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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
WHO PICKS THE COURT?

A QUESTION which William Howard Taft in
1920 called "the most important domestic issue"
is expected be raised early in the 1886 presidential
campaign. 1t is this:
What man shall be given power to fill the several
Supreme Court vacancies anticipated in the next few
years?
Taft, whom Harding later made chief justice
pointed out that the four justices were past the re-
firing age of 70, Today five of the nine are past TO-
and sixth, Pierce Butler, will pass it March II.
President Roosevelt in three years has had no
vacancy to fll but politicians expect his opponents
to urge that voters consider the type of he would
like to appoint once the opportunity came.
The conservative Taft made his declaration dur
ing the 1920 campaign in Yale Review article ex-
pressing fear of possible appointments by the Demo-
and in his two and one-half years named not less
than four justices, all conservatives, two of whom
Sutherland and Butler) are the most steadfaSt of
the present conservative majority of the court
The Taft article charged that Woodrow Wilson
appointed many persons of socialistic tendency to
Office and power" and concluded
Mr.. Wilson is in favor of a Authoritarian con-
struction of the Constitution to weaken the protec-
ton it should afford against socalistc raids upon
property rights. with the direct and inevitable result
of parayzing the initiative and enterprise of capital
necessary for the real progress of ALL He has made
three appointments to the Supreme Court. He is un-
OF the FIRST of these IMcReynolds, who still is on the
benchl on such questions. The other two represent
new school, OF judicial construction. which, If al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS. 1886.
NEW HOMES FOR OLD

OUTLINES Of the proposed new Wagner bill hold
- out promise Of cohesive program heretofore
lacking in the New Deals ambitious rehousing plans
1t is proposed first that the Federal government
withdraw from the field Of slum clearance, except
through low-nterest loans and grants to cities for
this purpose Instead of the earlier grandose project
of spending billion dollars at once for this purpose
the program contemplates Federal loan grant
subsidies covering 10-year program spending pos
sibly $30000000O year
For speeding up private home building in the
middle brackets it is proposed that government
guaranteed first mortgages cover 80 per cent of the
building cost for houses under $4,000 in value in
stead Of 30 per cent now This should enable
more small-income families to build than now find
it possible Under the plan a wanting to build
$4,000 home would need only $500 cash, borrowing
the rest from his bank under a 20-year amortized
loan.
TIC continue aid for modernzation and repair
work the bill will extend the present acts
mortgage guarantee provisions expiring April l. for
another year.
Most important from a social viewpoint arc the
plans for slum abatement With the best intentions
in the world the Administration has made precious
little progress in rehousing slum jewellers. Vanly
it has tried out loans to limited dividend corpora
lions. Almost as Valnly 1T has sought to rebuild
slum directly. PWA is busy on so tene-
ment projects to rehouse IS 600 families. The noun
tain has labored mouse is born.
The formula-Federa subsidies to cities-is
we believe the answer to the problem of arge-sca
slum clearance. Private capital isn't interested in
really lGwcost housing 1t is quite futile to
expect Uncle Sam to act as landlord to millions of
tenement jewellers. Cities alone can do the job. To
prepare the way for utilizing Federal grants and
credit the states should that their laws permit
the creation of city housing authorities
1t is estimated that there are six million sub
standard homes in the United States. These
wretched dwellings hazardous from every social
viewpoint for they breed communicable disease,
delinquency crime and danger of fire 1t is not only
morally right that public dollars go into their
destruction; it is economic horse sense.
The millions spend in decent housing for our
multtudes will pay big dividends in lowered health,
police and fire budgets as we'll in better type of
humans in the generations to come
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
THAT DEATH SENTENCE"

