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SAVE THE SCHOOLS

Attitude Of the Hoover conference on the crisis
in education will cheer those fighting to save the
American school system from unwise economy raids
The original agenda disqueting 1t suggested
the possibility of drastic cuts in teacher salaries
school hours, night classes and other programs
President Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur
DR.. Cooper, United States commission of education
and others stood against such easy but dangerous
budgeting solutions.
In the rigid governmental economies that are
requisite everywhere, must not encroach upon the
schools or reduce the opportunity OF the child
through the school, to develop adequate citizenship
said President Hoover There is no safety for our
republic without the education of our youth That
is the first charge upon all citizens ana local gov
ernments"
Let US" said Dr. Wilbur, have fewer miles of
highways if necessary, and more schools for our
children"
Minor economies can and should be made in the
interest of greater efficiency without injuring the
schools
The conference adopted resolution in support of
some measure like the George bill to grant federal
aid to states to maintain reasonable standards in
their public schools system
This action is more in the American spirit than
the defeating of of the counties and states that
are letting their schools take the brunt of the de-
preston. But free education should be the last
to go.
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Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor Times - Vandals or
thieves broke into my garage, and
beat three of the door handles
out of place, and broke. off the
locking key handle, and took it
along with them.
This evidently was done to have
a key made which would open the
car door, and operate the ignition
switch, as we'll as operate the locks
on the two spare tires, inasmuch
as the same key works all four
locks.
The car is of a large make, and
supposedly very fast car-iSn't
it possible that the vandals in
tend to return and secure the car
for some major crime after they
have the proper key made?
The police were notified duly
but have done nothing about it,
to my knowledge. Isn't it pos
sible that they passed up a good
chance to secure fingerprints and
possibly classify any criminals
who later might appropriate the
car for some major or minor
crime?
Wouldn't it be better if the
police would investigate these
small crimes and possibly stop
major crimes before they were
committed?
G. w. CONES,
1945 Dearborn Street.
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and naval programs of various countries, to slim
ulate armament expenditures &. have sought to
influence public opinion through control Of news
papers have organized international armament
rings, through which the armament race has been
accentuated by playing of one country against an
other"
But President Hoover should not need those
league revelations to open his eyes. He himself once
issued hot White House statements on the subject.
Has he forgotten the Shearer investigation which
he ordered.
The United States is not the keeper of the worlds
conscience but Of its own. The United States can
not enforce treaties and stop single-handed,
but it can keep its own hands clean
At least it should restrain American munitions
makers from starting or feeding foreign wars, and
from profting in blood. That time is coming
When the American proflteers-in-w war sink
Geneva naval conference or blow up Stnson en-
barge plan, they hasten the day when the govern
ment will take over their business in protection
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HERE'S bit of cheer for the New Year
Il Time was" runs the letter when fortune
smiled upon us, but no babies came, so went to
a founding asylum and adopted one a boy of II
months
Tomorrow our boy, handsome young giant,
with his football letter and his scholastic laurels,
comes home to his old Mother and Dad for the
holidays.
Riches have proved evanescent but year by year
the ties have grown closer and what care we for
poverty-our son is with us in our little flat and We
know more true Christmas joy than many luxur-
Gus childIess home. can think of no greater
tragedy than growing old alone and know that
God smiles on those who help the helpless.
Sincerely yours,
CBy adoption) A HAPPY FATHER"
DOEsNT it make lump in your throat-this
~ expression of frank simple old-fashioned
pride and love?
always have thought that the adopted parent
gets more benefits out of such transactions than
does the adopted child. Too many evidences of this
truth may be seen on every hand for us to attempt
to deny It.
When you take baby into your home and your
heart, you commit act that is not entirely IN
selfish, because subconsciously you are moved by
And should this father who speaks so simply of
his JOY be greved or hurt by the son he loves
he still will have been rewarded amply for his deed
since he already has been repaid hundred times
over repaid by acquiring deeper meaning of life
by the sheer fun of watching his boy grow up, and
by the affection he has received from the infant the
lad and the youth.
This man. moreover is my notion of real father,
because his relationship with his is based on
friendlneSs and he considers that the happiness he
has received is more important than the benefits he
has conferred.
There should be such word as duty between
parents and children Love is the only link that
truly can bind them together.
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WEDNESDAY. JAN. II. 1888.
THE GOVERNOR SUGGESTS
"a sCRIPPs-HOwARD NEWSPAPER

