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Evening star., 1933-03-23

The institute win b held for the
purpose Of acquainting the public with
the important functions Of the Juvenile
Court and the immediate need Of select
ing exactly tho right individual for this
post. Tho institute win consist Of
morning, afternoon and night meetings,
and nationally known speakers VIII be
invited to appear.
Sponsoring the Institute Of Social
Jurisprudence are Arthur Rosichan,
Mrs. David Meade Lea, Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, DR.. Frank ". Ballou,
superintendent Of District schools; Led
fur Masnussen, president Of the Mon
day Evening Club: Rev. Russell J.
Clinchy, Miss Katherine Lenroot Of the
United States Children's Bureau, Edgar
M. Gerlach, Miss Mildred Terrett, Mrs.
w. A. Roberts, Mrs. r. Thomas West
and Dr.. John O'0rady.
Evening star., 1933-03-23
President Uses
Chit Office Pads
For Communicating
Economy in Practice and
Newspaper Men Get View
of How 1t Works.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt uses the "chit"
extensively for communicating with his
cabinet members
"Chit" Is a British term for memo
,randum. As Mr.. Roosevelt explained
1t yesterday at his press conference, he
had in his desk drawer q series Of
pads. each with q cabinet members
name at the top. On informal matters
the Chief Executive scrawls q few
words on the pad and sends q mes
senger with the slip.
Mr.. Roosevelt laughed as he OBJ
served 1t was an inexpensive system Of
communication.
He added that he had used 1t in
calling Attorney General Cummings
attention to a newspaper article which
speculated on the possibility Of release
Of Federal prisoners sentenced for sell
ing beer.
The President said he had merely
asked the Attorney Genera to look
into the matter.
Evening star., 1933-03-23
CREE INDIANS HAVE
NO TRIBAL CHIEFS
Northern Canadian Groups
Live Without Any Form
of Government.

A people who have no government
were described to the Anthropological
Society of Washington last night by
Rev. DR.. John M. Cooper, professor of
anthropology at Catholic University.
These are the Cree and other North
ern Algonquin Indian groups who in
habit the area around James Bay in
Northern Canada, among whom Dr.
Cooper has spent several Summers.
They have no chiefs. he said. Some
individuals designated as "chief" only
act as liaison officers between the In
dians and the fur r-trading stations, but
they have no authority.
The social unit among these people,
DR.. Cooper said. is the family. Each
family has designated area for a
hunting ground which is respected by
all the others. The nearest approach
to government" is when the heads of
a few families get together for some
special reason and decide on some group
policy, but they have no authority for
enforcing their decisions.
Preserved Animals.
This anarchistic society succeeds ad-
mirably. DR.. Cooper said, and 1t is only
In the southern part of the territory
where the pressure of the fur trading
companies is bringing about a more
communistic arrangement that the
morale Of the Indians is breaking down.
The Communism" he said. consists
merely in breaking down the family
hunting ground system and allowing in
dividuals to hunt as they please through
the whole territory.
Under the old system, he said. the
indians kept close track of the haunts
and numbers Of fur bearing animals If
they found one variety getting scarce.
they would not kill 1t for period until
It had a chance to become re-estab-
lished. The families themselves de-
clared and kept off-seasons and prac-
tced what was tantamount to a rota-
ton Of crops. 1t was to each fan1ily's
advantage, he pointed out, to keep up
the game supply on It's own area.
Under the communistic system no
body will spare fur animal, because
he knows that the next hunter who
comes along will kill 1t. The economic
salvation Of the people, Father Cooper
believes. depends largely on checking
this new communistic tendency.
Practices Of Magic.
With no government, he pointed out,
there Is no patriotism. Each family
looks out only for its own hunting
ground. Inheritance rights to these
tracts are rigidly respected, he said, and
one Of them remains in single family
for generations. There are even in
stances Of widows owning and operating
alone large hunting areas without any
interference.
Colorful magical practices Of these
Indians were described by Father Cooper.
Among these are the various ceremonies
used to "call the north wind" late in
the Winter when 1t is desirable to have
Evening star., 1933-03-23
INSURANCE RATE RAISED
Increases Announced by Three Con-
necticut COMPANIES.

