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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16

and an eventual and distinct peril
to the future of our country.
1t is with this situation in mind
that we, the unemployed teachers OF
America, seeing no hope from any
source, and with nothing to lose by
so doing, make a desperate appeal.
We lay our case respectfully before
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, herself
a leader in education, and a sup
porter of NRA.
Already she has in many ways
proved her active interest in the
welfare of the oppressed. In the
unprecedented feat, accomplished
almost overnight of establishing
camps for unemployed women, she
has given brilliant example OF her
pioneer spirit.
We humbly solicit her leadership
on our behalf, with the plea that
she intervene for NRA support for
teachers out of work Through her
influence we request the govern
ment in Washington to recon-
slider it's tacit consent to the ire
mendous waste of training and tall
ent, the untold despair, and the
patent injustice of refusing atten-
ton to one particular group who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
Loose Cartilage Comes Often in Football

periods so as gradually to bring
about complete movement OF the
joint again.
Doctor Wright mentions the fact
that it is possible to prevent me-
chanicaI strain on the cartilage by
elevating the heel of the shoe on the
inner border in cases in which the
inner semilunar cartilages are the
ones involved. Usually the foot is
elevated from u to 3s of an inch.
The eminent writer's on Football
INJURIES" Drs. M. A. Stevens and
w. M. Phelps, feel that after the
cartilage has been dislocated or torn
three times in the case of any one
football player, it is well to have it
removed by operation if the player
wants to keep at work.
A player who has had a torn car
tilage may play again as soon as the
swelling and pain disappear, but the
knee is likely to be thrown out in
any game.
In such instance it becomes locked,
making it impossible for him to con-
tinue and, at the same time, giving
him severe pain.
Some players have had the injury
so often that it becomes more or less
painless with them, and they learn
to throw the joint back into place
when the slipping or pinching Of the
cartilage occurs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
FROM ONE WHO KNOWS

DEOPLE always react to General smedley
Butler. They like him very much. or hate
him lot. When he is not in action-though
he is most of the time1Jhe usually is talking
Sometimes he certificates on subjects of which
he is not master, and makes fool of himself
not a unique distinction among our great
and near-gTeat.
But if there is one thing his bitter critics
and equally extreme admirers would agree on,
1t is that he knows the game of military in
tervention. He ought to- Instead of the
marines have landed and have the situation
in hand" it might have been said during the
last thirty years that Butler had landed and
had the situation in hand-in China, Haiti,
Santo Domingo. Cuba, Panama, Colombia
Mexico. Honduras and Nicaragua.
He led the marines-not only in bravery
but also in being high-handed and hard
boiled
But the general gives us the lowdown. Il
know that many of those expeditions we're
nothing but collection trips for the bad debts
contracted by wall Street brokers" he says.
There is nothing new in that But it is
news coming from the commanding officer
who has done more intervening for imperial
ism than any marine. alive or dead And
speaking of courage. it probably required
more bravery for the general to make that
statement than to win the many medals he
neglects to wear.
Butler now opposes future American in
tervention of the old type. He has found
better wav He explains:
I certainly hope that it never again will
be necessary to land sailors and marines in a
sovereign country on this side of the world.
But if it becomes necessary TO preserve law
and order. then think the President of the
United States should ask several of the Gen.
trail and South American republics TO CO.
operate in the expedition by contributing
warships and men.
That would remove any stigma that in
PREVENTION was planned as Wall Street debt
collecting expedition Of our government"
That. In effect. is what this newspaper and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
It Seems
to Me
. BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Our sons
IN and daughters are back in
school or college. 1t is not my in
tention to speak in any such whole
sale terms. AS it happens, am
retail father.
But in any case they, or it. are
back in the academic halls. And
my advice is. Leave them there
without much outside interference
until spring comes round next
year
During a summer it may be posi-
bic for a parent to make some slight
association with a desce dant
through golf or tennis or general
conversation. But this is not enough
upon which to found a theory.
Every mature generation does well
to accept the fact that there is a
gulf between. Each year in every
college the bitter farce is played of
old grads coming back in sHach Of
their lost youth. They will not find
it, 1t is better to default.
Specifically, there is no poorer
poker game than that in which some
visiting parent attempts to sit down
with the boys to show them how it's
done. The old gentleman usually is
rusty about the rules. He slows up
the deal and hugely embarrasses his
heir by the display of gross inepti-
tude.
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MIRA may prove fine thing for
y industry. but it's going to work
a hardship on marriage. Husbands,
the poor dears, with shortened
hours, no overtime, and few con-
ferences, will find it hard to invent
excuses for being coddled. No fell
low on a six-hour shift can expect
the Little Woman to meet him at
the front door with his slippers.
The Tired Business Man, bless
his bald head, is taking his last bow
before the footlights and somebody
else besides the chorus girl will live
to regret it, or I miss my guess.
The hardest job we women ever
have had is to keep the male fiat
tered and soothed. Whether you
work at home or in the Office, your
main task is to smooth down ruff
fed masculine feathers and protect
the easily irritated gentleman from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
Without PretenSe

