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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
D L A COM D, FREDERICK
NLAOO1N Lands

IT is up to the government to overhaul our imni-
grafton policy and protect this country from I'M
employment particularly since labor saving machin-
cry constantly cuts down the number of jobs, and
since the entrance of women into industry completely
has changed the old economic structure.
We should take care of our own before giving any
charity balls for foreign countries.
1t is a horrible idea to place women on jures with
men in criminal where the twelve of them are
locked up from the start of the trial to the finish
thereof. in this case of Doheney at Washington,
1t outrages every sense of decency.
TTNHROUGHOUT the stalling at this naval confer
ence which exceeds all the stalng ever done at all
the basketball games, Italy and Japan have sat tight
and said the same thing over and over Italy demand
ing naval parity with France and the japanese de-
handing an increase in her naval ratio
Japan is a hard boiled baby; she complains be-
cause we will not let immigrants into the United
States, yet she hands the exclusion act to the
Chinese, and she does not let foreigners land in
Japan, the most they can get being ninety
lease.
you disposed to waste your tears on the Jap
aneSe and regard them down-trodden, just recall
wha tthey did to Korea. At the outbreak of the war
with Russia they entered Korea and took possession
Of her, saying they would get out when the war was
over but they did not, and they never WILL unless
some unexpected friend comes to Korea's relief.
A FTER experiments which lasted three years, New
y Jersey experts claim that honey bees which
have been imported from Russia do not sting
If they do not they not proper representatives
OF the existing Russian government.
Over at Mendoza, Ill, the Rev. James A. Wilson
shot two members of his congregation and the other
500 members of the congregation bitterly protested
against his indictment.
We don't know where we're going. but we're on
our way.
This tariff discussion in the senate proves what
every other tariff fight has proved that every fellow
is protectionist when it comes to the Things which
are produced in his region and free trader when
it comes the things produced outside of his region
Hence it is inevitable that all tariff bills are the
result Of vote trading. ..a.~.auxa-.Asa.lsaz
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Bread on the Waters?

storehouses at American and Canadian ports are
bursting with grain We have more food than we can
eat and more than we can sell Disposng Of our sur
plus is national problem
Meantime. on the other side Of the world, millions
OF Chinese are starving to death.
reliable report received by the China famine re-
lief says:
"In the province Of Kansu dogs ana men are ue-
youring one another. There are no trees nor SHRUBS
seen on the field Of that province, due to the long
drought and the desert Is advancing rapidly south
ward Women and children are out for sale Town
streets are strewn with dead"
There have been many similar reports, although
thew have been meager due to remoeness OF the al
Hicted territories.
Senator NcMaster Of South Dakota proposed the
purchase with government funds Of S25OOO0OO worth
n American wheat to be sent to the famine area
officers Of the relief committee told the senate agr-
culture committee they would prefer direct ap-
roprfation since an emergency exists and much time
necessarily would elapse before American grain could
be shipped to the sufferers.
The American Red Cross, which so often has given
aid in other lands this instance IS doing little OF
nothing No effort has been made to marshal Amer
lean charity.
Congress might do well to consider the subject OF
A direct appropriation as suggested. China is torn
With strife and is seeking to find herself But starv-
ing women and children have little part in this
The address of the China famine relief is 2o5 East
Forty-second street, New York City.
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Readers of The Times Voice Vices

reorganize and strengthen the en-
tire enforcement machinery, and to
place it, the VolStead act included,
exclusively in the hands of ardent
prohibitioniStS who can be trusted
to make it effective This procedure,
they assure us, undoubtedly will
make the country dry.
Now, so far as the VolStead act
is concerned, the truth is that lax
enforcement is the only thing on
earth that heretofore has saved it
from utter humiliation. The very
moment determined and persistent
effort to enforce it throughout the
United States is made, that moment
its doom is everlastingly sealed.
A vast number of the people re-
gard this law with disfavor. They
resent it because they feel that it is
an impudent and meddlesome at
tempt to regulate their personal
habits and curtail their personal
liberty. They believe it to be at
war with the best traditions of the
country and a vicious attack upon
Che basic principles upon which the
government is founded.
Heretofore. however, large per-
centage of these people have pre-
served silence. Up to this time they
have not arrayed themselves in &C
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Goes Back to Elders

