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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Half the Answer

Senator James Watson announces that
he will sponsor law before the next con-
gress providing for a five-day week on all
federal construction.
That, of course, is only half the answer.
The five-day week in industry may be
necessary very soon if work is to be dis
tributed so as to give employment to all
workers. 1t may be necessary to go to a
four-day week if our man power and ma
chinery can produce all in that period that
human imagination and appetite demand.
But the senator will hopelessly fail in
giving any real relief by five-day week I'M
less he provides some system of giving
real wage to those who work.
Under the present system of competitive
contracts on public works, an arbitrary five
day week would mean that the workers
would receive a starvation wage.
The contracts awarded recently by the
government in Indiana show no regard for
wages paid to workers The contractors ex-
pect to profit by low wages. Beyond assert
ing that they will maintain prevailing local
rates." the contractors give no promise
Whatever Ol Helplng communities III WHICH
buildings are being erected.
Unfortunately for many in each of such
communities the prevailing rate is nothing
at all.
Instead of an hourly or daily wage on
federal work, there should be provision for
at least a weekly if not monthly rate with
some safeguard for employment for def
mite period of time.
The five-day week on an hourly basis of
wages would help no one at all. It might
produce dead level of slavery and starva-
ton. But as long as contractors for the
government look upon labor as competitive
commodity, no such humane provision as a
fve-day week can be effective.
Three years ago Senator Watson would
have baked at any such suggestion as linn
iting the work week as socialistic and boil
shevistic contraption that would destroy our
sacred institutions, especially the sacred
institution of huge profits for the political
patriots who get contracts.
That he suggests a five-day week shows
progress. Perhaps the next few months may
convince him that the nation must no longer
devote it's entire attention to the protection
of property rights and profits, but take some
thought of salvaging human values.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

er 1t happens to be fear of bullets
or barking dogs. I speak as some
Thing OF an authority on fear. In
my time I've trembled in the pres
ence of everything from micro
phones to hostile submarines.
And better men than 1 have gone
cIammy in radio stations. I think
it was Frank Knight who was tell
ing me about Levine. Most of us
have forgotten Levine. He flew
across the ocean with Clarence
Chamberlin, but he never got to be
a popular hero. And yet I think
he was an amazingly brave man.
But chiefly I'm thinking of a
flight which Levine did make all
on his own. I think it ranks among
the most sensational aerial achieve
ments of all time.
Levine was in Paris trying to get
a pilot to fly him back to New
York on the dangerous western
passage which so few have accom-
plished. There was some sort of
legal commotion between Levine
and somebody elsa business
mixup. SO Levine got into the plane
one afternoon and flew across the
channel to England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Vitamin G or BE- is found in yeast,
milk, lean meat and green leaves.
1t is found in dried peas, soy beans,
eggs and in many vegetables.
This vitamin is particularly i'm
portant in relationship to the pre-
vention of pellagra, a condition not
particularly common where a wide
ly varied diet is eaten, but likely
to result where the diet is made up
largely of molasses, meat, white
flour and coffee.
Not only is the condition of pei
lagra in man developed by this
source of vitanin B, but it's absence
is associated also with condition
called black tongue in dogs and a
skin condition like pellagra in rats.
The demonstration by Goldberger
and his associates that pellagra
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

could be prevented by yeast is re-
sulting in the stamping out of this
condition.
Unfortunately the impetus given
to the use of yeast as a panacea
has resulted in a wide exploitation
of this substance.
Yeast may be considered essen
TALLY a vitamin B concentrate with
slightly laxative effects.
1t will not cure pimpleS. It will
not make a beauty out of homely
individual. 1t will not relieve cases
Of constipation and all of the dis
orders Of digestion.
1t will do just about what could
be expected from a combination of
vitanin B1 and b as has been de-
scribed in these articles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-In The Times re-
Gently "A Democrat" expressed the
opinions of many Democrats and
maybe a few Republicans. Most
Republicans are hardboiled and
stand by the party if it takes the
skin off.
Well, they are being skinned
along with the Democrats and en-
Joy the process Of skinning about as
we'll as the Democrats do.
This applies to state administra-
ton, as well as national. President
Hoover seems to be more concerned
about the welfare of foreign ma
tons than he is about his own. He
advised moratorium for the relief
Of Germany and other foreign
debtors, but suggests none for the
hard-pressed debtors of his own
country. We now have hard times,
panic.
It's the third one Matched by the
Republican party, beginning with
the Cleveland panic" This was
the direct result of the mal-admin-
istration Of President Ben Harrison
that made it necessary for Presi-
dent Cleveland to borrow money to
make the mare CO."
Then another panic under Roose-
velt and now another under Hoover.
Politics is the science of govern
ment, but it seems that the Repub-
lican politicians have not advanced
beyond the political primer. The
eyents~of the past should be lessons
for the future, but the Smoot-H aw-
ley Grundy tariff proves their abso-
Lutte ignorance of cause and effect.
Governor Leslie spent $4,000 of
money earned by the taxpayers to
nix up the house the state furnishes
him in which to live. He approves
the expenditure Of $64, 900 for clean
ing the statehouSe, the Job being
given to Cincinnati firm, though
local responsible firm would have
done the work for half the money
II given a chance to bid.
The underdog seems to be the
taxpayer, state and national, and
ne is getting restless under the bur-
den OF responsibility for the extra
care required by the ''higher-ups"
whose services often are not COM
mensurate with their salaries.
A public official should give faith
ful service as well as a workman
in shop. S. M. CLICK.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
The Most PeriIouS Flight

