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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28

CPRING is here, which reminds
~ me of the fact that things are
beginning to grow, and that pres
emily there will be a campaign for
farm relief.
1t generally is held that no city
dweller understands anything about
the farmer and his problems.
Speaking for myself, I must admit
that's true. I don't understand him
and his perplexities.
At this distance from the soil I
see the farmer as man who gets
up at 4 a. m. to plant sufficient
quantity Of wheat to glut the mar
ket and bankrupt himself and all
his fellows.
Some years ago there was a joke
in one Of Senator Capper's farm
journals which was supposed to
show the folly of us city chaps.
1t ran:
Farmer Ito new hired hand from
New York, who, on being awakened
at a. m, has dressed and started
to walk down the road: Aren't you
going to eat any breakfast before
you go out to the fields?
New hired hand (still New
Yorker: I'm not going to the fields.
Same farmer: Where are you
going?
New hired hand: I'm going to
look for some place where I can
spend the night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
DESPITE the Fog

That President Hoover and the American dele
CATION London have split over policy Is the con-
cluson of correspondents comparing the White House
and Stnlson naval statements With the White House
denouncing a consultation pact as a snare and
deuson, and the American delegation processing an
open mind" on the subject if Frances security de-
rnands can be met by Britain, there is apparent
disagreement
We suspect however. that the disagreement is not
very deep It looks, rather like the familiar game
of irving to play both ends against the middle The
White House statements will satisfy the senate IL
reconcilabes while the Stison statement in London
gives faint hope to the dying conference and sat
isles some Of the less critical peace organizations.
Whatever the explanation, the President, under
public pressure, seems to have retreated about an
inch from his headlong reversal Of American policy.
That Is he has permitted the American delegation
to offer in conditional form the consultation pact,
which some Of the delegation have long wanted to
offer Internationally in conformity with other Amer
lean treaties.
Doubtless this grudging step Is better than moth
g for it temporarily has at least broken the Lon
on inpasse But the method used has put America
IN bad light. Instead of proposing Internationally
and Immediately treaty under which we agreed to
consult with others whenever war threatened the
Stmson statement demanded as prior condition that
others meet Frances security demands.
should refuse-to enter military pact, but of insist
ing that Britain enter such military agreement with
France Probably Brtsh-French security pact is
the necessary price of naval reduction treaty, but
it certainly is unnecessary and dangerous for the
United States to be the one to dictate that price.
The irony of the situation is that Hoover has been
opposing a non-military consultation treaty, on the
untenable ground that it might imply morally some
American military commitment. And now he seems
to be gong out of his way to shoulder actual moral
responsibility for British-French military agreement
We fail to see the wisdom of such diplomacy.
We believe it is high time for the President to
break through this contradictory Washington
ering this London intrigue. this secret trading and
set back to an open avowal of the American policy of
the Pacific end kellogg pacts
An American non-military consultation treaty, like
the Pacific and kellogg pactS should be offered i'm
rnediately. At the time We should withdraw
American pressure upon others to enter separate
security pact. and declare formally that European
security pact is not responsibility, either directly
or indirectly.
Otherwise the small senate irreconcilable group
already stimulated by the Hoover confusion might be
able to convince the country that there is essential
difference between consultation and a security pact
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
REASON By Ff kzHBis

7 EFT hope the American Legion post at Msha-
~ waka started something by its resolution, ask
ing that the state furnish free school books as is
done in most other states
But this does not go far enough the state should
erect its own establishment and print the volumes,
thereby escaping the pillage which has long re-
One member of the South African senate senseless
because he talked too much.
The idea is not without its advantages.
Now that Al Capone nercfully has terminated the
anxiety of the republic by disclosing his whereabouts
the American people resume their admirfng
temptation of the maSterful strides which the London
naval conference is making toward the millennium.
MRS HOUDINI widow of the magician declares
IFI she has no faith in sprituasm. having failed to
connect with her late husband.
In view OF the fact that Houdini spent his life
fighting the spirualstS he may refuse to return be-
cause he does not want to go back on his record.
France has named a boulevard in Paris for the late
Ambassador Myron T. Herr1ck thus placing him on a
par with that other ambassador, Benjamin Franklin
so far as French popularity is concerned.
Up to date, however, Mother aNture has not seen
fit to place any other American on par with Frank
lin, so far as ability is concerned
A PORTLAND UndJ scientist warns the world that
n lack of air is driving the inhabitants of Mars
from their old home and that they will exterminate
ali of by successive OF germs. then come in
great air fleets and take possession of the earth.
That kind Of an expedition will take lot of gas.
The government orders fifty attack planes and
seventythree bombardment planes all of them TO cost
less than So or less than onetenth the cost of
battleship and yet in his right mind has
any doubt of what the result would be if just Of
those air fighters would to the mat with battle
ship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
TT SEEMS TO ME By HR RYo2%

