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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-28
Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

ID ECENTLY one Of the largest circuses in the
IN United States was incapacitated seriously if
permanently damaged. by the detection of large
number OF cases Of typhoid fever among the per-
sonnet.
Investigations are being made to determine Just
how the typhoid was spread. Presumably the dis
ease was conveyed by some one associated with
preparation Of food although some of the cases
apparently occurred among workers who did not
eat in the circus dining tent.
In Maryland. last May. there was an outbreak Of
typhoid fever with thirtySix cases and three Deaths
as compared with annual average of five cases in
May during the last ten years. Most of these
were traced to benefit supper held in April, at
which 500 persons were present.
TN connection with every outbreak of food poison
Il ing occurring in Maryland in the last several
years the direct usually has been preparation
or storage Of food by some person or persons I'M
accustomed TO feeding large groups.
Charity Suppers, private banquetS supplied by
caterers. pcnics bridge parties and fraternity and
charity affairs have many times left in their trails
such cases Of food poisoning.
The difficulty is of course. ineXperience in ham
ding large quantities Of material 1t is one matter
20 mix enough batter for SIX dozen biscuits. and
quite another TO make up enough for several hun
dred.
IT is fairly simple TO prepare the meat from one
il chicken for a chicken salad but if ten chickens
are involved the difficulty is greatly enhanced.
The meat from one chicken can be removed and
put into the refrigerator in thirty minutes. The
handling Of the meat from ten chickens takes more
time and more materials
Germs grow in food when II is warm and moist
II is much simpler 10 cool small bowl Of meat than
a large one.
Custards also are a permanent source of food in
lection.
In the case Of circuses which are travelling from
place 10 place under sanitary conditions that vary
from day 20 day. the advisabty Of vacCinating all
employees against typhoid fever should be considered
seriously.
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The Poor Come First

D like to ask few rhetorical questions on my own
Il account Do these legalsts honesty believe that
the fOrlom and helpless should cry out please do
not give me bread because fear that any such &C
ton would be unconstitutional" 1t would be just
as consistent for me to attack all the provisions
which have been made to give the City of New York
adequate supply of pure drinking water. suppose
I could up and down the public squares crying
aloud that the city had right to interfere with my
right Of contracting typhoid and that it was gross
violation Of my liberties
Since all municipalities have accepted for many
years the responsibility Of keeping those within their
gates from death by thirst I not quite see how
they avoid equal responsibility to prevent
starvation
These are not fantasies. I remember very well a
story of last winter in which it was revealed
that on a bitter night man and a woman died Of
exposure in Brooklyn street of comfortable brown
stone houses I have listened to the arguments Of
indignant taxpayer who says that unless his bur-
denS lghtened he Will move away from New
York and the stock exchange will move away from
New York and legitimate business (no crack at Wall
Street intended will move away from New York.
But it seems 10 me that all these people are
speaking out of turn The first and most vital point
in any program is that it shall suffice to make
hunger and want and homelessness move away from
New York.
Copyright 1884 The Tmesl
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When Help Is Deserted

HAS not the man who can not sell his service
at his own wage lost his hberty?" asked
Colonel MacNider rhetorcaly over the radio. He
has lost more than that He too often has lost his
chance keep his sefrespect. He has been pauper-
lied officially. Has not the citizen whose heritage is
being undermined by the never-ending flow Of pub
JIG moneys into every conceivable socalistc venture
lost his liberty? He has and so have his children
after him."
OratOrical queries always leave little puzzled
because I assume that the man who propoundS them
wants 10 give the answers himself and hardly will
thank anybody who takes any Of his questions as
But whether it helps the gallant colonel or not
VIII undertake TO say that no precious human her1-
tage is lost when the government sets minimum
wages which prevent from working at sweat
shop wages under sweatshop conditions 1 will add
that mans self-respect is shot away when direct
relief is offered 10 keep him from starvation.
How any sane person suggest that there is
anything snde and dishonorable IN the state look
ing after the victims Of economic tides which they
could not possibly control. After all it is not the
dspossessed but the who raising the shout
that the hungry must be fed lest they lose their
inaienable right 70 starve.
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For a week a flood of state
ments were issued in answer to
Secretary Wallace's letter on I'M
economic aspects of the shipping
industry.
Henry Hartman, president of
the United States Chamber of
Commerce, pointed out that only
about 80 or 40 per cent of our ex-
ports and imports have been car
ried in American bottoms in the
last decade.
R. J. Baker, president of the
American Steamship Owners As
ISOLATION, called attention to the
fact that when foreign carriers
suddenly stopped coming to this
country at the outbreak of the
war, "the products of our fac
tories and fields piled up for miles
behind our piers-were dumped
along the tracks, there to rust
and rot while we attempted to
build a merchant marine almost
overnight"
President Roosevelt made this
same point in listing reasons why
a merchant marine is necessary.
ATONE of the business men,
IN however, touched on his
third point.
A merchant marine is needed
as insurance against excessive
shipping rates, said the Presi-
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Questions and Answers

