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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Is ThiS Democracy?

The folly of our system of elections never was
more apparentS than this fall.
Five weeks from now, congress will assemble to
deal with the most harassing problems that have
confronted this. country. But it will be a congress
elected a year ago.
The voters selected these representatives before
they had any way of knowing of a large deficit in
the federal treasury; before it was evident that addi-
tional taxes would have to be raised somehow this
winter; before the President suggested a moratorium
on foreign war debts; before wage cuts became gen.
eral; before the railroads asked a freight increase:
before relief for bankers had become a matter of
national concern; before war threatened in the far
east.
The men and women elected in November, 1890,
have no expression from the voters upon these vital
issues. They will come to Washington and blunder
along, with one eye on homa reactions, but with no
mandate on which to shape Il intelligent course.
We face this condition because a czaristic Republi-
can majority in the house of representatives has re-
fused to permit adoption of the Norris lame duck
amendment to the Constitution. If this amendment
had been incorporated into our laws, we would have
been electing members of congress this November.
They would have assembled in January, equipped
so carry out the wishes of the electorate on the prob
lens Of the moment.
The different situation that now confronts us, Of
. senate and a house so evenly divided in membership
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
1t Contains I, N, T,

XXTE have been through this per-
w Torrance innumerable times.
We used to lay it to Wall Street or
the grain pit, but that was in the
good old days when we had no fed
eral farm board to take up the slack
and no commerce department to
keep us informed.
Such losses as are due to lack of
information that might have been
gathered and broadcast come pretty
near belonging to Washington.
Washington can't control crops
in this country, n consumption in
other countries, but it can find out
the condition of both and report to
the people.
That is what the people want,
and that is what they are entitled
to-.
The people do not expect to be
taken care of by a paternalistic
form Of government, but they do
expect to be given a fair resume of
those situations in which they are
vitality interested, especially after
they have been taxed to pay for it.
OF course, the south and west are
rejoicing right now because of the
immediate relief in sight, but wait
until they have had time to think
it over.
There is political dynamite in this
wheat situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
HEALTH
Reducing Beneficial With Right Diet

tent, and also with relationship to
the total amount of calories sup
piled.
Under these diets the patients
lose on an average of 10 pounds a
week, providing again that what
the doctors call good physiologic
bookkeeping is one of the best pos
sible methods for reducing the
weight.
1t was found that the effect Of
the weight loss on the general
health of these overweight people
was decidedly beneficial.
In the majority of cases they felt
better and we're able to work more
without loss in weight than pre-
viously.
Particularly were they relieved of
pains i'll the knees and in the feet,
which we're an evidence of the diff
fculty these structures were having
in carrying the excess weight.
When the treatment was discon-
tined, most Of the patients began
to gain weight promptly.
However, those who modified their
diets and adjusted them to the
amount of work they had to do were
able to maintain their reduction in
weight without great difficulty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
At Least a Right to Ask

TN such a situation my sympathy
L is almost wholly with the jobless.
Even a man in difficulties has a
perfect right to inquire what he is
supposed to do. To me good, hon
est work. is an evasive reply. And
so is good, honest wages"
The same point came up fire.
quently during an effort which was
conducted by this column some time
ago in regard to the jobless. Several
employers called upon us with the
notion that here was a. cheap labor
market which would cut the pre-
vailing rate. Bosses inquired as to
skilled workers in various trades,
offering about half of the es-
tablished standard.
I respected those men who would
not leap at such opportunity There
was something of unselfShnesS in
their refusal. For I think that
many had the honest feeling that
any cooperation on their part in
accepting a reduction would consti-
tute a kind of scabbing.
Nothing very much will be done
for men and women out of work as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