VOU can say that the trouble
Il IS due to overproduction of
law, to the corrupting influence of
prohibition, to the breakdown of re-
ligion, or to anything else that ap-
peals to your fancy, but you can't
get away from the fact that trouble
Of a basic character exists; that we
have arrived at a point where it is
very hard, if not impossible, for
older people to square their prac-
tees with what they preach to the
young, and where the young are
growing up in an environment
which smackS of nothing so wildly
as white-WaShed rot.
1t is to be admitted that people
always have put their best foot for
ward, have tried to appear a little
better in public than they were in
private, and, above all else, have
attempted to impress youth with
their superiority, not only in mind,
but in morals.
1t is to be admitted also that we
always have hello ideals that
were beyond attainment and have
claimed virtues we did not always
practice.
But, and making due allowance
for all that, there probably never
was a time when words and actions
were so far apart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
What About Parking?

While the citys safety board sits and waits ana
doubts thousands of indianapolis motorists ride down.
town every morning in an thicker cloud OF doubt
as to their rights and privileges in parking their cars
For three weeks the matter OF allowing business
houses to control loading for which they pay no
fee as required by city ordinance has been Squarey
before city council and the board OF safety And for
exactly three weeks nothing has been done except to
mass out vague statements that perhaps the matter
viii be looked into.
While business houses maintain these zones for
their own convenience at no cost scores OF motorists
are kept from using these parking spots and forced
to nav garage or lot fees every day if they wish to
continue driving to their work
II does not seem that this is such an intricate
matter that 1t could not be decided promptly. The
names Of those who have paid for their loading zones
as required by city ordinance file at city hall
It certainly would be great task to check those
who have not pad-and then see that they do pay or
Weld their so-caIed rights. for the benefit of city
autoists
Added to this complication comes another, brought
to the fore as result OF the activity Of doorman in
a downtown Office building, affxing a sticker to
car rsrked in one of those forbidden" zones-on
which. incidentally no fee has been paid.
The safety board president admits that "he is not
sure as to the authority of doormen and other So
called special policemen so to act
Il seems that it is UP to the safety board to clarity
this situation without further delay. the motorist
may have at least faint idea as to the rules regard
I'M ths parking Of his car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Hypocrisy R0ignS

