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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
OPTIMISM STILL
HOLDS SWAY IN
STRICKEN WEST
Farmers Insist It's Bound to
Rain in Dust
Area Yet.
BY FRANK M'NAUGHTON
United Press star Correspondsnt

LIBERAL. Kan. April 13-For a
week encountered nothing but
misery and despair. saw nothing but
desolation and ruin.
came 70 Southwestern Kansas
expecting repetition of scenes in the
corner" sections Of Oklahoma,
Texas. New Mexico and Colorado,
where I Travelled in some Of the
worst dust billiards." Of the year.
I hadn't known Of Tom Hopkins.
Hell. I'll buy land here any time,
farm it and make good in the long
run" he said.
This Is Good Country"
This IS good country II we can
just get rain. That's all we need,
and we're sure to get a rain or two
in the next year.
Then well clean up. Wheat
prices viii be way up.
Sure, conditions are bad now.
But It has rained before and will
rain again. There's no use getting
scared. Some are leaving but not
me; III buy land in the Liberal
area any time. Just today I looked
at a section I'm going to buy"
Mr.. Hopkins owns a section of
wheat land here and 10000 acres in
eastern Colorado. He's a tractor
farmer" works on a large scale and
does much Of his own work.
Not So Bad Off
Mr.. Hopkins fields did not reflect
his bright optimism. They were
barren. coated a brownish black
with drifted and still blowing dust.
He granted he wouldn't make a crop
this year.
But this part Of the Arkansas
River valley is not as bad off as the
region around Springfield Colo, and
Boise City, Okla.
Around Syracuse and Garden
City, Kan, there has been a little
rain-not enough. but some. The
soil. too. is blacker and contains
more vegetable matter to hold it to-
gether.
1t is possible that the valley al
falfa crop may make" this season,
If tho showers continue. During the
journey from Lamar, Colo. through
the valley section Of Southwest
Kansas I saw several patches of
green stuff.
Change Bound to Come"
E. S. Rule Of Wichita. Kas.,
president of an oil company. was
looking over the old KY ranch at
Lamar. The 10000 acres looked like
20 much desert. But, like Mr.. Hop
kins he was ready for a war to the
finish with the elements.
"Ot course, things are bad now"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
ADVANCE
Varnish STAINS

Brings out the natural beauty
Of your woodwork and floors.
Stands hard wear and dries
quickly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
Of on Wrong Foot.

Police arrested Richard Brown,
Al, Negro. All Fayette-st, on
vagrancy charges yesterday after
they found him in a vacant house
at 32S N. Capitol-av. In the base
ment they found a sample case
containing 81 ladies and girls shoes,
all for the right foot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
Compete for Music LaureIs

Miss Frances Wilson, cello pupil
at st. Mary's Academy, and her &C
companist, Miss Florence CaSserly,
will go to Bloomington Monday to
compete in the finals of the state
music contest conducted by the In
diana University Music School.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
CITY DOCTOR TO TAKE
SOUTH AMERICA POST
Surgeon to Remain Until Dec. in
Peru Hospital.

DR.. Emmett B. Lamb, 1873 Orange
st, will sail for South America,
May 6, to take a temporary posi-
ton as chief surgeon of the LobitoS
Petroleum Co. Hospital, at Talara,
Peru. He will have charge of field
work done by the hospital and will
return to Indianapolis Dec. l to re-
sumo private practice.
DR.. Lamb, who has Offices at 902
Hume-Mansur Building, was resi-
dent surgeon in st. Luke'S Hospital,
Chicago. for a year, and spent two
years at Indianapolis City Hospital
as inferno and resident physician.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
Fl. WAYNE MILK UNION
VOTES WALK0UT MAY
$50 Decide to Strike Unless Pay Hike
Is Granted.

