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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-18

Do you need help with a problem?
Write letter to Jane Jordan who will
answer it in this column. Readers are
invited to exchange experiences when
ever the spirit moves them.
Dear Jane Jordan-I am a
young wife and mother at the
age of 20. My husband is %.
We have been married three
years and love eacn other. Here
is my problem: He is too jealous.
The first two years of our married
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-18
Discussion Scheduled

Mrs. F. E. Williamson will be
leader for a discussion meeting of
Beta Delphian at GAS tomorrow at
the American National bank. Mes
danes A. F. Meurer, A. r. Young,
R. I. Renfrew and William Chess
man will assist.
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Stamp of Individuality
Possessed by All Women
Makes Clothes Different
White Sapphires Distinguish Costume of
Carole Lombard; Hobby Made of
Belts by Sylvia Sidney.
by Sylvia Sidney.
BY HELEN LINDSAY

EVERY has distinctive trick by which she
H individual
costumes which widely different different periods
follows
of her follows through express
At the Paramount studios number of have
studied and these costuming idioSyncraceS revealed
Caroe Lombard film
Not Dressing builds many evening
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Mothers to Elect

Woodside Kindergarten Mothers
CLUB will elect new officers at a
meeting at tomorrow afternoon at
the kindergarten. Hostesses for the
social hour will be Mesdames Earl
Barnes, Elmer Duke and Russell
MINIS.
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Athenaeunn
to Revive
Tradition
st. Benno Party Set for
Saturday to Renew
Old Custom.
BY BEATRICE BURGAN
Times WOman'S Pare Editor

CPRING brings back book beer to
- Bavaria and st. Benno's is the
favorite. Twenty years ago spring
was heralded by Athenaeum Club
members with a st Benno feast.
Liquor legislation changed the
custom and for these many years 81.
Benno and his favorite brew have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-18
CLUB WILL
OBSERVE FOUNDING

Indiana Vassar Club will hold it's
founders day celebration at 2:30
Saturday afternoon, April %, at the
home of Mrs. Albert L. Rabb, 4146
North Illinois street.
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Miss Lorle Krull is a member of
the state ticket committee for the
first annual Indiana male chorus
festival to be held May II. in
Cadle tabernacle. Miss Krull is
assistant music supervisor in Indi-
annapolis schools and is a member
of the In-an-About School Music
Club which is sponsoring the fes-
tival
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w. G.. T. u. to Meet

Mrs. Corine Yoder. 321 Congress
avenue, will be hostess Friday after
noon for a meeting of the Mary E
Balch unit, Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. On the program will
be Mrs. Isaac Daniel, Mrs. Harry
Surber and Theodore Yoder. Mrs
Mary Hensley will conduct memorial
services for Mrs. Laura USselman
Mrs. Ebert Moore is president.
DR.. and Mrs. Frank Cregor, 500
North Meridian street, has returned
from a visit in North Carolina.
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Lamps Designed to Quiet Children

NURSERY lamps intrigue children bedtime in the
~ department William H
transparent plaid blanket through
lamp
of the
the parchment
o'clock feeding They be attached light outlet and heat
bottle
the child himself, and slow at
eating there plates keep the These have
chromium The
inner compartment of the plate divided sections
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-18

Upper Qeft to right Misses
Martha Rose Scott, Charlene
Heard and Lucy Beasley.
BelOw-Miss Martha Banta.
Four goods of Butler univer-
sity are assisting with arrange
ments for the Junior prom to be
held Friday night at the Murat
Egyptian ballroom. Members of
the committee include Misses
Martha Banta, Charlene Heard,
Lucy Beasley and Martha Rose
Scott; Howard Campbell, Karl
Stipher, Fred Clifton and Edgar
Baum. Mr.. Campbell is chairman.
Ace Brigode and his Virginians
will provide dance music.
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Cocktail Suggestions offered

YRES epcue shop showing ideas cocktail
before with available small
Stion cheddar
the shop
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-31
WHAT'S LEFT OF GERMANY

