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Evening star., 1933-05-14

he friendly. He lived within himself,
Ike IN old man tottering On the brink OF
the grave, and it was whispered among
the sailormen that he would come to q
bad end. II you aren't happy when
you're young, they would say, you'll be
dead before the sun can wrap . cloak
Of 10Y around you.
TO our great surprise Cramer brought
q kitten on board at Hamburg. He
didn't say where he had found It, but
It must have been in an alley. for It was
q Door little thing, starved and weak.
He bought milk from the vendor who
piled his trade from boat In the JoIen
Haven, and fed the kitten from q spoon.
He wrapped it up in blanket and laid
It near the heater, for the eoadness OF
Winter swept over the vessel.
After a week or more the vessel sailed.
Dirty weather set in as soon as the
chops Of the channel were cleared. The
decks were continually awash, and the
spray flung down on biting wind with
the lash Of a whip. All hands stood by
beneath the forecastle-head 10 be IN
readiness to cope with any emergency
that might arise. Cramer sat on the
fore-peak hatch with his kitten upon his
knees.
One morning when went to the wheel
at 10 O'Clock the gale was at It's height,
shrieking In the wild tumult Of hurri-
cane squalls, and the vessel lay hove to,
wallowing In the trough Of peecipftous
seas, Only with difhculty could I steer.
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Bitter FulfHment
By Helene Mullins

Beware of vxgge Sometimes ssAss Ne struggle long,
The exhosstsd spirit regards .s;tk anger the prize
Ixot caused s.e, The sg yos desire must be nvo
If yox otter tie sight spt from yo*r e,es
Nxd the sess ssvoAex high hands toroyc usth teor
Nothing costing mch blood nothing robbtng the heart Of Is
Con be last;sgy oued; ond he ssko e po;sfaHy dear
Had best be forgotten before hes knfe IN your side.
Evening star., 1933-05-14


hero's-burial. The second mate sewed
him up in canvas, carried him to hatch
propped up against the bulwark rail and
laid him under the red ensign with all
the reverence due q king! The sailor
men gathered silently around. Speak
sat ON the bier, q bandage around his
head, watching, With his one eye, the
tiny mound under the nag. In q sha1V
voice I read the burial service, and when
I concluded: q. he Is able to subdue
all things unto himseH," the boatswain
tipped Up the hatch and scoe*ae Glld
from under the red ensign into the "a.
Speak followed me to my eabin, md
all that day We sat looking at each other.
Something had been torn from eaeh Of
Us, We knew not what. It was as II the
sun had lett the Ky and night had sst-
tied eternally upon the sea. Not until
darkness had actually shut down and
lay on my bunk did I zee light ! sean
had Speak. I fell asleep with hfm On
the pillow beside my head.
Our comradeship deepened. He Sol-
lowed me about like dog, much TO the
amusement of the natives In The conn
tries the vessel visited. They never at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
CHICAGO'S UNPAID TEACHERS

ITO he'll" says General Charles, G., Dawes.
- with trouble makers" This sentiment,
which occasionally rolls the mind of humber
citizens. found utterance in typically Dawesian
fashion when few thousand unpaid Chicago
school teachers marched into Chicago's fnan-
cial district and asked General Dawes to ex-
plain why they couldn't collect any of the
$29,000,000 the city owes them in back salaries.
The booing which descended on the head
of the former Vice President probably was
more than little unfair. After all, General
Dawes wasn't mayor of Chicago when Cfi--
cago phenagled itself out of tax revenues. The
mess isn't of his making.
But one of the penalties you have to pay
for being prominent banker-which ordi-
narily is a very cushy jobs that when things
go very wrong people are apt to start blaming
them on you; and somehow General Dawes
denuncation of trouble makers doesn't seem
like the best Of all possible comebacks.
For one of the perverse things about hui
man nature is this: When lot of intelli-
gent and devoted people work hard on their
jobs and find that the incompetence and
chcanery of their rulers have deprived them of
their income they are very apt to become
trouble makers.
That is, they are apt to become abusive
and indignant, and impolite to prominent
bankers and unmindful of the peace and
quiet that ought to reign in big city's f1nan-
cial district; and consigning them to the
neither regions with snappy abruptness doesn't
seem quite as good gag as it might have a
few years ago, even if it does help you to live
up to your reputation for being blunt and
outspoken.
The real trouble makers in Chicago, Of
course, aren't the unpaid school teachers: they
are the politicians and financiers who got
Chicago into such mess that the school
teachers can't get paid.
A few of these gentlemen already have top
pied off their pedestals Others however, re-
main securely placed. Chicago needs very
much to have them all tossed out, and the
indignation of her school teachers could be a
very useful aid in that direction if some one
would direct it properly.
And the next time General Dawes gets
tired of trouble makers some one ought to
point that fact out to him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29