WHO cares If legislators make
w eloquet speeches in favor of
prohibition, though they were drunk
the night before?
Who cares if father passes a red
light because the cop is not look
ing, though he spanks his child for
the infraction Of some household
rule?
Very few of us, and that's the
pity Of it.
But don't deceive yourself with
the idea that the children have
failed to see the flaw, that their eyes
have been blinded by the dust of
platitude and precept, or their ears
stopped by all the meaningless
chatter.
They have seen and heard more
than you suspected and they have
taken what you do far more serious
" than what you say.
Children are imitators rather
than receptacles.
You can not pour conscience,
character, or morals into them;
can not make them believe that you
believe thing is wrong, unless you
prove it by your own conduct.
What older people do, whether IN
changing the style of their dress,
the character of literature they
read, or the form of government
under which they live, always fin%
a reflection in the attitude and
conduct of their children.
If they pass such Incorporate and
tyrannical laws as they have
courage neither to obey nor to re-
peal, the echoes Of their weakness
will be heard fifty or a hundred
years hence.
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Editor TimeS-In The Indianap-
oils Times, under date of March
10, 1880, there appeared an article
designed to educate the sighted
public in regard to conditions OF the
sightless in Indiana. In behalf Of
that article, I wish to say that the
attitude of the writer was well
taken. 1t is the duty of every one
who can contribute such construc-
tive information to do so.
Indiana is contributing $4,000
annually to the board of industrial
aid for the blind. 1t is quoting in
large figures to say that approx
mately only 500 of the states 1900
sightless persons are receiving en-
ployment through this board.
Sightless men and women who
make application to the board of
industrial aid for the blind are in
formed that they will have to await
their turn; which, as rule, means
that they will not hear from it I'M
less they make inquiries personally;
then they are told it is impossible
to give them employment.
Numerous applications have been
on file for years without results.
And all the while the executive sec
rotary of the board has been draw
ing a salary of $4,000 a year and
his travelling expenses paid.
The most recent yearbook to be
obtained reports that the total sum
of money paid to thirty-nine sight
less women for work done for the
board for one year was about 81, 100.
Is this just?
Blind men canvassing with brooms
and other commodities from door to
door are confronted with the state
ments from prospective customers
that even though they do not pur-
chase their wares, they are we'll pro-
vided for by the state.
This statement is erroneous, as
Indiana does not provide a home for
such class of people. The adult
blind have no home unless they
make it for themselves from their
own earnings. If they do not sell
their products, they are helpless.
1t should be the duty of the ex-
ecutive secretary to keep all en-
ployed who need it, by having as
adequate sales force.
The women who work for the
needle department find it difficult
to get enough towels to keep them
employed. While the Federation OF
Women's Clubs of the state has en-
listed to dispose Of their work, they
find it impossible to obtain enough
towels to supply the demand.
I feel sure that when the sighted
public is enlightened in regards to
existing conditions the taxpayers
will resent such conduct.
AN OFFICER OF THE WELFARE
LEAGUE FOR THE BLIND.
Editor Times-The opponents Of
prohibition have all along claimed
that the Volstead act was a failure
Its friends have denied this and
have insisted 1t was working well
Now, however, these friends admit
the claim of the opponents to be
true, but they attribute the failure
of the law to the Indifference, in
competency and corruption Of those
who have been intrusted with its
administration.
Therefore, they are proposing tc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
The South

A LARGE part Of the Atlanta
n meeting is to be devoted to the
discussion of the development OF
the chemical industry in the south.
On April 8, DR.. Harrison E. Howe
of Washington, editor of Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry, is to
address the convention on the SUBJ
ject of Chemistry Comes South"
A symposium is to be held on the
subject of THE Relation of Cotton
to Chemical Industry" Experts
from all parts Of the United States
are to take part in this discussion.
Sectional meetings during the
convention will deal with questions
of the sugar. petroleum, cellulose
and paint industries, public health,
the relation of chemistry and medi-
cine. agriculture and sanitation
A particularly important session
will be that Of the division Of Bio
logical chemistry. which will discuss
new researches in the fields OF the
vitamins, the chemistry Of the
ductIess glands, the chemical effects
of ultra violet radiations and chem
ical problems involved in nutrition.
The convention will serve to IL
lustrate how wide spread the rami-
flcations Of chemistry are today.
There is not a human activity into
which chemistry does not enter at
some point.
In fact, from one point OF view.
every living organism, from micro
scopic creatures to man, is nothing
more or less than chemical plant
carving on involved chemlcai
r)rocpSSPS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
TOnsil Removal Often Advisable

The patient with tonsilitis should
go to bed promptly. A physician
usually will apply directly to the
place of infection suitable antisep-
tics to destroy the germs that are
on the surface.
He also will control the fever and
provide medication which may be
helpful. Application of an ice bag
or hot packs will give relief from
the pain and soreness.
A gargle with a small amount of
baking soda helps to clear out the
adherent mucous.
Chronic tonsilitis is especially
dangerous because of the secondary
effects. For this reason, physicians
advise surgical removal of the ton
sis in all such cases.
Tonsilitis itself is seldom fatal,
but the possibility Of an infected
ear. or infected joints, or heart dis
ease after that is so serious that a
sore throat never should be neg
lected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =

The germ most frequently re-
sponsible for tonsilitis is the
streptococcus, which is also re-
sponSible or various forms of heart
disease, for erysipelc@ and for
similar conditions.
When the tonsils once have been
seriously affected, they apparently
are likely to become infected again
and again.
In children particularly it is ex-
ceedingly important to make sure
that the condition is tonsilitis and
not diphtheria.
Tonsilitis produces throat that
is purplish red and swollen
whereas diphtheria produces a
grayish white membrane.
The special Importance OF the dis
tinction lies in the fact that the
control in diphtheria depends on
early diagnosis and the prompt ad-
ministration of a sufficient amount
of suitable antitoxin.
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49,
III eplIorusllir, Or II
I Daily \
I Lenten Devotion

Thursday, March 20
HARVESTING OUR DREAMS
Read Genesis 28:10-17. Memory
Verse: Behold a ladder set up on
the earth and the top Of it reached
to heaven" Genesis 28:12)
MEDITATION
That is the way it should be with
dream ladders. They must be set
up on the earth. Dreams will make
us happy or unhappy, according to
the relation they bear to our every
day lives and necessities. In that
popular novel, "Mamba's Daugh-
tiers" the young dreamer, Saint, 7"
was long time finding himself. He
hated the work Of the store to which
he had committed himself. He
fitted up an adjacent room as a
refuge and remarked to a friend:
"I only let my dreams come into
this room and never cross that
threshold into the store" To which
his friend replied: Don't you see
you can not do that? That is drift
ing. You must carry your magma
ton over that threshold into life
and make it work for you" We
must domesticate our dreams and
harness them to the actual business
Of being what we can be.
PRAYER
o thou giver of dreams, keeps us
from idle dreaming. Teach us not
to despise the life We are called to
live, or to neglect the task Of today.
However humble and proSaic it may
be, let US follow it, as our opportu-
nifty for service. Amen.
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M. E. Tracy
We Haze Arrived at O Point
Where 1t Is Hard to Square
the Practices Of Older
People With What They
Preach to the Young.
SAYS:

A FTER passing all the laws for
n the protection of bird life, it
seems strange that the state of New
York should sanction the poisoning
Of pigeons that have made the
capitol courtyard their home for so
many years.
No doubt the constantly increaS-
ing demand for efficiency furnishes
plausible excuse, but school teach
ers and others interested in the
subject will experience some dir
ficulty in reconciling this idea with
all they have said to children about
being kind to birds and obeying
laws.
Still, we ought to be getting used
to that problem by this time.
The task of making children un-
derstand that they should not break
rules which their elders flout has
become little short Of herculean.
On every hand, they see parents
and neighbors violating not only the
Volstead act. but hundreds of other
regulations.
How can they distinguish right
from wrong under such circum-
stances?
How can they develop any sense
of their individual obligations to
society, or any conception Of what is
essential to the maintenance of good
order?
We are talking a great deal about
the desirability Of censorship to
protect young and immature minds
from the vicious influence of smutty
books, vulgar plays and salacious
jokes.
All the while, too many of US
are setting them an example in our
everyday conduct, which is far
more dangerous when it comes to
the elemental vices of hypocrisy, de-
ceit and pretense.
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ANNIVERSARY
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JUNGLE TOMS CABIN"
March 90

NN March 20, 1852, Uncle Toms
~ Cabin" a book by Harriet
Beecher Stowe which is said to have
fastened the overthrow of slavery,
was published in book form for the
first time.
When the story first appeared in
the National Era of Washington, D.
c., as a serial, it attracted little at
tention, but a few weeks after it
was issued in book form it was a
universal favorite. During the next
five years more than 100000 copies
were sold in the United States
alone.
Although Uncle Toms Cabin"
was written carelessly and sensa-
tionally, it aroused public con-
science wherever it circulated.
Critics say the secret Of the
books effect upon the issue OF
slavery was less the story, or its
descriptive power, than its sin
cerity.
Regardless Of the literary merits
of the book, the characters Uncle
Tom, Simon Legree and little Eva
have become traditional in Amer
lean. literature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

