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The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
The Novelty Has Worn Off

TINE unemployment crisis has
i been with us for so consider
able a period by now that it has lost
much of it's theatrical quality. We
grown callous in regard to bread
lines and accept them as a natural
thing. Indeed, they may very short
ly be admitted to the status OF acts
of God" at which point the Red
Cross may be willing to step in.
But it will not do to say, These
things have been, and here they
are. Let's muddle through an
other winter" Few longer believe
in the theory that overnight some
thing, never clearly defined, will
turn ur to alter the entire economic
complexion Of America and all the
world.
These conditions are of our own
making, and in the same way Of
our own mending. It will take
time. But brain and hand can be
joined to pull the clay in place.
The thing to do is to get start
"a running start would be best
of all But even the slowest sort
of movement would be ever so
much better than nothing at all.
I suppose the first point in our
rehabilitation must come through
the national recognition of the fact
that the problem in hand is world
wide. To be sure, some of the most
conservative of Republicans have
been saying that of late. The old
idea of pigeon-hole prosperity has
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17

is true and because he thinks it is good politics to
say so.
Part of the Governors charm is the frankness of
his ambition to be President. The bid he is seeking
TO make the utilities issue is not directed merely
at the campaign contributors among the utility
mates, but at the voters.
1t is not likely to prove successful bid BY going
even further than Owen D. Young has dared to go
in support Of the utility operators view it seems to
U.s. Ritchie has made himself even less of candidate
than Young has turned out to be.
BY his elaborate defense of state regulation of
utilities, furthermore, he has proved himself many
years behind the times. His system has been tried
and failed.
If state regulation adequate the power inter-
ests would not be able to get away with the financial
hting, rate boosting, and political manipulation of
which they guilty today.
Only one thing stands between the country and
government ownership. That is effective federal
regulation. If the power interests prevent effective
federal regulation in the future-as in the pas-they
will force government ownership.
The economic and political slavery which the coun-
try has to fear is not through public control of
utilities, but through the utilities control of the public
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HFET1SD BEoTS

do a great deal of work in plan
ming legislation which will get at
the root of the trouble.
However, even the most drastic
sort of cooperation will require a
little time before it begins to touch
fundamentals Even revolutionary
economists, when pressed, must ad-
NIT that their panaceas are not
calculated to work overnight.
Accordingly, in addition to deep
seated plans, we must also take on
that sort of help which is only
temporary and which relieves symp-
toms without altering causes. There
are some so distinctly hard-boiled
in their political attitude that they
would have nothing to do with
palliatives.
have heard plenty of people
argue that things must be allowed
to get worse before anything can
be done to make them better. With
this I disagree utterly. would have
not so much as a single person
starve to point a MARKHAM moral.
Already enough has happened to
convince an intelligent people that
old modes and manners are in need
of thorough going revision. And
we are an intelligent people. But
we need to have things pointed out.
Facts must be emphasized. And
more than that, they must be
dramatized,
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DEOPLE always more interesting than places.
l. AT San Miguel, in Santa Fe, the oldest church in
the new world, ancient priest opens the door to
the SightSeer.
Beneath the cid beams amid the faded pictures
and the worn railingS, where men and women have
knet to pray for hundreds of years. the aged brother
displays to the casual caller his treasures.
His back is bowed and his hands tremble. But in
his face there is the light Of great love for these
objects of which he is custodian. AS he taps for any
visitor the old bell brought over from Spain in the
tone is sweetest music He knows the history of every
alive there.
Gazing ct the stations and the crucifixes at the
placid Virgin with her Son in her arms at the great
La Sale enshrined along with the saints in this
holy place, at the carven wood and the altar with
its lace and its candles ones eyes always back
at last to rest upon the face of the old man. And
how much worthy of scrutiny is he than all his
sacred relics
II ME rest are dead things, preserved because they
L once were touched by the hands of forgotten men,
For this aged father bent by years of genuhectons
and labor, with his fringe of white hair making a
halo about his tight black skull cap, is have no
doubt worth more of our than all the inani-
mate objects together
Looking at his rapt and wrnkled face one realizes
that it would be sacrege to Slight any of the things
so dear to his heart so gazed at his trnkets and
listened while this thin voice trckled through the
silence, and wondered all the while about him.
Within this cloistered place have all his days been
days OF peace? San Miguel and its memories are all
ms world. The flame Of his affection is the only
living thing within its walls. It's steady glow made
the 1adeds dead place reality.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Every year fifty or sixty veterans
drop dead of heart disease through
overstrain in this mild form of ex-
ercise, but the casualty list is slight
compared with that of motor cars
upon the roads.
Millions /of tempers are lost in
bunkerS and Sandtraps, but the
first good drive or putt brings that
smile of contentment that even the
worst of golfers enjoy occasion
ally.
Doctors take their golf seriously
Many a physician nowadays pre-
scribes golf for his patients.
There is much to be said of the
game as to its health-giving quail
tiles. 1t provides muscular ac-
ton and of the special senses,
healthful perspiration and many
other important factors.
AS with every other sport, it
can not be played successfully
when the player is fatigued either
in mind or body. When we are
very tired. we become irritable and
slightly unbalanced. When the golf
player gets too tired, he blows up"
AS mankind turns more and more
to outdoor sports, Psychologists and
physicians give increasing atten-
ton to the action of the heart.
The heart is but one of the organs
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
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FIGHTING AT LENS
A. IL

