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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23

HARRY L. HOPKINS adroitly has shifted the
spotlight OF WPA scandal to the West Coast
where he has discharged a Democrat as state ad-
ministrator for alegedy collecting funds for po-
litical purposes.
Acting without prior publicity Administrator
Hopkins revealed for the first time the far-flung
activities of his division of investigation which
gathered the evidence leading dismissal of George
H. Cannon, Washington state WPA chief
The WPA secret service, headed by Dallas bort
University of Michigan law graduate employs more
than 100 operatives in Is divisional offices. Most
of them young men with legal background-al-
though there is sprinkling of older heads who
have service in other divisions of the govern
ment
Organized during CWA days, the division has
completed 2700 Investigations more than 1000 of
which have led to prosecutions or dismissals from
Federal pay rolls. Since WPA car1e into being 656
marked as closed" Of these charges
found to be true total 1876, while 800 were written
Gil as unjustified. One hundred ether cases are
awaiting either trial or official action by Admins
traitor Hopkins Investigations are in progress on
additional unestimated number of charges.
The violations most prominent in the records are
pay roll padding of funds for the improvement
of private property "kick- and contributions
ONLY per cent of the charges investigated con-
~ Germ political activity Other violations include
forgery of work assignment Slips pay rolls and
other documents thefts of materials and embezzle-
ment of funds and irregularities in the requistion
or inspection of materials and equipment.
In the removal of the Washington state admin
istrator the WPA investigators gathered receipts
for money collected and paid into Mr. Gannon's
political fund In all, $4,000 was collected from 400
administrative employees 1t is intact and will be
returned
WPA investigators report that in almost every
instance where they have obtained criminal indict-
ments and convictions they found evidence of but
ter-fngered gangs" which had been dipping into
public expenditures prior to the Federal govern
ment's entrance into the relief field
They asserted that it was only after the govern
ment took part that such practices were curbed
To date the largest single cleanup accomplished
by the division was in Floyd County Kentucky
where wholesale embezzlement of more than
100000 in relief funds resulted in the indictment of
% persons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MOTHERS DAY is almost on us again: Before
the regular gush starts I should like to offer
suggestion Why not use our special Sunday to
start Of BE Kind to Papa Week.?
The pernicious fact about Mothers Day is not
that 1T Is a business racket and an emotional spree
combined, but that 1t keeps all worked UP over
our own nobleness. Just about the time. we begin
to cultivate little humility here it comes again
and we are so surfeted with compliments our
heads swell once more With everybody giving
genuflections to our perfection our concet grows.
We feel because We mothers. even though not
very good ones, are superior to the rest of the
race and especially to Papa.
Which, my friends is plain hooey Yet how we
swallow It.! That isn't all, either The way we
sing our own praises is amusing. In most groups
where mothers gathered you can hear tall tales
OF sef-sacrifce and the SNUG attitude prevails.
These women you see dead sure they are walk
ing temples of virtue and every Mothers Day which
passes over their heads increases this self-esteem.
They finally get so they expect thanks and gifts in
return for having produced few children or per-
haps only one baby.
Now it is easy to see where that sort of thing
gets us-to overweening prggishness and insult
fcient appreciation for Father who keeps the base
under our pedestal
Being kind to Papa, then doesn't mean merely
getting out his slippers and serving good meals 1t
means being really big for once by trying to make
things easier for him in important matters Startle
him out OF his five senses. for instance by saying
you've decided not to buy the expensive new gown
or the solid silver service, the fresh kitchen
linoeum. Why? Because you know he's working
too hard You don't like his being a martyr to the
familys social ambition. You hate to see him slave
for money which the children toss OF on extrava-
CANT folies or which you use to keep up with the
Jones'.
Why not forget the nobility of motherhood this
year and consider what tough job Dad has.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23

duced in Indiana until the principle
of appointment on the basis of DEM
onstrated ability rather than on the
basis of party service has loyal
friends among our legislators and
executives.
Now we are facing another cleo
ton. We. of the League of Women
Voters, welcome this opportunity to
support men and women whose first
loyalty as office holders will be to
their public trust. And for that rea-
son we are anxious to hear how the
candidates of both parties stand on
the issue of the merit system. We
want to know just how interested
they are in saving the Indiana tax
payers money through efficient and
capable administration. We want
TO know just how interested they are
in safeguarding the welfare of the
people of Indiana through efficiency
and ability. We want to vote for
men and women who sincerely be-
lieve as we do that the spoils system
is a menace to our country and who
are prepared to do something about
the situation.
We shall have to assume that
those who do not publicly take their
stand with us are against us.
Page the candidates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
FARM TENANT AID

