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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
EinStein'S Opinion

PROFESSOR EINSTEIN wrote:
e 81 consider Nine. Schwim-
mer'S stand of great value and de-
serving the support OF all true
humanitarianS.
Government represents the peo-
pie, and the people are still under
the spell of obsolete traditions OF
military duty. World peace, a cry
ing necessity, is not to be achieved
unless spiritually progressive forces
refuse to yield to public authorities,
controlled by factions which should
be defeated.
"Those convinced of this neces-
sity should consider it their duty
publicly to uphold this conviction;
thereby they bring upon themselves
a conflict with public authority. A
result can be obtained only if a
large number of influential person.
alitieS have the moral courage for
such an attitude.
"Such an attitude is revolutionary.
But only through acts of rebellion
can the fettered individual break
chains which, though founded in
laws, have grown into uncomfortable
bondage. In this situation, too,
such a recourse is unavoidable.
Credit is due Nine. Schwimmer
for having realized this and having
acted courageously in accordance
with her convictions"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16

ence, there is the associated effect
on occupation. Thus one inveSti-
gator has pointed out that the oc-
cupation indicates the joints that
will be involved.
Women doing sewing and knit
ting are affected in the fingers.
Painters and workers with lead seem
to be particularly susceptible to the
disease, and chill and exposure are
associated with the frequency of
it's occurrence among painters,
metal workers, and the personnel
of railway locomotives.
DR.. Glover is inclined to empha-
size particularly the Importance of
prevention of dampness in dwell
ings and the Importance Of free cir
culation of air and of sunlight in
the prevention of arthritis.
Much has been said of the i'm
portance of removing foci of infec-
ton in the teeth and tonsils, as
well as elsewhere about the body in
the attack on arthritis.
Treatment without such removal
does not in any way control the
condition, for the simple reason
that the focus continues to feed the
infectious material to the blood and
by the blood to the joints, so that
new infections are set up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Questions and
Answers

Has the United States treasury
department ever published statistics
showing the number of persons
killed in enforcement of the eight
zenith amendment since it became
effective in 1920?
On June 80, 1880, the statement
was issued by the prohibition unit
Of the treasury department, that
since the eighteenth amendment be-
came effective in 1920. 219 persons
had been killed in the enforcement
Of the laws. OF these, 154 were citi-
zens killed by prohibition agents and
sixty-five were prohibition agents
who met death in the line of duty.
Do synchronouS electric clocks
have a fast-slow adjustment?
They operate only on alternating
current which the power companies
maintain at a steady rate, usually
sixty cycles, per second. The syn
chronous motor in the clock oper-
asas in unison with the cycles Of
the current, so that for every sixty
cycles the clock will register sec
ond.
Who were the leading actors in
Embarrassing Moments?"
Reginald Denny and Merna Ken
needy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Industrial Emancipation

The Democrats are charged with Impeding ao-
ministraton efforts to rehabitate our economic
nrosreritv The main issue is: Does the adminSVra-
ton have solution? We commend to the atten-
ton of the great engineer" in the White House
stuart Chase's succinct summary OF the MINIMUM
essentials of scheme of industrial co-ordinatlon III
Harpers magazine. Here it is
"For America, industrial coordination proDaoly
must take the form of drastic revision OF the anu
trust laws: an alliance of industry trade association
and government to control investment and plant ca
pacitv on the one hand and to guard against I'M
warranted monopoly prices on the other universal
system Of minimum wages and guaranteed hours OF
labor to frghten off fly-bynight entrepreneurS ana
to stimulate purchasing power; and, finally, ana
perhaps most important of all, the setting up Oh
national industrial planning board as fact-gatherr
and in turn an adviser to congress, President, in
dustry trade union, banker, state government on
every major economic undertaking in accordance with
a master blueprint"
Here is something for Mr. Hoover to chew on along
with his Christmas turkey But he should not have
had to wait for Stuart Chase to set it under his
nose in $780,
The same implications were as plain as day IN
the report on waste industry" which he sponsored
a decade ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HR Ry6P7e

1T is known that Professor Elm
l. stein dreaded his encounter with
the ship news reporters, and it is
more than possible that the report
ers were just a little nervous about
what sort of questions to ask a man
who may answer them in terms of
relatively.
In an effort to help both parties
in the conflict I am privileged to
make an announcement concerning
Professor Einstein's views upon one
of our domestic problems.
Alfred Lief has supplied me with
a hitherto unpublished note which
DR.. Einstein wrote this year when
he was asked to express an opinion
concerning the pacifism of Rosika
Schwimmer. Our supreme court
has passed on this issue, but it is
interesting to hear what a great
scientist has to say on the same
subject.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Gangsters and Government

