that
presently the highbrow critics will discover
it, and will write erudite articles for the rough
paper sreviews telling about the significance"
of these cartoon comedies, discussing their ar
tiStic value, and using a lot of four-bt words
to say what the ordinary movie-goer already
knows-that these things are lot of fun, and
clever as the dickens.
That sort of thing happens every so often.
Ring Lardner was acclaimed by the highbrows
as a genius when he died But the great
American public discovered him long before
the serious critics so much as knew his name;
they discovered him when he was writing for
the newspapers and the nickel magazines, and
they knew that he was uncommonly good
without waiting to be told.
It was the same with Charlie Chaplin. He
had sent millions of ordinary folk into con-
vulsions of laughter for years before the gray
boards began to write soulfully about his
great art" and his "cosInic significance"
A great artist? Assuredly; but the man in
the street. who knows nothing of art. was the
first one to find it out.
SO 1t was, too with newspaper comic strips.
Several years ago critics wrote a book to
point out that the comic strips were not only
funny. but offered valuable sidehght on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
Paralysis Victims Need Rest Most

TINE infantile paralysis season is
l. about over, since it tends to
clear up with the coming of cold
weather.
But if you happen to be among
the unfortunate parents whose chill
dren have been afflicted with this
disease, it is important that you
now do everything possible to re-
store your child's physical strength
and his ability to move his para
lyzed limbs.
The chief requirement is rest, as
much as can be given. But there
are several other operations in
which the surgeon requires the par
ent's help. They are necessary to
prevent permanent deformity.
1t has ben shown that when one
series Of muscles is paralyzed, the
opposing muscles are likely to pull
on them constantly. The human
body is built SO that the muscles
are in opposite groups, pulling
against each other.
The pull of gravity, the weight
of bed clothes, and the action of
strong muscles opposing weak ones
are all detrimental influences which,
uncontrolled, lead to deformities
after infantile paralysis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
NRA AND THE COURTS

TT seems inconceivable," says James NJ Beck,
self-appointed defender of the Constitu-
ton and conservative Republican member of
the house of representatives. that the indus
trialistS of America who have been accustomed
to economic freedom will not challenge the
validity Of the recovery act"
So convinced is Mr.. Beck that the act is
unconstitutional and therefore malicious that
he can not understand the failure Of busi-
ness to rush into the courts against it.
The fact remains that four months have
gone by with the act under closest scrutiny
from industry and not even the richest and
most powerful business groups have invoked
the law to fight it. The answer may be found
in a statement made a few days ago by Wal
ter c.. Teagle, chairman of the industrial adj
viSory board of NRA and president of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. to the
effect that so far as he can learn, business is
profiting under the recovery act far more
than it is suffering from the necessity of in
creaSing pay rolls and permitting labor to
organize.
Mr.. Beck sees NRA as involving mo ques-
ton Of economics or social philosophy but
only the strictly legal one of the powers of
the federal government. 1t may be that his
pitiful search for business champion to rise
and attack NRAs new charter for industrial
self-government will be successful in spite of
the evident delight of business in its freedom
to organize, but those administering the re-
covery act do not fear such an attack if it is
made.
Donald r. Richberg, general counsel of
NRA, summed up the matter when he said:
"If my brethren of the bar will read again
certain opinions of the supreme court they
will find there written down that the supreme
law of government, as of the individual is the
law Of representation A government sworn
to protect and to defend the Constitution can
not permit that Constitution to be used as
shield for the enemies Of constitutional govern
ment. The constitutional right of individual
liberty can not be made shield Of anarchy.
The constitutional right Of private property
can not be made a shield Of tyranny and
oppression"
Apparently Mr.. Richberg has sound judi
cial support for this declaration. In test cases
brought under the agricultural act in the past
few months the courts have invariably found
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
An Open Letter

BY Civis.
A story was published the other
day about the safety board decid-
ing to turn off the stop and go
lights at midnight SO that the city's
motorists could drive home with
out trembling with fear at every
stop that some thug would leap to
the side of the car and brandiSh
a revolver.
Ever since we read the arti-
Gle we've been thinking about
writing a letter to Chief Mike
Morrissey. And here's about the
way we were thinking of writing:
Dear Chief: We notice the safety
board has decided to turn off the
stop and go signs at midnight to
give motorists more protection.
Just between you and us, isn't it
rather silly, chief?
"You might as we'll say point
blank-Listen, Indianapolis, our
streets aren't even safe to drive on
at night, so we're going to turn the
lights OH at midnight so you don't
have to stop
Maybe chief, you might even
add that they could drive at top
speed to further lessen the dan
gers Of holdup. Don't you think,
chief, that it sounds sort of odd.
Sort of queer, you know. AS if we
had no police force.
1--WE do have a police force. At
least we pay for one, chief. It's
motorized and lied force,
too. It's supposed to be effective.
If it is, chief, why aren't our streets
safe?
Perhaps, chief, it's time to do
something, Wouldn't you think
SOP"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
PUNCTURING THE MYTH

