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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
IT'S WAR, NOT A SPORT,
SAYS A LOCAL BOY

Il "A
BY r. Johnson
Perhaps the best thing the peo-
pie of the United States can do in
connection with the Italian-Ethi-
opian war would be to make a
firm resolution not to let the tragic
affair get a grip on their emotions.
At least, that's my view on the sub
ject.
Like all wars, this one is starting
out with a lot of episodes that stir
the emotions and get the sideline
boys in a lather. Mussolinis big
| bombing planes roar over little
towns filled with women and chill
dren and drop death-dealing
weapons.
Maybe a Red Cross hospital is
bombed and maybe it isn't. but the
boys on the sidelines get all worked
up anyway. The thing is bad enough
from any point of view, but the way
1 see it there is absolutely no sense
in letting the thing get hold of our
| emotions and then twist our brains
all out of proportion.
For, after all, this bombing busi-
ness is not just the big shot in
Rome showing his stuff, but just
plain war A lot of folks right
here in indianapolis seem to have
the impression that war is a sport,
where you have to keep in bounds.
Neither the allies nor the Germans
kept in bounds when the World
War was on and you can't expect
Mussolini to follow any rules where
/ there simply aren't rules.
This thing is bound to get worse
and there's no use in people getting
steamed up about them They
might as well tag it as war and re-
member that if Ethiopia had bomb
ing planes they'd be doing just what
Mussolini is doing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
Wanted: Air Crash Investigation

before the tragedy the pilot had
radioed an "alls we'll" And then
the plane cracked up.
The way to reassure the travel
ing public as to the safety of air
travel is to find out exactly what
went wrong, show how it can be
avoided in the future and let
every one know about it,
Otherwise, people are apt to get
the notion that air travel contains
dangers which can not be guarded
against Here is a case where utter
frankness is essential.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11

the rate of 100 every weekend
would stir our officials to action.
But you'd be wrong.
Our officials do next to nothing to
get the traffic situation in hand.
Only a few states have a decent
system of drivers license and in
spection laws.
In most places, including our dear
old Indiana, any fool can buy and
operate a car, perfectly safe from
interference-until at last he kills
somebody.
And SO little stories like the one
quoted above continue to be reg
ular features of the Monday papers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
"A Prayer
BY ROBERT o. LEVEL


BY ROBERT o. LEVEL
Our Father and Our God. I am
thankful to Thee.
I appreciate every good Thou hast
done for me.
The days 1 have lived, and enjoyed
with You.
With your help for things I've
learned to do.
For achievement made in some
good way,
In work to afford me happiness,
day by day,
Where Thou hast given me the JOY
Of friends.
For my great cheer again and
again,
I am grateful to Thee, Lord. for
every good thing,
know Thou hast the power to
bring,
Wilt Thou guide me, dear Master
of might,
In the end. grant me
Eternal Light. -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11

on world trade and our own Ameri-
can and Indiana trade.
Trade is a matter of complexity
and delicate adjustments anyway.
You can not take out of it a large
and fourishing market without
throwing it into confusion all along
the line.
1t is probable that our recovery
from the great depression will be
delayed by the war in Ethiopia.
And although we are a long way
from Africa and have no concern
in the fighting there, our own econ
omy will feel the effects of an un-
mistakable manner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
BY Air Traveller

By Air Traveller
If the air transport people are
wise they will see to it that there
is the most searching kind of in
vestigation into the Wyoming
plane crash which took II lives
and that the facts brought out are
given full publicity.
On the face of the information
I have read in the papers this &C
cidsnt was a most perplexing af-
fair. The night was clear, the
motors seem to have been operat-
ing well, and barely two minutes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
WAR WILL HURT OUR
RECOVERY, HE SAYS

ny D. y.
1t is small wonder that the stock
market has been depressed by the
fear OF war. If economic sanctions
are imposed, and it seems likely, the
result will be to remove a large
European nation from the market
for the worlds goods.
No one needs to think twice about
the matter to see that that could
not fail to have a very Dad effect
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
A BLACK EYE FOR
OUR AUTO LAWS

BY T. X.
The nation reckoned its highway
dead at more than 100 in partial
reports from 80 states during the
last Weekend"
So read my Monday newspaper.
1t was perfectly ordinary familiar
little story. duplicated almost every
other Monday through the year, tes-
tifying to the insane folly with
which we permit our auto traffic
situation to 60 uncorrected.
You would think that any thing
which struck down our citizens at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
Forum Of The Times
dsappove you yur right

fTimes readers arc inrtted to cypress
their Diei0s in these columns. religious
c0ntro UerSies excluded. Make Uour letters
short. so all can hare chance. Limit
them to $50 1Oords or less. Your letter
must be Si0ned. but names 1OiI be
Uithheld on re0uest)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
MR.. WATT SEEMS TO
BE AGAINST WAR
By Uno Watt

