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cent Of Kansas relief burden, the localities 26I per
cent, the state prevented by its Constitution from
assuming debts without direct votes of the people,
only 90 per cent. This Governor apparently is too
honest to dogmatize and too humane to suggest the
turning of relief families back to the states and loca-
ties to suffer what the New Jersey needy are going
through.
Mr.. Landon, however. offers one constructive sug-
geStion He wants a thorough fact-fnding investi-
CATION Of the relief The Senate is being urged
tc amend the s15000oo relief bill to provide for
a non-partisan relief policy board of experts for
just such a purpose.
Let US have the truth about it, whatever it is"
says Gov. Landon.
If the Roosevelt Administration blows cold on
such a rational proposal the Republicans yet may
find in the relief picture an issue they heretofore
have failed to discover
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
GOOD NEWS

YESTERDAYS budget of post-depression news
contained enough items to put an end to some
of the lingering complaints about poor business.
On the basis of 1880 Hoosiers placed in private
employment during April, Martin F. Carpenter, In
diana and United States Employment Service director
for the state predicted this Federa-state service
would place $4,000 persons in private jobs in Indiana
this year-twice the 1885 figure.
The Indianapolis North SIDE Realtors reported
that members since JAM have sold properties worth
ST 5O4 O00-a high mark in recent years
City building permits issued from Jan. to May
this year totaled So 033 1884, compared with $685.
$50 for the same period in 1885. The H. P. WATSON
department store went ahead with plans to build
a eight-story addition.
Business is rushing ahead and those who are
making the most of it have little time to talk about
hard times
The optimistic report employment does not
that this problem is solved for the number
of unemployed still is extremely high. 1t does
we are on our way.
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

DEPLORING the dearth of good husband ma
~ terial, "a correspondent castigates American
mothers for pampering their sons, and charges them
with increasing the divorce rate.
This question has two Sides If mothers spoil
their sons they also spoil their daughters. I dare
say statistics on the subject would show that women
are far more responsible for broken homes these
days than men.
Unless wife works outside the home do not
hold with the theory that the man should drop his
evening paper to help with the Dishes or walk the
floor nights with the baby. There would be excep-
tons, of course, if the family were large or the
mother overworked during times of crisis.
But the breadwinner of either sex is entitled to
leisure at home.
Another fact which sticks up like a sore thumb
when one investigates the matrimonial situation is
ignored by our critic. Women as rule dislike to
have men messing around with the housework.
Should they happen to show special talent for it
such skill is bound to be resented since home max
ing is the one art in which women are supposed to
excel. What is more, no wife wants an eliminate
husband. The quality which attracts her most is
his heplessness when confronted by household de-
tails and his awkwardness before domestic dlemmas
Her maternal intinct responds to this helpessness
Our chief mistake is made when we assume that
a good husband is one who shows his wife polite
little attentions treats her as if she were vau-
able bit of bric-a-brac Facts give the lie to this
theory. The who hopes to keep the love of a
woman by any such method is headed for disluson
and divorce AS matter of cold fact we prefer men
who can dominate us. We love best those who give
us orders and soon grow to despise those who take
orders from US.
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WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1885.
MORE TRAFFIC, MORE DANGER

IRON now on through the summer months high
ways and streets will be crowded to capacity
with weekend automobile traffic
Last weekend was ideal for driving and traffic
was heavy. An automobile crash took the life of
an indianapolis woman bringing the Marion Coun-
ty traffic death toll for 1886 to ST. An early morning
pleasure ride ended in death for two young girls and
boy near Evansville. young expectant mother at
Lafayette died in smashup on her way to hos
ptal. All told, weekend motoring cost II Indiana
lives.
Marion County and indianapolis hava sYamefully
poor safety ratings this year in comparison with
other Indiana cities and towns
Indianapolis ranks next to the bottom in safety
among Indiana cities of 10000 or more
Among counties having populations of 25 900 or
more Marion stands twentieth in list of a. Mont
gomery and Daviess Counties which have had no
fatalities, rank first
AS traffic congestion increases this summer, the
greater will be the danger of collisions and wrecks
and the greater the need for caution and reduced
speeds
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LANDON ON RELIEF

