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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Robbing Sick Workers

Workmens compensation laws have been adopted
by fory-four states SO it is taken for granted that
the battle for workmens compensation largely is won
But the price of social progress like that Of liberty
Is eternal vigilance The hospital committee for
workmen's compensation charges that commercialism
partially has defeated the purpose of compensa
ton acts.
The theory behind compensation acts is:
% Costs shall be borne by industry CD sufficiently
high charges shall be made for insurance premiums
TO cover ali legitimate expenses in treatment and
compensation 80 adequate treatment of the injured
by competent physicians; "a and fair compensation
to the injured based upon full and impartial state
nent Of the facts
How does it work out in practice in all too many
cases? Private insurance companies have entered
the field to write compensation policies They are
interested in profits for the company not in service
TO humanity.
SUPPOSE Bill Smith gets hurt in a factory; how
Is he handled? He first goes to hospital for treat
nent by good physicians the staff of the hospitals
But soon he is sent to commercial or insurance
clinic There he is dealt with mechanically by busy
and often inferior physicians or nurses, paid on
salary or fee basis Every effort is made to get rid
OF the patient quickly.
Then comes the testimony as to the seriousness of
the injury before the compensation board This is
given by the physician of the insurance company.
which is interested in keeping the compensation pay
ment as low as possible There is often, indeed
secret adjustment made in advance with the injured
party who rarely knows his rights or how to pro-
tect them.
The dice thus are loaded against the injured work
man from the moment of his injury to the final
adjustment.
Next to the workman the chief sufferer Is the
private hospital In New York City, for example, the
maximum payment which insurance company will
make for compensation patient is $3.50 day One
big insurance company went to the state su-
preme court in the effort to force hospitals to accept
compensation cases at the rate paid for charity
patient, namely, $3.50 a day.
The minimum expense of patient in the average
New York private hospital is ST a day. Even at
$3.50 day, the contributing public which is sup
porting the private hospitals really is paying $3.50
day into the Golfers of the insurance company.
The critics of these methods have enlisted the
aid Of the hospitals of many distinguished and So
cialy minded physicians and lawyers, and of those
insurance companies which have carried on their
work in fair and equitable manner.
We may hope they will be able to end the abuses
and make workmen's compensation an actual as we'll
as a statutory achievement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29

-RY DAVID DIETZ-
Engineering Triumph Regis
tered When Huge Con-
crete Obelisk Is Dropped
Into RiUer as q Dam.

TTOW a river was damned in a
L L single operation by the daring
process of building a gigantic obelisk
of concrete and then topping it over
into the river is described in re-
port to the Engineering Foundation
by William S. Lee, president of the
American Institute Of Electrical En-
gineers.
The river was the Saguenay river
in Canada, a stream well known to
American tourists.
A dam was needed for a large
hydro-electric power development
of the Alcoa Power Co., Limited, a
subsidiary of the Aluminium Com
pany of America, at Chute-a-Caron.
about 140 miles north Of the city of
Quebec.
Usual methods Of constructing the
dam were precluded by the swiftness
and depth of the river.
THE site selected for the power
plant was in a gorge located on a
rocky section Of the river" the re-
port explains.
THE usual method Of putting in
timber cribs and weighing them
down with stones, or large blocks of
any heavy substance, was not quite
practical due to the extreme depth
and high velocity of this water"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29

T AM under the impression that
4 this column has been quite free
of political talk for several days
And so I would like leave to print
an incident, particularly as its i'm
plications are not partisan. The
reverse, in fact.
On Monday night I was sitting
in an automobile decorated with
such banners, signs and slogans as
are customary for candidates. A
pedestrian paused to ask, rs your
name Broun?"
I agreed that it was and pre-
pared to outline for him, as briefly
as possible, the issues of the cam
paign. But before I could get
started he said, I'm your Demo
cratic opponent. My name is Louis
Brodsky."
Though it would not have been
quite possible to knock me down
with a feather, I would at least
have reeled under the impact. Here
in the flesh was the man around
whom my next five weeks were to
center. From radio studio and STEP
ladder it is to be my pleasure and
privilege to denounce Brodsky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
OheIiSk Built