MO one ever has determined ex-
~ actly why we have tonsils.
Apparently they served some pur-
pose in taking care OF the infec-
tious organisms that came into
the throat.
However, their response to in
lection is prompt swelling and in
fammation with pain, soreness,
difficulty in swallowing, swelling
of the glands in the throat, high
fever, rapid pulse, general
weakness and serious illness gen.
orally.
Not infrequently the germs which
develop in the tonsils are carried
by the blood to other parts of the
body and there set up intlamma-
lions, the regions particularly af-
fected being the joints, the heart
and the kidneys.
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tive opposition to the law, but their
latent dislike Of it needs only a
little more provocation to arouse
chem to outSpoken and vigorous re-
Sistance.
HENRY u. JOHNSON.
Editor TimeS-That was a good
plan suggested by Mr. Williams to
furnish employment for some of the
thousands who are wandering about
our beautiful city seeking work.
Permit a reader of The Times to
offer suggestion which might give
our delegates to our legislature a
constructive idea. Why not do what
California was forced to do; namely,
pass a statute compelling all women
whose husbands are employed to
resign their lucrative positions,
thereby permitting worthy and ca
pable men to accept their present
jobs?
Much Of the money earned by
wives and mothers is spent for
luxurieS and sometimes wasted. Are
we not brothers and sisters in our
social groups? Why not be helpful?
Where is the milk of human kind
ness? Are the selfish, self -centered
members OF society happy? Ask
them.
Furthermore, there are firms that
seem to prefer to hire women. on
the ground Of cheaper labor, and
thus declare larger dividends. Is
that fair to the children whose
mothers work? Have corporations
no obligations to society?
A FRIEND TO MAN AND
TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Worldwide

THEMICAL abstracts consists OF
y. a complication of brief sum-
maries or digests of articles dealing
with the subject of chemistry.
20 cover the whole field of chem
iStry, Professor E. j. Crane, editor
of the magazine, has his army of
"abstractors" keep tab on 1900 pub
locations.
Despite the fact that they are
now watching 1900 publications.
every once in a while a publication
hobs up which has been missed.
Experience has shown that there
always is another publication to be
found in Japan or Russia or some
other distant country Professor
Crane says.
The chemist frequently finds all
the information he needs about sub
jects in chemical abstracts. If he
doesn't, he can then refer to the
original article from which the di-
gest was made.
Professor Crane or one Of his as
siStantS assign important papers 20
members OF Jne army OF dDSJI Dc
tors" for preparation for the maya
zine. Forty-five associate editors
pass on the abstracts before they 90
into the magazine.
Among the magazines which are
checked by the abstractors are 404
published in America, 226 in Great
Britain, 218 in Germany 129 in
France, 80 in Italy, So in Japan and
AZ in Russia.
They also check other magazines
published in Holland, Sweden, Bel
GUM, Norway, China and many
other nations. They find it neces-
sary not only to check journals deal
ing with chemistry but also many
dealing with medicine, biology
physics and agriculture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

Republican Representative James M Beck of
Pennsylvania says prohibition is going to ruin his
party (the Republican, if something isn't done about
it right away Maybe President Hoover ought to ap-
point a commission on ruination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

Chicago newspaper printed cartoon depicting
Abraham Lincoln cas- he would have looked in modern
garb." That ought to be good bunch for somebody
next year-to depict the immortal emancipation he
would have looked in suit of Mayor Jimmy Walk
ers
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young lady in Massachusetts, wept for eighteen
hours The story didn't state whether she got the coat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20

Do not get rough in Philadelphia. new United
States marshal appointed the other day. His
name is Fetters.