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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Amendment

THE work of undermining popular govern
u ment did not end when the lame duck
amendment became law Senator George w.
Norris has laid before congress another
amendment which is the logical successor of
the one now so widely acclaimed, and few
years from now we will doubtless wonder, as
we do in regard to the lame duck measure,
why it was not adopted long ago.
The new amendment abolishes the electoral
college and allows voters to participate more
fully in selection of President. 1t makes it
possible for independent candidates to run for
the presidency with a real chance Of election,
as well as the nominees of the two great
parties.
And, when the votes are gathered, it pro-
vides that all of them must be counted for the
man for whom they are cast. Instead of CIV
ing the candidate who gets a majority of New
Yorks popular vote all the forty-flve presi-
dental votes cast by that state, it gives him
just the proportion of those votes to which his
popular vote entities him.
In the past men have become President
though majority of the popular vote was cast
against them. This never could occur if the
presidential vote of each state were divided in
accordance with the popular vote.
Nor could the political parties force I'M
popular candidates upon reluctant electorate
If machinery for an independent race were
available.
1t took Senator Norris ten years to make
the country see the great need Of his lame
duck amendment. Already he has urged this
new reform for five years.
1t should not require national emergency,
as it did in regard to the other measure, to
make us appreciate that democracy, if it is to
succeed, really must be democratic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
SATURDAY MARCH Is. 1893.
HITLER TERROR

HITLER atrocities against Jews and polit-
Il ical opponents in Germany have provoked
great waves Of protest in virtually all civilized
countries.
There is nothing much our government or
any foreign government can do, except to
insist on the protection of its own citizens I'M
lucky enough to be caught in Germany at such
time. That is the convention of interna-
tional law-one government does not interfere
as a rule with another sovereign government
in the treatment Of the latter's subjects
This rule, however heartless it may appear
at first glance, has in general worked for peace
among nations, otherwise nations constantly
would be in danger of drifting into war over
domestic disputes.
But this does not mean that effective action
is impossible. The kind of mass protest now
arising against the terror is apt to be more
effective in the long run than foreign govern
mental action.
When Americans cancel their sailings on
German ships, when the English boycott Ger
man goods, as they now are doing, the pres
sure becomes very acute on the mad Hitler
Even those German business interests which
have helped to raise him to power may realize
their folly
Our profound sympathy to all the racial
and political victims of Hitler barbarism.
We sympathze also with the mass of Ger
man citizens who have been fortunate enough
to escape the terror so far, but who will pay
in the end for the sins of the counter-revo-
lutionary government which has seized power.
Unfortunately, the world does not differen-
tiate between governments and peoples Ger
many and the Germans will be blamed long
after Hitler is gone
So Germany is twice victim; the victim of
Hitler and the victim Of world opinion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

tried without success to get congress to buy
his paintings.
A boy carried food to the artist, who some
times gave him the only reward he had at
handsome painting or other. The boy, hav-
ing no use for the pictures, stuck them behind
a stairway.
The boy of fifty years ago is the now
mayor. The pictures from behind the stair
were the pictures on the Smithsonian walls.
Catlin had his moment of identification,
advertising species Of success" story. His
pictures hang where he wanted them to hang.
The government got something for nothing.
The hunger pangs Of fifty years ago no
doubt were pretty distressing to George Catlin.
Congressional attitude toward economy takes
various forms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
When Mare Vas Y0umQ

WAS interested the other day in
Il reading an essay on Karl Marx
by Harold j. LaSki, and in that
brochure I found the statement that
Marx remained a year in Bonn,
studying jurisprudence; but he
seems to have devoted himself more
to the conviviaI side of the uni
versity."
Marx was a prodigious worker
during the greater part. of his life
and a prophet who preserved the
austere tradition Accordingly, it is
a little heartening to know that he
had at least one semester Of beer
and jollifcation.
And certainly the movement
which he founded has drawn in
Spiration from the seidel both in
Germany and in the gay '90s in
America. After all, beer is the
philosophers drink.
Poetry is associated with wine,
and perhaps fallaciously. Surely it
was no wine of a 30 type which set
any Pegasus to soaring. But the
hard, clear, and intensive thought
of the world has very seldom been
done on water.
George Bernard Shaw stands
alone as a teetotaler who has won
literary distinction. And his
occasional flightiness and instability
of viewpoint may be blamed upon
the fact that he has Travelled more
than seventy years without ballast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25