A UsTRIA's dlsintegration is more spec
n tacular at the moment than the German
crisis. but less important For Austria reflects
Germany. The failure of Hitler in Austria
reveals the weakness of Nazism not only
abroad, but also at home.
A government or a system stands or falls
on its ability to produce. Abroad 1t must grow
stronger. either by conquest or by winning
friends. At home it must enable the people 10
make a living and have distant hope OF the
pursuit of happiness.
Hitler is not producing those results The
economic conditions and the credit of Ger
many today are much worse than when ne
took it over. He promised to help the little
fellow-the laborer, the small shopkeeper, the
peasant. Instead, the suffering of the little
man has increased as the power of the big
industrialists and Junker landowners has
grown.
So the great silent mass on the sidelines,
which eventually turns the political balance
in every country is more and more restless in
waiting for that receding promised land.
Until now Hitler at least has been able to
depend on his own fanatical followers. But
they soon may become his chief danger. To
rid himself of part of his followers who had
become a liability, he resorted to large scale
murder.
And what of the remaining Nazis? If there
is one thing Hitler has preached more than
any other from the beginning it has been
PAN Germanlsm. OF course, union with Aus
tria was to be the easiest part of that program.
But now Hitler is farther from that goal than
ever. and his impatient Nazis know it. He
not only has multiplied Austrian opposition by
German interference in Austrian affairs, but
the Nad assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss
has completed the moral and political isolation
of Germany.
Fascist Italy, few months ago the best
friend of its imitator Hitler, now is leader of
the European entente against him. England,
which a few months ago was lending him
money, has closed her purse, and is acting with
France and Italy in drawing a diplomatic net
and virtual military alliance against him.
Hitiers failure has almost reached the point
of genius The German republic. which he de-
stroyed, had more real foreign friends probably
than any nation in the world. He has driven
them all away, except perhaps Japan-not
even Germanic Austria is left
Even the kaiser and the Junkers of 1914,
with their vast military machine and system
of foreign alliances, could not isolate Germany
from the world as Hitler has done. To be sure
the allies with their ubiquitous and unavoidable
peace treaties, which undermined the German
republic and dismembered Austria, share with
Hitlerism the creditor curse-for this gallop-
ing destruction of Germany and Austria.
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SHEDDING IMPERIALISM

CONTROL over Puerto Rico passed yester-
~ day from the war department to the in
terror OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES step in Americas
retreat from imperialism
Two and three decades ago, under the spell
of spread eagle speeches by Theodore Roose-
welt, we gloried in the vision of empire. Amer
lea. cocky after the war with Spain, had
destiny" to fulfill.
Now. after thirty-odd years of an eXpen-
sive and laundering colonial policy, we are
beginning to realize that the inferior peo-
pies" have right to retain their own civiliza-
tionS.
We are shedding the white mans burden"
Yesterday the Philippines, prize conquest
of the Spanish war; began to write constltu-
ton. They are on their road to political in
dependence, to the relief of American sugar
beet and vegetable oil interests that long have
huRgered for tariffs against Philippine
products.
The Virgin islands and now Puerto Rico
like Hawaii and Alaska, are under civil admin
istration. The trend is toward home rule and
away from absentee exploitation.
America is learning that democracy and
Imperialism can not live under the same flag.
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No FAMINE FEAR

THE arrival OF a soaring. crop-burning
l. drought at a time when the United States
government is spending millions Of dollars to
get farmers to reduce their crops is almost
enough to make one suspect that the weather
man is trying to play joke on somebody.
If it is a joke. it is a mean one. Baking
heat, blisterlng sunlight. and a sky which re-
mains pitilessly cloudleSs for weeks at time,
with never drop of rain TO lay the dust
these are. or can be, the makings OF national
calamity. ana the farmers of the grain belt can
be pardoned if they fail to see anything very
funny in the situation.
When spell of weather like this strikes
land where the social organization is primi-
tive. famine results. II was to guard against
Just such disasters that the ancient agrarian
tribes Of the American southwest developed
such elaborate rites to appease the rain gods;
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it is to help mitigate the effects Of such disas-
ters that the American public is called on every
so often to contribste to Chinese famine relief
funds
Yet the United States today. for all the
damage that the drought is causing, is in no
danger of famine. Cattle are dying for want
Of water grain is being burnt brown in the
fields. vegetable gardens are being scorched
into aridity-but We are not going to have a
real food shortage this winter.
If any people go hungry it will be because
our. economic machine still is out Of gear and
not because the national granary has been
stricken
For the same factors which led the govern
ment to hire the farmers to produce less
than usual also operate to soften the blow
which the elements have launched at us.
Into the oldest and simplest business in
the world-the raising of foodstufs on the
Iand-we have injected so many comphca-
tons that the whole picture has changed.
Bumper crops no longer mean automatic pros
perity for farmers; instead, they tend to glut
the markets and fatten the farmers purse.
On the other hand, natural disasters which
cut the production of foodstuffs no longer
mean famine and want.
1t is because of the intricacy of our whole
economic organization that we have to cook
up such measures as the AAA. But that very
intricacy is the factor that keeps us from 60
ing hungry when the age-old causes of famine
are abroad in the land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-31
GAS COMPANY ACQUISITION

