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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-31
FRIDAY. MARCH 81 1893.
THE INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

THE INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
TN spite of persistent rumors that President
n Roosevelts plan for reorganization of
government departments viii cripple the fed
eral trade commission, the federal power COM
mission and other independent agencies or
subject them to political control, there seems
to be little justification for such fear.
The President has said nothing to indicate
he favors such course, even in the face of ur-
gent need for government economy, and the
plan does violence to too many of the prin-
ciples on which his theory Of government is
based to be credible
The federal power commission was removed
from control of the executive department only
two years ago after record so unsatisfac-
tory that congress was practically unanimous
IN favor of the change.
It's record since then has been clearly bet
ter, even with commissioners appointed by
President unsympathetic to the purpose of
the water power act. 1t waits only appoint
ment of the most competent men available
and extension Of power to become the vau-
able agency Of government it was intended
to be.
AS for the trade commission. its past con-
tributions have been so valuable its future
possibilities are so endless that its destruc-
ton could appeal only to a spokesman for
selfish interests.
1t is the only body in Washington that
can be expected to investigate and make pub
lie facts contrary to wishes of the admins
tration in power. 1t carried on the utilities
investigation, so that would not have hest
tated to stop it had it possessed the power.
Less spectacular, but equally valuable as a
matter of dollars and cents to the consuming
public, is the commissions work preventing
corrupt and unlawful business practices. 1t
is the consumers only advocate in the gov
eminent. 1t has saved them hundreds of mil
lions of dollars
Federal licensing of corporations is pro-
posed and no branch of the government ex-
cept the trade commission is qualified to
handle this important and extensive job. A
decision will be made soon as to whether at
tempts to preserve competition in business
shall be continued or whether planned econo-
my shall be substituted.
The trade commissions economic staff
gathered together over a long period of years
and trained as fact-finding agency is Vi
tally necessary in either case.
AS a matter of economy, nothing is to be
gained by destruction of the trade commission.
Its annual appropriation during its entire per-
iod of existence has averaged $1196,393
1t showed the government how to save many
times this sum in income taxes only last week,
and in its entire lifetime its savings are too
large to calculate.
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A Womans Viewpoint

T FIND myself in complete accord
Il with Mr.. Ordinary Husband who
says he is sick and tired of all this
stuff about how men must be
counting their wives constantly and
keeping up the ardors Of the honey
moon.
The trouble is" he writes, that
all these advisers seem to think a
woman is doing man a great big
favor when she marries him."
He probably is more than half
right in this idea. For until re-
Gently girls were taught to think
that when they gave themselves
in marriage" they conferred a ire
mendous benefit upon the fortunate
man.
The gift of the body was the ulti-
mate gift, and no matter how badly
they may have behaved in all other
respects, so long as they remained
faithful they were good women and,
therefore. good wives.
Unfortunately, men, although they
have talked a great deal about
feminine chastity, always have re-
quired much more from us than
that. and. generally speaking.
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Use of Syringe in Ear Is Delicate Process

THE cerumen or wax of the ear
- when it becomes hardened is
removed most easily by use of a
syringe with slightly warm water.
This need not be done often, and
harm can be done by needless or
too frequent Swinging. The syringe
always should be sterilized by boil
ing before using and the water
should be previously boiled and then
used warm.
Before a person attempts 10
syringe an ear for himself or for a
child, he should learn the technic.
The persons whose ear is to be
syringed usually sits in good light.
1t is customary to put a towel or
cape around the neck and tuck it
in over the collar, to prevent soiling
Of the clothing.
A kidney-shaped pan is held at
the edge of the ear, so that the fluid
returning will run in the basin and
not down the neck. In an adult
the ear is pulled up and backward,
to straighten out the passage.
Then the nozzle of the syringe,
which has been filled and had all
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|M.E.TracySays:

THERE is nothing at the top of Mt. Ever
n est but ice-covered rocks, thin air, and a
moment Of glory for the first man to reach it,
Something of Importance may be gained, how
ever, from the new ideas and devices employed.
That is the real advantage Of most achieve
ments. What we learn invariably means more
than what we accomplish.
Nothing was found at the poles to warrant
the expense and sacrifice which their discovery
involved save the knowledge Of how to live and
come in handy one of these dayS-a shorter,
swifter route from New York to Moscow, over
the top of the world, being one of many posi-
bilities
The profit of victory lies wholly in what it
enables us to do next.
Whether we like it or not we must go on.
The laws of progress are such as to permit no
time out save what is required for rest and
recuperation.
The plight of civilization today can be traced
to the simple fact that it failed to make con-
structive use of the knowledge it acquired from
the great war.
TINE plight of our own country arises from a
L similar failure to make proper use of its
capital gains and increased power.
Back to normalcy" we cried in 1920, which
meant that we were blind to the necessity of
such changes and innovations as our resources
and knowledge made possible.
1t was in everybodyS mind that, having won
d DdClIe we COuIQ duOIQ 10 TAKE CllQSS easy,
that most of our major problems had been
solved permanently and that we faced an easy
going future if no one rocked the boat
Success became its own defeat, as it always
does when not made the basis of more heroic
efforts
Right now we are dreaming of ways to get
out of the depression, but they will lead US
only into another unless they include a better
set-up than existed before.
While many people realize the necessity of a
new and improved Set-up they think of it as
something planned something permanent, some
thing that will relieve everybody of risks and
responsibilities
GIVE us plans. by all means but leave out
" the permanency. We labor with too much
rigidity as it is, too much control, too much
inhibition.
Our economic system, especially as it affects
the average life and career, is Stagnant with in
flexibility. We are permitting ourselves to be
bound and gagged by a snarl of wires and inter
locking directorates.
We can not make effective use of many agen-
cies and devices which science has placed at our
command
The radio airplane telephone and auto
should make for less congestion, yet We are
employing them to make more. Our home life
should be freer and more expansive than it
ever was. But, instead, it is growing narrower.
Past triumphs and achievements have opened
a door TO rebuild this nation if we only could
see it, and it is the only worth while door they
have opened If we would progress, we must do
big things
In no other way can we provide ourselves
with work or the incentive which makes work
tolerable.
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The Fight Isn't OUer

DROHIBITION'S illegitimate son
4 the speakeasy-has developed
a fairly distinct carbon copy Of Gus.
All the friendlness, understanding
and agreeability are there, but the
furtive nature Of the business and
the helter-skelter procedure Of the
trade take a certain naturalness
from the portrait.
Still. as choice between a dish
juggling waiter and a virtuoso in
the creation of banana splits for
good listeners there is, fear, grave
danger that the citizens viii forget
their loyalty to the national treas
uTy and go back to the speakeasies.
After three or four hours a fellow
gets tired Of listening to himself,
even when he knows he's right.
These lines have been indited with
the graduate guzzlers in mind.
A young lady from Finch school
bounced in from cocktail party
the other afternoon and read the
news from Washington She i'm
paled the headlines with jittery
eyes, shook her fluffy head briskly,
and cried: Mother, what on earth
is beer?"
Copyright. 1898. BY The Tines
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MARCH 81, 1893
It Seems
to Me
BY JOE WILLIAMS
Batting for Haywood Brounl

NEW YORK, March 81 sup
4 ~ pose when you come right
down to caSes-Or even Schooners-
it doesn't make much difference
one way or the other I mean
whether a patriotic citizen inhale y
his beer standing up or sitting
/ down Still at the moment, there
/ is sharp legislative controversy over
the point.
There is ASsemblyman Anthony
J. Carney, for instance. The good
man belongs to the perpendicular
school as opposed TO the chair
jewellers or sedentary snifters. The
matter Of etiQuet, comfort or rela-
tive piquanCieS is not involved.
NO, indeed. Mr.. Carney simply.
wants place where the working
man-the working man in overalls
can stand up with foot on rail.
and toss of a few beakers of foam
when the day IS ended and the fac
tory whistles have sounded.
And up to now the New York
bill mas made no such provision.
There are provisions for the sit
down drinker. but none whatever
Tor the stand-up drinker. And Mr..
Carney considers This a vicious So
cial discrimination. verging on
feudalism, or at the very least
something terrible.
We fought to bring beer back
for the working man" cries Mr..
Carney and look what happens.
The only way he can get a drink
is to go into the Waldorf-Astoria
or some such place"
1t may be that the gentleman
oXaggorates a triGe, and yet I am
not sure but that the sight of a
working man in overalls in the
Waldorf or any Of the other gilded
taverns these days wouldn't be a
signal for great rejoicing on the
part of the melancholy manage
ment.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

