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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-16
BUTLER MOTHERS
TO ENTERTAIN

Mrs. G. A Ratti, chairman Of the
program committee of the Mothers
Council of Butler University, is pre-
pairing for its fourth mass meeting
to entertain mothers of all past and
present students of the university.
Committees will meet for discus
sion of the project at 2:30 Friday,
March zee in Arthur Jordan Me-
mortal hall. Mrs. Frank ReisSner
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-16
LEGAL SORORITY
TO HEAR JUDGES

Miss Bonnie Louise Miller and her
sister, Mrs. Althea Miller Mitchell,
will be hoSteSSes for a dinner and
bridge party of Iota Tau Tau, ma
tional legal sorority, Tuesday night
in the green room of the Indian
apolis Athletic Club.
Speakers will be Judge Joseph T.
Markey. Judge Herbert E. Wilson.
Oscar Hagemier and Judge Smiley
Chambers.
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will preside during a business meet
ing, preceding the program.
The council, composed of mothers
Of past and present students, seeks
TO sid students to obtain educations.
Funds totaling $1074-90 have been
earned by the organization and do
mated to Prof. George F. Leonard,
in charge of the Butler student well
fare agency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-16
Marco Polo to Be Tonic

indianapolis Literary Club mem
bers will hear r. A. Hendrickson
discuss Marco Polo" at regular
meeting at the chapter rooms Mon
day night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-16
Club Dinner Scheduled

Mrs. Ruth Decatur. assisted by
Iva Mitchell and Frances McCready,
VIII De IN charge Of a dinner of the
Co-Wa-Ma Club tonight at the
Colonial tearoom- Charter members
viii attend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-16
Club to Entertain

Delta Zeta Mothers Club will en-
terrain with card party at the
home Of Mrs. C.. w. Wright, 1925
CarroIlton-ay, tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-16

Helen Lehman, Adeline Rice and
Dvera Cohen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
GOVERNOR ECCLES

a PROMINENT Of Mariner S. Eccles as
governor Of the revamped Federal Reserve
System comes as no surprise. Mr.. Eccles IA
thcred the reserve system reforms and is the
logical man to carry them into effect His rec
ord as head of the expiring reserve board is
proof Of his competency.
Mr. Eccles brought to the national bank
ing administration new vigor and broader
vision. The first man from west of the Mis-
sissippi to serve in that high post, his OBJ
Jectives have proved to be refreshingly differ
ent from those which dominated official bank
ing circles IN the reckless twenties, when the
nations credit was withdrawn from productive
pursuits in the country and funneled into stock
gambling.
An experienced banker, he knows the prob
lens of the crossroads as well as those of the
money centers. and is determined that the
needs of the former shall not be sacrificed for
the wishes Of the latter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
BREATHING SPELL FOR SPUDS

CECRETARY WALLACE will rest easier
- nights if he never finds the money to en-
force the law which reqhires the nations po-
tato crop to be packaged and stamped and
regimented from field to market basket.
A no more absurd statute has been written
since prohibition gave birth to the Indiana law
that made the smell Of liquor a criminal Of
Tense. And like the Hoosier bone dry law, it
could not possibly be enforced.
This law is of anti-New Deal parentage 1t
is the handiwork of such men as Republican
Senators Borah of Idaho, Hale of Maine, Van
denberg of Michigan, and the Tory Democrat,
Bailey of North Carolina They forced it
through as an amendment to an omnibus ag-
ricultural law. President Roosevelt could not
have vetoed it without at the same time kill
ing the entire measure, which contained a
multitude of provisions essential 10 the Ad-
miniStTations larger farm program.
OF course, Secretary Wallace can not and
does not intend deliberately to refuse to en-
force this act of Congress. But the eleventh.
hour flibuster which killed the congressional
appropriation of enforcement funds fortunately
relieves the secretary from the impossible task
of riding herd on millions of spud bootleggers
Surely sanity will dictate repeal of this law
early in the next Congress session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
IDAHO DIVIDES COUNTRY

