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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
Unionizing the South

Unonization of textile mill workers is proceeding
in the south despite the business depression and the
opposition of many mill owners according to reports
laid before the American Federation Of Labor, whose
executive council is meeting in Atlantic City, and be-
fore the United Textile Workers of America, now in
convention in New York.
More than hundred locals and several central
labor bodies have been organized, with member
ship of 5OOOO it is said Organizers have been work
ing in all southern states.
This is good news It is only by united action that
the workers end the deplorable conditions that
have existed in southern mills with starvation wages,
long hours, and the employment of women and chill
dren under Objectionable arrangements.
Corporation of workers is needed also to get the
textile industry back its feet and end the un-
employment problem which has affected 100000
workers for years.
President Mcmahon of the textile workers advo-
Gates shorter work week and abolition of night work
for women and children palliative. He says the
union executives are doing everything possible
through conferences with representatives of the man
agements to improve the condition. not only of the
workers, but of the textile industry whole.
The American Federation of Labor, aroused by
conditions in the SOUTH pledged vigorous program OF
organization at its Toronto convention year ago.
with full knowledge of the difficulties.
There had been strikes at EliZabethtown Marion
and elsewhere accompanied by violence and the cry
of communism had been raised in conservative COM
munities Now they claim that progress is being made
in all southern states particularly in the Carolinas.
News comes from Danville Va, that 1000 workers
there may be called out strike Dispatches relate
that company union which had prevented organiza-
ton broken down. and put into effect 10 per cent
wage cut over protest of the workers Welfare work
was abandoned This gave the textile workers union
its opportunity.
The job of southern unonization is not easy one.
1t will require time and its fruits may not be appar
ent Immediately but if organized labor keeps eternay
at it, conditions certainly will be improved not only
in the south, but in New England well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
Wages In. Costs Down

Workers in the building trades enjoy, on the aver
age high wages Very often people who complain
of high building costs blame these wages, and assert
that everything would be lovely if only the wage
could be reduced materially
recent bulletin from the Austin Company Of
Cleveland one of the largest industrial construction
firms in the country does not seem to agree with
this thesis however.
The Austin Company reports that industrial build
ing costs today are the lowest eight years Except
for period in 1922, they have not been SO low since
1916. The bulletin remarks:
"All the decline is due largely to falling prices of
materials and greater efficiency of labor and con-
structon equipment Wage rates at 1876 per cent over
the 1913 level continue at the peak for all time while
all building COSTS including labor, less than 40
per cent over 1913"
Which would seem to be a pretty fair answer to
the attempt to blame union labor for high constuc
ton prices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
SCIENCE
Greatest Hope for Future of
Human Race Is Believed to
Lie IN the Sciences of Bio
chemistry and Biophysics.
by DAVID DIETE

THE progress which chemistry is
l. making in unraveling the prob
lens of health and disease is being
told by seventy-five of the nations
leading biochemists during the
course of the eightieth meeting of
the American Chemical society now
in progress in Cincinnati.
Biochemistry is one of the newest
branches of science. The name was
coined to cover that borderland
which lies between the older
sciences of biology and chemistry.
The biochemist seeks to explain
many of the things which go in life
on the basis of chemical laws and
phenomena.
Biochemistry might be described
as the chemistry of life.
Many experts feel that the great
est hope for the future of the
human race lies in the progress
which is being made in this field
and an adjoining field known as
biophysics.
Biophysics represents the border
line between physics and biology.
1t might be described as the physics
of life.
Reports being given at the chemi-
cal meeting describe work going
on in universities, hospitals, federal
bureaus, state health departments,
and industrial research bureaus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10

MANY of the problems of the
1Y1 functioning of the human body
are essentially chemical problems.
Nutrition is fundamentally a
chemical problem. The cells of the
human body are made up of sub
stances which, like all other sub
stances in the world, are subject to
chemical analysis.
The cells are composed of car
bohydrates, fats, proteinS, mineral
salts and water. The carbohydrates
are the sugars and StarcheS.
The food which we eat is COM
posed of these same substances.
Our digestive apparatus is really
a chemical machine. The sub
stances which we eat are broken
down by the processes of digestion
into simpler chemical compounds.
These simpler compounds then
are absorbed by the blood stream.
Then the cells of the body absorb
them out of the blood stream and
use them to rebuild their own sub
stance.
There are many chemical prob
lens, however, still to be solved.
Some of the substances involved are
so complex that we yet do not I'M
dertand their exact nature.
This is particularly true of the
vitamins. Our chief knowledge of
the vitamins is that serious diseases
of various sorts occur in their alb
sence.
TIE exact chemical nature of the
vitamins and the way in which they
function still is unknown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
Let the Rich Spend

