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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31

of the fountain boys who works on
Sundays asked for the day off. After
much haggling the store manager
granted his request, The manager
then told me to work the employees
six-hour Sunday shift. He then
docked the fountain boy for the day
he took off and refused to pay me
for my extra hours.
In another case some sales girls
complained because they were
forced to work beyond the maximum
hours provided by NRA. When the
general manager of the company's
stores found out who made the COM
plant, he ordered the girls fired.
In my fountain department we are
working the maximum fifty-four
hours and more. We have taken on
no extra help. Consequently, dur
ing the hours we are on, we have to
work harder. AS fountain man
ager, I am responsible for every
thing in my department and draw
the minimum salary.
It seems to me that those in
charge are able to stack the cards
just as effectively under the New
Deal as before
AS long as some companies fail to
observe the spirit of the NRA, the
small salary employees are going to
be handicapped.
How can we benefit by the New
Deal when such conditions exist?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31
A DARING THEORY


TOR YEARS, the average male has forced
himself to believe that women are superior
drivers
He did so reluctantly and at times even
skeptically. His skepticism was particularly
strong whenever he had the misfortune to
drive behind some woman motorist who
wasn't quite sure where she was going and
what she ought to do to get there.
But Mr.. Mans skepticism always was
promptly squelched when the accident Stats
tics made their annual appearance. There
were the figures in black and white. No one
could dispute their accuracy.
And the statistics always proclaimed that
women. not men, were the better drivers be-
cause they had less accidents.
But now comes the Pennsylvania state
highway patrol to the rescue of the down.
trodden male. With the courage traditional
TO the force, it defies statistics and the glares
of the fair SEX In blunt language it says:
Men are better drivers than women
Then the patrol which conducts all drivers
license examinations in Pittsburgh, Celebrates
upon its daring theory.
Women applicants, it says, know all the
answers to such questions as What is the
speed limit in Pennsylvania? and How closely
can you follow a fire truck?"
But when it comes to putting these answers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31
NJ. E.TracySays:

CECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE
- predicts that not more than 25000,000 acres
will be planted in cotton next year. That should
be encouraging to those who look for farmers
economic salvation in reduced crops
But, and this is something to keep in mind
farmers would raise more cotton on 25,0O0,OO0
acres than on 40 100000 by employing more SCI
entific methods and a greater amount OF fer
tilizer
Crops never have been and never will be
matter of acreage. If they were, the modern
farmer could not compete with his jungle
brother.
We plant some 3oO,0oOOoo acres each year
We could produce twice as much on one-half
the land, if we had to.
France, not so large as Texas supports
population of 40000,000 Germany, about the
same size, supports a population Of 6OOOO,OOO.
Intensive farming is the secret.
If American farm land were as. we'll nan
died as Belgium farm land, the question Of
what to do with Our supplies would be even
more puzzling than it is.
Meanwhile, changed habits of life have had
and will continue to have marked effect on
farm products.
COMPARATIVELY speaking we are not
~ consuming as much wheat, potatoes and
corn We once did.
Automobiles do not eat corn, while the mod
ern fad for reducing calls for less starchy foods.
If we really are going to regulate produce
markets, we must go into dietet1cS Any one OF
half dozen fads such as have cropped up dur
ing the last decade easily might convert a short
age into surplus, or vice versa.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century
the world was getting along very nicely with a
cotton crop of 100000 bales. At the beginning
of the twentieth century it was consuming
100000 bales. demand for explosives during
the war popped this up IS or 20 per cent.
Indeed, the demand was so great that we
their skirts and reduce the weight of undergar-
ments. The steam heated house and closed car
made it possible for millions to discard old
fashioned heavy clothing.
THERE is an overproduction of cotton, not
l. because we have planted too much, but be-
cause We consume too little. The trouble is that
no one knows how much we really need, or
which way it will be affected by styles of the
future.
Among other things, paper napkins, paper
tablecloths, and even paper underwear promise
to play part in the cotton market. Such in
novations can not be ignored if we are to have
planned economy.
Production can not be adjusted to consump-
ton merely by regulating the former. To know
how much he should raise Of a given commod-
ity, the farmer must know how much of it
people will consume. When you take the gam
bic out of agriculture you will come pretty near
taking it out of everything
At present We are insisting that crops be
curtailed, while at least half the people in the
world lack enough\to eat and wear That may
it looks pretty tough from human standpoint.
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So They Say

