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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
The Rest Wav out

The finest movement in this city for the relief of
the unemployed is that to procure jobs by the made
work" plan
The real demand of the voorhees, is for work, not
charity or public support.
The real need is the opportunity to earn living,
and until industry is started again any semi-pubc
organization which creates a job where none ex-
listed before Is working in the right direction.
1t is TO be hoped that the Governors committees
will persuade some who have money to spend part
Of it in the betterment Of their homes but the prop
ery owner for the most part has not done the things
suggested because high taxation and other influences
have prevented him.
It may do some good but very little, to call at
tention to the desirability Of painting and repair
ing Every property owner would have already done
this had he felt that he could afford it.
But the entire theory of the made work commit
tee is that the work provided would not otherwise be
done and can not be done by private enterprise.
This committee operated very successfully last
year. Under the direction Of G.. M Williams and
Kiefer Mayer Of the Chamber of Commerce it gave
opportunities to many The city became a little
more slightly, little less slovenly in appearance.
This year the need will be greater and the work
should have the support Of every citizen.
1t is because The Times believes that the one great
objective is jobs and still jobs that it has ar
ranged to present the memorial film OF woodrow
Wilson ard turn to that committee all the profits
which may be obtained.
Interest in Wilson increases with the years. Peo-
pie are again reading his inspiring messages, They
are coming to regard his accomplishments with less
partisan criticism and with deeper reverence. They
are listening again for that high inspiration which
once lifted the world to the heights Of spiritual ex-
altation.
1t is fine to believe that Wilson here he would
be thinking in human terms of obless men and de-
voting his thoughts to finding work, not charity for
American men,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
No Blood Money

DROBABLY it will not be easy to
Il induce America to enter into a
complete boycott against Japan, the
aggressor nation in Manchuria.
Even a decision by the league would
find the bulk Of our people a little
cold.
1t is true, of course, that wheat
and cotton constitute contraband
just as much as gunpowder, shells,
and bullets. But at the very least
we should abstain from entering
into any trade in death-dealing
weapons.
On the spiritual side, it seems to
me utter nonsense for a nation to
profess high regard for peace dur
ing those very days in which its
machine shops are busy turning out
shrapnel. And, on the whole, !
think the spiritual appeal is the one
most likely to succeed in exciting
this country. But there is no harm
in adding few practical reasons
against the taking of blood money.
On the immediate surface it may
seem as if a far-off war will con-
tribute to the return of prosperity.
Yet by now we should have learned
the lesson of the evaneScence of war
profits. Such gains are shadowy
and for every dollar taken in even
the creditor nation must pay at last
in youth and treasure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IT ONG association with the employed woman has
~ led to believe that the average girl will take
abuse from her boss than she will from her
husband writes who does not think much of
the feminine industrial invasion.
There's no denying his argument although it
proves nothing. since the average also takes
more abuse from his boss than he'd stand from any
one else.
This correspondent dsagrees with me that women
reason most men profess to believe that we prefer
idleness and are happiest when We have nothing
to do.
This is sheer nonsense, of course, but men always
have been fond of using nonsense in any discussion
about
large part of all life's unhappineSs comes from
the fact that many of are mShtS in our Jobs
This applies to both and women. Some never
will succeed in finding the congenal task and there
fore will be frustrated and disconnected all their days
The more fortunate will adjust themselves or seek
their work until they find it.
THOUSANDS Of women now in offices dissat-
Il isied because they have flair for domeSticity
thousands of others equally unhappy because, be-
ing wives and mothers they obliged to drudge at
kitchen jobs which they hate.
Such condition is not surprising. Indeed, it
seems to me inevitable in world where much I'M
reason has gone into the standards set for women.
For am one who emphatically denies that all girls
are born with ful-hedged passionRfor cooking and
housework. although realize that many good people
will resent this idea.
We are all bit inconsistent in our thinking about
women. For instance is it really sensible to expect
same woman, her husband grows prosperous to en-
10y idleneSS?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
Another DRY Reform

