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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
: BY DAVID DIETZ

TIME difference between the optnlist and the
i pessimist may be a few grains of calcium II
has been said that the optimist saw the dougnnut
and the peSSmist saw the hole, but to date, NOBODY
knew Just why. Dr. Donald A Laird and DIT James
NJ Stephan of Colgate university think that they
have the answer and that it lies in the amount OF
calcium in the blood.
The characteristic individual swings of emo
tional tone from happy to depressed, positive 10
negative optimistic to peSSimistc, have recently
been given intensive study the two investigators
say.
The existence of these emotional swings within
individuals appears TO be established but their
cause is still problematical These emotional shifts
do not appear to be related directly to envronmenta
stimulation for during a happy. positive, or opti-
mistic period the individual is not affected greatly
by depressing situations to the same degree he is
when in the opposite phase of his emotional cycle
individuals differ, both in the frequency and in
the extremes of their emotional cycles In some
persons there are only few days between the high
and low periods. in others they may be separated
by several weeks And in similar fashion, the
changes from high to low relatively slight in
some persons but marked in others"
THESE emotional cycles are suggestive of the sort
i of changes found mental disorders particu-
larry in the manic Oppressive type But the two
of which they speak are not abnormal and can be
demonstrated in practically all persons.
A theory advanced by Edward j. Kempf known
as the visceral tension hypothesis. holds that Wis
cerial changes that is changes in the vital organs
Of the body the point of origin of human drives
which find expression in emotions or emotional be-
havior.
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day, and was co-author of an
alleged funny column in the col
lege daily until, with his col
laborator, Vern wrote something
the faculty considered not only
un-funny, but unnecessary.
Vern left Indiana university in
February, 1929, heading straight
for indianapolis, where he re-
ported for work at the Indian
apolis convention bureau. He
posed as being % and his job
consisted of putting out small
pamphlet entitled, This Week in
indianapolis" for tourists. Part
of the job was to sell advertising,
but Vern couldn't sell solid gold
bricks and the convention bureau
soon found it out.
So at the end of the fourth
week, he was told the end had
come. He trudged over to The
Times Office, where Volney Fowler,
then city editor, and a Marion
product himself, introduced Vern
to the managing editor.
The managing editor, laboring
under the impression Vern was
%, gave him job.
Two years later, the managing
editor in a conversation with one
of his men remarked about ages.
1.-THE kids have all grown up"
he said. "I don't believe there's
one around under 25."
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by WALTER d. HICKMAN

