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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
THE WHITE COLLAR MAN

IN twenty-eight cities more than $50, 600, 900
in back pay is owed to school teachers. In
Atlanta thirteen doctors post notices that they
must have cash for their services, declaring
thai for four years physicians have not col
lected enough to maintain their families" On
New York'S emergency work pay roll at SIS a
week were found thirty-fve doctors and den
fists, twenty-six engineers, ffty-eight musi-
clans n nineteen accountants. These brief
group of almost forgotten men and women in
the white collar class.
From the New Deal this class, by the very
nature of things, is drawing a low deuce. The
wage-earners have their minimum-wage and
short-week pledges in the codes and their
unions for enforcement. The employers have
their fair-practice codes and trade associa-
lions, the farmers have their AAA. A small,
but valiant group, the consumers advisory
board, battles alone for the white collar class.
The best the government can do is to try
to hold back the cost of living until buying
power catches UP.
I'm the whole picture of national recovery
the needs of the white collar group must be
considered to be fully as vital as the needs of
farmers and industrial workers." says Mrs. G.
C.. Rumsey, chairman of the consumers adj
visory board. They have been just as hard
because they are a heterogeneous group with
out leaders. To restore the purchasing power
of these people is necessary to recovery"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health MaRaZine,

cording to the Mendelian law. A
recent investigator on the subject in
the Radium Institute in Paris, work.
ing also with many hundreds of
mice, supports the conclusions of DR..
Slye to the effect that there is a
constitutional and probably heredi-
tary factor in the cause Of cancer
These investigators can not be
certain, however, whether cancer
is hereditary as a dominant or a re-
ceSsive trait. In fact, there Is even
some question as to whether various
types of cancer do not differ in the
tendency to be hereditary as domi-
nant or receSSive.
When the statistics of all of the
people having cancer are studied,
the conclusion seems to be that an
average of IA per cent of patients
with cancer have had cancer re-
corded in their families. This fact
is not, however, exceedingly impor-
tant in determining the question of
heredity, since the death rates in
general show that cancer accounts
for about one-seventh of the deaths
of people who died after a. years
Of age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

TT has been established fairly well
i by a considerable amount of re-
search that cancer tends to be in
herited. 1t also tends to breed out
of the race and, in human beings,
the question of heredity is not one
that can be very we'll controlled
by ordinary human marriages.
There are two ways in which the
question of the inheritance of can
Ger can be studied by scientific in
vestigators. One is to obtain the
records of all family trees of persons
dying from cancer. The other Is to
experiment with mice which breed
rapidly and have a short life span.
For the purpose of comparison,
the life of the mouse in days is
slightly beyond the life cycle of the
human being in years.
The most widely-known expert
mentS on mice that have cancer are
those by DR.. Maud Slye. Working
on many thousands of mice, Dr.. Slye
concluded that the susceptibility to
ANGER is hereditary and that it be-
HAYES as a simple "Mendelian recess
sive"-that is to say, that it breeds
out of the race rather than in.
Other investigators insist that it
Is a dominant characteristic, &C
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

This argument was used two years
ago. But this argument is contra
dicted by experience of other gas
companies who are now and have
been for many years selling gas at
the rates proposed in the petition,
because the record of the gas in
duStry discloses that the citizens of
any community enjoying low priced
gas tremendously increase THEN
purchase of gas and the losses that
might occur to the Citizens Gas
Company by reason of decrease in
the rates as at present would be
entirely offset by increases in sale
of gas due to low price that can not
now be secured by gas companies
selling high priced gas.
AS a matter of fact, the records
show that during the last two years
the Citizens Gas Company has lost
about 5000 customers due to high
prices and the depression.
If the public service commission
wants to keep a Democratic pledge
made to the people of this state, it
will give an early and serious con-
sideration to an opportunity which
would save the citizens of Indianap-
oils more than a million and a half
dollars in their annual gas bills.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
KEEP 1T ON

CENERAL ART J. SMITH of the Phila-
~ delphia Smiths is reported to have sent
forth a call to 1,OOO,O 900 Khaki Shirts to con-
verge on washington next mont and demand
that President Roosevelt proclaim himself die
tator. The fateful date of the Smith coup
d'etat is Oct. IL.
Unlike the Mussolini black shirts and the
Hitler brown shirts, the khaki shirts claim to
speak not for the upper nor middle classes,
but for the masses. They offer themselves,
they say, as storm troops to Mr.. Roosevelt
in his fight with big business to put over the
new deal.
Few will take General Smiths ambition
to march On Washington very seriously. About
the only interest the average American has in
Mr.. Smiths shirt is the hope that he keeps
it on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
OUR SCHOOL NEEDS

NHOST school officials in America today
AVA would be struck speeches. with delight
if they could only manage to get enough
money to keep their activities UP to the
average level of the last ten years. But two
Investigators of Teachers college, Columbia
university, who have spent a decade study
ing the nations educational plant, have just
issued a report showing that the level, at
tractive as it seems now, isn't high enough.
The physical plant Of our public school
system, according TO these investigators. is
pretty badly antiquated. Eighty per cent of
all rural schools and so per cent Of urban
elementary school buildings, their survey
says. are unsatisfactory and need to be re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
H SHIFTING SCENE

ONE of the exciting things about the cur
Orent activity at Washington is that if you
take your eyes of the screen for as much as
five minutes you find the picture changed al
most beyond recognition by the time you look
up again.
It is doubtful if any world capital ever has
displayed before the spectacle of so many men
working under such high pressure on jobs of
such tremendous importance.
When General Hugh S. Johnson last spring
remarked jovialy that he and his aids had
10 "re-orient a couple of thousand universes"
and had only a little time TO do it in. it
sounded ike a good joke. Today it begins to
sound like a rather conservative description
Of what actually Is being done.
Not until We get a breathing spell and are
able to sit down and add the figures up col
nmn by column will we be able to estimate
INST how far the tide has carried us in the
last six months.
Look. for example, at some Of the implica-
tions back Of the most recent trends Of the
recovery program.
Uncle Sam seems about to plunge head
nrst into the banking business with some
where between two and four billion dollars
In his fist. Just where. in the course Of a
wear or so, will that leave our old banking
system7 And Just where will it leave our old
philosophy that the government ought to stay
out Of buSinesS7
Then there is the new organization setup
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
Questions and
AnSW

Odd st. Gaudens, the sculptor,
ever live in the United States?
Ale lived at times in New
York. The last years of his life
were spent on his estate, Aspect"
at Cornish, New Hampshire, where
he died.
Q-What is the reference in
Lowell's lines: I'VE sinai's climb
and know it not?"
At refers to Moses vision of
the glory of God in Exodus "a.
Q-How much money does the
United States owe to foreign ma
tionS?
A-The United States has no
debt to foreign governments.
Q-Give the correct pronouncia-
ton of the word "eczema?"
A-Ek-zi-ma: accent on the first
syllable. The second syllable has
the II" sound as in habit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

driving boosters, we shall get some
where, very quickly. Perhaps to the
Junk heap.
Unless we do Our Part" on the
road as well as in Offices and homes,
we can hardly pose as benefcent
friends of suffering humanity. And
if my reasoning is not crooked, the
pushing, inconsiderate driver is not
likely to be an unselfsh gentleman
in business.
Nothing shows up your character
like driving an automobile. The vain
~conceited man always goes too fast
and never gives an inch to anybody.
and the stupid woman who disre-
CARDS rules and signals, will. you
may be sure. not abide faithfully
by any code regulations. Let's have
some of this NRA generosity on the
highway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

content at one-third the price now
being paid for artificial gas OF the
Citizens Gas Company.
Two years ago when attempt was
made to bring natural gas into In
dianapolis, the hue and cry was
made that natural gas would ruin
the Citizens Gas Company and that
it was up to the city to protect the
integrity of the Citizens Gas Com
pany and to stop anything which
would prevent the city taking over
the property of the Citizens Gas
Company under a sacred contract
made some twenty-five years ago by
which the city of Indianapolis was
to take over the property of the
Citizens Gas Company at the face
value of the stock, which is $25 per
share, 10000 shares, or a total of
S $1,000, 900. Of course this contract
has been made, but it's a bad con-
tract for the city, for stock of the
Citizens Gas Company now is selling
on the market at around $12 or
about half the face value, and under
an act of the last legislature, the
city has the authority to take over
the stock of the gas company or any
other utility at the market value of
stock.
But it seems to a taxpayer that
while the sacredness of the contract
and the integrity of the gas COM
pany is to be considered, the city
fathers and the newspapers might
feel a little conjunction for the
integrity of the manufacturers of
Indianapolis and the domestic con-
Sumers of gas, who eventually pay
the gas bills.
The hue and cry is raised imme-
diately that a great cut in the in
come of the Citizens Gas Company
would mean ruin for the company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

MIRA. WE DO OUR PART"
IN Stickers carrying this promise
now adorn what seem to be several
million automobiles. The Blue
Eagle wrinkles encouragement at
YOU from an interminable line Ct
machines-most of which are block
ing traffic or hogging the right Of
way or dashing at you from around
corners.
I don't want to become a carping
fault-fnder, but I do wish we could
depend upon the veracity Of these
drivers who have bloSSomed into
patriots under the New Deal. And
that, alas, is probably expecting 100
much.
The automobile driver has become
almost as much of a menace as the
depression. Those of us who man
aged to scrape through the latter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
It Seems
to Me
HAYWOOD BROUN=

