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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04

| where it is not necessary to remove
ones hat.
Q-Has Joe E. Brown, the movie
actor, any children?
Ale has two sons and two
daughters, one of the latter being
an adopted child.
Q-Where was Nino Martini, the
opera singer, born? How old is he,
and what is his general appearance
and the range of his voice?
Ale was born in Verona, Italy,
and is % years old; tall, slender,
and has dark dair and olive-green
eyes. His range covers more than
two octaves, extending to z above
high c..
Q-Do oysters and Holsters belong
to the same group OF shellfish?
A-Shellfish may be classed In
two groups, bivalve and mollusks,
and crustaceans. In the first group
are oysters, mussels, clans and seal
lops: and in the second group. loo
sters, crabs and shrimps.
Q-Who wrote the popular ballad,
My Wild Irish Rose?
Alt wss composed and published
by Chauncey Olcott.
Q-Has Canada larger area than
the United States?
A-Canada has 1854. 463 square
miles and continental United States
mas 3.026,78s, and including Alaska
it has 3.6l3,1So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
THE TIME HAS COME

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS words indorsing the
League of Women Voters nationwide campaign
in behalf of the merit system should echo not only
through Washington but throughout the land.
ct matters not" he said what political party
is in power by the elective will of the people, the
government functions for all, and there can be no
question of greater moment or broader effect, than
the maintenance, strengthening and extension of
the merit system, established in the competitive
principles of the Civil Service Act whose fty-third
birthday anniversary is being celebrated this month";
Critics may call this lip service, and point to
Washington a spoilsmans paradise. President
Roosevelt, however, long has befriended the civil
service and has sought to man the emergency bu-
reaus with the best men and women he could find.
While partisans have sneered at his experts Brain
Trusters, some members of his party have crit
cised him for too often preferring the fit to the
faithful.
The tme~has come, however. for the people to
demand more brains in government, Federal, state
and local. Only the richest democracy in the world
could have uxuriated for 100 years in such weter
of pie, pork and party craftsmanship have
tolerated. AS the budgets bulge and public debts
multiply, we must undertake a governmental house
cleaning from the bottom upward.
We can no longer afford governments that exist
only to give jobs to party camp followers Cities,
counties, states and the Federal government should
extend the merit system.
Even when every public dollar hires dollars
worth of honest expert service government will be
costly enough.
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safely in private hands. The Administration ever
withholds support from the Wheeler bill for govern
rnent ownership of railuavs

safely in private hands The Administration even
withhods support from the Wheeler bill for govern
ment ownership of railways.
The Socialists demanded in farmers behalf the
social ownership Of grain elevators stockyards and
packing houses the elimination Of middlemen; long
term, low-.nterest loans to farmers weather insr-
ance; farm lan0 planning Compare these with the
New Deals farm program.
The Socialists demanded constitutional changes
to curb the Supreme Courts power to veto acts of
Congress- proportional representation; direct cleo
ton Of the President: the initiative and referen
dun; an amendment permitting the Federal gov
eminent to provide social insurance and take
basic industries While Republicans and Democrats
alike are discussing of these matters in Con-
gress the Administration has proposed of
them.
The Socialists demanded much higher income
and inheritance tax; taxation of government securi
ties; Specialization of credit and currency govern
ment acquisition of the Federal Reserve System.
Instead the Administration gave political tax
program which fails .userably to meet revenue
needs; somewhat stronger bank control act and the
insurance of bank deposits, but the banks still
privately owned
The Socialists demanded lO-billion work relief
program 3O-hour week. old-age pensions for all
past co. health and maternity insurance systems,
iobless insurance with government contributions,
morstoriums for non-payment OF taxes, anti
lynching law. These proposals though supported
by many non socialists, too strong meat for
the Administration.
The New Deals social program has been under
fire of the Socialists Townsendites, EPICs Longites
and Coughlinites far too mild 1t u.s. in many
respects, conservative than the Bull Moose
program of 1912.
careful perusal of "the record" should convince
AL that, far from going red the government at
Washington is just trying to catch up with his own
program at Albany.
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Questions and Answers

Inclose a Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The Indianapolis Times
Washington Service Bureau, 1913 18th
st, N. w. Washington. D. C. Legal and
medical advice can not he given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Glow can wicker furniture be
cleaned before painting?
A-Use a solution of washing soda
and warm water-about one rounded
tablespoon of washing soda to q
quart of water.
Q-What is a touchback in foot
ball?
Alt is made when a free ball
or ball legally in the possession OF
player guarding his own goal be-
comes dead, any part of its being
on, above, or behind the goal line
provided the impetus which sent ii
to or across the line was given By
an opponent.
Q-Is there any authority for the
spelling "Gibralter," with an "e" in
the final syllable?
A-Gibraltar is the only author
lied spelling.
Q-When is it proper for a gentle
man to remove his hat in an ele-
vator?
A-When he is in a club, hotel OF
apartment house elevator. In bust
ness buildings and stores the ele.
vator is regarded as q public place
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

