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DEPRESSION TRAGEDY

nNE of the saddest Of all the stories of the
~ depression is the one about the 14-year-
old indianapolis school girl who tried to end
her life because her schoolmates tainted her
when they found her wearing a shabby pair
of shoes which one of their number had
thrown away,
The girl was one of sixteen children of
jobless miner. The family had no money for
shoes or anything else She had to wear the
discarded shoes, which had been found on
some scrap heap, or go without.
1t often has been remarked that the weight
of the depression rests most heavily on the
children; and this pitiful little story is a re-
hinder that it is not only the physical de-
privation which counts.
The mental anguish inflicted on this young
ster by the thoughtless cruelty of her school,
mates is the sort of thing that is long time
healing.
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Conduct Losing Fight

WET they never can. No achieve
L ment, no amount of applause
or public attention can insulate a
Hitler against the inner realization
That he actually is a meager and
distorted person. Accordingly. this
type of leader will move rather
rapidly from minor prosecutions to
cruelty on a much larger scale. The
appetite for power is Unsuitable.
There is the need of constant re-
assurance.
The whole Nazi movement
palpably is neurotic. It is a form
of retrogression. These men would
retreat from the realities which
they face into a world of fantasy
which they choose to call 'the old
Germany"
The fact that the prejudice which
they stir up and foster never had
any place in the best traditions Of
the land which they pretend to
honor makes no difference to them.
1t is nightmare kingdom which
they are creating.
Somebody really should sneak up
on Adolf unaware and shout to him.
suddenly, IF you don't stop this
tantrum I'm going to send you to
bed without your supper"
copyright. 1888. by The Times)
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NJ. E.TracySays:

NTHERE young people formerly danced and
w sang around the garlanded maypole, they
now wave red flags and make bitter speeches.
The white bloom of the hawthorne bush has
turned crimson before a rising tide of pitiless
intelligence.
Chemistry and cold storage have taught us to
regard Nature rather tickle and inferior
With warehouses full of last years meat, fruit,
grain, and vegetables why get so excited at the
advent of spring?
"Maying" as they called it, might be all right
Tor the simple, down trodden prOletarians of old
England, but this is an age of steel-steel in the
mind, the heart, and the soul. The modern road
to salvation requires certain degree of cynicsm
just to prove that one is fit to travel on it,
Let us be strong, comrades, and work for that
glorious time when the government will set con-
crete flowers in everybodys garden, and provide
an exhaustless vineyard of synthetic grapes
Bombs for Chicago, hunger marchers for Bos-
ton, and a flock of war planes darkening the sky
above Moscow to impress Japan with Russia S
new-found strength What merry world this
would be but for men with a grim sense of
humor like Hitler!
German reds to cool their heels in amazed
retrospection The celebration was Just as noisy.
but with far less violence and for very different
purpose.
1T all goes back to bit of emotionalism and a
Il sense OF direction. No doubt, Henry the
Eighth thought that he was displaying political
wisdom when he made that Iegended visit to
Robin Hood on May l, 1915, or when he hanged
some London apprentices for staging a riot on
the same date two years later
No doubt, Louis XVI imagined he had chosen
an suspicious date when he called for the States
General to assemble May /, 1789
Red nag, bomb, and May basket, all stand
for something which we seek through the en-
piricism OF hope or fancy, and there is about as
much superstition in one as in either of the
others
Civilization if it properly can be described as
such, happens to be in singularly bitter mood
right now, finding more pleasure in quarreling
over beliefs than in observing the recurring
phenomena of life.
A lurking taste for cut flowers fingers on, but
largely as the hangover of an obsolete era. Some
few still SOW and reap for the sheer love of it.
but constantly increasing portion rather would
roll down some smooth, hard road.
WE don't realize it, but pleasure is as power
w full determinant of human destiny as is
necessity. What people like, whether wisely. or
foolishly, eventually will become their guiding
force IN politics, business, and society,"
For the moment, we think of work largely as
means OF supplying our wants. not as an
agency OF achievement. In other words we have
nothing big or inspiring in view, unless partial
distribution OF what We already possess so can be
classified.
The weakness of radicalism lies in the fact
that 1t swrls largely around the idea of dividing
the loot already garnered. The thrill will end
once the division has been made, and, save as
organized tyranny can prevent it. a season of
chaos viii ensue.
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BARGAIN-COUNTER JUSTICE

