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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
MoNpAY. FEBRUARY n. 1896
SLOPPY LAWMAKING

ME governments lawyers are prepared to fight
to the end" a ruling by Federal Judge Welsh
applying the veterans preference act to WPA. But
there is no assurance that the case will be reversed
in the higher courts
This seems to be another chapter of an already
too long story of sloppy awmakng. The ruling is
one Of the most crushing blows so far dealt the Ad-
mnistrations worrelief If it sticks every veteran
applying for WPA work must be given a job If a
needy non-veteran holds the only available job he
must be fired in favor of any veteran who may
apply, regardless of whether the veteran Classics
as mccoy not. Thus on the heels Of bonus act
that taps the Treasury for two billion dollars the
government is instructed TO shove the civilian needy
out of line to make way for special group
If the law says this-and we fear it does because
Of the manner in which it was drawn-we must
agree with Dickens Mr. Bundle that The law is
sss." Neither Congress nor the President intended
that the veterans should have preference in emer-
gency Jobs. That is shown by the fact that 2 year
ago the Senate rejected an amendment offered by
Senator Metcan of Rhode Island to give veterans,
their wives and widows preference in the work-reef
program; and by the further fact that in vetong the
bonus in 1885 the President emphasized that work.
relief was for all the needy.
rs 1t not better he asked TO treat every able
bodied American alike and to carry out the great
relief program adopted by this Congress in spirit
OF equality to alp"
But if the law is ass who decorated it with
long ears? The Work Relief Act should have been
made decision-pro In that portion of it which
lates to highway projects veterans are not given
preference the judge found Why was the rest of
the act left open to such an Interpretation?
This question raises several broader ones that are
all too evident:
Why does the Roosevelt Administration, with all
the brains at its CALL let itself in for legal jams like
this and many others?
Why does Congress pass sloppy laws? We feel
bit like the taximan who asked AL Smith, Cover
nor amt there any lawyers in Congress any more?"
And may we not need legal New Deal inside the
Administraton-an alert aggressive and sure-footed
Attorney General with staff experty fighting for
the millions of the governments voceess clientsto
whom these major policy measures could be sub
mitted before they signed?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
CHANGES FOR DOCTORS

MORE evangelism in medicine, and more con-
Iva Germ for the citizen unserved or poorly
served" as to health, is the aim of Thomas Parran
Jr. new surgeon general and head of the United
States Public Health Service.
Mr. Parran takes over the Job vacated by the re-
tirement of Hugh s. Cumming surgeon general for
many years. at time when the new Social Security
Act greatly increases the scope of the health serv-
ice He has been New York State Health Commits
sioner for several years. He is 49, Mr. Parran's be-
lief in expansion of public health service especially
IN the field of prevention of disease, outlined in
a speech in 1884
He warned then that great changes lay ahead for
doctors and expressed hope that the changes would
be made by evolution rather than by revolution
"leftward" movement to set up sickness insur-
ance he hailed as a favorable indication for phys-
clans, and he added that a rghtward movement in
government would result in increased governmental
health activities organized clinics and saared ply
sicans. He said:
"As We move to the left by abandoning trad-
tional forms private medical practice regains it's ira
dtonal inclusive responsibility for both prevention
and treatment, with a corresponding reduction in
the scope Of neutrality-suspicious. functions"
He also complained that not enough of present
health and medical expenditures is made for pre-
vention only 81 out of every $50 spent privately and
publicly for medicine going for preservation of
health
The 100000 families which have been receiving
relief. including medical care, are going to demand
good medical service when they go off the relief rolls
and back to work. AS Mr.. Parran reminds Vs. 1.-THE
history of benefits to veterans gives us food for seri
Gus thought on this subject"
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MY husband and belong to the white collar
A'1 class" says recent letter 1--WE have three
children, quota under present economic condi-
tions. We've had hard struggle, and are anxious
now to find out more about the political setup in
this country I'm wondering how woman at home
can get at some facts. Don't you think the middle
class is in danger, and unless we defend ourselves
will be lost?"
most certainly do. Such letter as hers, how
ever, is encouraging symptom
The housewife is not likely to awaken to her
peril unless she makes up her mind to do very
difficult thing-estimate the fanys actual tax bills
for year Not just the usual open taxes, such
personal, property income or Inheritance but all the
hidden taxes which snitch from her pocketbook a
score of times day.
These invisible taxes, so the experts say 40
per cent higher than the visible ones, and because
they are invisible they are doubly dangerous
1t would pay all to make up detailed esti-
mate of these pestferous items. For we buy nothing
these days which isn't taxed. mill here, penny
there and soon dollar is gone
We should not be too frightened about that
either. We could stand drastic taxation if got
what pay for-good government. When the
housewife begins to ask herself whether her money
buys that it will be time for the demagogues to take
to the brush.
Let's leave the big job the Federal government,
to the men-and sorry mess it looks if they
might make of it-while study what goes on in
the home state. don't where you live, when
you begin that kind of investigation you'll find
that the money you save by the most rigid economy
is literally thrown away by those who afford to
be ext avagant because they spend other peoples
money.
When women buy from merchants they demand
honest service rst-rate goods and fair return for
their cash. Is it unreasonable to ask the same thing
from politicians?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
THE NINE

