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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Equality for Women

The Presidents signature written across bill that
passed during the closing days of congress will bring
TO a successful end the most important battle women
have carried since the suffrage campaign.
1t is the Gable nationality bill, last of long Sc
res which have granted women, in piecemeal fashion,
equal nationality rights with men. 1t removes the
last legal discrimination against American women
who marry foreigners by giving them the right to
retain their citizenship, even if they marry aliens
ineligible to citizenship.
The old idea that woman must Of necessity think
her. husbands thoughts, and feel his emotions and
share his loyalties has been placed where it belongs
with the coal oil lamps and starched petticoats of
another era. If this true, it is not true
today and it is time we recognized the fact
Perhaps Of these days it will occur to us that
a woman is sufficiently responsible being to have
legal rights to her earnings, to will her own prop
erty, to establish her residence, and to assert
equal authority with her husband over her own
children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
HEALTH SERVICE

tute for these glands when these
glands are disabled.
There are drugs which will pre-
vent itching, or which will soothe
the skin wnen irritated. There are
drugs which have been shown to
affect certain sections of the CASTRO
intestinal tract, so that a physician
by proper choice can stimulate
any action.
Even small list of the drugs
most commonly used by the compe-
tent physician includes very nearly
500 preparations.
Thus there goes into the writing
of the prescription a vast amount
of study and knowledge. The re-
search investigation of thousands of
students who have worked in lab
oratorieS throughout the world be-
hind the prescription is indeed the
whole history of modern medicine.
The old-time physician used to
write what the modern physician
calls shotgun" prescription. He
would inquire carefully of the pa
tent as to each one of the Symp-
toms concerned and put something
in the prescription to cover every
indication.
Thus a. prescription written fifty
or sixty years ago might have ten
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
What a Pity

Future generations will forget the name Of Leslie,
who is to be pitied rather than blamed
Opportunity beckoned to him with an hour Of
greatness. He might have received the thanks OF
living men and women had he but chosen to offer
them faint ray of hope in bleak and dreary lives.
BY accideoa of position ne had power. His
the chance to give expression to new doctrine Of
humanity. He became instead, the monograph Of
privilege and greed and timdity and heartessness.
The old age pension measure was more than
legislative act 1t fundamental in its significance
in that it translated to mechanical age some OF
the Sermon on the Mount.
The world would have known that Indiana is
ready to face the modern problems Of industry and
commerce and of life itself in the spirit Of Him who
preached human brotherhood
1t was one more step away from the jungle and
barbarism and the day when human beings ate the
flesh of other human beings.
It had all these things and more-because it
spelled hope to the hopeless security to the frightened
fotsam of desperate age.
The Governor may have thought himself cour-
ageous and dramatic in daring to face a legislature
with his veto message Perhaps he did not know
and never will know that he was sent-sent by the
powerful, the greedy, the comfortable-to destroy
even this small palliative to their present wants.
What pity that man who came from the people
should, in his brief moment of power borrowed
power turn from sympathy with the surroundings of
youth and yield to the tempting whispers of those
in the and strange atmosphere which he now
breathes.
That is the real pity. who might nave
been great becomes cipher in history. He who
might have the unbounded thanks of thousands
prefers the paudts Of those who will turn and rend
him to bits at the moment he ceases to do their
wishes
trap NV biIt for ha
tce and of human sympathy
tragedy for Leslie the Governor who, if
prophecy be permitted will live many years to regret
the false bravado which prompted him to become a
lobbyist in hour when he might, for once have
risen to the full stature of a Governor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Calls for Prosecution

L H. CRUNdP, recently elected to
II. congress from the Memphis
district, and commonly recognized
as the Democratic boss of west Ten
neSSee, has been exchanging verbal
amenities with Governor Horton on
the latter's unf1tness in general, but
with particular reference to the Lea
Caldwell affair. "
Crump not only declares that some
people should be in jail, but gives
names and addresses.
Meanwhile, a legislative commit
tee has been digging up a lot of
ugly evidence, the first result of
which is the arrest of j. B. Ramsey.
president of the now defunct Hol-
ston- Union National bank and Hol-
ston Trust Company of Knoxville.
In Asheville, N. c., where all the
banks were wiped out, they are call
ing for the indictment Of every one
concerned, and in Kentucky the
stockholders of a big bank which
went down in the crash are being
sued for $60,000000.
Receiverships are becoming so nu-
merous and interlocked that the
lawyers hardly can keep track of
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
- II ANnN DIV FREDERICK
- NA->A AO/A Lands

