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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-07

First Trust Real Estate Notes,
ct current market rates, amply
secured BY desirable properties.
TYLER 6 RUTHERFORD. INC.
1870 K St. N. w. MA. OTIS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
VIRTUE IN RAGS

EOR years California has advertised for tourists
of the better sort, millionaires preferred. Come
beckoned the land of sunshine fruit and flowers and
disport with the bathing beauties where "life is
better"
Since the depression began tourists of another
kind have been pouring over her borders-the dis
possessed, the livver tramps, the new hoboes And
these were just what California boosterdom didn't
want.
Believing in direct action. Los Angeles police
chief sent his strong arm men to the borders and
set up border patrol" They arrested the shabby
tourists, fnger-printed them Migrants and turned
them back to Nevada and Arizona 1t was neat, if
unconstitutional, sort of trick.
The other day man wearing old clothes tramped
across the Colorado River bridge at Yuma to be met
with the usual reception He taken to the finger
printing stockade to be given the buns rush. To the
horror of the police he was recognized there as
George Holmes, discoverer of 100000 gold mine
at Mojave stroll to visit rich friends in Winter
haven. The police released him with profuse
apologies,
Now he may the Los Angeles police chief for
false arrest. But those other Victims the 1ivver
tramps, can't afford a lawyer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
"COIN" HARVEY

THE death of William Hope Harvey in Arkansas
deprives America of a colorful character ira
ditonal to her politics for five decades.
Coin" Harvey's IS years of living illustrated
what William James taught that mans life is sig
nifcant by of his enthusiasts. 1t doesn't
matter so much what stirs us so long as we are
deeply and sincerely stirred.
Coin" Harvey moved all his life by sort
of religious zeal for bimetalisrn. He fought with
Bryan 40 years ago for free silver. He wrote Coins
Financial School," of which millions Of copies were
sold. He studied and criticised the Roosevelt money
policies until death closed his failing eyes, He was
of that passionate school of thinkers who believe
that all our economic troubles be cured by none
tary reforms. In the Elmer Thomases Wright Pat
and the other "inhationists' on Capitol Hill
his soul goes marching
In many ways Coin" Harvey's life was ironical
Although claiming panacea for all civilizations
ills he had become convinced that civilization would
soon perish. AS the Thibetan monks in Hilton's
Lost Horizon" he had started building treasury
house for our doomed civilizations records-a huge
pyramid at his Monte Ne home in Arkansas Like
his dream of sane money" the pyramid remains I'M
realized except for it's stone base.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
RAILROAD REFORM

DREsIDENT RoOSEvELTs prediction program
for solution of the transportation problem re-
mains far from realization
1t is unlikely that Congress. aiming at a May
adjournment, will heed the general reform advo-
Gated by the President or the specific recon-
mendations of his chief transportation adviser Co
ordinator Joseph B, Eastman.
Mr. Roosevelt's many-sided program, built around
the idea of national planning for all forms of trans
portation, given to the country in his Salt
Lake City campaign address of Sept. Is, 1882. He
followed 1t with messages to Congress and last Juns
he mplored that body not to delay consideration of
the major detectives beyond the present session.
Congress, however has contented itself with adop-
ton of the emergency act of 1888 which created the
co-ordinators Office and with passage of two of the
nine measures proposed by Mr.. Eastman These
established Federal regulation of motor carriers and
extended protection to ports and gateways against
preferential freight rates.
Mr.. Eastman, meanwhile is playing a lone hard
In attempting to carry out the program mapped for
him in the emergency act. He has had little success
in persuading the railroads to effect economies
through terminal uncations: he getting little sup
port from the Interstate Commerce Commission:
organized labor is hostile to his consolidation plans
and to his proposals that workers who loe their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13

VXTHEN the high tide of life is past and the chill
w dren married and gone. what is left but
work?"
This remark was made to me by successful
business man. 1t voices think the sentiment of
all his kind. Without some task on which to spend
himself, quest to pursue, adventure to
cite him, man is a lost soul.
The average person admits this In the United
States he is extremely proud of his passion for
push" He regards with disdain the fellow who is
content to waste his time aimlessly. accommodating
nothing and getting nowhere on the road to sue
cess
Now you would think, wouldn't you that indvid-
uals who loved work. putting great faith in it
way of conquering life, would have sympathy for
those who had no such means of finding happiness
But such is not generally the case Instead, many
find it amusing when they told that women
whose children are married and gone long for job
They appear to think that those of us who have
spent years managing large households and caring
for several children ought to be content after 40
Just sitting around waiting for their husbands and
for DEATH
I've known men of unusual intelligence to ex-
press astonishment at the news that unoccupied
women were dissatisfied with their lot. They resent
the restlessness of the modern type Surely they
convinced we are made of different cloth from our
brothers, whose dearest boast is passion for labor
Something like passionate anger rises within me
when hear men poking fun at the bridge playing
matron the cubwoman. the crusader and the mis-
chief making h-t. Such jokes made to cover up
lack of thought the seriousness of feminine prob
lens. For arid wastes as wide as the Cobb Desert
confront millions of mddle-aged women nowadays.
It's true they protected. sheltered loved perhaps
but they are just marking time until the end. and
what man could endure that without complaint
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
Questions and Answers

