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Misleading Figures

To mslead the country on the size of unemploy
ment is dangerous business. 1t is comparable to a
physician giving a false diagnosis. And yet re-
Sponsibe officials of the Hoover administration have
been guilty of this offense repeatedly
The public has tried to overlook these unfor-
tunate episodes and to make allowance for mitigating
circumstances 1t was felt that these officials were
not entirely to blame, because of the difficulty in
estimating unemployment on the information avail
able.
But as the secretary of commerce and others have
repeated with monotonous regularity their prosperity
statements, which just regularly disproved
by later official department of statistics, it
has become increasingly difficult to take charitable
view.
To wipe out the element of doubt by providing
adequate federal employment statistics obvious
necessity. But the administration blocked this re-
form. Finally a rider attached to the census
law providing for unemployment count.
While the census was being taken, charges were
made in several communities that the unemployment
question was not being asked by enumerators, and
that the jobless we're being listed as working.
On top of this comes misleading estimates
by Secretary of Commerce Lamont. He states that
on the basis of approximately one-fourth of the
tional population enumerated in representative 10
caties the total number Of unemployed in the coun
try is only little than 100000, or per cent
Apart from the bad taste of Lamont making light
of two million unemployed, study of the figures
shows that his conclusions are both premature and
false.
First, the one quarter of the population enun1er
aed representative of the total industrial popu
ation, but Overbalanced by agricultural districts
where the depression at its worst is not listed
employment.
Second, even though the two million figure we're
accurate it is patiently false to give the impression
that this constitutes unemployment of only per
cent. American Federation of Labor statistics show
union unemployment of 20 per cent. Then how is it
possible for the secretary of to arrive at
his per cent figure?
The New York state industrial commissioner has
exposed the methoo of the secretary of commerce
For instance, Lamont says that seven New York
cities with population of two million, have $3.50
unemployed, which he calls per cent. But in fact,
of course the employabe population of that two mil
lion is only about 40 per cent 100000 which makes
the unemployment on the basis of the commerce de-
partments figures not per cent, but Is per
cent.
Repeated collapses of the stock market and of the
grain exchanges whenever administration officials
make prosperity statements demonstrate that the
business world has about lost confidence in the adj
ministrations accuracy The administration not
afford to destroy any confidence by misleading
statements unemployment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
REASON By F EzRBfs

1T is rather unusual that with all the other monu-
l. ments it has built this nation never has erected
one to mark the spot where occurred the most i'm
portan event in its history since Yorktown, the sur
render of Lee at Appomaox courthouse, but at last
this is to be done.
The papers refer to Lees having surrendered his
sword to Grant, but this little piece of theatrcasm
did not occur, no hardware having been exchanged
between the vanquished and the victor.
In fact, that was the most gentlemany surrender
in all history.
In his supreme hour Grant arose to such mag.
nanmity the historian will tire in the telling
of it, for it is a velvet contrast to the merciesS
finish Of other wars and it was also great statesman
ship, for it did much to heal the bitterness between
the north and south.
EE was dressed in an immaculate uniform of gray
l. and carried the sword given him by the state OF
Virginia, while Grant wore private's blouse much
the worse for wearing, his only mark Of rank being
shoulder straps, sewn on the blouse, and for a
sword he had none at all.
And Grants feeling were in harmony with his
simple attire, for he said that while jubant the
end, he felt sad and depressed on meeting the gal
liant foe who had fought so long and valiantly.
Far from rejoicing in Lees presence, he actually
avoided the grim purpose which brought them to-
gether.
He talked of ordinary things for a while then
branched off into "reminiscences of the Mexican war
in which they had fought in the army; he was
waiting Lee to breach the subject strange modesty
for a warrior il his supreme hour
FINALLY Lee introduced the subject, asking
It Grants terms and Grant gave them then launched
into other conversation. When Lee asked Grant to
write down the stipulation he did
Then it occurred to Grant to permit Lees officers
to keep their horses and side arms and all other
mounted men who owned their horses to keep them
remarkng that they would need them their farms
Lee was greatly impressed with this generosity
and said it would have very happy effect his SOL
diers. Then he remarked that his army was hungry
having lived parched corn, whereupon Grant told
him to send his commissary and get all the
ratons he wanted.
This monument at Appomatox courthouse viii
mark the chivalric meeting of two great soldiers and
in harmony with that it should be unveiled by those
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
How Many Galleries? Depends on Job

