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Milford chronicle., 1930-01-24

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Was Coxey Crazy?

In these days of vast public bond issues
for public improvements, the taxpayers
might ask whether Coxey, who once led an
army of the unemployed to Washington, only
to be arrested for walking on the grass, was
financial genius or merely crazy
The plan he advocated of using the job
less for public work is now approved by high
authority.
Some day the other part of his plan may
be equally well received, for Coxey had
program for payment as well as the incur
renee of public debt.
His plan was quite simple He would
change the public improvements from
credit to cash basis. Under his plan, the
units of government would deposit their
bonds with the treasury and receive cash.
Each year the communities would return
per cent of the bond to the treasury. The
money would be destroyed. There would be
no interest charge At the end of twenty
years the debt would be paid. The public
would be relieved of the interest, which
sometimes triples and quadruples the orig
inal cost
This community now proposes to issue
many bonds They are needed for hospitals.
They are needed to remove churches from
the Memorial Plaza. Children as yet unborn
will be working to pay interest on these
bonds
About 25 per cent of all taxes is paid
as interest on public improvements.
The bill drawn by Coxey nearly forty
years ago is before congress. 1t has been
there at every session since. 1t may be
crazy. But huge interest payments are also
crazy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Times Readers Voice Vie70S

which employ out-of-town people
frst, and whole families at that,
father, mother, sisters, and brothers,
one family getting $50 a week. And
then when they have rush order
of about two months work, they
make you work day and night in
stead Of putting on extra help and
dividing time and letting every man
enjoy his family part-time anyway.
I have gone to work at 6 in the
morning and worked until 8 at
night and not even seen my family
except my wife at breakfast. When
going to work at the gates would
find possibly a hundred men want
ing work standing outside and the
workers willing to divide time (most
of them, anyway but they did not
dare say anything for fear Of losing
their jobs.
Yes, did, and now I am outside
with the rest of them-the possible
hundred. Even while working day
and night, I did not draw enough to
live on and keep up insurance-so
what is the other fellow doing?
Fellow workers, remember.
THE LOST SHEEP.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
REASON By Ff nAaDfs

THIS tariff bill would have been beaten had it
l. not been for those five Democratic votes in the
senate. and had more been needed, they would have
been forthcoming for the Democrats yet failed
the Republicans
The road is never too long nor the night too dark
for the donkey to go to the of the elephant
The ministry is getting quite a little immunity
these days.
Cannon insults the senate committee and gets
away with it because he is bishop, and now Aimee
Mcpherson fails to list her stuff for customs duty
and the authorities let her get away with that
But if we enumerating the assets of religion
in America. neither the bishop Aimee would head
the list.
DAwES and Morrow had campaign picture
- taken the latters lawn at Englewood N. j.,
and the most striking thing about it is the revela-
ton that neither of them wears low shoes.
Ex-secretary Fall has applied for pension as a
1t makes one tremble to think what would have
happened if Fall had fallen at the Battle of San
Juan Hill.
Einstein the German scientist who has taken
the place of 1.-The Immortal j. N" who used to go
over the country lifting the pressure" of the uni
verse informed an audience of the profound boys
in Berlin the other day that space is now eating up
matter
We never thought space would stoop so low that.
IT'S almost unbelievable but three officials who were
i convicted of having embezzed 100000 from the
Union Industrial bank of Flint Mich, last winter
are to be released after having served six
months sentence
The small thieves in that penitentiary will con-
tnue to do time, the moral being that if you must
steal steal Iienty and get out soon.
The newspapers think Lindbergh plans another
transatlantic fight just because he is padding
around the Morrow swimming pool in an inflated rub
Der boat but fellow is likely to DO anything when
he's waiting for his frst child to a born.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Emotion Wave Hikes Blood Pressure

made to contract and in that way
raise the blood pressure.
When the bad habit Of over
response is developed in the tissues
they are likely to over-respond with
much less stimulus than on ordi-
nary occasions.
One of the difficulties of the
situation lies in the fact that the
person may develop the high blood
pressure when he or she is under
going examination for life insur-
ance or for some other cause and
that the very high rate taken at
that time may be the cause for up
setting living conditions generally
It is important to correct such
conditions as soon as possible
since it is the tendency to get
worse unless attention is given to
the condition.
The emotional high blood pres
sure may form the basis later of a
permanent high blood pressure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

blood pressure, DR.. E. j. Stieglitz
gives the records of eight cases, in
Guiding seven women whose blood
pressure was normal when they were
at rest. but which rose as much as
forty-Seven millimeters, due to men
tai excitement.
In six of the eight cases the
mental excitement was the reason
which caused the women to seek
medical attention. When the cases
were studied carefully and means
taken to allay the mental excite
ment, it was possible to keep the
blood pressure within the normal
limits.
1t is obvious that the factors
which control the circulation Of the
blood are bound intimately with
the nervous system and that
through stimuli from the nervous
system, the blood vessels may be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
TT SEEMS TO ME By HE EEo12S

