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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
THE ETERNAL HUMAN

CCIENTISTS from the University of Penn
- sylvania museum, digging If northern
MeSopotamia have found what they believe TO
be the remnants Of earth's Oldest city. Be-
Meath a prehistoric mound at Tepe Gawra,
near the ruins of Nineveh. they unearthed in
the deep clay OF the centuries traces OF city
5000 years old, or 1000 years Older than a
busting town they dug up in the same region
two years ago.
A fiood-perhapS of Noah's famous cruise
had buried these cities in mud and hoary time
had all but obliterated their culture. But
they yielded evidence that women and men
were not much different then and there from
what they are now in New York, Pittsburgh
or san Francesca.
Their the eternal feminine must have sat
and dc. lated herself. for among the relics
were fou Id beads. combs, nnortars for ointment
and the kohl which which women used as a
beauty preparation. And the men? One Of
the cultural antiquities the scientists found was
a pair O. dice. capricious and made Of clay.
they Offered from the gallopn' dominoes Of
2ur day only in the arrangement of their dots.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15

CPECULATORS. brokers and others have
y right to oppose government regulation OF
security and commodity exchanges. So long as
their opposition is above board. their views
are entitled TO respect.
II the fndines Of the grain futures commits
sion are correct. Arthur w. Cutten, the lead
ing grain Spectator on the Chicago Board OF
Trade. did not so limit his activities; he
stopped to sabotage. At times he ignored the
law requiring him to report his transactions.
the commission found. and at times he sub
mittcd dishonest reports.
Obviously. should any grain traders resort
to such practices. the government could not
possibly regulate trading. If government reg
uIation fails. those who insist on maintenance
Of honest markets may be driven to substitute
outright government operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
Pollution
by TALCOTT POWELL

It is interesting that Sullivan, Hamilton and
Gibson Counties has each achieved its IN
enviable record although in every one of these
counties more than 60 per cent Of the popula-
ton live in homes unconnected with any CEN
trail sewage system en1ptying into a stream.
1t Is also noteworthy that the two counties
which are the worst offenders are each in the
grip IF one dominant industry. In Lake it is
steel and in Sullivan coal. In both cases the
industries contribute enormously to the defil-
ing of the public streams. 1t would cost these
businesses money to remedy the condition.
better example Of industrial swinishness could
not be found.
Fortunately the legislature is fully alive to
the gravity of this oninous problem in public
health bill which will give the State Health
Department sweeping powers for prompt and
complete housecleaning was passed yesterday
in the House.
Although this legislation was prepared by
Democrats the leaders of both parties heartily
Endorsed it, This is one more encouraging
sign that legislators at the present session are
rising above petty partisanship and making an
honest effort to act for the welfare of the whole
people.
TOUR Democrats bolted and voted against
l. the bill. One was Edward C. Simpson of
Spencer County. His home county has only
two and a half miles of polluted streams.
The pollution is caused by coal mining. Surely
Mr.. Simpson could not have been advocating
14oO miles of unspeakably befouled streams to
relieve the coal industry of purifying two and
one half miles!
TWO other proponents of open sewers
- Robert L. Stanton and Joseph E. Klein,
both of Lake COMPLEMENTARY are determined
to maintain at all costs that countys
IS miles of corrupted streams the second
worst record in the state BY the way, Lake
holds another record. 1t is the most nliterate
county in the state The fourth representa-
tive was Dan o. Gettinger of Sullivan County,
where there are 100 miles of polluted streams.
Now the anti-stream pollution bill is before
the Senate Two influences will be brought
to bear to defeat 1.-THE loWgrade municipal
politician who knows that sewage disposal
plants employ few people-hence no patron
age; the feudal type of industrialist whose
mind closed when Mckinley was shot.
This type Of opposition will confuse neither
the Senate nor the people.
They know that vote for this measure is
a vote for public decency, cleanliness and
health.
A vote against it is a vote for filth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
JUNGLE JUSTICE

