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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
They EUen Fly Balloons

THE starlings have learned not to be surprised by
anything that man does in the national capital
any more For time no doubt man amused them
with his curious ways.
Man brought the starings from Europe TO
eat certain bugs They spread over the eastern part
of the country at first but then established great
concentration in Washington They do not concen-
trate in New York because the buildings are too high
and the wind too cold up there. They avoid Des
MoineS because they do not like Iowa and, being
coIored, they wisely keep out of the deep South.
Washington they have found exactly to their
liking and from Washington, in their millions, they
migrate in the spring to the adjacent open country
to eat bugs and play house and return in greater
millions every fall They forage on the winter days
but nightfall brings them back to town to darken
the scaly trees on Pennsylvana-av with their num-
bers and perch among the irregularities Of the ma
sonry of the buildings.
AS a last resort, now the United States Govern
ment has hired men at as cents hour to trudge
the streets and fly toy balloons at the starlings.
Before this they had been gassed and the gas had
blown back in the Governments face Streamers
of CLOTH like Nte-tails, had been flown from the
buildings but proved more unsghtly than the nui-
of the starings Blank cartridges had startled
the citizens much the Starlings and when men
hired to sit in the branches of the trees beating
dshpans and rafting tin cans containing stones,
the starlngs flew on to other trees containing
men with dishpans or tin cans Moreover, the cure
was more noisy than the nuisance so the United
States Government climbed down out of the trees
with its pans and cans and adopted the silent bal
loon
The starngs, however, are blase and do not pay
the balloons much heed.
So are the citizens.
After one has lived in Washington a while, listen
home brew not even men flying balloons in the
of the Stars and Stripes and the United States
Congress seem at all abnormal.
Copyright 1895 by United Feature Syndicate IncJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
Bad Habits and Money

COLLEGE presidents have written to point out
~ their need for endowment. All the time the
winning roll was just a phantom. I am in no posi-
ton to lend helping hand to any high pitched
opera singer or even can I spare dime for bari
tones I didn't win. I lost and never again will
make any reference to gaming triumphs. Only
under pressure will attempt to be as funny as
can.
If somebody at the back of the room should pop
up and inquire, But what do you do with your
salary2" I only repeat that it is shot away by
bad habits and deserving friends. And in all fair
ness the stress should come the habits.
Never having been affluent have notion what
I might do if flushed with funds. In semi-bank-
rupt state I suppose 1 am as generous as the next
one, which is saying very little. The man in debt
feels no conjunction about saying to the waiter,
oscar, set them up again."
He is not disposing of the things which he pos
sesses but rather saying why shouldn't the wad go
for sherry rather than the sheriff 1t is generally
assumed that those who succeed through the sweat
of the brow will generally be provdent in the APP
portionment of profits. This seems to me a good
deal less than true. The careful folk among my
own acquaintance are those whose fortunes fell
into their laps like gentle dew from heaven.
If had an uncle in Australia and if he left
forty thousand pounds I would not dissipate any
portion of the inheritance. Indeed my thought
would be, Il can't expect uncle to die every day
and will cling to this nest egg most assiduously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

COUT may be the subject of many jokes, but
~ really it's no laughing matter 1t is disease
Of ancient lineage.
1t first definitely described by the famous
physician Sydenham in England during the 18th
century-Sydenham himself being a sufferer from
this disorder.
1.-THE victim" Sydenham wrote, goes to bed and
sleeps in good health. About 2 o'clock in the morn
ing he is awakened by a severe pain in the great
toe; more rarely in the heel, ankle or instep. This
pain like that Of dslocation and yet the parts
feel as if cold water were poured over them.
"NTOW it is a violent stretching and tearing of
the ligaments-now it is a gnawing pain and
now pressure and tightening"
Govt today is an exceedingly rare disease in this
country. 1t is believed to be associated with the
abnormal development within the body of the prod
ucts of uric acid.
TOUT is treated successfully by carefully super
~ vising the activity of the person concerned, by
taking suitable measures for relief Of pain, and by
eliminating from the +iet foods that are rich in
nucleons such as liver, thymus, kidney, brain and
pancreas.
Such substances as caviar fish roe and meat ex-
tracts are also believed to be harmful. The best
diet for person with this condition includes milk.
cream, cheese, fruits, fresh vegetables and water
Liquors end wines are generally forbidden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
There'd Always Be More

