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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
1t Seems
to Me
: By HAYWOOD BRoUN

NTASHINGTON. Aug. LIT
wv says somewhere in the Bible
that not a sparrow falls 70 earth
without ehciting the attention OF
/ the Lord. The Blue Eagle is seek
ing 10 operate along the same for
mula.
We are living under an adminis-
/ tration which is trying 70 play the
role OF Jehovah and very properly,
I think Herbert Hoover fell from
a curbStone and broke his neck.
politically speaking. The very worst
that can be said OF Roosevelt. no
matter what happens. is that he
reached for a star.
Ny enthusiastic hope that We are
moving toward a paternaliStic gov
eminent was heightened yesterday.
sat in as a member of the con-
Stunning public at the hearing on
the code Of the Legitimate Full
Length Dramatic and Musical The
atrical Industry"
I do not remember ever having
! consumed a theater. no matter what
my profile may suggest However.
I did not feel wholly miscast in the
role assigned TO me, because on
three occasions within the last year
I failed TO ask for passes and
bought my own seats.
The scope Of the Blue Eagles in
tereSts was chiefly borne in upon
the entire committee. which sat
gravely and listened TO the COM
plant of Augusta Ocker secretary
of the Theatrical Wardrobe Attend
ants Union) that some OF these for
eign actresses carry with them per-
Sonal maids who do the work which
might be performed better by a
good American assistant wardrobe
mistress.
And it may be that in the months
to come when Mile. Fiji cries. My
rouge and lipstick and an eyebrow
pencil. Yvettel" a representative
of the United States government
will tap the alien huSsy upon the
left shoulder and eXclaim, NO no.
ma cheri, it is against the lawl"
Well. why not? II is. if you like,
slightly comic TO listen while a
deputy recovery administrator
gravely approaches the problem OF
whether male performers in stock
are required to provide their own
costumes when appearing in draw
ing room comedy.
And yet it hardly is as comic
as the notion that all ills, great and
small. will find their own level and
ready correction if left TO the tender
mercieS Of rugged individualiSm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

living is not to be done by any rules
that regulate machinery.
Feminine preference. therefore.
always will reach out for the use
less object requiring care and dust
ing. We like to work and worry
over our houses. our furniture. and
our men. Perfection never will be
quite human enough for US.
And so. you've guessed II. Some
thing about that Chicago exposition
made me mad In spite Of the
marvellous lighting. the strange
beauty, the miraculous accomplish
ments, the machinery was over
powering.
I felt ground 70 bits between in
Vulnerable wheels, and wanted moth
ing so much as an old, overstuffed,
dusty. germ-laden chair, where
could flop down and have a real
good cry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
A Woman's Viewpoint

IF you still believe this is the Age
i Of Woman, go 10 Chicago and
see the exposition. A Century of
Progress-and the results are def
initely, harshly, blatantly masculine.
It debates your feminine egoism.
Robots. iron, steel, rubber, oil, au-
tomobiles, airplanes. electric devices,
strange metal contraptions. mil
hon wheels revolving. Spokes. spikes.
bolts. engines and microbes. The in
sides Of machines and men exposed.
analyzed and explained. Straight
tall buildings; vivid garish colors;
up-and- downness. Everything mar
velously smooth running, colby
efficient, but without warmth or
soul. No curves, no softness, no
subtlety there.
Even the houses set up 10 show
what the future American home
wiz be give you sort Of pang. They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
TOUGH TALK

