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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
THE OPEN PALM

WE don't pretend to know when the In
w stitution of tipping began. We do know
that today one lives plagued and boresome
life in veritable jungle of open palms
Comes now the thrice blessed MIRA with
suggestion that this hoary curse be lifted In
hearing on the hotel mems code George M
Tisdale of the consumers advisory board urged
that six months study of the tipping system
be provided for in the code, looking forward
to ending it at the expiration of that time and
to the substitution of established pay scales
for all hotel employees" Tips, he said, are de
grading and open to abuse" a sentiment
shared by both the tipping public and it's
Servitors.
Why certain industrious and useful workers
should be forced to wheedle honest patrons out
OF petty change to make up for their made
quate pay is something we never could under
stand. But it's a time-worn racket that few
have had the courage to challenge We wish
the consumers board success AS Miss Lucy
Randolph Mason of the National Consumers
League said:
"A great shout of Joy would go up if tips
were done away with"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
OUT OF THE COURTS

A MERICA's civil courts these days are
n overworked woefully Any one familiar
with their operations knows that perfectly
well. What we don't often realize is that
upward of one-third of all cases that arise
in the civil courts have to do with claims
for damages in automobile mishaps.
That being the case, there is something
very timely about a study just published by
DR.. Patterson H. French of Columbia Uni
versity. DR.. French suggests that all such
cases be removed from the civil courts, and
that there be set up an administrative ma
chinery similar to that now used in work
mems compensation cases, to handle claims
simply and efficiently
This would relieve the courts and it also
would provide definite standards for COM
pensation, make the awards to injured VIC
Tins more swift and certain and provide bet
ter protection for motorist and public alike
It's an idea we'll worth extended consid-
Grafton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
UNDERMINING PALESTINE

TT is more than q little interesting to read
Il that an American manufacturer now is
building the largest automobile bus in the
world, for use in desert travel between the
ancient cities of Damascus and Begdad.
This bus, insulated against the desert heat
and equipped to founder through deep sand,
will make in twenty-four hours a trip that
formerly took twenty-four days 1t will have
to ford the Tigris and Euphrates rivers en-
route, and the builder is having to take that
amphibian role into consideration.
There is somehow a rather eerie quality
to this little bit of news. What have Bagdad
and Damascus to do with ultra modern mo-
tor buses? Since when are the Tigris and
Euphrates to be forded by automobiles from
America? All of the strange romance of
modern business is concentrated in this Job
which blends the very new with the extremely
DID,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
SLUM CLEARANCE

A S Uncle Sam gets ready to put something
L like a couple of hundred million dollars
into the role of landlord for John Citizen, the
broadening conception of the duties of the
federal government gets its horizon pushed
out farther than ever before,
The whole Stun clearance plan, as mat
ter of fact, is an instructive example of the
development of our ideas about what Wash
ington can and can not do.
This summer it was announced that fed
eral money would be loaned to limited
dividend corporations to rebuild "blighted
areas in big cities. Several corporations
were formed and work was started on a num-
Der of projects. But the response has not
been as general as had been hoped; so now
Secretary Harold Ickes is ready to put the
government directly into the house-b building
and HOUSEKEEPING business
Here is a step which is about as far from
our old conception of the proper sphere of
federal activities as anything couldNbe. And
it is worth noticing that it is not being taken
because the men at washington are eager to
get Uncle Sans finger into a new pie. but
simply because the memorable logic of events
has made it necessary.
To begin with. the good health of the ma
ton demands that city slunls be abolished
AS Al Smith remarked at the ceremonies
which opened New Yorks slum clearance plan
the other day. rebuilding the Slurubs lis the
extension of the well-defined theory of social
justice working out to ultimate good of us all"
The slums have got to go: If private initiative
can't remove them. Uncle Sam must
In addition. federal money must go into
circulation, and the building industry must
be revived. The government is building roads
army barracks, wsrships and postofices;
these activities aren't enough, and Stun re-
Mobilization is the logical step.
Then, finally, there is the plight of the
cities themselves. Most large cities in America
have tended to become hollow shells in the
last few decades. New homes go up in the
suburbs; the old residential districts. close to
the downtown section. are allowed to de-
teriorate.
This following out process has in many
places, reached a dangerous pitch. If a coun-
ter trend is not started, the cities face ulti-
mate disaster
So. as a result Of all these things, we find
Uncle Sam going into the real estate busi-
ness. And while the spectacle is a new one,
1t is not nearly as alarming as we would have
thought II year ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
M. Tracy Says:

DR. GEORGE Grille Of Cleveland thinks we
~ are headed for better health and more in
sanity. The question of whether this implies
gain or loss would make good subject for study
ard debate. Meanwhile, present-day trends, as
we'll as expert opinion support DR.. Criles
prognosS. DR.. Walter L. Bierring of DeS Moines,
asserts that "the number of commitments to
institutions for mental diseases almost parallels
the increase of matriculationS at colleges" Can
We laugh that off as an accident?
For the last century civilization has devoted
its mental energy to the improvement of physical
conditions. In every major respect the mind has
been reduced to enslavement for the benefit Of
physical appetiteS desires and ambitions.
ParadoXical as it may SEEM the net result Of
higher education has been almost Epicurean with
art, faith and the ability to evolve pleasure from
Self-improvement giving way to a craze for
bodily comfort, athletic proves and coarser
tastes.
THE modern mind is breaking under the
l. mechanistic load which a resurgence Of ee-
mental emotonalism has forced it to create and
carry. We are killing the goose that laid us
golden eggs destroying the poise self confidence
and idealism which gave us what we have by
claiming them to the machines of their own
creation.
You don't have to look at the rapidly ex-
banding insane asylurrs, or the growing number
of crackupS of men and women in their prime
to realize what is happening. Nothing indi-
Gates it more wildly than the welter of be-
wilderment in which we are foundering right
now.
Too much wheat while millions go hungry,
and We can think Of no solution but to curtail
the crop. A demand for disarmament which
every nation pretends to favor but which is
blocked because no nation dares to make the
necessary concessions. recovery program
which finally comes to rest on a ballyhoo for
women to go shopping, just as though what
happened to that "buy-a- bale movement in the
south some eighteen years ago didn't mean any,
thing.
A CRY for economy by taxpayers who are
L n being crushed to death by the burden of
past extravaganza, and We go right on borrow
ing, largely to preserve a rotten political setup
which was responsible for it.
On top of this, there is a reversion to the
jungle for music, to the middle ages for gov
ernmental forms, to Babylon for social ethics
Much of what we call liberalism amounts to
little but wall Of incoherent discomfort, while
much that we call conservatism originates in
the simple idea of standing still because we
don't know where to go.
The trouble is that outside Of three meals a
day, something to drink now and then labor
saving devices which mean more time for profit
less amusementS and a passion for speed life
has lost its meaning for most people. Maybe life
hasn't any meaning, but unless people can keep
the illusionment that it has, and that the mind
has a more important function than to invent
breakfast foods, or laundry tags, they are In a
bad way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
SOCIETY IS BOSS

ME flock Of convictions obtained by the
government in the Urschel kidnapinp
case at Oklahoma City is development full
OF encouragement for those who still hope that
organized society can show the underworld
who is boss.
Here was case in which the underworld
was at its most defiant To begin with. it
proved uncommonly difficult even to keep the
accused men under arrest. On top of that. the
states witnesses were subjected to a barrage
OF threats without parallel in modern history.
The leading defendants, by their attitude in
court showed an insolent contempt for the
officials who dared try to make them account
for their crimes.
Well the underworld took a licking. The
big shots stayed arrested, the threats didn't
work, and the verdict of guilty" neatly pune
tured the air Of insolent contempt. It was
proved that big crook can be sent up Just as
easily as little crook, if the officials response
BILE do their jobs. All in all, the challenge to
society was handled pretty we'll.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
Unnatural Eye Conditions Cause Cataract