A ND it seems to me that a IA
N theirs best chance to be in
any way his youngsters chum must
be seized upon from the very be-
ginning. If the young child is al
lowed to realize at the start that his
parent is not so much, he may in
later life be pleased and surprised at
happening upon hidden virtues.
Many a man has gone to great
pain to attend some church in which
he had no faith simply because he
felt that it would be good for the
children. When did hypocrisy ever
constitute a good soil for seedlings?
And there was another misguided
fellow within my circle OF friends
who made a point of dressing for
dinner every night to impress the
little ones. Seemingly he lacked the
Imagination to realize what would
happen the first time the boy ever
saw him in his golf suit.
1t is pity that fathers must be
older than their children. There
would be far less strain and rever-
ence if a son could be, let's say, no
more than five or six years younger.
Parental dignity should not go very
much beyond the little gulf which
lies between a senior and a fresh
man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
A Woman's Viewpoint {:

Brag on his golf and reawaken
his putting ambitions. Talk up
poker as a pastine and don't scorn
the beer party as a last resort. Any
thing to keep him in good spirits
during the long winter evenings.
Horseback riding is good, if you
can afford it, and picnicking, and
fishing and hunting in season. Buy
a tool chest and set him at the
broken-down furniture. Subscribe
TO some more magazines.
Slyly intrude anagrams, jigsaw
and crossword puzzles into the fam
lily circle. Challenge him TO show
up the dement's of the Culbertson
system. Yard work is always good,
too, but you have to be skillful in
putting the idea over.
Above all, fix him a room to
which he can retire in bitter or
sulking moments. Don't nag or
scrub too much when he's around,
and heaven help you, sister!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
WE REVERT TO JUNGLE

DEVELOPMENT of the Enstein theory
seems to prove that our own little earth
is older than the universe Seems" is said
advisedly, because it is doubtful if Einstein
himself knows what the theory proves It's
only a theory, and, as Professor de Sitter
says the universe is only hypothesis, like
the atom"
What We know about the universe or the
atom justly can be described as ininitesimal
compared to what we don't know Few facts
have been established. The bulk of our sup
posed knowledge rests on guesswork
Meanwhile, the problem of preserving hu-
man achievements for future generations
grows more complicated and bewildering.
Professor Einstein, who caused all the
rumpus, finds himself an exile, not because of
anything he has said or done, but because
he happens to be a Jew.
That looks like reversion to the jungle, and
star-gazing won't stop it.
However little we may know about the
cosmos, we know that it is wrong to prosecute
men for something they couldn't help.
Instead of arguing over his theory, great
minds would be rendering better service If
they concentrated on the problem which Elm
stein represents
Whether the universe is contracting or ex-
panding, civilization is drifting into an era Of
narrowness bigotry and intolerance.
On every hand, men are making economics
an excuse for persecution. In many cases the
persecution has no bearing on economics.
What, for instance, has religion to do with
communism in Russia, or what can 100000
Germans hope to gain by the expulsion of
100000 Jews?
It's the same old story of abused power, of
authority proving itself to be the real thing
by singing out victims.
The so-called civilized world is full of
refugees today-people driven from their
homes, robbed of their property, denied their
right to earn an honest living. because some
body dislikes their ancestry.
Our own country has joined the parade to
the extent of barring immigrants and boosting
tariffs
The scramble for equality has caused us to
forget liberty and fraternity as though the
benefits OF cooperation were possible without
the responsibilities
What has happened to sour civilization on
its former ideals, to recreate faith in selfish
ness, and cause men to find satisfaction in
new forms of brutality?
Where is our boosted progress and enlight
eminent that we make use of it to erect
unnecessary barriers against one another, to
interfere with the natural processes of human
development, to abandon those principles and
bariSm?
What Einstein stands for in his present
condition is more important than anything his
theory seems to prove, and whether civiliza-
ton shall survive is of greater consequence
than how old the earth may be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16

