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and low vitality-would disap-
pear if the city was smoke-free.
Tracing pneumonia deaths in
boom years and depression years
gives rise to the belief of some
physicians that air pollution may
be a conspirator in weakening
pneumonia sufferer and retarding
the chances for his recovery.
The pneumonia survey shows
that with the lift of the depres-
sion-and increased consumption
of fuel by factories and homes
pneumonia has reached record
heights.
Indianapolis was healthier in
1882 and 1888 than in 1884 and
1885.
An Indianapolis laundry which
graciously played the good
neighbor" and turned to "city
heat" rather than fire it's own
boilers and purvey smoke now
finds itself battling the CRIME and
fumes from the very neighbors it
tried to protect.
A MANS shit might with
4 "A stand two years washing in
a clean city, but finds Indianap-
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Gen. johnson SAYS

NIASHINGTON, March 16.-The proposed i'm
w post on undStributed corporate earnings is
not tax. 1t is an Ogpu of the taxing power to
force political policy of distributing all earnings.
Good or bad it is revolutionary change made with
little study or debate.
The Treasury estimates of undistributed earn
ngS are, usual bunk But the real question the
wisdom of this plan.
Few corporations can pay out all their earnings
in cash without borrowing. In no single year from
1926 to 1880 did the combined balance sheet of all
corporations show cash even equal to current pay
abes, Surplus is rarely carried in cash. Such a
requirement would impair the working capital of
great majority of corporation
If corporations had to distribute all earnings to
stockholders how would long-tim corporate debts
ever be paid? The whole theory of corporate nanc-
ing of fixed assets is that they will be paid for out
of earnings.
DEVELOPMENT of and experimental in
- dustries, such are necessary to absorb tech
biological unemployment, must be financed out of
earnings. SEC wouldn't permit a bond issue for
such wildcat purpose Under this law, Henry
Ford would still be a tinker and if he had
somehow got started, the bankers would have had
him long this.
No Horatio Alger story of industrial development
would have been possible under the rule-not even
Dick Wilmington and his cat. If this had long
been law the whole of American industry would
have been bankrupt in the past six years-an I'M
plumbed tragedy of unemployment
The breathing spell promised Roy Howard is
This is just the next step in the Hot Dog plan
to industry for and not for profit"
Copyright 1885, by United Feature Syndicate.
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Then Hitler Cut Loose

