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The Washington times., 1936-09-23
Thomas Says Reds Aid President
MERCY Death Infant
Has $3.50 Chance

incomplete intestinal tract. Lit
tie Julian's case is complicated
by q misplaced colon. Yesterday
DR.. Eastman and his aides made
an incision in the baby's left
side and inserted a drain into
the loop of the intestine.
Within four years, If all goes
well-"and there is every reason
to expect that it will" the surgeon
Said-Julian will undergo a Sec
ond operation and there is every
reason to believe he will emerge
with a normal body"
The child's mercy death" was
not far off, it was believed, when
he was wheeled to the operating
room, for lack of nouriShment
and q rapidly growing toxic con-
dition had so weakened him it was
necessary to inject a saline Solu-
ton to act as a heart Stimulant.
It had been necessary to stimu-
late his mother, too, to quiet her
breaking heart and her tormented
mind.
But today the young parents
were overjoyed and their minds
delirious with happiness as their
tiny son kicked and cried.
-VoTE AMERIcAN-
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only a total of three and one-half
ounces of mothers milk fed to
him through an eye-dropper in a
series of feelings. A normal child
should take two ounces at each OF
seven feelings.
The crisis in the child's case
should come Friday.
For five days the father was
adamant, refusing his permission
for the operation which would
save his sons life and at the same
time condemn him to lifelong in
validism.
Arrayed against him was his
young wife, who cried:
"It would be q sin to let our
baby die-nOt to give him his
chance to live"
And her husband replied:
1T would be a sin to let him
live-he would curse us for let
ting him live under this handi-
cap when he grew old enough
to understand"
Yesterday the father capitu-
lated, went to the hospital after
hours of struggling with his soul,
soaring problem, to tell his wife
he was ready to grant permission
for the operation.
Wife Determined
But he found his wife's deter
mination had weakened, that she
had swung to his original point
of view. He argued with her in
vain. She remained obdurate until
a healthy four-year-old youngSter
who had undergone successfully
an identical operation was brought
into Mrs. TafelS room. Overjoyed
at this evidence that their son,
too, might become normal through
the wizardy of the scalpel and the
skill of it's manipulation, she agreed
to the operation.
Released from her maddening
torment, the young mother be-
came jubilant as her tiny son was
wheeled to the operating room,
crying Justify. Seventeen minutes
later his life had been saved, and
the young parents, their hands
tightly linked, wept with joy as
DR.. Eastman repeated:
"YOur child will live"
Today the doctor explained the
infants malformation and de,
Scribed the operation and sue.
ceding operations which he hopes
will make the child normal.
He said:
Before the operation the
baby had a fifty-fifty chance
of survival. But now there is
no fear Of threatening conSe-
quenceS.
without the operation, Of
course, he would have died.
And even with it, there is a
chance he might have a phySi-
cal handicap that will retard
his development"
The child was born with an
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and that the Administration now
was operating on:
Faith, hope and charity,
mostly charity taken away from
taxpayers.
"Tt is just cOasting along.
Within a few years a country
burdened with debt, with pro-
ductiOn increasing more rapidly
than wages, we are headed for a
new and catastrophe depreS-
SiOn."
ERA OF CAPITALISM
Thomas said the EZRA of capital
ism" had passed throughout the
world, and America was faced with
a choice of a socialstic cooperative
commonwealth or faSciSm. He pre-
dicted if the latter came a dem
agogue" would be succeeded by
dictator.
Asserting that he was opposed
to the communiStic form of gov
ernment as sponsored by Moscow
Thomas said he could not tolerate
the violence" and bureaucratic
phases of communism, adding:
81 do not believe in control
from the top down. Communism
grants no civil liberty and its in
tereStS are the interests of one
nation, Russia, against the
world"
The Washington times., 1936-09-23
New Probe Begun
In Gas Poison Case

Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-
aid yesterday said an autopsy dis
closed Mrs. Elizabeth zegawitz, ST,
600 block Q st. N. W., who was
found early Monday Slumped in a
kitchen chair with three jets on a
nearby gas range open, had died
of gas poisoning. Issuance Of a
death certificate was withheld
pending a further investigation.
The Washington times., 1936-09-23
Seven Cows Singed
In Auto Truck Fire