Sometimes a cataract seems to be
associated with infection elsewhere
in the body. Sometimes it seems to
be accompanied by disturbances of
the circulation of the blood in the
tissue Of the eye. Difficulties in nu-
triton, such as an insufficient
amount of the vitamins, may be as
ISOLATED with formation of cataract.
It must be borne in mind, how
ever, that none of these conditions
has been established as a true and
specific cause of cataract, but rather
that all seem to be related to the
cataract. In other instances there
may have been continued eyestrain
over long periods of time.
In an earlier day, the person with
cataract which was formed and
mature and ripe had little hope for
saving his vision. Now surgery has
developed to the point where the
operation for cataract is relatively
simple and so fully safe-guarded as
to offer the possibility Of rapid re-
covery and better vision.
The operation does not injure the
front of the eye in any way. The
pupil Of the eye is preserved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
A Woman's Viewpoint

love. And certainly Mr.. Adverse
doesn't do that.
Instead, with a similarity to our
most up-to-date young men, he
bowls the girls over wherever he
goes. They fall into his arms with
1888 promptitude. Blithely, galy he
pursues his adventures dofing his
loves as easily as he does his coat.
There are passages Of eroticism in
this novel that might well be credit
ed by his bitterest enemies to D. H.
Lawrence. The tale is exciting,
splendid and entertaining, but there
is more than a slight touch Of Har-
lem in its love passages I imagine
that is one reason the ladies like
it. 1t offers such pleasing COM
bination Of spirituality, romanticism
and naughtineSs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
It Seems
to Me
=BY HAYWOOD BROUN-

NEW YORK. oct. lit is
~ pity that people are born into
the world to grow up and be candl-
dates and columnistS, politicians
and propagandistS.
I mean that nobody ever crates
or writes quite as closely to his
particular slant upon the truth as
he might do in casual conversation.
An alderman or a President IN "a
back room may say: Well, think
that on the whole this would be the
better way to handle the situation.
OF course, I can see something in
the arguments on the other side,
but this is the way it adds up as
far as I'm concerned. It's seven to
six in eleven innings"
But if you happen to run into
that same fellow on the roStrum a
week later he'll be laundering out
the statement that unless bill 81 or
ordinance 10 is passed Immediately
the whole republic will crumble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
TUESDAY. OCT. II. 1893.
POLICE PROTECTION

GONE means must be found for making the
~ streets and highways of Indiana safe for
policemen During the last few weeks lot Of
crude men have been hustling our peace Off
GERS about, making faces at them and other
wise treating them with discourtesy.
This campaign of contumely commenced
with the escape Of The ten convicts from N1ichi-
gan City prison. Only one has been captured
: by the authorities. Another was killed by
farmer. The remaining eight have been NOV
ing about unhindered in their sinister enter
prises.
One party of desperadoes was driving back
. to indianapolis after a holiday in Terre Haute
when, somehow the state police stumbled
across their trail. After a moving picture
chase the convicts got away by the simple
expedient of turning down side street
A few days ago State Trooper Richardson
found a couple of men with pistols in parked
car near Lebanon. He disarmed them and the
two were so indignant that they in turn dis
armed Richardson and kidnapped him, kicking
him contemptuously out of his own car a cou-
pie of hours later. How can our police be ex-
pected to keep their self-respect if the under
world is as rude as that?
Then there was the daring holdup Of
tobacco warehouses; policeman and a clerk
were shot in that performance.
Other officers carefully guarded the front
door of the warehouse waiting for the bandits
to pop out. The gunner quietly left by the
back door and were seen no more.
On Saturday night gangsters dropped in at
the Auburn police headquarters and stole the
police arsenal of pistols and machine guns
not forgetting to take along several rounds of
ammunition.
It is obvious that the police must be pro-
tected 1t might be feasible to assign a Boy
Scout as a personal escort for each officer
At least the Scouts could attend to this after
school hours. During other times of the day
the police might as we'll stay home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
=: The Message Center ::
you say your

