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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
NEED FOR UNIFIED POLICE
FORCE IN STATE CITED

By Jimmy Cafouros
Once upon time the county was
the unit of applied government.
Technically speaking, the county
still is the unit of government. But
time doth wreak great change.
A unit of government is the
neighborhood. A neighborhood is a
region where the people residing
therein know each other rather well.
There used to be so few pople in a
county that all that was necessary
was to say you were Mr.. Whoozis
from Marion County or Morgan
County. Today the neighborhood is
the precinct-that is, in most cities.
In sparsely settled sections the coun-
ty is still the only handlebar by
which the government-Federal or
state-can contact the people.
Originally, the sheriff was the cop
on the beat. Most of the time ne
was the only cop on the beat. When
it got to be too much for one man
he hired deputies.
What originally was a sort of con-
centration of houses, a general store,
a postoffice, and a corner saloon,
became Main-st, Spruce-st, Cedar
and Walnut. This grew to be the
dominant point of the county.
BY easy stages there evolved what
is known as the city police depart
ments. The past conduct of both
easily indicates the friction due to
their co-jurisdiction and insane jeal-
ouSy of one another.
The police of every city are law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE most puzzlng aspect of the current scene is
the failure of the modern woman to get and
keep her
Not that she doesn't have plenty of help. Radios,
movies, newspapers, college professors offer as
sistance yet she is flop if you compare her with
the girl Of Jane Austen's day, who was even more
shameless in her angling for husband but seldom
failed to land some kind of catch
Perhaps the intent behind the deed holds the
answer to our riddle. In the eighteenth century
the game of love meant but one thing to a woman
getting a husband for keeps. Today it is PLAYED
for different purpose The thrill of pursuit entices
even more than the quarry at the end of the chase
One may draw a safe comparison between the mod
ern hunter who doesn't particularly need his kill
and the Stone Age man who had to track down
his game or starve.
Todays girl, one is often forced to believe, may
be Just little too well educated in the technique of
husband hunting; she carries so many accoutre-
ments around with her that the game is scared off
She is rather like a billboard poster which, By
promising so much more than it can give creates
wariness in customer
1t is true that women's wiles were never more
perfect. yet men skittsh as colts before the
halter and Is slippery as eels within the hand
Our feminine bait is losing its power; beauty
ceverness. mart attire have served out their time
With them must go more dependable qualities. For
Whatever may be said about marvellous moderns
men still seek the immemorial SATELLITES in their
women-help, loyalty and disinterested love-
In an age where two of these qualities at least
are given them generously by feminine o-workers
IN business, 1t seems strange and tragic that they
should find them seldom at home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
FANTASTIC

nNE OF the fantastic phases of life under the
- New Deal repeatedly shows up in this form:
The executive board Of the (any) Chamber of
Commerce meets Passes resolutions condemnirg
high Federal expenditures Appoints subcommittee
to go to Washington and obtain large chunk
of Federal money as possible.
Here is recent variation:
New York City is to have worlds fair in 1889
Biggest city. Biggest fair Fine idea! Raise $780,
100000! Grover Whalen named president How to
get the money? Collect 500 900 eco from private SUBJ
scribers and get the other 10 from Uncle Sam
Finance committee appointed
Named thereon top fight New Dea1 critics repre-
senting bankers, insurance companies public utili-
ties, and forth-long, eminent and impressive list
of They Hate Roosevelt"
But after all $4,000 600 is $10OOoOoO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

assets, turning the money over to the suspense
account.
The reserve account would invest It's funds In
state bonds while the assets of the suspense account
would be kept in more liquid form, so that there
would be necessity in lean years for the reserve
account to dump its long-term securities on the
market in hurry Pointing out that "the usual
thing to expect is that prices of the highestgrade
bonds will rise during depression and fall during
prosperity" the commission maintained that the
serve account would seldom lose money on its bond
sales
COME students of public finance believe the COM
~ MISSIONS tax-reserve plan to be unavoidable
The problem of surplus financing, they say, is be-
deviled by both legal and administrative difficulties
In the first place, governmental units in most states
are allowed to tax only for specific purposes. More
over, it is believed that taxpayers seeing part OF
their taxes being put aside for use in some distant
future would create pressure for tax reductions that
would be hard for legislators to resist.
Even if a reserve could be built up, some ex-
perts maintain, legislators would raid the fund by
changing the law when the reserve mounted to
tempting height. Opponents Of the reserve plan
point to similar experiences with various other types
of surpluses in recent years. Hard pressed for re-
venue to meet current expenses and rgidy restricted
by tax limitations, many cities in Ohio and other
states looted their sinking funds during the de-
preston
The least complicated method of saving up in
rich years for the vicssitudes of poor ones many
believe, is to operate on pay-as-you-go basis re-
serving borrowing power for depressions.
States and cities have been hit hard financially
in recent years that they should make use of the
lesson to build business-lik buwark against the
possibility of recurring depressions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
FINDS CARTOON is
AMUSING

