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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-02-21

reer on the air ~ well.
Roblnson But comparatively few
Of these movie folk
can sing well enough to broadcast suc-
cessfu1iy. The answer to that Is q
sketch. And good sketches are, alas.
all too few. sae
For example, take our friend Mr..
Robinson, Of Little Caesar fame.
When he was on the vallee hour re-
Gently, he had to fall back on 4 sketch
that had been done not too long ago.
only last summer. II q memory not
backed mp BY notes ID reliable.
So-both In Hollywood and New
York. anyone who can manage a type
writer is besieged BY people begging
for "something I can do on the RADIO"
II you can MI that demand, 60 ahead,
and good luck to you'll
-
We may NOT see III Can't Happen
Here on the screen after all. The
Hays Office has requested that the maxi
Ing Of Il be deferred, at lsast, the rsa.
Q being that the political situation
In Il might cause mob trouble-and all
this after Thousands Of dollars have
already been spent on I'll
Money also went down the drain
when Elegance" was abandoned. Joan
Crawford and Clifton Webb were to
have made it-Webb 10 famous for his
work as a.dancer on the stage, He was
at the studio for three months. on sal
airy, working on dance steps. And, then,
come to find out, Joan had been work
ing on an entirely different type of
dance steps. So they had words. and
now the picture won't be made at all.
-
Weep for Claudette Colbert. Her
Paramount contract permitted her to
make an outside picture. (she al do
n each year, so she did Cigarette"
In "Under Two Flags" the pay check
being $150,000. $4,000 more than she
gets on the home lot for q picture.
Taxes win cut that down. however. to
Z bit less than $4,000
When John Barrymore finishes
.Romeo and Juliet" he'll 60 to Alaska
n Ibis yacht for two months Of fshiug-
which recalls the way that Dolores
Costello Barrymore used 10 feel about
that boat. She loathed taking long
trips on it2said that sometimes she
felt that she couldn't bear II much
longer II she couldn't be somewhere
where she could, have her hair washed
and take all the baths she wanted to-
the water supply on the boat not being
too plentiful.
Loretta Young, who has bean on the
screen 20 long because Of illness. will
have "Unguarded Hour" for her ~
turn to the screen.
Randolph Scott and Fred Astaire
are great friends-and Astaire is teach
ing the tall and elegant Randolph to
do fancy dance steps. That Is, he
was before the arrival Of Fred Astaire,
Jr., became more important than any
n else In his fathers life.
II you heard John Boles on the air
in .Green Grow the Lilacs," and liked
his performance. it's too bad that you
couldn't have seen the broadcast John
b tall-six feet three inches-and Miss
Walker. who made movies years ago.
IL only five feet tall. She's q delight
full person. as you may have guessed
from those b~roadcasts she does with
n~A~aA T4-vA>
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
THE FIGHT FOR FUNDS

A GROUP of Senate Democrats, headed by Sen
ator Wagner is seeking additional 100000 for
the National Labor Relations Board to enable it to
keep up with its crowded docket and to fight the Is
injunction suits which are threatening it's work.
An Appropriations Subcommittee will decide the
fate Of the additional fund.- which the House rejected
last week. The proposal is to add this amount to the
deficiency appropriation BILL which carries funds to
finance this and other agencies until July /.
Eleven decisions have been handed down by Fed
eral District Courts far in injunction suits against
the Labor Board six of them dsmissing the suits
and five tying the boards hands. This leaves IA
pending, in addition to appeals planned by employers
in some of the boards six victories.
Although more than 200 cases filed since the
board started operations in November have been set
tied by decisions or by compliance with the Wagner
Act, 287 cases were pending JAN and they COM
ing faster than the present staff handle them.
In the House, Chairman Connery of the Labor
Committee sponsored the proposal to increase the
$275 900 provided by the House Appropriations Com
mittee. The House rejected the increase 51-64,
without formal roll call.
On the Senate floor, if the Appropriations Com
nlittee does not recommend inclusion of the increase
the objection of single Senator can block such a
proposal as 'out Of order"
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

lions How small those sums sound now as we deal
in billions and consider millions small change in
counting government costs. They sounded small
before the rule of the original Jeffersonians
ended. Fifty years later the government was oper-
ating on 40 million dollar budget, and 100 years
later a 500 million budget and on, by geomet-
rc progression until today the government is spend
ing, for both ordinary and emergency purposes,
around 1000 millions.
What Al Smith said about ordinary housekeep-
ing costs of government being greater this year
than ever before may not seem to be exact, but it
may prove to be. That depends upon how many Of
costs now listed as emergency become ordi-
nary costs Certainly it is statement which could
have been made with accuracy almost any year
since the beginning of the republic
Bureaucracy is self lfperpetuating and selfjncreas-
ing. But the explanation is not that simple. Our
Federal household grows ever larger and more COM
plex, and as its problems and needs expand so do
its expenses.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
DECENT HOMES

