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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
Six Million and More

Now that the federal government beatedly has
discovered that the number of totally unemployed
exceeds six Million what be done about it? With
congress sent home and Hoover unwilling to cal
special session, there is no chance of immediate
federal appropriation needed to meet the emer-
gency.
The Hoover administration refused during the
winter to admit the seriousness of the situation.
When Hoover at the opening of congress in Deem
Der placed the total unemployed figure at about two
and a half million and his aids later raised the fig
ure to four million, we pointed out that the best
available estimates to economists pu ne total above
six million.
Had the administration, while congress still was
in session. given out the facts which it now publishes
doubtless congress would have made the emergency
relief appropriations demanded by economists social
workers and liberal Democrats and Republicans.
For 1t would have been clear to congress that the
situation is worse even than indicated by the six
million figure That figure does not include the part
time employed which was shown by the Metropolitan
company insurance survey made for the government
in December to be higher than 20 per cent.
Suffering Of families Of part-time employed was
one reason given by mayors in reply TO the senate
missionaries for the need of direct federal relief.
The idea that this emergency can be met by VOL
untary private relief funds has been dsproyed. Con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
Cover Up Evidence

NOING back to the Chicago sit
W uation, the grand jury just has
come into possession Of some val
liable records and reports compiled
by former woman spy in the police
department.
This woman was SO determined
not to produce them that she fled
the city when summoned to testify
and now is serving a four-month
sentence for contempt of court.
But for her former chauffeur, they
might never have been found. He
told the authorities where some of
them we're hidden in a Negroes
house, and when these were brought
to light, the woman not only pro-
duced the rest, but agreed to tell
everything.
The big point is, however, that
she did not want to, tried her best
not to, and consented to perform
what was her plain duty all along,
only when forced to it.
In this connection, the New York
policeman who arrested Vivian Cor
don eight years ago, on what her
diary reveals as a frameup, has
been dismissed, not because of that
vile affair, but for refusing to give
evidence before an official investi-
cation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23

farm production. I wonder if they
have forgotten about joseph and
the famine. I lot of them remind
me OF the "bull in the china shop"
But we have and will have real
officers; as when Taft reinforced
Wilson during a World war crisis.
and the county commissioners of
Marion county still hold the two
downtown churches at the south en-
trance of the veterans colossal pile
of stony bread where they can get
some spiritual bread if not the ma
terial bread, of which the farmers
still are producing the raw ma
terial and the capitalized bakers are
selling the finished product at
double the price they should.
The machine politicians, in trying
TO shut the gates Of mercy on man
kind" have locked them against
themselves. They have helped the
capitalist to capitalize and the wage
Garner to unionize till they have
haymenized themselves and brought
the rest of us into the kings court
where We expect to acquit ourselves
at the polls by voting for the indi-
vidual rather than the partisan.
1 do hope they will not tax the
churches. A READER.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -


from three to six times more fire.
quently in women than in men.
The general study of statistics of
people with these disorders shows
that cold, damp surroundings are a
frequent factor in association with
the onset of rheumatic conditions.
Not infrequently the person af-
fected has been chilled by exposure
to rain or cold before onset of the
disease.
Of particular Importance in the
occurrence of rheumatic infection is
previous infection with influenza,
scarlet fever, or an acute rheu-
matte complaint.
Indeed, almost any infection with
the streptococcus seems to lead ul-
t1mately to a rheumatic condition.
This is particularly true when the
infection is located in the teeth, the
tonsllS or the throat.
The sinuseS sometimes may be in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
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HENRY'S SPEECH
March %

