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be broadened and adopted. Congress should enact
the Kerr Coolidge bill to humanize and ratonalze
alien deportations 1t should halt the outrages of
murderous mobs by passing the Wagner -Costigan
ant-lynching bill.
An adequate ship-subsidy act is needed. With
government financial aid should go also strong pro-
visions to protect passengers safety at sea and
rine labor from exploitation.
Flood control legislation should be passed while
the lessons of the March disasters are remembered
In this Congress should be guided by the larger soil
and forest conservation aspects of flood control and
not by selfish attempts to turn the program into
huge Federal pork raid.
Among the reforms that not for want of time
be adequately considered this session are The textile
industrys Little NRA"; the naturalization of the
munitions industry; transient aid; Mississippi VAL
ley Authority; railroad consultations; commodity
exchange regulation: the Robnson-Patman chain
store bill.
Among the things which believe Congress
should forget The inflationary Frazier-Lemke
and Townsend schemes, and the vicious Kramer
anti-sediton and Mccormack military disaffection
bills.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-08
UNFINISHED BUSINESS

TN about a month the men and women of the
seventy fourth Congress will fold their tents and
deploy to the home town hastings, there to engage
In the important business of getting reelected. In
their haste to be gone they will do well not to neglect
the things yet to be done, lest the ghost of I'M
finished business haunt them through their cam
paigns.
First, is the tax bill. Whether this turns out to
be an intelligent and ineligible revenue-raser or
hash of confusion depends the craftsmanship of
the Senate. The House has begotten fiscal night
mare.
Then they have to replenish the governments
empty chest for its continued war on hunger. 1t
may be too late to implement the big work-relef
program with all the needed safeguards against I'M
wise spending. 1t is not too late to provide for
future scientific, long-range relief program Let
this be the last of cur all-too-costly relief i'm
provisations.
The rehousng of the country's city and rural
Stun jewellers is indicated the next step in social
reconstruction. Labor is urging passage this session
of the Wagner Ellenbogen sum- abatement bill,
sound sensible and moderate approach to the prob
lem. Since the costs would be distributed over four
years and much of it returned to the Federal gov
eminent by the localities there is no reason for
delay
Similarly, the Bankhead bill for aid to share
troopers and tenant farmers has been modified by
the House Agriculture Committee into less ambi-
tious program under a proposed Farmers Home
Corp. But this measure has not yet been subjected
to the public scrutiny which should be given to any
long-range program TO help landless farmers. The
new rural identification program is winning its
way through Congress on pure merit
Civil liberties should be protected against espion-
and countrywide investigation into current viola
tons of free teaching the collective bargaining
guarantees Of labor and other invasions of personal
rights including those OF government agencies is
needed. To do this the La Toilette resolution should
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1S99--1936

TINE gay nineties were blending into the dawn of
l. new century of greatness. America had con-
quered Spain and had emerged on the international
horizon as a new world power. America
barked campaign of imperialism and glory.
The Stars and Stripes had been planted
mote lands, to rule alien peoples. Americas
trade and culture and civilization were to follow the
flag. 1t was an era of happy and adolescent buoy
ancy. America had destiny" to fulfill.
Now, thirty years later, sadder and wiser
America has learned that responsibility and trouble
and expense and resentment also follow nag which
is hosted over peoples who have neither the back
ground nor the desire to be Civilized" according to
an imposed pattern.
Hence it is that we find ourselves trying to
quidate victory over Spain. Already we have
started the Philippines on their road to independ-
ence, still uncertain whether they will make the
grade alone will cling to us for protection Already
we have abandoned the Platt Amendment which we
used as club over Cubas internal affairs Already
we have done about-face on the use of the
Marines in other Latin American countries, where
once we pursued the policy of making the flag
follow trade and investments
I Attest maneuver in our sensible retreat from
- foolish and costly imperialism is the Admins
traton- sponsored Tydings bill to submit to the
Puerto Rican people the question of whether they
wish to cut loose from the United States and go their
own way was sovereign and independent republic.
large segment of the Puerto Rican population
looks upon the United States as an oppressor The
extreme nationalists whose terrorism was response
BILE for the recent assassination of American Police
Chief Francis Riggs refused even to admit United
States sovereignty The liberals largest political
group in the island, long have advocated independ-
ence TIE Republican Socialist coalitionsts now in
control of the territorial Legislature complain of the
administration of relief and rehabilitation policies in
the island-nlost of their bitterness apparently
springng from the inability of their own politicians
to get their fingers the money.
In fact, no group in Puerto Rico seems to regard
Americas guardianship as a blessing. A showdown
has been long overdue Puerto Rico should choose
The United States does not propose to cast her
her business. In justice to American taxpayers,
whose money is being spent in large CHUNKS for
relief and economic reconstruction in Puerto Rico
the issue should be settled.
COME Puerto Ricans complain that the Tydings
~ bill is unfair, that it offers political indepnd-
enece, but not economic independence. They argue
that until the United States-fostered system of alb
sentee landlordism has been liquidated the people
of that pauperzed island can not possibly become
self-supporting troubled and tariff ridden world
Congress should weigh their suggestions do what
necessary honoraby to rectify mistakes of the
past and do so in the spirit of the good neighbor
which now happily animates our Latin American
relations.
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter FePgusol

