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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
Win Are These Farmers?

Are million farmers again being used as blind by
the American Cyananid Company
The house committee on military affairs has re-
ported out a bill which will allow leasing OF Muscle
Shoals to one or several private corporations BY so
doing the committee has sidetracked for the mo-
ment the Norris bill. calling for government opera
ton of this government plant.
Now American Farm Bureau Federation officials
have told President Hoover they favor the new leas-
ing bill.
Which seems to make it clear that the new bill is
another Cyanamid Company bill. For years the
washington representative of the Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton has worked for acceptance of the Cyanamid
Company's bid. And it has been only few weeks
since this representative of the federation admitted
to senate committee that the cost of sending out one
batch OF the Farm Bureau Federaton's literature on
the subject has been paid by the Cyanamid Com
pany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
Mystery

nR. MORLET, DR.. Riesman con-
~ tinued, sued the Journal DIES
Debats and the French Society of
Prehistory. A lower court gave him
verdict of 1000 francs, which a
lower court reduced to one franc.
Other lawsuits followed.
1.-THE first serious doubt as to the
authenticity of Glozel was based on
the heterogeneity Of the articles in
Fradin's museum" DR.. Riesman
said.
How could one explain the pres
ence of so many dissimilar and I'M
related objects-the two or three
thousand at the time of my visit
had now grown to five thousand
in one small field of excavation? No
other archaeological site offers a
parallel.
aside from the puzzling complex
ity of the collection, it has been
pointed out that the tablets first
eXhumed bore fewer and less per-
feet characters than the later one.
Further as soon as some one
made criticism, the objects next
eXhumed we're free from the crit
icized defect.
Eventually, at the International
Anthropological Congress at Am
sterdam an international commits
sion was formally appointed to in
vestigate Glozel.
After spending three days at the
site the commission issued unani-
nous report. This report states I'M
equivocally that the articles are for
the most part of recent manufacture
and have undoubtedly been planted
in the ground by some one whom
the commission does not name.
LAS a detective tale, the story of
Glozel remains unfinished and will
remain so until a Sherlock Holmes
discovers the person or persons who
manufactured the articles and put
them into the ground.
What was his motive? How are
we to explain his extraordinary in
dustry?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12

Fess). assaults that made upon the supreme
court in this chamber.
"'socialistic. re-echoes after man in rela-
ton to what may be said about this applicant or
another Socialstic to stand here and denounce con-
tract such as that.
"Socialistic-and exactly the same epithet was
hurled in the United States some years ago upon
another case of like character the bred Scott de-
cision, wherein human liberty at stake; more
important than this where industrial freedom is at
stake.
Lincoln dared criticise decision of the supreme
court He said, coming a word that it was on
astonisher, and that he went for reversing it.
Il say to you paraphrasing what Lincoln said this
decision upon the yellow dog contract is an
astonisher, and go for reversing it, Mr.. Lincoln
said, in any fashion by which I may voice that en-
deavor to reverse; and here comes an opportunity
finally for us in the senate of the United States to
voice views upon this inhuman, this cruel, and
this wicked contract that rests upon the necessity of
human beings and the hunger of innocent women and
innocent children"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12

these "lOan sharks" for a number
of years throughout the state, and
is very well acquainted with the
tactics these gougers use, even to
the extent they will pay the en-
ployer and office help money to
force the employe to pay.
We remember about two years ago
that there appeared an article from
the Better Business Bureau on the
same subject, and the writer was
called into conference with the
manager of the bureau and did
furnish the bureau with names of
men who had gotten mixed up with
these loan sharks
1 also took several men in per-
son to the prosecutors office who
were seeking relief, and it seems
queer that it should take almost
two years to get any action, but it
soon will be election time. I won
der if the wives and children who
got shared in the loan sharks "
clutches on account of the husband
ana 1ather borrowing money think
as I do? There is something rotten
in Denmark"
J. E. FLAHERTY.
1890 North Pennsylvania street.
Who wrote the musical cemody,
"ROse Marie?
Friml, Hammerstein and Har-
bach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
An "AStOniSher"

One of the by-products of the senate debate on
Parker worth repeating. We consider it the finest
thing said on the yellow dog contract. We quote
from the speech in opposition made by Senator Hiram
johnson of California:
I read Just line Of the yellow dog contract,
called in order that may be in juxapoSition to
words that I wish to read of a man whom it is
in this materiastic age to utilize authority upon
any subject whatsoever. These are the controlling
provisions of the contracts that have been the subject
of discussion
That during his employment said employe will not
become a member of any labor union, and will have
no dealings communication, or interviews with officers
agents or members of any labor union in relation to
membership of such employee in any labor union, or
in relation to the employment of such employee
Again: I agree, during employment under this
contract that will work efficiently and diligently
and will participate in any strike unite with
employees in concerted action to change hours wages
or working conditions
Words utterly fail in characterization of con-
tracts such as that not whether they have been
enforced by the court or another; they are void
rs against public policy.
Socially they are wicked and destructive OF
ordinary human relations. Economically they are I'M
sound. resting upon necessity the hand
and coercion the other. and morally they in
famous denying fundamental rights and disrupting
the dearest human associations
8" 'socialstic,' says my friend from Ohio chr
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
IT SEEMS TO ME By HR EYU15%