No member of the legislature will have any diff
hculty in understanding what Governor McNutt be-
lieves should be done to the state government in
order to meet present emergencies
His message to the law makers does not evade
nor pussyfoot 1t goes direct to the point of every
question and there is his answer to every problem.
On the matter of state government, he would
abolish the present public service and highway COM
missions and replace them with men who will have
at least different attitude toward their duties
On the matter of various boards and commits
sions, most Of which under the inspiration of Ste
phenson, placed under the secretary Of state
IN order to make that office powerful politically he
would bring about efficiency by different grouping
and the elimination of overlapping duties.
There is nothing doubtful about his attitude
toward the duty of the state Roads and buildings
may be deferred but the education of the children
Of the state must not wait, complete reversal of
the policies of his predecessors.
In a word in a matter of choice human beings
and social welfare is to be placed above material
considerations.
1t is upon the question of public utilities that
the Governor is most specific.
He demands easy road to public ownership
of these utilities by such cities as may desire to
buy or erect them, with wide powers of credit and
financing.
He proposes that all holding companies be brought
under strict regulation by the new commission This
is the proposal which the utilities in other years
have fought with vigor. It will be fought again this
year
But Indiana has had some sad examples of what
holding companies can do TO communities and to
investors.
On the matter of the repeal of the Wright bone
with hrmness. 1t must be replaced with workable
law, when modification repeal comes.
With a course clearly outlined and with much of
the preliminary work done, the legislature can win
equal favor with the people if it rushes through
the measures suggested and give evidence of a de-
sire for economy by an early adjournment
The people will demand nothing more than has
been suggested by Governor McNutt. Nor will they
accept less than he has asked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
THE FAMILY'S FOOD BILL

There is something deeply interesting about the
food supply budget for the average family as worked
out recently by experts at Clemson college.
Figuring that the average family consists of two
adults and three children, the experts estimated
that during a year it would consume the following
amounts Of food:
One hundred chickens, 1856 quarts of milk, $500
260 pounds of butter $50 pounds of fresh meat
174 pounds of leafy vegetables 234 pounds of fresh
tomatoes sixty-ive heads of lettuce 108 quarts of
canned tomatoes, 3O3 pounds of other fresh vege-
tables, 100 pounds of canned vegetables ten bushels
of potatoes, twenty bushels of wheat ten bushels of
corn twelve bushels of fresh fruit and 1870 quarts
Of canned fruit.
Somehow, it comes to lot when you add it all
up that way. And when you contrast that list with
what thousands of the unemployed actually are get
ting, you can just how far short of dietary re-
quremens some of our depression menus are falling
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ty-one occurred in the warm
months.
AS has been said, mumps is
primarily a disease Of adolescence,
but cases have been observed in
a woman "a years Of age and in
a man 80 Yeas Of age-no doubt.
both in their second childhood.
Mumps probably is spread from
one person to another by the sa-
Iva. Occasionally a third person
may become contaminated with
this infectious saliva and, al
though himself not infected by
the disease, carry it from a sick
person to a healthy one.
Study Of the disease shows that
it is most contagious during the
early days, and that once con-
valescence begins it is not nearly
so dangerous.
For this reason it is not Gus
tonary to quarantine or isolate
cases with mumps for more than
two weeks.
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTOl

4 FTER all, life is just a big
L bundle of little things, but
life itself is not a little thing.
For most of us, most Of the time,
the book Of life is long diary, full
of prosaic details.
Tiny duties, small joys, minute
failings, petty cares make up the
staple of our experience, as we
meet it day by day. If life itself
is not to seem trivial, we must
learn to see little things in big
way.
Yet, perhaps. in one sense,
there are no little things. A
group of us went to hear a IA
nous preacher, and his sermon
was about the sinfulnesS Of little
sins. AS we walked home a young
man said that the preacher made
us see all the fly-specks. To which
a great physician replied: my
boy, the preacher was right. A
tiny act may tell our inner char
acter, just as one drop of blood
drawn from your vein by the
point Of needle, may furnish a de-
cisive blood test"
4 IL of us know the old adage:
"A Trifles make perfection, but
perfection is not a trifle-it is as
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true in the art of life as in the life
of arC. Maybe that is what Jesus
meant when He said: He that
is faithful in that which is least,
is faithful also in much"
Indeed, He talked much of the
greatness Of little things, as when,
in His solemn parable of the Last
Judgment, He made all depend on
whether a cup of water had been
given to a thirsty fellow-man, or
a kindness to a child.
Yes, trifles light as air tell what
we are, and often regulate our
fellowship with both God and man
as much as grave fundamentals
do. Every day in our contacts,
our tone of voice, our gesture,
our look. our good will or i'll will be
traying itself in tiny acts, make
or unmake friendships, set up or
pull down ideals, hurt or heal our
fellow souls.
A wise poet put these words on
the lips Of God: Il come in the
little things, saith the Lord; my
starry wings I do forsake, loves
highway of humility to take"
Only by such heavenly art can He
fit His greatness to our littleness,
and make our littleness great.
Copyright. 1888. United Features
Syndicate. Inc.J
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SCIENCE
Science Sky Is Rosy
BY DAVID DIETz

City meeting were inclined to
think that the day may come
when man will be table to utilize
the energy locked up in the atom.
Earlier in the present century
that was popular view. But by
1920, physicists we're beginning to
doubt it and by 1880 they prac-
tically had abandoned it.
The view then was that it would
take more energy to smash an
atom than would be released in
the smash.
But experiments Of the last year
point in the opposite direction. In
recent experiments to disintegrate
the atom, several instances were
encountered when the energy re-
leased was greater than the energy
usd to smash an atom.
Accordingly, the day may come
when man will be able to use the
energy Of the atom.
This energy is tremendous. al
most incredible. 1t has been CAL
culated that the atomic energy
locked within a pint of hydrogen
would be enough to drive an ocean
liner from New York to Liverpool
and back again.
And so man may look forward
to the future with more confidence
in 1888, He is assured, first Of all,
that the universe may look for
ward with confidence to many mil
lions of years as the ruling crea-
ture upon the earth. And he is
given hope that when coal and oil
have given out. he may be able to
supplant them with the infinitely
greater power of the atom.
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Guided by Loyalty to Principle

MY judgment is that Calvin Coolidge
w
His faith original ideals principles republic
o sublime
He had doubt of the Constitution the law
When accepting
nomination for third term he decided by the
established
Reliability Calvin Cooidges outstanding you
his mystery.
those unfamiliar background very
eloquent
The American people found measurable degree of
wreck
who wouldn't superfuouS experiments
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Far Adore Leadership of HIS Day

TT doubtful
better The crowd including best minds obsessed the
idea OF going
All asked from the
the uuer That
we'll pleased
Now that what ahead inclined to ctc
him for doing what demanded consistent with
acr and what he could helped
We inclined blame him for
what few of foreSaw what it doubtful agency
could have
History contains
stands the country revealed by the
will undertake to psychoanalyze
My is that the
far above the leadership his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11

GENERAL applicants have re-
~ piled to that ad which I put
in the column the other day for
a sycOphant.
But before doing anything about
making a deal, decided to look
into the subject Of sycophancy
and become an expert in the mat
ter. After all, in hiring a syco-
plant one would like the best
available.
1t seems from the source ma
terial which I have examined that
sycophantry first got going in tny
well-organized way in the city of
Athens. My dictionary says, They
were deSpised characters, being
barrators, informers, pettifoggers.
slanderers, and rogues for gain"
That gave me another word to
look up. I had thought "barra-
tor was something you called a
young lawyer to kid him along,
but that didn't fit the context.
And when 1 found "barrator" in
the book it merely said, "One
guilty of barratry."
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Questions and
Answers .

