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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
Maybe You Like Beans

When the irish people we're too poor to afford any
thing else to eat they always could live on potatoes
Quite few Americans are like that since unenpioS-
rnent set in.
Rut thew would better fill up on potatoes while they
can Pretty soon they won't be able to buy potatoes
not if the Cirundy dollar tariff bill passes Inc
uotato tariff will be raised so per cent.
The people with little money for food then can go
on a bean diet Beans always have been cheap 1haC
is why they fed to section hanos ana SoioieiS'
Beans for breakfast beans for dinner, beans Tor
supper.
Not much of meai-beans. But you can live on
them if you have TO.
And, if you get them
The Grundy tariff bill almost doubles the rate on
beans
Well if a poor family not afford to buy poVa-
toes or beans what can it live on?
Doubtless the tariff makers will have chance TO
answer when the voters tighten up their belts ana
start for the polls in November
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
Deficit Alarm

A short time ago President Hoover predicted
surplus of s4OOOOOO0 in the federal treasury al 1e
end of the next fiscal year
Now. however he fears there may be dencN Oh
s2ooooOOO or sSOOOOOOO, and has warned congress
to this effect than 125 acts, either passed OS
the senate or house or favorably reported by COM
rnittees would authorize additional expenditure
of or S35OO0OOOO according to the Presi
dent He believes there is cause for real alarm
in the situation
Congress should curtail unnecessary expenditures
So far the regular appropriations have oeen kept
within the budget estimate of $3,830,000O00.
Uncertainty in calculations exists because 1t is not
known lust what effect the tax reduction, tariff re-
vision the stock market crash and the business re-
cession will have on revenues First quarter pay
ments of 1880 income taxes were up to expectations
Another quarterly payment will fall in the current
fiscal year Two quarterly payments in the next
fiscal wear will be 1881 taxes based on 1880 income,
which may show a decline. Congress may have to
permit the per cent income tax reduction to lapse
after this year.
The President did not mention specific measures
calling for increased expenditures However, legiS
lation berazing veterans benefits is being de-
bated in the house. One plan would add S1OO0OOoOO
10 the half billion already appropriated for the vet
Grams bureau. Another would add s4OoOOO0oO
deficit of S20O0O00O S3OO0OO0o would not
be large percentage of the governments entire out
Law but any deficit is too big. The cost of govern
ment has been mounting yearly. Heavier expendi-
lures by congress and declining revenues inevitably
mean increased taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
= DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tons, crowding of people together
in habitations in which the bacteria
of one are transferred to others en-
courage dissemination of infection
in a way not previously possible.
Finally, there are few, if any, &C
curate statistics as to the deaths Of
mothers in childbirth in primitive
times and indeed much doubt is ex-
pressed now as to the accuracy of
the figures concerning modern
peoples.
Even today there are numerous
specialists in childbirth who en-
courage a policy of delay in assist
ance to the prospective mother and
who urge as little interference as
possible. The idea that nature must
be given every chance to carry out
the process unaided dominates the
situation. rather than the policy of
aiding nature wherever her efforts
seem to require facilitation.
Certainly the expert who has
studied the construction of the
patient, who has carefully measured
the passages, who has some knOwl-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
REASON By Ff RERERd

NILS country has opened an Office in Vienna to
Il give physical examination to all Austrian en,i
grants headed in this direction but it would be better
TO shut out all emigrantS from all foreign lands until
every man in the United States has a job
Unemployment is caused by three things the adj
vent OF labor-saving machinery, the entrance of
women into industry and the influx of immigration
We can not stop the first two causes, but we can
stop the third and it is nonsense not to do it.
ID UT We have reached the time when foreign groups
- tell us what to do in immigration matters and
with the added congressional power given the cities
by this present census, Europe will exert greater
influence in national legislation.
1t will not be long until the European tail shall
wag the American dog
When the World came We took the hide of
the hyphenated American, but today there are more
hyphenateS than ever before and they send men
to Washington to make American laws with foreign
flavor, while up from the Rio Grande come Mexicans
IN an unrestricted and amending stream.
We fight political battles about the tariff and
when the two parties send their statesmen to Wash
ington they all alike; they all for protection
yet we pay m attention whatever to immigration as
a political issue, when it's the leading problem in
America.
DIG employers are the great immigration ahusers;
- they favor letting the immigration bars down so
they may have cheap labor, matter what ultimate
penalty it inicts on the welfare OF the United States
Thsse sreat ampaFsrs damn - a ISIS ct they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
-DA
Nature Often Needs Physicians Help
ReWSNoTe

