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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TINES!

Force we're being overwhelmed by
the German armies at Mons, when,
according to the legend, host of
ghostly warriors appeared in the
sky over the heads of the British
troops, shot flights of ghostly ar
rows at the advancing German
ranks, and saved the day for the
wearied and desperate British SOL
diers.
Q-What state leads in the pro-
duction of cotton, oil and sulphur?
A-Texas has led in those COM
modities for several years.
Q-Who is the German minister
for aviation?
A-Hermann Goering.
Q-Is the wife of Louis Inter
meyer a writer?
A-Jean Starr Untermeyer, his
wife, is the author of several books,
and she writes poetry.
Q-Is it permissible to deduct ex-
penses incident to extension work
taken to obtain a degree in COM
putting Federal income tax?
A-No, such expenses may not be
deducted.
Q-Would dishonorable dis.
charge from the United States
Army subsequent to the World War
prevent a man who served hon.
orably in the World War from get
ting the bonus?
A--No, the man need only have
an honorable discharge for the Pc
Rod for which the bonus is given.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
SAYS LEAGUE ERRS
IN ARGUMENT

By Frank Wilson, Wilmette, Illinois
The Liberty League pamphlet, cal
ternatives to the American form of
Government" discusses, page 3, 1.-THE
Form of Government Provided by
the Constitution. The definite
article "the" is used again on page
10. In other words, the League says
that the Constitution provides for
republican" form of government
and a republican form of society
as we'll, and rules out all other forms
of government and of society. 1t
accuses the forefathers of DELHI
erately imprisoning us in an I'M
changeable form of government and
of society. Preposterous as it
sounds, that theory, think, reveals
a main drift that already character
ICES the coming election.
The theory is based on the plain
provision that guarantees to every
state "a republican form of gov
eminent" Does that settle it? No;
because that provision only applies
to political government-President,
Congress, courts. 1t does not in
the least pertain to economics
business and industry, nor to re-
ligion nor education.
The explanation is that when the
Constitution was adopted the words
republic" and democracy" were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
ALL HANDS ON DECK!

CENATOR COPELAND Cd, N. " seems to want
~ to scuttle the merchant marine
No other conclusion is possible in the face of
the new bill he is trying to jam through his Com
merce Committee.
No provision is made insuring construction to
lift the United States from bottom place among
maritime nations of the world
No alternative is provided for construction when
private operators areas they are at present-un-
able to undertake it in sufficient to give
us respectable merchant fleet
No limit is set upon the amount of subsidies
that can be dumped into operators laps, not
unusual procedure, perhaps, but certainly not one
to be perpetuated by Congress.
The Copeland Roper scheme gives wide discre-
tonary powers to a merchant marine authority of
three members instead of five, thus making it
easier to pack" the authority.
The bill knocks out prohibition, insisted upon
by the Postofice Department, against appointment
of a person having had financial interest in
shipping during the preceding three years.
This makes possible appointment of a person
holding mail contracts which to be cancelled,
with settlement made by the authority. There is
something in of $1ooOOO00o involved in these
settlements Presumably with a direct inter-
est in that much money would find it bit of
strain to remain objective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24