more Galleries than do others. A
brain worker uses about 1000 calo-
ries a day, since he does not do any
muscular work. If he has to travel
around, he increases his number to
1900 or $500.
A tailor or box maker uses an adj
ditional 300 to 500 calorieS, a metal
worker. carpenter or painter uses an
additional 300 to 1000, stone ma
son or lunberman uses an addi-
tional 2,400 to 5000 calorieS; a
lady of leisure uses about the same
number of calories Gay as a brain
work, although her brain never may
think a thought; a seamstress uses
fifty more calories a day; a typist
200 more; a housemaid 700 more;
and a laundress 1000 more Galleries
day.
The range varies then from the
sedentary Office worker with 1000
calories in twenty-four hours to the
lumberman with 5000 calories in
the same period of time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
Playing in the Clouds

Disarmament is a goal worth working for and
the world probably will be better off when the time
comes for it to throw away its warmakng tools; but
for the present let's be thankful that the United
States army maintains air force.
Not because the airplane is such potent mill
tarv weapon General Mitchell may be right about
that and he may not The thing that makes the
army air force appealing is the fact that it
put on such a whale of good show.
The army recently staged a big exhibition along
the lake front in Chicago. The air corps was on
hand with some forty or planes to lend hand.
and the thrills these planes furnished worth
going long way to see
Promptly at two big groups of planes. eighteen
in each group would go roaring over the Loop. Fly
ing in perfect formation. they would play grand
spectacular game of follow the leader In and out
among the spires of the Office buildings they would
soar motors wide open, darling along with aerial
skill displayed at its very best; then they would come
down in one magnificent. breath-takng dive
Michigan boulevard, dipping low in gorgeous half
circle and then spring upward again as if they had
hit the earth and bounced of.
Now the thing that made all of this so good to look
at was the fact that these rs seemed to be tuntng
simply for their own amusement. They weren't, real
", of course; they performing methodca evt'-
lueions, and long hours of hard training had pre-
ceded this display.
But it locked as if they we're flying around just
for the fun of it, masters Of the air as seal Is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
Sarajevo Sixteen Years After

It was sixteen years ago Saturday that GavriIo
Princip consumptive Bosnian youth, leaped upon
the running board of the royal car at Sarajevo and
riddled the bodies of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
and bis wife This tragedy Of St. Vtus day in
Bosnia grew into the World war; the massacre of Mill
lions. the manning Of more millions and the mpover
ishment and degradation of western civilization.
Never has there been greater revolution in his
torcal knowledge than exists in the contrast between
what we believed about the assassination in 1914 and
what We now know tc be the truth.
In 1914 we believed the frantic assertion Of Serbian
statesmen that Serbia totally innocent of collu-
sion in the plot We thought that Austria acted as
great bully demanding her last pound Of flesh.
We supposed that Serbia surrendered to all the
Austrian demands We took it for granted that
Austria declared on Serbia to bring on greater
European war We believed that she did so under ad-
vice and pressure from Germany.
Finally we we're told that when Austria gave
signs Of weakening at the eleventh hour, Germany
jumped into the breach and made the European war
certain by premature and unjustifed declaration OF
war on Russia Nobody doubted that Russia was
morally bound to aid her little Slavic brother, Serbia
This was an obligation of honor.
What have we learned in the place of this chaste
myth, which made in behalf Of poor little
Serbia" chivalrous crusade?
Serbian general staff who laid the plot to murder
Franz Ferdinand instructed the assassins in pistol
practice and bomb throwing, and smuggled them
across TIE border into Bosnia.
The Serbian cabinet knew of the plot month be-
fore the murder but did nothing to stop it to warn
Austria. Prominent Russians in the military clique
at st. Petersburg knew Of the plot and urged the
Serbiaos to proceed.
The Austrian ultimatum was not the work OF
bully. II was the minimum which would safeguard
Austria Hungary against Serbian plots Serbia re-
fused to concede any of the important demands of
the Austrians. Austria did not want European war.
To avoid one, she waited in sending her ultimatum
until after Poincare had let Russia.
Germany did not urge Austria on, but after July
o. pleaded with her to hold up her army and nego-
tate with Russia Germany did not take the inita-
tive with Russia Her declaration OF war only
the previous and utterly unjustied Russian
general mobilization which every European leader
knew meant German answer of war
Finally, Russia recognized debt of honor to
Serbia Indeed in 1903 she offered to sacrifice Ser
ban interests to the Austrians and in 1911 to the
Turks.
In short, the immediate occasion of the outbreak
q the World war was sorry affair and nasty mess
with which civilized nation be proud to have
been associated. Serbia may erect monuments to the
assassin5 but enlightened world opinion will in
the incident of June %, 1914 another outstanding
fer demanding better international protection
against another such calamity to the human
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Earthquake