TINE problem was solved by
Il James w. Hickey, hydraulic en-
gineer of the Aluminium Company
of America.
He suggested that a large, heavy,
reinforced concrete tower, Or lobe
lisk," of the proper length, curved
on one side so as to fit as nearly as
possible the bottom of the river, be
built on a concrete pier at the edge
of the river, at a convenient place
upstream from the power dam; then
by blasting away small portion Of
the pier tip the obelisk over into
the river 50 that it would become a
dam.
This scheme was worked out very
carefully by Rickey's staff, also his
consulting engineering staff, and his
construction engineers on the
ground" Lee says.
so carefully was the whole
scheme worked out that when this
block of masonry 90 feet high, As
feet wide, and approximately As feet
in the other dimension, containing
$500 cubic yards of concrete, was
dropped into the river, it landed
almost perfectly in the place in
which it was computed to land"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Administration Wheat

There seem to be wheels within wheels in the ad-
ministration's discredted trick to make the angry
farmers believe that the Boshevists to blame
for the collapse of the wheat market.
At first it looked like the matter would end SIM
ply with everybody giving the administration the
razz The experts the economists, the brokers, the
senator's the newspapers, ell laughingy agreed that
the insignificant Russian short sales were only a
tiny grain in mighty big bin and had little or
nothing to do with the price fall.
The administration smarting under the general
ridicule apparently lost its head. By pressure it
forced Chicago Board Of Trade committee to out
law Russian short sales. Apart from the fact that
the committee had authority to take such &C
tion as pointed out by the former president of the
Board Of Trade and Others there disturbing i'm
picatcns. Says the market expert of the Chicago
Journal of Commerce:
Canadian wheat pools, subsidized by the prov
ince and to some extent by the dominion, will
tinue as heretofore to hedge their wheat in this
market, just as growers and millers in the Argen-
tine VIII DO their hedging here.
"A Cuban sugar combine that is more or less
the instrument of the Cuban government, the Bra
ziiar coffee pool that is wholly the government and
similar organizations will not be interfered with when
they send their hedging sales to our commodities
markets."
That is to say Russian hedging which is too
small to influence the market, is barred, but the
arge-scale and fairly constant hedging by American
traders and other foreign combines which do control
the market will &c on as usual:
Does this represent deal between the admins
tration and the Chicago pit by which the much
criticised practice of trading in grain futures in it's
present form is to receive Washingtcns blessing?
We DO not know the answer to that question: but it
is interesting to find a newspaper which is gener-
ally so well informed the grain exchange as the
Chicago Journal of Commerce asserting
at seems to be a fair assumption that, having
contributed its part to little drama that is to dis
tract public attention from the failures Of the farm
board, the Board of Trade may expect little less
of belligerence and little more of economic sense
from those who police it..
We have feeling that, before the winter is
through, the administration will wish it never had
reminded congress of what the farm bloc calls gam
bling in wheat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

1t has been shown again and
again that the sudden Slamming
of a door or firing of a pistol may
throw a child of extremely nervous
tendency into a convulsion.
British authorities assert that
children who sleep in the midst of
uproar will awaken listless and
tired, and that if it continues per-
sistently, the growth OF the child
will suffer.
A great deeI Of modern improve
ment in railway construction is
planned to lessen vibration and
noise.
These conditions can be controlled,
whereas it is not possible always
to control the barking of dog,
the crying of an infant, the prac-
ticing of an ambitious cornet or
piano player, or ten radios let loose
at one time in t3n apartments.
Experiments have been conducted
in an attempt to determine the
results Of constant inpinging of
sound on the auditory nerve. The
investigators assert that noise
raises the blood pressure and that
a degree of noise insufficient to
awaken a sleeping person neverthe-
less will cause ones muscles to con-
tract and remain tense for as long
as thirty minutes before they re-
lax.
In various occupations it has been
shown that hardness of hearing,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Caught But Not Punished