A DRASTICALLY revised version OF the Bank
head farm tenant bill. passed by the Senate
last session. is being considered by the House Ag-
riculture Committee.
Also before the committee is an amendment which
would turn to the proposed Farmers Home
Corp created by the BILL all the business of the Re-
settlement Administration.
The principal similarity between the House COM
nittee draft and the Senate measure is that each
calls for establishment of the Farmers Home Corp
with a capital stock of $5o00oO00
But where the Bsnkhead bill provides that the
corporation up to billion dollars, though
not more than 5000 100000 the first three years. no
such amounts are allowed in the House substitute.
Borrowing by the corporation would be limited
under the new bill TO one-ffth of the pad-in capt.
tai. and all such debts must mature within year.
Where the Bankhead bill is vague as to who will
be aided, the House bill stipuates that preference
shall be given to applicants who married or who
have dependent families. or who are farm tenants
sharecroppers farm laborers, or who were recently
farm tenants, sharecroppers fam aborers."
The puchase of land and implements by such
persons would be financed at low interest and long
terms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
PHANTOM TAXES

WHILE the House Ways and Means Committee
is busy trying to put some new taxes on the
statute books it It might we'll undertake to get more
revenue out of taxes already on the books.
For instance, the high income tax rates in the
upper brackets, ranging to q maximum of 70 per
cent look very impressive in the statutes but not so
impressive in the tax coi.sctors cash register One
reason for this is that the upper bracket taxpayer
turns his surplus into tax-exempt investments He
does so because he can net more profit thereby
million dollars invested in per cent bonds
wholly tax exempt will net tax-free income Of
$4,000 II the owner Of that million dollars hap
pens TO be paying income taxes in topmost
bracket. where could he possibly nd private invest
ment sure TO yield an equally high net return? Even
II privete investment offered IA per cent return
he would not risk IL, because out OF that proble-
snstical $4,000 gross return. the government would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
LOYALTY BY DECREE

THIS country, founded by fugitives from Euro
pean religious and political prosecutions, now
reads Of an order by Judge John w Mason of North
ampton, Mass. This Judge fined Ignace Opielouski
and committed three of his children 1.-TWO girls and
boy the eldest only 81 to separate reform schools,
because they refused to salute the American flag.
The children merely obeyng their father, a
member of a religious cult known as Jehovshs Wit
nesses which processes scruples against such patri-
otto obeisance
Prof Colston warne OF Amherst, spokesman for
the Massachusetts, Committee on Civil Liberties, in
vestigated He found the children above the aver
age in their classes, and the father an otherwise
loyal patriotic and law-loving farmer.
This is one of the most important violations of
civil liberties in recent years" said Prof Warne.
ANY decision which would break up family because
of refusal to salute the flag seems more like a
judicial decree from Fascist Germany than from
Calvin Coodge's home town"
To turn the children into reform school delin-
uuents for obeyng what they believe to be religious
command is alien to everything they-or we-have
been taught is American.
The American Civil Liberties Union, in keeping
with its stout tradition of fighting oppression wher-
ever and whenever appears is at work on this case
We recommend that the American Liberty League
also get interested and for admit that human
right-stch as religious freedoms precious as
property right.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETz

NEW YORK, April 23.-Spec-
tacular discoveries in the realm
of physics which startled the world
few days ago now are beginning
to find practical applications in in
dustry, engineering and medicine
and will continue to do so with in
creasing usefulness in the next few
years. This was pointed out to me
today in an interview by DR.. Henry
A. Barton. director of the American
Institute of Physics. The discover
les which created world wide atssn-
ton between 1880 and 1884 were
the discoveries of the neutron,
heavy water, positron, and artificial
radio-activity. Of these, artificial
radio-actiyity and heavy water are
giving most promise of usefulness
in medicine.
The process involved in the pro-
duction of artificial radio-activity
in the case of sodium has now been
simplified to the point where it
promises to provide cheaply and
efficiently a supply of radiation
equal to that of radium. Since or
binary table salt, a compound of
sodium, can be used instead of pure
sodium, it means that a source of
radium rays soon will be at hand
which is just as plentiful as ordi-
nary table salt is. This promises
to be of the utmost Importance to
the world of medicine, DR.. Barton
pointed out.
Heavy water contains double
weight hydrogen and by this means
its presence also can be identified.
Medical men and biologists are us
ing heavy water as tracer to check
on bodily processes, DR.. Barton ex-
planned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
HEARD IN CONGRESS

- EP MAVERICK Cd, Tex): Seventy years ago
- writer named Marsh. raising the question of
whether the United States would be permanent
country said that most countries of hy or rolling
surface and seasonal rains gradually lost their
fertile soils and in the course of time became
productive and like deserts No one in the United
States paid any attention.
We went on cutting down our forests. turning
under sods. letting rains wash topsoils into the
rivers and letting crops and erosion sap the
fertility Of soils Seventy years later awaken
to the fact that Marsh was prophet and that de-
struction of resources has gone so faf that If we
are to save ourselves we must act promptly and
vigorously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TINES!

