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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson


mo woman could get away with it" said a
: bachelor girl as we walked out of meeting
where three men, each supposed to give 1O-minute
talk, had consumed an hour and As minutes in say
ing nothing
She is right We couldn't How SO many men
manage it is twentieth century mystery.
This. so We say, is age of efficiency and con-
ciseness in business Everybody is pressed for time
Yet in world filled with enchanting things to
See hear and discover public speaking-perhaps the
oldest form of communicating ideas to the groups
is the slowest way of nparting information great
many speakers we've heard had nothing to impart
either. They just talk.
To be sure there is an art in all this-the art of
using language to hide vacuum. And without
doubt the male excels in this art. You find him go
ing on for hours gesticulating declaming perspir-
ing, and when he's finished you write down what
he had to say in a single line In many instances
the line itself will not be worth reading.
To make comparisons is bad taste, we are told.
but from the evidence find that women when
they do stand their feet to talk finish in record
time
This whole subject offers fine problem for the
psychologist. Why do women, who talk their fam
lies almost to death at home, manage to be so
brief at public speaking. and why do men. glum as
oysters under the domestic roof, become 50 long
winded on the rostrum9 Answer me that professors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
A TOWNSEND PARTY

sTHE Townsend Plans steering committee of IS
(: congressman from IS states unanimously urged
DR.. Townsend to abandon his idea of launching
third party to carry out his oldage pension project
Rep. McGroarty, author of the revised Townsend
measure, says such third party would be fatal
error and would wreck movement"
DR.. Townsend should heed this sound and friendly
counsel. Townsend Party" such as the doctor is
launching in California. could not possibly VIM Our
political history is strewn with the wrecks of third
parties which were built like this one, upon single
Idea. AT best-or worst-a Townsend party would
only give an advantage to one of the cid parties
probably the Republicans That is something be-
lieve the many Townsendites do not want their
movement to de- For. while they may think tae New
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denies the fact that sufficient in
come to maintain a decent standard
of living is an essential to that end.
Farmers are intelligent. Their
school of hard knocks has prepared
them we'll for the tasks that lie
ahead. They have tasted of the
fruits that others have long en-
joyed under national protective
measures.
Leaders of organized agriculture
will not seek a way to get around
the situation; they will drive to the
point and present a program under
which their rights to share a just
portion OF the national income will
be recognized. They are not dis
couraged, but agitated to so arrange
their affairs that life on the farm
may have equal opportunities for
young people as may be found in
other fields Of activities.
The task Of providing food for a
nation is one not small. 1t is hoa-
orable and essential. And when
those who pursue other walks of life
gather around the evening dinner
table, they must give thought to
those who make possible the food
for their sustenance. Farmers ask
no sympathy; they demand justice
on the part of every American citi-
zen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
AAA SCARCITY

