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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21

her position as world banker for the sake of better
internal conditions.
There probably would be no artificial British fnan-
cal crisis today her bankers had been less grasping
during the last year and had been less anxious to
force the Labor government out Of office.
The budget deficit was only about half as large as
the American deficit and the Labor government al
ready had agreed on practicable plan for balancing
the budget
But the deficit, minor cause, was dressed up as
the major by British and international bankers
determined to cut unemployment insurance benefits
and overthrow the Labor government
Underneath the immediate cause of financial en-
barrassment that London bankers had been bor-
rowing cheap money in New York and Paris and
reloaning it at high rates to Germany London first
lost gold by going to the support of Austria and then
was unable to carry her German credts-especialy
when Paris ard New York began calling.
Hence her loss of billion dollars of gold since
July. and the necessity of emergency credits from
Paris and New York which are about exhausted.
Now the action of the British bankers, in over
playing the financial crisis to embarrass and over
throw the Labor government has whirled back as a
boomerang 1t has started a run on the pound
Sterling. Britons in fright selling pounds whole
sale and buying dollars
vi course, the New YORK and Paris bankers now
could nure Great Britain. but it is much more prob
able that they will help her. since they know so well
that continued British financial chaos would nure
them and their countries.
The thing which should be disturbing the United
States and France is not this artificial British
gency but the deeper economic disease which danger
ously is weakening all the world, Britain included
We mean, of course, the financial load of arma-
ments, of debts reparations and trade barriers
like own high tariff wall
Until there is cancellation of war debts and rep
arations, wiping out huge armament budgets and
battering down of tariffs, the world will continue its
plunge toward bankruptcy.
We believe that immediate announcement by
President Hoover that he would ask congress to ex-
tend the debt moratorium, to cease naval building
and to lower the tariff would turn the world tide so
great has become the financial strength and political
power of the United States over the rest of the world
If we help the world we will help ourselves out of
our depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
Just Every Day Sense
a N impertinent circular inquiries, "How's Y,
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A impertinent circular inquiries, "Hows your pro-
n file for Eugene hat?" Extremely bad if you
must know
And considering how many millions of profles are
little better when it to this particular test the
way we've gone 1850 again is nothing short of lud-
crous.
The things are fetching enough in the fashion
magazines and newspapers, but when we remember
that from the PenobScot to the Rio Grande the
country is running with these dnky little head
pieces perched above proes good deal like mine the
whole business is disconcerting
And it leaves the lady who doesn't want Eugene
hat in rather desperate and bare-headed state for
from general view of the hat shops in every direc-
ton there are no others to be had.
DUT this is not the sole grievance These hats
ID call for bustles like ham calls for an egg They
shout for sweeping skirts and volumnous petticoats
They look lost and bewidered in a world in which
there is not single reticule They are completely
forlorn without mitts and asSuredly never were in
vented for the lady who has hour-gass curve be-
tween her hips and her bust
No, my profile isn't good for the Eugene hat and
neither is my disposition.
To wear one gracefully. a woman should carry
smelling salts. In the business office they are an
anachronism. In the subway and the theater they
are darned nuisance
suppose however, shall survive and later
bloom out into costumes even more inconsistent with
the twentieth century Though independence and
shoulders, so long We keep the former we can en-
dure the latter
The men have gone through hundreds of trans
formations without changing the cut of their coats
and it may be that we retain our freedom while
we run the gamut Of all the fashions that ever in
Nevertheless, hope the next lady we emulate viii
be Cleopatra.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
HEALTH SERVICE
Fatigue Speeds I'll Health

Well-being that may cause the
worker to put on more effort, but
that merely is whipping up tired
horse. The same is true of coffee,
which contains the drug caffein
that has the power to speed up the
brain.
During the World war, reports
were circulated regarding the pro-
motion of muscular activity and the
prevention of fatigue in both man
and animals through the giving Of
sodium phosphate.
Patent medicines based on this
substance have appeared both in
Germany and in this country. The
Investigations made by the United
States public health service showed
that the only beneficial effect was
the feeling of well-being that re-
suited from stimulation of the in
testinal tract and the elimination
of body wastes.
The endurance of a man is gov
erned by two things: The greater
the income Of oxygen during exer-
else, the longer a man can go on,
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TIT SEEMS TN MI - HAYWOOD
J. l. OIA1F1O 4 " 1V11 bi BROUN

real and sacred. AS a matter of
fact, he just has been awarded first
prize for book on that very sub
ject.
And Miss Critchlow's thesis" Sex
Life of the Modern Woman" seems
to him a shocking expose Of bad
taste. He accuses her of being en-
tirely ignorant of her subject; while
she, on the other hand, accuses him
of being afraid of women.
While the story degenerates badly
in the second act, the young worn-
an does succeed in convincing her
professor that he was all wrong in
his conception of the feminine race
as whole.
Here were all sorts of opportuni-
ties for amusing and enlightening
situations. But either the authors
lost track of their premise alto
gether or they lacked courage to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
Wild Rice and Old Shoes

U WAS disappointed, however, that
1 the play did not follow through
on its original theme. 1t would have
been interesting to have these two
give the experiment a tryout There
have been countless plays and books
about marriage without benefit of
clergy where the situation was re-
versed-i. e., where the man was the
protagonist for what was formerly
known as a free love" arrangement.
Here are two people Numerically
opposed to each other. Miss Critch-
low, an attractive, mentally alert
undergraduate, is ready to throw
tradition overheard. She is frank
almost to the point of fiamboyance
in her assertion that the modern
girl does not wait any longer for
marriage.
Sex to her is not just word.
It is very real and important part
of life-something that one actually
feels. It is a subject which should
be discussed freely and not relegated
to the limbo of ancient taboos.
Professor Hammill, on the other
hand, is just a nice young college
professor who has placed woman
on pedestal. Virtue IS to him very
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and the more severe exercise he
can undertake.
The greater the oxygen debt he
can carry, the longer will he be
able to keep up a certain effort.
A man who can take in four
quarts of oxygen a minute when
breathing air can take in six quarts
of oxygen when he breathes a mix
ture that is one-half oxygen. Hill
asserts that a man who could run
mile in 4 minutes and Is seconds
breathing air could do it under 4
minutes breathing oxygen.
This assertion is figured mathe-
matically from knowledge of the
average capacity of human lungs
and from the ability of normal
heart to circulate blood purified
with oxygen.
The figures never have been veri-
fled by actual experiment, because
the necessary oxygen would cost
$500 and a special tunnel to contain
it would have to be built for the
runner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
VIII TheY Lose More

XXTHILE the slump in business
w has done much to reduce the
earnings of railroads, it should not
be forgotten that competing agen-
cies of transportation also have
been a factor.
Under such circumstances, a raise
in rates hardly could help cutting
both ways. Though it might help
to offset the slump, it would prove
handicap in the matter of compe-
tition.
It is admitted generally that the
railroads have lost some business
to trucks, pipelines and waterways.
If that could happen under existing
rates, why isn't it reasonable to as
sumo that they would only lose more
with a Is per cent rise?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
All Thought Is National

a TTORNEY- GENERAL MITCH
IN ELL says that the states are
abdicating their power by Sinking
their responsibilities.
True enough, but the cause goes
deeper than politics.
We are organizing on national
basis not only in business, but in
every possible field. A movement,
or association no longer is consid-
cred impressive, unless it embraces
the whole country, with head
quarters in New York or Washing
ton.
The thought with respect to all
major problems is national. Pass
age of the eighteenth amendment
was Symptomatic of this attitude.
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Attitude Is Curious

CCARED by the naval strike and
= The prospect of a general cleo
ton, British investors fall all over
themselves in a stampede to get
rid of some perfectly good stocks
and bonds.
Though involving a nations cred
it, it is the same kind of psychology
that converts back-fence gossip
into a run on the village bank.
For no reason in the world,
British investors caused themselves
to lose $750,O00,O00, while those in
some other countries were foolish
enough to engage in a "sympa-
thetic" selling spree.
It's a curious thing that the pre-
vailing attitude toward investments
should grow more hysterical and
emotional as auditing methods grow
more scientific.
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Teaching the Teacher