the depression. Bad as conditions
are, however, most of us have been
able now and then to dig up the
price of a movie, the one remaining
pleasure left us. So what?
Mr.. Roosevelt's inquiry brings out
the fact that Maurice Chevalier
Will Rogers and Greta Carlo net
about $125,000 a picture, a fact
which any devotee of the cinema
periodicals has been aware of for
years. This, to me, seems a very
fair return to these people for a
picture that has Melted several mil
lion dollars to their respective COM
panieS.
Movie stars are eXtravagant spen-
ders, constantly building and furn-
ishing new homes and swimming
pools, buying airplanes, boats, beach
houses, polo ponies, cars, and main
tanning servants. Their money is
constantly in circulation. I see
nothing but good in their high
salaries and incomes.
Constance Bennett may figure her
salary as 3 per cent of what she
earns her company. I figure mine
as about one one-hundredth of one
per cent Of what I earn my COM
pany and no one is investigating
that. The President would do well
to devote his time to other things,
various and sundry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
ONE BILLION DOLLARS RELIEF

DREsIDENT ROOsEvELT's decision to help
closed bank depostors will bring relief
not only to those victims but also the general
recovery program
Distribution of one billion dollars by federal
liquidation of part of the assets of the closed
banks will supply national purchasing power
at time when it is very much needed.
Understanding the danger of throwing such
bank securities on the market at bankrupt
prices, and thus pulling down other prices the
administration will not resort to dumping The
plan is to liquidate in an orderly manner
If the plan is to succeed the maximum of
cooperation from state authorities in control
of state banks is essential.
The administrations plan is as wise as it is
just.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17

IF you happen to be troubled with
l. red eyelids, defective vision, I'M
expIainable headaches which de-
velop during the day, or drowsiness
from reading or doing close work
consult a physician who has spe-
cialiZed in diseases of the eye as
soon as possible.
Such unnatural eye conditions,
when not corrected Immediately,
may cause the formation of cata-
racts in later years.
A cataract is a cloudy film that
covers the eye of a person for the
most part as he reaches advanced
years, although it occurs occasion
ally in individuals Of 10 or so years
of age There are a few cases, also,
of so-called juvenile cataract,
found in children.
Bad teeth, infected tonsils, diges-
tive disturbances, and other consti-
tutional disorders also may be as
ISOLATED with formation Of cata-
racts. If these conditions are
brought early under control, how
ever, there is some chance of pre-
venting the cataract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
Philosophy
BY EUGENE RICHARD

BY EUGENE RICHART
Oh, I have spent love laviShly,
Lavishly as night
Spends her silver coin Of stars
To buy loves delight.
And have scattered far and wide
Love dreams as gay t
AS poppey petals in the grass
Or wedding day.
Lad, I gave you everything
That had TO give.
Now with nothing left at all
Ask me how I live.
Then I shall say I do not know,
Nor how I bear TO see
You spending all that wealth Of love
That you took from me.
But there still is the old pride left
-. say I always knew
You would take my wealth and go
Beggars always do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
OTTO R. LIEBER

INDIANAPOLIS mourns the death of Otto
R. Lieber, a native, who for years was
identified with the business and civic life of
the city. AS president of the H. Lieber Com
pany, Mr.. Lieber was leader in art circles
for twenty-five years.
He carried on the tradition of a family of
indianapolis pioneers, succeeding his father in
the business that was established for eighty
years.
Mr.. Lieber found his time occupied not
only with the everyday business of his firm
but with projects that carried his influence
into the highest business and social circles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

You need not fear, however, that
you are doomed to blindness if you
develop a cataract. With proper
medical attention, most of your sight
can be saved.
The lens of the eye is a crys-
tallline substance which permits the
light to enter. It's purpose is to
focus light on the tissue called the
retina, back in the eye. The retina
is related to the nervous system in
such way that it gives vision.
This lens, which normally is clear
like glass, becomes clouded and
grayish-white when a cataract forms.
This grayishness is reflected in the
pupil of the eye and the person
with cataract sees everything dim
ly and with clouded outline.
The exact causes Of cataract are
not known, although some Of the
cases have been related to various
disturbances. People who live in
the tropics get cataracts a little ear
lier than do those in the temperate
regions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17

