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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
THREE POINT TWO

TINE return of beer has been orderly and
n profitable. The quiet good nature of
beers first fortnight is a reply to some of our
fears. Here, if any time, was the time for
an intoxicated jubiation by those who liked
their brew in the old days, and by the young
sters who have grown up on bathtub gin. But
it hasn't turned out that way.
Reports from major cities all over the
country, in the twenty-one states which start
ed sale of beer on April 7, show that there
was no increase in arrests for drunkenness
In many cases there were heavy decreases in
such arrests.
The revenue, to federal, state and local
tax units, is surprising all expectations-so
much so that the brewers are afraid their
supplies of properly aged brew will be ex-
hausted before the next patches are ready.
All this goes to show that congress was
right when it said 80 per cent beer was non
Intoxicating, but it does not meet the great
issue of national prohibition. We still have
national prohibition, honored mostly in the
breach it is true but diverting millions of
dollars in revenue from the government into
the pockets of bootleggers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
INVITING TERRORISM

THE news that an attempt on the life Of
adolf Hitler was thwarted by German po-
lice leads one to hope that, in the interest Of
the oppressed minorities in that suffering
country, no more such attempts are made
and, above all, that no such attempt ever
succeeds.
That Hitler should be target for assassins
is not, everything considered, to be wondered
at; but that no one could do the German
minorities worse turn than by trying such an
act Of violence ought to be obvious
So far the Naz oppression, grievous though
it has been, has been kept within certain
limits. An assassination, or even an attempted
assassination, would provide an excellent ex-
cuse for tossing all such limits in the discard.
Autocracy's commonest reply to such
threat is unbridled terrorism. One shoulders to
think what might happen to German Jewry if
the Naz leadership should think itself justified
in making such reply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
COMMON SENSE DOCTRINE

"TT~HE fact that the federal government
grants to brewery in this state permit
to manufacture and distribute beer is not
binding on this board. If any brewery is not
licensed by this board, it can not engage in
business in this state"
The policy thus clearly announced by
Chairman Mulrooney of the New York state
alcoholic beverage control board is sound state
rights doctrine for this period of departing
prohibition and also for the future, after full
repeal.
The Mulrooney statement is extra peril
nent in view of the move to revoke the federal
permits of five New Jersey breweries on the
ground that these permits were obtained by
disappearing ownership.
The New Jersey mess has reused the fed
eral commission of industrial alcohol, James
NJ. Doran, to special watchfulness to prevent
federal permits from getting into the hands
of racketeers or allies of racketeers.
But it stands to reason that state and 10
cal control authorities can keep sharper
eye on local conditions and local racketeers
than can any federal commissioner. Hence
state responsibility and state control in the
matter of permits should prevail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
Great Leg Nam

THE photographer never would
4 have reached the age of IS if
there had been anybody about COM
petent to tell him of the manner in
which he would go down through
the ages. He would have died of
stroke upon the instant.
There sat DR.. Johnson, a sort of
eighteenth century Bernard Shaw
with meat stuffing, and somewhere
behind the ported palms was little
Jamie, making notes in his own
curious shorthand
Whenever he opened his yap. DR..
johnson blew his head off. Mostly
he was not very much noticed. Peo-
pie who were aware of his presence
seem not to have liked him. Ap-
parently he crashed into parties by
the simple expedient Of whispering
behind the palm of his hand to the
man at the door, why, you know
me-I'm friend of Sam Johnson"
Oliver Goldsmith once remarked
of Boswell that he had "the faculty
Of sticking In one sense he lived
a little before his time. The camera
had not yet been invented. James
Boswell would have made q great
newspaper photographer.
Failing that, think that he should
be honored some day by the Journal
istic craft with statue. It might
be inscribed quite simply, THE first
ana the greatest of leg men"
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Picked HIS Spots

