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Hat History to Be Portrayed

historical significance of hats will be paaded extensive
exhibit Institute national association
the Exposition Hall of Sixty Wall
Hats will be shown from three angles historical trend
scientific contributions Mems hadgea will be portrayed from early be-
illustrated
they been modified through the
Outstanding country period will be featured
either by
will will
Police British
hats the Orient and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
City Woman, Made Up as
Easter Bunny, Decorates
Eggs in Store Window
Miss Helen Bonham Designed Rabbit Co.'S
tune in Which She Delights Throngs of
Children While Working.
APRIL 10, 1895
BY HELEN LINDSAY

HUGE white rabbit bit startling the in Alice in
children adults
sits window Store Occidental Building
decorates little
rabbit acquaintance did he lows his huge white head his
while pnkned flop his white busy with
tube.
Orders for the with at the
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appEaTS
the window from 1890 to -. and from to 4:30.
The eggs which he decorates half pound and
pound ones and are carried exclusively in Indianapolis
by Hook Drug Stores They Mrs. Stevens products
made in Chicago and carried Il stores in the Chicago
loop
In real life the Easter bunny is Miss Helen Bonham,
CSC 12th-st who for five years has been making fancy
table decorations and costumes for various stores
throughout the United States. The Easter rabbit
tune is her original idea, and it only after many
experiments that perfected the rabbit head through
which is possible to breathe for number of hours
Il started in business making artificial flowers, but
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Cn1nk CnaC SnS
herself is wonder
full. Three years
ago we were, III
a W f III circum-
stances. My huS-
band didn't have
steady work. His
folks had an old
Storeroom t h a t
was not in use.
1t was in a ter
r i b e condition;
plaster off the
walls; oil soaked
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cheaper
business Miss Bonham Il aot
and wasn't able began making table decorations and
Recently completed which
window display in connection with moth prevention campaign
mperSonated the of
enjoy children cunning
throw
1.-The which asked
Mary
gnia because it is long.
And the most unusual inscription The Idle Rich which
place which deliberately
which she will following
also has designed number table the
lucky Derby, which she will send to Louisville
interest indianapolis that
the window
sidewalk
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Erwin Stouts Now Live
in North Crows Nest,
Growing Home Section
Part of Area Once Site of Picnic House, Built
by Judge and Mrs. Solomon Claypool
for Daughters and Son.
BY BEATRICE BURGAN
Times woman's Page Editor

into their in North
WI their settlement the wooded land 'front.'
families who have bought land from Judge Solomon Cpoo
building
a dwelling line
Rafenspergers lots
house. before the of the country clubs
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The ace of spades was cashed and
a club followed. All East could
do was cash his three club tricks
the declarer having the good king
of spades for his tenth trick.
Downright. 1895. NEA Service. Incl
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Manners and Morals
by JANE JORDAN.

If you're baffled by your problems. let
Jane Jordan help you find a satisfactory
solution. Write your letter now!
Dear Jane Jordan-I have the
most peculiar mother-in-law prob
lem girl ever had. My mother-in-
law has the subtlest way of be-
littling others and making every one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19

