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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01

at Trenton hestated to levy taxes or make approx
rations for the states share Of relief Some da.s
ago it adjourned leaving the relief cupboard bare
So the destitute began to straggle in Immediately
in demonstration OF protest and appeal They
took the Assembly chamber for their dormitory and
sent their voice echong through its spaces in noisy
burlesque of legislative inacton And they say I'M
less something is done "there'll be trouble"
Relief often has been wastefu and hard to ms
tify. But Trenton Is challenge to all those who
have been wanting to cut of relief and get back
to the good old ways of 1882 Reorganize relieves
and put it more efhcient economical basis If
it be done But relief itself is here to stay for
a long time and the problem has to be met whether
we like 1t or nots
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
BOOTS VS.. NAME

TT takes more than broad brimmed hat COWBOY
= boots and two sx-guns to keep man named
Percival from being called sissy"
For Rep. Percy Lee Gassaway 3D., Okla.) has
all OF these things, together with reputation as
hghter yet he has just been dubbed sissy" in the
public prints.
Rep Gassaway announced that Seminole Okla
would get no postoffce from him after he learned
that Mayor j. N. Harder was going to seek his seat
in the House Later he relented and said the post
office would be built
Whereupon reporter for The Seminole Producer
asked George Killingsworth among others, what he
thought about it, George said
Yes I'm glad to get the postof1ce but that
won't change my mind about Percy. think he is
sissy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
AGAINST LYNCHING

THE recent lynching of Lint Shaw Georgia
Negro is cited by Senator VanNuys as a new
argument for passage of his resolution to appropriate
$500 for Senate investigation of lynchng.
Senator VanNuys, who piloted the Costigan-
Wagner anti-lynchng bill through the Judiciary
Committee, introduced the resolution to give the
bill impetus for passage after it stalled by a
threat of hlibuster by Southern Senator'S
The VanNuys resolution is in the Audit and
Control Committee of which Senator Byrnes
Cd. S. c. is chairman.
The lynching of this Negro again proves that
states are incapable of handling the ynching prob
lem" Senator VanNuys said.
Il intend to bring this to Senator Byrnes atten-
ton The Costigan-Wagner bill will pass eventual
ly We should pass it right now
A petition to bring out similar measure in the
House is being circulated by Rep Cavagan
d. N. ", it's author. Several others pending
in committee
Lynching should be made a Federal crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
STATE PARKS OPEN

Il ME Indiana State Park SYSTEM one of the fin
= est in the country officially opens its nine
teenth season today
Last year than a million people enjoyed
the scenic beauty and historic background of the
Indiana parks. Nearly half the visitors we're from
other states Of the total, about 10000 aided the
upkeep and operation of the parks by paying the
10-cent admission fee.
The large preseason crowds at the parks presage
a record attendance Tor 1885. Facilities have been
extended and improved Natural beauty has not
been sacrificed but camping and picnic have
been provided trails and bride paths built cot
tages constructed.
The parks should be greater factor than ever
this year in the outdoor recreatonsl life of Indiana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
HUNGRY MEN

DREsIDENT HOOVER had his bonus army in
Anacostia Flats, and now the New Jersey Leeis-
lature has its relief invaders in the Assembly cham
ber
The cycle has swung around completely from
policy of no relief back to no relief again and
Trenton today may profit from the distressing ex-
ample at Washington in 1882
The issue lies between economy and hunger.
Critics of relief complaining that it saps individual
initiative preaching their doctrine of economy para
mount have made some of their bitterest attacks
against the New Deal billions spent to create Jobs
and feed the hungry.
But Trenton appears now as an object lesson
OF what might have happened not merely in zone
state capital but all over the country if the dy-
Namics OF hunger had not been recognized.
Taxpayers are tired Of putting up relief money.
n New Jersey and everywhere else The 9egisiaturs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
HEARD IN CONGRESS

