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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Read in your pa
per what one woman thought OF
married women working. In some
cases she is right, and in others she
is not.
There are more people who have
a good living where both are work
ing than the poor class. I don't
know what I would have done If
my wife couldn't have helped me.
I was sick for more than two years
and in debt for borrowed money we
had to have.
My wife got a job and worked
for more than a year, then I got
a Job at 1914 cents an hour, then
was cut to four days a week, some
times three, and then finally a lay
off of two months, besides two
other vacations. When went back
I was cut to 30 cents and forty-flve
hours a week.
If any man with a wife and chill
dren can pay rent, lights, water, in
surance, coal, groceries and buy a
few needed clothes now and then
on that amount of money, without
any help, please have it printed in
the paper. 1 will be glad to do as
they say.
The cutting Of wages is the main
reason for unemployment. Why
don't they start at the White House,
slashing wages, and bring every
thing else down in proportion, taxes
also? Maybe then a man could ex-
list on his low wages without his
wife helping.
There are lots Of places, such as
teaching schools, working in banks,
operating elevators in large build
ings where a man could take a
woman's place. 1t isn't the factory
only where men are beat out of
jobs. Some factory work is too tedi-
Gus for men.
I agree with Mrs. Ritchie that a
woman's place is in the home if
she can be, but we don't always get
] what we want. If we did, we might
have a radio, an automobile, fine
furniture and clothes, but we don't
have any of these.
DISHEARTENED.
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He's Striking Character

OUTSIDERS think of Huey P.
~ Long as a de luxe edition of
"Bossy' ellis, the far-famed mayor
of Newburyport, or a rather in
ferior edition of big Bill" Thomp-
son, the even farther famed mayor
of Chicago.
Just another Cole BIease. or
Tom Hehin," they are likely to re-
mark when somebody mentions his
name.
Just another ranting, ripsnort-
ing politicians putting it over on the
gentle folk down south"
Then they will tell you all about
his pecularities and coarseness-
how he was an itinerant peddler
only a few years back, how he once
punched a reporter, how he some
times receives visitors in his under
wear, and how easily he can lapse
into vernacular of the gutter when
he gets excited.
What they will not tell you about
is how he licked the plunderbund
singlehanded, spoiled its respectable
graft, ripped away the disguise Of
SNUG politeness which had enabled
1t to strut for a generation, and,
having licked it, how he is trying
to give the state government some
of that vim and verve which people
generally can be depended on to
approve, unless it intreferes with
some pet racket.
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Gift to Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS isn't half as
IN sure Of what Huey P. Long
represents as it was three months
ago. Business is beginning to en-
joy some benefit from the roads he
has built, and to wonder whether
more wouldn't help, especially since
they can be paid for by the scent
gasoline tax. Also, the idea of
starting that 100000 state capitol,
for which he was so roundly con-
demned during the campaign,
doesn't look as bad as it did.
There are those who will tell you
that, instead of being a calamity,
Huey P. Long is little less than
Gods great gift to Louisiana, if
not the south, and possibly the en-
tire nation; that he will bear
watching; that he may be the
Moses for which the Democratic
party has been waiting; that he may
even become President Of the United
States some day.
AS for Huey P. Long himself, he
takes these childish outburstS of
f1attery, and the remarkable change
in sentiment they represent, with
the same good-natured stoicism
that he formerly took the kicks and
cuffs.
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THE echoes of the address by

THE echoes of the address by
Il Sinclair Lewis in Stockholm
continue. and SO I want to return
to a subject which has already re-
ceived a good deal of space in this
column.
want to get back to it because
in an earlier effort I grew rather
confused and may have given the
impression that in me there was
scant sympathy for the radical and
unrecognized writer
This is not the case. I merely am
ouarreling with the spokesman OF
the cause and the allies whom he
selected as his personal bodyguard.
Lewis himself was less than clear.
His Swedish listeners had every
right to suppose that here was a
young f1rebrand battling against
hopeless odds with little support
save that accorded to him by an
other untouchable named H. l..
Mencken.
Somebody ought to get in COM
munication with Sweden and tell
the sympathetic hearers of Sinclair
Lewis that they need not weep their
eyes out because of sights put upon
the author of Main Street" or the
first citizen Of the Free State Of
Maryland.
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Questions and
Answers