NNE of the best arguments raised
~ against the confirmation of
John J. Parker lay in the assertion
that even if his unf1tness had not
been proved before his nomination
it certainly was demonstrated after
his name had been sent to the
senate.
The New York Times, which sup
ported the Presidents choice with
a good deal of warmth, said after
Judge Parker's defeat:
"FIe showed himself too anxious,
too smau-minded. He fairly rained
letters and kilograms upon the
senate"
But there was one letter which
Judge Parker did not write and that
missing message was the most i'm
portant factor in his defeat.
Shortly after his nomination the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of the Colored People
sent courteous inquiry (registereO
to John j. Parker of North Caro-
lima, asking whether he had been
correctly quoted by newspaper
which reported him as saying:
"The participation of the Negro
in politics is a source of evil and
danger to both races and is not de
sired by the wise men in either race
or by the Republican party of North
Carolina"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
Worst of FoIIy

TIME folly of such doctrine is OBJ
Il vious, even if we leave out the
farmers side of it.
The drift from farm to city al
ready, has gone too far, as is illus
trated wildly by the census returns
already in.
Yet who supposes it would stop
if something is not done to make
farming more profitable.
People who live in the country
have enough disadvantages to put
up with, without losing more money.
The only way they can avoid los
ing more money, however, is to ap-
ply those principles Of business
which industry has found successful.
The law of supply and demand
means as much to farmers as to
any one else, and they will suffer
the same way and to the same ex-
tent if they ignore it.
The American farmer faces the
alternative of becoming a business
man or sinking to the level Of a
peasant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
A New Air Mail Bill

A revised air mail bill is before congress. In this
measure the dangerous clause empowering the post
master general to award air mail contracts without
calling for competitive bids has been eliminated.
The new bill has much merit. 1t protects the
equities of the twenty-five operators who have pio-
neered the air mail 1t gives the passenger lines
chance at mail contracts. 1t retains the time-estab
lished principle of competitive bidding for
tracts 1t changes the system of pay from pound
age to mileage basis.
The new measure appears to satisfy all the air
transport operators, the postofce department, and
those members of congress most familiar with air
mail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
S%ZZE6xHSSS
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|ANN|VER$ARY|
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
Nav 10

FLORENCE NIGHI1NGALE
May IL
ON May II, 1920, Florence Night
~ ingale, an English hospital SUI
perintendent, called the founder
Of modern nursing" was born in the
city in Italy from which she got her
name.
Her childhood was spent in Stat
fordshire, England, where she took
an early interest in the condition OF
hospitals. AS her parents were
wealthy. she travelled extensively on
the continent and studied at various
hospitals. She resolved, on return
ing, to elevate nursing into per-
manent and honorable occupation
for women.
In 1858 she became superintend-
ent of hospital for governesses in
London, but left it a year later at
the outbreak of the Crimean war.
She set out for the front with
thirty-eight nurses where she or
ganized nursing departments. Al
though she found disease, filth and
chaos behind the lines, she sue
ceeded, by her untiring energy and
extraordinary ability, in alleviating
the suffering of the sick and
wounded. The death rate fell from
~ to % per 1000.
After the war she received many
orders from various governments
and was the first woman upon
whom the Order of Merit was con-
ferred. She died in 1910 at the age
Of 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
DryS Reform?

DRYS won't fight Roberts" reads
~ a headline, "preferring ca
pable wet to an incapable dry"
Let us hope the headline is an &C
curate expression of their attitude,
not only with regard to Roberts, but
with regard to every one else.
If such ardent drys as Clarenre
True Wilson and F. Scott Mcbride
have come to a point where they
rather would have an able anti
than dumb pro on the supreme
bench, the protracted discussion
with regard to this issue has not
been in vain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
He Was Right
JUDGE PARKER ma