IT has been held that beer VIII be
4 a boon to Tammany politicians.
That may be so, but it Will have q
much greater effect in winning re-
crultS to radicGlSm.
For instance, one Of the reasons
why Socialism has made such small
progress in America in recent years
has been the absence of .beer. 1t is
a slow fuel, but a steady burner.
When there are places where men
can sit and warm off embarraSs-
ment, exchange of ideas is sure to
come. Over the gobletS plain peO-
pie begin to tell comparative strang-
erS what they think of the world
and what they think it ought to be.
Beer serves to bring out argu-
mentS about rent and wages and
surplus profits. Unlike those header
beverages which lead TO alterca-
tons, beer makes for solidarity.
Congress has decreed that a for
mula of 80 is not intoxicating in
fact. I hope that congress is right
and that the supreme court will see
eye to eye with this legislative de-
ciSion. But beer of that alcoholic
content or even much less is intoxi-
eating in theory in the best sense
of the word.
mean it has within it that pO-
tency Of imaginative refreshment
which makes a man say, Well, now,
if were in congress
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
A DIRECT ATTACK ON IDLENESS

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS scheme for en-
rolling 100000 men in peace-time army
for a direct attack on unemployment is about
as complete departure from accepted tradi-
tons in America as could be imagined
And yet-such is the temper of the coun-
try today-that very fact is helping to win
public support for the measure.
So far In our fight with unemployment,
we have followed the old traditions and they
haven't worked. Merely to see the problem
tackled from an entirely new angle is en-
couraging.
A leadership which is not afraid to do
something never done before in this country
seems to stand a pretty good chance of get
ting somewhere.
Meanwhile, the plan is deeply interesting
For one thing, it ought to help sift the
wheat from the chatf in the various metropon-
tan breadlines.
The industrious and energetic citizen who
is unemployed through no fault of his own
and who subsists on charity because he has to
and not because he wants to-this chap can
be expected to jump at the chance to join
the army without guns
But the loafer the gimme -dime-please-
mister drifter who rather would panhandle
than work-he will be reluctant to give UP his
warm fophouse corner for a steady year OF
honest toll and his very reluctance will help
to expose him.
Our cities will know good deal more about
the men they are supporting when the re-
cruiting campaign for this army is over.
In the second place. the whole scheme has
a freshness and directness that make it ex-
citing.
1t puts the government into direct frontal
assault on unemployment. There is as Presi-
dent Roosevelt points out vast amount of
work that the government ought to do; there
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25

BY Mary Neal
The boy who wore the red sus-
penders is becoming almost as no.
torious as the dazed college fellow
who ran the wrong way with the
ball, but not for the same reason.
1t would seem that there are, at
present, degrees of culture and that
none Of these includes the famed
suspenders. That boy of II should
commit the unforgivable social
blunder causes us to smile, if a bit
carefully.
We can understand the boy. What
we fail to comprehend is how a
grown woman, principal of school,
supposed to be old enough to know
better, to have reached years Of
discretion, could make such an up
roar about a pair of red suspenders.
1t would seem that something was
radically wrong somewhere. that a
teacher had so little to occupy her
time.
Or shall we say that the cares Of
her profession sit lightly on her
when she could take time out for
such ridiculous performances? To
send him home, cause him to miss
part of his daily work, shame him
before his classmates, make him
learn to hate the school, all for an
innocent pair of red suspenders.
No wonder taxpayers cry out for
teachers who can teach, to instruct
our modern youth. Surely the mind
of the 11-year- old would have been
just as receptive to learning that
day, regardless of his attire. Wasn't
there some way that he could have
been told, with just suggestion or
two about future appearance, and
then left to decide the matter for
himself.
Is it the Bible that says, Man
looketh upon the outward appear
ance, but God looketh upon the
hearth" Would that we had a little
more of the God-like in some of our
modern educators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25