hundredth grain of arsenic. In the
form of arsenic trioxide, per pound
of fruit This limit is commonly
called the world tolerance for
arsenic residue.
Q-What are thermometers and
how are they constructed?
A-They are instruments used TO
measure the velocity of the wind.
The best known form is the hem
spherical cup thermometer invented
in 1916 by Robinson. 1t consists of
four hemispherical cups which ro-
tate horizontally with the wind, and
a combination of wheels which re-
cord the number Of revolutions il a
given time.
Q-what species of birds make
the longest flight?
A-The golden plover that fly
from Nova Scotia to South Ameri-
ca, and in fair weather cover the
distance of 2400 miles without stop
ping, probably making the trip in
a8 hours. Most migrant birds fly at
night and rest in the daytime, or
vice versa. but the ploVer fly both
day and night.
Q-What are dingoes?
Avid dogs of Australia. They
are very destructive TO sheep.
Q-How many auto accident
fatalities occurred in New York and
Pennsylvania in 1894?
Anew York had 2790 and Penn
sylyania had 257l.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
SELLERS is FLAYED FOR
TOWNSEND ATTACK
By a Subscriber. NohlesvilIe

BY Subscriber, Noblesville
I suppose nearly every one who
takes The Times heard the
Townsend Sellers broadcast. Sellers.
like the other peanut politicians and
yes-men, seems welded abjectly to
the fallacy that a starving popula-
ton, fed, clothed and housed as IT
has a right to be, would not create
more work and more pay.
He does not seem to remember
when we we're all working and
supplying ourselves with about one
third of what we could have con-
suned; that the money was in many
hands and circulated freely. We had
then what we now refer to as pros
perity.
And Mr.. Sellers need not worry
about our faith in DR.. Townsend
and our dimes and quarters. If he
will notice closely he will see that
we who are supporting this move
ment are not entirely broke. And
we most willingly contribute to this
cause, even if only to educate the
people and make them think and
understand why this nation is in
its present condition.
Mr.. Sellers laid great stress on
the fact that Dr. Townsend was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13

jobs in coordination projects be given dismissal
compensation.
The Presidents program outlined in 1882
favored continued government lending only insofar
as loans were sound and would enable the roads to
pull themselves out of the mire He added that they
should be made contingent on the readjustment of
top-heavy financial structures
Government credit" he said then, "is largely
wasted unless with it there are adopted the
structive required to clean house. Lending
is all right if you put the borrower in posi-
ton to pay it back"
ID ECORDS of the Reconstruction Finance Corp
~ show that s161 ,799,75o has been lent to the
riers during the Roosevelt Administration, compared
with $325,417074 under President Hoover. OF these
sums 1898 1863 is still outstanding s7337SS71 hav-
ing been repaid under Mr. Roosevelt and $40 984
under the preceding Administration
Nevertheless, SO railroads are in bankruptcy or
receive Up. These involve 65272 miles of road
more than &c pr cent of the total mileage
The Presidents program also called for elimina-
ton of wastef competition with public protection
from monopolistc practices; consultations with
safeguards to workers, investors and communities;
regulation Ut holding companies; revision ct re-
ownership laws; formation of a national transporta-
ton plan, and relaxation of Federal control with
encouragement and cooperation substituted for
stricton and repression"
The emergency act extended ICC jurisdiction
holding companies which had been formed to cir
cumvent ICC powers consultations, repealed
the law for recapture of earnings, and gave
the co-ordinator power to order indications with
view to eliminating wastefu Implications.
Nearing showdown continuation of his Of
flee. Mr.. Eastman is preparing to invoke his powers
of ordering terminal indications in instances where
voluntary action has been refused. Even Mr.. East
has doubts of the constitutionaliy of this
power and unless his Office is given life there
is little chance that the consultations will occur
The emergency act expires in June and the
ordnator has asked that his Office be continued for
at least five years That is reasonable request. 1t
should be granted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
FEB. 10, 1896
I our
Health
By
DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