IN the current drive against the depression
= one must not overlook the necessity of curb
ing crime and rackets. These cost the country
even today, by conservative estimate. some
twelve billion dollars annually. This is
roughly equivalent to one-fourth of our total
national income at the present time.
1t is sum equal to more than twice the
principal of the war debts, and twice as large
as the maximum proposal made for a public
works outlay deemed sufficient to restore pros
perity.
If We repreSS crime justice must be sure
swift and impartial. This seems to be one of
the main reasons that the crime rate is kept
within the bounds of reason in England and
other European countries. That it is motor
iously not the case in the Empire state just
has been brought out by report of the New
York State Commission on the crimes and
sentences of prisoners, of which Sam A.
Lewisohn was the chairman.
1t is all the fashion for reformers in this
field to lambaste the jury system, and there is
little doubt that their attack is just. But it is
little recognized. though very important, fact
that in New York state today the jury trial
has been superseded in large part by pleas of
guilty on bargain-counter basis.
In the year 1881 at least 10 per cent.of the
convicts received in state penal institutions in
New York had not been convicted after Jury
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-10
FRANCES WAR DEBT

CENATOR BERENGER of France, chairman
~ of the senate's foreign affairs committee,
remarked in the French senate recently that
his fellow countrymen ought not to count too
much on getting substantial concessions from
the United States government in regard to
the war debts
President Roosevelt, he agreed, seems we'll
disposed-but there is still the American con-
gress to deal with; and he warned his hearers
that I'VE don't want to repeat the experience
we had with Wilson and Hoover"
That, when you stop to think about it, is
probably fair enough, after all. If Presidents
Wilson and Hoover could be questioned about
1t. they probably would say, quite fervently,
that they didn't want to repeat the experience
they had with France, either.
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HARVARD'S NEW PRESIDENT

1NEE late DR.. Edwin E. SlosSon once said
that we could solve many of our problems
If we only knew as much chemistry as a tree.
Harvard university just has chosen as its
new president the one man in America who
comes closest to possessing that knowledge.
He is Prof. James Bryant Conant, who at the
age of 40 has succeeded to the office which
DR.. A. Lawrence Lowell at the age of rs has
resigned.
A tree, or any other green plant, grows by
process known as photosynthesis, a process by
which it turns the carbon dioxide of the air
and the water of the soil into the substance
of its tissues.
DR.. .Conant is Americas chief authority
upon photoSynthesis Last year, he was
awarded two medals for his discoveries re-
lating to the chemical composition of chloro-
phyl. They were the Chandler medal of Co.
lumbia university and the Nichols medal of
the American Chemical society
DR.. Conant was born in Massachusetts and
educated at Harvard. During the war he was
major in the research division of the Chemi-
cal Warfare Service and spent considerable
time at the Chemical Warfare laboratory in
Willoughby, o.
In day when science seems to hold much
OF the future hope and welfare of the world
Harvard university acts wisely in calling dis
tinguished scientist to its leadership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-10
WOMAN DIPLOMAT