THREE ways in which utility companies may
comply with the death sentence" of the Holding
Company Act without harm 10 investors are outlined
by Roger w. Babson. business analyst and statis-
tcian II the current Public Utilities Fortnghtly.
Holding companies can swap entire properties,
so that each company will have not more than two
disconnected and separate units he says. eff util
ity arrangements would spend more time in studying
the game of chess and less time with attorneys,
the common stockholders in my humble judgment
would be better off There is nothing in the Holding
Company Act to hurt the value of any operating
Company"
His second suggestion:
Holding companies continue to own 10 per
cent OF any number of companies. For instance
Electric Bond & Share only about 30 per cent
of enc of it's largest subsidiaries could sell 10 per
cent to two other holding companies. -.
"A group of public utility officials could sit around
the table and carry out this program if they have
the RICH. spirit. The result would be that holding
company, instead of having 100 per cent of 10
panies would have 10 per cent of 100 companies. j.. .
From an investors point of view a holding company
owning 10 per cent of 100 companies would have bet
ter dlversihcation and be better investment"
The third suggestion;
Holding companies can continue with their
present holdings providing they give up the voting
control. This could be done very easily by turning
the common stock into two classes of common stock
"a Glass "A common which the public would hold
carrying voting privileges, and Glass 3 common
which the holding company would retain, carrying
no voting privileges This would be perfectly SAT
l5factory to the government it would need to cause
no loss to stockholders and the subsidiaries might
be just as we'll Off"
All these suggestions were made by government
officials while the holding company bill was pending
in Congress.
Mr. Babson adds: 81 fear that some of my utility
friends have got so excited and disguised in their
reading of the act that they have thrown it down
and have not read it wholly through"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
WHO'S IN THE WOODPILE

CENATOR TYDINGS read in the newspapers that
~ Secretary of War Dern mot especially inter-
ested" in the Tydings- Mccormack military disaf-
lection bill.
That being true, the Senator wrote in a letter to
the secretary, Neither am I, who originally intro
duced the measure"
This affords interesting sidelight on how our
laws are made. Somebody representing the Navy
Department handed the bill to the Senator and told
him the War and Navy Departments wanted it
passed. So the Senator introduced it. And in due
course when no one especially paying attention,
the bill was passed by the Senate and sent to the
House where, fortunately, it still rests. Now the
Senator finds that the head of one of the mill
tary establishments is not interested in the measure,
and apparently never has BEEN So the Senator
withdrawS his support from the bill. So far as
that branch of Congress where he sits is concerned
the Senator closes the barn door after the horse
been stolen.
We suggest that the Senator. who has been
made the goat. pursue this interesting matter fur
ther and find out just who is back of this measure
which would make it penal offense for any one
to criticise the Army or Navy.
Is it the proposal of some group of swivel chair
military and naval attaches who have been so UNI
mindful of military rules to mix into the politics of
lawmaking7 Or, perhaps. some officers who think
they need something more than autocratc military
authority over subordinates to maintain discipline
in the ranks? Or is it just the product of some ex-
ecutve secretary of patriotic society who has
to manufacture red to keep his job?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
FROM THE RECORD

Rep. Cross Cd. Text am afraid of this tender
soicitude now being displayed for the rights of the
states. For whenever state enacts law to pro-
tect its people from monopolisc depreciation those
who are Low showing such tender soicitude for the
rights of the states breathess into the Federal
courts waving the national flag and shouting that
such state law violates the due process of law"
clause of the Federal Constitution. And with an un
constitutional construction of that clause by the
court, the act is declared unconstitutional Uaugh-
teri On the other hand, if Congress attempts to
protect the people of the states from monopolstic
greed this same group, employing the abest of law
yers and who have the cunning to make the worse
appear the better reason rush into the Fedea courts
with tears streaming down their cheeks waving =
state flag. and shouting that such law nfringes upon
the sacred rights of the states. Laughter) And
straightway the court, being tender-h hearted and
sympathetic. with another unconstitutional con-
struction holds the unconstitutional (Applause)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

rough stuff" The National Guard
merely uholds the law of the state
in such cases as the New Albany
trouble; if it was an injustice to you
and yours it was still the law.
Now it stands to reason that if
you do not favor such activities,
change the law If you think that
the members of the National Guard
delight in working on the work
ing man you are mistaken.
Furthermore, you will find that
in any strike the trouble never
starts until the strike breakers"
enter. There is the solution-elim-
mate the strike breaker.
You say that it is a disgrace to
the United States Army for the N.
G. to wear the uniform Of the
Army. A large number of the Of
ficers and enlisted men of the N. G.
are men with service in the World
War. BY that I mean service. I
don't mean a couple of months in
some camp in the United States.
Furthermore, without the Nation
al Guard the defense forces would
be inadequate. Perhaps you are
not aware of the fact that the Ma
tional Guard is part of the Army
in case of war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

