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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
Your HeaIt.
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

ITO get an idea of the extent to which common
Il sense health regulations are practiced in Amer
lean homes QUESTIONABLE sent to $4,000 public
school children by committee working with the
White House conference on child health.
The QUESTIONABLE asked particularly about sleep
ing arrangements. the time of going to bed, eating
habits baths taken, and tooth brushing.
Few children have rooms to themselves. Chill
dren of German parentage had roomed alone in 40
per cent of cases. Negro children in only 10 per
cent. Among children of Italian descent, 20 per
cent had individual rooms and s per cent slept
double
The average time of going to bed varies from
el5 for rural boys to 10:15 for boys who became de-
linquent. The average time of going to bed for
adoeScents was 9:l5 for country girls and 10 for
city girls One child reported his time of going to
bed as a. M
VERY few children admitted doing without baths
during the preceding week. but it quite
interesting that rural Negro group the only
that reported child with a batheSS week. The
children of Italian descent had the highest percent
tage without bathS-namely. per cent.
AS indication of the extent to which the tooth
brushing campaign has spread. daily brushing OF
the teeth reported by most of the children The
lowest records were found among children of Italian
and Mexican descent.
From SO to II per cent of children in the other
groups reported daily brushing of the teeth. Here,
also it is interesting to discover that the rural white
group fell lower than any of the other groups,
cept the Italian and Mexican.
ITO test the exent to which these observsnces
were an index of health. tables were constructed
in which the children were grouped according to
number of baths. number of times the teeth were
brushed eating habits and sleeping arrangements
No relationship was established. Children who
are not sick at all, children who we're sick in bed
for week or more. and children who were sick for
Just few days have generally the same habits re-
garding bathing, brushing of teeth and eating be-
tween meals
However. there seems to De no question that i'll
health when it did in these children had
definite effect on their lives and on their personalities
III health seems to be as much an emotional and
social handicap physical one.
1t is necessary for parents to give attention not
only TO the physical condition Of the child but also
10 his emotional reactions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-08
They Paid the Bill

IT is astonishing how stingy and greedy normal
l. man can be when he is given to understand
that out of every dollar which he contrives to with
hold from the people producing that which the firm
has to sell, he will be given nickel or dime The
hands who once his fellow-workmen begin to
detest him and watch with fierce hatred the grad
ual enlargement of his Idition in life. When he
drives up in more and more expensive and
moves into more and more luxurious houses they
do mental arithmetic figuring how much of the cost
SWeated out of them.
Still, it will have to be admitted that in firm
guided by the prot-motive this is an ideal system
of increasing profits for many executives have grown
rich on rather modest percentages of the money
which they cribbed off the normal earnings of the
help Your correspondent knew one executive so
greedy that he demanded that the stump of the old
pencil be turned in to the supply room before an
other would be issued.
1t is nice idea which Mr. Roosevelt has, but
with money and privilege absolutely synonymous
and the proft-mOtiYe what it is and greed major
ingredient in human nature, your correspondent can
not guess how he intends to go about unless he is
thinking Of the creation of kind OF man, which
would be an idea worth trying anyway
Copyright, 1885, by Unite Feature Syndicate
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TWeIUe Records Fall

r SAW twelve broken in an afternoon 1t may be
i argued that such things trivial and represent
nothing than improvement in technique.
But after all it is an improvement in technique which
the advocates of more equitable distribution are
after. These things go with amazing rapldity
in all games and sports. But the business man who
spends hours every week in taking lessons in how
to improve his gOhng swing will still contend that IN
the counting house things must still go on as in the
DAYS Of MS father and his grandfather as we'll
To some extent the extraordinary increase in the
proves of women athletes may be explained by
changes IN garb. Twenty years ago women went
into the water attired in such way that they were
lucky to be able to keep afOat, much less break
swimming records But do not think that these are
little things
When any nation begins to discard its native cos
tune it may very we'll be on the way to rid itself of
a king or a ruling class The power Of the Manchu
lords had already begun to wane when Chinese
started getting along without pigtails and from En-
yer Pashas passion in the matter judge that he re-
CARDS the wearing of the fez important political
and economic issue.