BY Uno Watt
Bill Borah, Idaho's rambunctious
Senator, may not always be in the
right but it strikes me he hit the
nail on the head when, according
to your newspaper, he made the
following remark:
Il am not in favor of sacrificing
the life of single American boy to
settle all the boundary lines in
Europe"
That strikes me as being a classic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
Questions and Answers

Inclose a Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question Of
fact or informa ton to The Indian
apolis Times Washington Informa-
ton Bureau. Legal and medical
advice can not be given. nor can
extended research be undertaken. Be
sure ali mail is addressed t. The
indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau, Frederick NJ. Kerby, Direc-
tor, 1913 Thirteenth-st. n. W.. Wash
ington. D. C. THE EDITOR
Q--How early do box tortoises
breed and in what months?
A-They breed in warm wealth
er; usually in July. August and
September. The earliest breeding
age is probably IL to Is years.
GLOW did the Creek and
Seminole Indians of Florida bury
their dead?
AIN circular pit about feet
deep; the corpse, with a blanket
or cloth wrapped about it, was
placed in sitting posture, the legs
bent under and tied together.
Q-Give the text of the second
amendment to the United States
Constitution.
A we'll regulated militia be-
ing necessary to the security of a
free state, the right of the peo-
pie to keep and bear arms shall
not be infringed."
Q-Do all modern ocean going
vessels burn oil?
ALL the larger anG most mod
ern ocean vessels burn oil instead
of coal.
Q-What is the approximate
number of black sheep in a flock?
AIN the range states, where
sheep are under the constant care
OF herders, black sheep are placed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11
SUGGESTION

) y RECOMMENDED autumn reading for the Presi
dents sons Two of whom have just had another
automobile accident:
s And Sudden Death" by j. s. Furnas.
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Daily Thought

Jesus saith unto her, Woman,
what have to do with thee? Mine
hour is not yet come.-St. John
ii, 4.
VXTOMAN is like the reed which
w bends to every breeze, but
breaks not in the tempest
Whately.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
Speaking of HddeS

CPEAKING of hell, as the Governor from Ohio has
y Just been doing, 7 am reminded of the fact that
on one day of the week the word is considered wholly
proper IN every newspaper in the United States. I
refer. of course, to Monday. Monday IS generally
considered the deadest day in the journalistic menu
Political leaders use Monday a release time for
statements because they think that more space is
available then than at any other time in the week.
I don't mean. of course, that Monday is dull day
because Of these political statements about my poll
cies"
AS a matter Of fact I like it best of all for on
Monday read the accounts of the sermons preached
in all the local churches. I love sermons. To be
sure I prefer to read the digest rather than hear
them in the original form. Look at the page of
sermons and you Will see the extraordinary variety
of religious approach It seems wholly impossible TO
have united front upon the question OF the Creator
And vet I have always felt that there might be
solidarity built upon the figure of the devil Some
preachers see him a literal gentleman with horns
and tail Others regard him merely as a princi-
pal of evil And yet nobody ever speaks good word
for him. Perhaps that is a little thankless, since
he has served as inspiration for so many SER
mons And he might do even greater service
The churchgOers of the world can possibly find
peace tranquility and unity by agreeing that the
devil is deplOrable.
tCopvriEht 1851
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
FOR REVISION

THOSE who believe extensive
L or fundamental changes in
the Constitution must be made in
view of today's conditions argue
as follows:
The Constitution was literally
the product OF a "horse-and-
buggy" age, when the country had
100000 people instead of 125,-
100000, when communication was
difficult. and life and business re-
lations we're simple.
1t was a charter of political lib
cry in days when economic liberty
more or less took care Of itself
Today, political liberty is assumed
in America, and the battle for eco
nomic liberty is just beginning.
The fOrefatherS could not fore
see or provide for the rise of great
corporations and financial struc-
lures. the network of cOmmunica-
tions between states, or Industrial
ization which utterly changed the
relations between a working man
and his job.
Therefore, in their zeal to pro-
tect state and individual rights,
they denied to the Federal gov
errnment powers which are neces-
sary today for control of indus
trial, communication, and f1nan-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

