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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
200 HOLSTERS
ON GOOD WILL
TRADE JAUNT
Tour to Mexico to Start at
Midnight tuesday; 600
Mile Trip.

Two hundred enthusiastic am
bassadors Of good Will" bent on in
spring a new friendship between
the Republic Of Mexico and the
state OF Indiana. today await only
the midnight shrin OF a locomotive
whistle which, in the wee hours
Tuesday, viii signalIze the start Of
a l6-day trade promotion tour spon-
sOred by the Indiana State Cham
Der Of Commerce.
Constituting a vivid cross-section
OF all that Is HoOsier-land, its varied
civic. business and industrial inter-
ests and its geographical extremi-
ties. the eager encourage Will en-
bark on a 6OO0-mile jaunt, punctu-
ated almost hourly with receptions,
honor parties and general festivity
throughout Southwestern United
States and the neighboring republic.
Heading the delegation Will be
John E. Friedrich, Kokomo manu-
facturer and state chamber presi-
dent. who announced today that
additional reservations for the
unique sojOurn viii be received up
until the hour Of departure.
Arnett to Take Trip
Other Chamber of Commerce Of
flClals, included IN the host of state
and city travellers, Will be William
II. Arnett, managing director, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Hinkle. joint
conductors of the tWo-week journey.
A second letter of greeting from
JOSephuS Daniels, American Am
bassador TO Mexico, was released
today. In adding to an earlier as
surance that the party would find
all embassy facilities at its disposal,
Mr. Daniels wrote:
I shall be most pleased to have
the members of your group call
upon me at the Chancery some
time during their stay IN Mexico
City. 1 feel sure that anybody
Joining in the tour will find it most
enjoyable and worthwhile. 1t is
only by visits of this type that the
peoples of our continent can hope
to understand and appreciate each
other"
The Indianapolis delegation.
headed by William F. Book, Indian
apOliS Chamber of Commerce Secre-
tary, VIII occupy a separate car of
the special train, 1t was announced.
Other cars have been reserved by
delegations from Kokomo. Ft.
Wayne, South Bend and Evansville.
Many From Here Going
Members of the indianapolis con-
tingent viii include:
c. w. Ray, Columbia Club; Mr..
and Mrs. F. w. Gunkle. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles r. Yoke, Mrs William
T. EisenlOhr. Miss Helena Paterson,
u. S. Corrugated Box Co.; Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. ShOaf, Shoaf Cutter Co;
Mrs. F. c. GrOninger and Mr.. c. E
Plummer.
C F. Fishel, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Stevens, Dan w. LaGore. Miss Elsie
Eickhof. Mrs. Robert w. Lingle.
H. d. Hagan. publicity. State Cham
Der of Commerce; Mrs. Corrine
ZWick. Mr.. and Mrs. Alan P. Fisher,
Miss Mary Jane Smith, W McMer-
trie, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard w.
TubbS, Monument Coal Co.
Judge and Mrs Merle N. A.
Walker. Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Lemon,
NJ. F. Moran, E F. Hercel. P. H.
Rogers, DR.. and Mrs. Jerome E.
Holmes, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Shu-
maker, Chester SOSbe. F. w. Cor
neliuS. Mrs. Fannie Yoke, Mrs. j.
L. Alley and Royal Gard.
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PAGE
CARD PARTY SCHEDULED
Sixteenth Ward Democrats VIII
Sponsor Entertainment Tonight.

Sixteenth Ward Democratic Club
will sponsor a card party tonight at
State and Hoyt-ays. George Mil
Ter. ward chairman, announced that
prize of a ton of coal would be
given at the party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

part bran" or mixed bran."
Try it-and see how easily
and pleasantly you can protect
your home from the danger of
constipation due to lack of bulk.
Made and guaranteed only
by the kellogg Company of
Battle Greek. Sold by all grocers
in the red-and-green package.
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indianapolis Tomorrow
Alliance
Franchise, lunc

