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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
They're Suffering From PrOstratiOn

DRASWELL DRUE DEEM did state that 20 of his
- colleagues are III, and he diagnosed the most
prevalent ainent as nervous breakdown. 1t would
be a mean-sprited commentator who wished Con-
grcss anything but the best OF health. and yet
to say that there are scker folk among
the poor to whom Mr.. Deem casually counses patience
while the House votes itself a vacation
Many members of that august body have every
right to be nervous. I am not at all surprised to
learn that some of those who went of the deep end
to save the poor harassed utilities suffering
from prostration They are beginning TO learn what
they should have known before-that paid lobbyist
viii often cast aside used congressman like a
withered violet It a mistake to 60 to bachelor
apartment late at night and sample the chicken salad
and the sweet champagne.
II Congressman Deem viii double-check the list
of ailing I think he may find that nervous proStra
ton is merely a synonym in some cases for acute
rcmOrSe And I not at all sure that this can be
shaken of merely by change of scene although
some Of the congressional veterans have admittedly
learned to check their conscences in the cloakroom
OF the House.
As a matter of fact, along about this time of year
the Senate as we'll is usually in a snarl Unfinished
business has piled upon the shoulders of the legiSla
tors. Perhaps there is use in crying spilled
Oratory, but I not refrain from asking, Well
how did it get there?" Senate which consented to
sit up all night while Huey Long told not very funny
stories about his uncle and gave dubious recipes for
making salad dressing is not quite in a position to
complain that it has much work to do that it
needs a vacation.
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LIFE INSURANCE
FIGURES Given
Indiana PoIiCyhOIderS Paid
$72,4O0,O 900 in 1894,
Report Shows.

Indiana policyholders and bene-
f1ciaries were paid $7,400,000 by life
insurance companies in 1884, accord
ing to figures compiled by the Ma
tional Underwater, a weekly insur-
ance newspaper.
indianapolis led Indiana cities in
life insurance payments with $1O,-
$4,000 and was twenty-first among
all the cities in the country. Fit.
Wayne was second in the state, with
South Bend, Evansville, Terre Haute,
Hammond, Gary, Muncie, Lafayette,
Richmond, Anderson, Kokomo and
Marion in the order named.
The largest individual death pay
Iment last year was 1921, 900 on the
life of George G. Summers, New AL
bany. Large payments in Indianap-
oils were: Scott C. Wadley, Indian
apolis, $9O,061; Henry Kahn, $4,000,
and Adolph o. Abel $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
BY LOUISE DE KIRILINE
Copyright. 1885, NEA Service. Incl


