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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
IPH Be BrOuH'S Fault

n LANYARD KEYNES has maintained that a ma
WI ton may spend its way back into prosperity
and every country that I know maintains among its
proudest possessions a national debt. In living
rneagerly from hand to mouth I fear that am cut
ting down employment in the juniper berry fields,
in the rye and Scotch meadows
This year some laughing French peasant girl will
be left out when it time to tread the grapes
The head of the vineyard will shake his head sadly
and explain. "Broun isn't buying"
What idiot would ever buy champagne or terra
pin or tickets in the front if he had to pay for
them in hard money freshly drawn from the inner
pocket.
Bank checks are something like poker chips. One
losses them about with freedom since he knows that
there are plenty to be had where the counters
came from.
OF course, the budget system is supposed to leave
YOU affluent in the long run. Each week some part
of your hard earned gains is showed through the
window of a savings bank In return you get neither
beverages nor entertainment, but merely small
blue book with a little writing.
Dollars are less prolific than rabbits, but II one
undertakes to raise them, 1 informed, that In
due time he will fall heir to litter OF dimes and
nickes and pennies. And curlously enough these
feeble cubs are not drowned, but nursed along with
the hope that they may survive even in fierce ana
competitive world.
Far away in the days to come the thrifty one Is
supposed to reap his reward When 1 am % some
one will break it to me gently that have $1,000
in the bank It may even be that will be allowed
to saw what I want to do with it. But aside from
taking it out as quickly possible my definition OF
desire could be quite SLIM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
ReckIessness-a Worthy Fault

a T the age of IS might conceivably want new
N wheel chair, toupee, store teeth But not
one of these capital prizes is gamorous enough TO
warrant the years of Spartan sef-denial Who wants
to find a toupee in the toe of his stocking on
Christmas morning?
The arguments for reckessneSs seem to me al
most unanswerable. If it not for the S94 which
has been already credited to my account could
sleep well at night and give never a thought TO
future decisions of the Supreme Court. But now 1
toss about and murmur captured gold" and when
wake am still trying to figure out just what Will
be worth if a to decision goes In favor OF the
present Administration or vce-versa.
The situation is further complicated by the TACT
that under the present regime one decision means
nothing Nor even two. Today Htgant is like a lawn
tennis player and he must get three legs upon an
award in order to achieve permanent possession In
deed suggest to the various boards in washington
that those who appear before them will hardly be
satisfied unless future decisions are handed down all
done up tissue paper and red ribbons and plainly
labelled mot to be reopened until Christmas.
Courts have been turned into cauldrons round
which weird sisters dance chanting Biddle, Blddle
toll and troubled"
But as I was saying there is only one sure cure
for devauation initiation and investors itch. 1t is
a simple old family remedy 1t consists of Kidding
yourself as rapidly possible of all legal tender
believe in the adagio dollar. Give it a fling.
Copyright. 1885,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25

csc foreign minister also warned
China by clear inference that
China void do we'll to look to
Japan, rather than to Europe or
the United States, for friendship
and aid. Far Eastern observers
did not hesitate to interpret this
as a reStatement that Japan,
more than ever, insists upon a
hands-off attitude on the part of
the Western powers and a para
mount position there for herself.
TTNEASINESS is growing at
~ Geneva, meanwhile, over
what Japan will do in March
when her League of Nations mem
bership expires. Swarms of Pa
cif1c Islands have been inundated
to her and, League or no League,
she intends to hold on.
These islands - the Carolines,
Marianas and PelewS-lie between
Hawaii and the Philippines, on
the flank of every sea lane be-
tween America, or the Panama
Canal, and the Far East. The
League virtually accuses Japan
already of Transforming them into
naval and air bases in violation
of the terms of both mandate and
Washington naval treaty.
The future of the islands is of
the utmost Importance to the
United States. Claude A. Swan
son, Secretary of the Navy, has
Just announced plans to use near
by Wake Island as an aviation
base for trans-Pacific service.
Wake IS approximately half
way between Hawaii and Guam,
another American possession.
TranS-Paclflc planes thus might
follow this route: San Francisco
to Hawaii, 21,000 miles; to Wake,
1900 miles; thence to Guam, 1900
miles. From Guam it is another
1900 miles to Manila and 1900
miles to Shanghai or Hongkong.
Both these vital potential bases,
Guam and Wake, are virtually
surrounded by the inundated
islands.
Japan's moves, from her occu-
patton of Manchuria and Jehol
down to the present, are not in
terpreted as operations for ag-
gressive war. Rather she is seen
as in the process of drawing an
impregnable ring about that part
of the Pacific and Far East in
which she intends to be supreme.
Outside that circle she would
wage no offensive war. Inside it,
observers are convinced, she would
fight any challenger.
Admittedly the peril is that,
within the circle, she alone will
decide what is, and what is not.
a challenge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer

BIG show that is never
advertised, that uses
professional performers and
plays weekly engagements
to as high as 5000 GUS
toners with season tickets,
and one that you could not
gate-crash unless you had
one of those white or red
cards-such a show is pre-
sented here every Tuesday
night in Tomlinson Hall.
Maybe you've passed the hall
on Tuesdays and heard the or
chestral strains and laughs OF the
crowd.
Maybe you've tried to get inl
If you nave, then you've failed
unless you we're a member or
friend of one of the $4,000 fami-
lies on direct or work relief in
Marion County.
Or, perhaps, you've passed by
Municipal Gardens or some other
community house and heard an
orchestra, twice-monthly, putting
Love In Bloom" or trotting a
fox-trot in a mean tempo which
made you wish to do a little step
ping.
Couldn't get in?
Of course you couldn't unless
you had the white or red card
that is an open sesame, under the
Marion County Recreation Com
mittee, to the entertainments and
dances given exclusively for those
on county relief rolls.
WED like to open the doors to
the public. We've had requests to
do so. People stop and want to go
in but we don't know where it
would end if we did"
This is the explanation of r. L.
Baker, County Recreation Direc-
tor.
THERE'S a need in some
Il families where persons are
employed" the recreation director
explains. THE family may be
large and the entertainment
budget low. Youth has no outlet
for its good time-except the
cheapness of concentrating and
unSupervised mischief"
And the only plant of the
recreational director is that Tom
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
OBJECTION TAKEN
TO FURNACE CODE
Direct Factory Sales Are
Opposed by Group.

Severe criticism of certain phases
of the furns &C manufacturers NRA
code was offered at the final session
of the three-day convention of the
Indiana Sheet Metal, Warm Air
Heating and Roofing Contractors
Association at the Antlers yester-
day.
The criticism concerned that part
of the code permitting furnace man.
ufacturerS to sell direct to conSum-
erS at factory cost and to sell to
mail order firms at a lower price
than is charged retailers.
New directors of the state aSSo-
citation are cyril zettle, Alexandria;
j, E. Myers, Evansville; A. w. Dud-
ley, Terre Haute; Harry Werbe, Ko-
komo; Harry Hoff, Richmond, Louis
Heitger, Bedford; Bert Wright, New
Albany; Charles B. Rundell, Fl.
Wayne; Ralph TenEyck, Lebanon;
G. w. Carlson, Elkhart, and Charles
Rood, Gary.
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control this fertile fringe of the
Cobb Desert, but she wants the
great Khingan mountain range as
a bulwark against a possible Rus
sian attack from the direction of
Baikal.
Outer Mongolia, whose capital
is Urga, is under Soviet influence.
A branch line of the TRANSIT
berian runs southwark from Lake
Baikal to the border. Practicable
automobile roads connect Urga
with Kalgan, via Chahar. Now
Japanese bayonets are barring
this route.
TN the event of war between
L Japan and the Soviet Union,
military experts look for a dan
gerous movement against the
Japanese rear or flank from this
direction. This would be the for
lorneSt of forlorn hopes, however,
with the japanese in control of
Chahar.
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota
has warned Moscow a second time
that Japan does not like the from
tier bristling with Notifications
which Russia is throwing up
about Manchukuo. Nippon eSpe-
cially dislikeS Russia's growing
submarine fleet at Vladivostok
and her fast increasing aerial
bombers in that region.
In the same speech, the Japan
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25

