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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

CtINCE the Tennessee Valley Authority yard
panies in the have made almost phenomenal
progress, largely a result of rate reductions
Tennessee Electric Power Co. ranks thrtieth in
the country for number of domestic meters yet after
IVA pointed the way, this company rose to first
place in the entire country in increased kiowatt
hours sold per residential customer. 1t ranked first
in electric ranges sold. second in refrigerators
third in water heaters, and all in an with COM
paratively low spendable income
Georgia Power Co. ranks twenty third yet at the
end of the first year of rate reductions it had sold
more refrigerators than any company in the coun-
try 1t was first in water heater sales; second in
electric ranges In sales of kilowatt hours per Gus
TONER it ranks first among all companies east of the
Rockies. 1t is so per cent ahead of the national
average in this respect
Alabama Power Co. is smaller than the two
others, with only 10000 customers, yet it has far
outsripped its class since the rates went down I'M
der the iva example. 1t is fortieth among the
nations utilities in number of meters served yet it
ranks fourth in refrigerator sales.
Or it can be put another way. Georgia Power,
for example, increased refrigerator sales the first
year of rate cuts 176 per cent water heaters 1472
per cent and electric ranges 576 per cent, and dur
ing 1885 these companies showed increasing progress.
This then is the menace" of the IVA it's "de-
structive competition that is said jeopardze every
utility company in the country.
Because of this danger the Supreme Court has
been asked to wreck it.
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GET 1T OVER WITH"

MONT go out and bubble over the evidence
- roared the young prosecutor to an Alabama
= Jury at the fourth trial of Haywood Patterson one
of the Scottsboro Negro defendants. Say to YOUR
selves we're tired of this job and put it behind YOU
Get 1t done quick, and protect the fair womanhood
of this great state!"
One of the jurymen called out: Lets come back
tonight and get it over With They did, and Judge
Cellaghan sentenced Patterson to rs years in prison
From this, and from charges of bias hurled at
the judge by the defendants local counsel it appears
that the seven other defendants are to be tried in
the same atmosphere of passion as has marked the
other trials. Yesterdays shooting certainly will ,ut
lessen that passion.
These trials have stirred Alabama for nearly five
years. Twice the United States Supreme Court has
nterceded in behalf of the "due process" which it
said was denied the Negroes. We do not blame
Alabama for wanting to get it over with"
But this is not the way. Alabama may think she
put this ugly behind her by sending all the
defendants to the gallows to prison for life But
unless she deals them justce-exact and impartial
and free from prejudice-the case will plague
her, Just the Mooney has plagued California
for 20 years.
y Justice eau not live in an air surcharged with
violence and nate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
OTHER OPINION
NEW DEAL
NASHVILLE Republican,

The wit who called Jim Farley's
Jackson Day dinners ''The Last Sup
per" must have had in mind the ter
rife reaction against the New Deal
as shown in the Literary Digest poll.
The final report in this national
poll furnishes a headache to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. In the first place,
the poll has been an acurate guage
in the past two elections, and sec
ondly, of the 48 states, only IL states
of the solid South, and Utah, which
has only four electoral votes, voted
for the New Deal policies.
Indiana voted percentage of
$685. against the New Deal.
A remarkable point in the poll
Just closed is that interest was so
high that almost two million votes
were counted, an increase of nearly
so per cent over the number cast in
the 1884 poll.
The Indiana swing from the New
Deal is shown by the vote in 1892,
which was for Roosevelt by 5467,
and in 1884, which gave his policies
Endorsement by 52.09 per cent, and
the 1856 poll. which votes against
his policies for the first time, CIV
ing him only 1858 per cent favor
able votes
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ton OF the Roosevelt Memorial Hail. And he would
not permit the court to transform itself into legis
lative body. Through his energetic action he en-
deavored to keep the legislative the executive and
the judicial branches of government marching
abreast, each in its own path He would not permit
the Constitution to be used as an instrument of OPP
preston or as justification for special privilege"
Would not the President who advocated the recall
of judicial decisions and fought for reversal of
the Knight decision emasculating the antitrust
laws today be again welding the Big Stick?
Listen to some of T r IS views
THE rapid changes in social and industrial
life :. , have made it necessary, in applying to
concrete the great rule of right laid down in
Constitution, there should be full understand
ing and appreciation of the conditions to which
the rules applied. Our judicial system is
sound and effective 10 the core. There are how
ever, some members of the judicial body who have
Jagged behind in the understanding of those great
and vital changes in the body polite judges, like
executives and legislators, should hold sound views
on questions of public policy which of vital in
terest to the people" Prom his 1908 message tn
Congress.
1T was necessary to reverse the Knight in
the interests of the people against monopoly and
privilege just as it had been necessary to The
bred Scott case in the interest of the people against
slavery and ivilege."-From his autobiography
g. Little permanent good can be done by any
party which worships the states rights fetish or
which fails to regard the state like the county
the municipality, merely convenient unit for
disagreement while in all national matters, of
Importance to the whole people, the nation is to be
supreme over state county and town aiike."-From
his autobiography.
II did not usu1p power, but did greatly broaden
the use of executive power In other words, acted
for the public welfare unless prevented by direct
constitutional or legislative prohibition From his
autobiography.
When, as the result of years of education and
debate, majority of the people have decided upon
remedy for an evil from which they suffer,
and have chosen legislature and executive pledged
to embody that remedy by law and the law has been
finally passed and approved, regard it mon
strous that bench of judges shall then say to the
people you must begin all over again'."-From his
Carnegie Hall speech on March TO- 1912.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
POLLS AND PROBES

