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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-09
A Decalog of Commercial Common Sense

A DecaIOg of Commercial Common Sense
In the age of the SmOot-Hawley tariff, free
trade league seems as much out OF place whisky
merchant at a w. c. T. U. convention. But while
there is life there is hope. The league reviving
activity
It was organized by those eminent liberals William
Cullen Bryant and David A. Wells, back in 1866, and
kept alive by George Haven Putnam and his fellow
free traders. The league announces the following
decalog of commercial common sense:
Il Freedom Of trade is essential factor in
securing and maintaining the peace of the world.
% The people Of the world entitled to obtain,
free from any needless charges or burdens the ma
terias Of production required for their livelihood and
their work
- The devastatons of the war and the depres-
sons that have followed have made it more evident
that the imposition of tariff charges upon food cloth
ing and equiment for the millions of people who have
suffered therefrom is little short of crime. 1t is
quay true at all times that to increase the cost of
the means of livelihood to peoples in need is like
wise, if not crime at least an economic bunder
a. First steps toward freedom of trade should
provide for removal OF duties food Of the people
and materials Of industry, simplifcation OF admin
istrative methods and repeal of obsolete navigation
laws repeal necessary to enable our country to
uphold freedom Of the seas
foster production proves delusiye in the long run,
for, the contrary tariff taxes constitute burden
on productive industry and, by reducing available
markets lessen the demand for labor and capital
90 Trade being essentially an exchange OF goods,
to buy We must sell, and to sell We must buy thus
imports and exports involve each other and the pro-
hibition encouragement OF purchases from other
nations prevents export of products, thus fore
ing labor from natural channels through which pro-
ducton and trade increased into artificial chan
nels. which misdirect production and are wastefl
OF labor
AZ Lower wage scales and lower standards of Iv-
ing in other countries do not justify high tariffs for
the United States experience has shown that labor
efficiency is promoted and labor cost reduced by the
higher wage scale and higher standard of living which
are the bases of the most successful American in
dustres.
g. Freedom of trade among countries gives the
best assurance Of peace earth and good will among
nations The economic peace and political security
thus assured viii prove the best safeguard for the
szrmanency Of a league of free nations.
. We welcome the cooperation OF all opposed
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HEALTH SERVICE
Diabetes Rarely Found With Anemia

likely that his brother also had
pernicious anemia.
Here is the type of family his
tory which seems to indicate quite
definitely the Importance of taking
into account the family history in
such cases.
1t is interesting to know that
the modern methods of treating
these two diseases, through the
use of insulin for the diabetes
and of liver extract for the per-
nicious anemia, have been uniform
ly good in patients recently treated
by these methods.
Another reason why these two
diseases are perhaps seen more
frequently now than formerly is
the fact that formerly either one
of them was quite capable of kill
ing off people promptly, whereas
modern methods of treatment make
it possible for such people to live
longer, so that the second disease
puts in appearance after the first.
Associated with the use of liver
extract and insulin, it is customary
to give such patients a diet rich in
vitamins to build up their resistance
and state of nutrition.
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Not in the Books

THE answers from the Russian
Il representatives seemed a little
vague. But one Communist, who
undertook to act as spokesman, ex-
planned that the question would
not arise in the Russian mind. He
said in effect:
you don't understand when you
speak in terms Of pressure and
compulsion. That isn't the point.
You must grasp the Russian spirit.
Life over there is not like yours
in America. 1t isn't question of put
ting on your overalls and going to
work and then taking them off to
participate in what you call the
individuals private life
Everybody in Russia is filed with
enthusiasm for the state. And even
after you have made your contri-
button of toll to the furtherance OF
the Five-Year Plan, you sit around
in the evening and discuss it with
your fellows.
NO painter worth his salt would
have any interest except in pro-
noting through his art the growth
and triumph Of the Soviet republic. "
1t is difficult, of course, for a
man to understand the emotions OF
. cheering section or revival meet
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SCIENCE
by DAVID DIE'TZ :

