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The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Loo important

NF late there has been an inten-
" sive campaign designed to con-
vince US all that we should hang on
to life as if we we're survivors cling
ing to a raft.
Both newspaper advertising and
radio eXhortation advise us to con-
suit our dentist twice a year and
our doctor once a month. We have
been told to look to our gums and
to our arteries.
This sounds sane enough until
one stops to think of the fact that
all great lives are carried on with
some inspirational quality of reck-
Iessness.
It doesn't seem to me that any
one can embark upon an important
enterprise feeling his pulse as he
goes. Into each life there ought to
come at times some quality of the
crapshooter's philosophy Of Shoot
it ALL"
I can think Of few men who have
carried on an important career
charging themselves always with
due precaution as to stress and
strain. This is one Of the factors
which ALLEVIATE me from Mayor
James Joseph Walker.
Not for a minute would 1 deny
that Mr.. Walker has worn himself
beyond the precautionary line in his
life and labors. He is not glandu-
larly equipped to maintain the pace
which he has created for himself
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
tax payment. AS usual small taxpayers we're hit

TAX payment. AS usual small taxpayers were hit
hardest
That policy must be changed in the next tax legis
lation The heaviest burden must be put the rich
not on the poor and not on the small professional
and business men, who can not afford it.
Presumably the Presidents statement is based on
the conviction that the business depression will pass
this summer and that government revenues will in
crease sufficiently to care for the federal deficit Of
$70O,OOOOOO or S8COOOO00O which apparently will
face the treasury on July mot counting the pros
pective deficit for the next fiscal year
The alternative to tax increase is the present
policy by which the treasury keeps going by floating
shorterm loans and by curtaing public debt retire
ment. We believe this is bad policy both from the
social and financial point of view
Federal expenses have been increasing for several
years. The last congress appropriated about half
billion dollars more than its predecessor The govern
ment, moreover, is committed to a large number of
future projects, for which additional funds must be
found.
Most Of the steady increase in ordinary annual ex-
penditures is legitimate. decrease either in ordi-
nary or special expenditures is not to be expected
The one possible exception would be cut in military
and naval budgets, which the administration does
not achieve.
While expenditures are mounting, revenues are
declining. The March income tax payments indicate
Shrnkage in receipts of more than third Apparently
some 00O000OO less will be paid into the treasury
during this quarter than in the same period last year
Customs revenues also have declined sharply, fol-
lowing enactment OF the suicidal Hawley-Smoot
tariff law Total loss in receipts for nine months Of
the fiscal year amounts to half billion dollars
There must be eventual tax increase We should
face facts now rather than attempt to postpone the
day OF reckonng-eyen if tax increase would be en-
oarassng to the administration on the eve of pres
idential election
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
REASON BY Fl
FREDERICK
Lands

THE other day DR.. A. T. Hyde, dentist and a.
World war veteran, living at Edna, Kan, killed
two bank robbers after they had looted the bank and
locked everybody in the bank vault.
Now that was too bad!
After what DR.. Hyde has done it will not be
possible for any medical expert to feel the glands
OF the robbers and tell the jury they ought to 90 free
because they had too much mineral wool in their
epigottlses to understand that bank robbery is not
good form.
1t won't be possible for any criminal lawyer to
prove an alibi
He can not get them a change of venue now that
they are laid out cold.
He can't even get them a writ of habeas corpus
and what shame it is fo robber to wink out be-
lore ne mas had at least writ of haheas corpusl
OUNCE these robbers have been picked by the en-
- battled dentist, it's impossible for any Clarence
barrow to get them new trial or continuance or
take appeal
And it's great disappointment to the taxpayers
Tor now they won't be permitted to put up $4,000 for
monkey business trial
To riddle bank robbers with buckshot. right in the
full bloom OF promising careers discourages crime and
70 discourage crime is about the most un-American
thing we recall.
They are still having trouble over at the Joliet
prison. the prisoners being UP in arms because they
feel that the parole board is not on the level.
OF course, nothing arouses a prisoner more than
the thought that somebody else is not on the level
DUT the big fact remains that if these prisoners
- had been willing to work for a living instead
OF trying to get it easily at the point of gun they
wouldn't care about what any parole board did for
they would be at home with their folks, wondering
how much they could get on the old car.
We are not going to sympathize with any prisoners
until We get done sympathizing with folks who are
going straight under big handicaps
If you have some sympathy to put on the market
give 1t to the farmer who is getting ready to put in
crop of corn and wondering as he does it whether he'll
get enough out of it to pay for his. seed
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HFE%2SD FESyS