THE Administration is wondering whether to laugh
~ off the technique in political pulse taking
or to regard it seriously.
An epidemic of polls and straw ballots is sweep
ing the country, all processing imparality but diff
fering widely in results.
Congress, accustomed to looking with fishy eve
organized demonstrations of public opinion" is
talking about investigating Rep. Walter M. Pierce
ID, Ore) has introduced resolution creating a
committee to determine why these polls are being
started how the people who receive straw ballots
selected, and who determines the manner in which
questions are framed
p. The resolution is pending before the Rules Com
mttee, which presumably will report it if the Ad-
mnstration decides such inquiry would be useful
Many polls have given edge to President Roose-
welt and his policies but The Literary Digest re-
ported majority unfriendly to Roosevelt policies to
date and the newest of the polls that conducted by
DIR Daniel Starch Is consistently reporting findings,
unfavorable to the New Deal. sv~
F., DR.. Starch's poll is reason for congressional
skepucsm. Dr. Starch is, among other things
brother-in-law of Howard c. Hopson of the Associ-
ated Gas and Electric Co., and has figured occa-
sionally in Federal Trade Commission and Senate
Lobby Committee Investigations of that company
alternate the executive committee of A. C. & E.
and one of the three voting trustees of Glass
stockholders with whose help the present manage
ment is kept in control.
The Trade Commission disclosed that his advertis-
ing agency receives substantial fees from A. c. g. E
operating companies.
Last years investigation was started by discovery
that kilograms urging congressman to oppose the
holding company bill were being solicited and paid
for by A. c. & E. representatives, and in some cases
were signed with names taken from phone books
without knowledge of the owners of the names.
DR.. Starch's most recent poll purports to show
President Roosevelt less popular than his New Deal
He reports only 1856 per cent of the people
DESTROYS of seeing Roosevelt reelected.
Earlier polls of his reported that So per cent of
the people believe taxes too high; that 451 per cent
oppose constitutional change to give the govern
ment power, while only 20 per cent favor it;
and that Herbert Hoover leads all other candidates
. as the choice of Republicans for the nomination
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ment. And they said nobody will be
Today our greatest problem is
the unlicensed bootlegger. They
also said they were going to control
and regulate the traffic. Well, you
might as well try to regulate hell.
Have they or will they ever regulate
it? So what can not be mended
must be ended.
And here is another lie of the
vets: Liquor people will obey local
laws. Have they ever obeyed them
In the language of their own lead
ers, are they not in danger of kill
ing the goose that lays the golden
egg? And the blacklist lie of all of
them-"We believe in temperance
and moderation" Shall we then
teach moderation to the young peo-
Pile? Nc, never. Where there is
drink there is danger. Did you ever
see a hog which wasn't first pig?
The leopard can't change his spots.
So allow me to reiterate, what can't
be mended must be ended. Pull
verize the liquor traffic.
Here is another inconsistency of
the vets, when they said, vote for
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment and thus reduce drinking.
They also claimed they would re-
duce taxes and give many a job
job for what? To make booze,
to unfit men to make a living. Ac-
cording to the best authorities, for
every dollar revenue for saloon Ii
cense it costs more than $40 to keep
up jails, poorhouses, police officers
and other expenses caused directly
by drink. Isn't this bad bargain?
Repeal is a failure.
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WOULD RAISE PAY OF
POLICE, FIREMEN
By Oscar F. Stevenson

BY Oscar F.. Stevenson
Returning prosperity with It's
high cost of living and steadily in
creasing revenues from taxation
make the immediate consideration
of the restoration of police and
fremen's salaries to the pre-depres-
sion scale imperative.
Although municipalities are still
compelled to continue some of the
economies forced upon them by the
depression, they no longer are
forced to keep their police and fire
men at reduced standard of liv-
ing.
The members of these depart
ments have borne their part of the
depression. They accepted their re-
duced pay without protest, and con-
tinued to perform their hazardous
duties with efficiency and loyalty.
Some of them have been killed
and wounded. To a great extent,
their sacrifices have gone I'M
noticed. They died without expect
ing public homage, and received
none, for to them the almost daily
encounter with danger is q routine
matter.
In every other respect they are
normal human beings. And they
have families whom they are
anxious to support in manner be-
fitting an American citizen.
But, for example, in city where
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