A ND with his successful example it was no wonder
n that Hitler used substantially the same bottle
In similar scene before the bar few DAYS ago and
with every reason to anticipate substantially the
same results. Hitler in fact went little further
than Mussolini and the Cleveland criminal, for he
not only demanded vndication but hoped up on
the bench and had begun to hold court himself He
shows a generous attitude toward the complaining
witness and is willing to grant parole but at the
first sign of mpudence will throw that bottle and
blow everything to hell.
- In America, when man is taken for ride it is
job of rugged indvidualism and not state enter
prise as in Italy and Germany And when mobs fall
out and begin to shoot the principals are undesir-
ables OF no social or official standing. The European
mobs, on the other hand, are composed of rival
groups of army officers and statesmen who are con-
stantly standing their opponents against the wall in
manner which makes the Valentines Day mas
in Chicago too sordd and paltry for COM
parson.
So it goes in the old world, where American
crmlnality is never-failing of amusement.
Lilliputan village trying to initiate the giants of
murder, burglary and pillage.
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stack pour illegal smoke for II
minutes. This was 3 violation of
the city smoke code, which per-
nits illegal smoke for but six
minutes out of each hour of the
day.
HNE of the weak points of the
~ indianapolis Smoke Code is
that it permits the small house
holder to spew black SCOT at will
without fear OF arrest or repri-
mand while industrial plants,
stores, and hotels are forced to
comply in spirit, as much as pos
sible, with the code.
1t has been shown that Indi-
ana's Sofi, coal can be fired prop
erly without causing large quanti-
ties of SCOT TO spread on grass and
flower beds to the detriment of
vegetation.
Do you know the right way to
start fire? You say paper, kim
ding, and COAL" Wrong!
Change that procedure to the
upside down method with coal
and then paper and kindling and
more coal if you're burning Indi-
ana's own black diamonds.
The survey has disclosed what
other cities have done to ban
smoke and how Pittsburgh, the So
called Smoky City," is losing its
nickname.
1t shows that the Money Me-
phisto of indianapolis, in costing
conservative $5,00o,oo0 annually,
does this:
Destroys property and kills trees
and plants.
Makes unnecessary washing and
cleaning.
Soils and depreciates store mer-
chandise and art objects.
Drives residents to doctors and
increases hospital bills.
Sends fuel bills soaring.
Next-The Indianapolis smoke
bill.
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lace was told, gave him full power
to proceed with the walnut sub
sidy-regardless of the Com
mercial Policy Committee. AS a
matter of fact, Wallace was in
formed, the committee was only
an advisory body anyway and had
absolutely no power to dictate to
him.
With this powerful backing,
Wallace hesitated no longer. On
March 10 he issued depart
mental order quietly putting the
walnut export subsidy into opera
ton
What happens next remains to
be seen. Knowing Hulls bull
dog tenacity, insiders predict
further repercussions. Probably
the final fight will be waged
around the Presidents desk.
MRS. ROOSEVELT'S adoring
1F1 newspaper girls have now got
around to giving her advice on
what clothes she should wear.
Here is their repartee at a recent
press conference:
Question-Have you decided
what you are going to wear to din
ner this evening?
Mrs. Roosevelt haven't even
thought about it. If it is cold, I
think I will wear velvet dress.
CIVIL you wear the prune-
colored one? I like that one.
Mrs. R-No, I don't think will
wear that because I wore it the
other day. I think shall wear
the one with two colors, purple
and red. I think you must be so
accustomed to seeing the same
dresses that you must get tired de-
scribing them. You are always so
kind about it.
mol. JAMES M. JOHNSON, as
~ sistant secretary of COM
merce, was testifying before the
Senate Commerce Committee on
ship subsidy legislation.
He aired his views at length
and with much redundancy. Fin
ally Missouri's outspoken Senator
Bennett Clark interrupted him.
Colonel, I understand you are
a former highway commissioner
in South Carolina?"
That's right
We'll, how does that qualify
you as a marine expert?"
Why exclaimed Col. John
son with great dignity, Il can
handle small boat as well as
anybody in this room!"
Copyright. 1886. by United Featur
Syndicate Incl
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On a Big Time Scale

MUSSOL1NI broke the law and was indicted by
1VA the Geneva Grand Jury. There wasn't much
that could be said his side beyond the claim that
Great Britain as reformed crook was unfit to pass
Judgment on any one. and the defense was almost
entirely composed of vtuperaton against one of the
JUDGES Thus they had not thief, but a nation
OF 44,OOOOO0 in the dock and a crime to consider
beside which the total scores of Al Capone John
Dlllnger and all their merry hardly deserve to
be rated as two-doar Stickup
At this stage of the proceedings Mussolini the
inspiration of Italy and the model Of Italian youth
threatened to blow up mere country courthouse
put the entire community of white civilization He
had submarines and hornets both in great numbers
and he had, moreover thousand air pilots calling
themselves The Desperadoes, who ready to dive
onto the decks of the British fleet and blow it up if
the court presumed to cenSure it.
AT that the black and yellow subjects of the
British Empire would wiggle loose, France would at
tack Italy, Germany would jump France, the Bal
kans would join the fight and Japan would take adj
vantage of the confusion to seize the whole Orient
thus involving the United States
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If you're a stranger to this city
then within the next five or seven
years your pink lung-if you lived
in clean city-will be dark and
notified from indianapolis SCOT.
The chimney of the average In
dianapolis residence befouls the
neighbours linens and lungs and in
putting out blackness sends dol
lars out of the f1ue.
A ton of coal that costs SIS &C
tually costs $3.50 for the added
SO cents is wasted fuel.
Husbands bordering the cos
metic and cleansing cream bills
of their wives need only glance
out of office windows to find the
answer.
My survey shows that $250,000
in art treasures are barricaded
behind glass and sometimes not
shown to an artistic population
because the treasures lie in one
of the city's smoke belts.
A RAIN OF ZEN
N THOUSAND tons of sulphur
is the blight emptied each year
on indianapolis.
Weather observers say "smog"
breeder of automobile accidents
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CITY LEGION POSTS
TO MARK FOUNDING
National Commanders Air
Address Is Feature.