4 LII my life have heard moth
L y ers disparaged because they will
talk about their children in public.
But it was not until became &C
quainted with certain male news
paper writer's that I understood
fully how little we deserve such
treatment.
Fathers, it seems, may be ex-
cused for writing about their babies,
but mothers are not to be excused
for talking about them.
AS a matter of fact, I have all
the sympathy in the world for these
men. What's more, no subject mat
ter ever could be so entertaining as
a baby, from the viewpoint Of its
parent. The thing I object to is
that women get so much of the
blame for a fault that is common
to both sexes.
These papas, to be sure, maintain
a slightly Stand-off1sh attitude in
the clever little pieces they do about
their children. They preserve their
masculine aplomb with commend
able consistency.
They appear to disdain slightly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
Mdy Not Suffice

7 AM not so much a beer propa-
i gandist that I would suggest that
inspiration for genius or high talent
can ever be purchased for 5 or even
10 cents glass. Perhaps it is no
more than a coincidence that the
beer drinking nations have been the
very ones to furnish lis with the
greatest Of cosmic philosophers.
1t is quite possible that even the
new liberation from Volsteadism
will not give us at once a Wagner,
Karl Marx, or an Einstein. But
it will help to bring good amateur
conversationalists back into their
own again.
Certainly there is no support for
the familiar prohibition contention
that beer is brutalizing and reduces
it's devotees to a dull sogginess. We
need not look abroad for proof to
the contrary.
The mind Of Henry L. Mencken
is perhaps not the best in America,
but surely it is the liveliest, and
the Baltimore strong boy has been
insistent in his praise Of beer and
still another f1agon.
I will admit that there is a GER
tain amount Of pretense about the
amber fluid. To paraphrase IA
miliar spiritual, Everybody talking
bout beer amt drinking it."
Nevertheless, it has entered into
the poetry and the prose and the
philosophy Of many nations. And
so, even if beer fails to balance the
budget, it may serve its purpose in
doing precisely that for the intel
lect.
Copyright. 1888. BY The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Associated with jaundice, itching
of the skin is not infrequent. The
material is excreted in the urine,
and as result the urine has an in
tense yellow color.
Because the bile is not, as usual,
expelled with the excretions from
the bowel, these develop a clay color.
Not infrequently the entrance of
the bile substance into the blood
leads to hemorrhages, not only
through injury to the walls Of the
smaller blood vessels, but also be-
cause of it's effects on the substances
in the blood which are involved in
clothing.
One form of jaundice, which &C.
ours frequently in children, lasts
from two to twelve weeks. 1t has
been thought that this is infectious,
but the proof is not certain.
1t seems to come on about the
same season of the year when colds
in general are frequent. The con-
dition does not actually occur in
epidemics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25

DUT do they? I should say not.
- Pride drips from every line;
love garlands every letter. One can
imagine them racing home each
evening bursting with desire to feast
their eyes upon their own par
ticular lovable lump of human
sweetness.
They can not, with all their ruses,
keep an immense dissatisfaction
from creeping into everything they
write about the family, son or
daughter, as the case may be.
Fatherhood sits upon them like a
golden crown. Plainly, they are
feeling sorry for their friends. who
may have fathered children, but
none so perfect as their own. The
sweet unreasonable ness Of parent
hood is an evident in the man as in
the woman, and it is good that this
is so.
Any father who is not prejudiced
tremendously in favor Of his own
baby is, I think, a mighty poor
specimen, and doesn't deserve to
ehays one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
Jaundice Is Caused by Bile in the Blood

