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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
They're Keeling Drunk

1T is a fine sight. also. to see among these groups
Il a goodly s~prinkling of grown-up women who have
put aside the restraints and immunities Of child
hood and accepted the obligation to get Keeling
drunk as BELTS their years.
The Army-Notre Dame game is a good one to
which to take the children so that they may notice,
if they are bright, what is to be expected of them
in the way of conduct when they are 81, or say, 10.
To be sure, childhoods happy hours are feeting
enough and they should not be crowded too fast.
But this is d practical world and it is only a day
until they must find themselves called upon to take
their places as men and women. 1t is not necessary
that they get plaStered, or even mildly whiskyed-
up on these occasions, but it can do no harm for
them to keep their eyes and ears open, observe the
manners, condition and speech of their elders and
form the resolution to be likewise as soon as they
have years enough.
Very fair demonstrations of adult conduct may
be witnessed at some of the Yale games, also, and l
have been told that on the whole, the conduct Of
the crowds at the Southern games is distinctly
mature.
But the most encouraging spectacle that l have
seen in connection with the big games in the East
is that of young girls of, say 10 or 20, dishevelled,
pale, sick and either babbling or stretched out I'M
conscious with their boy friends of similar years on
the trains bound back to town when the big games
are over.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
The Stiffness Is AmfuL

"COMETIMES the noise is so horrible that you feel
Oas if a knife has been drawn across the whole
throat Of the sky. Yes, the sound is very terrible"
But here my friend paused and thought for a second
and then he added, of course, I'm not telling it
right. There is something worse than the noise.
Much worse. That's the stiffness. 1t comes in the
middle OF the hurricane. It's like shutting off an
electric fan. The wind doesn't diminish. 1t just
stops. The leaves don't stir, they're dead. Everything
seems dead and more than that buried deep under
the weight of the sod. I think some scientists say
that there IS an actual vacuum in the center of the
hurricane. That's what it feels like. You gasp for
air. And then with a whOOp and yell the storm be-
gins again, raging at you from a brand new quarter.
And almost you thank God for the hurricane"
1 am not prone to parallels, but I wonder if it
would be amiss to voice the view that the world in
which we live is gaSping now in just such a vacuum
as indicates the recurrence of the tempest. No one
knows from precisely what quarter the wind will
blow. TIE war was the first phase Of the mighty
storm and we live now in the deadening age of in
activity.
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Then Can't Take H-Yet

DRAvE souls, they are not yet able to take it as
ID their elders can, but they keep on trying and
in a few seasons become qualified women and men,
being replaced by other girls and boys a little
younger.
There has been some agitation among the educa-
tors of late to curtail adolescence in young Americans
and a hopeful sign is seen in the character of the
Christmas celebration nowadays. Formerly a chill
dren'S festival in which the adults momentarily
strove to put themselves again IN an innocent frame
of mind, Christmas recently has become an adult
holiday largely devoted to drunkenness for the edi-
fcation Of the children.
Thanks to the freedom which is permitted them
at this season the young are given fine opportun-
tiles to make mental notes on the habits and char
acter. of those whom they are asked to emulate and
the effect no doubt will be to rush their development.
There are still some reactionary children. I heard
of one, a boy of eight, alone at table with nine
grown-ups who were drinking toasts around and
around at Christmas dinner and, forgetting his man.
ners, broke in to say. "Why don't you drink to Jesus
Christ? It's his birthday"
Copyright. 1895, by Unite d Feature Syndicate. Inc)
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BUTLER STUDENTS
WILL BE ENROLLED
University Spring Term to
Start on Feb. 5.

