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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Discouraging Citizenship

Is Il more important register alien than TO
make him a citizen Of the United States? The action
Of the United States government would make it APP
pear So Congress now is seriously discussing bill
10 compel the registration of all aliens within our
borders At the same time We recently have put into
operation ruling which greatly increases the cost
Of taking out citizenship papers.
On July I. 1929. the cost Of first papers for pros
pective citizeng was increased from 81 TO S.. The
charge for second papers increased from 81 TO So
The actual cost of taking out papers and becoming
citizen easily may run to $50
Many feel that they must consult an attorney for
advice Then a man taking out citizenship papers
must be accompanied by two Witnesses, who will
swear that they have known the person in question
for five years. The applying for papers feels
that he should remunerate his witnesses Tor the time
they have lost from their working day.
That TINS Increased cost Of becoming citizen
markedly has reduced the number Of those applying
for citizenship papers since July 1929 is provided DEF
intely by Harold Fields. executive director Of the
League for American Citizenship, in article in the
New York Times. The following statistics show
decided failing Off in applications in the closing six
months Of the year 1923, compared with the last
six months of 1923.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Tax Prospects

ADMINISTRATION fears that March income tax pay
ments might fall below estimates have been dissi-
pated by the showing thus far made. The treasury
feels certain that the expected $55O,oOO00O viii be
equaled or exceeded.
During the first eighteen days OF the month,
s3142ooOoO paid in gain Of some S43Oo0000
over last year. In March year ago more than
S6O0O00O00 was collected Since then taxes have been
reduced and the stock market collapsed. Uncertainty
existed until 1880 tax returns we're In.
The 1880 taxes are paid on 1929 income. More
than half Of the 1929 year extremely prosperous.
Tax payments during the remainder of the year
may not meet 1929 or anticipated levels But indica
tons are that payments will take care Of the budget
estimate of s3S90OO0OOO It will be recalled that the
President some six weeks ago cautioned congress
against unusual and excessive expenditures for the
fiscal year, which begins July l.
Two Of the quarterly 1880 income tax nstanments
viii fall in the current fiscal year and two in the next
Whether the reduction of l per cent normal tax
rates which was applied TO 1880 payments will be
extended will depend future payments and on
business conditions. For the time being at least.
federal finances are sound
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Soviet Airs Views

COVIET leaders are not agreed as
~ to how the season of worldwide
prayer to stop religious persecution
in Russia should be taken.
Some of them describe is as a
prelude to war, while others say it
turned out an ignominiouS failure.
Still others have the hardihood to
express both views. which puts quite
a strain on the average magma
ton.
Izvestia regards the religious CRU
SADIE as merely a political maneuver
to hasten the moment Of open con-
dict."
Prayda, on the other hand, pre-
fers to see it as failure of the
Vatican'S anti-SoYiet adventure, +"
with "only bankers, gold-braided Of
ticers, landlords and Fascist ap-
pendages of the ruling classes in at
tendance" and glorifies the storm
of anger with which the Soviet
workers met the howl of the church
dogs of capitalism"
AS an innocent bystander, may
we not suggest that Soviet leaders
decide whether they are facing a
menace or a fzzle, before they get
too het I'D.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22

Does the Republican Party
Want q National Chairman
Who Uses Campaign Con-
tributions in the Way
Cloudius II. Huston Has,.
SAYS:
CLAUDIUS H. HUSTON, chair
man of the ReDubIicaro national

~LAUDIUS H. HUSTON, chair
~ man of the Republican national
committee, admits that he received
as president Of the Tennessee River
improvement Association S36,100
from the Union Carbide Company,
but says it was for maps and other
data.
Fred H. Haggerman, president Of
the Union Carbide Company, says
that the money was contributed to
the campaign Huston's association
was making in behalf Of the Wright
bill, which would have turned the
Muscle Shoals properties over to the
Union Carbide Company and the
American Cyanamid Company.
The issue thus raised does not
necessarily disqualify Huston as Re-
publican chairman. One can find
plenty of precedent to justify hired
lobbyist for that job, not to say a
man who merely sold maps and
other information.
But how about the use he made OF
the money he received?
Does the Republican party want a
national chairman who uses money,
whether received as a contribution.
or as pay for statistical data, TO
liquidate his personal Indebtedness
to a brokerage firm, or buy stocks on
margin?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
AlinOny Gold Diggers