Nov. IL
ON Sept. II, 1917, Sir Philip
" Gibbs wrote an account Of the
fighting and bombardment of Lens,
in which Canadian and English
troops faced the enemy.
Liens is town Of battered
houses without roofs and with
broken walls leaning against rub
Dish heaps of brickwork and tim
Der.
The enemy sent out a wireless
message that the English gunners
were destroying French property
by bombarding the city, and then
made a deep. belt Of destruction by
blowing up long blocks Of streets.
After that the British guns COM
pleted the ruin, for there was a
German garrison in every house,
and in this kind of warfare there
must be no tenderness of sentiment
about bricks and mortar il the
enemy is between the walls.
so now in Lens the only cover
for the Germans and their only
chance of safety is below the ground
in tunnels and cellars.
THE Canadians have filed the
city with gas that kills and soaks
down heavily into the dugouts and
stiles the men in their sleep before
they have time to stretch out their
hands for nsTsks."
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
The Short Work Week

AS out of the World came the final achieve
ment of the general eight-hour day in America, so
through the depression labor is advancing toward
its new goal, the fve-day week.
survey just completed by the United States
department of labor, reveals that there 673
manufacturing establishments, employing approx
mately 100000 persons, now on permanent five-day
week basis.
This estimate follows a canvass of 37857 estab-
lshments in seventy-seven different industries 1t
shows that "a per cent have adopted the short week
for all or part Of their employees that Sc per cent
of all employees covered m the survey enjoy the
schedule The automobile industry leads with "A per
cent of its employees on the five-day week.
The radio industry with 344 per cent. dyeing and
finishing textiles with 27 per cent and aircraft with
24s per cent follow the auto makers lead.
This survey does not the building crafts. The
American Federation of Labor last October estimated
that there were 100000 building trades workers the
short week basis. Estimates of the total number of
workers under the short week run as high as 1OOO-
O0O an estimate of the labor bureau of New York
Historically it has been the federal government
that has led all movements for shorter working hours
The ten-hour day was in its infancy when President
Van Buren, in 1S4o proclaimed the ten-hour day for
ali government workers The eght-hour day went
into effect in government bureaus in 1870
In 19l3 under Wilson, all government contracts
provided for the eght-hour day on government work.
Labor has the right to expect the government now
to take the lead for the fve-day week.
Next winter will substantial movement in
congress for the establishment Of the ve-day week
for the governments 100000 employees Senator Wat
son. Republican floor leader; Representative Hamil-
ton Fish and others have declared their intention of
introducing bills to this effect John Raskob Dem
ocratic national chairman has proposed to write the
fve-day week into the Democratic platform for 1882
The short work week is more than emergency
depression issue. Long after the depression is past
millions Of will remain on the jobless list If the
long workday schedule continues. Edward McGrady
of the A. F. Of L. estimates that the "disemployed"
victims of labor-savng machinery total 100000
and that S,5OOOOO will be jobless after prosperity
returns.
These must be absorbed by shortening the hours
and days of labor without reduction Of wages or we
will have permanent pauper class to drag down
our living standards and imperl our institutions
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
An EventfuI Career