haps it is merely the eXaggeration
of the movements of those who are
overweight.
In endeavoring to handle the
523 cases of overweight which they
studied, the Scotch physicians gave
each patient detailed instructions
about reducing the diet. The
amount of food taken varied from
1000 to 1900 calories a day, &C
cording to the activity of the pa
tent.
Short women who led quiet lives
were given 1000 calories a day; the
more active women 1900 calories a
day, and the men 1900 ~calories a
day. Enough protein was supplied
in the diet to take care of the re-
pair Of the tissue and the building
of the body Tissue. The amount of
sugar Or carbohydrates given was
enough to prevent undue feeling of
weakness which a very low sugar
intake almost invariably brings
about. Thus the diet contained
protein 66 grams; fat 38 grams, and
carbohydrates 100 grams, giving a
total of about 1000 ~calories.
There are now available numer-
Gus books of instructions which tell
how to pick a diet according to the
protein, carbohydrates and fat con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Bacteria Menace

GCIENCE constitutes mans chief
~ weapon against these two enc
mies-the insect and the microbe.
And both battles have this in COM
mon: Prevention is more important
than cure.
Governments maintain rigid plant
guarantees to prevent the impor-
tation of insect pests. Public health
measures are the most important
items in the battle against germs.
MoSC people regard health as a
personal matter, something con-
corning themselves and their doc
tor. Certainly every family should
nave a physician whom it trusts.
But public health measures are
infinitely more important in the
long run. If this were appreciated
more widely, it would not be SO diff
hcult to obtain adequate financial
support for city, county and state
health departments.
Bacteria govern the length of
mans lie and determine the part
OF the earth on which he may live"
says Professor J.. E. Greaves of the
Utah State Agricultural college.
They have defeated armies and
DESTROYED cities; nations which have
been the glory of the world have
gone down before them.
The majority of individuals born
today would enjoy health and live
to old age were their bodies not in
vaded by microbes. They are no
respector OF persons, nor are they
governed by the edict of rulers.
However, at the command of
modern science they are commenc-
ing to relinquish their hold. and
some of earth's most fertile regions.
where in the past the risk to the
visitor was greater than the visit
to a battlefield, are being trans
formed into tropical health resorts"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
ing married woman ends like this:

A LETTER IN the Washington News from a work
"A ing married woman ends like this:
Rather than be divorced from a position I have
spent ten long, hard years in building up, I would be
divorced, nominally at least, from my husband. 1 am
not Indifferent to the Sufferings of others. I should
be glad to help by working shorter hours or accept
ing a salary cut or paying extra taxes. But I will
not give up my job"
That, I think, may be translated as an ulti-
matum from the modern woman.
1 feel reasonably sure that thousands of women
rather would give up their husbands than know they
never again could pursue their careers. Nor does this
mean that they do not love as women always have
done. 1t merely signifies that to all mortal work is
the greatest and the lasting interest, and takes
precedence over everything, even love.
To many this will sound harsh and ugly defiance.
Bat nothing will be gained by evadlng the truth. And
the truth is that women love their work Just as men
do. They have tasted that freedom for which philos-
ophers have died and they never viii give it up
without a struggle.
A ND what could be more childish than to think
n we can bring back prosperity by firing all the
married women? That is nursery reasoning and
we proceeded upon this simple sounding theory we
by and by should find ourselves in deep legal waters.
For such logic, followed to its reasonable conclu-
sion, would mean that every person who did not
work from actual necessity should give his job to
somebody who did. Then We should be obliged to
police the population, lest any two members Of the
same family were wage earners.
This procedure, I take it, would be resented holly
by men. But it would be just as fair as a sweeping
ouSting of all married women from the ranks of in
dustry.
Matrimony, alter all, has nothfag whatever to do
with the rights Of a citizen. And today women are
citizenS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Band WAGON Rolls Along