TINE novelty in this case is in
L PRODUCED by the fact that it is
the woman and not the man who
suggests that two people contem-
plating marriage should know
each other" before taking the
plunge. The end of the second act
finds them planning a honeymoon
in Finland.
And although the heroine is
dressed in little more than a bed
spread and the hero is draped, fully
clothed, upon the bed, there is no
intimation that they really have
come to know each other.
The dialog is racy without being
offensive, and the first act was as
nearly perfect as one could wish.
The authors displayed considerable
originality and fnesse in introduce
ing their subject and their charac-
tiers. And Thomas Mitchell and
Rachel Hartzell were more than
convincing in their respective roles.
Mitchell, especially, as the har-
assed, embarrassed young professor,
gave a performance which stamped
him as a finished actor. The role
is not an easy one and calls for
subtlety and restraint. Thomas
! Mitchell has both.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21

r PLAYED truant the other after
4 noon and went over to see
Cloudy with Showers" the new
farce by Floyd Dell and Thomas
Mitchell. Frankly, it was refreshing
to sit in on straight dramatic pro-
duction after nine weeks of ballads.
skits, and chorus numbers.
I don't mean that I've lost my
enthusiasm for musical revues, but
it was restful to be able to sit back
and concentrate on nothing more
than the plot and the acting.
Cloudy with Showers" is an
amusing play. The story, while in
no sense new, is interesting enough.
1t concerns that age-old problem of
sex. This time, however, the COM
batants are not a generation apart
in years.
Rather, the very modern college
girl in this particular play, while
somewhat younger than her adj
versary, the college professor, has a
considerable edge on him in the
matter of sophistication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
DHYsIOLOGIsTs who have

DHYSIOLOGISTS who have
= studied the problem of fatigue
have made significant contribu-
ton to the means for overcoming
it. What the worker wants to do is
to get as much done in a given time
as possible, and at the same time to
get it done with the least expendi-
ture of energy.
The using up of energy leads to
fatigue, and continued fatigue, as
has been pointed out, means ill
health, inefficiency and discomfort.
All sorts of panaceas for pep,
punch, and vitality have been of
fered, with the claim that they over
come fatigue or prevent its develop
ment.
Actually there is little or nothing
that can be taken out Of a bottle
that will prevent fatigue.
Alcohol gives an impression of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
Hoover Hunch Wise One

TINE "hunch," as we call it, never
Il played a bigger part in human
affairs than it does today.
Even President Hoover seems to
have fallen for it in his eleventh.
hour decision to talk to the legion
about the bonus.
In his case, it was wise bunch.
Might just as we'll have the thing
out, as prolong the agony and sus-
| pense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
A Muscle Shoals Joker

Although undiscovered in years of debate, the
country is told that hidden in the laws are am
biguous provisions which give the President power to
sell the nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals and permit
his federal power commission to lease The Wilson
dam hydro-electric plant
1t may be that this is true it may be that Attor-
neyGeneral Mitchell will rule that technically these
dubious powers exist.
But whatever the obscure LOCALITIES of the question
may be, neither the President nor his power commits
sion has the moral right to dispose of these plants
independent of congress.
Congress never intended to delegate its rights in
this matter. The President must realize this.
He should remember that his Muscle Shoals policy
is under attack and contrary to the expressed will of
congress. He should remember that his power COM
mission appointments have been questioned as illegal
In the face of these facts and because he already
has blundered in the appointment of his Muscle
Shoals commission, President Hoover can not with
good exercise the questionable powers to dispose
of Muscle Shoals that we are told have been dis
covered for him.
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Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-Why not every one
put his shoulder to the wheel, and
help our police chief make this city
a clean place to live? Our chief is
extending every effort to clean up
the rottenness and it is the duty Of
every citizen to back him to the
limit.
We are not doing very much when
we back only those laws which we
like. We must help to uphold every
law on the books. The dry law is
on our books, and contrary to the
opinions of some great minds, it can
be enforced to the extent that every
Joint" in indianapolis that sells
liquor can be closed, but it never
can be done SO long as the good
citizens will not come out in the
open, and back up man like our
present chief.
Let us all give this thing a good
honest try once. Let us back our
chief to the limit, and not be yellow
enough to admit that Indianapolis
can not enforce its own laws. If
there are laws we don't like, that
does not imply that we don't have
to obey them. And last, but by no
means least, it is the duty of the
press to back up every officer who is
doing his best to enforce the law.
P. B. FAIR.
Editor Times-I notice your ar
ticle on driving cripples off the
streets of our city. I have had a
hand in the affairs of our city fol
several years and this is the first
time ever have voiced a protest
I object to driving those people of
the streets.
Giving does not impoverish us
neither does withholding enrich
u.s. says the greatest parsonage the
world has known outside Of the
Master himself.
If there are those among us who
are using boys or children for gain,
that kind Of begging should be
stopped, but to those who are IN
able to work at a gainful occupa-
ton and would rather beg than GO
to some Of the institutions of our
state, which are far from right
themselves, then it is their priyi-
lege to do SO, and they should be
/ let alone.
l have no patience with inhuman-
ity in any one. feel that our police
chief can see different in this mat
ter, or any one else who might have
influenced him in doing this. Let
the people give. That is privi-
lege and joy to any one who has
the money to give.
THOMAS w. HENDRICKS SR.
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People Won't Believe It