lowed to prevail will greatly impair our fundamental
law. lone of these was Justice Brandes.I
-Four Of our incumbent justices are beyond the
retiring age of TO- and the next President will prob
ably be called upon to appoint their successors There
is greater domestic in this election than the
maintenance Of the Supreme Court as the bulwark
to enforce the guaranty that no man shall be de-
prived of his property without due process of law.
Who can be better trusted to do this-Mr. Cox.
the party successor of Mr. Wilson, or Mr.. Harding,
the standard-bearer of the Republican Party?"
The first "a justices of the Supreme Court left the
bench either by death retirement, at an average
age Of little past 60 But the next "a justices
aged just past 10 when they departed. The 20 just
preceding the present membership averaged frac-
ton under TO- and the present nine average few
months over TO-
Justice Brandeis is re- Van Devanter rs, McReyn-
olds IA. and Sutherland and Hughes 70.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
NATIONAL, NOT PARTY,
LOYALTY MOST NEEDED
BY Emmett J. Foley, Columbus

BY Emmet J. Foley, Columbus
In the interest of free speech and
freedom of conscience, would like
to say few words for the benefit
of the ardent New Dealers who have
wasted SO much of their spare time
and SO much of your space in try
ing to analyze Al Smiths Liberty
League dinner speech. 1 would not
deny them this opportunity to dis
close the extent of their knowledge
of political propriety. That seems
to be a Hoosier prerogative.
But why all this wailing now
about party loyalty? Let the Hin
dus have their sacred COW. AS for
me, I refuse to bend my knees to
either the Republican elephant or
the Democratic jackass. I prefer
to take my stand among those who
still place national loyalty above
party loyalty.
Unless my memory fails me, quite
large herd of the loyal little jack
asses grazed eagerly in Republican
pastures back in 1928. In fact, so
many of them took walk" that
the poor old donkey passed out IN
40 of the 49 states, and would have
mired in the solid South" except
for the loyalty of the Atlanta Jour-
nal. Was that party loyalty? If
taking a walk" is a crime. certainly
Al Smith is not the father Of the
crime.
The New Dealers had the support
of Al Smith during the 1882 pres
idertial campaign, and thus won
many votes for Roosevelt that would
otherwise have gone to Hoover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
BOULDER DAM

ON March l. Secretary of the Interior Ickes an
nounces the United States is to accept Boulder
Dam from the contractors. In less than five years
this giant structure will have been completed
Already its benefits rolling m This years
deep mountain SHOWS will melt in the spring and
pour down the granite canyons in great yellow floods
Instead of wreaking havoc as heretofore on the
farmers of Imperial Valley the waters will be held
back in Mead Lake to be let down for irrigation pur
poses gradually in the summer. In 1884 S10O00OO0
was lost IN crop failure due to water shortage In
lew years the power houses will be installed and be-
gin grinding out power already contracted for that
will pay every cent of the structures cost
For decade private power interests fought the
building OF this dam. But Coolidge signed the
Swing-Johnson act under which it was built. and
even Hoover wanted the dam named after him.
What terrible thing is government in busi
ness!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Questions and Answers

ject, and Samuel insult is nat
uralized American.
Q-Are murder and assassination
synonymous?
A-They have the same meaning
except that the latter term is gen.
orally applied to murder of public
or eminent persons, treacherously
undertaken under the impulse of
partisanship, or secret assault.
Q-When and how did Terence
McSwiney. lord mayor Of Cork
Ireland, die?
Acct. 25, 1920. in Brixton prison,
after fasting for "a days.
O-Give the figures for the
male and female Negro population
of the United States?
A-The 1880 census enumerated
$685., $3.50 males and 6,035,474 fe-
males.
Q-What is the annual consump-
ton of anthracite and bituminouS
coal in the United States?
AIN 1884 the estimated con-
sumption was: Bituminous, 346, 070,-
900 tons; anthracite, SIS, 100000 tons.
Q-What does picturesque mean?
A-Pertaining to picaroons, or
rogues; said of a style of literature
dealing with rogues popular in
Spain in the seventeenth century.
Q-What is the weight of the
obelisk in New York known as
"Cleopatra's Needle?
Approximately 200 tons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