~ EP TREADWAY CR., Mass) The Secretary of
the Treasury was conspicuous by his absence
tfrom House tax hearings. He became suddenly i'll
Just before the hearings opened and by recuperating
at fashionable Southern resort was able to return
to the city, quite by coincidence just as the hear
ings closed. 1t viii he interesting to find out
whether he will appear before the Finance COM
mittee IN the other body. Possibly he will have a
relapse about the time they start their hearings.
Humph daughter and applause
CENATOR DICKINSON tE., Ia9: manufacture
~ er, so the story goes claimed that he was pack
ing $3.50 product of horse meat and rabbit When
asked what he meant by $3.50" he explained that
he ground up one horse and one rabbit.
70 EP HoLLIsTER R. o.: You can drive 4
: y cosoh end horss Through 4 che tax biID "a
40 different places
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
BY DIR. MORRIS F1sHREIN

THERE is no direct contact be-
4 tween mother and her UNI
born baby by way either of the
nerves or the blood. The nerves
do not connect the mother to the
baby. Even the nourishment the
baby receives. from its mother is
not derived directly.
Thousands of babies with birth
marks or defects have been born
to mothers whose mentality has not
shown the slightest sign of any dis
turbance. No more babies with
birthmarks are born to mothers who
have suffered mental upsets, than
to mothers who have not sustained
such setbacks.
Another common superstition is
that a baby born during the seventh
month can live, while one delivered
in the eighth month can not. on
the contrary, the longer tie prenatal
period, the greater are the baby's
chances of living.
Many strange beliefs are asso-
ciated with determining whether the
baby will be boy or girl. One
holds that the girls heart beats
more rapidly than 40 times a min
ute, and that the boys heartbeat
is slower.
1t is true that large babies usually
have slower rates than small ones.
and boys generally arc slightly
larger than girls: but there is not
enough difference to make it pos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THERE is a tendency among older people to be-
rate youngsters for their fault finding vet
cram coumnist recently made some stern remarks
about whining adolescents, reminding us that the
legend OF the Good Old Days was merely fable
and that all men and women of the past generation
worked hard for success
In a manner of speaking, this is true. But it is
quite as stupid to insist that opportunity beckons all
worthy girls and boys today as it is for the boys and
girls to argue there is no such critter
We do live in different world from that of yes
terday. Steady application, logged determination
and arduous labor still are needed to get ahead but
they not nearly dependable as they used to be-
Mr.. Rockefeller, we told shaved in his youth
Tor pittance. Yet shaving for pittance in an age
of expansion is not the thing as Shaving for
pittance in an age of machinery 1t can not be
denied that millions of men, as frugal and indus
trous as ever Mr.. Rockefeller was, face grim truth
he never encountered. They know they probably
will always be Shaving for a pittance, and this
knowledge can take the starch out of the most am,
bilious person.
Moreover, if Mr. Rockefeller were young today he
might become rich man, by good luck aided by his
acquisitive instincts, but he could never, by any
chance, be the oil king of the world The reason
is simple He thrved in an era of rugged indi-
vldualism when physical frontiers many; we
live in an age of corporations when physical frontiers
are few.
Over populated countries have not the same OPP
portunities for young people that pioneer countries
offer. Today no man can separate his fortune from
the fortune of his neighbor Society must rise
whole or the individual can be assured of no per-
manent we'll being. For we had something the
Young Of this generation do not havea sense of
curity and sure knowledge that the man who was
willing to work always could eat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
FRIDAY. MAY /. 1895.
BETTER HEALTH

