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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
A Democratic Victory

Election to congress Of Democrat from the Sew
enth Missouri district is important because of its
possible effect on control of the house of representa-
tves when congress meets in December.
Each major party now has 2l4 Seats and one mem
Der is Farmer-Laborite. Six other special elections
are to be held this fal-four in districts normally
Republican and two normally Democratic. The Demo-
Gratis are hopeful Of winning two of the normally
Republican seats, however-in the Saginaw (Ndich)
and Cincinnati districts.
The victory of Robert D. johnson in Missouri
heartens the Democrats for they believe it shows the
way public sentiment is veerng. The district nor
mally is Democratic, but Republicans two of
the last six elections. Hoover carried the district
overwhelmingly in 1928, and brought Republican to
congress with him.
johnson attacked the farm board and the tariff,
and his Republican opponent defended them. john
sons majority the largest given congress
sional candidate in that district which is the home
of Senator Roscoe G. Patterson a Republican.
Regardless of which party finally organizes the
house. the public will profit by the struggle. Each
party needs every vote it muster. This means
that high-handed machine rule viii be impossible.
The house actually may become deliberative body
instead of administration rubber stamp
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
Speeding Up Justice

The laws delay, which is great part of the laws
injustice being cured far the nations highest
court is concerned.
The United States supreme court, which convenes
again next week, is a tribunal of elders. The
youngest is Justice owen Roberts, Sc; the eldest
Justice Oliver Wendell Holiness 80. All but one are
past co. Three of them more than three score
and ten. Yet these young old men have broken all
records for speed and accomplishment.
Last year, this court handed down ITS opinions
as compared with 1874 the year before and 126 the
year before that. Last term it heard average of
It's cases q week. an al-time record On its appel
late docket it carried 1913 cases. of which only
ffty-seven were ready for argument.
Important work faces the court this winter. Among
the 400 cases on its docket will antitrust issues
of interest to cotton oil and other interests tests
of the deportation law; chain store tax and federal
income tax matters, and many others The justices
will continue working day and night as last year.
to keep abreast.
This week, the senior judges of the ten federal
circuit benches are meeting with the supreme court
justices to simplify procedure and speed up the laws
machinery.
Due in part to federal prohibition cases. running
about 10000 a year, many federal courts are behind
in their. work. Most state courts clogged with
both civil and criminal cases. some running more
than year behind schedule The Wickersham COM
mission listed delayed trials among its examples of
the unfairness in law enforcement
If the elderly magistrates in Washington can keep
their dockets clear there is excuse for tagging
Justice in the lower courts. Doubtless reform in
wolves additional judges, as well more work by
present judges But reform there should be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01

Proper posture may be developed
through good training and through
repeated efforts to correct various
weaknesses. Among the most impor-
tant factors is instruction of pa
rents as to the proper way to hold
an infant, the proper type of bed
for the infant and suitable exercises
for the child up to years of age.
From the ages of 2 to 6, advan-
tage must be taken of the initiative
instinct of the. child and plays and
games must be used which will de-
velop good posture.
From 6 to II proper exercises and
corrective positions while asleep or
at rest must be employed, and dur
ing adolescence this must be con-
tinued.
Among incentives offered for such
training are that it increases per-
sonal attractiveness and athletic
ability and that it results in exemp-
ton from systematic training.
DR.. Robert B. Osgood is convinced
that the right kind of attention de-
voted to this subject will develop a
race more healthy and better bal
anced than the present humliating
physical types.
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duly elected representatives. Then
What is the use Of pretending?
The wage cuts were certain to
come when the pinch of passing
dividends became acute. I am not
prepared to blame President Hoover
for the fact that United States
Steel and Bethlehem have reduced
wages. I never thought he had the
power to maintain scale which
would seem bad business to our
great industrial leaders.
More than that, 1 doubt very
much that he ever thought he had
that power. 1t is merely one more
black mark in the Hoover record
in putting up a false front. It
should be added to those feeble
prophecies and promises of pros
perlty just around the corner.
And If Hoover has failed by cast
ing himself in a role which he never
was designed to play, just as much
can be said in criticism of the cap
tains and the kings of business. 1
think the ability of most of our
industrial leaders has been vastly
exaggerated.
In the boom period we were told
that certain executives, who drew
an annual stipend of a million or
more. were well worth these huge
rewards, because their acumen and
skill had contributed so much to the
profits Of the concerns which they
headed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE most tiresome of women is she who forever is
4 talking about how she sacrifices herself for
others
Her number is legion and always voluble. While
she prepares the family food she holds forth how
she shaved her life away at monotonous tasks and
how little thanks she GETS Or perhaps she works
in an Office.
In that case, you will be hearing that she is wear
ing herself to skin and bone to help care for MEM
bers OF her family who do not appreciate her.
Or she may be comfortably situated mother
whose chief delight is in relating how she has worried
and wept over her children and how ungrateful they
are for all she has done for them.
No matter where she to be found you will notice
that with all her talk of sacrifice she is concerned
largely with herself
II MIS- always has been the way of martyrs. Unless
you are capable of complete concentration upon
you own opinions and unless you are convinced Of
your own superiority the rest of mankind you
will be incapable of martyrdom Only the supremely
stubborn person is likely to achieve this glory
And while 1t is true that many holy men and
women have died for their principles, larger per-
centage Of less holy individuals have talked them
selves out of fame and the rewards OF merit
If it is a mothers duty to give up certain of her
pleasure for the sake of her children it is
higher duty for her to keep silent about it.
Nothing can destroy more completely all sense of
gratitude in young people than the knowledge that
they have been nothing but q responsibility and q
worry to their parents
IT you are determined 20 be Self~sacrincing moth
e., let your children do the talking 4bout Is
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From the Harlan War Front

Writing from the comparative safety of Chicago,
New York Times reporter is telling the story of
Kentuckys industrial war" in Harlan county as he
witnessed 1t at the front Unlike two reporters who
were shot and other reporters who were driven
out, the Times man apparently was able to get in
and out of Harlan without personal injury
The story he writes is rot new. Nevertheless it
is significant because of its olrce
When the same story told by liberal news
papers it was discounted by the Harlan authorities
and mine owners partisan labor propaganda They
even went to the extent Of attempting a boycott
against the offending newspapers.
We wonder whether they now viii charge the con-
sentative New York Times with being Communist
sheet The New York Times says:
Since May, the industrial war has cost the lives
n about dozen men-three deputy sheriGs who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
The Railway Rate Case

The railroads will continue to operate and goods
will continue to whatever decision the inter-
state commission comes to in the carriers
Is per cent rate raise completed Wednesday.
That is good thing to remember, particularly
in the face of the implication that the transporta-
ton system of the country will be threatened unless
the depression's effects mitigated by higher
blanket freight rates
The country can leave the decision safe in the
hands of the interstate commerce commission, whose
past record proves its competence. The commission
will weigh the effects of its decision upon the carriers
their finances and their securities which are held by
insurance companies and savings banks.
But it also will recognize the fact that agriculture
and industry struggling back toward sterilization,
already are overburdened, and that the wage scales
OF thousands Of railroad workers may depend upon it's
action
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were mine guards. and a miner were killed in one
pitched battle-and many others have been wounded
including two reporters who were wounded in the leg
one after he had been taken from the Harlan county
courthouse for ride and some mountain air.
Miners and their families have been cowed and
inundated by mine guards sworn in as deputy
snerifs and paid by the coal companies Coal prop
erty has been destroyed. Triples have been burned
head mine houses dynamited A miners relief soup
Kitchen supported by Communists, was blown to bits
by an explosion. and union sympathizers have been
beaten and driven from the country"
Our own Investigations in Harlan county lead us
to agree with the following conclusion of the New
York Times correspondent:
II will put 1t categorically: Unless adequate relief
is forthcoming. the violence OF the last six months
will be considered as child's play"
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Questions and
Answers

Why do some people gesture with
their hands while talking and 9TH
ers do not?
Highly emotional people frequent
~ express themselves by gestures,
Primitive man used gestures to
make himself understood as Ian
guages were simple and did not ex-
press the full meaning he wanted
to convey. Gesturing as an accom-
paniment to speech seems to be
more natural and inherent in the
Latin races, and may be termed a
racial characteristic.
What relation was Car Nicholas
II Of Russia to King George V Of
Great Britain?
They were cousins. Their mothers
we're sisters, and both were
daughters of King Christian TX of
Denmark.
Where are Yale and Harvard
universities located?
Yale at New Haven, Conn, and
harvard at Cambridge, Mass.
When was the third liberty Ioan
offered to the public?
April 6. 1918. Subscriptions had
to be in before the close of business
May 4, 1918.
Where in the Bible is the verse
"One day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and . thousand
thousand years as one day."
II Peter. chapter 3. verse 8.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
Give 1t a Thought

WE Americans are supposed to
w favor the integrity of China,
though we stood by complacently
while European statesmen took a
couple of good-sized empires to
pieces.
Just why the integrity appeals to
us as so important, no one seems
to know. 1t certainly has not done
much for those minority rights"
about which we diScoursed so elo-
quently during the war, or for the
principle of self determination.
A free and independent Man
churia might serve good purpose,
but we hesitate to believe it, largely
because a mere phrase, Chinese in
tegrity,' has developed a prejudice
in our minds.
1t might be well to give that cir
cumstance a passing thought be-
fore we split our sides laughing, be-
cause some old-fashioned Chinese
are Mortified at a former emperor
being sued for divorce by his Sec
ond concubine. They are not the
only ones victimized by tradition.
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Not Even King CanuteI