FUDGE PARKER made this
~ speech at time when his Demo-
cratic opponent for the governorShip
was charging that the Republican
party of North Carolina was seek
ing Negro votes.
By participation in politics."
Judge Parker meant that he
thought it was a bad thing for the
Negro to avail himself of the right
to vote.
And now Judge Parker has good
reason to be even stronger in that
opinion than ever, for it was the
potentially of the Negro vote in
Republican middle-western states
which defeated Hoover's candidate
In common justice to the activi-
ties of Negro organizations in the
supreme court fight it is well to
keep the record straight For in
stance, we find the New York Times
saying that the gentleman from
North Carolina was defeated be-
cause "of his view of the present
unfitneSs of Negroes to hold high
office"
That was not the point. Nor does
it seem likely that the Memphis
Commercial Appeal was striving
very valiantly for accuracy when it
sai5 that Judge Parker was beaten
because he had declined to fra
ternize with Negroes"
1t is true that he had refused to
answer the letter of the National
Association, but I doubt if anybody
would call a courteous and frank
answer sent by mail an act of fra
termination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Costs $500 TO Raise Child TO Is

most $500. This includes such
items as $125. representing the cost
of being born; $2,755 for food
1888 for clothing and shelter
$500 to $1,000 for education; 1888 fol
health; $130 for recreation; $54 fol
insurance, and between $500 anc
$500 for other sundry items.
If to this is added charge fol
interest on the investment and al
lowance for the mothers contribu-
ton, the sum may reach still more
Hence, it is that the actual cost
of the child to the family repre-
sents a not inconsiderable sum, ever
in these modern times, and those
who bring children into the worlc
and rear them properly are paying
debt to the community which the
childless fail to supply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
Disgrace to Nation
THAT outrage at Sherman, Tez

THAT outrage at Sherman, Tex,
l. in which frenzied mob
burned the courthouse to destroy
Negro whose fate already had been
sealed by his confession, forms
pathetic commentary on our boosted
civilization.
The way the rioters abused the
body of their helpless victim was of
small consequence compared to the
way they abused their own intelli-
gence.
One could excuse them if they
were trying to accomplish some
thing that could not have been &C
complished in an orderly manner,
but that was not the case.
The law had not broken down,
there was not the least likelihood
that the criminal would escape pun
iShment, and unless constitutional
government is all wrong, a legal
execution would have done more
good than such a wanton exhibit
ton of insane violence as the mob
staged.
1t is to be hoped that the au-
thorities will be able to apprehend
and punish those responsible for
such an assault on public decency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12

to the thousands, depending on the
amount of assistance and extra care
that may be provided.
In some foreign families, midwife
services, including nursing, may
come as low as $50, but the addi-
tional expenses tend to bring up the
total cost.
Clothing and shelter in the course
Of the first eighteen years Of life
average about $500 for each child.
The cost of education varies accord
ing to the type that is given.
The expenditure for health for a
family OF the middle class is ap-
proximately $50 for the year for five
people.
On this basis, the economists esti-
mate as the total cost of rearing a
child up to the age of 10 years al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12

Nor am I sufficiently a seer to know
whether the effective participation
of the Negto voter in American poll
tics will be good for the nation or
good for the Negro.
I merely am reporting the un-
doubted fact that he is in at last
and that he has come to a sense of
political power through the instru-
mentality of John j. Parker of
North Carolina, who forgot to write
a certain little letter.
Copyright. 1885, by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12

Washington and played hard and
aggressive politics.
He said to weakened Republican
senators from the middlewest, eff
you vote to confirm Judge Parker 1
will campaign against you in your
own district and I will tell every
Negro that if he votes for you he is
traitor to his race"
Whether Walter White actually
could have defeated any of the SEN
atorS against whom he threatened
reprisals I am not prepared to say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12

ideals and opinions expressed
N this column are those Of
one OF Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are pre-.
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this UaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of HyEeia, the
Health Magazine.

FINDER the title 1.-THE Money
~ Value of Man." Drs. L. I. Dub
lin and Alfred J. Lotka discuss
from several points of view the sig
nificant question of the cost of a
human life at various ages.
They point out that up to at
least Is years of age most boys
and girls represent a debit rather
than a credit, so far as their f1nan-
cial relationship to the family is
concerned.
The cost Of being born varies in
different communities, but the mini
mum average maternity cost is
about $3.50. The cost may run up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
Ford Has BrainStorn

HENRY FORD thinks the farm
4 Il erS ought to go right on pro-
ducing, even though the consumption
OF wheat, potatoes, and other staple
crops has fallen off.
Let them obey the laws of nature.
he advises, even if they do have to
mortgage the old homestead.
1t may be all right for man.
ufacturerS to curtail now and then,
he admits, but the agriculturist
should go right on planting and
harvesting, regardless Of the market.
n II
1t is wonderful gospel that Mr..
Ford breaches, especially for con-
Sumers.
Every city dweller should be for it.
What better guarantee could we
have of cheap vegetables, cheap
poultry, and cheap dairy products?
So, too, what better guarantee
could we have of bankruptcy on the
farm?
Mr.. Ford seems to think that
finance can be left out of the barn
yard, and that farmers can grow
crops for which there is no market,
without doing themselves, or the
country, any harm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12