A DIRECT attack on the home building and
ership policies of the Administration has been
launched by Frank Watson, former New Deal attor
ney and co-author of the Federal Housing Act, in a
research report made for Purdue University
"The housing problem is not yet solved" he as
serts "The present home building drive of the Ad
miniSration in Washington can not succeed and no
amount of effort in the field of looselcd credit for
home building and home mortgages can give rise to
an of sound residential construction where it is
impossible to build houses which people can not af
ford to live in and pay for"
Mr. Watson bases his conclusions on series of
studies of non-farm family incomes. He found that
35 per cent not afford to build and own $250O
home; So per cent are barred from houses costing
$34o0 &c per cent not build for $42oo rs per cent
for $780, and 80 per cent are out of the $1,000 home
class.
These studies not only indicate that mortgage
programs and publicity programs for home owner
ship can not by themselves produce era of sound
residential construction" he warns, "but through
their tendency to induce people to over-buy homes
they may bring about era of unsound construc-
ton activity which will react positive evil to the
home owner and the real estate and construction in
dustry"
There is no great possibility in cost reduction so
far Mr.. Watson finds. No member of the chain
of material sellers is regarded taking too much
profit. Building trades wages are high in terms of
hourly rates but low in terms of annual incomes.
Experience shows that the present system of home
building is apparently essential, he concludes, and
mo change short of complete revolution engineered
through the combined efforts of the entire building
industry" accomplish the task of providing de-
cent homes which American families can finance.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY /, 1886.
MIDWINTER MADNESS

HTAYBE it's the weather or sun spots or the moon
Iva the spread of the bacillus politicus just
one Of those periodic outbreaks of human cockeyed-
ness but it does seem we Americans are acting sort
of foolish.
To common sensible folks the shr alarms
screechng through the air from Talmadge, Knox
Fish, Hoover ct al, sound hysterical So much so
that Alf Landon's comparatively mild utterances are
welcomed as the voice Of sweet reasonablenesS-
Things on Capitol Hill surely are going a bit
dizzy There Congressman Treadway demands i'm
peachment of Secretary Wallace for critcizing the
Supreme Court. There Representatives Mccormack
and Kramer pushing their crackpot bills to gag
critics of the army and navy and the government.
There flourish the bay tree lottery and infation-
ary tax and security schemes. There CALIFORNIA;
aged poet laureate McGroarty puts on motley and
rushes through the House silly motion cutting sup
port from the Indian Bureau, which he said he's
waited 40 years to "get d whack at"
Union labor is not immune from the current
epidemic of folly. President Green of the A. F. of
L. courts open break with the powerful United
Miners over industrial organization, and Miner
Lewis hurls defiance, with the possible result that
unionism, long united, may divide-and be con-
quered.
All the madness isn't in Washington A Seattle
candidate for mayor jumps into pool TO remind
the incumbent his promise to duck himself if he
broke platform promises. Everybody is playing the
new parlor game Monopoly, whose inventor is dis
covered to be southern lady sngletaXer still poor
Bronx ZOO "hippo" gives birth to a baby weigh
ing pound and half and gaboon viper in New
York's produces 81 little vipers at birth.
dog goes mad, and bites five children in Virginia
school.
It's about time to recall the story of the late
Dwight Morrow. While Ambassador in Mexico, he
was bothered by citizens who to him almost
daily with some new crisis.
Remember rule No. g." he would tell them. At
first they impressed, but finally they became
curious and asked what this rule might be.
'Rule No. g." he said, sis: Don't take things too
seriously"
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
UNEMPLOYMENT, CHARITY
REAL u. s. PROBLEMS

BY Thomas w. Dorm, Shelbyvi,le
All the taxpayers of the country
are getting a raw deal. just why do
we pay our white-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. It 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., 1936-02-01
NO SAFETY AT SEA

T United STATES steamboat inspectors have, in
~ substance, formally declared that they can no
longer be responsible for the safety Of passengers
travelling on Arnerican-f1ag 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 radical reforms have not been made by the
Department of Commerce.
Recommendations have been made to Congress.
But these, for the 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 own ships
confident that the fre-fghting and hfe-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 do about it?
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

good marriage" is what most mothers desire
IA for their daughters. Yet how many women are
ready to face the question of what good mar
riage is?
Z To Judge from common talk on the subject it
means union in which love plays a major role
That is to say we pretend are 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 nnaneuverngs 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 a hundred subtle
ways, that to be loved is the chief aim of woman.
They are not told at least they not told enough
that to love ensures us the only complete and salts
factory life.
A return to the old conception Of the good mar
riage 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 union upon
which she could spend herself for others pour out
tie 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 self-esteem and in which husband and wife
share equally in the responsibility of making home
and preserving their love.
The kept woman. whether maried or single, Is
not happy person.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
HOUSEKEEPING COSTS