A VERY plausible solution re-
L n Gently has been offered by the
German geographer, Paul Borchardt,
according to Mariner. Borchardt
places the site of the lost Atlantis,
not in the Atlantic ocan, but in
the Mediterranean sea, in the re-
gion of the Gulf of Gabes, near
Tunis.
MANY facts indicate that this re-
gion was at one time the seat of an
extended civilization which was
destroyed by some CONFUSION of ma
ture like an earthquake" Mariner
writes.
"By a painstaking Interpretation
of the text of Plato's story in the
light of the geographic knowledge
of that time, Borchardt makes out g
strong case for this location.
ut is to be remembered that in
the story of Atlantis we have Egyp-
tian material translated into ancient
Greek, which again then is trans
lated into modern languages.
1--WE are far removed from the
geographic conception of the an
cient people. 1t appears, for ex-
ample, that the word island by
which Atlantis is described, may not
have been used in the strict sense
that we employ it nowadays.
And while there is no question
that the term Pillar of Hercules,
finally had come to mean the Strait
of Gibraltar, in earlier times it may
have been a more general term ap-
piled to places marked by a temple
of Hercules.
Such temples were set up as
symbols of the god of maritime ira
ders and were distinguished by two
columns Of pillars.
at is not at all certain that
Plato meant that Atlantis lay out
side the Mediterranean, which
hitherto has been the generally &C
copied location"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
College Militarism

American youth has at last the right to walk
in re ways of peace instead of the ways of war.
no boys with bitter and rebellious hearts
will march and charge and shoulder arms the
price of an education. No more boys courageous
enough to set their faces against mitarsm will be
expelled from college for refusing to march.
For this release youth is indebted to several in
telligent men in Washington who have ruled that
military training is not compulsory in land grant
colleges and universities.
The law establishing these schools for some
years interpreted meaning that military tactics
must be studied by every male student before funds
contributed by the federal government would be
available.
Some years ago wisconsin rebelled at this and
insisted on making military training optional in the
interior held that the state within its rights and
continued to give it financial support
Now Attorney General Mitchell has rendered an
opinion sustaining this decision.
Hereafter any university that continues to make
military training compulsory any state legislature
that continues to require it will do so on its own
responsibility without pressure from the federal gov
eminent. There will be adequate excuse for
organizing college girls into military auxiiaries to
sugarcoat the unwelcome service for boys. There will
be no excuse for drumming and buging and coercing
boys into the ranks for drill.
Military training may take its place with
mathematics and other courses as something youlN
man is free to take leave alone. Perhaps shall
learn something about human nature by watching
what happens.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

facts regarding the amount of cal
cries provided by various food sub
stances, but few people seem to be
able to carry these figures in mind.
The best way to remember calory
values is to associate them with
some portion of common food; thus,
one slice of bread one-half inch
thick and about six inches by three
inches provides 100 calories.
The same amount is supplied by
an ounce of oatmeal; one large egg;
one-third of pint of milk; a large
apple, banana or orange; two dozen
peanuts or raisins; two ounces Of
beefsteak; six cubes of sugar, or
one shredded wheat biscuit.
Thus it is possible to eat a con-
siderable amount of food without
oyereating, and only by eating an
amount of food sufficient to take
care of the ordinary wear and tear
of the body can good health be
continued.
Some industries demand many
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
They Kidded Themselves