Does history show that after e
great war there is always a period
of economic depression. Is the pres
ent economic depression world wide
or does it affect only the United
States?
History shows that after each big
war there comes a period OF eco
nonic depression such as we are
now undergoing, after about ten
years. The present economic depres:
sion not only affects the United
States but is world wide.
For what words does the distress
signal S o S stand?
It is a radio code that has no
meaning except as a signal for dis
tress. The letters are entirely arbi-
trary and were selected for this sig
nal by the international radio tele-
graph conference in Berlin in 1908
and adopted by the United States
in 1912?
How old IS Robert Montgomery
and is he married?
He is IS and is the husband OF
Elizabeth Allen.
How much did Sharkey and
Schmeling receive for their last
fight?
Each received s177,ef7 for then
fight at Yankee stadium, New York
June Il, 1880.
In what motion pictures did
John Drew appear? Is he living?
He never acted for the screen
His brother. Sidney Drew. appeared
in numerous film comedies. Botf
ara dead.
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Not on Soapbox

IF say that neither Mencken nor
l. Sinclair Lewis is in any sense a
radical writer in the year 1890, some
definition must be offered of the
word radical" as applied to the
profession of authorship.
1t will not suffice TO say that
neither one of them has ever es-
poused any radical economic thought
or made alliance with any radical
political party.
Both have sniped often at the fol-
lies of leaders in the Democratic
and Republican ranks, but this
shooting always was done from the
side lines. In other words, N1encken
and Lewis are liberals in so far as
any definite political position is
concerned.
But one possibly could be deep on
the fringe of the left wing and re-
main a classical in literary expr IS
sion. And there is nothing in the
style of Gertrude Stein which in
evitably would prevent her from
being standpat Republican.
I am trying to use the word
radical" in its largest sense.
would use it as a label for any one
who in mood Or expression or point
Of view palpably was maverick.
Thus I think that the effort of
Ernest Hemingway to bridge the
gap between written and spoken
English still may be considered a
radical experiment, and that the
insistence of Upton Sinclair upon a
proletarian Interpretation Of all
human conduct has also stamped
him as one not yet within the
bounds of conformity.
fCopvrieht 1870 nv The Tiresl
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After the Bell

TITO a large extent Lewis was
l. fighting over again a battle
which already had been won. The
cable dispatches declared that the
Stockholm audience greeted each
sally against 'the old guard"
But the fact is that by now Sin
clair Lewis belongs to that organ
ization, and so does Mencken.
There was no particular reason
for bringing big guns and tanks to
bear upon the ranks of the Amer
clan Academy of Arts and Letters.
1t is not an organization command
ing serious attention from Amer
lean writer's or the American public.
Generally, it Is regarded as a
culture club, the chief mission Of
which is to present a medal once
a year to the radio announcer
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Cause Of Jake Poisoning Found

as carbolic acid, act promptly when
taken into the system, the action
of the creSyl phosphate responsible
in the case OF the ginger extract
poisoning is slow.
1t also seems to have a special
affinity for the parts of the nervous
system that have been mentioned.
Nobody seems to know exactly
why the manufacturer of the boot
leg ginger put in the triorthocresyl
phosphate, whether it was done &C
cidentally or on purpose.
Probably it was added to aid in
producing intoxication, and prob
ably without any knowledge of the
chemist who made up the formula
that the drug would have the effects
that have occurred.
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ZZGE
B1TkE'
lMMNlVGR$MRY|
TAKING OF LOUISIANA