that I am theorizing as far as cows
are concerned, but dogs readily
adopt the habits of civilized human
beings.
Captain Flagg, the airedale, used
to be up each morning and barking
furiouSly by 6. An intelligent dog,
he gradually got in through his
head that there were nice people
who didn't do such things.
Now he sleeps till noon, and
rather think that if any stranger
suggested rising before that hour,
the dog would bite him.
And has no farmer ever observed
how nature itself conspires to make
the precious hours between a. m.
and noon suitable for the sleeper?
One thing 7 know from expert.
ence. 1t is not only possible, but
rather pleasant, to sleep in the
country until noon or a little later
In fact, 1 can't think Of any other
pursuit the country has to offer
which Is half so attractive.
Downright 1880. by The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
Questions and
AnS7Oe9.s

Are people born in the District of
Columbia deprived entirely of the
right to vote?
If they have their permanent resi-
dence or donlicile in the District Of
Columbia they have no vote. If
they establish legal residence in any
state of the Union and satisfy other
requirements for suffrage in that
state, they may vote there.
Who were the participants in the
ten-round semi final bout at the
Mickey Walker Mike McTigue fight
in Newark, n. J.. Jan. Z, 1925?
Bobby Barrett. Philadelphia well
terweight, knocked out Jack Kappa
port in the eighth round of the
scheduled ten-round semi-final bout.
Is the Christian name the last or
the first name?
1t is the first name, socalled, be-
cause it is given in baptism. The
last name is the surname.
Has Fred Stone ever appeared in
talking picture?
AS far as We are able to ascertain
Fred Stone has never appeared in a
moving picture, other than q posi-
bic news reel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -----------------
IF You're Bald Don't Get Pussy

! also would tend to justify the belief
that badness is a sex limited trait.
There are some races in which
badness practically never appears,
including the Eskimo; whereas, there
are other groups in which badness
may be fairly common.
A family in Transvall was de-
scribed in which all of the men in
three generations became bald at
81 years of age or younger. whereas
all of the women had abundant
hair.
Premature whitening of the hair
also seems to be inherited, one OBJ
server having described nine cases
in five generations. 1t also is rec
ognized that the method of growth
of the hair, including particularly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
Whispering Is No Help

UNEMPLOYMENT? Of course,
~ there is too much. But we can't
overcome it, by assuming that bust
ness will be bad.
The state of mind with which we
approach problem will not solve
it, but it has a profound bearing on
the energy We put forth.
Whispers have caused more than
one run on a bank, and whispers
can accomplish just as much in the
opposite direction.
No matter how hard hit we are,
we do ourselves no good by whining.
q
Put the stock crash behind you,
for that is where it is; also, the
slump in business to which it led.
Both call for greater exertion,
instead of less, besides, We do not
appear to have been hurt as badly
as we thought We we're.
Government experts are even
prophesying that the one per cent
cut in income taxes will remain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
More Tariff Backfire

Lace workers of France are conducting demonstra-
lions and protesting to their government against the
300 per cent increase in duty their product voted
into the Grlndy tariff bill by the senate.
Meantime, the French chamber of deputies Is con-
sidering an Increase on the duty of American auto
mobiles in retaliation. American agents and manu-
facturers combating growing sentiment in favor
of the levy.
The incident is another illustration of the grow
ing and legitimate hostility of foreign nations to our
policy Of imposing embargoes on their products while
seeking to dispose of our own SURPRISES to them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
Little Fellow Counts

TN the first place, there are some
l. six million farmers; in the next,
some two million professional men
and women, and in the next some
two million small merchants.
Even in corporate activities, the
small enterprise still plays a large
part, there being more than AGO.
900 stock companies chartered.
We have read about merger and
combination, until it seems as
though the whole country were be-
ing swallowed up by them, but if
the small fry were taken out Of the
picture, there would be great void.
4
The future Of this country, wheth-
err measured in months or centur-
les, still depends not on what few
big boys will do for the rest. but
what the rest can do for itself.
Thirty years ago, Henry Ford was
in bicycle shop, and so was Wilbur
Wright.
That is not the exception, but the
rule.
If you would find the great in
dustrial leaders of tomorrow, go to
the little establishments, where
youth is learning to develop indie
pendence and initiative.
Not only immediate needs, but
progress in its larger sense calls for
a fighting spirit at the bottom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
M. E. Tracy
No Matter H0a0 Hard We Are
Hit By the Business Slump,
We Do Ourselves No Good
By Whining.
SAYS:

JUST to break the monotony, let
- lis forget scandal, crime and
controversy for moment.
After all, what the many are do
ing to make things better is Of more
consequence than what the few are
doing to make them worse.
We have been through a tough
winter, but this is spring and June
is not far away.
Why not take hint from nature,
who is waking up, as usual, IN spite
of all the frost?
Have you noticed the shrub some
body stepped on? 1t is trying to
bud just the same.
Have you noticed the grass where
some careless driver got out of the
read? 1t is trying to struggle up in
the rutS.
Have you noticed the old, gnarled
tree that lost half of its limbs in a
storm? 1t is trying to live on the
rest.
That is natures way of meeting
difficulties, and we ought to be in
spired by it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28

the whorl at the back Of the head,
may be an inherited characteristic.
Special studies we're made by
Danforth of superf1uous hair on the
women. Apparently this also tends
to run in families and is inherited
through the female side.
Hair on the back Of the fingers in
man also is an hereditary charac-
teristic which tends to disappear in
succeeding generations.
Hairlescuess in animals is not I'M
common, the hairless deg of north
ern Mexico being a conspicuous eX-
ample.
Apparently this trait is inherited
to such extent that mixtures of
hairless dogs with normal dogs gives
only half of each kind in progeny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28

to develop as they should. But nature has way of
correcting things AS descendants, from genera
ton to generation grid the of righteousness
and go forth to smell out evil their sense Of smell
will develop
They will detect many things in the air that now
total waste. AS time goes on. their noses will
grow and grow.
Then, instead of the bathing beauty contests now
held at Atlantic City. there will be smelling contests.
The winner, instead of getting dinky medal, will be
anonted high chieftan of the Anti-Saloon League.
AS this king of the realm passes down the
boardwalk an envous small boy awed in the presence
of majesty and fearing to speak aloud will say to
himself:
Some day. Some day bands will play and flags
will 1utter in my honor for I'm going to be the best
smeller in all the world"
Meanwhile, fathers, begin to nstill in your
boys the germ of ambition. Maybe in your veins
runs the blood of great smeller Who knows? Your
nose doesn't.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28

TORE and his men built a cairn
0 of rocks and put within it a tin
canister containing a record of their
trip and its results.
Gore hurried back to the ships,
but the men failed to greet him
with enthusiasm. Soon he foun@ ebae,
reason. Franklin was dying. Ore
told him the good news, but on
June II, 1847, Franklin died.
AS July approached the officers
and men waited anXiously for the
breaking up Of the ice which would
set their ship free. But the mass Of
ice failed to break up, drifting slow
ly until the two ships, fast in the
ice, were within fifteen miles Of
Point Victory, as Gore had named
the spot where he erected the cairn,
and within sixty miles Of the main
land coast.
The summer months passed and
for a third time they found winter
settling down. Provisions we're
scarce. An epidemic of scUrvy broke
out.
On April %, 1848, they deserted
the ships and started out with sleds.
They reached the cairn on Point
Victory and put additional docu-
ments in it, documents from which
these facts are known.
Then the officers and men, l05 in
number, pushed on. But none OF
them survived the hardships.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28

of the job. It's up to the bovine
psychologist to ascertain just which
part of the regime is one rose to
bessie.
Seemingly, not a single inspector
has hit upon the idea which I have
freely offered to the farmers Of
America.
mean the suggestion that there
can well be cows to whom a. m.
is much too early for buckling down
to work. 1t was a COW, wasn't it.,
that kicked over a lamp and all but
burned Chicago?
What do you call that, but a pro-
test, and it couldn't have been the
local administration of finances
which disturbed her, for this was
years before the day of Big Bill
Thompson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28

factories, shops and other places OF
employment. it would reveal many
persons who are employed do not
live in indianapolis, nor do they
spend any of their earnings here.
Some leave farms to work in the
city while others live in small towns
to secure cheaper rent and living
costs. I say send those people back
to the farms and small towns and
give our city people a chance.
A CONSTANT READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
SCIENCE
Sir John Franklin Care H
Life in Daring ARD
Wrath to Find the Mort
1CeSt PGSSdqe."
BY DAVID DIETZ :
1CeSt Passage"
THE story of modern polar