Federal officials are doing lot Of talking about
gangsters and racketeers 1t is popular topic, but
laundering on popular topics is not the way to run
the government. President Hoover and Chairman
Smell of the house rules committee have warned that
the federal government do little about racketeer-
ing That is true But it seems to have been forgot
ten by Attorney-GeneraI Mitchell and Secretary of
Labor Doak whose statements indicate possible fed
eral interference
Dealing with racketeers and gangSterS is the pri-
mary job of the local police the local prosecuting at
torneys the local judges. Attempts to use the federal
government for such work would be a reflection on
the sovereignty and stamina of state government
as the President pointed out.
The second danger of loose talk by federal officials
is that they may find themselves enmeshed in illegal
practices of local officials. Long experience has
taught that Iawless enforcement of law is way to
combat crime. Chicago has been recent center for
such practices ana there federal officials have been
placed in equivocal positions.
When employment demonstrations were being
treated by some police organizations as Communist
propaganda and anti Communist raids were being
used to obscure the issue of grave unemployment Chi
cago was one city in which federal agents drawn
into such legal lawlessness
There were reports that United states department
of justice agents had taken part and also agents OF
the immigration bureau of the United States labor
department.
1t now appears that the federal government is
being drawn into questionable situation by the
Chicago crime commission. Mitchell and Doak let
it be understood they looking pto the activities
of the men branded as public enemies by the Chi
cago commission. That body has issued circular
saying the federal officials soon were energzed into
action" and claiming it had become the "advisers
OF the federal authorities.
Heads of federal departments themselves may re-
treat from n-advised progran1s,-hut their words en-
courage subordinates to do careless things long after
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

seen in watering resorts are suf-
fererS from this chronic form of
disorder.
In great American clinic, seven
per cent of the patients treated are
sufferers from chronic arthritis, as
were also per cent of the patients
in a municipal hospital in Berlin.
Eleven per cent of the patients
reported by Boston hospitals as suf-
fering from chronic and incurable
diseases were the victims of chronic
arthritis, whereas 10 per cent had
heart disease, which is not infre-
quently related condition.
In the attempt to reach the cause
of the chronic rheumatic complaints
it has been found that they tend
to attack families and there seems
to be some evidence that the con-
stitution of the human being is re-
lated to his susceptibility to this
disorder.
Several investigators have found
that So per cent of the patients are
members of rheumatic families. Wo-
men seem to be much more suscep-
tible to the disease than do men. the
various authorities finding the in
cidence in women some three to six
times that in men.
In addition to the family inf1u-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16

ward There rumors of raids by labor depart
ment officials in New York and other large cities.
Certain officials in the department of justice talk
of organizing national police service-without legis-
iation by congress to authorize it. These onous
symptoms They call for corrective action by depart
ment heads.
Secretary of Labor Doak is in particularly bad
position which is not of his making. His depart
ment has a bad record Of lawlessness. Chairman
Wickersham of Hoovers crime commission told the
American Bar Association that of the principal
offenders in lawless enforcement of the law is the
immigration bureau of the labor department.
The Cancellation bureau of that department is not
much better with activities fomenting industrial dis
cord instead of bringing about industrial peace A
senate committee is considering long list of decisions
by federal judges calling attention to lawless work
by labor department Observation-Disclosures directed in
some instances even against native-born American
citizens.
Secretary of Labor Doak and Attorney General
Mitchell have plenty of housekeeping to do at home
without usurpng the functions of local authorities
in coping with local gang wars. If Doak has any
spare time, he might remember that the labor depart
ment had a fair sized unemployment problem on
its hands
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16

tional millions which are to be
tossed down the sinkhole of prohi-
bition enforcement.
An administration eager to sup
port shoppers and agents in the
luxury to which they have been &C
customed must seem a little mig
gardly when it begins to white
away at appropriations for the re-
lief of the unemployed.
I doubt that this is just the time
for penny pinching. If relief is to
be sought through public works,
it might as well be an extensive
program. There is no point in
tackling forest fire with tumbler.
But granted a wide field of hon.
est disagreement as to method and
expenditure, there can be no pos
sible doubt that fast and effective
action never will be expedited by
calling names.
While the executive and congress
bicker, the nights grow longer and
the days grow colder along the cor
nerS where the breadlines stand.
1t seems to me that the nation
mas right to say to all members
OF the government who are wasting
time in recrimination, Gentlemen.
put up or shut up!"
Copyright. 1880. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
High and Mighty

