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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
A BREATHING SPELL

T least one New Deal agency has benefited from
the current agitation over the AAA death
sentence, enactment of the bonus and Al Smiths
Liberty League address
Crowded into the background, and glad of a
breathing spell, Harry L. Hopkins Works Progress
Administration has been putting its house in order
for attacks bound to come when Congress is asked
to vote additional billions for workrelief after July l.
Mr. Hopkins for three months has been taking
stock of his organization. State administrators
have been checked up, and in some cases told to
prc|uce or get out. Trouble shooters have been dis
pate ID into areas where charges of poor admins
tration rated consideration.
general order that officials who do not believe
In WPA, its detectives and accomplishments must be
removed" has cost the jobs of dozens of persons
Even in Washington there has been general shake
up of personnel Other changes are foreseen.
A weak cog in the work-reef machine has been
the National Youth Administration directed by
Aubrey Williams. A reorganization of this division
is in prospect with Mr. Williams expected to be d.
vorced from other duties and devote full time to the
NYA.
AS the revampng of state WPA stats progresses,
Mr.. Hopkins is turning back more and more author
ity to local officials Questions as to who is eligible
for work, and who is to be labeled "unemployable"
and returned to the dole, causing the most
trouble An effort is being made to give work to en-
playable persons who have gone relief since Nov.
/, the original deadline for WPA eligibility
State administrators also have been given broad
powers to deal with the borderne cases" of persons
who have refused to go relief but actually in
dire need of work
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
A VITAL CASE

ONE of the great antitrust law decsions-per-
~ haps the most important since the Supreme
Court laid down the rule of reason" in the Stand
ard Oil in 191l-may emerge from the Sugar
Institute be argued before the court Monday
and Tuesday.
The question Is How far can trade associa-
ton go regulating industry that NFsA is
out the Window"
Under MIRA, code authorities similar to and
overlapping the trade associations did good deal
of regulating, especially as to the so-caed unfair
trade practices.
Lawyers believe that both the legality and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

tended these snakes to DO with their
rattles would be a pure guess. Pos
sibly the rattle is intended as a call
during the breeding season or i.
may be employed to attract prey.
Glow much will SIS at per
cent compounded semi annually
amount to in 10 years, and in 50
years?
AIN ten years, approximately
STAB, and in 50 years, approx
nately 1921.
Q-Where did DR.. Walter Reed,
for whom Walter Reed General
Hospital at Washington, D. c., is
named, receive his medical educa-
ton?
AIT the University of Virginia
in 1868, and at the Bellevue Hospi-
tai Medical College in 1872
Q-What is the greatest number
of games won by major league
baseball club If single season?
A-One hundred and sixteen by
the Chicago Cubs in 1906.
Q-Is the Governor of Indiana a
Republican or a Democrat?
A-Gov. McNutt is a Democrat.
Q--Is a soldiers compensation at
tachable for debt?
A-No.
GIN what year was the steamer
Lady Elgin sunk by collision on
Lake Michigan? How many lives
were lost?
A-Sept. 8, 1852 About 800 lives
were lost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
OTHER OPINION
AffrOnt to Intelligence
fort Wayne News-SentinaI1


The Democratic thesis that the
Roosevelt Administration saved the
United States from chaos is a chear
political affront to ordinary intelli-
gence. 1t postulates belief in the
falsity that the United States is
founded upon sand, and that its
temples and pillars are at the
mercy of almost any breeze that
blows.
Democrats in their partisan zeal
would paint picture of the United
States as an expanse of desolation
without the saving hand of the
great Franklin Delano Roosevelt
But such a tenet is difficult to &C
cept by minds not more or less in
sane.
A nation with $50 years of active
healthy life behind it, with great
resources, with $50 millions of in
habitants and sustained by sturdy
traditions. does not become a dark
swamp overnight.
When Mr.. Roosevelt's partisans
claim that he helped restore the
country to a better equilibrium
they manage to stay within range
of debatable sanities; but when
they implicitly contend that with
out Roosevelt, the nation would now
be vast economic void, they
either imply insanity on the part OF
others or admit the blight of IL
sanity upon themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
TO THE LEADER
president RooseveIt)
RY THOMAS p HAISFV