THE Hauptmann trial was not demon
Il stration Of civilization at its best. 1t
was at times a disgracefully cheap perform
ance. But 1t was a trial. conducted in the
open. under rules Of law protecting the rights
Of the accused before jury of his peers.
Contrast with the Hauptmann trial the
thing which the Costigan-Wagner ant-lynch-
ing bin seeks TO abolishi
Hearings on the bill were opened yester-
day before a Senate committee. Last year
me committee reported this measure unani-
uously. but it was rot allowed to come to
vote on the floor. This ear it should be
passed.
No government pretending to be civilized
can 60 on cordoning such atrocities H. L.
AIencken told the committee. Either it must
make every possible effort to put them down.
or it must suffer the scorn and contempt #
ChristeudOm"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
FIVE YEARS TO FREEDOM

MAJ. CHARLES A SHEPARD, retired
4VA army physician, is going back to Den
yer to start over again"-free, for the first
time in five years. of a charge of murder.
It was in 1880 that the major was con-
victed of numbering his wife. His counsel
Immediately filed an appeal, and the mill Of
the law began to grind-very deliberately, as
is usually the case.
In the course of time the case reached the
United States Supreme Court, which re-
versed the conviction and ordered new trial.
That trial has finally been held and Maj.
Shepard has been found not guilty.
One can not read of this case without re-
f1ecting on the shocking injustice which the
laws delay can inflct on a man. Here is a
man who has finally been declared innocent;
yet for five years he has been under a SHADOW
under a strain which, to one who has never
been through it, is almost unimaginable.
A legal system which strings a case out to
such length is in great need of drastic
revision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
FEBRUARY'S DAUGHTER

GREAT woman American iberator was
n born in February-Susan B. Anthony,
whose l15th birthday anniversary is being
celebrated today.
This school teacher helped to win two his
toric constitutional amendments the thir-
tenth, freeing black slaves, and the nine
tenth. granting women political equality with
men. She was fighting abolition!st, and she
was the mother of womens suffrage in
America.
Always stirred by wrongs Of the unprivi-
legged, doubtless she would be battling for the
Child Labor Amendment if she were living
now.
Susan Anthony carried on almost alone
through II years of pioneering for equal suf-
frage but when she died in 1906 only four
states had granted women the ballot. She
never doubted the eventual triumph Of
cause so just.
Failure is impossible" she said at her last
convention. AS it usually is for those of stout
hearts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15

INDIANA is a filthy state. We mean that
Il quite literally. Although it has given the
nation far more than its share Of great
authors. statesmen and scientists it remains
one Of the downright dirtiest states in tbs
Union It dumps its waste in its own front
yard. Il consistently ocfouls its own nest.
How a people who take such pride in the
intellectual accomplishments OF their sons and
daughters can tolerate streams that are open
sewers is a mystery Only in the ignorant
and Iliterate Oriental countries can one find
a comparable condition.
Let US look at the record:
eo975 miles of streams polluted by city
sewage
2945 miles Of streams polluted by coal mines.
164 miles Of streams diluted by canneries
155 miles of streams polluted by miscel-
lancous agencies.
1925 miles Of streams polluted by paper
mills
3225 miles of streams polluted by diaries
and factories-
grand total of 137775 miles of corrupted
streams! Nearly 140O miles of waters in which
no child may safely WIN. from which cattle
can not drink without Danger, in which even
no fish may venture ard remain wholesome
for food
How long would the people Of the United
States tolerate a solid ribbon Of filth extend
ing from indianapolis TO salt Lake City? The
mileage Of our polluted streams would almost
cover that distance
These are the same creeks and rivers that
are celebrated throughout the world in the
poetry and prose Of Hoosier authors-"The
Banks Of the Wabash?" The stream is a slug
gish cesspool James Whitcomb Rileys "Ole
Swimmin Hole?" sewer basin is as sweet
a place to swim these days. The water of
Gene Stratton-Porter's "Limberlost?" huge
culture tube for colon bacilL.
T EFT us examine this revolving record of
- human greed and indifference from an
other angle. Which counties are the nastiest
in the whole sckening picture? Here they are:
Sullivan-l2O miles of coal and sewage
pollution;
Lake-65 miles of sewage and miscellan-
Gus pollution;
Hamilton-64 miles of sewage and miscel-
laneOus pollution;
Gibson-43 miles Of sewage pollution;
Delaware-4O miles of paper mill waste and
sewage pollution;
Elkhart-9O miles of cannery waste. sewage
and miscellaneous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
POSTMASTER PRAISED FOR
AID TO MOTHER