HARTFORD, Conn, March % UP.-
Increases Of from to S per cent in
the rates Of ordinary life insurance
were announced yesterday by three
Connecticut stock life companies-the
Travellers, the Aetna and the Con-
necticut General. The new rates will
become effective April l.
Frazar B. Wilde, vice president of
the Connecticut General, said the
changes, affect only the guaranteed cost
or participating rates and are
principally confined to the middle age
brackets.
Evening star., 1933-03-23

a heavy crust on the snow. One way
IS to strip small child naked and have
1t run around In the snow as an invi-
tation to the wind spirit. This, he said.
involves no cruelty, for the children are
accustomed to run around In very cold
weather with little or no clothing. An
other way Is to tie birch bark ribbons
to dogs tail and then set fire to them.
Luck charms are numerous.
Evening star., 1933-03-23
INSTITUTE PLANNED
ON JUVENILE COURT
Meetings to Be Addressed by Well
Known Speakers on '"Ths Child,
the Law and the Court"

A committee Of Washington citisens
interested In child welfare Is planning
an institute Of meetings on the sub
ject 1.-THE Child. the Law and the
Court" to be held at the ofnces Of
the Juvenile Protective Association,
1920 K street, March 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
AT LAST

A T last Muscle Shoals will be put to work
L N Not merely as a hydro-electric power
project, although its value as such is in
calculab1e, but as the key to improvement of
the whole Tennessee river basin, involving flood
control, improvement of navigation, afforesta-
ton, and prevention of soil erosion.
Even more important this is intended as
the beginning of a national plan which will
include eventually the improvement Of many
river valleys elsewhere.
Thus, as President Roosevelt said Monday
in his message to congress, we as a nation will
beging to overcome that stage during which
we've lust grown" We will have learned the
hard lessons that result from the lack of ma
tional planning.
1T is time" the President said. ito ex-
tend planning to a wider field -"
Unceasing demand by Senator George w.
Norris of Nebraska and others, including this
newspaper, for government operation of Mus
Gle Shoals has helped bring about the Roose-
welt program. Through the years the vital
Necessity of the government operating the
power plants it owns has been stressed time
and again; and over the same period, with the
help of two Republican Presidents, the nation
has been cheated of the opportunity.
Now, when the administrators plan is car
ried out, the people who paid $15O,OOO,OOO for
the public plant at Muscle Shoals may learn
more truly the facts about private power costs.
In this connection Senator Norris has re-
tanned in the administration bill the old and
important provisions for government construc-
ton of transmission lines and government
construction of Cove Greek dam in east Ten
nessee: and he has added another equally I'M
portant clause which would designate all in
terstate power lines as common carriers and
thus subject to federal rate regulation.
1t is quite fitting that Senator Norris
should manage the administrations Muscle
Shoals bill in the senate. For it was this fine
old mans tenacity through a dozen years and
more that has preserved the Shoals for the
government.
Like Mr.. Roosevelt, he has had the dream
of developing the Tennessee basin as unit; and
he saved the Shoals, the key TO the project
so this might be done.
Uncle Georges" example should revivify
faith in our democratic processes, for it proves
that if liberals in and out of congress are per-
sstent enough, courageous enough, they stand
a good chance to win in the end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
LABOR'S FRIEND