Registration for the second semes-
ter at Butler University will begin
Feb. 4, Dean James w. Putnam, act
ing president, has announced. This
will make it possible for mid-year
high school graduates to begin their
college work without delay.
Glasses have been arranged so that
new students may take the pre-
scribed first semester freshman
courses during the spring term.
Prospective students are asked to
send high school transcripts by mail
to Mrs. Martha Bebinger Enyart,
registrar, as soon as possible.
New Students will confer with the
freshman adviser, arrange class
schedules and take a physical eX-
animation to complete their regis
tration. Work for the spring term
will begin Feb. 5.
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drew heavily upon Hudson County
for talent.
But Mr.. Curtiss softened up sat-
i~sfactorily, a process which he has
repeated in his rulings upon Haupt-
mann.
The prisoner at first could have
no reading matter, nor could he see
his baby more than once a week.
TIN not going to have jail rou-
l. tine upset." said the High
Sheriff.
Mrs. Hauptmann, however, con-
tinued to bring little Mannfried
around almost daily and Mr.. Cur
tiss, g%rumbling, continued to grant
permission for the child to visit his
father in his cell.
The prohibition against reading
matter, too, was quickly withdrawn,
and those forlorn reporters who
were left in Pennington to bridge
the long gap between arraignment
and trial we're able to chronicle
daily the jailed carpenters prog
ress through a biography of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
On two points the High Sheriff
remained obdurate. He refused to
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with the Democratic Board of
County Freeholders over arrange
ments for the Hauptmann trial was
for a time the talk of Pennington.
The Freeholders prepared to par
eel out space in the courtroom to
newspaper men and others. Curtiss
promptly announced that he was
responsible for the Courthouse and
the Jail" and that he would make
his W arrangements.
This he did, refusing also to con-
slider the suggestions made by a
committee of reporters representing
the metropolitan papers, members
of which had conferred at length
with the Governor and the prose-
cutor's staff.
"COMMITTEE?" he remarked
~ scornfully. "T'hell with the
committee" And, of the Board Of
Freeholders-
Sure, we had a little trouble.
They're all Democrats, and they
tried to take charge of the seating
arrangement for the trial. I'd have
been a fool to let them get away
with it."
They didn't. The High Sheriff
proceeded to allocate space accord
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

MYTH he advent of the new year, one of the
w first things you should do is to take an in
ventory of your health. That's even more I'M
portant than the financial inventory which our busi-
ness men take annually to determine the status OF
their affairs.
A complete physical examination nowadays is
more complicated and difficult than it used to be.
It includes q careful investigation of the ability OF
many organs of the body to carry on their func-
tons.
Not onlv the ewes. ears, nose and throat are
examined but the doctor also sees whether the heart
is doing it's work without difficulty, and whether
the kidneys are getting rid of waste materials
brought by the blood without any serious destruc-
ton of the kidneys themselves.
The lungs are tested as to the presence Of the
first signs of infection, such as tuberculosis or
pneumonia, and as to whether breathing is proper
ly carried on.
DY simple physical examinations, the doctor can
ID find out whether the heart is Of normal size
and whether the rate and volume of the heart
beats are as consistent as they should be. The
blood pressure is measured accurately to find out
whether it is Of the correct height for age and
weight of the person concerned.
The doctor examines the blood to see whether
the red blood cells and the white blood cells are
correct in number, whether the varieties are prop
erly distributed, and whether the blood is carrying
sufficient red coloring matter. He also may test
the blood to find out whether there is infection.
Your posture should be studied for signs Of fiat
IPeG OF LWlSllilB u buC oplAlSy dAQ DAOPCA IL
of your weight. Your weight is determined in re-
lation to your height, and a record Of the weight
will show whether you are gaining or losing weight
in an abnormal manner.
A ROPE examination includes a study of your
IA digestion, and your entire digestive canal from
the mouth down. The presence of hemorrhoids or
of abnormal bleeding should be investigated, par
ticularly if you are past middle age.
The doctor also will inquire carefully into your
habits as to sleep and rest, your diet and exercise,
the amount of outdoor air you get and similar
factors necessary in hygiene.
Your teeth also should be investigated by a COM
petent dentist, to determine the presence of cavities
at the earliest possible moment.
Such a survey may mean years of additional
life to you, through detection Of changes at the
earliest possible moment, and it may mean years OF
additional healthful life, which is Of even greater
significance.
O-Give the total United States exports and i'm
ports of tobacco in 1888.
A-Exports, 42o,4180OO pounds; imports, 2,596,000
pounds.
O-Who was Archbishop James Usher?
A Protestant archbishop of Armagh. Ireland,
who lived from 1881 to 1856. He is best known for
his chronology of the Bible.
-Whe and how large is the island Of Mona
in the West Indies?
Alt is a small island in the Mona Passage, Of
the West Indies, a strait 80 miles across, which
separates Haiti from Puerto Rico. The island Is
seven by two miles.
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The voice Of IVA, which will
explain the panorama, will be the
voice of TWAS new publicity x
pert, Kendall Foss.
DURING recent %dickering of
~ the German cotton dealers
for credits to purchase American
cotton, newspapers published an
inside story of a conference be-
tween Secretary Wallace, Senator
Cotton Ed" Smith and Carl AL
brecht, Bremen cotton merchant.
Next morning Albrecht called
the Agriculture Department on
the telephone.
Il must make denial of intel
LICENCES I read in the newspaper"
he said. 1T is not I who have
been i~ndiScreet."
The Department press bureau
told him they knew it was net
he, but Senator Smith who was
the source of the statements.
ZACH! Your own Senator Smith?
-. Well, we'll! In my country, we
have concentration camps for
people like that"
Copyright, 1884 by United Featur'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
Questions and Answers