indianapolis posts are to cele-
brate the seventeenth anniversary
of the founding of the American
Legion Tuesday night. Ray Muir
ply, national commander, is to ad
dress the Legionaires at 1890 over
the WJZ-NBC network as a nation
wide feature of the event.
Haywood Barcus Post SIS and Me-
mortal Post 8 are to hold joint
birthday party and ball in the Hoo
sier Athletic Club. Alex L. ASch
is chairman in charge of arrange
ments.
Madden Nottingham Post 348 is
to hold dance and program in
the v. F. w. Hall, 90 E. Ohio-st
Municipal Court Judge Wilfred
Bradshaw is to speak
Members of the Emerson and In
dianapolis Posts are to hold a COM
bined st. Patrick's day and ami
versary at the Emerson Post head
quarters, 143 E. Ohio-st. Walter
Myers, former speaker of the In
diana House of Representatives and
one of the founders of the Legion
is to speak.
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he knows that the only way he
can make his contract is not to
lose a heart trick.
If he carelessly obeys the rule
always win the first trick in the
hand with the two top honors-
he would play small heart, WIN
ming with the queen in dummy,
and East would show out. Now
it would be impossible to keep
from losing a heart trick.
There are four hearts out
against the declarer. If they are
divided 81, it is immaterial how
he plays the suit. But he must
provide against a 40 distribution.
If the four outstanding hearts are
IN the East hand, he can not pre-
lent the loss of a trick.
If all four hearts are in the
West hand, however, it is not nee
essary to lose a heart trick. All
he has to do is play the king of
hearts and, when East shows out,
he can finesse West out of his
hearts and make his grand slam.
Copyright, 1876, By NEA Service. Incl
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Rather Cold Comfort

1T is not a very comforting theory at best when
one looks at the sna-like progress most of the
states are making in labor legislation, and in the
light of the Court OF Appeals decision it isn't even
true The argument Of the four who invalidated the
minimum wage law was that they had no choice in
the matter since the United States Supreme Court
had thrown out similar piece of Federal legisla-
ton in 1918.
In other words. you can't have your reforms ma
tionally because the states haven't caught up, and
you can't have them locally because the Federal
courts lag. Therefore, far the legal tech
nicians go, you just can't change the social struc
ture by law. These learned gentlemen insist that
the world does not move and even if it does they
feel that they supposed to keep their eyes tightly
closed until the parade goes by. With them every
day is last Sunday.
When uncouth barbarians from the North broke
into Rome and invaded the Senate chamber
itself the Roman senators sat immobie, and the
vandas tiptoed out of the room in awe, believing
these patr1archs to be dead and mummifed, Chief
Justice Crane pays similar reverential homage to
the nine in Washington If his court voted to sus-
tain a minimum wage act the silent nine might
hear about 1T and ask the reasons for the ruling
In that event it would be hard to shield them from
the facts of life. They would have to learn that
there has been crash and continuing depression
and that many millions of men and women are out
of work.
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effected. Wallace was competing
with French nuts.
Wallace replied that he did not
plan to ship nuts to France.
After a bitter debate, the COM
mittee sided with Hull. 1t de-
cided that regardless of where the
nuts were shipped, they would
dislocate the world market.
Il II
TT looked as if the nuts were in
l. the soup. But they weren't.
The farm lobby swung into &C
ton on Capitol Hill. Overnight,
Wallace was swamped with de-
mands from Senators and con-
gressmen that he go through with
the nut subsidy.
They pointed out that in the
AAA amendments passed last year
(and not affected by the Supreme
Court decision), also in the new
farm act, specific provisions
authorize moderate export sub
sides on agricultural products.
This action by Congress, Wal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-16
Relief Probe Might
Restore Confidence
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

TxTASHINGTON, March 16.-Public confidence in
w the administration of Federal relief has de-
clined to disturbing point. To some here, it seems
that President Roosevelt could do much to restore
confidence by welcoming thorough bipartisan in
quiry.
Whether he will invite this in his Forthcoming
message is not known. Some of his more Jealous
advisers are as opposed to an investigation as the
Liberty Leaguers to having their kilograms scru-
tinized by Senator Black.
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EhEnouzh
BY
WESIBRO0K PEGLER