Seven cows with slightly singed
tails were roaming the neighbor.
hood of Cherrydale, Va, last night
after a narrow escape from being
barbecued alive in a blazing motor
truck.
Charlie Sugar, driver, of Lees
burg, Va, was filling the tank
at a gasoline station at Cherry
dale late yesterday when the
truck puffed into flames. Sugar
let down the tail gate and the
cows dashed for liberty into the
open fields. When Sugar and
passersby had extinguiShed the
fire he started out to look for
the cows.
VOTE AMERlcAN-
Teachers Named
G. David Houston, principal Of
Armstrong High School has an
nounced the appointment of three
new teachers to the faculty. The
teachers include Mrs. E. N. Hol-
land, instructor in history; Mrs.
j. D. Middleton, teacher of mathe-
maticS and english and L. T. Bur-
well, instructor in science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
An Unfortunate Phrase

TINE phrase itself is unfortunately, Furnishing
Il one. The union shop" would fall less harshly
upon the ear. Nevertheless any organization which
undertakes to advertise that the closed shop is
American is simply trading on the economic illit-
eracy of large part of the community
was sitting the other afternoon in cafe with
a gentleman who was buying drink. This didn't
really happen, but let's imagine it did. I've only
got time for one more cocktail" he said MY wife
and 1 are going to the symphony tonight" He
looked at the evening paper he had in his hands to
see what time the performance began, and as he
saw the headlines about the elevator strike he be-
gan to talk in violent terms. I'm all for the own
ers he said. I've made it rule myself never to
have anything to do with anything run as a closed
shop"
reached over and grabbed his cocktail "I'll
drink this for you" l explained because to you
1t is forbidden If you will observe the sign on the
wall you will note that the who mixed your
drink belongs to the Bartenders Union-a closed
shop. 1t seems to run pretty we'll. I can't remem-
Der any bartenders strike in New York during my
lifetime and if there had been one I am quite GER
tain would have remembered.
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and now through "So conservation" to curtail our
so-called excess production.
Meantime the soybean has pushed its BRIGHT
sprouts up in this seedy patch to offer some hope
small now but significant. Last year 900 acres
were planted iii soybeanS. The yield 100000
bushels, double that of 1884 The reason is that
Ford is using tons of them now. Soybeans are used
to make paint, enamel, varniSh, glue printing ink
rubber substitutes linoleum, insecticides, plastcs-
your automobile steering wheel like not once was
a bushe of SoybeanS-glycerin flour sauce, breakfast
food. and cattle feed. Any bean that fit into all
of those things is bound to get along. Department
of Agriculture experts expect rapid growth in soy
bean acreage because there's money in these beans
ILLINOIS leads in soybean production which is
also we'll established in Iowa. Indiana, North
Carolina, Louisiana. Missouri and Ohio. Fifty fac
tories turning out products made from soybeans.
The Department OF Agriculture is opening Soybean
industrial research laboratory at the University of
Illinois in cooperation with IL North Central states
All of which sounds like hot-house stuff. But
such an economic conservative as Col Frank Knox
has been sold on it and he is advocating indus
trial utilization of farm products particularly the
Soybean, as means of diverting acreage out of
surplus crops. Other candidates, who may not wish
TO adopt the soybean since Col. Knox sponsoring
it, may, by sending SELF addressed, stamped
velopes to the Department of Agriculture learn the
names of other potential proteges Spies report the
Jerusalem artichoke has it all the gentle arti
chokes in money-making possibilities.
NEW YORK'S unemployment insurance and
IN minimum wage laws have been thrown out by
state judges. The same old complaint unconstitu-
tional. The Supreme Court says Congress can't
regulate wages The state courts say the Legislatures
can't either. Some day legislative body is going
10 declare court unconstitutional. That will be
news.
Also there's a dust storm out West. 1t is operat-
ing in four states. That's unconstitutional. too!
Control of agricultural production is matter re-
served for the individual states under the Supreme
Courts AAA decision,
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which he was well qualified to
write, having been chief technical
adviser for the Culbertson organ
ization for three years.
We were discussing bridge
problems in my Office when he
was taken i'll. Today's hand in
corporates one of these problems.
Vests opening was the queen
of diamonds. The play which con-
fronted the declarer was in which
hand the diamond trick should be
won.
It must be won in dummy.
Why? Because West has bid dia-
monds and it is now probable
that East holds a singleton. If
East does hold one diamond, the
king will win the first trick.
When West wins the second
trick with the ace of trump he
will lead another diamond and,
even though East rufus, this ruff,
will cost declarer nothing, since
he had the diamond trick to lose
and he still has the ace.
If, however, the ace is played
on the first trick, West will be
able to lead through dummy's
king, thereby defeating the con-
tract one trick.
downright 1886 BY NEA Service, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
Gen: johnson Saws