BY C. L. Fish, RushvilIe
1t is amusing to one who reads the
writings of the philosophers of the
Near East, Indian, Far East and
Roman civilization to Sc a cartoon
like the one that appeared in the
May issue of The Indianapolis
Times. Those philosophers con-
stantly were arguing the crime
question. The disciplinarian upheld
the prevailing social, political, and
economic order; thus, they con-
tended that the nature of man is
evil, and institutions are necessary
in the process of Specialization. The
free thinker upheld the opposite
school of thought.
Four times, as history records it,
the primitive instinct of man has
overpowered the strait jacketing of
institutions and education. The
governments favored a select few;
thereby creating poverty and scho-
lastic ignorance. When such a
condition existed, the unfavored
group had to resort to crime and
other unsocial methods in order
that it might be in a position to
obey the paramount human urges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY Science Service

DEARBORN, Mich, May ia
- day when farms will grow
plants to order to meet the require
ments of industry was predicted
here today by l.. F. Livingston,
president of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers.
Mr.. Livingston spoke at the Sec
ond Dearborn Conference on Agri-
culture, Industry and Science, called
by the Farm Chemurgic Council and
the Chemical Foundation, ito adj
vance the industrial use Of Amer
can farm products through applied
science"
Rapid development of the X-ray
technique and the mounting knowl-
edge CT genes and chromosomes
foreshadow the time when the man
ufacturer will specify the physical
or chemical property he desires in
his raw material and the plant
breeder will create plant that has
ii" Mr.. Livingston said.
Research of recent years has
shown that the heredity of a plant
is controlled by the genes, minute
structures found in the chrome
somes of the cells of the plant. Re-
cent experiments have shown that
when a gene is altered or destroyed
by treating the seed of the plant
with X-rays the result is to alter
the plant which grows from the
seed.
Plant breeders are showing new
skill in many directions, MIR. Liv-
inQSt0r indicated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
Watch Your Health

, OOMETIMES child of years
~ may wet his clothes during the
day because he is too interested in
play and fails to go to the bath
room. Little is to be gained by
Furnishing such child. 1t is much
better to instruct him intelligently
and to praise him for keeping dry.
In training her child, a mother
should consider the following points:
l. Do not give him any water,
milk or other fluid to drink after
p. m. See that the baby drinks
water freely during the day.
2. If the child complains of thirst
at bedtime, give him a piece of
orange or apple.
3. Pick up the child at 10 o'clock
every night. Wake him Thoroughly
and have him care for himself just
as he does during the day.
4. Protect the bed well, but dc
not put on diapers at night after
the baby has begun to go without
them during the day.
S. Take the baby up just as soon
as he awakes. Many children wet
the bed few minutes after waking
in the morning.
| 6. In preparing dry suppers, omit
milk for drinking or for use on &C.
reals or puddings, and water OF
cocoa for drinking. Use milk when
possible in cooking foods. Breads
and cereals of whole grain are
preferable.
Sometimes it is necessary to take
the baby up second time during
the night. If so, the mother should
notice the time at which the baby
vets the bed and awaken him just
before. Then the period between
the first awakening and the Sec
! ond may gradually be heightened
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
IF there is one point more than
L any other that gives a new
mother concern, it is the training
of the child in proper habits of
eXcretion.
Most babies learn control dur
ing the first two years of life; others
within six months. If a baby fails
to learn by the end of the, third
year, or if baby once properly
trained relapses into infantile
habits, he should have special medi-
cal study, and perhaps also
psychological examination, to find
out just what is wrong.
Bed wetting is one of the habits
OF early childhood that is most
difficult to control.
While the baby is very young,
the act of releasing fluid from the
body is not controlled by center
in the brain, but is an automatic
performance in which only the
spinal cord takes part. Gradually
the brain becomes involved, so that
the child is able to learn control
while he is awake. Later, this con-
troll can be extended to cover the
hours when the baby is asleep.
There are many causes for per-
s1stent bed wetting. They include
nervousness, infections, poor nutri-
ton. inf1ammations, and other
physical defects.
When child that persistently
vets the bed is brought to a doctor,
the latter first makes complete
physical examination to determine
whether the child is physically
sound In all respects. Every one of
the tissues may be concerned in
developing conditions leading to bed
wetting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

/ Q-Can a divorced person be re-
married in the Methodist Episcopal
Church?
A-That church permits the re-
marriage Of the innocent party to
divorce.
Q-What is the address of the
Gillette Safety Razor Co?
Ais W. First-st, Boston. Mass.
Q-What is the value of Unit
ed States 2-cent piece dated 1864?
A-Two to 10 cents.
Q-What is the length and ton
mage of the new steamship, Queen
Mary, compared with the Nor
mandie?
Across tonnage of the Queen
Mary is 80,773. au.t the length 1913
feet. The Normandie has $4,000
gross tonnage and Is 1029h feet
I,f.r frl5ovz,f41U 1ionnrnk ngfns~o fs<,r.e
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
FOR A RAINY DAY