the air expelled, is placed just in
side the outer opening.
The water then is projected along
the back wall slowly and without
too great pressure, to permit re-
turn of the flow as the water goes
in.
After the ear has been washed,
the head may be turned on one
side and the extra fluid allowed to
run out. A person who understands
the technique then may wipe out
the canal with small wisp of cot
ton.
If a permanent antiseptic, soften
ing material, or lotion is to be used
the physician can prescribe the
proper one, and this is held in
place with little wisp of cotton
never inserted under pressure.
A foreign body in the external
ear seldom will cause much discom-
fort, unless it is a living insect.
Cases are on record in which liv-
ing insects have entered the eal
and remained for many years
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BY J. w. Mann.
l see in your paper Of March 27
that Mayor Reggie has a new car.
don't wish any one bad luck, but l
wish he would drive out West
Michigan street to Little Eagle
creek bridge. He probably would
have another wrecked car. The APP
proach to that bridge, $50 feet long,
is full of holes six to eighteen
inches deep and not more than ten
inches apart.
BY the time he reached the bridge
1 am sure he would be awake enough
to stir up that street commission
and fix it, before some stranger
entering or leaving the city hits that
mess and goes into the creek.
This approach is positively
dangerous and with so many men
looking for little work, to leave
it in that condition is a disgrace
BY Single Democrat Times Reader.
I would like TO say that our Gov
ernor, Paul V. McNUtt, is as Good a
Governor as we ever had or ever
will, I believe. But there is one
great thing that would help the I'M
employed, and that is to lay III all
the single men working for the city
and hire married men, as there are
plenty of married men between %
and 35 walking the streets in rags
who could do the work.
These men have paid taxes and
also have children to feed If the
married men were working, the
single men could eat, because most
Of them have fathers. I know OF
cases where three and four in one
family are working for the city.
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(IimeS readers are inUjtcd to cypress
their UietCS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ a0ords or less.)
By Owen Spencer.
After reading your paper and
others, and knowing our immense
indebtedness to be far more than
our assessed valuation and having
a vast horde to feed and care for,
it amazes me to think of the gold
that has been shipped out of this
country. Now we are locking the
door after the horse has been
stolen.
Can any one get us out of this
great depression? The time is here
when we should all work together,
lay all issues aside and work for our
country alone. In unity there is
strength and power.
We should put our shoulders to
the wheel and push and see that no
one is pulling back. If our learned
congressman would all try and lay
all politics and prejudices aside and
work together for the good and up
building of this great and wealthy
country, we surely would be in far
better condition.
Our first aim should be to lower
our taxes and then tell the amount
of taxes we are paying. If every one
would figure his real tax, it will sur
prise him.
More than century and half
ago our forefathers fought for our
freedom, against taxation without
representation. And now we are
about to forget that we are tax
ing children to their full capacity,
and they have no representation.
Even high school girls and boys
pay from IS to $50 each year. Then
our college girls pay an enormous
tax each year and have no repre-
sentation either Now why not q
ask you all to be fair to yourself and
country cut down all the salaries
raised during and after the war
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4 Grand Old Pal

MTOW if Mr.. Canneys poetic af-
1 ' lection for the brass rail has
for its nOncomitant the rebirth of
Gus in all his warm friendliness and
deep understanding, there should be
a fanaticaI clamor to enlist under
his pennants. Properly presented. I
believe even Ella Boole could 60 for
Gus in a sweet sort Of way.
Obviously, it is going to be difficult
to become confidential over your
suds with a waiter in a restaurant.
Just when YOU have reached the
dramatic spot Of your narrative-the
place where you came in and said
so you think you are tough. do
you? Well, show me how tough you
are!'-just at this gripping moment
the waiter probably will have to quit
you to take somebody's measure for
a beef stew or a ham on rye.
l fear the worst when one Of the
G. a. R, meaning, naturally, the
grand army Of rummies, staggers in
to one Of these places and the
charming young chappie back of the
onyx slab gurgles: What shall it
be, old fruit?" It will, of course, be
instant death Without wishing to
seem heartless. I trust it occurs in
time for the p MS.
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You Smiled
BY JOHN THOMPSON

BY JOHN THOMPSON
I see you lying there, asleep,
Dreaming dreams you always keep
From me, Who through the bars,
Stares aimlessly amid your stars.
You sleep so carelessly among
The thoughts your agile mind has
flung
To weave a blanket round your
world,
Which high above my realm has
whlrled.
Your eyes, with half-orbed faces
hidden,
Seem to call me, though unbidden.
And ever like a faithful child,
I shall remember once yon
smiled.
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Questions and
Answers .

Care there any American
owned factories in Soviet Russia?
A-No.
Q-Could the entire population
of the world be accommodated in
the state of Texas?
A-Texas would provide about
1856 square feet for each person
in the world.
Q-Do Indians pay taxes on
their land when living on govern
ment reservations?
A-Not when the government
holds the title, but when the In
dams have been given full title
to the land, they must pay taxes.
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MANS DESIRE FOR ADVENTURE

TT is doubtful if any airplane flight yet pro-
jected is more. a stunt" flight than the
hop over Mount Everest which group of Brit
ish airmen will attempt shortly.
The last few years certainly have brought
us enough flights whose actual dollar-and-
cents utility was difficult TO discover. Yet al
most all of them have had some practical
value however small.
The day of regular transoceanic air service
for example. is undoubtedly nearer because Of
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because of the plea of the high cost
of living?
Then, if that is not enough, cut
down salaries certain per cent,
and do away with officers that we
do not need and publish all the fed
eral expense the same as we do the
county.
Let federal officers itenize their
expense. 1t has been told that some
congressman have their wives and
children on the pay roll and are
going to school at the same time.
1 saw statement in a paper where
a congressman had more than ST 900
barber bill.
I Surmise some of them will tell
you they will quit if you cut their
salaries. Tell them to quit, for some
one has this country in an awful
shape. No one will quit, I assure
you.
If he does, there will be many
waiting to get his place. Why should
not all of us get together, by coun-
ties or townships, and petition con-
gressmen and tell them what we
want. Perhaps it will do some good.
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The U1lh0IY Mixture