Tn case you had doubted that 1885 is an
extraordinary year, consider the fact that
a United States Senator from Idaho is today
taking an active part in American foreign
affairs and that he is not Senator Borah:
Borah has been looked on tor years as our
great foreign relations Senator. European
statesmen visiting Washington used to make
almost as much of fuss about seeing Borah
as they did about going to the White House
When he tossed his leonine head and
pursed his impressive mouth, all the people
stood by in silence; and there were seldom a
dozen people who could tell the name of
Idahos other Senator.
But today We find Senator James P Pope
peering over the shoulders of the diplomats at
Geneva. swimming up into the headlines act
ing as a semi official mouthpiece for Amer
can officialdom, and voicing the most I'M
Borahesque DOCTRINES and it develops that
these two Senators from Idaho have come to
represent the two possibilities open to the
United States in foreign affairs.
Senator Pope stands for active participa-
ton by America in European affairs 1t is his
idea that it is easier to help head off war
than it is to stay out of after it has started
He would like to see the Kellogg treaty made a
living, breathing force in world affairs He is
not frightened by the League of Nations
Senator Borahs idea, Judging from past
performances. is just about the exact opposite
of all this. He represents the isolationist
school,
The United States is blessed by wide
ocean on either side It is more nearly self
sufficient than any other nation on earth Why,
asks this school, should it not stay at home
tend strictly to its own knitting and stand
aloof from the inevitable quarrels and dis
astrous conflicts of Europe?
Now the point to remember is that we must
sooner or later decide, once and for ALL which
of these two policies we are going to adopt;
and the course of world history in the next
generation or two may conceivably depend on
what our choice is.
We can plunge neck-deep into the problems
of the world, taking risks in the hope that the
possible gain will outweigh the possible loss; or
we can retire behind the gates of our castle
and concentrate on our domestic problems, let
ting the outer world go hang.
One course or the other we must take And
it is a singular freak of chance that Idaho,
tucked away in the Rockies in secure isolation.
should furnish the two men who stand as
spokesman for these opposing possibilities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20

comparatively negligible All Ethiopia, with its
10000 square miles of land. could be swal-
lowed ZIP many times over in the colonial en-
pires Of these two nations.
How did these two nations get those vast
territories? They got them in exactly the way
Italy proposes to get Ethiopia-by walking in
and sticking gun at the original owners.
With this as a background. then, the French
and British means about Italian rapacity have
a somewhat phony ring.
If Italy is driven into this African adven-
ture by her need for colonial markets and
sources for raw materials. and if England and
France are 50 desperately anxious to see the
peace we'll and truly kept one would suppose
that the simplest solution would be for them
to disgorge little Of their own takings.
Italy would unquestionably settle for fair
slice Of Tanganyika, which England took from
Germany. or of Algeria which France took
from the natives
England and France, Of course. aren't max
ing any such proposition. Their diplomats
would assume expressions OF well-bred pain if
the idea we're even suggested.
1t is simpler to call Heaven to witness the
v1ckedness Of the greedy Italians-who made
the overwhelming mistake of trying to get a
slice Of Africa after England and France had
all the good pieces nailed down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
FASTER, STILL FASTER

a FTER sitting by meekly for years and
watching other forms of transportation
take their passengers away from them. the
railroads at last seem to be developing their
best brains and money to the job of fighting
back
The latest move comes from the New York
Central and Pennsylvania roads, which an
nOunce that their crack New York Chicago
trains will make the run in 1872 hours, be-
ginning Sept. 90.
Until comparatively recently that trip was
a 20-hour run With the airplanes making
the trip in something like a fifth of that time.
the crack trains did not look quite so speedy
On the new basis. they will be much bet
ter able to compete with planes and the re-
duction is simply one more indication of the
new energy and ingenuity which the rail-
roads are at least injecting into the competi-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
MONKEY BUSINESS