While the country flows with bootleg liquor which
the government is powerless to STOP and while the
Washington administration adds to the liquor flow by
substituting wine products, the government announces
that it will dry up at least one source of alcohol
No reader could guess what this latest contribution
to prohibition enforcement is Let the official order
describe the reform in its own words:
"On and after Dec 81, 1881, further Withdraw
ais intoxicating liquors will be authorized for use
in the manufacture Of candy. All new appli-
cations for permits to use Intoxicating liquors in
candy and confectionery should be disapproved and
the reason therefor given above"
We long since have given up prophecies regard
ing any phase Of prohibition-the results always
so much worse than fear that our prophecies
look silly. But in this sorely tempted to
prophesy that the crime will not be greatly
duced by depriving candy addicts of one hundredth
of per cent of thimble full of liquor and that the
morals of the nation will not be improved appreciaby
by removing the drop of brandy from the holiday
plum pudding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
When Tragedy Strikes


Grief bitter grief, rules today in a little home
in the west side, home where the hopes and the
ambitions of boy had given inspirations for family
sacrifice.
Today the boy is dead victim of one of those ac-
cidents that seem to be inevitable in an imperfect
system of industry.
Had he gone forth to battle and died before the
deadly fire of enemy gum there would have been
high tributes and military honors.
He simply worked and, working, died.
William Cox had his ambitions. They had to do
with motor cars. He loved them. He was happy
only when he watched the smoothness of their valves
happy in detecting the first signs of imperfection
happier when he had frightened screw nut and
listened to the music of their restored power
And so he hunted jobs that would permit him to
live among the motors.
He went as proudly to his work any soldier
marches into battle Fatigue meant nothing. He
had the courage for the daily job and that requires
real courage. And because he worked, life more
comfortable and little safer for those whose cars
to his attention.
Some day the world will pay tribute to its soldiers
of peace, prvates in the army who march with the
progress of civilization and of industry, content to
have their share in material accomplishments that
ever lift all life to higher levels.
The world may learn to give its sympathy in full
measure to those who perish inevitably as many must
perish iii these tasks of common" work.
The world loses much when any young and in
dustrious boy is stopped at the doorstep of life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
The Curse of Bigness

peculiar obsesSion lately has afflicted mankind
the desire to create big things We have tried fran
tically to achieve big circuses, big pumpkins. And
most franticay have We travelled to build big cities
Who doesn't recall the civic heartache that spread
over his city when the census revealed its rival forging
ahead in numbers? For instance, the rivalries be-
tween Minneapolis and st. Paul, Toledo and Cncin-
natl San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cleveland and
Detroit.
There comes however, point of diminishing re-
turns in all mere physical ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Ger
manys army reached this point in 1914 Britains En-
pire is reaching it now. And the bigger American
cities with their tiny apartments, traffic jams, and
herded humanity, wondering if they have not
about reached their limit of bulk.
Two interesting developments just have been re-
corded. First we learn from the United States census
reports that American cities relatively have grown
much less than their suburbs in the last decade New
York City proper increased its population II per cent
its suburbs 80 per cent.
The proportion of growth of city to suburb was is
Chicago 25 to IS per cent Philadelphia to 49, st.
Louis 6s to 1868; Cleveland lib to 1258 Buffalo 1871
to 5O4 Baltimore 81 to 722 Indianapolis 159 to 8O4;
Knoxville SO to Sc; Pittsburgh To to 1885, and on
through the list.
Another development is back to- the farm move
ment for industry. The American Engineering coun-
cT noting a movement of small factories to the
country has voted to appoint a committee to plan
the "integration of industry and agriculture"
The engineers see in this happy solution to the
problem of periodic unemployment. If a factory
worker may own small plot of land, he defy
depressons, at least make his family secure from
hunger. If a farmer hire himself out to nearby
industry during the winter months he can have less
fear of crop failures or starvation prices.
Both the farmer and the city dveller should have
some tie to the SOIL" the engineering council states
"A proper indignation of agriculture and industry
in very large bring about such adjustment in
the economic and social circumstances of both farm
ers and industrial workers as to add materially to
their security and satisfaction of living
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
M. E. Tracy
SAYS,