corner stone Of confidence must be complete
trust in the soundness of ones bank account
The American people have had their fin
gers pretty badly burned in the last year or So
and if a good bit Of their trust has evaporated
it is hardly surprising
This new measure should restore that trust.
Once let every depositor know that his money
is safe, and We ought to get restoration Of
confidence which would aid trade revival.
guarantee Of deposits, however, must be
accompanied by more stringent supervision
and regulation than in the past The gov
eminent can not substitute bad banking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
AN IMPORTANT BILL

THE bill providing that candidate can not
run for the nomination of more than one
political party has passed both houses of the
Pennsylvania legislature and is up to Cover
nor Pinchot for signature.
1t is one of the most important election re-
form measures passed in recent years It will
eliminate for all times the practice of candi-
dates doubling up" and thereby depriving
voters Of a chance for clear-cut expression
of public issues.
In the last congressional election, for ex-
ample, Congressman Clyde Kelly of Pennsyl-
vania won the nomination on the Republican.
Democratic and Prohibition tickets.
AS a Republican he was pledged to resub-
mission of the eighteenth amendment, as
Democrat to outright repeal and as a Pro-
hibitioniSt to retention and rigid enforcement
Obviously, such a contradictory platform
deprived voters in Mr.. Kelly's district of real
chance to express their views on prohibition.
The bill now before Governor Pinchot will
eliminate this practice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
A BENEVOLENT REBEL

NTHEN DR.. Felix Adler, New York philan-
W thropist who died Tuesday, was young,
his father was Rabbi of Temple Emmanuel.
When the son was asked to preach there, with
the prospect of later succeeding his father, he
did not mention God. and therefore became
professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at
Cornell.
After two years at Cornell, he was asked to
resign because his views were regarded as
free thinking, agnostic, rationalistic and in
fdel. He came back to New York, and in
Times Square hall at "a. founded the Ethical
Culture Society, which has in the intervening
ffty-seven years spread to many American
cities and to foreign countries.
But if DR.. Felix Adler had not been known
at all as founder of a social-religious faith, he
would have left behind him achievements and
contributions to human welfare and happiness
rich enough to adorn any life
Professor Of social and political ethics at
Columbia, lecturer at oxford and Berlin his
work resulted in the founding of two of New
York citys most remarkable schools, the Eth
cal Culture School for children, where manual
training first was taught in that city. and
Fieldston School. the admirable high school at
Riverdale.
The Ethical Culture School. founded long
ago as pioneer in the theory of freedom
In the education of children. yet ma9s this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
ON THROWING BACK FISH

A FISH does not know the law FIRE.
quently an illegal fish, as to size or
kind, gets on the anglers hook.
The fisherman, knowing the law, should
correct the error of the fish. lie must throw
it back.
But if the fisherman carelessly throws
back the fish so injured that it dies the pur-
pose of the law is defeated although the let
ter is complied with
An indianapolis angler of long experience
tells how to return an illegal fish to the
water:
Fishermen who unintentionally hook
bass during the closed season first should
wet their hands before touching the fish. then
remove the hook carefully without injury and
return the fish gently to the water.
The fish should not be permitted to lump
about in boat or on the ground and should
not be handled with dry hands, as this will
break scales or injure the protective slime so
necessary to the health of the fish
IF returned gently to the water the bass
will return to its nest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29

