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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Hoover and Smith on Muscle Shoals

Herbert Hoover favors Government retention of
Muscle Shoals
That great hydro-eectric and nitrate project must
be saved for the people. This is of the major do
nestle issues before the country today.
Hoover wisely has taken public stand. In for
NAL press statement yesterday, he confirmed and am
plihed his interview last Saturday with the Knoxville
(Tenn) News-Sentinel a Scrpps-Howard newspaper.
After quoting from his Elizabethton speech that
there exceptions to his general rule against Gov
eminent competing with private industry. that there
are local instances where the Government must enter
the business field as by-product of great major
purpose" he said that means Muscle Shoals" He
added:
There is no question about government ownership
of Muscle Shoals the Government already owns
both the power and the nitrate plants. The major
purposes which were advanced for its construction
were navigation scientific research. and national de-
fence
1.-THE Republican Administration has recommended
that it be dedicated to agriculture for research pur
poses and development of fertilizers in addition to
its national defense reserve
after these purposes are satisfied there is a by
product of surplus power. That byproduct should be
disposed of such terms and conditions as will safe
guard and protect all public interests. entirely agree
with these proposals"
A similar statement has been made by Smith In
his acceptance speech he said:
at will be the policy of my Administration, while
retaining Government ownership and control, to de-
velop method of operation for Muscle Shoals which
will reclaim for the Government some fair revenue
from the enormous expenditure already made for its
development and which is now a complete waste
"In this way the original peace-tme purpose OF
the construction of this plant will be achieved The
Nation will be reimbursed agriculture will be benefited
by the cheap production of nrates for fertilizer and
the surplus power will be distributed to the people.
We are glad both presidential candidates are de-
termined that the Government retain Muscle Shoals
For this will give the people at least one check and
balance against unjust rates and prices of predatory
private interests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
u, S, in IdIeneSS

1t is humiliating to recall how
little we have done, or are doing in
comparison to Germany.
The war not only left us with
magnificent merchant marine, but
with adequate resources to keep it
going. Control of the sea and SUI
premacy in the air were ours for
the asking We had the money,
material and men.
The situation we faced was much
more favorable than that of the
early half of the Nineteenth CEN
fury when our grandfathers success
fully challenged England for SUI
premacy on the sea.
The American people, with their
vast surplus of cash, their unim-
paired credit and their control of
international trade might easily
have placed themselves in an i'm
pregnable position.
Instead, they were content to live
on their laurels, to loan money, to
sit back and cut coupons, while
other people did the pioneering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Prosperity Drunkenness

The American people are drunk
with prosperity, so drunk, indeed,
as to- imagine that it depends on
politics, as to assume that it can
be guaranteed by merely voting.
The idea that prosperity depends
on thinking faster than the other
fellow, on ingenuity, hard work and
venturesomeness, no longer domi-
mates its attitude.
The cry is for things to remain as
they are for stocks to go up, for
bonds to pay regular dividends, for
a system that insures steady re-
turns.
If the Government will buy or
substitute dirigibles, our manufac-
turers are willing to construct them.
If it will pay sufficiently high postal
rates to prevent the possibility of
loss private enterprise can be de-
pended on to order airplanes and
accept the contract. Outside of
that, the general disposition is to
play safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Our New Zeps

Uncle Sam Just has let contracts for two super
dirigbles by long odds the biggest In the world
With a gas capacity of 100000 cubic feet the
monster airships would make nearly three like the
Los Angeles almost two of the Graf Zeppelnthe lat
est German air liner which is to the Allan
tc-and will be 40 per cent larger than the two Brit
ish dirigibleS nearing completion.
The Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation Of Akron, Ohio
is the lucky bidder but the country is just lucky to
have this get the contract 1t has arranged
to profit by all the knowledge and experience of the
original Zeppelin experts creators and practically sole
developers of this type craft
It had become highly desirable, If not imperative,
that the United States should keep up with the rest
of the world in lighter thanair craft development
That being the case, it would have been folly to have
risked letting the contracts to concern WHICH, at
best could only have guessed at and initiated Zeppelin
ideas
few years ago bitter dispute ragged between
two schools of aviation One held that the airplane
soon would reegate the dirgibe to the dodos while
the other insisted the drgible would GUST the air
plane from popular favor.
Today experts are coming to believe that both were
wrong that there really is no conflict between dirig
bic and airplane, because each has uses which the
other can not fulfill.
Recent experience has proved the airplanes lini-
tations as we'll its qualities. 1t has flown over
oceans but where pilot succeeded many others
died trying It's radius CT action being limited by en-
gineering facts which experts know it is and will
continue to be for indefinite time, land machine
or for use over small bodies OF water.
The dirigble, by it's very nature is suitable for
flights over the "ges There is no engineer
ing limit to the size may be- The two new American
zeps will be able to fly half way around H earth
some 10000 miles, without stopping. Their motors OF
448O total horse power may be throttled down like
ships engines so they may run Indefinitely without
injury to themselves. If they stop altogether the
airship will continue in the air.
Not single airpane has been able to ny from
Europe to the United States Every attempt has ended
in disaster and generally in the death of all concerned
One the Bremen was lucky enough to land on tiny
island off the coast of Labrador But it took weeks OF
effort and the life of at least man to rescue It's
crew.
On the other hand zeppelns have made four starts
across the Atlantic and scored four complete sue
cesses three OF them along the fatal east-to-west
course which no heavier than-air machine has COM
peted.
Experts see a brilliant future for these super
dirigibes as mall freight and passenger carrying
craft across continents ano In war it is fore
seen that they will act, not much fighting craft
Eut as carriers OF fighting planes and as personnel
and material transports.
Every one that IS built represents an advance over
its predecessors in every way including the important
elen&nt of safety.
The drigible still is too pew for its possibilities to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Commencement time!