THE Old Guard whispering campaign against
Senator Borah is as illogical as it is contempt
BILE
Here is man who has served brilliantly for %
years as an outstanding Republican member of the
United States Senate And now that he promotes
his own candidacy for the Republican presidential
nomination, he has a perfect right to do and
publicly discusses party policies as he also has a
perfect right to do the reactonary crowd undertakes
to paint him as a mere intraparty trouble maker
one who is more IN sympathy with the New Deal
than with Republican principles"
What are Republican principles? And Who more
than Senator Borah, has right to interpret them?
Whereas the two other most active candidates. Knox
and Landon, both bolted to the Bull Moose Party
in 1912 Borah and does boast that he has never
scratched the Republican ticket. The Old Guard
crowd, which is dividing it's support between Knox
and Landon, has no adequate answer to this ap-
propriate Borah retort.
Personally, believing as we do in political indie
pendence, we do not think Senator Borah should be
proud he is of his record of party regularity
To the contrary we consider the course of Messrs
Knox and Landon in following their convictions into
the Bull Moose revolt in 1912 more admirable than
pOuCCS prayed at Time by BOrdn.
But certainly those who do regard Republican
regularity the greatest of all virtues can hardly
find fault with man who for the sake of party
solidarity, stood by Taft and Harding and Coolidge
and Hoover, although disagreeing with the policies
of all of them
The Idaho Senator is saying some other things
from the hustings which the Old Guard leaders do
not like to hear, but which apparently rank and
file Republicans consider very much to the point.
'In 1892" Borah reminded cheering Republican
audience in Chicago, lover 10 million Republican
voters left the party and went over TO the Demo-
cratic Party. Why did they go and how 60
ing to get them back? We can not succeed in the
coming campaign without them, and venture to
say that We will not get them back by putting into
power those who drove them out. If they sit
ting in the front at the Cleveland convention
and dominate the platform and the candi-
date that 10 million never will come back and other
millions will go with them"
Because he supported some of the New Deal
measures for recovery and reform, the Old Guard
leaders would brand Rorah a renegade. 1t
mains to be seen whether the common run of Re-
publican voters think likewise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
PLUPERFECT MONOPOLY

NTORLD-WIDE ramihcatons of the American
w Telephone and telegraph Co. are expected to
be unfoded before the hearings it's affairs
are concluded py the Federal Communications Com
mission.
Just how big is this business and financial giant
which spreads over several continents?
Samuel Becker, assistant special counsel for the
FEC, has described it as a fve-bilon-dollar con-
GERM crossing s34 million dollars year according to
the most recent financial statement of the Bell Sys-
tenn. President Walter S. Clifford said four and
one-half billions would be fair estimate.
But that is only one phase of its bigness It's ac-
tvites far exceed according information gathered
by the investigators, the routine business of trans
hitting phone calls
They include the manufacture OF all forms of
communication devices; sales organizations; finan-
cling: control of patents comforting upon the system
virtual domination of radio and movie sound-repro-
ducng facilities and even the promotion of moving
picture enterprises.
TINE immense ramihcatons of the organization
are disclosed in diagram of its set-up inserted
In the record of Senate committee hearing by
Chairman Wheeler OF the Interstate Commerce
Committee
This chart placed the A. T. & T. at the top in
control Of host of subsidiaries domestic and for
egn. 1t showed the parent company as owning more
than 80 per cent of the Western Electric Co. (Pres-
dent Clifford has testified it holds 9942 per cent of
the stock.
The A. T. & T. and Western Electric are then
described as controlling the Bell Laboratories on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
JUDGES SUBSIDING

THE epidemic of injunctions issued by Federal
n judges against enforcement of Congress new
Labor Relations Act is subsidng. Judge Bondy of
New York and Judge Cushman of Seattle have just
refused njunctions designed to tie the National La
Dor Relations Boards hands.
The score now stands II to in favor OF the gov
eminent Nine Federal district judges and two Fed
eral circuit Judges have refused injunctions Only
four district judges have granted injunctions. Out
of 81 Injunction suits filed 80 have been. decided
OF these 20 have been decided for the government;
10 against
This is a sign of sanity. Inferior Federal judges
who try to block the administration of Federal laws
by the use of their equity powers are inviting cur
tailrnent of these powers by Congress-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
Watch Your Health