WET now we are told that the in
Il dividual counts for very little
and that depression is a phenom-
enon not to be checked by any man
or even group. Why, then, is not
the reverse true? Isn't it so that
some of these men who were ac-
claimed as great geniuses did no
more than sit back and ride the
wave of prosperity which they
neither had created nor directed.
And if labor is to take the rap
now because Of dwindling returns.
why wouldn't it be fair to have some
rebates thrown into the pool by the
various gentlemen of clay feet?
There was, to name one, Mr..
Grace, Of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, who drew, as 1 remember, a
bonus of $l,600,000 in a single year
because Of his industry and mag
nation. This was identified as an
initiative bonus, and we were asked
to believe that Mr.. Grace might
sulk at the post if he got nothing
more than a mere half million.
Why, then, should not the prin-
ciple of turn-about be employed?
If, at time Of triumph, the COR
poration could afford such prince
ly reward, it seems no more than
fair that this same Mr.. Grace should
give back part Of the million to help
out the workers and the sharehold-
ers, too. in time of distress.
Chinese doctors, according TO the
familiar tale. drew fees only when
the patient is in excellent health.
Something Of the same sort ought
to be applied to business.
If captain Of industry Is to be
hailed as genius at the top of a
bull market, I think that he ought
to run the risk Of accepting the
stigma and the label OF an incom-
petent when things go wholly
Wror1
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AIR RAID ON LONDON
October /

ON Oct. 1, 1917, German aircraft
~ made its thirty-fourth raid on
London, this time killing ten and
nJuring thirty-eight.
The first air raid was made on
London by German aircraft Jan. 10,
1915. In the thirty-four air raids.
the enemy killed outright sos men,
women and children, and wounded
more than $500.
On this date the German planes
were repulsed by barrage fire before
they could do any more damage.
Railway stations, churches and
public buildings were thrown open
to the people for protection.
A correspondent wrote: Public
buildings OF all kinds which were
stout enough to offer some resistance
to possible bombs had open doors.
and the caretakers and others Of
the STATS in many Of the great
blocks Of offices and business
premises also we're quick in their
offers to share their greater safety
wife any who sought t.
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May Have Connection

MYTH Japan Selling strongholds
w in Manchuria and Manchuria
threatening to set up a separate
government, it looks as though the
Chinese could find plenty of kick
in life, without falling back on a
squabble originating in an ousted
emperor's haren.
Still, this divorce suit. and the
Manchurian rumpus may have a
connection.
1t is rumored not only that the
japanese quietly are stirring up a
movement for separation in Man
churia, but that they would like to
see China's former emperor take
the throne if new and independ-
ent government were established.
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that not a nickel would be taken out
of any mans pay envelope.
Just what form these pledges took
1 am not prepared to say. But it
must have been obvious from the
beginning that such statements
were built upon the feeblest founda
ton. 1t has been said again and
again by partiSans of the Repub-
lican administration that not even
the wisest President, let alone Her
bert Hoover, could have any great
control over economic and business
factors.
These, we have been told, are
worldwide. 1t is true in the main
that our present political structure
does not afford much power in fun
damental economic matters to our
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
Continue to Parrot

TINE great trouble with our atti-
Il tude toward foreign affairs is
that it rests largely on catch
phrases which we continue to re-
peat regardless of what they meant
when first uttered or of how times
have changed.
There is that one about cen
tangling alliances" which we have
parroted ever since Washington pro-
nounced it, and which we continue
to parrot every time any one mem
lions the World Court, or League
Of Nations, but which did not keep
us out Of European war.
And there is the Monroe doc
trine,' which has caused us more
trouble and done Latin American
countries less good in the last thir-
ty-five years than any other single
phase of our foreign policy.
There is the Integrity of China. /"
which we have repeated so often
that we really believe it means
something of vital Importance to
human destiny.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I want to ask
Hoover Admirer how many little
hungry children he has at his feet
looking for a piece of bread. How
much he makes week? I bet if
he will tell the truth, he has job
in Dig Office or does not have to
work. He probably doesn't know
what it is to be hungry or he doesn't
know what the cry of hungry
child is. wonder if you know why
MI. Hoover put over the high tariff.
Well, Mr.. Well OFF. it was not for
the benefit of the poor class of
people, but for the rich man and
you know it.
I voted for Mr. Hoover, but I am
very sorry Of it.
You ask why our shows and pool
rooms are always full. They are
filled by some of the few who are
working for a scale of less than
thirty-fve cents an hour and have
not the gumption to boycott you
and YOUR rich merchants. The rest
Of the people you find in these
places are gunner, robbers, and
racketeers. Why? The answer is,
unemployment.
I nm working and l sure do not
let any of the idle rich get any of
my hard earned money. I also am
an American citizen. CITIZEN.
Editor Times-As a constant
reader Of The Times, I was delight
ed yesterday to read your assault
on our public utilities.
It is strange to me don't under
stand how the intelligent citizens
of the city Of Indianapolis, with
their eyes open. stand to be gouged,
year in and year out, by the ex-
orbitant rates We pay for water,
lights, gas and telephone service,
and make no complaint.
Everybody with common sense
knows, or should know, that these
public utilities have their wartime
rates and still are clanoring for
more, and yet paying exorbitant
dividends on money collected on
watered stock
I hope the good work will go on
until the conscience Of the people
is aroused thoroughly to the injus-
tice being perpetrated upon them
by the excessive uuhlic utilities
rates. ". E. HENDERSON.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

the B and G types have chin out,
chast sunken, abdomen protruding,
back followed and in general poor
balance.
A person with poor body me-
chanics may imagine himself fairly
healthy, but will be surprised at the
great improvement in his endurance
and health with correction of his.
poor mechanics.
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THERE is no question that
L poor body mechanics is a fire.
quent condition in the United
States. In study made in 1916 of
the posture of students entering
Harvard college, 80 per cent were
found in the Glasses B and c illus
trated in the charts.
Statistics collected during the
draft of the World war showed that
less than so per cent of the young
men of this country had good body
mechanics.
In study of 1000 children be-
tween B and Is years old in the
grade schools of Massachusetts. 80
per cent had the B and c types of
body mechanics,
Where as the A type has chin in.
chest forward, abdomen fiat, legs
straight and body we'll balanced,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
Apparatus Is Intricate

ROrGOOOh JOOS also under
Il took his experiments because
Of the great interest which had been
aroused by DR.. Miller's work.
The interferometer used bv DR..
Miller is in its essentials that used
by Nicholson and Morley. 1t con-
slstS of great steel cross with arms
sixteen feet long, floating on a BIOL
OF mercury. The two light beams
whose speeds are compared are re-
f1ected back and forth along the
arms by system of mirrors.
Professor Joos, instead of using
cross of steel, had one built of fused
quartz. This fused quartz cross
then was hung in a steel casing bv
means of TOO springs made of piano
wire. The mirror system was mount
ed on the fused quartz cross.
In the experiment as performed
by DR.. Miller, it was necessary for
the experimenter to walk around
with the cross as it revolved on the
pool of mercury, making observa-
lions through a small telescope at
tached to one arm of the cross.
A camera was attached to Profess
sor Joos' apparatus so that observa-
lions were recorded upon a photo
graphic plate. The two teams of
light from the two arms of the cross
are united on the Photographic
plate where they form a pattern
OF light and dark bands known as
interference fringes.
Changes in the speed of the
beams would result in a movement
OF the interference fringes.
Professor Joos reports that he
found no such movement of the
1rlnges and that his experiment
therefore supports the Enstein
theory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-01
Go Right Ahead

LOOMING back to Manchuria,
~ why shouldn't she become a
free and independent state, if that
is what her people want, and in
spite of the fact that Japanese in
triguers helped bring it about?
What IS Panama, if not an excel
lent precedent for just such She
nanigin?
If Manchuria sees a better chance
for peace and order as a separate
state, and an opportunity for eco
nomic development under the wing
of Japan, why shouldn't her people
take it?
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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
MGncluriG Hos EUery Right
to Become q Free and IN
dependent State, If That Is
What Her People Want.
SAYS.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-China hav-
1 ing gone occidental with re-
spect to dress, government and
racketeering, it seems strange that
a divorce suit should cause such
commotion as the United Press re-
ports.
1t is a good old occidental habit
to get het up over little things, how
ever, especially if they result in do
nestle trouble among the great, or
near great, and, maybe, China
merely is trying to prove how thor
oughly she has become westernized.
At any rate, the action brought
by Mrs. Shu Fei-if that is the
proper way to describe her-against
Mr.. Henry Pu vi has precipitated
veritable storm.
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HEALTH
Improved Carriage Great Health Aid

This is the third of series of four
articles by DR.. Morris Fishbein. health
authority, on the Importance of good
posture to health. With the coming of
the indoor season this short series is
particularly fitting at this time.
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ScandaIizes the Faithful

.SCandallZeS the Faithful
HENRY PU VI happens to be
4 l. the former emperor of China,
and that makes a difference, even
if China has turned republican,
while Shu Fei is, or was, his second
concubine.
The fact that she should think
of terminating this questionable re-
lationship with the "heaven-b born"
simply scandalizes those who keep.
faith with the old tradition.
Though a sister stands Loyalty by
her, brother berates her publicly
through the press, with the remind
er that you must realize you can
never dare to face your ancestors ir.
the world to come if you carry
through this action"