December 20
ON Dec. 20, 1903, the United
~ States took possession Of the
Louisiana territory after purchas-
ing it from France for the price of
$15,000,000. This was the most re-
markable event in the admini5tra-
ton Of President jefferson.
The territory comprised the en-
tire region between the Mississippi
river and Rocky mountains, and
extended from the north of Texas
to the southern boundary of British
America.
Napoleon willingly sold it at such
cheap price because he saw that
he was likely to have war with
Great Britain and knew that the
British feet could easily keep
French forces away from the Mis-
sissippi river.
The Louisiana purchase had these
important results:
1t secured the entire control of
the Mississippi and more than
doubled the area of the United
States, it strengthened the bond OF
union in the southwest, and it gave
new force to arguments for "in-
ternal Improvements '-the building
of roads and canals to connect
east and west.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

the quantity of the ginger fluid con-
sUmed was not the important fac
tor in the occurrence of the symp-
toms. One drink seemed to pro-
duce the same effects as those fol-
lowing prolonged use.
Usually the symptoms did not
appear until ten days after the
taking of ginger extract. The
person developed what is called
wrist drop and foot drop with
paralysis of the muscles of the
arm and leg, indicating that in
some matter that portion of the
nervous system involving the con-
troll of muscular action had been
damaged by the poison.
Whereas ordinarily cresols, such
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Real Exploration

nMITTING California, says Dr.
~ Bowman, the most common
question of civilization is, What
will the weather be today?" and. he
continues, IF the forecaster can not
tell us whether it will rain, at
least We wish him to tell us If 1t is
prudent to carry an umbrella"
In similar fashion, DR.. Bowman
points out, astronomers are engaged
in predicting eclipses and other as r
Economical events, while the United
State coast and geodetic survey
predicts tides for any given point
on the earth's surface.
"It happens that polar exploration
has participated in this advance
from the place of wish-and-guess to
the eye-piece of an instrument of
precision and a knowledge of the
workings of natural laws" he says.
THE new ideas in polar. explora-
ton are not airplane and radio
these are but instruments of dis
covery. They are astonishingly re-
liable and useful instruments, but
they are of mechanical interest only,
apart from the ideas they serve.
Science feared for time that
they would run away with the game,
because the popular mind is still on
the romance of flying and the magic
of communication by wireless.
1.-THE really big game of the polar
hunt are the scientific ideas or laws
upon which the polar regions, and in
some cases they alone, can throw
light.
Science is searching for particu-
lar things, not just anything. Real
exploration has ceased to be a blind
and adventurous wandering into the
unknown"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
They Didn't Shoot

Henry r. Smith and Henry D. Jones, two prohibi-
ton agents o! eastern Oklahoma, were cited the
other day for lneritorious service and commended by
Director of Prohibition Amos w. w. Woodcock. Their
deed the capture of a dry law violator without
bloodshed, one made more vaorous by the fact that
though guns were pointed at them they arrested
their man without firing shot.
Peace hath her victories" In view of prohibitions
record of gunpay the last decade the citation
of Messrs. Smith and Jones certainly is one such
victory,
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Polar Exploration Just Be-
ginning, Wien Needs Of
Science Are Considered.
by DAVID DIETZ.
MAN has conquered the north


Science Are Considered.
NEAN has conquered the north
1V1 pole by foot, by airplane. and
by dirigible. He has sailed a plane
across the most dangerous portion
of the Arctic. the so-called pole of
inacceSsibility. He has reached the
south pole on foot and by plane.
Yet in scientific circles polar ex-
ploration is regarded as just be-
ginning. The scientist feels. now
that the sporting records have been
hung up. IL is time to settle down to
the serious side of collecting infor-
nation wholesale.
Some of the reasons why scien-
fists regard polar exploration as inn
portant were outlined recently by
DR.. Isaiah Bowman, director Of the
American Geographical Society of
New York.
1T was but yesterday in the pro-
cesSion of the eternal years that
men sought knowledge Of the higher
will by consulting the oracle, the
shrine where the voice could be
heard that told what to do and
what would happen" he said.
What men were striving after
was foreknowledge of the event.
1T is rather striking that this
early manifestation of human GU
riosity is reflected in the scientific
era. Within the scope of its laws,
or, better said, its generalization,
science today sets up forecast as
one of its highest aims"
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California justice" is not limited to the courtroom
It extends within prison walls. The Federated Press
just has shown that the crooks who played with the big
boys of California finance and politics. but since have
gone to JAIL get soft jobs 1t lists representative
ASA Keyes, ex-dstrict attorney of Los Angeles
county, who sent scores of members of the l. w. w.
to San Quention for possession of Red union card
there himself, doing one to fourteen years for
taking brides in connection with the Julian Petroleum
prosecution.
But Reyes has no jute mill job like his Wobbly
victims. He is clerk in the lieutenant of the yards
Office, and has front seat at baseball games and gives
interviews to the press saying that he has changed
his views on penology. He now believes in short
terms.
ED Rosenberg, Los Angeles broker, convicted with
Reyes, is library assistant.
William H. Parker ex-commissioner of streets in
Oakland, serving to fourteen years for brbe-
taking, is clerk in the Office of the prison dentist
Burton F. Becker ex-sherf of Alemeda county,
doing one to fourteen years for bribery attend
ant in the prison hospital where he gets good food
"crowell L. Ormsby, convicted with Becker for
bribery conspiracy, serving fourteen years
is business manager of the Bulletin, prison paper
Ormsby formerly was Anne Semple McPherson's law
yer.
Harry Lesser, rich Oakland contractor serving two
years for corrupting city politicians is library at
tendant."
But Tom Mooney, who has been a model prisoner
always carefully observing prison rules and entitled
to seniority consideration in the bargain is subject
to the wardens special persecution deprived of priv
leges and given of the most degrading and repu
sive jobs in the prison.
The way of the transgressor of the rules of the
United Railways and G. g. E. is indeed hard in
the Sunkist state.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY HB BFogS