A NTHONY ADVERSE, Hervey
N Aliens dashing hero, has
made q great stir among the fair
sex. No woman's club will go
through the season without a re-
view Of this novel--so long, so pro-
found, so fiery, as the girls see it.
It has set us of on another of
those interminable discussions as to
whether the trend is back to 70
manticism. Senli-sentimental peo-
pie welcome Mr.. Aliens book be-
cause they see in it one more proof
of that trend so desired by them.
Being rather tired Of sophistication
and worn down with an effort to be
clever, the ladies themselves would
like a return TO the rhapsodical type
of literature; the picturesque is most
appealing at the moment because it
offers a vehicle Tor idealisua.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
Questions and
Answers

(Which city in the United
States has the largest railroad
terminal building?
A-Cleveland, O., has railroad
terminal with twelve platforms
and twenty-four tracks for rail-
roads and eleven platforms and
ten tracks for rapid transit.
Q-Can the President pardon
persons convicted in state courts?
A-No.
Q-How much current is con-
sumed by the average electric
clock?
About watts per hour.
Q-Name the planets in order
of their distance from the sun.
A-Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto.
Q-How many rural delivery
carriers are there in the United
States?
A-40,225.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

The author, I think. must have
written a good deal Of his ex-
travaganza with his tongue in his
cheek. He has dressed his young
man in the colorful habiliments OF
the romantic age and surrounded
him with interesting characters in
fascinating settings, but for all that,
he remains very modern Of mod
ems.
LIE does not sigh enough. His
IL behavior, especially when it
comes to amorous affairs, has more
than a suspicion Of twentieth CEN
fury nonhcalance. Let us remember
that what the women think they
want, what they are really longing
for is the old-fashioned hero who
ianguished. bled and died for his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
Tin-SOldiers

BY T. r. S.
Governor McNutt deserves a
good kick in the pants for call
ing out the tin soldiers" to take
care of Sullivan county. From
what I can read in the papers,
there was no serious danger down
there.
The only trouble was that Nc
Mutt was in a darn big hurry to
turn Alfalfa Bill and call out the
troops. I suppose he'll call out
the tin soldiers at the next cleo
ton for Governor. If he wants to
be Governor again, he'll have to,
to keep the people from voting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-17
vestigate the effect of private profits
upon democracy.

vestigate the effect of private profits
upon democracy.
Throwing up smoke screen of
religious discussion will not befog
the minds of all the workers. Since
this screen has been raised by
others, we have this much to say
about religion:
Let the religious worshipers OPP
posed to Socialism try to align
themselves solidly on the opposite
side of the street from the Socialists
and then throw their rocks. After
the barrage has been lifted, count
the sore heads (not sore heads ard
find that many of them belong to
fellow-worshipers. Christian or non
Christian religious advocates can no
more reject the economic principles
of Socialism because of the attitude
Of Karl Marx toward religion than
Socialists can reject all ethics of
religion because some church goers
embrace the obviously un-C Christian
institution of profit-taking. The re-
ligious instinct can not be de-
stroyed, but church organizations
can be and are destroyed from with
in by those who use religious pre-
lenses as an excuse for economic
injustice.
BY N. A.
Roosevelt orders probe into fabu-
lous cinema salaries" Does the
above caption, taken from the front
page Of the Thursday Times mean
that Mr.. Roosevelt has all vital
matters of the nations welfare now
we'll in hand? Or are unemploy-
ment, foreign debts, farm relief,
mine wars, Khaki shirt dictators,'
currency imitation, blue eagle chisel-
ers, ETC., only minor issues?
In the last three years, we have
lost our jobs, farms, homes, cars,
club memberships, and in extreme
cases, the privilege Of eating, due to
what the multitudes choose to call