Townsend Revolving Club will
meet at 7:30 tonight at the Central
Universal Church. The public may
attend.
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We have explored
the Woodanged hill Our footsteps echoed loudly
through the their walls daped
patterns the dust covered floors
rooms then but when the pcnckers
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Mrs. Nellie Hutcheson is preSi-
dent of the Delta Tau Delta
Mothers Club of Butler Univer-
sity, which will entertain at tea
on Tuesday in honor of Mrs.
James w. Putnam, wife of the
university president.
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by the handouts with which special interests have
bound their wrists.
Sharing common heritage Of race and tradition,
the peoples of Canada and the United States dwell
side by side a continent of boundless wealth.
Theirs is common destiny. single geographic unit.
this continent is naturally single economic unit
But in recent years politicians serving special in
teress have been building economic barrier along
the political border choking of the natural streams
of trade and causing economic distress to both sides
Six years ago, despite tariffs that had already
become indefensibiy high. the United States SELL
ing Canada about billion dollars worth of goods
year. Canada was selling half that amount in this
country. Special United States interests in effort
to take this business away from the Canadians, put
over the Slnoot-Hawley rates creating veritable
economic Chinese wall along the border.
Canada retaliated with four swift tariff raises
against U.S. and with preferential rates to other div
sons Of the British empire We stopped exporting
goods to Canada. and started deportng our own fac
tories. BY 1892. our trade with Canada had shrunk
to one-fourth, and American branch factories had
mushroomed up all over Canada, employing Cana
dian workmen and supplying Canadian markets with
goods which heretofore had been produced by Amer
lean worknen
Those who invested their money and those who
found jobs in those branch factories have joined
Canada's protectionst legions and exert their po-
tical pressure against any tariff concessions which
Mackenzie King may wish to grant. At the same
time others with similar special interests in this
country stand as a unit against concessions which
Cordeu Hull may think wise to grant
So, as these meet they may speak with
mutual dsapproval of the economic sin which has
been committed against their respective peoples.
They may pledge that their governments will sin no
more. They will try to salvage something. making
few trades here and trades there. where political
pressure is not too strong to resist.
But they will, we fear, speak Of their problem
more in sorrow than in hope.
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1895.
TEMPTING OPPORTUNITIES

EXPERIENCE Of the United States in the World
- War amply supports President Roosevets obser-
walton that tempting trade opportunities" are
offered neutras when hostilities begin.
The President, in his repeated warnings against
trading with belgerent nations may have had in
mind cable sent by Ambassador Page from London
on March S, 1917. which said:
Perhaps going to war is the only way in
which our present pre-emnent trade position can be
maintained and panic averted."
month later we entered the war.
1t is admitted generally that from our enormous
war trade sprang Of the powerful influences that
eventually dragged on to the battlefield
When the World War started United States for
egn trade in slump. For the year ending
June 3d. 1914, the excess of domestic merchandise
exports over imports amounted to s435 368 With
in year this excess jumped to ST. 0o8 725 and in
another year it reached 81 OLA 294 069
early as September, 1915 1t realized in off,
cia circles in Washington that this enormous
excess of exports over imports was dangerous. On
Sept. 6, Robert Lansing, Secretary of State said in
letter to President Wilson
a.. We are face to face with what appears 10 be
a critical economic situation, which can only be re-
heved apparently by the Investment of American
capital in foreign loans to be used in quidatng the
enormous balance of trade in favor of the United
States"
Instead Of seeking to discourage this trade as Mr.
Roosevelt is doing, the Wilson Administration en-
couraged it.
The trade in explosives alone rose from $4,000
600 in the year ending June &c. 1914 to s189 O0O coo
the next year and in the year after that
That this trade was tempting" to industry is in
ocated by the investigators of the Federal Trade
Commission after the war.
1t was found for instance that the United States
Steel Corp. earned 35 per cent return on its enor-
nous capital in 1917 and declared dividends of l8
per cent
THE copper companies showed even higher earn
- ings, one of them harvesting 200 per cent re-
turn on It's capital in 1917 while another showed an
300 per cent return sales of "copper" largely for the
munitions trade
One OF the Dig four meat packers Melted 1853 per
cent on its common stock in single year.
The Newport News Shipbulding and Dry Dock
Corp. showed returns of IS per cent on its capital
stock in 1917 The American Brass Co. made So
per cent in 1916 and "a per cent in 1917.
AS for individuals, there were SO Americans with
net taxable incomes III excess of a million dollars
year in 1915, lot in 1916 and 100 in 1917
In 1917 these 100 individuals had an aggregate
an average of more than $2,00OOO0 each.
One man reported net taxable income of S34,-
$4,000 in 1917.
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CHINA OFF SILVER