CoV. LANNON'S statements to date on relief
- have beer disappointing in their lack of
definite program.
This is somewhat understandable for the prob
lem is too new and complex to be dismissed with
an easy ipse dixlt from the stump. We all agree
with the Governors general criticisms We do need
IAN honest and effective relief system" We want
"wretched politics" driven from relief administration
although there no warrant for the implication that
persons on relief required to sell their votes for
bread" We believe that there is no future on the
relief rolls" and that jobs are "the only real solu
tion."
Gov. Landon is silent on what many of his party
consider one answer to the high cost of relef-de-
Capitalization of administration. Doubtless this is
because as Governor he knows it won't work. Be-
tween January, 1888. and January 1885, according to
FERA reports total OF s54745sSs went into Kansas
relief OF this s3ssis,4so Federal money, sl4.-
S25,622 local money, s470.s77 state money.
Thus the Federal government assumed 70 per
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
THE &c" WAY FOR LYNCHERS

7. EDGAR HOOVER's G-Men are entitled to all
the credit they getting. And they get
ting it in full measure For, when results forth
coming the public is not nggardly with it's apprecia-
ton.
With the arrest and confession of that elusive
female impersonator, Thomas H. Robinson Jr, the
G-Men have completed the roundup of kidnapers
For the first time since passage of the Lindbergh
Law, which made kidnapping for ransom Federal
offense there are no known or alleged kdnapers at
large.
Here is the record of four years of intense and
intelligent activity of the G-Men: Sixty-three
kidnapping cases cleared up; 146 convictions; 20 more
prisoners in custody awaiting trial. prison sentences
totaling 2O28 years; 20 life sentences; death
sentences.
OF course, it is possible that the slate which is
clean today may not look so good next week. New
bands of kldnapers may spring up. new wave
of kidnapping may sweep the country, striking terror
Into the hearts of parents. That may happen, but
we don't expect it, We don't because Mr. Hoover's
G-Men have put terror in the reverse; they have
brought into the picture that most effective of all
crime deterrents-fear of certain punishment.
LII we have said here concerns the crime of kid
mapping for ransom-a crime with which state
and local police proved themselves utterly incapable
to cope. So Congress made it Federal crime.
The record is proof of the effectiveness of Federal
police action-of the superiority of ntelligently
directed and mobile force of law enforcers, unham-
pered by state lines unhindered by local political
influences.
kidnapping for became Federal crime
because of the default of local enforcement. There
other crimes which local law officers apparently
unable or unwilling to curtail.
One, in particular, is the crime of lynching.
There hasn't been new case of kidnapping for
months. Why? Because of that fear of certain
punishment.
But there have been at least half dozen cases
of mob murder in recent weeks. Why? Because of
confidence that punishment would not result
We urge again that the Wagner-Costigan anti
lynching bill be enacted so that few of Mr.. Hoo
ver's G-Men may be sent for example, into Georgia
to instll the respect for the right of trial by
jury
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HEARD IN CONGRESS

ID EP SISSON Cd. N ": The gentleman Rep
Az Blanton) spends much time upon the floor
and uses so much space in the Congressional Rec
ord and costs the taxpayers incidentally. much
to print what he has to say in recommending his
own superior WISDOM virtue and courage that
wonder sometimes if he could not result of
his 90 years service in Congress find any one else
than himself to testify for himself. 1t would
taiy be saving to the taxpayers if he would bear
in mind the injunction of Solomon. Let another
man praise thee"
d EP. MAVERICK Cd. Tex): The Republican
~ Party is backed and controlled by an organiza-
ton known as the American Liberty League
Rep. Christensen (R. Mimi: The head of the
American Liberty League is good Democrat.
Rep. Maverick: Quondam ex-Democrat; now
reactionary hired hand of the munitions interests
and in his spare time reactionary boss of the
Republican Party
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Watch Your Health