ON March %, IT'S, Patrick
~ Henry, famous American
orator and statesman, reused the
Virginia delegates to the provincial
convention with a speech that has
come down to us as the greatest
piece of oratory of the colonial era.
1t was delivered in defense of the
resolutions which Henry himself in
troduced, to organize militia and
to put the colony in an attitude of
defense. Its most stirring passage
was:
There is no retreat but in sub
mission and slavery. Our chains
already are forged. Their clank-
ing may be heard or the plains of
Boston.
THE next gale that sweeps from
the north will bring the clash Of
resounding arms. Our brethren al
ready are on the field. Why stand
We here idle?
What is it that the gentlemen
wish? What would they have? Is
life so dear or peace so sweet as
to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty Godl
know not what others may take,
but as for me, give me liberty or
give me death!"
The resolutions we're passed
unanimously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H EyE1GS

TT began well. The first couple of
Il trenches were easy. But by now
the rush has begun to lose momen-
tum.
Tammany was taken by surprise,
and yet it hardly was to be expected
that the fight could be won without
hand-to-hand encounters. After all,
this isn't the first Storming party
which the braves ever have expert
enced.
Even Jimmy Walker has begun to
cover up and not leave his chin ex-
posed for swings from right and
left.
For a week or more he was, as H.
l. Phillips pointed out, Gods gift
to photographers and cartoonists. ;"
He gave us more or less shocked. E"
Il want to get away from it all"
and THE sun which tanned, but did
not blister"
That day has passed. Jimmy has
adopted the shrewder policy of
silence and Seclusion.
Nor is it expedient to underesti
mate the strength with which he
may hit back when he returns. His
head has cleared by now from the
effect of the blows which landed in
the first furry.
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volved and serve as the focus from
which the infection is carried to the
joints.
1t seems quite possible that there
is some change in the joints or in
the general nutrition of the person
concerned which makes it possible
for the infection to arise in some
cases, whereas it will not be able
to gain access to the joints in other
cases.
These factors may be physical
factors, such as are involved in the
rate of blood flow to the joints or
factors of nutrition which seem to
upset the acid-alkali balance in the
blood.
1t seems quite possible that there
may be instances in which disorders
of the functions of the glands Of
internal secretions are at the base
of the constitutional disturbance,
which eventuates in rheumatic
condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
We Make Little HeadWay

KHEN who think are alarmed.
1V1 AS they see the situation, it
represents nothing less than most
dangerous collapse not only of our
political structure, but of the moral
and social order.
The conviction is growing that We
can't hope to correct much of any,
thing until marked Improvement
has been shown in the administra-
ton Of public affairs, particularly IS
that administration has to do with
law enforcement.
We are arreSting larger numbers
of people than ever before, and are
finding it necessary to enlarge our
penal institutions on a scale and
with a rapidity which is little less
than startling.
We are making little Roadway,
however, against the insidiouS mis-
conception of loyalty and patriotism
which makes it all so futile.
Machine politics and gang rule
have developed a power not only in
back alleys and dark streets, but in
the very highest places of political
authority, with which the law is
finding it more and more difficult
to cope.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
FIeeCed for Pardon

A WOMAN in Kentucky just has
"A sworn out warrants against
three men-one of them a court
clerk--to whom she says she paid
nearly $1,000 to get her husband a
pardon.
She says that, at the outset, an
attorney promised to get it for
$500, but that he kept coming back
for more, on the ground that some
one in authority demanded it.
Along this same line, Robert Ell
lott Burns, who returned voluntar-
lily to Georgia to work out an unex-
pired term on the chain gang, from
which he escaped seven years pre-
viously, declares that he paid out
$500 to lawyers supposed to be
working for his release, that they
did nothing to earn it, and quit
pretending to work as soon as his
bank roll gave out.
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Questions and
Answers

Was Brigham Young the first
Governor of the state of Utah?
He was the first Governor of the
Territory of Utah, but he died in
1877 before Utah was admitted to
the Union as a state. The first Gov
ernor Of the state was Heber M.
Wells, 1S96-19O5.
Are steam boilers rated by horse
power or is there a new way of
rating them?
The United States bureau Of
standards says the rating of steam
boilers by horse power is rapidly be-
coming. obsolete; the square foot of
heating surface being used instead.
Ten square feet of heating surface
in boilers of all types is considered
equivalent to one boiler horse power.
To what church did President
Harding belong?
Ee was a Baptist, and attended
Calvary Baptist church in Washing
ton.
Does the fertility or non-fertility
of eggs affect their food value?
No,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
Moral Cost Is High