Your heart was born to understand
The problems of Christian land,
Your voice ordained to give
command,
Your eyes the truth to see,
Your wisdom righteous things to
plan,
Which now reveal to every man
A new prospective of his span
A sense of victory,
Your honesty shall lead the way,
Your smile help Danish our dismay
Your courage shall our course
array.
With hopes of happiness.
Your friendliness and kindly traits
Shall temper all our fears and
hates.
Well follow you through darkened
straits
To national success!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

HOW the grim and terrifying fig
Il l. ure of contagious disease has
ridden across the pages of history
is told with dramatic intensity by
DR.. Ralph H. Major in his newest
book, Disease and Destiny"
He sets forth his thesis in the first
page of the books foreword: Dis
ease has played a dominant role in
the destiny of the human race. It
has destroyed old races and cleared
the terrain for new, ones which we're
harder, more reSourceful and more
intelligent. It has defeated armies,
paralyzed trade, altered the eco
nomic life of nations. 1t has wiped
out old castles and created new ones.
1t has destroyed explorers and colo
nizers, scattered their settlements
and determined the ownership Of
continents"
Then in 325 pages Of fascinating
and brilliant writing, DR.. Major pro-
ceeds to prove his point with the
story of the horrible Black Plague,
the early history of typhus, once
known throughout the world as "jail
fever" the story of smallpox, scrof-
ula, diphtheria, yellow fever which
our soldiers in Cuba called the 'yel-
low jack, syphilis and others.
DR. MAJOR is professor of in
~ ternal diseases at the Univer-
sity of Kansas. He is likewise a
historical student who reads French,
German, Latin and Greek with ease,
His classical Descriptions of Dis
ease" is well known to medical men
as one of the outstanding contribu-
tionS to medical history
With his knowledge of medicine
and history, he combines the ability
of writing in language the layman
can understand.
Dr. Major. begins with the story
of THE Black Death" the plague
which is known today as bubonic
plague but which the Middle Ages
called the 'black plague"
An important feature of the book
is furnished by its illustrations.
These, for the most part, are copies
of old prints. The mere collection
Of these items was in itself a work
of excellent scholarship.
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TRKED BY REACTION OF
PRESS TO BONUS

BY Charles w. Archery, Waldron
IN your editorial colum of Jan. 9
you ran an editorial headed Bonus
and Taxes" stating
TN spite of the AAA DECISIONS
threat to add $1,000,000,000 to the
public debt and write more red ink
into the Federal ledger, the daunt-
less veterans of the World War pre-
dict that before the month is out
they will be jingling bonus money
in their pockets
Why are the veterans more en-
titled to this name "dauntless" than
the farmer, packer, miller, cotton
manufacturer. or anyone else af-
fected directly by the AAA?
The Adjusted Compensation Act
or so-called Bonus Law has not
been declared unconstitutional
Why can not the press call spade
spade?
A short time ago another Indiana
newspaper carried an article that if
the bonus was paid now the RUTH
LESS VETERANS would soon ask
for a pension.
Now let us consider why bonus
law was enacted. 1t was not due tc
the veterans asking for it. 1t was
done because some politician sensed
that bonus bill would be a good
way to secure the soldiers vote
Since it was passed in 1925 It mas
been political football.
I am a World War veteran and a
son of Civil War veteran. When ]
volunteered for service I never
thought of bonus or pension
After some one else mentioned it ]
was in favor of it..
AS I understand it, the bonus law
was enacted to compensate the vet
eran for the difference between the
pay that he received and what the
civilian laborer received during the
war.
If it is all right to pay the farm
ers for the hogs, cattle, wheat, corn,
cotton, tobacco, ETC., that they
didn't raise, why not pay the soldier
for the battles he didn't fight?
AS far as increased taxes are con-
cerned, it was o. K. for the Great
Father in Washington to ask Con-
gress for 100000 1000 to spend as
he saw fit. But when the veterans
and their friends ask for $500, O00,-
900 to help the veterans, their de-
pendents and the entire country
they are told by this same Great
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
AAA DECISION GIVES
HIM BIG KICK

