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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04
LADIES AND PRIZE FIGHTERS

COCIETY lifts an eyebrow as Mrs. Madeline
~ Force Dick is married to EMO Fiermonte,
an italian prize fighter. Mrs. Dick happens
to be the widow of Jacob Aston, who
stepped aside as the Lusitania was sinking to
permit his then youthful bride to take her
place with other women and children in
lifeboat.
Discussion of the marriage makes much Of
tragic background of Fiermonte's bride. To
think, say the dowagers, that Madeline would
do such thing as marry prize fighter, after
Astor's noble act in permitting her to be saved,
while he himself went to certain deathl
But then Mrs. Madeline Force Dick is a
woman, after all. EMO Fiermonte. even
though he be prize fighter, is a man. 1t is
the inalienable privilege of any woman to
marry any man, society's eyebrow to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04
A NEW CENSUS

THE civil works administration is studying
plans for new national census in the
fall Of 1884. From every viewpoint such
mid-decade count would seem to be worth
the S1O,O0O,0O0 or so it would cost.
The depression has played havoc with our
population. Like a great wind it has swept
people from city to farm, from upper to neither
class, from region to region. 1t has cast many
from social moorings and left them adrift.
In the four years since 1880 America has I'M
dergone changes more radical than at any
time in its peacetime history
The 1890 census is useless. Census bull
letins now go out marked mot reliable"
A new census will give work relief to that
unemployed class so far most neglected, the
white collar men and women. 1t should en-
ploy some 10000 or $4,000 in preliminary plans
and some 100000 in actual enumeration work.
If the United States intends to plan its
industry and farm production along intelligent
lines, it must have chart. A new census will
help to provide such a chart.
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misbehavior and even crime as a
result.
Difficulty in hearing for a man in
middle age turns out to be less of
a handicap than for a woman. The
business world regards a man as
successful with or without his
handicaps, but because woman re-
Gently just has come out of the
home and into business and public
life, the woman who develops hard
ness Of hearing has a much more
difficult time.
She gradually is forced back into
her home and out of the work in
which she finds the greatest of in
terest.
Some men take disability much
more seriously than do others.
When ringing in the ears is super
imposed on deafness, the condition
is more troublesome, and when
vertigo or dizziness accompanies,
most serious reactions occur.
Martin Luther was troubled by
such hardness of hearing, ringing
in the ears, and dizziness. To what
extent these defects nodded Martin
Luther's career is a matter for
thought by the psychologists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04
STABLE GOVERNMENT

TT is a common thing for students of the
l. science of politics to complain that the
American system of government is unduly
rigid and infexible as compared with the
parliamentary systems of such democracies
as England and France. Those systems, it is
said, reflect far more directly the wishes of the
people. AS soon as government loses the
confidence Of the masses, it falls.
All this may be quite true but recent events
in France seem to indicate that a parliament
tary system can be altogether too flexible
One premier follows another in dizzy sue
cession in Paris just now. The i'll effects of
such continual changes are too obvious to
need mentioning; one only can add that
little more rigidity in government after the
American fashion. might be an excellent thing
for France Just now.
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MILKING THE UTILITIES

: 4 SERVICE company in the Byllesby utility
n group collected SO 244O44 in five recent
years as fees for serving operating utilities in
the group. In performing these services it
spent Just s11. 449. O91. The profit is figured by
the federal power commission as 9S5 per cent.
The commission comments:
Such profits resulting from holding COM
pany control and intercorporate contracts are
not only unreasonable but shocking when con-
sidered in the light of their direct influence
upon a business affected with a public in
terest"
5 It adds. making the whole picture very
clear:
The public utility does not stand in a COM
petitive field in which a customer may exercise
a free opportunity in an open market to buy
where he can buy at the lowest price; it is a
business monopolistic in character, where there
are many customers but only one vendor &.
who. unless restrained by the regulative power
of government. may charge its helpless Gus
toners what the traffic will bear"
It remains only to add that neither service
companies nor the holding companies, which
receive their excessive profits, are regulated by
state utility commissions. In recent years they
have been one Of the favorite devices for
draining utility profits from regulated COM
panies to unregulated ones.
In pointing out this situation and describ-
ing it In its true terms the federal power COM
mission has done real public service In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04
Duty of the Courts