Few things are so likely TO cure
the habit of hatred as the oppor-
tunity to do constructive work OF
an important kind.-Bertrand Rus
sell, philosopher.
The public, through the NRA's
bloodless revolution, can lift ciyili-
zation to greater heights than 1t has
ever known before-A. L. Ratta,
field co-ordinator of NRA.
am convinced sincerely that
most of the nudists, naked as they
are, are better men and women than
some of our best citizens who go
about fully clothed.-The Rev. Isley
Boone Of Oakland, N. J.
1t is natural for man to fall IN
love with another mans wife and
for a woman to fall in love with
another mans hushand-Captaln
william B. Bradford, United States
army, who recently traded wives
with another officer.
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RACES AND BETTING

INDIANA legislators might cast a glance at
the large revenues from pari-nutuel race
betting established this year in New Hamp-
shire
Increasing crowds rolled up, during the
first twenty eight days of racing at Salem
track, state taxes of $193,351 And the track
owners got $3.50 out of betting total of
$5,244,472.
Indiana, multiplying these revenues, would
be able to tighten the general tax load by a
large figure if it passed the pari-mutuel law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31
It Seems
to Me
AUG. 81, 1893
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. - There
L used to be a play-there al
ways will be play-in which the
heroine says. Il never was more
serious in my life"
And in that phrase. while thou
sands paid not the slightest at
tention. I could write my autobiog-
raphy.
Only yesterday a young man
said. Now honestly, Mr. Broun,
these so-called radical columns of
yours merely represent what seems
to you shrewd journalism? Am I
right?"
And he was not right 1t is per-
hapS a little less than logical to de-
mand that everybody who means
what he says should put on hair
shirt and 60 into the desert to eat
locusts and wild honey. But il there
is no other way, I will do that.
NY weakness and infirmity of
purpose are such that should pre-
fer not to make my reservations
for another two years. But I could
be speeded up.
If you grin upon occasion, or take
a drink, or stay up after l a. m.
YOU become Immediately playboy
who is fooling around with notions
merely for the thrill which he gets
in shocking people.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

to practical use, the men do better job. says
the patrol. They also pay more attention to
traffic hazards and stop signs and usually are
more skillful in handling the wheel.
We don't know what that proves. but we
venture to say knowing the fair SEX that it
doesn't end the argument. In fact we doubt
if it would be wise for male drivers to do too
much Growing over their new victory if it
can be called victory.
Likely as not. the ladies will find some
new champion to dispute the patrols state
ment And then the downtrodden male driver
will be right back where he started.
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Questions and Answers

O-Are there authentic records
concerning the antiquity of cross
word puzzles?
A-For many years, archeol-
ogists have been trying to solve
what is believed to be the oldest
cross word puzzle. 1t was made
by Cretan about 1000 years ago,
and a copy of it is in the archeo-
logical museum at John Hopkins
university, Baltimore. 1t is called
the Phaestus disc, and was found
on the island of Crete by an ex-
petition many years ago.
Q-What is the forest area of
Africa?
Approximately 797,458,OOo
acres.
Q-What is the history of the
umbrella?
A-They are depicted in Egyp-
tan inscriptions and murals as
early as the eleventh century B.
G. Originally, they were used
solely as protection against the
sun, and their first use against
rain is said to have been by the
Bishop of Salisbury, England, in
300 A. D., but they were not gen.
orally employed for that purpose
until several centuries later when
Jonas Hanway, of England Q712-
86), set the fashion. In the mid
die ages, umbrellas were a mark
of rank and honor, much used in
ceremonial professions. The first
umbrella seen in America was car
ried by a man on the streets of
Baltimore in 1772. He purchased
it in Baltimore shop that i'm
ported it from India.
O-Does an automobile tire
weigh more inflated than de-
f1ated?
A-The weight of the air is
added to an inflated tire.
Q-What kind of hogs produce
the best DrlStleS?
A-Lean wiry hogs from the
colder sections of Russia.
Q-How does the present popu-
1ation of Rome compare with
1900?
AIN 1901 it was 424, 943, and
in 1881 it was 999,964.
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Habit Spasms Often Affect Young Children

HABIT spasms often appear in
4 l. children, both boys and girls,
between 6 years of age and Adde'S
cence. They appear most often in
children who have been i'll or who
have been nourished badly, or who
suffer greatly with nerve strain, due
to mental difficulties at home.
The most common forms of habit
spasms are those affecting the face
or head, with blinking of the eyes,
sudden shaking of the head, or
struggling of the shoulders. Some
times there also is a jerking of the
hands or a motion directed by the
hand toward the face, or a repeated
clearing of the throat.
The condition called habit
spasms" is not to be confused with
chorea, rheumatic disorder. The
movements of habit spasms differ
from those of chorea by being
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31
Fun to Shock People

