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Evening star., 1936-05-24

particularly if it is used in the daytime.
Moreover such table can be every bit as
formal as one set with silver. but for this the
pieces of china must be conventionally suit
able to purpose. Personally, l like china better
for lunch table than dinner table, because
there is something about the brilliance of sum
light, which contributes to its coloring and
texture. The typical handicap of china decora-
tion on dinner table is that china candelabra
are almost impossible to find, and china can
dlesticks are either flat on the table, which
dislike, or else they suggest bedroom mantel
ornaments.
But to describe my own idea of lovely
table: My first choice is for Bristol or Loves
tOft - the white with very small raised de-
Evening star., 1936-05-24

a family dinner table it might very
well have deserved first prize. But
considered from formal standpoint,
it does not qualify. Not, however.
because the decorations ereofchina,
but because, as have written many
times, the word formal means strictly
according to ceremonial - or at least
conventional = form.
Therefore, thefollowing items were
disqualifying: Bread and butter
plates not really proper on any
formal dinner table, although per-
mitted on family dinner tables, in
nearly all modern houses. Soup plates
Evening star., 1936-05-24
A table set
entirely with china
for lunch or
dinner can be very
lovely and as
formal as one set
with silver, says
EMILY Post
Author of"Efiqveffe: The Blue Book OF
Soeiol Usoge, ""Ths Personality
ofo House," Etc.

-HE following letter comes to me from
members of the Friday Morning Sewing
Circle in beautiful city on the Great
Lakes:
Dear Mrs. Post: The awards made by the
judges in table-setting contest held at our
country club have caused so much controversy
that it has been decided to put the question
up to you The prize, for formal dinner table
with twelve covers, was given to table set
entirely with dark -blue-and white china The
only silver was the flatware and the salts and
peppers.
The cloth was of white damask with match
ing napkins. Both had dark blue monograms.
The centerpiece was quite plainly hand
basin (old) of blue willow ware, holding white
roses; candlesticks were small cubes (modern)
Evening star., 1936-01-15
MARRIED LIFE BRIEF

Bride Finds Husband Inmate Of
Reformatory.
MINNEAPOLIS R.-Her marriage
to Clyde T. Biggerstan, in 1926, lasted
only IA hours, testified Mrs. Myrtle
Biggerstaff in . divorce action. then
policemen came and took the BRIDE.
groom to q reformatory on . parole
violation charge.
Later she learned his correspondence
courtship was carried on through q
brother in Chicago while her wooer
languished in the reformatory. She
rot the divorce.
Evening star., 1936-01-15
LETTER-OUT

letter from each and spell the word
the opposite
It wi dressed
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14

Moody over Helen Jacobs heat records and what the
Supreme Court is likely to do to AAA.
Mr.. Lambie declares that missionaries In Adds
Ababa will not heed the warning of the State De-
partment that American missionaries get out of the
war-threatened land.
AT first this seems an heroic attitude for Mr..
Lambie and the missionaries to take. But a second
thought is very much in order.
Whether 1t be the sinking of a Lusitania with
Americans aboard or the humping of of mission
airy in far distant cline the American people have
habit of seeing red. Ts sucn stuff that wars are
made Of Every American in war zone is a spark
that may touch off the fife and drum the parade
down Fsthav and 1t won't be over till it's over over
there
Getting into is seldom if ever process of
pure reason 1t is emotional Should those mission
aries get what innocent bystanders usually get the
glands that control the national temper would start
to throb. And if the fate OF the missionaries were
sensational enough, there might be the makin's of
another such urge as changed He kept out Of
war into Ships and more ships.
After all, everything is relative. In all Ethiopia
there just l25 Americans Most of them are mis-
sionares. So we have mathematical proposition
125 million Americans potentially endangered by 1875
The proposition is all wrong Even at the risk of a
few unsaved Ethiopian souls, it's all wrong 1t is
time for Mr.. Lambies party to start packing"
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
THE GOOSE SQUAWKS