governor ROLPH'S argument
~ is that Our system of judicial
procedure has broken down. THE
processes of punishment are slow
and cumbersome. Many escape by
technicalities; others are subjected
to punishment that is farcically in
adequate with the h i nous
atrociousnesS of their crimes"
Governor Rolph then goes on to
say that the Lindbergh case made
people feel that this condition
should be changed. In fact, he
makes two additional references to
that kidnapping. Somebody ought to
remind the Governor that the case
was never solved and that no arrests
were made. I can conceive Of no
legal procedure adequate to mete
out proper punishment to criminals
wholly unknown and at large.
1t seems very much as if Governor
Rolph leans to the familiar lynch
philosophy that when an atrocious
crime has been committed it is a
good idea to kill somebody even If
you don't happen to catch the right
person.
This is by no means a fantastic
Interpretation of lynch law. A care
full examination Of a number of
lynchings in the course of a year in
the United States revealed the fact
that more than half the victims
were probably innocent and that at
least one-third we're undoubtedly so.
Only by very narrow margin did
the San Jose mob avoid lynching a
prisoner, who had no connection
with the murder Of Brooke
Hart. Fortunately the error was
just before he was swept
out the jail door. Once in the
hands Of the mob no protestations
of mistaken identity would have
availed him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and Of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

as otosclerosis, in which the tissues
involved in hearing gradually are
hardened so as to be unable to func-
ton. are treated with much greater
difficulty.
The situation is particularly diff
flcuIt for the school child with such
a condition. The father thinks the
child is inattentive, the mother
thinks the child is a dreamer, the
teacher thinks the child is stupid,
and the other boys and girls hardly
know how to take him.
The child thus is shut in and tries
to cover up his malady by various
deceits or devices which react to his
disadvantage. If he does not hear a
question, he prefers to say that he
does not know, rather than to ask
the teacher to repeat the question.
AS he grows older, the child tends
to cover up the severity Of his de-
ficiency and thus, sooner or later,
may develop an inferiority complex
Some children have been driven into
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04
LIFE OF VAIN REVOLT