Q-Why does the period of greatest heat the
earth come some time after the summer solstce
when the sun is fartheSt north?
A-The effects OF heat cumulative. Just
It takes time Tor the ocean waters 10 become
warmed, and they retain their heat long after the
sun has started on its southwark Journey so the
oceans OF air on the earth's surface have to be
warmed and reach their maximum heat content not
at the time Of the summer SolStice, but afterward
IN July or August. The air belt and the oceans re-
tain the cumuated heat Of the sun and give it of
later. and We usually have the hottest weather
some time after the summer solstice
Glow Does Secretary Ickes Of the interior de-
partment pronounce his name2
Axe" The I is short as in it.
o-ls WIZ Rogers. the humorist. part Indian?
What is his full name?
Ale IS part Cherokee Indian SFIs fun name
Is William Penn Adair Rogers.
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dent; to guard against the danger
that foreign competitors might
squeeze American shippers having
no other means of transporting
their goods.
This is much the same principle
on which the President has advo-
Gated public operation of utilities
where satisfactory service can
not be secured elsewhere.
1t might be extended to pro-
tect American exporters and i'm
porters against excessive rates on
American ships if the shipping
investigation indicates this is de-
Sirable. Direct subsidies from the
government probably would carry
with them considerable regulatory
power.
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"EIGHTING BOB" REYNOLDS,
Il thrice married senator from
North Carolina, is one of those re-
markable fishermen who never
disappoints
Several of the senator's friends
from the bureau of fisheries were
discussing the piScatorial art, when
Bob made the boast:
We'll, you boys just don't know
how to fish. I can go down to the
river and in one afternoon bring
back enough striped bass for
banquet"
Now the striped bass is the
epitome of Potomac river and
Chesapeake bay sport. Attaining
a size of fifty to sixty pounds and
living to great age, it acquires a
willy intelligence unsurpassed,
even by the famous rainbow and
brook trout. Because of its I'M
excelled flavor, it is in high de-
mand, and commercial fishermen
long ago depleted the Chesapeake
supply.
So bureau of fisheries experts
hooted. They took Reynolds up.
Off he went next day to the lower
Potomac. That night he returned
to Washington with four beauties
weighing up to fifteen pounds.
Mouths agape, the bureau skep-
tics took off their hats to Fight
ing Bob" But if they had only
known the truth!
Facts were the senator had
trolled al day without landing
fish.
But when he went ashore, an
other party was coming in with
nearly a dozen. With twinkle
in his eye. Reynolds told Of his
plight. The more fortunate fish
ermen took compassion on him.
They made him a present Of the
four beauties.
All the way home he chuckled,
for he hadn't promised to catch
the fish. He had only promised
to bring back enough in one aft
ernoon for a banquet"
Copyright, 1884 BY United Feasur,
Syndicate. mc.l
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EARNI lands will be about as
l. good as ever when normal
moisture returns. In some areas
the top soil has blown around and
it will be hard if not impossible
to get it back. This sandy soil,
if it blows around much next
spring, will cut tender plants such
as corn and spoil planted seed.
But officials who have been in
the drought area estimate the top
soil situation is serious in not
more than one farm out Of hun
dred.
You hear little talk here now
of transferring farmers from one
area to another in wholesale lots.
AAA was decidedly sympathetic
to earlier implications by Director
of Reclamation Elwood Mead and
Assistant Relief Administrator
Lawrence Westbrook that whole
sale migration was necessary be-
cause large eXpanseS were doomed
to become a desert.
People who take their first look
at some drought areas are likely
to think, mistakenly, that the
game is up.
Nevertheless, there are areas
in the Dakotas and Montana
which should never have been
titled and where year-to-year sue
cessful farming is impossible.
Long-range AAA plans envisage
retirement of such areas from
commercial production.
Il q
lust to refresh your memory,
y congress last year ordered the
AAA to restore farm purchasing
power. Vast SURPRISES of wheat,
cotton, corn, hogs, cattle and other
commodities were the one big OBJ
stacle in the way, keeping prices
down.
The first reduction program was
on cotton, and it was expanded
this year. Cotton, with record
low crop of 100000 bales and
about Is per cent of the reduction
due to drought, still is not
shortage" crop.
There will be a supply of 18,000,-
900 or 100000 bales, but cotton
will be down very near the NOR
NAL carryover," and Assistant AAA
Administrator Howard T. Tolley,
chief of the program planning Sec
ton, says it's fair to say AAA has
come out even" on cotton.
The wheat crop is little be-
low 500000,O00 bushels, thanks to
planned Is per cent reduction
program and the drought. There's
a carryover of about 290,000,000
bushels and a normal domestic
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month to month, stabiIizing sup
plies and prices and still insur-
ing sufficient supplies to guard
against any unexpected shortages.
Meanwhile, AAA recognizes and
tries to guard against the danger
that the drought relief program
will develop state of mind where
any farmer will turn to Washing
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Graft Goes to the Loyal

