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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21
Heath and
Hygiene
Ry DR.. w. D. Brown
SELF-IMPOSED DIETS
USUALLY HARMFUL

One of the biggest mistakes
made by the average man or wom-
an is his or her attempt to use
some form of food restriction for
various body ailments. Very COM
monty it is thought that meat is
the cause of all the trouble and
that a leafy- vegetable diet is the
cure-all for most any ailment. Or
again. he may think that fasting is
the thing that is necessary.
The problem of dieting is very
important. You should normally be
able to eat all types of ordinary
food. If you can't there is some
thing wrong and you should find
out exactly what the trouble is. Be-
cause certain type of food does
rot agree with you is no reason
Cor eliminating it from your diet,
unless a careful examination of
your body has been made and such
advice given. The body demands
certain definite types of food in
order to keep itself in proper re-
pair. These are proteins, carbo-
hydrates, fats and vitamines. These
latter in turn are composed of
many parts which are derived
from different foods. AS long as
you are eating a varied diet, you
are sure to get them all; if you
attempt to restrict your diet you
are sure to eliminate some element
that is necessary and thereby do
injury instead of good.
Don't try your hand at a diet
unless you have had training in
that field for it is more complicat-
ed than it appears.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21
Personalities
BY Nellie DOdsOn

To 'Pattie, Matte, and Katie:
BILL SIMMS just left the office,
gels. And did he look good? We
talked about school and such, but
if he had stayed much longer /
would have found myself slipping
as I always do when a handsome
male is around. l just can't keep
from goo-gooing and acting all
fiirty if Pm anywhere near a good
looking man for more than five
minutes. And by the way, there
are two Bill Simms in town, and
both of 'em are easy on the eyes.
The other evening while AL
NORTH, JOHNNIE THOMAS,
and JIMMIE ROBINSON were
driving nonchalantly down Uni
versity avenue, some guy came
breezing along in a car, whacked
into their gas buggy, and turned
them over three times. Fortunate
ly, they were all in the front seat
because the rear end Of the car was
demolished. Robbie seq that the
first thing he was aware of after
the crash was some lady among
the crowd that quickly gathered,
wailing: VI just KNOW they're all
killed." But no one got so much
as a scratchi
If you see certain society play
boy who has been in the habit of
wearing a hat, strolling around
without enc, it is because he forgot
his new fall lid when he had to
leave charming rendezvous with
charming lady in such hurry
that he would have set a new
sprint record if he had been Off
cially timedl .
Society playboys seem always to
be leaving some place in undigni-
fed haste. / eawn't understand it,
old chappie. One fine day some
brother isn't going to leave quite
fast enough, and then there will
be pul-enty for the tongue-waggers
to gable over.
The tongue-waggers, incidental
ly, haven't had any real food for
scandal for ages. These two towns
have been comparatively quiet for
the last year or so. Before repeal,
there was always some choice bit
about one Of our Well-known citi-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21
Other Editors Say

When I talk about my home
town paper
l am talking about myself and
my neighbors.
1t is made for and of and by
my neighbors and me.
l tell the Editor every once in
a while
What l like and what l don't
like.
But as I do l smile.
If my family or l get unfavor-
able mention
In the daily news,
l never threaten to lick the
Editor,
Or try to bride him to say no
Instead, I try to set my house
in order
And do something fine for
somebody
To balance the account.
An Editor should be as i'm
partial as God.
Yes, / take the paper.
When this community gets
better,
1t will get better.
It needs me and I need it.
You know, it's a kind of COM
munity balloon,
Pulling us all up a little
Every time it can speak of
any of our good deeds.
Yes, sir, if ever we want a
better paper,
Cleaner stories, finer deeds
recorded,
We should be a bigger and
better and a finer people.
S@S"'SS
Yes, l take the paper"
Exchange,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21

make but most earnestly invite all
of the group to do likewise.
If you find it impossible to hear
them on Sunday you can still do so
by going to st. Paul on Monday
evening at the st. James A. M. E.
Church.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21