CTRUTHERS BURT, in the cur
- rent issue of Scribner's Maya
zine. raises one issue which almost
persuades me to be prohibitionist.
Noting the rising tide of wet SYM
pathy. he asks with alarm what will
boone of the speakeasy If Vol
steadism is abolished.
This is a problem worth ponder
ing. I often have declared myself
as being wholly on the side of Mrs.
Boole, DR.. Mcbride and others who
declare that the old saloon must
not return. Certainly not-the new
one is much better.
Here is the testimony of Mr.. Burt
with which I am in full accord, and
agreement. After a few complaints
about conditions under the dry
dynasty, he admits that it is foolish
and narrow minded to contend that
there have been no benefits what
Soever.
Among these benefits" he writes
II would place first the Speakeasy.
Primarily 1 am speaking of the New
York speakeasy, but almost any
speakeasy will do.
There is hardly town or village
in the United States which has not
felt the ameliorating and civilizing
influence of the institution, which
coupled with the calm philoSophic
attitude of the proprietor and his
ally, the bootlegger, has done much
to allay the feverish pace of Amer
lean life
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Must Have Change

THE notion that change means
Il prosperity, if not progress, has
grown to the proportions of a re-
ligion. If we can not get something
new, we dig up something that is
old enough to appear new.
Much that We claim to be doing
in the name of intelligence is mere
ly a by-product of boredom, or a
desire for entertainment. Time was
when a bunch could play poker all
night, without changing the rules
or the limit.
Now, some one is almost sure to
propose making deuces or one-eyed
Jacks wild after an hour or so.
Women suddenly have become
tired of short skirts. and since they
hardly could be made shorter. they
will be made longer, notwithstand-
ing all that has been said on the
subject.
In the same way, clean boxing
has lost its thrill, and we have a
season of fouls to break the mo-
notony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25

a saloon on every corner of the mid
town district, and since such a small
area was devoted to drinking, each
landlord behaved like a tyrant
You could take what he offered
or get out. But now fierce competi-
ton has mended the manners OF
the innkeepers. The speakeaSy man
can not afford to take any such
harsh attitude.
There are twenty-six other places
on the same block and possibly
three in the same building. Not
only is he the soul of courtesy, but
frequently he says: This is on
me-"
Still, in all sober justice, it would
not be fair to explain the vast i'm
provement solely on the grounds OF
economic pressure. The saloon was
a business; the speakeasy is an adj
venture.
Gallant young gentlemen who
would not have even considered
soiling their hands in trade will
consent to take a fling with little
bar and restaurant for the sake of
the excitement.
I'm sure that some of these men
have little thought of profit. Indeed
I know of a certain hostelry into
which hardly ever venture without
obtaining from the proprietor a
merry smile and a free bottle of
champagne. This is a friendliness
which never encountered in the
old days.
"You dine," continues Mr.. Burt in
his scientific appraisal, "in small
and quiet dining room, on good food
with good drinks at your side, both
served by a waiter who is really
interested in your having pleasant
time and invariably the charge is
moderate.
Several elderly gentlemen have
been known to burst into tears upon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Due to Nerves

IRON time immemorial, the law
4 of reaction has played tricks
with human nature.
Though we dislike to believe it.
history leaves little doubt that
great nations often have flown from
one extreme to another, that great
movements have originated and that
great changes have been made in
the course of civilization itself for
no better reason than that existing
conditions had gotten on peoples
nerves.
That Athenian citizen who voted
to exile Aristides because, as he ex-
planned, he was tired of hearing him
called THE just" typif1ed a weak
ness to which all of us are more or
less subject. and which has been
intensified by modern life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25

by DAVID DIETZ.
Fascinating Story of the Sea
Is Told Graphically IN Ne10
Book by H. A. Mariner.