TT is reasonable enough that Presi-
4 dent Hoover should call into
question some of the plans for un-
employment relief suggested by
congress, but his attitude toward
those sponsoring measures which
he does not approve is much too
high and mighty.
The President seems to be under
the delusion that he is the orig
inal unemployment relief man and
that the men in the house or SEN
ate who have other ideas are up
starts, unworthy Of attention.
Mr.. Hoover should think back a
few months and recollect just what
he did when the depression began.
Undoubtedly he was sincere in his
apparent notion that it might be
possible to end the slump by a Sc
rieS of cheerful proclamations.
There was no disposition on the
part Of the White House in those
days to sugge4 specific remedies to
relieve unemployment. Indeed, there
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Edge of Cloud

rs it possible that in our own
4 stellar universe. our sun now
may be in the midst of some such
cloud, Or can. we be assured that,
while many other suns may be i'm
bedded in such murkiness. our own
is quite immune and we look sky
ward from our earth with the con-
fidence that we see the stars through
ncluttered space?' DR.. Stetson
asks.
DR.. Stetson points out that the sun
could not be in the midst of a cloud
as heavy as some of those which are
to be seen in the heavens, since in
that case We would not see any stars
at ALL
These clouds, or nebulae as they
are called technically, however. con-
sist of extremely thin material.
some containing material of far less
density than our own atmosphere.
DR.. Stetson suggests that our solar
system now may be just on the edge
OF such a cloud and that in past
ages it may have Travelled through
thicker portions of it, or that it
might have Travelled through other
thicker clouds in the past.
This would have cut down the
amount Of heat reaching the earth
from the sun and SO have ushered
in an ice age.
1T seems more than plausible
that at the times of the great ice
ages several thousands of years ago
the sun may have been in the region
OF space where existed a cosrnic
cloud of considerable dimensions"
he writes.
"The wide variations in tenn
perature which the earth has under
gone for considerable periods in
geologic time seem to be more
satisfactorily accounted for on such
basis than on the supposition that
the sun itself experienced any con-
siderable variation in its output in
the last 100000 years"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
D u \ COM nv, FREDERICK
1N1<1 AOO4 LANDS

president HOOVER'S visa ruling, designed to
keep out of this country aliens who are likely to
become public charges, has helped the unemployment
situation to the extent of $4,000.
This in itself real contribution to the domestic
situation.
Before long fish will be sent by airplane from the
far north to Chicago, and fish supposed to be
brain food we suggest that they be fed to these Chi
cago judges who with the exception of Judge Lyle
have not been able to figure out way to handle
crime.
Marine L. Herbert recently elected justice of the
peace in johnson county, Indiana spent only one
chew of tobacco in his triumphant campaign.
But unless the office OF justice pays more in john
son county than elsewhere, he'll have hard time
getting back his outlay
THE navy has decided to one of air
L craft carriers The Ranger, in honor of the old
boat OF revolutionary days.
This is a good idea, but here's one in place of it.
The Ranger was fighting ship which carried
eighteen guns, and it would be the proper caper to
give this name to rea-for-sure fighting cruiser.
We name battle ships after states, but We
name a cruiser after anything
The navy department should honor the names
of the famous fighters of years gone by; call these
new cruisers the Ranger, Bon Homme Richard, Con-
Stitution, Chesapeake Hartford. etc.
Aside from the propriety, there's certain inspira
ton about it.
EOREIGN countries perpetuate the names of IA
Il nous regiments by handing them down through
the centuries, and there's sentiment about it like
But we must not too far with this lest We bring
down upon our head the wrath OF those nonresstants
who are opposed to clarifying" war.
We're not for war any more than anybody else but
until all the lions turn to lambs must be in shape
to protect ourselves and while doing this it's good
idea to toss compliment the ships that have done
o
Name these cruisers after their iAustrious ances-
tors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Climax to Crazy Era

XXTE face the alternative of
w more system, or less. The
notion that things can go on as
they are is absurd. Either CEN
tralized industry must take care of
its workers, or break up and give
them a better chance to take care
of themselves.
The existing mechanism is pro-
ducing nothing in such quantities
as mob psychology-moh psychology
which leaves those at the bottom
virtually paralyzed when it comes
to sane, independent thinking,
while it enables those at the top
to do all kinds of tricks.
Nineteen thirty merely was the
inevitable result of 1929 and 1929
was neither more nor less than the
climax to an era of crazy specu-
lation.
No confidence man, or group of
confidence men, eyer bunked this
country to such extent as it was
bunked by the stock trading crew
just before the crash, and no boob
ever was taken in more completely
than some of our best bankers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
He Meant Well

A ND while President Hoover'S
L n intentions were of the best, his
Judgment was unsound. Cheerful
proclamations did more harm than
good.
AS a recent convert to this cause
OF unemployment relief, President
Hoover should be a shade more
humble. The executives accusation
that his opponents are playing
politics at the expense of human
misery" is neither fair nor graceful.
Certainly it is not a charge which
should come from a national leader
who took almost no definite steps
in regard to the problem until the
eve Of a national election.
And if President Hoover is going
to take the stand that overappropria-
ton may do more harm than good
by increasing taxation and discour-
aging business recovery, then he
should carry this theory through to
a logical conclusion.
He has not been quoted yet as
having a concern about the addi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Just Don't Worry
TINE stock market continues to