Eugene Sprouse, 900 Buchanan
st, was graduated from Manual
Training High School in 1888, but
he finds jobs harder to locate than
the angle in this ee-cushion
match upper he's having at the
English-av Boys Club. But bill
lizards keeps Eugene from moon
ing over lbs joblessnesS. And
here are two youths QOwer) play
ing that grand old game to pass
the time-checkers-u the
auspices of the Marion County
recreation committee at the Boys
Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

ILLUMINATION of slums and provision of modern
II sanitary housing would definitely improve the
future health of the people. 1t has been established
IN every large city that persons who live in slunS
are sick more often and for longer periods of tme
and have in general higher death rate than do
those who live under conditions of good housing.
Among factors in poor housing, which are pri-
marily responsible for i'll health we must include
bad water supply insanitary toilets, lack of private
toilets leaky connections, over-crowding bad
ventilation, dampnesS, insufficient sunlight, and
failure to provide suitable screening against flies and
mosquitoes
Dr. Rollo L Britten of the United States Public
Health Service studied the records of 900 persons
in eight cities, and found that infant deaths in
families who lived in homes with two per-
in a were two and one-half times greater
than in families with less than one person to each
room.
TN Cleveland, studies were made of the relationship
of sickness and death rates to the amount of rent
paid. The death rates varied from Is for each 1000
persons in the where the lowest rents
paid to To for each 1000 persons in the where
the highest rates we're paid.
Infant deaths were 10 in the area with an aver
age rental of less than S15 and only 20 in the
with an average rental of 500 or more.
Obviously the question of housing is associated
with other economic factors, such food, clothing
and fuel But certainly the sickness and death rates
higher among persons in the lower income
groups.
In England and in Vienna, where great housing
ment occurs with elimination of slum conditions
For example, in Liverpool the death rate fell from
81 to 26 per 1000 population after reconstruction.
DROBABLY the most serious condition of bad
Il housing is overcrowding. We know that the
type of disease from which poor persons suffer is
chiefly contact infection, is represented by dis
eases Of nose and throat and the ordinary infectious
diseases with resultant secondary infections Of lungs
and heart
Such diseases as the common cold, sore throat,
bronchitis, influenza, diphtheria scarlet fever,
mumps, whooping cough, meningitis, measles pneu-
monia ard tuberculosis most frequently under
conditions of overcrowding
We should consider also the overcoming which
occurs in elevators, theaters, schools and Railways
as well as on the streets.
Another serious menace in sum areas is the rat
Rat-proofing is unknown in these districts. Yet it
has been shown that the rat is responsible for good
deal of human disease.
o-when did Japan declare war against Ger
many?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
CONSTITUTION STUDY
is REQUIRED IN BILL
Course Mandatory Under
House Measure.

Anericanization of Hoosier school
pupils is sought by a bill introduced
yesterday in the House of Repre-
sentatives by Rep. Robert A. Hoo
yer R., Elkhart).
It provides for compulsory study
of the American Constitution and
the Indiana State Constitution in
high schools.
Eight other representatives joined
in presenting the bill.
The bill, originally planned as a
part of the American Legion legis-
lative program, is said to meet with
the Legion's approval.
The bill provides that political
and philosophical aspects of the sub
ject" should be taught and allows
the State Board of Education to
prescribe textbooks to be used.
The course on the national and
state Constitutions would be of not
less than one school year and stu
dents could not receive a diploma
until they passed an examination in
the subject, the bill provides.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
LAUGHING AWAY HARD TIMES


10 before the crowd will let the
performers go home.
Nor is talent scarce, for MIR.
Doody has a card-index file listing
approximately 200 performers WHO
can do everything from pulling
rabbits out of sleeves to making a
jug play Annie Laurie"
FERA orchestras play for the
community house dances. Strict
card admission is necessary at
Tomlinson Hall in order to pre-
vent competition with private
dance halls.
The modern dances are played,
but if there's a demand we may
give an old-fashioned Virginia
Reel or hoe down" says Mr.. Ball.
1t is in the dances and, particu-
larly in the Tomlinson Hall shows,
that the major offensive is carried
on in occupying the time of those
on relief rolls. Recreational Off
Gals admit that relief families are
in the main better spectators than
doors"
1T is difficult to reach the mid
dle-aged man with family, who
has worked hard throughout the
day to make both ends meet, with
the play spirit left in him." they
say.
r ACK of car fare to attend the
- Tomlinson Hall shows has
kept many families from taking
advantage of the free entertain
ment.
In turn, the shows are inter-
preted as an inducement for some
relief families to leave a moody
fireside and to use the show as an
excuse for going downtown on
Tuesday nights.
Performers on the legitimate
stage never played to more skep-
tical group of "f1rst-nighters"
than did the first entertainers
at TomlinSon Hall in November
and December.
''It was so cold you could make
a gelatine dessert" Mr.. Ball said.
''They seemed to say Well we're
here. What can you do?' But in
a few shows they warmed up.
Crowds grew and, now, we don't
know where we're going to put
them all if they keep on coming"
Smaller community shows, until
that millennium when Indianap-
oils builds a civic auditorium, is
Mr.. Balls only hope of solving the
seating problem at the weekly en-
tertainments.
horticultural Activities and
The Future In Recreation.
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indianapolis Tomorrow