A COUPLE of years ago the United States went
n off the gold standard. nationalized the yellow
metal and reduced the gold content of the dollar.
We did 1t to raise prices, enable debtors to pay
what they owe, and put people back to work
China has now taken leaf cut of Uncle Sans
notebook. She has gone off the silver standard,
natonazed the white metal and decreed that here
after paper money-to be issued from central gov
eminent bank-will be legal tender.
Her motives also almost identical.
While the rest of the world humping along
on the bottom of the great depression, the ancient
land of Cathay was fairly prosperous. Silver was
cheap. That meant high domestic prices but cheap
exchange which made for bountifu export business
Then the United States adopted new silver pol
ICY Its silver purchases began steadily to boost the
price of Chinas monetary base. And it did to China
precisely what steadily mounting gold prices had
previously done to the United States. 1t brought on
severe internal defation, bankruptcies, unemploy-
ment, adverse trade balances, dwinding government
revenue and all the phenomena we have come to
associate with hard times"
For months the government at Marking has been
debating the present step. AS result Chinese ex-
change of late has been steadily falling and domestic
prices just as steadily rising. A month ago an Amer
lean dollar would buy less than $3.50 Chinese. Yes
terday it was quoted at $500.
That is about where it should be and apparently
where Marking hopes to peg it.
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ANOTHER ROOSEVELT

ONCE the spirit of the Immortal Teddy is being
~ invoked by Old Dealers in their attacks on
reform, it might be well to recall what he thought Of
the courts and their function. Speaking in Chicago
in 1912 Theodore Roosevelt said:
1.-THE American people, and not the courts, are
to determine their own fundamental policies. Our
prime is that in dealing with the fundamen-
tai law of the land, in assuming finally to interpret
it, and therefore, to make it, the acts Of the court
should be subject to, and not above, the final con-
troll of the people whole.
II deny that the American people have sur
rendered to any set of men, matter what their
position their character the final right to deter
mine those fundamental questions upon which free
government ultimately depends"
Which is the stronger utterance on the judicary's
place in the American scheme of things this or the
rather mild structures of Franklin Roosevelt on the
courts attempts to restrict to the "horse and
buggy era?
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is 1T TOO LATE?

NORTH AMERICAS two outstanding opponents
of free-howing commerce are sitting across the
table from each other in Washington this week They
may see eye TO eye on certain economic principles
They will understand each others political problems
And they will try between them to unshuffle the
cards that have been stacked against resumption of
healthy United States Canadian trade. But they will
try with manacied hands.
The two men are Secretary OF State Corde Hull
and Canada's new Liberal Premier. Mackenzie King
II they could shut out political considerations we
have no doubt these two men would gladly raze the
tariff wall which has been erected between the do
minion and the republic. But they VIII be restrained
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-07
SPEAKING OF CONSTITUTIONS