edge of the size of the infant, who
understands the technic of aiding
by turning and twisting of the body
that may be necessary to shorten
the process can do much to aid the
progress of the case.
OF particular Importance is the pre-
vention of infection. The establish
ing of perfect cleanliness through
out the procedure is necessary, BY
perfect cleanliness is not meant
merely freedom from visible dirt,
but the kind of cleanliness of which
the surgeon insists in the operating
room.
In the prevention of infection two
factors are of great Importance:
Cd the virulence of the germ; CD
the resistance Of the patient.
Over the virulence of the germs
which may possibly invade, the ply
sician and the patient have but
little control. They merely can do
everything possible to eliminate
such germs from the surroundings.
Over the care of the patient and
the building up Of resistance there
is possible considerable control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
SCIENCE
Another Test GiUen Einsteiu
Theory in Eclipse; Others
VIII Be Made IN Future.
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE Einstein theory again I'M
Il derwent a test when the eclipse
of the sun occurred April %. At
every eclipse of the sun the Einstein
theory is weighed in the balance.
1t was a solar eclipse which
brought the Einstein theory into its
worldwide fame.
This is a fact sometimes lost sight
Of, Many people think of the Elm
stein theory as postwar phenome-
non.
Some who feel that the whole
world went to pieces with the war,
blame the havoc which Einstein's
relatively works on old-fashioned
notions of space and time upon the
World war.
But the truth of the matter is that
relatively was well known to scien-
fists long before the war. 1t was
discussed at scientific meetings.
There were even books written
about it. But these books were
written in technical vein and
bristled with mathematical symbols.
DR.. Slosson had not yet written
his Easy Lessons in Enstein" nor
had Bertrand Russell turned out
the "ABC of Relatively"
1t was in 1905 that Professor AL
bert Einstein first launched what
was known as the special theory of
| relatively.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01

Editor Times-Mr. George Tink-
ham, representative in congress
from Massachusetts,, has attacked
the Board of Temperance Prohibit
ton and Public Morals of the Meth
odist Episcopal church before a
subcommittee of the senate COM
mittee on the judiciary, alleging that
it is a "lobby" and that its activi-
ties are "pernicious," and hence de-
mands an investigation Of its affairs.
Be it therefore
Resolved, First, that we again eX-
press our confidence in our Board OF
Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals, because its conduct has been
eminently correct. 1t has been we'll
advised as to it's rights and never
careless as to its propriety in eX-
ercise of them. 1t long ago has OF
fered to the senate judiciary COM
mittee full access to its records, and
it has not the slightest fear of en-
barrassment because OF the fullest
possible examination of its accounts
or it's activities. The board has not
been summoned before the commit
tee. nor have its books been asked
for. The board again and again has
stated that it will voluntarily appear
at any time to reply to Mr.. Tinkham.
1t desires that the committee exam
inc it's accounts and records OF all
kinds in order that the statements
of the board may be verified, the
sources of it's receipts and the ma
ture of it's expenditures known.
Be it
Resolved, Second, that we deem
the statements made by Mr.. Tink-
ham in his attack on the Board Of
Temperance, Prohibition and Pub
lie Morals of the Methodist Episco-
pal church as unfair, and evidently
made for political purposes. He
makes no demand for investigation
of the activities of the anti-pro-
hibition organizations in Washing
ton. Be it
Resolved, Third, that we as Meth
odist preachers stand by the issue.
What is the issue? That we can not
be muzzled and our pulpits pad
locked in order to facilitate the re-
turn of a legalized liquor traffic.
THE INDIANAPOLIS METHODIST
MINISTERS ASSOCIATION.
By the President and Secretary.
Editor Tines-I would like to
saw a. few words in regard to
your editorial yellow Dog" OF
April 8. Every word of it is
exactly the truth, and there are
far too many workmen here in our
own city who do not know the
meaning of yellow Dog Con
tract" There is a certain firm here
in our mo Mean City which en-
ploys some 5000 people and forces
its employees to sign a yellow Dog
Contract"
Any one who joins the union is
discharged as soon as the fact be-
comes known to the management.
Last November this firm fired some
twenty-six or so of us men, because
we committed the objectionable sin
of Joining a trade union.
This firm boasts that it makes no
difference how good a workman
may be. he will be fired If he joins
that union. Among the men fired
in November, fourteen are married,
some have little children, yet that
made no difference to this firm.
Your editorial is right. The "Yel-
| low Dog" says to the man who is
out of a job and whose wife and
children are hungry: You shall not
work nor eat until you sell your
liberty.
But this firm here has gone much
] farther than Tvs with US e has
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Readers of the Times Voice Vices