CTUDIES now are being made in
- various research laboratories
throughout the country. These, it
is hoped, will indicate exactly how
much vitamin D may be placed in
milk by these methods, and also
the relative values of vitamin D in
each type.
There seems to be some difference
of opinion as to whether vitamin D
in milk that is irradiated is any
less, or any more, efficient in pre-
venting ricketts, than vitamin D in
milk prepared by direct addition of
the vitamin concentrate.
In general, the most recent EVIL
dence available seems to point to
the idea that vitamin D units are
just about the same in their eff
f1ciency, whether prepared by one
method or another.
1t is, of course, quite possible for
a mother to make certain that her
child receives adequate amounts of
vitanin D by giving the child or
binary whole milk and, at the same
time, administering suitable
dosage of cod liver Oil, viosterol, or
such other vitamin D products as
the doctor may prescribe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

INVITATIONS are out to the execution of Haupt-
l. mann. Engraved perhaps, and no doubt greatly
sought after. 1t will be social event from which
the mob is to be vigorously excluded. Plans sound
rather like swanky party with only fortunate
few as guests.
So far no rules of etiquet have been made for
such occasions. 1t is to be hoped that the high
hat experts will not overlook this, for it may be the
forerunner of a new fashion trend. What, for in
stance does one wear when attending an execution?
Should the appear in plain business suits?
Will ladies be present is it to be stag affair?
There is also the question of manners Mysteries,
we understand not considered good form by the
best authorities. Erlotionaiism is taboo.
The invitation system, at any rate gives certain
responsibility to the barbaric custom of capital pun
ishment 1t becomes something of an occasion like
the Fourth of July Without, the mobs wait; inside,
the state proceeds with the business of srapping
man into chair and killing him. The guests stand
about. One may guess they are not bored. Invita-
tons have to be presented at the door, presume.
High jinks indeed for the twentieth century! The
Romans I'D it so much better They put on their
best clothes and made holiday We are less brave,
but none the less cruel Our thrills come VIGOROUSLY
We send handful of picked delegates. it were,
to witness the event and relate the tale to us.
Beastke, we hover without the walls for news of
the affair to which our Imagination lends garish
dramatic significance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24

$3.50 basis Western Electric in turn, Is listed as
sole owner of Electrical Research Products, Inc,
which in turn controls according to the chart, Ex-
hibitors Reliance Corp, Eastern Service Studios
Inc. General Service Studios, Inc. and E. r. p. L
Picture Consultants Inc.
Western Electric manufactures telephone instru-
ments and equipment and ERPI makes sound-re-
producing devices of all kinds, used in broadcast
ing, movies, public address systems, ETC.. well as
teephoto and other transmission facilities based
on the of the photo-electrc cell. These instru-
ments are leased, it is alleged under terms which
provide lucrative royalties and safeguard control of
the appliances through cast-ron contracts and IL
censes
Of more than usual interest is the revelation as
disclosed in the chart submitted by Senator Wheeler,
of the extensive activities of the telephone company
in actually engaging assisting in the financing and
producing of movies. The list of those attributed to
the company includes the following:
Emperor JONES'" a Krinsky- Cochrane produc-
ton; Moonlight and Pretzels," Manhattan Pictures:
Take Chance" Take Chance Corp; Great
Adventure" Arthur Hopkins Eddie Dowling Social
Register" Mickey Neilan Crime without Passion"
Hecht-McArthur; Grown Prince" Jessel Musical;
Spanish Feature" Paramount; The Vanishing
made; Gambling" Harold B. Franklin with two
more to be made; "Cavalcade," Cavalcade Pic
lures dhree more to be made) China Roars,"
Clyde Elliot; Universal Shorts Universal; "Edu-
cational Shorts" Educational; and picture to be
made for Earl Carroll.
FOREIGN subsidiaries of A. T. & T., as listed in
Il Wheeler's chart, are as follows:
Societe de Materie Acoustique; Western Electric
of Italy; Alpine Western Electric Western Electric
serving the Near East; Western Electric of Ru-
mania; Western Electric OF Argentina; Neder-
landsche Western Electric serving Holland; Swedish
Western Electric; Deutsche Western Electric; West
Electric of Brazil; Western Electric of Chile;
Western Electric of Cuba; Western Electric of Spain;
Western Electric of Mexico; Western Electric of
Asia; Western Electric Ltd. of London; Western
Electric of Denmark; Western Electric of Austria;
Australia; Western Electric of New Zealand, and
Western Electric Co., Ltd, serving portions of the
Orient.
Conducting its business through more than
200 corporate FORMS" said Attorney Becker in open
ing the hearings, sit enjoys national monopoly in
the field Of telephone communication and is major
factor in many other industries.
THE Bell System engages in activities that might
not inappropriately be designated investment or
private banking, on not insignificant scale.
"Such vast and varied public enterprise re-
quires thorough study before effective regulation
is possible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24