Alliance Franchise, luncheon,
Washington.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon,
Columbia Club.
Indiana General Assembly, all
day, Statehouse.
The Washington times., 1935-02-04
By T. E. Powers

they sit for a while without do
ing anything much. Then they
suddenly decide to go out again
for a while. Then they come in
again. In and out-in and out.
Of course, this applies only to
Saturdays and vacation time. I
don't know what they do at
school, but presumably they
stay put. They can't just wander
in and out, of class rooms and
school buildings as they do at
kCme.
This footloose tendency is
most noticeable during spring
and summer vacations. Let us
say that two or three of them
leave the house right after
breakfast. In answer to the ques-
ton: Where are you going this
morning?"' they say: "Oh. just
around"
In half an hour they are
back, with possibly three
others. They don't talk. They
Just come in. Sometimes they
sit down in various attitudes
of abandon. Sometimes they
walk slowly around the room.
Sometimes they just stand and
lean against the wall Then,
after perhaps five minutes of
this, they start outdoors again
in a body
This goes on all day. Each
time they return, they have
two or three new ones with
them, but there seems to be no
reason why the fresh members
have come. They don't act as
if it made any difference to
them where they were. They
do not even appear to enjoy
each others company very
much. They are very quiet
about it all, except for slam.
ming the screen door. It is
ominouS.
All that I can figure out is
that they are plotting a revolu.
ton. When they go out, I
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Free Aviation From
Pork Hunters
By James T. Williams, T.