The Chicago and Cook County Bankers Association
has issued protest-not, evidently, without some
iustiacation-against the unusual delay that mas
marked the disposal of the cases Of three convicted
bandits.
In January of 1929 six men invaded a Chicago
hank killed watchman and got away with $780, Two
says later they were captured and they confessed also
duplicating themselves in sixty other robberes. In
Anrl thew were tried and convicted; three were sem
tended to life Imprisonment and three we're sentenced
TO death.
Then the laws delay began to operate for the con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Dumb or Sn1art2

60, too, there are people who ar
~ que that there is a difference be-
tween the Republican and Demo
cratic parties, though both are dry
IN Maine and both are wet in New
York.
A good many people would like 10
vote on the question, but how are
they going to do it if each party
tlops in step with the other?
While this has become the most
widely discussed question in the
United States, it looks as though
We never would get in position
where we could line up on much of
anything.
For that matter, it looks as though
we never would get in position
where we could line up on much of
anything.
Stealing the other fellows thln-
der seems to have become the big
idea in American politics. but
whether this idea is a sign of una
nimity or dumbness, remains to be
proved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29

sinned against than SHINING, and
was handicapped by the cunning
politicians who surrounded him.
Next, mention Governor &c
jackson, who was charged with try
ing to bride Governor McCray by
a liberal offer of $4,000 to make a
certain appointment for prosecutor
for Marion county. This offer Gov
ernor McCray was honest enough
to refuse.
Next, I mention Governor H. 6
Leslie, who was speaker of the house
during the latter part Of Jackson's
term Of Office and who refused 10
allow investigation Of Jackson's Of
fetal actions while Governor until
the statute Of limitations would save
Jackson.
Next, I mention James Eli Wat
son and Arthur Robinson, our two
United States senators, who we're
charged with using their official po-
sitions to influence members Of the
state supreme court to prevent the
execution Of sentence imposed by
that court on DR.. Shumaker.
Next, I mention George v. Cot
fin, big chief" of the Republican
party in Marion county, and who
also was mixed up with the Ed
Jackson bribery scandal. Now,
will ask: Is not this grand array
Of Republican purity co to be the
absolute rulers of the Republican
party IN Indiana2
JOHN ROBBINS
SIT East Twenty-fifth street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Here Are Some PuSSIers and Their Ans7cers

and followed by much persecution
and an exodus of HuguenotS.
How much rubber is used in the
United States annually to make
automobile tires?
In 1923, auto tires consumed 670,-
$4,000 pounds of rubber.
Was Coolidge ever elected Presi-
dent of the United States.
He was elected President in 1924,
after he had served his first term
as the successor of President Hard
ing.
Who operates radio station
WSXV?
It is owned and operated by the
Rev. Lannie w. Stewart at Carter
vile, Mo.
Why does the sun shine?
Because 1t is in a state of ineon-
.ceivably high temperature, and heat
and light are the outward mani
festations Of this state.
Who was the first millionaire in
America?
Opinions differ. Among those for
whom the honor is claimed are Ste
phen Girard of Philadelphia: Brazil
Gordon OF Falmouth. Va. who made
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
. u \ CnN nv, FREDERICK
AAA<A AOOA Lands