BY w. Williams, Columbus
The Supreme Court has thrown
the Tribe A into the waste basket.
got big kick out of that. But
still it was perfectly constitutional
to take millions of boys from 48
states, stick them in khaki, shift
them from state to state and finally
dump them down in Europe to col
lect Morgan's bad debts.
Brother Farmer, ! know you will
take it and like 1t, just as the men
in the shops did when the NRA was
thrown out.
see by the papers that the po-
litical voodoo doctors are in Wash
ington trying to figure out a way
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

to give the farmers another indirect
skinning.
Brother Farmer, what are you 60
ing to do about it? Whine and beg
for more bones on a string? Or
will you stand up and fight like a
man to do away with the whole
robber system?
And this, dear farmer, means a
truly New Deal. 1t means the own
ership by the nation of the means
on which the life of the nation de-
ponds. It means a nation in which
production and consumption will
balance always.
In short, nation dedicated to
the proposition: One for all, all for
one and to each the fruit of his
labor.
Cheer up, fellow inmates. All is
not lost yet. The RFC is still con-
stitutional, and still can loan your
money to the poor but deserving
corporations, busted banks and rail-
roads,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
MOURNS DISAPPEARANCE
OF AL SMITH

BY Busbircre
al is gone and in his place we
have gentleman Alfred E. Smith.
The brown derby has been snapped
for a silk hat.
There are some suggestions in re-
gard to the Liberty League speech
that presents themselves to my
mind.
/. How can reactionary news
papers forget what they said about
Al Smith in 1923 and hail him as a
modern savior? might quote Re-
publican newspapers against Al
Smith in 1928 and compare them
with present utterances. He was
then a scoundrel, is now a saint.
2. Are we to suppose that the for
gotten man of 1923 was such a man
as Raskob and Dupont? While we
are glad to be enlightened, We are
sorry to hear of the intense poverty
of the founders of the American
Liberty League. We had always
supposed that after they had paid
their taxes they had more 1eftsthan
we did We would suggest that
they apply for work on government
projects.
8. What was meant by the ques-
ton, Are there any lawyers in
Congress-" Has Mr.. Smith for
gotten split decisions by the SUI
preme Court? I might say with
equal liberty that in this august
body are four lawyers and five fol-
lowers of John Marshall.
Al is gone. The capitalistic, re-
dictionary Alfred E. will not suffice
for US. Let us mourn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
Questions and Answers

Inclose 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 be undertaken.
Glow can a letter be addressed
to the President to insure that it
will be read by him personally?
A-The President receives thou
sands of letters week which are
opened and answered by his secre-
ta les. 1t is manifestly impossible
for him to see and answer all these
letters personally. Last year more
than one million letters addressed
to the President were received at the
White House. The only letters
brought to his personal attention
are important executive COM
munications, and letters from per-
sonal friends and relatives or letters
which his secretaries think that he
should see.
Q-What is a decibel?
A-One tenth of bel. The deci-
bel is the usual unit for measuring
the loudness of sounds. 1t is equiv
alent to the loss of power in one
mile of standard cable at $50 cycles.
Q-Why are rattlesnakes equipped
with rattles?
A-One authority says that the
zeal use of the rattle is unknown,
tlespite great many theoretical as
sertions. Years of careful study of
The various species of rattlesnakes
has convinced this psychologist that
any statement of what nature in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
SUGGESTED FIRST STEP

ENRENCHMEN are about to open propaganda
Office in New York ito make France COM
prehensible to America" the United Press reports.
Maybe they'll explain their secret formula for hir
ing money without the usual formality of paying it
back
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

Father in Washington that it will
bankrupt the nation.
do not know why the press of
this great nation is so much OPP
posed to the veteran. Perhaps you
can tell me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

fTimes readers are tnvited to erpt sss
their Dtetos in these columns, religious
CONTROVERSIES epc6uded. MGke uour letters
short. so all can hate chance. Limit
them to ESQ toords or less. Your letter
must be stoned. but names toilI be
1oithheld on reouest.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
Your
Health
By
DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
.NCE you have adopted a sched-

