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Evening star., 1933-10-11
JUDGE URGES END
OF FIXED SENTENCE
Says Penal System Is Obso-
Iete in Its Attempts at
Criminal Reform.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., October II
Declaring the fixed term of imprison-
ment must 60, Judge Joseph N. Altman
OF Baltimore, presiding justice of the
Maryland Supreme Court, told the
American Prison Association Congress
last night that the time has come when
I'VE can begin to advocate the absolutely
indeterminate sentence"
Quoting the Encyclopedia Britannica,
Judge Altman said that the aim and OBJ
ject of all penal processes should be
the recognition of the general principle
Of dividing all offenders into two cate
gories:
O Those who ought never to enter
Jail, and
90 Those who ought never to be al
lowed to leave it.
Would Limit Prisoners.
"A thorough investigation and indi-
vldualized classification before sentence
Will discover that large proportion OF
those now cuStomarily incarcerated
should never 60 to prison at all, and the
same process OF individual study and
classification within the prison will dis
cover considerable group who can
never safely be released" he said For
these society. for its own protection,
must provide permanent segregation.
"A life sentence should not be~ye-
served for those who have committed
certain specified crimes The incurable
drunkard who repeatedly beats his wife.
the individual who cannot learn the
difference between mine and thine.
these may be just as unfit for freedom
as the murderer or the professional
gangster 1t will be the business of
the prison administrator of the future
to find out which Of his wards must re-
main behind prison walls either for a
long time or forever.
Public Ready for Change.
THE time has come when We can
begin to advocate the absolutely In
determinate sentence. The increasing
use Of parole and the so-called inde-
terminate sentence fixing maximum
and minimum terms of Imprisonment.
have prepared the public mind for the
reception of this concept I am sure
the time is not far off when men will
be sent to prison to stay there as long
as it is good for them to stay and as
long as it is necessary for them to
be kept
Evening star., 1933-10-11
FLORIDA VOTE SURPRISES.
State Margin Of 4 to l for Repeal
Exceeds Predictions.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, October IL
Florida has voted for repeal. BY a
margin greater than repealists expected,
the State voted yesterday for the end
of the prohibition era by to
The count from 378 precincts out OF
1872. with virtually every big city ac-
counted for, was: For repeal, 82,998;
against repeal. 19,847.
On the basis of estimates by the Sec
retary of State that there are nearly
half a million qualified voters in the
State, the 94.987 votes tabulated from
1853 precincts indicated that probably
not more than third of the electorate
went to the polls
The big city-county vote, almost COM
plete, was as follows:
Jacksonville, Duval County, 11.485;
1,184.
Tampa, Hillsborough County, 1o,ss3;
1893.
Miami. Dade County, 10,1O8; 1871.
st. Petersburg, Pinellas County, 1868;
1882.
West Palm Beach, Palm Beach
County, 3,79S: GIG.
Orlando, Orange County, 1887: 1897.
The result of the election was to name
81 delegates to a repeal convention,
which meets In Tallahassee November
IA. The incomplete vote did not show
a single county in which the anti-repeal
ticket led.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
FORMER SECRETARY DOAK
REPORTED TO BE BETTER
Present Legislative Representative
of Brotherho ood of Railroad Train
men Ill With Heart Trouble.

William N Doak. Secretary of Labor
in the Hoover administration. who has
been i'll since last Friday, was reported
better" today at his home in nearby
Virginia.
Mr.. Doak, who is so, was stricken
while at work in his Office and for a
time his condition was considered seri-
ous He has suffered from heart all
ment for years, members of his house.
hold said.
Since the advent of the Roosevelt
administration Mr.. Doak has been
legislative representative of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen. a post
be held before being appointed to the
Hoover cabinet,
Evening star., 1933-10-11
LEAGUE ADOPTS PACT

GENEVA, Switzerland, October IL
R.-A convention to prevent traffic in
women of full age was adopted yester-
day by an international conference held
here under the auspices of the League
of Nations
The agreement provides penalties
similar to those. under existing conven-
tlons Tor the. protection of girls under
age.
The United States will be invited to
adhere. -. -.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
EMPLOYE GROUP ELECTS