LIS hop across the narrow chan
= u mel under the circumstances
was almost the equivalent of a
flight by Lindbergh over the Pa
cif1c from New York to Toxic. BY
some miracle Levine found the Brit
ish landing field at Croydon, outside
OF London. He circled around and
then attempted to land.
But he didn't know the technique
He hit the ground, all right, but
his plane was going much too fast
and he bounced up again-thirty or
fifty feet in the air. Another cir
Gle and another bounce. They got
the field hospital out to pick up Lee
vine when he landed.
Such an achievement seems to me
to represent reckless daring, and yet
this same man was afraid to stand
up before a microphone. Frank
Knight told me about it.
Arrangements were made for Le-
vine to relate his experience over
national hookup. To make ii
easier for him the whole thing was
written out in the form Of an in
terview. Frank introduced him and
then turned. There was no Levine
He couldn't stand the ordeal. He
had run home.
Copyright 1891. bv The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

ring vehicle, which opens next
week, I'm playing the part of a
courtesan."
didn't think that her perform
ance ruined my theory absolutely.
After watching her play I felt sure
that she was good woman-and a
bad actress. Tt was easy to see she
never had been an adventures
either on the stage or off.
BY now I have given up my the
DRY about both writing and acting.
You don't have to live the precise
life of the character which you are
playing or writing about. But you
ought to have an understanding
Some experience close enough to
give you insight.
For instance, it wouldn't be nee
essary for a man to have gone
through the war to write a war
novel. But the writer must know
what fear is. He could take his
own fear of COWS or police dogs or
high places or something else and
translate that into the hero's fear
Of enemy guns.
Fear is pretty much alike, wheth-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Causes GigantiSm

OCAOOO
IN it's final form the pituitary body
L is attached by little stalk to
the base of the brain. The anterior
portion is divided into three dis
tinct parts, known as the anterior
lobe, the intermediate lobe and the
"pars tuberalis," thin layer which
surrounds the stalk. The posterior
portion is known as the posterior
lobe.
Recent studies have shown that
it is the anterior lobe which con-
trolls the size f the individual. If
this lobe secretes too much of its
hormone, the result is gigantism.
An overgrowth of the bones of the
hands, feet and face accompanies
this type of gigantism.
In recent experiments, young rats
given extracts of anterior lobe of
the pituitary body, grew to double
their normal size.
The anterior lobe of the pituitary
also seems to have some effect ON
sexual processes. Rats and mice
which were given extracts of this
lobe became sterile.
The posterior lobe presents a
number of problems as yet unsolved.
The extract of the posterior lobe,
however, has marked effects which
have made it useful in medicine.
1t causes contractions of the
smooth muscle tissues and marked
increase in blood pressure.
Recent work has led medical
authorities to believe that there are
several active substances present in
the extract and that the substance
which causes the contractions is
not the same one that affects the
blood pressure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
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August II

0N Aug. 81, 1917, President Will
~ son, through Secretary of State
Robert Lansing, answered the peace
proposal of Pope Benedict, indirect
ly addressing the German people to
the effect that no peace was possible
with their present irresponsible
government.
I'VE can not take the word of the
present rulers Of Germany as a
guarantee of anything that is to
endure unless explicitly supported by
such conclusive evidence Of the will
ard purpose of the German people
themselves.
I'VE must await some new
evidence Of the purpose of the great
peoples Of the Central Powers.
God grant it may be soon and in
a way to restore the confidence OF
all peoples everywhere in the faith
Of nations and the possibility of a
covenant of peace"
President wilson's message was
acclaimed in France, England
Italy and America, and. derided in
Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Time Is Money-And Life