OBSERVANCE of Child Health Week, opening to-
~ day under direction of the Child Welfare Com
mittee OF the Marion County Medical Society, is a
good time for stock-taking.
The occasion comes this year with special sig
nihcance DR.. Martha NJ. Eliot Of the United States
Children's Bureau says the United States has the
second highest maternal death rate in the civilized
creasins.
Chlu Health Week, then, filings a new challenge
TO us in 1896 There is no excuse for many of these
deaths, Tor lack of knowledge and proper care are
the chief causes
DUT there is another side to the health picture
- During the depression years when there
fear of physical breakdown among people, gen.
eral health actually improved the life span in
creased and the death rate declined
The average life expectancy has increased from
about As years in 1900 to more than 50.
knowledge of the better o. foods spread
rapidly during the years when food was scarce.
The vast relief program provided basic necessities
Despite the tragic condition of which DR.. Eliot
speaks the total infant death rate is lower than be-
fore the depression
Medical and educational work combine to give the
child better physical start in life than ever before
But obviously these gains are not enough The
activities of recent years must be extended
Child Health Week is an excellent time to stress
the need for balanced diet cleanliness, proper rest
and recreation, and physical examinations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
ToDAY's SCIENCE
-BY SCIENCE SERVICE

EEW examples in science better
4 indicate how chemistry can
turn a one time waste product into
a valuable commodity than do the
new super gasolines developed for
military aircraft. These fuels have
smoother performance than any
gasolines which the average auto
mobile owner ever obtains for his
motor car.
At the recent Kansas City meet
ing of the American Chemical So
ciety, DR.. Gustav EgIoff. petroleum
chemist Of Chicago, described the
technical steps whereby these super
fuels for internal combustion en-
gines can be produced from the
hitherto waste gases of petroleum
reflneries.
Particularly important to military
aviation is the increased climbing
ability Of planes using these new
fuels. A 90 per cent additional rate
Of climb Is the average. And In conn
bat work IN naval and military air
craft the man who can get .0n
ton the faster Is uiIuaIly the victor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01

would Mr.. Beverage have done
about the millions of unemployed
and starving people?
When Mr.. Roosevelt took Office
in 1888 the local units of govern
ment and charitable organizations
were bankrupt attempting to cope
with this problem. If Mr.. Roose-
welt had not inaugurated his re-
lief and works program, Mr.. Bever-
idge would not today be running
for any Office under the Consti-
tuition which he raves about and
fears for.
He is further opposed to the
New Deal because there have been
a great many Republicans replaced
by Democrats in various depart
ments of the government. And
why shouldn't this be so? If the
Republicans by some unforeseen
miracle should return to power this
year just how many Democrats
do you suppose they would keep
on the Jobs they now hold?
If Mr.. Reveridge will just open
his eyes and look around he will
see that this country is returning
to prosperity under the greatest
leader and humanitarian it has
known since the days of Woodrow
Wilson, and the people will vote
to retain this great leader in office
next November.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
NAZPS LABOR FRONT
FINDS DEFENDER

By ], Joseph Lang
In liberal labor circles, the aboli-
ton of labor unions in Germany and
the substitution of the Labor Front
is regarded as an act of oppression
against the working classes.
Attacks on the system of labor
leaders, especially in our own coun-
try, are largely based upon ignor-
ance of facts or fear that the exam
pie will be followed in other coun-
tries. What primarily led to the dis
solution of the German labor unions
was the fact that their leaders were
many times found to be corrupt and
that they were often secret and open
allies of Communism.
Under the present system, the
workers enjoy precisely the same
rights and protection as under their
former unions, except that their
rights and protection are jealously
guarded under strict governmental
supervision. Strikes are forbidden,
but in place of them admirable
working machinery for arbitration
and adjustment of differences has
been installed.
This beneficial reform eliminates
the hitherto coddling of labor lead
ers who so often exercised arbitrary
and selfish power and authority.
Likewise stubborn employers are
forbidden the use of that dreaded
weapon, the lockout.
The theory of this vast Labor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
THE BEST POSSIBLE

CENATOR wAGNER's selection as chairman of
~ the Democratic conventions resolutions commit
tee is important news
The New Yorker is one of this country's few mill
tant liberal statesmen. Monuments to his vision
and energy such measures as the railroad retire
ment, NIRA-pubc works program employment ex-
change social security national labor relations anti
ynchng, housing and other measures that seek to
modernize and humanze the American system
With Senator Wagner in charge of its platform
writing, the Democratic Party might on paper at
least, become what so many of its members hope for
it, vehicle of orderly change to more workable
democracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
MUSIC SPECTACLE