DO think it's fun to shock people
i 1t seems to me a square deal all
around. And yet I have not been
conspicuously successful in achiev-
ing anything Of the sort And on the
few occasions in which 1 have sue
ceeded, the result has come quite
unwittingly. My great surprise lies
in the fact that people are startled
by postulates which appear to me
self-evident.
We live in a cockeyed world and
I am astonished at such times as
fellow passengers fail to grasp that
fact. Today I can pick up any pa
per and find that somebody honestly
believes that there will be an end OF
crime if only justice is fast and
includes the electric chair and the
whipping post.
How can they think anything so
fantastic? Boiling oil, the rack and
thumbscrews never have worked so
we'll. and so I do not understand
why anybody should believe that
effeminate notifications Of ancient
tortures can prevail. And I'm not
fooling.
I read of Hitler and his scheme
to make over a doWntrodden nation
in it's own image and 1 am not only
puzzled. but aghast, that he serious
ly should believe that any such
scheme can possibly work. The con-
quering countries imposed terms up
on the German people which are
preposterous. But is it reasonable,
logical, or even sane to say, Be
cause we have been beaten with
whips, we will attack with scorpions
a minority within our own commun-
ity to prove that we are virile and
unterrified?"
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A Neurotic's Way out

A ND when I read of those who
IN are exiled, disfranchised,
scorned. expelled, I observe that
these are the very names upon
which the glory and the fame Of
Germany repose. Just who is crazy
and insincere if l venture the mild
query as to how culture can be Gre
ated by uprooting its most signif1-
cant opponents?
And when 1 turn from foreign
news, observe that there is move
ment on foot to prove the SUPERIOR
ity of the white race by the COM
mission of things unspeakable and
cruel and wholly insane. III show
you the proof of our high civiliza-
ton by lynching you to tree" Does
that make sense? 1t does not.
And through the world and its by
ways today the great push seems to
come from those who wish to save
face by treading with hobnails upon
the heads of others.
am little sick and tired of be-
ing claSSed as soft, bourgeois, and
sentimental if 1 say that human
brotherhood could solve overnight
the problems concerning which men
shake their heads and say, 1T is too
bad, but inSurmountable"
Who says so? 1t is said by those
who never have given even a pass
ing trial to understanding. 1t is
said by those who can not grasp the
notion of a world in which we work
for glory and not for profit. 1t is
said by the keepers and the pur-
veyors of mean advantage and de-
structive selflshness.
And I never was more serious in
my life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31
A Woman's Viewpoint {:

Today on the mesa, every little
flower mods contented, each in its
humble place; the light changes
perpetually over the wide plain, and
shadows gather above the noun
tains, just as they always have done.
Only the feet of curious sightseers,
and their voices, questioning, break
the silence of a thousand years that
brood there.
1t is good to come into a place
like old Puye.
There is medicine for the soul Of
you and balm for the spirit. Some
day, perhaps, a new, bright race Of
men, as high above us in culture
and intelligence as we are above
the cayeman, will gaze upon our
abandoned crudities and wonder
how we lived.
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Q-Is it correct to speak of
tentative" engagement?
Ayes. Tentative means some
thing done as an experiment, an
attempt, trial or conjecture.
(Which section of the Consti-
tuition guarantees religious lib
erty?
A-The first amendment, which
reads: Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment
of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof
GLOW does the coast guard
dispose of the vessels it SEXES
and confscates?
A-They are sold for cash to
the highest bidder, at the place
where they are in custody.
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AS such conditions are largely
mental, treatment must be applied
to the mental side.
It is important to find out the
difficulties in the home that are
associated with the trouble and to
regulate these. All sources of dis
tress, such as fear of punishment,
must be stopped.
Such children do well with en-
couragement and pleasantness. 1t
is not we'll to find fault constant
ly with the child because this keeps
his attention fixed on his habit.
If the child is nourished badly or
otherwise i'll it should, obviously, be
removed from school and given an
opportunity to recover.
Plenty of sleep is of the greatest
Importance, and also plenty Of good
food.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31