Care gold and silver mined in New MexicoP
Ayes.
Q-what is the derivation and meaning of the
name Murnane2
Att is an irish family name. derived from the
name Of an ancient Irish sea sod, and is common
in East Limerick. Tipperary, Cork. and in parts OF
Leinster.
Q-What type Of cases are treated at the new
Veterans Bureau Hospital at Roanoke, Va, and what
is its bed capacity?
A-The hospital is for neuro-psychiatric cases,
and has a bed capacity of AIS.
Q-When was William H. Taft appointed Chief
Justice OF the United States Supreme Court, and
who did he succeed?
Ale was appointed Chief Justice from civil
life in 1921, and resigned in 1890, a short time before
his death. he was preceded by Chief Justice Ed
ward D. White, and his successor is Charles Evans
Hughes.
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message of peace on earth.
There's an effulgent spirit of
goodwill -to-men. Around a quiet
corner 1 come upon a panhandler
counting his takings; he holds a
fistful of silver and a few pieces of
currency. Stepping into a taxi,
I find the windows festooned with
green and red streamers, a paper
bell bobbing beside the meter, and
a sprig of mistletoe affixed to the
dome light. The driver sings snatches
of carols as we move south, and
con1des that tips have been larger
this season than he has found them
in a decade.
In spite of its large Jewish popu-
lation. the East Side seems to have
more of the Christmas spirit than
any other section. More children,
too, and hence more tinsel and
trappings and noise. Peddlers line
the sidewalks: poll necklaces,
twenny-h' cents, tree lights, dane
ing toys, ladies' unawear "as good
as silk" pretzels, dusty candies,
candles, balloons for da Riddles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY
By DREW Pearson and Robert S. Allen

ATASHINGTON, Jan. 1-Senate munitions probers have received
w a grapevine account of the inside story of the Presidents first
meeting with his committee ito take the profit out of war"
According to the probers, here is what happened:
The President stated he had been prompted to act as he did be-
cause. of the growing danger of war.
He cited the fact that in both the Spanish and World Wars the
United States had been without prepared plans for the mobilization
of national resources, and that with world conditions in the highly
explosive state they are today he deemed it urgently desirable to pre-
pare for any emergency that might arise.
The President gave his appointees a free hand, but he laid en-
phaSS on two points:
!. His desire for an early report. Gle suggested that the COM
mitee submit is recommendations to him not later than the end
of January0
:. That in his opinion, legislation should be passed giving the
Government power to fix a ceiling" on profits in case OF war.
As a final admonnion, the President told the committee he might
disregard all, or some, of their recommendations, but that this was
not to deter them from making any they deemed desirable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
EXPERT TO TALK
Swiss Gardener Will Address Mem
bers of Local Organization.

