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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
PUBLIC WELFARE CONFERENCE

A TTENTION of officials chosen to administer the
social security and unemployment relief
legislation will be turned to Atlantic City, n j. Fri
day and Saturday, the annual conference Of the
American Public Welfare Association takes up cur
rent developments in this new legislation.
The meeting precedes the opening there Sunday
OF the National Conference of Social Work, in which
Hoosiers will figure prominently.
Stressing the Importance of the public welfare
meeting, Fred K Hoehler, association director said:
1T will give early opportunity for local and state
public welfare administrators to exchange ideas
the many new problems raised for them by the ma
tional and state social security acts and at the same
time to secure advice and counsel from those at
the national administrative level"
Frank Bane executive director of the National
Social Security Board who will be at the conference,
recently pointed out there is little essentially new
in the social security program.
welfare" he said, SIS one of the oldest functions
of government, and we have exercised this function
since the days of the colonies. Insurance against
established and generally approved way of doing
things in our American mind The Social Security
Act is an outgrowth of the two"
AS Indiana completes the establishment of county
welfare boards it becomes increasingly apparent the
big task is still ahead-the practical working out of
the social security idea. Much of the success of
the program now depends upon wise administration
and competent personnel in the state and local
organizations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. 1895.
SPOILS SYSTEM

TNHERE is deep belief that the duties of gov
- eminent employees are, as Jackson said, so
plain and simple that men of intelligence can read
lily qualify themselves for their performance"
This is one of the hurdles in the way of qualified
governmental personnel Some others the ideas
that the spoils system is the price of democratic
government, that public service is always less eff
cient than private business, that public pay rolls
should support those in need of charity that specific
laws will cure abuses in public office.
Today, the Indiana League of Women Voters
challenged the Democratic and Republican parties
to face these hurdles at their state conventions next
month.
The league battling for the merit system, will ask
both parties for platform pledges of immediate abo-
ltion Of the patronage system.
Already, $4,000 signatures have been gathered by
the league in Indiana petitoning the political par
ties to establish the merit system of appointment. To
the national party conventions the National League
of Women Voters expects to present 100000 signed
cards with this plea. The proposed plank would
commit the parties to specific legislation The parties
are asked to get rid of the patronage system because
1t is "a party liability and weakens the faith in
government"
POLITICIANS who run the state and national
posal They'll tell you it's bad politics But they
not fail to see the power of growing move
ment The National Civil Service Reform League
also is challenging the two national conventions to
adopt planks to end the spoils system. The Public
Affairs Committee is urging a drive to place
government service OH career basis.
The depression and emergency activities of the
Federal government have frightened the hold of the
spoils system. The civil service has lost ground in
state and local governments. Pay rolls are found
shot with politics, favoritism and inef1ciency.
Only nine of the 48 states have civil service regu-
lations since Kansas and Connecticut abandoned the
merit system. The Public Affairs Committee found
decade than in any previous 10-year period since
1883. Only ID per cent of county, township and dis
trict governments operate under the merit system.
About SO per cent of the jobs in cities are under
civil service, leaving Al per cent to the disposal of
"the vctors."
The Federal government is equally culpable
Despite its vaunted civil service serious inroads have
been made into the merit system by politics. con-
gressional interference in placement and a general
letting down of the bars.
Government has expanded until nearly 100000
Americans today working for the taxpayers in
l75,4l8 separate political jurisdictions. The annual
bill is almost Az billions.
Reforms do not come quickly or easily. The drive
for better personnel in government is gaining wide
support. When that support is crystallized into
ton, the spoils system will be on its way out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
ANOTHER MAKESHIFT