CTEADY work at no pay is offered the high prced
~ lawyers of the American Liberty League by the
American Civil Liberties Union. in letter from
Arthur Garfield Hays to James M Beck. former
United States solicitor general.
Mr. Hays. general counsel for the ACLU recalls
Mr.. Becks recent assertion that the Liberty League
lawyers stood ready to defend without fee any i'm
pecunouS citizen threatened with loss of his consti
tutional rights He reminds Mr. Beck Of six types
of cases in which he says the constitutional rights
of humble persons" are in constant jeopardy
These cases. Mr.. Hays writes, often concern dis
senters from established institutions and rarely in
volve property questions. But he adds:
Il have no doubt that you lawyer and lover
of the Constitution quite as much exercised about
violations of the Bill of Rights so far as they apply
to personal liberty as by violations when they con-
Germ property in general"
He lists the six types of cases as follows:
Il. Question of fair trial before an impartial
Judge and jury. Often these cases arise in the
South where Negro is the defendant and Negroes
are barred from juries.
20. Questions arise under the Interpretation of
the so-called criminal syndcalst, sedition and in
surrection laws. where such laws are misused to
get people whose opinions unpopular or who be-
long to minority races or groups have in mind the
Angelo Herndon case in Georgia.
IS. Questions arise concerning the reading of the
Bible in the public schools. where contrary to the
Constitution 1t seems to us, either Catholic or
Protestant Bible is the one used thus establishing
religious preference.
a. We have cases of unreasonable searches and
seizures where the authorities, in order to seize al
lege obscene or seditious literature violate the Con-
stitution.
as. In connection with labor disputes where con-
tinuay arise that involve the rights of peace
full asSemblage and of picketing.
g. The rights of free speech and assemblage are
generally violated as applied to radicals and other
unpopular groups through discrimination In the
denial of permits for public meetings and parades
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a sense of humor is a distinguishing
characteristic. 1t is just natural
I suppose, for any one with a mid
die -the-road viewpoint to con-
slider radical or liberal cockeyed
We are cockeyed because we don't
agree with them and humoristS be-
cause we criticiSe the present
economic setup.
A share-cropper, in his last ragged
suit, consisting of cotton shirt and
pants, plOWS under cotton. A pack
ing house laborer renders pigs into
fertilizer, goes hungry because he
can't afford pork. Children suffer
because of malnutrition, yet we are
told we have an overproduction OF
wheat. Cast few verbal brickbat:
at such idiocy and on9 is cockeyed
Hint thai there is jus1|the bare pos
sibility of something being awry:
Impossible! They must be jok-
ing"
By this time, if "Anti-Broun" has
read this far he will be saying To
himself, Just another radical
Personally, I am not interested in
labels, Democrat, Republican, Social
list, Communist or 100 per centism
While my forefathers settled in In
diana when their neighbors were
the first and only 100 per cent
Americans, I have no chest-ex-
banding pride in that particular
fact.
We have some "Mayflower'
families, but very little Of the May
flower" brand of intestinal forth
tude.
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Questions and Answers

sold to the nation for $23,95O about
$4,000 volumes of his own collec-
ton. Later he was threatened
with bankruptcy, and national
subscription of s16,500 was raised
in 1926, but a few months after
his death, his furniture, silver,
pictures, and home Monticello"
were sold to pay his debts.
Q-Who is the American Con-
sui General at Havana, Cuba?
A-Charles R. Cameron of New
York.
Q-What is steam?
A-The invisible gas or vapor
into which water is converted
when heated to the boiling point.
Q-How many stars can be seen
with the naked eye?
A-The number visible to the
average unaided eyes is between
5000 and 5000.
Q-How large is Cayuga Lake
in New York State?
A-Thirty-eight miles long and
the average width is two miles,
and four miles is the maximum;
the greatest ascertained depth is
800 feet.
Q-Does human slavery exist in
Ethiopia?
Ayes.
Q-Give the address Of the Ma
tional Council for the Prevention
Of War.
A-532 17th-st, N. W.. Washing
ton, D. G.
Q-Was Primo Camera held re-
sponsible for the death of Ernie
Schaaf after their fight at Madi-
son Square Garden in February,
1888?
A-Schaaf died in New York
hospital after collapsing in the
thirteenth round. Camera was alb
solved OF any blame.
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Here's Plan to Reduce Accidents