T IS one of the ironies of fate that Frances
l. Perkins, whose appointment as secretary of
labor was objected to violently by spokesmen
for organized labor, should turn out to be the
staunchest and most effective friend labor ever
has had in Presidents cabinet.
1t is not merely that Miss Perkins is seeking
the same detectives that labor is seeking. Her
conception of her job itself is the important
thing.
Her theory is that the secretary of labor is
put into the cabinet to be organized Iabors
spokesman. If labor is to have voice in the
high councils of the government, the labor
secretary must be the mouthpece
To realize what a complete departure this
theory is from accepted practice you need only
look back over the record of the labor. secre-
taries during the last dozen years
Nor is that all Miss Perkins not only feels
that she must fight Iabors battles; she is not
in the least backward about mapping out q
definite program which goes miles beyond any,
thing that has been considered seriously before.
She rapidly is establishing as an admins
tratlon principle the belief that true prosperity
must rest on the prosperity of the workers
themSelves-that good times can not trckle
down from above, but must be built up from
the very bottom, and that one of societys
prime duties is to see to it that its workers
get a fair break.
In line with this belief, she is trying to do
two things: To get the unemployed hooked
up with jobs, and to make certain that those
who have jobs get a decent amount of pay
for their work
Nor is that all. BY the cool determination
with which she has tackled her work, she has
put new life into the whole organized labor
movement in America. She has helped solidi-
fy it, she has given it program and she
enormously has increased it's influence.
When labors spokesman look back at the
protests which her appointment drew from
them, they must feel more than a little bit
silly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
NIICHIGAN'S WET VOTE

NTICHIGAN'S vote on the repeal of the
IVA eighteenth amendment is one of the
most astounding developments of the spring
To be sure, it was pretty generally conced-
ed that the state would ratify the repeater.
But that repeal sentiment would be so widely
distributed throughout the state, in rural
counties as well as in the big cities, that only
one Of 100 legislative districts would return a
dry majority-not the most ardent wet would
have dared to forecast such a result.
Michigan, incidentally voted dry before the
eighteenth amendment went into effect The
sentiment Of majority OF its citizens little
more than a decade ago, was quite obviously,
in favor of prohibition.
The recent vote on repeal makes it evil
dent that a tremendous shift in sentiment
has taken place. Has the same sort of shift
taken place everywhere. or is it peculiar to
Michigan?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
BOOST THE INDIANS

BASEBALL comes back into its own today,
- with the opening of the American Associa-
ton season here Truly the national game,
it will reign until october. But even with the
ending of the season and the world series
play, interest in baseball does not die.
1t is one sport which holds its followers
the year around. Thousands of fans read
baseball as eagerly in December as they do
in May and the constant shifting of players,
the arrival of new stars, and the passing of
old favorites ever keeps interest at high tide.
The indianapolis baseball club is one of
The best of civic advertisements. 1t spreads
the fame of the city all over the country. It's
plant is one of the finest in the nation, rival
ing those of several major league clubs.
President Norman Perry has been a liberal
spender in his effort to land the best talent
obtainable for his club. He deserves every
thing the city can give him in the way of
patronage. And here is hoping that the A. A.
pennant will be flying from the flagstaff at
Perry stadium after the smoke of the 1888
season rolls away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
Back to S0U0QeYu

BY More Practice, Less Preaching
We, as a Christian nation, now
are in the period called Holy week
one of the most sacred periods of
all the church year. Here we re-
affirm our faith in the principles
of the Christian religion, partake
of communion, and emo this most
sacred week with Easter Sunday
celebrating ChriSts triumphant vic
tory over death, and establishment
of his religion OF love, forgiveness
and compassion.
On April II Of next week, in the
state of Arizona, in this great
Christian nation, all principles OF
Christianity will be cast aside by
these so-called Christians and a
woman, weak in mind and body
will be taken from a cell and
strangled to death before q few
morbid, curious witnesses.
Here is a spectacle of casting
aside Christ's religion of love, and
reverting to the most barbarous
relics OF the past. Even some I'M
civilized savages would turn with
shame from such sight.
While this is being enacted, we
are planning to send more mis-.
sionaries to convert to Christianity
these heather and savage tribes.
Is it any wonder that so many are
becoming less interested in Chris
tianity and those who profess it?
Some one has said, and said we'll,
Consistency, thou art a jewel"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
A Woman's Viewpoint {:

IT BELIEVE in adequate national
l. defense" This phrase can be
heard on the lips of the lukewarm
pacif1st and the ardent militarist
simultaneously.
Yet certainly they could not agree
as to its meaning. Their ideas
about it are as far apart as the
poles. But aSsuredly good many
of us are coming to realize that it
does not consist entirely of arna-
ments.
For when we put our whole faith
in guns, we are defending, not our
honor, but our stupidity. Security
for nations no longer can be OBJ
tanned with either bombs or bonn
bast. Brains as well as Drawn must
be developed.
It's disheartening to see how
much we spend on military pre-
paredness and how little we use for
cultivation of craftsmanship. We
educate the soldier to the nth de-
gree at the expense of the state, but
are we willing to train officials in
the arts of government?
We expect our generals to master
sll military knowledge, but we send
men to congress to shape our des-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
BEER AND SPEAKEASIES

NNE Of the most freakish bits Of current
~ news is that emanating from a large
middle western city, in which the municipal
government has passed out the word that Just
as soon as the new beer law goes into opera
ton. the police department will make de-
termined effort to put the speakeasies out of
existence.
1t would be hard to find a better COM
mentary on the kind of law enforcement that
some big cities have been getting from their
police.
Leaving aside all questions of graft and
ordinary inefhciency, we have here a tacit ad-
mission that the existence of the illegal liquor
traffic has, in the main, simply been winked
at
To be sure practically everybody knew
that already; but it never got admitted quite
so badly before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
AMBULANCE CHASERS

DOLCE CHIEF MICHAEL MORRISSEY
4 deserves the hearty support and indorse-
ment of the public in his war against ambu-
lance chasing lawyers. 1t has been rumored
for some time that certain unethical attorneys
have installed police radios in their automobiles
in order to grab lawsuits from semi-conscious
victims.
These professional vultures 1out every
precept Of decency and craftsmanship. A
lawyer who promotes litigation is just as bad
as a physician who goes about scattering
microbes SO that he may profit from the re-
sulting epidemic.
1t is curious thing that Chief Morrissey
should have to be the agency for cleaning up
this mess. What has happened to the Bar
Association? Haven't its members heard of
the scandal? If they have, what are they
going to do to purge their own profession?
Their silence on this matter rapidly is be-
coming as great scandal as ambulance
chasing itself. The chief is washing their
dirty linen for them and not single lawyer
has raised his voice publicly
In the last analysis, it is the public which
can get rid of the ambulance chasers. When
it realizes that the services Of a charlatan are
far more expensive than those of an ethical
attorney the game will end. There are plenty
of ffrst-class young attorneys waiting around
in empty offices for clients. They rather would
starve than turn ambulance chaser.
They are willing to work for reasonable
fees. The Bar Association should act to pro-
tect them.
Make up your mind that a lawyer who
comes around trying to sell you lawsuit is
no good. Slam the door in his face and am
bulance chasing will disappear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11

Press that its position as a client of Havas
and other foreign governmental news agen-
cies can be taken advantage of even to the
extent of false assumptions on the part Of
the French deputies and others.
To an American, the assumption of the
Franch government seems most naive But
the assumption is none the less vicious for be-
ing naive.
It is an added lesson, if one were needed,
Of the folly Of government controlled and sub
sidized press associations. Unbiased news is
possible only through independent press asso-
Citations and newspapers entirely free of
official control or influence. That is true in
America, which has no subsidized news agency.
IN France Great Britain, Germany, Italy,
Japan and other countries which have official
or semi-oficiaI press associations, the news is
not unbiased.
The lesson, insofar as American press asso-
Citations are concerned, is to do abroad what
they do at home namely, set up their own
agencies Of news gathering so as to divorce
themselves from utilization with foreign off
cial" agencies.
1t is on that principle that the United
Press foreign service was organized and is
operated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

the Akron was wrecked in much the same
way as the Shenandoah, from causes well
recognized which could and should be avoided"
and he added
IF there had not been whitewash of the
Shenandoah investigation, the Akron might
now be safe and her crew alive"
The Shenandoah investigation whHewash?
Most Of, us hadn't heard that charge before;
but Captain Heinan's remarks make inescap-
ably clear the necessity of a thoroughgoing
investigation into this latest crash which shall
bring out all of the facts without fear or
favor.
Let's have all the facts. even if a few i'm
portant toes DO get stepped on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
Tuesday. APRIL ll. 1aaa.
HOW ABOUT THE STEPCHILD?