TOSEPH HENRY was born in Al
J bany, N. Y, on Dec. II, 1897.
When he was 10, his father, day
laborer, died. The boy went to Gal
way, where he lived with an uncle
and attended the village school.
The boy acted as clerk and helper
in the general store of the village
after school hours. He spent much
of his spare time reading.
When he was Is, he returned to
Albany to live with his mother. He
tried his hand at writing plays, but
apparently was not destined for
the theater.
During an illness he read book
on natural history, DR.. Gregorys
Lectures on Experimental Philos-
ophy, Astronomy and Chemistry"
This was the turning point in his
career.
He attended night school to learn
more about these subjects. Later
he entered the Albany academy,
acting as tutor to defray his ex-
penses. His original intention was
to study medicine, but in 1925 he
was sent out to survey state road.
He enjoyed the work so much
that he decided to become an engi-
neer. But he again changed his
mind when he was offered the post
of professor of mathematics at the
Albany academy.
In 1882 he accepted similar
post at the College of New Jersey,
now Princeton university. When
the Smithsonian Institution was
organized in 1846, he became its
first secretary.
Henry attained world fame as a
scientist. He received degrees from
Harvard and other universities, be-
came president of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement of
Science and of the Natural Acad-
emy of Science.
He died in May, 1878. The presi-
dent of the United States, cabinet
members, senators. supreme court
justices and other Washington off,
Gals attended his funeral.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
Are We Going to Wait?

DEEN talking about unemploy-
ID ment two years, and what have
we done, except to arrange for a
few more soup kitchens and hand
outs?
BY and by, the situation will
affect wages, and seriously. You
can't let a sag like this go on, with
out affecting the pay check,
especially of those at the foot of the
line.
England hoped to tide over just
such a sag with the dole, and look
where she has landed.
Are we going to wait until it be-
comes necessary to cut the pay of
soldiers, sailors, school teachers,
policemen, letter carriers and a lot
more people, to- balance the
budget?"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17

If the three members of the state tax
board dare to hamper the school system OF
this city. in any degree whatever, over and
above the protests of the citizens, they
should be forever listed as public enemies"
The fact that they even assume to have
power to tell the people of this city how
much shall be paid to teachers, to superin-
tendent, to any employe, is as vicious de-
nial Of local self government as was ever
imposed by any emperor on a distant prov
ince.
There may be some necessity for such
board to regulate differences between taxing
units and perhaps to appraise state wide util-
tiles
But when its membership, protected by
precedent, goes into the detail of expendi-
lures, then all power that the people have
over their own affairs is gone. The power to
tax says the economist, is the power to rule
The conduct of the members at the school
board hearing was so Objectionable as to
border on the infamous.
The present board came into office as
unanimous protest against the management
of school affairs. The two former business
managers during whose terms Of office the
people arrived at an indignant state of mind,
were present as the paid propagandists of
privileged taxpayers. They received courtesy
and attention. The members of the school
board and the new leaders of the schools
were treated with less than courtesy
The groups fighting the tax levy for the
support of schools and libraries are the
privileged interests of the city, strong
enough to hire paid propagandists
Back of the school board were the par
ents and teachers of the boys and girl, the
plain people who know what they want and
who know that the schools must be pre-
served.
1t is confidently announced that the tax
board will listen to the pleas for tax cuts,
covering their servility to the large inter-
ests by criticism of the salaries paid to the
superintendent and business director.
This, of course is camoufage. If all
executives worked for nothing, the effect on
the rate would be less than one-tenth of one
mill.
What the tax board means to do is to
compel the closing of kindergartens, of night
schools, of libraries.
If this happens, the people will find
way to change things at the next election.
Indianapolis is not yet ready for guard
ianship, especially this sort of guardianship.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