tempted an inquiry that COM
pareS in com pr ehensiveness
with the one that stands to the
credit of Mr.. Howell and his
associates.
1t was the Morrow Board. Of
which the late Dwight w. Nor.
row was chairman, that laid
the foundation of a. new in
dustry. 1t was the Howell Com.
mission that was established to
deal with the urgent problem
involved in the imminent col
lapse of this industry, as a re-
suit of maladministration and
reckless exploitation by the pub.
licity hounds and pork hunters
of politics.
Of the 104 specific recon"
mendations returned by the
Howell Board, one-half require
legislation in order to carry
them out. The other half can
be effected by an adminiStra.
tive action.
Thanks to the wisdom of the
President and the Congress in
setting up this commission,
there has now been enunciated
for the first time in the history
OF American aviation. not only
sound national policy for the
future development of this new
arm of the National Defense,
this new agency of transporta.
ton and communication and
this new industry.
There has also been formu-
lated program of specific
action designed to establish
American aviation on a firm
foundation and keep it there
IN order that the United States
may maintain the world leader.
ship in aviation which the hero
ism and the genius of America
nave won.
SECRET LOBBY
If the President and the Con.
gresS will now cooperate in carry
ing out the administrative and
the legislative recommendation
OF the Federal Aviation Com
mission-one and all-they will
thereby tremendously strengthen
the national defense, they will
stabilize the industry and they
will remove the terror of po-
litical upset which has well.
nigh destroyed it's credit with
the investing public.
And a good beginning toward
this patriotic goal would be for
the President to call off, or the
Congress to kick out, the mem
bers of the political wrecking
crews in the Post Office and
Commerce Departments. which
did not await the release of the
Federal Aviation Commissions
report tt begin their secret lob
bying at the White House and
on Capitol Hill against its ma
jor recommendations.
Copyright, 1885. The Washington Times.
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President Roosevelt is Ger.
tainly to be congratulated up1n
the report just submitted to
Congress by the Federal Avia.
ton Commission of which
Clark Howell, of Georgia, was
the able chairman.
The authority to appoint this
commission was given by Con.
greSs last year. The responsi.
blllty, however, of naming it's
chairman and selecting its other
members, devolved upon the
President. And on that account
Mr.. Roosevelt is entitled to
share with Mr.. Howell, DR.. Ed.
ward P. Warner and Prof. Je-
rome C. Hunsaker and the other
members the credit for the
soundness of the commissions
conclusions and the construc.
tive nature of it's Sugg .stions
for the further development of
American aviation.
COMPREHENSIVE
To the Howell commission
Congress assigned the task of
mixing a survey and of recon-.
mending "a broad policy cover
ing all phases of aviation" Its
members visited the countries
of the Caribbean and Europe
and more than half of the
States of the Union in the
course of the personal study
they undertook of governmental
and commercial aircraft &C.
tivity.
This comprehensive study
was no mere Swivel-chair affair.
Chairman Howell and the other
members of the commission
divided up the work, with the
result that before they began to
formulate their findings they
had the following records to
their credit:
They flew 10000 miles. They
held hearings in Washington
for six weeks at which 200 wit.
nesses gave testimony totalling
5000 printed pages. They re-
viewed all of the testimony
taken by the Baker Board,
which completed last year a
thorough investigation of mill
tary and naval aviation. They
discussed the Baker report with
military and civilian members
of that board. They conferred
with members of Congress, Cab
met officers and governmental
officials concerned with aero
nautics. And then they re-
turned a unanimous report to
the President for submission to
Congress.
The Federal Aviation Com.
mission happens to be the twen-
tieth Federal agency to investi-
gate some phase of aviation and
it's relation to the Government
since the war. Only the Nor
row Board OF 1926, however, at
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talking, expressing pleasure and
approval. Yet, as tho two men
entered, one stopped suddenly
and clutched his companion.
He seemed seized with sudden
terror, was afraid to move and
afraid to have his companion
move.
Why did this man become
terror,stricken when he stepped
into this attractive room? Why
did he receive a different i'm
preston than had everyone else?
Because he was blind! When
he stepped into the room his
senses told him he was on the
point of stepping off into space.
His experience, and all OF his
inherited experience for count.
less generations, told him that
danger threatened.
FOUR SENSES
Being sightless, he had but
four senseS-taste, smell, touch
and hearing. AS he entered
this room, his sense Of smell
told him the air had suddenly
become fresh, his sense OF
touch that it had turned cool.
From all his previous experience
these sensations indicated the
outdoors.
Further, his sense of hearing
told him that he had stepped
out into an open space OF enor-
nous size, since none OF the
sounds he made reflected back
to him. The natural inference.
he afterward explained. was
that he had suddenly stepped
out on a cliff and Was in danger
of falling over the edge.
The swiftness with which
these various deductions were
drawn was as remarkable as
were the sensitivity and compli-
cation of the mechaniSmS in.
volved.
The sense of hearing detected
the lower noise level in the
silenced room, but, more than
that. it detected the fine shades
of differences in the sound of
his feet on the floor, his attend.
ants feet, his own voice. and
that Of his attendant, all Of
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COnCluQeQ MS Jos. T. Robinson
utterance, Vice President John
N. Garner offered his congratu-
lations.
Robinson accepted, saying
"YOu remind me of the small
town lawyer who made his clos
ing argument to the jury in
eloquent language.
"When he concluded the farm
ers stepped up and offered
their congratulations. After
listening to several cOngratu.
latOry utterances, he announced
Thanks, but what 1 would like
to have now is a verdict
Lame duck congressman haze
been knotOn to take up strange
occupations tollotDing defeat.
One of the most unusual oc-
cupationS heard of is that of
Harry E. Hull, former Mem.
ber of Congress from Iowa
and later Commissioner Gen.
eral Of immigration.
Hull has patented a device
for automobiles.
His invention is a cOmbina-
ton brake and acceleratOr.
Working on the same theory
used in the combination start
er and accelerator, Hull has
perfected, he claims, the device.
When the accelerator is pushed
to the floor, it disengages and
the brake takes hold.
He wants the Army to try it
on its trucks.
Tucked away in a corner Of
the Library of Congress, former
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio,
one of the dryeSt of dry Republi.
cans, has been poring over his.
tories of England.
He emerges with a 40-page
treatise on the conflict between
the Crown and Parliament in
England.
Several Of the pamphlets have
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Glittering !Generalities
An Old Favorite Bobs Up

The House subcommittee investigating crime conditions in
Washington listened lot of general allegations against
the police department.
Probably inevitable when the committee decided to
conduct its inquiry that such allegations would be made and
would be spread upon its records These generae always
appear plague investigation of the type under way
The committee won't be able to reach its maximum OF useful
ness until requires witnesses to get down to COLD HARD
FACTS facts be substantiaed and which not
born personal gudges that witness may have against
certain officials
Undoubtedly the committee realizes this and would like to
bring the inquiry DOWN TO BEDROCK as possible
We hope it will be able to do
Some of the witnesses have rehearsed police department
Scandals several years ago. These involved only few
members of the department at most and they have been prop
erly inquired into and disposed Of.
So be determined of those involved In the
possibly half any longer connected with the
department.
What good it of to rake
bver these long-dead cases now?
We believe that citizen Of Washington wants this COM
mittee to make GENUINE CONTRIBUTION to the peace
and good order of the community.
The committee the power and its members have the
ability to do that.
We hope they won't miss their opportunity by frtterng
their time listening to witnesses who have information
which will be of REAL ASSISTANCE.
The Washington times., 1935-02-04
Personnel Legislation
An Aid to Government