Alimony payers throughout the country doubt
will watch with interest the progress of bill intro
duced in the New York legislature for the relief OF
husbands and ex-husbanos who are obliged TO sup
port wives with whom they no longer live. The bill
would allow husband who has defauted to petition
the court for a reduction in his payments.
Dr. c. r. Wilmer OF the National Sociological
league told a legislative committee the time has
rived when the state must take stand against the
"almony gold diggers." Many women marry
he said in anticipation OF She amount Of alinlony
they viii be able to collect He said there are eighteen
divorces for every 100 marriages.
No doubt there is much in what the doctor says.
alimony Tor the support of children OF women
nnabls % take care of themselves can rot be con-
uemned
But there has been much abuse OF alinlony laws.
Often the earning capacity of q man diminishes he
loses his Job suffers financial reverses. Then he
is thrown in Jail without chance to explain to
petition for relief and often not the wife herself
has or is capable of earning comfortable income.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Shaft

IN report to tho University OF
L Pennsylvania, Woolley describes
A great shaft which is at the site of
the town. By the time a depth OF
twenty-nine feet was reached, the
shaft had disclosed the walls Of
eight distinct GuperimpoSed build
lngs.
Now we are at fifty-six feet be-
low the level, which On a conserva-
tive estimate we date at 5000 B. C.,
and, outstripping calculations in
centuries, we have to deal with the
very beginnings Of mans settle
ments here in the river valley" ne
reports.
Below our eighth building there
came a change. No more walls OF
buildings appeared, and the soil was
little more than a mass of broken
pottery. The explanation was soon
forthcoming.
"A brilliantly colored ring OF REQ
and green and pale yellow, proved
to be burnt-out kiln Of bricks
lined with fire-clay. and in the
ashes which filled it there were still
the clay pots OF the last firing.
More kilns came TO light, Gov
ering the whole area in successive
levels, also basins lined with cement
bricks for the kneading of the clay,
potters' tools made Of baked clay
and pebbles for Furnishing the pots
"It was prehistoric factory, and
the dense mass Of Sherds which
buried the site was made from the
'waSterS' discarded by the potter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22

TF a cyclone we're to strike New
Il York this afternoon and make
thousands destitute and homeless
there would be a general response
on the part of the community. Shell
ter and food would be offered to
all who had reaped the fury Of the
storm.
And nobody would think Of calling
this charity. It would be- consid-
cred Just plain, everyday common
humanity.
But thousands Of New Workers at
this moment are victims of a great
catastrophe and there seems to be
fairly@general state OF indiffer-
ence about the matter.
1t is more dramatic to have the
roof swept from over your head by
high wind than to have it sag
under the pressure Of unelmploy-
ment.
Please accept my word that the
need is acute The first mail after
the Give Job Till June" column
brought 1865 letters. One hundred
sixty-four came from men and wom-
en- in the most dire sort Of need. One
offered a job.
"Give a Job till June" writes K.
IF you can, please do. My family
Of four is almost starving and we
are sinking fast. What can do?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
TT SEEMS TO ME By H HEoSs

are able to trace their loss of en-
ployment directly to the Wall Street
panic. They are capable. intelligent
wcll-trained. The cyclone was not
Of their making.
Another fa1lacy 7 would nail IS
the convenient, SNUG impression
that people out of work easily could
get jobs if they were only willing to
take anything which came along.
That Just isn't true.
"The writer says z, recently
found himself, through change in
business conditions, without a bust
ness. In the last six months have
cleaned cellars and attics, washed
windows, beat carpets, taken down
screens, cleaned more cellars and
attics, and done general odd~job
business when odd jobs could be
had"
Mere versatility is no sure pro-
lection against unemployment, for
here is @ who lists his qualifica-
tons as follows: "(a) I can drive
a car; (b) use a typewriter; (c)
have done a little bookkeeping,
clerical and general secretarial
work; Cd once operated a restau-
rant and can wait on table: .(e)
have taught golf"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
REASON By Ff EESBfs

