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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
:: A Woman's Viewpoint j.:
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

d. Mrs. NALAEh rGhO CoON
by the sight of 10, the girl whom
they have long loved, as she is re-
created by Miss Hepburn. What's
more, their money is exactly as good
as that of our juvenile minded
adults.
y
THIS generation has come to
4 think of Louisa NJ. Alcott as
a sentimentalist. But there is less
sentimentality in the tears shed
while watching her Little Women"
that there is in the laughter in
duced by Miss Vests Vulgarities
and rhythmical hip movements-n
by sentimentality we mean that
which emanates from an exagger-
ated and false emotion. The first
is a natural reaction to fundamen-
tai sensations and the other cul-
tivated pose.
At any rate, some kind Of mile
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a EngliShman recently wrote a letter to
the London Times to commend the Lon
don police and courts for their promptness
in disposing of case of burglary. His let
ter-revealing, as it does, kind of law en-
forcement which is regrettably strange on
this side Of the water-is worth quoting here:
The goods were stolen on Saturday morn
ing he writes. The burglar was caught and
the goods recovered on Saturday afternoon.
On Monday the burglar was committed by a
magistrate to stand his trial at the Old Bailey.
On Tuesday he was duly tried, convicted, and
sentenced"
Probably speed of this kind is somewhat
exceptional. even in England, where quick
justice is proverbial Nevertheless, the object
lesson is too plain to be missed
With police and courts that work so fast.
is it any wonder that England has less trouble
with crime waves than we have?
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Treasures of the Warehouse


LIE spread his hands in a gesture
L Il of apology. Tomorrow. per-
hapS, but at the moment all those
things are in the warehouse. How
about some nice cold beer?"
And so I fed into the night and
shouted wildly, Home, james,
The best that I can say to nv
descendants is that Goldilocks
would make a more exciting story.
And over the noise of the ftful
traffic two other sounds rang in my
ears. heard the sad monotone Of
the head waiter explaining. I'VE
can not serve you with drink. be-
cause repeal has just gone through"
And beyond this came a louder and
much more annoying vibration. It
was a sort Of cackle - loud and
shrill. 1t came from the vocal cords
Of the gentleman with the last
laugh. 1t was, I fear me, very much
the venerable Bishop James NJ.
Cannon whispering through the
ether, you can't have your repeal
and drink it."
Copyright. 1888. by The Tines
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Southwest winds across Texas, chief source
of sandStorms, have been blowing that way for
100000 years, says a scientist. And yet those
winds haven't blown the state any good.
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BY H. L. seeger.
President Roosevelt proposes to
give us a dollar termed a "commod-
ity dollar" that will not change its
purchasing power or debt paying
power over long periods of time.
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Eastern mayor says woman who takes a
drink with man at bar is no lady Neither
is the man, drinking at the bar beside woman
who can't drink, gentleman.
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For Those to Come

XXTHAT fool I would seem in
w those days to come if
stroked my long white beard and
responded gently, mo, child; re-
tired early to read the poems of
Keats or Shelley"
And if I said, "And would you
like to hear the story of Goldilocks
and the three bearS?" I assume the
answer might well be, TO hell with
GoldilOcks, grandpal We want to
hear about the night that prohibi-
ton ended"
Accordingly, I was moved by my
duty to my descendants and walked
a full three blocks to a hotel which
I knew had obtained an early Ii
cense. Trying to put myself into
the mood of the occasion, I re-
marked jovially to the doorman,
Its pretty swell to sit down once
again to nice quart of cham
payne"
yes" he replied. wouldn't it be
fine if you could get it?"
This I put down to the score
against whimsical humor and pro-
ceeded to the American Indian and
Javanese room. The head waiter
was friend Of mine back In the
long ago and recognized me.
you look just the same" he said
reassuringly, Maybe eighty or ninety
pounds heavier, but you haven't
changed a bit"
Never mind about the compli-
ments," told him. Can you get
me some dinner in hurry?"
Il suggest the frogs legs or the
scallops, y he answered, and how
about trimming mug of ice-cold
legal beer?"
Wine" murmured brokenly, cor
whisky gin, rum, brandy or ba-
cardi."
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Why should the people Of Louisiana be
sore at Senator Huey Long? He's brought the
state more attention than it has had since
Uncle Sam bought it.
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Bridge expert suggests a widow" be intro
duced in contract. Absurd say others. Shed
break up the game too often.
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We won't believe repeal is here until we
hear of some one starting a campaign for pro-
hibition
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The indianapolis Times


ROY W. HOWARD 49,. President
TALCOTT POWELL $50. Editor
EARL D. BAKER . Business Manager
Phone-RIley 1851
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Mayor of Atlantic City rules no women
shall stand either in front of or behind bar.
There's no rule against her sitting on it or
lying under it.
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With so many Of its cabinets collapsing
what France needs is a good carpenter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