Alliance Franchise, luncheon,
Washington.
Life Underwriters Sales Confer
ence, $50 a. m, Claypool.
Frigidaire Exhibit, all day. Clay
pool.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon,
Claypool.
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linson Hall is not large enough
to hold the crowds that flock to
see the free shows.
The S. R. o. sign would be hung
out each Tuesday night if the
show was operated privately.
If bits of the show have an
amateurish tinge, other portions
are larded with professionalism.
The tenor soloist is an FERA
project foreman who knew the
stage in its balmy days.
The clown, on one program,
whose antics sent adolescentS into
screams of delight, is a former
circus performer who keeps time
now on works project.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
POLICE CHIEF ORDERS
AUTO LIGHTING DRIVE
Arrest of Violators Is Directed by
Mike MOrriSsey.

Chief Mike Morrissey today or
dered members of his department
to arrest violators of the state law
requiring Two headlights and one
tail light to be lighted on all NOV
ing vehicles, from 80 minutes after
shutdown until 80 minutes before
sunrise, and a tail light burning on
all parked vehicles 80 minutes after
shutdown.
IF any person has been given a
sticker for violation of the law and
does not appear in the traffic Office
to pay the required fine, a warrant
will be issued for his or her arrest"
Chief MorriSsey stated in his order.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25

along Win UPTON Sinclair and, N
fact, turned agreSSively against him
and for Frank Merriam, the zero
incarnate, in the California cam
paign. contributing appreciably to
Mr.. Sinclairs defeat Both leaders
had received inspiration from Ed
ward Bellamy and their purposes
and Sympathies we're alike, but per-
Sonal rivalry kept them apart to the
detriment of their mutual task.
DR.. Townsend told his friends
that he could not vote for Sinclair
and these told others until, by cleo
ton day, the word had spread
throughout lis numerous cult that
Sinclair vas not the man for them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
Huey'S in a Fog

IT can not be argued that Gov. Merriam has insti-
l. tuted any radical reform yet and whether he
ever does not will depend on how badly those
whom George Creel described his medieval owners
were frightened by the strength of Sinclair's fol-
lowing The Governor, himself fortunately, has
neither ideas nor ideals of his to hamper him
in the performance of any orders which he may
receive. He approached the qovernorship with
open, not to say blank, mind and his craftsmanship
will be controlled by popular pressure his bosses.
So the people more nearly their rulers
than they before.
Prof. Samuel Bottomley, the economic star-gazer
who learned about money by studying the canals
the planet Mars, has no time for either of the
California mahatmaS and insists that Huey Long
still has much to learn about the real meaning of
tri1ing object the humble dime. The pro-
fessor does not publish the size of his following but
it must be assumed to be at least 20 million that
figure is the minimum under the rules.
The Senator. on his part, has not been quite able
to make up his mind just whom to appeal to. One
day the poor all his people, but another day he
reads all foges out Of the party and stands forth
the presidential candidate of youth. However he
has had the candor lately to the citizens that
his election would be more calamitouS than other
wise and there can be doubt that he will serve
humanity better a threat than he could as a
ruler The Senator is so constituted of course that
humanity doesn't enter his plans. Power and money
being his aims in life, he is naturally eager to
be elected than to be headed off.
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ing bouts in the regular ring used
by professionals.
Youths from the FERA boxing
stable" 1929 w. Michigan-st,
wear off their amateurishness in
three-round bouts.
TINE show begins at 7:30, and,
l. if the bills extra good and
the encores numerous, it's after
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25