FEDERAL relief again has run itself into tan
- glefoot of dispute and indecison in Washington.
Between the President and Senate groups and
Messrs. Hopkins, Ickes and Tugwel the ST. 425 0OO-
900 relief appropriation for the fiscal year 1897 is
being pulled and mauled about though relief
were something for the government
One Senate bloc, led by Senator Hayden of Arr
IONA, wants PWA given $500 900 OO0 so that states
and cities can build needed, enduring works under
loan-grant system. Another bloc of eight Senators
wants to give the Resettlement Administration some
$20O,000,000 to carry the rural relief program
Senator Vandenberg and other Republicans demand
that relief administration be turned back to the
states, while Administration leaders point to the sad
of the states made of relief before Roose-
welt and again during FEFA.
The President wants blank check which he
and Mr.. Hopkins would allocate to PWA and RIA
and WPA as they fit. The unwept 'Quod-
dy Underwater tapping and Florida ship canal
projects which Congress thought it had recently
buried, waking again, with Administration lead
ers urging that they now be investigated by presi-
Dental committee of engineers. Instead of an or
derly routine that should have been evolved through
these three years of federal relief we have confusion
worse confounded than ever.
What will happen doubtless will be another make
Congress will dispute awhile and then probably will
turn everything to the President and go home.
Mr. Ickes and Mr.. Tugwell will be given something,
but whether too little or too much nobody will know
Having no exact idea how many jobless needy there
Congress will not be its appropriation
will last through the year. Once again we will
plunge into the semi-darkness to feel our way
through to something or other.
Most of this confusion and compromise can be
cleaned up in the future if the President does what
so many have urged-asks Congress to authorize the
appointment of partisan, expert relief policy
board to get the facts and outline long range
policy He is mistaken if he thinks the creating of
such board would reflect on his Administration.
He and Mr. Hopkins, busy with thousands of details,
could not avoid mistakes. Relief is such a ire
mendously complex problem that no one man can
solve it. Witness the confusion among the Repub-
hcan opposition over the problem. But if the Pres-
dent refuses to call in the countrys best minds to
help him he must take the blame for further mis-
takes.
Let us forget personal pride and politics and
make this relief business something more than a
series of experiments.
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families from cruel and stupid Punishment but would
help cleanse the alien rolls Of thousands Of vicious
criminals now permitted to remain and ply their
underworld trades.
An adequate ship subsidy law is needed to rebuild
our merchant marine along safe and decent lines.
The reasons so far given for quick adjournment
frivolous compared with the need of passing such
measures as these four. Congressman who want to
rush back home should consider what they will go
home to if they leave essential laws unpassed They
will find that their best campaigning could have
been done Capitol Hill in behalf of their constitu
ents. They should stay until their work is done, if
it takes all summer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MO use to run away from the commonplace. An
other couple tried it and failed. The newly
weds from Michigan who left last summer for the
South Sea Islands, where they expected to find a
second Garden of Eden, are back home again
hope they stayed long enough to learn that even
with cash and long lazy days and warm breezes and
ardent love they couldn't be completely happy. The
serpent in the first garden wise indeed. He
timed his visit WELL appearing only after Adam and
Eve were little fed up with Paradise and one an
other. 1t not hard then to sell them on the idea
OF taking nibbe at the apple.
All our personal Edens are subject to the same
nvasions unless we accept the fact that honeymoons
are not meant to last forever After certain period
OF billing and cooling the most romantic man feels
a laundering to return to the everyday grind and
though she may not confess it. his lady also longs for
feminine gossip the teacups.
Men can not live happily without their kind, and
women are miserable when separated from other
women. oh, know there will be a chorus of pro-
tests this statement since it is pet illusion
that we dislike one another. Women take great pride
in their preference for men: they forever run
ming themselves down and making nasty comparison.
But don't be fooled. Follow these broadcasters
around for while and you will find they have
yen for their girl friends too.
1ney IKE 10 let down their hair ana exchange
compliments Which only proves one thing; we are
less truthful than men, who seem to have an nstnc-
tive wisdom about life which girl children are born
without
We hit the biggest snag in the matrimonial
stream when we believe what the poet wrote: Love
is OF mans life thing apart; it's woman's whole
existence" Well it isn't And there will be less
misery in married life when women let go their
strangle-hold on the romantic traditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
CAN THEY TAKE IT?

WE don't know how the Republican leadership
w will take it but there comes from their new
super publicity the soundest advice that has
been spoken in 10! these many moons Said Bruce
Barton speaking before the Illinois Manufacturers
Association:
1--WE are thinking too much of next November
and hoping that somehow a change in administra-
ton will dissolve our 1t will not The masses
of American people have discovered their power and
will continue to exercise it, no matter who sits in
the White House. We need to plan how we shall
conduct ourselves in view of this stubborn fact not
for the next six months but for the next 25 years.
We need to take a longer look
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
FINISH THE JOB!

MAJORITY LEADER ROBINsON's hurry-up call
AVA for adjournment of Congress by June may
draw cheers from the politicians anxious to attend
their party conventions make for home to begin
campaigning. 1t will find few echoes of approval
out in ne country if it means FINISHED job of
legislating. And apparently, it means that.
The Robinson must" program contains only four
major measures-taxes relief the omnibus flood con-
troll and commodity exchange bills. The President
insists only on taxes and relief. Left out of the
reckoning are at least four pending matters of the
greatest Importance In what we consider the order
OF their need these are;
The Wagner -Enenbogen sunl- abatement bill, to
finance through grants and loans nationwide pro-
gram for low-rent dwellings to house working
mems families;
The La Toilette resolution, just reported, call
ing for thorough senatorial investigation of labor
espionage and civil rights violations;
The Kerr-Cooldge~King deportation bill:
The Guffey bill to reform the present method of
substituting the merchant marine
Organized labor, social workers, economists and
many other groups urging the Seventy fourth
Congress to pass the Wagner Enenbogen rehousing
bill. The Administration is behind it. Its relatively
small subsidies would be spread over four years It's
boost to the construction industry probably would
prove the needed impetus to launch real housing
boom and prime the laggard heavy industries pump.
THE need for the proposed La Toilette investga-
ton can not be overstreSsed. Covertly working
to destroy orderly relations between labor and man
agement and to weaken the democratic processes of
free speech, press, assemblage and teaching are
few Predetermined groups whose power rests on
fear class hate prejudice and other emotions of
the ignorant. How far have they gone in their
dangerous workP Who are they? Who is profting
from their doings? All these things we should know
The deportation issue should be settled and set
tied now. Passage of the Administration program
before adjournment not only would save some $500
a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
Watch Your Health