IF WE had only crime to deal
IL with, the problem would be far
simpler, but we have all kinds of
crookednesS and corruption right
inside the very system which was
created to deal with crime. AS a
matter Of ordinary common sense.
crime could not flourish as it does
in this country without such crook
ednesS and corruption, and the peo-
pie know it.
The deplorable situation no longer
is confined to an isolated case of
bribery, extortion, abuse of power.
or fake charges here and there.
Every large city, every state, and
many of the smaller communities
are suffering from the same dry
rot.
Crime and its alleged activities
have come to cost us more than
the entire operation of government,
and what it is costing morally rep
resents more than what it is cost
ing in cash.
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No Setun

EOR time it seemed as if the
4 thing was too one-sided. I got
a fair cross-section of opinion
through the letters which come in.
From being a White-haire boy and
a more or less authentic Moses. I
find that now there is considerable
complaint in which I figure as a
bore, a charlatan, a disappointed
ott1ce-Seeker and the various things
which certain readers Scribble with
soft pencil across the face Of torn
out column.
But 1 like it better this way. No
body wants to find himself in the
position of being one of a vast ma
jority all stepping on PROSTATE
person.
Even some Of the hardest fighters
for reform we're bothered a little
bit by the thought that they were
taking the mayor at too great a
disadvantage.
The amateur tradition of the
pleasant handshake and the gleam-
ing smile at the end of the tennis
match has robbed lot of people
Of more fundamental fighting
spirit.
But I think it reasonable to as
sure all anti Tammanyites that it is
too soon to she'd tears of pity for a
prosecuted Jimmy. He isn't licked
by long shot. And the organiza-
ton which backs him has begun to
consolidate.
Nobody need be worried that this
is merely setup. I am quite used
to being bore. Nobody can serve
through any campaign without get
ting tiresome. You even wear your
own patience thin after a week or
so.
But few striking cartoons and
a numbe,. of vigorous editorials in
the newspapers just won't do the
trick. It has to be much more
long winded process.
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Spiral TYnaS
.R. HUBBLE finds next a

NR. HUBBLE finds next a ten
~ dency for the nebula to begin
to break up. This leads to the de-
velopment Of the spiral nebulae
which resemble the pinwheels shot
off in fireworks displays.
But DR.. Hubble finds a develop
mental sequence among the spiral
forms. At the beginning there are
forms which are essentially fat
tened globes, showing only slight
streaming Of material from the
equatorial rim.
More advanced forms show more
and more Streaming, until the def
mite spiral shape with a central
nucleus and coiled arms is reached.
These extend all the way from the
type which has a large nucleus and
small closed-coiled arms to the type
which has a small nucleus and
large, open arms.
The ones with small nuclei have
arms which have broken up into
small condenSations.
DR.. bubbles observations with the
100-inch telescope shows that the
nucleus of the spiral type is always
a gaseous mass. But in the type
with large, open arms, the telescope
reveals that the arms are no longer
diffuse gaseous matter, but great
collections of stars among which
there is nebulous matter.
The astronomer believes that the
sequence observed by DR. Hubble is
an evolutionary sequence, that
nongalactic nebula starts y life as
a great globular mess Of gaseous
material and finally develops into
a spiral whose widespread arms
have condensed into stars.
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more time at his desk, but the
change in executives would be less
than epochmaking.
Prostitution is a problem which
can not be solved merely by chasing,
filming, and Furnishing prostitutes.
City government isn't matter
which can be put upon an efficient
and a decent basis by chasing this
or that individual politician.
1 have in hand a letter from a
man who holds almost an historical
position in the fight for municipal
welfare here and in other cities. He
shocked the country with his reve-
lationS many years ago.
He was lashing out with both
fact and fury at a time when I was
just entering newspaper work. And
Lincoln Steffens did alter the as
pect of some sections of America.
even though there has been much
backsliding since.
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against political corruption run off
on a man-hunt. There is something
so much better to do.
There is something wrong. Sure.
But it is something, not somebody.
1t is not Mayor Walker or the
magistrates; it isn't Tammany or
the police.
you know that. We all know
that. There was something similarly
wrong in my oay, and we we're
similarly enraged. We labored long.
but we ousted not only our Tam
many mayor; we ousted Boss Croker.
too, and Tammany.
1--WE cleaned up the police we'll:
we cleaned up the town. We put
lots of crooks in jail; we put lots
more out of business. We had a
revenge which satisfied.
Il have seen this happen in a
good many cities and some countries
and 1 have seen how it ends. when
it ends.
There is something wrong about
reform, as we'll as about graft and
corruption"
Copyright, 1881 BY The Tin,se1
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Views of Times Readers

Editor Times-I notice some peo-
pie advocate taxing churches. These
people have a right to their opin-
ions, as I have, but it looks to me
like taxing the widows mite
1t seems to me that the basic
cause of our local, national and
world dilemma is that. too many
people have junked the Bible.
The county assessor, mentioned
previously in the peoples column,
Is an average political machine
made officer, who, true to form, adj
vocated taxing churches.
Some people advocate cutting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23

Crime and It's Alleged Activ-
titles Haze Come to Cost
More Than Oar Entire OPP
Grafton of GOrernment.

OINCINNATI, March 23.-Chap-
~ lains of the Illinois state
prison-one Catholic and one Prot
estant-agree that recent riots, in
volving the loss of three lives and
a million dollars worth of prop
erty, we're due largely to methods
pursued by the parole board.
They charge that while the board
was considerate toward prisoners
with influential connections, it had
scant courtesy for the poor and
friendless.
WeI-dressed relatives of prison.
ers, they say, always could depend
on a cordial reception, while those
shabbily clothed were treated with
the utmost indifference.
They declare that the board
favored politicians, not only in the
matter of granting requests, but in
that Of refusing to do so, that efforts
were continually being made, either
with the boards assistance or its
knowledge, to obtain evidence from
prisoners regarding the Chicago sit
uation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23

ary to the general belief the National Red Cross
not distributing unemployment relief and does not
plan to do Private relief funds in most cities will
be exhausted by April /.
Those private funds, according to Allen r. Burns,
director Of the National Association OF Community
Chests and Councils have amounted to less than 25
per cent Of total relief extended The remaining rs
per cent has come from public treasures chiefly city
treasures And the cities for legal or financial rea-
sons, are about at the end Of their rope
Then, unless there is an Unexpectedly rapid in
crease in employment this spring, it appears that
only direct federal aid through private and municipal
relief agencies, can prevent serious suffering and un-
rest.
Now that the government has revised its facts
as to the emergency President Hoover should stand
ready to revise his policy for meeting that emergency
by special session of congress and necessary re-
lief appropriations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
estlng writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
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DR., Edwin P, Hubble