pdper' .-. ..
I could do without it
But | won't.
1t is the most unifying infiu-
ence in my community.
1t is not for any one sect, par
ty, club or individual
1t is for us all.
In it l meet all of my neigh
bors.
l like to think of it as the mir
ror
In which we may see our
selves.
No, it isn't all I'd have it
but
Neither am /.
Yes, I like the Editor.
He has his faults, but who
hasn't?
I sometimes wonder if he
senses his responsibility.
He has a tremendous job
To reflect his city and his peo-
pie.
I never allow my subscription
to lapse
Or go unpaid when due.
For either is hard on the NOR
ale of the paper.
/ aim to be business-like with
Then ! can expect it to be
businesslike with me.
I want the Editor to feel that
| prize his paper highly
So he will give me a better
paper.
/ never refer to it as That
Rag
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21

What a Citizen Said to the
Representative of the Local
Paper When He Asked If
He Subscribed.
''W'y certainly, / take the
paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1934-09-21

Phone your want ads. Call Elk
hurst O196.
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Let us mail you this paper
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
THE FALL CAMPAIGN

DREsIDENT ROOSEVELT is reported
quietly to have admonished cabinet Off
GERS and other administration high officials
not TO make partisan political speeches this
summer.
Thus does the man in the White House
again display his extraordinary skill as poll
tician and public leader. He has gagged &C
curately the temper of the people.
The Literary Digest's nationwide poll dis
closes that the people are behind the New
Deal in the ratio of to 2. But it is impor-
tant to understand that the poll is on the New
Deal. 1t is not poll of the Democratic party.
ReactiOnary Democrats in congress and in
state affairs will not like the Presidents nom
partisanship They want the political bene-
fit of what the administration has accom-
plished in spite of their opposition. But appar-
emily the President, like the voters, is disposed
to ignore party labels
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
HE JESTS AT SCARS

THE supreme tragedy Of the world is that
nobody really learns anything except by
experience-and then it is too late.
John KiHeen. state commander of the
Michigan G. a. r. was talking about the long
proposed but never-sccomplished joint con-
vention between Union and Confederate vet
Grams.
It's not that We veterans hold any grudge
against each other" Killeen said. But the
younger generation and the women folk
never would stand for it. They think we
fought in the old days and still should feel
like fighting"
KilIcen, who bears the scar of a saber
wound received at Cedar Greek. adds I'D
ike to shake the hand of the fellow who
wounded me, and tell him I respect him as
good soldier and better hand with the saber
than was -"
And there you have it. The younger gen.
GRAFTON. it seems. can not know until it finds
it out itself. the mutual respect and common
feeling Of adversaries who have fought well
and buried bitterness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
PUBLIC WORKS

7 Asst year the emergency congress launched
- a big public works program, appropriate
ing for relief and public works q grand total
Of So 80o,0OO000 This years total emergency
work and relief appropriation is to be only
s3OO,OOO,OOO less.
The new policy, however, shows decided
shift away from public works as a relief meas
ure. Although a portion of the ST, 400 900 900
voted for FERA may be available for work
relief projects next winter, about $8OOOO0 900
is the maximum available for strictly public
works projects.
In view of this shift of policy critics are
asking whether the great public works expert
ment of last year has failed. A report, Just
issued by PWA Administrator Ickes, indicates
that it has not.
More than S1,O00O00O0O actually has been
paid out and the entire sum has been allotted.
Already, Mr.. Ickes says, 1,418O00,OO0 hours of
work at fair wages on federal and nom
federal projects have been provided. Approx
mately that many more hours will be the re-
suits in the months to come from allotted
funds. For every hour of direct employment
two hours of behind the-line" work is ex-
pected.
More than $4,000 separate projects are be-
ing financed What these are paying out in
social dividends can not be assayed with any
eXactness, but schools bridges, libraries, roads,
irrigation, power and other works are arising
as monuments to this adventure. Like the
ripples made by stones tossed into a pool, the
benefits spread in widening circles.
Public works have not re-employed all the
jobless. but tens of thousands of families to-
day owe to these government dollars salvation
from humiliating recourse to charity. This is
in addition to 100000 families supported I'M
der CWA work projects last winter
The greatest disappointment has come
from PWA's attempts at slum abatement. Its
lOw-cOst housing allotmentS totaled only $171,-
100000. But even in this failure the govern
ment is not altogether to blame, since its re-
fusal to pour more money into rehousing was
due to the schemes of private spectators and
the inability of cities and states to cooperate
in public ventures.
1t is to be hoped that private capital will
be encouraged under the new housing act to
take up where the government has left off.
The biggest stimulus to recovery is hoped for
in a great national rehousing movement this
summer and fall.
There are about 100000 people still IN
employed. Much if not most of our partial re-
covery has come from public spending through
the AAA. eva and PWA. John Maynard
Keynes, the British economist. agrees with
Senator La Toilette and many others that we
have not spent too much, but too little. After
all, the treasury deficit is less important than
the human deficit.
Public works have been carried on with
minimum of graft and politics and the results
are beginning to be felt. AS Secretary Ickes
says. PWA has proved a wheel-horse to recov-
cry and it is pulling its weight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
SACRIFICE TO PROGRESS