Q-Where and when was Pola
Negri born and of what descent is
she?
A-Born in Poland, Jan. 3, 1897.
Her name was Appollonia Chalupez;
her mother was Polish and her IA
ther gypsy. q
Q-Does the Federal government
approve the use of tin cans as con-
tanners for beer?
A-The Treasury Department APP
proved their use in January, 1884.
Q-Is it possible for a young wom-
an to enlist in the United States
Navy for any sort of service?
A-The only enlisted positions
open to women in the United States
Navy are nurses.
Q-What is the name of the book
written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh?
A-"North to the Orient"
Q-who is president of the Amer
lean Liberty League?
A-Jouett Shouse.
Name the winner OF the Ma
tional Women's s,ingIes Tennis
Championship in 1895.
A-Helen Jacobs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
w atch Your He alth

ing on a machine, that requires
constant use of feet and legs for its
operation, should be discontinued
during the expectant period.
In summer time the expectant
mother should be cautious about
walking in the hot sun. She should
walk slowly and avoid crowds. Two
miles daily is an average distance.
When the weather is bad. the ex-
ercise may be taken at home, either
on an open porch or in room with
windows open. In winter, warm
clothing should be worn during
these calisthenics, exactly as if the
woman we're walking on the street.
Deep breathing will insure plenty
of oxygen for the blood. It may be
advisable to take five or six deep
inhalations each night and each
morning, but it is not we'll to make
cult out of deep-breathing exer-
cises.
Among the strenuous sports par
ticularly to be avoided are running,
tennis, swimming, skating and
horseback riding. A little dancing
may be enjoyed 1t should not be
strenuous, however, and the pros
pective mother never should dance
in crowded room.
If woman is used to driving
her own car, she may continue to
do SO during the early months, but
should certainly Give i1Y, driviy q,
afterward and restrict her motor
ing as much as possible. Rough
roads always should be avoided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23

dispossessed workers and their
families nibble on the bitter bread
of unemployment or transparent
charity, come disturbing reports.
The list of grievances grows apace.
Meanwhile otficialdom contents it.
self with mere palliatives, when not
siding with industrial tycoons.
There is alleged insubor dination
among ships crews on American
vessels. Disobedience and revolt are
reported rife. Deeply rooted wrongs,
long disregarded, have inevitably
found expression in overt nlanifes-
tations of indignant protest. Po-
litical principles. of whatever party,
make little progress in converting
contented groups.
Comes now the news that several
prominent corporations are girding
for civil war with the. workers.
1t seems incredible that all these
things should be true in our vaunt-
ed democracy, but they are. Until
the usual procedure in the treat
ment of labor disturbances has
been to temporize or to suppress
protest of long standing abuses in
the name of law and order. These
tactics have done nothing to har-
monte the interests of capital and
labor. 1t remains to be seen what
course of action the government
will adopt in the current future
differences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
take 70 per cent-siio,soo- the taxpayer
NET of only 900 400

take 70 per cent-slfo,60o the taxpayer 4
net Of only s2s.4Oo.
What be done about it9 One obvious sug-
gestion is that the high phantom rates be written
Gown to more realistic and more productive rates
Another Is that a constitutional amendment be
pressed. eliminating tax exemption Some congress
men insist that the states never would raty such an
amendment The states never have been given a
chance
Another instance of phantom taxation can be
found in the estate tax laws Here the principal
difficulty is not due to excessive rates or to tax
avoidance loophoes. 1t is due to the cash-on-
demand policy OF collection. When an estate con-
sists of lands or buildings a business or comb-
nation of such frozen properties it can not be iqu-
dated easily into cash to pay the tax collector AS
consequence, If the tax collectors demand for cash
comes in period of depression til, trustees of such
an estate have no alternative except to put the
critics through forced sales or seek the mercy of
banker In either case, the result usually is a de-
hation In the value of the estate and def1ation in
revenue realized by the government
An orderly system of collecting such taxes on an
installment plan over period of years-would per-
nit busness-like operation and liquidation of estates
and would, we believe, also enable the government
to get much revenue in the long run.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