Darts March 16.-One of the little gems of
American news with which our European
friends have amused themselves within the last few
days was the exploit of Cleveland thief who
brandished a flask of white fluid in a court
ROOM declaring this to be nitroglycerin and threat
ened to blow up the building if the judge didn't
him loose AT that the learned judge s repTted to
have dived out of window, some other handy exit
but two skeptical policemen hauled out their pistols
and blew the man through. The gallant officers seized
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BY ARCH STEINEL

FACTORY fires burn.
Long lines storm firms
for jobs. Business glows as
pay rolls mount.
Indianapolis is geared up
grade.
But, riding the tops" of the
city's prosperity's train, blacken-
ing lungs, damaging textiles,
Grapes and clothing, is a dark
shrouded Frankenstein that costs
this city s5,0O0,00O a year.
The Mephistopheles wasting a
city's money, battering at a peo-
pies health and pocketbook is
SMOKE.
You find him on your dining
room table, in your laundry bill,
on soot-laden windows, clinging
to milk bottles and to curtains.
Smoke cost Indianapolis $3.50 900
in extra laundry bills in 1885.
Housewives bend YEARLY over
Washboards or turn wringers and
complain of aching backs and be-
grlmed clothes while outside their
own chlmneyS or the chimney of
nelghbor pours SCOT, sulphur
fumes and gases in medley of
destruction and obnoxious odors.
IN a survey of smoke conditions
Il here 1 found that Indianapolis
is climbing back to the dubious
distinction it held in 1928-the
fifth dirtiest city in the nation.
Investigation reveals that, de-
spite increases in smoke abate-
ment appliances and in education,
the increase in factory pay rolls
and production has brought in
creased violations of the Indian
apolis Smoke Code.
Leniency of city officials in pur-
suing course of education in the
depression era rather than enforce
the city smoke ordinance has
prompted disregard for air
pollution laws.
The investigation shows that the
State of Indiana could be arrested
in indianapolis for violating the
city smoke ordinance.
Stacks toss sulphur and ash to
the four winds and cost hotels and
guests thousands of dollars.
But William F. Hurd, city build
ing commissioner, and George r.
Popp Jr., smoke combustion engi-
neer, say that not one person has
been arrested for violation of the
city smoke ordinance.
THE survey shows that where
l. other cities spend from SIS
900 to $4,000 to eradicate smoke
evils, $4,000 is spent to keep sinus
sufferers happier.
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Those in the Administration
opposing an investigation say
the demand for it springs from
political motives. Perhaps so.
Undoubtedly Republicans think
an investigation will give them
campaign fodder. Yet the
charges which developed when
the two Democratic Senators in
West Virginia fell out are not
erased by an investigation OF
WPA by WPA.
Reports of political interior
ence in relief are coming from
$4,000, acute oF tba ro,,rt,.x- TNpxy
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oils CRIME sufficient to fray cuffs
and collars within one year.
If you sincerely want a breath
of fresh air you stand a better
chance by parking at the Indian
apoliS Union Station or chatting
with an engineer of a yard en-
CINE.
The survey shows that the city
has sectors, some in unsupported
places, where the sootfall is least
likely to run up your laundry bill.
If you live in the mile square
you never can hope to be anything
but 'soot-gulper- inner; that is,
of course, if conditions remain as
they are.
Sections with frame buildings
and poorly fired stoves and fur
naces are low in morale and high
in juvenile crime.
Realty values slide in smoky
areas as residents move to cleaner
neighborhoods.
WTE'VE talked about polluted
w water and the time has come
when we should be thinking and
talking about polluted air." con-
tends DR.. Verne K. Harvey, In
diana director of public health.
Sitting smoke consumers of the
city, I found that railroad lines
using the terminals here have po-
Iced their own industry to a point
where one of the largest users of
coal in local yards was able to
switch back and forth in the
yards without one smoke violation
in 1885.
This self-policing has resulted
in making roundhouses more Iva
BILE than kitchenette apartments
in many sections of the city"
Complaints of smoke violations
have been made against build
ing in the downtown area that
houses offices of a public health
organization. A smoke inspector
reported to The Times that he
watched muggy SCOT from this
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IIle LqUIu III Cne llaSK-lC was not
niSroglycerin - and the only
casualty was the central figure
of an incident which is regarded
as characteristic of that lawless
land beyond the sea.
Probably the charm of the
Cleveland incident lies in the
fact that it reduced a couple of
continents to the compass of
courtroom and millions of words
to a few snappy remarks between
the defendant and the judge. An
inspired crook epitomized the
Nazi policy of both MuSsolini
and Hitler. In ten-second
scene the Judge denicted tmn
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DVttI Y UI ZlpIJIo4o INV oiIIN4dDIII- LIIC
State Minimum Fair Wage Act.
1t has been held by some con-
tented conservatives. particular
ly Walter Lippmann. that the
Supreme Court is not nearly as
reactionary as it seems. The
Court, so its friends maintain, is
merely suggesting that the Fed
eral government has no right to
go ahead more rapidly than the
backward states. Child labor can
be banned and decent working
conditions established if only the
public will be patient enough to
have these things accomplished
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This Is the first Of series Of article,
on smoke conditions in Indiana polls.
has been written after an extended sur
vey of the problem.
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ties until such time there is united public
opinion. When that happy stage is reached the SUI
preme Court may be expected to say Bless you, my
children and quit throwing laws out the window
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great nations. France and Britain, and the police
men on their own responsibility took shockinc
hoertles with the scenario to provide happy end
ing not written in the book Perhaps on examina-
ton you will note the resemblance
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II Seems hM
BY
HEYWO0DBROUN

