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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
MONDAY. MAY 4, 1885.
BE SURE TO VOTE

n HERE is a saying among politicians that Presi-
dents are elected by precinct committeeman
BY the same token the precinct committeeman
are powerful force in choosing state and local
officials.
Yet the fight to elect Republican and Democratic
precinct committeeman usually receives scant atten-
ton from the general voting public Too often these
party offices seem of Importance only to party fac
tons and leaders.
The election of 328 committeeman by each party in
Marion County tomorrow is important to the entire
community. The candidates for these minor posi-
lions should receive serious attention.
Just as strong party organizations depend on
careful selection of precinct committeeman so does
the American party system of filling public offices
fulfill its proper function only when an intelligent
selection of nominees is made at the primaries and
nominating conventions.
Every voter should go to the polls tomorrow and
express his or her preference to the best candi-
dates in all races.
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that unless they receive ORDERS to the contrary
they will carry on until July arrives and the last
dollar of allotted money is spent.
II is President Roosevelt's responsibility that the
taxpayers money is being thrown away on these
two abandoned" projects He started both of
them, without asking the consent of Congress, and
against the advice of Administration experts More
than 100000 already has been wasted. The least
the President could do is to withdraw, forthwith.
the unexpended balances of the allotments and put
those $500 men to work on projects that will be
completed.
In no part Of his whole spending program is
the President SO vulnerable as in these two hap
hazard ventures
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
OTHER PUBLIC ENEMIES

UuIER KARPIS. Public Enemy No l, having
IN been taken alive without shot, William Ma
ham the Weyerhauser kidnaper, assumes the uneasy
crown of his successor
The Karpis capture sheds luster on the
Justice Departments capable agents. known as the
G-Men One after another the big shots of Amer
ica's gangdom have crumpled under their unrelent-
ing drive. Seldom has this country seen such eff
fcency as j. Edgar Hoover's Federal policemen are
displaying.
This sensational record for crime detection only
emphasizes more glaringly the weakness in our law
enforcement system that make much of their work
futile We refer particularly to our medieval re-
formatories and prisons where young men are
schooled in crime to the misuse of the "unwalled
prisons of probation and parole, to the social sink
holes where lawlessness spawns.
Karpis was an aumnus of both high school
and college of crime. At 16 he sentenced to 10
years reforatory for stealing auto tires. There
he is said to have learned safe-cracking and the
other arts of his craft. In Kansas State Feniten-
tary he was tutored by of the criminal sons of
Ma" Kate Barker, specialist in robbery kidnapping
and murder
1t after he paroled, however, that ne
made his reputation. Facing a four-year sentence
in 1881 for burglary, he was paroled by kindly
DuG misguided, OKlaIOna Judge. "A mOLIH ldCer lie
had committed murder and was we'll along his
career as bank robber, kidnaper and killer
Karpis, it happened. was not a child of the
American city sns. but most of his fraternity
and with them he fraternized. No program of
crime suppression will succeed that does not deal
with the things that go with extreme poverty
malnourishment, ilteracy, child neglect the novels
and tenements that millions of families must call
homes. 1t is amazing paradox that the Fed
eral arm may reach unhindered into states and
cities, there to detect and capture criminals, but
when this same Federal arm seeks to improve those
social conditions in states and cities that grow the
seeds of crime it is stopped by the courts as an
constitutional invasion of states rights.
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HEARD IN CONGRESS