Perfumes Made Of Deadly
E q ploSiUes, Poisonous
Gases and HI-Smeljing
Liquids.
THE modern magic Of chemistry
u is illustrated spectacularly by
the manufacture of synthetic per
fume favors. Deadly explosives,
poisonous gases, and ill-smelling
liquids 60 into the retort of the
chemist and come out highly priced.
and highly expensive, perfumes.
One Of the foundations Of many
perfumes is phenylethyl alcohol
cine name is not as hard to pro-
nounce as 1t appears to be. Note
tnaU It IS merely the addition of
phenyl and ethylD This alcohol oc-
ours IN natural altar of roses.
Inc chemist manufactures this
alcohol by beginning with toluene. a
coaI-tar dlstillate which smells like
gasoline. To this he adds chlorine.
a highly poisonous gas which was
used during the World war.
He treats these two with another
deadly poison, cyanide. The result
is the desired alcohol.
BY a somewhat similar process in
which the startling point is benzene
instead OF toluene the chemist is
able to manufacture vanilin, the
flavor Of the vanilla bean.
Another perfume base is artificial
musk. 1t is first cousin to TINT.
the deadly explosive used in the
World war.
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ing if he sits a little to the right.
But from such a distance the Cos
pei OF self-immolation is not alto
gether stirring.
do not hold with that creed of
rugged individualism which main
tains that each person should be
allowed to starve in any way he
pleaSes.
But I fear I catch the echo not
of new faith, but an ancient one
in this insistence, that each man is
nothing in himself and exists clly
through his function as the cog in a
great machine.
Gravely do I doubt the glory of
human brotherhood if there is to
be from now on no such thing as
man, but only men in the mass.
Fellowship will be COMPOUNDED
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TT SEEMS TO ME BY HEEEY9M 1S3

4 UGENE O'NEILL probably was
H little ahead of his time when
he wrote play about young man
who decided to worship a dynamo.
Critics found the idea fantastic.
But in the last few years machin-
cry definitely has achieved its place
upon the altar. Almost it ranks with
holy relics as something calculated
to cure all our ills.
The leadership of contending eco
nonic and political theories lies with
Russia and the United States. 1t is
curious that we SO perSistently re-
fused to recognize the Soviet re-
public, because Russia in many re-
spects has held up a mirror to our
industrialism. Stain and Ford, Ford
and Stalin-they are accepted
prophets of the modern age.
It is no minor difference that
Russia is building a scheme of dis
tribution unlike our own. But in the
field of production the resemblances
are obvious.
If may steal a figure from Ben
Hect, What is Mr.. Stain, after all,
but Henry Ford standing on his
head?"
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Questions and
Answers

How can wood be bent to a per-
manent shape?
The United States forest service
says that the wood must first be
steamed, and while pliable is pressed
INTO the desired form. or bent in
the desired shape and nailed into
position. When it dries it will keep
its shape.
What is the heating element in
an electric tOaster?
1t consists of wire that offers
high resistance to the flow of cur
rent, and therefore becomes redhot.
Nihcrome is the trade name for the
resistance wire that is chiefly used
in such appliances.
Where is the city of SOmmerda?
In Germany.
Is there such a word as peOpling?
1t is the participle Of the verb
to people, and means stocking with
inhabitants.
For what book did Sinclair Lewis
win the Nobel prize for literature?
He won on the merits of his
books in general. Main Street, "
Rabbit" and Elmer Gantry," re-
ceived special mention. Arrow
smith" was not mentioned in the
report.
For what does Phi. ID. stand?
Doctor of Philosophy.
What is the symbol of the tenth
wedding anniversary?
Tin.
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Prices Go Down

