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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-19

Saturday

Jack Holt in The
Wrecker." Tim Nc
Coy In Rusty Rides
Alone" kit Carson"
slim SummervilIe
and Zasu Pitts in
Love, Honor and on,
Baby Com. Cart'n.
Richard Arlen and
Genevieve Tobin in
Golden Harvest"
Comedy Cartoon.
Edmund Love In
Her Bodyguard."
Ralph Be'lamy in Be
low the Sea-" Serial.
Leslie Fenton in
IF. p, L."
10. 3 OF "ThYee Nus
ketrers." Comedy.
Bing Crosby and
Jack Oskie in
"Collcge Humor."
Comedy, Serial.
Richard Arlen and
Genevieve Tobin In
Golden Harvest"
Laurel-Hardy comedy.
Leslie Fenton and
Conrad Veidt In
IF. p. l."
Our Gang comedy.
James Cagney in
Mayor of He'll"
Bob Steele in Texas
Buddles." Ser. Com.
Ken MAYNARD
In
"Fiddlin' Buckaroo."
NURSERY Rhymes"
william Powell in
'T,le Kennel Murder
Case. F."
Comedy. Cartoon.
Rod LaPocque and
LEM Reifenstahl in
IS. o. s. Icsberg."
Serial.
Leslie Fenton and
Conrad Veidt in
"F. p. l."
Comedy.
Paul Whiteman and
John Boles in
King Of Jazz"
Comedy.
Buck Jones in
The Thrill Hunter"
Silly Symphony.
Com. Serial (mat.).
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Doug. Fairbanks, jr., in
Tough TO Be Famous"
Tom Keene in Gross
fires." Comedy.
Fay Wray and
Spsncer Tracy in
"rhangha! Madness"
Comedy. Sort reel.
Give Rrcok in
"Mdnigilt Club"
Randolph Scott in
Man Of the Forest"
Kill Damita in
"Goldie Gets Along"
Tom Keene in Son OF
the Border" Serial. |
Hoot Gibson in
"A Mans Land"
Chester Morris In
The Bat Whispers"
Claudette Colbert and
Ricardo Cortez IN
Torch Singer"
Ted Heaiy comedy.
Bill BOYD in Timer
gency Call" Ken May
nard in king Of the
Arena" Serial. Com. |
Bill Boyd in Timer
gency Call" Hoot
Gibson In "A Mans
Land" Kit Carson"
Charlie Rugglas II
MAMA Loves Para"
Jolrl Wevne in Man
Fror, Monte rey."
Lorett- Yong in
She Had tn Sey Yes"
Zen Msynrrd IN King
q the Arers.n Cart'n.
Spencer Tracy in
SHANGHAI Madness"
Tom Mix in
.Rustlers' Roundup"
"Midshipman Jack.
Our Gang comedy.
frankie psrro IA
charlie Ohaso oomooy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
GovERNOR-GENERAL ROOSEVELT

One Of the most important jobs in the new adj
mnistration will be that of governor general of the
Philippines. The abortive independence measure
passed by traders in the lame duck congress has
created trouble both for the islands and for the
United States only craftsmanship can find way
out. Meanwhile, the war in the far east spreads.
1t is a bad time to swap horses.
Fortunately Theodore Roosevelt as governor
general has won the confidence of the Filpinos and
of Americans. BY apparently unanimous opinion
he has rendered fine service.
change at this time might add new element
of uncertainty to already dangerously unsettled
conditions in the far east. To be sure, there are
plenty of minor reasons for sending out a new gov
ernor generato the victor belongs the spoils fear
of possible charges of nepotism, and the like.
But there luxuries which craftsmanship can
not afford in crisis Presdent-Elect Roosevelt has
enough problems on his hands already without
creating new He should be in no hurry to dis
place Theodore Roosevelt. who happens to be a Re-
publican and a distant cousin-but who also hap
pens to be exceptionally able governor general
much needed in the Philippines at this particular
moment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
FRANCES PERKINS