CENATOR LOGAN Cd, Ky): believe business
- men constitute perhaps the most short-sighted
group in the civilization which goes to make up the
entire world. -. They live in false atmosphere
until eventually they reach the conclusion that If
any one says anything about their business he is
an enemy and something ought to be done about it..
% EP. TREADWAY Or, Mass) The Democratic
= majority continually disclaim the fact
that they are rubber stamps" This bill (the tax
bilD furnishes them q good opportunity to prove
whether or not they capable of exercising their
own minds or are simply so many sheep, blindly
following their leader. even when he leads them
over precpice. (Applause)
. EP. DUNCAN ID. MOI: do not class myself
~ as radical in any sense of the word. but I
like to look at things they are and the legislator
or the business who believes we are going
back to the old order of things will be sitting at
his desk with cobwebs wound about his head when
Gabriel blows his horn for judgment day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HR. PAUL DOUGLAS of Chicago advocates re-
~ turn to the dowry system. Probably a good
many young people will not know what he is talking
about; others will scorn the idea. A dowry is the
property the wife brings to her husband at marriage
and in many lands it is an important item in get
ting the husband. The ambition of all good parents
in such countries is to scrape together sizeable
sum for each girl They believe her chances will be
better If she has money in her purse.
This opinion of course is directly opposed to our
romantic notions of the world well lost for love-
Now this notion was all very fine when we were
an expanding agricultural country with opportunities
lying around loose for all ambitious boys. But it
doesn't work we'll these days, whatever the opti--
mist may say. For marriage stands or falls on the
pay envelope While love may survive in the re-
spectacle poverty of cottage it has tough shedding
in the hovel or the two-room city apartment
Most modern parents are victims of the patitudes
they learned in childhood. We say to ourselves as
our parents said to u.s.: Its better for the young
to depend on themselves. Let them start from the
bottom as grandpa did. 1t will stiffen their back
bone"
In repeating this merely expose own
ignorance for we presume that economic conditions
exactly what they used to be. Nothing could be
false. For never in our history has it been so
hard to start and maintain comfortable home.
Nevertheless hardly day passes that you do not
hear some complacent elder remark that boy prac-
ticaly insults girl if he breaches the subject of
marriage before he is able to keep her in style.
Every young man struggling to save enough to
put ROOF over the head of the girl he loves would
find the small dowry a lifesaver
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
RICHARDSON URGED
FOR NOMINATION

By F. B. Ransom
If hard work, sincerity of purpose
party loyalty, and high ideals NEAR
anything, then Henry j. Richardson
richly deserves the earnest consid-
Grafton of all minded voters in
his candidacy for nomination. fol
state Representative in the COMING
primaries.
Mr.. Richardson has served three
sessions in the General Assembly
and served with distinction on
many important committees. Henry
j. Richardson was a leader in the
fight for and passage of the Labor
Discrimination Bill, the repeal of
the Wright Bone Dry law, tie
moratorium on taxes, the memorial
extending the Home Owners Loan
Corp, which seved thousands OF
homes, the Social Security Bill
which passed in the last extra ses-
sion.
Mr.. Richardson's present stand
can best be judged by his own pub
lie statement few days ago:
Il have no ak to grind with any
body and in announcing my can
didacy for reelection, it is my hope
and desire to serve all of the people
of the State Of Indiana to the best
of my ability, prepare such legisla-
ton as will be beneficial to all the
taxpayers of Indiana and citizens
alike, to see to it that the Constitu-
ton of Indiana is upheld and en-
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DOUBTS PAINTED CROSSES
w atch Your Health

A WOMAN who has just had a
L n baby should not attempt to
walk up steps until the end of the
third week, and she should not go
out on the street until the fourth
week.
or course, women OF different
races and of different spheres of
life have different habits in this
regard, Many peasant women in
European countries begin work three
or four days after childbirth and
feel no bad effects.
Many women are inclined to over
do the social side OF the situation.
They should avoid visitors, however.
or make the stay OF visitors short
during the first few weeks. Long
telephone calls frequently are more
boring and weakening than actual
conversations with visitors.
Persons with colds or infections
never should visit a woman who
has just had a baby, and certainly
should be kept out OF any contact
with the baby or the baby's room.
If the mother develops cold. she
should always cover her mouth with
a handkerchief or mask when nurs-
| ing or bathing the baby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
MOREOVER, these new services will not wipe out
~ the chief enemies of childhood
COURTS AND RATES

ME Supreme Court majority's latest ruling limit
- ing the power of Congress and the Legislatures
IN rate-regulaton. may prove tc be more important
imam some of its more widely advertised decisions
The opinion by Chief Justice Hughes in the St
Joseph stockyard case sets forth in a more sweep
ing way than ever before the power of courts to
weigh the evidence in rate-making cases-decsions
by public utility commissions, the Interstate Com
merce Commission, and all so-caed administrative
commissions"
Rate making Is a very complicated business It
involves expert and technical study So the Presi-
dent in Federal cases, and the Governors in state
cases, appoint experts on regulatory commissions
In most cases, the Congress the Legislature pro-
vices that their findings ss to fact shall be final
leaving the courts to pass only on questions of law
Now the five justices say the Federal judges must
pass all these details of fact and weigh the evil
dence"
There are two important objections from the
point OF view of the rate-payer. One is that
Federal judge may not be qualified to pass on such
complicated but important questions of fact. He
probably was trained in the law not in the public
utility business. The other is that this process is
going to extend considerably the time taken by the
courts to consider and decide such cases.
Justice Brandeis, in his opinion attacking the
majority ruling, pointed out that the stockyards
case under discussion took six and one-haf years
from first decision until the final decision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
YOUR MOVE, MR.. PRESIDENT