EVOLUTION has raised its ugly head again,
- this time in West Virginia.
Miss Virginia Fisher general science teach
er in the Northview Junior High School of
Clarksburg is accused by members of the
Northview Parent-Teacher Association of
having taught evolution" to the young. Re-
sentful also were her alleged victims who fol-
lowed her last week pelting her with mudballs
and calling her monkey teacher" Irate par
ents demand her removal or transfer.
School officials are mystified This teach
ers only Darwinan offense, SO far as they
know, was to have read a page from a book
on evolution a year ago telling her pupils to
form their own opinions on the subject
Just 10 years ago Tennessee staged hui
initiating scene in the Darrow- Bryan trial of
Teacher Scopes Scopes lost his job under
that states medieval anti-evolution law. Ten
nessee lost something more valuable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
TURNING TOWARD PEACE

XXTHILE the prospects for peace grow pro-
W gressively darker, it is good to learn
that in at least one quarter of the world the
curse of war has been lifted.
Paraguay and Bolivia having ended their
bloody conflict in the Gran Chaco, the cables
have carried the surprising and welcome an
nouncement that in Paraguay swords are lit
orally going to be beaten into plowshares.
The Paraguayan government has an
nounced that its army and navy arsenals will
be turned into pillow factories, the plows to be
distributed by the government to farmers at
cost in the hope Of reviving peaceful agricul-
tural industry
No one needs to be told how much better
off Paraguay will be with her factories turn
ing out plows instead of cannon If this adj
herence to the ancient Scriptural injunction
could only be copied in other lands, how much
happier all mankind would be!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
Times Books

MOST people remember Oliver Hazard Perry
wi today because he had a singlar gift for
the expressive phrase. We have met the enemy
and they are ours takes rank with Caesar s
'Veni vidi vici" as a model of narrative brevity.
But the man is worth knowing for other
reasons. If he had lost the battle Of Lake Erie,
Britain would in all probability have seized the
greater part of western North America.
The boundaries Of the United States would
have ended at the Ohio and the Mississippi and
the nation would have been stunted from the
very cradle.
So says Charles j Dutton in Oliver Hazard
Perry" book which oddly enough is the first
biography Of the great naval hero TO be printed
in some 80 years.
IT is Mr.. buttons idea that Perry was not only
Il one Of our greatest naval officers but that
he was also the one man who kept that confused
and abortive war of 1912 from being a tremen-
dous national calamity
He shows, too, that Perry did what he did
because of his own great ability
The story of how Perry came to the western
wilderness, built feet of green timber. rounded
up a backwoods crew and whipped a British fleet
is interesting both as history and drama.
Mr. Dutton tells it well and gives we'll
rounded picture oil Perrys personality.
The book only defect is that it lacks map.
Published by Lorgmans. Green & Co., it sells
for $3.50
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20

IF it weren't for the fact that a great many
Il men are likely to get killed because Of it. the
> present squabble over Ethiopia could provide
us with good deal of coarse laughter.
Laugh No. l. Of course. would arise from
Italy's frantic protestations shat she is obliged
to move in on Ethiopia because Ethiopian ag-
erosion threatens her national security.
Laughs Nos. >. 5. 4 and upward would come
from the pious and solemn attempts of Eng
land and France to stop her.
To appreciate this. let your mind roam back
Just % years.
England and France had fight with Ger
many on their hands. and it was good deal
more than they had bargained for. They need
ed help very badly. and they weren't in a mood
70 care how much they had to pay for it. So.
after much coaxine they got Italy into the
war. hailing her as great lberty-loving ma
ton and promising her man's-sized share of
the swag.
In the course Of time the war ended. and
the Allies got out their knives to have at Ger
manys colonial possessions When the dust
S cleared away. England and France had al the
choice pieces and Italy had nothing at all.
Keeping that fact in mind have look at
map Of Africa. Those parts which are not
under either the British or the French flag are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE

CALIFORNIA; lawmakers frightened up
the states traffic code during the last
summer, and in the course of their delbera-
lions invented a new crime-negligent hon1i-
eide.
This classification was set up to apply to
motor accidents in which loss of life was
caused, but in which the culpability of the
offending driver was not quite grievous enough
to Justify charge so heavy as manslaughter
BY creating this new and lighter charge,
the California authorities believe that prose-
cution will be made much easier in certain
types of cases.
The idea might be worth copying. There
are many cases in which drivers negligence
costs life, but in which jury is reluctant to
convict of manslaughter
Negligent homicide" might make enforce
ment of the traffic code more certan-and,
thereby help to make the highways safer.
For outstanding efforts in behalf of peace,
we'd suggest the next Nobel prize be awarded
to Halle Selassie
What organized labor seems to want is the
closed shop. not taken too literally.
Modern version: Save your dollars and
your pennies will take care of the sales tax
Those who expect to get something for
nothing usually end up with free board and
clothing.
Those baby bonds should sell well provided
they don't live up to their name and keep
people awake nights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
DepreSSiOn's Cause

By s. H. L.
David Lawrence. submits that
the matter of constitutional"
governmental procedure will be-
come the dominant" campaign
issue in 1886. How funny.
The most fragrant violation of
the Constitution is a matter of
long standing, starting with the
Republican party in 1854, when,
on June of that year. Congress
passed the National Bank Act.
This act set up the present
framework of American banking,
farming out the creation Of
money.
The founders of this republic
recognized that sovereignty Of the
people in a democracy rested upon
the power of its elected represen-
tativeS to create the medium of
exchange, and to fix the value of
that medium and Of the coin of
foreign countries as related to our
own. This determination of the
trainers of the Constitution is eX-
pressed in Article /, Section 8:
Congress shall have power to
coin money, regulate the value
thereof and of foreign coin, and
fix the standard of weights and
measures"
AS the coin of Christ's time
bore the image of Caesar, it signi-
fed sovereignty. so did the franz
ers of our Constitution set out
in this article that this sovereign
function was only capable of be-
ing exercised by the Congress as
the representative of a sovereign
people.
Exercise Of this function of Gre
ating the medium of exchange is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20

be able to pick up the daily paper
and not read Of so many accidents
It is up to the police to enforce the
law and ordinances.
There is not a city in this country
which has such rotten auto and
truck drivers as Indianapolis. And
for no reason only our laws are not
enforced concerning automobile VIC
lations. 1t is a shame the manner
in which delivery trucks block our
streets by standing in the traffic
lanes to make deliveries instead Of
driving to the curb In many in
stances the drivers visit, play a game
of pool or get their meals while the
truck stands in safety zone or in
the middle of the street.
So let the Police Department get
busy and stay busy. Do not make
a few days drive. Make it a con-
tinuous drive and make the streets
safe. 1t is entirely up to them to
curb traffic violations. The Police
Department is responsible for the
accidents and the many casualties
that have occurred in the city of
Indianapolis due to lack Of law en-
forcement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
ROAD TO WAR

MEMORIEs are short, and profits and en-
Iva ployment are sweet."-From Can We
Stay out of Ware" by Ernest Angel, Harp
er's. September, 1895
News dispatch from Waterbury. Conn.
later in September, 1885;
Three of the country's largest brass and
copper rolling mills, which furnished much of
the raw material used in munitions making
during the World War. have gone on "a
hour-a-day production basis in the most pro-
nounced squirt in business in six years. e.
The Chase company. controlled by Ken
necott which during the last four years oper-
ated between 10 and y blast furnaces now
has 80 furnaces running night and day and
has three shifts of employees in continuous
operation.
The American Brass Co, a subsidiary of
Anaconda also running day and night shifts,
was reported making large shipments of sheet
brass and copper and employing the largest
force of workers IN five or six years. e..
THE Scoville Manufacturing Co. during
the last week re-employed more than $50
skilled workers. boosted operations to "a hours
s day and was said to be ready to resume mu-
nitions production on a days notice. =.
The Waterbury Tool Co. which makes avn
elton equipment was rushing to completion
1our-storv addition to its plant
Frank ]. Green. secretary of the Cham
Der of Commerce. declared, the first two weeks
in september exceeded any other similar
period in the last six years for improved bust
mess
Draw vour own conclusions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
GOVERNMENT BY LAWYERS