THERE is no royal road to health
l. by means of any daily dozen,
or any other exercise formula pro-
NOTED by some former trainer of
prize fighters with the aid of good
advertising agencies.
The chief advantages of exercise
are that the body's general chem
istry and physiology are stimu-
lated, the circulation is aided and
the elimination encouraged.
There are no magical formulas in
exercise that will guarantee freedom
from disease or the presence of what
is commonly called pep" vim,
vigor and vitality. The latter char
acteristics seem to be just as much
a part Of the mental disposition as
of the physical state.
The big attraction in the field of
exercise for every one over college
age at this time is golf.
Courses appear as if by magic on
the outskirts of even the smallest
towns.
Every Saturday afternoon and
Sunday father puts on his short
pants and hies himself to the pas
lures where the gutta percha pellet
is pursued hither and thither,
mostly thither.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
. Ritchie's Power. Plank

Governor Ritchie of Maryland has announced an
other plank Of the platform which he is running
for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Government ownership Of public utilities, either
state federal. he says, would result in political and
economic slavery.
so he told the utilities section of the American
Bar Association Tuesday. The genial Governor, OF
course didn't say that just to please the utilities men
who were listening. He said 1t because he thinks It
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
OFFICIALS of the administra-

"OFFICIALS of the administra-
~ ton" are reported as saying
that the worry about unemployment
is somewhat exaggerated. No one is
quoted BY name.
But the news stories seem to in
dicate that the unofficial spokes-
man" has come back under cover
to his old post. At any rate, the
statements sound inspired"
There is, to be sure, a reasonable
line to be drawn between complete
panic and Pollyanism. But from
the beginning Mr.. Hoover has played
and overplayed the notion that to
put bright face on conditions
might actually change hard solid
facts.
After all, the notion that our diff
ficulties were wholly psychological
has had it's day in court. This has
been tried. 1t didn't work. A lit
tie realism would be much better.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
Discoveries important

NNE of Henry's greatest contribu-
~ tions to the advancement of
electrical engineering was the idea
of insulated wire. This seems a very
simple and commonplace thing.
And that was just what it became
after Henry thought of it. But the
point is that it some times takes a
very great genius to think of a very
simple thing.
Up to this time, electromagnetic
were made by winding few turns
of bare wire upon an iron core. The
resulting magnet was very weak, a
mere toy.
BY use of insulated wire, Henry
obtained powerful magnet. This
was because it was possible to wind
many turns of insulated wire around
the iron core.
The powerful electro-magnet paved
the way for Henry's later expert
ments.
In 1929, he constructed the first
crude electric motor, the forerun-
ner of the powerful motors of today
which operate machines, street cars,
elevators and thousands of devices
of all sorts.
Regarding his little motor, Henry
called it "a philosophical toy" "Al-
though" he added, "in the progress
Of discovery and invention, it is not
impossible that the same principle.
or some modification of it on a more
extended scale, may hereafter be
applied to some useful purpose"
Henry also built a crude telegraph
machine. In it, an electro-magnet
was used to attract an iron bar. The
tipping of this bar caused it to
strike bell, thus giving a signal.
Essentially this principle later was
employed by Morse in development
Of the practical telegraph.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
No lime for Hedging

EVEN yet we lack statistics COM
T. plete and accurate enough. But
the testimony of all competent eX-
perts seems to be that we are in for
a hard winter. 1t is an excellent
thing to stress the plain indications
that our needs will be greater this
year than last. In all probability
they will be greater than ever be-
fore.
Now, the problem of unemploy-
ment should be approached from
two distinct angles. We ought to
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
It Is to Laugh