By Mrs. Dalsydean Deeds.
The item Postmaster Adolph
Seidensticker Finds III Mothers
Son." appearing in your Feb. 8 issue
was more than interesting, mas
much as it is unusual to find such
matters handled tender heartedly
by a public official of our city.
was glad to see the picture of
Mr.. Seidensticker accompanying the
item, and why? Because I think
he looks the part of the mission he
performed. This was only a refiec-
ton of his heart that answered to
mothers yearning to see her
neglectful son.
Would to God that Mr.. Seiden-
sticker would go after a few more
of Indianapolis mothers negligent
sons. If he, or other of our gov
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
BONUS FOR SOLDIERS
APPEARS TO BE JUST
BY Ernest Hall.

BY Ernest Hall.
1t seems to me that most of us are
living in glass houses, and don't
have much room to judge the other
fellow. I think if the majority OF
those who are so against paying the
veterans adjusted compensation,
had a bonus or debt coming to them
or a prospect of getting anything,
they would be out after it, hollering
as much as anybody.
It seems that the compensation Is
just. Maybe the next time it will be
adjusted at the beginning and thou
sands won't be drafted and taken
away from their homes at 81 day
while the rest are making fat wages
and big profits.
Paying the bonus would take a
lot of men off relief rolls. 1 have
been out of work about 10 months
and in my walking about town, look
ing for work, have noticed many
factories idle. These could employ
most of the unemployed, and also
be making products that are neces-
sary and useful. Consumption OF
these products would follow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
FARMER CAN FIND
PLENTY TO KEEP HIM BUSY

BY F. E. g.
Why should the farmers complain
about the low price of cleo when
they absolutely know that they will
deliver their butterfat to a creamery
and receive 81 cents a pound and
buy five to six pounds Of oleo tor
their own use? Why? Because it
is cheap, the same as the labor he
hires in nearby villages. When the
time comes to settle up, though, he
will ship his hogs to market and
take what is offered him-S840
100; then buy the same meat over
the counter from 10 cents to &C cents
a pound (perkaps it is pound, per-
haps it is noO.
How in the world can he expect
to lave anything left? Yet he will
purchase a swell car ard throw his
farm implements out in the weather
to rust and decay just to make a
garage for his car, which is OF no
benefit to him except to take him
of the farm.
Now if Mr.. Guilty Conscience
Farmer would consider his own
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15

ton. Our pioneers who carved their homes
out of the wilderness may have made this
country what it is today but present and
future generations can not help blaming the
thoughtless government which permitted them
to waste our natural resources.
Raced forests, sEt-hlled rivers and quilted
wastes that were once fertile farms are mute
monuments to our pioneers. And so are the
impoverished families trying to wrest liveli-
hood from WORKOUT soil.
The future invites more intelligent pioneer
ing Under government guidance we may re-
build our forests, check soil erosion and settle
people on fertile land so they may lift them
selves out of poverty.
The Presidents order withdrawing the final
100000 acres of public domain from private
use corrected the inconsistency of permitting
private homesteading of submarginal public
acreage while the government was buying up
submarginal private lands. Congress should
next prescribe the uses and provide for the
improvement of all public lands. State gov
ernment should cooperate by withdrawing
-state-owned acreage from private exploitation
and blocking out submarginal private lands
for government purchase and retirement from
the tax rolls.
A more vigorous program Of human conser-
walton is needed to complement this broad
program OF land conservation. The federal
and state governments should multiply their
efforts to establish farm families on land
worthy Of cultivation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
SINGLE WOMEN SHOULD
HAVE CHANCE TO WORK
By Jennie ShOed.