The woman who allowed men to tell her that she
must wear a skirt and stockings when she INDUCED
in public bathing mugg with no will OF her
own. You could get woman like that to do almost
anything right down to voting for Warren Gamalel
Harding.
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IFS q Minor ReUOLutiOn

SAW lust yesterday a little girl of do per-
i feet dive from 20-foot springboard Now GER
tainlv as she natures no one will get very far in
telling her that woman is the weaker vessel
have no intention of minimizing the great psychic
effect of suffrage but it not the only factor in
the process of emancipation. The first Draw lassle
who smacked a drive more than 200 yards put IN
a good blow for her sex. When woman began to
see the captains of finance and the industrial gen.
erals upon the golf courses the secret came out.
This has been a society of buffers by buffers and
for buffers.
In the days to come such phrases as, You are
so wonderful Mr.. BlekinSnip" will be heard in the
land with decreasing intensity
At the moment I do not think that American
women are the backbone of radical movements
Having been through a minor revolution the sex
may be prepared to rest up for a little while. But
having found change not only possible, but dis
tinctly good women will be eager recruits for still
greater progress And quite possibly the drive against
war will be prime factor in moving the women of
America to the left. People who work for peace
soon find that high resolves and petitions and ora
tiOnS are not enough. They learn quickly that in
order to end it is necessary to end the condl-
tons under which they are fomented.
do not mean that Miss Eleanor Holm learned
to break the back stroke record through careful
study of Karl Marx, but I do think that the
girls get good at games they will increasingly be
animated to say Now it's your turn to listen This
time I'm telling you"
Copyright. 1885,
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curity program also will encounter
demand for more expensive meas
ures than the Administration is now
willing to espouse.
It is fairly certain that, regardless
Of what Congress does, the bulk Of
relief families will have to go
through the winter on cash relief.
Other plans look forward to the flu
ture and it appears that industry
will be given opportunity to reduce
unemployment between now and
spring before Government actually
puts men to work on any large new
unemployment projects.
Congress will listen attentively TO
Mr.. Hopkins when he is called be-
fore committees to give his recon-
mendations.
A 1885 budget of $2,500,000, 900
would enable Hopkins to place on
work relief every head of a family
and single person now on the rolls.
1t would cover the various existent
work relief and rehabilitation prof.
ects.
Mr.. Hopkins and Secretary Harold
Ickes, between them, have recon-
mended billions for grade crossings,
construction, expanded subsistence
homeSteads, rIral electrif1cation,
flood control, slum clearance and
cheap housing, road building, and
things like that.
Mr.. Ickes estimates, for instance,
that ST, 500,0O0000 could be spent on
grade crossing work and Up to
$2,000,000,000 for slum clearance and
housing for the lowest income
group.
Mr.. Hopkins would like to see a
large development of the plan by
which the unemployed are put at
work producing goods Tor one
another-both the workers and
their goods existing outside the
competitive economic system.
He may also propose, as an
economy move, establishment of
Government warehouses in every
community. Both suggestions evoke
hoWls from business interests,
!
GONE long range public works
~ program seems fairly certain. in
that connection, remember that one
of Mr.. Roosevelt's pet dreams is
bound up in the report of the Ma
tional Resources Board, which has
recommended a permanent national
planning board to develop national
resources-mat and human-for
benefit of the people; a permanent
PWA program, with long-range
six-year budget; a land planning
program to retire 100000 acres of
sub-marginal land year for Is
years; a program to use principal
rivers for water power and navi-
cation, and a $10,000000,00 PWA
program, to be used in depression
time.
How much of this will get to Con-
gress this year is uncertain, but
some of it within connection with
the Administrations idea of put
ting the employable unemployed at
work
Mr.. Roosevelt wants the dole bur-
! den taken off the Treasury That's
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
The Times Washington Correspondent
fConvrfqht 1915 NEA Service Incl

Copyright. 1885. NEA Service. Inc)
HTASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-Con-
w gress,, with the advice of the
President, must provide for $4,000, 900
persons who are expected to be on
relief rolls before the winter is
over.