II ME day of easy tax picking from the pockets of
American motorists is coming to an end
Just II years ago this month, the gasoline tax
was discovered-Oregon initiated levy of l cent
a gallon, to be used for highways. Like most tax
ideas this spread fast. Before long every state
in the Union was taking cut from the proceeds of
the gasoline pump and, in some states so we're
counties and municipalities In the last days of the
Hoover Administration, the Federal government
reached out with gasoline tax and also levies on
motor oil, automobiles and appliances.
Very few of these taxes, levied ever were
withdrawn. They were added to. In state the
gasoline tax climbed to cents gallon.
At first the motorist hailed these taxes as good
business for him. Better roads reduced his operat-
ing costs, made motoring pleasant and efficient. But
the motorist such willing tax goose that law
makers couldn't resist using some of those easily
plucked dollars for purposes other than building
and maintaining roads. And when the motorist
found out what was happening, he began to squawk
And now, to translate those individual squawks
into collective and effective protest, Thomas P
Henry, president of the American Automobile Asso-
citation, urges the millions of vehicle owners and
operators to band together for political action.
Even before Mr.. Henry sounded his call to arms
measures to reduce taxes paid by highway had
been introduced in six of the eight state Legislatures
now in session. The pckngs will not be easy hence
forth
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

COSSIP and its evils has become a trite subject
- Nevertheless it is still burning one for many
mothers who write in to tell their worries.
What is to be DONE they cry, about women
who repeat and twist it so it can destroy the
reputation of good girls9 How can their vicious
tongues be stopped?"
They can't be stopped But they can be ignored
We shall always have with us shallow minded cold
hearted women who delight in peddling bad news
Half the time they not conscious of the harm
they do They carry trivial tales exaggerate foolish
incidents only because they TOO petty to be con-
cerned with constructive affairs Nothing short OF
murder can rid us of their prying eyes, or silence
their spiteful tongues. But for every one We
squelched two more would take her place e
The important point is this. We must teach sur
daughters to conduct themselves so they need not
fear gossp-and always TO expect It,
Everybody is talked about, and often in an un-
kind manner. But such talk never hurts the per-
son with a good record and clear conscience If
you are not vulnerable, no ordinary smal-time
tattle-tales can work havoc in your life
Women super sensitive to random remarks
trait which often has made them miserable We
expect only glowingly complimentary remarks to be
made about u.s. in spite of the fact that our re-
marks about others do not always fall into that
category.
Every mother may well resign herself to facts
Sooner or later the clacking tongues viii start in
you. Women still put their heads together cackling
like geese tidbit and you or your girl may
be the tidbit So long as young people are high
spirited. doing risky, daring and dangerous things
which invite comment even when their motives are
innocent, and so long as tongues can wag We'll have
gossps. Forget them. They always end by biting
themselves TO death.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
HATS OFF!

TODAY we nominate Joseph S. Cortelyou of Ha-
worth N. j., as Pupc Friend No. l. For this
citizen has driven 100000 miles in more than 100
different makes of automobiles during the past SO
years without so much as denting fender or earn
ing a traffic cops dirty look. Even his wife has
learned the technique and for 18 years she has not
had accident.
It's quite simple according to Mr. Cortelyou You
just drive carefully. that's all. Sometimes so miles
on hour is safe, other times 20 miles is dangerous
Driving cars unfit for the road is menace Drivers
proving themselves safe should be given certificates
with lowered insurance rates. he thinks There
should be uniform traffic laws.
The National Safety Council has just reported
that deaths from accidents during 1885 otaled 80 00
with property losses of three billions. Heading the
list motor vehicle deaths. These reached an
all time high of 36,400 killed
We hope more men like Mr.. Cortelyou will ride
the streets and highways in 1886
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
KNIGHTHoOD FLOWERS AGAIN

A LOGICAL sequence to Mr.. Morgan's plea for
leisure class a meeting recently held in
the Waldorf Astoria of the Order of Americans of
Armoria Ancestry
Among the things we've lacked in this young
republic are ancestors. The o. A. A. A. is going to
remedy that. For $780, announces Mrs. Gregor Mac
Gregor an officer of the order, you may join and
receive "a beautiful badge" All you need is to
shake the old family tree for an armoria ancestor"
and present the papers The only other duty is to
sit with your peers at annual luncheon.
If you want to join our new knighthood don't get
discouraged IT, like Mark Twain you find one of
your ancestors hanging by his neck to the family
tree. Most any kind of ancestor will do as SUBJ
substitute for feudal baron. Among the badges
proudly displayed at this meeting were some marked
Descendants of Andrew Jackson"
Can't you just see Old Hickory of the Tennessee
backwoods grimacing from his grave2
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
ROOSEVELT is PRAISED
AS GOOD MAN