Ut makes feel rather arstocratic to belong the
L. the human race when its astronomers for thirty
five years have been able to forteu with astonishing
accuracy the existence of this newly discovered ninth
planet, billions Of miles away
The marvellous thing OF this life is the lifting of
man from the to the stars from the hairy beast
whose shallow brain was filled with lust Ignorance and
superstition to the scientist able send his audacious
dreams or voyages to unseen worlds.
There's the real miraclei
And with all man has done, ii is thrilling to re-
member that Thomas A. Edison has said that man is
only beginning climb and that the great achieve
ments OF the last century have only scratched the
surface OF things and that the next century will make
this one seem crude
OF course, this planet belongs to by right of
" discovery, but being billions OF miles away, it
will be time before we can get any practical
benefit out OF it,
The next thing is to select name for it and in
aSnluch as many of the heavenly bodies hard
TO pronounce, We suggest that this new one be named
George or Mabel
While it fine to be an astronomer and get away
from the dust and turmoil of the world and while
it must give fellow great feeling of jurisdiction to
deal in astronomical numbers, what terrible jolt it
must be when an astronomers wife sends him to the
grocery for IS cents worth of clothes pins
CONGRESSMAN NELSON Of Wisconsin is too in
~ nocent for this world if he really thinks the
League of Nations would protect the Philippines from
foreign foes, If should grant those islands their
independence
The league never has protected any weak sister
from the rapacity of a powerful nation.
This recent riot in New York in which several
factions of Communists tore into each other with
tooth and nail assures of the peace and harmony
which would follow their erection Of ideal state
They would not be able to keep the peace long
enough to issue a declaration of independence.
These communistic eulogies of Russia reminds
that Big Bill Haywood, leading /. w. W. evangelist,
who skipped 10 Russian to escape prison sentence
in the United States spent his declining days trying
to find way to return TO this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
No Crime Wave?

The popular impression that a crime wave is
sweeping over the United States dis fallacy and is
unsupported by reports of law-breaking in all parts
Of the country to the International Association of
Chiefs Of Police, made public by Bruce Smith, repre-
senting the committee on uniform crime records"
So reads a comforting press dispatch from Wash
ington We wonder the facts warrant any such
rosy view of the situaton No doubt there was much
hysteria in the crime of the last few years
which led to the habtual criminal laws, pancky ad
ninistraon OF rdicuousy sentences by judges
and the like But the assumption that the crime
conditions in the country anything to be satisfied
with does not follow
Such figures as are involved in the above reports
mean little or nothing when Judging the question Of
Sae existence Of crime wave today We should need
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22

the facts about crime per capita ten years ago and
twenty years ago And these we do not have.
Even the statistics referred in the above reports
are grotesquely incomplete and inadequate relative
TO conditions at the present moment. Therefore we
simply not say whether crime is increasing
markedly or is the
Whether crime is increasing not certainly the
facts make it clear that have scandalous volume
of crime per capita compared to Canada, England
and most continental countries. And our record as
to arrests and convictions is even deporabe.
If we have no crime wave" most certainly. have
q national crime scandal"
It is well to stay any hysteria on the subject, but
in so doing should avoid giving the impression
that there is any ground for complacency and salts
faction with the way are proceeding to prevent
crime and to apprehend and treat those who commit
criminal ofenses.
There is no use Of minimizing the size or i'm
Tnedacy OF the job on our hands as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Ftrs. Paper Application;
Total ..............1O6,O 28

There would seem to be little rhyme or reason
10 any SUCH procedure, We slashing tax rate
10 the rich and returning hundreds Of millions in
tax refunds Why add this additional tax on the
lowest income group in the country?
They already have to lace the greatest difficulties
in getting adjusted TO American life and institutions
Why eXtol the virtues of American citizenship and
then place a financial wall between the alien and
naturalization?
Forty or fifty dollars may mean little to the middle
and upper classes but to the hard-pressed alien it
may mean serious temporary privaton. Bounties to
aliens who will become citizens well may be froWned
upon, but financial penalty even more indefensble
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
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POLYCAMY ACT