MY sweetheart is the finest boy I've known"
A'A said salesgirl. 1.-The only thing against him
is his family set of neer- do-wells with couple
of brothers who definite no. goods according to
my standards can't bear to give him up yet am
afraid to marry him. There's so much talk of
heredity, it seems that marriage is very serious
business"
And so it is. Any girl with common should
think long time about the heritage she may give
her children or the woes she may be letting herself
in for, by joining family with bad background.
On the other hand, think how lenient we are
with black sheep with which it is said every decent
household is afflicted. May it not be equally true
that each obnoxious family boast white sheep2
Such is generally the case, and these white sheep
have more than the average number of difficulties
to overcome in their climb to success
In all fairness, this girls sweetheart should be
judged on his individual merits. The. chances are
he vii, make fine man and good husband. Only
one demand should be enforced by the bride: That
they live as far as possible from his family since
she knows already it will handicap him and en-
barrass them both.
1t often is true that boys with unfortunate hertz
ages are so conscious of their origin and deter
mined to live it down that they become super
citizens setting worthy standards for their children
We all mixture of good and evil None
lack certain bots upon the family escutcheon We
have so many fine and so many shameful traditions
We learn to look first for that which is obvi-
ously good in others, forgetting the bad entirey
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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1885.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

because Senator Hiram Johnson is very hu-
- man fellow possessed of that human trait OF
believing that any one who agrees with him is a
very learned fellow the public has been treated to
a peer into the star chamber proceedings of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
few days ago John Bassett Moores appraisal
of the pending neutrality legislation was presented
TO the committee in secret session. Mr. Moores
picturesque castgations such as curious blend of
homicdal and suicidal mania" dovetailed so fiat
teringy with the Senator's own preiudices on the
subject that the Senator couldn't resist the tempta
ton to let tho public in on good thing. We are
glad he couldn't; glad he went natural violated the
secrecy of his committee and released Mr.. Moores
statement to the press with grand flourish, de-
scribing that former World Court member "the
greatest living authority on international law"
We applaud the Senator's modesty in admitting
that he has peer in his chosen field We applaud
also his service in letting the public get glimpse
Of proceeding which vitality affects public interest
But why should the public have to be thankful
for only occasional gmpses at the transaction Of
public business?
No public business that we can think of is more
important than that affecting peace and war-as
the neutrality legislation does Several other wit
nesses-some more influential than Mr.. Moore-have
gone in through and come back out of those closed
doors of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Among them have been some of the hired public
servants who run our state department. Yet the
public knows nothing whatever of what they tes-
tilted.
WHY shouldn't the committee and the State De-
w partment take the public into their conf
dence? True there may be confidential docu-
ments publication of which might needessly upset
delicate relationships within the family of nations
But it is very much in the public interest that the
issues and arguments be brought into the open, be-
cause ours is democracy and the people have
right to determine what policies they wish to fol-
low on the path of neutrality.
If we go to war to defend that wil-of-the- wisp,
freedom of the SEAS which Senator Johnson and Mr.
Moore idolize or to pull out of the fire the chest
nuts of the League of Nations-as MesSrs. johnson
and Moore seem 10 think the proposed neutrality
legislation is designed to dothe drafted youth of
the land not the Senators of this committee, will
be found on the front lines scratching coolies and
dsentanglng barbed wire.
The Foreign Relations Committee is not the only
one guilty of star chamber tactics. The Senate and
House Agriculture Committees after secret murnbo-
jumbo rites over the corpse of the AAA reported out
a substitute farm program, without bothering with
the usual democratic procedure of permitting private
citizens to express their views at open hearings.
The attitude OF Congress seems to be: The peo-
pie be damned; they only pay the bills.
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TALK CAN'T CHANGE FACTS,
SOCIALIST SAYS.