MRS. RUTH BRYAN OWEN, America IS
AVA first women minister, who leaves soon
to take up her duties in Denmark, declares
what she believes to be President Roosevelt's
policy regarding women in public office It
is sound policy. AS stated by Mrs. Owen
it is:
mo woman in public life should be given
any distinction because she is a woman but,
on the other hand, she should not be barred
because she is a woman. Let us appoint them
or promote them on the same basis that we
would if they were men-on their abilities
and their records"
None can doubt the ability of a Ruth Bryan
Owen to perform the duties of minister in a.
highly creditable way Daughter of man
who hardly breathed outside the spotlight of
political life, she has spent her life with pub
lie problems.
Possessed of an extraordinary personal
charm, she has become a diplomat in the sheer
process of living in political world.
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(TimeS readers are inrited to cypress
their CietoS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 41ords or gess.)
BY Disillusioned Democrat
"A Reader" in Saturday evenings
paper, deplores the fact that the
McNutt administration turns Re-
publicans out of state jobs. While
am in accord with Governor Nc
Mutt on this subject, let me cite
case where a loyal Democrat also
lost his job along with about fifty
others through the power given the
McNutt administration by the rip
per bill.
My father and my mother have
been Democratic voters in one
county for more than thirty years.
They raised a family of six boys
and girls who are all now married
and active Democrats.
My youngest brother was gradu-
ated from high school at the age
of Is and who is as upright and
honest as any man employed by the
state, bar none. He worked hard
for the party without pay, even be-
fore he was old enough to vote. He
served several times as precinct
committeeman and last summer his
county-and, if I am not mistaken,
it is Indiana'S largest-sent him as
a delegate to the state convention.
Though he refused to go to the
convention pledged to any man, he
cast his honest vote for the man
he thought most fit to be our Gov
ernor, namely. Paul v. McNutt.
And now, because my brother was
hired by Frank Mayr Jr and was
loyal, not only to Governor McNutt,
but Mr.. Mayr as well, he was fired.
Why? Because Frank Mayr Jr.
would not follow where the herd led
him, but dared to voice an opinion
of his own.
And because our secretary of
state is not hired by the Governor,
the Governor could not fire him. So
they tear away his department and
hire McNutt men, who, it seems to
me, must be legion men.
I'm not radical, far from it. but
it hurts to see my brother, who was
a Democrat when three-fourths of
the present Democrats were rabid
Republicans, lose his job for being
loyal to his employer, and it takes
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this bigness. help 1t to become even bigger and
more widespread, and at the same time work
out some scheme by which social values
would weigh Just as heavily as profits we
might do very well for ourselves.
So now leaders in the administration dis
cuss with industrial leaders the possibility of
modifying the Sherman Iaw-partly in the
interest Of business, but chiefly in the interest
of the ordinary citizen.
1t is strange and significant shift which
has taken place.
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after the person has been perspir-
ing.
1t is customary to leave trunks,
jerseys, and stocking in a locker
after they are worn. The mold or
fungus which causes ringworm of
the skin can live for long periods of
time in clothing kept under such
conditions
Ringworm of the skin usually
appears as red eruption between
the thighs, between the toes or be-
tween the fingers.
There is scaling and in some
forms the appearance of cracks and
assures. There also is mild itching
and blistering.
1t is we'll to warn people against
contact with leather or wooden OBJ
jects of dress, toilet, and sport. Wool
and leather should not be worn next
to the skin by such people.
Any clothing which has come in
contact with the infection should be
used only once, and then boiled
separately from the rest of the
household linen 1t may help to
destroy the fungus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-10
BUSINESS CONTROL IDEAS
CHANGE
CHANGE