CoLossAL The biggest thing Of its kind ever
~ attempted!
Such superlstyes usually are reserved for sports
events, circuses conventions and SUCH
This time they apply to the spectacle of a 125
grand piano ensemble which will feature the OPEN
ing of Music Week observance at Butler Fieldhouse
Sunday
total of 825 pianists will appear on the pro-
floor as a stage, 225 panists will play together on
1876 pianos And because nothing OF this kind ever
has been done before on such scale hundreds if
musicloyers coming to the city by special train
to see and hear it.
The ensemble will not be solely coorful spec
tace. 1t should stimulate interest of children in
piano study 1t will be good training in ensemble
work Proceeds will go to the scholarship and student
loan funds Of Sigma Alpha Iota, national profess
slonal music sorority, sponsor of the program.
A S prelude to Music Week the Indiana Fedora
ton of Music Clubs this week gave further evil
dence Of Indianas interest in music at it's annual
state convention here.
Commenting on the excellence of one phase of
this program, James Thrasher, music editor Of The
Times says:
After hearing the two sessions devoted to Hoosier
composers at the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs
convention, one was impressed by the enthusja stir
enterprise, as we'll talent that the music disclosed
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Watch Your He alth

sible to determine which will be
boys and which will be girls. The
proportion of births of boys to girls
runs about los to 100.
A MOTHER superstition has it
1 \ that the sex of the baby de-
ponds on whether it comes from
the glands on the right side of
the mother or from those on her
left side. This also has been shown
to be without basis.
Some persons think that the sex
of the baby can be indicated by
the shape of the mother. There is
no basis for this belief.
Nor is there any basis for the
idea that the baby will be born with
loop of the cord around its neck
If the mother frequently raises her
arms above her head. Babies often
are born with one or more loops
of cord around the neck, but there
Is no common explanation for this
phenomenon.
Very rarely, indeed, Goes the oc-
curence of a loop of the cord
around the neck produce any trou-
BILE. Experienced doctors know
when to look for this and how to
take care of the condition.
Finally, some people think that
q baby always will be lucky or will
have second sight, if it is born with
a caul. or veil. Anybody who be-
lieves in second sight will believe
anything.
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IN YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

Inclcse Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or i'm
formation to The indianap polls Times
washinEten Service Bureau, 1918 iath-
81 n. ". Washington. d. @. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research BE- undertaksn.
Glow tall is Lawrence Tibbetys
Ask feet one inch.
Q-Who is President OF France
when was he elected, and for what
term?
ALBERT Francois Lehrun was
elected President of Francs Nav 10
1882, for term of seven years.
els 1t true that a dog was car
ried over Niagara Falls some years
ago and was rescued uninjured In
the river below the Falls?
A-A large police dog went over
Niagara Falls on tae American side
on July 2, 1891. and emerged I'M
injured. The animal had slipped
out Of btu collar wi1iIe tied III she
Eear q h home. ne wandered u
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01

Prospect Park. and a policeman
seeing he had no collar, tried to
capture him. The chase led to the
Falls, where he jumped into the river
and was carried over the cataract.
He landed in whirlpool beyond
the rocks and was rescued by a
concession owner. He was claimed
hy his owner, Andrew Terogsz.
Gl-How many marriages we're
solamnized In the U. S. in 1884?
A-According to the American
Journal Of Sociology, there were
1,245.000.
a. What is the correct way 70
address letter to Mary Pickford?
A--Miss Mary Pickford, Beverly
Hills, Cal.
Q-Does the Dominion OF Canada
pay taxes TO England: and does it
help TO support the British Navy7
The Dominican pays no taxes
10 England and daRs not contribute
q ~ support q ~ British Navy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
THINKS MR.. BEVERDGE'S
ARGUMENT ONE-SIDED