BY Forrest S. Rogers, Secretary Of the
Socialist Party of Indiana
Senator Carter Glass was address
ing the United States Senate. His
wisps of white hair swung with his
heavy head as he Numbered; his
fists failed through the air and
pounded on the table: his knuckles
bled.
He was defending the Integrity
and veracity" of Woodrow Wilson
He was denouncing those who were
guilty of dirt the sep
ulchre of Woodrow Wilson by charg-
ing that the war President had fall
sifled when he said he knew nothing
of Europe's secret treaties.
That Woodrow Wilson falsified is
beyond question. That he knew
of the back door pacts is clear. That
he secretly favored the allies while
he preached neutrality is fact. That
he determined to bring America into
the trenches while campaigning for
reelection on the slogan, HE kept
us out of war;" is written in bold
script on the documents of the State
Department.
All this the Senate munitions in
vestigation has proved beyond doubt
None of the legislative rhetoric can
wipe out Woodrow wilson's record
of deception.
We need not speak of Mr.. Will
sons motives, for modern economic
forces never stop their determined
course to consider the wishes of any
single man.
Dollars demand a diplomacy all
their own, and when commerce
needs a war to sustain it, no indi-
viduaps integrity can halt its OUT
break. After all's said and done,
the declarations of war come not
from the Capitol in Washington,
but from the Capital in Wall Street.
That Woodrow Wilson falsified is
hardly shocking in an age accus-
toned to craftsmanship That any
man should dare to say it, how
ever. is intolerable TO those who
practice craftsmanship.
When Eugene Victor Debs re-
vealed these things in the very
hours when the truth was needed,
Mr.. Wilson punished him in the
name of the law. When Socialists
spoke out the truth, they were
bounded into prison cells.
But truth makes its way into
strange places, even into the halls
of the United States Senate.
So it was that Carter Glass shook
his fist in the face of truth, thun-
dered his little piece, pounded his
knuckles on the table and then
held out his bleeding hand to the
newspaper men to be photographed.
But little blood on Senator
hand will not wipe out the mem
CRY of a nations bleeding heart nor
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NEGROES DEATH CALLED
NEEDLESS TORTURE

BY william A. Fisher. Anderson
We blush as we record the fact
that in this country where litera-
ture, science, morality and Chris
tianity are supposed to have so
much influence that the state of
North Carolina sent a youthful
Alabama Negro into a death
chamber in freezing weather. 1t
was an unheated room. He was
strapped into a chair wearing only
his trunks-his eyes unbandaged.
Throwing his head back, inhaling
deeply, he coughed and twisted his
chest and heaved.
This is horrible for great coun-
try. 1t is a shame that the state
of North Carolina would permit a
human being to be tortured for IL
minutes.
My prayer is that the Giver of
Light will remove that law from
the books of North Carolina-that
the gas execution chamber will be
destroyed.
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I our
Health
By
DIR. MORRIS FIsHBErS

IF a baby continued throughout
l. life to grow as rapidly as it does
in infancy. it would weigh many
tons before its death. That illus
trates why children need food for
growth as we'll as energy.
A child grows much more rapidly
than an adult. Thus the average
tot, weighing 7i4 pounds at birth
boys being usually a little larger
than girls-doubles its birth weight
by the end of the fifth month, and
trebles it in a year.
A baby that is fed on breast milk
usually grows little more rapidly
than one who is artif1cially fed. But
if the little one is fed artificially
in the proper way, its rate of growth
will equal that of the breast-fed
infant.
In selecting the diet of your child,
other factors, too, must be consid-
cred.
A newborn baby, while asleep,
uses up twice as many calories per
pound of weight as it's mother does.
That explains why babies have to
be we'll covered when they are
asleep. They give of more heat:
and. if they are not we'll covered.
the infants use up their body tissues
to restore the lost heat. Very tiny
babies have to be kept warm with
hot water bottles or in incubators.
A S a child grows, his energy
L n needs increase. The period of
adolescence is one of great muscular
activity. Whereas year-old child
uses up about 1000 calories daily, at
years he needs 1900; at 5. 1900; at
10, $500. and, at Is years of age, $500
Galleries day.
An excessively thin child may
have to take extra amounts of food
10 gain weight. Thus. of two g.
year -olds, very large boy will need
more food than an average-sized
one.
The more exercise child has. the
more food he should eat. AS he
grows older, his energy needs will
begin to decline and he no longer
will need food to support growth.
but only for activity and health.
Sometimes, though, the habits OF
eating acquired during the growing
period are carried into maturity in
which case overweight Is almost
certain to occur. People who do
not take much exercise, yet eat
large amounts of food, not only
gain extra weight, but also develop
digestive troubles. So,
These points must be kept in
mind in choosing diet for the
child. In addition, there are GER
tain dietary factors essential for'
health and growth to be considered.
These I shall discuss in later arti-
cles in this SERIES
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FIGURE IT OUT