XXIEo said they weren't Nine Honest Men?
David Lawrence has published irritating and
sided book under the title quoted to rebut the
horrid charge that the Supreme Court is Nine Old
Men, OF course no one except cute columnsts have
titled the court if its members average over
TO- Every knows the present court has a great
deal of force and any dscreptude is purely physical
Lawrence seeks to make for the thesis that
this government, prior to 1888 the best of all
possible governments; that the New Deal laws
enacted by group of persons, in Congress and the
White House. who were either careless, forgetting
their oaths of office, or Misunderstanding their
pledge to support the Constitution
This is built on the further thesis that every
knows what the Constitution provides, and that it
does not provide for the NRA, or the AAA. or the
Wagner Act, the Guffey Act, and many others.
He argues that the courts function is to act as
referee, to interpret written Constitution. 1t is
we'll known to nearly every now that the Su
preme Court spends nearly all its time interpreting
its previous interpretations, extending gradually
its definitions of vague phrases such as due process
and equal protection" to points where they encom
pass great judicial power surprising anything
heard of by the Founding Fathers of 1887.
He speaks of uphoding the reserved rights of the
states but he forgets what the Supreme Court with
assumed authority has done to the efforts of the
states to regulate utility rates.
There are just as many Supreme Court citations
supporting a liberal Interpretation, and the logic is
Just good.
A decision by court exercising a statesman's
veto and looking beyond the immediate legal facts
of a case at issue, inevitably turns upon the back
grounds and beliefs of the judges And at least six
OF the present nine opposed to the fundamentals
of the New Deal. It's game of choose your prece-
dents, and line up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
FROM THE RECORD

CENATOR NORRIS (R, Neb)-It is conceded
~ proposition of law, think that an act passed
by Congress should not be declared unconstitutional
unless it is unconstitutional beyond a reasonable
doubt The fact that such laws are held unconstitu-
tiona by our learned tribunal by 5-to-4 decision
of itself raises reasonable doubt. Hence such ac-
tons shouiti lot occur.
D ED RICH (R, PAD When a member on the
floor OF this House accuses another of being the
leader OF the Republican Party, has he not a right
to defend himself? Laughter) I will say we have
leaders in the Republican Party and privates in the
rear ranks.
The Chairman: The chair is OF the opinion that
that charge is serious enough that he would have the
right to defend himself but that he should do it in
his own time Laughter). ~
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so bitterly opposed to 1t that they are backing
their protests with their own money
Examples the following contributors to the
American Liberty League:
Phillips Petroleum Co. whose common stock on
March 3, 1888, the day before President Roosevets
Inauguration. quoted at 51s and Saturday was
quoted at 441s.
E T. Weir, whose National Steel Co. stock was
quoted then at Is and Saturday at 7224.
Alfred P Sloan, John J. Raskob and Others whose
General Motors stock advanced from 1914 to 59A.
Various members of the Du Pont family, whose
E. I. du Pont de Nemours g. Co. stock advanced
from 1874 to 14S
OF course Mr.. Roosevelt may not have had any,
thing to do with ali this, but at least, like Lincoln
when the emancipation proclamation signed, he
there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
THE MULTIPLYING FACTOR