THE progress of the babies after moved to their
home was phenomenal. AS as the little girls were
sufficiently acclmatzed to the surroundings
started sun treatments.
sort of box-table had been built with outstanding
ledge of seven eight inches running along the edges The
bottom was well padded and it placed by window
PANIED with glass allowing blue ultra violet of the sun
to penetrate On this the babies at first passed almost all
their waking hours
To see the FIVE sprawling about and learning to move
in their new airy freedom reminded all of little birds in
nest.
Tie indoor sun treatments part of DR.. Dafoes
cautious regime of conditioning the babies OF building
their resistance against any further onslaught of disease or
infection Also we began to take them outside we'll tucked
in among soft blankets.
At first we kept them out 10 minutes, then 15 and
went on increasing the time by five minutes each day until
they used to sleeping outside two or three hours every
day. whatever the weather generous friend sent us i've
beautiful draughtree carriages In these could safely
take the little girls out all during the winter.
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striking proof that we were using
the best medicine was the fact
that when a slight head cold cpl
demic swept the hospital during
the winter and we nurses again
donned masks to protect our
charges, none of the babies took
the cold.
Later in the spring when they
did catch colds, brought in from
the outside by visitors, their con-
dition never became serious be-
cause they we're so we'll fortified
and conditioned.
All this progress was made I'M
der rather primitive conditions at
first. When we moved, we had no
beds or bedding Except for the
babies), almost no cooking uten-
sis and worst of all no washing
machine and no clotheslines, yet
a daily washing of two hundred
pieces.
The Dionnes kindly loaned us
their washing machine for the
first few days until our new one
came, but it was a month before
we had adequate clotheSlines.
Imagine the chore of the house
keeper, who had to carry out
basketfuls of wet diapers and
hang them on ropes temporarily
put up between trees, fences and
unsteady poles. Her patience
was more than once taxed to the
limit when a beautiful white
washing was dashed to the ground
by a sudden gust of wind.
Little by little, however, equip
ment came in. Presents continued
to come, too, for the babies. Every
item, large or small, was carefully
listed in the thick gift book of the
Dafoe Hospital, together with the
name and address Of the donor.
Many articles which could not
be used by the babies were given
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unique figure and one of the most
brilliant in the New Deal.
Only "a, he has been a one
man brain trust" for the PreSi-
dent on a dozen important prof.
ects, always with success. Hither-
to he has avoided the mistake of
other famous brain trusters"@
publicity.
THE others all went after
epaulets," says Mr.. Corcoran. But
since I have no epaulets, they
can't take them away from me"
Officially Mr.. Corcoran occupies
an obscure position with the RFC.
Actually Jesse Jones gives him
free hand to work on any thing.
AS a result, he has been the key
man behind the Stock Exchange
act, the Truth in Securities act,
the Holding Corporation bill and
the Social Security act.
Mr.. Corcoran boEs in and out of
the White House like an animated
shuttlecock If he wanted it, he
could have been elevated to the
White House secretariat, but he
chose the shadows of the RFC.
Grandson of a New England sea
captain, Tom was initiated to
Washington as secretary to JUS
tice Oliver Wendell Holmes. IN
til the veteran jurist died. Tom
read to him regularly every Sum
day evening. Their favorite book
was THE Education Of Henry
Adams"
brilliant student of Felix
ID Frankfurter, Mr.. Corcoran
also learned politics at Harvard.
He put up a peoples candidate"
for class president against Har-
ward blue-blood and elected him.
After college, he joined Senator
William G. McAdoo'S former law
firm, Gotten & Franklin, where he
amaSsed a small fortune, lost it,
came to Washington. Mr.. Cor
coran was showed into the lime
light once before when Rep. Fred
Britten aSsailed his home-the
Little Red House" in George
town-aS center of New Deal rad
icals. Others living with Mr. Cor
coran are Ben Cohen, famous CO.
author of various New Deal bills;
Judge Johnny Burns Of the SEC;
and Gerard Swope, son Of General
Electric'S head.
Mr.. Corcoran's greatest distrust
is marriage He is is never seen
in washington with woman.
Despite a mind like steel Mr..
Corcoran has all the loveable
emotions of the Irish. He is more
addicted to human beings than to
principles. He will never let
down a friend. Once, wheE being
upbraided about some of his close
associates who had got into hot
water, he said:
yes, they're all lice. But -
1t, they're my lice"
(Copyright. 1885. BY United Feature
Syndicate. 1nc.ls
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
Just Il Rough Idea

THE rules of the House are stricter by far, and
i vet no single session passes in which there is not
sCandaOuS waste of time and effort. The truth is
that without any impairment of full free and
enable debate the Congress of the United States
could complete its work each session just about
one-han one-third of the time which it generally
consumes. The excess goes in posturing and playing
for the gallery.
Now. while the public might be willing to grant
some summer holiday to tired statesmen, it knows
that among actors the rule has always been the
show must so on" 1t is considered, and rightfully
So shabby action when any star ends an engage
ment arbitrarily while it is still attracting good
audiences
Much as Mr.. Deem may want to go back to Alma
he can hardly contend that Congress is playing to
empty seats that it has gone into cut rates.
1t is quite true that there dull spots in the
show where it drags a little And even so, The
Washington Follies" remains much funnier than any
summer revue along Broadway. 1t would be a
great pity to close it now
suggest to the Hon BraSwell Drue Deem that he
withdraw his speech for purposes of alteration
Let him have 1t set to words and music. Just as
rough suggestions couldn't it go:
i want to go back to my little grass shack in
Alma
/ want to go mend my political fences and re-
cover my morale, Ma"
But, OF course that's a rough suggestion It will
need a little polishing
Copyright, 1885,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
CITY MAN TO DIRECT
NEW PITTSBORO BANK