BY Henry Camp Harris, Dallas. Tex,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to
some may not seem a good Presi-
dent, but by all, he is acclaimed a
good man. His judgment may not
function to your satisfaction, but
his heart throbs in sympathetic un-
derstanding.
AS a mender of broken fortunes,
he may fall short of your hopes, but
as a mender of broken bodies and
broken minds, he is at his best.
Around his own victory over i'm
pairment, modern miracles are per-
formed. Millions pay to dance that
thousands may be able to walk.
America has been awakened to its
responsibilities The child is given
a chance, young men camp together
with morale intact, and older people
will soon receive dividends on lives
well invested.
When the final election comes and
all returns are in, Presidents will
become men again. The final ruling
oy the real Supreme Court of the
Universe will decide that at least
the life of Roosevelt was constitu-
tional.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt has al
ways answered the cry of the Grip
pied and hungry child, aided the
aged and encouraged those who are
broken in spirit. The life he is liv-
ing is no doubt pleasing God.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
Questions and Answers

Breckenridge, who has charge of
the Frontier Nursing Association in
Kentucky.
A-Wendover above Heyden, Les
lie County, Kentucky.
Q-Is cheddar another name for
hoop cheese?
A-Cheddar cheese Is often called
hoop cheese because the curd is put
into timed iron hoops which are
lined with cheesecloth bandages and
pressed with great pressure.
(Which are the permanent and
which are the temperament mem
bers of the Council of the League
of Nations?
A-The permanent members are
the United Kingdom and Northern
Ireland, France, Italy and Russia.
The temperament members are
Argentina, Australia, Chile, Mexico,
Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Spain,
Turkey and CzechoSlovakia.
Q-What are the salaries of the
chief justice and a ssociate justices
of the United Safes Supreme
Court?
A-The chief justice receives
s20.500 year and the associate JUS
tees receive $4,000.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
FEB. II, 1886
I our
Health
rI-r- ~
By
DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

TOO many people believe that
L there is a special diet for every
disease condition that affects hu-
man being, and that diet alone will
cure all sorts OF diseases. No idea
could be more mistaken.
There is nothing magical about
food. The elementary principles of
diet have already been explained in
the early articles of this series.
Instead of classifying diets as be-
ing suitable for individual diseases,
physicians are much more likely
to classify the diets and
then mention the various conditions
in which those diets are suitable.
There are said to be only five
varieties of diet: Reducing, tempo
rary starvation, or semi-starvation;
fattening; high roughage; smooth,
soft, bland. or non-irritating, and
the high vitamin type.
TT is, of course, possible for those
l. who know feeds and feed quail
tiles to combine them to make the
most of the combinations. In gen.
eral however, there are certain
foods which you should not eat
with any kind of diet, if your di-
gestion is easily disturbed.
Most people have to depend in
their diets on certain fundamental
foods. These are bread, milk, ce-
reals, butter, cheese, eggs, the
common fruits and vegetables, some
meat and some fish.
People who are sensitive or at
all disturbed by certain foods are
likely to suffer from distention of
the abdomen-belching after eat
ing. pain or irritation of the bowel,
followed by looSeness and soreness
at various points in the abdomen.
Sometimes there are also canker
sores in the mouth and the breath
has heavy or disagreeable odor.
Later I shall have more to say
about such food sensitivities.
Some people object to cabbage
and others to onions; still other
people know that chocolate always
causes them trouble. When you
know in advance that food sub
stance is likely to give you trouble,
by all means avoid it.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
PHYSICIAN OPPOSES
ENERGY SLAYINGS"

BY Frank S. Caprio, NJ. d.
Euthanasia is a term that has
come into popular use to signify a
means of producing the painless,
merciful death of one suffering from
an apparently incmable disease.
Its disciples and those response
BILE for its proposal would be driv-
ing a poisoned arrow into the very
heart of the medical profession were
they to succeed III bringing about
its legal adoption in this country.
Euthanasia is legalized murder,
supported by ambitious benefciaries
of insurance policies. delusional and
fanatic so-called benefactors of hu-
manity, selfish individuals unwilling
to undergo the sacrifice of taking
care of an incurable invalid, morbid
novelists in quest of melodramatic
material, and criminal exploiters
who would be specializing with hu-
man victims for monetary advan-
tages under the protection of a
corrupted physician
Although a disease may be con-
sidered organically incurable, the
patients mental attitude toward the
disease is durable and amenable to
treatment. SedativeS and psyche
therapy ably administered insures
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
OTHER OPINION
Salutation to indianapolis
" AAAuHf11hE1 FVtA'1
1.-THE Kokomo Tribunel