John D. Rockefeller Jr had plans for starting work
TWO wears hence on certain improvements to his
Pocantco Hills estate. Then, when he became I'M
pressed with the seriousness of the unemployment Sit
uation, he decided to have the work done at once
Which means that he will provide jobs throughout
the winter for 200 additional workers He has speci
fed that they must be heads of families.
While obviously Mr.. Rockefeller prompted in
this by a generous impulse the fact remains that his
action also is a display of good business Judgment
In these days of stress it is but natural for the
man with only moderate income to employ economy
in the MANAGEMENT of his personal affairs. He has
Job today, but he fears that he might not have one
tomorrow So he takes the safe course. He quits
spending for anything but the necessities
Thus. good though his intentions are he con-
tributes toward further depression. For when he
ceases to buy what to him have been luxurieS he
endangers the jobs of the men and women who pro-
duce those luxuries. Yet conservation his part is
natural, and is to be expected. But
We know of a rich woman who said this:
Il need a new car. would buy one except that
hate to do it when so many men out of work
Now that womsnS impulse was good one Her
sentiment was to be respected but her slant on
economies we're all wrong. 1t would not have pinched
her TO buy a new car. BY thus spending her money,
she would have helped in providing work for auto
makers.
True it would not have been a great contribution
in ITSELF but if every who could afford to spend
without endangering his financial safety would do
business would pick up-and quickly.
There are thousands Of men Il this country who.
though not as rich as Rockefeller. have millions at
their disposal. We have no doubt that many of them
have in mind plans that they viii carry through
~after a while"
But by advancing their program; by doing those
things now not only would they provide comfort to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
REASON BY FH fIaH1iS

THE expulsion of William r. Hearst by the gov
l. eminent of France is one of the most stupid
things ever done by great nation.
AS for Mr. Hearst, it is the most wonderful adVer-
Using of modern times and enough to make Sir
Thomas Upton turn green with envy.
With 1O5 people killed over the end of last week
and more than 200 seriously injured, you can form
some idea of how prosperous our coroners will be
when We shall arrive at the four-dsy working week
Los Angeles and surrounding cities just have gone
through their regular monthly earthquake, a fact
which will not be featured IN the papers of Cafor-
MIA, but which will be noted the front page of
papers of Florida.
NUR statesmen should shake hands with themselves
~ that not take our politics so seriously as the
Peruvans, who have imprisoned their former president
If we operated that way, Al Smith would now be a
fugitive and Raskob would be an exile on the island of
zap
If bank robberies continue it will not be long
until one will need coat of mail whenever he goes in
takes his pen in hand and renews note.
To be shot under such circumstances would be the
last word in tragedy.
THE greatest joke of 1880 is the arrest of Mrs.
martha Lane Morlote of Massachusetts who is
CHARGED with having conspired to the military
secrets of Cuba.
4hS IL the nfSt the WOrlo knew that Cuba had any.
After having investigated everybody else Senator
Nye can not complain because Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick has had detectives locking into his record.
But that's always the way, you know
Mr. Coolidge has Endorsed the public schools In
his daily article, but he overlooked great oppcr-
tunity when he failed to hit the school book steal
Nicholas Roosevelt is going to have hectic winter
The senate will fight his confirmation as vice.
governor of the Philippines and the Filipinos viii
burn him in efhgy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
Common Sense In Crisp County

Something unusual has been introduced into the
public utilities situation in Georgia.
Common sense.
We almost had given up hope that some state
commission some time, somewhere, would make use
of this useful element.
1t was as simple as this: Crisp county, weary of
the rates charged by the Georgia Power and Light
Company decided to build its plant. The plant
was built and started operating, with rates we'll below
those of the company that had enjoyed monopoly.
Thereupon the Georgia P. & L. Company announced
a IS per cent cut in its own rates.
Up to this point nothing new had occurred. In
many States all this has happened
But in Georgia great light hit the state utilities
commission 1t summoned the Georgia P. & L. Com
pany to appear and show cause why it should not
cut its rates IS per cent in all the other counties OF
the state.
Naturally the power company has hurried to court
and obtained a temporary injunction.
It will be interesting to see if there is common
sense likewise in the Georgia courts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
Doctors Unable to Find MumpS Germ

through the pores of clay filter,
and hence called a filterable virus.
The chief manifestations of
mumps, which appears most fire.
quently in children from tc Is
years of age, affect the salivary
glands, particularly the parotid
gland in front of the ear.
The disease therefore is sometimes
called epidemic parotitis (inf1am-
nation of the paroti0.
Mumps occurs six times more
often during the cold months than
during the warm months.
It is customary to isolate the
patient with the disease for at least
two weeks, since it may be taken
for granted that the infections
cause is in the saliva during the
time that the gland remains
swollen.
Mumps is not a particularly
troublesome disease but the COM
plications of mumps, particularly
secondary involvement of other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10