4 LARGE number Of automatically powered ma
chine tools we're put on display when the Ma
uonal Machine Tool Builders Association opened
Its annual show IN Cleveland this week
The trend toward the use of hydraulic power is
one Of the outstanding developments IN the machine
tool industry. recent rotogravure section OF Iron
Age showed more than 100 representative machine
tools used in the automotive industry OF these, Is
per cent featured hydraulic drives OF various sorts
For many years. The Industrial Bulletin OF Ar
thur D Little IIt, points out, industry made use OF
hydraulic pressure means OF transmitting power
only the hydraulic press.
This machine, with its gigantic frame and pow
erful ram was the elephant of the machine shop
And as more and more work was routed to other
machines 1t tended TO become the white elephant OF
the shop.
But within recent years the hydraulic method of
transmitting power has come back into popularity
a FEW years ago. the Hydraulic Press Manufac-
n turing Co set to work to redesign the hydraulic
press. supplying 1t with a mutcylinder radial pump
or variable stroke and otherwise speeding up the
operation of the press.
Today. hydraulic pressure IS beginning to sup
plant mechanical transmission III the machine tool.
Mechanical transmission has previously been the
standard practice here.
The new practice Is exempifed in the hydraulic
drive IN the Shaper manufactured by the Rockford
Machine Tool Co The hydraulic force IS supplied
by oil under pressure of 1000 to 5000 pounds square
inch This pressure Is supplied by pumps which give
continuous uniform pressure over wide range
DOuble-aCting hydraulic cylinders whose plstOns
act directly on the tool carriers or work tables are
employed 1t is claimed that this direct application
results in an extremely uniform pressure the tool
through the stroke.
THE hydraulic drive also provides unusual de-
i gree Of safety against damage 10 the machine
by overoadS. II is claimed. This Is accomplished
through an adjustable pressure release which has
none of the inertia effects frequently encountered
IN mechanical drives.
Cutting speeds can be set at any point and quick
" changed even when the machine is in operation.
by a single adjusting lever. The entire length Of the
cutting stroke is made at much higher speed than
with mechanical ShaperS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17

But on this 146th anniversary,
a movement to scrutinize this
document is spreading over the
country. President Roosevelt him
self. gravely and with deliberation,
suggested. after the United States
Supreme Court ruled that NRA
violated the Constitution, that
within five or 10 years" the
American people must restudy
their Constitution and determine
whether basic law, devised for
eighteenth century "horse-and-
buggy days" is suitable in every
way for twentieth century age
Of machinery, power, and close
knit national organization.
Following this lead, a flood OF
discussion instantly covered the
country. Magazine articles, radio
speeches. newspaper stories, pam
phlets all aimed at informing
people What the Constitution is, or
persuading them that it ought or
ought not to be changed.
The 148th year Of the American
Constitution is definitely destined
to be one in which the people will
put it under a critical microscope
and determine whether It needs
Overhauling
Here is an effort to sketch the
opposing points of view which
viii be advanced during the com
ing year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
Cor. Darey's DIRTY" Story
Here's the letter

Here's the letter.
I READ with great interest your comments on
/ the terrible sin Of using he'll and damn Well
here's tho story.
one Saturday night a drunken fellow decided he
wanted 10 sec the great EpIscOpalan Bishop in New
York BY dint Of much persistence and persuasion
he finally found himself in the Bishops presence,
even though at that very time the Bishop was busy
polishing up his sermon for the following morning
The drunken fellow said Gmitate a drunken man
If YOU CAM: Bishop VIII YOU please tell me the
difference between fundamentalism and liberalism
III religiOn2
The Bishop replied: My dear man, you in
ebriated. If YOU Will come in here some time when
YOU sober I Will try to explain to YOU the diff
ference between fundamentalism and liberalism in
Religion
The drunken fellow replied: well. Bishop
that the hell OF it. When I'm sober I don't give
Gamn'
incidentally. this story was told to me by one
Of the leading Churchmen OF Ohio when we were in
group of perfectly respectable people.
You hit 1t exactly right. This story is mild it
is not prcfane and it IS not dirty 1t has pleased
many an audience as evidenced by the rounds of
laughter and applause, and I regularly tall to re-
spectacle people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
France Is Notorious

IN France, another free press country the other
hand the rottenness of the papers. the graft and
misrepresentation are notorious. but calmly accepted
French Journalism is so badly diseased and has had
the bugs N its blood long that peridy which
would be considered most foul in this country Is
simply Characteristic.
The United States recently had the experience of
local press under the heel of military dictator at
Baton Rouge. La, where for five months Huey Long
by military decree, forbade the local newspapers to
print any word rejecting on him or any member Of
the state government or the administration itself To
the credit OF American journalism should be noted
that the decree was soon ignored at considerable
personal risk and that Huey. arrogant as he was did
not have sufficient confidence to attempt to enforce
1t. Yet it was not the people, but the journalists
VINO resented and defed this particular violation of
their rights
II they had not done so Baton Rouge would have
presented in America an example Of the slavery of
the press under dictatorship which is placidy
accepted in Italy and Germany, where a central au-
thority tells the editors what they may print and in
what tone of voice and how much of it.
Journalism isn't all right but its principles are
much higher than those Of the government-local
state and national-which represents the principles
Of the people
Copyright 1895 BY United Feature Syndicate 1ncJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
The Reader Is COmfOrted