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
~ has come to town and granted
an interview to the newspaper men.
She told reporters that she has
grown little sick and tired of one
OF her most famous quatrains:
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night.
But, oh, my foes, and, oh, my
friends!
1t gives a lovely light"
Any author is likely to become
annoyed if some single passage is
captured and repeated out of the
entire bulk of his work.
It is unfair to Miss NIillay that
the impression should gain ground
that here in four lines she has COM
pleted her gospel.
And yet I feel that this particu-
larly favored passage does, in a
crude way, represent her philosophy
of life. And now, though she may
disown it, I still feel that the con-
tribution is one of great value. It
has an important quality because
it wars with so much Of our current
thinking.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Power Craze Victims

A FTER five months study, a
"A British commission reports
that the R-101, which cracked up
last October with the loss of forty
eight lives, came to her doom, not
through the fault of constructors
or operators, but through the in
sistent haste of those who wanted
to make a grandstand play for
policys sake.
To begin with, she had a Ieaky
gas tank. Then she had not been
tested sufficiently for any one to
know what she could 90, especially
in bad weather.
The program of trials outlined
by her captain had only partly been
carried out. To cap the climax,
she was started for India under very
unfavOrable conditions.
Somebody wanted to show her of,
not as q triumph Of aviation, but
as a symbol of power.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Love TO Strut

T Owe Of strutting explains many
IL things-the souvenir hunter,
who takes you into his den to see
some memento of tragedy; the
statesman who sends an airship
away before she is ready; the
politician who wisecracks because
he is too lazy to think; the author
who advances some silly or revolt
ing idea, not because he believes it.,
but because he hopes it will prove
Of advertising value.
ShOwInanship has been accepted
by many as an essential part of
Salesnlanship and is to be found
in some mighty high places. Belief
in the sensational as a means, not
only Of attracting attention, but of
putting over serious business, still
bulkS large in our scheme of things.
Many people assume they can't
get anywhere without shocking, up
rising, or soaring their neighbors.
What we call civilization was not
made by strutters, but by the slow,
patient work Of those who were
more interested in doing something
than in being seen Or heard.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Nitrogen and Wheat

TINE Importance of the nitrogen
4 industry to agriculture can be
grasped from the fact that the
United States grows about five bill
lion bushels Of wheat, oats, and corn
each year.
1t is estimated that each bushel
grown removes from the soil about
nine-tenths of a pound Of nitrates.
These nitrates have to be put back
into the soil each year in the form
of fertilizers If this was not done,
the land would soon become barren.
Hydrogen finds many industrial
uses. Lard substitutes are made by
treating cottonseed oil with hydro
gen. The gas is also used in the
oXyhydrogen blow-torch and in the
manufacture of ammonia.
Carbon dioXide, another gas pres
ent in small amounts in the at
mosphere, is used in manufacturing
carbonated waters, washing soda,
and baking soda.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
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CHARLEMAGNE BIRTH

April 2
NN April 2, 742, Charlemagne,
~ French name of Charles the
Great, king Of the Franks and Ro-
man emperor, was born in either
AiX-la- Chapelle or Ingelheim.
Charlemagne began his conquests
by crossing the Alps and complete
ly subduing northern Italy. He
was acknowledged king Of Lom-
hardy in TIA.
At Easter of this same year he
visited Rome, where the pope con-
ferred upon him the title "Patri-
clan Of Rome"
For several years thereafter
Charlemagne made frequent expe-
ditions into Spain. He later de-
feated the Saxons and carried his
arms into Bohemia, Bavaria and
Hungary.
The Frankish dominion now COM
prised the whole of France, and
most Of Germany and Austria.
Great as warrior, Charlemagne
was even greater as an administra-
tor and civil ruler. He divided the
empire Systematically, placing each
division under military, judicial and
civil authority.
A real, but short, renascence of
learning took place in the Frank
ish kingdom. Charlemagne died
Jan. 28, 814
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Questions and
Answers