Now that the matter of restoration Of Federal salaries has
been taken except for the signature of the President
we're glad to that Congressional committees are looking
INTO other conditions affecting Government personnel
There plenty of these conditions that deserve inquiry
not only the benefit of the workers themselves but FOR
THE GOOD OF THE GOVERNMENT and the welfare of its
Itizens.
committee will begin probably this week to consider
The comprehensive bill introduced by Representative William
t. sirovch, of New York.
This combines about dozen important provisions
relating Government employment and Representative Siro
ch is able to accomplish small part of that which he
attempting he will perform noteworthy public service
The important feature of the Srovich bill the prov
lion for extending the Civil Service the thousands Of and
employed in the socaled emergency agencies
That section may not do the employees themselves great
ieal of good but it certainly will be of material aid to the
agencies involved IT WOULD PROMOTE EFFICIENCY AND
STABILITY within the bureaus and would relieve great deal
If the patronage pressure that is interfering with their
work.
The Administration has indicated that it approves of the
suggested by Representative Srovch and with support
from that branch of the Government he should be able to get
The matter through Congress.
direct benefit to the Government employees ndvd
aas These provisions don't strike being eXtravagan
They would make the Government reasonable employer of
labor and would take it out of the ranks of those who want
10 SQUEEZE their employees for all they worth
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OLD FAVORITES
When the Frost Is On the Punkin -

When the Frost Is On the Punkin Riley
When the frost is the punkin and the folders in
the Shock
And you hear the kyouck and gobbe of the struttn'
turkey-cock.
And the cackin of the guineys, and the cluckin of
the hens,
And the ROSTERS halyooer he tptoes on the fence
O. it's thens the times feller afeelin at his best
With the rsn' to greet him from night of
peaceful rest
As he leaves the house. bareheaded and goes out to-
feed the stock.
When the frost is the punkn and the folders in
the shock.
Then your apples all is gethered, and the feer
keeps
Is poured around the ceer-floor in red and yeller
And your cder-makins over and your wimmen-foks is
through
With their mince and applebutter and their souse and
sausage, tool
don't know how to tell it-but eff sch thing could be
AS the Angels wantin boardin, and they'd call around
me
I'd want to commodate 'em-all the whole indurin'
flock
When the frost is the punkin and the folders in
the shock
(Reoders inved to send to the editor their suq-
gestons Of old fovores among the poems for reprnting
tn this Space.)
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them, to be sure, have had
chances in the past to better
their condition. The men were
offered jobs-the women mar
riages. But there was always
something wrong with the offer.
It didn't come at "just the right
time" Or it implied conditions
which they felt they couldn't
accept.
WAITING
They didn't want to "leave
the folks and go way off to
new place where they didn't
know anybody" They were re-
luctant to give up old habits.
The Wednesday luncheon with
Bill. That morning phone gos.
sip with Mabel.
And they were afraid. Afraid
of new programs, new chal-
lenges. Alien eyes, critical
tongues. Suppose they failed?
Got themselves laughed at?
Spent all that money and then
didn't make it?
In short, they weren't ready"
Some day, of course, the Big
Opportunity would come, and
when it did they'd be quite will
ing to make all the moves neces-
sary. But, in the meantime,
they'd wait and make the best of
things.
So they waited. And are still
waiting. For, strangely, in spite
of their excellent reasoning,
their Big Opportunity has never
come.
Or did it, perhaps, come with
out their recognizing it? Did
they miss their chance at luck
because it failed to fit their
pretty, precise pattern?
Waiting. All over the world,
people waiting like that. Wait
ing until everything is ready
until they can step ahead
without danger or inconveni.
ence, loss or regret. And that,
Of course, never happens.
EAGER SPIRIT
You can't elk things Just
right" with progress. You've
got to take life and luck as
and when they come. And
they'll never come to suit your
convenience. There'll always
be something you don't like
about the proposition-some
fly in the ointment"
You don't believe that, do
you? You remember those
fascinating success stories
you've heard-of lucky people
whose life was suddenly trans.
formed by some stroke of luck.
That's how you see the
other fellows luck. But what
a surprise you'd get if you
could look behind the scenes.
Actually he was no more
ready" for his big chance
than you are story. He too
was pestered by his secret
cowardice and lazineSs. There
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think that they work secretly
on laying cement foundations
for gun bases, or even lay
mines.
don't think that anyone but
mothers and fathers of adde's.
cent families will know what I
mean. but have spoken to sew
eral parents about it and they
have all noticed the same thing.
There is a reStlessnesS abroad
among the Young Folk, but it is
a quiet, shambling sort of rest
leSSness which preSages a sud.
den bugle call some day, at
which they will all spring into
action.
All that I ask is that they let
me in on their plans. 1t would
help if they were noisier about
the thing and did a little yelling
now and then. It's this con-
stant coming in and going out
of the house like slippered Mos.
lens fomenting a revolt that
gets me down.
All hope is that they start
Observation-Disclosures
am too old to run.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday.
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In the World of Science
Bevond Mans Understanding
By Hiram Percy Maxim