Health
By
DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
DUY1NG food properly is not just

DUYING food properly is not just
II a matter of choosing anything
that tickles the fanny, and laying
down the money. The person who
does the family marketing must keep
in mind number of facts,
For instance. she must consider
the varying appetites of dad, mother
and the others. If your father is a
laborer. he'll need more food energy
than he would if he were clerical
worker. Brothers and sisters at
work all require more calories than
those at school.
Perhaps Brother Bills an athlete:
If so, he should have more food
energy than Harold, the quiet. studi-
Gus brother.
A quart of milk for each child
and a pint for each adult will pro-
vide one-fourth of the total calorieS
your family needs each day. Bread
and cereals furnish another fourth.
Fruits and vegetables supply one
fifth to one-sixth of the calories.
If the purse runs low, more dried
fruits and canned vegetables may be
used. Remember, however. that
canned tomatoes, fresh cabbage and
potatoes provide vitamin c in large
amounts, and that spinach, string
beans or green peas, carrots and
oranges also afford important vita
minis and mineral salts.
bats frequently are expensive.
Il but good milk provides butter
fat. If your family gets the
amount that it ought to have.
mother need not worry so much
about the vitamin A that comes
from butter.
In general, we use too much
sugar. Syrup and sugars should
constitute about 10 per cent of our
total calorieS.
Dietary authorities believe that
children particularly need not over
emphasize meat. A half ounce of
meat for child to 10 years old.
an ounce for one IL to IA, and two
ounces for an older child or grown
up, should do very we'll Remem-
Der, however. that liver and the
glandular organs, as we'll as kidney
and heart, are richer in iron and
vitamins than muscle meats.
Even if the grown-ups don't get
them so often, children should
have eggs three or four times
week. Cheese, incidentally, is a
concentrated food having the quail
tiles of milk and being especially
rich in calcium.
IN buying food. too. there are other
things to be considered. There
is, of course, the budget question:
division of expense for food needed
for actual nourishment, luxuries re-
ouired for satisfaction of special
appetites, and victuals to have on
hand for entertainment and social
purposes.
Regarding the last item, food has
come to have significant place So
clally in our lives. When you enter
tain friends at dinner, you like TO
provide something extra special"
a custom that fourishes even in
arctic chimes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

Q-Glve the names of the
children of General Grant.
A-Frederick Dent, Ulysses Jr.,
Jesse R. and Nellie.
Q-What is the origin of the Gus
tom OF hanging up stockings for
Christmas gifts?
A-Little Dutch children were
taught to put their wooden shoes by
the fireside on Christmas Eve be-
cause Santa Claus would leave no
gifts unless he saw the shoes all in
q row. Parents probably created
this custom as method of getting
cnlloren to bed on Christmas night.
English children who had no wooden
shoes substituted stockings. From
England the custom comes to us Ill
America.
Q-What is an albino?
A-The term was first applied by
the Portuguese to the white Negroes
OF West Africa. It is now applied
to an individual in whom there is
congenital deficiency of pigment in
skin, hair, iris and choroid of the
eye. The skin is abnormalIy pale.
and the hair is white or pale flaxen,
and the iris is pink. Albinism is
found III many races as a rare con-
clifton. 1t is sometimes a family
trait. 1t occurs frequently among
rabbits, mice, birds and other lower
animals.
GLOW did the English custom
of bringing in and burning a yuIe
log at Christmas originate?
A-From the Scandinavians who.
at the feast of JUL, kiildled a great
fire in honor of Thor. The Cloths
and Saxons called the festival Jul.
and thus the word '..yale'' and
".yuletide' Is derived.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25

Q-Where is the highest hill in
Indiana?
A-The highest elevation in In
diana, 1885 feet, is in the southern
part of Randolph County.
Q-Do cattle have teeth in the
upper jaw?
A-No. In grazing, the vegetation
is pulled rather than cut, by the
lower teeth which press on the
tough membrane covering the up
per jaw.
Glow large was Noai1's Ark9
A-The dimensions are given as
300 cubits by so cubits by 80 cubits,
cubit being about 18 inches, or the
distance from the elbow to the tip
of the middle finger. Reduced to
feet, these dimensions are $50 by
Is by Is feet.
Q-Is Thanksgiving Day always
the last Thursday in November
Ayes.
Q-What Is spirit OF salt9
A-That is an old chemical term
Tor hydrochloric acid, SO called be-
cause it is obtained from salt and
sulphuric acid.
Q-When did the United States
first issue scent pieces?
AIN 1866.
Q-Name the president Of the
United States Steel Corp.
A--William n Irwin.
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TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ,