It's Hard to Tell When the
Anti-SocidI CompIe1 Be-
hind Crime Represents
Pure Cussedness or Higher
Intelligence.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Dapper
~ bandits, showing great ia
miliarity with the layout of the
premises, as we'll as exact knowl-
edge of the time at which the post
office would deliver q large guam
tity Of cash, enter a New Jersey
bank right after it opens for busi-
ness and relieve it of 1000 in the
space Of five minutes.
If DR.. Louis Berman Of New York
is right, those bandits are probably
suffering from gland trouble and
need nothing but an operation.
Having studied the subject for
three years, DR.. Berman is con-
WINGED that certain crimes cor
respond to certain glandular dis
orders.
Not pausing to argue the merits
of such a theory, the hardest job
would be selling it not only to the
public, but to the criminals.
Take these particular bandits, for
instance, and do you suppose it
would be possible to convince them
that they are suffering from any
thing but unusual talent right now.
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On the other hand, enough evil
dence has been established by DR..
Bengtson to indicate that in GER
tain cases of badness in which
there may be deficiency of the
secretion of this particular gland,
the injection of extract of the pitui-
tary gland resulted in overcoming
badness.
Premature badness is one of
the chief sources of income for
all sorts of charlatans and for
the promotion of various types of
nostrums and hair tonics. Insti-
tutions have been established
where badness is treated by I'LL
traviolet rays.
Probably charlatans may endeavor
to reap the usual income from these
new Investigations. Readers are
warned that the time is not yet
ripe for every baldheaded man to
try the new treatment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
HEALTH SERVICE
Cure for Badness Not Yet Perfected

is some relationship of the secretion
of this gland to the growth of hair,
he decided to inject people who had
suffered a loss of hair with this
glandular extract.
The regular injection of extracts
of the pituitary gland brought about
a stimulation and growth of hair
in several instances.
A man So years old who had been
bald for two years developed a COM
plete growth of white hair and con-
tinued injections caused the gradu-
al growth of some black hair. Some
of the cases treated quite definitely
were cases of deficiency in the Sc
erection of this gland.
1t is not certain that this rep
reSents method for the cure of
badness of all types; indeed, the
method is so new that it is not
safe to make any certain state
ments as to its value.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
* TO-DAY 50
!. WORLD WAR /
ANNIVERSARY
~ aAGE
INTER-ALLIED COUNCIL
November IA

ON Nov. II, 1917, Premier Lloyd
~ George Of England, speaking in
the house Of commons, made pub
lie the provisions Of the agreement
by the British, French and Italian
governments for the inter-allied war
council to act as a unit.
Two days before this he had
roundly excoriated the entente for
its plumbers.
After reading the text of the
agreement to the house, the pre-
mler said: g. the council will
have no executive power, and final
decisions in the matter of strategy
and distribution Of movements of
the various armies will rest upon
the several governments of the
allies.
The object of the allies has
been to set up a central body
charged with the duty of continu-
ously surveying the field of opera
tons as a whole by the light of
information derived from all fronts
and from all the governments and
STATS, and of co-ordinating the
plans prepared by the different
general stats, and, If necessary. Of
making proposals for the better
conduct OF the war"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
= Not So Far Off

NEANCHURIA is long way of.
wi But the present hostilities are
by no means as remote as the shot
which furnished the spark in 1914.
It is easy to vision ramiflcations
which may follow the japanese ad-
venture into China.
Already the war has swept close
to a point which would involve
Russia. And that would constitute
situation in which many other
nations Immediately might be in
volved.
Bullets come home to roost. We
can not engage safely in the COM
MERGE of arming Japan against
China without running the very
definite risk that our own nation
sooner or later may become involved
in the controversy.
If international practice has per-
! mitted the sale of munitions by neu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EE922S
IF the situation which now exists