THERE is a pathetic note in the otherwise
4 amusing announcement Of beautiful young
Mia Cram Cook that she is through with the
life Of abnegation she had led as disciple Of
Mahatma Gandhi, and that henceforth she
will seek the freedom and gayety Of the world.
The discordant note rings out from the
fear that Miss Cook will become just as dis
appointed. just as disillusioned in the new
life as she had become in the old.
This is no sad commentary on life in gen.
eral. 1t is based, rather, upon what is known
of the Cook temperament and personality,
and the RIGHTEOUSNESS that characterized the
Cook tradition.
The talented novelist ard playwright.
George Cram Cook, died broken hearted and
disilusioned man when he failed in his revolt
against the false" pleasures of the modern
world.
Now his daughter, inheriting his emotional
traits, would cast off the very mantle of de-
SPAR that he had left her.
The tragic life Of the Great Soul" of IN
Ola, the miseries of those millions Of un-.
touchables, brought about the same feeling
of revolt which previously had caused her to
turn from the ways into which she had been
born.
Miss Cooks experience is worthy of Sc
rious consideration by the thousands of young
men and women who today seem to see moth
ing but despair and Illustration before them,
in their struggle for the finer things of life.
They may cry out against the selfshness,
the greed, and the materialism of the day.
They even may simulate the experience of
Miss Cook and devote themselves to a regimen
of self-denial and protestation against the
modern world
But they will find themselves returning
to the very life they abhor, and then they
will discover that the true protest, the most
effective weapon they have, is one Of parti-
cipation in this world to the end that 1t may
become a better means of existence for all.
In avoiding this roundabout way Of max
ing themselves felt in this life, our youth
of today also will avoid the tragic disappoint-
ments to which Miss Cook seems to have fore
doomed herself.
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hath both an Office of profit and
honor. But then the trade must be
worked at and the calling we'll fol-
lowed, or neither the estate or the
Office will enable us to pay our
taxes"
Ben Franklin wrote thus in 1757
Franklin Roosevelt is acting thus
in 1888. From the first day of Office,
he has fought openly against pre-
vailing conditions. His voice COM
ing over the radio is sincere, his
explanation so clear to all that it
wins immediate confidence.
He is no longer a Democrat but a
great American. ] don't think he
Intentionally insults anybody. When
he spoke Of money changes, I ra-
ther got the impression he meant
the banker.
You local boys in the banking
game will have to admit that for
some time, your principal activity
has been giving two fiveS for a cen
or five ones for five.
Like Achilles, Roosevelt has a
vulnerable spot some place, but Al
Smith did not hit it the other day
I have learned through experience
the value of cooperation. Anybody
who doesn't enter into RooseveltS
train of thought does his country
an injury today. But I don't think
Roosevelt will answer AL Smith just
now. Just because a jackass kicks
you is no reason for you to kick
him back.
Here's hoping that the Happy
Warrior will quit sulking in his tent
and act out his legend instead of
becoming a bushwhacker.
Roosevelt is trying to put us to
work. Are you going to help him?
The building trades have reduced
wages. You never will get building
material cheaper. There are three
projects in the downtown district
which could be built Why is the
postoffice addition so slow in COM
ing through. Instead of watching
Washington so closely, let's start
something in Indianapolis.
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disallow1ng claims Of the Louisville Hydro
Electric Company Of the Byllesby group based
on service fees above cost the commission has
freed the public from the necessity Of paying
these shocking" profits If 1t ever seeks to
recapture the conpany's project.
Recently one Of the large holding COM
panies announced that it would do away with
the service fee system Of draining It's utilities.
If other holding companies do not follow its
lead, the rate-paying public will find way to
stop the system through the federal govern
ment.
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M. E. Tracy Says:

ECONOMISTS are perplexed by the prosperity
H of three small countries-Finland, Lith-
uania and South Africa. BY every law of logic,
these countries should be suffering from depres-
sion like the rest of the world, if not more
severely. They are not only weak but are largely
devoted to agriculture and not only far removed
from the principal markets but surrounded with
strong competitors.
In spite of apparent handicaps however Fin
land increased her foreign trade by more than
SO per cent last year, while we Americans re-
oice in only 10 to Is per cent increase and while
not one Of the other Baltic states can show any,
thing like such a gain
Defying worldwide movement such as Eng
land and the United States were unable to with
stand Lithuania stayed on the gold standard AS
result, Kovno has become the banking center
of the whole region lying between Russia and
the Baltic Sea.
A S for South Africa, though local regulation
\ and British preferential tariffs deserve
some of the credit for her recovery one finds it
hard to believe that they furnish the whole eX-
PLANTATION 1t is quite true that her fruit ex-
ports have been increased by the exclusion of
competitors from the British market and that
diamond prices have been stabilized by reduced
output.
Even So she hardly could have made the
progress she has without a capacity for doing
things and managing things which is sadly lack
ing in some of the greater nations
These three countries offer vivid illustra
ton of what can be done by people who mind
their own business and refuse to believe that
they can be stopped By general conditions.
FINLAND Lithuania and South Africa have
Il not been conspicuous participants in those
world conferences which were supposed to save
everybody, nor have they been loud in the COM
plant that nothing could be done at home until
everything was right abroad.
AS Charles F. Murphy once said: cts no
use to go behind the returns" These three coun-
tries have found prosperity where their larger,
richer and more powerful neighbors could not
We could do worse than study this simple
fact 1t represents bright light in the midst
of world given over to theorizing and gloom
1t is an unanswerable argument, not only as to
what can be done but as to the way in which
il should be done.
am not in favor of that kind of nationalism
which expresses itself in tariff walls and trade
barriers but I certainly believe in that kind
which stimulates faith in peoples power to take
care of themselves. 1t seems to me that this
gigantic failure to overcome depression is due
largely to the time, energy and wealth which
has been squandered on futile efforts to per-
suade or compel other people to provide us with
prosperity.
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"Are You Certain"