naturally as any Main street
mother. Then the child is stolen
from his nursery at night.
The German star is highly emo
tional, but effective in the scenes
of her anguish. The remainder of
the picture you are interested in
Alice Brady as the mother of a
large brood on a chicken, egg and
milk farm, who is married to a
poverty-Stricken husband.
But there is happiness in their
home as true love is present. In
a cheap gingham dress and apron,
Miss Brady is lovely to behold.
She plays the mother role natur-
ally and with honest charm. What
an actress this woman is.
Her suspicious are aroused when
three strange people move into a
shack near her farm. In her own
way, she becomes a detective, be-
cause she is a mother. OF. course,
I will not tell you too much Of the
story.
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whats the matter with Box
ell?' asked the other man.
ooh, that's right" said the
managing editor. He's about "a,
isn't hep"
"Twenty-four? Twenty!"
what" roared the managing
editor. That whippersnapper
fooled mel"
XTERN was put to work on The
' Times on the copy desk and
after two months was shifted to
the city desk on general assign
mentS, then to the state desk for
two weeks and back to the rim.
Shortly before the start of the
192930 basketball season, he was
moved into sports to become as
SiStant sports editor and took over
the column, "Of the Blackboard"
In his first year of Blackboard
ing" Vern had his eyes on Muncie.
His predecessor, however, talked
Vern into picking Frankfort. which
had won the preceding year. Vern
picked Frankfort. Muncie went
to the finals, lost to Washington.
Frankfort failed to "show."
The next season, Vern used his
own counsel. He picked Muncie.
The Bearcats won-and on Vern's
birthday, too. All Swelled up with
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customer and Vern worked hard
on the editor for several months.
The editor, Carl Houston, finally
broke down under the persistent
battering of young Mr.. Boxell and
he became high school CORES
pendent. He was IA.
In the summer of that year, he
hooked up with the newspaper on
steady job. He did very little, but
when September came and re-
porter left, Vern got part of his
beat. He was given the Red Cross,
Welfare Society, the library, the
undertakers, and-best of all
the papers basketball column,
"Observin' EN-"
His working hours were from
$3.50, when he got out of school, to
10 at night, when he was
sent home to bed. In 1925, another
vacancy came and Vern was
handed the courthouse beat, the
city hall beat, and police and
he kept the basketball column and
his hours went up from 3 p. m.
to l a. m.
In 1926, Marion produced it's
great team of Murphy, Chapman,
ct AL, which won the state high
school championship. Vern COW
cred that tourney and since he
was so young, the editor sent the
circulation manager along as
guard.
One of the customers" on
Verns beat was NJ Clifford Town
send, present Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, and then county superin-
tendent of schools.
COON after his graduation from
~ high school, Vern decided to
go to school to become a lawyer.
He enrolled at Indiana university,
where his brother was in his final
year. In the summer of 1928,
Vern went to work for Frank
Elliott, publicity director of I. U.
Mr.. BoxelPs job was to handle
sports. He toured the state, con-
tacting sports writer's and ath-
letes.
When school opened, he dished
out yards of publicity about Joe
So-and-So going to be an all
America, etc. He waited tables
in a sorority house, where he
picked up an eye for feminine
pulchritude which endures to this
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himself, young Mr.. BoXell refused
all advice the next season andi
chose VincenneS. VincenneS' first
tourney game was with Cicero and
Mr.. BoXell said a few words on
the radio just before the game
started.
Gall I know about Cicero" he
said over the air, lis that he was
a Latin author"
Next day, Vern learned of an
other Cicero.
So the next season, the last one,
Mr.. Boxell chose a dark horse,
Greencastle. That team was noSed
out in the finals, after a brilliant
struggle.
Five months ago he was shifted
back to the copy desk as assistant
news editor. He is in charge of
the Pink editions, a task which
makes him sad-very sad indeed
in the summer time.
For Vern happens to be "bug"
about golf.
He loves the game and will take
on all corners, even though he can
whip but few of them.
And he can't even stand still
for a golf pictured
Dick Miller tried to take one of
him last year on a golf course. It
turned out to be blur!
Next: Jack Howard.
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Your Health
=BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN.

