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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
UNEMPLOYMENT, CHARITY
REAL II. $, PROBLEMS

BY Thomas w. Dorm ShelbyviIle
All the taxpayers of the country
are getting raw deal. Just why do
we pay our waite-collared officials
fabulous salaries, and unlimited ex-
pense accounts, to make a toy Of
the real problems of the nation?
This is more than any logical
minded American can understand.
The real problems facing America
are unemployment and charity, and
the class that needs charity the
most is the aged poor. 1t is a crime
the way Congress has treated the
old-age pension bills.
This is one of the first things that
should have come up last year, IN
stead of being delayed until it was
finally filibustered out. At this ses-
sion, Congress should have begun
where it stopped last year, and
passed an appropriation bill.
Every relief worker knows the
conditions in which the aged poor
in cities have to live. They may not
! be actually starving, but they are
living in prolonged torture.
1t is a disgrace that congress
men can be SO heartless as to neg
lect and push aside legislation for
this worthy class, and yet pour out
billions to farmers-a class that
never could be satisfied.
In war times, when farmers were
getting better than $3.50 a bushel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
NO SAFETY AT SEA

r United STATES steamboat inspectors have, in
~ substance, formally declared that they can no
longer be responsible for the safety of passengers
travelling Anerican-fag ships. They say they
haven't either the necessary money or men to per-
form adequately their duties
We have had grim testimony that something was
wrong with this vital government function in the
Moro Castle and Mohawk disasters. Yet the neces-
sary and radical reforms have not been made by the
Department of Commerce.
Recommendations have been made to Congress.
But even these for the most part Intellectual, have
met little more than Indifference at the Capitol
Why?
How many lives must be lost to get action?
Must we have other Moro Castle and Mohawk
tragedies before we can travel our own ships
confident that the fre-fghting and life-saving
equipment, at least has been thoroughly inspected?
Must we go on With an inspection service so
limited that even lifeboat crews not be proper
ly trained and instructed?
Present conditions suggest that it might even
be good idea to study the possibility of turning
administration and enforcement of maritime safety
laws over to the Coast Guard.
What does Congress intend to dc about it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

NNE of the brightest pages in
" Twentieth Century progress is
the advance in psychiatry. So rapid
have been the strides in the treat
ment and care of the mentally i'll
that it is doubtful if many people
realize how much has been accom-
plished in a few decades.
The triumphant and spectacular
development of this medical spe-
cialty is told in language which the
layman can understand in 'Twenti-
eth Century Psychiatry." Author Of
the book is DR.. William A. White,
superintendent of st. Elizabeth's
Hospital in Washington, d. c., and
one of the worlds most distinguished
psychiatrists.
The first great advance in the
treatment of the insane was the
abolition of the use Of restraint, DR..
White says. The old idea was to
use physical restraint or drugs. One
was as bad as the other, he says,
and both prevented the recovery Of
the patient.
When restraint was abandoned,
something had to take its place.
"And that something was intelli-
gence," DR.. White says.
Two great movements at the turn
Of the century gave psychiatry it's
great impetus. These were DR..
Freud's psychoanalysis and the men
tai hygiene movement, DR.. White
says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

good marriage is what most mothers desire
for their daughters. Yet how many women are
ready to face the question of what a good mar
rage is?
To Judge from common talk the subject it
means a union in which love plays major role.
That is to say we pretend We entirely satisfied
when girl has won the heart of fine though poor
young man who is ready to dedicate his life to her
support.
Our maneuverings in matrimonial markets, how
ever tell different story. There we find that the
women who speak so feelingly of love are doing
everything they to grab additional swag for their
children They would like love, to be sure but the
main item on their shopping list is good income
There's nothing to be said against that either.
But if the income is what we're after, let's say So
decry the dishonest attitude 1t seems to me that
attitude is partly responsible for the high divorce
rate which now disgraces us.
Girls are told over and over, in hundred subtle
ways, that to be loved is the chief aim OF woman
They not told. at least they not told enough
that to love the only complete and salts
factory life.
A return to the old conception of the good mar
rage wouldn't do American homes any HARM and
the old conception was not one in which the wife
received everything social position, ease
and fine family. Instead it was a union upon
which she could spend herself for others, pour out
the richness of her affection and contribute the force
of her being to giving happiness, rather than OBJ
tanning it.
The true marriage, then, is one in which there is
mutual sef-esteem and in which husband and wife
share equally in the responsibility of making home
and preserving their love.
The kept woman, whether maFied o. single IS
not happy person
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
Questions and Answers