4uS hOkOmO 4flpunel
The current week brought to In
dianapolis the one hundredth ami
versary OF It's Incorporation. The
event is being recognized fittingly
by its official circles and citizens,
and its newspapers are bestowing
upon the centennial generous and
becoming notice.
The city was founded a few years
before it was Incorporated. The act
of incorporation acquired for it the
distinction of being a separate gov
ernmertal unit, a status it has
maintained continuously since. Its
people, therefore, are entitled to
take pride in the fact that Indian
apolis, as an organized community,
has had part in making a hundred
years of history.
All loyal Hoosiers admire the
states capital city. 1t has grown
steadily with the gathering dec
ades-grown not only in size, but in
character; not only in the things OF
use, but in the things of grace. It's
progress cuituranay has kept pace
With its progress materially.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
The HOOSier Forum
Whouy disapprove of what you say-and a0iH
defend to the death your right to sag at-Voltaire
. EE0G- -

federacy was largely financed with
.greenbacks," which deprecated as
their issue increased. After the war
and jeff Davis we're wound up, a
lawsuit was brought to test whether
greenbacks' were to be a legal
tender for the payment of debts
1t was, by the way, this issue
which caused the inclusion of the
clause in bonds and notes making
the obligation payable in gold
which the United States Supreme
Court has recently declared to be
Of no account.
Feb. Z, 1879, the Supreme Court
held the Legal Tender Acts to be
unconstitutional, by vote of four
to three. War veterans owned mil
lions of the greenbacks. Business
concerns and debtors III general had
large supplies of them, and the un-
conStitutlonality of their money
certainly raised the deuce. The
Civil War heroes suffered through
their deprecated money, business
concerns folded up and quit and
debtors volunteered bankruptcy by
the thousands.
But on the very day of that four
to-three decision, two new justices
were nominated for the United
States Supreme Court. Fifteen
months later that same court, by
a vote of five to four, declared those
emasculated Legal Tender Acts to
be constitutional in practically every
particular
1t was nice constitutional fiddling
by different brands of lawyers, but
the five to four relieved the pres
sure.
Now the question arises as to
what the Supreme Court, with it's
record of reversing itself, may do
to the present day veterans green
backs" if any.
1t is, indeed, difficult TO suggest a
way for the government to get out
of its present terrible embarrass-
ment. Perhaps it can resort to pure
borrowing; but even that would be
a long step toward something like
eventually putting our vigorously
growing national deficit into bed
with the national credit, in mid.
winter, with all of the blankets on
the deficit.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
DECLARES WAR LEAGUE is
REALLY COMMUNISTIC

BY Observer.
In your issue of Feb. 6, I read
with great amusement Roger N.
Baldwin's letter in which he denies
that he himself is a Communist and
makes the assertion that the So
called League Against War and
F'aScism is not Communist con-
trolled agency.
do not challenge Mr.. Baldwin S
statement as to himself. AS far as
the League is concerned, its very
name reveals that it is nothing else
but a branch of the Communist
party, working under the mask of
paciflsm. There is not sensible
man that is not against war.
True, Fascism is bad, but is Com
n1unism any more virtuous, and in
what respect? The dictatorship of
Stain is neither better nor in any
way milder than that of Mussolini
o. Hitler. If freedom of press and
speech is suppressed in Italy and
Germany, SO it is in Russia.
If the German concentration
camps are full of political prison.
ers, so are the Russian dungeons
and so is Siberia. After all, Hitler
was brought to power by the vote
OF the German people, but has
Stain ever held an election in Rus
sia? And is it not true that a hand
full of Commissars lodged in Krem-
lin are governing $50 million peo-
pie without their given consent?
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14

the relief of aggravating symptoms
and sustains life to a peaceful ter
mination.
The integrity of the medical pro-
fession has been preserved from the
day Hippocrates formulated the
oath to which all physicians are
pledged. The cure for incurables
only can be achieved through the
inspiration of keeping the profess
sion free from germs of political
corruption and unnecessary legal
interference.
When civilization legalizes the is
sue of euthanasia, then life for the
physician becomes a game of bridge
with murder as a trump and the in
valid holding the dummy hand.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