Tt' you or any other member of your family should
l. happen to fall victim to aiment that resem-
bles dySentery you will be very wise to obtain i'm
mediate medical attention. There is distinct DOS
sibihty that the trouble may not be dysentery but
the much more serious lucrative colitis
Lucrative coltis is a condition affecting the
bowels, and which, in some instances resembles
acute infections with dysenery, but which, because
of certain special characteristics represents differ
ent type OF infection from that of the dysentery
bacillus, or the amebac which cause amebiasis.
If you get Lucrative colitis you probably will
suffer first from indigestion, pain in the abdomen
loss of weight, and weakness and have extremely
loose actions of the bowels. The condition develops
rapidly.
Unfortunately, in many cases, patients either at
fail to have the condition studied with sufficient
care to determine certainly its nature.
nNE of the first things many people do is to re-
~ sort to repeated washings of the bowels by vari-
to be of little if any, avail and usually are harmful
often they increase the irritation and the frequency
of action.
Much important is rest of the tissues con-
cerned. Rest may be brought about by changing
the diet to cut down the amount of residue in the
food
If you are a victim, perhaps you should avoid
feeding entirely for brief periods and let your body be
ncurished instead with foods of a nutritious char
acter, to be given by your physician into the skin
into the blood.
This, however, should not be long continued be-
the disease itself tends to depete the body. AS
possible you should have foods that are rich
In ca2pries, minerals, and vitaminS
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w. G. Fields has one of the fun
nieSt comedy scenes that the
screen ever has reflected. The
entire cast is just right, although
the dumbnesS of Oracle Allen was
not always brilliant.
At times I wanted to wiring
Gracie'S neck, especially when she
backed Mary Boland over a cliff
while taking her picture. Oracle
just couldn't understand why
Mary wanted to fall over the cliff
and hang on limb. But any,
way, Oracle assured mary that she
had taken her picture while she
was standing up.
Since We are considering Six of
a Kind we might as we'll finish
the job. The role that Miss b.
land has is the wife of a cashier
in small town. The cashier is
played by Charles Ruggles in his
funniest and simplest manner.
TINE two decide to go by Ford
Il to Hollywood to observe their
second honeymoon. Mary ad-
vertises for a couple so as to re-
duce their expenses. The couple
that shows up for the trip was
composed of Miss Allen and her
partner in comedy crimes, George
Burns.
Here certainly are four of
kind when they start out for Hol-
lywood. One time on the trip,
dumb Oracle allows that she will
have breakfast in twelve minutes
as she just has put on four three
minute eggs.
1 am not going to ruin your
pleasure of seeing this comedy by
telling you the story. 1t had me
out of my seat screaming most of
the time.
Have your laugh brakes ready
when Mr.. Fields as a great he
man sheriff Of the modern west
puts on his famous pool table
scene.
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to Morris Ernst in New York in an
effort to settle the taxi strike.
Reporters who chased the active
little man to get an interview had
a hard time keeping up.
He just went this way" some
one would point out.
Hes g0ne," the next would say.
Gust left the hotel" barked a
third.
mfr. LaGuardia was here a few
minutes ago, conceded a fourth.
Fiorello, wearing a black SLOUGH
hat and overcoat turned up
against the chill breeze, kept well
ahead of newShounds most of the
day. He visited Harry Hopkins,
federal administrator: held con-
fab with interio. secretary Harold
L. Ickes; consulted General Hugh
johnson about taxi code; talked
briefly to old friends; made more
calls to New York; tried to see
President Roosevelt, but found him
suffering from a slight cold.
~
TORNERED at last, the dy-
~ manic mayor had a few
quick words to say about New
York politics.
Referring to resumption Of pay
ment for work on the Thorough
bridge, after the federal govern
ment had held up appropriations
because of big salaries grated by
Tammany politicians, Fiorello
snapped:
We've stopped building patron
age and we're building bridge"
Note: Fiorello planned to catch
a midnight train to New York last
night and be back on the job at
his usual hour today.
q =
VOUNG WILLARD TYDINGS,
i Maryland senator and Beau
Brummel, has come out Of his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09

XTERN BOXELL was born in
1910, the son of T. B. Boxell,
former Grant county Democratic
chairman, and who now is con-
nected with the license bureau at
the statehouSe here.
Vern entered school at the age
of 6, so small then that he was
practically lost when he sat be-
hind a desk. He rushed through
grade school, landing in Junior
high school at the age of IL. By
that time he had acquired news
paper route of 185 customers.
In his second year of junior
high, he took an agriculture
course. One of the requisites for
the class was raising a garden.
The head of the Boxell family
then was running a small truck
garden in the rear of the house
and Vern badly passed it off as
his own.
The teacher visited the garden
once a week to note the progress.
The elder Mr.. Boxell, proud of his
garden, knew nothing of any
visits by teacher. At the end of
the term, Vern was presented
with a ribbon for having the best
garden.
When he brought his trophy
home, Papa Boxell eyed it with
amazement, looked at his son
with narrowed eyes, and then
smiled wisely. He's never men
toned the subject.
Vern entered high school when
he was IS. He weighed Sc pounds,
but nevertheless managed to get
in a good deal of basketball on
church and Y. M. G. A. teams.
Once, he even changed churches,
from the Methodist to the Presby-
terrain, so he could play basketball
with a better team He also
played baseball-another second
baSeman who couldn't hit his
weight. There is nothing on the
records of his ever having deliv-
cred safe hit.
NERN won himself a job as
V soda jerker and boosted that
he turned out the best matted
milk in Marion-for himself. He
drank so many he pulled up like
little balloon.
The editor of the newspaper for
which Vern's older brother Ivan
toiled was steady matted milk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-09
1t Seems TO Ne
By
Haywood Broun