LIE had a sort of ship news ap-
l. Il proach to celebrities. DR..
Johnson would be settling down in
to big chair after a large meal.
The third helping of veal and kid
ney pie may have been a mistake.
and the fourth bottle of port OBJ
Vlously was an error.
Deeper into his chair settled the
big English literary criticism, and
from his pocket he drew great
handkerchief to mop his brow. That
would be the precise moment that
the man with the pencil would pick
10 pipe up in an atrocious Scotch
accent, Well sir, and what do Won
think about the immortality of the
Soul?"
James Boswell always was a stooge
and never a lion. He was a pest
and a fool and pain in the neck.
ana ne will live forever in the an
nails of English letters. And he
went to his eternal fame and rest
because of his jottings. One little
word after another.
But he got them down straight.
10 MN every word the old man Ut
Tered was precious. They had to
be right.
And SO here's to the clan of all
BoSWells living and dead The
world may scoff and it may scorn
US but sooner or later it must re-
turn to find that K marks, the BODY.
AND when they ask, We're YOU
there, James or Charlie?p we can
pop up in our glory and say, Here's
your story
Copyright. 1898. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21

pletely free Of each other. Nor will
they ever be satisfied without the
ideal of something that is perma-
nently steadfast in their world.
Hitherto the home, with monoga-
nous marriage as its basis, has con-
stituted that ideal. When we aban-
doned it we courted confusion and
sorrow.
I agree entirely with Ludwig
Lewisohn, who reminds us that half
of the dream Of love and marriage
in the hearts of the young is a
dream of permanence, a desire for
their romance to partake of i'm
mortality.
We have tried all sorts of substi-
tutes for old-fashioned marriage.
They have given us nothing. We
have married this year and been
divorced the next, and remarked
again in six months.
Yet happiness still turks around
the corner and is even more elu-
sive than she used to be. And with
all our experimenting, many more
of us are going into old age alone.
The truly wise are those who ex-
pect little from marriage, but much
from themselves. They know only
how to create happy and permanent
unions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
A WORTHY ENVOY

xEREDITH NICHOLSON has served his
N1 city and state with distinction. For years
he has participated quietly in host of en-
terprises which sought the Improvement OF
the community In his chosen profession as an
author, his pen has gained him international
renown.
DISPATCHES from Washington yesterday in
Dictated that President Roosevelt is seriously
considering him for minister either to the
Netherlands or Sweden.
There is no doubt that his appointment
would be excellent for the diplomatic service.
II is to be hoped that the President soon will
announce it.
If Meredith Nicholson does go to Europe,
he will be missed in his home state, where he
has worked and lived all his life. Hoosiers
know. however, that when he has finished his
tasks for the country at large, he will return
70 them once more, the same genial Indiana
gentleman.
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NJ.