Mencken. He has become the norm.
The Brahmins SO savagely as
sailed by Sinclair Lewis we'll may
appeal to our national sense Of
chivalry. The Nobel prize winner
did no more than tramp upon the
heads OF those already PROSTATE.
He even turned corpses with his toe
and pretended to be a dragon killer.
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Huey P. Long May Be Some
thing Of q Blatherskite, but
He Is Getting Things Done.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2o.-when
LIZ entering Louisiana on the road
from Meridian to New Orleans, the
first thing you notice is a we'll
paved highway stretching out across
the swamp and fanked by good
stout ratings painted white. The
next thing you notice is a huge sign
proclaiming paved highways, free
bridges" and bearing the signature
Of "Huey P. Long"
No trimmings to indicate that he
is Governor, or recently was elected
to the United States senate, but
just the plain, unvarnished name,
the plain, uavarished announce
ment. It's not only a fine bit of ad-
vertising, but it tells a big story.
This man may be something Of a
blatferskite, as his enemies declare,
but he is getting things done
things that the people want, that
they have waited for long time,
and that make it possible for them
to overlook all the torse-play and
den1agogery.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
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INVESTIGATIONS undertaken by
4 the United States Public Health
Service finally revealed the cause
of the, paralysis resulting from the
taking of bootleg ginger extract, as
the substance called triorthocresyl
phosphate.
While it was thought at first that
the symptoms were due to phenol or
carbolic acid, the tests finally have
narrowed the responsibility down to
the special form of phenol that has
been mentioned.
In the studies it was found that
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What are the shortest and the

longest wave lengths used in radio?
The radio division of the United
States bureau of standards says that
the shortest wave employed IN radio
work is about one-half a meter. The
longest is used at present by the
station at Bordeaux. France, and is
fifteen kilocycles or 1880 meters
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MenCken the Master

r HAVE an enthusiastic ad1nira-
4 ton for Henry Mencken. He
always has seemed to me the live
lest of American critics and the
best of American journalists. He
has fought hard for many good
causes. But for the most part he
has fought successfully.
In mere weight Of numbers the
enemy still may dwarf his enemy,
but in the matter of an articulate
following, Mencken and Lewis hold
most of the tricks.
From time to time it is my privi-
lege to see manuscripts of one kind
or another which come from high
school and college students. Ninety
per cent of all aspiring young au-
thors are endeavoring to initiate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20

Gunner were in attendance at the wedding of Al
Capones sister in Chicago 1t isn't reported whether
or not they serenaded the couple with Hail, Hail the
Gangs All Here"
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whose diction flows most smoothly
along the ether.
To say that most of the best
known authors in America are not
included in it's membership list is
but to repeat a tllrice-told tale.
What young author in America, if
given the choice, would not prefer
to be Mencken rather than an
acadenai ian?
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I have nothing to say about anything" simeol
D. FesS is quoted as saying. And that's saying
mouthfuL
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Dorothy thinks that tramp steamer is one o.
those ships that always is asking for AID
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
MagaZine.
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Daily Thought