N7ASHINGTON, March 17-Since writing an
w article for this column on the possibility of a
vast low-cost housing program, based on cutting
costs in two by quantity production and
otner devices several important authorities or this
and related subjects have talked about it to me in
terms of enthusiasm
Inc Administration has made several efforts along
this llne in no less than four departments but az
Cne PRESIDENT was quoted recently the net result is
mess.
The government alone could not do this iob-if
IL can be done at all. 1t would take united nush
oy LABOR, 1our or five great industries and lot of
capital on wide front But it is project exactly
suited to that kind of combined effort under COW
eminent leadership.
Inc country needs great deal more of that kind
OF cooperation IN all ranks, such it did have in
1882, and it might get it on this kind of plan The
present atmosphere of hostility and suspicion he
tween nearly all business and government is bad for
everybody - ~ A
4 NAPTAINS of industry are going to have to live
- with this administration for four years more
ana IL would be whole lot better to be pulling in
harness with 1t than kicking the traces and
as the most natural thing in the world-pettino
kicked In return. Some important people are begin
ming to see this quite clearly. 1t would need some
sucn medium and purpose as is suggested here IN
make it quickly effective
Ihere has been some effort within the Adninis
tration to coordinate the purely governmental at
greater scale than that
Maybe it is quite impossible 1t boils down tn
single query. Can housing costs be cut in two hv
quantity production a vast scale? That is an nm
determined, but determinable question
Copyright. 1896. United Feature svndica+.
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Unions, Unions EUerylUhere

"TTNHE newspaper in which you looked up the
l. time OF the symphony performance has
closed shop in its mechanical departments and
there are newspapers in which the editorial staff
is organized along similar lines. The concert to
which you are going will be played by union
musicians and if you go to the restaurant you
usually frequent your supper will be cooked by
union cooks and served by union walters. AS
matter of fact you have been dealing with the
closed shop all your life, only you noticed it."
may say also, that it is a little extreme to call
the closed shop un-American, since members of
both political parties have voted for measures to
insure the right of organization and collective bar
gaining. To be sure, this is not precisely an in
dorsement of the closed shop but it does tend in
that direction
The Realty Advisory Board is endeavoring to
create new right wing far, far to the right of the
Liberty League and it has logically chosen Walter
Gordon Merritt its leader. 1t was Mr. Merritt
who punished the Danbury matters. 1t was Mr.
Merritt who found a law by which the homes of
more than TOO workers could be taken away from
them IN payment of punitive damages:
That was Mr.. MerTitts way, but let it not be
said without challenge that it is the American way
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Times Books

you want some new light the Communist
experiment in Russia today, you might begin nv
nnolng out about the Of Peter the Great who
was car some two and quarter centuries ago
Peters story will help you to understand Puss;a
lts wildly barbaric background and the strains ~
violence and cruelty that mingle in its history when
you nave read 1t, you VIII have better appreciation
there now. -
lurid story OF this old-time monarch done in
tne biography style. is at hand in Peter:
Called the Great" by Maurice Bethel Jones.
(Stckes; SD
The first thing that will strike YOU is the fact
that Russia culturally is-or at least was-aboIt
500 years behind the rest of Europe The court and
the people OF Peters day simply don't sound
european Iner intrigues; the sickening cruelty
with which palace rebellions were souelched. the
great brawling orgies of monarch and favorites.
sound like things from some semi-savage oriental
realm.
Peter was the man who put Russia in Europe
He made the sprawling land an empire broke the
Baltic hegemony of the Swedes, Europeanized his
peoples dress and manners partly. anyhow, and
awoke POE sleeping giant. (By Bruce Catton)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17
Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

