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The Washington times., 1935-06-11
Younger Is Named
V.P.L. Sports Head

BLACKSBURG, Va, June II.
William L. monk" Younger. one
of the trio of v. P. I. alumni
coaches, has been appointed
graduate manager of athletics at
Virginia Poly. succeeding C. P.
Miles, who served at the post for
Is years.
It is believed Younger will also
continue his duties as assistant
varsity football coach and varsity
basketball coach, but may give up
his work as freshman baseball
coach.
The Washington times., 1935-06-11
KING
MAY MAKE
GRADE

With the graduation of Fred
Berries, Bob Dornin and Ken
Schacht, its only three-letter men
were lost to the Navy, and it is
by no means certain that any will
qualify for the three-fold honor
next year.
All three of the graduated ath-
letes won letters in football, but
otherwise each had a different
combination. Berries qualified
also in basketball and baseball,
Dornin in basketball and lacrosse,
and schacht in wrestling and
lacrosse.
Lou Robertshaw. the stalwart
Philadelphia youth who plays
center on the eleven and who will
captain it next season, seems to
lave the best chance of landing
the triple award next year, with
the promise of making good in
basketball and baseball.
Sure of Letter
Robertshaw will surely get his
football letter again next year,
and he is a leading candidate for
he guard position on the five
Ind the catcher'S place on the
aine.
Dick Pratt, Washington MILDLY
Ind Tommy King, who is from
Annapolis, are easy letter men in
football and baseball, but have
aot yet been able to make letter
n another sport, and their
chances do not look so good for
;he third one next season.
King, halfback on the eleven
and first-sacker on the nine. plays
basketball and has occasionally
been used in portions of games,
but has not been able to make
3 regular place. Pratt has been
q member of the wrestling squad
for two seasons, but has not won
q letter.
New CLASS stars
Outside of Robertsnaw, the most
likely candidates of three letters
are from the class which has just
moved up from plebedom. The
Second class contains plenty Of
good athletes, but they are dis
tinguished in one, or at most two,
lines and lack the versatility Of
three-letter men.
The Third class presents its
most likely candidates in Young
Bill Ingram, scion Of the great
family in Navy athletics, who
sprang from Indiana, and Irwin
Fike, who is from Illinois.
Ingram looks like a fine foot
ball back. good basketball for
ward and a snappy infielder on
the diamond. Fike, a powerful
and active youth Of over 100
pounds, is a slashing football end,
a basketball guard and a weight
thrower. If they fail to make
their three letters in their first
varsity year, they are good pros
poets for a little later in the
course.
The Washington times., 1935-06-11
SCORES HOLE-IN-ONE

Capt. j. C. Whitaker scored a
hole-in-one on the 157 yard, seven
tenth hole at the Army and Navy
Country Club. using a No. 3 iron.
Playing with him we're Gen. C. D.
Rhodes and Col. A. Mouller.
The Washington times., 1935-06-11
LOOKS TO LANDS

The case q
Alabama
Pitts, former
convict
signed by the
Albany Club,
Of the Inter-
national
League, is in
the hands of
Judge
Kenesaw
Mountain
Lands, high
commissioner
Of baseball,
following a
decision by
international
League
chieftains to
keep the
player out Of
that circuit.
Meanwhile
fans, in the
majority, are
pleading for
Pitts, believ-
ing baseball
will afford
him the great
est chance
to Ego
straight.
Here is
Pitts in an
Albany uni
form, taken
shortly after
a practice
session Win
the Johnny
Evers club.
Picture by
International.
The Washington times., 1935-06-11
IRONMEN WIN

Gichner's Iron Works defeated
the Southwest Market in the In
dustrial Baseball League yester.
day, 4 to 3. Jessup pitched for
the winners and allowed seven
scattered hits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06

made tlinly yelled bid for American sup
port in his row with Mussolini. The Secre-
.ary replied. suggesting that both are mem
bers of the League Of Nations, likewise sigma
tories to the Pact OF Paris outlawing war.
The United States therefore hoped that
whatever the facts or merits Of the contro-
versy may be-" the dispute could be settled to
the satisfaction Of both sides, pledged, as they
are. not to resort to other than pacific means.
Under somewhat similar circumstances in
1881. the United States took the lead in up
holding the peace pact when Japan was the
viclator and China the victim. AS result,
it came precious near burning its fingers.
Britain France and the other powers held
back
This time. with reason, Washington plainly
Is determined to move more slowly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
PROGRESS WITH YOUTH