No better news has from cabinet-making
councils than that indicating Frances Perkins will
be secretary of labor.
AS New York state industrial commissioner and
in the fourteen years she has held similar offices
under different titles Miss Perkins record in behalf
of workers has been distinguished one. She has
displayed ability to organize efficiently for
the job hand and get things done that at the
outset seemed impossible.
These talents have been needed in the labor de-
partment for long time. For years the depart
ment has dragged along with employment serv-
ice not worth even the small amount of money
spent for it. The naturalization service and treat
ment OF aliens has been a national disgrace.
Under Secretary Doak, politics further has
clogged the departments inefficient machinery. If
Miss Perkins puts her hand on the throttle, this
condition will change. She is a skilled sociologist
not politician
If there ever was time when labor needed COM
petent, whole-soued help from its government, that
time is here and for the department from which
it hoped so much and has received SO little to be
intrusted again to person of the caliber of recent
secretaries would be tragedy
Every working man and woman in the country
should rejoice if Miss Perkins is included in the
final cabinet list.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24

calling in germ-carrier iTlsuead OF physician to
treat a typhoid patient For the munitions makers
not only keep wars going they help start wars.
This is not an unsubstantiated pacihst charge
1t has been demonstrated by many objective nvesti
cations. To name only one the conservative League
of Nations commission found that:
Armament firms have been active in foment-
ing war scares and in persuading their own coUn-
tries to adopt warlike policies i. Have attempted
to bride government officials Have dissent
mated false reports concerning the military and
naval programs Of various countries, to stimulate
armament expenditures Have sought to in
1uence public opinion through control of newspa-
pers . Have organized international armament
rings, through which the armament race has been
accentuated by playing of one country against
another"
As President Hoover told congress last month:
Recent events have emphasized the urgent need
of authority to the executive in control of the
shipment Of arms from the United states for mill
tary purposes. There can be no doubt that con-
troll of the shipment Of from the United States
for military purposes. There can be no doubt that
control of such shipments to areas of prospective
and actual international conflict greatly would aid
the earnest and unceasing efforts which all nations
now make to prevent and lessen the dangers of
such conflicts"
In our Judgment, the President should be given
power in his discretion to apply an embargo in de-
tense of treaties either in cooperation with other
nations or alone if the International armament ring
is powerful enough in some countries to block inter
national action
But, if congress will not grant that complete
power to the President the least it can do is to pass
the resolution allowing us to join in international
action, as Mr.. Hoover requests
That at least would dispose of foreign jibes
such as that of the British that the United States
is holding up the peace parade
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
FRIDAY. FEB. "a. 1898.
DRIVING OUT BUSINESS

There is pretense on the part OF its hackers
that the proposed increase Of taxes chain stores
is for the purpose of raising revenues. Yet the
measure is almost law placing a heavy tax on any
one who owns more than ten distributing places.
The purpose of the law is to drive out the chain
store for the benefit of the independent owners.
Yet the independent owners who are wise have
adopted the measures which made the chains pos
sibIe BY cooperative buying, they are meeting
the competition The cost Of living decreases. The
fear Of monopoly is gone
Through the passage of the sales tax and other
eves take of tie state from business is already
more than heavy. 1t is ack-break.ag
All that the passage of this bill will mean is that
the larger chains will probably reduce the number
of their stores adding to the number of unemployed
vacating more buildings and adding to the SNOWFALL
OF depressing conditions.
The way to beat the chains is not by punitive
laws, but by improving upon their methods. That
can be done by voluntary co-operatives. In many
states that movement is taking form.
Any method of distribution that eliminates waste
and reduces the living cost is to be welcomed. The
chains merely mean mass distribution to match
mass production. That does not necessarily
ownership of the mass distribution in single
poration. The best way to meet the chain store is
in the field of fair competition and voluntary CO.
operation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
NolU for Long Pull
r AM well aware that ratific

