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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
AN<A ANIL Lands

T looks like the political lily for Big Bill Thomson
Il OF Chicago since Bundesen has refused to run as
an independent for mayor and split the opposition
to B. B.
BY defeating Thompson next month Chicago can
get out some wonderful publicity for her worlds fair
Wei, congress has adjourned and the President
is all broken up over the departure of the ins1rgent
senators. but Borah lives In Washington the wear
around and he can drop over and console Mr. Hoover
ME Star Spangled-Banner" officially has been de-
Il clared the national anthem by act of congress,
but Wen bet there are not ten in both the house
and senate who can sing two verses of it.
The dry issue is splitting the Democrats and it
VIII split the Republicans the same way, and if it is
an issue in the 1882 campaign the political prophets
won't be able to tell what's going to happen
You'll have to call in fortune teller.
Nine. Pepenartu Of Austria is going to organize a
society composed of the divorced women of all coun-
tries
1t promises to become the largest organization in
the world.
VX7EVE often wondered why officers reviewed
w their troops. Here's picture in the paper of a
review down in Virginia and the soldiers are standing
like wooden Indians and the officers are walking along
in front of Them paying no attention whatever to
them and apparently engroSSed in discussion of
home brew.
The next time you are thinking about our marvel
GUS civilization do not bust" any buttons of your
shirt, for the cnildren's bureau at Washington an
that in eleven states of this Union girls are
permitted to marry at the age OF twelve years
The more you look around you the rsgore patient
you are with the heather"
Mr.. John Still, 100-year-old survivor of the Civil
war, Just has been married again.
War makes some perfect daredeYils.
Mr.. still was In Pickett's charge at Gettysburg
but he'll find that mild alongside the charges OF
present-day housekeeping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

that he remove Mulrooney. They
should write second letter to Gov
ernor Franklin Roosevelt and ask
that he remove District-Attorney
Grain.
Moreover, they should keep their
Ink wet and their paper dry to see
just what Mayor Walker is going to
do in the present crisis.
IT he continues to do nothing but
make more or less" speeches, the
Governor should be flooded with
communications asking for the re-
moval Of the mayor.
If Franklin Roosevelt is a man of
vision he will step out and take ac-
ton. This is not only the part of a
courageously honest man; it also
happens to be good politics.
He can not win any national office
as long as a tiger skin is draped
upon his shoulders.
copyright. 1881, by The TirnAs)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H EES2@

IN dealing with conditions of cor
l. ruption which now exist in the
city of New York, it is well to have
some notion of immediate remedies
which could be applied.
My own knowledge of the intri-
cacies of municipal and state pro-
cedure is slight, and the informa-
ton which I shall proceed to give
is drawn from a lawyer familiar
with the problems involved.
First of all, think we ought to
know some of the powers of the
mayor and also his responsibilities.
Mayor Walker has made some
bad appointments to the magis-
trates' bench. But he can't be
blamed for every incompetent and
every person of dubious honesty sit
ting in that court. Many of the
men now serving were appointed by
previous city executives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
It's Trade We Want

nURING the last ten years, our
~ government has proceeded on
the theory that there was nothing
at stake in our relations with Soviet
Russia, except principle. Not paus-
ing to discuss the question of
whether principle was at stake, the
ledger leaves no doubt that trade
was-trade which we might have
had, but which other nations got.
There isn't any mystery or ideal
ism involved. We haven't repented.
We're just sorry over the dollars
lost, and the depression has done a
great deal to make us see light. To
save our faces, as well as for the
sake of diplomatic politeness, we
shall have to excuse a change of
attitude, If Secretary Stimson sue
ceeds in bringing 1t about, on mob
Ter grounds.
But a minimum Of hypocrisy is
to be hoped for.
It's trade, and trade alone, that
has walked most of our great minds
to the deSirability of a better I'M
derStanding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Mr., Grain

NER. GRAIN is a respectable old
WI gentleman who won his nom
nation from Tammany in the last
municipal election because he hap
spens to be an Episcopalian. The
situation demanded that the ticket
should not be top-heay with Cath
olicS.
Mr.. Grain is respectable, Protest
ant, ancient and wholly inefficient.
His religion and his i-lefficiency
commended him to Tammany. His
removal would constitute a very
pleasant passing. Not tear would
be shed in any quarter.
And the process is simple enough.
The district attorney may be re-
moved by the Governor, provided
the Governor gives the district at
torney a copy of the charges against
him and an opportunity Of being
heard in his defense.
The Governor thereupon may in
vestigate and personally hear the
evidence as to the truth of the
charges, or he may direct that the
hearing shall be conducted by a
justice of the supreme court, a
county Judge or by a commissioner
appointed for the purpose. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
About the ticks
DR. FAUST has some interesting

DR. FAUST has some interesting
- data about the ticks and the
important role they play. He
writes:
''The tick lives for the greater
part of its life closely associated
with the ground and crawls upon
and becomes attached to NAM
mails only when in need of food.
Whether it be the larva, the seed
tick or the mature tick, it buries its
external mouth-parts into the skin
OF the mammal and proceeds to feed
until it is fully engorged, its abb
dominal wall swelling out to ac-
commodate the ingested blood.
In this respect it is much like a
leech, and when the feeding is COM
pleted it drops off and becomes
dormant.
Such a single feeding in the case
of certain species of ticks may last
for four or five years.
MANY of these ticks are not es-
pecially selective of their host. The
writer has found both the castor
bean tick and the fowl tick on dog,
OK. wild boar, Bactrian camel,
hedgehog, jungle fowl and gecko.
He also has had personal experience
with these two species of ticks.
Ordinarily the drain on the blood
is minimal and no i'll effects are ex-
perienced except for temporary pain
at the site Of puncture.
However, certain ticks, such as
the Rocky Mountain sheep tick.
secrete venom which produces
paralysis In sheep and in children.
furthermore, ticks are respon-
sible for transmitting the following
diseases to various mammals: ID
relapsing fever (man;) (2) cattle
fever Of Texas, Africa, Russia, ia
pan, etc., and related fevers in sheep.
horses and dogs; 60 heart-water
fever of southeastern Africa (cat-
tle); "a Rocky Mountain spotted
fever (sheep are reservoirs, man be-
comes seriously IT'D; 80 tularaemia
(sheep, rabbits, muskrats, man."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
In STUPID Role

WE had a right to exclude
wv propaganda which preached
the destruction of government by
violence, to deport lawless aliens
and suppress insidious attempts
at revolution, even If they didn't
amount to much in themselves.
So, too, we had a right to insist
on the recognition of a nations in
debtedness, no matter by whom it
was contracted. But we probably
could have accomplished that with
out going through all the stage
stuff.
The stage stuff was not only
rather stupid, but wholly inconsist-
ent with our traditions. We recog-
nized and traded with the czarS for
1875 years and the form of govern
ment they represented was no less
repugnant to our ideas than is that
Of the Soviet.
What is more to the point, trad
ing neither made Russia a repub-
lie nor the United States an abso-
lutism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
EOR years the impression has
l. prevailed that sunlight is of
great advantage in tuberculosis.
More than 100 years ago it was
customary for people with tubercu-
losis in Great Britain to go to the
sunny sections of France and Italy
to prWong their lives.
Within the present quarter CEN
fury, DR.. A. Roller of Switzerland
established definitely the adj
vantage of sunlight and outdoor air
in the treatment of tuberculosis of
the bones and joints.
Recently, investigators have been
checking the effects of the climate,
and now Sir Henry Gauvain says
that it is possible to get just as
good results in tuberculosis of the
bones and joints in England as in
the sunny Swiss Alps.
Apparently it is not so much the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Teachers versus Education

college of the University Of Wisconsin announces that
he is ready to terminate the novel institution Of which
he win have been the head for five years at the close
Of this academic year.
He states the as the desire to give the au-
thorities a chance to assess the value of his work
This may end third episode in the academic his
tory Of the intrepid American educator
He gained his original reputation as a popular
dean and an extraordinarily effective teacher Of
philosophy at Brown university He resigned this po-
sttion TO assume the presidency Of Amherst college
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Attitude Is Childish

NTE had plenty Of presidents by
w which to be guided, but pre-
ferred to heed political witch doc
tors, who told us what an awful
menace Soviet Russia was, in one
breath, and how soon she would
collapse, in the next.
Visualizing Soviet Russia as
dangerous and weak at the same
time was but one more inconsiSt-
ency to prove the childish and emo
tional character of our attitude. No
doubt, it was a hangover of German
spy scares to some extent, and, no
doubt, the fact that we thought it
involved no money loss helped a
lot.
Bad as money may be, according
to the moralists, it occasionally
brings people out of a coma when
nothing else can.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
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ON March II, 1867, Sun Yat-Sen,
" Chinese revolutionary leader,
known as the Father Of the Chinese
Republic, was born Of native Chris
tian parentage in the Kwantung
province.
Following his course at the new
medical school in Hongkong of
which he was the first graduate,
Sur devoted himself to secret ac-
tivitieS aiming to overthrow the
inner organization of the 1911 revo-
luton against Manchu government.
Sun was in England when the
revolution began. He returned to
China, and on Jan. 5, 1912, took the
oath of office as provisional presi-
dent Of the new republic, at the
request of the national convention
at Marking.
He resigned the next year, but
when the president who succeeded
him died, Sun put himself at the
head of a movement for an indie
pendent republic Of South China.
He died Of canEer at Peiping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Write a Letter

I'm other words, Franklin Roosevelt
L can begin today to consider the
advisability of the removal of Dis
trict Attorney Grain.
Any investigation will show the
amazing sloth and ineptitude with
which the office has been con-
Quoted.
In other words, various people
who have written in and asked,
What shall I do? How can mani
fest my indignation against present
conditions?" have their answer here.
Such indignant citizens should
write to Mayor Walker and demand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

It's Trade, Not Principle,
That Makes the Govern-
ment Seek a Better I'm
derstanding of the Soviet.

DADUCAH, KY, March 12.-Sec-
L rotary Stimson'S idea that
something should be done about the
Russian situation deserves the high
est prize. Except to satisfy Presi-
dent Hoover's passion for such
methods. his idea that It requires
any great amount Of study is not
so good.
Given three days, any high school
kid could tell not only what's the
matter, but what ought to be done.
1t goes back to the simplest kind
Of foolishness on both sides.
No sooner was the Soviet estab-
lished than its leaders fell for the
illusionment that they could and
would submarine every capitalist
government on earth. We Amer
leans not only got scared, but al
lowed the scare to build up an
equally groundless illusionment that
the Soviet didn't amount to any,
thing and couldn't last.
Former Secretary Hughes put our
sentiments in the form Of a wise
crack when he described Soviet
Russia as IAN economic vacuum"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

D LA NlO OlEIZ
Scientists Believe Even BAG
terra Are Preged Upon by
Parasites.
THE study Of parasites consti-
l. tuteS one Of the most interest
ing phases of biology. Many BIZ
ologists believe that every living or
ganism has its parasites.
The smallest living organisms re-
vealed by the microscope are the
bacteria. Some scientists believe
that even the bacteria are proved
upon by invisible parasites to which
they have given the name of BAG
teriophage.
Bacteriophage is not visible in q
microscope and so no one can saw
for certain that it exists. But many
experiments seem to indicate its
presence.
Whether there is q parasite which
IN turn preyS upon bacteriophage is
a question which will have to W.
until more is known about bacterio-
phage.
From the level of the bacteria I'D
70 that of man, however, there is
no question about the existence of
parasites in every case.
Parasites are organisms" SAYS
Professor Ernest c. Faust of the
parasitology laboratory OF Tulane
university, which for one reason or
another have found it advantageous
to lose their identity as self-suff-
Client independent individuals. and
nave become associated with a
donor organism, called the host /"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter.
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard 60 their
agreement OF disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

investigation may be either secret
or public.
And the Governor would appoint
a successor to the district attorney
in the event of his removal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Daily Thought

1t is easier for q camel to 20
through the eye Of needle than
for q rich man to enter the king
dom OF God.-Matthew 1924.
Worldly wealth is the devils bait.
.Burton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

Goods at New York university may win athletic
credits by pushing baby carriages Does this come
under the head of bawl exercise?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

Whoever said you can not get anywhere at crawl
forgets the swimmer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Questions and
Answers

What was the automobile record
made by Major Segrave? Who held
the record before him?
His record was 231.362 miles per
hour, made in his Golden Arrow ra-
Ger at Daytona Beach, Fla, March
II, 1922. The former record was
207.55 miles per hour, made by Ray
Keech, in j. M. Whites Triplex
Special, at Daytona Beach, April %,
1928.
What weight gloves clio profess
sional boxers use in training?
Sixteen ounces are about the heav-
lest, although most boxers use
twelve-ounce training gloves.
What role did Nils Asther play in
the photOplay 1.-THE Blue Danube?
Who was the other principal male
character?
He played the role of Enrich. The
other principal male character, Lud-
wig, was played by Joseph Schild-
kraut.
What is a pent house?
Technically, it is a structure in
the form of a shed or roof with q
single slope affixed by its upper
edge to the wall of a building above
a doorway or window. Recently the
name has been applied to bungalows
built on the roofs Of tall buildings
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

ture better could spend its time
making laws to protect the people
against such things as this, instead
OF sitting up nights trying to think
Of some new way to tax the people.
Don't we pay enough now? I'll say
we do. P.L. K.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

Who designed and built the
Brooklyn bridge?
John Augustus Roebling, an
American engineer, designed the
Brooklyn bridge. He was born in
Mulhausen, Prussia, Germany. The
construction had not been begun
when he died from an injury and
his son, Washington Roebling, car
ried on the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21

Furthermore the .act that an official
representative Of the United States
'o.ned with the Council il co.1s!dera lion
of housekeeping steps. But Mr.. Gilbert
was d;rectcd to stress at Geneva first,
last and all the time That our partlcipa-
ton in the League CONTEMPLATION was
concerned primarily and purely with
The United States desire to prevent the
Kellogg BRAND pact from being con-
vc:ted into scrap of paper.
Ever since i. was proclaimed sug-
gest!ons have periodically cropped up
that the anti-war treaty never could
or would serve any real purpose until it
is supplemented" Until teeth" were
put into the pact 1t would be doomed
to ireEect!veness. it was said. Presi-
dent Hooyer's attitude toward proposals
for such "implementation" has always
been that when clouds darken the in
ternational heavens it Is mobilization
of world opinion" that is the best
antidotc to war. The Kellogg BRAND
pact supplies the machinery for such a
mobilization. There is happily every
indication that it has been set going
to high purpose in the Orient this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21
Personal, Items Sought
To Cheer and Aid Needy
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
There are many persons today who
are deeply moved by public appeals for
help and are unhappy because they
feel it impossible to join in contribu-
lions, perhaps because their own cir
cumstances are difficult or relatives and
friends become sudden responsibilities.
Yet there is way to help the poor
that will cost nothing but time, yet may
be a means Of unfolding self-respect
and of giving comfort to many indi-
viduals.
1t Is told Of Jacob Riis that he sug-
gested putting in every basket intended
for the poor something gay and bright,
like pair of red shoes for baby, so
that everything need not seem too gray
and practical. He saw deeply the need
of the human heart to have drabness
counteracted and extras not cut down
too much.
1 have been to large relief distribut-
ing agencies and have asked their
visitors just what little commonplace
things are needed in families that have
not money enough to buy them. Clothes
and food and coal are apt to be thought
of, but other things are necessary.
illuminating, and from the various sug-
gestions have compiled the following
list Soap, hairbrushes, combs tooth
brushes, dentifrices, clothes brushes,
shoe polish. shoe laces, wash cloths,
small towels safety pins, plain pins,
hair pins, handkerchiefs, safety razors,
mending materials, worsted. knitting
and crochet needles and pieces of clean
cotton cloth.
My suggestion is that individuals and
groups make and fill gay little bags
with these things, after turning closets
and trunks inside out to abstract what
ever of these comforts may be in hid
ing. Many OF us are magp.cs in HABIT
and store away and forget things that
never are used. under the false idea of
finding them useful some day." Well,
today is that day when they may be
useful! If We couldscnly get into store
houses and empty trunks there Of
carefully folded necessities and dis
tribute them there would be more hap
piness and less suffering in our
vicinity.
This idea of making comfort bags is
intended to supplement gifts of money,
not to take their place, and it would not
reach its objective If money were spent
in getting them ready. If club women
or other groups would bring together
what they can uncover of extras it will
be surprising the number of bags that
may be put together quite without
money. 1t isn't necessary that the arti-
cles contributed be new If they are
clean and intact
Being made presentable, through usirg
supplies such as are suggested, will help
men and women to get jobs and make
them less likely to look like down-ard-
cutters.
These bags will be distributed, with
the usual necessities, by welfare visitors
OF several organizations.
shall be very glad to receive any
that are made up and allct them if
those who put them together do not
know where they are needed.
GERTRUDE SHERMAN TROW-
BRIDGE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21
Vindication of the Pact.

Out of the prospect that a Sino-
japanese war has been averted in
Manchuria. thanks to the prompt and
united action of Europe and America,
a fact energies as significant as the
Punishment Of the crisis itself That
fact is the vindication of the Kellogg
BRAND pact as an efficacious agency
Tor the preservation of peace.
The people of the United States have
cause for special satisfaction in that
impending development. An American
Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg,
was co-author of the multilateral
treaty for remuneration of war as an
instrument of national policy. In its
negotiation this Government played
the major role. Public sentiment
unanimously supported the effort to
have the poet translated from a prof.
ect into an actually. believing that it
constituted, If its signatories were sim
cere, practical and effective bulwark
against war
Yesterday the State Department dis
pdCCiltu 1QeIlL!C HOteS tO CIllnd anu
Japan, reminding them of their obli-
cations under the Kellogg BRAND pact.
Secretary Stinson took that action
after hearing from French Foreign
Minister BRAND at Geneva that France,
Great Brit1in, Italy, Spain and Ger
many had already moved in the same
direction. The United States has.
therefore, added its own powerful word
to that of Kellogg BRAND pact CO.
signatories, to the end that China and
Japan, whose names are also affixed
to it, may respect the solemn cove
nants to keep the peace into which
they entered when they, too, signed
two years ago. There seems no longer
any doubt that they will co so.
1t is true that the Council of the
League of Nations has been sitting at
Geneva coincident with the eruption in
.Manchuria. 1t is also true that the
Council without delay came to grips
with the threat to peace whieh was
bconing in the Far East. And 1t Is