ME STOCK market continues TO
Il sag, receiverships are coming
so thick and fast in Tennessee that
a Philadelphia lawyer couldn't keep
track of them, and everybody is
wondering what, if anything, will
be left next spring, but a calm old
gentleman down in Georgia cele-
brates his 101St birthday by pro-
claiming that if you would live long,
work hard and don't worry"
Millions of people gladly would
take his advice if they could only
get the work. Maybe, if he hadn't
had that thirty-five-acre cotton
patch to chop this summer he
would have found it necessary to
do a lot more worrying.
Lack of opportunity, more than
anything else, is what ais this
country, which was founded on the
idea of giving every one a better
opportunity
The fact that millions of people
are out of work is of less conse-
quence than is the fact that they
are helpless to do anything for
themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16

Most of Us Can Be Sold a
Gold Brick if 1t Is Wrapped
IN the Right Kind of Pub
LEFTY.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 49,
II Those beautiful castles in
Spain" appear to be crumbling, but
Paris, Tenn. wants a bull fight Just
thet same, with Sidney Franklin in
person. Not for love of the blood,
you understand, but for faith in
advertising.
Look at what Dayton got out of
the Scopes case, and whose supposes
bull fight would bring less?
Most Of us took the Scopes case
rather seriously, which shows how
easily most of us can be sold a gold
brick, provided it is wrapped in the
right kind of publicity.
Those who claim to be on the in
side will tell you, though not until
they have glanced behind the door
or under the bed to see whether
some neighbor is eavesdropping, that
the Scopes case was staged by some
local geniuseS who were vastly more
interested in booming the old home
town than in saving the first chap
ter of Genesis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Wake Up at Last

A SENATE subcommittee will
IA study the banking system,
with Senator Glass as it's chairman
and H. Parker Willis as technical
adviser.
With two such men on the job,
We ought to get somewhere, and
Heaven knows we need to.
Why some one hasn't thought of
studying the banking system long
ere this is one of those mysteries
which must be put down to public
apathy.
Like Captain Smith of the Ii
tanic, we seem to have fallen for
the delusion that we had construct
ed an unsuitable ship by virtue Of
the federal reserve act.
For fourteen years we told one
another that we at last had devised
a system which not only would
weather, but prevent, depressions.
Now we know better. Now we
know that, in spite of all It's
strength, that system could be used
to divert legitimate commercial
credit into the channels of specu-
lation.
AS co-author of the federal act
and former secretary of the treas
ury, Senator Glass is we'll qualified
to take charge of an investigation,
the object of which is to find out
what ails our banking system and
how it best can be corrected, while
as one of the few experts who saw
the crash coming and tried to warn
us, H. Parker Willis has proved his
peculiar fitness to render expert as
Sistance.
Chalk up one big mark to the
senate's credit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-16
Insurance Against Breadlines

For the third time in fifteen years breadlines
are tragic proof that the solution of the unenploy
ment problem in the richest country in the world
can not be left safely to the initiative of private
dustry alone.
Only few individual employers have tackled the
task of staggering production to prevent unemploy
ment and provided insurance for their workers
thrown out of jobs. And those progressive employ
ers handicapped in competition with the great
majority of employers who recognize such respon-
sbility toward labor.
The utter inadequacy of present American pro-
visions for handling the unemployment problem is
stressed in the first of series of surveys just issued
by the industrial relations counselors organization,
whose trustees include Owen D. Young, Raymond B.
Fosdick, Cyrus Mccormick Jr. and John D. Rookie
Teller Jr.
Commenting on the fact that only about one
half of per cent of the 100000 wage-earners of
the country protected by unemployment insurance
plans of unions corporations both this organi-
zation states:
Both as regards the relief of unemployed work
rs' distress, and counteractng the inevitable re-
action of unemployment upon business, the need for
adequate protection against the hazard of I'M
employment not be gainsaid the long, plan
ming of public works being yet mainly in the realm
of public discussion and all legislative attempts in the
direction of unemployment insurance in the past
having been unsuccessful"
Fortunately, the fight for compulsory unemploy-
ment insurance will be waged in at least twenty state
legislatures this year, with model bill drawn by the
American Association for Labor Legislation commit
tee. This bill avoids mistakes made in European
systems and builds upon American plans such as
those of General Electric, Dennison and the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers.
These state bills will be supplemented by
tional bill for federal aid to administrative funds of
states operating satisfactory unemployment insur-
ance systems.