the peasant class to do the mental
chores for the Goldfish aristocracy.
I seem to remember that Judge
Cox is the only one in authority
who has the courage to do anything
about the crafty rich, and even then
not one has entered the portals of
the penitentiaries, from which so
many of the aristrocrats are so long
overdue.
He is right in one thing, the ILL
gotten wealth exists to enternity
and no further. He might feast his
optics-although the, asinine tax
payer is no doubt above reading so
humble a book as the Bible, because
it mentions the poor several times
on the story of the rich man who
wanted Lazarus to come back and
warn his brother so he wouldn't go
the way of the aristocrats.
However, when the rich get too
rich and the poor too poor, only one
thing happens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29

generally prefer to associate with
the sinners. Somehow, they are
easier to get along with and not
so likely to preach.
long ago grew to hate the words
respect" and idolize" when they
are used to describe the feelings
men are supposed to have about
women. You easily can respect hun
dreds Of persons whom you never
could love.
For this reason, if no other,
mothers and wives, sisters and
daughters should demand something
more Of men. And I confess frank
ly that when any husband begins
to talk about how much he idolizes
his wife, I Immediately suspect that
he is up to some mischief. And
you may be sure that he is.
Especially there IS danger when
wife goes in for having herself
canonized. Little Saint Tereseas
are lovely beings for converts and
chapels. but they're much too holy
to be comfortable companions at
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29

ing inward or outward of the foot,
each Of these conditions demanding
special consideration.
If one falls heavily on the foot
or if the foot is given a hard blow,
the bones may fracture. If the foot
is twisted suddenly, there is diSlo-
cation or a sprain, and sometimes
portions of the bones pull apart.
Then the surface Of the foot may
be subjected to the occurrence Of
warts, small tumors, the develop
ment of corns due to either infec-
ton or excessive rubbing, and SINH
lar disturbances.
The foot is associated so definite
ly with the posture of the body gen.
orally and with Earring of tissues
of the abdomen and skull, that any
interference with its function may
affect the whole body.
Many disturbances in the leg, the
knee, the back, the hip and dis
turbances Of health generally are
associated primarily with deflcien-
cies of action Of the feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
A BETTER SHOALS BILL

ONCE again the job of getting a safe
Muscle Shoals bill through congress is
placed in the hands of Senator George Nor
ris and his colleagues. This time. he has a
friendly President in the White House, and
Mr.. Roosevelt, too. will have to use his in
nuence to see that the Norris bill finally is
enacted.
The house just has passed its bill, but it
contains SO many restrictive clauses, particu-
larly about building transmission lines and
constructing new dams in the river that it
does not meet with Senator Norris approval.
1t likewise provides for leasing of the
Shoals nitrate plants for the manufacture of
fertilizer.
There should be no hampering restrictions
about the government constructing lines for
transmitting to consumers the cheap power
it will produce in the Tennessee valley. The
house bill requires the Tennessee valley au-
thority first to try to lease or buy existing
provision would not be so Objectionable if we
were assured that the Muscle Shoals dam al
ways would be operated by such men as Presi-
dent Roosevelt is expected to appoint on the
authority board.
But there will not always be a Roosevelt
in the White House, man who understands
1oa of he
there should not be any obstacles put in the
road of future development of the river.
To require, as the house bill does, the au-
thority to find a market for potential power
before it builds new dams will postpone their
construction for years. The primary purpose
of these dams will be for flood control and
to improve navigation.
To make them primarily power dams will
narrow the scope OF the great Tennessee VAL
ley project.
Finally. the nitrate plants should not be
leased for the quantity production OF fer
tilizer; fertilizer manufacture always has been
vague fog over the Shoals project, obscur-
ing the issue.
The wide-open manufacture of plant food
also would consume such large quantities of
power that there would be little surplus en-
ergy to sell to states. counties, municipalities
and cooperative organizations of power.
The government does not plan ruthless de-
struction of private power lines in the Ten
nessee valley.
But under the Roosevelt plan, it does con-
template the full utilization of its own prof.
ects on the Tennessee, to control the flood
waters of that great stream, make it more
navigable. and produce cheap electric power.
To accomplish these aims, it should have
the flexible. safe law proposed by Senator
Norris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29