IRON almost any point of view,
H the recent British election is
tragic in it's effect upon the affairs
Of the world. The phlegmatic Bri-
fish are a hysterical people. This is
not the first stampede which has
afflicted the English public. Even
conservatively minded people are
worried by the size of the Tory ma
jority. 1t represents not the mature
conviction of the voters but a pass
ing panic.
And if one may apply American
political precedent to the situation
in the British Isles such a prepon-
derance of power is certain to lead
to internal riffs and controversy.
1t seems assured that Great Bril-
tain is to have a protective tariff.
And next to one high trade wall,
the next worst thing is two. Tariff
barriers breed as rapidly as rabbits.
And in the immediate years to come
we are, likely to see each nation
shutting out the goods of the other.
In such process there is small hope
for international sterilization.
The argument for reduction of
the dole depended upon the theory
that with decreasing costs of COM
moditieS a little less would have the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
SCIENCE
-RY DAV1D DIETZ.

Insects and Microbes Are
Mans Worst Enemies and
His Chief Condensers for
Control of the Earth.
TINY things. not large things,
eventually may determine the
fate not only of civilization, but Of
man himself.
Mans chief enemies. whom he
must fight for possession Of the
earth, are the insects and the BAG
terra. Frequently. the two are al
lied, for many insects are germ
carriers.
Civilization has been an aid to
both of mems enemies for civiliza-
ton has meant great agricultural
development, large cities and in
creased commerce and travel.
Large, well-cultivated farms ONLY
provide more food for man. They
also provide more food for insects.
Great cities with their congestion
make it easy for the spread Of con-
tagiouS diseases.
Commerce and travel promote the
transportation of both insect pests
and disease-producing germs.
The white man carried diseases
to the Eskimo and the South Sea
Islander which they had not known
previously. AS a result, they pos
seSsed no natural immunity and
the havoc was tremendous.
Similarly, shipments OF plants
and food have carried insect pests
from one country to another. These
pests, introduced into regions where
their natural enemies did not exist.
have caused tremendous damage.
The United States has suffered
from many such insect pests, as for
example, the boil weevil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
FIRST AMERICANS KILLED
November 3

ON Nov. 3. 1917, three Americans
~ we're killed and five wounded
in the first engagement in which
American troops figured.
These Americans we're: CORPORAL
James B. Gresham, Evansville. Ind
Private Thomas F. Enright, Pitts
burgh Pa, and Private Merle D.
Hay, Glidden, Ia.
They were killed in hand to hand
fighting when a small detachment
OF American infantrymen was at
tackled in the trenches by a superior
force Of Germans. The Americans
were cut off by heavy barrage fire
in their rear.
A sergeant and a corporal and ten
men were taken prisoners. The en-
envy lost some men.
The dead were buried on the slope
Of a hill overlooking a small vii
lage somewhere in France"
Simple markers were placed on
their graves with the inscription:
Here lie the first soldiers of the
great Republic Of the United States
who died on the soil of France FOR
justice md lberty. Nov. 3. 1917"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
TT GFENTG m MT , ~ W
i l. OAA4N1O ~ WILL D BROUN

A READER, who will be known
IA in this column as MI. x, takes
umbrage at what I wrote concern
ing beggars. 1t is his contention
that practically all those who ask
for aims r unwilling to work, even
if opportunity offers.
But his researches into this
problem seem to have been con-
Quoted three or four years ago. 1t
is my impression that the percent
age of applicants would be far
more numerous at the moment.
Waving that point, it seems to me
that Mr.. x. takes an unjustifiable
attitude toward the unemployed. 1t
is his notion that when one is down
and out he should ask no questions
whatsoever about the opportunity
presented to him.
I quote from the letter:
"Conservatively, I would venture
to say that during a period of eight
years 1 have been approached by a
thousand men saying, BOSS, would
va let me have a nickel for a cup of
coffee?' And my answer to each and
every individual has been the same,
No! I will not give you a nickel, but
I will give you a job
approximately half ask, What
kinda work is it, boss?'
ITO which I replied, Good, hon
est work
" How much will va pay me?'
they mumbled.
Good, honest wages was the
answer, after which I gave them
my business card, and they prom
iSed to report to my factory ready
for work the following morning. But
I have yet to see the first caffeine
fend ready to report for work"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Whose FauIt?