New York chemists exhibited 10 products
Of the depression" recently What the country
wants to see is the buy products
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France can't understand why America is
buying gold at high prices. As soon as we do.
Wen tell her.
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A Nan of Character

DEING Of a resourceful nature, I
- am not one to be diSsuaded by
a single rebuff. Here in the magi-
cal city" I thought to myself, there
are many mansions and an equal
number of corner locations. Some
where the citizens are blowing horns
and putting on paper caps and max
ing vague insulting gestures in the
direction of Bishop Cannon
I actually was not intent upon
wearing any carnival regalia, nor
did I care particularly about thumb
ing my nose at any lost leaders.
wanted a cocktail
1t came into my mind that the
political upheaval which had Just
occurred was in the nature of a
new charter Of freedom for the no.
tells of the town. I suppose it is
well-nigh fifteen years since I have
dined in any New York hostelry
All of them have been haunted by
the WraithS of former revelry.
like my dinner without benefit of
THE Last Roundup" crooned or bel
lowed in my ear, and even so I
feel a shade too secluded in such
spots as those where old gentlemen
tread softly on thick carpets and
whisper through the empty rooms,
Clear soup or cream of spinach"
In the last fifteen years every New
YORK hotel has stood as a con-
vincing replica of Napoleon's tomb.
Even with the oysters each stray
guest has been minded to ask, And
what were his last wordS?"
But this was the night of repeal
an epoch in Manhattan. AS far
as my own inclinationS were. I
would have been quite satisfied to
go home to bed with a good book,
but had to think of my descend
ants. Surely the day would come
when one of the grandchildren
would climb upon my knee and say.
Nov tell us, Haywood, did you get
cockeyed and play some prominent
part in the great celebration when
repeal first came to New York City?"
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DAILY THOUGHT

All things are full of labor; man
can not utter II; the eye is not sat
isfed with seeing, nor the ear filed
with hearing .-EccleSiastes, l:0.
T ABOR is the handmade OF re-
- ligion.-Charles H. Parkhurst-
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This is the first of three articles by
measures taken to combat this disease.
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(Times readers are inrfted to cypress
their UietCs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or less.J
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THE THIRTY-HOUR WEEK

Is not so very long since one Of the largest
industrial concerns in the nation was argu-
ing seriously that it could not operate profit
ably unless it maintained the twelve-hour
working day in all its plants
Today bill providing for national thir-
ty-hour week for industry has passed the SEN
ate With certain notifications, it seems to
stand an excellent chance of becoming law.
The gulf between the viewpoints repre-
sented by those two time-scales is almost un-
imaginably wide.
One harks back to the era that built the
pyramids, when a workmans value was ex-
pressed solely IN the muscles of his back and
arms and legs. and when the fate which
might come to him as an individual was so
utterly unimportant that it never even &C.
Cured to his bosses to think about it.
The other expresses the ideas of new day;
a day in which heavy machinery does the
heavy work and the workman himself is not
simply cog in an industrial mechanism but
is, first and foremost, citizen whose right to
a good job and decent living is paramount
to all other considerations.
The speed at which we have Travelled in the
last decade can be gagged by that contrast
Just how federal law fixing a maximum
working week might work out in practice is,
perhaps, something else again. Such a law
would have to be elastic, it would have to be
administered with great wisdom, and it might
well have to be accompanied by some sort of
minimum wage law. But at the moment those
matters are beside the point.
The really exciting thing is the fact that we
are at last able to contemplate such a law
without quaking in our boots and muttering
about Bolshevism.
This scheme would have looked like the
very quintessence of radicalism a few years
ago; today we are ready to accept it as part
Of whole new program, and so far it has
drawn far less comment than the fact that an
American citizen can legally buy a glass of
beer.
That change reflects a shift in public senti-
ment which is almost too profound to be COM
pretended.
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WITHOUT MERRITT

TT is reported that Senator Joseph Robinson
= of Arkansas is using the prestige of his
post as party leader to force the President to
appoint Edgar B. Merritt as commissioner of
Indian affairs or at least assistant commits
sioner. This is both unfortunate and mex
plicable
Merritt is precisely the type of man the
President should not select He has been an
Indian Office bureaucrat since 1906. He was
assistant commissioner under Secretary of the
Interior Fall and Indian Commissioner Burke.
Throughout the Fall-Burke regime, he
found no fault with the sorriest chapter in
the whole sorry book of Indian oppression and
exploitation. Under this regime occurred the
jackson Barnett scandal, the Navajo oil lease
exposure, the Bursum bill, the undertaking of
Indian school children, the attempted spend
ing of Indian funds for the white mans $780,
600 bridge at Lees Ferry and other acts de-
structive 10 Indian welfare.
The appointment of Merritt not only would
be denial Of their share of the new deal to
the ngsuffering Indians. 1t would be the
signal for bitter contest in the senate
harmful to the Presidents leadership.
We hope that Senator Robnson's inter-
est in this appointment will not lead the
President into such an ambush.
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PIOUS ARIZONA