NEW YORK. Sept, Bring
~ Lardner is dead, and 10 the
question arises. will he ..iyer
Not, of course, that the question
never was raised before his death.
Lardner was discovered ten or 1f-
teen years ago. And he had the
good fortune to discover himself
long before the critics came in
%caravelS.
I rather think the explorers failed
to touch the mainland. in many Of
the most rapturous comments on
his work there was a touch OF con-
descension.
Some of those who leaned down
from the high stools of appraisal
certainly conveyed the impression
that the curious genius of the man
had in it a touch of the miraculous
and accidental. Several years were
required before the literary lads
could leap the fact that here was
a significant commentator who X
pressed the life of America in the
language and from the point of
view of a baseball reporter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
Touch of UniverSality

A ND, speaking of Dresser, 1 think
"A there is one discovery Ring
Lardner never made. He knew he
was an artist and a stylist, although
he would have been burned at the
stake before saying so, but I doubt
that he ever realized that he was
in some essential way a proletarian
artist. I mean he dealt with subtle
ties of emotion in such a way that
even the vast army of simple mind
ed magazine readers took him to
their heart as n of their own.
I have talked of Ring entirely in
terms of his work. I saw him often
over a long period of years. I did
not know him. There must have
been few who did, and he was not
among them. 1 do not think he
ever spoke fully and completely I'M
til he touched the keys.
Copyright. 1898. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
THE TINES

placed by modern buildings. Thousands OF
children are studying in buildings which DO
not meet minimum requirements Of lighting,
ventilation, sanitation or safety.
This replacement job, Of course, will nave
to wait. About the most we can hope for now
is that our schools manage to keep open some
how. But eventually it looks as If we would
have to embark on a huge building program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
WHEN ARE HANDS OFF?

TIVE President, it is announced at the White
House, will keep his hands off" the New
York City political fight.
Unfortunately, one of his hands" his po-
litical right hand, in fact, already has got into
the fight. To make his purpose good, the
President will have to call Mr.. Farley off. He
will have to repudiate statements accredited
to his postmaster generator persuade the
latter to do so himself.
The roStmaster-general appears prepared
to cut the political throat of the Presidents
good friend, Major La Guardia. Unless stopped,
this performance is certain to throw a chill
into Progressives throughout the country who
have been giving loyal support to the Pres
ident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
By HELEN

BY HELEN WELSHIMER
All summer long
1 have wished 1 knew
Why I keep on
Remembering you.
Why candlelight
And a ragged star
And a tall green path
That runs too far.
Or a yellow lamp
On a rain-blown street
And vendors blooms
That are oversweet.
Can make me start
In expectancy
Do you have trouble
Forgetting me?
Copyright NEA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
SZOW ~SmOMZderinq He0t

COMEWHAT after the manner of
y Twain, Lardner had such a
fierce impatience with so many
things and men and theories that
he had to sneak up on them through
the waving grass of the light and
laughing touch. But certainly he
was panied and would be now to
have anybody think that THE
Champion" was a funny story. Some
critics have hailed this particular
story as his masterpiece. I can not
agree at all. To me it marks one of
his failures. The sawed-of shotgun
shows too yisibly above the rushes.
Although Lardner's output was
comparatively small, it would be
foolish to assert that every word he
wrote was precious. There is a de-
cided variation in the quality of his
stories and essays, and yet I doubt
that he often did a careless piece. In
spite of newspaper training he was
not n Of your slapdash writer's. 1
think that composition was agony to
him, and he and Flaubert could well
discuss the torture of the long
search for. the one essential word.
AS to his methods, this is largely
surmise. AS far as I know, never in
his life did Ring Lardner begin any
serious discussion with the words,
We'll, this is the way I write" Still,
it is easy to build up a circumstan-
tial case in support of the theory
that he had a passion for the thing
called style. His few criticisms of
other authors we're chiefly directed
against the people who seemed to
him sloppy writer's. He couldn't en-
dure the work of Theodore Dresser.
There, again, remains meat for de-
batting societies in the years to
come. The Dresser canvas is I'M
deniably much larger. But the
Lardnerian brush stroke is incom-
parably nor skilIful. Let p~osterity
fight it out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
A Woman's Viewpoint :
BIZ MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

without starving to death, may ex-
pect to be run down under the
wheels Of the former. The public
needs no more information on this
subject, only an occasional jogging
in the ribs. However, it wouldn't be
a bad idea for all of us to step
around to the school house and find
out for ourselves how many Of these
NRA enthusiasts are doing their
level best to bend their tenders on
a baby.
IF some of the kids escape it will
l. not be the fault of certain truck
driving patriots or other dashing
men and women who are agreed, it
seems, on the speed rate as well as
the recovery act.
Indeed, if the NRA goes anywhere
nearly as fast as its automobile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