1t is frequently without fever, and
definite bacterial organisms have
not yet been found in the bile as
taken directly from the intestines
at the point in which the bile is
poured into the intenstines.
Various types of poisons which
tend to injure the liver as, for ex-
ample. poison by arsenic, phos-
phorus, chloroform, and cincho-
phen are frequently associated with
jaundice.
There are also cases in which GER
tain types of infection actually dc
spread through a community. Much
liver damage is frequent. Such cases
might we'll be called infections OF
epidemic jaundice.
One Of the most common types
Of bile in the blood Is that which
occurs in tiny babies just after
birth.
This usually tends to clear up in
a few days. There are, however
other types Of infection at birth
associated With jaundice which are
more likely to be serious, if not
fatal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
Let s Haze Relief

By Non-Partisan
TF our illustrious statesmen don't
Il change their policies in regard
to elimination of poverty and I'M
employment, they may face a stu
alton that will make civil war a
pleasant pastime. Laws compiled
to protect the raccoon from evic-
ton seem to have more than a
touch of irony in them. Nor does
the eternal squabble of party poll
tics help the situation.
If our honorable governor were
to tarry in his methodical behead-
ing of vanquished Republicans and
consider the sore plight Of his
commonwealth, it would be more
beneficial to all concerned. While
his ability is unquestioned the
example which President Roose-
welt has set in dealing with these
catastropes should cause the
governor to realize that to date he
has been nothing more than the
advance agent for the great Demo-
cratic circus.
The placing, with a flourish, of
his signature on some silly amend
ment doesn't signify that he is
complying with his oath of office
in regard to our constitution and
laws.
Provisions we're made in these
laws and constitution to take care
of such emergencies as have
arisen. But could our forefathers
see the sacrilegious amendments
that have been and are being in
corporated into these regulators
of the masses I fear they sincere
ly would regret that they were to
become innocent parties to these
outrageS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
GEORGE CATLIN
WHO knows anything about George {

WHO knows anything about George Cat
W lin? Possibly some artists and scholars
story came out Of Washington regarding
him which is worth quoting, both on account
of Catlin and as commentary upon genius
which drudges in some attic and creates pic
torial wealth destined to be worth the means
Of comfort long after he is dead.
The mayor of Cedar Rapids, Ia, visited
the Smithsonian institution, in Washington
He pointed to some paintings Of Indians and
asked if they were valuable He was told that
paintings by George Catlin, outside the gov
eminent collection, were worth at the lowest
price $500. The mayor then related his story.
Fifty years ago Catlin, poor, sick, and dis
couraged, worked in an old tower of the
Smithsonian while the institutions secretary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25

WHENEVER material from the
w bile, called bilirubin, gets into
the blood there follows yelloWish
discoloration of the skin.
The skin, the mucous membranes,
and even the whites Of the eyes be-
come jaundiced.
There are, however, several diff
ferent types Of conditions that can
cause the passage into the blood Of
this bile.
For instance, an obstruction may
occur anywhere in the bile ducts
from the smallest channels which
develop in the liver to the point at
which the bile pours into the in
testines.
If the obstruction is sufficient, the
bile is turned back and jaundice fol-
lows.
The most frequent causes Of such
jaundice are stones which block the
tubes, but occasionally tumors may
form and block off the ducts, and
in other instances there may be
serious infection with Inflammation
and swelling resulting in obstruc-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
ALOcked Diary
BY EVE STANTON

BY EVE SIANICN
AS the dull gray Of a young suns
setting,
So is the sorrow Of swift forgetting;
AS light song too early shattered,
A fire burned out and the asnes
scattered;
So is the dusk that sways and
fingers,
Lights that die and fugitive fingers,
The ghosts of flowers, a dust that
slips
Through soft Embossed fngertips.
Better that eyes be bright with
weeping
Than blind to dreams and dulled
with sleeping,
Better the heart be torn with pain
Than yelled with slumber and deaf
to rain,
"A silver wound in a tortured
breast
Than silent lips and a night Of rest,
The death Of rapture. the loss Of
light,
A cloudless dag. and q starless nighh
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
It Seems.
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN =
DEER is almost here.