NEW YORK, March 16.-Perhaps there has been
too much criticism of the United States Su
preme Court recently. II has distracted public at
tention from the manifest failings of the lower
courts. New Workers have been proud of the good
record Of welfare legislation in this state and there
ought to be a growing resentment and protest
against the decision recently handed down by the
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Shocking the Supreme Court

OUCH information might great shock
- to the Supreme Court. Judge Irving Lehman, in
a vigorous dissent, maintained that the Supreme
Court is viable and that its not forever
waXed against the recital of economic necessity
He spoke with pertinence when he said that the
employer who pays wages less than the cost of
healthful living places upon society the burden of
paying part of the legitimate costs of the business.
The next time see figure of Justice in any
marble group mean to look at her shoes wonder
why they should be sheathed in lead Might it not
be an excellent idea to strip the judges of their
robes and equip them with running pants?
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BY VIM. E. M'KENNEY
Sacretarx American Rridre Lea xue

Secretary American Bridge League
+ SUPPOSE you have heard the
Il rule that requires you to win
the first trick in the hand that
has two honors. Well, whenever
any one tells you that you must
always do a certain thing in
bridge, very often he is wrong.
Always" and never" are too far.
reaching.
1 once heard a bridge authority
say, Rules of contract are made
to be broken" But it pays to
know when to break such rules.
Take for example today's hand,
which the declarer is playing at
seven no trump. With the open
ing lead of the jack of diamands,
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Solution to Previous Contract
Problem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-19
SUIT OF FORMER
 ACTRESS GOES ON

Los Angeles, May 19- (UP) A brokerage firms attempt to prove that the life of Mary Miles Minter, former screen actress, was "strang- CT than film fiction" continued to- day in superior court where the one-time movie star is seeking to recover $750.O00.
 Norman Sterry, counsel for Bluthe & O., brokers, depicted Miss Minter as the breadwinner and her sister, Mrs. Margaret Shelby Fillmore, as the favored daughter in the home of their mother, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby.
 The attorney said the mother had tried to gain film recognition for Margaret but that Mary caught the eyes of the movie-makers.
 Sterry said that when the daugh- ter, under the name of Mary Miles Minter, began making thousands of dollars, her mother sought to gain for herself and Margaret as much as possible of the wealth.
 The attorney indicated his aim was to prove that Mrs. Shelby had carried on negotiations with Leslie B. Henry. employe of the firm, which the company did not author lze. Henry was convicted of mis- use of the shelby funds and was sentenced to prison.