IF continuing revelations of the shady
- methods Of some of the countrys largest
banks accomplish nothing more, they at least
have punctured the myth that Wall Street is
wise enough to rule the nation. Even worse
for the country than the financial racketeer-
ing Of big bankers was the dangerous public
belief that these men had ability to do more
than make money for themselves.
Mr.. Wiggin and his Chase National bank
and aflliates seem to have competed with
Mr.. Mitchell and the National City group in
kicking public considerations out the window.
Mr.. Morgan and Mr.. Kahn had their pre-
ferred lists Of stock gratuities for influential
men in high places.
These particular gentlemen of high-bind-
ing finance were not distinguished by origi-
nality They were more or less typical of an
American era. They were the natural products
Of our dog-eat-dog system of success. The
truth is that in the late period of so-called
prosperity a great many people-big and lit
tie, high and low-lived by the principle:
Anything goes, if you can get away with
it,"
The mere fact that Mr.. Wiggin has been
showed out of his high office and now has
given up his big pension is now awfully i'm
portant. Nor is the pleasing fact that Mr.
Aldrich, Mr. Virgins successor in the Rookie
Teller bank, is shocked and DESTROYS of reform
particularly important.
Our financial systenl-as revealed by the
crash and subsequent eXposures-is too vast
complicated and rotten to permit complete
reform from within. The public stake is too
great to trust such reform wholly to those in
terests which already have betrayed the pub
lie confidence
Mr.. Aldrich and other interested heralds of
new day in banking may be of help in as
SiSting government officials to prepare the
laws and the enforcement machinery for
safe and honest financial system. But it is
the government and not private interests
that the public hereafter will hold responsible
for keeping the money temples clean.
In banking of the future - as in other
business-there will be both good men and
bad. Either the government will see to it
that those who handle other peoples money
are not crooks or gamblers, or the govern
ment, as a last resort, will become the peo-
pies banker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28

After the patient has recovered
considerable strength and is freed
from pain, it becomes necessary to
teach him to walk, if that is posi-
Bile. Under such circumstances,
braces are used, which take the
place of the splints for the pa
tent in bed.
At this time the orthopedic sur
geon examines the tissues of the
patient to find out whether any of
the paralyzed muscles can be
strengthened by transplanting them
and whether cutting of tendons and
similar orthopedic operations will
permit recovery, which otherwise
never could occur.
1t has been found, in handling a
considerable number of cases, that
the vast majority of those who have
had infantile paralysis have not had
the most that medical science could
give them.
Care Of such patient is long,
time consuming and painstaking
procedure, but the results in restor-
ing a handicapped child to a po-
sition of self-support and self>re-
lance in the work of the world is
well worthy any attempt that it may
require.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28

(Tfmes readers are inUtted to cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 1oords or Iess)
BY Harry A. Lorber.
I am wondering if Police Chief
Mike" Morrissey isn't actuated by
jealousy (the green-eyed variety
when he issues an order preventing
the Police Post of the American
Legion from marching in the Arm
istice day parade.
He is of the same age as the av-
erage legionnaire, but wasn't in the
service when his country needed
him. The legion demands that its
members must have been in service
between April 6, 1917, and Nov. II,
1918. There are no honorary men,
bers.
The present district commander
of the American Legion is a police
captain. Can it be that mike"
is just jealous? Else why the order?
Editors Note: Necessary economies
have caused the police department to be-
come under manned. With crime wave
sweeping Indiana, we believed Chief
MOrrissey is right not permitting any
of his men, whether legionnaires not,
to be absent from duty for any purpose.
BY Times Reader
First allow me to explain that I
am neither friend nor foe of either
Ira Holmes or Sheriff Buck Sum-
ner, but I have a bone to pick.
1t is gentlemen like the Honorable
Ira Holmes who would 'yap" the
loudest if there were either a jail
delivery or holdup of the police
station, and yet when there is any
action taken to protect the police
department against criminals land
the Lord knows they need it, he
stands up on his feet and yellS long
and loud about it being grand
stand play"
The Honorable Mr.. Holmes seems
to be always at odds with law and
order and always pickering" with
judges and court officials. I realize
that law and justice are as far apart
as the poles, but if we had more
respect for law and order, there
would be an increased rise in the
morale Of our police departments
and better justice.
There is too much technicality to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28

In favor Of the act and have stressed Nh.
Richberg's philosophy Of the power Of self
preservation.
II this were not enough, Counsel Richberg
has other heavy artillery to bring up.
There is no change of any provision of
the Constitution attempted In this law" he
points out.
There exists no constitutional right to do
anything which is forbidden by this law. There
is no constitutional right to compete unfairly.
If the Constitution protected the right Of a
few to profit in such manner at the expense
Of all the people, it would be a charter Of
anarchy and not a bulwark of law and order"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
Second Best

