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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
CHILDREN'S BOOKS

MOTHER knows best about most things
WI but not necessarily about the books her
children should read.
This blunt statement is made in the cur
rent issue Of the Parents Magazine. Its au-
thor. Josette Frank, makes it as result of
long experience in the Child Study Association;
and this experience leads her to lay down
very simple common sense rule about books for
children.
No book. she says, is a good book for child
if it fails to interest him. Conversely if it
does interest him it very likely is good book
for him; although the child next door might
not like it at all
One of our little failings is our easy-going
habit of assuming that all children are pretty
much alike in their tastes. We don't make that
mistake with adults we are ready enough to
admit that one man may like the works OF
S. 5. Van Dine while his neighbor prefers Sin
clair Lewis But we take it for granted that
all children will like the same thing.
Furthermore, VIC jump to the conclusion
that they will like the books we ourselves liked
as children. We were enthralled, for instance,
by the Henty books; therefore junior will eat
them up, and if he doesn't, there must be
something wrong with him.
Many a father actually has been Mortified
TO discover that such book as kim" bored
his son to distraction, while "Ivanhoe" which
the father himself never could endure-is Swal-
lowed whole with great avidity.
As a matter Of fact, the parents response
bility in regard to the books his children read
is a good deal less than we sometimes suppose.
About all the father or mother can do is
see to 1t that good books are available to the
youngsters. There are many mansions in the
realm Of literature; provide the children with
the key turn them loose-and let them settle
where they choose.
Children are great ones to recognize shams
and TO detect the Second-rate. Ordinarily a
child instinctively will prefer a good book to
poor one.
We do our part when We put the good books
before him. If he goes ahead and likes what
he chooses to like, instead of what we think he
ought to like. there's precious little We can dc
about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
THrRsnAY NoVF1tnEP Il -
KEEP UP THE WATCH

THE federal trade commission. releasing the
first section Of its final report or public
utility propaganda activities. not only reminds
US Of the splendid job done. but that i is time
to provide for a continuation Of the work.
The next congress should amend the federal
trade commission act 20 make possible investi-
cation Of questionable activities at any time.
From the day Of its opening. the commits
sion's utilities Investigation had tremendously
beneficial results. The investigation was only
well under way when the principal propaganda
bureau, National Electric Light Association.
was dlsoanded.
More recently in the New York legislature,
Governor Lehman's program was blocked until,
in an Incidental finding. the commission re-
vealed one senator's relationship with power
companies.
Likewise. findings from time TO time have
put people on their guard against improper
utility activities in schools. newspapers and
elsewhere.
The best insurance against such abuses is 70
give the federal trade commission continuing
power 70 expose them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15

garded favorably for a white peo-
pies slum clearance where old
dwellings could be RACED and bet
ter and newer downtown section
could be rebuilt which would bring
lasting improvement and credit to
indianapolis.
Such a community is much need
ed. The area exists downtown, a
short walking distance from the
business, financial, wholesale, retail,
civic and market centers and this
complete district could be revamped
in a business manner. The district
which I allude to is located between
Harrison, South Leota, East DAILY
and South Liberty streets, in a
neighborhood where old established
schools are erected and church
going people reside.
The streets are paved, sidewalks
in, railro4d tracks are elevated, thus
making it safe for school children.
There are many old-time property
owners still here. Rental property
has been allowed to deteriorate and
almost is beyond serviceable repairs.
Few cities the size Of Indianapolis
have such neglected and forgotten
district at their front doorsteps. No
matter what political party has
been or will be in power, let's have
a newer and greater Indianapolis
with the last vestige of the horse
and buggy days removed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
DEMAND is MADE

BY George Hine.
Better than jig-saw puzzle is the
game of piecing together unguarded
statements of washington news
writer's and rowing correspondents in
order to find the hidden form TO
which public opinion is being nodded
in this country. But the game now
is ended for a time. The form is
revealed fully in a confession of
hypocrisy, deceit, falsehood and ter
rorism, such as has never before
been swallowed, hook, line and sink
er, by business men.
On Nov. Is, a Washington cor
respondent reveals that the whole
campaign of slogans and catchWords,
such as business on nervous edge"
ETC., was nothing but an effort to
halt reform; that the reforms in
themselves only could affect the
financial parasites that had fastened
themselves on legitimate business,
and that to bring the President to
his knees, the financial parasites had
conducted a strike Of capital.
In other words the whole nation
must continue to suffer until they
had been guaranteed the right to
continue their ruthless depredations.
With faith serene in bayonets, with
no thought for the people, they
feared nothing but higher taxes and
reform.
If there is anything missing to
complete the destruction Of the peo-
pies confidence in three-fourths of
the country's newspapers. let some
one suggest it, The Indianapolis
Times is one of the respected minor
ity. Its columns give daily proof
that it is not afraid to publish the
advanced thought to be found only
in books and magazines, of those
who, seeking no political or selfish
advantage, are trying to understand
the world in which we live.
An exception suggests itself with
respect to Westbrook Pegler. One
gets an occasional laugh out of Peg
ler-hardly worth the time it takes
to find it-but generally speaking, he
resembles some one hired to crawl
over things his masters fear. IN
suspecting Investigators are thus
made to drop their lorgnettes and
beat it. We demand not only the
freedom of the press but the preser-
vation OF the inalienable right to
life and liberty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
SOCIAL SECURITY