which seemed to him to be un.
natural.
Yet, while these extremely
delicate observations were being
made, he was conversing with
his attendant. His mind was
on what was being said, not on
the observations. He probably
was not even aware that he was
making them.
Most likely he did not under.
stand that reduction of reflec-
ton, or reverberaton, as we term
it, was what reduces noise level
in room.
In other words, the man him.
self had nothing to do with the
complex observations being
made by his four active senses.
They functioned entirely indie
pendently of him.
Ordinarily his sense of hear
ing received sounds as they
came directly from their source
and were followed Immediately
by the weaker reflections from
surrounding objects. But in
this room the sound absorbent
on the walls and ceiling, and
the rug on the floor, eliminated
most of the reflections. What
he heard was the original, with
the reflections left out.
With hic mind IN fho nNTUar.
sation. and paying no heed to
such matters as delicate changes
in the character of surrounding
sounds, he was suddenly halted.
What happened was that
everyone of the modified sounds
was instantly recorded, flashed
to his brain, analyzed. compared
with similar sounds remembered
from the past, related to the
messages coming through from
his nose and the skin on his
face, a deduction drawn, and
orders sent to his motor mech.
anism to stop "urther advance.
UNKNOWN LAW
Yet no unknown physical law.
was called upon. Chemical, elec:N
trical and mechanical engineer
ing are familiar with every re-
action that occurred. But the
complexity, the extraordinary
delicacy of the structures, and
the microscopic size of much of
the mechanism are beyond man.
Many dumb creatures are
equipped with even more sensi-
tive apparatus. Some dogs are
able to distinguish instantly the
sound of their masters car
from the sound of all other
motor cars. even of the same
make, though, to human ears,
there is nothing characteristic.
This, and the dogs ability to
follow rabbits scent, even to
detecting in which direction the
latter was travelling, are beyond
mans understanding.
Articles by Hiram Percy
Marin appear each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday. The
subject of the nert one tDtu be
"HomeS Will Be Lighted BY
Electricity"
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Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

were ties and habits he didn't
want to break, risks he didn't
want to take, scores of things
he still hadn't "got around to
doing"
Yes, it looked like his big
chance to the rest of the
world. But how could he know
that it really was? How could
he be sure that he wouldn't be
sorry if he took it.
There is only one form Of
readiness possible and that is
AN EAGER, WILLING SPIRIT.
If you have that, you're as
ready as you ever will be and.
chances are, you can turn even
a bum deal into a Swell Break.
And if you haven't-the most
gilt-edged proposition is wasted
wasted on you!
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times., 1935-02-04

L e a d er Jo-
Seph T. Rob-
inSon of Ar.
kansas sum-
moned all
his orator..
c a | ability
and pleaded
for a Suffi.
cient number
of votes to
put the Unit
ed States in.
to the inter
n a tt on a |
tumble.
When le
concluded his