1--WE thousand men are still at work making
4 bigger and bigger ditch out of what was 10
have been the trans-Florida ship canal
And about half as many are still busy UP at
Cobscook Bay doing whatever men do on a grandiose
undertaking to harness the tides
Yet officially it is not intended that either of
these projects ever shall be completed Indeed, 10
days ago President Roosevelt announced that he
would allot no more money to either the canal or
Passamaquoddy unless Congress directed him to do
Congress, which had before frowncd upon both
projects, has in the 10 days shown no desire what
ever to continue them
The Army engineers in charge OF the two projects
saU they have no orders to stop. They indicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

O.; Third Quarter-Hawaii 7, Utah
IA; Fourth 3uarter-Hawaii T.
Utah o; Final Score-Hawaii 81.
Utah 20.
Q-When was Zane Grey's novel
THE Lost Trail" published in book
form?
AIN 1916, by A. L. Burt Co, New
York City.
Q-Is interstate trucking regu-
lated by the Federal government?
Ayes; by the Bureau of Motor
Carriers, Interstate Commerce Com
mission, Washington, D. c.
Q-Can thrift stamps, sold dur
ing the World War, still be cashed?
Ayes, by sending them to the
Treasurer Of the United States
Treasury Department, Washington
D. c.
Q-How can smoking pipe be
sterilized? Can any chemicals be
used that will not harm it?
Att may be sterilized best by
holding the bowl over the mouth OF
a kettle of boiling water and allow
ing the steam to pass through It.
Afterward it should be thoroughly
dried with pipe-cleaners ard dry
pipe cleaner should be left IN the
shank over night. Do not clean d
pipe with chemicals, or boil 1t In
lsoap and water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by SCIENCE SERVICE

MANKIND is drawing nearer and
Ava nearer to the day when the
tremendous energy locked within
the atoms of matter will be released
and put to work, This was made in
creasingly plain by group of
papers presented before the Amer
lean Physical Society detailing i'm
portant advances along three vital
lines.
The release of atomic energy
would remake the worlds economic
and social organization overnight.
For the energy of the atoms in a
pint of water would be enough to
drive an ocean liner across the At
lantic or convert pounds of iron
into an equal amount of gold.
Power would become as abundant
as air while the world would be per-
manently off the gold standard and
the ownership of coal mines and
oil fields would become meaningless.
A lucky break" may bring the
release of atomic energy before the
end OF the year. Most physicists,
however, think that there is at least
decade of work to be done, while
unforeseen difficulties may arise to
delay the accomplishment for half
century or more.
The three lines along which i'm
portant advances have been made
are the creation of electric currents
OF extremely high voltages, the pro-
duction OF subatomic particles of
equally high energy and velocity,
and improvements in the technique
LOT handling and directing the mo-
tons of subatomic particles.
The problem of releasing atomic
energy is the problem of smashing
atoms. Sub-atomic particles are
the bullets used for the job. High
electric potentials are the equiva-
lent of the INT which gives en-
ergy and speed to ordinary bullets.
In other words, what the psysi-
cists have done is to improve the
power OF the subatomic bullets and
their own craftsmanship in using
them.
pr. r. j. Van de Graft and his
associates at Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology reported inn
provements in their electro-static
generator by which it is now possible
to obtain steady currents of appre-
cable size with voItages 10 excess
Iof i've million volts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

buying new type for the wore
KILLED?
When will the brains of the Off
Gals and police and all those safety
wind-bags show a little common
sense?
The cars are all right, both ole
and new. The one behind the whee
must have a scare thrown into him
but not by painting crosses on the
streets.
Stickers are all right as now used
but they do not catch the killer
driver. Put out a bunch of police
men, not on feather bed seats as the
whole police force is now, but made
to walk and in plain clothes (othel
men or women could be used) ano
watch the many drivers who fail
to stop and do other things-ther
all that is necessary is to take the
license number, time of day, type
of car, and turn the report in tc
police or court and the one that
the license was issued to called in
and fined So, SIS, $40 as to the num-
Der of times reported.
After that he is barred from driv-
ing. The law does not have to prove
the driver guilty but driver re-
ported MUST prove he was not OF
his car was not at the place on date
and time
NOW-how is the suggestion going
to work? Easy Instead of printing
every day the number killed-yoU
print that there are men checking
as suggested and what the law OF
ordinance is and if that doesn't take
some of the selfishness out of 80 pei
cent of the drivers then I suggest
giving the police shotguns and when
they see the reckless, selfish driver
shoot him, as he should be the one
killed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