EFT lis call the astronomer to the
II witness stand and see what he
has to say about evolution in the
universe.
We will hear first from DR.. Ed.
win P. Hubble of Mt. Wilson OBJ
servatory, who has made a study
OF the nongalactic nebulae with
the lOo-inch telescope. the largest
telescope in the world.
1t will be recalled that our own
sun is one of 40,000,000,0OO stars
forming the galaxy, watch
shaped formation of stars, the di-
ameter Of which, "along the hands
OF the watch is 100000 light-years
"a Ight-year is the distance light
travels in a year. approximately
6,000,000,000,O0O years.
At immense distances from Our
galaxy, the telescope reveals objects
known as the nongalactic nebulae.
About 100000 of them are with.
in the reach of the 100-inch tele-
scope. And now for what the 100
inch telescope showed DR.. Hubble
about them:
DR.. Hubble found that they could
be arranged in definite series. ac-.
cording to their shape and struc-
ture.
At the beginning of the sequence
come those which are globular in
form. Apparently they are great
globes of gaseous material.
Next DR.. Hubble found 1attened
globes of various kinds, ranging in
a sequence from globes which are
only slightly f1attened at the poles
to pancakes which have a di-
ameter from pole TO pole of only
about one-third the diameter at
the equator.
From this point development pro-
ceeoS along another line.
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MOST authorities are convinced
AVA that the tendency to rheu-
matism runs in families, although
unquestionably the environment in
which the person lives plays large
part, particularly as concerns the
likelihood Of infection.
The ministry of health of Great
Britain found an hereditary factor
in So per cent of men and in 48
per cent of women with rheumatic
complaints.
The rheumatoid condition can de-
velop at any age and can affect the
human being at almost any period
in life.
Both chorea, which is presumed
to belong to the same group of dis
eases, and rheumatic joints occur
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23
Not Epoch-Making

DUT there is no reason why the
ID public choice should lie within
such narrow limits. If Mayor
Walker is removed, he will be sue
ceeded by the president of the
board of aldermen.
Mckee Undoubtedly would spend
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23

What is the value of public school
buildings and equipment in the
United States, and the total of tho
annual salaries ard expenses Of
principals and teachers?
The value of public school build
ings, including lands, in the states
reporting to the United States bu-
reau of education for the year 1927
% was S4,205 ,080,224. The value OF
equipment for the same year was
S409 ,062,623. The total Of all pub
lie school property. including undis-
tributed items, was s5,46s 500.
Salaries and expenses of supervisors.
principals and teachers in the same
year amounted to sl,164,583,026.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-23

LIMOS farmers are to conduct campaign to make
LIE PUBIC milk conscious" Isn't that what the milk
man does when he rouses us in the morning?
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Dorothy thinks that plug" tobacco is the kind al
old horse chews on
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The butcher wouldn't complain if the average Gus
TONER came IN like lion and went out out with some
lamb
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SCIENCE
Many People Haze Mistaken
Ideas on What Evolution"
Really Means to Scientist.
by DAVID DIETZ-


Ideas on What "Euolution"
Really Means to Scientist.
ITO some people, the word "evo-
l. luton" unfortunately, still
means the claim that man is de-
scended from the monkey.
Of course. evolutionists don't
mean that. Others. better acauaint-
ed with organic evolution, still think
OF the terms as applying to biology
only. But even this is not correct.
Today. scientists see evolution at
work throughout the entire uni
verse. The picture which the mod
ern scientist gives us of the universe
is one OF a dynamic, changing uni
verse, a universe in which energy
IS continually manifesting itself.
But these changes take place &C
cording to law.
The universe is one Of order, not
OF caprice. There is a gradual un-
folding or development of the uni
verse. That is what the scientist
means by evolution.
Frequently there is discussion Of
the bearing Of the theory Of evolu-
ton upon the subject of religion. A
number of eminent scientists, in
Guiding DR.. r. A. Millikan. past
president Of the American ASCOT
alton for the Advancement of Sci
ence, have pointed out ON numer-
Gus occasions that one can believe
IN evolution and still retain relig-
iouS faith.
Many scientists believe sincerely
that when they study the laws Of
evolution, they are studying the
laws which the Creator laid down
for ODerati0n of tho ,,,,i,areo
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A fool may now and then be right
by chance.-Cowper.
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Daily Thought

Fools make mock at sin.
Proverbs 14:9.
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From St0ffenS

'nON'T-please don't let this pub
~ lie protest you are fostering