EUGENE O'NEIL'S "Squarehead'
Il named it that old devil sea,
when his daughter succumoed to
the charms Of the glittering waves
of the ocean. But Anna Christie is
not alone in responding to the lure
Of the sea.
There is something in every one
that answers to the tang Of sea air,
to the restless whisper Of the wave
and the shifting green of the water
Perhaps it is part of life it
self and as old as life. For, accord
ing to one theory-and as plausi-
bic a theory as has yet been ad-
vanced-life had its start in the
tidal zone, in that strip of beach
which is under water at high tide
and exposed to sight at low tide.
There, it is thought, in the sands
of the tidal pools, the proper chem
ical elements were fused with the
aid of sunlight into the primor-
dial living material from which liv-
ing things later arose.
Few people erealize how impor-
tant water is to life. Protoplasm,
the chemical substance which COM
poses the cells of all living things,
both plants and animals, is from
so to 81 per cent water. 1t is pos
Sible for a man to go many days
without food. But it is not possible
to exist for any length of time with
out water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
How WeXDONu
|KnOw6MRhR?
FIVE QUESTIONS a DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

I. What did Jesus say about
= sures?
Z. Who said: 1.-THE Lord gave "a
the Lord hath taken away" and on
what accession?
8. What happened to the man in
the Old Testament who gathered
sticks on the Sabbath?
4. To what fisherman did Jesus
say, From henceforth thou i'lalt
catch men,?
S. What did Paul say is the wages
Of sin?
Answers to Yesterdays Queries
l. "Whosover shall compel thee to
go mile, go with him twain" MAT
thew SAD
2. Grace did much more abound.
CRomans $500
8. When Aaron faced the Egyp-
tian magicians and his rod swal-
lowed up theirs. Exodus 1:10:12)
4. To salt and to light. (Matthew
5:13-1e.)
S. Must worship him in spirit
and in truth John AL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
The Veterans, Relief Bill

me rebuke administered to President Hoover BY The
senate IN passing almost unanimously the veterans
relief bill over White House protest was undeserved.
Considering the reports of his expert advisers
against the bill, and its departure from previously
accepted veterans legislation the President had no
choice but to oppose the bill. in the interest of the
veterans as a whole and of the country
In daring to stand out against the demands Of
what congress conEtders political expediency, the
President hiss shown exceptional Even those
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25

Editor Times-Right you are, r.
E. D.! Danish married women with
husbands able to work from indus
try and limit all working days in
any twenty-four hours to eight
hours. That is, work eight hours;
of sixteen hours before returning to
work again. Make it state law
for ten years to give the common
people time to get on their feet.
I know of industries in this city
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25

who disagree with him on the bill itself will recog-
nize this.
Though we can not follow all Hoovers attacks
on the BILL we believe that it is hasty and discri-
inatory legislation. Needlessly So in our Judgment
For there is no basic disagreement between the
President and congress. in the country for that
matter as to the right of veterans and especially dis
abed veterans to receive full justice in the matter Of
compensation
1t is unfortunate that the President did not find
occasion to point the faults of this bill before the
closing days of the session and equally unfortunate
that the senate should have allowed itself to be SIAM
peded by political pressure from outside
We believe this bill should be set aside by the
house. preparatory to carefully considered legislation
at the next session which will correct injustice in
the present law without paving the way for general
pension system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Mental Traffic jam

MANY troubles which we are ex-
1VA periencing in this. country can
be traced to mental traffic jams.
Without realizing it, without know
ing where we are headed, and with
out caring much, we are on the 60
Intellectually, we have contracted
the joy-riding habit. The thing
that interests us most is motion,
whether backward or forward. The
thing we find it hardest to endure
is fixity of purpose. Even going in
the same direction for any length
of time wearies us.
Say what you will, there is no
other explanation for the curious
somersaults we have turned, wheth-
er in style, social conventions, or
foreign policy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
ZZE1-HXSS.
H7doAkF lb1TE1e|-7
THE CUSTER MASSACRE
June rs.


June 25.
NN June 25, 1876, a United
~ States cavalry force of 260
men was maSsacred with it's COM
mander, General George A. Gus
ter, in an engagement against the
Dakota Indians known as the
Battle of Little Big Horn.
Custer, an intrepid leader in
the Civil war, had been sent in
advance of the main body of United
States troops in pursuit of Sit
ting Bull and his band. In the
belief that he was attacking only
part of the Indian force, Custer
attacked the Indian center, and
instead of encountering 1000 IN
dianS, he found himself, against
5000.
Surrounded and driven back,
Clusters men fought desperately
until every man had persisted. The
engagement lasted perhaps not
more than twenty minutes.
One Indian scout attached to the
force is said to have escaped. The
field is marked by marble monu-
mentS, each placed where a man
fell.
The campaign against the In.
dians was started to protect sur
veyors of the I,orthern Pacific
railway while locating that line
through indian territory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
A Lost Cause