D EMOvAL OF the Citizens Gas Company
purchase cost from the tax duplicates.
through the sale Of bonds. is proposed bv
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and the CITY
utilities district
II viii be necessary 10 raise S7OOOOO to
carry out the plan which has been hanging
FIRE in Indianapolis for many years. Pro-
posals for the purchase Of these bonds must
be placed before the city authorities not later
than Sept. 1.
The action is one which had TO be forth
coming. Under the present tax situation. the
municipality could not hope &c ask the tax
payers 10 bear the hrunt Of the project
INDIANAPOLIS Is far better of financially
than many other cities in the United States.
It's employees have been paid. its school
teachers have found work and pay. and the
Official city Of Indianapolis has been able to
progress through the conservative methods
inaugurated by Mayor Sullivan and his aids.
However. the time has come for Indian
apolis 70 become progressive No city in the
United States which has been able 10 with
stand the pressure OF depression can afford
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-31
THE RIGHT MOVE

THE TIMES. in recent weeks. often has
asked that the real truth of the defunct
bank situation in indianapolis be laid before
the public.
Many efforts have been made to expose the
operations of the citys bankers, but each Of
these. with one exception. has resulted in a
good deal Of verbal fire and newspaper pub
Hcity. but no real action which would place
the blame where II belonged.
Now Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker has
asked the grand jury to do thorough job of
digging into the situation. much Of which is
deeply shrouded mystery" so far as bank
depositors and the general public are con-
cerned
Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox previously had
done all he could to bring these things to
light
But Judge Baker. with the grand jury as
his agent, has the opportunity to clarity many
of the muddied conditions.
Judge Bakers move is one in the right
direction. He should follow it to the very end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-31
DECLARES FAMILY
DENIED HELP

By William H. WEIGH.
am sending you card and also
letter that my wife, Mrs. Rose B.
WEIGH, received from her sister, Mrs.
Emma Rood, R. R. 3, Quincy, Ash
land township, Morgan county.
The letter and card tell you that
they can not get help from the
trustee. No stores will take relief
orders from Ashland township, as
the county does not pay them. The
Rood family has five children, two
of them sick. Mr.. and Mrs. Rood
both are good workers and honest.
1t does not look right to let them
go hungry. I could not get to any
one to take this up, and knowing
your paper to be one that believes
in square dealing, I am sending this
to you hoping you can and will see
that these letters and cards are put
in some ones hands who will see
that Ashland township helps this
family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-31
A NEW ERROR

TONIGHTS the night. It is the night that
Il the beer curfews Will ring for the first
time and the city beer and booze joints are
supposed to close their doors and GUST their
webbing. but freely spending, patrons.
And tonight also is the start of a new life
for many other beer and booze joints.
With the indianapolis police department
enforcing the l a. m. closing hour within the
city limits. the operators of places in Marion
1unty are getting ready to garner the profits.
No doubt many of the places IN the county
have fresh supply of beer and whisky on
hand and in many others the slot machines
have been oiled to gather in the spendings of
the suckers.
The l a. m. closing ordinance just won't
work in the long run. Naturally, it will be
enforced as far as possible by indianapolis
police officers. It's new regulation and the
old story about The new broom and its Al
sweeping Will apply.
Back in the old days-not so long ago
there was a prohibition law 1t was going to
work. too. Well, the same Will 60 for the local
ordinance. 1t will work until some smart
fellow in the beer business gets tired of seeing
his profits driven elsewhere and he. like his
predecessors will find some way to detour the
written word.
Let's hope that the Indianapolis police
department doesn't make the same mistake in
this case as was made a few weeks ago on
the by-the-drink regulation. One arrest was
made And. after that arrest was made, city
officials announced that one arrest was suff1-
cient and promptly retired to other fields.
The few days in which it took the depart
ment TO decide on its victim found many
Hquor-selling joints wary Of dealing out booze
in wholesale rations. Some of them removed
hard liquor entirely and saw business dwindle
Then with the word that only one arrest
was to be made. the liquor was replaced on
counters and behind bars and everybody was
happy. Such test enforcement Of any law
or regulation is not worthy of effort or worry
II the l a. m. ordinance is going to be
bound up with legal tape within a few days
why start 1t at all?
But whether 1t is or not. the city retailer
can close his doors each morning at a. m.
assured that those of his patrons who haven't
satisfied their thirst are en- route to county
joints TO fstten the purses OF beer dealers.
politicians. slot machine racketeers and whisky
sellers who have been waiting for lust such a
break.
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COMPLAINS OF DUST
ON DENNISTON STREET
Bv Mrs. d. P. McMurtry.

BY Mrs. d. P. McMurtry.
I am writing this to The Times,
as I don't know any one else who
might help me. 1t is in regard to
dust on South Denniston street, at
$500 West Washington street. l
am a property owner and have lived
here for twenty-one years. Many
automobiles use this street, as it
connects with Vandalia avenue.
read there is lot Of money to
oil gravel roads. We can't oil this
street ourselves, as a neighbor has
a contract to keep it scraped, and
when we oiled it last summer. he
scraped it under.
Can you hand this to the right
person to get action? 1t is too hot
to keep our doors closed, but if they
are open, everything is filled with
dust.
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MY GARDEN
BY EFFIE L. WORKMAN

d. ErrlE l.. hOhhmAN
Would you like to walk in my
garden.
Where the waking flowers wet with
dew
Lift their sweet faces in greeting
To the day and the morning SKY
blue?
Pansies grow there. shy symbols Of
love,
Sheltered close by the daisies so tall,
Unfolding their soft velvet petals
AS the whispering breezes call.
Many hued peoples, dahlias and
rose.
Marigolds, zenias, foxglove,
All nod cheerful good morning."
To the sun soaring far up above.
Clustered hollyhocks, stately and
lovely,
With sunhowers and golden-glow
stand
Like sentinels; watchful and silent,
Protecting this bright happy band.
OF flower children. fragrant and
carefree.
Won't you come with me? Listen!
and feel
The unseen touch Of their magic
charm,
And the gladneSs their beauty re-
veals.
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Upbold'S RMsSjaS Refusal to Pay u. S.

BY X. F. A.
Uncle Sam again is attempting
a settlement of the Russian war
debts. One of the largest items
is loan of 100000 to the
Kerensky government.
For about seventeen years the
present Russian government was
not considered permanent enough
to even recognize. What a man
this Kerensky must have been to
borrow $187,0OO,O0O for a coun-
try that was established only six
months. Why should the pres
ent Russian government pay the
loan? The United States set
precedent when it refused to as
sumo the debts Of the cOnfed-
crate states of America after our
little revolution.
Other items consist of claims
by American capitalists who had
investments in Russia. 1t is de-
grading to an American citizen
when these international capital
lists are called Americans.
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CHACO WAR SUPPLIES

TWO months ago today President Roosevelt,
l. as authorized by congress, placed an
embargo on the sale of war supplies in this
country to Bolivia and Paraguay, now in the
third year of their sanguinary struggle for the
vast Chaco jungle.
State Secretary Cordell Hull has granted
permission for the export to Bolivia of three
quarters of a million dollars worth of air.
planes, aerial bombs, mortars revolvers, hand
grenades and ammunition of various types.
Mr.. Hull's action may appear at first glance
to fout the Presidents order. But the en-
barge was not such simple matter as it
might seem.
Old treaties prevented our forbidding ex-
ports to Bolivia or Paraguay. The embargo
therefore was directed only against sales.
Naturally nobody was going to export guns
without first selling them But it developed
that nearly $3OOO,OOO worth of munitions
already had been ordered, and in some cases
partly paid for, by Bolivia Some of these
supplies had been completed before the
embargo was proclaimed and were ready for
shipment.
Secretary Hull has examined all these con-
tracts and has ruled, in effect, that nearly
one-fourth of them had progressed far enough
before May % to constitute actual sales Since
the sales thus preceded the proclamation, he
concluded that it would be unfair to Bolivia
to refuse release of the goods.
He will be criticised for placing the letter
of the law above the interests of humanity
But friends of peace will take heart from his
refusal to release 100000 worth of other
Bolivian ORDERS and from the state depart
ment's pledge that no further shipment to
feed the Chaco war will be tolerated.
The real trouble lies in the lack OF a gen.
eral embargo act which would permit the
President to clamp down on munitions exports
at the beginning of a war-instead of waiting
until tens of thousands of men have been
killed. many of them with American-made
bullets.
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Can capitalists who invest their
capital in foreign countries and
thus deprive American workmen
of jobs be considered as patriotic
Americans? If the American
worker was paid his worth, the
capitalists would not have a sur
plus for investment in foreign
countries.
The money that is supporting
the propaganda for big army
and navy is being supplied by in
ternational capitalists who are
busy waving the American flag
to protect their investments. They
no doubt foresee the day when
other countries will confscate
these investments. Then they
will run to Uncle Sam and again
urge him to use his army and
navy for collection purposes. And
as to the cost, why worry about
a few million dead men and their
heartbroken mothers? Profits
come first.
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living wage and put all these young
men to work SO they will have
spending money, a car and some
clothes. They would like to enjoy
life as we'll as the rich. God never
intended for a few men to have all
the luXuries, and starve and work
the poor to death.
John Dillinger won't have any
more to answer for than the mil
lionaire. He was only victim of
circumstances. If you or 1 had
been in his place, we would have
he'd to do the things he did.
When a soldier has to go to war,
he has to shoot some one he never
has seen before, but in that case 1
suppose God will forgive him. Some
one has to protect the rich mans
wealth. Those who are always
ready to condemn ought to stop and
ask, "'Am I perfect?"
I also read that Mr.. Purvis was
given an increase in salary for his
great detective work. Yes, he's a
great man. Some one always has to
tip them off. I never did see where
they did anything themselves. Why
give him more money?