MONEY which is earned becomes hot coin and
WI burns a hole in every pocket. For instance,
the possessor has the privilege of thinking, This
made. Is it not my right to do what will with
mine own2" And though the difficulties of accumu-
lation may be great there is the saving, or better
yet provocative sense, there's plenty more where
that $40 came from"
MY Florida phantasy of tossing back vast gaming
winnings into the maelstrom was pSychologically
quite unsound. Like a legacy the money one wins
upon horse seems frail and fabulous and worthy
of retention. Some day after intense and earnest
effort I will write a novel.
It will sell approximately 5000 copies And in the
course of the next six months will receive $3.50.
This stake will seem to me a sort of Mexican jump
ing bean and if it sufces to get me as far Palm
Beach or Miami Ill shoot the rest upon single
number It is my assumption that the novel OF which
I speak may be compounded out OF my soul ana
elbows and innards And so I will not greve to see
the fair rewards go down the mill stream When my
wager fails to click I afford to smile little
wanly and remark There's plenty more Where thaV
chicken feed came from"
Copyright. 1850
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
Today's Science
by DAVID DIETZ-

a MERICAS annual bill for rust and corroslon,
n bill which into billions OF dollars, may
be reduced by the Of copper-aloy STEEL accord
ing to the finds of committee of the Engineering
Foundation of New York, which mas oeeh at WORK OH
the subject since 1929.
The committee, known as the iron alloys COM
mittee of the Engineering Foundation, has assembled
TO date what is probably the largest collection OF
classified data on the whole field of alloy steels and
cast irons in existence. Prof George b. WateThouSe
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology is chair
man of the committee.
Emerging from the Stone Age, the world pro-
crossed to the Age of Bronze essentially an age OF
copper. Next it entered the Age of Iron which time
has transformed into the Age OF Steel
The possibilities of Copper-Steel age are seen
In the findings of the Engineering Foundations COM
nittee For the committee not only finds the copper
alloy stees to be more resistant to rust and corro-
sion but also structurally stronger.
THE tremendous potentialities of copper lie in
l. the fact that it is cheap compared with many
other ALLOWING metals and that only very SmaII
amounts of it are usually needed to obtain the de-
sired characteristics.
Thus. for example a copper-steel containing only
IS per cent copper has high ccrrosion resistance
Since of two equally disable materials" the COM
mittee continues the cheaper will be selected by
the builder steels containing copper possess eco
nomic security not shared by most OF the competing
materials. Thus, copper Is taking Its place as an
important aloying metal, even though it is not so
well known to the public in this role as the less
familiar metals such as chromium molybdenum,
and vanadium"
THE tendency toward attractveness and eff
i cheney visible, for example, in the 1885 auto
mobiles is another reason in favor OF the stronger
copper-steels the committee feels
The work of the committee is being financed by
q fund of $4,000. Its aim is to review and appraise
critically all of the research iron and its alloys
reported in the technical literature of the world
Among the organizations cooperating with the
committee are the American Institute of Mining and
MetaIurgical Engineers the American Iron and
Steel Institute the American Foundrymens ASsocia-
ton BatteTe Memorial Institute, Carnegie Institute
Of Technology and other institutions including
number Of Government bureaus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
They'd SaUe the World