THE story of modern polar X
il search begins with the tragA
fate of Sir John Franklin. brave
English sailor, who set out TO find
the Northwest Passage" from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and died in
the cabin Of his vessel as it was
held fast in the clutches of the Arc
tic ice.
On May 10, 1845, Franklin set sail
with two ships, the Erebus and the
Terror. His ships last we're seen on
July 26 of that year.
It was not until fourteen years
later that the mystery of what had
happened to the gallant Franklin
and his brave men was solved. Then
search parties managed to recon-
struct the fate which had oyertaken
them. !
Franklin was born in Spilsby
Lincolnshire, England, April 1e1
1885. His father wanted him to
study for the clergy, but the bow
finally persuaded his father 10 LETT
him enter the navy.
He became a midshipnan on thes
Polyphemus and on April 2, l80l,s
took part in the battle of Copen-s
hagen. Later, he made a trip to-
Australia and still later took part
in the battle of Trafalgar.
His Arctic career began in 1918.
when he commanded the Trent in
Captain Buchan's expedition. He
returned to the Arctic in 1919 and
1925.
In 1845 he started upon the last
expedition he was destined to make.
He had been commissioned to ind
an Arctic passage from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
Times Readers Voice Viez0S

Editor Times-Unemployment and
a remedy for it now are being dis
cussed by many people.
Citizens of our city are paying a
high tax rate for the upkeep of the
city and its schools and those who
rent property are paying his land
lords taxes.
With these facts in mind, why not
give Indianapolis men the preference
for employment?
/ think If a poll were taken Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
Bovine PSYCHOLOGIST

THE job of bovine psychologist
must be Afascinating. Maybe
that is not the name, but there must
be somebody who rates the content
ment of the COWS.
I've always wondered how it was
done. ] imagine a kindly man OF
middle age walking down the cor
ridor with cattle to the right and
left, asking in a low voice, ANY
complaints today?"
When the animal addressed mods
her head or continues methodically
with her cud, it is to be assumed
that all's right with the world, but
if she lashes out at the inspector
with one heel or more, he has rea-
son to suspect that she is limiting
at a grievance.
And right here Is the ticklish part
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
SAVINGS Are Up

DEPOSITS in New York's saw
~ ings banks where no individual
account of more than $500 is al
lowed have increased by fifty mil
lion dollars.
Building permits for the first
three months of this year compare
more than favorably with those for
the first three r~onths Of last year.
States and cities throughout the
country have appropriated unusual
~ large sums for improvement.
So, too, have many public util-
tiles.
But neither the government nor
big business can carry this load
alone.
In spite of all the merging, COM
bining, taxing and bonding, Ameri-
can prosperity still rests with the
individual.
It is not the amount OF steel pro-
duced by some big corporation, or
the number of automobiles man
ufactured, that tells the story, but
what John Smith and his wife are
able to buy depends to a large ex-
tent on how they feel.
In many cases John Smith and his
wife can not feel very optimistic,
unless thay are connected with the
good old pay roll.
But you'd be surprised to know
how many John Smiths and their
wives are making their own pay
rolls. providing their own Jobs and
running their own little businesses
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28

ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those Of
Dne Of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
DAILY THOUGHT

Boast not thyself of tomorrow;
for thou knowest not what a day
may bring fOrth.-PrOverbs 27:L
Il
The insignificant, the empty, is
usually the loud and after the man
ner of drum, is louder even be-
cause of its emptiness.-Carlyle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-28
Shade of Jefferson

The ghost of Thomas Jefferson must have
smiled when he learned that Simeon D. Tess of Ohio
had been selected as the principal speaker at Found
ers day exercises at the University of Virginia on
JeffersonS birthday, under auspices of the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Association.
There is no stancher exponent of Old Guard
Republicanism in the senate than Senator Tess He
is true apostle of conservatism, and has about as
much in common with Thomas jefferson as did Al
eXander Hamilton
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ran
I Daily '
I Lenten Devotion
Friday, March %

rrludy, Mdrc1 Is
LOOKING FOR THE GOOD
Memory Verse: IF there be any
virtue and if there be any praise,
think on these things" philippians
4:8).
Read Matthew 16:13-20.
MEDITATION
In other words, look for the good
in others and you will find it! Jesus
was always looking for the adj
mirable which He felt was in every
soul, though sometimes hidden.
There are many old tales among the
Cheyenne Indians of one Wihio. On
one occasion, through forgetfulness
he lost his eyes. He begged one
from a mouse and one from buf-
falo. Henceforth he went through
life with one big eye and one little
one. Indians are not moralists. The
white man would use such tale as
this to enforce teaching: Have
one big eye with which to look at
mems excellencies and one small eye
for their defects.
PRAYER
20 Father, dispose us to a sincere
sympathy with all men, not only to
see extraordinary excellence with
joy, but to take pleasure in the
humblest Improvements of our fell
low creatures. Incline us to respect
the feelings of others so that we
may never wound any heart nor de-
press a human being"
Adapted from w. e. Charming.