DIG business is perturbed over the new tax bill.
~ Men who have been too busy making money
to give much thought to what goes on in state or
national Legislatures now are deploring government
expenditures.
While they've got their eyes open I wish they'd
glance at the Army and Navy budgets. They'd soon
find out where a mighty big bunch of their money
goes for the same Congress which has power to tax
corporations has just approved the biggest naval
appropriation ever voted during peace Super
super-super battleships are to be started i'm
mediatey. Every time news comes over the cables
that England or Germany, Italy or France is about
to vote for another dreadnaught our admirals go
into hudde and present demands to Congress for
bigger and better one for us.
Why should the United States have Navy
second to none? Especially when its advocates
insist we must also live in splendid isolation from
the rest of the world.
Listen, Friends If the countries of Europe Asia
and Africa ever unite to lick us, navy Will be
big enough to stop them But it won't matter for
in that event civilization will be buried under the
shrapnel and the battleshps will be at the bottom
of the sea- Nobody will be able to remember who
had the biggest navy.
It's a wonder business men can't scrape up
enough realism to face the facts on this subject.
It is the most important before them.
War eats up their profits ruins investments,
closes markets. and in the long run will take the
last copper out Of their tills. Some little furry Of
prosperity may precede it, perhaps few men will
get rich. but inevitably in the end there is disaster
for everybody. Unless business this before long
and sets itself against policy which promotes de-
struction, it will pay bigger taxes and like it.
A great campaign for social security by Con-
gress which so far has not lifted finger to help
the cause of world peace is farce anyway What's
the use Of saving people only to sacrifice them to a
folly stupid than that of economic mismanage-
ment?
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stay his hand. Bring on the OPP
position. Let it be heard. Then We
will have full play of all forces -
That is Americanism. 1t is the
spirit of Jeffersonian democracy. 1t
is the soul of our Constitution.
Washington fought for its glory.
Webster sang of it's future. Lin
coin died for it's principle. 1t is
for us to join Dean Russell in CIV
ing it Immortality.
We are justly jealous of our rich
inheritance. We keep watchful
eye on all newspapers. They are
the guardians of our liberty-pur-
chased by our fathers blood. The
educated people of Indiana know
the newspapers that are faithful
and those that are faithless.
We believe the faithful. We
doubt the sincerity of any news
paper that refuses to allow an en-
lightened, militantly honest citi-
zen to have a voice in its columns.
Where is the man who is so ig-
norant that he does not know that,
when a newspaper denies any
honest character his American
rights, the newspaper in question
betrays the supreme trust that
American citizens place in the
press?
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Watch Your Health