IF it succeeds once out of three
1times, it is considered as not be-
low normal intelligence.
A sample test is to show the
child picture in which there are
four or five objects of Importance,
and have it name the important OBJ
jects. A 3-year-old child, if normal
mentally, is able to pick out a boy,
a dog, tree or car.
BY the time the. child is years
old, it should know whether it is a
boy or girl. A 4-year-old child
should be able to name successive
ly three familiar objects shown to
it, such as a spoon, book, or a
pencil, and to repeat three non
consecutive numbers.
A 6-year-old child should be able
to tell whether any particular time
of the day is noon or evening. 1t
should be able to define use of a
FORK, chair, a knife, or a table.
Tests that have been developed
will seem relatively simple to most
grown-up people. Even so, these
tests demand certain amount of
brain activity. The tests are based
on the results of careful observa-
ton of thousands of children.
Conspicuous failure in perform
ance of any of these tests should
demand special attention of the
parents to the question Of the
child's education.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBErN

CPEECH is an important means
- of testing development of the
child. 1t is, of course, the chief
distinction between man and the
animals.
AT the age of one year, a child
can say few single words, and
al the end of two years it can be-
gin to make sentences of about two
or three words each. A 2-year- old
child may have vocabulary of from
100 to 500 words.
DR.. Arnold Gesell, child psychol-
ogist, says that a 2-year-old child
can fold paper, use simple sentences
and phrases, name familiar objects,
such as keys, pennies, and watches,
listen to stories, look at pictures, and
attempt to describe its own expert
ences. 1t will also ask for things by
their own names.
There are various tests to show
whether the baby is developing nor
mally from the mental point of view.
In the Binet-Simon tests, which are
standard, the child of is asked to
show its mouth, nose, and eyes; it is
asked to repeat two numbers which
are not consecutive, and it is given
three opportunities to repeat num-
bers in this way.
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do SOMETHING ELSE

WORD now comes, following White House
" conference, that the President will not insist
on the so-caed Administration bill that was orig-
mated in the House in response to his taxation
message.
We said the other day believed one of the
Presidents most admirable traits-one rare indeed
among men who occupy such high political of1ce-is
found in the fact that he does not claim omscience
is willing to admit mistakes; does not suffer from
pride of authorship.
And we predicted that trait would be demon
strated this week in connection with the tax middle
1t has.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY Science Service

TINE cure of cancer, the solution
of many medical problems, in
fact, the very secret of life itself.
may lie in the answer to one oues-
ton.
Couched in scientific terms the
question is: What is the explana-
ton of morphogenesis? In simpler
language it is: Why do living or
ganismS assume the form they do?
Why, for example, does the nor
NAL human being develop as he
does? Why do his legs grow to
equal length? Why do the fingers
of his hands take on symmetrical
shapes? Why does not one ear
grow to be five times the size of
the other?
The answer to these questions
thinks Prof. Edmund w. Sinnott of
Columbia University. may be more
fundamental than any which can
be asked in the realm of biology.
Morphogenesis, the study of the
causes which produce form and
structure in living organisms, may
provide the key to life. he says.
ANY one who has studied abb
normal growth can testify to the
CHASTITY malformations of which all
organisms are sometimes capable, /"
DR.. Sinnott writes in the Independ-
ent Journal, publication Of the CO.
lumbia Graduate School of Journal
ism.
Cancer is such an abnormality
in man and is caused by a derange-
ment of the delicate developmental
mechanism by which the growth of
the body is ordinarily controlled"
If students of cancer understood
the riddle of organic form, they
could control cancer, DR.. Sinnott
says. But this riddle is still far
from solution.
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WATCHES YOUTHS PRACTICE
FOR AUTO ACCIDENT