1t also will make the first stab at
a social security system similar in
part to those long existent in the
nations of Europe.
These two vast programs should
not be confused with each other.
Unemployment insurance is not un-
employment relief, as it doesn't ap-
ply to those now unemployed. Old
age pension legislation to be enacted,
however, may tend to reduce the
unemployment relief burden.
Federal. state and local relief are
now costing around SITS, 100000 a
month. More than $3.50, 900
was spent for relief-including char
ity-since May, 1888. and almost the
entire load now is being carried by
the Treasury.
Relief is by far the biggest fac
tor in direct New Deal expenses, in
deficits and unbalanced budgets. AL
though unemployment has been re-
duced, the relief army has grown
as the last resources of the unem-
ployed have been exhausted Ex-
listing relief standards are made
quate to prevent suffering.
Congress has been asked to
finance a program which will take
as many people as possible off cash
relief and put them at productive or
other socially valuable work.
Months ago President Roosevelt
came to agree with FERA Admin
istrator Harry hopkins that the cash
dole was bad for the unemployed
and bad for the country. Work
relief" has been the subject of nu-
merous New Deal conferences and
is the Administrations latest answer
to the problem of the 100000 I'M
employed.
Big business, assembled at White
Sulphur Springs, has demanded the
cash dole and as little of that as
possible The dole is a bit cheaper
than work relief
The Administration will have no
trouble persuading Congress to go
the limit of any program for relief
that it presents. Its difficulties will
come when liberal groups in Con-
gress insist on going farther in ex-
penditures, especially with regard to
public works program.
Il
A LTHOUGH the National Asso-
L n citation of Manufacturers and
the United States Chamber of Com
merce ask further study of unem-
ployment insurance and old-age in
surance before anything is done
about them, the Roosevelt social Sc
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coming fiscal year the figures in
round numbers are $705, 100000.
THE national debt charge, al
l. most all of it due to war ex-
penditures, will foot up to $751;
100000.
Total for these three items alone
national defense, veterans ad-
ministration and debt charge
will be above $3,O00,000,000.
The national debt of the United
States in 1915 was mere $1,225,-
100000. By the end of the next
fiscal year, it will exceed $4,000
100000. Almost all of this can be
laid to war,
Today the statesmen of France,
Italy, Great Britain and other
European powers are up against
precisely the same problems as
President Roosevelt. But few of
them have anything like Amer
icas wealth or resources to back
them up. They admit that an
other great war would doom them
all.
over the weekend, in Rome,
therefore, Premier Mussolini and
Foreign Minister Laval, of France,
conferred in the hope of bringing
about a coalition to safeguard
their own peace and the peace of
Europe.
GERMANY, the most feared
" power in Europe, will be
asked to join. If she refuses, they
will do what they can to tie her
hands and prevent her making
trouble.
Tomorrow the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee is expected
to take steps to put the United
States into the World Court, with
reservations. The White House,
State Department and leading
Senators are understood already
to be in agreement on a formula.
None, however, look upon this
step alone as insuring peace. Ad-
mittedly, the court is just step
in a constructive direction. Wide
cooperation with foreign powers,
it is said, is essential to bring
about arms reduction and limita-
ton with security at the same
time at minimum financial cost
to each nation.
A third step contemplated by
the United States is a Qualification
of its neutrality laws.
There is reason to believe that
in the event Of another major war
Americans may find their profits
drastically curtailed, whether
Uncle Sam Is in it or out of it.
This Government, according to
a project now under official study,
does not propose to run the risk
of a foreign war merely to add to
/. somebody's war profits.
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THE PROBLEMS OF CONGRESS
Relief Task of Nation Will Be Weighed by Party Leaders

The Administration proposal
would almost certainly take the
grant-aid form in the beginning
The Federal Government would
contribute a third-or perhaps half
of the amount to be paid in PEN
sions, and the states the balance.
CONGRESSMAN Keller of Illinois
asks that the Government contrib
ute rs or 80 per cent Of the amount
at f1rst)
There are 100000 Americans be-
yond the age of 65-the probable
age limit to be fXed-and about
half of them are dependent on rela-
tives, charity, or relief. Old-age
pensions would take many off relief
rolls, which is one chief aim.