J. o. Burnham of the Internal Reve-
nue Bureau has been elected president
OF Federal Employees Union, No. 262.
Other officers are: Edgar Graham,
first vice president: Wallace E. Perry,
second vice president; Mrs. Ola G.
King. third vice president; E. G. Hooper.
financial secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Har-
riet E. Turner. recording secretary,
end Miss Matilda Matthias. trustee.
The officers will be installed at the
next meeting Of the union. Novem-
tar 13.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
PRESIDENT STUDIES
POST-REPEAL STEPS;
PLANS EARLY ACTION
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Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New Mexico New York, Oregon
Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas. Yer
mont, Virginia, Washington. West Vir-
ginia, Wisconsin and wyoming.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Woman Recovering
From Automobile
Mishap in Kitchen
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
OREGON CITY. Oreg.. October
11.-Mrs. r. G. Bittner was in q
hospital here yesterday recover
ing from an automobile accident
in her kitchen.
The machine was parked on a
hill above the Bittner home when
the brakes slipped. The car raced
down the hill. crashed through a
wall of the house into bed room,
striking a bed with such force
that the bed was rammed through
wall into the kitchen. where it
knocked the housewife down. Mrs.
Bittner was bruised and shocked,
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Premier J. D. Stewart Dies.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. l.. October
IL (R-Premier j. D. Stewart of
Prince Edward Island died last night
Evening star., 1933-10-11

posed to have filed report with Gen.
johnson opposing a general prlce-fiXlng
policy. Johnson has been sitting on the
report for nearly two weeks. Nothing
is being said about it.
Rush for Price Fixing.
At the same time the agricultural
crowd is proceeding more strongly to-
ward price-fixing program. Each day
agreements are being quietly made in
cities throughout the country fixing
minimum milk prices for the producer
and maximum prices for the consumer.
The sugar agreement has been
ditched temporarily because it fired
minimum prices for the producer,
but tailed to set the mdrimun price
for the consumer. The oil price,
firing problem has become almost an
absurd muddle
Everybody anywhere near the inside
believes that general price fixing will
have to come in one form or another.
The officials in charge seem to feel the
same way, but they are going about it
very cautiously.
It stands to reason that you cannot
try to boost prices without keeping a
rein on them somewhere. 1t is hardly
fair for the Government to say what
the producer of wheat. sugar and oil
shall receive for his product and then
say nothing at all about what the con-
sumner shall pay.
Has Two-fold Obligation.
In other words, the Government has
an obligation to the consuming class as
we'll as to the producer 1t cannot try
to help one without protecting the other
Evening star., 1933-10-11
HULL URGES ACTION
IN NAZI ASSAULTS
ON u. S. NATIONALS S
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that it can no longer guarantee the
protection of American citizens in Ger
many said it is first necessary to gather
definite information on just what IS
being done by German authorities
Hull said he is particularly interested
in the disposition of authorities in Ger
many to make arrests and to afford
protection at the actual time the as
Sault is committed, as well as in the
promptneSS with which prosecution and
punishment of the offenders are car
ried out.
Prompt Action Asked.
The very fullest representations, the
Secretary said, have been made to Ger
man authorities in connection with the
Velz case. under standing instructions
of American diplomatic representatives
in Germany.
The action includes request for
prompt steps to apprehend the Offend
ers. prosecute and punish them and
make amends in any reasonable way
possible Secretary Hull said he had no
information of action against offenders
except that some prosecutions are
pending.
The Secretary emphasized that the
American Government is much con-
cerned to learn the outcome of these
prosecutions of Nazi Troopers accused
of beating Americans.
The Secretary's expression was the
most vigorous and full which has yet
been made.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
HANDS-OFF POLICY
ON JEWISH ISSUE
TAKEN BY LEAGUE

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many of us insufficiently discounted
in our gloomy prognoses,' the presi
dent. who is South African high COM
missioner in London. declared
The straitjacket in which the world
has been shackled since the Great War
has been burst" TIE Water added, land
an era Of economic restoration has
begun"
Policy of Fear Attacked.
Then he praised the efforts Of the
countries to secure national regenera-
ton and, alluding to disarmament. pre-
dicted that peace was assured 'if the
leaders of the great powers change their
policies from fear and resentment to
a policy of generosity"
The presidents closing speech was
of far different tone than that de-
livered on the opening day by Johan
Mowinckel. premier of Norway
On that day the Norwegian dele
gate startled the assembly with warm
ing that wars impended and urged
drastic action toward disarmament.
TIE Water continued. Thus will be
achieved a spirit of neighborliness. I
beseech the nations to go forward in
this spirit so the peoples of the earth
may have peace"
The remarks brought prolonged ap-
plause.
The assembly rushed through its
agenda and adjourned earlier than ex-
pected
Reports Adopted.
The Assembly adopted many reports
showing progress has been achieved in
social domains. like the abolition of
slavery and the fight against narcotics.
and went on record with the view that
the World Economic Conference has
not yet completed its work.
The League acquired strength and
greater universally by the return of
Argentina. which was elected to the
Council Australia. Denmark and Por-
tugal also were elected to that group.
Referring to Argentina's return to the
League TIE Water said it is in the times
of difficulty and depression that institu-
tions. like men, learn to know true
friends.
THE return of Argentina is one of
the most important and happy events
of the Assembly" the president said.
Every delegation felt and voice the
greatest satisfaction by their cordial
welcome to Argentina. and this was
given concrete expression in the cleo
ton of that great South American re-
public to the Council"
Evening star., 1933-10-11
Auto Building Gains.

Automobile production in Germany is
increasing.
Evening star., 1933-10-11
WIFE SAYS KELLY
MADE DUPE OF HER
IN KIDNAPPING PLOT

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Evening star., 1933-10-11
FLOUR BOOTLEGGED
TO AVOID GRAIN TAX;
U. S. PREPARES TO ACT

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
LATE DR.. HENRY
TO Be HONORED
ON DEATH DATE
Portrait of Noted Foe of
tuberculosis Will Be
Given to Hospital.

Portrait Of DR.. Alfred Henry IN
dianapolis tuberculosis specialist
who won national fame for his
work. will be presented to city
hospital Tuesday in a ceremony on
the first anniversary of his death.
The presentation will be made at
IL by Dr. E. NJ. Amos, Marion
County tuberculosis Association
president, to DR.. Charles w. Myers.
city hospital superintendent.
Organizations represented at the
ceremony will include Sunnyside
sannitarium, Sunnyside Guild Sun
shine Club, of Sunnyside. Indian
apolis Flower Mission city health
board, indianapolis Medical Society.
Indiana university school of medi-
cine, Rotary Club, Indianapolis
fresh air school system, state health
board, Indiana State Medical AS
ISOLATION. Indiana tuberculosis As
ISOLATION and others.
Speakers will include DR.. STAN
ley Coulter, tuberculosis seal sale
state chairman, and DR.. NJ. Joseph
Barry, health board president.
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, DR..
Herman G. Morgan, health board
secretary, and other officials will
attend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
Waterworks Officials
Pledge Pollution Fight
State Society to Carry On,
City Man, New Chief,
Tells Group.

Pledge to continue the fight
against stream pollution was made
by William G. Mabee, chief engi-
neer of the Indianapolis Water
Company, who today( was elect
ed president of the Indiana section
of the American Waterworks As
ISOLATION.
"Our Indiana group of water
works officials will continue its CO.
operation with the state board of
health to improve health condi-
tions as influenced by stream pol
luton" Mr.. Mabee told the men
attending the annual convention of
waterworks superintendent yes
terday in Ft. Wayne.
c. K. Calvert, head of the Indi-
apolis sewage disposal plant,
was reelected secretary treasurer
of the Indiana section. G. G. Foutz,
La Porte, was elected vice. resi-
dent, and B. H. Jeup, indianapolis
engineer, was chosen as assistant
secretary.
For the last year, Mabee had
served as president of the In
diana group and his election in FIT.
Wayne yesterday came in recogni-
ton of his work in helping to carry
out federal recovery programs as
sponsored by waterworks officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