IF the situation which now exists
4 in Manchuria is not war, it's
something strikingly similar. There
have been battles and wounded men
and growing list of dead. 1t is
difficult to see any effective way in
which direct pressure can be ap-
piled by America to bring about an
immediate cessation of hostilities.
But already we can begin to lay
plans to limit the scope of the con-
fict and to starve out the combat
ants. Surely it seems possible that
the confagration may spread if fuel
is supplied. And America sits in
the position of being the one great
nation capable of supplying the
sinews for combat.
1t is not too soon to enlist all
those who believe that our neu-
trality ought to be far more than
technical.
There can be no doubt whatsoever
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14

fatten on the coalition of the small
mans investments.
However, this is not the only type
of firm in the trucking business.
The railroads themselves are ably
represented in the persons of the
Universal Carloading and Distribut-
ing Company and the Greyhound
Bus Lines. They both engage in
an extensive trucking business that
spans our entire nation.
For your own satisfaction, inves-
tigate the ownership of these two
lines, the largest in the trucking
business. The railroads are furnish
ing their own competition.
Suppose the railroads do give
employment to 10000 of our citi-
zenS. I doubt it myself. I wonder
if the Indiana Truck Company gives
employment to any HooSiers, or the
U. S. Tire Company, or what used
to be the Schebler Carburetor Com
pany, or perhaps the Standard Oil
of Indiana. Any number of firms
furnish employment to countless
Hoosiers in connection with manu-
facture and maintenance Of motor
trucks.
In conclusion, I wish to say that
store door delivery service by high
way motor trucks is here to stay,
because it offers service the rail-
roads haven't got In that light
they do not compete with the rail-
roads.
There's plenty of profit for both
and the railroads aren't passing up
their SO per cent of it. When, if
ever. were rail rates reduced to con-
form with the reductions in prices
of other commodities and wages?
ConServatiyely, one present day
railroad worker accomplishes what
five of them did ten years ago.
WALTER KRAUSE.
SD Fletcher Avenue
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Views of Times Readers

Editor Times-Being but a small
shot," as small shots go, I'm begging
the indulgence of the readers Of
your worthy publication in a dis
cuSsion of what the railroads would
have us believe is a menace to their
very existence, the highway motor
truck. If the railroad defenders con-
tiIlue their wolf cries, they'll have
us believing that Jonah swallowed
the shark rather than vice versa.
Those massive trucks are quite apt
to eat up the poor little railroads.
My greatest resentment is the al
lusions to the taY-free motor truck.
That is a misrepresentation of the
facts. The average highway truck
owner pays a license tag fee rang
ing from $85 to $500. For every dol
lar he has invested in his equip
ment, he is assessed for taxation
purposes the same as the railroads,
except that, speaking relatively: he
is assessed closer to his true va.ua-
ton. A truck making three round
trips out of Indianapolis to Chicago
weekly will consume approximately
240 gallons of gas and he pays the
state of Indiana 4 cents for every
gallon he consumes. On a yearly
basis, this would amount to $4,000
for one vehicle. Get the facts from
a trucker some time yourself and
see if he still believes in a Santa
Claus. They're going broke every
day for lack of supervision by the
interstate commerce commission
and cut-throat pricing on their own
part.
I refer to the trucker" in these
lines because the majority of
trucking units are owned by indivi-
dual operators. Most of them haul
on a percentage basis under con-
tract with some trucking firm that
operates no equipment owned by
itself. A great number of these
firms are s'ay by night, affairs that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
Variation of Compass
IF the compass pointed exactly /