Perhaps little Hubert Nichols will be as well off
in prison for life as he would be outside. Certainly
the picture of his environment, painted in the court
room, is far from pleasant.
But when a 12-year-old boy steals a gun, holds up
a store, and kills the sheriff who catches him. some
thing or some one is decidedly at fault, and it is not
the boy.
Foolish ancient taboos, that force us to stand by
and permit the mentally diseased or unbalanced to
produce children, are partly to blame. When we cast
off this old inhibition, we will cast off at the same
time a bitter load of misery and suffering.
Young Nichols was found legally sane. vet it
seems that with the family and home conditions into
which he was born, he never had a chance.
A missing teller was arrested through a woman.
Must have forgotten not to teller.
Or as Russia might be hollering, Shoot the
works."
The depression may have ended chivalry in bust
ness but in most bakeries ~nighthood is still in flour.
DreSsmakers say there's plenty of business, but COL
lections aren't what they seam.
Monetary standards may be shaky, but all is
not gold that filters.
L ike conversation With a kick" says a writer
Could he mean speakeaSies?
Politically speaking, if the war didn't make this
country safe for democracy, the depression and the
Republicans did.
A headline says, Brewers Daughter to Wed Lord"
Oh, Lord!
India has 100000 widows. If they were grass
there'd be plenty of hey-hey.
A love authority says women must take husbands
as they are. But with icemen they can take their
pick.
George Washington threw a dollar across the
Potomac, but many a man has thrown a party across
the ocean.
Those wartime dollar-a-year men would be glad
to get that buck now.
Now that election time is rolling around many a
judge will recall he who judges gets judged.
golden rule.
Your wet Saturday night is likely to start with
ring around the bathtub."
Captain Hawks may try to break Jimmy Doolittle's
coast-to-coast record. He'll have to do more than
Doolittle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Questions and
Answers

Do the aggregate loans by banks
and other institutions exceed the
actual amount of money in the
world?
Credit extended by banks is about
ten times greater than the available
gold supply of the world.
Were the mother and father of
Henry Ford born in the United
States?
His father was born near Bran
don, Ireland. and was of English
stock. He came to the United
States as a boy and finally acquired
a sarm homestead at Greenfield,
Mich. and married Mary Litogot, a
girl of Dutch descent, who was
born neax Dearborn, Mich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
III DIV 4HOANAOAD AAOAADLAN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association anda of Hvgeia, the
Health Magazine.

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association anda of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE Scotch Investigators, Drs.
L Dunlap and Lyon, found a very
significant point in which every
one who is overweight will be in
tereSted.
1t frequently is assumed that
temperament is an important fac
tor in causing overweight, and that
the frequent rapid motions in
which a high strung individual in
dulges during the course of twenty
four hours burn up fuel which the
slower, easy-going people conserve
and store in their bodies.
The popular conception of stout
people is that they r easy going
and quiet.
1t was surprising, therefore, to
find that about go per cent Of the
people who. are overweight claim to
be of eXcitable and nervous dis
position, and that only 10 per cent
were phlegmatic.
Any one who happens to know
well an excitable fat person knows
that an eXcitable fat person ap-
pears to be much more eXcitable
than an excitable thin person. Per-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Research UnreIenting