T WISH I could be as optimistic over these
l. forthcoming economic conferences as are
some people, but frankly I'm not.
To begin with most European governments
are in no frame of mind to sit down with us or
with one another and lay their cards on the
table.
They are in horse trading mood trying to
wiggle out of debt avoid war by any eXpe-
dent that seems available
The background of their clamor for Stabili-
cation is just hodge-podge of conflicting as
pirations.
They don't want trouble and they don't
want to pay which is good. but each and every
one of them is looking for way out at the ex-
pense or disadvantage of some one else, which is
bad.
Europe is a mess of political discord and ex-
pertinent.
For the time being two hundred million
Europeans have surrendered their liberties with
the hope that dictatorship, no matter for what
purpose, will enable them to restore order.
Italy, Germany and Russia are ruled by
cliques that obtained power and retain power
largely by preaching the possibility of war and
the consequent necessity of a united and disci-
plined 'front.'
| COMMUNISM Fascism and Hitlerism find
~ their strongest support in the fear Of at
tack by other countries.
To keep this fear alive, it is necessary to beat
drums, blow trumpetS and recruit armies.
We have heard more talk about disarna-
ment since the war than during any similar
length of time since the world began but what
has it amounted to?
| In spite of all the pow-woWing, pact-signing
and resolving, the fact remains that there are
more men under arms in Europe today than
there were when the war broke out.
The same poverty of results stares us in the
face when We come to review the economic sit
uation.
In spite of the Versailles treaty, the Young
and Dawes plans, and the various debt agree
ments, We are in worse shape today than we
were ten years ago, the point being that each
and every new arrangement was just wiggle a
| compromise, an attempt to Stave off the inev-
liable.
THE majority of governments still cling to
l. that illusion, still hold the thought that if
the SQuirnling can be kept up long enough, some
miracle may occur.
| The tariff walls which we would like to break
down merely are monuments to the prevailing
| desperation.
There has developed no comprehensive, sin
cere vision Of what must be done, no willingness
| to make the necessary sacrifices
| If anything, the old game of intrigue and Sc
cret shopping is worse than it was in 1913
We just have seen British officer sentenced
to prison for five years because he told a Ger
man girl about the design of a tank
Six Engishmen are on trial in Russia for
sabotage and spying.
GoveTnmentS can not put the world in order
by pursuing such tactics. They can not even
talk puposefully as long as they tolerate such
tactics. ss.s.as.. .---- /. 81. 49,
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times associated with mental train
ing.
Before the finer muscle education
is done, it is necessary to re-edu-
cate the groSser muscular perform
ances
Obviously in large cities where
there are centers for such work much
can be done in aiding the proper
development Of handicapped chill
dren.
However, in rural districts and in
places far removed from good CEN
tiers of orthopedic training, oppor-
tunities for the child are relatively
Slight.
There are in this country few
institutions for the care of children
over long periods of time, and hos
pital care TOR a matter of three or
four years or even for matter of
three or four months is far too cost
ly to be considered by the vast ma
jority of people.
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The Terrible Meck

r THINK that Frank Sullivan is
i right. Indeed, Cub hurt his own
case when he spoke of newspaper
men being all Boswells. Although
wish to defend the profession from
the charge of futility, I don't think
we are as important as that.
Boswell, Of course. was one Of the
most successful Warwicks of all
time Indeed, he was a little too sue
cessful. for he completely swallowed
the man whom he delighted to
honor.
In referring to the Great Cham
of Georgian literature, one generally
feels impelled to add, "Of course, I
mean Boswells Johnson" lest the
listener think that you are talking
about Tom of the three cent fare. or
Jack, who once held the heavy
weight title.
There is nothing quite so ironic in
literary history as this story of the
planet who rode into posterity by
clinging to the coattails of his satel-
lite Hardly a man now is alive who
would give a thought to the old
thunderer if it were not for the
meek little Scotsman who sat
around at parties jotting things
down.
Even today Samuel johnson is not
remembered for any of his own
writings. In the entire civilized
world there can not be more than
q handful IF 11aOY0Io urIo0 ov,o,. 4,,,.,,
to "RaSselaS" or The Lives of the
Poets" and those readers are con-
scripted recruits who happen to be
taking a course on the great man
and his circle.
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warned Of the great danger to life and limb
The personal injury record was relatively
heavy throughout the earlier stages of rail-
reading.
Only in recent years have disastrous wrecks
been infrequent. You seldom hear of one
now. Now the safety record is one person
killed in 100000 carried. This is phenom-
email.
Aviation is travelling more rapidly over the
same pioneering course as the railroads. The
evolution OF the railroads toward safety ought
to be good omen for aeronautical transport.
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:: The Message Center