THE full name for INT is TRIM
& troluene. The name was not
made long to confuse the lavman
but to aid the chemist. It means
toluene containing three nitro
groups.
Artificial musk is simply INT with
the addition of another alcohol. this
time, butyl alcohol. The technical
name Of artificial musk consequent
ly has yet more syllables in it. It
is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. If you take
it section at a time it is clear. thus.
Observation-Disclosures.
The manufacture Of artificial
musk is not an easy process. It re-
quires concentrated nitric acid. a
dangerous liquid to handle. In ad-
dition, there is risk of fire or ex-
plosion.
AS a result, the manufacture is
usually carried on in a small build
ing placed at a considerable dis
lance from other chemical works.
Natural musk. containing only 10
per cent of the active agent. once
sold for $3.50 a pound. Since it was
only 10 per cent useful, the price for
the active agent was $1,000 a pound
In those days, perfumers locked I'D
musk in a safe.
Today synthetic or artificial musk.
100 per cent active, sells for less
than SIS a pound.
A variety of musks are on the
market. In addition to the one
made from toluene, there are others
manufactured from cresol and other
substances.
The one made from cresol is
known as ambrette musk and pos
sesses the odors of both musk and
amber.
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Ii Sounds Logical

TT would be difficult for anybody
Il to make out a case against the
new efficiency which can and
should come from the machine age.
And yet I am not altogether dis
posed to break into a long cheer
over the fact that mankind seems
hell-bent to bind itself into a fac
tory system.
Machinery is, among other things,
impersonal. And I am afraid that
its tyranny may not be wholly
abated by saying, But this is quite
a different sort of dynamo. This
is a kindly and friendly gadget.
This is a proletarian dynamo"
I wonder if it is possible for the
worker ever to own in a complete
spiritual sense any moving belt
which he is assigned to serve.
Within my lifetime I have found
no creed so universally accepted as
the present worship of industrial
ism.
It draws followers both from right
and left and all along the center.
Folk like Thoreau and William
Morris are dismissed as sentimental
old fogies.
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unless there is respect for the
boundary lines which surround each
individual Adam. Man must pre-
serve in spirit some vision of a Sa-
bine farm which is his own.
/ speak in symbols, for do not
hold that it is necessary for each
one Of us to keep COWS and chickens.
I am talking of certain impulses
which can grow only in the solitary
and secret places of the heart.
Stain and Ford, Ford and Stain
have conquered all the world but
for one crowded corner. In an an
Gent land there sits a small man
at a spinning wheel.
He is not logician. He IS not an
economist. And yet Gandhi, the lit
tie man in the loin-cIoth. NAV. in
the long run, lick them both.
(Copyright 1881 BY The Tin1esl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-09

Big Blu Ih0mpSOn'S Reaction
| to Defeat Should Be An
Interesting Study for P8y-
biologists.
NEW YORK, April 9.-"Your
L Y election is notice that the
gangsters must vamoose," wires for
mer Governor Smith Of New York
to Anton J. Cermak, newly elected
mayor Of Chicago.
Though such message hardly is
calculated to bring cheers from Al
Capone, it has merit. If half our
politicians were equally frank. it
would not be necessary to overturn
the government Of our second larg-
est city to let gangsters know that
moving day had arrived.
The upset in Chicago is so plain
thai even Big Bill Thompson should
be able to understand it, but you
never can tell. If he has a better
side, it was not revealed in his
twelve years as mayor of Chicago.
Mabye it has been so completely
atrophied by egotism that the most
spectacular defeat in Chicago's his
tory will not suffice to bring it out.
At any rate, Big Bills reaction
should prove an interesting study
for psychologists.
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The 'POOrhouSe' ReSentS It