INCREASED scientific ear i
L necessary for man to win his
battles, for he can succeed onlv
when he possesses knowledge.
Inc first task in fighting a germ
olsease is to isolate the germ which
causes it. 1t then is possible to
carry out studies which may lead to
methods of combating it.
1t is, Of course, a fact that phvsi-
clans are called upon to fight MANY
diseases the cause Of which Is not
yet known and that they frequently
treat these diseases with success.
But every physician is looking for
ward to the day when more will be
known about them.
The first task in fighting an in
sect is to know all about the insect
Its breeding habits, the various
stages through which it passes. its
feeding habits, its natural enemies
the diseases to which it is liable
and SO on.
Insect pests can be fought in
many ways. One way is to intro
duce another insect which eats the
pests Or its eggs.
In some instances insects can be
fought with a contagious germ
disease. Insects inoculated with the
disease are let loose in the fields to
infect other insects.
The Importance of insect pests
was pointed out recently by Profes-
sor Glen w. Herrick of Cornell uni
Verslty who lists thirty-fve pests
Oh prime economic Importance
which have been introduced into
the United States since approx
mately 1850.
These include the Mediterranean
fruit-f1y, the Mexican fruit-fiy. the
coll Weevil, the peach moth, the ia
anese beetle, the Australian tom
WeeVil and others
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
S~uCcumbed to Bunk

MO one knows how many wheat
IN growers have frittered their
seasons work away for lack of
knowledge as to the real facts, or
how many children will go hungry
and cold this winter, while specu-
lators fatten on the sudden advance
in prices.
Those who. had learned to be
skeptical through bitter experience
and who were in a position to do so,
undoubtedly held for a better mar
ket on general principles, but it is
a foregone conclusion that vast
numbers succumbed to the bunk, or
the pressure, and that the pressure
was increased greatly by the bunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

long as the community holds to the
notion that these people are in some
way culpable. Many are willing to
help only if the benefciaries will
abase themselves in one way or an
other. We never have been able to
hit upon the same psychology which
animates relief work accorded to
sufferers from "acts of God"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
These SURPRISES Hurt

LTOW we can employ all the ex-
IL perts to gather data and make
such a bonehead guess is just one
more riddle of the efficiency Sys-
tenn.
It is only fair to excuse the ex-
pert fact-fnders as far as Russia
is concerned. About all they could
do is take her word for it and, ac-
cording to her word, the five-year
plan had succeeded SO well, especial
ly on collectivized farms, that hui
mainly was about to be buried I'M
der a grain pile.
There was no reason in the world.
however, why more accurate in
formation should not have been
made available with regard to Ar
gentina and western Europe.
Candidly, these surprises hurt.
particularly those who were moved
to sell on a low market.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
NJ. E. Tracy

West and South Jubaant
OUer Prospect Of Dollar
Wheat, but Think of the
Boys Who Didn't Wait to
Get 1t!
NEW YORK, Nov, 3.-Only the
~ other day, Governor William
H. Murray of Oklahoma was ex-
pressing doubt as to the great sur
plus Of wheat and some other COM
modities supposed to be on hand.
He frankly questioned whether there
was so much to spare as some people
thought and whether some of the
information being spread around
was not due to Interior motives, or
ignorance. 1t begins to look as
though he might be right.
Instead of dumping wheat on a
sorely beset world of capitalism,
Russia will not export her usual
quota. Of course, there can be only
one reason for this. Russia needs
all she has raised.
Meanwhile, the crop in Argentina
and western Europe has proved any
thing but over-abundant. The re-
suit is that prices are climbing, but
the mystery is that nobody appears
to have known actual conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
A BaCkdoor Conviction

T AM less enthusiastic than most
l. commentators about the convic-
ton and the heavy sentence i'm
posed upon Al Capone. The gang
leader of Chicago is unquestionably
an anti-social force and deserving
of punishment. But I could wish
that the move against him had
been more frank and direct.
Obviously, the heavy sentence is
not imposed solely on account of his
sins against the income tax or
dinances. He is being made to pay
the penalty for other crimes which
the courts we're not capable of
handling.
1 would have liked it much better
and 1 think it would have been
a far more cleansing case for the
American community-if Capone
had been tried directly upon those
issues of violence and gang warfare
which really lie beneath the surface
of the present trial.
1t may be just as we'll to be
hanged for a sheep as a lamb. But
the other way is at least more
fortnight and more honest.
Copyright. 1881. By The Tines
What does the word a~erOstation
mean?
It is aerial navigation with the
use of a sustaining gas that is lighter
than air