TT we are TO get anywhere in the present crusade
against automobile carnage must face the facts
about speed,
Apoogists for speed have said: 1T isn't speed
that causes accidents; it is other things"
But speed is the multiplying factor that increases
every other traffic hazard.
If you, the other driver, pass on a curve hill,
or at an intersection, the danger of that act in
creases in proportion to the speed of the cars in
volved. If some fails to signal you the more
likely to hit him the faster you driving. So it is
with every other danger. human or mechanical,
whether be drunkenness seepneSs of the driver
defective tires or brakes rough slippery roadway
the danger is multiplied by the speed Of the
The quickest way to reduce the number of deaths
on the highway is to reduce the multiplying factor
speed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
THE CONSUMER PAYS

A t least one gas company in the country is de-
4 n hberately destroying heat elements in natural
gas before selling it to customers according to the
Federal Trade Commission.
These findings may be sent to Congress in a spe-
cial report. The commission has already recon-
mended legislation bringing the natural gas industry
under Federal regulation and gas regulatory bill
is pending before the House Interstate Commerce
Committee
According TO testimony and exhibits the COM
psny takes natural gas from West Texas having
high B. T. u. or heating content and burns it in a
way which reduces the heat value and increases the
amount of inert material in the gas.
In the process much nitrogen from the air
is added to the gas that its volume, at the end of
the process is about seven times what it was in the
beginning.
The inert gases well as the gases with heating
value pass through customers meters. The result
of the dlution to increase customers bills, it is
claimed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

TINE peaceful scene pictured in
L. the Book of Genesis when
Adam was on terms of friendship
with all the animals in the Garden
of Eden may have had its counter
parts in many regions of Asia dur
ing the early days of mankind. That
is the conclusion of DR.. Walter
Hough, curator of anthropology at
the Smithsonian Institution of
Washington, who announces new
theory to account for the domesti-
cation of animals.
He believes that domeStication
arose out of amity and not through
mastery. In support of this theory,
he points to isolated parts of the
world where animals exhibit no
fear of men. His thesis is that fear
arises among animals only when it
is engendered by the actions of
men.
Most domestic animals are be-
lieved to have come from Asia, and
there, according to DR.. Hough, early
man had a temperament especially
adapted to inspire friendship and
confidence among the animals.
fear that is engendered in
Il animals by happenings out
of the ordinary" says DR.. Hough,
lis a protective device. Where, for
a period of undetermined length,
animals are not subjected to fear,
the protective device is obliterated,
becoming a useless function.
MANY instances of this have been
observed, and their occurrence is
noted as extra-normal by believers
in the tooth-and-claw order of ma
ture Observers in new countries
have recorded with surprise the lack
of fear by animals"
In new territories, the discharge
of firearms and the light and smoke
of campfires soon puts an end to
this Eden-like simplicity, DR..
Hough says.
Before long" he continues, fear
is displayed, often in an eXagger-
ated degree, and the animals be-
come educated in evading dangers"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
DISAGREES WITH REPORT
AGAINST OARP