BY Jennie ShOed.
Mrs. w. M. G. states that a cou-
pie can not live on what the hus-
band draws-40 cents an hour.
Think what SIG a week would mean
to a family that includes not only
a husband and wife, but two chill
dren.
The money the wife earns usual
ly goes for permanents and other
luXuries.
I work in a large group of girls
and know what I am talking about.
Most of them are married and have
husbands working. When work gets
slack, it is the young, single girls
who need the money, who are laid
of. Take a census and see how
many young girls, single girls are
unemployed and others, who are
married and have husbands to sup
port them and don't need the money
to live on, are working.
why not give the young single
girls a chance to earn living?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15

SMALL IIEM

DURIED away IN the big crime news OF
- the day is a little item telling about the
death X Airs. Helen Tuck. aged So. mother OF
two BOYS. She died OF radium poisoning con-
trac,ed Is years ago while she worked IN
New Jersey factory placing luminous paint
on watch dials she had undergone SIX opera
lions IN which her lawbOnes had been re-
moved. but the company settled for $4,000.
Mrs. Tuck was one OF about 80 girls who
worked IN that plant Wettlng brushes on
their ups and painting watch faces with mys-
ferrous rac.um. All Of the girls were doomed.
The inst one died In 1922. Mrs. Tuck was the
tWeltT-1rs-.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
Press Accused of Violating It's Trust

terie of political charlatanS and
parasites this state ever has seen;
that taxes, all promises to the
contrary, are the highest ever
known, and that on top of the
present pyramid of taxes another
in the form of a sales tax is be-
ing proposed; and that the states
liquor laws and system of distribu-
ton constitute not only a disgrace
to Indiana but to the nation as
we'll.
That by centralizing the various
units of state government under
his control, aided and abetted in
this by one of the most spinelcSs
legislative bodies known to man,
he has built up a political ma
chine of such tentacular proper
tions that its equal never has
been known before; that he has
taken much of the time that be-
longs to the constituency which
elected him in going about the
country and blatantly promoting
his candidacy for the Vice PreSi-
Dental nomination at the next
Democratic national convention;
all this, and much more if space
permitted.
And where, as a so-called cham
pion of the peoples rights, has the
press been during all this? Has
it once, in the interest of the peo-
pies rights, challenged this po-
litical nomad? 1t has not. You
and your contemporaries, instead,
have accepted the situation alto
gether too lightly. A smattering
of criticism now and then, like
so many popguns going off in
thunder storm, and that's all. Not
one of you has had the courage
to express your true convictions,
to sound the tocsln call. The
charge is repeated: The press
has violated it's trust.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
DEMOCRATS SHOULD RUN
AFFAIRS, NOT REPUBLICANS
By a Citizen.

BY a Citizen.
AS citizen Of Indianapolis and
also having been a voter for num-
Der o, years, 1 think it is time
something was being published for
the benefit of the public as to the
way some of the organizations are
being conducted. Since the Demo-
Gratis are in power why not put a
responsible Democrat at the head of
some of the organizations which
will. in turn, give some of the hard
working Democrats a chance at
some of the easy jobs that are be-
ing handed out instead of letting a
Republican run things.
If the Democratic party hasn't
any one capable of handling these
positions it is high time that they
scratch their names from the ticket
entirely, but on the other hand I
know we have just as capable
Democrats as there are Republicans.
Then use them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
MOTHER EARTH STILL
DOING DUTY TO MAN

by M. 4. jones.
I have read different versions of
what will halt the depresSion-au
kinds of wild suggestions for the last
four or five years. Our President
came close to stating the cause
some time ago, when he said it was
disregard for your brother" Dis
regard-and that word seems to suit
precisely-a mad scramble and
everybody for himself. That is not
Gods plan of living here on earth,
but a few are allowed to gobble up
everything on Gods earth and keep
it. The depression is man made;
man maintained. God has nothing
to do with it. The rich have
brought the depression on us as We
can plainly see by looking at Gods
great creation. Old Mother Earth
is still doing her duty by everything
that grows.
BY reading Gods word, and God
is still running the universe or Is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
LAUDS TIMES FOR
GAS co. INFORMATION
By William z. Evans.