DranCn OF Cne government Is
something else again.
The Administration contends
that it has, but its legal jousterS
concede privately that this point
is the Achilles heel of their case.
VISITORS to the Capitol are
' thronging the Senate CALLER
les these days to see the big show,
but many turn away bewildered
and disappointed.
And here are typical comments
showing why:
Seemed like they were tending
to their own business, but not to
the Speaker" :. "I've heard the
House of Representatives, and 4
expected to hear more eloquence
in the Senate department, but I
didn't" 81 didn't listen much.
Huey Long was walking all around
the floor, and I was watching
him." Reminds me of what
we Led to do back in school days
anything but listen to the
teacher" It was there 10 min
utes and I didn't hear Huey
Long" "A lot of kibitz."
"I guess they haven't got started
yet" "I wonder how they
make our laws if they don't pay
any more attention than that"
THERE is one provision in the
Il Administrations omnibus So
cial security bill where the hand
Of organized labor guided the
drafting pen.
This section is in the unemploy-
ment insurance portion of the
measure.
It provides that no worker shall
be disqualified from receiving ben
efits because he participates in
a strike. refuses to take work at
standards below those prevailing
in the locality, or because he re-
fuses to join a company union or
insists upon joining the Labor
union of his own choosing"
Old guarders in the inner coun-
Gil objected to the wording, want
ed it made less specific.
But Senator Wagner, labor
champion and titular author Of
the bill, insisted on the provision.
It is certain to be challenged
vigorously by employer groups and
its hackers expect it to be one Of
the chief battle grounds of the
social security legislation.
WHEN New Mexicos sole
w Congressman came to
Washington he got a welcome that
was a surprise to him. He reg
istered at the Hotel Washington,
went up to his room, disrobed and
got into the tub for a bath.
A knock came at the door. It
was a bell-hop offering to take
the gentleman's clothes to be
pressed. Soon another knock. A
news photographer. Presently two
more arrivals - newsmen asking
for an interview.
In desperation the congressman
picked up the telephone.
Look here, Mr.. Manager, I
want to be let alone. What's the
reason for all this disturbance,
anyhow"
Then the explanation came.
Sorry, Mr.. Dempsey, I've just
discovered it myself. You see, the
name Jack Dempsey is a bit mis-
leading, and when the boys saw it
on the register, they thought it
was the Jack Dempsey"
mo, no, I'm only Congress-
man." was the rtply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
HEADS LEGION IN PARIS
DIR. j. V. Sparks, Formerly of This
City, Honored, Parents Told.

DR.. j. v. Sparks, son Of DR.. and
Mrs. Guy L. Sparks, 1850 Central-av,
has been reelected commander of
Paris (France) Post No. l, American
Legion, according to word received
here today from Paris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
CITY PASTOR HON0RED
ON 9TH ANNIVERSARY
The Rev. Z. Melyyn Thompson Is
Guest of Practitioners.

Members of the Northwood Chris
ton Church, SOL E. 46th-st, cele-
brated the sixth anniversary Of the
Rev. r. Melvyn Thompson's pastor
ate at fellowship dinner last night.
The Rev. Mr.. Thompson has just
completed the third year of his
present passionate and had served a
three-year period previously.
Tributes were paid by DR.. A. D.
Beeler, president of the church
board. and by G. H. Becker, Wallace
0. Lee and HerSchel Davis, elders.
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EuEnough
bu
WESIBROOK PEGLER

TN the alarm caused by the Use OF nut economists
l. and political mahatmaS, it may be of comfort to
note that hardly any two of them agree, but that.
between them. nevertheless, they gradually
crowding the rulers of the country toward reforms
Like rival SectS hating one another for the love
of God the hallelujah groups agree the ultimate
idea that the poor should inherit Palm Beach, but
can not get together on leaders, labels procedure
Thus the good mahatma Townsend doesn't get
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-25
| COVER THE WORLD
By William Philip Siman1s

WASHINGTON 25-Even of world Importance the
w western Pacific
Nippon
mehodcay build wall of mpeneabe steel around
water region about her
pushing frontiers of
Mongolia to