he 'POOrhOuS0' ReSentS 1t
1T goes without saying that Presi-
l. dent Hoover meant no harm
when he used the word "poorhouse"
in connection with the Virgin
islands. But that is beside the mark.
It is not what a man means that
determines the effect of his words.
but the way other people under
stand them.
People Of the Virgin islands are
not only sensitive over their pres
ent condition, but hold the United
States largely responsible for it.
They are only human when they
resent having it called to their at
tentiOn by the President.
What they want, and what they
believe they are entitled to, is as
sistance.
They feel that they not only have
been neglected, but have been made
to suffer through laws and restric-
lions imposed on them by the United
States.
Their population has shrunk by
10 per cent since they were taken
over by this country in 1917.
Two Of their principal sources of
trade-rum and bay rum-virtually
have been annihilated.
The result has been doublv dis
appointing, because it is so differ
ent from what they expected, and
because they are helpless to remedy
it On their own account.
Until this govrnment is ready to
do something efectual and con-
structive in their behalf, words,
especially to a critical character,
should be avoided.
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4 PERSON who has either dia-
"A betes or pernicious anemia is
sick; a combination Of the two dis
eases makes him especially sick.
Naturally, when two such serious
diseases occur in combination, physi-
clans are particularly interested to
know whether the combination is
purely accidental or whether the re-
lationship may have some common
factor as cause.
According to DR.. Howard F. Root,
he has been able to find records OF
forty eight cases Of this kind.
In 1000 cases of diabetes, there
were thirteen in which pernicious
anemia also was present.
Among 1000 cases of diabetes and
1000 cases of pernicious anemia,
there were only three in which a
combination of the two occurred.
Diabetes, according to Or. Root,
occurs about equally between the
two sexes, whereas in pernicious
anemia, men tend to be more fire.
quently affected than women.
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$ZZESXSSS
R7doAEF Is 1Tk4eH
EANNIVGR$ARY|
SEIZURE OF WAR SHIPS
April 9

ON April 9, 1917, United States
~ customs officials seized fourteen
Austrian merchant ships in Ameri-
can ports after news was flashed
from Washington that a formal
break had come between this coun-
try and Austria-Hungary.
The ships taken were at New
York, Boston, New Orleans, Pensa-
cola, Galveston, Newport, Phila-
delphia and Tampa, and their total
tonnage was 67,8O7, gross.
As was the case with German
ships seized the previous week, the
machinery in most Of them had
been damaged.
Explaining the status Of the ships
in a statement issued at Washing
ton, Secretary of Treasury McAdoo
said that the government had not
confiscated the vessels, but had act
ed for the purpose Of protecting
them from further injury"
The officers and crews OF the ships
were taken into custody by the de-
rartment Of labor.
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EranknaSS Gets Inning

CPEAKING of frankness on the
~ part Of politicians, particularly
as illustrated by former Governor
Smith throughout his career, the
sO-called Raskob plan has done a
lot to rejuvenate it in the Demo-
cratic party.
That in itself is enough to justi-
fly all the rumpus, no matter what
the outcome.
What we need in both parties
is more plain, honest, straightfor-
ward discussion.
Nothing has done so much to
confuse politics as lack of it.
Ever since the war, both parties
have been emphasizing minor issues
for no purpose in the world except
to evade major issues. In spite of
all the talk, little has been accom-
plished with regard to those minor
issues, because nobody was interest
ed after the campaign, and less
has been accomplished with regard
to major issues, because Of the pre-
campaign Straddle.
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ment not to make public the find
ings Of these investigations.
This is a propitiOus time for the
newspapers and other representa-
tives Of the public to express the
right Of the people to unbiased
facts concerning the cause Of
crashes that occur when planes are
operated as common carriers.
READER.
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ideals and opinions expressed
I'm this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paDer.-The Editor.
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Does the Democratic candidate for mayor in Chi
cago, who appeals to the common sense the voters
want to make of the election an intelligence test?
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Daily Thought

That 1 gave my brother Hanani,
and Hananiah the ruler of the
palace, charge over Jerusalem;
for he was a faithful man, and
feared God above many.-Nehe-
miah 7:2.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
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There can be no faith so feeble
that God does mt respond to it.
Alexander Naclaren.
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D U \ COM m, FREDERICK
ANA%A AOO4 Lands

ENF1E papers say that getting ready to build
Il a very imposing embassy in Paris for acconnoda-
ton Of the American ambassador which is all right
since nations are supposed to house their foreign rep
resentatives decently
Milford chronicle., 1931-06-12
DEMOCRATS ASK TARIFF RAISE