WASHINGTON, March IT.
w Chester Davis, diminutive
AAA administrator, sails for
Europe this week, promising that
he will return to Washington if
he is needed. And he probably
will be.
For, behind the scenes, those
in charge of the new AAA substi-
tute farm program are worried.
They now have the kind Of farm
bill they wanted, but the job of
putting it into operation looks
bigger than when the bill was
first put on paper.
Chief problem is cotton. First
planting already has begun in
the South and prospects are for
a bumper crop. This year, the
Agriculture Department has no
power to compel reduction of
acreage. The program is wholly
voluntary.
Last year it was not. Any
planter who grew a surplus of
cotton could not market it with
out paying a tax. The same was
true of tobacco-but not of wheat,
corn and hogs.
Private opinion among those
advising Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace is that the most they can
expect 10 eliminate from cotton
production this coming year is
100000 acres. This is about
one-fourth of the total acreage.
Total eliminated last year was
100000 acres.
They are not mentioning it
above a whisper, but they fear
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the construction of a new addition
for the postoffice. The cleaning
bids, however, were one-fifth of
the cost of cleaning the State
house.
II Il II
CHARLES E. Cliff, assistant
~ custodian of the postoffice, is
confident that the building could
be kept cleaner if the SCOT storms
did not clutter courtrooms and Of
fees. He says 100 gallons of paint
are used for redecorating the
postoffice yearly.
Sandblasting of buildings to
clean their faces is frowned upon
by some building managers. One
building manager termed the job
criminal for it lis questionable
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that as a result, cotton will slump
below 10 cents a pound.
CHIEF stumbling block in the
~ Senate to making ships safer
at sea happens to be Young Bob
La Toilette, one of the ablest leg
iSlators on Capitol Hill.
But Young Bob has blind spot.
1t is his mania for blocking ship
ping legislation.
One thing he has blocked is the
Geneva Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea. This is an inter-
national treaty requiring certain
standards for life preservers, life
boats, water-tight compartments,
etc. 1t was written, strangely
enough, by the American delega-
ton, which had to exert consid-
cradle salesmanship TO force it on
the other countries.
Signing it materially improved
the safety Of life at sea-but not
for the United States. Seven years
have passed and the Senate has
refused to ratify. Young Bob has
constantly blocked the treaty in
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
Young Bob has been con-
sistent blocker of other shipping
legislation.
nNE bill introduced at the last
~ session of Congress was for
the improvement of the Steamboat
Inspection Service. 1t was aimed
to eliminate tragedies like the
Moro Castle.
Another bill aimed at raising
the standard of crews, require
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17