When the battle was won Al Smith
was rewarded with a kick in the
pants that unseated his brown
derby. More party loyalty! Al Smith
was loyal Democrat in 1923 and
again in 1882. He stood the test, but
his party failed him.
1 don't pretend TO know what he
is now. If he has had to seek COM
partnership among strangers, that is
a tragic indictment of his own
party, for no man has worked
harder for the Democratic machine
than has Al Smith. Politics made
strange bed-fellows in 1923. Is it so
surprising that this phenomenon
should be repeated in 1896?
1t wasn't SO much what Al Smith
said, or where he said it, What
shocked the New Dealers was that
the words came from a man who
always has worshiped at the DON
keys shrine-right or wrong 1t
may be that Al has grown up since
1928. Surely he has had ample OPP
portunity to see political gang rule
in its worst form during these years
Perhaps he has decided that it is
more patriotic to be good Ameri-
can than to be a blind follower of
the jackasS.
Why not give him the benefit of
the doubt? After all, professional
politicians, with few exceptions,
wear the same service stripes, and
as long as our elected representa-
tives in Washington genuflect to the
bankers and big business and thumb
their noses at the taxpayers we need
not hope for relief from Liberty
League plutocracy or New Deal bu-
reaucracy, regardless of who sits in
the White House or who speaks at
what dinner.
What this country needs is more
loyal Americans and fewer selfish
politicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Your
Health
DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
THE smooth diet usually is rec
op1roeDded in caces in urhtcI,

THE smooth diet usually is rec
IL commended in cases in which
the stomach or the inteStines do
not seem to act normally. This
type of diet. for instance. COM
monty is recommended for persons
convalescing from infectious dis
eases or childbirth.
Since 1882. when DR.. William
Beaumont made his study of the
stomach on Mackinac Island. it has
been known that some foods pass
out of the stomach quicker than
others. Dr. Beaumont was able 10
look into the stomach of man
whose side had been shot away by
a shotgun charge and to see how
this organ worked.
| Pure carbohydrates or sugars pass
out of the stomach more quickly
than do proteins. and much more
quickly than fats.
Cruel leaves the stomach more
rapidly than dry carbohydrates or
cereals. Large Jumps of meat stay
in the stomach much longer than
minced meat Liquid meals start to
leave the stomach as soon as they
are swallowed. A soft diet moves
along more rapidly than one with
much celluloSe or roughage.
If you have trouble with digestion,
make sure that there is no serious
disease present before adopting a
smooth diet Your doctor should
make certain that you do not have
heart disease, ulcer of the stomach,
or diverticuli, little pouches in the
walls of the stomach or the intes-
tines.
DOCTORS know that danger or
IL mental distress will cause loss
of appetite and difficulties with di-
geStion. Many a man suffers from
indigestion because he leads a cat
and-dog existence at home and al
ways wrangles at mealtime. Some
times a rest or vacation will serve
much better than a soft diet to cure
this kind of stomach trouble.
Stout men, once athletic, who
have become flabby and fat due to
sedentary occupations, frequently
VIII improve their digestion by fair
amounts of exercise. 1t is better to
bring about that kind of improve
ment than to coddle the trouble by
eating baby food.
We do know that many foods
irritate. Foods with fibers or fats
do so mechanically. Foods such as
vinegar, horse radish, pepper. mus
tard, pickles. spices and condiments
may irritate because of their
chemical qualities. SweetS-candy,
icingS and observation-disclosures of
their concentration, will also irritate
the delicate mucous membrane of
a sensitive stomach. Fried and
greasy foods. and hot bread, are
handled with difficulty by so-called
weak Stomachs." Salads contain
ing celery, tomato, cucumber, and
pineapple may cause trouble. Beans,
cabbage, onions, green or red
peppers, cucumbers, and peanuts
may be associated with what is
called a gaSSy condition.
These are some of the foods that
should not be eaten by those who
know their digestions are delicate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