QY the end of this month, if all goes as ex-
~ pected, there will be approximately 100000
young men in the famous Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps. The work of doubling the strength
of the corps has been going forward rapidly.
and an enrolment of 100000 was recorded early
in July.
New camps are being established in every
state in the union. The War Department is
building 14OO new sets of camp buildings and
tent colonies are being erected in many local
tiles
All in all, the work of charging the organ
tzation is going forward with the same Quick eff
cheney that has characterized nearly all of the
CCC operations. Here. it seems, is one fight
the-depression venture which has been a. huge
success. 1t has taken thousands of young men
of the Streets enabled them to earn living
and build themselves up physically and men
tally; and at the same time it has been doing
a great deal of highly valuable work in the
conservation Of our natural resources of wood
land, stream and field.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
DEAR CHIEF

CHIEF MIKE MORRISSEY. disturbed by
~ the rapidly mounting toll of deaths from
automobile accidents in indianapolis, has
moved to reinforce his motorcycle squad and
IS preparing TO launch determined drive to
educate the motoring public toward safety
But the chief could do one thing toward
educating the public. And that would be to
open a driving school for some of his radio
squad car pilots.
Just the other day. on Vermont-st, at
Caritol-av, a squad car had been stopped to
allow the patrolmen to make call to head
quarters. The machine was parked at an
angle. blocking all traffic coming and going.
If the policemen themselves don't know how
to drive and park, how can the public be ex-
pected to?
It's something to think about, isn't it,
Chief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
FOUR CHANGES NEEDED

4 best President Roosevelt will sign a.
y far-from-perfec measure when he makes
the economic security bill into law. The SEN
ate and House conferees now meeting can
save him from having to approve wretchedly
lnaoequately piece of legislation.
First, they should delete the Clark amend
ment eXempting private retirement insurance
plans from the federal old-age contributorv
system. Allowed to remain this exemption
would encourage thousands of little competing
private schemes, tend to throw older workers
OF pay rolls, for the government to care for.
and wreck the whole federal old-age reserve
account.
Next, they should kill the Russell amend
ment allowing states that lack old-age pen
sion system to draw for two years federal
subsidies for their aged poor This provision
is unfair to old-age pension states, and would
dissipate much of the scanty so million sub
sidy fund in virtual relief.
Then, they should weed out the confusing
Senate amendment which permits each state
TO decide whether or not to pay old-age and
JobleSs benefits through public employment
offices. Of course, they should be paid
through public offices. No system ever tried
has worked except under disbursements
through public employment Offices Ours will
not unless benefits are so disbursed. Our
workers are more migratory than in any other
land. Hence the dangers of duplicating pay
mentS are greater
Finally the Social Security Board should
be set up under the Labor Department, I'M
der which the system of public emplovment
Offices is being built.
Other flaws in this important measure can
be ironed out in subsequent sessions of Con-
gresS. These four matters should be attended
to low.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06

taken permanently from the hos
pital.
Physicians assured her that he
was improved; that he would do
her or no one else any harm. Yet
short time before she was to take
him out, he hanged himself in the
hospital.
If she had had him released, he
might have killed her or some other
member of the family.
If physicians are not sure of such
cases, why do they release these
poor maniacs? They would be safe
and well-cared for in an institution
and other persons lives would not
be endangered.
Certainly it is wrong to keep a
person in an asylum when he 10
longer needs to be there. But hu-
man life is too valuable to be gam
bled with, and if physicians are not
positive that such persons are
harmless, they should see that they
are kept where they will not COM
nit crimes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
THE FERA POISONINGS