president ROOSEVELTS handwriting, as
vealed in his bonus message to Congress- is so
unusual that it has set would-be psychologists to
studying it.
The President forms each letter of each word
separately instead of running them together into
words as most people do The effect is almost like
printing So marked is this characteristic that even
the three curves of the M made separately, like
three different letters set close together Books
graphology say that when words are broken thus
intuition or even inspiration is implied, with ten
dency to fly at conclusions and make snap judgments
often good.
Most books on graphology that handwriting
can not be relied on to reveal all the fine points of
character, and that single sample of writing may
give g completely unfair picture of person They
then proceed to outline few broad principles which
they believe fairly reliable.
On this basis the Presidents message can be
taken as revealing and distinct individuality
The last lines slope down slightly an indication
of pessimsm which is perhaps not surprising in a
message vetong the oonus.
TINE slant of the letters, rather more pronounced
j. than in normal writing, indicates an affectionate
nature The letters are small; this, the book says,
means power of concentration refinement, and ex-
cenent mental qualities in general
Downstrokes are firm. The books say this indi-
Gates strong will. Words we'll spaced, an indi-
cation of an orderly mind. In most cases initial
strokes-approaches to letters-are omitted; this is
called an indication of high mental development.
Lower loops that bend to the right instead of the
left are said to indicate altruistic nature. and
again when the tops of the letters d. 6, and
left OPEN as some of Mr. Roosevelts are the graph
ologists see generous and outspoken person. When
the tops are closed, tactfulness is Indicated
Most of the small es in the message are made
like the Greek epsilona sign that the writer thrsts
for knowledge according to the books. Is dotted
moderately to the letter. supposedly indicating
q moderate sense of caution.
The stems of the is are lightly crossed with high
placed straight lines denoting and consistency
and an excellent imagination.
There for what it's worth, is digest of what
several books the subject have to say on charac-
teristics to be found in the Roosevelt writing 1t
may be worth nothing, for the President wrote the
message in bed one morning and that may account
for the slant
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OTHER OPINION
The People and the Constitution

Marion Chronicle
In vetoing the soldiers bonus
bill, President Roosevelt set him
self up as holding different ideas
than the Congress which, shortly
afterward, overrode the veto by
more than the required two-thirds
majority. He has the right of veto
under the Constitution of the
United States and he was within
the limits of the powers delegated
to him.
In similar way, the Supreme
Court declared unconstitutional the
MIRA and afterward the AAA. The
court was entirely within the limits
of its powers in so doing. Yet at
the time of the NRA ruling, the
President walled loudly. His BRAIN
trusters protested at what they de-
clared was demonstration of 700
much power vested in a few men.
Yet the two situations are vir-
tually analogous. The President
vetoed bill enacted by Congress
which action he considered perfect
ly justified. The Supreme Court de-
clared unconstitutional certain leg
islation enacted by Congress.
There is some evidence of the
power of the people represented, as
well as the power of the Constitu-
ton. The people and the Constitu-
ton are thrown together in man.
ner which should warn the Presi-
dent that this is still a government
of laws and not an autocracy where
the ideas of one man take prece-
dence over the people and properly
constituted limitations. =
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OUR FLAG is STILL THERE

A SMITH urges a comparison of the 1882
Socialist platform with New Deal performances
Read EN-. he says. and weep for an America gone
red Well, we have and We rise to reassure Mr..
Smith and his Liberty League that our flag is stiI
there.
The Socialists demanded public ownership of
mines, forests oil power, utilities, communica tons
ard other basic industries These all still repose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-04
BIRTH
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

It's coming
Tonight the young year began her
first travail;
She moaned, and trembled as in
anguish.
Long will it be, anxious the watch
full waiting,
And, like young husband, much
f1oorspace I'll cover
Before Mother Nature ushers in
the baby
Then says, Its here! A lovely
girl!
You may come in and see the child
called Spring.
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The HOOSier Forum
0houy disopprove of a0hat you soy-ond miE
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Voaire.

make a people forget how its work.
ers, lured on by lies, had been
bruised and killed in a war fought
in the interest of dollars and COM
merce.
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Times readers are tnvtted to erDt sss
their Uieics in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make poMr letter.
short. so all can have chance. Limit
them to ESQ 11ords Or less. Your letter
must be si0ned. but names tciH be
.Dtthheld on re0NestJ
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A S long as war is regarded rs
"A wicked, it will always have its
destinations. When it is looked up
on as vulgar, it will cease to be
popular Oscar Wilde.
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On Liberalism

IGov. Landon, at Topeka, Jan. 2eI
Unfortunately, now as always,
there are people today calling them
selves liberal who regard any sug-
gestion of economy as reactionary.
They seem to think willingness to
throw other peoples money around
without any consideration of value
received is peculiar sign Of pure
heart.
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DAILY THOUGHT

That said he unto them, nation
shall rise against nation, and king
dom against kingdom.-St. Luke
xxi, 10.