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 be given nor
can extended research ks undertaken.
O-What is a classic in art or
literature?
Amy book or work of art that
may be regarded as a standard or
model.
Q-F'rom whom can information
about the service record of a man
who served in the World War IN
the British army be obtained?
A.-The British war Office. Lon
don, England.
Q-What is the source of the fol-
lowing: Woe to the land shadow
ing with wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia?
A-Isaiah xviii, l.
Q-When does the cotton ginning
season begin and end in Brazil?
What is the language OF that coun-
try?
AIN southern Brazil the cotton
ginning season usually begins IN
March and continues until August.
In northern Brazil the ginning sea-
son begins about Sept. 1 and ends in
January. These periods are vari-
able according to the crop. Portu-
guese is the language of Brazil.
Care Martin and Samuel insult
American citizens?
A-Martin insult is British sub
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
POINTS TO BENEFITS OF
BUY AMERICAN"

By A. Warren Jacobson
The and 10-cent stores of these
great United States of America do
an annual business of many millions
of dollars. This would all be good
and we'll if American products were
sold in these stores. American work
men receive but a small percentage
of these millions taken in every year
by the and 10-cent stores.
Made-in-Japan stamp is found OH
boxes of matches, vases, ash trays,
jewel boxes, tie racks, candy dishes,
a thousand and one different kinds
of bridge prizes, Christmas tree
lights and many other articles too
numerous to mention. Every one of
the mentioned articles can be made
in the United States.
Japanese workmen are poorly
paid, live in shacks, eat cheapiy and
their morale is very low. United
States buys from them (Japan)
pays duty and several other costs,
and floods our stores with goods
from a nation that carries on war
in cruel, ruthless manners.
Why should American dollars go
to the support of Japan? Millions
of American workmen are idle, and
millions of dollars worth of Jap
anese goods on American counters.
1t surely doesn't make sense.
Why not have real Buy Amer
lean" movement. Rather than buy
an ash tray made in Japan at s.
and 10-cent price, we as patriotic
citizens of the U S. A. should be
perfectly willing to buy an ash tray
made in the U. S. A. at a 10-and-20-
cent price.
Surely the American workman is
worth twice that of a Japanese
workman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
GUARDSMAN ANSWERS
MILITIA CRITIC

BY National Guardsman
Please allow member of the In
diana National Guard to answer the
Elk Soldier and Union Man of West
field.
The Times editorial, Ballots ver-
sus Courts, stated that in 1876 a
majority of the Supreme Court said,
For protection against abuses by
Legislatures, the people must resort
to the polls, not the courts
Would this not go to show that
''for abuses against the working
man, resort to the polls" not to
condemning the militia? When the
National Guard is called out on
local duty it is only to prevent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

nNE of the most familiar sounds
" of modern civilization, the
click or snap of the electric switch,
is destined to pass into the realm
of unnecessary noises. The General
Electric research laborat ory has per-
fected a noiseleSs switch.
Not only is the new switch noise
less, but it is no larger than p
marble. 1t utilities mercury to
make and break the electric con-
tact. While it sounds somewhat
complicated to describe, the General
Electric engineers say that it's
manufacture is extremely simple.
and that it is practically impos-
sible to wear it out
The switch consists of two shall
low chrome steel cups about three
quarters of an inch in diameter.
These are sealed together with a
strip of lead glass to form a hollow
compartment. Separating the cups
is disk of ceramic material in
which there is small hole, located
near the edge of the disk.
THE air is evacuated from the
Il switch and enough mercury
put in. it to fill about one-fourth
of the interior The switch is then
filled with hydrogen gas at at
moSpheric pressure and the hole
through which the air was with
drawn and the mercury and hydro
gen inserted is sealed.
The two steel cups constitute the
two sides of the switch.
1t is in the off" position when
the hole in the disk between the two
cups is at the top. In this posi-
ton the circuit is open. since there
is no contact between the two steel
cups.