-and-go signs or where traf
fic officers are stationed. This
will force all drivers to realize
that they are compelled to de-
pend entirely on their own care
full driving for their own personal
safety, that all have equal rights
and an equal chance, one with the
other. Then all will drive care
fully.
Then punish all who drive while
intoxicated, by revoking their
driving license for one year for
the first offense, and for the re-
mainder of their Lives for the
second offense. It also will help
limit speed on all state and gov
eminent roads to As miles an
hour and on county roads to 80
miles an hour. Large signs should
be placed at all CROSSROADS, high
enough to be seen at a distance of
1900 feet. These suggestions, if
put in effect, will reduce traffic
accidents IS per cent and fatali-
ties to a minimum.
AS one who loves his country
and fellowmen, let me beg you
not to throw this in the waste
basket, but to lend your best eff
forts and your greatest energy to
getting this enacted into law and
in force as quickly as possible to
relieve suffering humanity.
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when addressing any question Of
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apolis Times Washington Informal
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extended research be undertaken. Be
sure all mail is addressed to The
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Bureau. Frederick NJ. Kerby, Direc-
tor, 1918 Thirteenth-st, N. w.. Wash
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Q-Who wrote the theme song
of the motion picture, Bird of
Paradise?
A-"Out Of the Blue" composed
by Max Steiner. The lyric was by
Edward Eliscu.
Q-What is the maximum weight
of catfish?
"A fish weighing $50 pounds
was caught at st. Louis, Mo-, in
1878. Others have been reported
to weigh 100 to 200 pounds.
Q-Where was the first silk mill
established in the United States?
A-The Mansfield Silk Co., at
Mansfield, Conn, erected by Rod
ney and Horatio Hanks in 1910,
was the first. 1t was building
II feet by u feet, to make sewing
silk and twist by machinery they
had invented.
Q-What Is the Aquarium Cos
pei?
A-One Of the many apocryphal
gospels which came down from
the early Christian centuries.
Q-How old is w. c. Fields, the
actor?
Ale was born in 1879.
Q-Was Thomas Jefferson veal
thy at the time Of his death?
A-His debts amounted to $780,
600, when he retired as President,
contracted in an heterogeneous
maintenance of his position. After
the destruction Of the Library Of
Congress by the British In 1914, he
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs Walter FERGUSON

A MOVIE critic explains the extravagant use Of
military propaganda in today's films in this
fashion:
THE men OF the cinema deal in commerce as well
as art Hence, the commercial theory behind these
pictures seems to be that people with war hysteria
hot in their nostrils like to have their emotions
scraped the right way"
We could accept this explanation If the major
part OF the output were destined for Europe. But
certainly the nostrils of people are not yet
entirely dstended by the snortings of waralthough
they may be soon if the moving picture people con-
tinue their present schedules
Only one hopeful sign can see. 1t is probable
that shall become bored with fighting scenes
that We can give no response when the real thing
comes along. Such reaction is possible in our age
Joyce Kilmers lovely poem about trees became
laughing stock with its repetition by billiards and
amateurs There is no honorable sentiment which
can not be made farccal with too much use So
continued perturbation of war business could be-
leve, become wearisome that men might grow to
ti.ink of it nuisance instead of the high and
holy crusade 1t Is now called.
At any rate, if the commercial minded cinema
men kept finger on the American pulse they would
discover that hearts still beat for peace To find
this out they need only listen to the sighs even the
audible groans of a middle-cass audience when the
one thousandth picture OF II Duce In military pose
flashes upon the screen, are RECALLED again with
view of tanks laundering over grass lands, or of
massed men stepping about with automaton pre-
cision.
1t is possible to grow very tired of seeing ones
government always represented by big gun And
when the flag is used rs background for a battle
ship as 1t was in all the Navy Day programs there
comes suspicion to the common mans mind that
perhaps the flag has been maligned.
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BY F. G. Leach. Frankfort


I am only a working man, and
two years ago I bought an auto
and learned to drive it. Last May
my age compelled me to retire
from work. This gave me ample
time and opportunity to read Of
the auto accidents, the fatalities,
and the regulations that control
auto traffic, and to study them
from every angle.
When see the death rate in
creasing, the number of drunken
drivers gaining, and death and
suffering growing more terrible,
my interest becomes intense.
I can not resist the call made
for suggestions to help stop this
slaughter. I beg to submit the
following.
These auto accidents are al
most all avoidable. The signing of
pledges will not help. We must
force all motorists to drive care
fully all the time. This can be-
done only in one way. You may
at first think it absurd, but il you
study it thoroughly I think it
will stand the test.
My plan is to revoke all rights
on all thoroughfares, highways
and on all crossroads of every
kind, and at all intersections ex-
cept those supplied with electric