MYTH gesture of Christian pety that
w gives its deed touch of galIows hurnor.
Arizona has postponed the hanging of Winnie
Ruth Judd from Good Friday until April q.
So, with easy conscience, and in accord with
the precedent set by the age Of barbarism,
Arizona now will do this demented woman to
death and may God rest her soul.
The killing of Ruth Judd will remind Amer
leans of another recent hanging of woman
by the sovereign state of Arizona, revolving
affair. It should remind them of the folly of
all legal murder, whether by moose lethaI
CHAIR, or gas-house. And particularly it should
recall to them the futility Of hanging as a
warning to other murder minded women.
Since the beginning Of the nineteenth
century, the states have executed some 10 oOo
persons. On record are the names of fewer
than thirty women who have paid the extreme
penalty. The chance of a mans escaping exc
cution are said to be about SO to in his favor.
The chances favoring a murderess are about
500 to l. Even if states are not turning HILL
name, juries are.
Since we execute women only for murder
and murder is crime of passion, the deter
rent effect of the death penalty on women is
just about nil
Eight states have found all executions I'M
worthy and needless Arizona and the other
thirty-nine states should follow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-13
NO OIL DICTATOR

THE oil industry's troubles can not be
settled oThand by governmental fiat. And
yet the governments interest in the industry
and particularly in the conservation of our
petroleum resources is vital and unquestioned.
1t must watch not only because of broad
social and economic reasons, but also because
the oil industry is a part Of our national de-
tense. Then there is the additional common
place, but nonetheless important, reason that
upon what the government does will depend,
in part, the price we pay for gasoline.
President Roosevelt recognizes the distress
OF the industry and he has drawn fine line
IN offering federal help
Avoiding infringement on the rights Of oil
states, the President stoutly has declined to
accept one recommendation made by oil in
terests called into conference by the admin
istration. This was the suggestion that the
federal government appoint an oil "djctator,' .
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see to It that all flush pools are closed for ff-
teen days, and bring about passage Of oil con-
servation laws in the oil states.
Instead Mr.. Roosevelt said he would rec
ommend the passage Of law prohibiting in
terstate and foreign commerce Of petroleum
and its products produced in violation Of state
conservation laws. A sensible thing to do;
an intelligent suggestion to the states.
He also has accepted as reasonable the
proposal for enforcement Of oil pipe lines
from other branches of the industry.
Thus, what Mr.. Roosevelt has done, in eff
feet, is to tell the oil industry and the oil
states that theirs is the problem Of remedy
ing the distress in the industry; they must
agree on regulatory laws, pass them, and OBJ
serve them.
The federal government will help as much
as it can within constitutional limitations
That is sufficient. The oil industry and the
oil states should act now.
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The Message Center

Times readers are inUjted to cypress
their rie,cs in these columns. Make your
letters short, 50 all can hare a chance.
Limit them to 80 tCords or leSs.J
BY A Chain Gang Member
Why is it that those unfortunate
enough to be forced to depend on
relief baskets from the township
trustees must make a trip down to
the trustees Office, regardless of the
weather, every time something is
needed?
We on the chain gang are sup
posed to get ton of coal every
month during winter months. Why
must we visit the trustees Office
each month before we can get the
coal?
1t is a four mile walk and it seems
forty miles to one of the under
nourished individuals forced to sub
sist on the starvation diet imposed
by the inadequate baskets handed
out for two days work a week.
Whenever, through some slip or
other. our name gets taken off the
milk list, I must walk four miles
down and four miles back to see the
trustees well-fed help and make the
complaint in person. They won't
talk to you over the telephone, no
matter how nasty the weather.
Surely it isn't because those in
charge of poor relief enjoy seeing
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It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BRoUN -