MIR. KIRBY tells the story of
1V1 the birth and death of
Mister Dry in the current issue
of Vanity Fair. In that article the
cartoonist pays his respects to the
drys: They were jubilant, hypo-
critical, SNUG and, above all else,
insolent. They combined what
they considered to be virtue with
a thin-lipped savagery."
All of that the cartoonist tried
to express in his renowned figure
of prohibition-the ludicrous,
funeral-coated, black-gloved, slop-
py-shoed, long chinned scarce
crow which became as familiar a
piece of Americana as Mickey
Mouse and the Stateue of Liberty.
Mister Dry" was born the
morning of July l, the day that
wartime prohibition fell like a
shadow upon the land. No one
expected the wartime measures to
last more than a few months. The
general attitude was one of
amused bewilderment rather than
alarm. The figure created by Roll
lin Kirby that momentous day re-
Elected the national sentiment.
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Early donors to the campaign are
listed below and late donors on
Page One.
Transit and Proof Department, Indi-
ana National bank, three children.
Mutual Benefit Association. Leader
store, boy and girl.
Knight Klub, one girl.
Sammie Rice and Laura Kibler. boy.
Business office of Indianapolis Times,
boy.
Girls of Aetna Casualty and Surety
Company, girl.
Mrs. Santa Claus, boy.
Employees of WadIey Company. cared
for three children.
One Who Likes Antiques and Hobbies.
child.
Employees of United Mutual Life In
surance Company, boy.
Twenty three Painters Who Work Now.
boy and girl.
EMPLOYEES Of state Auto Insurance As
Fish and Game division. Statehouse,
boy.
Mrs. East Maple Road, two boys.
NJ. G. o. and C D. o., boy.
Group of Girls, Indiana Trust building
second floor, girl.
Mrs. Okay Clothe-a-Child. boy.
Miss Vera Holstein, girl.
Mrs. E. S. Barber, girl.
Group of Girls. office, G. & ]. Tire
Company, two children.
Just Another Santa Claus, girl.
Sunday School Glass, girl.
Want Two Again, boy and girl
In Memory of Dorothy Helen Farber,
boy.
Little Girl in Irvington, girl
NJ. and Mrs. Eddie Meyer, two girls.
Mr. Woodruff Place, girl.
G. C. WEIGH, boy and girl.
Mrs. H. r. A., boy.
Mr. and Mrs. John Newlin, girl.
Mrs. North Alabama, girl.
/ Want Helen, girl.
Mister Mira, boy.
Indianapolis UNCONSTITUTIONAL depart
ment. two children; Girls of Times, girl;
partment, child; Composing Room. child;
Circulation Department, child: Engrav-
ers and stereotypers, child; Pressroom,
child.
Jobs Daughters No. IL. girl.
Mrs. G. B., boy.
Mrs. Central avenue. boy.
Building Department. City Hall, girl.
Craig's confectionery, No. 2, 40 North
Pennsylvania street. boy.
Irvington Santa, girl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

scarecrow puppet dance on the
editorial page.
IT guess I got to almost liking
the bum as the years VENT on"
sighed the cartoonist as he f1ng-
cred over his old CARTOONS in his
Office hideaway. What bum
he got to be-"
And then Mr.. Kirby got to a
point in a way that is typical of
him. But look here" he said,
don't give me the credit for this
scarecrow. I drew him, but he
would never have been possible
but for Frank Irving Cobb, the ed
itor of the old New York Morn
ing World. There was the man
who really started the flint against
prohibition. My cartoons were
only part of the campaign he
launched, and he started fighting
prohibition when the fighting was
dangerous and unpopular. When
the history of the fight against
prohibition is written, Frank Irv-
ing Cobb's name should head them
all. He was one of the greatest
and finest editors this country has
produced"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

mean and furtive. His face took
on the CLEAN of insanity. Then,
as people came to their senses, the
flow of gold into the Golfers of the
Anti-Saloon League began to dry
up. AS that happened the scare
crow began to drop into sniveling
beggary. He got to be such a COM
plete bum he was almost admir-
able"
Called into the fight, other car
toonists adopted Mr.. Kirby's scare
crow figure as the symbol of pro-
hibition. Year by year the figure
became better known, until finally
it took on commercial value.
Manufacturer began putting out
metal and porcelain reproductions.
There were novelties showing
Mister Dry" expiring on a gall
lows or riding in a hearse. He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