DREsIDENT ROOSEVELT wants quick ac-
ton on unemployment insurance. but he
speaks somewhat ambiguously on the related
question Of federal aid for old age pensions.
In mis- address to the National Confer
ence on Economic Security the President
promised that unemployment insurance will
be on the program" the administration win
present to congress He will ask for "a CO.
operative state-federaI undertaking." Re-
serves for such insurance are to be garnered
not from taxes but from contributions as in
some European countries. Reserves are to be
held and invested by the federal govern
ment. so that the use OF these funds as
means Of sterilization may be maintained in
central management and employed on a ma
tional basis"
He sees the need of speed by congress so
that state legislatures meeting next spring
may pass their cooperating laws without de-
Law
Most important is the Presidents insistence
that temporary relief be separated from the
problems Of permanent security.
we must not allow this type Of insurance
r. ',ecome a dole through the mingling Of in
ance and relief" he said. 1T is not char
~"
Less clearly the President spoke on old age
security. He favored a national system of con-
tributory old age insurance open to al, but
doubted if this is the time to start such sys-
TEN. What his attitude will be toward fed
eral aid 70 old age pension states is IN
known. On this We believe ne should be ex-
plicit.
President Roosevelt understands and SYM
pathizes with the plight OF the aged poor. AS
Governor Of New York he sponsored one Of
the first and best of old age pension laws.
There are twenty-nine states now operating
such systems. including Indiana. and many
are in distress. What does the administration
propose to do to help these states?
some such measure as the Dill-Connery
bin should be part Of the administrations Sc
curity program.
Economically the question must be met
And. with literally millions now aroused be-
hind what the President calls fantastic
schemes" for aged poor relief the question
can not be ignored politically.
All viii cheer the Presidents insiStence
that recovery and security must go hand in
hand
Everything" he said. that we do with in
tent to increase the security Of the individual
VIII. I am confident. be a stimulus TO recov-
cry"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
A BEGINNING

BECAUSE of federal public works expendi-
ID lures. approximately 100000 persons who
otherwise would be unemployed are earning
wages sufficient to keep themselves and $780,
600 additional persons from charity. These
are the latest PWA estimates.
Even if these estimates are taken at their
face value, the inadequacy Of the national
relief and recovery program remains obvious
There are still more than 100000 in the job
less army, and more than 100000 subsisting
on public relief
Within its limitations. the public works
program is doing its bit, even to the extent
of wasting money by building roads that are
not needed and constructing costly public
buildings that will tax the future for their
maintenance.
Who would cry over money already mis-
spent, especially since it has done so much
to relieve human suffering? Yet more re-
gard can be given to the social usefulness
Of future federal expenditures to relieve I'M
employment.
The low housing standards of millions Of
fer one challenge and one opportunity to the
federal government and private enterprise.
Homes for the underprivileged can be made
TO pay both tangible and intangible returns.
Housing funds. intelligently spent, can pro-
duce both economic relief and social reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15

which decision on naval program would be
difficult enough. even if it were not necessary
to adjust our program to the programs Of for
eign powers.
A good exposition Of the theory that the
battleship is still the backbone Of the feet
came recently in public address by Rear Ad-
miral Joseph K. Taussig. acting chief Of naval
operations.
America. says Admiral Taussig. needs the
battleship because Of its lack Of naval bases
the battleship, with its wealth Of heavy guns,
serving as a kind Of floating base which can
protect lighter ships against superior forces.
Furthermore, says Admiral Taussig the i'm
provement Of the submarine and aerial
branches Of naval warfare has made the bat
tleship even mode indispensable than before.
Il is the only warship which can be armored
and protected sufficiently TO withstand the
shock OF bombs and torpedoes.
Here We have a brief and understandable
outline of the majority viewpoint in the
navy: and it is worth reading, as an antidote
TO the free and easy talk one constantly
hears about the obsolescence Of the battle
ship.
We often are assured that submarines and
airplanes are the aIl-important units Of
fleet in modern times; but the experts
charged with maintenance of our navy still
beHeve-and seem to have reason for their
belief-that fighting fleet. in the last analy-
sis. is only as strong as its capital ships.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
NO USE FOR INEFFICIENCY