IT ME ordinary housekeeping cost of government
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 if 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 1892. the governments housekeeping costs
totalled $45o6 9o3o5. In the first full year under
Mr. Roosevelt the fiscal year 193S-34 items of that
type were cut down to S3,23 9,590O73 Thus did the
Roosevelt Administration undertake to make good
the Democratic party platform pledge TO cut
expenses IS 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-
gress alsoover the Presidents resistance-restored
salary cuts veterans benefit reductions and other
economics. until the ordinary items swelled back
almost to former proportions Almost but not quite
ordinary items for the current fiscal year bud
geted at s4122, ,7s7151, a better showing than the
last full Hoover year by 373 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.
II EFT lis turn back to the early days of the repub-
- lie. Thomas Jefferson founder OF the party
now in power. also elected on platform pledg-
ing economy. He too made good-at the start
cutting government costs from d total Of about
seven million dollars TO total Of about four mil
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-
NE of the brightest pages in

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 its
great impetus. These were DR..
F'reud's psychoanalysis and the men
tai hygiene movement, DR.. White
says.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
LESE MAJESTE

ID EP TREADWAY says Secretary Wallace should
AA be impeached for critcising tine 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 criticising
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 walk
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
OTHER OPINION

We Give the Big Boys a Fat Present
1.-THE American Leader. Milwaukee, Wis.J
AS result of the Supreme Courts
decision on the AAA, $200,G00,000
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 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 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 big
bonus to the packers as a reward
for their skill in robbing the con-
sumers.
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 S200,O00,000 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 5000, 900 600?
Right back to us, probablyi
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 sabss
tax scheme or income taxes on lower
incomes or something Of the sort.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

old, battered, cracked Liberty
! League bell was being rung by the
G. o. P, who, for want of leader
ship, are willing to accept a man
whose own party turned thumbs
down" in 80 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 long, long road
and that the Democratic Party is
willing for the G.. o. P. to pick
up the "hitch- -hikers' who desire to
take a 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 "the 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
OJner american leader mas ever
faced. He met it courageously and
with the approval of a majority of
his fellow citizens.
It is only by tearing down the
Presidents program that the G.. o.
P. can even hope to win in Novem-
ber.
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 self1St interests and much
wealth.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01
Questions and Answers

wife has been absent without expla-
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
ried up the tower 100 feet, and the
light above the water, including the
height of the island, was $50 feet.
Q-Are there schools which have
classes for men in beauty culture?
A-Central Beauty College, Inter-
national Beauty and Barber School
342 E. westinghouse, indianapolis
Q-Can the word nickel, meaning
the name of a metal or the scent
piece, be spelled nickle?
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.
Q-Hov many qualified voters are
there in the United States?
A-The total number Of natives
and naturalized citizens over q
years of age is approximately 65,-
coo, 900. The total number who quail
fed by registration in 1882 was A.
962, $50, and the number ,hus quail
fed in 1884 was 47,959, 1923.
Q-what does the name Itch
tucknee mean2
Alt is Seminole Greek Indian
name meaning "blistered tol,acco.s
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-01

Enclose a 3-cent stamp foT reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The Indianapolis Times
Washington Service Bureau, 1OlS 18th
st, N. W., Washington, d. C. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
O-Was the late Will Rogers a
Mason?
Ayes; thirty-second degree.
O-What role did Barbara STAN
wyck play in 1.-The Bitter Tea of
General Yen?
A-Megan Davis.
Q-How are Federal laws en-
acted?
A-After bill has passed both
houses of Congress and has been
signed by the President of the
United States it is law. If the
President vetoes it, and it is passed
ever his veto by two-thirds ma
joritv in both houses of Congress,
it is also q. law If it is passed by
Congress, ard 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.
O-where and when was Cecile
Chaminade, the French pianist and
composer. born?
Ain Paris, France, in 1861.
Q-What is an Enoch Arden mar
riage?
A-The teEn is applied to a mar
riage in which either husband or
The Indianapolis times., 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. 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 ''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 $85 to $94 a month and
are getting only $55 a month.
Come on, Times, stick to your
motto, "Give Light and the Peo-
pie will find their own way"