T AM all for the ferment which
L now seems to be active in the
schools and colleges, because I was
educated before my time and missed
the excitement. In my high school
days we we're singularly unagitated
about anything.
We saluted the flag and received
without any particular enthusiasm,
but with complete acceptance, what
ever our dear teachers chose to tell
us. We lived in a vacuum and abb
horred it as much as nature does.
Only we did nothing about it.
Within the last couple of years
students throughout the country
have begun to awake to the surpris-
ing truth that a school or college
is not just a pile of bricks run by
janitor and respectable old gen.
tleman called principal. The prin-
cipal is the one with the Phi Beta
Kappa key.
I suppose the beginning of wis
dom and education comes at the
moment when the pupil first realizes
that maybe the teacher doesn't
know what he's talking about
Students are beginning to be
touched not only by an eagerness to
know the answers in the back of the
book, but also those solutions which
are not bound between the covers of
any textbook. And this eagerness
is very necessary and useful thing.
After all, we are educating masses
of the next generation to live in a
world which is crumbiing almost
overnight. We are preparing people
for jobs which do not exist.
What is. the point in sending out
more journalists, more lawyers, and
more mining engineers into a COM
munity which has no place even for
those who already clutter the field?
The ambitious lad who burns the
midnight oil to bone up on Black
stone will find that within a year or
so there will be ample opportunity
to catch up on his sleep.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
|M.E.TracySays:

CRASPING the word rather than the idea,
~ conservative Republicans make an issue
of imitation
President Roosevelt's program reminds Sen
ator Reed 'of nothing so much as a child play
ing with dynamite"
Senator Vandenberg waves an old German
note Which, though having a face value of
billions of marks now is worth only 21z cents
Two senators and two representatives join in
statement in which they assert that imitation
can not be controlled, that the country is head
ed for printing press money and that before we
get through obligations and contracts payable
IN gold are likely to be repudiated
This joint statement calls attention to the
fact that the Republican party is pledged to
uphold the gold standard and that President
Hoover did uphold it, which seems quite super
fuous since the people were perfectly we'll aware
OF 1t when they went to the polls last November.
MO one will dispute the Republican partys
4 Y devotion to the gold standard especially as
Illustrated from 1929 to 1882. 1t cost the nation
unforgetable losses. Capital in the form of land
buildings industrial equipment natural re-
sources, and man power was depressed arbitrar-
lily by this stupid fight to keep the dollar high.
Millions of people found it impossible to pay
their debts, much less buy anything.
Mortgages were foreclosed, factories shut
down, and laborers thrown out of work on an
nature of blood sacrifice to a sacred COW.
Suggestions for doing something halfway
original were met with the jargon of standpat-
ism. Such things never had been done, where
fore they mustn't be done
Acknowledging that we were confronted by
an emergency such as never was known before,
Republican doctrinnaires fed us on fear of the
awful things that would happen if we attempted
to use our brains.
They had three enthusiastically through
local agencies, government credit for big bust
ness, and support of gold, no matter how high
it went.
"XXTEVE always come out of it before" they
w said. land We'll come out of it this time
if nobody rocks the boat"
Nobody did, nobody could, because nobody
was permitted to move
The country was wheedled bullied. or hyp-
Noticed into stagnation, with the benevolent des-
potism preaching faith in a busted formula as
the one great virtue
Even the VolStead act was held to be in
vlolable under the circumstances
Now that President Roosevelt really is try
ing to do something, we hear the same old in
carnations of alarm
Too late! The die has been cast The coun-
try has made up its mind to attack this depres-
sion from different angle. The jam must be
broken, and if it takes a little dynamite why
cringe?
We have labored with fears and inhibitions
long enough. Why train people to think, if
tradition is the best guide7 Why assume that
nothing better can be discovered with regard to
money and credit9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
So They Say