Editor Times-It seems to me both
the Republicans and Democrats of
Illinois have shown the proper cour-
age and determination to face the
prohibition issue squarely, rather
than trying to sneak around and
"pussyfoot" like the Indiana Repub-
licans and Democrats have done.
Prohibition is a controversial"
question, all will admit, but it will
not be any less controversial next
month, next year or the next COM
paign than it is today. This issue
must DO met, and the sooner it is
met, honestly and courageously, the
better. Nothing is to be accom-
plished by Sinking, skulking and
lodging.
This is the greatest issue the
American people have faced since the
momentous events that led to the
war between the states, and t.
evade and avoid it merely is post
poning a contest which is inevitable
as well as dangerous.
Both parties in Illinois seem to
have arrived at this conclusion and
have determined to discuss prohi-
bition squarely and in the open,
without equivocation or hesitancy
This is especially the program OF
the Illinois Democrats. The Repub-
licans are little more conserva-
tive, but the candidates of that
party have pledged themselves 10
follow the direction of the voters
who viii express themselves at a
referendum to be held on Nov. f.
SO in any event there will be an
expression Of the people of Illinois
in this regard. But not SO in In
diana. The people of the Hoosier
state will be denied opportunity to
express themselves on this all-im-
portant question, neither political
party having the courage or the sta
nina to mention prohibition in its
state platform.
Cowardice never benefits an indi-
vidual, for the average human be-
ing hates a coward on general prin-
ciples. 1t is the same with the Re-
publican and Democratic parties Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
DuCtIeSS Glands
FEATURE of The oil

"A FEATURE OF the Cincinnati
"A meeting is a symposium on the
subject of the ductless glands.
These galnds pour chemical sub
stances into the blood stream which
have marked effect upon digestion
and other bodily processes.
Thus, for example, chemical
substance is poured into the blood
stream by the thyroid gland. If too
much or too little is sent into the
blood stream, a serious condition
results.
The substance sent out by the
ductless glands are known as hor-
moneS.
There is still much to be learned
about the chemical nature of hor-
mones and the way in which they
cause such profound changes in the
functioning of the human body as
they do.
While the hunt for chemicals
which can be used as specific rem
edies for specific diseases goes on
many authorities feel that the hui
man race will benefit most by the
larger researches into the nature of
bodily processes, such as digestion
and the functioning of the ductless
glands.
They feel that these studies will
result in knowledge which will make
it possible to head off many of the
diseased conditions encnuntornd To-
day before they have had a chance
to develop.
Preventive medicine represents the
ideal of the medical profession. The
medical man seeks not merely to
cure disease, but to prevent it.
1t has been observed that the
medical profession is the only one
in the world whose ideal is to put
itself out of business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10

glands throughout the body, may
be difficult to overcome.
When the sex glands are infected,
the manifestation is especially
serious, because the disease may
cause destruction or loss Of func-
ton in these glands in large per-
centage of all of the cases.
In children this secondary COM
plication does not occur as fire.
quently as in grownups.
Physicians almost invariably put
a grownup person who develops
mumps to bed and keep him there
for at least two weeks, to lessen
possibility of this complication.
Any child with mumps as we'll
as any adult should be kept
strictly isolated until all the swell
ing has disappeared from the
glands.
Most authorities advise that the
patient be kept to himself for at
least two weeks if the attack is mild
and as long as there are any symp-
toms if the attack is severe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
the jobless, but they likewise would profit by contri

the jobless but they likewise would pront by conrlp-
uting to the buying power Of the country.
We have real prosperity only when almost every
one is earning-and spending within their means We
have hard times when many are out of jobs and
when those who can afford are afraid to spend. We
are at the latter stage now.
If the wealthy or the near-wealthy, would follow
Rockefeller's example, here would be the result:
The man taken off the breadline would enable
his family to buy food and clothing and store the
winter coal This would help the retailer, the whole
saler the manufacturer, the miner. And, with this
man multiplied, the demand for goods would become
so great that it would become necessary to add
workers to pay rolls
These new workers, in turn, would become con-
sumers thus providing jobs for still producers.
That's how simple the system of economics is. Work
for more men means more buying power; more buying
power means still work and still more buying
power. It is a SNOWFALL" gathering bulk and speed
it rolls.
There are in this country thousands upon thou
sands of rich men to whom the spending of few
thousands in these lean days, nothing at
ALL Theirs is the opportunity to help not only the
jobless, but to help themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10