ENGINEERS for good cause have no neeo 70
L employ petty and shabby tricks wish 70 cue
a palpasle foul blow loosed by the National Ooni,
mittee for the Protection Of Child Family ocnoO
and Church. It seems to me that even TINS hlen-
sounding title constitutes deception since "oui"
be 50 much shorter and more honest 10 say elle
Association Against the Child Labor Afnenuiiien Nv
incidentally. this measure is always referred 70 Dy
its foes as "the so-called child labor amenoeh;,
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semi-retirement with a bang, and
will act as master of ceremonies
at the Junior Leagues Wear
Something New" ball Friday eve
ming.
Willard recently has been fight
ing shy of parties. He appeared
occasionally at Spanish embassy
Soirees and a few dinners, but
otherwise pleaded work or BUSH
ness engagements. However, when
Junior Leaguers bounced upon
him for the. job of master of
ceremonies, he yielded without a
struggle.
Sure, I'll come, and I'll wear
something new, too," he chuckled.
Friends hazard the guess that
Millard's new purchase for the oc-
casion may be the same hair tonic
used by Senator Connally of
Texas, which gives added lustre
and thickness to the hair.
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Burns and Oracle
Allen.
The first is tear
] kin g melo-
drama concerning
the kidnapping of
a baby of a mil
lion-dollar movie
star. The other
is one of those
hokum comedies
of a m arrie d
couple going on
t h cir sc con d
honeymoon after
peing married for
t W e n ty years
six of a Kind
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The only fault that I found was
with the ending which was
too much Hollywood because Miss
Brady looked too beautiful for
words in her dirty gingham dress.
Both Miss Fayne's Baby Is
Stolen" and six of a Kind" are
now on view.
Here is marvellous double
feature combination.
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mind a sort of short catechism
issued in one Of the ants
leaflets about the amendment.
'.Who drafted this amendments
It was not drafted by congress.
It was drafted by Mrs. Florence
Kelley Wischnewetsky." The
leaflet adds, Mrs. Kelley, as
she preferred to be known after
divorcing her Russian husband,
translated the works of Kari
Marx and Frederick Engles.
Mrs. Florence Kelley died two
years ago. AS far as 1 can re-
member, she never was known
by any other name in this COM
munity, where she carried on
long and often acrimonious
fights for the reforms in Wnlch
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BY NORMAN E. ISAACS
Times News Editor

LIE can't sit still.
He's almost invariably late
devourng passion and he reads
comic strip he get his hands on
response always
enightening "Huh?"
That's Vern editor of The Indian
apo conductor of The Times basketball
column of Blackboard
Hoose close to being the boy reporter
18 he will be a. and he rounding
of service with The Times And he held
at the OF IA
of the office has made him the
OF joShing about the "Jtters'
weighs ITO poundsa far from
skinny SO pounds who used to jerk soda in
Marion drug store.
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NEBRASKA ALUMNI TO
HEAR DR.. E. G. ELLIOTT

Purdue President Graduated From
Western School in 1895.
Principal speaker at the annual
charter day banquet of the Indian
apolis Association of University Of
Nebraska Alumni, at Thursday
night, will be DR.. Edward C. Elliott,
Purdue university president.
The dinner will be held in the
Silver Cup tearoom, 2035 North
Meridian street. DR.. Elliott was
graduated from the University of
Nebraska in 1895 and received his
M. A. degree from there in 1897.
Mrs. William Baum is general
chairman.
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Fair Enough
By
Westbrook PeqIer

Johnny FREDERICK, who is known, not alto
- gether to his advantage as the toughest cop in
New York, has been busted and sent out to plod
beat in uniform AS detective, Johnny was very
well known along Broadway, and particularly
around Madison Square Garden, where he engaged
in a campaign Of pacihcation against the dsorderly
characters who used to embarraSS Tex Richard in
his appeal for the patronage of those whom he loved
to call the very best people in town. There were
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In City TheaterS