1T was not only the greatest bat,-
4 tie ever waged in human his
tory, but it conferred around the
most revolutionary dreams.
White civilization became souSed
with illusionment, not so much over
what should be done. as over the
time in which it could be done.
When the boys sat down to make
peace, they began by tearing up the
map of Europe, kicking the prece-
dents and tradition of a thousand
years under the table, and kidding
themselves with the notion that
they could make it stick.
Though not the first, it undoubt-
edly was the most stupendous at
tempt to exercise devils ever made
by man.
Beginning with the hypothesis
that all evil thoughts regarding in
ternationalism were confined to the
northern side of the Rhine, the
world proceeded on the assumption
that when Germany had been puri-
fed, all danger from militarism
would cease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
Stain Rants

Z EXISTING conditions furnish
IL Joseph Stain, political over1
lord of Russia, many an argument
with which to pep up his Com
munist subjects.
Looking west, he beholds wide
spread depression, with trade
hunger sharpening the teeth of in
ternational rivalry.
Looking east, he beholds China
still locked in deadly Civil war, and
India in revolt.
Capitalism merely is preparing
for another good meal on the battle
field, he reasons, and regaleS, his
infatuated disciples with seven
hour exordium to prove the point.o-
Russia wants peace, he exclaims
in one breath, and then declares
that capitalism is getting ready to
make war on her, in the next.
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attention of most of the continents
being focused on him.
And yet it must be said that in
a sense he brought it on himself.
Probably Indy didn't know, but any
student of our national psychology
could have told him that he never
again would know the simple life
after flying from New York to Paris.
The case of young Lindbergh is
quite different. He has made no
conscius effort to command the at
tention of his fellowmen. If he at
tempts to put one toe in his mouth
he seeks only a private satisfaction
and fails to understand the mil
lions wait with bated breath to find
out whether he will succeed.
And if the theory of heredity is
sound, I have no doubt the lad will
make the contact, indeed, that the
toe will get to the mouth some hour
or so ahead of schedule.
Yet, heredity is by no means the.
science which some would have uB
believe. Though he comes of flying
folk, young Lindbergh may never
be any better than an average avi-
ator. It's in the cards that he will
know something of planes and their
habits.
And that, I'll bet, before he's
grown much older. One can imagine
the child's mother says, Augustus
Jr. seems a little restless this eve
ming. Why not take him up and do
a few loops while the bottles being
heated?"
But suppose this child, practically
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IRON the ends of the earth con-
i gratulations have come to the
Lindberghs. The world is ever so
friendly to the newly arrived small
eaglet. One might assume, as they
do, that there is a child born under
the most favorable auspices possible.
His background is that of wealth
and fame, of courage and high rep
utation. But I already am moved
with compassion for the little citi-
zen. He can not now possibly realize
the price that he must pay for be-
ing a front-page baby. He will
later.
Tribulation lies in wait for him.
I am not referring to the necessary
nishaps which seem to enter into
every life. This lad may grow up
well equipped to handle the general
run of the mill misfortune.
He can do as well with the meas
les as the next one. His difficulties
are likely to be somewhat peculiar.
Many of them he will suffer at the
hands of the well meaning.
I trust that from now on we shall
hear no more of that excellent, but
overly exploited smile of Irwin
Cobb's concerning goldfish and
privacy. Young Lindbergh, through
no fault Of his own, is doomed to
live in a glass bowl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-30
SCIENCE
Legend of Lost Atlantis Per-
sists, Kept Alive By Argn-
ments Doa0n Through the
Centuries.
DAVID DIETZ-