NEW YORK, April ia clipper
' ship came down the tide and
cast her anchor over. She rode The
long swell and waited for boats from
the blazing coast to bear her black
slaves. When they were below deck
She picked up her pin and headed
for America.
That was more than 200 years aro.
sunday in Decatur. Ala, a jury Of
we've white men brought in a YER
ict Of death against Haywood Pal.
-erson. The encouragement of the
steat sovereign state referred to MN
as that thing"
They say it was a quiet courtroom
and a gentle day down in MORGAN
county when the jury filed in after
tWenJy-tour hours Of elaboration
But could none of them hear The
wind in the rigging Of the slave sbin
the creaking Of her timbers. and tbe
cries OF the cargo?
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Poverty, when mitigated by good
hunaor and laughter, will breed hap
pier men and women than wealth
shared amid strife and contention,
or accompanied by Indifference and
neglect.
Then there is the gift Of compan-
ionship, so often missed by the sons
Of busy fathers. One precious, fleet
ing opportunity is given to every
man to learn to know and under
stand his son during early and ado
lescent years.
These years are few. Once gone.
they never can be recaptured. Ano
the child whose father cultivates
his friendship from infancy pre-
serves always in his heart the re-
membrance Of this communion,
which, IN many respects, is the
finest in life.
Every father can train his son
to acquire intellectual curiosity, a
zest for living, and a sense Of So
cial responsibility. He can be-
queath him love Of good books,
good pictures and fine music.
He can, in short, give him a good
name, personal integrity and love
of beauty, any one of which is
! more valuable than a great fortune
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Deafness in Parents May Affect Children

a CERTAIN percentage of in
l. N ability to hear apparently is
due to inheritance of characters
tics which make hearing impossi-
bic. Some hardness of hearing re-
suits from disease and develops
after birth.
On the other hand, a considerable
portion of deafness is present at
birth and represents disorders Of
the structures involved in hearing
If hearing is impossible, the child
ordinarily will not learn to speak.
Such a child, however, must be
taught to speak and also may be
taught lip reading when it devel-
ops intelligence.
One of the most common causes
of deafness is the disease called
otosclerosis, a condition which be-
gins about middle life and gradual
ly prevents hearing through changes
that take place in the tissues in
volved in hearing.
Recently, w. T. Tinkle has made
a study Of inherited deafness, find
ing some families in which hard
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those irresponsible persons who all
their political views while riding on
street cars and busses-and especially
at the top of their voices-and par
tlcularly women?
1 am a nervous man and my pa
tience goes just so far. And the
next time I'hear shrill- voiced wo-
man telling her friend on the bus
that the government is Just made
up of bunch of grafters and that
the Republicans are the only people
fit to rule-You, I promise this, shall
have a page one murder story.
I've always wanted to play the
star role in bus strangling, anyway
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TITO my son transmit the herit-
i age of an honorable name,
reads a sentence in the will Of a
man who died recently.
Is there any legacy of which
boy could be more proud or one
that in the long run will prove a
greater incentive to ambition or the
good life?
Yet such heritages are left too sell
dom by the modern American
father. He strives for money. He
works to obtain a great estate, and
when he bestows upon his children
this accumulation Of fortune. he
fancies that he thus protects them
from the hazards of a cruel world.
Wealth is the last thing that men
should desire to bequeath to their
sons. What, then, you may ask,
must we leave our children? There
each individual may have his pref
erence. I should head my list with
this boon-the memory Of a happy
childhood.
THIS is a rare heritage, indeed.
a more difficult to possess than
wealth, yet one that every truly wise
father could give. To live during
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A Fen Wise Words

A S a matter Of fact, some wise
L A words were SPOKEN during the
trial The world at this time ana
in many lands is showing intoler-
ance and showing hate. It seems
sometimes that love has almost de
serted the human bosom. It seems
that hate has taken its place d.
Wrong dies and truth forever lasts,
and we should have faith in that
That was said by the judge
James Z. Horton. Well. your hon
or, when it comes time to pass sem
tence OF death how are you gong
to plead? Remember that you and
all the rest Of US are on trial for
our faith, our integrity and our low
est common decency. What say
you? Guilty or not guilty?
Speak up, mani Let us all speak
up and prove that we are not guilty
OF this monstrous thing. Let Us
scuttle the slave ship in forty IA
thoms and stop that whine Of the
wind in its rigging.
Copyright 1888 bv The Tfroa~1
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! deaf relatives, or marries a person
who has lost his hearing due to
some acute disease and has no deaf
relatives, the danger Of having chill
dren who are also deaf is slight.
However, when people who are
hereditarily deaf marry people who
are also hereditarily deaf, one-third
OF the children are also deaf.
There are no criteria for dis
tinguishing just which parents of
this type Will have children who
hear we'll and just which ones will
have children who do not.
Doctor TinkIe, therefore. suggests
that every possible measure be
employed to promote marriage be-
tween deafened people and those
VIII hear well, ard that one i'm
portant step in this direction is to
stop segregating the deaf.
If the teaching Of lip reading is
promoted. and if more effort is
made to teach those who are deaf
ened to speak, the deaf will be
taken out of their shut-in con-
dition, and the tendency toward
hereditary deafness be largely con-
trolled.