NHEREs one thing you have to give Capone credit
Il for, and it is that he is about the only man in
America who has accumulated shipload of notorietv
and not cashed it by turning literary for all of which
the humble columnists of the land should be duly
grateful
In their pursuit Of celebrities the svndicates
doubtless would fall themselves for the use of
his name.
For the right to put it above daily short article
they should give more than they give Coolidge and for
the right to put it at the top of weekly letter they
should give him more than they give Al Smith.
IN view Of the eminent success of ghost writer's we
wonder If We not at the threshold of a time
when we shall have ghost painters and ghost scuporS
If SO, We soon shall see gorgeous paintings of sun
sets, bearing the names of ex-Presidents and marvel
Gus marbles, chised with the names of candidates for
President.
Possibly this is to be the golden day so long await
ed by many excellent but unapprecated painters and
sculptorS throughout the land
Judging by the way the idea has worked in writ
ing, there's no reason why 1t shouldn't be bowling
success with canvas and stone.
IF the late John Howard Payne the author of
Il Home Sweet Home fingers sufficiently near our
local planet to observe Us he must be interested in
the present rivalry Of Nevada, Idaho and Arkansas
for the short order divorce business of the country
One branch Of the Idaho legislature has passed
bill providing for ninsty-day residence require
ment, while Arkansas has enacted such a law, back
ing it UP with elaborate plans to build at Hot Springs
the most alhiring divorce emporium in the country
ITO preserve Nevadas present proud place in the
4 sun of domestic discord, one of her statesmen
proposes law, providing for divorce by correspond
ence and should this work confidently may expect
Arkansas to pass law providing for it by telegraph
It's wonderful day we are living in particularly
when you recall that the home is the corner Store Of
the nation, and when the home falls the nation win
be Just case for the coroner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Wrong State of Mind

THE people of Tennessee are be-
4 ginning to realize that this was
not just a case of misdirected am
bition On the part Of swollen-headed
promoters, or innocent gullibility on
the part of those who thought they
saw a chance to make some easy
money.
1t goes without saying that the
skyrocket was not set of with the
idea it would blow up so soon, if
at all. When things became des-
perate; however, some of those in
volved appear to have taken queer
ways to prevent the explosion.
In essentials, it is no different
from the cases of gambling with
other peoples money, or doctoring
books, such as we read about every
day in the week. 1t is just little
bigger.
The tragedy of it lies in the state
Of mind it reveals-a state of mind
which is becoming much too COM
mon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Saint or Devil

Maybe Gandhi is the saint his people proclaim him.
Maybe Candhi is the half-naked fanatic and devil
described by the British die-hards. But saint or
devil, he ranks among the greatest revolutionary
leaders of all time
revolutionist is judged by his power to move
mountains. Gandhi has done that, not by physical
force like Lenin and Others but by spiritual force.
He fights as Jesus fought.
This method inaccmately is called nonresstance.
1t is in fact resistance Of the most extreme and
compromising sort, moral resistance. It is war-no
less war because it is nonviolent war.
The weapon is civil disobedience. In this country
Thoreau once preached it, without winning converts
Today it generally is practced in the United States in
two fields-and with success.
With this weapon the south has nulaed the
constitutional amendments giving black men paper
equality with white men, With this weapon citizens
virtually have destroyed prohibition.
But there is this difference. The American who
evades the prohibition law like the Frenchman who
evsdes the collector acts by stealth Gandhi and
his millions act openly without fear. BY that daring
and faith they achieve the terrible ecstasy and power
of revolution which makes the impossible possible.
That Gandhi does make the seemingly impossible
come true is clear from the terms of the truce which
he has signed with the British viceroy One year ago.
when he marched to the seashore to make salt in
defiance of all the might of the British empire, the
wise of the western world predicted that Britain
could not and would not bow to the will of an I'M
armed brown Only week ago this still seemed
impossible.
But Gandhi has won this first great battle in the
for midas liberation from alien rule His people
will continue to make salt by the sea- breaking the
British monopoly.
His $1,000 followers imprisoned for civil dis
obedience will walk free. He will dominate the ne
gotiations for home rule which futile in Lon
don and Delhi without him.
Britain must deal with him, for he is India
And If Britain in the end does not grant his de-
mands, one gesture from his emaciated hand will
unleash again the gigantic boycott which wipes out
British trade at his command.
Saint or devil, Gandhis personal power probably is
unequaled in all the world today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Wagner and Hoover

Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York is clear
headed gentleman with excellent legislative and
judicial public record He has winning personality
and the backing of strong political machine.
He has struggled without abuse or partisanship
to shape three effective laws for combating in the
future the unemployment suffering of today
Wagner never will threaten Herbert Hoovers DO
litical ambitions He born in Nastatten province
HeSsen Nassau Germany, and, although he came to
this country as small boy, he is not eligible for
the presidency.
SO there can be no personal political reason why
President Hoover should not sign the third of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Efforts Not Honest