TINE amount and kind of exer-
\ else that the expectant mother
should take depends largely on her
previous habits. She should never
exercise to the point of fatigue, but
should stop as soon as she begins
to feet tired. The nearer the day
the child is to be born. the more
likely is she to become tired quick
ly and require rest.
Walking is the best exercise
available. It should be taken out
doors except during extremely bad
weather. The shoes should be
broad, with low heels and wide
toes. High-heeled shoes may cause
her to slip more easily, with the
possibility of accident.
Women who are accustomed to
strenuous sports, such as tennis
can stand more exercise than those
who usually lead an indoor life
The radical habits of the prospec-
tive mother will probably control
the amount of housework that she
does under these Circumstances
Every one knows that some peasant
women of foreign stocks do the
heaviest kind of work practically
up to the moment of the birth OF
the child.
THE average American woman is
L not capable of carrying on Sc
we're work during this period. Sew
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
WRITER is IMPRESSED
BY ROOSEVELT
BY Hiram Lackey

By Hiram Lackey
In President Roosevelt's speech to
youth one is impressed by the
things which he did not say. The
undercurrent of his thoughts is well
expressed in the progressive words
of Jesus: II have many things to
tell you but We can not bear them
yet"
Such is the dynamic attitude of
great souls of every age. Like a
lofty tree that towers high above
its fellows and sees far beyond the
view from the underbrush, Presi-
dent Roosevelt is lonely, in the sense
that all great souls are lonely. He
longs for us to understand.
His noble spirit rebels against the
social censorship of big business and
other reactionary forces that blight
American education.
President Roosevelt has seen the
handwriting on the wall. He has
that advantage over our reaction
airy gluttons who are still eating
and drinking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
VOTERS LEAGUE DEMANDS
POLICY DECLARATIONS

BY Mrs. Robert S. Sinclair
During the last two years the
League of Women Voters has con-
Quoted national campaign to edu-
cate the public in the need for
trained personnel in public service.
Here in Indianapolis clubs and or
CARNATIONS of all kinds have been
addressed by our speakers on the
problem of the spoils system which
is making farce of democracy and
on the alternative, merit system.
We have distributed pamphlets
about the merit system and it's
overwhelming advantages. We have
gone on the air to explain it. At a
public meeting held in February
representatives of other civic Or
CARNATIONS met with us to consider
what we could do as members of
groups and as individuals to get
rid of the spoils system in Indiana
and bring in a merit system.
We recognize that any attempt to
improve the caliber of our public
service must take into account not
only the men and women who are
appointed to office, but also the men
and women who are elected to office
A merit system will never be intro
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23
THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 1898.
page THE CANDIDATES."

"pAGE the candidates" is the keynote of letter
on this page by Mrs. Robert S. Sinclair, who,
speaking for the League Of Women Voters, asks In
diana candidates where they stand on the merit sys
tenn.
The League has campaigned for two years against
the political system Of filling administrative posi-
tons on the basis OF political influence.
Dozens Of clubs and groups in Indianapolis have
heard League speakers urge the system of filing
these jobs by appointment on the basis of merit
shown by an objective test or examination.
The League knows it is making an uphill fight.
The spois system is entrenched. Jobs given as
rewards withheld penalties In political battle.
the spols of Office go to the triumphant. Every
change in political control sweeps out horde of
employees, brings in horde of job-hungry
patriots who qualified" because they were on
the side OF the winner.
MRS. SINCLAIR has all this in mind when she
AVA writes:
"A merit system never will be introduced in In
diana until the principle of appointment the
basis of demonstrated ability rather than the
basis of party service has loyal friends among our
legislators and executives
There are thousands of voters Who like the
women OF the League would welcome the chance
to work and vote for candidates who openly will
support the merit system.
The political spoils system has been supplanted
almost entirely in British. French and German COM
munities by the merit system The fragrant evils
of the political system have been denounced widely
In the United States and in Indiana.
Few defend it any more, but many practice it.
The public is entitled to know where candidates
stand this issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-23


Q-How can articles made of
bronze be cleansed?
Apply a paste made of pow
dered chicory and water over the
bronze and rub it well over the
surface by means of stiff brush,
and allow it to dry. then rinse of
the powder with running water and
dry the article in the sun. Wiping
with an oiled rag will improve the
looks of modern bronZes.
Odd the late King George v
Of England ever visit the United
States?
A-No.
Q-Where and when was Edsel,
son of Henry Ford. born; is he mar
ried and has he any children?
Ale vas born in Detroit. Mich,
Nov. s. 1898; he married Eleanor
Clay of detroit, Nov. /. 1916. and
they have four Children Henry II,
Benson. Josephine Clay and Viii
liam.