IncIose a 3-cent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The indianapolis Times
washington Service Bureau, 1913 18TH
ST, N. W., Washington, ID. C. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Q-Was the late Will Rogers a
Mason?
Ayes; thirty-second degree.
O-What role did Barbara STAN
wyck play in 1.-The Bitter yea OF
General Yen?
A-Megan Davis.
GLOW are Federal laws en-
acted?
A-After a bill has passed both
houses of Congress and has been
signed by the President OF the
United States it is a law. If the
President vetoes it, and it is passed
over his veto by two-thirds ma
joritv in both houses of Congress,
it is also a law. If it is passed by
Congress, and the President does
not act upon it, either by signing
or by veto, it becomes a law after
10 legislative days. except at the
close of a Congress.
C-Where and when was Cecile
CHI minade, the French pianist and
composer. born?
Ain Paris. France, in 1851.
. Q--What is an Enoch Arden mar
riagc?
A-The term is applied to q mar
rage in which ether husband or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
The HOOsier Forum
| aOholly <diSapprove of aOhot you soy-amd will
defend to the death your right to say it-Voltaire.

old, battered, cracked Liberty
League bell was being rung by the
G. o. P, who, for want of leader
ship, are willing to accept man
whose own party turned thumbs
down" in '32 and on whom the ma
ton registered its veto four years
earlier.
The "disgruntled warrior" may
find that the way back to esteem
and confidence is a long, long road
and that the Democratic Party is
willing for the G. o. P. to pick
up the 'hitch- mixers" who desire to
take walk"
During the years when the brown
derby was travelling from the lower
East Side to Uptown it professed to
be the laboring mans friend. How
ever, en- route, it amassed a few
millions of its own and lost its in
terest in "tIe forgotten man." 1t
also lost it's sense of direction, and
fairness and party loyalty.
The President of the United
States faced an emergency that no
other American leader has ever
faced. He met it courageously and
with the approval of majority of
his fellow citizens.
1t is only by tearing down the
Presidents program that the G.. o.
P. can even hope to win in Novem-
Der.
If you would know the strength
of that program ask the man with a
WPA job; the young man in a CCC
camp; the farmer who benefited
through the Triple AZ; the home
owner whose mortgage indebted
ness has been scaled down; the
miner whose living conditions has
been improved and all other classes
except the privileged few represent
ing selflst interests and much
wealth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
LESE MAJESTE

u EP. TREADWAY says Secretary Wallace should
Az be impeached for criticisng the Supreme
Courts processing tax decision.
If the New Deal were as tyrannical as Mr.. Tread
way and his Republican colleagues describe it, the
Massachusetts congressman probably would be stood
up against wall and shot at sunrise for crticisng
Secretary Wallace.
And if some of the proposed bills to curb free
dom of speech and the press were to become law,
then we might be thrown into Jail for suggesting
that Mr. Treadway should take a walk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
OTHER OPINION

We Give the Big Boys Fat Present
1.-THE American Leader. Milwaukee. Wis
AS result Of the Supreme Courts
decision on the AAA, 5000, 100000
will be refunded by the government
to the professors.
This money represents the proc
essing taxes collected from all OF
us, a penny here and 2 cents there
and a nickel somewhere else. Ever
since the AAA was passed, we have
been paying through the nose to
the butcher and the baker and the
cotton mill owner.
The prices went up in a hurry
when the professors saw a chance
to take in more cash. They added
on to our prices not only the amount
of the tax which they had to pay.
but as much more. as they could get
away with.
Now the Supreme Court has re-
funded the money to them. But are
we going to get any of ours back?
We should say not!
The total result of the whole AAA
fiasco has been that we paid a big
bonus to the packers as reward
for their skill in robbing the con-
SunerS.
The AAA was designed to fleece
the city consumer in the first place.
However, it was some slight conso-
lation to know that at least part
of the high prices we paid went to
help the farmers, so they could buy
little more city goods.
But the government caught us
coming and going. The farmer has
his money and probably won't be
asked to pay it back, chiefly because
he has spent it all. The govern
ment is short s2O0,OoO,OOO which it
was counting on to use for general
expenses, since it had to advance
other money to pay farmers.
And where will the government
go to make up this $500. 900, 900?
Right back to us, probably
Since the Supreme Court rules out
anything that taxes the rich for the
benefit of the poor, the only thing
to do is to find out some further
way to tax the poor-a new sales
tax scheme or income taxes on lower
incomes or something Of the sort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01