overnight stays rather than sleep
in indianapolis.
Scratch a soot-fake and you'll
find a laundryman," hazarded one
hotel proprietor, but the laundries
are quick to urge abatement of
the smoke nuisance.
II
T. T. CANNON, Best Grand
- Laundry manager, told how his
company was affected by a smoky
city and how film from the air
drifted in through windows and
forced the necessity of washing
clothing twice.
In an effort to reduce their own
smoke the Best-Grand company
turned from firing boilers to pur-
chased steam heat for power oper-
alton only to find that small
plants and larger industries in the
company's vicinity poured their
own chimney offal into the laun-
dry.
Handkerchiefs and other ap-
parel in Indianapolis come to the
laundry in a dirtier condition
than in other cities, Mr.. Cannon
says.
E. B. Cracraft, vice president
and general manager of the Prog
ress Laundry, estimates that $780,
900 pounds of laundry with an
average bundle placed at ST is
sent to the city's Is largest laun-
dries.
City residents, about third of
them, send their laundry out at a
weekly average of $4,000 pounds.
The estimated weekly bill for
laundering clothing is $4,000, Mr..
Cracraft says.
TINE housewife loses about 10
j. cents weekly On each ST bun
die of extra washing necessary for
garments that become soiled
quicker in this mo Mean City"
than in the West, Southwest and
Pacific Coast, it is estimated by
OAAioNS clOclUCl CApCl 10.
I'VE do not guarantee against
damage curtain which is laun-
dered by our organization. This
is impossible because of the condi-
ton of the atmosphere. Tars and
acids from the Sooty air reduce
the wearing quality of curtains
and Grapes and they can not be
washed as often as in a cleaner
city," Mr.. Cracraft explains.
"a drapery that appears to the
eye" he continued, ito be in good
condition will be torn by washing
because of the destruction in the
goods caused by acids and tars."
Mr.. Cracraft says that where
curtains could hang for one year
without danger in cleaner cities,
in indianapolis they should be
cleaned every 80 days or even less
to protect fabrics from CRIME.
His firm, on one occasion, laun-
dered an unworn shirt 152 times
and the shirt, he says, looked as
good as new"
That same shirt after being
worn and exposed to this city's
atmosphere would fray at the
cuffs and collars and become an
old shirt in so weekly washings,p
Mr.. Cracraft believes.
: CTATISTICS from Pittsburgh
~ show that an average laundry
bill is SIS a month, or $1.25 weekly,
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ments for lifeboat certificates and
discipline aboard ships.
During the closing days of the
last session, unanimous consent
was asked for passage of these
bills in the Senate. They had al
ready passed the House. But Sen
ator La Toilette objected.
Mystery behind this paradox on
the part of one of the most en-
lightened members of the Senate
was the elder Senator La Toilette.
He fathered the La Follette-J Jones
Act, now regarded as the Magma
Charta of American seamen.
Young Bob Is resolved also to
be a friend of American seamen.
But in doing so he is guided solely
by Andy Faruseth, gnarled head
of the Seamen's Union.
If Andy o. KS a bill, Young Bob
votes for it. Otherwise not. And
Andy Faruseth, for some reason,
has opposed recent attempts to
clean up shipping conditions.
HEINRICH BRUENING, pre-
Il L. Hitler chancellor of Ger
many and now an exile with a
price on his head, gave a series
of lectures at Harvard last week
for the Godkin Foundation, con-
filming his remarks to very con-
sentative observations on govern
ment.
Asked by friend if he had rec
ognized anybody in the audience
he said:
only the men who were taking
down the lectures in shorthand
for the German consulate"
Copyright 1886. by United Feature
w.
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TICO Against the World

WE nave these thoughts and principles in COM
W mon with the British and we also share their
loVe OF gaudy uniforms parades titles and cere-
MONIES but much more important than everything
eiSe we are both strong, rich nations With feeling
that If we don't like one another we will he
1rlendleSS against the whole world
hope do not seem to be negotiating an Anglo
American treaty of mutual defense on my own re-
sponSolllty am just trying to put on paper some
thlng which is blowing in the wind over here and
wondering whether the same faint odor has been
noticed on our side of the water since we found
ourselves suddenly haywire with emotion over the
death OF George and the grandeur of the British
nation and the crown
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-17

UHe prospects OF regalnlng pre-
war farm exports have declined.
Even the chance of another
European war does not hold out
the promise to farmers that the
previous one did because of strong
neutrality sentiment now. Ameri-
cans are not as gullible as they
were in 1914. They see now that
pressure to sell wheat, cotton and
pork to belligerents builds up a
false market which not only can't
pay for it's goods but which
makes us run the risk of getting
into war to serve it. Hence
the struggle first through AAA
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musicians, even The dramatists are
organized. And yet the theater
seems to me to function rather
more smoothly for all concerned
than do the elevators in apart
ments and business buildings.
I think there was some slip of
hand or brain when the realty
group put out advertisements say
ing that they could not possibly
arbitrate the closed shop because
1T is un-American." This is
somewhat belated discovery, since
the closed shop has existed in this
country for almost half a century
in certain industries, and they
have been the very businesses in
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that it does not injure the build
ing"
II would rather take my build
ings age and all than to sand
blast them. Age and its action
on limestone gives a building
character" he says.
Executives of one new structure
in the city, who declined to be
quoted, are worried about their
mosaic and marble for they see
in the beauty wrought an almost
insurmountable job of keeping
their building free from the soil
age of city's upturned chimney
waStebasket.
NEXT-Smoke in Industry and
Railroads.