BY a Widow in Want.
I don't think a thing can be
done to GUST these married wom-
en- out of jobs that they are hold
ing, while the jobleSS men, widows
and single girls have dependencies
who suffer. I don't blame these
selfish married women as much
as + blame the employer. 1t seems
that these firms, when they need
more help, always give married
women preference and still claim
to be 100 per cent NRA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
The Baseball Reporter

TT is audaciouS to predict what
l. posterity will say, and it is n
tirely possible that posterity may
make a fool of itself. In fact, 1
warn poSterity in advance, which is
the usual custom, that it will err
gravely if it fails to realize that the
best short stories of Ring Lardner
are those which concern the game
itself.
When other people try to read
meanings underneath and in be-
tween the sentences of any mans
work I generally set them down as
of1ciouS guides who merely annoy
the bus riders with their megaphone
monologues. Yet I can not resist
the temptation of pointing out that
Ring Lardner was saying in effect
that what is true of a ShortStop or
a rookie outfelder may be true Of
a very considerable section of the
human race.
He interpreted life Shrewdly by
dealing with it in terms of the in
dividuals he knew best. In addi-
ton to ball players Ring Lardner
liked song writer's. Or perhaps he
didn't like them. At any rate, they
fascinated him.
Every estimate of the man which
has been written in the brief space
since his death has identified him
as a "humorist." That would be
we'll enough if the world were not
so generally misunderstood. He was
a humorist, but that doesn't mean
he was a funny man." If there
is proper judgment over Jordan his
mansion will be on the street with
Mark Twain and decidedly not
across the court from Bill Nye or
Petroleum v. Nasty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

crimes redGers are fnttte0 70 cypress
their Gietos in these columns. Make VOWr
letters short, so all can hare O chance.
Limit them to ESQ 41ords or less.J
By ]. Pierce Cummings.
For the sake of saving part OF a
measly 2 cents on the Marion coun-
ty tax rate, certain members of the
tax adjustment board would reduce
the levy for old age pensions.
Such an attitude is entirely out of
line with modern concepts of Chris
tianity or even the most simple
justice. Because the needy old peo-
pie have no paid spokesman in their
behalf is no reason why they
should be handed a stone instead
of the bread promised in the pension
law enacted by the last legislature.
After all, is human need to rule,
or is the rule even in this era to
be one of greed without any regard
to the dictates of humanity?
What will it profit the county to
reduce the old age pension fund?
For every dollar taken from that
fund, one will have to be added to
poor relief costs, or to the cost of
maintaining poorhouSe inmates.
There is a growing conviction that
those who reach an age where they
no longer can earn a living are en-
titled to something better than a
poor relief basket or a place in the
Marion county poorhouse, which,
despite its location in the most pop
ulous county of the state, is rated
as second class in the forty-third
annual report of the board of state
charities.
By Taxpayer.
1t seems to me that the public
service commission of Indiana, aside
from any other standpoint, has an
opportunity to carry out one of the
platform pledges given the people
during the last campaign and cleo
ton in granting a petition now be-
fore them for the use of natural gas
in indianapolis, and that pledge was
to give the people of the city and
the state lower utility rates.
According to the petition filed
with the public service commission
and signed by the president and
vice-president of the Indiana Gas
Service Corporation, this company
is offering the gas consumers of In
dianapolis gas at twice the heating
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

that won't bar us from giving Henry Ford the
bird.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

Burial lots in Madrid are being sold on the
installment plan. Wouldn't it be great fun to
die ahead of time just for a last laugh on the
collector?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

There's no banana and no oil in banana
oil, say scientists. Just a dash of pyroxoline,
some amyl acetate, some acetone and-well,
let's just keep on calling it banana oil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29

Prince M'Divani hints that Sam Insults a
love thief. But a million investors sing "he
got ours"
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Daily Thought

Daily Thought
Open thy mouth, judge righteous
", and plead the cause Of the poor
and needy. Proverbs, 3l:9.
OUTWARD Judgment often falls.
~ inward justice never-Theo-
dore Parker.
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(Times readers are invited to cypress
their rtetos in these columns. Make -FOUR
letters short, so all can hare o chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or less.J