DEER is almost here.
II 1t may turn out TO be a more
important change in our social and
economic life than some Of us cynics
had anticipated myself have done
very little bleeding and d. Yg for
the brew in recent years. 1t seemed
to fall among the minor problems.
But now that the beverage prac-
ticaliy is within reach. I begin to
comprehend that I was a little less
than fair to beer when I didn't
have it.
I still think the material aspects
OF the move are somewhat eXag-
gerated. I believe we may be dis
appointed in beer as a grain con-
Sumer, a revenue producer and a
rehever of unemployment.
But beer has its spiritual side,
and it would be shortSighted to neg
lect this important factor in the re-
turn Of an industry. This will be
particularly true if We get some ap-
Proclamation of the old-time saloon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
Bv John f. BavIess


By John E. BayIess
want to add my approval to the
declaration of the President that
he would favor an act to make The
postal savings accounts checkable,
thereby making it convenient for
all having money in the savings de-
partment Of the postoff1ce to take
care of their business in the most
convenient manner possible. AND
that is not all. The check book
could so be arranged that the one to
whom the check was offered would
be sure the money was there to
cover the amount for which the
check was given, thereby guarantee
ing against fraud.
Another angle is that the govern
ment could use this money instead
of borrowing from the big money
lenders at high rate of interest on
non-taXable bonds. This would give
special favor, as they are doing
nothing, you might say, toward
keeping up the government, but
making use of it as means for
private gain to the disadvantage of
the many, which has been one Of
the primary causes of hard times.
Another angle is profit. 1t is
from this profit that the great for
tunes are built, and because there
are many consumers and few profit
GERS the wealth is concentrated in
the hands of q few. Special priv
ilege has sought ard obtained leg
islation favorable to its interests.
It is by this principle that great
wealth has and is being used to ex-
plot labor.
The railroads always have had
special legislation and help, cashing
their bonds, eXorbitant appropria-
tons for carrying the mail, and ex-
cessive freight rates, all of which
comes out of labor.
Telegraph, telephone, lights, gas,
water, in fact everything that is
used by the public, are in the hands
of private ownership. 1t is time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-25
MASH THE WASHER
various forms

THE arrival of spring stirs into new activity
Il the lowest form of animal life-the
masher.
An unspeakable worm at his best, thriving
in the muck of street corners, he may become
a snake of positive menace lying in wait in a
parked car, bent on abduction, assault, or
worse.
Police can not exterminate the breed. Even
birth control could not go far along this line.
But at least downtown streets and corners
could be made fairly safe for women of the
city who daily shrink from the insult Of the
masher
A business girl writes to The Times today,
calling attention to the condition which she
and hundreds Of others employed in down
town stores and offices face as they go to and
from work and on shopping tours.
Many times during the week it is neces-
sary to pass the intersection at Illinois and
Washington streets, in business hours. This
also is a convenient path for shopping pur-
poses.
For some time we have had to take our
choice of going roundabout way or listening
to the inSinuating remarks OF a NUMBER OF
adult drug store cowboys
- Practically every day the same ones ap-
pear especially on the northeast corner, and
comment on every passing girl.
During cold weather, Of course, these in
cidents were fewer, but now that the days
are getting mider, We dread to think of hay
ing to undergo their inspection and hear wise
cracks flung at us several times a day.
1T may be great outdoor sport for them,
but we don't enjoy it. Is it necessary"
1t should not be necessary. The police can
help to stamp it out. Any good citizen can do
his part, by reporting any incident of the kind
he sees to the nearest policeman.
And the women can do their part. Let them
forget their natural aversion to scenes. Let
them report to the police every case of the
kind which they encounter And let them
appear in court, if necessary, to see that the
offender gets his just dues of stiff fine or a
little exercise at the state farm or few days
in jail to mediate as to whether MASKING
pays.
We have had rum squads and gambling
squads and several other kinds Of squads. A
MASKING squad might be good idea for Chief
Morrissey to consider.