TN st. Bernard and Jefferson the other hand,
l. the Long machine had had control and he did
not interfere with the gambling there when he in
vaded New Orleans. Gamblers like peace and the
unfortunate propretors of the dice and keno par
lors and the handbookS in New Orleans have no
strong preference in bosses If the city adminiStra
ton can not protect them from ruinous interference
they would be glad to be conquered by the other
side. When the fight is over, matter which side
wins they will start dealing again and in the
while, they regarded themselves the unoffending
victims of cruel strife in which they had no part.
Such is the temperament of New Orleans, with
its Latn-Amercan and continental European char
acter that prostitution always has been looked upon
as necessary. And, of course, this is an industry
which must pay graft, too. If and when, the Long
machine wins in New orleans the graft will go to
the loyal workers in the underworld who fought the
good fight for the dictator. 1t is a prize worth
battle.
According to all my reading, Adolf Hitler never
has shown any tolerance for vice in any form on
the contrary, he cleaned up very dirty situation
in Berlin which rapidly becoming sort OF
German Paris or German New Orleans Huey Long,
on the other hand, when he was powerful in New
Orleans did not disturb the familiar way OF Things
and it will be noted that his present onslaught IS
timed so as to produce useful political scandal
against the city administration in the impending
election.
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Huey Lives High

TyITTER is described as an abstemious man VINO
does not drink, smoke or even eat meat
Huey however, lives very luXuriousy ana mas
been known to get uproariousy tight as for IN
stance the night when he was popped IN the eye
in the memorable battle of the gents room IN
the country he sleeps in his clothes on huole
cabin floors but his town house is a mansion
There is no doubt that if the K1ngflsh had the
same motives that Hitler has he could be great
help to the ordinary people of Louisiana. He IS
leader and doer and there is no man in the state
who is equal to him But while he sways the I'M
fortunate rabble with his promises to divide up the
wealth of the rich his political followers are kept IN
useless or strictly nominal jobs and he constantly is
creating more state jobs in order to keep his VEL
ers loyal. 49, ~,,
There is no getting at the figures on the pay IoA
cost of maintaining der Kingfshs political ma
chine or the amounts which are stolen tlpin ZIG
treasury indirectly in graft taken from CONTRACTORS
who perform work for the state and hike their buS
To compensate themselves But the money WHICH
is souandered this way is enough to help the people
appreciably if it were spent for poor relief.
The dctator's whole attitude toward the state
was expressed perfectly by his brother Earl one
afternoon when the pair OF them were ordered OIL
the floor of the lower house of the Legislature for
1obbving Huey left the chamber, but Earl ran
down to the Speakers desk and thumbed his nose
at the statesmen. Then he put his face to the
rncrophone pursed his lips and blew salute OF
contempt to the representatives of the people Of
Louisiana
Copyright 1894 by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER q
Times stan Writer

