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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
IMPEACHMENT
trick isn't clever

TN all century and half of national life
l. Congress has impeached only eight Federal
Judges, three of whom acquitted, three con-
victed one who resigned under fire and one who
did not come to trial. We would like to believe
that this remarkable record is due to the I'M
Improbable character of the Federal judiciary
More likely, however, it is due to our clumsy
expensive and antiquated method of trying these
Judges accused of misconduct on the bench.
On April 6 the Senate will begin the trial of
Judge Halstead l. Ritter, district judge of Florida
who is under impeachment BY the House for alleged
irregularities in recevership proceedings. The
charges are serious and all too familiar to students
of the disgraceful 'receivership racket" They re-
semble those lodged against Judge Harold Louder
back of California impesched in 1882, except that
in addition to alleging exorbitant fees to his friends
Judge Ritter himself is accused of accepting fees
and other favors from receivers in bankruptcy.
AS in the Louderback trial this one will take
days and possibly weeks of the Senate's valuable
time. And, doubtless it will prove as farccal an
affair, lacking order, dignity and often even
quorum of Senators in the Jury box
Congress can and should simplify the trial of
judges, AS Senator McAdoo points out, Federal
judges hold their life positions ION good behavior"
and misbehavior is justicable matter. Since the
Federal judiciary is creature of Congress, Con-
gress can arrange any method it chooses for trying
Federal judges for misbehavior 1t could designate
Circuit Court or Supreme Court justices to try
impeached judges and spell out procedure along
lines nearly followed in ordinary trials
The present awkward method is unfair TO the
accused judges to Congress and to the taxpayers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
MONDAY. MARCH "a. 1874
THE SERMON AND THE TEXT
a scRIPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

a WISE man finds tongues in trees, books in
= running brooks, sermons in stones and good
IN everything" And a wise nation will find STIR
ring sermon in the costly floods just now receding all
over the East
Nature has been preaching this sermon pretty
regularly Of late. In Western forest fires Mid
western dust storms and Eastern floods it has been
numbering the warning that America is following
The tragic road that China took and letting its tim
nermen, stockmen and farmers destroy its basic
wealth. the soil by which we live This last sermon
Is written in dreadful losses in human life homes
and other property in the valleys of IA states
Foolishly the government for years has turned
oeaf ears and unseetng eyes to the warnings The
Roosevelt Administration has sensed the danger and
has done something about it, It's new AAA CCC
soil erosion and forest programs look toward the pre-
vention Of such calamties Something of policy
has been evolved in its past spending policy based
on the scientific fact that wind and water controlled
by proper surface growth are benign elements, but
uncontrolled enemies Of the soil.
But probably the most important thing the
Roosevelt Administration has done is to write text
for the sermon This is the able and a-too- little
known report Of the National Resources Board
This tells the story of the past, and charts a ma
tional conservation policy for the future This
board found that of the total land of the United
States, some two billion acres it could report that
on only 800 million acres is erosion unimportant"
Then it pointed out where and how rivers can best
be controlled wind and water erosion halted land
wealth conserved and restored.
President Roosevelt has allooated $430OOOOO of
WPA funds for emergency repair and rehabilitation
work in the flooded regions We believe that Con-
gress also could we'll considerable of its new
work relief appropriation for extending the preven-
tive program.
Few projects for work relief offer promise of
greater social or material returns.
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mittee examined various persons until it learned
who was meant in references to apples" peaches
and other mysterious code words
1t examined telephone officials, and the operator
of a private wire installed for Edward B Mclean
between Washington and Palm Beach for personal
messages and news dispatches.
1t subpenaed books and records of a large num-
Der of brokers and banks
The Federal courts were not asked to enjoin any
Of these inquiries, but their help was sought by op
ponents Of the investigation in other ways.
An indictment sought and obtained against
Senator Burton K. Wheeler Cd, Month, who in
charge of the investigation into conduct of the De-
partrnent of Justice and a similar attack, unsuc-
cessful, was made upon Walsh. Later evidence in
dicated a deliberate attempt had been made to
smear" the two Montana Senators.
In 1927 the Senate Public Lands Committee again
examined bank accounts of citizens in its inquiry
into disposal of 100000 profit from the Teapot
Dome Lease, through the Continental Trading Co.
Shipping at the Caraway investigation of lobbying
in 1929 included charge that it violating free
speech rights.
Also, Senator Bingham, who investigated be-
cause of his employment of manufacturers asso-
citation man in position that gave to execu-
tive sessions on the Smoot-Hawley tariff BILL had a
great deal to say about the unfairness" of the COM
mittee. He was later censured by the Senate, by a
vote of 50 to o.
Certainly some Senate investigating committees
have made mistakes in the past, but the record is
one of large net gain to the public welfare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
MORE THAN SHOPPING