What is the area of the Vatican
state?
1887 acres.
How do sailing vessels pass
through the locks of the Panama
canal?
They are towed.
How long are the locks in the
Panama canal?
One thousand feet.
What does the name lopez mean?
It is Spanish, derived from Latin,
and means "a wolf"
Who was Cleopatra?
A famous and very beautiful
queen of Egypt, loved by julius
Caesar and by Mark Antony. Their
rivalry made many complications in
Roman politics at the time.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Industrial Gases Eristing IN
the Earth's atmosphere
Are Oxygen, Nitrogen. He
linn and Carbon Dioride.
CONTRARY to the old proverb,
- you can make money out OF
the air AT least, you can out of
certain gases that are constituents
Of the atmosphere.
The Machine Age rests in large
part upon number Of invisible sub
stances known. as the industrial
gases, some OF which are to be
found in the air we breathe.
The most important of the in
dustrial gases are oxygen, hydro
gen. helium, natural gas. neon.
chlorine, carbon dioxide, and acety-
lene. OF that group, oxygen. nj
tnoAeH' heilum, neon, and carbon
dioAlde exist in the earth's atmos
phere.
The youth Of the Machine Age
can De grasped when it is realized
that the existence Of many of these
gases Is extremely young. Our
knowledge of oxygen and nitrogen
is only a little more than $50 years
ola. knowledge Of helium and
neon is less than forty years old.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
The Outstanding Item

DURING the last twenty-four
IL hours, the news has contained
some important items, the Managua
earthquake, the airplane disaster in
Kansas, Presidents Hoover's state
ment in opposition to tax rise,
the twenty-four demands on Eng
land voted by the Indian nationalist
conference, the discovery of gold in
Mexico, only to mention a few.
The most important of them all.
however, probably was that which
told how the human voice had been
sent clearly across the English
channel on a seven-inch radio wave
and by broadcasting outfit with
no greater power than an ordinary
fashligEt
That item means something of
stupendous Importance, not only for
the day, the week, the year, but for
centuries to come. 1t means that
broadcasting no longer is restricted
to a few stations, or to those who
are in a position to make large cap
ital investments, 250,OOO according
to engineers, in field that now
contains room for only two or three
hundred.
Politics, publicity, and communi-
cations of all kinds, whether in the
old home town or on worldwide
basis, will be affected.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Oxygen Has Manv lIsas

Pure oxygen finds a wide variety
Of industrial uses. In 1919 more
than 1,o0Oo0O,0o0 cubic feet of oxy-
gen was used in industry.
The chief use for oxygen is with
the oXy-actetylene torch. Strangely
enough, this same torch can be used
to weld metals or to cut them. The
action of the flame depends upon
the amount Of oxygen used.
Nitrogen is the foundation Of fer
tilizers and explosives. In this con-
nection, it should be remembered
that the use of explosives is not
confined to war. Mining, blasting,
and many peacetime activities re-
quire the use of explosives.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Walker and RoSebudS

DUT if Jimmy Walker is. as I as
- sumo, the ultimate symbol Of
the good fellow-the man about
town. think he ought to stick to
his role and pick an exit most ap-
propriate rather than to become in
Prospective and worry about what
may become Of him upon the NOR
row.
My attitude toward the mayor is
not quite that of many Of my as
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
We Can't Escape Taxes

President Hoover announces that there will be no
increase in federal taxes next year if congress i'm
poses no increases upon the budget or other expendi-
ture proposals.
There has been, as a matter of fact tax in
crease this year through discontnuance of the per
cent reduction which applied to last years income
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this baDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

brilliant individual in the interims
between parties. 1t requires a uni
fed and a single track mind.
I will undertake for myself to
manage a tolerably pleasant exist
ence no matter who serves at city
hall.
To Mayor Walker I wish joy, hap
piness, a long life and merry one.
Few men have been better qualified
to grace the role of ex-mayor.
Copyright, 1881. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

Civilization Wos Not Made
By Strutting, but by Hard.
Patient Work.