A new light appeared on the
Hawley-Smoot tariff law a few days
ago when shoe manufacturers in
Massachusetts came before the Tar
iff Commission appealing for an in
crease in duty. These manufac-
turers produced evidence to show
that their keenest competition came
from Czecho Slovakia, where shoes
are produced at labor cost only 28
per cent of that involved in Ameri-
can factories. With wages hardly
more than one quarter of those paid
i'll America, it was contended that
Balkan manufacturers could lay
down their product in American
markets, pay the present duty of 20
per cent and still sell their product
at less than the actual labor cost of
American shoes.
A specially interesting feature of
the appeal of these Massachusetts
manufacturers was that one of the
spokesman for them was Congress-
man William P. Connery, a Demo-
crat. No doubt if they had desired
they could have had the support al
so of the other three Democratic
Congressman from their State and
the Democratic Senator. Leaders of
the Democratic party have had a
good deal to say about the "exorbi-
tant" rates of the 1880 tariff act, and
yet we have the diverting spectacle
of the first major demand for higher
protection coming from Democratic
Congressman.
And still nobody should be sur
prised. 1t is a role Democratic Con-
gressmen long have played-de-
high tariffs for industries
in which their own states are inter-
ested while heaping anathema upon
the protective system in general.
incidentally this Massachusetts
appeal illustrates the absurdity of
the Democratic argument that low
er tariffs would mitigate the depres-
sion. The tariff on shoes is so low
that CzechoslOvakia can send the
products of her shoe factories here
and sell them at less than the labor
cost of making them in America.
Does that fact mitigate the depres-
sion for Massachusetts shoe makers?
Massachusetts shoe MAX
ers do not think so.
Milford chronicle., 1931-06-12

able degree of logic that the inter-
ests Of the farmer lay i'm free trade,
that he needed no tariff on his own
products because similar products
were not entering our ports, and
that low duties on manufactured
articles would be to his advantage
since it would enable him to get at
a low price the things he had to buy.
That view prevailed among Demo-
cratic statesmen even down to so
late date as 1918. When the re-
sponsibility of framing a new tariff
in that year fell upon a Democratic
Congress a law was written which
gave agricultural products very
low tariff or none at all. Cattle,
sheep and swine, beef, mutton and
pork were on the free list. So was
milk in any form and cream, while
butter bore only 2 1-2 cents duty a
pound. Oats was given a duty of 6
cents per bushel, but corn, barley,
wheat, rye and cotton were on the
free list. -"" s.5
The men who wrote that tariff bill
still clung to the old idea that Amer
ican farm products were in no dam
ger of competition and therefore
needed no protection. They failed ut
terly to take into account the vast
areas of new land that had been
brought into production in Canada,
South America and Russia. 1t is no
less than appalling to imagine to
what depths of depression American
agriculture would have fallen last
year and this if the worldwide crisis
had come upon us when virtually
all farm products were on the free
list. Why on the same date (Feb |
193l) did corn sell at 81 cents in |
BuenOs Aires and at 81 cents in Chi ]
cagO; flaXseed in Minneapolis at 4
1.56 and in BuenOs Aires at SO; 1
wheat in Winnipeg at SO and in Min
neapOlis at 76; barley in Winnipeg
at % and in Minneapolis at "A; wool
in London at Sc and in Boston at
66? There can be but one answer
the duties ON corn, flaxseed, wheat,
barley and wool in the much abused
Hawley- -SmOot tariff bill.
Milford chronicle., 1931-06-12
Maryland Woman
Happy Now
Loses 55 Lbs.

Edith J. Marriott of Baltimore,
Md. writes: Last winter I weighed
200 lbs. and was very much asham-
ed. 1 bought a bottle of Kruschen
Salts which gave such wonderful
results bought more. After bot
ties l weigh las lbs. and all my
friends say, "How slender you've
gotten-how did you do it?" say
only Al words-thanks to Kruschen
Salts"
A generous bottle of Kruschen
Salts that lasts 4 weeks costs but
S5 cents at Pettyjohn's Pharmacy or
any drugstore in America-take one
half teaspoon in a glass of hot wa
ter every morning before break
ast-cut out pastry and fatty meats
go light on potatoes, butter, cream
and sugar-that will help Kruschen
take off your fat. rNs'4
Take Kruschen every morning
it's the little daily dose that does
tiff not joyfully satisfied after the,
first bottle-mOney back.