NNCE you have adopted sched-
" ule of feeding for your baby,
follow it very closely.
II you have had the baby on
four-hour schedule, and it gets
hungry at the end of, say, three
hours-perhaps because it has
been unusually active or the
previous feeding was rather small
don't let the little one cry for an
hour. Instead, feed it little ahead
of time; hut the next feeding should
be given at the scheduled hour.
A mother with active tuberculo-
sis should not nurse her baby. Nor
should mother with a severe
chronic disease, such as inflamma-
ton of the kidneys, heart disease.
or cancer, be called upon to under
take the task. And nursing should
be discontinued if the breast of the
mother becomes infected.
But you need not stop nursing
the child if it begins to vonit, de-
velops collie, and loses weight. The
thing to do then is learn from your
doctor whether you have been feed
ing the baby often enough or too
often; whether you yourself are
eating the right diet; and whether
it is desirable for your baby to
have additional food.
Any food that will not cause di-
geStive disturbances is good for
the mother. She need not avoid
acid foods.
DURING any sudden, severe ill.,
~ ness, the mother NAV stop
nursing the infant. There is no rea-
son for weaving the baby because
the mothers normal functions are
resumed. even though the baby may
be uncomfortable for day or two.
However, should it seem likely that
a mother is going to have another
baby, she should discontinue nurs-
ing the first one, so as not to over
tax her strength,
The mother need not worry about
taking ordinary remedies prescribed
for various conditions, since few
drugs, given in the customary doses.
will get into the milk in harmful
amounts.
A question often asked is whether
a nursing mother should continue
to smoke, if this has been her habit.
There is no reason to believe that
smoking in moderation will harm
the baby.
But there is danger to the little
one if the mother smokes while she
is actually nursing the child, since
there is evidence that babies have
suffered burns because of this prac-
tice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
DAILY THOUGHT

AS the Father knoWeth me, even
so I know the Father; and I lay
down my life for the sheep.-St.
John x, Is.
NOTHING more excites to all
l ' that is noble and generous than
virtuous love-Home.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31
The HOOsier Forum

| 0holly disapprove of a0hat you say-a11d aoiE
defend to the death your right to sag it-Voldire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-31

THE Federal tax collector is coming for special
- visit to house-that means your house, too
AN unwelcome but not an unlimited guest
Evening star., 1936-01-15

National Park Service and vice presi-
dent of the association; Arno B. Cam
merer, director Of the Park Service;
A. D. Taylor, president Of the Ameri-
can Society Of Landscape Architects;
Richard Lieber, president of the Ma
tional Conference on State Parks, and
]. Horace Mcfarland, past president
Of the American Civic Association.
Four superintendents Of national
parks will discuss standards and
Policies Applied in National Parks" at
the morning session January 23.
Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen will
speak on ''The Service to the District
Of Columbia" at o luncheon meeting.
The afternoon session on the same
day will be devoted to Archaeological
and Historic Sites"
Kermit Roosevelt heads the list OF
speakers ut the, evening session. His
topic will be BIRD Lite in National
Parks" Il
High Lights In the National Park
Legislative Program" Is the theme for
the morning session January a., with
q program Of speakers including Ansel
Adams of the Sierra Club Of san
Francisco.
Evening star., 1936-01-15
PARLEY Will STUDY
lOW-C0ST HOUSING
Conference Here January 24.25
Also Due to Consider Slum
Clearance.

Slum clearance and low-cost hous-
ing will be given major consideration
at the third National Public Housing
Conference at the willard Hotel jan
uary 24-25.
Many well-known housing authori-
ties will speak at the two-day confer
ence, the chief event being a dinner
the opening night at the Willard.
Senator Wagner of New York, who
will sponsor permanent housing legis-
latlon, will be one of the principal
speakers. Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia of New York and Col. Horatio
B. Hackett, assistant administrator of
public works, also will be on the pro-
gram. Prof. Edouard c. Lindeman of
the New York School of Social Work
and Prof A. r. Mason Of Princeton
University will speak.
Mrs. Mary Kingsbridge Simkhovitch.
president of the conference, will pre-
side at the dinner and daily sessions.
This conference, she said, will initiates
the organizations legislative program
for the support of the Wagner hous-
ing bill, which he introduced last year
In the Senate and which now awaits
further action by Congress.
Evening star., 1936-01-15
PARK CONFERENCE.
WILL LAST 3DAyS
Thirty Civic and Federal
Leaders to Speak - Ses-
sions to Open Wednesday.