IMMEDIATELY after the food-p poisoning Of
Il the more than 200 men from the FERA
Shelter House. Wayne Coy Indianas relief
director. turned all evidence into the hands
OF noted doctors, asked them to determine
the cause of the tragedy. which led to the
death of one man. and promised then that
every effort would be made to clean up the
situation.
The newspapers are as much in the dark
about the matter as the general public All
We know is this:
The Federal Meat Inspection Service re-
ported that it had traced the meat Cbeef
tongue) and that it had been in coed condi-
tion when it left the packing plant The in
ference was that the food had not been
handled properly after its delivery.
The doctors report was isSued--without
official commissioning that the poison
ings were definitely due to the meat.
Mr.. Coy has told newspaper men that buy
Ing methods have been changed and that the
food is now bought in one-day lots, instead
o. three-day lots.
AT the time Of the poisonings, it was re-
ported that the icebox at the Shelter House
was a small box, too cramped for practical use.
There we're many other charges aired in the
newspapers. but TO none of them has there
been any formal statement, or any Official
indication that something tangible is to be
done
Wayne Coy is too conscientious public
servant 10 attempt TO whitewash his service
But Mr.. Coy is delinquent in making formal
statement. 1t should be issued so that every
one knows Just what happened and exactly
what is being done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
The Book World

THERE are always scores Of inventors ana
i would-be inventors running around (unoe-
knownst TO the next-door neighbors) and In
dianapolis surely has its share.
For them there is a highly interesting book
The Art of Inventing," written by Raymond r.
Yates of Modern Mechanics Cd. Appleton
Century; So It is a clear and lucid account OF
how inventions grow how they are patented ana
how they are put into use. Mr. Yates offers en-
couragement to young inventors who have ideas
about improving the gadgets by Which we eau
vote, travel, breaths and sleep.
Mr. Yates, for instance, opines that such in
ventions as these are needed: A toothpaste TUBE
with self-sealing top, china cups with handles
which won't break off, automatic coasters which
will butter the bread before ejecting it, sprink-
lers that will automatically creep over the lawn
safety razor blade holders which will not have
to be taken apart for drying and so on.
But word to the wise: The Book World
will not be responsible for any inventions left
on the doorstep Of Maryland-st. The fellow to
see is Raymond Yates.
VXTHICH one of us hasn't yearned at some
w time or another to annex a sailboat with
cabin on it and go wandering over the bound
ing main?
But we learn that while sailboating is
grand fun, it certainly has its drawbacks. You
can learn all about it in Learning to Cruise"
by H. A. Callahan Macmillan; $3.50
For, according to Senior Callahan, cruising in
small boat is an dangerous thing if you don't
know the ropes (no pun intended) from bow to
stern. We learn that the shape of the hull is
al-important and so is the rig.
Then, again, you can't get along without an
auxiliary motor unless you are an Al sailor
man. And so on it goes
If you feel like hosting sail on your yacht
to go skimming down White River, read Learn
hing to Cruise" first
THE United States Navy is not SO much
Il shucks as it's made out to be- in the asser-
ton of F. Russell Bichowsky, former physicist
in the Naval Research Laboratory in his book
Is the Navy Ready" Vanguard; So.
Dr. Bichowsky says the Navy costs the peo-
pie S4OOOOO000 year, but that if we got into
a fight right now the Navy stands great chance
OF being given first-cass licking
Annapolis, he charges, does a poor Job at
training men, and he goes a step further and
asserts that the fleet itself doesn't do its share
IN completing the training of the officers He
attacks bitterly the Navy system of rotating Off
GERS without thought of their adaptibility and
ne almost cries over what he calls tradition"
He charges that the Nays Workmanship is
terrible, that our heavy cruisers are "tin-clads"
that the potentialiteS of the Diesel engine have
been completely ignored
Reading it certainly will make Big Navy"
men feel mighty uncomfortable
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
sATuRpAY. JULY s. 1875.
IVA AND THE HOUSE