BY Jack Dolan, Shelbyville
In a recent editorial you published
a synopsis of a report credited to
an economics faculty of the Uni
versity of Chicago, in which they
say the Townsend plan is altogether
delusion.
In view of the inconsistencies of
the statement, coupled with the
knowledge of the source of endow-
ment, the treachery of the donors,
their success with the aid of high
priced lobbyists to block legislation,
and that the report is Numerically
opposing the result of the studies of
other universities, it is not difficult
to distinguish the article as hand
picked and labeled University of
Chicago.
They say: ITO finance this
burden would throw over all hope of
preserving a sound monetary
system"
Does that infer we now have a
sound monetary system? The gov
eminent now sells bonds, distributes
the money in small bits which go to
few corporations and right back
to Wall Street in a few days, which
forces the government to sell more
bonds.
The report further states, This
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vast pension scheme would cost 20
billion dollars a year, which is 40
per cent of the 1884 income"
This only can prove they gave no
previous study to the statement, for
it is as impossible to fit the Town
send program in the 1884 income as
it is to fit No. - foot in No. 3
less than 20 per cent of what is re-
quired to maintain health and COM
fort, and Is million were on direct
relief.
Take an extract from report OF
the Housing Division of the Fed
eral Works Administration Five
million farm homes and six million
village, town and city homes are "of
such character as to endanger the
health, the safety and morals, and
interfere with the normal life of
their inhabitants"
Those II million homes (so-called
include about half our population,
and millions of them never have
seen a bathtuh or touched a light
switch. The report also criticises
the proposed complete centraliza-
ton of the pension administration"
and extravaganza" of paying the
pensions regardless of need, and the
social effect of supervising pen
Sioners.
Does the government now dis
tribute the relief money with regard
to need? AS to social effect, it is
only necessary to rub elbows with
those once-respected old timers who
built up this country, but have been
successfully legislated out of an OPP
portunity to live, and are now forced
to huddle in novels and watch
themselves decay.
We have seen how the banker &c
his. we have seen the farmer get hi
and the soldier get his DR.. Tow
send has his needle charged, an
when he shoots hypodermic in th
next Congress we will get ours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
Your
Health
By
FEB. II, 1886
DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

NOTHING distreSses a person
~ going on a diet so much as to
face at his first meal the list of
all the things that he can not eat.
Usually it appears to contain prsc-
tlcally all the things that he would
like to eat, and to leave very little
else.
But this isn't the case. Here. for
instance. is a list of foods COM
monty permitted to people placed
on a smooth and soft, or bland,
diet.
The foods in this list are very
low in their amount of cellulose
or undigestible fiber, are easily
available, not difficult to prepare,
and exclude irritating substances.
Beverages: Milk, buttermilk, fruit
juices, weak coffee or tea, decaf-
feinated or cereal coffee.
Soups: Any kind of meat soup
soup (straineO: cream soups made
with cream and pureed vegetables.
Breads: White bread. plain rolls,
toast or crackers, zwieback.
Eggs: Coddled. soft-boiled, raw,
poached or scrambled.
Fats: Butter, cream, oleomarga-
rine. olive oil.
Cereals Cornflakes, cream of
wheat, farina. oatmeal.
Fruits: All fruit juices, apple
sauce.
Vegetables: Raw endive, lettuce,
romaine. watercress; cooked and
sieved asparagus, lima beans, car
rots, spinach, peas, squash, sweet
and white potatoes.
Meats: Broiled steak, roast beef,
lamb, mutton, or chicken (broiled.
boiled or toasted.
Fish: Any fresh fish: baked,
broiled or boiled.
Cheese: Cottage cheese or cream
cheese.
HERE are sample menus for
l. l. those who want bland diet:
Breakfast
Bland fruit juice; cooked cereal
without bran); soft cooked egg;
white bread COAST, butter; weak
coffee, tea or cocoa; small amount
sugar.
Lunch
Cream asparagus soup, strained;
cottage cheese or other cheese or
entree, starchy food; sieved carrots:
custard; white bread toast, butter:
milk.
Dinner
Chicken broth; lamb chop; baked
potato; pureed peas; tapioca cream;
white melba toast, butter; milk.
If the dieting person still IS
hungry and wants more food after
this type of menu, he may have
extra meals for eggnog at 10 a. M,
at and at p. m.
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Questions and Answers

fig leaves together and made them
selves breeches."
O-What is a star sapphire?
A Enthusiastically blue stone
with three silvery lines that cross
each other, forming star-shaped
cross. The star like appearance is
due to minute crystals or layers in
the stone, which reflects the Incl
dent light, producing the stellar eff
feet. Star sapphires. are found in
Ceylon.
Q-What gives color to air?
Azure air is invisible, odorless
and tasteless. Impurities in the air
impart color, odor and taste.
Q-Is the salary the same for all
American ambassadors? How much
Is it? What is the salary of an
American consul?
Administrators receive s17,500 a
year. The salary of an American
consul depends upon his rank or
classification in the foreign service
The lowest salary is $500 and the
highest is $4,000.
Q-What is the annual mortality
in India from serpent bites?
Approximately 10000, accord
ing to 7fficial statistics: caused
chiefly by the native habit of walk
ing at night with bare legs.
Q-Where was the ancient city Of
Babylon?
A-On the Hilla branch of the
Euphrates River, just north of the
modern town of Hilla in the King
dom of IraG
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
TIRED OF BEING ASKED
TO BUY CHANCES