BY EUGENE RICHART
I visited friends house
Where gay young children were.
They met me shyly at the door
And ran and called TO her.
Her eyes were bright with glory
When she greeted me;
She had grown wise from living
For only three.
She had grown calm from having
The steadfast things in life.
Amazing how my friend had changed
AS a wife.
She ask If had been in love,
And I said, mo"
Discouraged by the barrier
I rose TO go.
I couldn't tell her how I'd sought
The next best thing:
had no love, but I had tried
To sing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
M. E.Tracy Says:

dad as the philosophy of curtailed production
- may be from an economic standpoint, it is
worse from a psychological standpoint. When
the government pays farmers to raise less why
should any class of people do more?
Beyond that, the theory that we have reached
point where we must wall ourselves in and live
off each other represents vision of hopeless
ness.
The trouble with our national recovery pro-
gram is and has been a negative philosophy.
There was merit in sharing work in order to
make fairer distribution of earning power, but
there is no merit in the idea that shorter hours
and curtailed production are necessary on the
theory that we have reached the limits of con-
sumption.
While consumption is constantly substituting
new commodities for old, and while obSolescent
lines of endeavor may be credited justly with
overproduction because the demand for their
output is dying away, there is not and there
never has been overproduction in a general
sense.
THE people of this world never have been
L able to obtain superabundance of the
good things of life: From the dawn of con-
seriousness, a vast majority of people have lived
and died without enjoying a just share Of the
comforts, conveniences and advantages which
their age afforded.
The fact that there was no market for a GER
tain product and that people who had it could
not sell IL because an improved SUBSTITUTE nad
been discovered, should not be interpreted as
meaning anything but minor phase of progress
We have a serious overproduction of COAL
but oil and natural gas furnish the explana-
ton. We have an overproduction of oil for
the time being, because of the insane validating
that has been permitted. We have an over
production of wheat, which largely is attribut-
able to a collapse Of foreign trade on the one
hand, and to domestic craze for avoiding fat
on the other.
TN spite of this apparent overproduction. mil
l. lions of our own people will suffer from lack
of warmth this winter, while vastly greater
number will suffer more acutely from the same
lack in other lands.
Under such circumstances, is it good sense
to risk the increase Of this suffering by policy
of subsidized Instruction. Can we hope to over
come the manifest inconsistency Of glutted
markets on the one hand and starvation on
the other by reducing our visible supplies OF
potential output?
Do not the fundamental principles of prog
ress as well as the recorded experiences of man
kind suggest that the task before us and all
other nations is to seek and encourage greater
consumption.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
(: A Woman'S Viewpoint ::

WE may initiate the Mae West
w curves, but heaven forbid that
we shall ever pick up her accent.
Or her walk. Or her mannerismS.
Or her screen morals.
Yet you don't have to be an utter
pessimist to surmise that We may
be doing those things. The gorgeous
Mae is packing them in at all the
movie houses in the country. Her
box office appeal keeps pace with
her sex appeal, and if that means
anything, we may expect shortly to
find the landscape cluttered up with
imitation Macs. The glorifed lady
of joy, so excellently portrayed by
Miss West on stage and screen, may
be our next feminine type.
And that, so it seems to me.
would be rather deplorable, not only
for ordinary decency, but for plain
coed taster
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American MedI-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

Muscle pain appears under such
circumstances and there is soreness,
with a spasm and drawing up of
the affected tissues. There are va
rious ways in which the muscles
may be restored. They may be
drawn upon by use of weights and
springs, or they may be held in
definite position with splints.
1t is found that splinting the legs
in a proper position, with the feet
at right angles to the legs and the
knees slightly flexed, gives the pa
tient a great deal of necessary rest.
The back has to be supported
while the patient is in bed, so that
the small of the back does not sag
down and flatten. Sometimes it is
reces sary to keep the arms raised to-
avoid pull on the shoulders.
One of the chief advantages of
the bath treatment in infantile
paralysis is the way in which water
supports the body. 1t prevents the
throwing Of weight on the weakened
tissues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-28
The Concerns of Joseph

DUT Holy Joe on several occa-
ID sions has indicated a belief
that there is no honesty outside ca
thedrals, chapels and synagogs. In
a piece which attracted far more
attention than it deserved he ex-
pressed the opinion that any one
who broke away from his faith was
straightway headed to the perdition
of sleazy ethical standards. A man
of that mind is all too likely to step
in and legislate us into morals.
OF all the lot, Mckee is the most
likely to attempt salvation through
ordinance. The one best bet for me
and my taxicab friend is Fiorello
He will be, I trust, sure death for
grafters, crooks and incompetents.
But he is not a reformer in the
worst sense of the world. can not
conceive Fiorello calling me up at
10:45 and saying, Clear the room
now and get to bed"
I think Mckee might, and
O'Brien, too, if he could remember
the number. But to me La Guardia
is a man who can and will sweep
away the gravy and the graft and
not disturb the cakes and ale.
Copyright. 1888. by Ibe Timesl