Just as the much-criticised federal farm board
was on the point of achieving degree of popularity
by the sale of 100000 bushels of its surplus wheat
to China, hitch has occurred somewhere. The ex-
PLANTATION is mystery, according to officials.
For several weeks the Chinese government has
been trying to buy the wheat for its starving famine
victims. Finally, last week the farm board agreed
to the sale on liberal credit terms
The anticipated result was to perform great
humanitarian service for China. and at the same
time get rid Of some Of that white elephant surplus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
The Public Knows

THOUGH rather bewildered as
l. to how the problem should be
handled, the people of this coun-
try are not ignorant or unaware
of how crime has increased, par
ticularly in the field of blackmail,
robbery and racketeering.
The headlines which one. sees
every day are creating a profound
and bitter impression.
The nobsters who feel them
selves safe because they have OPP
Grated with a free hand so long,
are making a tragic mistake.
If this situation can't be met
with "due process of law" it can
be met in other ways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
SCIENCE
.BY DAVID DIETZ-


A Gland the Size of a Hazel
Nat, at the Base of the
Brain, Determines Whether
a Man Is Normal IN size, a
Giant or q DlCdrf.
A TINY gland no larger than a
IA hazel nut determines whether a
man is normal in size, giant or a
dwarf.
Recent studies have shown that
size is determined by whether or
not the pituitary body, ductless
gland located at the base of the
brain, is functioning normally or
not.
This tiny gland is a complicated
structure, recent studies have
shown, and it is probable that it
plays an important role in a num-
Der of important bodily functions.
The pituitary body is classed
among the ductleSs glands. These
cretions known as hormoneS which
are poured directly into the blood
stream. The hormones play an
important role in controlling the
functions of the body. Thus. for
example, thyroxin. the hormoneS Sc
GREETED by the thyroid gland, controls
the rate at which energy is re-
leased anC used within the body.
The pituitary body presents q
complicated problem because 1t
manufactures more than one hor-
none. 1t secrets two, and possibly
three, hormones.
The pituitary body has a double
origin in the embryo. The anterior
or forward part of the gland rises
from the roof of the mouth while
the posterior or rear part develops
on the floor of the brain. AS the
embryo develops, the two parts fuse
together.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Looks Like an Affront

TAMMANY takes the whole thing
l. as an affront. 1t can't see why
a Democratic Governor should aid
and abet Republican-controlled
legislature in probing Democratic
administration.
Having made that blunder, Tam
many can't see why he shouldn't
Offset it by giving the Democrats a
whack at Republican administra-
tons in upstate cities.
Because he won't, or hasn't up to
this time, Tammany is against him,
even to the extent of throwing dirt
on his candidacy for the presiden-
tial nomination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
The Ice Is Thin

TINE vast majority of Americans
1still are decent. That is one rea-
son for gang rule. But for the dis
position to avoid trouble which pre-
walls throughout this country, the
mobsters would have been run out
long ago. They probably do not
realize it, but they owe great deal
to that trait which some call pa
thence and others call apathy.
But let them have no illusions.
The ice on which they skate is get
ting thin. So are the nerves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
M. E.. Tracy
For Every Vote Governor
Roosevelt Loses Because o.
HIS Split With Tammany
Hall He Will Gain Ten.
SAYS:

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Tammany
1 Ms supposed to be a great Dem
ocratic organization, Governor
Roosevelt is supposed to have an
inside track on the Democratic
presidential nomination next year,
and the Democratic party is sup
posed to have an excellent chance
Of winning the election.
Under such circumstances, YOU
would expect to see Tammany and
Governor Roosevelt pulling to-
gether, but they are not.
Tammany doesn't like the investi-
cation now going on in New York.
More particularly. it doesn't like
the way Governor Roosevelt is
backing that investigation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Crime and Politics

D lightly or wrongly, people are
IN associating crime and the
racket with machine politics.
Rightly or wrongly, they believe
there is a definite connection be-
tween gang rule and such outfits as
Tanmany in New York, or the
Thompson crowd in Chicago.
Rightly or wrongly, they are in
clined to support the man who earns
the enmity Of such outfits, especially
if he does so by fathering investiga-
tons for the sake of better govern
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
It's in His Favor

TILDEN, Cleveland, WILSON,
l. Tammany was against them
all to begin with.
Governor Roosevelt really has dis
tinguiShed himself by earning Tam
many's antagonism at this stage of
the game.
Those outside the Tammany Or
ganization will take it as pretty
sure sign that he is straight.
For every vote he loses because
of Tammany's opposition, he will
gain ten.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Cleanup Is Due

TINE stage in America is being
l. set for a cleanup.
Just as an orgy of extravaganza
led to depression, an orgy of crime
is leading to reaction.
There is nothing like hard times
to make people realize what things
really cost, or what they can best do
without.
Nine out of every ten persons who
heard that Madison Square meeting
over the radio last Monday night
and there were millions-were in
full accord with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Actress Grows Naughty