n OVERNOR ROLPH feels certain
" that the lynching has ended
kidnapping in California "for long,
long time"
All the weight of evidence is
against any such supposition. The
scheme Of attempting to discourage
crime by mob violence has been
tried in this country over and over
again. Many hundreds Of men have
been hanged, burned and tortured
by mobs on the charge that they
we're guilty Of rape. There is no
indication that this has diminished
the incidence of the crime But
there is one thing which can be said
with surety-lynching begets lynch
ing.
James Rolph Jr. says that the
philosophy which causes criminals
to cringe Is that those who live
by force and violence must expect
to take their chances Of dying in
the same way"
Lynching is crime. Lynchers are
criminals. It is just as sure as to-
morrOw's dawn that the enterprise
to which Governor Rolph gave his
benediction will live to plague him
all the days Of his life. Not till
the day Of his death will James
Rolph Jr., pick up a newspaper with
out being gripped by that terror
which he set lose He is not a
sensitive man, but the thing will
beat and beat upon him until his
defenses are broken down. He will
carry with him the thought, Where
has it broken out now?"
And depend upon it-Uncle jim
will cringe.
Copyright 1893. By The Tines
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This is the first of two articles by Or.
Fishbein in which he discusses aids Tor
those who are hard Of hearing.
THERE is no reason to feel dis
Il couraged or defeated if you
happen to be hard of hearing. On
the contrary, there are numerous
instances of men and women who
have becomes famous despite this
handicap.
The list of such successes in
cludes the great musician Beethoven,
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Oliver Gold
smith, George Meredith, Lord
Chesterfield, and many others.
With modern advances in science
and with the aid available for per-
sons with progressive hardness OF
hearing, there is no reason for any
change in their attitude or behavior.
They need only cultivate the will to
overcome the trouble.
The physician realizes that there
are several different causes for pro-
gressive hardness of hearing, some
of which are comfortable by good
medical care. Those forms due to
infection in the tissues concerned
NAV, to a considerable extent, be
controlled.
Those forms due to what is known
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majors to set Christmas shopping
apart from all other kinds Of shop
ping and to keep the festival the
most galvanic and thrilling period
Of the twelve months.
And what would it be like if. on
those three days preceding it, We
were as tranquil and unhurried as
We are told to be? The whole spirit
Of the holiday would be lost. I'm
agine us all sensible beings, with
every parcel tied a week beforehand,
journeying sedately on our monot-
onous way during the Christmas
season! 1t couldn't be.
For Christmas is our one vivid,
breathless, gloriously hectic moment
when somehow We all manage to be
crazy and happy together.
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by our pride and four times as much
by our folly; and from these taxes,
the commissioners can not ease or
deliver us by allowing an abatement.
However. let us hearken to good adj
vice and something may be done
for us. God helps them that helps
themselves.
1t would be thought a hard gov
eminent that should tax it's people
one-tenth part of their time, to be
employed in its service, but idlenesS
taxes many Of us much more, if
we reckon all that is spent in abso-
lutte Sloth or doing of nothing, with
that which is spent in idle employ
ment or amusements that amount
to nothing. Sloth by bringing on
diseases, absolutely shortens life.
Sloth like rust consumes faster than
labor wears, while the used key is
always bright.
So what signifies wishing and
hoping for better times? We may
make these times better if we bestir.
Industry need not wish and he that
lives on hopes will die fasting.
There are no gains without pains,
then hold hands! For I have no
lands, or if I have, they are taxed
heavily.
"He who hath a trade hath an
estate and he who hath calling
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-04