ployment here in this city. Two OF
these men left here seeking employ
Inent in another city, out of the
state. The firm found out where
they were going and wired ahead of
them to another firm, telling them
not to hire these men, as they were
union men, and they were not hired.
Is there no justice in this city
for the man who works? Will this
city ever gain its million population
when firms such as this treat en-
ployes as this one continues to do?
Conditions inside of this firm are
nothing short of slavery and we
men know, because we were kicked
out when we undertook to better
our conditions.
The wages paid are SO per cent
under the prices paid in union
plants and yet this firm continues
to boast of its fairness to its en-
ployeS.
Did we men and our kiddies have
a good Christmas and New Years
and did we enjoy Easter? Ask the
man who kicked us out, who says
he is just like father to his en-
ployes. No doubt he can answer
this. AN EX-EMPLOYE.
Editor Times-Chairman Legg of
the farm board is urging farmers to
restrict their production of wheat to
the needs of this country, so the
tariff on wheat will become effec-
tive. Suppose they do this, and
then from the result learn to limit
the production of all crops to what
can be consumed in this country,
then who will maintain the bal
ance of trade?
1t now seems probable that as
European manufacturers come back
more and more into production and
thus lower world prices, our man
ufacturers, to maintain their prices
at the world price plus the tariff,
will limit their production to the
needs of this country by operating
their factories only four or five hours
a day.
Then if the farmers do the same
thing, how will we pay for the fruits
silk, rubber and other things we
now get from abroad?
But perhaps we need not fear. II
is probable that the farmers will
continue to work twelve to fourteen
hours a day to produce surplus
enough for export, that will pay
for all our imports; what the city
people use as we'll as the farmers,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
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| AMNlVGR$ARY.
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MAY DAY
May l

MAY DAY, the survival of an
1V1 ancient festival observed by
the Romans in honor of Flora, the
goddess of flowers, is celebrated the
first of May by the crowning Of a
May queen and the dancing about
Maypole.
In medieval times the day was
celebrated with much pomp and
ceremony. It was the custom in
early England for boys and girls to
go out on May day, gather haw-
thorn or May" along the country
lanes, find the fairest maiden and
crown her Queen o. the May"
They then set up the Maypole and
danced throughout the day.
This same custom survives in
country districts, and attempts are
being made to revive it in schools
in England as a general celebra-
ton.
Toward the end of the nineteenth
century, various labor organizations
in Europe adopted May day as the
occasion of annual demonstrations.
In some countries the day frequent
" was marked by clashes between
workers and government troops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
| NJ. E. Tracy
Ta0o Women Judges in Tur-
key! That's Enough to
Make Mohdmmed Turn
Over In HIS Craze.
SAYS:

ID ATIFICATION of the naval
IN treaty, which President Hoo
yer plans to submit to the senate
within the next few days, is con-
coded, though not until we have
been treated to what some of the
boys describe as "a debunking de-
bate"
Just why such debate is necessary,
or on which side most of the bunk
lies, is not quite clear.
It is perfectly clear, however, that
certain senator's are afflicted with
the usual urge to talk.
n
Just to show what she thinks of
the naval treaty, Italy orders the
construction of twenty-nine war
ships.
They will include one cruiser, two
scoutshipS, four destroyers and
twenty-five submarines.
The preponderance of submarines
comes as a sardonic comment on
English and American efforts to
have them abolished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
Campbell

THE Einstein theory was tested
Il again at the eclipse of 1922.
The expedition sent to Australia by
the Lick observatory of California
made excellent photos which were
measured by DR.. w. w. Campbell,
then the observatory director, and
his associates.
DR.. Campbell, one of the worlds
greatest authorities upon eclipSes.
is now president of the University
of California.
The 1922 Lick expedition centered
great part of its attention upon
the relatively problem. Special in
struments were designed and con-
structed to obtain photos best suit
ed for testing the Einstein shift.
Observations made at the same
eclipse by Australian and Canadian
observers also checked with those
of the Lick expedition.
1t should be stated, however, that
number Of eminent scientists,
including DR.. Charles Lane Poor,
professor of celestial mechanics at
Columbia university, still are I'M
willing to accept the eclipse meas
urements as conclusive.
DR.. Henry Norris Russell Of
Princeton university, DR.. Harlow
Shapley of Harvard and many other
famous astronomers, on the other
hand, feel that the 1922 measure
ments are conclusive.
It is advisable, nevertheless, that
tests Of the Einstein shift be made
at coming eclipses for the next dec
ade or so.
other astronomical evidence for
the Einstein theory is to be found
in the motions of the planet Mer-
curry and in shift Of the lines Of
the solar spectrum toward the red.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
Planes for League

TINE effect of machinery on
Il politics is illustrated by the
proposal that the League of Nations
buy, or borrow, some airplanes.
They would be of great i'm
portance, we are told, in getting the
council of the league together, in
case of sudden emergency, or of ex-
pediting negotiations if war were
imminent.
In arguing the case, Lord Cecil
points out how airplanes would
facilitate the power of peace to
combat the power of war.
Whereas 1914 saw European
chancelleries exchanging notes, with
some arriving too late" he explains,
"the future may see a feet Of air.
planes bearing the Insignia Of the
league roaring into Geneva, bring
ing council members to a hastily
summoned meeting to deal with the
crisis, and similar airplaneS roar
ing out of Geneva bearing league
officials on extraordinary missions. "
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How UeXDNu
WGMRbR2
FIVE QUESTIONS A DAX-
ON FAMILIAR PAS SAOES

l. Give the exact wording Of the
Golden Rule.
2. Who were the three noted Johns
of the New Testament?
3. What was the duty Of the
Levites?
4. What is the source Of the
phrase, "A Labor of Love?"
5. Complete the sentence Of
Isaiah beginning, How beautiful
upon the mountains :"
Answers to Yesterdays Questions
l. Ecclesiastes 1912.
2. Wise men from the east, who
came to find the infant Jesus.
CMatthew I'D
8. In the Book Of Proverbs, 6:6-S.
T. Joa3h, King Of Israel; II
Kings IS: 14-19.
* ~er@f-.seefaf4 sr.@s 7neaFqs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
TurkeY SURPRISES Us