Q-Who won the Pulitzer Prize
for the best cartoon in 1884?
A-Edmund Duffy of the Balti-
more Sun for his cartoon titled
California Points With Pride" The
prize was $500.
Q-When was the popular song,
Three O'Clock in the Morning"
published, and who wrote it?
At was published in 1921. The
music is by Julian Roblodo and the
words by Dorothy Terriss.
(Which President of the United
States owned the dog named Laddle
Boy?
A-President Warren G. Harding.
Q-What is bort?
"A material consisting of i'm
perfectly crystallized or coarse dia-
monds, or fragments made in cut
ting good diamonds. 1t is used IN
dressing and truing grinding wheels
and for light turning operations,
and is of little value. AS a gem,
bort has no commercial value.
Q-What is the legend of the
Angels of Mons?
"A story circulated in the early
days OF the World War. Troops in
the small British Expeditionary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
TUESDAY. MARCH "a. 1895.
BLESSINGS OF DICTATORSHIP

DREMlER MUSSOLINI celebrating the Fascist
partys seventeenth birthday abolishes rubber
stamp Chamber of Deputies, substitutes rubber-
stamp council of guilds, and brings all of 1taly's
large industries into his cooperative state
His plan to marshal the key industries under di-
rect state control II Duce says is dominated bv the
one premise of the inescapabty of the fact that the
nation will be called to the task of war"
We wish could say that the Italian dictator
doesn't know what he is talking about But, unfor
tunately tor the world no one else is in better no.
sltion to know about the "inescapabity" of war
I'VE are going toward the period in which these
industries will have neither the time nor the possi-
bilty of working for private consumption, but will
have to labor exclusively, or almost So for the armed
forces of the nation"
Then to cap the dreary disillusionment Musso-
in says that Fascist dreams have been realized at
least as far as Italy is concerned"
And we recall that few years ago former Sen
ator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania was so dscour-
aged with what he regarded as the responsibility of
democracy that he arose on the Senate floor and de-
clared: What this country needs is another Mus
soini!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

VOU might think that cows,
u standing out in the sun for
most of the day, would accumulate
enough vitamin D from the short,
activating rays of the sun to impart
this important substance to their
milk. This is possible, to be sure,
where there is plenty of sunshine.
Yet milk, generally, is not a very
good source of vitamin D. Since
this is especially necessary in the
feeding of infants, for the preven-
ton of ricketts,, some way must be
found to add the vitamin to the
child's milk.
There are various ways in which
the vitamin D content of milk may
be enriched. First, the milk itself
may be irradiated by use of the
ultraviolet light from either a car
bon arc or a mercury vapor quartz
arc.
Second certain amount of vita
min D concentrate, of which several
types are now available, may be
added to the milk. Third, the COW
may be fed with irradiated yeast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
BELIEVES GERMAN PICTURE
SHOULD CONCERN u. S.