IF the child cries too much, or If
l. it is afraid of falls and bumps,
it will learn to walk slowly. Fears
which it develops at this time may
affect it's entire existence.
Some chillren are delayed in
walking because they weigh too
much, because they have ricketts,,
or because their nutrition is in
sufficient and they can not trust
the strength of their muscles. Or
it may be because they are kept
in a limited space, particularly in
a pen that its too small. Some
times the floors are too slippery or
too dirty.
If conditions are such that the
child can not practice walking
easily. it will be slow in walking.
Other children fail to walk at the
proper time because they are kept
in dresses that are too long and
shoes that are too soft. In a few
instances the children's minds &c
not develop rapidly enough.
A mother should not be disturbed
If her baby fails to walk at Is
months of age, merely because Aunt
Susie walked when she was 10
months old.
When a baby is born, its brain
is a well-developed structure, ca
pable of learning, but the tissues
have to develop sufficiently to carry
the weight, and the muscle action
must be co-ordinated before the
child can walk.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

TINE Dionne quintuplets are a
l. splendid example of normal
growth among infants. Their de-
velopment can be emulated by any
other children who are watched
carefully and are guided by their
parents through every stage of
progress.
A baby of 9 to 18 months of
age begins to creep, to pull itself
up by a chair, and then to walk.
At IS months, the child can climb
upstairs by holding to the ban
lister and creeping on all fours,
and it can come downstairs by
sitting down and sliding one step
at time.
AT Is months, the baby can go
upstairs in an upright position by
holding to the banister
There are records of children
who have walked at 9 months,
and occasionally there is one who
can walk at months. Forty per
cent of children walk at II months.
and 81 per cent walk at II to IA
months.
Some children, who are other
wise normal, may not walk before
they are Is to 20 months old, be-
cause of physical illness or lack
of practice.
Babies have to learn to walk.
They have to learn to coordinate
and strengthen the muscles used
for walking. When the baby does
begin to walk, it has the thrill OF
accomplishing something.
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TODAY'S SCIENCE
VXIAsHINGTON, May S.-The
BY Science Service

VXTASHINGTON, May S.-The
w subterranean atom smasher
proposed by DR.. M A. Tuve of the
Department of Terrestrial Magnet
ism of the Carnegie Institute of
Washington will do for atomic study
what the Mount Wilson 100-inch
telescope did for astronomy.
That is the opinion of DIR. j. A.
Fleming, director of the depart
ment, who hopes to start work on
the atomic disintegrator as soon as
the necessary funds can be OBJ
tanned. DR.. Tuve's design calls for a
Is 900, 000-volt generator, three times
as powerful as any now in exist
ence. This would be mounted in
a steel ball go feet in diameter, into
which air would be pumped under
high pressure. The tremendous
current produced by the generator
would be released through a tube
pointed into the ground and the
atom smashing experiments them
selves would take place in a labo-
ratory 40 feet under ground.
when the 100-inch telescope was
built by the Carnegie institution at
Mount Wilson," DR.. Fleming tol6
me, astronomy was on the verge of
many great discoveries, but found
itself baffled by the lack of suffi-
GENTLY powerful glass.
THE 100-inch telescope, be-
cause of its great power, enabled
astronomers to settle many prob
lens concerning the constitution of
stars, the structure of the galaxy,
the nature of the distant nebulae,
the expanding universe and so on.
In the study of the atom, the
problem is to pentrate deeper and
deeper into the interior of the
atom. The deeper one goes into
the nucleus of the atom, the greater
the electrical forces appear to grow
Hence, there is need for higher
voltages in atom smashing expert.
ments."
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3 per cent iron oxide, per cent
magnesia. 621z per cent lime, and a
trace Of sulphur.
Q-What happens to the balance
if the President does not spend the
whole of his annual allowance of
S25 900 for travel and ofiicial enter
tainments?
Amy unexpended portion is re-
turned to the general funds of the
Treasury.
Q-Exclusive of the Great Lakes,
which are the two largest fresh
water lakes that lie entirely within
the United States?
A-Lake Okechobee, Florida. 733
square miles, and Red Lake, Mime
sofa, 494 square miles.
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PREDICTS DIRE FUTURE
FOR TWO DEMOCRATS
BY Mike Ritchey, Attica