Members of the Presidents Com
mittee have figured that benef1ci-
aries should receive at least $50 a
month, but initial federal aid PEN
sions are likely not to exceed SIS
or $40.
The grant-aid measure would
apply to persons already beyond
the age limit in states which al
ready have old-age pensions or
which subsequently adopt them.
Twenty weight states now have old
age pension laws, but few OF the
systems are functioning.
RANT-AID would be replaced
NJ gradually by contributory
system which would be set up in the
same act. The contributory system
would call for small payments by
persons under IS and by their en-
ployers into an old-age pension funC
which would begin to function after
it accumulated sufficient assets.
Now as for the plan sponsored
by DR.. Frank E. Townsend, who
says he has 1900 Townsend clubs in
48 states with more than 100000
members. Of those figures were
proved correct I would take back
the assertion that the Townsend
bill can't VIM
Everybody over so would be paid
a Federal pension of 5000 month
and would have to spend it all and
stop working. Townsend says this
would promptly wipe out the unem-
ployment army of 100000 because
100000 old people would turn over
their jobs to others and 100000
would get jobs through the stimulus
of all that spending.
There are about 100000 persons
over so, so, depending on how many
accepted the pensions, the cost
would run somewhere toward ST.
900 100000 a month.
The money would be raised by a
sales tax which, Townsend says
should be from to 10 per cent after
an initial couple of billions from
the Treasury to get the plan started
Federal social security experts say
the plan would cost about half the
national income, require at least g
40 per cent tax, initiate prices
chaotically, and be impossible t.
operate and enforce.
NEXT - Revamping NRA anG
what about labor?
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ

TINE discovery of artificial radio-actvity, which l
l. nominated on New Years Day as the most i'm
portant scientific event of 1884 is listed the out
standing discovery in physical chemistry during
1884" by DR.. Harrison E. Howe editor of Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry in his annual review of
the world of chemistry I am pleased to have
distinguished an authority in agreement with me.
Artificial radio-activty was discovered by Prof.
F. Joiot Of Paris and his wife Nine. Irene Curie-
Joliot the daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie the
discoveries of radium.
DR.. Howe did, also calls attention to the i'm
portant extensions already made in this field, notably
the work of the Italian physicist Prof Enrico Feri,
in making some so chemical elements radioactive
by bombardlng them with neutrons, and the work OF
Prof o. A Lawrence of the University of California
in making ordinary table salt powerfully radioactive.
This discovery of Prof Lawrence it is believed will
have important in the medical field, in the
fight cancer and elsewhere
The isolation of protactinium, element No 81 for
the first time in history, was also an outstanding
event of 1884, DR.. Howe says. This work was done
by Dr. Aristid Won Crosse of Chicago.
DR HOWE also lists the discovery of tripe-weight
- hydrogen by Lord Rutherford of Eng
land, and the synthetic preparation of a new ele-
ment, No. 3d. prepared by Prof Fermi in Rome by
bombarding uranium, element No. 81, with neutrons
Dr. Howe however, calls attention to the fact that
the existence Of element No. SO has not yet been
conclusively confirmed.
Soviet Russia issued a postage stamp in honor OF
the Tooth anniversary of the birth Of Prof Drnitri
Mendeleef. 1t was Mendeleef who first grouped the
80 chemical elements into the so-caned periodic
table. All go were not known in his day, but he
boldly left blanks for the missing and rightly
predicted what they would be like when discovered
PHYSICISTS at Columbia University undertook
L to measure the size of the neutron during 1884.
This is of the sub-atonic particles having
mass bat no electric charge. It's diameter was fixed
by the Columbia physicists at .00O000000O0O1 inch.
That is one ten-trillionth of an inch.
Dr. Howe also calls attention to the fact that DR..
P w. Bridgman, working in his high-pressure laoo-
ratory at Harvard, succeeded by the application OF
high pressures in changing phosphorus into new
molecular form which is black and practically nom
inhammable
Q-Are enlisted men in the Civilian Conservation
Corps part Of the United States Army?