OF all the postwar leaders, none
~ has tackled a hard job, or
done it better than Mustapha Renal
Pasha. Within ten years, he has
changed Turkey from a fourteenth
century despotism into a twentieth
century republic, and he has done
it without getting a Swelled head
or raising a general disturbance
Those of us brought up on the
idea that one of the primary objects
of western civilization was to save
the Armenian from the unspeakable
Turk" are finding it necessary to
revise our opinion.
Whether we overrated the hard
ships of the former, we certainly
moderated the character and intel
Igence Of the latter.
Say what you will, but prejudice
and provincialism are whitening be-
fore the improved methods OF travel
and communication.
The people of one country can
no longer tickle their pride by mis-
representing the people of another
the way they used to.
The press with its far-fiung wire
connections, the reproduction Of i'm
portant events on the screen, and
the modern nomad have forced them
to be careful of what they say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
MuSSoIini Answers

1T takes money to build warships,
i especially if a government must
pay debts at the same time.
Looking around for new source
of revenue, Mussolini decides that
tobacco is it.
Because of their free and easy
disposition, smokers can be depend
ed on not to make fuss.
More important still, they will
multiply since women and girls
took up the habit.
BY increasing the tobacco tax
from 10 to 33 per cent, II Duce
hopes to realize more than $26,0O0,-
600 a year, and that, too, without
raising political row.
The emancipation of woman not
only manifests itself in varied and
peculiar ways, but is spreading
throughout the world with amazing
rapidity.
Two women judges-one in An
CORA and one in Constantinople-
just have been appointed by the
Turkish government. 1t is enough
to make Mohammed turn over in
his grave.
Twenty years ago, the average
Turkish female hardly dared to say
her soul was her own.
AS matter of fact the prevail
ing religious belief denied her a
soul.
Now she not only walks the
streets unveiled, but plays an i'm
portant part in politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01

THE outbreak of the World war
Il in 1914 found Einstein still
hard at work upon his study Of the
universe. In 1915 he completed his
general theory of relatively.
This theory contained certain
ideas about the nature of the uni
verse which could be tested at an
eclipse of the sun. But no such
tests could be made while the war
was in progress.
The tests were made after the
armiStice.
Two British expeditions set out to
observe the solar eclipse of 1919,
They were sent by the Greenwich
observatory and the Cambridge OBJ
servatory. One expedition went to
Brazil, the other to Africa-for the
eclipse track cut across both South
America and Africa.
The African expedition was trou-
bled by clouds, but the Brazil expe-
dition obtained very good pictures
in spite Of instrumental difficulties.
Einstein had predicted that If
careful measurements were made OF
the positions of star images on the
eclipse plates, they would be found
shifted out of position. It will be
recalled that when the dark disc of
the moon obscures the sun, the
brighter stars become visible.
Einstein said that the images of
these stars would be shifted away
from the sun.
He said that this was due to the
fact that space in the neighborhood
Of the sun was warped by the suns
gravitational field so that the rays
of light from the stars we're bent in
toward the sun as they passed it.
This bending would make the star
images appear to be shifted outward
on the plate.
When the 1919 eclipse plates were
measured, they showed the Einstein
shift. And as a result, the whole
world began to talk about relatively.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01
An Ounce of Prevention

It is well to keep hammerng away at the Savagery
of our criminal courts and the barEarsm of our prison
methods The most elementary consideration Of hu-
manty would dictate this But he who would prevent
crime will center his attention upon the children who
feed the ranks Of adult denQuents Few persons turn
TO crime in the midst Of Iaw-abiding career More
over few ad,i.~ Syiminals ever reformed fully
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01

Health Magazine.
BECAUSE children have been
D born under all sorts of condi-
tons since the beginning of human
history, with mother and child both
surviving, the general attitude de-
veloped that childbirth is natural
process and that it needs little, if
any, scientific attention.
However, the world has changed
greatly in the thousands of years of
which we have record. Conditions
of modern civilization with chang
ing diet, changing exercise, and
changes in the nature of the body
structure have brought into the
situation hazards which did not
previously exist.
Moreover, modern living condi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-01

This is the first of four articles by DR..
Morris Fishbein telling of modern medi-
cal practices in connection with child
birth.