By United Press
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, April ia
milk truck drivers strike loomed
here today following a meeting of
the Truck Drivers Union last night
Approximately $50 drivers voted
at the meeting to walk out May l
unless some solution to the milk
war, which began last December, is
brought about and higher wages as
sured before that time. The vote
came after more than five months
of alleged cutting of milk truck
drivers wages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-19
AMELIA AFTER RECORD

Famed Aviatrix to Head for Mexico
City, Associate Says.
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, April 19.-Amelia
Earhart, touSle-headed aviatrix,
will leave here ANY time within
the next week" on an attempted
record fight to Mexico City, Paul
Mantz, her associate, said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
Today Science
by DAVID DIETZ-

THE attempt of the present-day scientist to
derstand the fundamental nature of the uni
verse ends in a question mark, In the Heisenberg
principle of uncertainty there is strong hint that
the question mark may be permanent.
The Heisenberg principle is, in fact, an attempt
to detour around the question mark 1t makes no
attempt to remove it.
The reader who would understand what the
difficulty is all about will do we'll to read The Diem-
ma of Modern Physics" by Prof. Donald Everett
Richmond of Williams College Here is clear and
lucid statement of the problem and the attempts of
the scientist to find way out
DERHAPS you heard Clarence barrow debate
upon the subject of rs Man a Machine?" 1t
may interest you to know that Mr. Darrows argu-
ments grew largely out of point of view which
science is today abandoning. The mechanistic con-
ception Of the universe which characterized Nine
teenth Century science and which put strict faith in
the lnevitanily OF the law of cause and effect, no
longer dominates scientific thinking
The new view is statistical with probability re-
placing causality. AS Dr. Arthur H Compton one
OF the men responsible in large part for the new
view mas sald'lt leaves man place for free will.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23

ANT, the tall, dark, impressive
former Governor of New Hamp-
shire, a war aviator, former chair
man of the Presidents textile
strike in( uiry board, and a fighter
for child labor laws and maximum
weekly hours for women.
ARTHUR J. ALTMEYER of
Wisconsin, former assistant secre-
tary of labor, an expert on Secur-
ity and part author of the present
plan, statistician and authority
on labor legislation.
VINCENT MILES, Arkansas
lawyer and former Democratic
national committeeman, who has
had relief work experience.
ONCE the first money to be
~ paid out under the program
will be the grants to states for i'm
mediate welfare work, let's consid-
er that phase and its sums and
conditions.
It is the smallest of the three
phases and the least controversial,
since similar Federal subsidies
have been granted before and
there's no question of their FEAST
bility or contitutionality. The
grants approved by Congress and
about to be appropriated for are:
OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE-This
will be described in a subsequent
article, along with the long range
old age plan.
AID TO THE BLIND-Appro-
priation of 100000, to be adj
ministared by Ssh and distributed
to states which contribute
amounts equal to the Federal
allotment to them and establish
statewide assistance plans for the
needy blind. y
Federal share of pension to a
blind individual can't exceed SIS
a month, but will match the state
share up to that figure.
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILL
neutrality-suspicious. of $24,-
10000, administered by Ssh, to
states establishing systems of pen
sions for needy child or children
under Is who by reason of death,
absence, or incapacity of a parent
are living with relative lin a
residence maintained as home"
Most of this will come under the
head Of mothers pensions" The
state must contribute double the
amount of the Federal grant, CIV
ing two-thirds of any pension up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
Your Healt
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

1IOU needn't begrudge your child or yourself, any
L candy, if either of you has sweet tooth. But
you should be careful that it does not replace the
more important foods in your diet.
Candy should be eaten in addition to the essential
foods, not in place of them Too much of such sweet
substances will modify the nutrition seriously Taken
after meal, however, sweets and sugars produce
a sensation of satisfaction and do no harm.
The desire of the average child for sweets may be
simply the natural demand of its cells for carbo-
hydrates to fatigue to the fact that the chdS
body is growing rapidly.
But you should remember, also, that the child
gets most of its carbohydrates from cereals, pota
toes, most vegetables, and other important food
materials.
TOR years doctors thought that the eating of
Il candy caused decay of the teeth. Candies that
arc extremely sticky and hard to chew may be bad
for teeth and gums. But generally there is consider
able doubt that the eating of sugars is in any way
related to tooth decay.
Manufacturers of candy have found that So per
cent of the material used in such sweets is sugar
and the remaining 48 per cent contains gelatin
starch syrup moasses nuts fruits eggs, butter
milk, chocolate, and similar substances.
Many dietary experts suggest that we use the
least sugar which will produce acceptable flavor
One specialist points out that sugar creates appe
tite not for other foods but for itself, The candy
eater asks for more candy not for bread and butter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
Times Books