IF some one sat down to write history of
n the Sherman antitrust law, and the vary
ing attitudes which the public has displayed
toward it, he would find when he got through
that he also had written the history of one
of the most significant phases of the whole
industrial revolution.
The Sherman act bridges the gap between
two Numerically opposite ways of looking
at the fruits of the machine age.
1t was born when the whole nation looked
with suspicion and an uneasy distrust on the
giant combines of industry and finance Mere
size, in itself, seemed bad in those days
Our ideal still was the small business man,
the small industrialist, the man who knew
all his employees by name and carried most
of the details of his business in his own head.
That seemed to be the only kind of bust
ness that jibed with our traditional concepts
of freedom.
But the tide was running the other way
Instead of small shops We got vast plants
employing men by the thousands; great net
works of interlocking businesses that blan-
keted the entire country with maze of Sc
curity setups that seemed to put ownership
and management above the reach of public
control
So we adopted the Sherman law, hoping
to stem the tide.
But the tide kept on moving; and as it
moved our ideas changed.
We began to discover that big business
was an inevitable outgrowth of the age of
machinery. The trend couldn't be stopped.
The day of large-scaie operations and
giant combinations had arrived and we could
do little but make the best of it.
And this, we began to see. might not be
20 bad. after all. II we could somehow foster
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Ringworm of Feet Spreads Rapidly

DISEASES change in their Incl
~ dence from time to time. A
condition which hardly attracts
serious medical attention over
number of years suddenly may loom
into prominence through the fact
that it afflictS large numbers of
people.
Just why ringworm of the feet
began to spread SO rapidly during
the last decade, and now affects
tremendous numbers of people, is
not certain.
The spread has been related to
the increasing use of gymnasiums,
swimming pools, shower baths in
golf clubs, and other conditions as
ISOLATED with modern craze for
sport.
The condition has been brought
prominently into public notice
through advertisements of various
antiseptics and lotions for so-called
athletes foot.
1t should be realized, however,
that the condition also affects the
skin in the groin and also may at
tack the skin of the face and the
scalp.
Once intrenched in the human
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-10
DRIFT TOWARD CRIME

JUVENILE delinquency has increased so per
cent in New York City during the last
year. according to the Boy Scout Foundation.
The district attorneys are bothered by the
growth of boy gangs in the streets. George
H. Chatfeld, director of the Board of Educa-
TONS Bureau of Attendance, told the New
York Principals Association that economic
conditions must be improved before there can
be much hope of dealing with juvenile de-
linquency.
Miss Henrietta Addition, deputy police COM
missioner in charge of the bureau of crime
prevention, said at the same meeting that
reduction of money spent on Fairgrounds and
similar activities was handicap in crime pre-
vention.
Here is powerful additional incentive for
those now toiling to bring the country out Of
depression-while hundreds of thousands of
juveniles Of both sexes roam the country the
stationary population of youth in the cities
tends to grow more unruly and to drift faster
toward crime.
So does the depression threaten to visit
itself upon the future generation.
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A Woman's Viewpoint :