TN technique, the Administrations new farm pro-
gram differs from the AAA approaching the prob
lem from the soil conservation rather than from the
balanced production angle.
But essentially the detectives are the same and
if the plan succeeds it WILL as did the AAA, con-
tribute both to balanced production and soil con-
servation The two go hand in hand
Therefore it is to be expected that learned critics
Vail denounce the new plan also as IAN embodiment
of the economy of scarcity"
Very few farmers understand that awesome in
dictment, and fewer still are scared by it. Maybe
some critic will enlighten them by being specific
Just where does scarcity" come into the picture?
By discouragng the mining of the soils fertility
in repeated overplanting of such crops as corn and
tobacco-hungry crops which in time eat out the
soils substance?
BY dlscouraging year, fter-year use of the same
land to grow such crops corn and cotton, the
necessary clean cultivation of which keeps the soil
constantly exposed to water erosion?
BY discouraging the use of unsuitable dry lands
of the western plains for type of wheat farming
which keeps the topsoil puverized and exposed to
wind erosion-which means a loss of bushel of
good earth for every bushel of wheat grown?
by encouraging crop rotation and the planting of
legumeS to build up soil fertility?
BY encouraging the regrowth of soil-binding
grasses and trees to keep the topsoil from being
washed down rivers and blown away in dust storms?
While critics ponder these questions which con-
Germ primarily the problems of soil conservation
let them also answer a few more questions which
have to do only with the daybyday of the
good old pre-AAA practices Let them forget for
moment the transmutation of the nations bread
basket into dust bowl of rich topsoil into rver-bed
silt. Let them ignore how future generations would
feed and clothe themselves from WORKOUT land
Let them enlghten us only concerning the bene-
fits of that abundance economy" which they seem
to think prevailed back in 1892 10
What class of citizens enjoyed the "abun-
dance of the crop SURPRISES which then gutted our
granares and warehouses?
The farmers, who were bankrupted by depressed
prices?
Or the city workers who lost their jobs because
the farmers couldn't buy the things factories pro-
duced?
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pionship, ever confined in Leaven-
worth Penitentiary?
Ale was convicted under the
Mann white slave act, and after
jumping his bail he remained out of
the country for several years. Final
ly he surrendered and was sentenced
and entered Leavenworth prison
Sept. 20, 1920.
Q-Does the United States i'm
port much raw material from
Italy?
Alt imports comparatively lit
tie. The chief imports in 1884 were
cheese, olive oil, vegetables, fruit,
leaf tobacco, wine and canned
tomatoes.
Glow many eclipses will there
be in 1886 and 1887, and how many
of them will be total?
AIN 1886 there will be four
eclipses, two of the sun and two
of the moon. In 1887 there will be
three eclipses, two of the sun and
one of the moon A total lunar
eclipse will occur jan 8, 1896; to-
tai solar eclipse June 10, 1896; a
partial lunar eclipse July 4, 1896;
an annular solar eclipse Dec. 1914,
1896; total solar eclipse June g.,
1897; a partial lunar eclipse Nov.
Is, 1887, and an annual solar
eclipse Dec. 2-3, 1887.
Gin what temperature should
Gardenia plants be kept? Do they
require much water?
A-They prefer a warm humid
atmosphere of 10 degrees, or a little
above, with a drop of no lower than
S. degrees at night. Proper ventila-
lion and frequent watering are es-
sential. Both scale and mealy bug
are enemies which frequent shower
Ing will tend to eradicate
GIN which executive department
of the United States government is
the geological survey?
A-Department of the Interior.
Glow many persons were gain
fully employed in the United States
in 1910. and what proportion were
women?
A-Total galnIuliy employed over
10 years of age was So 167. 1886 of
whom 3O,O9l ,564 were male and g.
075,772 were female.
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AAA GONE, FARMERS
LOOK TO FUTURE

Edmond C. Foust, Hoosier Farmer Editor
Without criticising action of the
Supreme Court, farmers of the ma
ton are collecting their thoughts
and forces to replace the shattered
AAA. The results of this disaster,
and such it is, will not be recog-
nized for some time to come.
Fair prices for agricultural prod
ucts will continue in exact meas
ure to the adjustment project, as it
fades into the background. The
livestock producer and the grain
farmer can not speed their produc-
ton beyond limitations established
by nature. Therefore, the program
will continue for many months
without the benefit payments re-
ceived from the Federal Treasury
except those under present con-
tract.
Consumers have just cause to ex-
pect prices of pork and bread to be
reduced. This was promised. How
ever. it may be an illusion. Many
dollars have found their way into
the pockets of farmers by reason
Of processing taxes. Farmers quick
ly traded these dollars for the serv-
ices of others. The. wheels of in
dustry moved again.
However, the processing tax pay
ments were but small portion of
the added income to American farm
ers. The real benefit payments
were in the difference between So
and $40 hogs; between 35-cent and
eO-cent wheat; between 81 and $14
cattle. The adjustment program,
which contributed to supply COM
parable to a demand, was the fac
tor that brought this about.
The unconstitutionality of the
AAA, as adjudged by six Supreme
Court judges, brought to an end the
national agricultural program Of
yesterday. Farmers desire nothing
unconstitutional However, they do
demand state and national laws un-
der which they, too, may enjoy the
pursuit of happiness, and no one
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Your
Health
Ru
DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