THE supreme courts decision UNFOLDING
Il price-nxing measures by the New York
milk control board well may stand as a land
mark IN the development Of our attitude to-
ward the INTERPRETATION Of private profit and
state supervision.
The essential part OF the decision would
seem 70 be these words: The fourteenth
amendments does not project a business
against the hazards OF competition" In other
words a legislature has a right 10 use the
operating costs Of an industrys more effoient
members as a yardstick, in reaching fair
mice level. and the less efficient members
must make the best Of IT,
Under such a ruling, less efficient firms
might well be frozen out. Yet that IS pre-
eisely what happens in any industry under
the free play Of competition. The decision
simply means that marginal producers can
not expect the state 70 keep them in business
ssaiust more skiIfuI or economical COMPETE
torS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
Parent Training Is Need

when her parents objection to the
marriage reached a climax.
Any mother will find it easy to
understand the parents objections.
Yet, far behind this tragic story Of
child attempting to take on the
life intended for an older woman,
it is evident that there is some
lack of training or environment
which was the explanation of the
marriage.
This child must have drifted far
from parental condolences, when
she could take such a step, and
hide the facts from her parents.
It's not a doctrine of mother
knows BEST" which I'm trying to
preach, but rather one which will
cause mothers to train themselves
so that daughters will confidently
feel that they do know best" and
in any event, that they can discuss
with their parents the urges and
desires with which they are be-
sieged
We have advanced SO far in
child health care, in education Of
children for business purposes,
and in economic questions in the
last few decades, that it would
seem we have forgotten one Of the
most important needs Of human
life.
After all, whether men become
doctors, lawyers. or merchants;
whether women develop into
actresses, teachers, or mere house
wives, the average human being
eventually becomes a parent. Why
can't we be trained TO be good
ones?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
BATTLESHIPS FOR g. S.

DECISION or Americas ship building pol
II icy at TIE coming disarmament confer
enoe Is complicated by the fact that there IS
s,sn a good deal Of uncertainty about the type
az ships the American navy ought 20 have.
Naval authorities in the main stand firm
for a feet built about a strong nucleus OF
capital ships. or battleships, seasoned by a
considerable number OF heavy cruisers Yet
there is a vide belief that the battleship has
outiived It's usefulness. and that the terrific
expense Of maintaining these costly vessels
q one tsse navy might very wen avoid.
Add 70 this the growing feeling that air
planes ana submarines are revolutonizing
naval warfare. and you have situation IN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
BY BewiIdered Mother.

BY Bewildered Mother.
AS a mother who daily has to
meet problems of a 13-year- old
daughter, I have come 10 the con-
clusion that what this country
needs more than a good scent CT
gar or even revision of the NRA
code, is a training school for par
entS.
I doubt If there is a parent in
the United States today who is
not beWildered with the RESPONSE
bilities on his or her shoulders.
Sometimes they are seemingly
minor ones, but even if they
merely involve attendance at
neighborhood movies, the selec-
ton of clothing, or the more Seri-
our question of selection of school
courses, choice of friends and
moral training, we parents need
help in knowing how to treat
them.
Mere physical ability to bring
a child into the world doesn't,
unfortunately, endow one with the
ability to give that child the wis
est training. That was a theory
which seems to have been believed
in the past, but parents today
realize that it is a false one. No
evidence of this is more convinc-
ing than the news stories carried
in our daily papers every day, OF
young people who have come to
grief by poor judgment.
An example of this is the case OF
the 15-year-old Medora Ind0
girl, described as a good pupil
and a well-thought-of girl, who
married secretly a man older than
herself, and was killed by him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
TELEPHONES MARK RISE

TOR the nineteenth consecutive month, the
l. Bel Telephone Company has reported
a gain in the number of telephones on its
lines. The increase for the year, to date is
$4,000: for the month OF October the gain
is $500. as compared with gain Of 13.4OO in
October year ago.
These figures hardly can indicate anything
else than definite and steady improvement
in the financial status of a considerable mass
OF citizens The man who orders a telephone
installed in his home or his Office is a man
whose finances are getting better. A long
continued pickup in telephone installations
Is pretty clear proof that somehow. some
where. things are on the upgrade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
So They Say