H. E. Ayres to Have Charge of Liz
ton Firms Branch Office.
By Times Special
PITTSBORO, July 18-The State
Commission for Public Institutions
has authorized the State Bank of
Lizton to establish branch at
Pittsboro. H. E. Ayres, Indianapo-
lis, formerly with the Fletcher
Trust Co., will have charge of the
branch bank and will move to Pitts
boro in the near future.
The State Bank of Lizton was
appointed receiver for the Pittsboro
State Bank when it closed Dec. %,
1882. A 20 per cent dividend has
just been paid, which makes a total
of As per cent payment to date.
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and the new big ones put into
service.
These had high sides that could
slide up and down and bars, Won
derful things to exercise on by
sticking the feet out through them
and banging on them with the
whole leg so that the nursery rang
with the noise of it. 1t was a
happy evening when the babies
we're first tucked into their new
beds.
This time they were fully aware
of the neWness. YvOnne and An
nette coyly laid down their heads
on the pillow to see what effect
the sight Of them in the strange
big bed would have on us, then
looked up and smiled mischiev-
ouSly.
The cots were big and little
Marie especial looked like a lost
island in a sea of white sheets and
covers.
In the daytime the babies we're
now dressed in little dresses, short
and convenient, providing ample
kicking room for energetic, plump
legs. The new play-pens were put
on casters for greater convenience
in the nursery.
Very easily the little girls
learned to sit in their new high
chairs for their meals and the
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They had their outdoor
maps even in temperatures
as low as 20 degrees below
zero. Danger of frostbite
was eliminated by careful
application Of protective
creams and oils to the little
faces.
Five baby carriages on the
veranda of the Dafoe Hospital on
frosty, clear mornings or even on
snowy mornings when water-tight
covers collected downy, white
cushions of new-fal.en snow, be-
came a common sight to a rather
Mortified neighborhood.
Sometimes women and men, too,
passed by just to see five frosted
breaths circling out from under
meath the carriage tops and to
catch distant ghmpses Of five
pink-cheeked babies sleeping con-
tentedly.
When these same neighbors later
focked to see the babies during
the short period of visiting hours
they almost invariably asked as
tonishedly what we had done to
make the little girls cheeks so
red
The answer was easy. We had
given them fresh air and sunshine
in large doses as prescribed by Dr.
Dafoe. 1t is a cheap and efficient
method. I hope some Of those
mothers went home to their pale
little babies, were struck by the
comparison with ours and fol-
lowed the example.
= n
TINE result of this wise regimen
i was amply shown in the
babies excellent condition and
the complete disappearance of
ricketts, and anemia. Even more
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over to the parents for use and
amusement of the other children
across the road. All the WORKOUT
and outgrown clothes of the ba-
bies were carefully put away in
mothballs in large boxes as SOU
venirs for the mother.
II
NNE of the most interesting
~ social events in our new
home was the babies official
christening in October of their
first year. This was attended by
their parents, their sisters and
brothers, relations and some close
friends of the families.
Perhaps you do not know that
the babies you know of as An
nette, Yvonne, Cecile, Emelie and
Marie really have three names
besides Dionne. Each is named
for her godmother and each also
is named Mary for the Blessed
Virgin.
On the occasion of the chris
tening, they were dressed in their
best white embroidered madeira
frocks and were carried, each one
by her white-gowned godmother,
through a ceremony that lasted
for an hour and a half.
Christmas shared with their
little sisters and brothers was a
great festival with the babies
because of the bright lights and
tinsel on the Christmas tree.
They we're just beginning to no
tice such things and they reached
out their little arms to the lights
on the trees with such endearing
gestures that you felt as if you
wanted to give them the moon.
I was ever entranced by the in
comparable graceful and endear-
ing movements of their pink
tipped fingers and hands, trying
to grasp a new toy, exploring the
table top of our faces or the
surface of their brightly-colored
quilts with absorbed interest.
Or sometimes they just enter
tanned themselves by repeatedly
touching the nearest object with a
pudgy little thumb, all the other
fingers spread out fanwise. Beau
tifully tanned by fresh air, SUM-
shine and sunlamp, with SPAR
king dark eyes under incredibly
long lashes, their brown, shiny
hair trying in vain to curl on the
top of their head, they presented
a heart-stirring picture.
4 y
A S Christmas neared the white
N enamelled baSsinettes were
becoming all too small for the
babies and we were beginning to
wonder what to do about them.
Their boxtable no longer provided
them with enough room for their
energetic kicking, either.
Luckily, santa Claus brought
new pink cots and playpens as
well as toys and many other
things. So the day after New
Year the old beds were discarded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
STATE OFFICIALS AND
BANKERS HOLD FARLEY