the babys muscles are unable to do
this.
1t is not necessary to wash the
baby's mouth, or to use stiff instru-
mentS in cleaning the ears. The ears
may be wiped with swabs of cotton
dipped in mineral oil.
Any discharge from the ears or
the eyes should be called Immediately
to attention Of the doctor.
IF the scalp is not properly
l. cleansed, the child may develop
a slight irritation, due to oversee
erection of the sweat and oil glands.
The fat and the oil mix with dirt
and form a crust. This crust NAV
be removed with oil. If the head is
kept clean, the trouble ends
promptly.
Special pains should be taken in
drying the skin thoroughly where
there are folds or creases. Oil may
be used on the parts of the body
where there may be irritations, and
powder may be applied to keep the
areas dry.
Following are some simple in.
structionS:
/. In washing the baby, pay spe-
cial attention to creases in the neck
under the arms, at the elbows, be-
tween the toes and in the groin.
2. Put the baby in the tub, sup.
porting his head with the lief
hand, spreading the fingers tt
support the shoulders.
8. With the baby sitting on the
right hand, slide him into the t,ll
gently, feet first. Plunging tn,
baby suddenly into the water viii
frighten him.
4. Hold the baby so that his heac
and ears are out of the water.
5. Allow the baby to remain il
the tub for two or three minute
after completely rinsing off tn,
soap mixture.
6. Remove the baby from the tub
holding him as you did when i'm
mersing him.
Z. Wrap in a bath towel and pa
thoroughly dry.
g. Oil irritations or creases, anc
remove excess oil with soft towel
8. Powder as desired.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20

out with a book called, Whose
Constitutions"
Regardless of the merit and text
of these writings, here are two
highly controversial assaults on
what has been the common in
depreciation of the Constitution.
They are being launched-one by
the party itself, and one by one of
its high commanders recently &C
quired by desertion from the
enemy. Regardless of intention,
they douse the issue of the Consti-
tuition into the campaign to it's arm
pits.
1t may be said that this is wrong
because the Democratic platform
will avoid the constitutional issue
carefully. That won't make any
difference because, unless it de-
clares a purpose in line with Demo-
cratic performance, it will be hard
to get anybody to believe the Demo-
cratic platform.
1t won't declare such purpose.
1t might better not be written. If
it is written, it ought to be single
slogan of high purpose, preferably
expressed in Latin so that a few
will understand it-like Fiat Lux
or in Choctaw so that nobody will
understand it. The real platform
is, We'll do whatever we think is
good for you"
These literary illusions were both
big blunders. Unless the Old
Guard is asleep they will serve to
put the Administl alton exactly
where it didn't want to be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ .

DETROIT, May 20. Industry
- must provide the solution of
the farm problem. A wider use of
farm products in the factory, the
invention of new industrial proc
esses to utilize the output of the
farm and the development of new
crops to meet industrial needs, hold
the key to rural prosperity.
The white jacketed scientist
bending over his test-tubes and re-
torts, not the frock-coated orator
holding forth in the legislative hall,
will bring good times to the farmer.
This was the keynote of the sec
ond Dearborn Conference on Agri-
culture, Industry and Science, held
under the auspices of the Farm
Chemurgic Council and the Chem
ical Foundation.
Leaders of these organizations
believe that the food problem will
solve itself if firm basis of stable
prosperity is worked out by industry
and agriculture.
The development of rayon, cello
plane, various cellulose products
and plastics of all sorts, is held up
as one example of how the progress
of industrial science brings new de-
mandS for the raw materials of the
farm.
Some of the ways in which new
chemical advances were absorbing
farm materials were pointed out by
DR.. Charles M. A. Slime, vice presi-
dent in charge Of research of E. L
du Pont de Nemours & Co.
The coated textile industry uses
in the production of rubber coated
and pyroxylin-coated textiles, ap-
proximately 10000, 900 yards of cot
ton cloth annually, DR.. Slime said
The viscose rayon industry, for
a production of 100000 pounds
of rayon in 1885, consumed about
$4,000, 900 pounds of cotton linters
THE acetate rayon industry in
1885, based on a production OF
$1,000, 900 pounds, probably con-
sumed about 100000 pounds OF
linters. Therefore, it is estimated
that in 1885 the rayon industry con-
sumed somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of "a 900 tons of raw linters.
DR.. Slime gave additional figures
to show the consumption of cotton
linters in the production of pyroxy-
lin plaStics, acetate plaStics, pyroxy-
lin film, dopes and lacquers. The
total acreage, he said, needed to
provide linters for all the uses cited,
both these and the foregoing,
amounts to 100000 acres.
Linters are the short fibers cut
from the cotton seeds. They are
not the total long staple cotton
suitable for weaving into cotton
cloth. etc.
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the knife and fork or leave them on
the plate?
A-They should be placed side by
side across the plate.
Q-When was the present chief OF
staff OF the United States Army APP
pointed?
A-Gen. Malin Craig was appoint
ed chief of staff Oct. 2, 1885.
Q-What was the religion of
President Woodrow Wilson, and
was he a Mason?
Ale was member of the Pres
byterian Church, and was not a
Mason.
G-What is the meaning Of "con-
silio ct animis"?
A-"By counsel and courage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
TELLS WHY RICH
OPPOSE OARP