BY Gerald Woody, Bedford
In the Thursday, April %, issue
of The indianapolis Times in the
department why You Should Vote
for Me-" Albert j. Beveridge Jr.,
Republican candidate for the nomi-
nation for Congressman of the
Twelfth District, makes a plea for
votes which every one should read.
His personal platform is exceed
ingly characteristic of the Repub-
lican campaign for 1886. He starts
his article by being opposed to an
Administration policy and then
merely continues enumerating and
being opposed to various Admins
tration policies.
Never once does he attempt to
offer any plan to take the place
OF the things that he is opposed to.
To briefly sum up Mr.. Beveridge's
and the Republican Party's cam
paign, they say that they are against
the Democrats and urgently desire
to be returned to power.
Among other things Mr.. Bever-
idge is opposed to the Democratic
Administration because of the ire
mendous national debt it has
forced upon the country. What
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
"SIMPLIFYINGo TAXATION-Iu

IF the undistrbuted net income is percentage of
the adjusted net income which is more than 20
and less than 30 (and such percentage is not shown
IN the foregoing table, the tax shall be percentage
OF the adjusted net income equal to the sum of 35
plus four -tenths of the amount by which the per-
centage which the undistribued net income is of the
adjusted net income exceeds 90" (From the new
Federal tax bi)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01

DR.. MQUEEN'S RESIGNATION

THE resignation of DR., william Mcqueen as
superintendent of the Marion County Tuhercu-
losis Hospital effective June l. is definite loss to
the institution and the community Associated with
the hospital for 16 years and its head since Feb L.
1888 Dr. Mcqueen leaves this important post to pro-
tect his own health.
successor should be appointed who will con-
tinue the management of the hospital at its present
high standards
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01

Front go million members) is that
capital and labor are absolutely de-
pendent upon one another and to
serve the common interest of both
classes, they must work together as
a harmonious unit. Should capital
attempt to usurp the just rights Of
labor, or vice versa, the might of
the government guarantees justice.
Can. an honest man of either class
ask for a more ideal arrangement?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-01
PREMONITION
BY HARRIETT SCOTT oLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
I see the pitfalls in the path of
love;
The hidden labyrinth, the secret
knife.
The rocks to chafe your young de-
sfiant heart;
The compromises and the ache
of life.
I see the trampled flower and the
bloom
Dragged in the dust of giving
not your best.
! see without weapon to prevent.
This knowledge is a cancer in
my breast.
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XTlCKEDNESS, when properly
w punished, is disgraceful only
to the offender; unpublished, 1T is
disgraceful to the whole community
Charles Simmons.
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DAILY THOUGHT

His mischief shall return upon
his own head, and his violent deal
ing shall come down upon his own
pate.-Psalms 7:16.
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Times readers are thDtted to e1press
their piet0s IN these columns. religious
CONTROVERSIES erctuded. Make vour letters
short so all can hare chdncs. Limit
them to ESQ t1ords or less. Your letter
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'rithhetd on re0uestJ
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The HOOSier Forum

disapproue of a0hat you say--and a0M defend
to the death your right to sag it.-VoLtaire.
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Vagabond
from
Indiana
ERNIE PYLE

EDITORS NoTE-Ihls rowing reporter
for The Times goes where be pleases.
when he pieases. In search Of odd stories
about this and that.
Nogales international., 1936-04-15
FAUSTO TOPETE IN SONORA
AS GALES BECOMES EXILE

General Fausto Topete, former
governor Of Sonora, came across
the line from Mexico at Nogales
Friday and on the same day Gen
eral Plu&arco Elias Gales, former
president Of Mexico, came across the
line in Texas.
Topete was returning to his home
in the Imperial Valley from a trip
down into Sonora where he purch-
ased IS carloads of cattle. Gales
was crossing as an exile.
How the tables have turned in
the lives OF these two men.
Seven years ago Topete, after re-
belling against the government of
Mexico, fought in the Escobar re-
volution during its two months per-
iod. With collapse of the revolt he
fled into Arizona at this border port
just before Gales, then head Of gov
ernment troops, marched into No