A LONG long time ago, when people were
n going to erect great public building,
they would begin by killing slave or a
prisoner of war and sealing his body in the
foundations This was supposed to bring good
luck. prosperity. or something equally desir-
able
We don't do things like that any more;
but We might remember that almost every
large building project, even now, costs at least
one hfe-and sometimes a good many more
than one-before it gets completed.
Witness, for example. figures just released
by the Nevada Industrial Insurance Commits
sion. which show that no fewer than forty-five
workmen have been killed accidentally while
at work on the Boulder Dam project since
March. 1881.
This Job is stupendous one and its diff
fculties are vast; the toll of deaths probably
isn't any sign of carelessness or improper
procedure. It's just a reminder that a great
construction project. now. as in the old days,
requires its sacrifice of human life
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
OPPOSES MOVEMENT TO
PURIFY" MOVIES
BY Irate Movie Fan.

By Irate Movie Fan.
With customary meddlesone tao
tics, some are attacking another
institution Of the country, in their
concentrated criticism of current
moving pictures.
Unable to plant their biased
opinions as strongly as they hold
them themselves, they are seeking
to keep producers from portraying
life as it really is.
Church heads Of several faiths
are urging that certain topics be
withheld from the screen. They
would have their children grow up
in a continued belief that every
thing is sweetness and light" ir4 a
twentieth century world.
There is no basis for the opinion
that our young folk Immediately will
try to become all Of the unpleasant
characters that they see on the
screen.
1t might even be brought to their
attention that American youth, ad-
mittedly clever, will be able to make
comparisons of proper and improp-
er conduct by its portrayal on the
screen, and regulate their lives &C
cordingly.
Fairy tales are all right for chill
dren at a very tender age, but they
can not continue to live in them.
If drinking, seduction, crime and
other unpleasant things exist in a
real world why should they be kept
in the background in the one Gre
ated in celluloid?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

nNE of Washington's most placid and suave
~ observation-disclosures DR.. Don Fabio Lo-
zano of Colombia-is quitting his post in this
country and will depart within two or three
weeks.
DR.. Lozano has been elected to the senate of
Colombia and wants to enter upon his new
duties as soon as possible
Mild, unpretentiouS and always dignifed the
Colombian envoy never has taken part in the
gayer activities of the diplomatic corps. He pre-
fers law books and quiet dinners with serious
minded friends. Although he likes Washington,
he has long wanted to enter the senate.
My wish is to have a share in legislating
reciprocal trade agreements with other coun-
tries, said DR.. LOzanO
One reason he wishes to 90 soon is that the
Lozano-Salomon pact which he helped to frame
may be called into question in the course of any
future negotiations with Peru about Leticia).
DR.. LoZano would have left Washington be-
fore this but as he was about to resign he
learned OF the coming visit of President Elect
Lopez So he waited. AS soon as Lopez departs
Lozano resigns
What are your future plans Mr.. Minister"
queried a friend.
Envoy Fabio arched his eyebrows, shrugged,
exclaimed:
Man proposes, fate disposes"
AT all events, he will start with the senate.
I REUBEN CLARK, financial expert and for
y. nler ambassador to Mexico is going to New
York to talk about finances with President
Elect Lopez of Colombia
A friend accosted Reuben in the corridor of
the state department, inquired:
DO you expect the Colombians to resume
payment on their bonded indebtedness"
Smiling broadly, Reuben replied:
That reminds me of a story"
The story, not exactly new, was about a boy
named Isaac Goldstein, who disappeared from
home for two nights and a day. His family was
naturally much upset. When the boy finally
returned, his father held a long conservation
with him. Reuben gave the conversation at
length and in dialect-but here is a shortened
version):
Isaac, where have you been?"
Well-father I've been in Jail"
In jail? Why were you put in jail?"
We'll, saw an accident in the street and
they took me along to testify"
They put you in Jail for seeing an accident?"
We'll, no, father But the judge put me on
the witness stand He asked me how old was
and said IA He asked me if I saw the acct
dent and I said. Yes. He asked if my name was
Isaac Goldstein and I said, Yes Then he said
What's your nationality and said, Don't be a
damn fool, judge-and so they put me in jaiI"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
WHY BE DISTURBED?