A three-day conference on the Ma
tional Park Service, sponsored by the
American Planning and Civic Associ-
alton, will be held at the Mayfiower
Hotel, beginning next Wednesday.
More than 80 civic leaders and Gov
ernment oflcials, including Secretary
Of Interior Ickes and Secretary Of Ag-
riculture Wallace, are scheduled to
speak.
Discussion will center around cur
rent problems confronting the Ma
tional Park Service in its administra-
ton of park areas and the legislative
program before Congress.
The conference will open with a
dinner at the Mayflower on Wednes-
day, with Frederic A. Delano, presi-
dent Of the American Planning and
Civic Association, presiding.
Speakers at the dinner include Sec
retary Ickes, Secretary Wallace, Hor-
ace M. Albright, former director of the
Evening star., 1936-01-15
ADDRESS BY LONG
PLACED ON RADIO
Louisiana Primary Candi-
dates in Drive to "Com-
pIete the Work."

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. January 15.-The
late Huey P. Longs voice last night
again sounded opposition to the third
year of the Roosevelt depression"
Longs words were broadcast over a
network of State radio stations
through q recording made by him
shortly before he was assassinated at
Baton Rouge last September.
The broadcast was sponsored by
candidates in the January 81 Demo-
cratic primary. who are seeking elec-
ton on complete the work" Of Long
platform.
Earle Christenberry. secretary Of the
late Senator, said in introduction that
Long had recorded the speech about q
week before leaving Washington at
the close Of the last Congress. A few
weeks later he was killed.
The recording, evidently intended
for national distribution in Longs
anticipated campaign for the presi-
dency, was devoted to summation OF
his share program of
limiting big fortunes and redistribut-
ing the wealth.
This is Huey Long speaking" the
recording began in the same manner
in which Long had opened scores Of
radio addresses when he lived.
Long spoke with pride of helping
write" his campaign song, Every
Man a King" which was played and
sung four times during the address.
Long said he was one of the ''bie
four or big five or big six credited
with having swung the Democratic
presidential nomination to Roose.
welt in 1882 on redistribution Of
wealth" platform.
aWhat do we f1nd today?" Long
asked. There are 100000 more
men unemployed today than q veal
ago. There are 5000 900 more people
on the relief rolls than there were 6
year ago. There is an indebtedness.
in this country, public and private
Of $252 ,000, ,000,0 600. or about $4,000
for every man, woman and child ir
the Nation.
sThis is now the third year of ,ths
Roosevelt depression"
At the conclusion of the recording
listeners were urged to vote against
anti administration candidates who
had plotted in a New Orleans hote
to have Long shot down in cold blooc
so he could not complete his program
Long was shot and fatally wounded
last September by DR.. Carl Austir
Weiss. young Baton Rouge physician
who was Immediately riddled with
bullets by Longs bodyguards ano
killed.
Evening star., 1936-01-15

Mrs. Raymond Clapper with Senators
Costigan Of Colorado, Capper of
Kansas. Pope Of Idaho and Nye Of
North Dakota.
The mandate committee Is dis
trtbuting petitions to obtain $4,000, 900
signatures renouncing war as a means
Of settling international disputes.
Evening star., 1936-01-15
KELLOGG PEACE PACT
ANNIVERSARY MARKED
Senate's Ratification Observed in
Radio Program by Women's
Peace Unit.

The seventh anniversary of the
Senate's ratification Of the Kellogg
peace pact was to be observed today
with broadcast over wRC and the
N. B. G. network from 5:45 to 6 pm.
The broadcast, sponsored by the
Committee for the Peoples Mandate,
initiated by the Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Freedom,
was to consist of an interview BY
Evening star., 1936-01-15
Queen Receivers.

Tonga's six-foot Queen Salote is
recovering from an operation in sgd
ney, New South Wales.