THERE is no short cut to dietary
l. knowledge.
Food takers and charlatans will
try to convince you there is. Some,
for instance, argue that raw foods
in the natural state will promote
health. A raw food diet, however,
IS not the best diet for man.
True, certain amount Of I'M
cooked fruits and vegetables is es-
sential in any WELL balanced diet. And
food may lose some yitamin content
and certain valuable salts If it is
heated for any length of time.
On the other hand, heating kills
harmful germs-a process essential
in the case of meats. It also de-
velops odors and flavors which
sharpen the appetite and favor di-
geStion by Softening fibers and by
coagulating protein.
Since raw food does not appeal
to the appetite as does properly
cooked food, and may contain germs
that could not have survived heat
ting, this type of diet may actually
be dangerous.
& LII of which goes to prove that
4 n there is no one-track rule in
science. A good diet will contain
some foods cooked because cooking
helps them, and other foods raw be-
cause cooking harms them.
In foregoing articles, you have
learned the essentials that go into
a healthful diet.
Remember that your diet NAV be
insufficient in quantity or in Quail
ity. 1t may yield too little tissue
building materials. such as protein;
too little fuel material, such as fats,
carbohydrates, and excess protein;
too little in the way of such excess
mineral salts as iron, iodine. and
calcium. Finally, it may contain
insufficient amounts of the neces-
sary vitamins.
However, you do not buy your
food as protein, carbohydrate fat,
mineral salt, or vitamin. You buy
it in the form of eggs. meat, milk,
bread, potatoes. and similar foods.
In previous discussions, you have
learned which food substances pro-
vide building materials in greatest
quantities.
In buying foods, remember that
the wrong kind of diet may lower
your resistance to disease or that
an insufficient amount of certain
minerals or of vitamins may lead to
disease by consequent damage to
Your tissues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
OTHER OPINION
Purdue Pacifists
New Albany Trihunel

Ordinarily we are peaceful enough,
but some things burn us up little.
We are inclined to echo the hope
less question recently asked by a
patriot, els there no longer anything
worth fighting for?"
A report of student poll at Pur-
due University, great tax-support-
ed institution, this week, says that
Is per cent "signified it was not
their duty to participate in any war
the government may declare" Our
guess is that among this Is per cent
will be found some of the hundreds
of students who are being assisted
through college by the Federal stud
ent dole, in addition to having the
privileges of state-supported in
stitution which gets Federal aid.
If these students are not going to
fight in any war this country might
become involved in, it's time to let
them do little fighting and work.
ing on their own account for the
privileges they enjoy, instead of
educating" them at great public
expense with dollars wrung from
our poorest people with every bite
of bread they put in their mouths.
1t is good to know that there were
rs per cent of the Purdue poll who
thought they should bear arms
when called by their government.
Only defensive wars on their own
soil'' would interest SO per cent of
the students, who enjoy the ease of
free education at the expense of
many who have fought for this
country and because many others
before them fought to make it free
1t is sad reflection on the kind
of education those boys and girls
are getting at our expense that 80
per cent of them believed 'the
manufacture and sale of ornaments
for private profit should be prohibit
ed by international agreement" 1t
is high time the history and political
science teacher at Purdue checked
up a little on this international
agreement" business.
We believe that so far as possible
war profits should be eliminated.
but we are not silly enough to try
to accomplish it by international
agreement"
Let Purdue impress its students
with the facts of national life, tell
them plainly that the United States
grew to greatness by looking after
its own interests and that the
chances are it will have to continue
to do so. If the coddled collegians
up on the Wabash can not compre-
bend this sort of philosophy they
had best be sent home to learn the
lessons Of sweat and elbow grease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
NO DOUBT YOU'RE RIGHT
A SORRY PLIGHT