Tr the reports now being received at Wash
Il inpton are correct. Great Britain is about
to try to reclaim her old position as undis-
puted mistress Of the seas.
The British admiralty, it is said, has con-
cocted A plan for naval expansion under which
Great Britain would add very materially TO its
feet especially in light cruiser strength. There
are several reasons for this.
To begin with, the British are worried by
5svelouments in the Far East The European
situation. likewise. is far from reassuring.
locking on a troubled international horizon,
the British are beginning to feel that they
need more ships. and it is hard to blame them.
In addition. the nation now is in better
shane financially than has been the case for
wears It could support the cost of an eX-
handed naval program; indeed. it could take
thousands Of men of the dole and put them
N work in the shipyardS. thereby making that
cost less than it would appear on paper.
Now the part Of this which especially
touches readers in the United States is the
effect that a new naval program might have
on American naval policy.
II Britain builds a new fleet. what do We
do2 Do We build ship for ship with her
thereby. because our requirements are so diff
ferent from hers. acquiring a lot Of light
cruiser strength that We don't especially need?
Do we let the naval treaties lapse and go
ahead with a free hand. building what We
ohoose2 or GO we simply give up the idea Of
naval parity. let England build whatever she
wishes. and 90 along very much as We are
now2
Before answering those questions. We ought
to look st the international situation with ex-
IRENE care and ask ourselves Just what We ex-
pect to DO with our navy.
Have We any reason to suspect that We may
want to use 1t against Great Britain? Is there
any indication that such differences as may
arise between the two nations can't be settled
peaceably? Is it. IN short. vitality important
thing for us to have a feet able to meet the
British feet on even terms?
Unless the answer to each Of these queS-
tons is a nemphatic Yes" there is small
sense in getting disturbed about Englands de-
cision 10 expand her navy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
URGES SOLUTION OF
PRIMARY MYSTERY
BY Il. l.. d.

By Il. L. d.
I want to congratulate The Times
on it's editorial about the still I'M
solved mystery of the changing of
the primary election tally sheets.
1t is now two months since the
primary and since some one DELHI
erately changed figures in the Hart
Hutsell and Wilmeth- Chamberlin
vot~ statistics. The grand jury just
before its dismissal made a report
in which it confessed it's inability
to discover the guilty canvaSsing
board member.
This unquestionably would have
been accomplished If Prosecutor
Herbert E. Wilson and grand jury
members had made a relentless eff
fort in their investigation. Whether
the new grand jury will do any bet
ter, or whether it even attempts to
investigate, still is a conjecture. I
hope they will, and that Mr.. Wilson
obtains more definite results.
Unless something is done, the fall
elections may very we'll make Mar
ion county the laughing stock of the
state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
WOULD COOL US
By Heat Wa We.