| wife has been absent without eXpia
nation for many years, usually
seven. The term is derived from Al
fred Tennyson's poem, "Enoch Ar
den."
Q-What kind of light was used in
the ancient lighthouse of Pharos?
Alt was lighted by fires, fed
with oak logs. These had to be car
rled up the tower 100 feet, and the
light above the water, including the
height of the island, was 500 feet.
Q-Are there schools which have
classes for men in beauty culture?
h-Central Beauty College, inter-
national Beauty and Barber School,
342 E. Westinghouse, Indianapolis.
Q-Can the word nickel, meaning
the name of metal or the scent
piece. be spelled rickle?
A--Nickle is the name of a wood
pecker, especially the European green
woodpecker. The name of the metal
and of the coin is always spelled
nickel.
Glow many qualified voters are
there in the United States?
A-The total number of natives
and naturalized citizens over Il
years of age is approximately 65.-
100000. The total number who quail
fed by registration in 1892 was 49,
962,530, and the number thus quail
fed in 1884 was 47,s59,928.
Q-What does the name Itch
tucknee mean2
Alt Is Seminole Greek Indian
name meaning 'blistered tobacco \
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
CHARGES SMITH TRIED
TO CONCEAL FACTS

BY Perry Rule, Bringhurst
Al Smith in another one of his
baloney speeches attempted to con-
ceal the true purpose of his organi-
zation-the Liberty League-by
wrapping the American flag about
himself and his group of benefit
seeking allies.
AL said that it was hard for him
to do it, but perhaps he thought it
was worth the money; evidently the
contributors thought it a good in
vestment.
From his talk, the conclusions are
that the organizations purpose is
to function as an auxiliary to the
G.. o. P. -patters, hoping to
help them win control of the gov
eminent. This would make his or
SANITATION, because of service rem
dered, eligible to profitable grants,
among them hands-off policy to-
ward big business.
Al stated there were three classes:
the rich, poor and middle classes.
He said the poor had nothing to
pay with and that the middle class
will pay. This indicated that he is
working for exoneration of the rich.
AL gave his hearers to understand
that he did not want the rich
soaked. Those who are wise are
wondering if Shouse and Al are not
soaking the rich, judging from the
names of the contributors to their
organization, and the amounts con-
tributed.
At the close of the talk a gentle
man from the South who introduced
AL said that language lis made
quate to voice appreciation for con-
tributors from all who approve Of
their plan"
The desire for contributors seems
to be foremost in the minds of the
pretended uplifters of humanity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01

for wheat and $3.50 for corn, have
heard them crying for the govern
ment to pension them, just like it
did the soldier. They have kept at
it, until Uncle Sam has been soft
enough to do it.
If the American business man
had been helped in proportion to
the farmer, you would see no I'M
employment now, and the worker
would eat the farmer back into real
prosperity.
I'm glad the soldiers finally sue
ceeded in getting their bonus. Let's
give something to some one be-
sides the farmer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
HOUSEKEEPING COSTS