Q-Is widow over so years Of
age, without income, exempt from
taxation?
A-The law regarding persons
exempt from taxation is as fol-
lows: Any honorably discharged
soldier, sailor, marine or nurse.
who shall have served ninety days
or more in the military or naval
forces of the United States, and
who is totally disabled as evil
denced by pension certificate or
the award Of compensation. and
the widow of such soldier, sailor or
marine, may have the amount of
$1,000 deducted from his or her
taxable property, providing the
amount Of taxable property as
SHOWN by the tax duplicate shall
not exceed the amount of $4,000.
Provided further that the age Of
62 shall constitute the basis of
total disability for any pensioner.
Q-What year did the Lebanon
courthouse burn and were all rec
ords destroyed?
A-The Lebanon courthouse did
not burn. While a new one was
Oelng erected in 1856, county off
GERS TOOK quarters on the west side
oI the public square. It was these
temporary quarters that burned.
only a few Of the records in the
clerks, treasurer's. and recorders
oI1lces were saved. The fire did not
reacn the temporary quarters oc-
cupled by the auditor and all his
records were saved. Virtually all
oeeos, wills, and licenses in the
other offices were DESTROYED. ONLY
hlIle deeds filed prior to 1856 have
been -e-recorded.
Q--What year did the Monon
Tallroad go from indianapolis to
Monon? 1--'
A-1882.
ON 1897 on what day did
Jan. IA fall?
A-4nurSoay.
Q-On what day did July 3, 1912
fall?
A-Wednesday.
Q-What is the legal age for
people TO marry in Indiana?
A man must be 81 years old
and a woman 10.
Q-What is the address of Do
lores Del Rio, movie star?
A-Care of RKO studios, $50
Cover street, Hollywood, Cal.
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This is the first of two articles by DR..
Fishbein on mumps.
OF all of the annoying diseases
~ that afflict the child, but
which also occasionally attack the
adult, mumpS is the one most
likely to arouse the risibilities of
in the vicinity. Swelling at the
sides of the face give the per-
son who is infected a distinctly
cOmical appearance.
There is no doubt that the con-
dition is infectious, because it
spreads rapidly wherever it gets
a start among a group of young
people.
Since the time when Pasteur
first proved definitely that germs
can cause disease. the experts
have been trying to find the germ
that causes mumpS.
They have taken material from
the glands, from the saliva, and
from various other parts of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11
So They Say

I'd rather have the thing Bah
bitt sings in his bath than the ex-
cursion Wordsworth took the BIZ
bic on over the Cumberland hills.
DR.. st. John Gogarty, Irish Free
State senator, discussing poetry.
That's what made the Democra-
tic party in New York-great big
lavish charity.-Mayor John Pat
rick O'Brien of New York.
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Daily Thought

o righteous Father, the world
hath not known thee: but have
known thee, and these have
known that thou hast sent me-
st. John 1925.
Il
A LII profound affection admits
L n a sacrifice -Vauvenargues.
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body, and on several occasions
investigators have claimed that
the germ was isolated.
The evidence thus far in sup
port of any one of these claims
is not sufficient to convince other
experts that the real germ has
been discovered.
MOST often mumps appear in
Iva a child from to Is years
Of age. Because the glands most
commonly concerned are the
parotid glands, Just in front of the
ear, the disease scientifically is
called epidemic parotitis.
In most cases. mumps is a mild
condition. 1t occurs usually dur
ing the cold season Of the year.
Out Of IL epidemics. only twen-
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Fe1U Out of Thousand