ON March ~, 1892, congress
~ passed the Edmunds act, ex-
GLIDING bigamists and polygamists
in the territory of Utah from vot-
ing or holding Office.
A board of five commissioners
was appointed by the President to
control the territory. BY revising
the registration of voters and ap-
pointing election officers the com
rnissioners in 1888 supervised ar
election of a territorial delegate 10
congress.
Although 10000 were excluded
from voting because they practiceo
polygamy, the Mormon delegate was
elected over his Gentle opponent
by a. vote Of $1,000 TO 1000.
Following an important trial IN
which the supreme court Of the
United States upheld the constitu-
tionality of the Edulunds act, the
president of the Church Of the Lat
ter-Day Saints, commonly known as
the Mormon church, issued mani
festo declaring he would urge the
cessation of all plural marriages ailo
submit to the laws Of the United
States. The church Endorsed snis
stand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
The FIoOd

a PSYCHOLOGISTS, from their
1 n work in Chaldea, have con-
Guided that the food mentioned in
the Bible actually occurred in the
valley OF the Tigris and EuphrateS
valley.
At Ur, Woclley has made excaya-
tons which he believes antedate the
flood and 60 back as far as $500
B. G.
The graves uncovered by Woouey
possess a wealth OF gold and silver
utensils beautifully decorated, bear
ing testimony to a well advanced
state OF civilization.
A great temple area uncovered at
Ur is particularly interesting. It is
believed that the sacred Enclosure,
or temenos. as it is called, was the
work of Nebuchadnezzar. It appears
that the outer wall contained six
great gateWays.
Within the walls there once stood
a great tower and q temple. This
temple, the great temple of E-num-
nah, appears to have been the work
of three periods. There is an old
Summerian foundation Of unbaked
brick upon which later additions
were made.
Woolley also has excavated what
was the old town of Ur in biblical
days, the town in all probability
upon which Abraham gazed. The
old town was not much different
from the mud-brick towns 10 be
seen in Mesopotamia today.
The most recent finds by W'oolley
have been a series Of religious fig
ures antedating the food, a prehis-
toric factor and the copper figure Of
Rim-Sin, a Sumerian king who lived
about 1900 B. c.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
A Pleasing Idea

DANIEL C. ROPER, commits
~ sioner of internal revenue I'M
der President Wilson, testifying as
dry before the house judiciary
committee, proposed a national pro-
hibiti0n council, modelled after the
wartime council of national defense,
to map out an educational an0 CO.
operative enforcement program for
a period of seven years, during
which the vets would be expected
to maintain a truce.
One is reminded of Lincoln's re-
ply to a committee of churchmen
which called upon him with the re-
quest that Sunday battles be
stopped.
Lincoln said that he was not only
in favor of the idea, but would put
it into effect if the committee could
get the other side to agree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

AS a result of these studies. the
Investigators report that change
in diet does not appreciably alter
the amount Of debris left in the
mouth after eating, nor the number
of germs. Streptococci Of various
types were found frequently.
When men had diets particularly
high in protein substance, they
had more splrocheta1 forms of or
ganisnls, these ALSO being associated
at times with pyorrhea or with in
fections of the gums.
Apparently the germs in the
mouth are more Influenced by food
remnants in the mouth, and by the
cleanliness Of the teeth, than by the
reactions Of the body generally.
Mouths of people vary as to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Clean Mouth Prevents Tooth Decay

amount of acid they develop and
the effects of the acid on the teeth,
but these factors seem Of less i'm
portance in relation to tooth decay.
Experiments OF this type are Of
the greatest Importance in empha-
sizing again the necessity for mouth
cleanliness in general health. Clean
illness OF the mouth is brought about
best by the removal of portions of
food after eating and by the clean
ing Of the teeth with a toothbrush
and water.
Apparently it hardly pays to use
antiseptics around the teeth and
gums for tooth cleaning, unless the
lood debris on which the germs
grow thoroughly is removed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Detects and Kills