ITO be sure, Mr.. Carney is not
L concerned primarily with the
physical position in which the stuff
IS to be drunk, realizing that. after
all. the first 100 beers always are
the hardest and that in the end the
slttirg-drinker and the standing
drInker both viii wind I'D in the
same position, which is to say hori-
zOntal
what Mi Carney wants is an &C
cesslble bar OF modest dimensions
where the working man can 60
when he doesn't feel up to a hotel.
an outdoor garden or a drug store.
provided they ultimately decide that
druggists shall be permitted to
practice the Unholy ceremony of
serving the sacred Pilsner and the
pagan chocolate flip over the same
communion rail.
Very likely it is true that there
was much that was reprehensible
about the saloon and that it should
not be allowed to return as such.
Whatever evils the saloon
spawned. it gave to a hard. insen-
sltive land one Of its finest bless
ings-Gus the barkeep, poet, phi
losopher, priest He was all things
to man, and frequently on the same
evening. By some strange bio
logical magic he always could adapt
himself to the mood of the custo-
mer.
Didn't Gus feel a little song
coming on?' Gus did. Didn't
Gus know that the missus was the
sweetest little thing in the world?"
Gus did. Didn't Gus think Demp-
sey was the greatest fighter that
ever hved?' Gus did-excapt Tun-
ney. Yeah, except Tunney.
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Daily Thought

Thou art worthy, o Lord, to re-
ceive glory and honor and power:
for thou hast created all things,
and for thy pleasure they are and
were created.-Revelation All.
WYE rise in glory as we sink i'll
w pride-Young.
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THE NEW RIVER DECISION

A CLEAR right of way for federal utility
regulation stretches ahead of the Roose-
welt administration
The federal water power act is constitu-
tlonal, federal district court in Virginia Just
has found in the New York case. The fed
eral courts now see in the commerce clause
of the Constitution powers sufficiently broad
to permit recapture, determination of invest
ment, amortization from excess profits super
vision of securities, and other broad regu-
latory requirements in the public interest.
To the electric rate payer this decision
of tremendous importance. 1t removes a
serious obstacle in the way of fair courageous,
federal control over the important water
power projects of the country.
Such control can mean millions of dol
lars saved in electric light bills and in taxes
where recapture is contemplated. To the pur-
chaser of securities, it affords new protection.
The New River case has hung like cloud
over the federal power commission for eight
of the thirteen years of its existence.
series of different commissions struggled with
the problem, but stood firm in their conten-
ton that, if the water power act meant any
thing, it meant control over this sort of de-
velopment.
Other government officials were not always
SO alive to the public interest. Former At
torney- General Mitchell of the Hoover cabinet,
at one time advised the commission not to
insist on its regulatory powers and questioned
constitutionality of the water power act. At
once the power company began it's fight in the
courts.
The higher federal courts probably will be
asked to review the decision just made, but
the hardest battle has been won.
When President Roosevelt has assembled a
personnel for the power commission in full
sympathy with the purpose of the act, the
country may expect the very material benefits
which the power act was framed to confer and
and for which the people have waited so long.
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BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

never have repaid faithfulness with
fidelity.
z z q
MIR. ORDINARY HUSBAND re-
1V1 sents the fact that he is ex-
pected to go out at stated inter-
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Keep Politics Ont

BY Disguised
THE vets had no one to blame
Il but themselves for prohibition.
Now, when it appears that we have
a chance to get rid of the incubus,
it appears that they again may
wreck the works by their own
dumbneSs.
1t appears to the casual observer
that Governor McNutt and his
Democratic henchmen will bring a
revulsion of feeling, by their mix
ing of beer and politics, that will
defeat the hopes for repeal at the
coming election.
Let's have our beer without
politics. If not, the grafters will
find that they have overreached
themselves, and the drys will have
the last laugh.
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Coolest spot in the world is Verhoyvansk,
where it gets 95 below zero. Imagine trying
to pronounce it with your teeth chattering.
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Some of those frozen assets undoubtedly
froze so easily because they had been we'll
Watered.
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Beer bung boom boosts business in Ber-
wind, w. Va. Buying bigger and better bungs
brings bright burst of balm to the bank
burdened.
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Patients in government hospital for the
insane in Washington demand more iigsaw
puzzles. But plenty of jg-saw puzzle fans
still are at large.
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