MTHEN lawyer tells a client that law
w is unconstitutional. it is then nullitv
and he need not obey that law"
This unique pronouncement is accredited
70 E. F. Reed. Weirton Steel Co counsel and
Chairman Of the subcommittee which wrote
the American Liberty Leagues kangaroo court
decision that the National Labor Relations
Act Is unconstitutional
As believers in free speech-and the Con-
sfiuuon-we affirm Mr.. Reeds sovereign right
TO preach this doctrine Of business anarchy
But as believers IN law and order. We dispute
the wisdom of 1t.
a lawyer we have always understood, is an
officer of the courts before which he practices.
bu, Mr.. Reed would make lawyer much
more than that. He would set up every one
OF the several hundred thousand American
lawyers as walking substitute for the courts
Eac0 lawyer would be a Supreme Court unto
himself. and if he so decreed his clients need
not heed any act of any legislative body.
Mr.. Reeds dictum is subversive. 1t is revo-
lulonary But since he uttered it IN a walnut
pillarcd nall under the aegis Of the Liberty
Leagues, rather than from soap-box, he
probably viii not be jailed as a radical.
Clients. however if they swallow such non
sense. may learn to their sorrow that we are
still trying to sustain in their country con-
stItuu0naly created legislative and judicial
powers. and due process Of law. and that some
judges do not always see eye to eye with cor
porat0n lawyers as to what the Constitution
means.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
R.O.eeRG~

4 disaster on Matecombe. the island
of grief"
The Indians abandoned these
islands so years ago. 1t is encour-
aging to note also in this veterans
organizations own individual jnves-
tigation that the "act of God" alibi
of the present Administration is
bluntly called a 'whitewaSh." This
4 organization, more than any other
veterans group, has withstood the
indirect and pointed attacks of the
I present Administration against vet
Grams Of all wars.
/ 1t is a source of real encourage
ment to veterans and their families
/ to know that an organization such
as the Veterans of Foreign Wars is
always on watch. The fortunes of
4 life do change. No Administration
will continue indefinitely a hostile
/ attitude toward the veterans of all
wars. The reason is that the vet
| Grams organization such as the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars is 36 years
old while this present Administra-
ton is only bit more than three
| years of age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
So They Say

If you want to make a people
proud, you must give it something
to be proud Of History finds no
nation really worthwhile except
when it builds its own monuments.
Adolf Hitler.
The statesmen today are like
chauffeurs in high-powered cars
who know the road is slippery,
while in 1914 they were like chauf-
feurs who did not know what skid
ding was.-Sir Arthur Willert.
English newspaper correspondent.
We don't need amateur hours to
provide new talent. We haven't be-
gun to use the fine dramatic and
musical talent that is eager for a
chance Mime. Yolanda Mers-Irion.
advisory chairman, Woman's Ma
tional Radio Committee.
My marriages have been a mess.
And I'm through with men forever.
When one scores five errors in sue
cession, it's time to quit.-Jessie
Reed, one-time Broadway cabaret
queen.
American women are far in ad-
vance of the men. They think more
clearly, more thoroughly. Besides
that. they are interested in taking
the racket element out of politics.
The United States ought to have
a woman for President Mrs Ar
mold Hall, English editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20

pledges signed and mailed in are
only ridiculous. All the newspaper
talk in the world would not curb
the reckless and incompetent auto
mobile and truck drivers without the
proper cooperation from the police
department, which we are not get
ting. Chief Morrissey is asking for
more police. We need less police,
as there are too many policemen
now involved in automobile acct
dents and too many Of them riding
around the city in fine new cars and
doing nothing else.
What we need is policemen who
will attend to their duties and make
arrests when they observe traffic
violations. Most police close their
eyes when they see any violations
such as high speed, running stop
signals, not stopping for through
streets. Now if the public will de-
mand the police department get
busy and put some of the police on
their feet instead of sitting in an
automobile and watching certain
saloons for Is hours a day we may