A ND the great actress grew very
IA naughty while I was explain
ing this theory. She drew herself
up and gave me a hard look.
IT hope, Mr.. Broun,' she said.
THAT your theory is all nonsense.
I think It Is. You may be inter-
ested to know that in my new star
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Here's Tanmany'S Creed

ITOI y . NITTTIINIIJ . OTOOU
IN order to understand the New
L York situation, you must keep in
mind that Tammany is ready and
always has been ready, to throw
any man down who stands in the
way Of it's feed-trough.
Tammany is loyal to the Demo-
cratic party just as long as the
party let's it run New York City in
its own way, and no longer.
AS to good government, it doesn't
admit the existence of any such
animal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

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 paDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

How much did the site Of the
new Empire State building in New
York cost?
$l6,000.000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

which is sitting on the grain market and eating the
American farmer out Of house and barn.
That result is too good to sacrifice. The farm
board should bestr itself and find out what the hitch
is and how the deal can be completed quickly.
Every day lost means more Chinese dead of starva-
ton and more American farmers forced to bankruptcy
by wheat selling below production costs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

Is the degree Pho. the same as
Pho?
Pho. stands for graduate of
pharmacy and is the minimum de-
gree conferred upon students of
pharmacy by accredited schools.
Pho. stands for pharmaceutical
chemist which requires post
graduate and more advanced study
in pharmacy and chemistry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Consistency, Thou Art Myth
from the Ell PasO Herald-POst)

HeraldPOSt
When FL Pasos Ministerial Alliance last protested
against midnight bridge between Ell Paso and
Juarez the treasury department. which controls ports
of entry replied that customs gates couldn't be used
to regulate matters of morals
Now the treasury department orders eight inter-
national ports on the lower Rio Grande closed at
o'clock instead of IL because the Mexican govern
ment is renewing gambling concessions on the
Mexican side of the border
And result of the action Uncle Sam, who
permits gambling concession in Wall Street, whose
play, at its peak into billions of dollars dag
"a game which supports branch brokerage "conces-
sions" in every big town in the country and which,
in the fall of 1929, played the spectacular role in
precipitatng our present PANELS placed in the at
titude of telling Mexico it must not permit few
cheap gambling dens on the border.
If such order is to be issued, of course it's better
than for it to be made subject of local wrangng;
it's all the better for u.s. if can shift the fuss to
one of our neighbor towns which has been prohtng
upon Ell Pasos bridge quarrels
But the treasury departments growing list of in
constituencies thus becomes just little more intricate
ly puzzling.
It's latest bridge closing order is all the more
puzzling when we remember that this same depart
ment whose duties for than years included en-
forcement of prohibition lodged protest against
Mexicos open saoonS-whose play to parched Threats
on the American side has been the chief excuse for
the existence of many of those border Mexican towns
Mexican border saloons, incidentally, attract five
times many American dollars as do Mexican
gambling resorts.
And there happens to be an American law against
open saloons while ordinary gambling resorts at home
so far haven't fallen within Uncle Sans police control
Whoever coined that word "scot-free" must have
been thinking of two other fellows
Some good has come out of prohibition Didn't
those coast guards-trained in chasing rum runners
sink that ship after the army bombers muffed the
job?
Those wheat growers probably will be willing to
give the country back to the Indians on Thanksgiving
day.
The Carnegie Foundation says college seniors know
little more than freshmen Probably they've hit the
saturaton point
A boy bandit gained twenty pounds in seven weeks
in Sing Sing. And may be enough technique to avoid
returning
Film actresses with foreign accents are getting
the big play now. Marking open season on a new
assortment of 100 la las"
What has become of the brasS-rail magician who
used to make free lunch disappear?
One consoling thing about talking to yourself is
that nobody's going to talk back
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

TINE second vitannin B again
l. must be considered one of the
most important discoveries that ever
has been made for the good of man.
kind. To trace the steps in its dis
covery would indicate the tremend-
GUS number Of small experiments
necessary to lead to some single
fundamental fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
What is the length of the Panama

canal?
1t is 40.27 statute miles from
shore line to shore line, and about
fifty statute miles from deep water
in the Atlantic to deep water in
the Pacific.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
Not All of Yeast's Fame Is Earned

This is the twenty-sixth of series
Of thirty-six timely articles by DR..
Morris Fishbein on GOOD Truths and
FOlIies," dealing with such much dis
cussed but little known subjects as CAL
cries, vitamins, minerals. digestion and
balanced diet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27

What has become of the brass-rail magician whc
used to make free lunch disappear?
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Is the degree Pho. the same .

There is no virtue so truly great
and godlike as justice.-Addison.