NEW YORK, April 2.-Thougb
! the airplane which carried
Knute Rockne and seven others to
death fell in a sparsely settled
ranch country. souvenir hunters had
carried away the bulk of it within
twenty-four hours after the crash.
You can forgive the morbid taste
but not the senselessness. The onlv
hope Of finding out what happened
and Of preventing such disasters in
the future rested solely in leaving
the wreckage as it was.
Everyone aboard having been
killed, there was nothing to consult
but the broken, twisted plane. It
seems incredible that people of this
day and generation were so crazy to
get hold Of bit Of wood or metal
associated with death and destruc-
ton that they couldn't let it alone.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

sociates who attack him. Quite
frankly I can say that I would
much prefer to go on a party with
Jimmie Walker than to sit down for
a good time with Rabbi Wise or
John Haynes Holmes or Norman
Thomas.
I'd have more fun. In many of
my points of view I travel closer
to Jimmy than I can do with John
or Stephen or Norman.
And yet do not feel that this
constitutes any complete indorse-
ment Of the current administra-
ton.
If James Joseph Walker were to
resign tomorrow in order to take up
some executive job with the talking
pictures, I sincerely could wish
him extremely well.
He is a type of person with whose
virtues and whose failings I am sym
pathetic. But he has just about as
much right to be mayor of New
York as would have.
This may seem most fantastic
comparison. But it has been
charged by Jimmy that all his op-
ponents are disgruntled office seek
ers. And this hits me glancing
blow, for once upon a time I ran for
congress.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

An optimist is fellow who purchases a comb with
bottle of hair restorer
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

Chicago is to hold its fair in 1888 If it will gel
rid OF all its undesirable citizens by that time that will
be fair enough.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
Dangerous Precedents

Inc court OF the star chamber of absolutistc Stu
art England has become symbolic of tyranny over
the human mind. But this ancient tribunal has
nothing on our federal postoice authorities in this
field.
Within the last few months the postofice de-
partment bureaucrats have barred from the mails
no less than five Communist papers and one anarch-
ISL publication The Iid-clamping began with the
Revolutionary Age and the last casualty is Sports and
Play The latter is a monthly magazine devoted 70
labor sports and is the official organ of Labor Shorts
Union OF America. Evidently the frolics and gambo1s
OF reds are deemed as deadly as their phrases.
It is probable that there is no overwhelming loss
to American culture as result of the suppression of
these magazines and papers The same would be
true OF the suppression of an equal number of bour
geois Sheets
But the precedent slowly but surely being estab-
lshed is threat to one of the bulwarks of liberty
and modern cvization-the freedom of the press Al,
entering wedge can be driven in under the guise of
saving the nation from radicalisnl-hardlv the busi
ness Of the postofice
once this practice has become common if will be
possible to carry it to disastrous extremes The Revo
lutonary Age, the New York Nation, the Forum
Harpers magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, represent
logical stages Of advance for the censor Or sunnosa
the radicals should triumph at some distant date
Wnat splendid Justification they could seize upon in
earlier capitalist procedure.
1t is time the respectable and powerful press rec
ognzed the implicit danger in the situation and gave
the petty czars in the postoffce department some
oppoSltlon which they can not trample on at will
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A Concern

TINE job must be taken on by
A man who has what the Quakers
call "a concern" The organization
can not be run even by the most
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

Advertising loses its effectiveness only when it
comes to the bll-bored
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02

DAILY THOUGHT
Judge not according to the ap-
pearance.-JOhn 7:24.
We take less pains to be happy
than to appear so.-Rochefoucauld.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-04-02
72,839