by Mike hltchey, Attlca
The irrevocable past and uncer-
tain political future resulting from
their political Vaccinations has
transformed at least two Democratic
state celebrities into INSCRIPTIONS
enemies of the state and national
Administration, all to the detriment
of their political ambitions and the
welfare of their party.
This loud pageantry Of intrusive
accusations that those individuals
are passing before the public eye
will not have the effect that the
perpetrators desired it to have. 1t
will brand them with the invidious
stigma of selishness and their
memory of it will bring them melan-
choly political days filled with de-
feat and monotonous despair.
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TOBACCO COMPANIES
HIT IN LETTER
By G. A. stark

By G. A. Stark
If sin is not here, why the army
of fallen girls on their march to
disgrace?
And be assured of this, that where
there is fallen girl there is also
fallen man. If sin is not here, why
the prisons, asylums, detention
homes, hospitals. graveyaros, booze,
the cigarets, wrecked homes, broken
hearts and blighted human wrecks
on very side? Can one rest at ease
with this immoral malady infesting
your bosom? You would shun
smallpox, diphtheria, cancer and
any dreaded diseases that prey on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-08
WRITES IN BEHALF
OF SCHOOL JANITORS
BY a Friend of a Janitor

By Friend Of Janit0r
We see that the school teachers
got their raise. What about the
poor janitor that worked from Is
to "a hours during the winter with
out any extra pay. They say the
janitors are more important than
the teachers. If that is the case,
why don't they give them their cut
back and the one week of their va
cation that they took away from
them? These men are human and
should be treated that way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-08
RADIUM FUND COMMITTEE
THANKS SUPPORTERS

By Mrs. John r. Engelke, chairman; Mrs.
William A. Eshbach, Mrs. Albert J. Hue
Der, Mrs. Tilden r. Greer. Radium Com
mittee, Seventh District, Indiana Fedora
tion of Clubs.
The radiun committee of the
Seventh District, Indiana Fedora
ton of Clul-, wishes to thank you
tor the fine publicity given during
the radium campaign.
To all citizens, organizations and
clubs who gave so generously of
their money and time, and to all
of the radio speakers who helped in
the educational program, and to the
boys of the indianapolis Salvation
Army for the appropriation, we ex-
tend our deepest and most sincere
appreciation for this splendid CO.
operation.
The radium is at the City Hos
pital ready for service and it will be
handled by skilled operators.
The Seventh District has estab-
lished ''The Radium Fund, Inc" thus
making it possible to receive gifts
of money which will be used for
radium as the need increases.
For information, inquiries may be
made to the superintendent of the
hospital, DR.. G. w. Myers.
The General Federation of Clubs
is making cancer control national
study in the program for the COM
ing year.
4 II
PRESS SHOWS FAITH BY
ACTIONS HE SAYS
Nv Hfravn
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ONE APRIL DAY
Y MAUD COURTNEY wADDELL

By MAUD CUURINEY WAUDELL
outside the sky lay cold and grey,
Soft raindrops fell throughout the
day.
Within dwells warmth and tender
ness
Your acts and words all these ex-
press.
AS time drifts by-as time will do,
This day I know, I'll oft review
Within frame of memory bright.
Remembering. dear, I wave good
night.
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HEARD IN CONGRESS

. EP. STACK Cd, la: The public as whole
~ is sick and tired of gag rule and gang rule and
the manipulation of national legislation by hand
full of rubber stamp" leaders who take orders from
higher-ups.
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the physical body. Well might you
covet cancer or leprosy rather than
the heeting pleasures of the sinner
Just note the sallow, sickly COM
plexion of the cigaret smoker; the
smokers blood-stream becomes pois-
oned and the senses dulled. The
un-American tobacco companies are
getting their victims by the thou
sands.
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The Hoosier Forum
disapproUe of a0hat you say-and will defend
to the death your right to sag it.-Voltaire.

f1tntes readers are fnCtted to cypress
their pteos in these columns, religious
controversies excluded. Make uour letters
short. so all can have chance. Limit
them to ESQ cords or Tess. Your letter
must be si0ned. but names tciH be
Uithheld on re0uest)
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Our
Town
By
ANTON sCHERRER