A Lost Cause
DO not confuse the speakeasy
- with the night club. The
whole atmosphere OF the real speak
easy is delightful to the civilized
American.
For one thing you feel, unless
there is some government agent
there disguised as Mae West or a
school girl on a holiday, that at last
you are among intelligent people,
minding their own business-an
extraordinary thing, just at present,
to feel in America.
Every one is cordial, and every
one is decorously content. You are
all engaged in a civilized conspiracy.
Indigestion is at a minimum and
the American citizen, his tail curled
comfortably behind him, is for the
moment relieved Of his constant
dread of the dog catcher.
1 trust that when prohibition is
over, the traditions of the speakeasy
Northumberland survive. When
that day arrives I will ask Senator
Brookhart to eat with me, for he
really should know before he dies
how civilized people dine"
Naturally, echo Mr.. Burt's pious
wish. But I fear he fights for lost
cause. When prohibition goes I'm
afraid the speakeasy will go with it.
Mr.. Burt and I should get to-
gether and form another chapter of
the AntiSaloon League. We might
call it the pro-speakeasy branch of
the Anti-Saloon League.
1t is time for us to recognize what
Bishop Cannon, Canon Chase and
the rest have done to make dining
and drinking far more pleasant than
ever before.
And so let us shout encourage
ment in unison and cry, Lay on,
Mcbride, and don't allow these vets
to abolish the old oaken speakeasy
which we love"
(Copyright 1880 BY The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25

How long was the federal gift
tax" in effect? What was the small
est amount taxed?
It was in effect from June 2, 1924,
to Dec. 81, 1925, and $4,000 was the
smallest amount taxed. There WAS
a sliding scale on different amounts
above that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25


Health Magazine.
1T long has been recognized that
Il extremes of emotion will raise
the blood pressure, that the blood
pressure falls when one is asleep,
and that when sleep is restless and
disturbed by dreams the blood pres
sure may rise even during rest.
In people who are subject to high
blood pressure the rise during rest
less sleep may constitute menace,
because of the danger of brain
hemorrhage.
It generally is known that the
excitement associated with the blood
pressure being taken by life in
surance examiner may cause rise
of ten or twenty millimeters of
mercury.
In recent consideration of the
effects of the emotions on high
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Sober Justice

T AM glad to find Mr.. Burt pay
L ing this tribute to the personal
ity of the speakeasy proprietor. He
is far more affable and engaging
than the old saloon keeper.
Of course, he has to be. Before
prohibition we had no more than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:
The Notion That Change
Means Prosperity, if Not
Progress, Has Groom to the
Proportions Of a Religion.

IRON jazz to the Vallee whine,
L from faith in pep to a fit of the
the blues, from overproduction to
bread lines, from Hoover's 5000, 900
majority to a busted Republican
party, but why worry?
Doesn't the number of students
in our colleges prove that we are
wise, doesn't the extent of our phi
lanthropies prove that we are chart
table, doesn't the census prove that
we are growing, and doesn't the
latest wise-crack, Tets be common"
prove that We are sold on the
brotherhood of man?
What if we did save the world
for democracy only to collect from
it through higher tariffs. or kick
old John Barleycorn downstairs only
to discover that prohibition. not
hooch, is the cause of crime?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Storm

MARINER writes, at the start OF
1V1 his book of how the sea always
has fascinated mankind.
cit must have been early in his
life that man stood on the shore of
the sea and gazed questioningly out
upon the waters" he writes.
"On a morning following some
unusual storm he may have found a
stick with a strange carving, or a
branch bearing unknown fruit,
which the storm-driven waves had
tossed ashore the night before.
ut had been a wild night, such
as comes when the gods let loose
the furies. What lay beyond the rim
of the impossible sea? Surely, the
Evil Ones had their abode there,
they who danced on the waters in
mad abandon the night before, and
whose grotesque shapes he had dis
cerned dimly as he covered alright.
ed in his shelter.
But the strange fruit had a
pleasant SAVIOR; perhaps, too, the
0cAl0 VI AL SOOO lay OQl
there beyond the horizon.
ut is, obviously, difficult to re-
construct the ideas of mankind with
regard to the sea prior to the APP
pearance of written records.
Gradually, some vague but CO.
herent picture of earth and sea
must have come into existence
among the dwellerS on the different
shores of the sea.
Some daring seamen venturing
out beyond the customary routes
would bring back strange tales of
hitherto unknown regions; some
ship driven out of its course by un-
usual winds or currents would, in
the fortunate event of return, add
something to the body of accepted
belief.
And so would arise some picture
OF the sea and its relation to the
world"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-25
Daily Thought

Reprove not a scorner, lest he
hate thee: rebuke wise man and
he will love thee.-Proverbs 9:8.
u EPROOF is a medicine like
N mercury or opium; If it be
administered improperly it viii do
harm instead OF good Horace
Mann.