We already are isolated and stew
ing in a mess of our own greed
Senator Tydings of Maryland.
Those who have considered it
legitimate to gamble with other peo-
pies money must abdicate their
leadership.-Attorney- General Cum
mings.
Let a people lose confidence even
to a slightest degree in their cur
rency and many of them invest in
gems, particularly diamonds.-Syd-
ney H. Ball, mining geologist.
Loss of money leaves the real
values Of life untouched.-The Rev
August P. Record of Detroit.
British experience following the
abandonment of the gold standard
in September, 1881, reveals that ex-
pectations of rapidly advancing COM
modify and stock prices were not
fulfilled-Dr. Harold T. Moulton of
Bookings Institute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
Awake to Vital Thinqs

A ND SO, for the first time, young
"A men and young women are be-
ginning to have an interest in things
which are really vital. They want
to know how wars are made and
why and the economic structure of
Russia. Those who are about TO be
unemployed no longer are content
to salute the school, the principal
and the curriculum and let it 90
at that.
This is the reason for the rapid
growth Of extra curriculum clubs
ranging all the way from a mild
liberalism to revolutionary radical
ism. We know now-and thew know.
too-that you can't knock down
anything Of importance with q,
diploma.
Schools, with singuIarly few ex-
ceptlons, are dedicated to the pres-
ervation Of things as they are IN
eVltably the teacher is a man VIM
mas learned to conduct classes in
some certain subject. He is under
paid and exploited.
Naturally he doesn't want IN on
out and study any more. He world
rather have things stay put.
But that is not the interest of tha
student. This is a singuIarlv bad
world for sheep And surely that
isn't the way to start.
Downright. 1888 by The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
HIGHBROWED ESKIMOS

THE term "highbrow" is a pretty well-es-
tabltshed part of American speech nova
days, and everybody understands exactly what
it means; it is consequently, bit surprising
to find DR. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of anthro-
pology at the Smithsonian Institute, reporting
to the American Philosophical Society that
the word is really all wrong.
The height of mans brow, says DR..
Hrdlicka, is no gauge whatever of his mental
powers. If it were, Eskimos would be the
worlds brainiest folk as their brows average
about 9 per cent higher than normal.
low retreating brow can house brilliant
brain, and under the loftiness and most i'm
posing of dones there can exist a complete
mental vacuum.
Just what we ought to. do about this isn't
quite clear. "Highbrow" is too good a word
to discard, even if it doesn't really mean any,
thing.
Probably we shall go right on using it
all of u.s. that is, except the highbrows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
A Woman's Viewpoint

IT'S curious how deeply rooted in
l. the mind nonsensical traditions
can become. For instance, young
woman of 30, who by this time GER
tainly should know something about
human nature. makes the following
grave announcement:
Man wants to idolize women. but
the modern woman won't have It,"
Now if you will take only mo-
ment to think about such a state
ment. you will not be surprised at
the modern woman. Why should
any one in her senses want to be
idolized?
And what satisfaction, save the
satisfaction of expanding her ego,
any woman can get from the
thought that one man or several
men or all men look upon her as
kind of santos to hang on the wall,
is more than I can see.
To be idolized is to be misunder-
stood. Mortals have worshiped their
gods and have extolled them in
prayers and hymns, but they have
paid small heed to their teaching or
examples.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
A SENSIBLE STAND

fFrom the Pittsburg Press)
CARNEGIE TECH is to be congratulated
~ for its sensible stand on 80 beer
Unlike Pittsburgh University, which has
banned the beverage entirely from the cam
pus Tech announces that men students will
be permitted to have beer in their rooms.
There is no beer problem here" Arthur
W. Tarbeu, dean Of men, said.
Duquesne University has taken the same
stand Authorities at the school feel that no
regulation of beverage declared by congress
to be Notwithstanding is necessary.
That is common sense. AS we have said
before, it would be a great step forward if
college students now addicted to bathtub
gin and bootleg whisky, could be induced to
drink beer.
That would be move toward real tenn
perance.