The clerical figure was more
comical than grotesque and
savage. It's facfe was drawn in
more Of a srnirk than the SNUG
grim lines of hypocrisy.
The figure retained those char
acteristics for more than a year
"a clown rather than villain.
Then, in December, 1920, came ma
tional prohibition by amendment
of the Constitution. From that
time on the cartoonist began to
drawn hi sscarecrow in earnest.
n Il
THE face heightened. The hair
l. grew longer and more dark.
The very shoes. flat-footed and
ill-ftting, spoke of something I'M
pleasant.
81 tried to combine in one fig
ure all the meanness and hypro-
crisy S had ever bumped into"
explained Mr.. Kirby today. He
developed gradually as time went
on. At first he was dour and snug,
but respectable. His linen was
clean. Gradually he got more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

was modelled in soapstone, clay,
bronze, glass and even appeared
in the form of a rag doll to
frigten children.
Forecasting what happened on
the NoX. 7 election, Mr.. Kirby Of
fcially buried his puppet in car
toon Nov. 9.
I'll have to find some other
figure to play around with now"
he said-and there was just a
touch Of regret in his voice. Il
thing it will be THE Old Order"
I've been experimenting with him.
I want him to express every kind
Of reactionaryiSm. I've used him
for a long time as The Old Guard
and C. o. p But he is develop
ing now. I've put him in 1880
clothes-velvet collar, lowered
waistcoat. AS the times change
he will change too"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
LESS FOOD LENGTHENS
LIFE, REDUCES PROGENY
Results Of Experiments With Small
Water Animals Announced.
30 Science Serrice

81 Science Service
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. g.
Short rations enable animals to live
longer, but cut their birth rate ma
terially. This conclusion has been
reached by Lester Ingle Of Brown
university, as the result Of expert
ments on two species Of cladocer-
ans, small water animals related to
shrimp and crayfish.
Mr.. Ingle reports his work in de-
tail in the current issue Of Science,
noting that his results are in gen.
eral agreement with those of DR..
G. NJ McCay of Cornell university,
who worked with rats, which are
about as far removed from clado-
cerans as it is possible for animals
to be.
Mr.. Ingle kept females Of his ami
mails separately in bottles. In one
of the bottles he put the normal
culture fluid diluted from twenty
four to thirty-six times with pond
water, thus giving them much less
to feed on The animals on short
rations lived nearly II per cent
longer than did their we'll fed sis
tiers, but produced far fewer off,
spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
Westbr0ok Pegler: An Impression

There are no indefinite words for
Westbrook Pegler; no equivocal de-
scriptures. He is one thing, or he
is the other; he is top-notch col
umnist-that you know; he is a ter
rifle dancer, he will not play cards
at all, considering them a waste of
time; he is the best listener I have
ever met, and he learns from every
body, and he remembers everything.
He is a famous raconteur-socially,
as well as professionally.
He has great admiration for
worth, great sympathy for the I'M
der dog, and a great deal less than
no patience whatever with humbug.
You have gathered that, who have
read him-he hates hypocrisy only
a little less violently than he de-
plores stupidity-hiS mind is cease
lessly excited. 1t is a crusading
mind. 1t is excited, and it is ex-
citing. You will see.
Copyright, 1898, by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
EMPLOYEES ARE GIVEN
HUGE DAIRY BY OWNER
Texas Man Builds Plant to Largest
in South, Retires.

1tAdS wan 0ulluS fldHC 10 Largest
in South, Retires.
By United Press
HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. 9-M. C..
Oldham, whose dairy business grew
during twenty years from one
wagon system to it's claim of the
largest in the south, has achieved
his lifelong ambition in turning
the business over to its $50 en-
ployes.
Without ceremony, Oldham pre-
sented the company to his workers
under provision whereby they will
absorb the capital stock at less than
half he was said to have been
offered.
MY wish has always been to build
up a business to a position of
leadership, then turn it over to the
employees who helped to build it."
Oldham said.
II am doing this with the same
feeling would experience if I were
trying to set my own children up
in business" he explained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
BY KATHERINE BRUSH

titioner of the manly art of YOU
hit-me- and IIl-hit- back. The de-
pendable referee, however, is his
sense of humor. His RACES have a
certain splendor, but they do not
last.
LIE is six-feet- something. He
~ stands somewhat Straighter
than a monument, and he looks
rather like a family freckled Viking.
He has one of the superb wives of
the world, and is aware of it.
Since what I seem to be. writing
is the private life of Pegler the only,
I may as we'll add that he calls her
his bride, after eleven years. It is
slang, but he means it. I may as
well add also that they met as re-
porters on the doorstep of Joseph
Bovine Elwell, who had just been
murdered, and that they were mar
ried just in time to go honeymoon
ing on the HallS-NTill murder case.