nTHER theaters today offer:
" Good Dame" at the Circle;
Cotton Club Revue" on the stage
and Eskimo" on the screen at
the Palace; Carolina" at the
Apollo; June Pursell on the stage
and THE Last Roundup" on the
screen at the Lyric, and burlesque
at the Mutual and Colonial.
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other tough cops involved in the
task, and they all went at it as
though they loved their work.
but Johnny Broderick came out
of the little war with the tough
est reputation. He liked to take
an undesirable character by the
arm. lead him down into a little
room and bounce him off the
walls like a handball, strictly
with his nude fists. He took
such pride in his fist-fghting
that he once tore into a news
paper shop in a great lather to
demand the retraction of a re-
port which impressed him as a
great injustice.
Well" the city editor said,
"let's go through the story and
see what is wrong with it. Now.
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she believed Since she was Mrs FIorence r4Io ny
and the mother of a couple of Keleys' oonL See
whv her right to that name should De queSIIoile o
Obviously. the name of her Russian husoano was tsa
introduced into the leafet merely TO nsluaIe O,io
idea that the movement for the child LABOR alhenu
n1ent is of foreign origin and chiefly backed Oy
revolutionary radicals
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~ e. Fields Scores Again in One of Movies Being Son
Combination Feature Now Presented at Indiana Critic Says

HERE is real movie program
- combination at the Indiana
theater.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen"
with Alice Brady, Dorothea Week,
Jack La Rue, Baby LIE Roy and
Alan Hale.
six of a Kind" with Charlie
RuggleS, Mary Boland, w. C.
Fields, Alison Skipworth. George
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Capital Capers-
FiOreILO Travels Fast
Poppy New York Mayor Bustles Around Wash
lngton in One of Busiest Days of Career.
BY GEORGE ABEL

M AoH1NG1ON, Feb 9-Pungent, Forelo La
W Guardia of New York-a nanv
onan beezed early morning train and spent one
OF the busiest days in his busy - 49,
accompanied by Postmaster General Jim Farley
aHeconate brothe
and whskd Carlton seized phoc and talked
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a Dumb, Hick Cop

INEFFECTIVE FREDERICK regarded Detective
IL Sergeant Tapscott a dumb, hick cop and
used to pass disparaging remarks about his big,
shiny star. Detective Tapscott, who was not very
quick at repartee and who wore square-toed shoes
and stuffed necktie which hooked to his collar
sort of look, taking in his silk shirt his pressed
trousers, and his general modshness, and Wag his
head and say:
you couldn't be cop in our town. You would
be a Boy Scout in town"
Detective Broderck has been busted and sent
out to walk beat because he had enjoyed for some
years the Endorsement and the assistance of some
OF the most perniciouS Tammany politicians in the
city. Thus, in police administration which began
politics in the department, a man finds himself
busted and his pay reduced for political reasons
which must be a great puzzle to patrolman John
Broderick.
From my acquaintance with patrolman for
merly detective, Broderck I should say that the
experience of being busted and harnessed up once
more is likely to do him more good than harm. He
was excessively tough at times, and there were oc-
casions when, pning for action, he bounced people
around who were not in particular need of bounc-
ing around At the same time there we're many low
characters in the city, notorious for their activity in
the racketS who were walking right past Detective
Broder1ck on the street and in the lobby of the gar
den, whom he did not find any occasion to bounce
around. 1t seemed strange, but that was during a
time when the city full of angles
young, tough cop with political connections had
10 be careful not to put any Jumps on a man with
an angle.
Now hear that nobody has an angle any more
and that should give patrolman Broderick grand
opportunity to perform some bouncing with Little
Augie and Dutch Schultz
copyright 1884. by Feature Syndicate Incl
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Fields never has been funnier
in his life as he wrecks the pool
table and himself as he attempts
to break the balls.
If supreme hokum comedy ever
existed, it does in this fifteen
minute scene which is a classic. I
always will remember this scene
and when the season is over, will
rate Mr.. Fields as giving one of
the ten best comedy performances
of the year.
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it says you are the toughest cop in town. Is that
right"
yes, that part is o. k" Detective Broderick
said modeStIy.
Then it says that you caught this criminal and
subdued him with blackjack" the city editor went
on rs there anything wrong about that"
Yes" Detective Broderick exclaimed. That is
dirty lie. I didn't my jack. I busted him on
the jaw"
Detective Broderick was one OF Jack Dempseys
bodyguardS during some trying days and nights in
Atlantic City in 1926, when Dempsey was training
for his first fight with Gene Tunney and Jack
Kearns, with the fury of a manager Scorned was
haraSSing him with law suits