THAT was about what I was
l. thinking of. And I must say
that I think the dictionary is
pretty hard with sycophants, no
matter if they did sink a few ships
in Athens and take a few brides
in Scotland.
After all, the Greeks could spare
some craft. They had to bar La
Belle Helene from the navy yard
because she always was launching
boats.
"A servile fatterer," "a cringing
person" "a parasite" these seem
to be later activities of the bold
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news, and I've frequently heard of
people being charged with as
sault and battery" but, even SO,
I wanted to be precise about it,
and so I studied down the page
until found that barratry is any
Wilful and unlawful act by the
master or mariners of a ship con-
trary to their duty to the owners,
whereby the latter sustain injury"
And a barrator can also be a
Scotch judge who takes a bride.
That, as you may remember, was
in all probability, the plot of Sir
Walter SCOTS famous novel, The
Bride of Lammermoor."
But all Of this gets us very far
away from my original intention
of hiring somebody to say a few
pleasant things quite frequently to
me about my painting, writing,
acting and reducing campaign In
fact. 1 was thinking very much
of some person or persons such as
those described in the poem sent
in by John j. Anonymous, which
runs:
Sycophants
Wear skirts
Or pants;
They hang around
Like leeches;
They yes" to death,
With painting breath,
Adnliring all
Your cliches.
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81
why should
eXFresdent should not dwell in modest
honest he temptation OF display
Ready the
a truly private citizen. the completed
Calvin Cooidges
anomalous He did not to belong
speculation
holowness of ALL when appeared m
blessing.
There those who believe term because
Of insight Be that stepped
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-11

Some Indiana housewives had a neighbor raided,
charging that their husbands had been getting liquor
from him in exchange for canned goods from their
pantrieS. The trouble evidently arose from the
pickles their mates brought home.
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Stars and Man

DR. TOLMAN, by applying the
~ laws of Einstein's theory of
relatively to the laws of thermo-
dynamics, showed that the uni
verse need not run down.
He showed that the universe
may be a perpetual motion ma
chine, destined to go on forever,
now expanding and now contract
ing, like some cosn1ic accordion.
Additional rays of hope were
cast on the scientific sky at At
lantic City by the addresses of
DR.. Harlow Shapley of Harvard,
and DR.. Henry Norris Russell Of
Princeton, newly elected president
of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
These two, both among the
worlds most famous astronomers,
did not address themselves to the
same subject that DR.. Tolman did.
But DR.. Shapley, by pointing out
the inadequacy of present the
cries concerning the evolution of
the solar system, and DR.. Russell,
by pointing out the inadequacy Of
present theories concerning the
evolution of the stars, made it
clear that we need no longer ac-
cept the dogmatic conclusions Of
the older cosmOgony.
We simply do not know enough
about the subject to be dogmatic
From another field of science, a
rosy ray Of hope was furnished by
Professor William K. Gregory of
Columbia university and the
American Museum of Natural
History.
Professor Gregory is one Of the
worlds chief authorities upon the
evolution Of man.
He said that there was little
reason for taking a gloomy view
of mans future. He pointed out
that it has been a fact through
the billion years of geological time
that whenever a creature became
dominant upon the earth, it ruled
for millions Of years.
Man, he said, only recently
assembled to power and there was
no reason why it should not be
assumed that man will rule for
millions of years, attaining new
powers and new glory.
Atomic Energy
NEINGLED with these hopeful
1F1 rays from astronomy and
biology, we find rosy beams from
the realm of atomicphysicS.
Many physicists at the Atlantic
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Civil war veteran Of Minneapolis has bottle
of beer given him at G. A. R. convention in Mil
waukee fifty years ago. Now there, at last, is one
fellow who can take it or leave it alone"
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1--WE want beer that tickles our noses" says a
Cleveland ex-bartender All so that's the source Of
that old remark about "a snootful"
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Dowager Queen Marie CT Rumania is reported
writing novel barring the romantic affairs of her
son, King Carol. 1t looks like Carols about to be
dealt royal flush.