BY Vox Corpus Deficit
Oh, shades of Mr. Blackstone.
please save me from my plight . 4.
1 am so badly worried that l can
not sleep at night have a
home, I have a wife y. do not
want for vittles !. but life for me
-. as you shall see :. is not just
beer and skittles.
There was day when I was gay
and hummed a little ditty +. {.
as I went forth upon my way (. /.
like others IN our city :. But now
a shadow falls across the path that
I am treading and I await the
doom of fate with anguish and
with dreading.
My wife, my boys, my dog, my
home, are things that have cher
ished /. I've loved them with abid-
ing love :. but happiness has per-
ished'. for doubts dismay :.
and courts may say ;. in these days
revolutional j.. that those we WOO
:. and goldfish, too -. (. are quite
unconstitutional.
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medical advice can not be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Q-When did the Industrial Rev.
olution in Europe begin?
About 1767, when Hargreaves
invented the spinning jenny.
Q-Who employs the county agri-
cultural agents, and how much do
they charge for their services?
A-They are cooperative en-
ployes of the state extension service,
the county, and the Federal Depart
ment of Agriculture. Their services
are free.
Q-How can a goatskin rug be
cleaned?
A-Moisten sawdust with gasoline
and rub the mixture into the rug by
hand. Then dry and shake the saw
dust out. To whiten, make a paste
of gasoline and plaster of Paris and
rub in well by hand. When dry, beat
it out.
Q-Can any one search for treas
ure on Cocos Island? Is there
regular steamer service to the is
land?
A-To visit Cocos Island, permis-
sion must be obtained from the gov
eminent of Costa Rica. There is
no regular Passenger service, but
it is possible to arrange for passage
with the operators of cargo schoon-
ers. Most of such sailings are from
the ports Of Balboa or Panama.
Q-Do first citizenship papers en-
title the holders to the rights and
privileges of citizens?
Applicants for American citi-
zenship are aliens until they re-
ceive a certificate of naturaliza. tioli.
Holders of first papers are still
aliens.
Q--Who elaborated with Prof.
Curie in the discovery of radium?
A-His wife, Madame Sklodowska
Calrie, and NJ Bemont.
Q-Was Jack johnson, who once
held the worlds heavyweight cham
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
REFUSES DREAM
BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLAM

bI OANlEL FhANC1S CLANCI
A little cottage in the wood
With window frames of white,
A roof of red blood,
And sweet perfumes of night.
1 should like a door of blue,
And knocker of bright brass;
A silent place where I might view
Life apart from the mass.
With overhead, blue sky,
The woodland flowers about;
A humble bed on which to lie
While nature slept without.
Away from all, to be alone;
From the world to retire,
And DOMINIC tranquillity's gown,
Alone in peace to expire.
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Squaring
The Circle
With
THE HoosIER EDITOR

WIEN Kate Smith, radios
heavyweight, was in Indian
apolis last week, no tittering mem
bers of Kate Smith Club sur
rounded her at the Union Station
as she got of the train, and she
didn't sign single autograph.
Time was when Kate and her ad-
mirers would have filled the station.
I know an interviewer who several
years ago met her at train in an
other city and had to fight his way
to the side of the train where Kate,
eyes bright, was signing her name
to everything but checks.
Before he could make it known he
represented a paper and wanted
a story and picture, she seized his
note paper and signed it. Then she
did pose, standing on her tip toes to
get above the crowd for the picture,
triumph of mind over celebrity.
AN this page the other day was
a poem by Grace Cook. I
thought it was good, but the more
I consider it, the more believe it
should have had a foot-note.
Grace Cook has been a bedridden
invalid for 10 years at City Hos
pital. She was a nurse, and a good
one, when she became i'll. At her
own request she was given room
near the children's ward. She
learned the stars so she could tell
sky stories to them. She wanted to
write children's tales, but the physi-
cal work of transcribing was too
great and she chose the shorter
form, poems.
Her favorite essayist is Agnes Rep
plier, and this reminds mel must
send her one of my two volumes of
that delightful writer, today.
WHEN Otto Ray takes charge
w of a case, he jumps in and
works with such vigor that you'd
think he was not only sheriff, but
a deputy as we'll, and that may
account for this story about him.
A murder had been committed
and the sheriff and three of his
deputies were searching little
West Side home for clews. In
dark, inside room the sheriff asked
one of his deputies for a fashlight,
but the deputy didn't have one.
"Give me your fashlight," he said,
turning to another, but the second
deputy had none. The sheriff eyed
the third and last.
Have you got a fashlight?" he
asked.
mo, the deputy replied.
Then Sheriff Ray, impatient, ex-
ploded.
What kind of a murder is this,
with no fashlight?"
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(Times readers are invited to erDf ess
their Uietcs in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make Jour letter.
short. so all can hare a chance. Limit
them to ESQ to0rds or less. Your letter
must be st0ned. but names Vill be
aoithheld on re0ueStI
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For there is no remembrance of
the wise more than of the fool for
ever; seeing that which now Is in
the days to come shall all be for
gotten. And how dieth the wise
man? as the ol.-Ecclesiastes PIG.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
DAILY THOUGHTS