T AM well aware that ratification
Il is not going to be obtained
overnight. It still is possible chat
some little group of thirteen
states may tie up the proposal in
definitely. We may, in traditional
American legislative fashion, drift
into forgetting the whole business,
rather than removing it.
But there will remain the fact
that 289 members of the house of
representatives, on a certain Mon
day, did behave after the manner
of rational human beings and
stopped acting like congressman.
And that's something!
To be sure, not all the credit
should go to the gentlemen in
Washington. I am of the opinion
that Mrs. Charles Sabin has done
little more than any other in
dividual to bring about the new
dispensation.
She probably has displayed more
political acumen and effectiveness
than any other member of her
sex. But for her leadership there
would have been no knocking
down of the notion that prohibit
ton must be preserved, good or
bad, because all the women of the
country were behind it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

A ONE-ACT play, some years
4 n ago, had two characters,
man who just had been killed in
an auto smash-up, and an angel.
AS the man slowly comes to him
self, he wonders where he is, and
calls out, ''Is anybody there?" The
nists clear away, and an angel
stands before him and asks, Can
I do anything for you, sir?" The
man asks what he may have.
Anything you like" is the
reply.
Already I have taken thirty
years from your age" the angel
adds.
Perpetual youth, eh?" exclaims
the newcomer. ct looks as if I'd
come to a good place, after all.
But what about the golden
crown?"
"You can have one if you like"
comes the answer, and presto! a
starry golden crown encircles his
brow.
Exactly a f1t," he says. "And
now, what else have you got
here?"
Anything you like" replies the
angel.
Il can have everything desire?
Absolutely everything?" he asks,
excitedly.
Subject only to certain re-
strictions imposed by the nature
of the place." is the reply. There
is neither pain, nor suffering, nor
struggle here. Anything else you
desire I will procure for you"
4 Ill sorts of requests follow"
IN the best to eat and drink,
luxurious living rooms, period"
furniture, lovely women, and the
rest. But all proves insufficient
and finally cloying.
This everlasting bliss palls,''
says the man, YEARLY. 81 know
what I want! I want some work"
But as work implies struggle and
effort, it is out of the question.
Il don't know what to propose,
sir" says the angel, after he has
ransacked his mind. But if any,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
AN ARMS EMBARGO

In congress, and in foreign parliaments the
lawmakers troubled by the hypocrisy involved
in nations having anti-war pacts and at the same
time selling weapons to other nations to break
these treaties.
An enlightening debate on this subject is re-
ported from London. The only reply Prime Min
lister Ramsay Macdonald could make to demands
for an embargo on British arms shipments to bel
ligerents in the far east and Latin America was
to say that the British government could not act
alone
He intimated that the League of Nations could
not act because of the United States
This excuse has familiar ring. In Washington,
at the house hearing on the embargo resolution
the munitions makers opposed action on the ground
Of compettion-other countries would get the bust
ness if we didn't.
All this is evasion. The argument would sound
absurd if applied to the traffic in slaves or in
women.
The issue is practical. one If the nations
want to salvage the peace machinery they will
have to do something much more effective than
talk about it. An arms embargo against treaty.
breaking beigerent is one of the easiest and most
obvious methods productive Of direct results
AS the state department has pointed out to the
house committee, an embargo does not lead
towar 1t merely is the lawful refusal by neutral
10 engage in traffic which its treaties have made
illegal in principle.
To permit munitions prohteers to determine
government policy on the embargo question: is like
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
Just Plain Sense
: BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ME mall Is filled with sad plants from women
VINO md men untruthful Indispensable. and
slippery as cells in the matrimonial grasp
Let's If possible, regard the question from a.
cold and practical point of view. 1t undoubtedly
Is true that there goes on a terrific competition
among women and men. This is because the NUM-
Der OF eligible males has been declining steadily
during the last several years.
Numerically, in a good many other countries
women far outnunlber men, To all practical pur-
poses the same is true in the United States That
is, we have at least twice as many girls and women
who are willing and wish to marry as there are
men who are in a position to marry them.
Thousands of boys who, under normal condi-
tons, would be thinking seriously of a. wife and a
home and babies, now are hitch-hiking all over
the country, trying to find work or food.
This undoubtedly contributes to the energetic
efforts OF those whom we call '.home breakers"
and who in truth only are proving. once again that
Self-preservaon is the first law of nature If they
can GUST wife and get home and husband.
they do it.
OUR economic situation also augnents the mis-
- demeanors of women. America until recently
was country of many frontiers. Pioneering was
the rule. Girls who ventured into the middle west
snapped up soon as they got there
Wives were a valuable asset Women were
necessary to the building of permanent settle
ments They could pick and choose and, at least
until they were married. play the coQuette and
firt and break masculine hearts.
1t always has been the potential mother and
not the individual woman that has been the OBJ
ject of mems solcitude. When women are scarce
therefore, this solicitude increases and becomes
physical and moral protectorate.
But when there is surplus of women it is
natural that solicitude should abate. And this
always results in growing more aggressive.
Our problem today is exactly this: There are
not enough manageable men to go round And
there doesn't seem TO be anything We can do about
it. 1t is only another of those unpleasant phases
of modern life from which We seem doom to
suffer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24