IF it is not yet too late to make suggestion about
l. Christmas books, would like to advise you not
to overlook "The WoolIcott Reader" that bulky an
thology compiled by Alexander Woollcott (Vik-
ing; So.
Here you will find great deal of highly enjoy
able reading matter. Among other things the book
includes such stories Margaret Ogilvy" by j. NJ.
Barrie; THE Happy Journey to Trenton and Cam
den" by Thornton Wilder; Mr.. Fortunes Maggot !"
by Sylvia Townsend Warner; The Bar Sinister" by
Richard Harding Davis; THE Whistlers' Room" by
Paul Alverdes; "Kamongo" by Homer w Smith and
"a Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh
Mr.. Woolcott has followed his own unpredictable
bent in assembling these pieces. In foreword he
remarks that he has grouped together certain of the
minor masterpieces from the literature of my own
day which have given the deepest and most
abiding satisfaction"
The book is ideally designed for Christmas giving
its only fault being that it is too big TO 90 into
stocking, by Bruce Cation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
Anent the Sectional Outcries

TNOUCHING another subject I don't know who
IL first said The tariff is local issue" But it
is the truth.
During the campaign the tariff expert" of the
Brain Trust wanted the candidate to say I'VE will
reduce all tariff rates 10 per cent"
That formula would have spelt defeat in detail.
Every locality would have been hurt in its own pc
Culiar way and each would have voted against the
candidate in general to avoid such harm in par
ticular.
That counsel then, prevailed But Mr.. Hull is
an odfashioned free trader. The net result of his
Canadian Treaty is to inject the whole issue of the
tariff into the coming campaign.
1t has raised sectional animosities which threaten
Che New Deal in each affected separately.
have just been in ali these places The dairy
states have their hair in braid about butter-the
whole Pacific Northwest is sore about lumber-the
cattle states about beef.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
Camera Also Had Biz Chin

MUSSOLINI has big square chin but there are
4VA some 1000 chins arranged in artistic designs in
the shadowy crypts of the remarkable cemetery of
the Capuchin Fathers the Via Venito, all of them
alike and suggesting standardized automobile parts
in the salvage department of automobile junk
yard They used chins. Turned to ivory and
mounted on the walls like jaws of fish in the trophy
room of Florida fishing camp they give no i'm
preston Of formdabity but rather by the gaps be-
tween the teeth invite the imagination to consider
how the good fathers must have suffered from tooth
ache back III the time when there were neither
dentists anesthetics.
Primo Camera has the most prodigious chin Of
any italian living, but Jack Dempsey when he first
saw it about seven years ago, far from being awe
struck, looked at the chin, looked at his left fist
shook his head and murmured MY, how could any
body miss chin like that?"
short time ago, in the course of some public
ceremonies in Rome, a young military attache of
sanctonist nation discovered one of the little Mus
solinis putting the glare for him and protruding
his chin in earnest attempt to look like the Duce
The military attache did not like to glare back be-
cause he was guest SO he waved gayly and called
yoo-hoo!" The imitation Mussolin turned awav in
disgust, looking for some who would appreciate
the glare, which undoubtedly had been practced
before a mirror for years.
In one-nan government secondary officials are
likely to be second-rate OR worse. because all the
important work is done and the important decisions
made by the boss.
Mussolini has two strong men in his regime
Dino Grandi and Italo Balbo-but they are both
far away, Grandi in London as ambassador and
Balbo as governor of Lbya There are two guesses
as to why he keeps them in foreign posts First
that ne needs his best men in those Jobs; second
tnat ne doesn't want strong men on home grounds
Marshal de Bono was regarded as a strong man.
too, but they brought him from Abyssinia on rainv
night recently, and there was no triumphal process
sion through the Arch of Constantine for Marshal
de Bono such as Balbo enjoyed to the full on his
return from his great flight to Chicago and back
three years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
Duce Needs Good Press A0ent