BY Mrs. James E. Mcdonald
Recently question was asked in
one of our daily papers. 1t was
something like this: IF the Town
send Plan has merits why have not
groups of big business men and
economists approved it?"
My opinion is: The big business
men and the moneyed men prefer
poverty for the masses so they can
control the money of the United
States. Also, they want cheap la
Dor. With the Townsend Plan a
law they would have to pay decent
wages because labor would be
scarce. And last, but not least, the
rich never have wanted to pay
their share of taxes. They prefer
to buy untaxable bonds and let
them lie idle in the vaults.
We have been in the depression
for six long years. No group OF
economists has solved the problems
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20

of unemployment and distribution;
SO Townsendites think nothing of
such people as the professors in the
Chicago University who say the
plan can not work.
I should like to add that Con-
gresham Bell did not ask for an
investigation until he learned Shere
was Townsend candidate running
against him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

A NEWBORN baby should be
n cleaned, during the first few
days of his life, with oil and cot
ton, and should not be given full
bath until the cord has separated.
During the first few months, the
bath should be given warm room
at a temperature of SO degrees,
Fahrenheit, which is about the tenn
perature of the body.
The bath should not last long,
and the baby should be dried
quickly by application of an absorb
ent towel, without vigorous rubbing.
If the child's skin is exceptionally
delicate, handful of table salt to
gallon of water will make the
water less irritating to the skin.
At 6 months Of age, the tempera-
ture of the bath is lowered to 95 de-
greeS, and, at the end of the first
year, it may be 80 degrees. Some
doctors suggest that healthy chill
~ OAA' oAVCA ACdO4ll41S OllC dye VI
months, may be sponged with water
at temperature Of IS or 10 de-
grees, for a second or two at the
end Of the bath, presumably with
the idea of accustoming the chile
somewhat to cold.
A S the child grows older, he
1 L. should he given a warm bath
preferably at night, which will as
sure pleasant and restful sleep. Tht
cooler bath is taken in the morning
before breakfast.
Ordinarily the bath should be &
pleasant performance for both baby
and mother Everything for the BATH
should be prepared before the baby
is taken up. The child should bt
handled as little as possible.
There are two ways of bathing
very young babies; one, in the moth.
er's lap; the other, on an especially
prepared table or tray, covered with
padding. 1t is important to remem.
Der that the baby must be KEEP
warm and comfortable during thu
bathing period. The head and thu
neck should be supported as long a:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
FIVE PAST TEN
BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY
On Pennsylvania at Maryland
Street,
A clock has stopped at five past
ten,
AS if by some strange, mysterious
feat
All time had ceased to flow since
then.
It's poor old hands lift high up in
the air,
AS though imploring some strong
grace
Ir constant, reverent, humble prayer
To come down and adjust its face.
I wonder Just who its owner can be;
Is he dead or did he forget
That he owns a clock which many
can see
Should be gone or else running
yet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-20
DEMOCRATIC WRITINGS
TERMED BLUNDERS

By Hugh S. Johnson, New York
The Democratic high command
says the Constitution is not an issue
in this campaign. But the official
party publication comes out with an
article by Prof. Beard on the Con-
stitution.
1t presents a new view of the OBJ
legations of the President and Con-
gress to be bound by what the court
says the Constitution means. 1t is
embellished by quotations from four
Presidents on the Constitution
They are plucked from their con-
text and, in some cases, make the
speaker seem to say something quite
different from what he meant.
Shortly, also, that great authority
on agriculture, religion, state-craft
and law-Henry Wallace-is coming