A-No
Q-what does the expression anchors aweigh"
mean?
Att means that the fukes Of the anchor are
just clear of the bottom.
Q-What is the name Of the cross with an extra
lateral bar across the top?
A-The Patriarchal Cross
Q-who Is the Governor VI virginiai
A-George @. Peery.
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The Presidents budget message
yesterday emphasized why not
only he, but leading statesmen
everywhere, are so desperately
trying to find a peace formula.
In world forever facing the
danger of war, the cost of the
national defense is steadily
mounting. From $3.50 100000 in
1884, the 1886 budget calls for
nearly 100000, o00-to be exact,
$792,484,000.
The veterans administration
care of the veterans of past wars
is likewise rising. Last year it
called for $545,0O0,00O. For the
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Father Coughlin's growing pub
lie GOODNESS toward the President,
numerous reports reaching Wash
ington of disparaging private re-
marks, and Father CoughlinS
known close friendship with Huey
Long are considered significant
straws in the wind. An incidental
anomaly in the situation is the
fact that Father Coughlin and
ex-No. Brain Truster Ray Moley
are on close terms. The
manager of Washingtons bur-
lesque show says that some of his
most regular customers are mem
bers of Congress-and not bache-
lors, either. MisSouris veter-
an Democratic Representative
Jack Cochran resumed his seat
this session as holder of unique
distinction. In last years cleo
tions he was a candidate for both
the Senate and the House. He
executed this maneuver by run
ming for the senatorial nomination
and having a henchman stand
for his House seat. When he lost
the Senate race, the lieutenant
withdrew, and Jack stepped into
his old place.
HAVING failed so far to block
l. the Senate munitions investi-
CATION by above-board opposition,
some of the big arms dealers have
issued a sub rosa pamphlet
against Stephen RauShenbush,
who has done a superb job as the
committees investigator. They
have dug into Raushenbush's di-
vorce and some other alleged de-
tails of his private life With
out Raushenbush, the munitions
mcguls know the Senate COM
mittee would be severely handi-
capped. Jim West, hired at the
instance of Hoover as publicity
man for the Republican Nation
al Committee, now is operating
as a capital lobbyist.
His latest JOB Is observer Tor
some of the munitions companies
The Government pay check
received by such erudite workers
as Prof. Rexford G.. Tugwell and
other brain trusters reads on the
back: If Endorsement is made
by mark (x) it must be witnessed
by two persons who can write,
giving their place Of residence in
full"
president ROOSEVELT ex-
l. ercised unusual precautions to
keep secret the contents OF his
message to Congress. Some of the
Cabinet members and close advis-
ers saw separate portions while
it was in preparation, but none,
except the Government printers,
had a look at a complete copy
until he read it to Congress. 4.
Inside word has reached Admin
istrat Ion authorities that the Pres
ident's bare-knuckle anti-power
activities have aroused much
alarm in Wall Street. Pressure is
being put on truculent utility mo-
guls to moderate their attitude,
slash rates and squeeze out over
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DRUG STORE HELD UP
Bandits BrandiSh Pistols, Make
Way With S33 in Cash.

Two Negro bandits brandished
pistols after they made a purchase
of medicine in the Blodau drug
store, Boulevard-pl and 16th-st at
$50 last night and escaped after
taking So from the cash register and
SIS from the pockets of Ward Will
son. manager, after they had
chased him behind the prescription
case.
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privilege. Ihere are the MorganS,
the Whitneys and the Franklin D.
RooseveltS on the one hand and the
textile slaves, the f1ve-and-ten girls
and the West Virginia miners on the
other. 1t is not with sarcastic in
tent that the Franklin D. Roosevelts
are mentioned among the overs.
They just happen to be an example
intimately involved in the problem.
They have a fat. baronial estate
in the heart of the Hudson River
dude country, a town house in New
York, name which is a privilege
in itself, some money and a birth
right to a Harvard education, which
is no minor privilege, either, al
thought some Harvards do not make
and then go around low-rating Hal