IENHE right of the Senate Public Lands Committee
to investigate the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills
naval oil reserve leases was questioned in 1924 lust
as the right of the Senate Lobby Committee to in
Vestigate is being questioned II years later.
Early in the year, when Albert B. Fall was asked
a number of questions by the COMMUNICATIONS 1t
had learned of the little black bag"-Fa refused to
answer. In formal and naughty language he advised
the committee that Il do not consider this COM
mittee has any authority to conduct the investga-
ton now ATTEMPTED to be conducted"
About the same time Harry Sinclair-who like
Fall was to serve jail sentence as result of the
inquiry-issued statement declaring the Walsh
investigation was nothing but politics.
Harry L. Daugherty shortly before he was forced
to retire as Attorney General declared the Senate
attacks were prompted by malice"
The Republican National Committee directed an
attack on Senator Walsh Cd, Mont), and he re-
torted with charge that the committee and its
news organ were "nveterate liars"
Oddly enough, Slas Strawn, who is challenging
the Senate's right to examine his kilograms in con-
nection with the current lobby inquiry was Calvin
Coohdges hrst choice to prosecute the naval oil
cases for the government. The Senate indicated its
disapprova and Coolidge withdrew the name.
Senator Spencer Or. MOI, member of the Pub
lie Lands Committee assailed the inquiry as Walsh
was conducting it at point in the Investigation.
and the Senate discussed removing him from the
committee.
The Public Lands Committee-of which the
chairman and majority of the membership were
Republicans, although the Democratic Walsh was
its chief nquisitor-subpenaed kilograms in almost
exactly the manner used by the Senate Lobby Com
mittee in 1886
1t issued subpenas to the local managers of the
two telegraph companies asking for all the tele-
grams sent and received between a number of per-
sons at Washington, Palm Beach and New Orleans
The telegraph officials brought the messages, told
the committee they considered them confidential
but surrendered them without question when the
committee insisted. The committee then read the
kilograms in executive session, determined which
were pertinent, and put them into the recbrd
A Some Of the messages were in code. and the COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

THE discovery of three new ring
l. type or planetary nebulae is an
nounced by Harvard College OBJ
Servatory. They are in the southern
skies and were found by Mrs
Muriel M. Seyfert, research assist
ant of the observatory while exam
lining Photographic plates made at
the Harvard Astronomical Station
at Bolemfontein, South Africa.
Nebulae of this type are exceed
ingly rare. Only 1870 of them are
known in the galaxy of Milky Way.
(The number of stars in the Milky
Way is estimated at 100000, 900 900. )
In the telescope, the ring type
nebula appears to be a luminous
ring surrounding a rather hazy
star. "Star-dust wedding rings" is
a description which has been ap-
piled to them.
Actually, however, the nebula
can not be ring, but must be a
great shell of gaseous matter sur
rounding the central star.
All of the nebulae of this class
are so distant from the earth that
fairly powerful telescopes are
needed to see them.
The Harvard astronomers calcu-
late that the three new ones must
be several hundred light-years dis
tant from the earth. A light-year is
5000, oO0,oo0,000 miles. The diameter
of the new nebulae is believed to be
several thousands of times the dis
lance from the earth to the sun. a
distance of 100000 miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NEENS logic is sometimes odd. In a letter Just
the subject of women in industry Yes it's still
a popular subject, and some of the opinions about it
are fantastic. This particular fellow, although he
claims legal education, doesn't approve of presen.
trends Women we'll as the economic system
would be better off, he thinks, if could send the
females back home.
dareSay good many Of them wouldn't mind
going back if they had something to do there and
man to support them. That's precisely what our
bachelor friend would have to do if any such indus
trial upheaval took place. Like his forefathers he
would be responsible for the maintenance of good
sized bunch of female dependents. Grandma, Aunt
Betty and the parrot, Cousin Sadie and her children
would all be moving in on him. I wonder how he'd
like that?
AT the moment he is unemcumbered. He doesn't
pay dime for the upkeep of any individual except
himself. save through taxation One would suppose
this might be accounted real freedom for any man.
Yet he's filled with complaints about the injus-
tice of system which forces him to compete with
in business, and he evidently shares the
common deusion that we can exist on air and water
and be content to dawde our lives away.
Just imagine the howl that would go up from all
these bachelors if they suddenly got what a lot of
them profess to want--a world in which no woman
was allowed to earn. her living. 1t would put them
in pretty hot spot. They wouldn't have to
pete with women, but they'd certainly have to sup
port good many.
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IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