.CHRIS eagle, former captain
~ of the West Point football
team. wants to resign after he gets
his diploma, instead Of serving four
years in the army, as he agreed.
He seems to think that the only
issue involved is one of expediency,
and that it is perfectly proper for
him to break a contract with his
country because he can make lit
tie more money by so doing.
Whatever else may be said of such
attitude, it represents mighty poor
craftsmanship.
If eagle feels that there is so
much opportunity in civil life, that
he has made a mistake, and that
he should be released from his con-
tract, he ought to be man enough
to repay the government of the
United States what it has expended
for his education.
If he did that, however, the OPP
portunity might not look so good
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
No Friend

IF most southerners agree with
l. John ]. Parker that it would be
best to keep the Negro out Of poll
tics land 1 am sure that they do),
then certainly the gentleman from
North Carolina is not deserving Of
any gratitude upon the part Of his
neighbors.
He has succeeded in bringing the
Negro into American politics with
a vengeance.
Judge Parker has provided the
Negro with his first opportunity,
since reconstruction, to make himself
a power in the affairs of America.
Walter White, acting secretary Of
the National Association, went to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
] How WeNDONu
] KnOwNM:RIbh:?
FIVE QUESTIONS A DsN
ON FAMILIAR pASSARES

l. Who was the first woman
named in the Bible?
2. Who said, Speak, Lord, for thy
servant heareth?"
8. Finish the quotation, Eat,
drink and be merry"
4. Whose name means unstable
as water?"
5. Whom did Jesus call "an
Israelite indeed, in whom is no
guile?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
SAYS:

Henry Ford breaches Ne10
Doctrine of Folly for
HarasSed Farmers of the
Nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
! THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SCIENCE
Glazed archaeological Finds"
Stirred Up Bitter Battle
Among Noted Scientists.
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE story of Glozel-a battle
l. over archaeological finds which
has involved lawsuits and an in
ternational discussion-was told by
Professor David Riesman of the
University of Pennsylvania at the
annual meeting in Philadelphia Of
the American Philosophical So
ciety.
LAS a study Of human credulity
and as a commentary on the hot
Medicines, or should I say pig
headedness of many men Of science,
it always will occupy a prominent
place in the history Of civilization"
DR.. Riesman said.
Glozel is a small hamlet about
fifteen miles from the famous spa
of Vichy, France. The story starts
on March l, 1924.
Emile Fradin," DR.. Riesman con-
tinued, then youth of Is and be-
longing to an old local family was
working one day in his grand
fathers field when COW suddenly
slipped into an unsupported hole.
'Fradin went to investigate and
found that the hole led into an oval
pit containing a variety of remark
able objects-bricks, tablets, vases
which he gathered as soon as pos
sible and showed to the village
school mistress, Mile. Picandent.
Eventually the news of the dis
coverieS came to the ears of DR..
Albert Morlet, surgeon of Vichy
and IN amateur archeologiSt.
Thereafter DR.. Morlet and Emile
Fradin together began to eXcavate
at Glozel and brought to light more
and more buried objects, which they
collected in Grandfather Fradin's
house"
TIME scientific world was electri-
n fed when the claim was made
that these finds went back to the
stone age and that inscriptions upon
them proved the existence of an
alphabet older than any known
alphabet.
DR.. Riesman, while in France,
paid visit to Glozel and was shown
the tablets by DR.. Morlet.
I was struck by the clean red
color of these tablets" DR.. Riesman
says. when I spoke of this to Fra
din, he explained it by saying that
the soil in which the tablets had
been found was such that it did not
readily fuse with the clay and hence
was brushed easily off.
During the whole of our stay, the
grandfather stood silent and mo-
tionless in doorway leading to an
inner room"
The storm which ragged over the
Glozel finds was severe.
Almost Immediately after the
first appearance of Morlet's reports,
doubts began to be voiced over the
authenticity of Glozel," he con-
tinued. soon the pro anti-Glo-
zelians became personal and at
JdCh6Q CdCll OU11Cl WILL V1OltpC1 d.
tive vehemence and a destructive
sarcasm for which the French
language seems to be the ideal me-
dunn.
Regulations were shattered, old
friendships broken, and, as one of
the French dailies remarked, even
butcher boys came to blows on the
streets of Paris.
I'm fact Mrs. O'Leary's COW did no
greater damage to Chicago than
Fradin's to the reputation of some
French SavantS.
Before long the leading French
prehistorians with only an OCCASION
al exception began to deny the
authenticity of Glozel and to de-
clare the excavated articles to be
forgeries."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-12
ANSWERS

Answers to Saturdays Queries
l. God,
2. The mother of John the Baptist
Luke lis.
3. THE fear Of the Lord" Psalm
111:10.
4. Job; see Job 1920.
5. He was taken up by a whirl-
wind; II Kings 81, II.