OLDER people must be careful
~ not to overeat. Persons over
SIS years of age, in fact. should eat
and drink a little less every year.
Moreover, they must choose food
that is easily digestible and does
not disagree with them. All foods
likely to cause indigestion, such as
rice and highly spiced dishes,
should be avoided.
Since the teeth in old age are not
what they were in younger days,
the food eaten should be well sieveds
or strained. There are two periods
of life in which the stomach and in
testines do better with thin and
soft foods-first and second child
hood
Older people should consider
whether they do better with five
small meals a day than with three
larger ones. Large amounts of
food, and, particularly, the wrong
kinds of foods, may put burden
on the heart. Many people with
weakened circulation of the blood
have circulatory accidents imme-
diately after eating large meal.
Old people suffer, too, from dis
turbances of digestion because of
the changes that have taken place
in their body secretions. And they
have difficulty in keeping infection
away from their teeth.
The principal meal of the elder
ly person should be taken near the
middle of the day; and may include
soup, a small portion of meat.
chicken, or fish, two well-Sieved or
broken-up green vegetables, and
little stewed fruit, with small
amount of tea, coffee or milk, &C
cording to individual preference.
A S the older person tends to be
4 n overweight, he should avoid
excessive amounts of sugars and
starches. He should sidestep ce-
reals, potatoes, macaroni and spa
ghetti, except in small quantities
An excessive intake Of water, in
cidentally, throws an unnecessary
extra strain on the heart.
The bowels in old age are not as
active as they we're when the per-
son was younger. In many in
stances, aged persons escape consti-
patton by using mineral oil. This
serves the purpose of softening the
nutritional mass and making elimi-
nation easy. -
Mineral oil is practically harmless
and adds years of health to many
older people.
And though, as mentioned pre-
viously, teeth grow less efficient
with age, modern dentistry has
made it possible for old people to
chew steaks or vegetables with con-
siderable fibrous content. For this
reason, many an older person will
try to handle foods with which the
rest of his body may have difficulty
Thereafter, he may resort to lax.
atives or cathartics to rid himself of
accumulations of foods which hs
never should have eaten.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
PERHAPS THEY'LL CHANGE
PARKING PLACES

BY Observer
just at dusk, a few minutes before
5, l was driving south on Capitol at
Market-st, and visibility was poor.
A large truck was following a light
sedan ahead of me. Both stopped
to make left turns into Market-st.
I swung to the right to pass them
and had to apply the brakes as did
those following me, for there was the
Governors bullet-proof Airf1ow, uni
formed chauffeur, No. star license
and all, parked on the crosswalk in
viting accident. No one was getting
in or out. 1t was just obstructing
traffic.
1t would seem that with the whole
north side yard of the Statehouse
available for parking space for
Statehouse cars, this is wholly un-
necessary. I learned that the Gov
ernor himself was out of town, as
usual, at that time.
Next day was crossing Market
at the east side of the Circle and
noticed a Lincoln sedan double
parked, obstructing traffic for
pedestrians and vehicles. I watched
it for five minutes and it was still
there when I left. Later I discov-
cred the No. % license belonged to
the Mayor And some people Won
der why Indiana and Indianapolis
rank far above the average in auto
accidents.
1t seems the privileged few park
where they please as long as they
please.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
The Hoosier Forum
l a0houy disapprove of what you sdy-amd a0iL
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Voaire.

eliminated the terrific waste of du-
plicate capital investment, equip
ment and labor found in our pri-
vately owned production and distri-
button system. The Soviet system
will produce abundance for distri-
button.
Our system must depend upon a
scarcity production of manufactured
goods and food to insure a profit to
the producers. Our system works
only for the producers-the con-
sumers are only incidental in the
scheme. Can we reverse our econ
omy, to make it operate solely for
the consumer, as is the case in the
Soviet Union? Not unless profit
reaches the vanishing point.
The private profit system is loss
in more ways than on. Businss
losses for five years past have been
more than 26 billion dollars Failure
to operate our industrial plants at
capacity has produced loss of 275
billion in new products, which we
could have made and consumed in
these five years.
Does that show intelligence or
superiority? If we are to survive at
all, we must modify our economic
structure, by eliminating the waste
of duplicate capital investment, use
less labor, and produce an in
tegrated system of production
through ordination and co-opera-
ton. 1t may be possible to trans
form the present system into such
by using income bonds to acquire
title to this physical property for
production, as we used to acquire
title to the gas company plant.
No confiscation is necessary to
make our system work solely in the
interest of the consumer. We lack
balance in our economy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
CHANGE IN ECONOMIC
STRUCTURE URGED