(I'imcs readers are inrited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters Shorts so all can haze q chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or IeSS.)
BY Aaron NJ. Neustadt.
Although we are living in the
twentieth century in a country con-
sidered enlightened and progressive,
we still see symptoms of ignorance,
bigotry and q superstition on all
sides.
Alexander Pope, the great apostle
of religious liberty, declared, For
modes of faith, let graceless zealotS
fight. He can't be wrong whose
life is in the right"
I, for one, agree with him. There
are a thousand and one ways of
worshipping God, the Eternal
Father. He serves God best who
helps his neighbor the most and
promotes brotherly love among the
various elements that go to make up
his community.
Let us abhor bigotry and intoler-
ance in every form. Why should We
cast aspersions and sneers at those
who differ from us in religious be-
lief? They may be nearer the truth
than we. Infallibility is not as yet
one of mans fundamental char
acteristics.
The great ST Am" loves all hu-
m I1ifX nf oUo1-xy mo o,1I oIi II
prefers no particular people. He
desires the prosperity and the prog
reSs of all of His children. It is
true that He may have revealed
Himself more clearly to some than
to others.
AS one of humanity's greatest
teachers once declared, THE chill
dren of Israel were the channels
through which God often brought
messages of hope and cheer to a
distracted world" Tt even may be
true that the people of Israel were
the center of His affection; never
theless, they were not the cir
conference of His love and COM
passion.
I am making these observations
especially with reference to the I'M
Christian attitude manifested to-
day in Germany toward Jewish cit
liens. There is little ground for
the persecution to which they are
being subjected.
They have been living in that
country for thousands of years.
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A WOman'S Viewpoint ::

IT is possible that many of our
Il cherished institutions will be
swept away on the changing cur
rent of modern opinion. But I for
one hope that homogeneous mar
riage will not be one of them.
Although Mrs. Anita Block, School
of Social Service in New York City,
points out that it first was designed
to make me sure their sons would
inherit their property, We must not
forget that through long cycles of
time it has been woman's chief
security.
And, strangely enough, now that
we have demonstrated our ability to
take care of ourselves, it is proving
a masculine haven.
For men are not content to live
an ainleSs life. detached from de-
pendable family affection. They,
too, are unhappy in a world where
marriage is temporary arrange
ment rather than p permanent in
stitution.
We moderns have made many
mistakes. But our grossest error
has been that in casting away GER
tain hampering traditions we, at the
same time have discarded spiritual
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
DON'T BE SILLY

VXTHEN lady of the w. C. T. u, at CO.
W lunbus, o., the other day. warned that
if prohibition is repealed then womens SUI
frage will be attacked, she said silly thing.
There is a very fundamental difference be-
tween the eighteenth amendment, instituting
prohibition, and the nineteenth, granting
womans suffrage
The eighteenth writes a police regulation
into the Constitution. It never should have
been put there and will be repealed.
The nineteenth amendment settles proper
constitutional question and will remain in
the Constitution as long as there is a Con-
Stitution.
Any move to take it out wouldn't get to
first base.
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Great Advance
By ]. Pierce Cummings.

BY ]. Pierce Cummings.
The old age pension law en-
acted by the 1888 Indiana legis-
lature and signed by Governor
Paul v. McNutt is notable adj
vance in the field of social well
fare. Eventually, this law will
wipe out the poorhouse as we
now know it. Sane, able bodied
old men and women will live in
places Of their own choosing. The
feeble, insane and other I'M
fortunateS will be housed in in
situations manned and equipped
to give them proper care, which
no poorhouse can give.
The leadership of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, in obtaining the
law, is an outstanding ex-
ample of unselfish public service.
1t is to be hoped the order will
continue its leadership, to the end
that the law shall be honestly,
fairly, and economically ad-
miniStered.
Twenty states have old age
pensions, three having acted this
year-Washington, Indiana and
Oregon.
Thus the great movement for
Christian care of old men and
women goes on heralding the
day when the poorhouse will be
only a black and shameful
memory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
1t Seems
to Me
By HEYWOOD BROUN -