A T Puye, N. M, for fleeting
N half hour, life stands still, the
breathing of the earth ceases. On
top Of the high mesa, haunted by
the race that lived there 5000 years
ago, you are transported into an
other age. The signs of the wind
in the little pinon trees are dirges
for a lost people.
There before your eyes are the
stones upon which they ground
their corn, the earthen bricks their
fingers fashioned, the walls they
built. And below are their caves,
the homes they carved in the steep
rocks, still blackened by their fires
and worn smooth by the tread Of
their feet. gone so long ago.
And you wonder about life, about
men and their ambitions, about al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

the universes beyond this thing we
call space. Whence came these cliff
jewellers, and whittier did they go?
Whence come We and whittier do
we journey?
THIS silent spot. once filled with
the turmoil of thousands of busy
people; this high, bright lakeland
from which you may gaze out upon
illimitable vistas, purple mountain,
golden sands, and snug, green val
leys, sheds over you a benediction.
Here at last is peace.
What is it we strive for? Very
little else save that for which the
cliff dweller toiled so many ages
ago. A few fleeting desires, an
empty ambition or two, a dream
that soon is forgotten.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

quicker and also by being repeated
continually in the same way.
The movements Of chorea are ir-
regular and vary constantly.
A child with chorea is likely to
have worse movements when being
watched by adults, whereas the
child with habit spasms is likely to
discontinue the movements.
The child with this bad habit is
likely to have also excitability and
obstinacy, to sleep badly and to
suffer with headaches. Because of
the initiative nature of children,
such habit spasms sometimes de-
velop almost like an epidemic in
schools.
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Prophecy
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK.

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK.
Love will not last; it never stays.
Those who seek to pin it with weld
ed silken ties
Find that it blossoms but for a day.
The petals fall; it slowly dies.
Love will not last, no matter what
you can do;
1t will creep silently away.
Though you clutch forcefully,
And cling, it never will stay.
Love will not last, 1t withers and
grows sere;
Thus they told me, whose love was
dead
But am young, how could I believe
them
When my love and I just have
been wed?
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:: The Message Center ::


by human beings and directed by
human beings sweeps twelve mil-
lion American families into the
abyss of poverty, you have nobody
to blame but your own fool self,
for there is no more reason why
human beings should starve and
rot in the midst of superfluity
than there is for fish drowning in
water, except human stupidity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31

Tennessee financier reported to have an
option on 100000 pounds of tobacco, CIV
ing him monopoly on the crop He'd bet
ter be careful; such holdings are apt even
tually to go up in smoke.
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Just Stupidity

BY W. Williams.
IF some natural calamity swept
L some twelve million American
families on to a barren island and
left them to starve and rot, you
might be pardoned for calling it
an act of God But when a per-
fectly human institution developed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-31

Prince of Wales had to sell his farm be-
cause he couldn't afford to pay its losses any
longer He'd better move to the United
States where he'd be paid fer destroying the
crops.
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Roosevelt administration has ordered
slaughter of 100000 hogs to promote recovery
Rather drastic but a lot better than the poll
ticians' time-honored attempts to promote re-
covery by merely shooting bull.
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(TimeS readers are iHttted to cypress
their rieics in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 10ords or 1ess.)
BY believer in fairness
Thanks to The Times for inviting
its readers to express their views
on different things.
Why not the budget be cut for
the city and help the overburdened
taxpayers?
Much has been said and done in
regard to schools and teachers
salaries. Why not ask our council,
mayor and safety board president to
see what can be done about city
flremen and police VACATIONS. Why
not let them take vacations without
pay?
Firemen's vacations alone without
pay would save the taxpayer some
thing like $4,000 a year. A fire
mans salary is better than $40 a
day. Of course, he only works half
time at that. He is off twenty-four
hours at time.
Why not take the kitchens and
beds out of the engine houses7
Seems only fair, as the expense of
maintaining these is on the city.
This seems only fair, as it was too
much expense to keep the sema-
phores for the police because they
leaned too much on them and they
needed repairing so often.
In times like this, why should not
the firemen at least have a 10 per
cent cut in salary?
Taxpayers should look into these
expenses, anyhow, and see that
something is done to cut expenses
where it can be done. Mr.. Taxpayer,
get busy!
By O.. H.
Is it possible that NRA means No
Raises Available?
That seems to be the outlook for
the employees of our company in the
future. We have but little to look
forward to under the New Deal.
My case is quite similar to that
of D. A. c., whose letter in The
Times last Saturday revealed that
he was earning only SIT as fountain
manager in one of the stores of
large drug company in indianapolis.
am worse off. AS fountain man
ager in my store, I make the min
imum salary of $14.50.
My store is on the busiest corner
in Indianapolis. The fountain sales
are unequaled by any other store. I
have to assume all responsibility,
yet am paid exactly the same SAL
airy as the fountain girls who work
here.
Under the New Deal my company
takes $3.50 out of my salary to pay
for my meals something it never
did before. On the remaining $13,
I attempt to support myself and
pay doctor bills for my wife, a near
invalid.
Here is an example of the
methods my company employs. One
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Copyright, 1888. by The Tines
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