IF the compass pointed exactly to
the north pole there would be
no practical problem involved. But
the compass doesn't. In general,
the compass points to the north
magnetic pole. But at any given
locality on the earth's surface the
compass is just :. little off in its
direction.
This variation, as it is technically
called, is little in some localities
and great in others. Moreover. it
is not constant, changing with the
time of the day and the season of
the year.
The situation is complicated fur
ther by the fact that there are
changes in variation from year to-
year and by the further fact that
the north magnetic pole slowly is
shifting its position.
A majority of the nations of the
earth maintain magnetic SURVEYS
which study the changes in the
earth's magnetic field in order that
adequate charts may be prepared
and kept up to date. In the United
States that work is carried on by
the coast and geodetic survey, a
unit of the United States depart
ment Of commerce.
Since 1904 the Carnegie Institu-
ton of Washington has maintained
its department of terrestrial mag
netiSm which has carried on similar
surveys in remote parts of the earth
where there are no regular surveys
and over the oceans.
The observations at sea were made
for many years by the non-megnetic
yacht, the Carnegie, which unfor-
tunately was destroyed by fire in
1929.
But the Carnegie Institution also
is interested in fundamental stud
les to determine the underlying
causes of fluctuations in the earths
magnetism, and, if possible, to dis
cover the cause of the magnetism
in the first place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
Crime Is Relative

IF crime were a fixed commodity,
Il it would be far easier to con-
meet it with fixed conditions,
whether physiological or psycholog-
ical.
The great trouble is that crime
continually changes.
1t was no crime to sell Liquor in
this country, or some parts Of it
at least, twenty years ago. Neither
was it crime for King Alphonso
to run Spain as he pleased until
the recent revolution.
But now our prisons and jails are
being overcrowded with those who
have sold liquor, while the Spanish
cortes warns the former sovereign
that he will risk being tried and
sentenced to death if he comes back.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-14
Sun and CoSnic Rays

Oull anu OOolIllC nays
d ECENT analyses of available
IN data between latitude so de-
grees north and so degrees south
by the Carnegie Institution of
Washington show that over nine
tenths of the total magnetic field of
the earth arises from magnetic or
electric systems outside the earth,
DR.. Fleming says.
DR.. Fleming thinks that explora-
ton of the upper atmosphere by
rockets may help solve the problem
for two reasons.
One is the fact that there NAV
be some connection between cosnnic
rays and the earth's magnetism.
Inc other is the fact that changes
IN the electrical conditions of the
upper atmosphere may cause the
fluctuations in the earth'S magnetic
field.
The penetrating radiation or cos
mic rays from space may be the
connecting link to tie together in
satisfactory theory the present in
| dlcatlons of the sun and of the
variable electric currents in our
atmosphere and without our globe
as the ultimate causes of the eartb's
magnetism and its variations" he
says.
observations during the last
century at stations in Europe and
IN the United States have revealed
the close relation between sun-spot
activity and disturbances of the
earth's magnetism.
Another interesting feature of the
earthS magnetic activity is that as
the earth reyolves about the sun
the maximum changes in magnetic.
earth-current, and polar-Iight ac-
tlylty occur during the equinoctiaI
months of March and September.
and the minimum during the sol.
stItial months of June and De-
cember"
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that we never would have been a
part of the World war if it had not
been for the brisk trade which we
maintained in munitions. I am
aware of the fact that international
practice sanctions the selling of
arms if they are offered impartially
to each contender.
AS things stood in 1914, our will
ingness to supply Germany as we'll
as the allies was wholly academic.
Both in an emotional and a prac-
teal sense, Germany came to feel
that it made little difference wheth-
er we were in or not, since our fac
tories kept up a steady stream of
supplies to England and to France.
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Smart or fCusSedI?

HERE is AL Capone, sentenced to
L L imprisonment for seventeen
years after being convicted of vio-
lating the income tax law. There
wasn't any income tax law forty
years ago, nor any Volstead act,
which was the real bug under the
chip.
There wasn't any wrong left turn,
or passing up red lights, until the
automobile came into being, or any
dope traffic until England compelled
China to take opium.
No doubt, all crime has certain
degree of anti-social complex back
of it, but it often is hard to tell
when that complex represents pure
cusSedneSS, or higher intelligence.