THE so-caIled "Nlllion-Dollar Power Lob
Il by" elated with its success in controlling
the House Of Representatives on the utilities
bill. is now charting its plans to further cripple
President Roosevelts power program by hav-
ing the House kick the Administrations IVA
proposals out the window.
The seven members Of the Indiana con-
gressional delegation who deserted the Presi-
dent on the holding company bill and lined up
with the Power Trust. will do well to think
hard before voting against the IVA proposals.
The IVA has made good in no uncertain
manner and this newspaper. among many
others. has already shown that IVA has
brought lower electricity rates to the South
and has actually brought new spirit and new
mode Of living 20 a people long under the
thumb Of greedy industriausts and power
rate gougers.
iva has proved that power can be sold
cheaply and the Power Trust has resorted to
every trick it knows to keep the iva from
operating at its fun efficiency. For the power
barons know full well that IVA is proving
beyond all question that government-opera-
ton Of the nations resources is not only eco
Hoih4cdI DuJ apparently much more desirable
than the mysterious and highly involved oper-
rtion Of utilities by private owners.
The Power Trust has spent millions of dol
lars in an attempt to sell the idea that the
government is out to destroy individual initia-
tive and seize the savings of men who have
shaved for a lifetime 20 build up something
great and wonderful The only thing great
and wonderful about the power industry is
how 1t has managed to fool the public this
long.
Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis was
among the seven congressman who bolted the
President on the power bill We hope sincere
~ that Mr.. Ludlow will not be stampeded into
voting against the IVA bill by the Power
Lobby.
Vote for IVA is actually a vote for the
honest operation of the nations resources.
A vote against it is a vote against the
people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
INVESTIGATE THE LOBBY FIRST

A MOTHER power issue test-this time on
L the IVA BILL is scheduled in the House of
Representatives tomorrow, before Congress has
a chance to find out what happened in the
last test-the vote on the death sentence"
clause.
Would it not be the better part of wisdom
for Congress to postpone the showdown on the
IVA bill until it gets the inside story of the
lobbying background of the last vote?
Some of the same power lobbyists, who put
pressure on individual congressman to kill the
death sentence" in the holding company bill,
are trying to influence Congress to pass the
McSwain bill, tying the hands of IVA.
Some of the same Administration spokes-
men, who are alleged to have cracked the po-
Itical whip in behalf of the death sentence"
are urging passage of the Norris bill, broad
ening TWAS authority.
BY waiting until their lobby Investigations
shed light on the activities Of these two pres
sure groups, We suggest. congressman can bet
ter make up their minds how they want to
vote on the iva issue. Then they can legis-
late in broad day
IF they hasten to vote in the dark tornor-
row, they may make mistakes they will regret
when the light is finally turned on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
AND THEN?

WITHOUT waiting for Congress to amend
W the AAA law to bring it in line with the
Supreme Courts NRA decision, millers, packers
and other professors of farm products are
focking into the courts to enjoin the govern
ment from further collections of processing
taxes
Suppose these professors succeed in saving
for their own tills the taxes which they are
passing on to their customers. Suppose they
follow up with suits to make the government
pay back to the professors taxes which the
consumers have already met and which the
government has already distributed in benefit
payments to farmers who have. co-operated in
the crop control program. Suppose even further
that after Congress amends the AAA law, it
still doesn't conform to the Supreme Courts
idea Of a constitutional measure. What then?
The Roosevelt farm program does not diff
fer in principle from the program espoused by
the recent Republican grass roots convention.
1t does not differ in principle from the pro-
gram which the Hoover Administration pro-
posed. but never had the courage to carry out.
In fact, the Roosevelt farm program is but
an execution of the political promises which
both the Republican and Democratic parties
have made ever since the World War ended,
leaving our farmers with shrinking foreign
markets, shrinking incomes, inflated debts and
price-depreSsing SURPRISES
If this plan, or something like it, fails to
pass the muster Of the Supreme Court. what
shall We do? Go back down the road that leads
to farm bankruptcies. sheriff sales and agrarian
revolt?
In other words what will the ntigants do
with the victory if they win it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
URGES PROPER CARE OF
SICK AND INSANE
BY H. A. /.