For Jean it did not herald the
days of a sweet girl graduate,
showered with friendly gifts and
good wishes. Still, it was a COM
mencement time of sorts-a COM
mencement Of her life with that
of her baby-Jerrys baby, too, but
this she would not confess.
She had no desire to put herself
upon the mercies of her sodden, ugly
tempered father when she discov-
cred that the rainbow of love had
changed into the black cloud Of
despair. The Jerry she had so
adored turned out to be like many
another idol with feet of clay. Sure,
he liked her well enough-but he
liked other girls pretty well, too,
and besides he was not "a marryin'
man."
She had quit school months be-
fore commencement time, and she
went to work in a factory. deter
mined to shoulder her own re-
sponsibilities. When, however, she
at last became conscious of the
knowing glances and comments she
fed the place. A friend who har-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09

damental procedure of medical research, but of all
scientific investigation.
Conclusions must be tested by actual experiment
Edward Jenner born at Berkeley Gloucester
shire, England May II, 1749. His father, the Rev.
Stephen Jenner, died when Edward was only pears
old and an older brother raised him.
Since he showed a strong interest in natural his
tory, his brother embarkde him the study of medi
cine. After preliminary study he went to London,
where he became Hunters favorte pupil.
When Capt Cook returned from the first of his
famous voyages in It'll Jenner engaged to pre-
pare the biological specimens for the museum.
He did we'll that he offered the post of nat
ralt the second voyage but refused because he
did not wish to interrupt his medical studies.
He received the degree Of doctor of medicine from
st. Andrews in 1888
Jenner always had strong interest, however, in
all natural history and physical phenomena, and he
did considerable research in these fields.
He published papers on the Information OF the
hedgehog and the habits Of various birds. He also
constructed the first balloon seen at Berkeley.
His discovery of smallpox vaccination was not
sudden thing but the result of long years of obServa
ton and thought to which, in keeping with Hunter
advice, trial by experiment was added.
Jenner's attention first directed to smallpox
when student when his attention was attracted to
belief then current in Goucestershire This that
people who had been infected with cowpox from con-
tact with diseased COWS were immune to smallpox
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Winning on Chances

Our forefathers did not play safe
when they settled this continent,
when they fought the Revolution,
or even when they built that mag
nificant fleet of clipper ships with
which to conquer the seven seas.
They did not play safe when they
strung railroads across the country,
when they Staked out a thousand
town sites on the prairie, when they
bought mining stock, when they
backed Bell with the telephone.
They won largely because they
did not play safe, because they were
willing to take a chance, because
they put a premium on progress, be-
cause they dared to bet good money
on ideas.
There never was a time, when
men could play safe and win, when
the race did not go to the speedy
and the battle to the strong.
There never was a time when
originality of thought counted for
so much as it does today.
Competition has become a matter
of intelligence. We enjoy no guar
antee of remaining on top of the
heap, except our ability to think
fast, and thinking fast will do us
no good unless we have the courage
to back it up.
The notion that we can sit down
to comfortable. if not an idle old
age. because this country has be-
come the worlds creditor is false.
A mortgage is no good. unless
somebody pays it off. and the man
who pays it of not only achieves
morek but learns more than he who
takes the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Serum Wins War Against ErySibeIaS

sible to develop an antitoxin
against the disease, investigators
began to study the various forms
of streptococci that were found in
erysipelas.
Soon evidence became available
that the streptoccocci causing cry
sipelas form closely related group
similar to the group Of germs that
may be associated with scarlet
fever.
1t became possible to develop an
antitoxin OF special value in treat
ing those forms Of erysipelas caused
by streptococci of the proper type.
When this antitoxin was injected
in suitable cases, the results were
dramatic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09