BY NJ. w.
If Indianapolis police are sin
cere in their effort to stamp out
invasionS and smuggling in city
homes by Negro providers, here is
one sound, constructive suggeS-
ton which can be followed.
Police Chief Mike Morrissey
should order all police to pick up,
and order into the open street,
all Negroes who go through alleys,
rolling pushcarts in front of them.
Those pushcarts are nothing but
blinds. The first thing one knows,
those men are in his back yard
and in his house. Dozens of In
dianapolis persons can testify to
the merit of this suggestion.
Of course, there are some hon
est pushcart men. But the major
ity are nothing but thieves and
sluggers-potential killers. How
about it, Chief Morrissey?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
Poetry
BY HARRIET S. OLIvICK

BY HARRIET S. OLIVICK
Poetry is music:
Soft music blurred with tears.
Long, monotonous music OF some
past dead years.
Clashing savage music Of a brown
skinned race,
Rushing to crescendo, evil in us
pace.
Music drenched with passion, thick
with vague perfume;
With hazy figures lounging IN q
darkened room.
Music calm with fortitude, militant
and sharp;
Music light and fugitive, Win silver
its its warp.
Music dull with sorrow, defeat IN us
tones.
Music fast and acknowledgement
With devil in it's bones.
Music young and naive, silver-toneo
and clear.
Music proud with victory over
weak kneed fear.
L'ENvOI \
Poetry is music:
In myriad changing keys.
To the God Of Poetry
bend on FASHIONED knees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Associat ton and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

about prevention of further dis
ability.
However, any operation on the
knee Joint is a serious matter and
many people hesitate to have it
done, preferring to give up athlet-
les or to try some other procedure
rather than undergo the operation
on the knee.
Recently, a Canadian physician,
DR.. C. S. Wright, has developed a
procedure which he believes is
helpful and which has been used
ON a considerable number OF pa
tientS with success.
He says the first thing to do is to
make sure that the tissues are back
in place, by pulling the leg and at
the same time turning it inward so
that the locking is relieved.
After that some iodine is in
iected, which creates a rather mild
Inflammation and causes the carti-
lage to join together again by heal
ing. After the iodine injection, the
leg is fixed in the extended posi-
ton with a splint, which is kept
on for two weeks.
Then this is removed and the
person is permitted to walk for short
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
Not IN Little MiSterS

A ND aside from the play itself,
"a the jokes and quips flow
slowly. No normal boy Of 18 or
whereabouts is apt to fall into easy
and loose phrases in front Of his
father, and when the older man
attempts to break the ice by relat-
ing few limericks of the baser
sort the effect always is CHASTITY
I am not a prude. and yet I must
admit it embarrasses me hideously
to sit by while any ancestor Of mine
from grandmother down under
takes TO tell a torrid story.
1t is not true that father is a
boys best friend. That can't be.
There is no way by which con-
Straint may be banished wholly
And any overt act toward tearing
down the barriers but renders them
more spikey.
And yet man and his boy need
not forever travel like parallel
lines, doomed never to meet this
side of infinity 1t is not impossi-
BILE for them to veer a little toward
each other. A father is a fool if he
tries to sell himself to his children
upon his virtues alone. Nobody has
sufficient number.
He ought to let his faults lie as
they are. What is the use of fax
ing? No valuable friendship ever
was built on such foundation.
And by the time the boy haSg
reached 16 or Whereabouts, the
father finds that it is cold comfort
being a god in the sight of any
fellow mortal He wants to take
the boy with him to the country
club for a round Of golf, or maybe
to ask him along as a theater COM
panion.
But in these places there are
cronies who know the older man
for what he is They are likely to
take delight in mentioning some of
his slighter transgressions.
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. BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