TIE and others in the same tragic group, in
i Spired by the same sel1eSS devotion would then
spend The money and that would make commerce
and the world would get well again. There had
been no such panic in the days of economic sanity
before souiess medical board decided that he
had now reached an age when he probably would
have lost his teeth due to ordinary wear ana tear.
Professor Bottomley, who can touch the floor
with his wrists without bending his knees and once
invented card game called the moth and the flame,
regarded most of the remedies proposed by others
as mere palliatives. He said OF the Townsend pen
sion plan, for example, that 1t created no treSn
money but merely took money away from the
taxpayers. AS leader of the MartianS, who derive
their inspiration from telescope observations OF the
canals the planet Mars, he had come down TO
propose plan which was no mere paln-klller, but
cure the nature of which, however escaped your
correspondent Notwithstanding earnest effort to
comprehend The trouble seemed to be that when
the Marian took off into space he could not get
his landing gear unstuck and so scared on and on
He is writing a book, however, which will explain
all living, meanwhile on a dole of SALT week.
It was in a confused state of mind induced by the
conflict of scientific opinion that your correspondent
observed with start. at the of Pennsylvania
av and 14th-St two Negroes walking Solemnly along,
each with two toy gas balloons on a long leash OF
thread wound a stick. One had yellow balloons,
the other purple and as they trudged slowly up
14th-st they would pay out the thread until the
balloons went nodding around the caves OF the Press
Club Building on one side of the street and the
Willard Hotel on the other. AS the balloons tilrted
in light evening breeze, cigaret butts and lighted
matches tipped out Of of the windows and idle
persons on the upper floors tried to snatch the
threads and draw them in.
Occasionally from the indentations in the ma
sonry there would rise SMALL shrill Creeping OF
birds and groups of starlings would wheel of into
the air to fly around moment and settle back.
But other groups of starlngs quickly accustomed to
new strange prank of man in the national capital
sat where they were and paid no mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21

shot movie moguls than appears
on the surface.
Their dope is that the move is
part of a drive to harry Will Hays
out of his job as car Of the in
duStry.
The recent little-noticed depor-
tation of some European stars is
cited as another phase of the
same thing. And it is intimated
that flock of tax violation suits
will soon follow.
That certain Democratic politi-
cal chieftains have been frowning
on Hays continued reign over the
movie industry is no secret.
And there was lot Of mutter-
ing around Democratic National
Headquarters when the big-eared
former Postmaster General and
Republican national chairman
had his contract renewed in 1888.
There is much mystery about
this contract.
Reports as to its duration and
the salary paid Hays vary widely.
One widely circulated story puts
the term at five years and the SAL
airy at $250,000 per annum with
Hays paying his expenses.
Just before the st. Louis prose-
cution was instituted the report
was current among Democratic
politicos that a big battle had
taken place among the movie mo-
guls resulting in Hays being
stripped Of his powers.
Copyright. 1895. by United Feature
Syndicate Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21

T. Robinson, Democratic ma
jority leader, who is strongly sup
porting entry.
Long said he was unable to
fathom" any reason for the hurry
to get into the court.
mo doubt there are many
things that the Senator from
Louisiana is unable to fathom,"
snapped Senator Robinson.
1.-THE Senator from Arkansas
and I reach a different conclu-
sion," said Long.
1--WE often do that" Senator
Robinson replied.
1.-The Senator's position is very
clear" said Long, but, of course,
to a mind constructed as mine is,
it is not understandable.
"Of course, 1 am not responsible
for that" said Senator Robinson,
closing the exchange.
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and loan associations were en-
couraged to loan higher per-
centage Of a houses cost, the
government assuming responsible
ity for the difference between the
normal 70 per cent and the 80 per
cent which it recommended.
This decision to abandon SUBJ
sides after many years of them
was fought tooth and nail by the
Socialists. who contended that
scarcely a third of the need for
workingmen's homes had been
filed.
But the government replied
that it was sure private enterprise
and capital could assume the bur-
den, and took up the problem OF
slum elimination.
Already the city of London had
become one of the greatest land
lords of the metropolitan area,
having built $4,000 houses and
flats for $4,000 people to live in.
Adding to crown funds some
$2OO,OOO,000 of its own tax money,
the London County Council had
built not only new apartments in
crowded areas, but had developed
whole streets and communities in
outlying districts.
Last year the city of London
had $13,000,000 coming to it in
rents.
The slum problem then became
paramount. The National Housing
and Town Planning Council in
1929 showed that one-quarter of
the population of England and
Wales was living under definitely
overcrowded conditions. A Scot
fish committee reported that at
least 41,000 houses in Scotland
were absolutely unfit to live in
and should be destroyed.
Taking as a basis that when
more than one and one-half per-
sons per room live in a house
there is overcrowding, the Archi-
tects' Journal estimated that in
IS large cities, $4,000 new houses
were needed.
In London, it was found that
two of three families were COM
PEELED to share house, that one
eighth of the population live more
than two to room, and that in
Scotland this proportion was more
than a third.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
MINTON POKES FUN
AT FARLEY SCHEME
Patronage Plan Is Ignored
by Rep. Ludlow.
RU Times SnecjoJ