GONE distinguished names, in
y Guiding that of the great
psychiatrist, DR.. Alfred Adler, ap-
pear upon the letterhead of novel
enterprise. There will open this fall
the Caildren's Circulating Toyery.
And since this is the first one in
all the world, you may be interested
to know that the Toyery will circu-
late toys without charge, gain, or
profit OF any kind for limited pc
RODS to children" The outside
period of possession, as 1 under
stand it, is one month.
I further am informed that "the
toys will be kept in repair and be
reprinted when necessary" Further
more, only such toys will be
chosen as can "be sterilized easily"
DR.. Adler is a profound student of
the mental attitudes of minors, and
several other distinguished names
appear upon the honorary commit
tee, such as Caleb H. Baumes, the
author of the kindly life imprison-
ment code which bears his name.
and Judge John F. Hylan, who, as I
remember, once was in politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
Young Conservatives

DUT, despite this weight of emf
ID nence and authority, I fear for
the success of the project. 1t is
based. I believe, upon a fallacy.
Among the very young fidelity to
things prevails. Novelty is but a
fad to be put off in an hour. The
most profound conservatives and re-
dictionaries of the world are human
beings below the age of 5 and over
so.
wish Eugene Field still were alive
to celebrate in verse some protest
against this. effort to inhame the
f1ckleness which is but latent in the
adolescent
The famous toy soldier of whom
he wrote was red with rust" and
I think that each one of US has
some recollection of a well-beloyed
plaything which never came into its
complete kingdom of possession
until the shine had quite worn of.
I hate to think of a younger gen.
Grafton preoccupied wholly with
slick toys all sterilized and freshly
painted. Moreover, I have in mind
the tragedies which are likely to
occur in the proposed system Of TO
tation.
About the time that Alice has
overcome the first preliminary shy
ness which must always stand be-
tween a doll and its owner, it viii
be time to send the toy along for
overhauling and a new domicile.
Veteran led soldiers, Scared by
long hours of fierce and futile COM
bat, must at the end of every four
weeks be forthwith demobaized and
placed upon the retired list as far as
their small chief is
concerned. Theirs not to reason why.
Back they must march TO the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
BY DR. MORRIS FISHREIN

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBE1N
Editor, journal Of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
GONE 300 years before the Chris
~ tan era, an epidemic of what
was probably mumps was described
by Hippocrates. From that time I'M
til about $50 years ago. little if any
attention was paid to the disease.
With the coming of the bacteria
logic period, numerous Investigators
tried to find a germ responsible for
mumps, which would produce the
disease on incubation, but the evil
dence in support of any of the
germs isolated has not been suffi-
cient to make experts believe that
the real germ had been discovered.
In the meantime, more and more
students of infectious disease are
beginning to believe that the cause
is one of those agents so small that
it can not be seen by the micro
scope, so minute that it will pass
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
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SYDENHAM'S BIRTH
September 10

ON Sept. 10, 1924, Thomas Syden-
~ ham, great English physician,
often called "the English Hippo
crates" and the founder of mod
ern clinical medicine, was born at
Wingford Eagle, England.
Educated at oxford and Cam
bridge and at Montpelier, in
France, Sydenham started to prac-
tice medicine in London when he
was about 26. He soon became the
foremost physician of his time. In
the Civil war he was captain Of
horse under Cromwell.
Sydenham is especially to be re-
membered as the one who first diff
ferentiated scarlatina and measles,
introduced a successful cooling
treatment of smallpox, and CLASH
fed and expouRded govt, of which
he himself later died.
He was the first to place dag
noSiS on sound basis and empha-
sized the Importance of obserVa-
ton and bedside experience rather
than the traditional theories cur
rent at the time.
In his prescriptions he avoided
the ridiculous compounds Of his
time and usually substituted for
them vegetable combinations.
1t was he, too, who introduced
the use of tincture Of opium-lauda-
nub.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BEOSS

Whatever can DR.. Adler be think
ing of? Doesn't he realize the
strength of infantile imagery?
These are not creatures of saw
dust and dull metal with which the
children play. Betsy and Teddy are
fully as real and animate as any
aunt and uncle.
Here in the formative years the
men and wonaen-the husbands and
wives-of tomorrow will be condi-
toned to accept the fact that ALI
ances are at best but temporary.
I shudder to think what the eff
feet of such early experience may
have upon the natural divorce rate.
(Copvripht. 1880. bv The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
Too Much System

EAITH has run to system, not
Il only here in America, but all
over the world.
Whether from an individual or
mass standpoint, character has
come to be regarded as the product
of mechanical schemes.
The inventor is expected to pro-
vide us with moral as well as phys
ical safeguards.
Conscience has Shriveled into a
sort of traffic light which some one
whom we hire for that purpose turns
off and on.
The notion that any one should
do more than he or she is specifi-
cally paid to do has gone to the
scrap heap, along with leg of NUT
ton sleeves and home cooking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-10
loo Much Parting

rs this happy fate for any hero
4 who has stood stalwart against
Indians = thousands of Indians,
maybe millions-upon some card
board path leading up to the hat
box citadel?
would not like to think that any
one of an impressionable age should
be brought up in belief that life
is nothing more than a round of
hail and then farewell.