TINE New York legislature ad-
L journs after passing the I'M
employment relief bill in virtual
accord with Governor Roosevelt's
wishes.
Reports from Washington say
that the Hoover program calls for
no change in the dry law and that
the much-discuSsed White House
request for census figures on the
brewing industry was made for the
purpose of gathering data with
which to confound the VETS,
Possibly the census will prove that
the brewing industry was of no
great consequence in providing
work, or revenue, but at time
when the government advertises
every move that results in saving a
few dollars, or in getting some poor
devil a job, people will be slow to
believe it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
SCIENCE
3 I DAVID IJIE II
Although Infantile Paralysis
Is an Old Disease No One
Yet Has Seen the Microbe
Which Causes 1t.
BY DAVID DTETZ


Which Causes 1t.
OUTBREAKS of infantile paral-
" ysis, or poliomyelitis, to use
the medical name. have been more
severe in North America than any
where else in the world. This is the
opinion recently expressed by DR..
Simon Flexner, director of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, New York
The attention of the wcrld again
is centered on the subject of this
dread disease because of the out
break which occurred in New York
during the past summer.
The disease first was known in
Norway and Sweden. IN the last
twenty-four years, according to DR..
Flexner, it has made its progress
around the world, breaking out in
epidemicS in various localities.
only the tropics, and even they
not wholly, have been spared its
ravages," he says.
1t is probably just because in
fantile paralysis never before had
prevailed in worldwide epidemic
that we are witnessing the periodi-
cal outbreaks which are so tragic in
their consequences, he says.
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carry on. And in order to drag
their play out to its conventional
close they introduced two gunner,
murder and a series of banal situ-
ations. Too bad! 1t started out
to be swell play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21

Ideals and opinions EXPRESSED
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
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NJ. E. Tracy
The "Hunch," as We Cal 1t,
Never Played q Bigger Part
IN Human Affairs Than 1t
Does T0ddy.
SAYS.
Does To-Day

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-The
IN japanese strikers with their
usual precision and effect, selling
half a dozen Of the principal towns
in South Manchuria and making
themselves masters of the situation
over night.
A garrulous world rubs its eyes,
wondering whether this means war,
but finding quick reinsurance in
Tokios emphatic mo"
Fully alive to the possibility OF
such a setup, the League of Ma
tons invites Japanese and Chinese
delegates to explain" and, after
listening to them for ten minutes,
expresses satisfaction" that the
greater power" meaning Japan,
will do what it can to 'localize" the
row and thus preserve general peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-21
It's Simple Admission

WHATEVER census figures may
w reveal with regard to the
brewing industry, income tax fig
ures are not to be ignored with re-
gard to the bootlegging industry.
The government can't bring such
charges as it has against Al Ca
pone and other racketeers, without
admitting that there is profit in
the liquor trade. Neither can it
claim that prohibition has been
"a success without admitting that
there would be more profit if the
trade were localized.
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ZZE1SS
b1Te|
}ANls|VER$ARYI
6a%t4
REVEAL SECRET NOTE


ON Sept. 81, 1917, the secretary
~ of state made public a note
from Ambassador Bernstorff to the
Berlin foreign office, dated Jan. o.
1917, in which the ambassador
asked for $4,000 to be paid to in
fluence congress to prevent war.
The note said:
II request authority to pay up to
$4,000 (hfty thousand) dollars in
order as on former occasions to
Influence congress through the or
ganization you know of, which per-
hapS can prevent war.
II am beginning in the meantime
to act accordingly. In the above
circumstances a public official Ger
man declaration in favor of Ireland
is highly desirable, to gain support
of Irish influence here"
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Daily Thought

The words of a wise mans
mouth are gracious, but the lips
of fool will swallow up himself.
-EccIesiastes 10: IL.
He that never thinks can never
be wise.-Johnson.