BY Heat Wave.
May 1 offer a suggestion that
might possibly mitigate the suffer-
ing of the majority of indianapolis
citizens during these ninety degree
plus days?
I recommend an ordinance be in
PRODUCED at the next meeting of
the city council that would prohibit
the weather bureau from issuing
bulletins stating hourly tenn
peratures.
The hot weather is bad enough,
but I have an idea that many of us
become even more overcome when
we read in the newspapers that
''the temperature neared the century
mark shortly after noon today"
If We were kept in ignorance Of
the exact temperature, we probably
wouldn't worry and sigh and COM
plain nearly so much. I am not a
believer in suppression of news, but
in this instance I recommend it, for
our own good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
HE OBJECTS TO CENTRAL
STREET CAR SERVICE.
By J. R. Smith


I am writing you to see if you can
tell me why the customers of the
indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany who live on or near Central
avenue should have turned out to be
stepchildren.
People who live on other branches
of the car line are riding in ele-
CANT new blue and yellow cars
which don't threaten to fall apart
when their speed is increased to
more than five miles an hour. Also
the seats in which they sit, when
there's room to sit. don't leave them
bent double like a man Of 80 when
they rise.
Another thing I wish you would
take up with the street car company
is why Central avenue street cars
wait five or ten minutes at the
corner Of Vermont street and
Massachusetts avenue during the
rush hour when every one is in a
hurry to get to work
have timed their famed speedy
service" and I positively can state
that between 9 and 9 in the morn
ing they never made the run from
Twenty second street and General
avenue to Illinois and Washington
streets in less than twenty minutes,
and more often it takes half an
hour The distance, might add, is
less than two miles.
I assume that this tortoise-like
schedule is necessitated by the
rickety old cars they use on the
Central avenue lines. Then how
about some Of the new cars or are
We really stepchildren?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
Banning of Arrested Workers Condemned

thinking probably their action
would deter others from going
against the company's will in the
future.
Employers such as this injure
the peace and good will of the
community. They are a positive
danger to the employer who is
fair, for it is their actions which
stir up labor trouble and upset
otherwise peaceful relations be-
tween all workers and their en-
ployers.
It seems to me that if enough
publicity we're given the actions of
Real Silk officials, dispensing the
Real Silk brand Of justice, public
opinion might be aroused enough
to insure innocent persons fair
hearing in their fight for a job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
CAN'T SEE MINTON
AS LOGICAL MAN"

BY Reader
This is in response to letters
headed, Sings Praises of McNutt
Regime" and "Minton Considered
Logical Man"
With strained voices and floats
and banners of eveery kind, we all
greeted r. Earl Peters, state chair
man, as the logical man, and Min
ton was not in the picture, except in
the background.
Did the President stand by the
national chairman. and didn't all
the state chairmen assist the ma
tional chairman?
Didn't our Republican citizenry
make use of one of the most de-
structive assertions that letters and
figures could create to defeat Mr..
Peters, and didn't the wise leaders
in the Democratic party select him
as the logical man for state chair
man?
Where does Mr.. Minton's logical
work come in? Was he in favor of
a 2 per cent assessment for cam
paign funds. on the salary of ap-
pointees to state positions?
This was one Of the gag rules OBJ
jected to by Mr.. Peters. Let this
be logical if you so say.
1 condemn a rule which causes the
taxpayers must foot the bill. NY
taxes this spring were around ST
more than usual. My property was
assessed for $4,000 more than will
buy it. This, I presume will help
those appointees who were dele
gates, to pay their assessment. Yes.
have applied for labor time and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06
CONDEMNS DRINKING
BY YOUNG GIRLS
By Trate Mother.

By Irate Mother.
1t is full time that city police
and the sheriffs office Of Marion
county took some action to pre-
vent drinking by young girls in re-
sorts of the lowest character.
Girls as young as Is know that
they can get all they want of what
ever they want to drink at these
places. They know, too. that the
proprietors do not care what goes
on behind the curtains of booths as
long as a sufficient amount is spent
for food and drink.
The condition is, of course, worse
in the county and in the outlying
and so-called tough" sections of the
city. But, girls from all sections
of the city frequent these places.
Can not something be done about
them? I ask as the mother of a
girl-and, of a boy-rapidly ap-
preaching the age when their friends
will try, at least. to take them to
such places.