N. Taylor Todd
1t is now 10 p. m. and for the last
two hours I have been listening to
a group of boys and girls, all prob
ably less than 18, practicing for an
automobile accident.
After reading about an accident
last week in which young man was
Killed on Rlverview-dr, within a mile
or so of this locality and apparently
under similar circumstances, it
causes one to wonder on how many
more corners in our mo Mean City"
other groups of children also are
practicing. It tends to cause think
ing persons to fear to venture on our
streets.
This is what they were doing. Half
OF the group would get into the car
and with clashing of gears, shrieking
of horns and much yelling would
start down the street as fast as the
Car could go. During the 10 or Is
minutes of the absence of the car,
which no doubt was speeding down
streets and careening around cor
ners, for you could hear the loud
horn frequently-those left on the
curb would discuss the driver
at the top of their voices: "Boy,
lookit him CO." Some speed" "Aint
he reckless Hell get killed sure"
At length the car would return.
You could hear it some distance off,
but at last it would arrive in tri.
umph of noise, brakes grinding.
tires sliding, voices yelling: Look
out" Here he comes" Get on the
curb, Hell hit you sure" And then
the process would be repeated by the
other half of the group.
If the parents of these children do
not value their investment in the
car and the children themselves, at
least they might have some consid-
Grafton and courtesy for the lives of
others which were endangered and
the peace of the surrounding neigh
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virgin woodland lying northeast of
the suburb which gave the Irvington
Republican Club to the nation and
the world.
And then the next generation of
little experiinenters took some more
of the hundreds of thousands of tax
money tweedled out of Harry
Miesse's employers and built
boulevard from Garfield Park along
Pleasant Run (Which sometimes
had water in it and all times smelled
to high heaven) northeast to Ellen
berger Park.
And all the time this was being
done, the East Side was and is crav-
ing main traffic arteries into the
center of town. All this is history,
but we come now to the current
events as time marches on.
Now some contemporary playboys
are going to build another road
This time they will connect Kessler-
blvd, far, far out in the country sur
rounding lovely Shadeland, with the
dangling end of the other boulevard
which leads down to the gas plant.
Except for real estate spectators
and politico contractors, no one is
calling for such a highway, and
there are plenty of golfers and
property owners whose front yards
are being destroyed, who see no
reason for IT, at all
The Best Minds on the city coun-
Gil are building, of course, for Sun
day joyriding, but it doesn't occur
to them that English-av is wide and
enticing from the Brookville-rd TO
the grade crossing of the Big Four
near State-av, and there it dissolves
into maze of narrow streets and
alleys like the map of Adds Ababa.
Pardon the verbiage, but we need
city planning commission in In
dianapolis. Do you agree?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-13

A-Born in Bombay, India. the
son of John Lockwood and Alice
Macdonald Kipling.
GLOW could the Supreme Court
of the United States be abolished?
A-By amending the Constitution.
Q-What are the religious afhlia-
tons of Gov. Alfred M. Landon of
Kansas; Frank Knox, the Chicago
publisher; Senator Arthur H. Van
denberg of Michigan, and Senator
William E. Borah of Idaho?
A-Gov. Landon is a Methodist;
Frank Knox and Senator Vanden-
berg. Congregationalists: Senator
Borah, Presbyterian.
Q-When it is 6 p. N. E. S. r. in
the United States, what time is it in
Italy?
Alt Is IL midnight.
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IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

Inclose a 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. C. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Q-On which ballot in the Demo-
cratic convention of 1882 was
Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated,
and how many votes did he receive?
Ale was nominated on the
fourth ballot: Roosevelt, GAS;
Smith, 109ls.
Q-Is Joseph Stain jew?
A-No. he is a Georgian, one of
the races of the Caucasus who were
incorporated In Russia by conquest.
Q-where was Rudyard Kipling
born. and who were his parents?
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BOULEVARDS GO ROUND
AND ROUND, READER SAYS
BY Worried