BY H. L. Seegar
If in 1897 the Russian experiment
of production for use creates a
higher standard of living for the
common people than can be found
in any other nation, the backward
nations" will have difficulty in
maintaining production for profit,
1t is not the communist agitator
IN capitalistic countries who is a
menace to production for profit, but
the 100 million communists working
together in the Soviet Union to Gre
ate a new social order, with visible
results in constantly rising standard
of living.
A debate on the merits of COM
munism will not settle superiority Of
either capitalism or communism;
but the proof of the pudding is in
the eating. There is no unemploy-
ment in the Soviet Union. Every one
is permitted to make a personal
contribution in mental or physical
labor toward lifting the standard of
living there.
That system of production has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
MINTON'S REPLY TO RASKOB
WINS SUPPORTER

BY Factory Employe, Newcastle
Why didn't l vote for Sherman
Minton for Senator?
Well. I wasn't a Democrat and
besides I thought he was just an
other Office seeking lawyer.
I'm still not Democrat but re-
CARELESS of party affiliations l am
sure that any Hoosier who has read
Senator Minton's reply to John
Raskob's invitation to join the A.
L. L. should feel proud to call him
our Senator. In that answer he
gave conclusive proof as to whom he
represents and that he has the
courage of his convictions, plus a
conscientious regard for his con-
stituentS.
Should the opportunity again
present itself will back the truly
honorable Sherman Minton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
BRIGHT THOUGHTS
BY JOSEPHINE MOTLEY

Give me bright thoughts,
For they are harbingers of Spring;
Like small wild flowers unfolding
When first the blue birds sing.
Too much of life
Is dull, monotonous and cold;
Yet when deeds are. good and
thoughts are bright,
The heart seldom grows old.
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not on the platform to oppose him.
We, the Townsend people, were not
disappointed. The doctor does not
claim to be an orator. And he is
not young man any more. We
want him to conserve his strength
that he may live to see the fruits
of his service to mankind.
We realize that such taunts and
ridicule as Mr.. Sellers INDUCES in
are disconcerting to a man of DR.
Townsend's type. A sincere, sympa-
thetic and honest man, not educated
in the art of debating, is at dis
advantage when faced by the subtle
insinuations by such able masters
of the art as Mr.. Sellers.
Mr.. Sellers attack was typical of
all the opposition. 1t resorted to
ridicule, made statements, proved
nothing, and steered clear of exist
ing conditions.
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medical ADVICE can not De glVeny nor
can extended research be undertaken.
O-Is there any heat in the
moons rays?
A-Moonlight is reflected ligfi,
from the sun. Rays of the sun fall
ing on the moon sets up heat there
which is Immediately radiated away
into space, because the moon has
no atmosphere to hold the heat on
its surface. The reflected light
reaching the earth as moonlight
does set up some heat on the earth,
but the amount is so small that it
can only be detected by delicate in
struments.
Q-what is "4-year-old geld
ing?"
A-The expression is used to des-
ignat a race horse 4 years old that
has been gelded.
Q-What does the term, world
tolerance for arsenical residue,
mean?
A--The provisions of the Federal
Foods and Drugs Act Of 1906, as
administered by the United Estates
Food and Drug Administration, and
as accepted by most public health
authorities, do not permit an arsen-
| ic residue Of more than one one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

nNE hundred and fifty of the
" nations leading experts on al
Toys are cooperating with the En-
cheering Foundation of New York
in project which aims at assemb-
ling the worlds knowledge of steel,
alloy steel, alloy iron, cast iron.
How extensive this body of
knowledge is, can be cleaned from
the fact that the foundations COM
mittee has already collected and
classified abstracts of 1890 scien-
tif1c papers. Chairman of the COM
nittee is Prof. George B. Water
house of Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology.
The committee has already pub
lished six monographs. Nine more
are in preparation and five more
are planned.
This project is of immense i'm
portance to the whole nation as
well as to the steel industry because
steel and its alloys are the foun-
dation of modern industry.
NEW uses are being found con-
~ tinuously for stainless steel and
other varieties of alloy steels, the
so-called tailor made steels."
DR.. Alfred D. Finn, director of
the Engineering Foundation, re-
Gently announced the appointment
of three new members of the COM
mittee which is known as the Al
Toys of Iron Research Committee.
The new members are DR.. John
Johnson, director of research of
the United States Steel Corp;
Wilfred Sykes, director of the In
land Steel Co.. and James T. Mac
kenzie, metallurgist and chief chem
list of the American Cast Iron Pipe
Co.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13

Times s.eo1er5 are tnpfted to erpress
their Oietos in these columns. religious
CONTROVERSIES excluded. Make pour letters
short. so all can have a chance. Limit
them to ESQ soords or less. Your letter
must be si0ned. but names toill be
tcithheLd on renMeSt !
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-13
DAILY THOUGHT

And Jesus said unto him. No
man, having put his hand to the
plough, and looking back, is fit for
the kingdom of God.-St. Luke 9;62.
TINE wavering mind is but a base
4 possession. -Euripides.