Stand in awe, and sin not
Psalms 4:4.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20

Sin is not taken out Of man, as
Eve was out of Adam, by putting
him to sleep.-Wendell Phillips.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20

What is the heaviest rainfall for
twenty-four hours in the United
States and elsewhere?
The heaviest rainfall occurred
June IA, 1911, at Baguio, Philippine
islands, where forty-six inches fell.
The heaviest in the United States
occurred at Taylor. Tex, Sept. 9 and
10, 1921, and totaled 23.11 inches.
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copyright. 1880. BY The Times,
La gaceta., 1930-08-05

vir de blanco a otros dos golpes
cruZados a la cara Y est0mago
que 10 rindieron en- su misma
esquina, donde, sin fuerzas pa
ra continuar la lucha dej6 que
lie contaran, descansando sobre
una rodilla, los nueve segundoS
que son los que cuenta nuestro
buen amigo ell Referee del
ring cubano, Sr. Eloy Cuervo.
Ell decimo segundo 10 cuenta al
aire, levantando los brazos, pa
particular este que do lugar a
que en- ell tercer round la cam
pana salvara a Kid Aguiar que
va Sc daba por vencido.
Ell semi-final entire Ponce de
Leon y Charles Walker result6
bastante interesante a pesar de
que Sc notaba en- ell "Topacio'
como llamaban a Ponce en- Sus
buenos tiempos, estaba compile
tamente fuera de MEDIA. Sc
compuso no obstante, al final
del bout, 10 que permiti6 a les
Jueces dar la decision, bastan.e
ajustada, de draw. iPeores
Sc han dado en- Benjamin Field
contra los cubanos!
En- los p~relimihares Ray
mond Perez venci6, aunque con
trabajo, a Battling Tito Bait
ling Tito, que demostro ser mas
r~esistente y tambien mas qua
POI.
frankie Perez, discipulo de
"Pico" Diez, derrot6 de manera
decisiva a Joe Peon en- una
pelea muy animada. Perez pro-
mete como boxeador.
Ell primer acto entire Baby
Rodriguez y Carl Bachman fu3
declarado draw.
La gaceta., 1930-08-05

ell octave round de I'm match
concertado a diez.
La gaceta., 1930-08-05
Ia GACETA

Ill rs de pei, no podra enva-
ne else de su triunfo, case d.
ob.enerlo, y 81 lamentarse de su
derrota a mans de un feather
wight.
Por otra P4 i, a Chocolate
- le ofreeera un encuentro con
Al Singer, case de veneer a
Berg, aunque este encuentro no
Sc efectuara, por 10 menos, has
ia pasados seis meses.
FL cronista Runyon qued6
gratamente impresionado con
ell training de Chocolate que pc
so aver a la termination de en-
trenamiento 125 lbs. mientras
que Berg acus6 en- la balanza
1882 a la bora de darse la du-
cha.
FL peso a que Sc supone en-
tren en- ell ring ambos boxeado-
res es de 1877 Berg, de 127 Kid
Chocolate, Berg, que es de ma
cionalidad inglesa, esta consi-
dorado como de POGO punch,
mientras que Chocolate es de
los que mas fuerte pega entire
los boxeadores de su peso.
La gaceta., 1930-08-05
FLYNN GANO EN-
MIAMI

I'm solo un round pelea
anoche en- Miami Jimmy Flynn
de Key West derrot6, via X. O.,
a Black Cat Larry, de Hartford
Conn. Tn derechazo a la quija-
da puso a dormir a Larry quien
solo pudo pegar un golpe habia
fracturado tres de estos huesos
al boxeador de Cayo Hueso.
En- ell programa aparecieron
tambien los conocidos Baby
Reyes, de Key West y Gilberto
Rojas, de la Habana, perdiendo
2ojas por K. 0, que recibi6 en-
ell septimo round del semi-fi-
nal concertado a ocho.