CTIMULATED in part, no doubt, by the ex-
- element over the kidnapping epidemic,
there was lot of hard-boiled talk at the
Chicago meeting of the International Associ-
alton of Police Chiefs
Several speakers INDUCED in the typical
treat EN- rough brand of scowlng criminol-
ogy Such talk was by implication thinly
yelled plea for the third degree.
The fact remains, however, despite all hys-
terra. that the rough stuff never has worked as
well as skill and subtlety The cities with the
best record in depressing criminals do not en-
ploy the third degree as a matter OF course.
Crime today is well organized and run by men
with keen minds, whatever the warping OF
their moral natures. If the police are to out
wit them they must show more intelligence
than the master crooks.
Hence. what is needed is not so much to
bear on harder with the night stick and billy,
but to employ the best scientific methods of
crime detection. and to move swiftly, silently.
and effectively Such is the procedure in the
better European police systems. where GRIM
inals rarely escape from the tolls of the law.
Merely to below and bruise is like hunting
tigers with a brass band.
But suppose we accept for the sake of ar
elment the view of the tough boys in the po-
lice service If we are going to handle the
crooks roughly let us see that the right ones
get smashed up The plea for tough treatment
usually is based on the military analogy. Crime
is war: the criminal has made war on society:
therefore he must be treated as an enemy.
and there is no place for delicacy in the pic
ture.
major defect in all this has been that the
military comparison falls down at just this
point. In war. the generals meet the cream
of the enemys forces with their own men.
There IS no ducking the responsibility of bat
Ting with the bravest and most dangerous
troops.
But in the tactics of the treat EN- rough"
school of crime repression. all this is reversed.
The shock troops of the enemy are greeted
politely while the relatively harmless stray
glers are swooped down upon with great fe-
rocity.
The real enemy in crime land is the master
crook. the organizer of crime. the racketeer.
the supergangster. EaSan one ever heard Of
q major racketeer or gangster getting the
works from the police? He gets respectful if
not deferential. treatment. while the buns.
lone wolves helpless scum. degenerates and
others mainly without clever lawyers-an
really cases for social work rather than Grim
inal jurisprudence-are beaten and thumped.
If the police demand the right TO treat Grim
inals roughly, then let them at least see TO it
that the severity of treatment is adjusted
pretty closely to the menace Of the individual
TO society.
Frantic demands were made that paying a
ransom TO kidnapers be made felony, what
ever happens TO the unfortunate victim OF
che hdnapera This Is the worst nonsense of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

or vaccine based on the discovery
OF the germ.
While much of this has been of
interest and may perhaps lead to
the eventual solution of the prob
lem, the exact organism has not
been found
In most cases the disease occurs
in three stages: First, the beginning
is sudden; second, a milder con-
dition following the first acute con-
dition; and finally, a sort Of
chronic condition in those who re-
cover.
In the acute stage there are the
usual symptoms of infection, such
as fever, weakness, headache, and
running Of the nose. but in addi-
ton in these cases there quite fire.
quently is double vision and emo
tional disturbances, indicating that
the brain has been affected.
Most Of the patients become leth-
argic or sleepy at the beginning of
the disease and remain in this con-
dition until the recovery from the
acute stage has taken place.
NEXT-Steps in the progress of
this disease.
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By sherman Townsend.


letters short, so all can hare a chance.
BY Sherman Townsend.
Secretary Central Indiana Game and
Fish League.
take this method of commencing
the valuable service your paper has
given the people on stream pollu-
ton. The facts given in the articles
that appeared recently by your
staff writer, Arch Steinel, surely are
sufficient to arouse the people to
action.
1t is strange that the great mass
of people, great many Of whom
have known these facts, have stood
idly by and suffered this dastardly
menace to health and property so
long. But it seems there is a time
and the hour for everything-and it
has taken The Times to enlighten
and call the people to a sense Of
their duty.
1t seems now. since the people
have been staggered by develop
ments as to the poisonous conditions
of our streams, that every one wants
to do something. The fish and game
leagues and clubs of the state want
to help in this matter; in fact, for
years they have wanted to do some
thing. but the law on pollution is
such that only small fine of 500
or $3.50 can be imposed on violators
and that would mean nothing to
a city or manufacturing plant.
So this dangerous practice has
gone along unmolested, until today
we face serious condition.
And so today our once beautiful
and healthful streams have been
converted into cesspools Of filth and
poison-especially White river-un-
fit for any use whatever.
The pollution Of our state streams
is not news to the writer AS Sec
rotary of the Central Indiana Fish
and Game League, it has been my
duty to look into such matters
when notified by members of the
league. and these requests have
come often.
In company with other officers
and members of the league, have
visited the sewage disposal plant at
indianapolis many times, and in a
few instances found the plant only
partly in operation. 1t was stated
to the writer that the force had
been cut to save expense, especially
the night force, and the raw sewage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