AND hOUND, hEA1SEh SA1S
By "Worried"
Some years ago the citizens of
indianapolis, by tremendous ma
jority,. indicated their desire for a
city manager form of municipal
government. BY a decision which
would rob any judiciary of the re-
spect of decent citizens, the Supreme
Court of the state thwarted the will
of the people and we continue to
select municipal officers and en-
ployes on the basis of utilization
with one of the national parties.
A series of articles written daily
until the Republicans win an cleo
ton would not exhaust the list OF
weaknesses of our present form of
municipal government, but we
might begin with the work Of the
City Planning Commission.
Some years ago, during the reign
of our genial and beloved auctioneer,
Mayor Shank, We saw the beginning
of boulevard system. This Won
derful boulevard, which would mys-
tify and amaze any good authority
on city planning, had its begin
ming in a cornfield several miles
northwest of the city,
1t then proceeded northward in a
circuitous route, past some real es-
tate subdivisions, not toward the
city where people might want to
travel, but around the city as
though to puzzle and beguile the in
nocent motorist who might conclude
that this was. a highway which
might lead him to the business dis
trict.
Coming into the outskirts over a
bridge which was conveniently near,
it then proceeded as quickly as pos
sible out of the city again and east
ward through the green pastures of
the. kline and the cabbage patches
and the rhubarb, until finally those
who had the patience to continue
found themselves on gravel road
cut deep with inefficient county
government chuck holes somewhere
near Buzzards' Roost, or some other
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SING ME A SONG
BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY


Oh, sing me a song of a bright May
day
With both clouds and sun in the skv
That my spirit may clip the feeciest
tip
OF a cumulus sailing by.
And let my feet tread through
dense, green wood
Where May flowers and trillium
bloom
Above last years leaves as a car
pet cleaves
To a floor, or a smile covers gloom.
But this is not all that the song
must hold:
/ must have you, too, by my side;
Then the melody sweet will be COM
plete
On the bright wings of fortune to
ride.
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Our
Town
Bu
ANTON sCHERRER
THE exhibit of pictorial photog-

TINE exhibit of pictorial photog-
- raphy up at the Heron again
raises the question whether a
photographer can be an artist
whether, indeed, he can qualify as
an artist. We bring up the subject
because there are still some people
who claim he can't and who hon.
estly believe that the sooner he
knows about it the better it will be
for Art.
The confusion, probably, arises
because of our misuse of the word
art" 1t is an ugly word for so
beautiful a thing. It stands for so
many things that one is never quite
sure what the people who use it
intend it to mean. And it adds to
the confusion when it is qualified
by the word fine"
Indeed, to listen to some people,
there is now no art but fine art"
which is to say, there is no art but
what is the exclusive property of
painters, sculptors, musicians and
poets. Which. of course, lets out
the photographers, if we listen to
these people.
WE are perfectly willing to ad-
W nit that the conscious effort
after beauty is categorically the
thing which distinguishes the fine
arts from others; but why deny such
a conscious effort to one SInd of
workman and not to another?
1t is an abnormal condition of
things wherein we differentiate be-
tween good workmen and so-called
artists. In normal society
mason and sculptor of images
are simply different kinds of art
lists. And by the same token, so
are photographers and painters.
After all, it is the goodness of a
thing that counts, and the criterion
in art is discoverable only when we
know what a thing really is.
A good work OF art is a thing that
its maker has made as we'll as it
ought to be made and the difficulty
of knowing whether a thing has
been made we'll or i'll is the difficulty
of knowing what are the rules gov
erning its making.
A LFRED Stieglitz was among the
4 n first in America to sense the
goodness" of a good camera shot
picture and to point out the rules
governing its making. His rule was
simply that of any good workman
namely: To stay within the linita-
lions of his tools and materials
and to endow them with an artists
not a painter's-point of view.
Stieglitz compelled recognition be-
cause he saw in photography an
entirely new medium of individual
expression and because he did is
probably why the show at the Her
ron is the satisfying thing it is.
AT any rate, this years show is
good because photographers are
sensing the unique possibilities of
their own art"
WE can't leave the show with
out pointing out two pictures:
"Cacti," by E. Ashford Sampson
and Pottery" by Christine Fletcher
not that they are the best, but
because they indicate what photog-
raphy, and no other art, can do.
No painter, for instance, could ever
hope to achieve the infinite tonal
graded values of the exquisite
shapes shown in these pictures.
It's not that we want to lis
parage painting; it's because we
want to see the photographers get
what's coming to them. Some day
we'll say something nice about the
painters.