By Times Special
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Post-
master General James A. Farleys
suggestion that Indiana adopt the
so-called New York plan of handling
Federal patronage through the
Democratic State Committee has
been snubbed by Rep. Louis Ludlow
and kidded by Senator Sherman
Minton.
Rep. Ludlow, while stating he had
the highest regard for the commit
tee, said he believed the plan would
be cumbersome and unavoidable.
Senator Minton, striking a note of
humor, coUutered with the sugges-
ton that it might be a good plan.
but it presupposed that there would
be some patronage.
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attacked by Socialists and Lib
erals for not moving fast enough.
He is attacked by landlords for
moving too fast.
They are demanding that own
ers of condemned buildings be
paid not only for the land, but
also something for the buildings.
But, heartened by active sup
port from such men as the Prince
of Wales and the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Sir Hilton has gone
right ahead. The prince has been
interested in the housing prob
lem for years, and on his own
properties in the Workingmen's
section of London he voluntarily
tore down many bad buildings and
replaced them with model flats at
low rentals.
The government plans to spend
a half-million dollars in a five
year plan of slum demolition. Sir
Hilton points to demolition of
1897 buildings in 1888, compile
ton of 1903 new ones, and be-
ginning of 19,301 more.
He is pressing in Parliament
for a complete survey Of over
crowded conditions, after which
local authorities would be charged
with elimination of such condi-
lions in their own communities.
So when the United States en-
banks on vast housing program,
the experience of Britain stands
before it as a great laboratory
whose results are available for no
more effort than it takes to study
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
$4,000 DAMAGES ARE
SOUGHT IN SUIT HERE
Four Named Defendants in Action
Before Superior Court.

Four Named Defendants in Action
Before Superior Court.
Damages of $4,000 are sought
for Ernest Weaver, a ward of the
Farmers Trust Co., in a suit on file
against four dependents in Superior
Court, Room 2.
Charging that judgment of 500
was rendered in 1916 when young
Weaver, then only 4, was trampled
by a horse belonging to the National
Biscuit Co., the complaint states
that the judgment, given by JUS
tice of the peace court, was I'M
known to the Weaver family and is
fraudulent.
The suit, filed by Seth S. Ward
and Fac w. Patrick, names as de-
PENDANTS the Employers Liability
Assurance Corp, London, England;
the National Biscuit Co., William
Polkinhorn and J. Blake Stone, as
surance company employees in In
dianapolis.
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Sen. ]. Hamilton Lewis 3D.,
lid, scholarly pink-whiskered
Democratic whip, arose.
"I hope" he said, that the
Senator from louisiana does not
refer to U.s."
"Oh, no." Long replied in
shocked tone. when I use that
word I always exclude the Senate
and I also exclude myself"
7 ONG'S remarks about the
Il court led him into a pep
perry exchange with Senator Joseph
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
BY MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Correspondent