DOG-LIKE creatures, large as
~ bears, tiny pop-eyed forerun-
ners of the monkey, and other weird
animals inhabited the Crazy Noun
tains of central Montana 10000 900
years ago.
DR.. George Gaylord Simpson of
the American Museum of Natural
History has just completed the task
of identifying and naming some so
of them from the fossils in the
Smithsonian Institution. Most of
these fossils were collected by the
late DR.. James w. Gidley.
The weird mammals flourished at
the close of the Age of Reptiles.
when the great dinosaurs and other
reptiles of the day had died out,
out the mammals of the type now
known on earth had not yet ap-
peared. The vegetation was becom-
ing modern in character, but grass,
which was to make possible the
great spread of mammal life, still
was struggling to obtain a foothold
and did not yet cover the Great
plains.
FOURTEEN species of the So
l. called bear-dogs or Arctocyoni-
dae, were identified by DR.. Simpson.
These included some of the most.
savage and fearsome creatures the
earth has known. Some of them,
later than those found in the Crazy
Mountains were as large as the pres
ent-day Kodiak bear, the largest Of
all existing fiesh-eating mammals.
Six new types of monkey-like
creatures, primitive primates to give
them their technical name, we're
discovered by Dr.. Simpson. These
are among the earliest known mem
bers of the animal family in which
biologists classify man.
These primates are all tiny crea-
lures and probably most closely re-
lated to the strange night -prowling
big-eyed tarsier of the Malay Pc
ninsula.
Another group of creatures found
were tiny creatures about the size of
squirrels with three rows of teeth.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
RECALLS EARLY EXAMPLE
OF u. S. INITIATION
By r. F. Pain,

BY r. F. Paine
The government at Washington
is to be seriously worried by at least
three propositions for raising money,
right away, to pay the war vet
erans' bonus. Thus, it is well for
all citizens to consider the pros and
cons of the discussion, always re-
membering that propositions are
finally to be at the mercy of the
United States Supreme Court.
There is in the Congress a con-
siderable bloc that imitation, the
issue of paper money, familiarly
called "greenbacks," or rag per"
money. 'Tis an easy, simple method
of creating more money and, fortu-
nately, American history furnishes
an example of the effects of such
a method.
Our war with the Southern Con-
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14

Q-who wrote the song Annie
Laurie?
A-William Douglas wrote the
ballad which was set to music by
Lady Jane Scott.
Q-What is the real name of John
Chancellor, the author of THE
Mystery of Angels End?
A-Charles de Balzac Rideaux.
Q-What is the rate per hundred
of taxation payable this year in
Center township, Marion County?
A-S278.
Q-How old is Jackie Cooper, the
boy actor?
Ale was born in 1923.
Q-When was Adolf Hitler born?
A-April 20, 1889.
Q-Who is the United States
Commissioner OF Education?
A--John w. Studebaker.
Q Give the address Of Miss Mary
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
I HEARD A BIRD
BY MARY WARD

I heard bird-you would not be-
lieve-
It sang like thrush, a thrush at
eve
A winter bird, yet heard thrush
Or was it hope in the frozen brush?
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
DAILY THOUGHT

A good name is better than pre-
cious ointment; and the day of
death than the day of ones birth.
.-Ecclesiastes I'll.
The Indianapolis times., 1936-02-14
AGAIN, THE MISSIONARIES

NNE story said that an American missionary and
~ Canadian missionary had been chained and
thrown into filthy Ethiopian hut and that the
Americans wife their four children and
also held as captives of Ethiopian tribe
Another story told of the American consul at
Adds Ababa protesting about the outrage.
And still another said that had been
chained but that the missionaries had merely been
arrested because they refused to comply with an
Ethiopian cheftains order to out of the danger
zone and that they had been treated well and later
released
We hope for the sake of the missionaries, that
the latter story is the more accurate But the i'm
portant thing for the peace of mind of Americans
who have remained at home is that such infiamma-
tory stories inevitable when Americans persist
remaining in territory where the soldiers Of other
nations are fighting
Last ruly, before the fighting started, our State
Department warned Americans in Ethiopia to come
home. That prompted us to write what at the time
we thought good editorial and, viewed In ret
respect we still think a good one-good enough to
reprint here: