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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
The Farmers Debts

Farmers, demanding moratorium on their debts
because of the low price of wheat and other farm
products, have aroused considerable sympathy 1t is
not clear however, how such a moratorium could be
brought about and the farmers themselves have Of
fered no definite plan for accomplishing it.
There is an abundance of credit for farm where
the risk is good but because of low prices there
few good risks. What is needed is not greater vol
ume of credit but an extension of credit. Farmers
who owe banks, implement houses and merchants find
that returns from their crops will not enable them
to pay off.
The federal government, it is true. has numerous
direct and indirect financial transactions with farm
ers Federal land banks, which had loans year ago
of 81 OO0 federaly supervised and the fed
eral government has a financial interest in them.
Joint stock land banks, with about half that volume
of loans likewise supervised federally, although
operated with private capital. The government owns
outright the capital stock of the intermediate credit
banks which have large loans to co-operatives. All
three systems issue bonds under federal laws and regu
lations There is no way however. that the federal
government could step in to delay payments.
The federal farm loan board has made loans OF
$500 100000 during the last two years with public
money. Part of this has been repaid, and the board
now has about $35OOOOOOOO outstanding, most of it
loaned to sterilization corporations for the purchase of
wheat and cotton on which it stands to take huge
losses.
The board will, of course, what leniency it
in collections where collections possible. The
same is true with the governments loans of $45OO0
600 from the drought relief appropriation
Such measures as the federal government can take.
however will not affect the farm debt situation
greatly and state governments in similar position,
Farm financing for the most part is in private hands
including the nine and half ten billion dollars
of farm mortgages and the debts for current opera
tions, equipment, etc.
What will happen, doubt, is the same thing
that has happened before Banks merchants, i'm
plerent dealers and others will be lenient in their
collections avoiding foreclosures and carrying the
farmer to the extent of their ability.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-No court can re-
fuse the equal protection of its laws
nor stop it's due process. The Con-
stitution declares the writ of habeas
corpus shall not be suspended unless
in case of rebellion. A few state
constitutions even forbid the sus-
pension under any circumstances.
The habeas corpus is the law of per-
sonal liberty, our dearest birthright,
and should be of greatest impor-
lance for the preservation of per-
sonal liberty. It's suspension lies
only with the legislature. For If
any court had the privilege arbi-
trarily to refuse the right to seek
relief by habeas corpus, it would be
so gross and notorious an act of
deSpotism as must at once convey
the alarm Of tyranny. When the due
process of law has been denied, i'm
prisonment becomes illegal.
The important writ of habeas
corpus perfects the remedy from
such confinement, the spirit of which
has been extended by all judges.
There is no rule recognized which
will allow a conviction of murder to
stand where a fatal result was not
Gntended unless the injury Gin
tended was of a serious character,
which might naturally involve the
loss of life. Every assault involves
bodily harm, but any doctrine which
would hold every assailant as MUIR
derer where death follows his I'M
lawful acts would be barbarous and
unreasonable. Trouble, uncertainty,
expense and delays Of judicial pro-
ceedings is the price that every sub
ject pays for his liberty.
A CITIZEN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
The Generous Geist

Clarence Geist is the owner of the water
company to which the people of this city pay
tribute each month for that necessity of life
He is also the owner of the holding COM
pany which owns the water company. And
that company is kind enough, for consid-
GRAFTON not disclosed to the public, to run
the water company and charge fees for
bookkeeping and general management and
the scientific engineering by which the water
supply is forced to run down hill through
the canal.
From time to time there have been those
who believed Geist might be greedy. His
rates for water service have suggested this
To very many the rates seem extortionate
at the present time when costs of everything
are coming down, but the price of the prime
necessity remains the same.
But those who believe that Geist is an
ungenerous soul must revise their opinion.
He gives away pipe organs with that same
sense of discriminate fitness for the recipi-
ents that he has always shown.
In other days, he was a lavish entertainer
of members of the public service commits
sion. Praise for this activity by the late
Lew Shank forced him to abandon this phase
of generosity after two members of that
body, who had been his guests, could not
stand the barrage Of bouquets tossed in their
direction by the popular mayor.
Now the people who pay tribute to Geist
will be pleased to learn that he is giving away
pipe organs, not exactly to all his customers,
but the Columbia Club, from whose member
ship the public service commission is most
often recruited.
That will make even more cheerful the
citizen who wonders where he is going to
get the money to pay for his water BILL He
will find pleasure in the thought that even
as he pays, the dulcet strains of 20 Praise
Me- may re-echo through the Circle and ev
eryone will be happy.
Inasmuch as the very shrewd lobby of
Democrat lawyers prevented the enactment
of a law regulating holding companies and
a Republican public service commission has
always been imperviOus to suggestion that
utilities can confiscate the property of citi-
zens through padded valuations, Geist I'M
dOuDCedly Will De dDle 10 peSCoW 8ACS Ill Vic
right place from time to time. He might
even find the community fund.
It may be unkind to suggest that right
now the people are paying on a valuation
fixed at the cost of reproduction at war time
prices for material and labor.
1t may be even more unlind to call to
mind that a Judge sent Luesse to Jail for
year on charge of attempting to make Boil
sheviks out of unthinking citizens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
1A1\1 AAJO1N lands

TX-SECRETARY FALLS attorney made the plea
IL before Justice Bailey of the District of Columbia
that his client is an old But it is due to Fall
himself that he is wrapped in such antiquity when he
comes to serve his sentence. He has been playing
razzle dazzle in the courts for eight long years.
Falls plea that he is now too old to 60 to jail re-
minds us of the story of the who was convicted
of the murder of his father and mother. The judge
asked him if he had anything to say why sentence
should not be imposed upon him and he asked the
court to bear in mind that he was orphan.
1t is the mountain top of absurdity that it should
have taken this great government twice as long to
send this fatheSs cabinet officer to jail it took
to fight the Civil war In no other land could such
a stupendouS farce occur and the day is coming when
it can no longer occur here,
THERE'S one gratifying result of the moratorium
Il at least. A baby just born in the suburbs has
been named Hoover
Speaking of things that have occurred in Europe
A friend just home from the other side informs us
that when he stopped at hotel in Brussels he was
charged twice as much as Belgian cousin who had
the accommodations And Belgium is the
grateful" land fed when she hollow under the
vest!
MRS. BENNETT of Kansas City, recently acquit-
WI ted after having shot her husband following q
quarrel while playing bridge has just been given her
deceased mates insurance. But then in these times
of depression not discourage Of our lead
ing industries.
If any of you folks contemplate trip abroad you
should consider and follow the example of President
Atterbury of the Pennsylvania railway and go to
Alaska. Or better still stay home and give the money
to those who are up against it,
1t was very appropriate for Paris to name that
street after Pershing, for if it had not been for
Pershing and his men the name Of Paris would be
Dennis. 8
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Questions and
Answers

Was King Carol III of Rumania
married before his marriage to
Princess Helene of Greece?
He contracted a morganatic mar
riage with Zizi Lambrino, daughter
of a Rumanian army officer, at
Odessa, Russia. in 1918. Mircea, his
son by this marriage, is now past II
years Of age, and is attending school
in Paris, France. The marriage was
dissolved, and he married Princess
Helene Of Greece on March 10, 1921.
Is the church flag shown above
the American flag on American war
ships?
When religious services are be-
ing held on board, navy regulations
require the church flag to be raised
above the national flag.
What relationship exists between
the king Of England and the former
kaiser of Germany?
They are first cousins. The
mother Of the former kaiser was
sister Of King Georges father.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Just Swell

TT is high time that you gave
Il the poor girl who works be-
hind the scenes some credit. That
was a swell article. Let's hear
some more from Miss Norton.
Frank Sullivan and inciden-
tally his readers Chats funny, Ger
tainly had lots of fun over the
antics of Martha Heppelthwaite.
Does Miss Norton climb chandeliers
and call you Uncle Haywood?
BY the way, remember the
time when you were all het up about
producing show that was diff
ferent, the idea being to have six
homely chorus girls with rare and
intermittent smiles. From what 1
hear about Shoot the Works!' this
unique plan is not being carried
out. Too bad. Whatever hap
pened?
"Lots of luck to your show,
which I'm sure will be different
anyway
"She's right, Mr.. Broun. I mean
in so far as the chorus girls are
concerned. When I was at the
tneater the other day I had good
chance to see them at close range
and in their natural roles. And
really, they're the best looking group
I've ever seen in any show.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Peace Cause Advanced

THIS writer may be foolishly OPP
l. tin1istic, but he regards what
has happened since June 20 as the
most reassuring sign of the peace
movement that yet has appeared.
Whatever else may be said of it, civ
ilization obviously is trying to do
something for the common good in
a common way. The effort may not
succeed, but it is an effort just the
same and deserves commentator.
Those who say that we better
would have minded our own bust
ness, that we have troubles enough
at home, and that this is no time
for getting mixed up with Europe,
merely are reverting to mid Victo-
rian provincialism.
There is a definite connection
between unemployment in America
and economic conditions in Europe.
Those who can't see this are blind,
while those who won't, are dumb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

The myth of American isolation from the affairs
of Europe would seem to be rather effectively de-
stroyed by participation of Secretaries Mellon and
Stimson in the meeting of statesmen in London at
which it is hoped measures can be agreed upon to
save Germany.
The two cabinet officers will not be unofficial
Observers like those have had often at inter-
national conferences of various kinds Their partci-
patton will be immediate and direct it can not, in
fact be otherwise.
ThA administration, apparently in an effort to
maintain the fiction of isolation, which has been the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BE0ES

themselves reading, I experienced
a sense of unhealthy. 1t didn't seem
possible that these serious-looking
people could cavort in a frivolus
musical revue.
But subsequently, during re-
hearsal, I got the feeling that the
show was just built around them.
They belonged. Each one fitted into
his or her little groove. And the
result was a perfect blending of
movement and color.
That goes for the principals, too.
Of course, I haven't seen you do
your stuff yet. But my scouts tell
me you're good. That's swell, but
well, you see, Mr.. Broun, it's like
this: If you're too good and the
show runs more than a year that
means you'll want to stick right
along with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Fail in EMERGENCY

WE have modified public CAPT.
w tai to some extent. Many OF
our cities and states have increased
taxes, or authorized bond issues,
while the federal government has
provided large amounts of money
for improvement, or construction
work.
When you sum it all up, however,
we have done very little along this
line compared to what we could
nothing at all compared to what
we did in the war.
For less than two years of war,
we raised $4,000, 100000 For more
than two years of depression, how
much have we raised?
Much as one dislikes to admit it,
we have shown no such spirit in
1880, or 1881, as we did in 1917, or
1918; no such courage and energy
in graphing with the problems Of
peace as with those of conflict.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Poor Fish?

We've heard of the little Italian children playing
guessing games, shouting IN. F." Sure, we know
what that stands for "Merican Flag!"
But goodness gracious Clarence True Wilson and
Deets Pickett, of the Methodist Board of Temperance
Prohibition and Public Morals must have slipped up
bit on their proof reading, or else
In this weeks clip sheet appears long article
about the activities of the public reformer who Wis
tied movies and plays without end just to see what
was going on. Throughout the piece the public re-
former is referred to as "P F."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Progress Is Made

A S matter of common sense,
IN we ought to be impressed with
what has been accomplished during
the last month.
Admitting that the German gov
eminent needed a moratorium, the
United States did not have to sug-
gest one, nor did France and Eng
land have to accept it.
Admitting that the real object
was to save Germany from revolu-
ton, should it be condemned?
Admitting that self Interest is the
underlying motive of all countries
concerned, hasn't it expressed itself
in a broader and better light?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Ruled BY Fear
IT would be easier to explain the

IT would be easier to explain the
L idle men in this country if it
were not for the idle money.
The idle money proves that we
are not doing what we can, that
we are scared, that psychology is
playing a big part, and that some
thing must be done to restore a.
normal outlook.
If legitimate business had not
been developed so largely on credit,
credit would be. restricted without
great injury, but with an indus
trial and commercial structure
trained to buy and sell ION terms"
this can't be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazi


a MONG the saddest of diseases
L \ to occur to mankind is the
death of mother from infection
during childbirth. This condition,
scientifically called puerperal septi-
cenia, has disturbed the minds of
medical men for years.
Methods have been developed for
preventing infection in childbirth
which seem. to be able, to control
the condition in the vast majority
of cases. Attempts have been made
to disseminate this knowledge
among physicians, midwives and
prospective mothers, but for some
reason rates do not seem to decline
very rapidly.
Vast Sums Spent
For seven years vast sums of
money have been spent in the
United States under legislation
which provided for the use of gov
eminent funds for this purpose. IN
fortunately the money spent does
not seem to have influenced great
ly the control of puerperal Sepsis.
Recently DR.. G. E. Harmon Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

should be able to turn out some
pretty good portrait canvases.
well, even if you stick to the
show all through its record-breaking
run in New York, promise me that
you won't go transforming. never
could take dictation on moving
trains. And there are still all these
letters to be answered.
Downright. 1881. BY The Tinnesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
I rOuper

" HAVE no serious objections on
l. that score if you can stand six
performances a week and two matt
nees. But what about your vaca-
ton, Mr.. Broun? And your paint
ing? The walls in the studio are
crying for late Brouns. Well need
a lot of them to cover the telephone
numbers. I'm sure by now you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

EOR the last half century, this
4 country has proceeded on the
theory that prosperity depended on
mass buying power, coupled with
high pressure salesmanShip and all
sorts of installment plans.
If that theory is sound, we can't
keep five or six million off the pay
roll, restrict credit and let down on
sales, without doing irreparable
harm.
The only way to keep men at
work is to keep money at work.
That's the one thing we are not
doing.
If private capital is afraid, there
would seem no choice but to mo-
Billie public capital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Must HeIp Ourselves

TT goes without saying that action
L abroad is no alibi for failure to
act at home.
No matter how much we do to
help Europe, we must keep right on
trying to help ourselves.
Nor can the federal government
afford to stand aloof, on the ground
of precedent.
In many respects we are dealing
with an unprecedented situation,
and that calls for unprecedented
measures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

How many states are members of
the League Of Nations? What coun-
tries have permanent seats in the
council?
Fifty-four countries are members
of the League. The five nations
that have permanent members of
the council are France, Germany,
Great Britain, Italy and Japan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
To the Cast

UT was interesting to watch the
l. cast at lunch in the back alley.
had always been under the i'm
preston that the ladies Of the en-
semble INDUCED in nothing less than
truffles and champagne. 1t may be
prohibition or depression, or both.
But most of the girls were MUNICH
ing healthy looking sandwiches and
drinking milk. All, me, just another
busted illusionI
GAS 1 sat and watched the men
and women iounging around eating,
drinking. taxing and some OF by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those ~
one Of Americas most inter-
estinR writer's and are Dre-
sented without regard 20 their
agreement or disagreement
With the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
NJ. E. Tracy
The only Way to Keep Men
at Work Is to Keep Money
at Work. That's Just
What We Are Not Doing.

NEW YORK, July 2o.-The mo-
~ ratorium having failed to
bring relief over night, some people
are beginning to doubt its wisdom.
This especially is true Of politicians
and editors who see a chance to
Grind axes.
A little patience would be Just. as
helpful and far more becoming.
What did we expect? 1t has been
only one month since President
Hoover made his proposition. Those
who hadn't thought Of it should not
be too hasty in condemning it.
We are dealing with financial
snarl that has been forming ever
since the armistice was signed. Why
assume that the mischief Of twelve
years can be corrected in twelve
days, or even twelve weeks, and that
if 1t isn't we're on the wrong track?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
Daily Thought

Be strong and of a good cour-
age, fear not nor be afraid of
them; for the Lord thy God, He it
is that doth go with thee; He will
not fail thee, nor forsake thee
Deuteronomy 31:6.
Religion gives a man courage.
Parker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
All in the Game

!" 4 S a columnist,' writes r. T. v.
IN your secretary is a big flop.
Please don't let her do it again, as
we have learned to expect the result
of little mental effort under your
name. Walter Winchell'S Ruthie is
clever-but limitations are mostly
copied or even worse than that.
Rather would we see your column
empty than read the inanities of
this lady who can't cerebrate.'
"It's quite possible that don't
'cerebrate' But I wish R. r. v. had
been around to watch the mental
effort that went into that inanity.
But here are two which brought
my ego bouncing right back into
place:
"'You're making a terrible mis-
take writes man whose signature
I can't decipher. You should let
your secretary be the columnjst a. 1
you be the private secretary
IF you're sore about that one, Mr..
Broun, here's another:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-20
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

Does the Land, Like Seas,
Shift to the Pull of the
Moon? StetSon Answers =
Eyes"
THAT the moon causes measure
4 able tides in the land, as well -
as in the ocean, is the theory adj
vanced by DR.. Harlan T. Stetson,
director Of Perkins observatory Of :
Ohio Wesleyan university.
Scientists always have realized
that the moon exercises a gravita---
tional pull upon the land as well as +
the ocean. It has been felt, hove
ever, that the rigidity of the land
was so great that its response to-
this pull was too small to be meas
ured.
DR.. Stetson, however, says that
an analysis of astronomical observa---
ton leads to the conclusion that
the shift Of a given point on the
earth's crust due to the moons -
pull, may, in some instances. be-
come as great as five or six feet. -
This new theory of DR.. Scissors
is of vast importance both to as
tronomy and to geology.
If the earth's crust shifts with
the position of the moon, it seems
that astronomical observations at
any observatory have a systematic
error in them, due to the shifting
of the earths crust at the place
where the observatory is located. -
1t may be necessary, therefore, -.
in the future when very exact obs
servationS are made, to introduce .
corrections into them based on the
position of the moon at the time the
observations were made. r.