WEARS ago I decided that
4 when repeal got fairly started
on its way I would blow myself
to & big party, ring doorbells and
knock down fences. But when
the victory came I passed the
evening quietly at home, making
denial bids at one-tWentieth Of a
cent.
1t may be that the boy grew
older, or, again, the change could
be less in me than in outside cir
cumstances. I am in favor of
sending the dry amendment back
to the states, but the change in
legislative temper has come be-
latedly. There now are so many
other things of more Importance.
And yet I trust that this new
deal may be a symbol and symp-
tom of increasing congressional
courage and frank facing of the
facts. Now that one powerful lob
by seems in danger Of being rid
den down, there is at least a
chance that senators will begin to
consider their convictions and
constituents and cease to tremble
at the sound of ghostly voices and
the clanking OF chains.
Both honesty and imagination
will be needed in the new adj
ministration, and if as much as
one good thing can come out of
a lame duck session there is. the
possibility that the new house may
sweep a good deal cleaner than
most Of us have dared to hope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
SCIENCE
Do the Stars Twinkle?
BY DAVID DIETz

The star may be considered as
a point of light. but the image of
the planet is a disc.
Consequently. in the case of the
planet we receive a great many
waves of light arising from points
on the disc. Interference as in
the case of the stars light may
occur between waves.
But there are so many of them
that the interference is not suffi-
Gent to blot out the entire image
and so the planet continues to
shine with a fairly steady light.
While the unSteadiness Of the
earths atmosphere undoubtedly
adds to the beauty of the night
sky, it is a great annoyance to the
astronomer.
1t interferes with his observa-
tons Of the planets as well as the
stars and makes it particularly
difficult for him to measure the
position Of star with high pre-
ciSion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24

and hard. And I won't whimper.
Why should I?
I'm the first place, I'll know
what I got to pay and when. I'm
sick to death of assessments
Naturally, there's money in run
ming a speakeasy, but you've got
to be a combination of Demos
themes, Mark Hanna and, if you'll
pardon my high school education,
Catalina, to get away with it. I'm
just about in a mood not only to
welcome the first tax collector who
comes into my place, but to throw
both arms around his neck.
you don't think, do you, that
anybody who's been in the bust
ness for ten years really likes
prohibition agents?"
His attitude disturbed me not a
little. I went into the bar and
started organizing. I drew little
group around me and said: cts it
really true that the twilight of
the speakeasy is upon us? If
even the proprietors are going to
welcome the coming of the new
day, upon whom can be put our
trust and confidence?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
Cancel Each Other