IF this Tammany judge and his wife bought place
on the New York bench they should get the limit,
for the greatest enemy of this country is the crook
not the Communist
If the National Security League wishes to earn it's
salary it should stop its fantastic pursuit of Boshe
visits and go after crooks.
If it will diminish the grief of Sir Thomas Lipton
Wen tell him the average American didn't care rap
about the victory Of the Enterprise interest in that
race having been confined chiefly to the yacht clubs
the country and quite few of us don't belong.
CALLING is a wonderful sport but it has passed
- into decline Formerly all the lakes of the
country we're white with sails but now they are few
and far between
The men at our summer resorts are playing golf
and the women are playing bridge
If we we're still in the practice of law we would
volunteer to defend all those who slaughter play
full gentlemen who knock straw hats off after the
September time limit.
To put them en- take them off, according tc
the calendar, not the temperature is utterly crazy
And being crazy it IS hardly necessary to say il
originated in New York City.
An elderly lady down east who never saw the late
Rudolph Valentino, but who loved him as her own
son." has contributed literally to a Valentino me-
mortal
1t takes all kinds of nuts to make the salad of life
A MERICANS who return from Europe say that
1 n the continent is fermentng with international
hatreds and clicking with military preparations.
Well, if they must open up the old slaughter house
again. let us nail both of Uncle Sans Trilbys to the
United States and keep out of it.
We frankly say to you we would not contribute
to another European war to keep the whole
outfit from sinking into hades
If that be treason make the most of it!
Furthermore, if we can't live without wars let's
quit bringing children into the world and let's turn
it all to the beetles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29

fortune in the sudden rise of
tobacco during the War of 1872, and
John Jacob AStor.
Is ii possible to produce rain ar
tif1cially?
The United States weather bureau
definitely asserts that man can not
produce rain at will. They say "it
is quite true that in a laboratory q
small amount of moisture can be
preciptated by using special equip
ment, but meteorologists know of nc
practical scheme of producing rain
on large scale. Widespread
drought is due to lack of sufficient
moisture in the air. If there is
little moisture to bring down, OBJ
viously no device for causing rain
fall has any value"
What is the lowest temperature
that has been attained through lab
oratory experiments?
Professor w. H. Keesom. physicist
chief of the cryogenic (cold pro-
ducing) laboratory Of the Univer-
sity of Leyden. Netherlands, accom-
Elished the difficult and hazardous
feat of solidifying helium gas al
1888 degrees below zero Fal1ren-
heit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Dynamite Used

THE obelisk had been built on
4 the top of pier at the edge of
the river. This pier consisted of two
parts. The part nearer the river
had been arranged so that it could
be blown out with charge of dyna-
mite.
Most of the water had been di-
verified from the river channel into
canal prior to dropping the ODE
lisk into place.
1T was necessary, however, to
leave considerable water flowing
down the old channel to form a
cushion for the obelisk to fall into
and thereby prevent breaking it, .
Lee says. "The quantity of water
was regulated and this precaution
worked perfectly.
"On the day when everything was
in readiness for dropping the ODE
liSk, the holes in the front part of
the pier were loaded with dynamite
and it was blown away.
When the large mass of the obe-
lisk fell, water was thrown 200 to
400 feet in all directions, but the
obelish, being of such great weight
and moving at such high velocity,
even the swift current in the river
did not affect it and it settled into
place as it was expected to do.
The entire scheme was a bold one
but was carried through success
fully and accomplished complete
and successful Golfer damming of a
most dangerous and difficult stream
of great volume and swiftness of
flow"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29

What are the names of some for
eirn makes of automobiles?
Austin, Daimler. Sunbeam, Rolls
Rnvce. Berliet. Renault, Fiat, Min
erya. Mayhach and Opel.
when and where did Mrs. Hard
ing die?
She died Nov. 81. 1924, at the
home of DR.. Charles E. Sawyer,
white Oaks Farm, Marion, o.
What is the present area of Ger
many. and what was it prior TO the
world war?
The present area of Germany is
fs5 $50 square miles: prior TO the
world war it was 2lS,164 square
miles.
what is the best method TO
cleanse a trench coat?
scrub the garment lightly with
soap and water, and rise with clear
water, to remove all traces of the
soap. Be sure that no water re-
mains in the pockets.
What was the Edict of Nantes?
An order issued by Henry ~ of
france. in 1898, granting freedom
Of conscience to Protestants. which
Vas revoked by Louis XIV in 1855
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Daylight Saving Over