BY H. A. L.
Capture in New York of the slayer
of a Detroit girl, after almost a
years search recalls that he had
been incarcerated in insane hos
pitalS at numerous times and re-
leased because he was a psyco-
pathic case, but not insane =
1t also reminds the public that
Thomas Robinson, kidnaper of Mrs.
Stoll, once had been an inmate of
an asylum.
1t brings a question Of just how
much physicians and psychiatrists
know about such cases, when they
free such dangerous persons to prey
upon humanity.
Physicians in charge of these per-
sons did not believe that they would
damage their fellow beings. Yet
one is the confessed murderer Of a
small girl, and was captured appar-
emily while contemplating a similar
crime near children's wading pool
in Central Park.
The other is a fugitive from JUS
tice, and at any day may commit
another crime, perhaps ending much
more disastrously than the Stoll
kidnapping.
A woman friend had husband
in the Central Hospital for the In
sane. She had attempted to keep
him at home, and only after repeat
ed attempts on his own life and
hers, had him placed there. Eac-l
week she went out to take special
food to him, and visit him. Each
time she was met with suggestions
that she take him home, to see If
he was not enough improved to be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES SHOULD
BE BANNED, HE SAYS

BY Times Reader.
The national merchant marine
subsidy bill passed by Congress pro-
vides for donations" from the pub
lie national treasury to build ships,
to finance construction and opera
ton of vessels that are presumed to
be of assistance to the Army and
Navy in time of war, in keeping sup
plies available and in transporta-
ton of men.
These vessels are all owned by
corporations, whose sole objective is
the earning of profits. The subsidies
provided are grants from the public
treasury to insure profits from the
operation and construction of these
vessels; and this is the worst form
Of government in business. 1t is
a tax on the whole nation for the
benefit Of special group. This is
clearly a violation of our constitu-
tional rights.
There seems to be no denuncia-
ton of this policy, the excuse for it
is the keeping of these corporations
as flag paraders" on the seas.
If the government did the same
thing with its battleships, cruisers,
submarines and airplane carriers,
that is, let private companies oper-
ate them for profit, to keep the flag
flying, we would have a waShtub
navy.
There is no more excuse for the
government not owning the neces-
sary vessels outright, which are the
! counterpart of the regular Navy,
than there would be for substituting
privately owned naval bases and
coaling stations. Business wants
the government in business as a
Santa Claus, but not as competitor.
There is no reason why the govern
ment should not own and operate
its own merchant marine, as it does
the Navy, postal system, Alaskan
railroad and many other services.
If, however, the subsidy dole is
necessary to shipping, there can De
no excuse for not substituting rail-
roads, mining, manufacturing,
trucking, farming and other essen
tials for keeping the Army and
Navy at par as defense and offense
units.
Rather than pour out billions for
relief the government could subSi-
die all industry to keep it operat-
ing at peak capacity and thus pre-
vent necessity for relief and the
waste of II million men as wealth
producers That would call for in
telligent national production plan
ming, which seems impossible as
long as second and third rate minds
hold public Office.
Let there be equal rights for all
and no special privileges for any.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-06

By H. Mccoy.
I wish to ask the press and the
public what they can expect from
a prison system (such as we have
in several Of our states) when
prisoners cut their fingers, limbs
and arms off through brutal
treatment handed out by incompe-
tent prison officials and guards,
who know nothing about handling
prisoners except the slave-driving
methods of centuries ago.
Prisoners are put in the hole,
handcuffed up to the bars, given
bread and water once every "a
hours. Sometimes they are kicked
and beaten while in the hole"
(the dungeon where no outsider
has admittance and no witness
can put the finger on the prison
official or guard who administers
this inhuman treatmenD. Then
the public wonders why men come
out of our prisons and Startle the
public with major crimes.
In some of our prisons the
medical care is a joke. Salts are
given for any and every kind of
sickness or injury.
Prisoners on task who can not
produce certain amount of work
each day are sent to the deputy
warden, who puts them in the
dungeon for days, regardless of
whether the prisoner is able and
fit to do the task.
1t is a prison system where
guards bring in contraband for
the prisoners who pay enormous
sums of money to the guards.
Often dope and weapons, nude