FRANK MORRISON business Manager
subscribed dav Of Anl ,a
3 NTfrW ANGER zapIls dsoa
Ny commission expires January % 1882 ' ''S
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-21

luton of Intention, and wneh the
work to be done is only upon an en-
tire crossing or intersection, or any
part thereof, he shall cause sncn
notices to be conspicuously posted
in front of each quarter block OF
irregular block liable TO be assessed
and when the work is chargcapie
upon n district, he shall cause sucn
notices to be conspicuously posted
upon all open streets Wlthh sucii
district at not more than three nun
dred feet in distance apart on eacn
street SO posted. all in the time,
form and manner required py iaW'
and thereupon, said Superintendent
of Streets shall cause TO be 1ileo III
the office of the City Clerk oil SAID
CITY an affidavit showing the post
ing of said Notices of improvements.
That the said work and improve
ment shall be done under the pro
visions of an Act OF the Legisia-
ture of the State of California
known and designated as the I'M
provement Act of 1911" approved
April 7, 1911, and all acts supple
mentary thereto or amendatory
thereof. and the serial bonds herein
mentioned shall be issued In ac-
cordance with the provisions OF the
Improvement Bond Act OF 1915 rs
aforesaid.
That the City CLERK shall ce1u-
fy to the passage of this Resolution
and shall cause the same to be pub
lished for two days in the Imperial
Valley Press. daily newspaper
published and circulated in the said
CITY of FL Centre and hereby desig-
mated for that purpose.
That the said City Council does
not deem 1t advisable that the City
Clerk mail copies of the notice OF
said Improvement to the owners CT
reputed owners, and he is not re-
CURED to mail the same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by tho
City Council of the City OF Ell Cen
tro. California. this 4th day OF
March, 1881, by the following vote
to-wit:
AYES. Councilmen Couch, Rice.
Clements. Gianola, Fawcett.
NOES, Councilmen, None.
ABSENT. Councilmen, None.
II. w. FAWCETT, President OF the
City Council of the City OF FL
Centre, California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL )ss.
CITY OF Ell CENTRIC }
l, j. c. NEALE. City Clerk of the
City of Ell Centre, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution was duly and regularly
passed and adopted BY the City
Council of the City of El Centre,
California, at the time and by the
vote above stated
j. c. NEALE, City Clerk of the City
of FL Centro California.
March 81 and %
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-21
BACK FROM ELB4

The little old Welshman is back in the
saddle once more.
Agreement between Ramsey Mac
Donald and David Lloyd George makes
the latter virtually a dictator for par
lament and strengthens the weak Labor
government at time when it badly
needs strengthening.
A working agreement between Liberal
and Labor parties is expected to save the
Macdonald government If the admins
tration is defeated on the forthcoming
budget bill, condition which would re-
suit in a general election and the pos
sible restoration of the Conservatives TO
power.
Of the two Lloyd George would prefer
to have the Laborites in power, the Con-
servatives always having been anathema
to him.
MANY in England see in the dictator
ship" of Lloyd George, first step IN his
return as premier. This would not be
surprising Lloyd George steered Eng
land safely through the worst crisis it
ever faced-in the World War. No less
a parsonage than General John }. Persh-
ing attributes the success OF the allied
cause to Lloyd George.
England's present troubles are GER
talnly not as SefiouS do lhooe VI 'iiN go
DAYS, but they are serious enough. Two
years of Labor government have not aid
ed in solving the unemployment situa-
ton, one of the most irritating of Eng
lish problems Lloyd George may not be
able to solve it, but it is dollars to dough-
nuts that he can do great deal to I'M
prove it. He has ability, the confidence
of his couptrymen and the driving force
necessary to carry out any program that
may be adopted
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-21
First Presbyterian

At the II O'Clock worship hour
the pastor, Rev. John S. A. Gum,
will give a brief address on "Our
Debt to God" This will be followed
by a message of vital interest to
the local church and to the church
at large entitled. "a Message to tbs
Church from the General Council of
the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America"
The following piano numbers will
be given by Mrs. S. P. Holiday
"Gondolieri" (Nevin); "The Rosary
CNevin) 'Postlude" (Hayden). The
choir anthem will be, Breast the
Wave, Christian" (Shelley).
The church school at GAS. Su-
perintendent, Mrs. Fred P. Nuttall
Song service under the direction Of
Madame Kupelian, with Mrs. Edgar
Hargraves at the piano.
The Senior and intermediate
groups of Endeavor have received a
special invitation to attend the
young peoples meeting at the State
Street Christian church at 6:15
o. m. After the meeting the Seniors
will meet at the home Of Mrs. P. H.
Judd. 1918 Brighton avenue, for q
social hour.
The Juniors will meet at 5 o'clock.
There viii be special musical num-
bers and new hymns will be sung.