XKTELL, we're back on standard
w time, which means that Won
can travel more than Twenty-Five
miles or exist for a week without
setting your watch.
The idea of saving daylight is
sound, but why can't people do SO
without turning the clocks aheadq
1t certainly makes you wonder
whether there is very much in this
so-called mass thinking, or whether
popular education has done much to
improve common sense.
Heaven only knows what would
happen if some ether wave were 10
stop all the clocks, and one only
can wonder how people ever got
along before clocks were invented.
II things keep on, we won't be able
to tell the difference between night
and day unless some one blows a
whistle, or turn to the left unless
some one flashes a traffic light.
Slll' there are people who argue
That our brains have increased.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Sport Is Life Saver

IONE almost is forced to turn to
~ sports for anything like an
honest, sincere effort.
Maybe that is why sports have
become so popular.
At any rate, one can find more
candor on a puny golf course than
at a national convention, and more
vitality in a grammar school foot
ball game than in a congressional
debate.
For some unknown reason. We
seem unable to take any but frivo
lous things seriously.
Time was when Americans would
shake their fists in each other S
faces over the tariff or prohibition
but they are getting so darn polite
and cooperative these days that
they won't favor or oppose a law
until they are sure that the whole
crowd agrees, and seldom fall out
over anything more important than
the number of home runs Babe Ruth
has hit, or which bootlegger can be
trusted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
Times Readers Voice Vices

Editor Times-Nearly a century
ago, in 1884, to be exact, certain
family of honor, though not of great
means, bought a parcel of lane
which beautifully was named Fair
view Heights"
They toiled and shaved, yes, denied
themselves the many little luxuries
and pleasures of life, to hold their
precious possessions.
Other families came and bought
some of the land, which helped to-
ward educating and feeding their
splendid children. improvements
could not be retarded and all will
lingly sacrificed for progress, and
perfect harmony reigned among
them.
Then came large taxation; they
grimly faced the situation, and as
Uriah loved his one wife, they ap-
preciated their one nest!
Then came the psuedo David,
saw what possibilities were there,
and as his power was great, he
built his kingdom around them
with covetous eye on the little
home nests.
However, as he seemingly was a
religious man, the little group, moth
ing daunted, helped him beautify
his courts and prayed for his sue
cess. But the kingdom was politi-
cal, and when meetings of the city
were called to better the statutes of
the original neighborhood, the in
FAINT king" cried so loud and
threatening so much, it was given
its way. Besides, 1t must be remem-
bered, this king was wealthy, and
could pay much money when neces-
sary.
Thus it was futile for the poor
people even to attend, as it was un-
derstood the monarch's wishes must
be met. He was so friendly and
gave so literally; what If his chill
dren did make the night hideous with
their noise. and leave their bottles
lie around for the neighbors to fall
over? He eventually would make
things SO unpleasant that all the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-29
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.


Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
THOSE who have lived for a
L brief period in the primeval
forests or in any other place of
comparative quietude find their ears
terribly assaulted with the thunder
of the noise of the city when they
return.
The motor traffic, the sirens Of
the police and fire trucks, the pneu-
matte hammer, the rattle of the ele-
waited trains, the mere footsteps Of
hundreds of thousands of people
make noise the usual rather than
the unusual sensation.
1t is quite true that persons who
have lived for a long time adjacent
to railroad tracks or street car lines
become accustomed to the regular
passing of vehicles and apparently
notice them not at all.
It has been recognized for some
time, however, that regardless of
whether or not we notice sounds,
the sensation impinges on the nerv-
Gus system and must in time have
an effect.
In noisy surroundings it is neces-
sary to concentrate more deeply in
order to hear what is going on.
Young children and infants repeat
edly are disturbed.