By William z. Evans.
The Times should be commended
for its courageous efforts in behalf
of our taxpayers in getting to the
bottom of our gas company fin
ances. We already have been told
by The Times that Cyrus Eaton of
Cleveland owns the controlling
stock. Now The Times is to tell
us who owns the balance Of the
stock. So we will then know in
whose interests such tremendous
efforts have been made to borrow
millions from the government to
reimburse these stockholders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15

still turning the lights on each day,
we find that God foresaw the de-
pressions thousands of years ago.
See James V-1-4; Luke XVI-23;
Luke xxi; Matt. XIX-21; and I
am sure you will find the true cause
of this and all other depressions.
Selfishness kindled the fires Of
Hell. Just few have all the me-
dunn and all other wealth Of the
earth. I don't know what they are
going to do with it. I have never
heard of any one carrying any Of it
away with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
The Message Center

Times readers are inrtted to cypress
their rietcs in these columns. Make your
letters short. so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names totU
be 40ithheld at request Of the letter
1criterl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
END OF WASTE PIONEERING

DREsIDENT ROOSEVELT has Withdrawn
the remainder OF the public domain from
settlement and sale.
Some may lament the passing Of the Ell
o. pioneers. But thinking persons have b.
gun to recognize the tremendous sccial snG
sconcnic costs Of implanted LAID exploita-
A.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL

TINE Belgian Commercial Mission is having
i an even gayer time than the Brazilian Fin
ancial Mission which has been dashing from din
ner to dinner during the past week.
Washington is definitely the place where all
kinds of missions enjoy themselves to their
hearts content. Embassies, legations and the
State Department feel themselves obliged to fete
mission members. If the mission comes from
Latin America, the Pan American Union and DR..
Leo Rowe usually give an additional fiesta.
So the Belgians are putting on white ties
most evenings and listening to violin sonatas.
Baron Antoine Beyens and M. Louis Camus,
younger members of the mission, already feel
entirely at home. Baron BeyenS rellshes ice
cream sundaes and M. Camus, who wears tor
toise- shell specs and looks like Oxford pro-
fessor, dances a beautiful fox-trOt.
Alas signs M. CamuS, the only thing L
regret is that we have to leave soon. 1 love
Washington. I adore New York. I hope we
return shortly"
Minister Pierre Forthomme, head of the Bel
gian Mission, is regrettably absent from many
parties because he works at all hours. Recog-
nized as one of Belgium's foremost political
figures he takes little time for relaxation. A
series of conferences occupy most Of his hours
NJ Forthomme is noted linquist. He speaks
English. Spanish, French and Italian with equal
fiuency And he also is one of those Belgans
who knows Flemish-an accomplishment now re-
quired by King Leopold'S government, but not
so rigidly enforced as to make a sprinklirg of
Flemish words an unimportant adjunct to
diplomatic career.
THE ordeal of photographing cabinet ladies'
Il has become an acute problem to Washing
ton camera men.
Mrs. Cummings. wife of the Attorney Cen
eral, refuses to be photographed on any occasion
and several other wives of cabinet members
share her feelings.
The other afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt phoned
Steve Early President Roosevelt's secretary, and
said:
I'm going to have some cabinet ladies in
and I'd like a studio photographer to take
picture"
Steve apparently misunderstood the message,
because he sent news photographers to snap the
group.
Great was Mrs Roosevet's surprise when
camera men filed into the state dining room and
proceeded to set up their apparatus
who sent you here?" she inquired
steve Early" they replied.
"Oh" lamented the First Lady, well. now
that you are here"
NOTE: Ironic was the fact that Mrs. Cum
mings was placed in the first row when the news
picture was taken. At present, the proofs await
Mrs. RooseveltS o. K. before being released
Correspondents are betting they never will see
-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-15
So They Say

If the pedestrian is to survive, and
unless conditions change for the
better, he may be expected in time
to be required to evolve some form
Of spyglass eyes and frog legs
Robbins B. Stoeckel, highway re-
search associate, Yale University.
VERY few so-called normal adults
reach an age over Is or II from the
psychological viewpoint.-Dr. Eliza
beth Sloan Chesser, noted London
physician.
We make no provision for ac-
cidents when we descend in the
bathysphere. If anything goes
wrong, the external pressure OF
half ton to the inch will obviate
need for first or last aid kits
DR.. William Beebe. underSea ex-
plorer.
Automobile production in the U.
). for the current year will be close
to 100000 cars and may easily
run over that.-George Feehan,
foreign trade director Detrois
Chamber Of Commerce.