THIS is as good time as any to
tell about Clifton wheeler's
calling on Gertrude Stein. He
called twice, once in Florence in
1907 and once in Paris in 1910. Ger
trude was 80 years old at the time
OF the first meeting and Mr.. Wheel
er had cast his first vote for Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Besides, it was
springtime in Florence.
In Florence, Gertrude wore
kimono, long hair and sandals. Sure.
bare feet. Mr.. Wheeler doesn't re-
member what she wore in Paris, be-
cause by that time, he says, he was
more interested in other things.
Mr.. Wheeler remembers, however.
that Gertrude was somewhat heay-
Ter IN Paris and that she had her
hair bobbed. Also, that she had a
dog by this time. Mr.. Wheeler in
sists on dragging the dog into the
story because the dog was respon-
slole for Gertrude's literary style.
Inc rhythm of the dogs water
drinking, Gertrude told Mr.. Wheel
er, taught her the difference be-
tween sentences and paragraphs
That paragraphs are emotional and
that sentences are not.
THAT particular dog died. but
Gertrude has never been with
out dog since. She calls her pres
ent sone Basket" It's a poodle
eve pick our pronouns cautiously
even If Gertrude doesn't.)
Mr.. Wheeler always insists that
ne called on Gertrude hoping that
she would introduce him to Ma
tisse. The fact that Matisse owned
house right around the corner in
Florence lends luster to Mr.. Wheel
er's story, but the fact that Matisse
spent the whole year of 1907 on
the Riviera leaves a lot to be ex-
planned.
Mr.. Wheeler did meet Matisse
IN Paris. however. Seems Matisse
moved with Gertrude. Mr.. Wheel
er reports that he had a whole dav
with Matisse exchanging trade Sc
crets. There is no record that Mr.
Wheeler ever made use of anv of
Matlsses secrets. Neither did Ma
ClSse' as far as anybody knows, use
any OF Mr.. Wheeler's secrets.
TINE reason Matisse keeps horn
Ing into our story is because
Gertrude discovered him before any,
body else wanted to. She said a
bell within her rang when this hap
pened. The bell rang again when
Picasso, Whitehead and our own
Ernest Hemingway turned up. Ger
trude insisted on acting as god
mother for Hemingway's first child.
Which is more than she did for Mr..
Wheeler or anybody else, for that
matter.
Mr.. Wheeler remembers Gertrude
as charming hostess on both
occasions. eve are back in Florence
and Paris and not at the Heming-
way baptism) On both occasions
she produced tray of tea things
and cakes almost Immediately,
which is coming to the point mighty
fast for Gertrude, says Mr.. Wheeler.
She made the cakes herself, she
confessed, and they were mighty
good. They were exactly like
those you get around Allegheny,
Pa, which, if you don't happen to
know, is where Gertrude was born.
That's the remarkable thing about
Gertrude, says Mr.. Wheeler. She
doesn't change a traditional recipe
by as much as punctuation point.
In culinary matters says Mr..
Wheeler, she's as sound as nut.
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FOOLISH men imagine that. be-
i cause Judgment for an evil
thing is delayed, there is no justice,
but only accident here below. judy
ment for an evil thing is many
times delayed some day or two,
some century or two. but 1t is sure
as life, 1t is sure as death!-Carlyle.
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DAILY THOUGHT

For the great day of His wrath
is come; and who shall be able to
stand Revelation SIT.
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IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TINES!

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addressing any question Of fact or in
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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-What is the name of Victor
Herbert's last operetta?
A-"The Dream Girls" 1924.
Glow long does it take for
fingernails TO grow one-eighth of
an inchS
Approximately two weeks, but
the time varies with the individual.
Q-What Is the composition of
ordinary Portland cement?
"A typical analysis is: % per
cent silica, ia per cent alumina,
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PRESS SHOWS FAITH BY
ACTIONS HE SAYS
BY Hiram Lackey
Whoever thinks, let him speak.
He would muzzle another, let him