DIsCUssION still RACES around
- the island of Atlantis. A tale
which can be traced to the early
days Of Greek civilization still is
alive.
Down through the middle ages,
stories of many mythical islands in
the Atlantic persisted. There was
st. Brandan's island, for example,
which the good Irish abbot, St.
Brandan, was alleged to have dis
covered. There was also Antillia,
or the Isle Of Seven Cities, alleged
to have been peopled by Christian
refugees driven from Spain by the
Moors.
But when Columbus and the bold
navigators who came after him
crossed the Atlantic, it became ap-
parent that these islands existed
only in imagination.
Atlantis, however, persisted. This
is because the legend holds that
Atlantis had sunk beneath the waves
many centuries before. Atlantis was
lost island. Consequently, nobody
expected mariners to discover it.
Plato told the story of Atlantis
1900 years ago. Plato says that the
story then was $50 years old, hav-
ing been told to Scion Of Athens by
an Egyptian priest.
This priest, according to Plato,
told Scion of records 5000 years old
which described an island in the
sea beyond the pillars of Hercu-
les"
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How WeNDONu
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FIVE QUESTIONS A DANel
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES
- S'S|SSNUV~1sS1SSS'SWV%S@

l. Finish the Beatitude, Blessed
are the merciful ;"
2. In what two gospels is the
Lords Prayer recorded?
3. Who was Naaman?
4. How were the Israelites guided
in their wanderings through the
wilderness?
5. Quote the proverb about a soft
answer.
Answers to Saturdays Queries
l. There will your heart be Also"
Matthew 6:21.
2. The feast of unleavened bread;
Exodus 12:17-20.
8. Five barley cakes and two small
fishes; John 60.
4. It refers to the cure of the
Gadarene man who had been pos
sessed of an evil spirit" Mark SIS
5. "Or the leopard his spots?'
jeremiah 1928.
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Conflict in Making

T IKE most other leaders, Stain
IL is running true to tradition,
though ulwittingly, perhaps-work-
ing up the military spirit in his
own crowd by telling it how good it
is, and how bad other people are. :
1t requires no great degree Of ex-s
pertness to perceive where all this
is leading and how another holo-.
caust is developing from SPARKS in,
the embers of the previous one. a.
Stain poses as a Communist, and
Mussolini as Fascist, but at heart
they are Hohenzolern, Hapsburg or
Bourbon.
At heart, they are not only die
tators, but drivers.
At heart, they are determined to-
impose their pet ideas on other peo-,
pie, no matter what the cost. :
That is the spirit which breeds
conflict, whether it appears on an.
inherited throne, or as the voice of
revolution.
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An Era Ends
THE last French troops are leav

HE last French troops are leav-
Il ing the Rhineland, carrying
their banners, brasses and kit bags,
the allied commission, and all 9TH
er paraphernalia symbolic of vic
tory.
The French people, though out
wardly reconciled to the move, and
though admitting that it represents
the only possible way to peace, arc
reported as feeling very blue.
Who wouldn't, in their place?
They have come not only to the
end of an era, but to the realization
that, though forged on a grander
mold, it was too much like some
other eras for comfort.
AS an isolated episode, we have
ceased fighting, counted the dead,
and estimated the damage, but as
Snarl in the web of human des-
tiny we barely have begun the I'M
travelling process.
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JUNE 30. 1890
Stain of Russia Reasons
That Capitalism Is Pre-
pairing for Another Big
Meal on the Battlefield.
SAYS:

A RCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDI-
"A NAND and his morganatie wife
were shot to death at Sarajevo six
teen years ago last Saturday.
In itself it was just another MUIR
der, but in the midst of a Europe
armed to the teeth and itching for
war, it was like q lighted match in
a haymow.
The real cause of trouble was too
plain to be misunderstood, and the
resultant conflict gradually shaped
itself into a struggle for the over
throw of militariSm.
-Four years Of war to end war, with
the United States standing neutral
for the first two, calling for peace
without victory" and proposing a
league of nations as the one thing
which would justify all the sacrifice,
when obliged to join the melee.