A--William S. Paley, Columbia
System, and Lenox R. Lohr, Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.
(Which European countries
paid the December, 1885, INSTALL
ment on war debts to the United
States?
A-Finlani was the only one.
Q-Please give the cast of the
motion picture, Laugh, Clown,
Laugh"
Att included Lon CLANCY. Ber-
nard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy
Fitzgerald, Nils Asther and Gwen
Lee.
Q-What is the address of Mar
garet Sanger?
Alt w. 16th-st, New York.
Q-When are the English letters
w and Y novels?
A-W is a vowel when it has the
sound as in how, agd Y is vowel
when 1t has the sound as in copy.
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the hands of Walter Camp, who
placed me as tackle on his all
America team in 1908 and 1909, and
a few years later honored me by
putting me on his all-time all
America.
Mr.. Broun has a fertile magma
ton and now proclains, after SOL
emn elaboration for Is years, that
my half backs ran into me for losses
and signals were beyond by meager
intelligence. 1t might amaze such
an erudite columnist as Haywood
Broun, who says nothing at high
cost, to know that I graduated
from Harvard in three years at &c
years of age with a cum laude de-
gree, particularly as he had much
difficulty in getting through Har-
ward himself.
Mr.. Broun's criticism only shows
how far the radicals will go to criti-
else a man in public life who ex-
poses their tenets. This time it
was Is years and fictitious and
totally false football yarn.
Let me conclude by stating that
I have had two hobbies for 25 years
Harvard football and the Repub-
lican Party. Unfortunately, have
not been able to say much about
either one in the last few years, but
I am herewith predicting that both
the Harvard team and the Repub-
lican Party will be victorious next
November.
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still we all ran hopelessly in debt
during that period. Our so-called
political economists are undertaking
to pay that debt and provide for an
abundant life in the future by adopt
ing shorter hours and lower wages.
1t seems that any school child
that has ever studied addition and
subtraction knows that this can't
be done. This very problem is one
that must be tackled by our states
men in the near future, and it is not
the danger to the Constitution or
balancing the budget which is the
real issue.
The real issue is paying the debts
OF the past and earning a living
while we are doing so. Those that
are hollering the loudest for bal
ancing the budget never stop to con-
slider that it is impossible to COL
lect more taxes from the unem-
ployed or from those working at low
wages and working short hours.
If the budget is ever balanced, it
will come out of the pockets of big
business and no one else, and so
their shots are in vain and will
eventually embarrass themselves.
The Constitution is absolutely in
no danger, and our inalienable
rights are as safe in the hands of a
Democrat as they are in the hands
of a Republican. The danger is the
IL million idle men that are just
about week away from starvation
if relief is not distributed as it has
been. A hungry man has little re-
Spect for the Constitution, or for in
alienable rights, or anything else,
until he gets something to eat. And
it is a good idea for our patrioteers
to remember that when strutting
their stuff this coming campaign.
America will recover only when we
make it possible for every one that
is willing to work to have a Job
at living wages, and produce enough
wealth to take care of the debts of
the past and lay up some for the fu-
ture. The shortest distance to this
goal is to make it possible for every
man and woman to take advantage
of owning a suburban home on suf-
f1cient acreage, SO they might pro-
duce enough to feed themselves and
their families on their own lot if
they are out of employment.
Put the idle man
On the idle land
With seed in his sack
And hoe in his hand
And they both shall be idle
no more"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

ID ECENT years have seen the
IN modification of milk into sew
eral different forms, including con-
densed milk, evaporated milk, acid
ophilous milk, dried, powdered,
SKINNED and irradiated milk, and
many milk products as well.
Differences, more or less slight,
exist among these milk substances.
Generally, the basic value of the
milk remains.
But those forms of milk that
have to be heated down to the de-
sired consistency have been found
weaker in one or two of their vita
Minis. And the milk products have
been found to vary in proteins, fats
and carbohydrates, as we'll as the
number of calories that they pro-
vide.
In ordinary industry, condensed
milk means product which has
been heated down to a thicker sub
stance and canned. In this case a
low temperature is used and sugar
is added to aid preservation.
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REP. FISH REPLIES
TO BROTJN

BY Hamilton Fish Jr,
Member OF Congress from New York
had occasion recently to read
an article by Haywood Broun, your
Socialist columnist, who apparent
ly seems much disturbed by nv
radio answer to Earl Browder, the
general secretary of the Commuu-
ist Party. My reply to Mr.. Browder
gave quite as much time to the
Communist leader as he deserved or
as he gave in his speech to COM
munism, which was his announced
subject.
believe in freedom of speech
and enjoy reading different schools
OF opinion, but at the same time I
have at least an equal regard for
accuracy and truthfulness in writ
lngs of well-paid newspaper colum-
lists. Peace on Earth" the So
clalistS and Communists pretend to
sing, but actually they get no fur
Their than spouting poison gas.
Facts mean nothing to Haywood
Broun, or if they do he has suf-
fered lapse of memory or fatty
deterioration of the cerebellum.
Let him bark, yelp and rave, but
there is little difference between
his political views and those of Earl
Browder; at least we know where
Browder stands, but no one, not
even Haywood himself, knows a
single constructive policy he stands
for. He is just "agin" American in
stitutions generally and never
misses an opportunity to cry out
down with the government, Con-
stitution and Supreme Court" and
to defend the Communists, Social
lists and radical termiteS.
He consumed a half column de-
plotting me as a sluggard and dumb
football player Is years ago, when
was captain of a Harvard football
team. 1t is not for me to defend
my record as a tackle and captain
at Harvard. AS a football critic
and sports writer Mr.. Broun has yet
to make reputation, and pending
that important event I prefer to
stake my reputation as player in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23