NEW YORK, April 2l.-"Your
~ disillusioned reporter CORE
spondent. Cub" writes Frank Sui
Ivan, says newspaper men are a
futile crowd, all Of them Boswells.
incapable Of being men of action.
Il think he's a little unfair. I've
known a few newspaper men and
heard of others-and so have you
who Smacked more of the Warwick
than they did of the Boswell. They
stood behind these men of action
Cub talks about and told them how
to act.
ASK any United States sem
ator how many of his pronounce
ments have been written for him by
friendly newspaper men with TOO
much sense to be United States SEN
ators. Scratch a statesman and
you'll find a correspondent, I always
say.
Il speak as a former reporter,
now man of action"
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individual Jews, even as I do not
condone the individual sins of
Christians. Every man should be
judged individually according to his
own deserts; but the processes of
law should be duly carried out.
AS far as the attitude of the
American government is concerned,
am willing to leave that TO the
wisdom and the discretion of that
truly noble man who now occupies
the White House.
Not only is he wise and prudent
but he is at the same time the
greatest lover of man who ever has
been elected to lead the American
people.
BY Jim Fitzgerald.
With reference to the letter from
the lady from Baltimore regarding
our police force, I think this action
of the police only goes to show that
they are on the job at o'clock in
the morning, just the same as they
are at noon.
I have lived in this city all my
life and what know of the mem
bers of the police force, they are
the finest of the finest. I really be-
lieve that if all the kind letters that
they have received from visitors
were placed end on end, they would
reach from Indianapolis to Balti-
more.
There was-and I guess it still
holds good-an old rule of the police
here to stop and question any one
out at a late hour. I have been
stopped several times on the way
home from work early in the morn
ing, but felt that the police were
doing their duty.
Our police are, as a rule, gentle
men, but they are also gentlemen
on the job.
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Injuries at Birth Cripple Many Children

A PPARENTLY, some 10000 Grip
L N pied children in the United
States are the result of accidental
injuries to the brain at birth. They
may be handicapped early in life,
even though endowed with normal
intelligence.
In a recent survey of this subject
in Hygeia, Phelps says that the con-
troll of this condition must be
brought about by greater attention
to the problems of obstetrics.
The parents of the child with
birth injuries naturally are anxious
to know what the likelihood is that
the child will make a complete
recovery.
In cases in which the child men
tally is deficient, little can be &C
complished. For those who are
mentally normal, progress necessar-
lily is slow and naturally is asso-
ciated with the progress of general
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

education and with the chance of
recovery from the injury,
Modern methods Of orthopedic
surgery have done marvellous things
for such children. If these invalids
remain untreated until they are 6
or 7 years old, they develop con-
fractures of muscles, and they may
develop unusual habits in the use
of muscles due to an attempt to
overcome their disabilities.
1t therefore is important to get
a diagnosis of the condition as
early as possible, to apply suitable
corrective measures at the earliest
moment.
The trained expert re-educates
the muscles of these children
through suitable exercises, some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-21
DIR NEIGHBoR'S TROUBLES

TT isn't very likely that Congressman Ham
i ilton Fish's demand for outright United
states intervention in Cuba will be adopted.
Any such program would present great many
t,orns to the hands that tried to grasp it,
and the government at Washington today has
beyond question all the troubles it cares to
handle without going out of its way to find
any more.
Nevertheless, Congressman Fish is quite
right in calling our attention TO the fact that
cuban affairs have reached critical situation;
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CANNES PLEASANTRIES

T HOPE" said Mayor Cazaignaire of Cannes
= after he had completed the Jimmy Walker
and Betty Compton marriage ceremony, when
you are recalled to America to take another
official position-probably as mayor of New
York-you will remember Cannes pleasantly"
Perhaps this comes under the head of
mayoral etiquet induced by the romance of
the moment, but it has strange air of being
the farthest something Or other in the way
of pious hopes.
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They have helped to build it, sup
piled it with men Of genius, men of
vision, men of achievement, great
scholars, great poets, great finan-
ciers, great engineers, great indus
trial leaders. According to history,
Jews have been living in Germany
from the time of the holy Roman
empire.
BY their undertaking loyalty to
that country in all its vicissitudes and
trials, they have earned the right to
be looked upon as fellow citizens of
good standing. Surely, they have
not merited the vilifcation and ex-
coriation Of the Hitlerltes.
1t seems to me that the Chris
tian world should rise in protest
against the outrages perpetrated
against Jews of Germany in the last
six months.
I do not condone the evil acts of