TINE ordinary housekeeping cost of government
n is greater today than it has ever been in any
time in the history of the republic, Al Smith told
his Liberty League audience.
The accuracy of that statement depends upon
what expenditures you choose to include in "ordi-
nary housekeeping costs of government
1t is not accurate you consider only those items
which included in the budgets of the Hoover
Administration before the government started to
attack the depression by spending.
In the last full year under Mr. Hoover, the fiscal
year 1882. the governments housekeeping costs
totalled S45O6 500 3o5 In the first full year under
Mr. Roosevelt the fiscal year 1ssS-34 items of that
type were cut down to ss,239,59OO7s Thus did the
Roosevelt Administration undertake to make good
Gu the Democratic party platform pledge to cut
expenses 2s per cent. But it didn't make good for
long. For not only did Congress have to pour out
billions in emergency relief expenditures, but Con-
gres also-over the Presidents resistance-restored
salary cuts, veterans benefit reductions and other
economies until the ordinary items swelled back
almost to former proportions Almost but not quite
ordinary items for the current fiscal year are bud
geted at s4122,737,l5l, better showing than the
last full Hoover year by 37S millions.
Yet who knows but what great many items now
included in the emergency expenditures have in
reality already become ordinary housekeeping
costs" OF the government.
EFT us turn back t. the early days of the repub-
~ lie Thomas jefferson founder OF the party
now in power, also was elected on platform pledg-
ing economy. He too made gcod-at the start
cutting government costs from a total Of, about
seven million dollars to total Of about fdw mil
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
ADVENTURE
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

Beyond the hill lies that seek,
Over the tip OF the mountain peak
Or where the dangerous river flows
Down to the sea, there it goes!
Across the blistering sand it lies,
Deep in the swamp where the
bittern cries,
Down in the depths of the salty sea
I hear its voice tempting me.
The wind comes coaXing at my ear
From far, far place. While I hear,
The hearth fire CLOVIS with welcome
light
I'll go tonorrow-I1l stay tonight!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
I our
Health
DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
VXTHEN the baby has reached
Wv the age of 8 to 10 months. it

WHEN the baby has reached
w the age of 8 to 10 months, it
should be weaned.
In the weaving process, the bottle
gradually should supplant breast
feeding. If weaned abruptly, with
out having had time to get>usede to
bottle. a baby may refuse toseat
for time and, in this way, harm its
health.
If the nursing infant has been
accustomed from birth to taking
one bottle feeding day, the wean-
ing process, of course, is not so diff
ficult.
A strong minded or stubborn child
may refuse to take artificial feed
ing for even "a or SO hours; but it
will eat, if it gets hungry enough.
1t should, of course, be given water,
since it is dangerous for an infant to
do without water.
Before a child is weaned it may
be necessary to give it extra food Of
various kinds. Surplus vitamin II
is not needed in its diet if the baby
can be given sunshine baths or
ultraviolet rays in some other form
But this is not readily available
to all infants, the doctor usually
advising the mother to give cod
liver oil or viosterol after the first
month.
Nursing babies seldom develop
scurvy. However, it is wise to in
clude citrus fruit juices, particularly
orange juice, as part Of the baby's
diet. incidentally, most physicians
delay prescribing orange juice until
the sixth or seventh month.
A DDITION of other foods to the
L n diet depends somewhat on the
amount OF milk the baby gets from
its mother. 1t is well, however, to
include additional foods by the sew
enth or eighth month.
Among foods first added are ce-
reals, vegetable purees, scraped
meats, beef, liver and egg. Give
these foods one at a time, just to
make certain the baby can handle
them satisfactorily.
AS artificial feeding begins, be
certain that the cows milk is fresh,
clean, free from preservatives. See
that it is whole milk, and not
SKINNED milk; that it contains no
dangerous germs or poisonous sub
stances, that it has been paSteur-
lied or certified, and that it has
passed the standards of suitable
health department.
Milk should usually be given the
baby within "a hours after it is de-
livered. If kept more than 48
hours, there may be changes detri-
ment to the baby's health.
Many physicians prefer that all
milk given to babies be boiled. If
this is done, be sure to see that the
child gets extra vitamin D and
orange juice, since the anti-scurvy
vitamin is destroyed in boiled milk.
Do not feed the child frozen
milk. Delicate infants may become
sick from taking milk that has been
frozen, because of concentration of
fat on the surface.
The superstition that weaving in
the summer is dangerous does not
hold true today. In an earlier day,
summer weaving was rather risky,
because milk available in the hot
weather was not usually safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
WPA ASSIGNMENTS BRING
WORKERS COMPLAINT