NTOST state and local governments emerged from
A'A the depression financially crippled and facing
increased tax loads to get even keel The rea-
son is that, unlike most private enterprises many
of them failed to provide for the accumulation dur
ing prosperity of reserves upon which to draw for
running expenses during depresSions
No state or local government has provided an ade-
quate rainy day" reserve although the use of tax
to retire bonds accoplishes the same pur-
pose to some extent.
plan for the creation of reserve funds to cush-
ion state and local governments against the effects
of reduced tax yields in lean years unanimously
recommended to the state Legislature in 1882 by the
New York State Commission for the Revision OF
Tax Laws but no legislative action has been taken
on the recommendation.
The commission estimated that if personal in
come taxes at the rates it recommended had been in
force in New York state throughout the period 1920
1881, the annual revenue would have fiuctuated from
a low point of S5100000o in 1922 to high of Sl79-
100000 in 1929 and to another low of ssh 100000 in
1881. These fluctuations in revenue ACCOMPANYING
the business cycle the commission commended were
great enough seriously to embarrass both the state
and the localities in their attempts to match their
expenditures with their income"
ME plan advanced by the commission contem-
plated the creation for each of the taxes whose
yield was excessively variabe"-the personal in
come tax the corporate franchise tax death taxes.
and the stock transfer tax-of reserve fund into
which certain amount of the proceeds of each
tax would be poured in years of high yield and from
which money would be withdrawn to supplement the
current yield when collections declined
Reserve funds, under the commissions plan would
be segregated into account and suspense"
account. In prosperous years predetermined share
OF tax revenues would be utilized for current state
expenditures, another predetermined part would 90
into the reserve account and the balance would go
into the suspense account. In lean years all current
tax revenue would be used to cover expenditures and
IN addition the suspense account would nquidate
part OF its assets, the resulting cash Being made
available for current expenditures. At the same
time, The reserve account w0rsd asa part 1T is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

to themselves. Every town and ham
let in the state has its own rules for
civilized social conduct. In this day
of wide range operations and I'M
ceasing movement about the state it
is evident that something is amiss.
Maybe this year, maybe next,
maybe in the next generation it will
come. 1t is inevitable.
There will be one police force in
Indiana. The Indiana State Police.
They will have offices in every coun-
ty. There will be one head, one law,
one offense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
HEARD IN CONGRESS

d EP. CLIFFORD Or. Mass0, discussing House
refusal to request submission to it of Gen.
Johnsons secret report on WPA: I would compare
it to the case where young lady anonymously adj
vertised for male hiking companion for two weeks
and then they asked her If she would disclose the
names of the 100 applicants She said, mo; it has
already made awful row. Father was one of the
applicants uaughtero yoN are indeed afraid
somebody pretty close to the Administration win Be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
Il
SECRETARY ICKES ON PROPER
COURSE, WRITER THINKS
By l.. S. ].


Secretary Ickes has renewed his
appeal to Congress to change the
name Of his department from that
of Interior" to Conservation. The
secretary, an ardent conservstionist,
argues that it is time to reverse the
intimation of exploitation" here
tofore associated with his Office.
After all these years, it is doubt
full if Congress will break tradition
to change the title of the cabinet
post, and that doesn't seem to be
important, so long as the depart
ment remains on the right track.
Mr.. Ickes is directing a vast per-
sonnet toward protection of Ameri-
can resources. If that duty is per-
formed well, the Department of the
Interior can lay claim to a great
contribution. The name of the de-
partment doesn't mean much-the
vital thing is the spirit Of conSer-
walton" that prevails there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

F1Imes readers are nUited to cypress
their ute1oS in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make Nouy letters
short so all can have q chance. Limit
them to ESQ tOords or less. Your letter
must De SiGned. but names 4oilL be
Withheld on redmestj
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
BUYING BABY BONDS

DABY BONDS are being bought by banks and
~ trust companies we'll as individuals.
The Treasury reports that such institutions have
purchased about per cent of the savings bonds sold
thus far most of them taking the legal limit of
$4,000 worth
In 10 months the Treasury sold 1922 1853 bonds
ranging in denomination from S25 to $1,000 and
totaling in maturity value $271 ,942, 525
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
DEFINITION

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICl
My life is a clear glass bowl
Filed with still water.
You are . slim goldfish,
That plunhs the green depths.
Stirring the surface.
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DAILY THOUGHT