BY r. p. Cunningham.
In his sob-sister plea for poor
down trodden Germany in the
March II column, Westbrook Pegler
WringS his hands and demands to
know why we should worry if Ger
many wants to go in for pig-wor-
ship, palmistry and paganism, see
ing it is none of ours or any other
nations affair. And the editor, as
if fearing we did not get it, backs
up Pegler's plea with a heavy, six
inch, broad column editorial in the
same issue.
The answer to Mr.. Pegler and the
editor would run something like
this:
1.-THE U. S. A. tried that not
worrying about that once upon a
time, with the result that it
landed us, slap dash, into the big
gest, bloodiest, and costliest war
that ever was" We remember, all
too well, the Kaiser and his I'VE
can-lick- the-World" complex.
Herr Adolph is putting out the
same line of chatter. How familiar
it sounds! Kant inquired, but in
his day got no reply, IF one man
can go insane what is there to
hinder a whole nation going that
way?" If he had lived until Will
liam Hohenzollern's and Adolph
Hitler's day he would have gotten
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24

being used INTERCHANGEABLE, whereas
now we understand democracy" as
a family name of which family the
republic" is an individual member
Isn't that true?
Thomas Carlisle illustrates this
governmental republican" concep-
ton of democracy in his day, when
he says, 1.-The notion that a mans
liberty consists of giving his vote
at election-hustings is one OF
the pleaSantest. This liberty
turns out to be =. a liberty to die
of want of food"
We should know that our fore
fathers in '76 changed only govern
ment, hence that the Constitution
speaks only of governmental de-
mocracy when it speaks OF the re
publican form of government. y
They left the rest of progress to be
accomplished by us who follow after
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
TODAY's SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-
MYTH the thoroughness of

MYTH the thoroughness of
w scholar and the skill of
born popularizer, James Stokley has
written an eninently readable and
highly informative book in "Stars
and Telescopes"
More than a decade ago, Mr..
Stokley left the teaching profession
to join the staff of Science Service
as astronomical editor. A couple of
years ago he returned to his home
city of Philadelphia to become the
associate director in charge of the
astronomical section and the Fels
Planetarium at the Franklin Insti-
tute.
BY training, therefore, Mr.. Stok-
ley is equipped to know what the
public would like to hear about
astronomy and how to put it in the
form which the public would most
enjoy.
His book differs from most popu-
lar books of astronomy in the large
amount of space given to the sub
ject of the telescope itself and to
the methods employed by astron-
omers in their studies.
One is particularly impressed with
the up-to-the-minute character of
Stokley's information. A close fol-
lower OF the literature of astronom-
ical research, he gives the reader a
broad and adequate picture of the
latest work in every branch of the
field.
An excellent feature of the book
is furnished by its many diagrams
and a collection of some so half
tone Illustrations. These range from
views of the Fels Planetarium, the
Mount Wilson Observatory and anna
teur telescope-makers, to the moon,
comets and distant nebulae.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
COAL SERIES BRINGS
SEVERAL QUERIES

By Schleime E. Zalnick, Hartford City
Your editorial Smoky City" of
March 18 is most interesting. Being
in the combustion business" fully
agree with you when you say coal
fires can be built to consume smoke
instead of dollars. Fuel can be used
that is smokeless."
But will you not be so kind as
to tell the home owners and others
how to do it? How to burn smoke
instead of dollars? And what ex-
actly do you mean by fuel that is
smokeless? Won't you or some of
your readers tell us?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-24
OTHER OPINION
On the Surplus Tax
Henry III. Curran. Director of the Ma.
tional Economy League.)

Henry n. Curran. Director of the Ma.
tional Economy League.)
This undistributed surplus tax is
the trickiest of all. 1t is different
from a tax which kidnaps some I'M
seen dollars out of the poor man s
pocket at the present moment. This
proposed tax reaches into the poor
mans future. 1t prevents the en-
ployer from putting aside enough
for a rainy day, and so inSures that
the next depression will be worse
than the last, Just because there
will be many more concerns which
have not been able to save up
enough surplus to stand such a
strain. They will go broke and
their employees will lose their Jobs.
More than that, this tax prevents
the new. little, growing, COMPETE
tive corporations from saving IN
enough surplus to compete with the
corporate giants Of today.