By E'Claire
Wayne Coy stated that no trans
portation can be paid on projects
where cost of such transportation
wasn't originally figured in. I don't
believe WPA workers want to be
unreasonable, but we can't under
stand why we are sent from one end
of town to another so we must pay
from 20 cents to SO cents car fare
daily when there are projects near
our homes. A grade school boy
could make better assignments.
Surely this isn't a "pay-back'
racket with the car company, is it
Mr.. Coy? Contract trucks are all
we can stand)
Of course, Mr.. Coy, you don't
mention about the men on pro-
jects who were figured in the esti-
mates at $S5 to $94 a month AND
are getting only $55 month.
Come on, Times, stick to your
motto, "Give Light and the Peo-
pie will find their own way"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
CHEER UP, EUGENE

TINE stakeholder, said Eugene G. Grace last May
i in an. attack on the New Deal is "tle real
forgotten man." Mr. Grace. who heads the Amer
lean Iron & Steel Institute will be heartened to note
that remembrance has arrived in the form of
million dollar net income for United States Steel for
1s35-first such black-ink showing since 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
THINKS AL HAS FORGOTTEN
EARLY DAYS

BY L. ]. Benson
'Let Freedom Ring" was the most
timely cartoon of the day!
The "old brown derby" is anti
quated, frayed at the edges and
cracked. Only jealousy and bit
terness over personal defeat could
prompt a man to belittle an erst-
while friend, denounce his party
and make himself the laughing stock
of the nation.
The most significant feature about
the cartoon was the fact that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01

r TITLE Hoosier boys are doing
- all right, too, in repartee Our
brave little office boy, the one with
the black, nicely combed hair, was
about to leave for a subzero dash
for black coffee for one of the
older men ON the staff the other
morning.
Wont you have one, too?" the
older man invited, feeling just a
bit guilty at sending him out in
the cold.
Busy with his duties, which he
unfailingly performs no matter how
routine and uninspiring they may
be, the office boy Tipped back:
mo, guess not. It might keep
me awake"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01

(Times readers are invtted to eGD, ess
their uiea0s in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make uour letter 8
short. so all can haze q chance. Limit
them to ESQ 10ords or less Your letter
must be stoned. but names t0il be
t0ithheld on re0ueSt.j
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
Squaring
The Circle
With
THE HOOSIER EDITOR
THE HOOSIER EDITOR

ONCE the Indians picked of
~ George Pogue back in 1922 in
the last life-taking raid in Indiana,
the Indians have taken to books on
their reservations and are doing
right well.
DESIGN
I don't know how
I make a design,
But I do.
A line here
A line there
Ard I'm through.
That gives you an idea Of how
well they have mastered the gentler
arts. It's taken from the regular
publication of the Office of Indian
affairs at Washington which has
come to this desk regularly for
months but which never before at
tracted the attention of this column.
THAT poem was written, if I
- have my index straight, by
Alfred Little Tail, a pupil in ele-
mentary schools on an Indian res
ervation. The young braves and
squaws are taught to ranble along
with pencils. Here's the beginning
of a story so written about Shaker,
monkey.
I'VE guess Shaker is a boy. He
is so mean. He chews everything.
He chews buttons. He chews pen
ellis. He chews paper. He chews
his spoon, too. He even chews his
pants"
That's pretty good reporting if
1t isn't anything else, and it's bet
ter than an outside 8-to-5 chance
that it's going to develop into litera-
ture some of these days.
THE white boys and girls have
- grown up bit, too, and have
learned to express themselves more
forcefully. The other cold night a
smartly dressed office girl walked
into a street car, sat down by a
good-looking boy, and rode in silence
for several blocks.
Then she turned to the boy, who
was obviously stranger, and said,
with a perky smile:
"How are you? Not, of course,
that I give darn, but it does help
conversation.
1t occurred on the Central-av line,
in about the 1400 block, at about
4:45 on the afternoon of Jan. 81.
The conversation went on all right
after that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
DAILY THOUGHT

10, children are an heritage Of
the Lord; and the fruit of the
womb is His reward.-Psalms
cXxvii, 3.