If any man serve Me, let him fol-
low Me: and where 1 am, there shall
also My servant be: if any man
serve Me, him will My Father
honour.-St. John 1926.
A LII I have seen teaches me to
( n trust the Creator for all I have
not Seen.-EmerSOn
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IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

Inciose 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-Do hogs have thyroid glands.
A-They have two thyroid glands
Glow long did President Roose-
velt speak at the 1886 jackson Day
dinner at the Maydower Hotel in
Washington?
A-From 10 to about 1898 D. m.
(Which is correct. somebody's
else" or somebody else's"?
A-ElSe is an adverb. The pos
sessiye oNindefinite pronouns com.
bined wits else is formed By adding
). as somebody else's.p No other
form Is sanctioned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

CALLY METZ, the prize girl in the
~ state All Club Roundup at
Purdue, was pronounced 97.6 per-
feet. Her mother was too indignant
to be interviewed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

HARBORERS REAL PUBLIC
ENEMIES, is CLAIM

BY II. IL.
Having rounded up the most no.
torious of the nations public enc
mics, j. Edgar Hoover now seeks
the persons who harbored and
abetted these criminals.
That includes doctors, lawyers,
and police of various American
cities who are suspected of having
aided Karpis, Campbell, Mahan and
other dangerous racketeers. In
Cleveland, for instance, certain To-
cal politicians with police connec-
lions are suspected by Hoover of
having aided in the 1884 escape of
the Karpis- Barker Campbell gang.
I only hope that Mr.. Hoover is
100 per cent successful in catching
up with these nefarious undercover
operators. Were it not for their
aid, the racketeers could never have
gone as far as they did. These I'M
scrupulous aids of the underworld
are, in fact, the real public enc
mics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
Our
Town
By
ANTON SCHERRER
ANTON sCHERRER

| ANTON SCHERRER
CALLY METZ, the prize girl in the
- state All Club Roundup at
Purdue, was pronounced 97.6 per-
feet. Her mother was too indignant
to be interviewed.
IT'S nice to think that the 200
= year old Chardin- painted still
Life" recently purchased by the
Heron Art people, will spend the
rest of its days in Indianapolis.
1t is a rarely beautiful picture and
the only thing like it in this world
is fruit cake, mellowed by time
and treatment. At any rate, that's
what the little lady within our hear
ing said it was like
The comparison is fair enough
even if it does dip into a collateral
art for words. A Chardin- painted
picture, come to think of it. is eX-
actly like fruit cake, especially the
kind we used to keep for years
wrapped in yellowing brandy soaked
cloths. 1t has the same richness,
the same body and exactly the same
haunting fragrance.
A SURVEY of local living con-
L n ditions last week confirms a
suspicion that something is hap
pening to Indianapolis gardens and
especially to the flowers in them.
For one thing, there was more
evidence this year of shady walks
and sun-f1ecked parterres, of grass
and hedges, of pools and foun-
tains and the trickle of water and
it all had the effect of pushing the
flowers into the background.
Indeed, in more than one place
there were signs of a deliberate at
tempt to make the garden indie
pendent of howers-not necessarily
free of flowers, you understand, but
independent of them.
1t was bound to come. Gardeners
around here are tired of fooling
with a climate as fitful as ours and
to get even have developed type
of garden that looks as well with
out flowers as it does with them.
The fact of the matter is that
the indianapolis garden no longer
exists solely for it's flowers. It's
flowers exist for it. It was the only
way left to achieve a charm indie
pCl1QCIlU VI WIG SSdSO1lS.
II It
THIS column, unlike others,
measures time and progress by
what happens from one Mothers
Day to the next. Measured that
way, it shows what the women, not
the men, were up to last year. For
instance:
Last Sunday rocking chairs were
in style again and, like as not, the
rocking chair tidy is right around
the corner.
Black bean soup has superseded
cream of mushroom, whather you
like it or not.
Baby carriages are now stream
lined for good. Last Mothers Day
manufacturers were just making up
their minds about it.
A split skirt is now a culotte. It
looks the same, though.
The angle OF women's hats this
Mothers Day was as degrees-a
drop of IS degrees in a year. Wen
probably have to wait until next
Mothers Day to see what happens,
because goodness knows they can't
stay on at this rate.
The holes in mothers doughnuts
last Sunday were smaller than ever
before.
And last Sunday mothers wore
mems suspenders. Up It'll now,
they've depended on moral support
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The Ho0sier Forum

dlsdpproUe of a0hat yom Say-and UiU defend
to the death your right to say it.-VoItaire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

It all SINNERS down to this; The
eagerness to solve the crime problem
is always in the ear (or) and eye of
he who hears Corr and reads it; but
not in the tongue (or) and pen of
he who speaks Corr and writes it,
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Vagabond
from
Indiana
ERNIE PYLE

EDITORS NoTE-This rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he pIeases,
when he pleases. in search of odd stories
shout this and that.