Q-What is the Poets Corner in
Westminster Abbey?
A-The part of the edifice where
a number of famous British poets
are buried, or are represented by
memorial tablets and buSts.
Q-Who is the Egyptian minister
to the United States?
A-MohameG Anime Yousef.
Q-How many Senator'S and Rep
resentatives are in the Chic Legis-
lature?
A-Senators, 80; and Representa-
tives. 135.
Q-Nans the presidents of the
National Hroadcasting Co. and the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
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SEES HOPE FOR NATION IN
HOMESTEAD PROGRAM

BY Bert Wilhelm, Chairman of the Ma
tional Suburban Homestead Society of
America
Your editorial of March II ex-
planning how the Irish Republic
made it possible for every citizen to
have three acres of land, a COW and
some thickens, and well-built, low
priced house might be enlightening
to some of our American economists
who are prating over more
abundant life.
1t is remarkable that at the spe-
cial session of our Legislature, where
social security was debated at length,
no one stopped to consider how
the debts that we accrued in the
past are to be paid
Private statiSticians have report
ed that for every dollar of private
and public debt that the American
people accrued we only had 30 cents
in the way of assets.
From 1920 to 1929 almost every one
was employed, had good wages, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
OTHER OPINION
On the Tax Program
Robert III. Jackson, Assistant Attorney
General

General
No country has permitted so ex-
tensive concentration of cor
porate-owned wealth as we have.
and none has had such a large
part of its total wealth locked up
IN corporate controlled surpluses.
Neither has any other country had
so intense a depression. This is
not enough to prove the point. but
it does justify the suspicion that.
if this wealth and purchasing pow
er were better distributed. we might
not have SO many rainy days.
1t is for these reasons that many
business men, who are engaged in
industry and not in tax avoiding.
are favoring the Presidents pro-
posal. 1t grasses old inequalities,
encourages sound financing, pre-
vents tax evasion. permits reason
able SURPRISES, and remover the
obstacle that now stops the dis
tribution Of purchasing powes.
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FROM THE RECORD

D EP. BETTER Cd, N. ": Let the Liberty Leagu-
4 erS grow mauolin over America, the golden land
OF opportunity, with every boy his way to being
millionaire or President. For those whose days of
accomplishment lie in the past, the past will always
relieve itself in an aura of perfection =. We can
not answer starvation with the reminder that an
Alfred e. Smith from poverty In Oliver Street
to riches in the Empire State tower.
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fTimes readers are united to cypress
their Viet0s in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make Dour letters
short. so all can have u chance. Limit
them to ESQ aoords or less. Your letter
must be stoned. but names 1otI be
1Ctthheld on reouestI
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Inclose Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The indianapolis Times
Washington Service Bureau, 1913 18th
st, N. W.. Washington. d. G. Legal and
medical advice can mos be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
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Cdll1lCQ WlOllOQG IIlS dQQIGlOll VI
sugar. Therefore, much more heat
is applied to aid preservation.
OUCH milk may be heated almost
~ to the boiling point for from 80
to go minutes. AS a result, it has
a little lore cooked taste than has
condensed milk. Fluid usually is
added before it is used.
Apparently, heating does not do
much toward diminishing vitamins
A and G (B-2), but it does Sc
riously reduce the amount Of vita
Minis B-1 and G in the milk
Dried milk and powdered milk
usually are prepared by various
processes, such as spraying partially
evaporated milk into warm, cry
chambers, or spraying milk on
heated rollers.
Skinned milk is that from which
the cream has been removed, either
by gravity or by centrifugal force.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23
DAILY THOUGHT

There be many that say. Who
will shew us any good? Lord, lift
Thou up the light of Thy counte-
nance upon us.-Psalms iv, 6.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-23

THE very impossibility which I
Il find to prove that God is not.
discovers to me His existence
Bruyere.
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The HOOSier Forum

disapprove of aOhat you say-and 10W defend
to the death your right to sag it.-Votaire.
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w atch Your Health

Evaporated milk is condensed and
canned without the addition Of
sugar. Therefore, much more heat
is applied to aid preservation.
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EDITORS NoTE-This rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he plesses,
when he pleases. in search Of odd stories
about this and that.