MOREOVER, his train was late, although thew
Iva take special pride in the punctuality of their
trains in Italy these days. and altogether Vol NAV
Judge that Marshal de Bono's phase Of the Ethi-
oplan campaign somewhat less than an historic
conquest by the new Roman empire. When you get
corps OF officials who are second-rate or worse
you sacrifice efficiency for petty self-importance and
this emptles the burden the boss and on the tax
payers.
Just now England and Italy are engaged n a.
war OF propaganda in the United States ano the
English, being masters of the art have been wing
the Italians terrible licking But in England the
government press agents shreWd genial and en-
tertaining fellows who know their Job and more
whereas in Rome Mussoni is constantly pining for
good opinion in the United States but the publicity
is in the hands of litt!o Mussolin whose manhan-
ding OF the task would make any American press
agent cut his throat in artistic horror.
Between Mussoini himself and the Italians who
toll with their hands in unembarrassed excess
sVe dignity there is group of political parasites
and phonies. It's impossible, apparently to eliminate
them.
At a time when laborers willingly to-: in the rain
and lunch on nothing but hunks of bread and women
are turning in their wedding rings raise money for
the government Mussoni's Little Shots surround
themselves with mystery and fiunkeys and glare and
project their chins and let it 60 at that.
But take it from who detests Fascism as
much as slavery in any other form and castor oil
in lethal doses as much any other barbarous
weapon, the Italian people are not as bad as the
little Mussolinis make them appear to be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23

to $18 month for the first child
and $12 for any additional chill
dren.
MATERNAL AND c H I L D
HEALTH-Sum of $3,800,000 to
be administered by the Children's
Bureau, through state health
agencies for services promoting
health of mothers and children.
Grants are on a $3.50 matching
basis, with $1,800,00O to be dis
tributed in proportion to number
of births in the states and $780,
900 in proportion to need.
Present local maternal and
child health services will be pro-
NOTED in cooperation with medi-
cal, nursing and welfare groups.
CRIPPLED CHILDREN - Sum
of $2,850,000, handled by the
Children's Bureau, for states on
an equal matching basis, to extend
facilities and services for crippled
children or children suffering
from conditions leading to Grip
ping, in cooperation with medi-
cal, nursing, health and welfare
groups, and agencies specializing
an rehabilitation of physically
handicapped children.
CHILD WELFARE - Sum of
$1,500,000, of which the Children's
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
1t May BE Quite Painful

MIR. HULL soothes none of these people by tell
1V1 ing them about how oranges will go to
Canada and how fine it is for them to have Canadian
markets invaded You can't persuade people to
suffer for the general good unless the sacrifice is
general too. These places are up in arms, and if
it is true that similar treaty with Britain is COM
ing, more places will be
1t may defeat the President. Mr. Taft made the
same kind of a mistake. So, in different way did
Mr.. Hoover Mr.. Roosevelt may not know it, but
Mr. Sayre is preparing his destruction in these great
open spaces
This Administration needs strategy board. In
this case, under no pressure of necessity and with
out sufficient consideration it has injected into the
campaign the most dangerous issue in the political
book.
Copyright 1885 by Feature Syndicate IncJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23

could combine the two-give a
man a job in town, and let him
raise his own stuff on small
farm in his spare time, he would
be much better off.
1t is taking samples of the in
sides of mountains all over the re-
gion. It is studying them in labo-
ratories, to see what can best be
manufactured out of the various
minerals and clays. This would be
the small industry, to take the
other half of the farmers time.
In such government-built towns
as Norris (where the Norris Dam
workers live) IVA is setting an
example of what sanely planned
towns can be like. Most any,
body would like to live in Norris.
One look is enough to convince
you.
IVA is planting millions of
trees to reforest the land for the
purpose of holding the soil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23