Cooperation Between Two Groups
Is Topic at Luncheon.
Phases of cooperative effort be-
tween state departments and the
Indiana Bankers Association was
the subject of discussion today at a
luncheon-meeting in the Columbia
Club attended by the administration
council of the bankers group and
state officials.
Edward H. De Hority, new bank
supervisor under the Department of
Financial Institutions; Richard A.
Mckinley, department director; Her
man B. Wells, commission secretary;
Donald F. Silver, safety director,
and Paul Andres, chief radio engi-
neer Of the Safety Department, were
present.
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of his recent public and private
utteranceS.
Joe Robinson was prepared to
denounce the letter from the
Senate floor. The mimeographed
copies had been delivered to him
and he was in his seat ready to
make the speech. Suddenly he
abandoned his plan.
Reason, though not definitely
known, probably was word from
the White House. For the Presi-
dent has evolved plans of his own
to crush the present whispering
campaign.
His answer is the trans-conti-
mental trip which will start as
soon as Congress adjournS. 1t
will be similar to last years trip,
except that the latter was taken
for relaxation and in order to get
acquainted with the West.
This trip will be solely to give
the country an opportunity to get
acquainted with him.
COSSIP- MONGERING about
~ White House incumbents is
not new. Woodrow Wilson, Hard
ing, even Coolidge and Hoover
suffered from it. There was the
fantastic story during the last
campaign that Mr.. Hoover had
suffered a stroke Again, the wild
yarn that Mr.. Hoover had shipped
some gold out of the country on
the eve of the banking crisis, and
was being detained in New York
after Mr.. RooSevelt's Inaugural
ton.
The present innuendoes deal
almost entirely with the PreSi-
dents health. Most Of them
emanate from Wall Street. Most
of them are pure fiction, some
weirdly fantastic.
Most current is that Mr.. Roose-
welt has developed a state Of
hysteria, has become moody,
irascible, subject to violent fits of
temper. Another story is that the
President is in such bad shape
that Mrs. Roosevelt will be noni-
mated in his place.
AT first they were not taken
seriously at the White House.
Those who see Mr.. Roosevelt
daily realize that he is standing
up under the strain probably
better than any one else around
him.
But as the rumors grew, the
President himself determined to
make the trip West when Con-
greSs adjourns, in order that the
country may see for itself that
his health, his good humor, his
poise and patience, all are ex-
cellent.
TON CORCORAN. headlined az
Il personal lobbyist for the
President on Capitol Hill. is a
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China TO Ouer her services on the
west coast from a base in San
Francisco.
Bandits and kidnapers were
preying on wealthy merchants in
the cities. Marauders roamed the
country on the concrete highways.
The President had run out Of ideas
for the revival of industry and
was reduced TO the device of
breaking up industry entirely and
distributing the fragments to the
poor.
In Louisiana a strong local leader
named Huey Long. by controlling
the petty leaders, had established
a military dictatorship and a Sc
cret terrorist organization called II
of Criminal Identification to subd
Those who resisted the dictatorship
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