TENNESSEE is not the only place
Il where "Get-Rich-Quick' Wal
lingfords have operated successfully,
where investors have been duped by
their own greed for easy money,
where politicians have been hypno-
tized in the presence of supposedly
rich hackers, where public officials
have fallen for the same kind OF
bunk, and where the whole miser-
able setsup has been defined by
some as an "honest effort" to boost
prosperity, or save the party.
The idea back Of it all has be-
come too common for comfortable
idea that "the end justifies the
MEANS" that it is all right to toler-
ate a crooked administration if it
paves streets and provides play
grounds, or that there is no call
to speak harshly of racketeer if
he finances soup kitchens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Bankers Saw Il

A N astonishing phase of the dis
L "A aster, and one which has done
more than all else to open the pub
lies eyes, is the fact that some
bankers saw it coming.
No big Memphis institution was
hooked, though every one of them
appears to have been approached
and subjected to all kinds of in
trigue and pressure.
A few level-headed f1nanciers
saw the storm coming and not only
sidestepped it, but built up the
necessary cash reserves with which
to protect themselves and their
customers when it struck.
If they could be so wise, how
could bank examiners and other
public officials be so ignorant?
Not only that, but why were
state and county funds permitted
to remain in those institutions?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Il MIGHT Be

DUT now we know that gangland
Dhas extended its territory to the
uttermoSt boundaries of the place
in which we live. In particular,
women have been preyed upon. A
city Of even reasonable efficiency
ought to protect two kinds of wom-
en-good women and bad women.
Bad women ought to have some
guardianship against the extortions
of the police. And once 1t was a
boast that New York streets we're
safe and anybody could walk there,
no matter what the hour.
So much has that condition gone
that now we have records Of decent
women who were not even safe be-
hind the doors of their own homes.
It could happen to you. Remember
that!
We do not know what the limit
will be when police begin to break
into apartments seeking what
amounts to ransom under threat of
frame-ups.
RosenthaI was a common gambler,
and yet his death moved public
opinion to such an extent that
Becker was convicted and executed
under a drive which ran far beyond
the courtroom in which his trial was
held.
I am amazed to find no such an
swering wave Of indignation follow
ing the death of Vivian Gordon.
Are we going to take all this sit
ting down?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
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]. HERSCHEL'S BIRTH
March !

NN March Z, 1892, John Fred
~ erick william HerSchel, famed
English astronomer, and son of the
eminent Sir william Herschel, was
born near Windsor.
In 1925, after his education at
Cambridge, he began his observa-
tons of stars, to which he chiefly
devoted himself.
His great enterprise was his ex-
petition to the Cape of Good Hope,
in 1888, to take observations of the
southern armament.
Fourteen years later he pub
lished his. results in volume
called one OF the most valuable of
our time.
His residence at the care gave
valuable additions not only to as
tronomy, but also to meteorology.
His observations on the milky way.
on the brightness and the color of
stars, on the suns rays, on the
atmospheric air, are all very i'm
portant
Herschel also made valuable re-
searches into light. sound and celes-
tial physics. He is remembered as
the first TO apply the now univer-
sally known term positive" and
negative" TO Photographic images.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Chicago Fair

THE worlds fair at Chicago In
Il 1888 had much to do with keep
ing Boas in this country. He ac-
cepted the post of chief assistant of
the department of anthropology of
the fair, and after the fair remained
IN Chicago at the Field Columbian
museum until 1896.
In that year he accepted a most
in the American Museum of Natural
History in New York. He also be-
came lecturer at Columbia uni
verSity.
Today he is professor of anthro-
pology at Columbia university. In
addition TO his studies Of the North
Pacific Indians he has made studies
in Porto Rico, Mexico. and the
southwestern part Of the United
States.
The science of anthropology di-
videS itself into four fields. DR.. Boas
has been a leader in three OF them
physical anthropology, which deals
With the physical characteristics of
mankind, as, for example. the shape
OF the skull linguistics, which deals
with the origin and development of
language, and cultural anthropol-
ogy.
The fourth field, archaeology, is the
only one to which Boas has not
made contributions.
In the Held of physical anthro-
pology, DR.. BoaS has stressed the
necessity Of studying the rate of
changes in physical characteristics
as means of learning the effect Of
environment and heredity upon
mankind.
In unguistics he has shown how
development of a language often, is
an important clew to the history of
a people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TINE physician has drugs which
Il will act to stimulate the nerv-
Gus system, to increase or diminish
the rate of breathing, to hasten or
slow the heart beat, to cause vomit-
ing or perspiration, and, in fact, to
modify every activity of the hu-
man body.
Tt is interesting to suggest to
those who feel that the mind al
ways is superior to the body that
they submit themselves to the action
of some of the drugs which are
known to cause vomiting invariably
and to see whether it will be pos
sible for them by the action of the
mind alone to prevent the action of
the drug.
No case yet has been noted for any
mind sufficiently strong to secure
such a result.
There are other drugs which will
increase the action of the kidney,
some which will stimulate the &C
ton of certain glands within the
body, and others which will substi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Our Dangerous Little Learning