IF not the judges, then the tax
l. payers should protest the farci-
cal law that keeps men in jail for
nonpayment of alimony. Harassed
as we are with expense, do we not
realize that we, too, are victims of
these stubborn women?
It may be more of our business
when wife so hates her husband
that she is eager to see him i'm
prisoned for an indefinite period.
but when we pay the bills for his
keep, then we should make it our
business. For these vengeful ladies
have their hands in every taxpay-
er's pocket.
If there's anything that needs and
must have legal housekeeping. it's
the alimony industry. 1t now is
administered so badly that it has
become -thumhing at justice.
Few women who really deserve or
have earned it get aliinony.
The indNiduals who peofit most
from the measure usually are par
lor Tacketeers who use the marriage
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ner. One well-known sleep walker,
who does his sleeping on the job at
his desk in the statehouse, still is
there because he has a cousin with
pull.
1 wish Governor McNutt I'M
limited success in anything he may
do to relieve conditions in our state,
and if he proves to be the Governor.
we need, I'll also wish him success
when he is a candidate for the
presidency in 1910. but 1 don't think
l ever again could give him my vote.
BY An American.
May I comment through your pa
per on the letter written by Tax
payer of April "a?
1t seems of late that men of his
breed are taking a little too much
liberty with the word "Bolshevik. :"
Are men who, driven by dire pow
erty and the cries of hungry chill
dren, steal loaf of bread or revolt
against the confiScation of their
homes by mortgage holders who sit
like vultures waiting for the day
when their debtors can not pay to
be called Bolsheviks?
I'll venture to say, not so long ago,
when some of these "unWashed"
were "over there" fighting what
they thought was the war to end
war, Mr. Taxpayer" was "over
here" making some of those dollars
he now is afraid are going to be
coniscated.
Thinks he not also that some of
his so-called successful men would
not and have not sold their souls
and the confidence of their govern
ment for thirty pieces of silver?
IT'S true there is nothing in the
Constitution against the right to
hold property inviolate, but neither
is there anything in the Constitu-
ton that sanctions such as the
yellow dog contract" the working
Of women and children long hours
at starvation wages, and calling a
man a dirty neck red because he
protests against the old order that
Mr.. Taxpayer proudly boasts still
prevails.
The revolution already is here. 1t
came last November, when the great
majority chose its present leader to
carry on toward that Utopia of
which he so lightly speaks.
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several men can outslick the others.
However, when decent and other
wise law-abiding husbands are jailed
because their incomes have de-
creased since 1929, the power of
these female James gangs should be
curbed in some manner.
It's incredible that a woman can
become so self-important that she
believes man should support her
when she does not live with him.
Even the old-fashioned prostitute
did not go to such lengths. And,
compared to certain arrogant wives,
the prostitute, I think, was rather
a noble figure.
We have perjured ourselves in
many ways and broken many sacred
oaths. But it has remained for the
alimony grabbers to pile up the last
insult against matrimonial honor.
To sully the title of wife, to collect
indefinitely for the brief surrender
ing of ones body, is as low in the
mire as we shall be able to drag
marriage or Womanhood.
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View From High Hill

DUT it seems to me that the peo-
ID pie who are close to a problem
are very often the least qualified
to discuss it with any clarity or de-
tachment. No man in the middle
of rumpus has any accurate con-
ception of what is going on. A
spectator way out in the right field
bleachers is likely to see the situa-
ton in its entirety.
I venture to say that there must
be at least dozen newspaper COR
respondents in Germany who un-
derstand HitleriSm a great deal bet
ter than Herr Hitler does.
Adolf is that unfortunate thing
which we call an orator. Judging
from the neWSreelS, most of his
waking hours during the last few
years have been spent in addressing
huge meetings. And, worst of all.
he is facile and effective orator.
Now, an orator never can learn
very much about the conditions
with which he deals in his speeches.
In the nrst place, he generally is
called upon to speak to his own fol-
lowers. And, no matter what he
says, his own crowd will shout,
"Hoch!" and throw their hats in the
air.
An orator soon learns that au-
dienceS are moved much more quick
ly by generalized slogans than by
calm argument or the recital of
facts. And SO the constant speaker
moves further and further away
from reality into a dream world of
his own, where assertion is taken
as the equivalent of accomplish
ment.
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What's Ahead
BY FRANCES FAIRFIELD

BY FRANCES FAIRFIELD
Poverty, peace, or stores of gold2
Sorry or happiness true?
Mellow contentment as you grow
old?
What does life hold for you?
A rowing existence or coy home2
A farm or the city's roar?
Adventures on land or the oceans
foam?
What does life hold in store?
Ali None can tell; a curtain lies
Covering the future from viewI
You can not discover with mortal
eyes
What life holds in store for .yosh
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body, this condition is hard to con-
troll, particularly in people who seem
to be susceptible to it.
Apparently the ringworm grows
much better in the bodies of some
people than in the bodies of others.
1t has been suggested that this is
due to a chemical factor or a
physical factor, but just what this
factor is has not been determined.
During the war there were erup-
tons of the skin between the fin
gers of women who constantly were
knitting. Apparently the irritation
of the skin and the association with
the wool was related to the out
break.
In many instances the eruption
appears between the thighs when
tight-1tting wooden bathing suits
are worn. Certainly the infection
between the toes persists when
wooden socks are worn.
Among the most prolific sources
of infection is repeated wearing of
athletic clothing without washing