There was a sudden drop in the
temperature, the rate of the pulse
and the rate of breathing; by the
third day the blisters and red spots
and the swelling began to disap-
pear from the skin.
Since the announcement Of this
antitoxin by Birkhaug in 1926, it
has been used extensively in various
places in this country. Evidence
is sufficient to establish the value
of the method.
The antitoxin treatment of cry
sipelas marks an advance, the re-
suits of which are commensurate
with those obtained in the treat
ment Of diphtheria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Times Readers Voice Viez0S

up for the nomination for President.
Did any of them have a chance?
From the tone of the letter the
writer did not know the Republicans
and Democrats held national con-
ventions this year. From what most
writer's say in Indianapolis papers
Hoover must be elected regardless
Of everyone else. Why? Just to
correct the mistakes of the last
eight years. Well, Governor Smith
has the ability to handle that sit
uation better than any other man
in the nation. H. w.
Editor Times-I just have read
your articles about the Farm bureau
meeting Oct. at the Dennison
hotel. If you and John J. Brown
were aiming at the truth, you would
better take some target practice.
Why didn't you go to the meeting
and get the truth instead of get
ting your information from a Re-
publican politician?
I attended the meeting and know
that the men there were not hired,
but spent their own time and money
to go TO Indianapolis to save the
Indiana Farmers Federation from
such men as Brown and Mcclure,
whom everyone knows are working
for and are paid by the Republican
party. They would get lot more
if they could deliver the fedora
ton to Hoover, body and soul, or
break it.
Thank God we have William H.
Settle and a membership that will
not permit it. They are for the
farmers organizations, all right, but
they kick the hardest when they
do organize. They are like Secre-
tary Jardine preaching co-operatives
and selling his cattle to old-time
commission firms.
You owe the intelligent farmers of
Indiana an apology for trying to
discredit the organization. 1 dare
you to answer or to print this.
D. S. (Farm Bureau member),
Roachdale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Reason

CUNDAY was the birthday Of
~ James Whitcomb Riley, the
Peoples Poet.
It's hard to realize that he would
be rs, for we see him still a young
man, reciting his verses to a hand
full of people in little church.
The spell still holds, for he was
as superb an artist as ever en-
chanted a crowd; as finished a
magician as ever created life out of
empty air.
Indiana has been lonesome since
he went away" in 1916, but we are
glad her head was high when last
he saw her; we are glad he did
not live to see the State he loved
and glorifled, overwhelmed by as
ruthless a pack as ever violated the
honor Of an American common
wealth!
It's wonderful for the Illinois
State lodge of the Order of Elks
W CdhG ONCL Tic care VI VIC Grip
pied children of that State.
We rather would have one Grip
pied child testify for us on Judg-
ment day than anybody else We can
imagine.
It will be lucky for Uncle Sam
if Secretary Mellon just keeps on
being secretary of the treasury
under the next administration, for
he knows more about the habits
and customs of money than any
other man who ever held the job.
1t would deter crime if Chicago
should give the electric chair with
in thirty days to the pair just con-
victed of killing a policeman, but
all the effect will be lost by the
years which will intervene, if the
condemned men have enough
money to play horse.
When there's no doubt Of guilt,
give it to them plenty and give it
to them soon!
AS usual, all the world series
prophecies have been upset.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
THE PEOPLES POET
ONE CRIPPLED CHILD
GIVE CURTIS A REST

THESE political go-getters who
L insist on Curtis filling engage
ments, contrary to his doctors or
ders, may kill their candidate for
Vice President, if they keep it up.
The grind to which they are sub
jecting Curtis is the thing that has
removed more statesmen than any
other one ailment.
=
Manuel Portes, chief of the Santa
Rosa Indians, is dead in California
at the age of 100, leaving four sons
over ninety.
The juvenile authorities should
watch these orphans closely till
they get beyond the period Of
temptation.
Next to being a crossing watch
man or a member of the fire de-
partment, the Prince Of Wales has
the most attractive job on earth,
All he has to do is TO CAD about.
incarnating an empire, and it's
much easier to incarnate an empire
than feed a family.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09

XXTE don't blame Prince Nicholas
w Of Rumania if he eloped with
the girl he wanted to escape
marriage of expediency.
Better be a woodpecker and select
your own mate than a prince and
have a bunch of politicians do it
for you.
- n
Senator Borah should accept the
challenge Of James Hamilton Lewis
to a number of joint debates, for
this is the way our statesmen
should thrash out the issues.
A battle between Borah and
Lewis, each the ablest debater in
his party, would be the best ora
torical feast spread for the U. S. A.
Since Lincoln and Douglas made
history from the pine platform of
Illinois.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09