A CCORDING to all standards Of
l. n good sense and humanitarian,
We should do our Christmas shop
ping early, and admire very much
energetic and public spirited wom-
en- like Mrs. Roosevelt and Frances
Perkins who, so the papers say, al
ready have finished with theirs.
Year after year I make the same
good resolutions. I promise myself,
on the first of November, that I will
listen to worthwhile advice. So I
write down lists; I pore over the
diminutive bank balance; and I al
most cry thinking of all the worn
out sales people forced to be nice
to rambuctious customers who seem
bent on buying out the stores on the
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An InhunlaH Document


JAMES ROLPH JR., Governor Of
- California, has issued an ex-
traordinary document upon which
it is difficult to comment. If it
represents any sincerity Of thought
whatsoever the statement stamps
Uncle jim as a mental illiterate.
If, as seems more likely to me,
this is no more than the mouth
ing Of an unprincipled politician
rejoinder may again seem unneces-
Sary, since the plea is as hollow as
an empty hogshead.
Take, for instance, sentence
such as the following: "Lynchings
are not pleasant, and as a matter
Of policy do not either PERSONAL
ly or officially condone them"
This is either impertinence or
imbecility upon the part of Uncle
Jim. He spoke of the lynching as
" a lesson to the nation" He said
that anybody who took part in this
good job" would be pardoned. In
deed, in his present statement he
says, To-day all California except
the criminals themselves feel safer"
If Uncle Jim has a dictionary
and can get somebody to help him
look up the word I wish he would
inform himself Of the meaning Of
"condone." Uncle Jim has not yet
made the leader Of the mob an
honorary colonel on his staff; nor
has he, as far as I know, caused
medals to be struck off and pre-
sented to all who kicked and beat
the two criminals as they were
dragged across the square. Short
of that I can think of nothing
which the Governor has not done
to show his approval and even his
enthusiasm for the lYnching.
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ScOttSbOrO
By Granville Trace.
If murder on the judgment seat
Doom innocence to death,
How shall our people stand to meet
The anger of Gods breath?
How shall a nation keeps its life
When comes the testing time,
If all its Sinews then be rife
With conSecrated crime?
Can solemn perjury avail
To save us in that day
When august justice holds the scale
And casts the false away?
Was ever nation yet so strong,
Or in dominion wide,
1t crushed the right and throned
the wrong
And fell not in it's pride?
Is murder foul more just because
With coward mouth you pirate
OF ancient majesty Of laws
And dignity of state?
o you that thirst for guiltless blood,
Not such as you should name
The honor Of our womanhoOd
To wipe away your shame!
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It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK, Dec. A woman
1 ' Of San Jose. now living in New
York, writes to me and says:
When I think of the day shall
go home and must inevitably pass
st. James Park, with its hitherto
pretty green lawn and gentle trees,
where it happened. I shrink. Some
thing has been taken from the old
home town that will never belong
to it again.
The stain is there, as you say.
Not only did the $4,000 who were
present see the lynching; all Of us
who were away and who will one
day go back must also see it and
Shudder.
With an almost personal sense
Of guilt have been wondering
whether any of the many with
whom went to grammar, high
school and college in San Jose
could have been participants in
that grewsome spectacle"
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/: A Woman's Viewpoint :
BIZ. MRS. KALTER FERGUSON

Az HAAAGs w AL LAe t~AS0 COO@N
last three days before the 25th Of
December.
But deep as those computations
are, and noble as my sensations be-
come, those last three days always
find me in the thick Of the throngs.
And how I love it! I wouldn't miss
that week before Christmas melee
for anything in the world. 1t COM
pensates for whole year Of trying
to behave as if one were born to be
dignifed.
THEORETICALLY speaking, the
L Buy Early campaign is an ex-
cellent movement, but actually it
probably will never be much more
than another noble experiment. We
always shall have enough procrasti-
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Daily Thought

Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not
after Christ.-Colossians 2:8.
THE cunning man uses deceit, but
i the more cunning man shuns
deception.-Adam Ferguson.