WHEAT are we going to do about Indiana's
poor little orphan sandwiches? The beer
drinkers don't want them; all they want is
their brew, without any sandwiches butting in.
-Four days OF STEADY beer drinking in In
dianapolis show that the food angle of the
beer control bill Will be honored more in the
breach than in the observance. Already, cafe
proprietors are making it point convenient
ly to overlook the stipulation that there be
food with the drink and the patrons are rot
going to call the matter to their attention, ex
cept possibly at noontime, when they are
drinking their luncheons.
Several suggestions have been made in an
effort to solve this problem. One is that each
bar provide a basket in which unwanted sand
wiches can be dropped all to be collected and
given to the needy. Another is that each Gus
toner be accompanied by dog which can
eat the sandwich while the master laps up
his brew
After all, why the sandwich, anyhow? Are
we not told that beer is a mountaineering
beverage, in reality food? If we buy peck
Of potatoes in a grocery store, we don't have
to buy sandwich with the spuds. SO why
buy food with beer, which also is food?
We leave the answer to the politicians, if
they can take enough time off from collect
ing the gravy to rig up reply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11

plant, we, at the same time, can
provide room for a grist mill and
bake shop, so that the bread side is
also taken care of.
There is no need to leave out the
poultry and egg end of the game.
Even butter factory in connection
with an ice cream plant to go with
that milk distributing plant is not
too insignificant to be overlooked.
In fact, if you just look around,
you can see a few more hundred
things that you can prepare to take
on as the building is getting larger
and more unemployed are being
put to work in their own plant,
built by themselves while they had
nothing to do.
No city or small community is too
large or too small to be without one
of these cooperative, producer to
consumer associations, each commu-
nifty can very largely solve its own
problems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-11
M.

Nov we are getting right down where people
IN live. John Farmer is not going to lose the
old homestead if he can scratch together AZ
per cent interest and a little on account each
year.
Back of it all lies mysterious trend OF
values. By every principle of economics, farm
mortgage should be rated as frst-class security
and therefore bring a comparatively low rate
of interest
The trouble is, or has been, that you couldn't
do anything with farm mortgage except hold
it. Banks would not lend on it and there was
no ready market in which to dispose of it.
BY some caprice of inScrutable fate our t1nan-
cia wizards singled out the mortgage particu-
larIy the farm mortgage, an undesirable for
collateral, discount, or exchange.
Only those concerns that wanted longtime
frozen investments would take mortgages, and
they gradually came to be taboo as a basis OF
credit.
TREAT markets were established and daily
NJ quotations provided for stocks and bonds
People could sell or borrow on them at a
moments notice, though it is doubtful whether
they represent sounder security on the aver
age than mortgages.
1t also is doubtful whether a similar system
could not have been provided for trade in mort
cages with equally good results.
We never tried it and the consequence is
that We do not know. We have been content
to ignore the land in our passion for liquid
credit That is one reason why land values have
run wild on occasion and have been made the
basis Of preposterous loans
Considering the vast sums of money we spend
trying to keep track of the land and its value,
We are making mighty poor progress.
All privately owned parcels are supposed to
be honestly and accurately appraised for tax
purposes, yet who relies on the tax roll?
All parcels are supposed to have been sur
viewed correctly and the deeds recorded care
fully, yet who will buy one without getting a
lawyer to search the title or paying a premium
Tor some company to guarantee it?
.nUR real estate set-up is an expensive sham
~ from the standpoint of registration an6
appraisal. We pay enough to get thorough
and reliable job, but have little but a mass Of
confused records around which several racket
have been formed.
That is one thing which ais the mortgage
business. which has eliminated it from our sys.
tenn OF credit and which subjects farmers anc
home owners to unnecessarily high interest
rates.
To begin with. the surveying. transfer, anc
title OF land should be a matter of complete
public record and rigid supervision. No one
should be compelled to go outside the tax Office
or the registry of deeds TO find out who owns &
piece OF land or what it is reasonably worth
II that were made possible, you would SCI
the mortgage business play different part il
our economic affairs and you would see home
ownership increase.