Copyright. 1884. NEA Service. Incl
UTASHINGTON Aug. 2s-The
w big brown dust clouds from
the great drought area carry a
handsome silver lining, If you
want 70 believe the administra-
ton.
Or they just mark the expert
mental farm program as tragic
fiasco. If you take the word Of
the opposition.
Friends and enemies OF agri-
cultural adjustment merely seem
to be yelling a little louder.
Neither side has taken many con-
verts from the other. The AAA
is generally pleased with the re-
suits Of the drought as they affect
its program.
And flexible agricultural adjust
ment, allowing either curtailment
or expansion Of crops as may
seem expedient, will almost GER
tainly go on unless farmers have
a violent revulsion of feeling.
Some of the confusion incident
to emergency organization has
been eliminated by a more def
mite setup. just announced, by
which all agencies of the depart
ment Of agriculture working on
drought problems are brought I'M
der one committee.
THIS new group is known as
4 the drought plans committee,
including all old and new units
organized in the department and
the AAA. c. w. Warburton, agri-
cultural extension director, has
been named chairman.
The AAA has switched from an
attack on SURPRISES to an effort
Of relief and conservation because
the big SURPRISES, in general, are
wiped out.
It's reduction program speeded
up by year or two, it now plots
a planned agriculture in which
farmers can operate prof1tably.
1t sees itself as the ideal mech
anism for a long time program
which will balance supply with
demand and develop a better sys-
tenn of farming.
1t must answer-and it has the
biggest chorus of answerers ever
gathered under one roof-the cat
calls of politicians and the howls
of consumers who will be soaked
by higher food costs. Some of the
winter-spring food prices will rep
resent no more than the higher
farm prices which AAA sought,
but others will go far higher than
that.
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Sec
Il rotary Wallace, and everybody
else is worried by the possible po-
itical effect among city voters.
Critics are hopefully suggesting
that drought may be as tough on
the AAA as good weather was on
the farm board.
But the farmers attitude will be
0NNAoAfC W 4AbbAC 4clA Ill JlO~
grams. You can't dodge the fact
that the various reduction pro-
grams have had the enthusiastic
support of large majorities and
history indicates that the farmers
eventually get about what they
want from Washington.
About 100000 farmers have
become members" Of the AAA
programs and the idea here is TO
maintain contractual relationships
with them and not let huge over
supplies pile up.
Although many farmers have
been badly hurt by the drought,
total farm income for the 1934-35
crop year probably will be higher
as a result of high prices, benefit
Notwithstanding to $780,
100000 this year-government cat
tie purchases. federal relief, and
income from FERA work projects.
Even drought-stricken farmers
receive payments from untitled
land.
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CHURCH TO HOLD FETE
Samaritan Baptists to Hold Block
Party Friday, Saturday.

The Samaritan Baptist church,
706 West North street, will have a
block party from p. m. to mid
night Friday and Saturday on
Blackford street, between Indiana
avenue and West North street
Music will be provided by the Y.
NJ. C. A. band. The Rev. j. P. L.
Highbaugh is pastor Of the church;
Mrs. Garrett Cook, party chairman.
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBROOK PEd[ER