Me and Paul think that st. Louis
is an all right town.-Dizzy Dean.
You can't give young people the
training of an ox-cart age in an
airplane age.-Rev. DR.. J. Elmer
Russell, superintendent Of religious
education, New York Presbyterian
Synod.
I think it's time I should do a lit
tie censoring Of some of the stories
going the Grounds about me.-Mae
West.
A wedding is more important to
the country than any lawsuit
Judge Robert S. Cowie of Milwau-
kee.
Force always attracts men of low
morality, and I believe it to be an
invariable rule that tyrants of
genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
Professor Albert Einstein.
Families are an old southern Gus
tom. They don't have families in
the north; they have apartments
T. S. Stribling. Pulitzer prize
novelist.
Give me the actors who move
about in the f1esh.-Helen Broderick,
actress.
I know that there are people who
want us to 60 to the devil. But the
devil does not get us.-Julius
Streicher, Nazi district chief of
Nuremberg.
I do not stand for midas free
dom. I stand for Notwithstanding
Gandhi, as reported by Madeleine
Slade. his disciple.
1t is mammon against Christ in
Geneva. The Rev. DR.. Frederick II.
Knubel of New York, referring to
League Of Nations assembly.
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Across the Wav
BY NJ. c. w.

BY NJ. c. w.
Out on the porch. so bare OF any
grace
She sits with Wrinkled hand
against her face,
So stu and al alone, facing the
wall
With back turned toward the
street and sky and all,
AS though she shuts ous all that
passes by
And only sits there lost in dreams.
til
Could cry at her lonely wait day
by day
When evening shadows fall across
the way
The slowly walks indoors to where
drawn blind
Hides the empty. lonely hours
from her kind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
PEOPLE STILL CONTROL
THE NATIONS POLICIES

By Charles c. snellenberger.
Hoosier people showed their in
telugence last Tuesday when they
voted all of these gallant gentlemen
into office. But the two men most
worthy Of their Offices were Otto Ray,
sheriff. and Albert Deluse, county
council. I personally know these
gentlemen. appreciate the high hon
or bestowed upon them. and they
will perform their duty better than
any one before them. II seems as
though the people, and not the ma
chine, still run the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
CHILDREN FREQUENT BEER
PARLoRS, Is CHARGE

By o. E. A.
I am a reader Of The Times. be-
lieving it is one paper that stands
by the people and for the advance
ment of the good of our country.
May We pause now for a few mo-
ments that our political fight is over
and consider some of the evils that
lead our children on into being
bandits, gamblers, and yet to whom
can We go for law enforcement?
I, as a citizen living in Clermont
west Of the city, know there is some
thing to think about. The new
saloon that is here is far more
dangerous than the old ones, as
minors and even children can go in
and watch them gamble and drink
and even take part in them. It
IS an open house. with drinking,
gambling. slot machines, playing
pool Sundays, day and night.
Why I speak, I picked up a J
Is Sunday evening, who had earned
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81 at the country club. I brought
him into Clermont, where, Of course,
the new saloon was open and he
told me he lost all. Can't we get
try to stop some of the teachings
that lead our boys and girls astray?
We pause on the sixteenth an
niversary of the ending Of the
World war, but We, as taxpayers and
Christians, have a more serious war
to think about. to stamp out the
evils which are demoralizing our
community, and make it safe to
bring up our boys and girls in order
to make them law abiding men and
women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
REBUILDING OF AREA
BY GOVERNMENT URGED
BY Times Reader.

By Times Reader
AS a subscriber Of the best local
paper ever published. I read every
days issue with the keenest interest
and have a great deal Of pride
in the welfare of the city of my
birth.
have . few timely remarks to
make regarding the slum clearance
in the white peoples community.
IN Fridays Times I read where the
federal slum clearance adlninistTa-
tin was locking for a murh needed
location close in that might be re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
TIMES WORKER NEVER
TOLD OF PRAISE
By an Old Subscriber

BY an Ola SuoscriDeF
I notice The Times offers prizes
continuously for new subscribers.
Why not a little consideration for
the old faithful subscribers?
Some time ago. wrote a letter
to The Times staff thanking them in
detail for the many favors shown
me in the past. One for which I
am especially grateful is the man
who delivers my paper three miles
out OF his war and neser IS late
I live in the country and seldom
ever see the man who delivers my
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15
Daily Thought

But take heed lest by any means
this liberty Of yours become a STUN
bling block TO them that are weak.
Il Corinthians, 80.
True liberty can exist only when
Justice is equally administered to all.
Lord Mansfield.
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paper, but made it point to find
out if The Times staff had passed
my appreciation on to the faithful
one who delivers The Times to me.
To my surprise, nothing had been
said to him, nor was my letter
| answered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15

The Republicans may be right in their con-
tention that politics is being mixed with relief,
but that wouldn't be so bad if it were relief
from politics.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are tnDited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them TO $50 Soords or less.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-15

These scientific attempts to revive the dead
give Us the willies. Imagine q dead man re-
turning TO see what kind OF a sendofI his rela-
tives gave him