word Everything" is the only
title that would cover it. This is
the big fix 'em up" part of IVA.
1t includes everything from put
ting up park benches for the
public, to showing farmers how
they ought to pillow. This is the
organized foresight" part. 1t is,
in reality, program to help the
people improve their general all
around lot in life.
II
uERE are some of the things
- IVA is doing under this last
clause to rebuild the Tennessee
Valley:
1t is indirectly, by example,
teaching people to build a new
type of community, half agricul-
ture and half industry. Mountain
farms require only about half a
mans time. Work in the factories
is spotty, and doesn't cover a. full
year. 1t is TWAS idea that if you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
DOUBLE GRAND COUP IS MADE

made the play, but failed to rec
ognize it.
Well, here is a hand that be-
lieve explains this play better
than any have seen for a long
time. AS a matter of fact, it is
a double grand coup.
A grand coup play is literally
discarding trump; in other
words, you have to trump a good
card to get your hand reduced
to the same number of trump as
your opponents.
In today's hand you have two
trump too many. so you must dis
pose of them. In doing this, you
employ play known as the dou-
BILE grand coup.
The Play
Against the four-spade con-
tract, East cashes the ace, king,
and queen of diamonds and then
leads a small club, which de-
clarer wins with the king. A
small spade is won in dummy
with the king and the trey of
spades returned, declarer finess-
ing the ten spot. East shows out,
discarding the eight of diamonds.
It now looks as if declarer has
to lose a spade trick. However,
why not try to avoid this loss?
Gamble going down an extra
trick if necessary. If you make
the hand, the reward is worth it.
Lead your jack of clubs, win
in dummy with the ace and re-
turn the queen of clubs, trump
ing itswith the six of spades. This
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23

for the big power houses all the
year round.
2. To furnish cheap electrical
current. Doing things by cleo
tricity is quite a contrast to the
1776 way of living you see in some
of Tennessee's mountain cabins.
BY the sale of cheap power, IVA
expects to make enough money
eventually to do all the other
social and rehabilitation work it
has up its sleeve. That's one ex-
ample of how the dams are the
foundation for the whole program.
4, To provide cheap fertilizer.
Most of the farm land of the Ten
nessee Valley is either eroded or
worn out, 1t must have fer
tilizer. Farmers can't afford it.
The big plant at Muscle Shoals
is experimenting, and actually
producing too, fertilizer for the
Valleys farms.
5. I don't know what you would
call this last point. I guess the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

Copyright, 1885. NEA Service, 1nc).
WASHINGTON, Dec. %
The most tremen-
dous social-economic expert
ment in our history, the So
called security program, will
become effective on the first
day of 1886.
From Jan. l, industrial pay rolls
of the nation will be taxed to sup
port national Federal-state sys-
tenn of unemployment insurance.
(The tax won't be collected until
1887, but most employers have
budgeted for IT'D
Soon afterward, probably also in
January, Congress will appropriate
almost S100,000,00O for use of the
states in immediate federally ap-
proved programs for:
l. Pensions for needy aged, de-
pendent mothers, and needy blind.
2. Extension Of state welfare &C
tivities, for maternity and infant
care, crippled and neglected chill
dren, public health and vocational
rehabilitation.
3. An additional $4,000,000 grant
for expenses of state unemploy-
ment compensation systems.
In 1887 the Federal government
will beg n collecting compulsory
contributions from both employers
and employees for a huge national
old-age benefit system designed
eventually to provide definite in
comes for millions of workers after
they reach the age of IS.
THERE you have the three big
l. phases of the New Deals most
ambitious piece of legiSlation-a
program affecting at least 30,000,-
600 Americans, understood by few
members of the Congress which
passed it, damned by certain fore
most authorities on economic Sc
curity, defended often as "at least
a beginning" viewed apprehan-
sively by many employers, and
sometimes ballyhooed as some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-23

1t is creating beautiful noun
tain parks, and vacation places,
and beaches on man-made lakes,
to make the people happier.
1t is moving families from one
place to another. 1t has moved
some 10000 families out Of the
regions behind these big dams,
which soon will be covered with
water. And usually it has i'm
proved their lot.
And behind it all are the big
dams, designed eventually to give
electricity to anybody who
wants it.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mother
Earth.