Editor The Times-I have a few
words to say to the party who heads
his letter in your paper of Oct. 4,
Smiths Great Mistake"
He covered a great deal of ground
but said nothing. The writer states
in his letter that Smith should have
been a United States Senator to be
qualified for the highest office in
the country. How do you get that
way? Was Coolidge a Senator? Was
Harding a Senator? Both parties
had some of their senatorial stock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
David Dietz on Science
Don't Think; Try!
No. 176

TT was Edward Jenner, the originator of smallpox
1 vaccination that John Hunter, the most famous
physician of his day, gave the advice Don't think
try!"
This statement, like many others, is subject to
faulty Interpretation when thus regarded by itself
1t must not be supposed that Hunter was urging Jen-
ner to stop from using his brain. Far from it!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09

Hunter meant
that in medical
research it was
not sufficient for
the experimenter
to look over data
and then say II
think thus and
so is the conclu-
sion" It was
necessary to try
exp m e n t S
which would es-
tablish whether
or not the con-
cluSionS W er e
juStifable.
Today this is
not on1v the finn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

IL OAes NAOhAsAC GAohoEAN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
ERYSIPELAS is an acute infam-
IL maiton Of the skin caused by
a certain germ. The popular name
for it once was st. Anthonys fire
1t is likely to follow a skin wound
infected with the germs concerned.
A survey of medical literature re-
veals the fact that the cause has
taffled medical science until fairly
recent times.
When the Doctors Dick discov-
cred that a certain germ, known as
streptococcus, was responsible for
scarlet fever and that it was pos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
This Date i'm
L. s. History

October 8
1642-First commencement held at
Harvard College.
l701-Yale College received its
charter and was formally
opened at Saybrook.
1858-First overland mail reached
st. Louis, from San Francisco,
in twenty-three days and four
hours.
1867-Russia formally transferred
Alaska to the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09

be more than family surmised 1t is very important
for the United States to find out what some of these
possibilities the money the Navy is paying out for
the two zeps it has just ordered is will spent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09

The name and address of the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
preference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-09
Daily Thoughts

oh, that 1 had wings like a
dOve!-Psalms $3.50.
n t.
A bird in a cage is not half
N bird.-Beecher.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
ACCUSED
IN GANG ATTACK
N. Y. American Fore
man Is Dying

Following murderous attack be-
lieved to have been carried out hy
the Berry Armstrong gang in the
Printing Pressmen's Union, a fore
man named Brown, employed on the
New York American, is today lying
unconscious in New York hospital,
held practically incognito with the
knowledge of the Tammany police
who are Withholding the story from
the public in the fear that George
L. Berry, AL Smiths assistant cleo
ton campaign manager, will be ex-
posed in the affair.
This was the story, details of
which were revealed last night fol-
lowing. certain rumors which have
been verified by the Daily Worker
A certain foreman named Mcbride,
employed by the American, was re-
placed by Brown, who was formerly
employed as foreman by the New
York Telegram. Mcbride, who is a
Berry machine man, is said to have
reported the incident and the Berry
gang is said to have been sent "after
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
A. F. |. COUNCIL.
OPENS SESSION
Political Betrayal Is on
Program
(specia1 to the Daily Worker)

(Special to the Daily WOrker)
ATLANTIC CITY, July 81
Discussion on the presidential stu
alton, it is understood, will form the
chief topic on the program before
the executive council of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor which is
to meet here for its opening session
today.
1t has been rumored that because
of the division among the labor
bureaucrats over the endorsement
of Smith or Hoover, no choice will
be announced for president. Mat
thew Woll is known to have had
several secret conferences with
Hoover recently and is fighting for
the candidate who has just been ex-
posed as the enslaver of the Liber-
ian Negro masses in the interest of
the Morgan-controlled Firestone
rubber interests.
William Green, president of the
Iteration, on the other hand. has
intimated that he would favor
Smith following secret conference
held with the Tammany governor
about two weeks ago in which
Smith agreed to make a statement
on injunctions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
WORKING WOMEN
TO FIGHT WAR
Scott Nearing Will
Speak at Meeting

England and France have signed
naval treaty, which adds to the
smoke screen concealing the prep
arations for war, according to the
statement issued by the New York
Working Women's Federation. The
Federation has arranged for Scott
Nearing to speak on the War Dan
ger. tomorrow evening, August 2, at
Labor Temple, 14th Street and
Second Avenue at 7:30. The New
York Working Women's Federation
has invited working women's clubs
fraternal organizations, women
from shops and unions and parti-
cularly unorganized women who
cannot send official representatives.
The Delegate Conference will con-
slider plans for mobilizing the senti-
ment and support of working women
throughout the state in a special
campaign to expose the menace of
the coming Imperialist war and to
arouse working women to support
the struggle against Imperialism.
Unorganized Invited.
According to Ray Ragozin,
secretary of the Working Women's
Federation, the support of morgan
lied women is of primary signific-
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