7 ONDON, Jan. II. -
When the United States
turns hopefully in 1885
toward a vast housing pro-
gram to create work and
raise the standards of iv-
ing for millions, it is VEN
turing into no unmapped
or unknown land.
The proposed American
program is very much like
what Britain has been do
ing ever since the World
War.
Since 1919, Britain has been
able to build 2,193, 106 new houses
LIZA .831 Of them built with state
aid and ,O2s, 30 With private cap
ital. This progress has kept build
ing trade workers busy, stimu-
lated industry in general and con-
tributed much to the recovery"
by conservative Britain that is the
envy of many American conserva-
tiVeS.
When the World War ended,
Britain found itself with a def
mite and vast housing shortage.
Especially in the industrial cities,
there was dire need for decent
houses for workingmen.
But because building material
cost so much, interest rates on
borrowed money we're so high,
and the pay of buildings trade
workmen was so steep, it was
hard to build homes at cost low
enough that workingmen could
either buy them or rent them.
The British government took a
hand. Its effort was in two
phases:
First-Almost from the Armi-
stice down to last year, the gov
eminent itself aided the private
building of houses by granting
subsidies.
Secondhand to private building
has now ceased, and the govern
ment has turned to tearing down
slums and providing new and bet
ter houses in which the former
slum-dwellers could afford to live.
Beginning with the Addison
Act in 1913, the government eX-
tended a series of subsidies to
private builders of homes under
plans approved by the Ministry of
Health, working through 1712
local authorities.
The British treasury has, in
those 16 years, paid out some
$700,000,000 in housing subsidies,
and has drawn to building a total
of nearly three and a half billion
dollars from treasury and private
sources. This outpouring of money
has been of the greatest help in
keeping British industry going.
T OW interest rates at which
- money could be borrowed
helped bring this result, and many
observers believe that such condi-
ton is now becoming apparent in
the United States.
In 1888, money became so easily
available in Britain for housing
loans that the government dis
continued it's subsidies. Building
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EIZnough
by
WESIBROOK PEGLER

XXTASHlNGTON, D. c.. Jan. 21.-On the same
W day that Prof. Samuel Bottonley, the econ
onlic doctor. expounding his sterling rem
edy for the ills that afiict world come down of its
own pizen your correspondent was Keeling down
Pennsylvana-av at dusk, somewhat dazed by the
conflict Of advice submitted by the great congress
of tailboard specialists called together by Senator
Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma
From near and far they had come a'running
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The program, while falling short
of what the liberals would like to
see enacted and will demand, is
nevertheless much more extensive
than they had expected.
That this last is so, due to two
factors:
First, the influence Of Labor
Secretary Perkins, who is a strong
advocate of far-reaching social Sc
curity measures.
Second, the distinctly unfavor-
able reaction that greeted the
Presidents speech before the So
cial Security Conference in which
he indicated a marked GOODNESS to
the enactment of old-age pen
sionS, at this session.
The President, his ear acutely
attuned to popular sentiment, did
not fail to grasp the fact that he
had slipped cog in rebuf1ng old
age security.
That the Townsend plan was
rolling up tremendous support also
had its effect in persuading him
to change his mind. 1t became
apparent that if he didn't sponsor
an old-age pension program, one
would be dumped into his lap by
Congress.
So he recovered the ball and
took the initiative.
NEW JERSEYS Senator A.
IN Harry Moore is fond of play
ing handball, but promises he will
never again use the corridors of
the Senate Office building for a
handball court.
New to Washington, Jerseys
former Governor has not yet
found a partner for his favorite
indoor sport. So he went alone to
the court in the basement of the
building the other day, had a
workout. took a shower and was
headed back to the Office, feeling
fit to face the crowd of job
seekers waiting for him.
IT wasn't thinking about what
I was doing" the Senator ex-
planned with a genuine blush. II
was walking along the corridor
bouncing the ball in front of me,
like this. Suddenly I looked up.
There, staring with gaping
mouths, were a group of sight
SeerS.
It was giving them an eyeful-
a Senator bouncing a ball in the
marble corridors of the Capitol.
'Well-I've been very mindful
of the dignity of my Office ever
since"
GONE of the boys near Jim
- Farley's expansive mahogany
TA& 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-21
SENIOR BOOK is ISSUED
Manual January Graduating Class
Publishes Booster.

The January Senior Booster pub
lished by the graduating class at
Manual Training High School, was
issued today
The Booster includes pictures and
personals Of the graduating seniors,
class history, editorials, athletics
and articles concerning various
Manual activities.