Some inquire how such aasco as the Thompson
triumph in Chicago could take place in a nation of
Well-educated citizens We point with pride to our
vast public school system and our colleges swarning
with an ever greater number of students
The research department of the National Educa-
zion Association has discovered that we spent no
less than $2,5oO,OOOOOO for public education from
kindergarten to university in 1928
All this seems impressive until we look into COM
parave expenditures for other purposes perhaps less
vital to public intelligence than our schooling.
In the same year, 1923, we spent 100000 for
automobiles. We spent about $1,000 100000 for to-
bacco candy, soft drinks and public amusements On
tobacco alone we spent approximately 1925 900 o0o
Hence there is no great reason to be surprised
that Chicago voters seemed more impressed by a
political circus man than by the solemn statistics of
municipal economy or the sound principles of
citizenship.
We have just enough learning to breed the il
fusion that the masses should and may participate
in politics But we fail utterly in providing the
volume character and quality of education which
might enable them to participate intelugently and
earnestly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
The NATIONAL CAPITOL AND GROUNDS
WERE NoRTGAGED To A DUTcHndAN
BY PRESIDENT jackson

FarTa. lift an elephant off the
floor during her stage perform
ance at the Hippodrome theater
in New York City. The secret of
this stunt is in the ability to
take up the slack of the load with
the back and shoulders, making
the final lift by Strengthening the
legs.
Miss Farra performed other
feats of strength, many of which
rivaled the well-known strong
man acts-such as Breitbart's.
Sailor Finds Lost Bar Of Soap
in a Shark-At time when the
American barkentine, Forest
Friend, was in latitude 2 degrees
20 minutes north, longitude 146
degrees 81 minutes west, a sailor,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07

Following is the explanation of
Ripley'S Believe It or Not" which
appeared in Friday; Times:
Alexander AIekiline Played
Twenty-six Games of Chess While
Observation-Disclosures Alekhine,
the Russian chessYnaster, set a
new worlds record for simultane-
GUS blindfolded chess when he
faced twenty-Six players in an
exhibition at the Hotel Alamac,
New York City, on April 81, 1924.
Alekhine started playing at 2 p. m.
and finished at 2 a. M, having
won sixteen games, lost five and
drawn five, without ever setting
eyes on the boards.
Martha Farra Lifts an Elephant
"A few years ago I saw Martha
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07
Indian Grammar

nR. BOAS holds honorary degrees
~ from a number of universities.
including Oxford, Clark, Columbia.
and Graz. He is a member of the
National Academy Of Sciences and
was president of the American
Anthropological Association from
1907 to 1908.
He is the editor of the American
chronological Society and of the Co
lumbia University Contributions to
Anthropology.
At his suggestion, the Carnegie
Institution provided funds for an
intensive campaign to get written
records Of the languages Of the In
dians of North America.
DR.. Boas pointed out that delay
in doing this might result in the
complete loss of some of these Ian
guageS before many years had
passed. To date, twenty-three
grammars of Indian tongues have
been prepared under his direction.
The work still is going on and it
is possible that it viii be extended
to South America.
The titles of some of the books
which he has written give an idea
Of the wide expanse of territory
which his researches have covered.
They include 1.-THE Growth OF
Children" Social Organization and
Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl."
Changes in Bodily Form of De-
scendants of Immigrants" ''Tsim-
Shan Mythology" THE Mind of
Primitive Man." primitive Art"
and "Anthropology and Modern
Life"
DR.. Boas still is extremely active
in anthropological research and
scientists feel that his election to
the presidency Of the American As
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of
Science comes to him as a we'll
deserved honor at this time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-07

OeyUltttC LOu-CUtIW6tG DttIth
Crash.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March T.
1Vl The Lea Caldwell crash still
represents the biggest piece of I'M
finished business on Tennessee's
calendar, and probably will for
some time to come.
Although it has been four months
since the storm broke, no one pre-
tends to know the amount of
money lost, much less the amount
Of carelesSneSs or corruption in
yolved.
A district attorney Of New York
once told this writer that case
lost half its value from the prose-
clItion standpoint in six months, but
that does not hold good with regard
to the Lea-Caldweu crash.
Feeling is much more bitter than
it was four, or even two, months
ago. The cry for punishment has
grown much louder. The demand
for indictments and trials is in
creasing every day.
The people just are beginning to
realize how completely they were
taken in, not only by promoters and
stock statesmen, but by the public
officials whom they selected and
paid to know better.