A FTER three years of intensive
1 n study, a young man working
for the Westinghouse company
perfects an electric eye" which he
claims can be used not only to de-
tect escaping prisoners, but shoot
them down. as well as perform many
other unique services.
This electric eye" consists Of a
photo-electric cell coupled to q grid
glow tube.
AS long as the light shines on the
cell. an electric current flows freely
through the latter, but the moment
anything interrupts the light, the
flow Of current stops.
Amplified by the tube, the i'm
pulse thus created can be made to
pull the trigger of revolver or ma
chine gun.
In practical operation. you place a
light at one end of a prison wall,
and a photo-electric cell at the
other. The light shines into the cell
by means Of a tiny ray which
parallels the top of the wall.
The eScpalng prisoner Interrupts
this ray as he scales the wall ano
instantly is shot by a gun connected
with the cell.
If that were the only purpose fol-
which the electric eye" could be
used. one might dismiss it as Of no
greater consequence than those star
Ting inventions with which the
Collier genius-Lucifer C. Butts-en-
tertains us over the radio, since it
is obvious that prisoners would have
sense enough to put out the eye
before they tried to escape.
But. according to the inventor, 1t
could be employed to record tenn
perature of steel in blast furnaces
to switch on lights at the approach
Of darkness. and to grade materials
according to color. which sounds fa1
more sensible and promising.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeis, the
Health Magazine.

NNODERN dentistry is concerned
1Vk with much more than remov-
ing or repairing decaying teeth. At
least since 1915, it has been study
ing the germs that occur in the
mouth and their effects in producing
pyorrhea, decaying of the teeth, dis
eases Of the gums and similar prob
lens.
Recently DIS. B. r. Hewitt and w.
c. Fleming have studied the germs
in the mouth of some Of the prison.
ers at San Quentin. Cal, changing
their diets from time to time to de-
ternine the effects Of carbohydrates
and proteins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22
Man Overheard

IF x and his family literally were
4 fioundering in deep water, some
body would dive in to rescue them
even at the risk Of his life. But
their need is just as great. Is ii
reasonable for any Of us to stay on
the bank just because this is a doom
which comes a bit more tediously?
Since Christmas, in spite OF all
efforts to maintain a decent stand
ard. I gradually have lost ground, -
writes Y. until I feel I am just
about three meals removed from a
derelict"
Common to all Of us are the adj
versities OF life" he continues, "but
show me a man of sensitive nature
whose morals viii not suffer to the
bleeding point after weeks OF con-
slant rebuffs in his search for work;
after steady contact with life at is
lowest ebb, written in the faces OF
hopeless men, and after seeing one S
wardrobe gradually depleted via the
pawnshop until in lieu Of a sou. one
is hardly able to keep body and
clothes together"
A few of the illusions of the
comfortable and complacent I would
dissipate. The first is that unem-
ployment is confined largely to I'M
skilled and seasonal workers, and
that, although Of course, it may be
a pity. such people are always out
of work around this time, and do
get used to it.
This column is not very good
medium to tap conditions among the
ranks of the casual laborer. IN
doubtedly the replies do not consti-
tute a fair cross section of the IN
employed. Out Of the first 1874 let
tiers. only eight, by the most rigo-
rous definition, can be classed as
coming from unskilled labor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-22

craftsmen. OF course, ours is q
luxury line; it is only natural that
the country wide depression should
hit us. Yet we must live!
"'My dear man, why don't you
do something else?' I am often
asked with tinge Of reproach Turk
ing in the notwithstanding in
the manner of Marie Antoinette's
Why don't they eat cake?'
AS a matter Of grim experience,
find it well nigh impossible to
obtain employment in other lines
of work. Special training is every
where required"
I want to hear Immediately from
men and women who will give a
JOB till June.
Come on! Who'll give a Job till
June?
tCouvrieht. 1890. BY The Timesl