HUEY LONG has been compared to Adolf Hitler
l. l. but to give the KingfSh his dues 1t must be
admitted that he quits initiating and begins to roll
his own ideas when it comes to motives. His methods
are painful bEt.n everything that have read about
Hitler it Is conceded that his only purpose is to help
his country There is no such nonsense as that in
Huey Longs scheme.
The dictatorship Of the Knghsh in Louisiana
strictly is predatory and his political staff is COM
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posed entirely Of sympathetic
spirits who can be counted upon
to give the heartiest co-opera-
ton at all times. Much Of this
following comes from the I'M
derworld Of New Orleans and
the adjoining parishes of st.
Bernard and Jefferson, in which
the gambling industry is an
important source of graft.
For the moment, Huey has
closed the gambling houses in
New Orleans, proper, and it
may seem odd that a man who
cracks down on the gambling
business can command the sup
port of underworld characters.
But the explanation is that
the New Orleans underworld
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ton for help in any kind of afflic-
ton.
Congressman and others have
sought to hav" various counties
hurt by hailstorms or hurricanes
designated as emergency drought
counties" But AAA has firmly
turned them down, insisting it can
deal only with a national phe-
nomenon."
THE END.
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Unemployment aid in the state
is around 81 a month. And pitt
fully small as that is, it is sup
piled almost entirely by the fed
eral government.
On Aug. /, when FERA funds
were cut, $4,000 so-called "unem-
ployables" were dropped from the
rolls, left literally to starve. When
the legislature appropriated S10,-
600 for their succor, Governor o.
K. Alien, acting under Huey's or
ders, killed the bill by pocket veto.
In New Orleans conditions are
even worse than in the parishes.
It is the only large city in the en-
tire country which has not sup
piled one cent for unemployment
relief.
These desperate conditions have
given rise to a united front
movement" among the jobless,
radicals. and union labor.
president ROO VELTS
Il next speech may contain a
merry jingle With a moral.
He got the idea while con-
ferring with Harvey Couch. The
big Woodworking Arkansan had
called on the President TO request
that his long-pending resignation
from the RFC be accepted.
The two men got talking about
subsistence farms. Couch,
back-to-the-l land" enthusiast, told
the President how thousands of
idle in his state were supplying
themselves With food by truck
gardens and little farms.
To add point. he recited
homely verse. The President was
tickled.
Harvey" he said, "let me write
that down. I'll use it in my next
speech"
Here is what he wrote:
a garden and a SOW,
A smokehouse and a COW,
Twenty-four hens and
rooster,
And you'll have more than you
used ter"
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ALLEGED SLAYER IS
HELD TO GRAND JURY
Suspect Valves Examination on
Charge of Murder.

Norman Short, %, of S27 Olive
street, alleged slayer Of his father
in-law, Adolph Squires, "A, of 259
Hendricks place, waived examina-
ton in municipal court yesterday
and was held for the grand jury on
a murder charge.
Short is alleged to have stabbed
Mr.. Squires last Wednesday when
Mr.. Squires protested against
Shorts treatment Of his wife.
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S75OOOOOOO FOR DROUGHT BALM
Better Farming System Vsioued to Rise out of Disaster

This is the last Of series Of four
stories on the mammoth campaign
which the federal government is con-
Quoting for relief from the disastrous
drought. $3.50 O00 600 to be spent in the
widespread drive.
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indianapolis Tomorrow

Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia
Club.
Twelfth District Legion, luncheon,
Board Of Trade.
Lions Club, luncheon, Washington.
Purdue Alumni, luncheon, Sew
erin.
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his scheme are decidedly vague
in suggesting what they would
put in its place. The same
thing holds true in all munich
palities. states and in the fed
eral government.
Personally. I am willing to
listen patiently 70 anybody who
has a better way but there is
no point in wasting time on
those whose attitude is Moth
ing more than the familiar one
that the question Of starving 10
death is an individual right
which should not be inter-
Tupted by a bureaucracy lest
those who are about 70 die
might lose their liberty. I find
sf,s- ,-~.s,,e ~ rrfasrr nyr1raccad in
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The
By Drew Pearson and Robert s. Allen

XXTAsHNGTON, Aug Washington authorities deep
w what is happening in Louisiana.
the eud between King
Huey Walmsy The dynamite they have had
wholly Confidential received from
the
widely publczed political hulabaloo
The situation has the federal officials alarmed the break
relief the resultant spread
oorea mil itancy The