petty and upsetting details of do
nestle and business life.
Feminine brains probably will be
getting more and deeper convolu-
tons, I imagine, and perhaps a few
closed cells will open under the
strain. Anyway, it looks like it will
be hard winter on us womenfolkS
y
WE'VE got to keep the men oc-
w cupied and amused in their
off hours. Business will engage
them for only portion of the day
in the future, so that we must needs
wTestle with their leisure.
The old feminine ingenuity will
be doing overtime then. 1t will
have to think up some kind Of
hobby for papa, or mamma will be
a nervous wreck before spring.
Perhaps a few suggestions will not
be amiSS here.
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have labored conscientiously, and
are now, without fault of their own
the victims of a ruthless employer
the educational system in America
I ask that each teacher, instruc-
tor and professor now out of work
and his dependents write at once tC
Mrs. Roosevelt, on the plea Of JUS
tice to his profession, and sign his
name under the caption, MIRA
Codes for Teachers"
BY r. H. Stearns
Just as long as the chain system
of selling the necessities of life is
allowed to operate in this country
Just that long will we have an eco
nomic depression.
All communities depend upon the
profit from the sales Of these COM
modities for support. Where do you
place your support? If you want tc
live and own property in one town
and give your support to another
town, that is your business, but your
Creator gave you brains to use. Why
not use them in this case?
The people must decide these
questions for themselves.
BY Samuel Waldgeir.
note an item in The Times
which states that "Nazi Germany
is pledged to admit Catholic Jews
to full rights of citizenship under
terms of a memorandum from the
Holy See."
Now, will some Of your readers
be so kind as to attempt to answer
this: If Christianity is synonymous
with the ideals of humanitarianiSm,
why did the Holy See fail to insist
on equality Of all German minor
tiles, regardless of race or creed?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
"LoUe EN-, Leave 'E1n."

QUITE properly we frown on
~ those who seek to meet on
common ground by doing baby talk
with children. Nevertheless I think
it is a mistake to discuss the League
of Nations or commercialized vice
with anybody less than 7. I have
been shocked at such times as L
met grave and learned youngsters
who were treated from the begin
ming as equals.
There can be a late Towering OF
friendship between father and his
son. At 10 an old gentleman no
longer fears that his natural self
may be a bad influence upon boy
of 40. At this stage Of companion
ship the balance has swung the
other way. 1t is now the boy who
feels that he must watch his step
in the matter of revelation.
That" he says to himself, Is
not exactly the sort Of story ought
to tell my father. 1t might shock the
old gentleman"
Copyright 1888 by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16

We note from his picture that Cuba's new
president wears one of those Hitler mustaches,
but being fair-ninded we are willing to give
him the benefit of the doubt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16
Daily Thought

TINE grass withereth, the flower
fadeth; but the word of our
God shall stand forever-1saiah,
40:8.
God is truth, and light His shad-
oW.-Plato
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16

Unhappiness among married women is
caused largely by worry over the past, asserts
a psychologist. Maybe they're just trying to
recall their Miss-spent lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16

