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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28

fTimcs readers are inrifed 10 cIprcss
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letters short. 80 oil caH hare chance.
/ Limit them to ESQ cords or less
BY Public school Music Supervisor
am writing in regard to the ar
ticle which appeared in a recent
issue Of The Times concerning the
present status of the professional
musician.
First. should like to qualify my
I position I am in sympathy with
I the professional musician; I respect
I him and his profession, I have been
a member of the American Fedora
! ton Of Musicians and at the pres
ent I am in service Of the state IS
supervisor Of public school music.
In the past the professional musi-
clan has taken a twisted attitude
toward amateur musical organiza-
tons and public school music. They
laughed, they scorned. they ridi-
culed, and they made public music
teaching most difficult Profess
sional musicians were so sure. SO
certain Of themselves
Indeed. they may be compared
with the railroads. They took the
attitude that was fatal we have
the field and no one can take it
from us. was their attitude.
The economic order has changed
the situation. No longer can the
professional musicians sell their
wares. Instead of debating. they
are dictated to. Music no longer is
given to the public in small guam
titles. but on a wholesale scale,
Science and invention have supple
mented the good music of
! the old days" with a method that
meets the public's demands.
In the public schools We are not
attempting 70 create music lovers.
When music education has attained
its goal. then the professional
musician will come back to his own.
But even then it will mean that
he will have TO play better pro-
gram much more skillfully than he
has done in the past. The stand
ards are climbing higher and higher
The wonderful thing about an
amateur organization is that the
members are not playing for money.
They play for the love of playing.
Music is one of the greatest social
izing subjects on the public school
curriculum
Within nv exnerience have
found many amateur music organ
izations rendering finer service than
can be had by a professional group.
This certainly is not always the
case, for there exists some fine pro-
fessiOnal organizations. This may
be true in the indictments made
against municipal bands and the
Indiana university band
suspect that within the organ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
NO MORE TOOTHACHES

DR. FRANK NJ. CASTRO p.esident-elect of
~ the American Dental Association, predicts
that the toothache will be practically unknown
in another hundred years
The science Of preventive dentistry is ad-
vancing so fast and people are getting so we'll
educated TO its advantages, that few teeth
ever will reach the stage in which they give
pain.
All this is a very glittering and attractive
sort Of picture, surely; and it leads one to
speculate idly on the attitude our grandchn-
dren will have when they look back at the
conditions under which we are living today
We ourselves look back at Elizabethan
times and wonder how on earth people ever
endured the manifold G.5comforts and physical
inconvenience Of that era; and, by the same
token, We thank our stars that We live in
more enlightened age.
May not our grandchildren. reading Of the
torments we suffered from aching teeth. Won
der how We ever put UP with such things?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
Creation
BY HARRIET SCOTT oLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
Beauty is capricious grand dame,
To one she gives a wealth Of hair,
Spun BY silversmiths. and fine az
gold.
But a soulless body, and eyes
with vapid stare
To another she gives lovely eyes.
Made from velvet or clear aqua
marine;
But to this she adds colorless hair,
And body both awkward and
lean.
To another she grants a slim body,
OF transparent whiteness and
smooth as rose;
But she adds for her own strange
enjoyment
A face spoiled By long crooked
nose.
To another she gives genius and
beautiful soul.
But body both misshapen and
bent
DO you suppose beauty herself e
tired Of beauty.
Or is merely malevolent?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
Booth Got q Break

NOBODY ever held II against
~ Booth. MS FAR rs I can ascertain.
that he played Hamlet very many
times And when a preacher piucks
a sermon out from the barrel no-
body gets mad Perhaps a few stay
away But. after all they do that
10 cOlumuistS all the time
Only yesterday I Was talking OF
the Ave day week There is no
effective movement a. the moment
70 make il apply TO those Who do n
daily column stint There should
be such a demand II ought TO
come from the consumers.
Obviously the n-ol-the-mll
columniSt Is not oyerWorked. he
merely becomes more mil-likc with
The years l have a notion that
would b. quite a little better If
could only skip Friday This isn't
a superstition 7 am just making
the point where the sag is likely
to set in.
Most Mondays are brilliant
mean comparatively speaking Here
Is the beginning OF a new week and
the wage slave SAYS, Now l am
going TO turn over a leaf and
actually settle down to-Serlous con-
temptation
But what can anybody do on a
Friday? II marks he death OF
aspiration -Four days Of disap-
pointment all around already have
gone into the record The best the
toiler can do is 20 resolve that
during the next week ne honestly
means it.
Saturday isn't so bad Saturday
is the traditional time for getting
-ired In addition Saturdays issue
IS the one which doesn't get read
so much and SO many of us use
that particular time TO let our HAIR
down. II seems TO me that most Of
what I call my best has been pub
lished on this day
The impulse has been. This is
what l really want to say and thank
heaven all my bosses are away for
the Weekend and nobody will notice
it, Even the copy desk seems 10
proceed upon The theory After all.
this is Saturday What does it
matter?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28

izations this unemployed musi-
clan indIcts are several musicians
who can perform better than he.
The statements can not be objec-
lively verified by any one. How
ever, I should like to see the secre-
tary of local No. 8 attempt it.
Ii would be most difficult to prove
that these amateur bands produced
poorer music than a professional
band. With the same number in
each organization, the difference in
the cost greatly would overbalance
the music produced
Allow me to generalize and arrive
at conclusion, lest I take an I'M
fair share Of the column. Now. when
the public is educated unsteady
there will be a demand for the
professional musician. His music
must be of a higher quality than
ever before. His status in the eco
nomic order will be respected and
his compensation for his music will
be ample
The music profession will be lin
tied to the artist" type that pro-
duces the very best Canned music
never will leave, but it will be re-
duced greatly.
The solution now depends on edu-
cation. The public is critical 1t
can not be fooled with mediocre
music. When YOU, the professional
musicians, meet the standards, you
will find a need for your services.
In all, you can not produce what
the public is demanding.
By Reader and Former Inmate.
In your paper some time ago I
noticed tbs statement of Mr.. Lemon
in regard to the penal farm I wish
TO make the statement that there
should be penal Institutions and
that Mr. Lemon told the actual
truth about the penal farm, only
he die not tell half enough. I per-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28

sonally got at good break there, but
lots Of the unfortunateS did not
know where some OF the inmates
who worked in the shirt factory did
not get their task out and that Cap
tain Armett would take them and
beat slap and kick the men awful.
I have heard him call the men vile
names more than once and have
seen him slap men for talking in
line.
I know of one case where a Tip
ton man who worked in the car
penter shop was outside Of the shop
and happened 10 look over the edge
Of the stone quarry and he saw one
Of the guards beating a man with
club. The guard happened to
look up and see him and said, call
ing him a vile name. Maybe YOU
want some Of this toe" The Tip
ton man never said a word. and a
few DAYS later this guard found out
who he was and that night he came
to the line where he was and cursed
MIN and threatened to smack him
in the mouth.
In regard to the Sawmill guard
of whom Mr. Lemon speaks. that
is true l never heard a man who
could beat this guard swearing. I
want to say that some Of the guards
should be inmates there or some
place else.
I know of one case where a man
said he rather would spend his
time in Michigan City than there
and stool pigeon told on him and
they put this man in chains.
AS to the grub. I have seen cock
reaches in the cornbrcad. I could
say A whole lot more. but won't al
this time
Now don't get me wrong. For
myself, I had 4 good break. but felt
sorry for the other unfortunates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
A Woman'S Viewpoint

There is a way TO solve this prob
lem. a difficult. but effective. way
Take the dollar out Of the Law
Work over the entire system from
the ground up. Reform the lawyer,
TOO Substitute justice for techni-
calities Repeal several million fool
laws.
Introduce some simple. under
standahle mandates that are based
on right and wrong Educate the
rich man TO set an example Of moral
uprghtness 70 the humble. Let our
leaders in all fields free themselves
from the faint Of materialism, from
greed for too much gold.
When We have done these things.
whipping posts will be for us wha:
they actually are-relcs OF bar
bariSm-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

moral depths We have fallen and
proves how incapable we still are
Of dealing intelligently with the
crime problem.
THE whipping post never has
n worked in any age as a crime
deterrent. 1t never will do so. II is
a veritable breeding place for law
lessness. the tool Of tyrantS. All the
progress We have made IN the study
Of the human mind-and that IS
much-proves that corporal punish
ment. physical torture. use OF brute
power. are methods Of creating and
not Of reforming criminals.
And how We evade the issue when
We speak Of these. Their mention
is ruse by which We fool ourselves,
a drug 10 soothe our conscience.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
The old Slccct Strains

IN other arts there is no barrier
L against returning 10 familiar
pastures Musicians hit keys which
they have known before and re-
create old rapture among idolators.
Certain painters of undoubted fame
have toyed with the same theme
many times.
And surely no one would COM
plain if Rudyard KiplIng were TO
return TO his earlier manner But
we pity us. must strike out each
day or week upon some trail where
white men have not set foot before.
It seems TO me that Journalism
suffers from lack of repetitious-
ness. No man can eSpouse more
than limited number Of good
causes. and these are never won.
Surely no man should be condemned
If he made it practice to plead
for free speech on alternate Thurs
days through the year even if he
had TO polish up few -thumbed
points IN order TO make his case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28

VERY now and then the spare
Il Observation-Disclosures child"
theory Of punishment stages a puny
comeback. For instance. Oklaho-
mas Governor and New York's po-
lice commissioner have come out as
advocates OF the whipping post.
The hardened young criminal"
SAYS the commissioner. is convinced
that the law Of the land IS the dol
lar"
Quite so. And how correct he is.
With unerring Judgment, the COM
missioner has put his finger upon
the vital soft spot. the stain upon
our body polite. which no lash.
however vigorously applied 70 the
back OF a boy. can wipe out.
Somehow it's incredible that we
should be talking Of whipping posts
today. L illustrates into what
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association Of Hvgeia. the
Health Magazine.

Hence, the doctor is likely first,
to obtain from the mother an exact
record Of the child's illness. and
principally the reason why she
thinks the child is i'll.
While it is possible to tell from
the face Of an adult much that is
of importance in relationship 70 his
health. it is simpler to do this in the
case OF a child. because the faces of
children are not marked by the lines
and burrows which characterize
those Of grownups.
A child looks well. probably feels
fairly well. but it is not safe to trust
absolutely TO the appearance Of the
child on this point.
The child vino is listless. drowSy,
flushed, and breathing with diff
Guilty, is obviously i'll. That one who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
So They Say

The whole secret of life is to be
interested in one thing profoundly
and in a thousand things we'll
Hugh Walpole. novelist
An annual income of 100000 is a
sure symptom OF social disease
The Rev. c. w. Tinsley, Cresson,
Pa.
I know that prohibition Will be
repealed this year. for not in fiji
teen years has the mint grown so
tall-Former United States Senator
Blair Lee of Maryland.
It is hard to visit Europe and re-
main a Mayor James NJ.
Curley Of Boston.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
Things Worth Repeating

II TAKE great interest in books
Il by men who went TO war.
Each new indictment fills me with
the hope that perhaps some breach
has been made in the citadel Of
preparedness And yet I 90 not
find that every new author has
mine Of information never before
revealed by any commentator
The world in general holds that
relOrmers are somewhat boresome
because they hammer on some
favorite theme. But it must be
jamitted that the children Of dark
hess are tenacious and courageous
army
People with memories and clip
pings ought TO remember that they
are in vast minority The world
as a rule forgets. If I myself can
not remember that 7 said the same
thing once before why should read
ers turn into aiephants2
fCopvrignt 1893. by The Timea
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
Husbands First

BY J. T. Frazee.
L BELIEVE the NRA TO be
l. great thing, but it should see
that the married man with chill
dren is given first consideration
for a JOB. I know several young
boys who finished high school last
year who have been given work at
the Big -Four shops in Beech
Grove, while men with children,
who have been working for
baskets of food from the county.
stood outside the gates, begging
for a chance to support their
wives and children. These young
boys, sons of foremen and wealthy
men, have taken the jobs.
What's to keep us from eating
charity, if we are not the boss
son or a special friend of a boss?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28

That worlds fair midget who fired pistol
to attract the attention OF a dancer with whom
he was in love probably was just trying to
make her think that ne was Big Shot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28

We haven't read that new laundry code yet.
but we trust there's something it in that will
prohibit divorce htigants from washing their
dirty linen in public
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28
Daily Thought

You can't play golf without con-
centration: you can't do anything
without it.-John D. Rockefeller ST.
The Lord aWardeth me according
to my Righteousness. according to
the cleanness Of my hands hath ne
recompensed me. II Samuel 22.2l.
WHAT has this unfeeling age OF
Wv ours left untried, what wicked
ness has it shunned?-Horace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-28

The loan shark is very dilgent mamie
takes so much interest in his work.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
ONE NINE THREE FOUR

It's 1884 Opening the door To wish one and all Greetings tall! The end of depression Is open confession Of days bright and happy, Shall we say snappy? Ring in the new! But not just a few Should get all the breaks, Down with all fakes! Ring out the old Bad times untold! The year is dying But no use in crying Even though it's cold Sunny days, we're told And a brighter journey, Yowsar, Maestro Bernie! It's 1884 Opening the door, So Happy New Year, folks, Sober ones, not soaks.
 Elm. Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt
 Spends Busy Year
First Lady of the Land Followed "Jobs Never Before
 Undertaken By Presidents Wife

beer would not be banned at the White House; was hostess to two prime minister of Great Britain, whom she took to attend a con- gressional committee hearing on the 30-hour week bill--something a First Lady never did before; sponsored campaign against sweatshops.
 MAY: Took two weeks motor vacation; talked with farm women on their problems.
 JUNE: Started, with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the camp for unemployed women at Bear Mountain, N. r.: flew to Los Angeles, Cal. to see her son Elliott, stopping in Arizona, where she talked with copper miners; drove to Maine.
 JULY: Assailed discriminations against married women workers; drove to Quebec and around the Gaspe Peninsula in her own car, returning to Campobello to open the house for the presidents visit "a 4,000-mile motor trip.
 AUGUST: Attended the noun tain music festival at Abingdon, Va, where her father once lived; made surprise trip to the West Virginia coal mining region which became the site of the govern ment's first experimental farm-f fac tory village; visited the unemploy- ed women's camps; persuaded Gen eral Hugh s. Johnson to require in codes that women be given equal pay for. equal work.
 SEPTEMBER: Presided over the meeting of the women's committee at the national conference on mobilization, for human needs: ya- cationed at Hyde Park, where she nailed the Blue Eagle. on her furni- ture factory.
 OCTOBER: Spoke at the child health recovery conference; urged a ban on war; sewed the Blue Eagle on the first MIRA coat, which she wears; visited the Chicago fair and presided over the women's cru sade meeting there.
 NOVEMBER: Opened the formal winter social season; saw her friend, Miss Mary M. Dewson, be- come director of the women's divi- sion of the democratic national committed: started the custom of giving White House teas for wo- men working for Uncle Sam: yis- tied the West Virginia project to complete housing plans; presided over the meeting to evolve work projects. for women; joined her husband in Warm Springs and rode horseback. swan, and walked.
 DECEMBER: Initiated pro- gram to give 2.500 artists and sculpto. civil works employment; held joint MIRA and AAA con- suIners meeting at the White House; helped Santa Claus i'll the White House stockings, and dress ed 2 Christmas tree for poor New York children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30

But Callie got drunk with 1t. Her senses were pleasantly dulled and turned only at night when she was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30

across the .Christmas sky as Cal He's defiance to faith and futurt the splendid unboaten soul ol Callie Thornton fiinging Q final challenge to death.
 It was the last ad that Cnllit wrote for that shop. The next day furious at the furor it caused and the praise that deluged Callie. Jans Baxter lived up 10 her reputation of selhshness she summoned Callie to listen to a weak lot oi reasons why her services were no longer necessary, but she talked to a new Cailie, Callie that glowed and smiled a Callie with life and personality.
 Callie Thornton listened to Jane Baxter, but said nothing. appar- ently cared too little to resent or answer biting criticism with de- served sarcastic retort. The world was turned right side-up for Callie at last nothing could hurt her any more, the loss of a job was as nothing with the news of that tele- gram racing gloriously before her love-lit eyes. For it had read:
 Released t0-morrOw, cured, I'll be seeing you, love-" And 1t was signed, Anthony Thornton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30

alone and idle, for Callie was des- perately in love with man who
 was miles away from her, fighting,
 so they had tried to convince her. a losing battle, while Callie lived and worried and worked alone. As we learned to know her bet ter, we watched the terror that
 showed in her eyes, watched the
 daily inch or so of her suffering
 heart wither and die, watched
 helplessly as she daily hugged dis
 appointments to herself as she read
 the few letters that were sent so
 hopelessly by that lonely invalid
 thousands of mIIes South.
 None of us dared to scale the
 high barrier that Callie erected be- tween all, to ask or .pry. All we did was to walk in each morning looking for any scrap of news We mights read in her tell-tale eyes, and then all we could do was to
 offer sympathy that always fell flat.
 Since nothing goes on forever,
 even pain and mental anguish are
 dulled, it wasn't long till Callle
 climbed to the top, when even her splendid courage wavered and
 started to break.
 The holidays were exacting the utmost from us all. we planned sheets and sheets of layouts, we sketched and wrote and raved
 about Christmas gifts, till the very words curdled every bit of cheer
 and goodwill we ever possessed.
 We worked nights, days and Sum- days, so swiftly during the day that lunch was, grabbed from dreary tin trays brought in to us
 worked till we were so exhausted from the shop cafeteria. We that we snapped savage1y at all within screeching distance. Cuts were found, lost, found again; proofs were corrected and returned with the same glaring
 mistakes. Ads were ordered for days ahead and when that day arr | rived, were killed for a mere whim. | The advertising office became bed- {, lam.
 Female py-Writers
 SwOre Like Mules
 Female copy-writers swore as feelingly and as torridly as males. Screaming, ringing telephones
 made a madhouse of the cramped quarters where we alternately | roasted or froze with overloaded radiators and wide-fiung open win dows. Each person in that office | became snarling, overworked beast, but Callie Thornton plodded through the days as impassively
 and as automatically as any image with only her copy to prove that she still breathed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30
THE CWA CLASSES
 IN THE SCHOOLS
Supt Condon Willing to Hear Suggestions
 About Courses

Thomas J. Condon, superinten- dent of schools, yesterday forward ed to Hartford his proposed pro- gram of new classes and the appli- cations of 70 normal school and college graduates for the special CWA positions created in this city by the formation ofthe courses.
 The superintendent is hopeful that he will be able to begin the new courses next week. The start depends on the promptness of of ficials at Hartford in approving tho local program and applicants. Should tho report be received this afternoon the classes will be begun
 next Tuesday or Wednesday,. From the list of applicants approved at | Hartford. the superintendent will
 choose the 25 he believes best fit ted for the posts in this city. Superintendent Condon is still
 anxious to hear from parents or | relatives of crippled or otherwise
 physically handicapped children
 who are not receiving any cduca- tional instruction. Such children will be given special tutoring in their homes by members of the
 newly appointed staff The courses submitted to Hart ford for approval were as follows: l 1. General economies. 2, Civil government. 3. Classes for foreign women. 4. Education of crippled and handicapped children. 5. Sewing.
 6. Cooking and home econon1- l ics.
 z. Swimming.
 8. Physical education. g. Advanced French.