Emile Corboz, Swiss landscape
gardener, will address members Of
the Alliance Franchise d Indianap-
oils following a $50 dinner at the
Washington Thursday.
AS a program feature members
will enact a French Christmas jol-
lily. A large cake in which is buried
a tiny prize will be divided and the
recipient of the token then serve
as king or queen Of festivities.
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y y
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
~ retired and much-loved JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, is now
nearing his ninety-fourth birth
day and seldom ventures far from
his home. On balmy days, how
ever, he walks a block or two with
one of his friends.
The other day he was walking
along Pennsylvania-av with JUS
tice Cardozo. Past them strolled
a young lady-an extremely beau
tiful young lady.
Justice Holmes stopped, looked
long and rapturously. Then, with
a twinkle in his eye, he sighed:
What wouldn't I give to be 10
again!"
1T is a closely guarded White
l. House secret. but the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board has
recommended to the President
that he junk the Auto Labor
Board.
This three-man body, headed
by DR.. Leo Wolman, has come
under sharp fire from labor quar-
tiers on the ground that it is
biased and dilatory.
AS a result it became the OBJ
iect of a secret investigation by
the National Labor Relations
Board. Its findings, which have
been submitted to the President,
confirm laboT'S charges.
The NLRB report holds that
the auto arbiters have failed to
function. citing the fact that al
though they we're appointed last
March to conduct factory cleo
lions. to date they have ordered
only one poll, and that only a
week ago in a relatively small
factory.
Laborites. who have got wind
of the NLRB's condemnation, pri-
vately threaten a congressional
probe of the Auto Labor Board II
the President QOeS nOI ACT.
= = q
TVA has gone into the movies.
l. The latest device in the pub
licity campaign of the Tennessee
Valley Authority is to spread its
gospel through talking films.
They will show the old dam at
Muscle Shoals. the new dams at
Wheeler and Norris, the tree-cut-
ting and home-moving in prep
aration for the flood" the for
esters' work Of erosion control,
and every phase of the highly di-
verse program. The films will be
available free Of charge to civic,
religious and educational groups.
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BUTLER NET SQUAD
WILL BE H0N0RED
Cleveland Alumni Will Stage Cere-
mony Tomorrow.

The Butler University Alumni
Club of Cleveland will honor men,
bers of the Butler basketball team
tomorrow when the team visits the
Ohio city to play western Reserve
University. Miss Honor Gregory,
Cleveland, is general chairman Of
the dinner and secretary Of the
alumni group, and Russell Putnam,
son of Dean j. w. Putnam, is presi-
dent.
Paul CTony) Hinkle, Butler ath-
letic director, will be an honor guest
and will speak. The club is COM
posed of Butler graduates in north
ern Ohio as well as Cleveland
alumni.
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withdraw the special 24-hour guard
outside the prisoners cell or to or
der that a bright light Illuminating
the entrance to Haptmann's quar-
tiers be eXtinguiShed at night.
What Hauptmann says about the
light is a lot of hokum," he said. He
sleeps longer than I do. I'm re-
sponsible for that prisoner and I'm
not letting down any bars. He is
getting better treatment than most
men charged with murder. He has
plenty of good food, the temperature
of the cell block is kept constant,
and his quarters are clean"
Like Atty. Gen. Wilentz, the High
Sheriff has found the Hautpmann
case cutting into his political activi-
ties.
He wore a Hoffman button in his
lapel throughout the campaign, but
there were many other things on his
mind. There was, for one, the diff
ficulty of getting a jury panel to
try Hauptmann. Getting a panel
for a capital case is always more
difficult in Hunterdon than in GER
tain other portions of the state, be-
cause of the number of those who
have religious scruples against the
death penalty.
Some of them will disqualify
themselves" the high sheriff X
planned, "as the Quakers, for in
stance"
Mr.. Curtiss, one imagines, will
enjoy the excitement connected
with the trial and his own part in
it. One of his varied duties viii be
to ring the Courthouse bell tc an
nounce the opening of court, and
again when the jury comes in with
it's vedict.
That will be something to hear.
1t should also make a good picture.
Next-The Jailer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
Civil Service Post Open