This is the first of three articles on
sleeping sickness"
MO one knows when the first cpl
l ' demic Of lethargy associated
nth fever and destruction of brain
tissue first afflicted mankind, but
HippocrateS, father of modern SCI
entif1c medicine, described an cpl
demic Of this character which ap-
peared in the spring and continued
on into the autumn, at which time
it was more fatal.
There were similar epidemics in
the sixteenth century in various
parts of Europe. Near the end Of
1890, such epidemic occurred in
southern Europe and was described
under the name of mona"
However, the modern condition
called epidemic encephalitis was de-
scribed in Vienna in 1917 during the
World war and was given the name
"encephalitis lethargica"-or sleep
ing sickness" as some commonly call
it-because it is an Inflammation Of
the brain associated with drowsiness
and somnolence.
The disease spread to England
and to the United States and Can
ada; it seems possible. however, that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
Code Needed

BY NRA Supporter.
I am interested in the code sys-
tenn we now are trying to put into
effect, and for the NRA 100 per
cent, but why doesn't that bring
the men into consideration work.
ing for a city tea company?
Those poor fellows start from
their place at a. m. and they
give them such heavy duty and
large routes they are not through
until about p. m. After an all
day grind, they drive into the
plant and take the place of a girl
stenographer and continue on the
books to 9, 10 and IL each night.
Saturday they work to 9 and 10
reloading their trucks and Sun
day they spend a half day settling
their accounts.
To summon it all up. they could
or should. use one more force Of
salespeople as large as they have
now, or some extra girls. Tell Mr..
Wells about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
Hopeful Signs

DEFORE it is adopted the code
ID will contain some provision as
to the number of hours during
which chorus girls may be called
upon to work during rehearsal. And
anybody who wants to sit in the
seat Of the scornful, can picture.
if he likes, the scene in the navy
department as the secretary says
Send the marines TO the George
NJ. Cohan theater Immediately.
Johnny Boyle has put his tap
dancers through one boop-a-doop too
many"
The American theater as it stands
today hardly can be classed among
the heavy industries of the nation.
and yet the test and token Of earnest
purpose must lie in the manner in
which a measure works in small
things as we'll as in large.
1t is, think, a hopeful sign that
while government agents were Sit
ting in one room discussing the pros
and cons Of the Little Theater move
ment in Maine, only a few hundred
yards away a code for the coal in
dustry was being formulated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

are so terribly clean, so factory like
To be sure. they have all sorts of
lovely gadgets. Systems for hot and
cold air; sun parlors guaranteed TO
extract all the beneficial rays;
metals that will not tarnish, walls
that will not burn. chairs that can
not break. But. in spite Of that. I
don't think we'll ever accept them
entirely.
TN the first place. no woman really
l. believes that the shortest distance
between two points is a straight line.
1t hasn't yet been proved to her
heart. She likes to meander a lit
tle-to enjoy the devious way.
And, by the same reasoning, she
never viii admit that homes are
just houses. places in which eff
cheney can be prsIcticed. She knows
that home is for living, anG that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
So They Say

Americans are crazy to want
France to disarm If you lived be-
tween Germany and the ocean,
would you disarn?-Colonel An
thony Drezel, Paris and Philadelphia
banker.
A woman must school herself to
think only of business while at
work. and only of her husband and
children while at home-Mrs. Ger
line Bowman, Chicago business
woman.
I am one of those who think
President RooSevelt's policy is TO a
large extent indeed right, because
all regular expedients have failed.
Sir Josiah Stamp, British econo-
mist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
Appreciation
BY FAUGHN MANLovE WHITE