BY Awfully Tired
Something ought to be done about
it.
I frequent, on business about twice
day, the City Hall and Court
house. AS soon as I step in the City
Hall, going to some department
where might expect some business,
I am assaulted from all sides by coy
females and bearded men with i'm
portunitieS to buy tickets for a
bingo party at Pats home" or "a
chance of five dollars worth of mer-
chandise at Mikes house"
Then they assail you for the pur-
chase of tickets to the Presidents
Birthday Ball, at dollar a throw"
or a chance on a five-dollar gold
piece at 10 cents per chance, and
they supplement every importantly
with the assurance, "Oh, I know
you'll vein (meaning WIND"
Respectable people have ceased to
come to the City Hall and Court
house any more, for they are SO an
noyed by these 'chiselers" that they
would rather stay away.
The latest they sprung at the
Courthouse was-"Say, take a
chance on a black Scotty-only SO
cents-I know you'll vein"
At the City Hall the latest is
Take chance on this assortment
of garden seeds--lettuce, cabbage,
rutabaga, radish and peas-only Is
centS-I know you'll we-in."
The County Commissioners in
conjunction with the Mayor should
stop this Immediately and make it
safe to citizens and taxpayers of
this community to step into their
own public buildings without being
assailed by the wiles of the females
and the Establishments of the men
to take chances on some thing they
don't want-even though they have
the assurance that they will
VEIN"
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STATION MEMORY
BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

I turn the hands on the dial OF
thought
Till MEMORY comes on,
And once again to me is brought
A voice that has long been gone.
close my eyes and dimly see
It's owner standing there;
But I can't tune in perfectly,
And both vanish on waves of air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
ADVOCATES WIDER USE
OF INDIANA COAL
BY D. E. Tate, Sullivan

By D. E. Tate, Sullivan
Last fall when nearly every one
Except the coal miners) thought a
strike would be called, there was a
reported 90-day supply of coal above
ground.
The mines were working better
than average in order to be better
prepared in case strike was called.
After the scare passed there was
a let-up in work because of the
large supply on hand
In 1881, 80 and '33 the average
number of days worked by Indiana
miners was 140, las and 1853
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Washington Service Bureau, 1913 18th
st, N. W., Washington, D. c. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Q-Who is the author of The
Soul of Abraham Lincoln?
A-William E. Barton.
Q-Glve the date of the first
Benny Leonard Johnny Kilbane
fight. and the decision.
A-April 90. 1915, in New York
City. 1t was 10-round no-decision
bout, but Kilbane was given the
newspaper verdict.
Q-What is the present popula-
ton of the United States?
A-The estimated population July
/, 1894, was 126, 425 900.
Q-What is a writ of habeas
corpus?
"A writ directed to the person
OBTAINING another. and command
ing him to produce the body of the
prisoner, or persons detained. with
the day and cause of his caption and
detention, to do, submit to. and re-
ceive whatsoever the judge or court
awarding the writ shall consider in
that behalf.
Q-What is Brooches Bible?
A-The name is applied to the
Geneva Bible on account of the
wording of the translation of Gen.
esis Iii, 7: :. am and Eve sewed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17
HE WAS THERE

DEOPIE who lose their Jobs or whose businesses
n go bankrupt whose prosperity drops of
little always blame the national Administration.
whether it is at fault not 1t is natural reaction,
Understandable in democracy And as result Ad-
ministraons which bring better times generally
praised ard reelected, and those which bring worse
times damned and defeated.
But these are strange times great many people
&no have done very well indeed under the New Deal
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DAILY THOUGHT

Render therefore unto Caesar the
things which are Caesars. and I'M
to God the things that are Gods.
st. Matthew xiii, 81.
IF you do what you should not,
i you must bear what you would
not.-Franklin.