a T the conclusion of a long, wandering and con-
L SStently palntive discussion OF a subject as
durable as religion sex Mr. Seldes leaves his
reader more COmfOrted than shocked for he has
pointed out the horrors of really captive and
corrupt press eXemplified on the other side of
the water and demonstrated that the American
papers at worst are guilty of individual sins
When they do wrong. as in smOthering or shad-
ing story they do so one by one and if the story
IS really matter of great public Importance there
Will always be one stubborn Onerv brother among
the publishers who will crack it wide open Then if
1t IS really big story. Who's Who would have pre-
terred to give room to the one about the spider
stranglng the snake in Mobery Mo- find them
selves compelled to give 1t a ride
The fact is that sometimes stories develoE which
are so shocking that the editors and owners at first
seem guilty Of suppression for dishonorabe reasons
when they are only incredulous and afraid of libel
A transaction as raw as Teapot Dome for example,
involving a Cabinet member and the honor of a
national Administration, is not to be tackled as
Hght-heartedly as concerning some graft in
school books state roads
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liens and confer them on the Fed
eral government.
This is a dangerous tendency.
because even giving to the Fed
eral government individual powers
or regulation and control which
may be desirable tends to build
up that Federal government into
a machine which can not help
eventually becoming oppressive
to the individual
AS a practical matter, too, such
vast Federal administrative sys-
TENS are hard to administer well.
This view has faith in the way
the Supreme Court will interpret
the present Constitution Walter
Lippman is typical in his state
ment that Il see no reason to
think that the evolution has sud-
denly terminated and that the
Constitution, which has been elias
tic for nearly a century and a half,
has suddenly become rigid"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
SHALL WE REVISE CONSTITUTION?
Famed Document Center of Stormy Debate 148 Anniversary
BY WILLIS THORNTON
Times Special Writer

XXTASHINGTON. 1-Under glass massive marble
w
fading that affixed l48
fundamental law which the people Of the United States
ourselves.
conceived storm and bitterly
debated
been added those sheets writ
adopted portion the original constitution making
the
0 people.
proved the durable written
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-17
A DMTTTING the basic law to

A DMITTING the basic law to
n be the product of human
minds IN conflict in horse and
buggy days" which did not forsee
today's mechanical world, they be-
lieve with Joseph Davis. Chicago
attorney, that the Constitution &C
cords with the great truths of
human nature, which have not
changed greatly during the period
Of recorded history.
1T is based on deep fundament-
al truths Mr.. Davis says 1T
recognized the weakness Of man;
it set up a rational influence; it
was calculated to be of enduring
character; it was the creation of
some of the greatest minds that
this country has ever produced"
Therefore, argues this point of
view, no sweeping or fundamental
changes should be made, even
thought it might be advisable to
adjust some details for smoother
working out of government prob
lens in practice
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modern industrial and collectivist
civilization.
ANTI-REVISION
THOSE who believe it would be

THOSE who believe it would be
4 unwise to make any extensive
or fundamental changes in the
Constitution argue somewhat as
follows:
The Constitution is, after all,
tried and true" For nearly $50
years, in a world Of change and
instability, the United States has
been able to go forward, make
orderly progress, and achieve high
standards under this Constitution.
James M. Beck has stated this
point of view;
I'VE should not tear down in a
moment of hysterical fear a form
Of government that has grown up
for nearly $50 years and has
gained the admiration Of the
world"
In a world which tends more
and more to make the individual
man merely creature of the
state, the written Constitution
setting definite limits on the power
of government is the common
mans best guarantee against gov
ernmental oppression.
Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel,
president general Of the Sons of
the Revolution, says:
The primary object Of govern
ment in this country was not to
govern the citizen, but to protect
him from arbitrary power, and
above all to protect the minority
from the tyranny of the majority"
THE Federal government was
Il given, therefore, only such
powers as were definitely allotted
to it by the people and by the
several states.
The tendency of every amend
ment since the fourteenth, and of
almost all proposed amendments,
is to take away powers from the
states and from the individual cit
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was ascribed partly to the fact
that fewer Rector scholarships,
given only to men, were granted.
OF those now registered, 457 are
freshmen. This includes some of
last years students still listed as
freshmen.
Rush by the IS national social
fraternities and the eight So
rorities continues this week. The
preferential system of pledging is
used. Sororities began their work
Saturday night, while the men
have been rushing since Thurs
day.