A S the beam of light comes to
IA our eyes from star, differ
ent parts of the narrow beam may
strike different thicknesses Of air.
If one part of the beam is de-
layed enough to throw it a half
wave length behind the other,
then the two parts instead of re-
inforcing each other and giving us
the image Of the star, cancel each
other out.
Momentarily, therefore, we fail
to see the star and so the star
seems to be twinkling.
A puzzling question always put
to young students of astronomy is
why the stars twinkle, but the
planets do not. The reason is
that the planet. being so much
closer to the earth. gives us a
much larger image than does the
star.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24

This is the first Of two articles by DR..
Fish 5ein cautloning the public to think
twice before signing Up for hospital in
Surance."
In times Of sickness and epidem-
les, charlatanS flourish. They know
that a desperate public will grasp
at any scheme that seems to offer
something for nothing, or more
for less than its costs.
The report of the Committee on
the Casts of Medical Care has
served TO focus the attention Of
the public on this problem.
Many "financiers" who have
found it difficult to operate in
other fields at this time have in
vaded the field of medical care.
We have in this country ap-
proximately 1000 hospitals with
a million beds, many of them de-
voted to the care of the tubercu-
loSis and pSychiatric cases. The
country would not seem to be
over-hospitalized.
Nevertheless, the hospitals of
the country are approximately 80
per cent unoccupied.
=
A MONG possible causes for this
IA condition is the governments
disqualification of vast numbers
OF veterans suffering from nom
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
So They Say

The American farmer may
carry the moose to a place where
they are attempting to foreclose
on his neighbours farm, but along
with that moose will be Old
Glory.-Alexander c. Davis, for
mer secretary of the National
Farmers Union.
There are millions of acres in
this country on which men could
go to work and do something,
only they won't do 1.-THE Rt.
Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee.
The ultimate result of the dis
armament conference will be
that people will be destroyed by
ten-inch shells instead of six
teen-inch ones.-George Bernard
Shaw, Irish playwright.
In freight traffic, one ton of
gondola carries three tons of coal;
in the passenger end, which has
been dead loss for years, two
tons of train carry one pas
senger.-E. j. w. Ragsdale, man
ufacturing executive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24

TINE sparkling nights of winter
l. are excellent for study of the
stars. When the air is clear and
crisp, the stars seem to glow and
twinkle with added vigor. 1t re-
calls to mind the old nursery
rhyme that goes:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
And that, perhaps, will serve to
arouse many serious questions
about the stars. There is, of
course, the question embodied in
the rhyme as to what the stars
are.
Perhaps the rhyme will sug-
gest an earlier question by its very
first line. Every one knows that
the stars twinkle. But why do
they twinkle?
The stars actually do not shine
with an unsteady light. Each star
is a great, fiery, self-luminous
globe. Each star is a great sun,
the smallest one about one-third
the size of our sun, the largest one
500 times the diameter of our sun.
It is the earth's atmosphere
which is responsible for the twin
king Of stars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24

medical costs, but particularly
against the cost of hospital care.
The best piece of advice that
could be given to any one ap-
preached by an agent selling such
a policy is to ask the agent to
bring the policy back with all the
fine print reprinted three times
as large as the largest print in the
policy as offered.
It is in the fine print that the
limitations will be found which
make such policies, in many in
stances, undesirable.
Here are the clauses limiting
the number Of conditions covered
by the policy; here are the clauses
limiting the term Of stay in the
hospital under the policy; here
are the clauses which make it pos
sible for the insurance company,
when it finds itself pressed By eco
nomic stringency due to wrong
calculations, poor mathematics,
and unfavorable health condi-
tons, to wiggle out from under all
responsibility.
NEXT-Getting the most for you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-24
Passing of Hoben2ollerns Helps Nation

TINE people disappointmen
experiences the things considered their
much than would HOhenzoens
Nothing has much help them the confidence of other
nations the abandonment kaiSerism =
When Hndenburg
people felt that the would reabhed
took everything elemental
nature, building solely
Willingness
servant to diScredited
The warrants
will
Like other ambitious Hitler viii not divide
do he
if king had stood IN the path
He has made his building following Tt
peposterous that that following
the doubtful advantage Of being a