My wick is trimmed; with purest oil
Ny bowl is filed; my little light
In polished globe. burn evenly
Throughout the night.
But now my little fame shows twice
AS brightly as before. nv dear
For you have placed just back Of me
A mirror clear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

That plan of Chicago scientist to cure
badness by giving the victim an injection of
an extract obtained from a sheep gland
sounds very logical-in fact, what could be
more appropriate than sheep gland for grow
ing crop of wool?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

Writer estimates that the United States
will produce 100000 bushels of spinach this
year as compared with 100000 in 1892. Hey!
Haven't they heard about this crop reduction
business?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

This forty-hours- a-week limitation prom
ises to be pretty tough on some folks. What
will be the alibi now of the poker-p playing
husband who returns home at a. m and
on his Job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

Louvre authorities Indignantly deny that
their Mona Lisa is a copy. Microscope and
X-ray prove it, they say. But if you can't tell
the difference without a microscope and an
X-ray, what difference does it make?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

Strangely enough, that Nebraska congress-
man who is charged with misbranding gas is
not accused of putting a misleading caption
on one of his campaign speeches, but Of vio-
lating the state gasoline law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

Paris dispatch reveals Marlene Dietrich
now has substituted red trousers for black
ones. Just like lot of business men-out of
the black and into the red
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
Achievement IN Harmony

Achievement IN HdrmOny
DOSSIBLY not all code hearings
l. are quite in the spirit of the
one which was held in regard to the
theatrical industry. I assume that
neither steel nor coal nor cotton
possesses a William A. Brady 70
stand in a Washington committee
room and sweep his audience with
an address which had all the mellow
appeal Of curtain speech after the
second act Of a bowling success.
Bill Brady stole the show. He put
the plea for cooperative effort more
persuasively than it was voiced by
any other.
When this particular representa-
tive Of the public was told he could
go home, there still were points 70
be ironed out. There had been some
dark looks, insinuations and re-
Dukes but the thing seemed to be
moving along
II was the least acrimonious thea
trical meeting ever attended. and
when the producing manager can lie
down with the stage hand and actor
begin 10 feel that, after all, per-
haps Utopia is just around the cor
ner.
Copyright. 1888. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

With many savings banks offering only
per cent. BITS of men are putting their money
in beer these days to get 50 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

United States naval observatory astron-
omers reveal that giant meteor recently hit
the planet Saturn-but what hit us in 1929
is still unexplained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
Nothing Too Small

TINE best chance Of success for
Il NRA lies in a policy Of regard
ing nothing as too great to tackle
and nothing as too small.
As a people we have been some
what Indifferent to government. We
have regarded il as an outside
agency which did not touch us in
any way. This was more true in
the past than at present, but even
today there must be millions of
people who do not sit up nights TO
worry whether we are on the gold
standard or off it.
Even a tariff which affects each
individual vitality more or less sneaks
up on the citizen and he may not
realize just what he is rendering
unto Caesar. But if a stage man.
ager says: "Thatll be all tonight,
girls; Washington won't let me re-
hearse that number any more until
tomorrow" then twenty-four people
have a more acute notion than ever
before Of the potentialities Of gov
ernmental power for settlement. The
blue eagle does we'll to follow the
flight of the sparrow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
Daily Thought

God will not cast away a perfect
man, neither will he help the evil
doers.- JOB $40.
FOOD deeds ring clear through
" heaven like a bell.-Richter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14

(Times readers are inr;ted to cypress
their rieps in these columns. Make your
Limit them to ESQ toords or less.)
letters short, so all can hare chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-14
Sleeping Sickness Is Ancient Ailment

This is the first of three articles on
sleeping sickness"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-16
NEWS EXHIBIT
FEATURED BY
CHURCH PAPER