(Times readers are inUited to eTprest
their pielos in these columns. Make Vour
letters short, so all can hate q chance
Limit them to $50 1oords or leSS.J
BY Sue NJ. Farrell
My attention first has been called
to an article in your issue of July
20, under the caption Value OF
Vaccine Proved in TYPHOID Fever,
in which typhoid conditions in the
World war are compared with those
in the Spanish-American war.
This is most decidedly unfair, for
while in the Spanish-American war
there was practically no sanitation
in the World war sanitation was al
most perfect.
During the Russo-Japanese war
the japanese had no incubation
and no typhoid; and it is well
known that among the British
soldiers sent to Gallipoli there were
numerous cases of typhoid, despite
their having been inoculated.
In the United States Public Health
Reports, March %, 1919, there is an
article entitled Typhoid Vacclna-
ton No Substitute for Sanitary Pre-
cautions"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-16

By Martha Pi1ger.
Under the ruling of the ma
tional recovery act Of Sept. 8, the
unemployed school teachers OF
America now know that they can
not look to NRA for consideration
of any kind. On the assumption
that schools, colleges and univer-
sites are nonprofit-making insti-
buttons, 10000 unemployed teach
ers, prepared intensively for one
profession, are Disseminated against
without parallel
Robbed of the right to work, at
present encouraged officially for all
other type of employment, they face
restitution. All hope for the tu-
ture is cut off by the continued
discharge of those still on duty and
by the annual increase of ne~'
teachers produced, themselves going
into blind alleys.
The result rapidly is undermln-
ing faith in the principles upon
which our democracy is founded,
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Danger to City

wholly disappve you your
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-26
FITNESS OF SHARK FOR FOOD

Many who would lot knowingly eat
shark frequently eat and enjoy it when
camouflaged as filet or tendefioin of sole
or sturgeon. The sale of shark under the
names of fish more reputable in the family
diet is set forth by the Fish and Game Diyi-
sion Of the State of California in report
of the food value of shark.
A widespread but fallacious belief that
all shark are maneateks is responsible for
the general prejudice against shark as
food for the human family. There are not
enough people available in the water to
feed a shark population, ii is pointed out;
and if shark had to depend for living up
on eating people there would be no shark to
survive starvation.
Willie shark and skates ere not COM
monty reg sfded as fine eating as some other
among people who cannot afford the high
er costs of salmon, tuna, and halibut. If
.-operly PREF AIRED, it is asserted, some of
the sharL and many of the skates compared
fayc~abss wsth more popular fish.
It may not be generally known but in
China, with its teeming millions of popula-
to-, shark fins are. considered delicacy
Most Of the shark are small, with small
tcetk. Like most OF the fish suitable for
human iare, they feed on smaller species
of fishes ana on invertebrates, which swarm
the sea in vast numbers. The basking shark
one OF the largest Pacific varieties found in
California waters, eats only very tiny mar
inc organisms.
Advertising is gradually overcoming
the prejudice against eating shark, it is
STAGED. Shark and skates are now sold in
fair number in the markets in San Fran
cisco.
In San Pedro the shark are prepared
by beheading, removing all the fins, clean
ing, skinning and finally fileting. AS steaks
they appear on the retail markets, usually
under the name of ''filets,' and sci from 10
tc 90 cents pei pound. Fishermen receive
about cents per pound
Skates, which brig about the same
price, are prepared for the market and sold
sometimes under their own name, and other
times as 'sfilets., Both shark and skates
may be cooked like any other fish, without
any special preparation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-26
IN EXPENSIVE GUEST

Count Ilya Tolstoy of Russia, when
lectuling IN America, had very thrifty
manager, who did not propose to allow the
Court to lend his presence to any function
whoa pa So. when group of Chi
cage professors sought to honor the Count
BY inviting him to luncheon, the manager
wired al acceptance. but stipulated that "a
fee Ct go would be charged. 81
The Hospitality inclined professors
We're at ss~st dumbfoanded by the sugges-
ton that hey must pay $50 for the privilege
Of entertaining the Count. After consults-
ton saev delegated one of their number TO
the manager, which he did in the follow
ing telegram:
How do Jon get that way? We might
be able to afford breakfast or chocolate
soda with the Count. What IS your scale
for ten and toast for Tolstoy? Also 20 jump
IL the lake"
pleasing part Of the story Is that
Count Tolstoy later told It on himself and
exhibited the telegram to amused news
paper men,