CUPERFLUOUS hairs on your skim especially
~ where they show to your discomfort, be
moved by use of electric current, but when you
having this done, you should see that only a COM
petent operator does the job
The idea Of electric removal OF hair from the
skin occurred to doctors many years ago, but it is
only within the past decade that devices particu-
larry suitable to this work have been developed
Now electricity is employed for the removal OF
small moes, warts and superluous hair, and for
coaguating and destroying dilated blood vessels and
similar processes.
In the removal of superfuous hair a current Of
sufficient strength is applied to the hair root to de-
stroy the lining of the cells from which the hair
grows If electrolysis is properly carried out by
this method, it is possible to have smooth and all
most invisible scar and the unwanted hair will COM
pletely disappear.
THIS method is far less dangerous than many
Il others now used especially including removal
of superfuous hair by the X-ray.
The danger in using X-ray for this purpose is
that serious changes in the skin may follow its ap
plicaton, because dosage Of the ultra-short rays
sufficient to destroy the hair must penetrate the
skin, which may do considerable harm.
In the hands of persons who experienced,
electrolyss does not yield any such serious changes
This method, Of course, is painstakng and time
consuming.
An operator of average skill is able to remove
from 80 to so hairs in average patient at one
time. However from 10 to 20 per cent Of the hairs
that are removed may return because the cells have
not been completely destroyed.
WTHEN the hair is coarse and thick, removal Is
w much easier than when it is fine and downy
In this procedure the person who is removing the
hair puts the needle point into the hair foicle and
turns on the current The hair is pulled with for
cept Immediately after.
After the treatment, it is customary TO wash the
part with alcohol and to apply mild antiseptic
powder to prevent secondary infection. It is custo-
mary in this method to the treatment in inter-
walls Of five to seven days
Where few scattered coarse hairs in
voved the difficulty is not great. But where the
tire body is covered with super1uous hair where
large involved, it is desirable to limit the
hair removal to those areas where its presence
seems particularly unsightly. fscr ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
CITY INSURANCE AGENT
Is H0NORED BY FIRM
North Side Man Paid Tribute for
81 Years of Service.

Albert L. Willard. 1865 N. Illinois
st, has received a framed testimonial
from company officers of the Stand
ard Accident Insurance Company,
Detroit, for 81 years service as local
agent.
Mr.. Willard also has received a
letter from John H. Thorn, Detroit,
company vice president, commend
ing him for his long and loyal
representation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
FAIR Enl,oIN4,',g4h
BY
WESIBROOk PEGEER

CONDITIONS were so unsettled in the United
~ States in 1885 that the civilized powers Of the
world keenly aware of their duty to civilization,
got together and decided to intervene The Italians,
already embarked on a mission to pacfy and
civilze Abyssinia, hastily withdrew from that no.
bic enterprise to Join France, Great Britain and
Germany in the eastern part of the United States.
japan scandalized by the dsorganized state Of
things in America, left of her missionary work in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-18
WORKERS ALLIANCE OF
STATE OPENS OFFICES
Organization Drive Among City Re-
lief Workers Will Start.


State offices for the Workers AL
lance of Indiana, statewide union
of unemployed, part time and re-
lief workers, were opened here to-
day at IL Mansur Block, 312 E.
Westinghouse, with Roy G. Lam
caster, state secretary, in charge.
Mr.. Lancaster said the union
would start an organization drive
Immediately among Indianapolis re-
lief workers.
He denied reports that the Work
ers Alliance plans to launch any
sort of third party" but said that
they would support any movement
of the trade unions and organized
farmers to mobilize the political
power Of labor.