The board of directors of the
local Christian Science church has
been invited TO view a public ex-
hibit of international news and
advertising of The Christian Sci
ence Monitor, that is being held in
Los Angeles.
In this exhibit. feature and
news items of the Monitor are pre-
sented attractively by unique post
ers and scrapbooks. The contents
of the paper are graphically shown
in special groupings; and the vari-
Gus pages devoted to educational
activities, the Home Forum, wom-
ems interests, finance, book re-
views, etc, have their sections A
mezzanine. floor is given TO the
children's and young folks items.
Hand painted posters give publici-
ty to advertisers in the Monitor.
The international aspect of the pa
per permeateS the exhibition.
The room in which the display is
held, on the ground floor of the
Roosevelt building, 713 West 7th
Street. Los Angeles, has been spe-
cially decorated and artistically
furnished. The exhibit will con-
tinue until February 25, and is
open TO the public from 9 a. m. to
9 p. m, except Sundays, Wednes-
days, and holidays. On Wednes-
days it closes at p. m, and on
Sundays and holidays it is open
from / to 6 d. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-16
WOMAN MAKES
ALL AUTOPSIES
FOR HOSPITAL

SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 16.
(UP)-Dr. Louisa H. Bacon, a
charming young lady, presides over
a smelly laboratory at the San
Bernardino county hospital as per-
haps the only woman autopsy sur
geon in California.
Since becoming the head pathol-
osisr and director of the laboratory
in 1920, DR.. Bacon has performed
1893 autopSies, unpleasant assign
mentS even for veteran surgeons.
She has testified at one inquest
an average OF every 10 days and
mas appeared in court in connec-
ton with deaths about once
month.
DR.. Bacon, explaining that "wo-
men do almost everything now,'
told how she happened to enter
this type of work.
After graduating from the
University of Chicago, I attended
Rush Medical School and gradual
ed from there in 1929. she said.
'The pathological end of the
study fascinated me and 1 decided
to continue with that work"
Dr. Bacon conducts all autopsies
for the county and for the coro-
ner's office. She is married to a
physician, DR.. Charles S. Bacon,
who practices in Riverside.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-16
TRUST FUNDS
ASSIST NEEDY
TEXAS PEOPLE

DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 16. U.P)-A
little known beneficence of the late
u, S. Senator Charles A Culber-
son results each year in recon-
structed bodies of 35 to so Texans
unable to pay for medical or hos
pital care.
Culberson established a SIS 900
trust fund in 1925, directing that
semi-annual interest of S7O0 be
given Baylor hospital, Dallas, ito
help to life and new hope" per-
sons needing medical attention.
When persons aided are released
from the hospital they are given a
letter stating the facts of Culber-
sons life and asking that they
speak kindly concerning him. No
other repayment is eXacted for the
aid given them.
Culberson went to the senate as
a young man, after serving as gov
ernor in the late COS, and remained
in that body until his death. He
was the son OF David Culberson,
who sat in the senate from Texas
when the state was young.
The younger Culberson was
known as a champion of prohibi-
ton and law and order. He once
prevented prize fight at Dallas
while governor.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-16
Old Cannon Gets
Another Chance

CANON CITY, Colo, Feb. 16.
U.P)-Old No. 10 doomed out again
recently for the first time in 81
years.
The old cannon, used by the
Union forces during the Civil war,
had been moved to the municipal
building where it will be placed in
a cement base, on the lawn.
The night after old No. 10 had
been moved a crowd of boys gave
it touch OF high life. A charge
of powder was placed in the cam
non and rammed home. A fuse
was inserted in the old fuse hole
and then a match, properly ap-
piled, started things moving
Old No. 10 came back with
bang which was heard in every
section of the town. Windows
were shaken and people frightened
by the explosion. 1t was the first
time the cannon had been fired
since the conclusion of the Civil
war.
Old No. 10 is a brass cannon and
is the property of the local G. A.
r. Post No. 10.