A CCORDING to precedent, there
L A should have been row at this
point, even if it included no more
than loud talk, but no one con-
cerned seems to have got the least
bit excited.
The sailors went to playing cards,
the admiralty called off the maneu-
vers, and the government said, "all
right, boys, if you don't like the
wage cut, come ashore and let's talk
it over.
Still, some people say the British
have no sense of humor.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
M. E. Tracy

EngIand's Tariff May Attract
Many United States Mana
fdcturers to Build OUer
There. Is That Going to
Ease Unemployment Here?
NEW YORK, Sept. ia strike
IN in the British navy is astound-
ing enough, but a strike without
anybody getting hurt, or even get
ting mad, surpasses belief.
The irony of it is best Illus
trated by those cheers for King
George with which the strike be-
gan.
With that show of loyalty, the
boys just quit, tying up the whole
Atlantic fleet with five battleships
and two cruisers in the first line.
AS a non-co-operation move
ment, Gandhi couldn't have i'm
proved on it.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
This Is Pleasant

GONE of our manufacturers are
~ talking about building branch
plants in England because of the
proposed tariff. Do you think that's
going to ease unemployment in this
country?
Though compelled to seek mo-
ratorium, Germany has arranged
credits for Russia by which her in
duStries are getting much business
that ours should have had. Again,
do you think that's going to ease
unemployment?
Most of the farm relief plans CEN
ter around the idea of curtailed
production, yet some people imagine
they will result in more work.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
SCIENCE
BY DAVID IIETZ

A Scientific Textbook Which
He Read at Is Pointed Jo-
Seph Henry to a Brilliant
Career as Scientist and Er-
perimenter.
TOSEPH HENRY is a name every
J American ought to know. He was
one of the great citizens Of America,
a great scientist and experimenter,
one OF the men who helped usher in
the Machine Age.
On Aug. 90, scientists in all parts
of the world celebrated the cente-
nary of Faraday's discovery of elec-
tromagnetic induction, the funda-
mental discovery at the basis Of
every electric dynamo, every electric
motor, every transformer, telephone,
Telegraph and radio set.
The American Physical Society
not only paid honor to Faraday. the
great British scientist, but TO Henry
as well, for Henry was one OF the
pioneers in the same field.
AS a matter of fact, there is evil
dence to show that Henry inde-
pendently made the same discovery
that Faraday did. But he neglected
to publish his results at once. The
result was that the credit went to
Faraday.
When Faraday's results were pub
lished, Henry said to a colleague,
Il ought to have published ea-lier,
but 1 had so little time.
Il desired to get out my results
in good form, and how could know
that another on the other side of
the Atlantic was busy with the same
thing?"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
Do You Wonder, Too2

A BOUT the only institutions that
IA appear capable of staying put
right now are Tammany Hall in
New York and the Ware machine in
Philadelphia.
Both emerge from the recent pri-
maries with flying colors, and that,
too, after some of the worst scandals
on record.
Sometimes, you wonder whether
we Americans really are opposed to
boss rule and political corruption.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
This Public Sentiment

ITO 7 NUIIO OOIT Ut IOIII
A LII of us want liberty, but too
N few are willing to do the things
necessary to preserve it.
When you read the evidence
brought out by various investiga-
tions, you feel hopeful, but when
you observe the slight effect it has
on public sentiment, you feel other
wise.
Teapot Dome. the Pennsylvania
Slush funds, gang rule in Chicago,
crooked judges in New York, racke-
teering everywhere, and crime on
the increase-what is the general
reaction, if any?
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-17
Too Many PrejudiCeS

WITHOUT realizing it, we
w Americans have been func-
tioning on bunch of prejudices,
cutting off trade in the name Of
idealism, refusing to accept oppor-
tunitieS because of some alleged
moral principle.
Our prejudice against Victoriano
Huerto only served to keep Mexico
in hot water for ten years and lose
us lot of business.
Our prejudice against Russia,
while not doing her so much harm,
has operated to our own disad-
vantage.
Our prejudice against liquor has
not stopped drinking, but has
financed organized crime.