4 S 1886 gets under way, the orr
"A gin of the worlds supply Of
petroleum has become a bigger
mystery than ever. Evidence now is
accommodating to show that the the
DRY for its origin which was most
popular in the past will have to be
given up.
This theory held that petroleum
had a marine origin, having been
formed through the decomposition
of fatty oils from marine sources
through the action of heat.
However, Dr. Benjamin T. Brooks
of New York points out that there
is good reason to believe that petro-
leum had low temperature origin.
The theory that heat played q role
in the formation of petroleum origi-
mated with Engler in Germany in
1885. This theory, DR.. Brooks said,
probably was accepted at the end of
the last century because of the
common belief then that there was
a great superabundance of heat
deep in the earth.
n
DUT it recently has been shown
u that petroleums contain va
viety of substances which are sensi-
tive to heat and are readily decom-
posed at relatively low tempera-
lures, DR.. Brooks continues.
Among these substances may be
mentioned certain liable sulphur
compounds.
These are substances which are
derived from the chlorolphyll or
green pigment of plants. The ones
present in the petroleum appear to
have come from the minute one
celled plants known as algae.
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REMUNERATION is NEEDED

A THOUGH Messrs. Talmadge and Kirby may
4 n not be permitted to broadcast their Georgia
grass roots" convention over Or" Brnkley's
Mexican radio station we hope they do take the
doctor into camp.
To keep from dying of premature senility the
Talmadge-Kirby movement may have need of the
doctors goat gland treatment
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T. R. AND THE COURTS

WoRDs and deeds of the immortal Teddy will
W prove an embarrassment to those Republicans
who hail him as their prophet while cheering Fed
eral Court vetoes of New Deal legislation For, as
pointed out by Mayor La Guardia of New York, no
President fought harder to keep the courts in their
proper place
He would not permit the Senate to become
court OF justice said Mr. La Guardia at the dedica
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The Ho0sier Forum
acholly disapprove of a0hat you say-ond a0iU
defend to the death yor right to say it-Voltaire.

fItmes readers are invited to cap, sss
their Uietcs in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make uour letters
short. so all can hare chance. Limit
them to ESQ 4cords or less Your letter
must be sidned. but names Dtll be
t0ithheld on re0uestJ
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their salaries have been reduced,
that is out of the question. They
can not afford to pay the rent de-
manded in a decent neighborhood,
and buy really good food and cloth
ing for their families. Luxuries of
life are out of the question.
Men who are worried constantly
about financial matters, who can
not feel the pride of providing for
their families at a fair American
standard of living, can not continue
forever to put forth their best eff
forts.
When they are called upon to meet
the most rigid requirements that
may be demanded of any profess
sion, and they consecrate their
lives to public service, it certainly is
unreasonable to reduce them to an
income that provides only the barest
of necessities for themselves and
their families.
The police department of Indian
apolis has a wonderful record
throughout the United States and
the efforts of the firemen during
the National Board of Fire Under
writer's tests give Indianapolis one
of the lowest insurance rates for a
city of this size in the United States
Why not restore the police and fire.
mans pay?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-25
SMALL
BY MARY r. WHITE

A zephyr breath that stirs bough;
A tiny water drop-a grain of
sand
The tiny bubbles upon hfe's seas,
So inf1nitesimal before the world we
stand.
The soft winds stir the leafy bough,
The bubbles break upon the sea,
The tiny water drop must fall,
But life goes on-unceasingly.
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DECLARES VETS HAVE NOT
FULFILLED PROMISES

~
BY H. S. Bonsib
The vets have been good on
promises, but have fallen short on
fulfilling them. They came as IAN
angel Of light" deceiving the very
elect, if possible-getting many to
believe a lie to be damned.
On the temperance question they
were going to give us new deal,
but it was dirty deal. They were
going to bring about great reforms
by repeating the Eighteenth Amend
ment, but 1t was a deform. They
were going to balance the budget
with beer, but have they? They were
false prophets. Repeal will do away
with bootlegging, but now we have
more bootleggers than ever, and the
higher the license the more boot
leggers you will have. So liquor is
not the remedy.
They said, "All we want is light
wine and beer.' Has that proved
true? They said, Repeal prohibition
And the saloon will never come
back" And have we not now some
thing worse than the saloon? And
here is another lie They said under
no consideration will we ever allow
the return of the bar, the brass rail
and curtained windows of the Old
tlme saloon-an obvious false state
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