Applications for a civil service ex-
animation for the unskilled labor
position of charwoman in the post
Office custodian service will be re-
ceived up to Jan. 10. Full informa-
lc1 and applications may be had
from Frank j. Boatman, local Sec
rotary, Room 421, Federal Bldg.
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PAGE If
WESIBROOK PEGLER

r WAS sorry to read Charles Dorais' report to the
l. Football Coaches Union, d%eploring drinking on
the part Of the football crowds, because drinking IS
distinctly an adult practice and I favor anything
which savors of maturity in people and suggest that
the American nation is growing up. Children rarely
go in for oId-fashioneds or side-cars or corn liquor,
but this is hardly a time to encourage childishness
in neople who are supposed to have come of age.
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If you are interested in seeing a
demonstration of American conduct
at its grown-uppest you may do so
the next time the Army plays Notre
Dame in New York just after the
game is over. At that instant
there will be a crash of bottles on
the concrete decks. a wild, whooping
rush down the runwayS in which
women will be squashed against the
walls and knocked fiat and walked
upon, and a charge out upon the
field by several hundred staggering
adults bent upon uprooting and
smashing the goal posts.
Immature men and women, not
yet grown up to indulgence in alco-
holic beverages, will be struck on
Knocked down by the descending tir
in the abdomen by splintered fr
around the field like battering ram
sportsmen considerably more advanC
velopment than themselves.
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Nevertheless I gather that the hurricane is not a
pleasant experience. My friend had been through
three and he admitted that each in turn had terri
fed him.
1T isn't the fear Of being killed so much" he ex-
planned, because the loss Of life may be very slight.
It's the noise which strains you to the breaking
point. A hurricane can make more different kinds
of evil sounds than you have ever heard. It shrieks
and it whistles and it groans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-01
IN OLD NEW YORK
By Paul Harrison

NEW YORK, Jan. Holiday notes: Until you've heard the tumut
~ and the shouting in Times Square, the horns and the police Whistles
the matchmaking toys in the hands of pHchmen, frequent screams of
sirens, Jazz bands in the upstairs dance halls, and the low, sustaining
roar Of the impatient throng-untl you've heard these things, you have
no idea what a raucous hunabaloo is necessary for Gotham to deliver a.
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n AUPTMANN ON TRIAL
The Courtroom Cast

THE High Sheriff of Hunt
erdon County is the sort
Of person you would expect
to meet in the smoking car
Of the Katy Flyer, or in the
lobby Of a Midwestern COM
mercial hotel. Short, roly-
poly, jovial, with a keen look
about the rather narrow blue
eyes set deep in his round
face. Insignia Of a fraternal
order in the lapel Of a not-too-
well pressed gray suit.
When you discover that he is
New England's gift to the hilly farm
region along the Delaware, you are
somewhat shocked. Certainly there
IS nothing either lean or lank about
John Henry Curtiss. Almost none of
the ordinary phrases applied to
those Of his origin fit the High
Sheriff, unless it be the one about
Yankee shrewdnesS."
High Sheriff Curtiss Is feet high)
rolled into the little Offices on the
second floor of the almost ancient
Hunterdon County Courthouse at a
time when Democratic disSension in
Sured Republican victory. BY one
Of those condolences which beWil-
der because of their very pointless-
ness the trial of John Hughes Cur
It's in the Lindbergh case was n
der way at Pennington while the
campaign banners of John H. Cur
tiss" waved in the streets.
Il won't say that it got me any
votes" says the High Sheriff, judi
ciously, leaning back in a battered
armchair and lingering the gold
badge pinned to his tight waist
coat. But people were a lot inter-
ested in the trial and they sort of
got to talking about the names.
Mines Curtiss with two SIS, you
know"
Mr.. CURTISS with the two SIS
1V1 came originally from Spring.
field, Mass. You are not surprised
to learn that he was for years a
travelling man. He served as a
member of the Springfield City
Council and he will relate with pride
how that body put through con-
struction of a new town hall. The
High Sheriff moved to New Jersey
in 1913, settling first at Newton,
where ne engaged in a hay and
feed business. He did not come to
Hunterdon County until 1926, when
he became a resident of the town
of Clinton. His home is there to-
day-"the third house down from
the Clinton House."
The present Mrs. Curtiss is the
second. An adult son by an earlier
marriage lives in the West.
Good-naturedly satisfied with
himself and the world on most &C.
caSionS, the little High Sheriff
when necessary can be a fighting
cock. Several months ago he
pitched in to help his deputies quell
a drunken disturbance and acquitted
himself well, receiving a beautiful
black eye in the process. His row
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Oriental Shrine to Meet

Tarum Council, Ladies of the ORR
entail Shrine, will meet Thursday
night at the Lincoln. Mrs. Florence
Swope, high priestess, will preside.