CCANDAL breeds hatred; hatred
~ begets division; division makes
faction; and faction brings ruin
Quarles.
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TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

A NEW campaign to end the pol
4 "A luton of air over the cities of
America was launched this week
with the formation of the Air Hy-
giene Foundation of America, Inc,
with headquarters in Pittsburgh.
The purposes of this organization
are to conduct Investigations and
stimulate research on problems in
the field of air hygiene, and TO
gather and disseminate information
upon the subject. =
A large group representing num-
Der of important industries is be-
hind the new foundation. H. B.
Meller, who has been carrying on
researches in the field of air pol
luton since 1920, has been appoint
ed managing director of the founda-
ton. Since 1923 he has headed the
air pollution investigation at the
Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh.
Under the auspices of the new
foundation, this work will be con-
tinued on a larger scale at the Mel
lon Institute.
TN THE Investigations of industrial
l. dusts, Mr.. Meller will be assisted
by DR.. F. F. Rupert, who has been
an industrial fellow of the Mellon
Institute since 1913, specializing in
physical chemistry
The new foundation plans also to
make medical studies. For this rea-
son, DR.. Samuel r. Haythorn, pro-
fessor of preventive medicine in the
School of Medicine of the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh, has been al51
pointed medical adviser. ~
Many authorities regard the study
of air pollution as one of the most
facing American cities
today. The question is not only one
of smoke abatement. Often when
smoke is eliminated, great quanti-
ties of ash and fumes of other types
are still being poured into the air
1t has been demonstrated in many
cases that when proper steps are
taken to eliminate Objectionable air
pollution, the result is a general I'M
crease in the efficiency of the plant,
which in the end saves money for
the owner.
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The HOosier Forum

achoHy disapprove of Uhat you say-and ou
defend to the death your right to say it-Voltare.
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Questions and Answers

Inclose Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The Indianapolis Times
Home Service Bureau. 1913 Thirteenth
st. N. W., Washington, D. C. Legal and
medical advice can not be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken. .-
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before the 1886 campaign is over, control of radio
~ may dwarf many other issues.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Runfest Marked Launching >
OfU. S. Coinage IA Years 4 go

been mighty guzzlers, they would be
unlikely to consume Is gallons in the
IL days between October 6 and Oc-
tober 17-unless some special cele-
bration took place.
So the reasonable conclusion was
that the coins were minted on the
18th followed by big blow-of that
evening. The 18th was devoted to re-
cuperating from an early American
hangover and on the 17th the mint
replenished its supply Of stimulant.
From then on the annals Of the
coinmakers are rather drab, until
January Z, 1893, when the mint
bought watchdog named Nero for
So. In addition it hired two watch
men and armed them with pistols and
dirkS.
In 1795, the mint received its first
letter from a fault-finder.
II have seen all the coins issued"
wrote Carlisle Pollock Of New York,
land nothing can be more wretched-
a FOOLS head on one side and some
thing that resembles a turkey cock on
the other, oh, shame. shame, shamef"
He referred to liberty and the eagle.
Nowadays talented artists turn out
meticulous designs. Instead of dog,
the mint has stone and steel, tear gas
and machine guns. And in place Of
one tiny building there are structures
in Philadelphia, San Francisco and
Denver.
In the beginning . couple Of hun
dred coins were punched out. In
1885 the total was $50, ,758,o47 and
no gold was being minted.