TINE mother returns wholly, In
IL most instances, to normal con-
dition six to eight weeks after
childbirth. During this time, rest
and quiet are important.
Doctors differ as to whether the
mother should lie flat on her back
during the first two weeks or take
a moderate amount of exercise
Doctors nowadays are inclined tc
allow more freedom.
About the fourth day the mother
may begin light exercise. First
she may sit UP in bed and increase
her activity gradually until she car
get into a chair on the tenth OF
eleventh day.
1t is not advisable for the mother
who leaves the hospital on the tenth
to the twelfth day to walk up three
flights of steps to her apartment, Il
she lives in an apartment building
If possible, some one should carry
her.
If she must walk, she should dc
so slowly, and rest frequently. II
usually is best for the mother tt
leave the hospital in the afternoon
SO that she can go home and gel
right to bed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
READER is STRONG
FOR SHERIFF RAY

BY Harold Riley
The citizens and taxpayers OF
Marion County are wondering what
changes opponents of Sheriff Ray
would make in his policies.
The people are entitled to know.
What is the program of the little
clique of politicians who are said
to be supporting Rays opponent in
the primary?
The people are entitled to know.
What does that little group expect
to gain from trying to defeat the
sheriff, who was the peoples choice
in 1884?
The people are entitled to know
Smoke screens have no place in
this campaign. This is an intelli-
gent age. The methods beng used
by the sponsors of the opposition to
Mr.. Ray are outmoded.
Sheriff Ray has boldly and fear
lessly waged his campaign upon his
record in Office. Sheriff Ray is not
anybody's Man Friday" He is not
a Eyes" man or a rubber stamp, He
fills the needs of the day.
DOUBTS PAINTED CROSSES
WILL SOLVE TRAFFIC DEATHS
BY Travelling Man
With all the ballyhoo about
SAFETY don't you get tired of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
SIMPLIFYING" TAXATION-V

"IF the dividend credit is percentage of the adj
justed net income which is less than SIS (and
such percentage is not shown in the foregoing table,
the tax shall be percentage of the adjusted net in
come equal to the of rs, plus eleven thirtyfrst
of the amount by which 625 exceeds the percentage
which the dividend credit is of the adjusted net in
come" (From the new Federal tax bill)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
REMEMBER THE CHILDREN

THE stress child health this week comedies
with the news that IS states including Indiana
now have government approved plans for aid to
dependent children living in homes of close relatives
More than $4,000 children are benefited by the
Federal-state system Eight other states have SUBJ
mitted plans to the Social Security Board
Recent months have seen states take great
strides under the Social Security Act in behalf of
mothers and babies health crippled children and
general child welfare.
But provision has been made for only small
number of the needy dependent children. Estimates
place the total of such children at more than OOO
600 in the United States.
MOREOVER, these new services will not wipe out
49, the chief enemies of childhood
We should make this week for declaring war on
the things that sicken cripple and handicap children
We mean the slums of the cities undernourish-
ment that affects estimated six million children
neglect that the illness of 100000 children
yearly from preventable diseases; Juvenile dein-
quency that haus 100000 youngsters into the courts
every year; the disgrace of child labor, now in
creasing again.
And the fight should not overlook careless auto
driving that kills $4,000 children each year, including
many who have other Fairgrounds than the
streets.
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forced. 1t is my desire to equalize
our tax program throughout Indi-
ana so that the burden of taxes will
not fall upon few or upon any
class of business or property. 1t is
my prayer and hope that through
my efforts, though humble they may
be, I may be able to build up respect
and cooperation for the good of my
people in Indiana"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

Q-Is it possible for singer tc
broadcast from one city, ac-
companied by an orchestra in an
other city?
Ayes; it has been done several
times. The singer wears earphones
to listen to the accompaniment.
Q-What disposition was made of
the ransom money found in Bruno
Richard Hauptmann's garage?
A-Eventually 1t viii be returned
to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
Q-What is a raad?
A-That is the name of the
thunder fish of the Nile River.
Q-who were the first persons in
this country TO keep bees?
A-Probably the Pilgrims, who
brought bees to this country in 1888.
Q-Can you give the quarter score
of the Utah Hawaii football game
played at Honolulu. Dec. 4, 1882
A-First Quarter Hawaii 0, Utah
9; Second Quarter Hawaii I. Uta
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