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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Exported Jobs
lrrom the Axiom TImes-Pressl


We have at hand the 1880 Canadian Trade Index
recently released by the Canadian Manufacturers
Association.
It shows that Canada has seventy industries
whose export trade is in excess Of half million EACH
And of these thirty-eight have an export trade in
excess Of IS 900 each Included in the thirty rank
ing eSoort Industries of Canada are automobiles,
rubber tires rubber footwear and machneryall four
dependent upon factories which have enigrated from
the United States.
The automobile industry now ranks sixth among
Canadas exporters In 1929 it shipped abroad 100000
vehicles having total value in of S43000O00
The exporting companies were Chryser Of Canada,
Dodge Brothers Ltd Durant Motors Of Canada, Ford
Motor Company of Canada, General Motors Of Can
ada, Mclaughlin Motor Car Company, Oakland Motor
Car Company of Canada, Studebaker Corporation Of
Canada and WHY'S Overland, Ltd.
All of these excepting only Mclaughlin, are COM
panies of American parentage. Since the report
issued, Nash, REQ, and Graham-Paige have gone into
the Canadian field for export purposes And in
Canada for domestic purposes are Cadillac and
Chevrolet.
Tariffs and tariff dfferentials took these concerns
over the border not only to build in Canada for
Canadians, to equip them with Canadan-built tires
and to supply Canadian labor, but to enter world
trade from Canada's vantage point.
In Lne Canadian TIRE business are CandOan OOOQ-
RICH Dominion Rubber Dunlop, Firestone Of Canada,
Goodyear of Canada Gutta Percha and Rubber Ltd,
Harmon Tire, Perfection and seberling. All except
Harmon and Perfection are in the export trade. All
except these two Gutta Percha and Dunlop
transplanted from the United States
In 1929 they built for export 1921 ,9O4 tires. and
enjoyed dollar volume from their export market of
s19,19OOOO.
Tariffs and the possibility of empire free trade
took them to Canada.
Canadas rubber shoe export business in 1929
totaled $8589OOO
Canadas foreign trade is principally with other
British empire divisions. That's where u per cent
of her exported automobiles go. The empire takes
also SS per cent of her exported rubber footwear and
A per cent of her tires. That business.
Canada now is cutting in on" the United States
trade with Latin America. In 1929 Canada sent some
$4,000 automobiles to Latin America; some 100000
tires and some $25OO000 worth of rubber shoes.
Now that's lot of statistics. But if you're going
to draw any conclusions at ALL you'll see that Canadas
export trade transplanted from the United States
in itself an item capable of relieving thousands of
unemployed
And were you to include as we'll production Of
Canada's domestic goods, this expectation of jobs in
stead of products represents the difference between
present employment conditions in the rubber industry
at large and relatively adequate employment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

Apparently It is considered clever to sheer at the
foreign trips which increasing number of congress
men are taking each summer. For some reason, which
we do not understand these legislators seem to be
pected to twiddle their thumbs in their own back
yards when not busy in Washington
Upward of a half-hundred members of the seventy
second congress of to Europe, to China and Ma
Mia to the Caribbean, to Alaska and other lands
Whether they are on special committee assignments
missions Of their own choosing or merely seeing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
They Touch Everyone

OUCH things as prohibition and
- apple pie may seem incense
quential compared with the riots in
Spain, the massing Of Chinese
troops, or the announcement that
Aristide BRAND will run for the
presidency of France, but the
chances are that they touch the
average mans life in a much more
forceful way.
AS old philosophers reasoned, and
as science proves, we are largely
the result of what we eat and
drink.
Not only our institutions for de-
fectives, but our prisons as we'll,
are full of people whose only fault
was lack of the right kind Of nour-
iShment.
Many of the industrial and f1nan-
cial difficulties under which We
labor go back to a faulty system of
producing and distributing food.
AS though the problem of produc-
ton and distribution were not
enough, we constantly aggravate it
by writing our prejudices into law
and our patriotism into tariff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Before Throwing Rocks

before we throw any more
y rocks at Reno, it might be
good idea to look over the way in
which our practically one-cause di-
vorce law works.
Chiefly, the complaint against Me-
vada lies in the charge that there
is an underlying fraud in the easy
residential requirement. On the 9TH
er hand, no person at all familiar
with our own practices would care
to contend that the adultery divorce
has encouraged frankness and truth.
Here, too, divorce may be obtained
on any pretext if only the appear
ance Of infdelity is presented.
A very high percentage of all de-
crees granted in the Empire State
represents mere trickery on the part
Of the litigants.
Nor do I hold those who seek re-
lief to be at fault We live under
a law which doesn't represent the
true consensus Of the public And
inevitably We have bootleg divorce.
just as We have bootleg gin.
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into court in hot anger rather than
with a reasonable spirit Of concur
renee.
An acquaintance of mine and his
wife decided to get a divorce a few
years ago. There was no bitterness
between them. But both were Of a
mind to break the tie.
The usual nonsense of apparent
cause was complied with. How
ever, the suit was such friendly
one that even the judge caught an
inkling of this quality and asked
the plaintiff, in stern voice, "Is
this action collusive?"
The plaintiff, as it happened, was
beautiful but dumb. The word had
no place in her limited vocabulary.
And so she nodded eagerly and an
swered, ooh, yes, judge. It's collu-
sive, all right
And SO he threw it out, and they
had to go through the mockery of
pretended inhdelity all over again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
ANA<A AOO4 Lands

LNX-SECRETARY FALL is going to ask President
H Hoover for pardon which is the most monu-
mental impudence of modern times and the President
should turn this petition down-and without delay
Fall has been found guilty of accepting bride to
lease oil lands OF the United States and he should
sweat for it.
To let him get away after all these years of nti-
cation would bring upon our already discredted
system OF law enforcement added odum it hardly
can bear.
The supreme court of the United States the most
conservative body in this world set aside the oil leases
which Fall had made declaring that those leases were
shot through with fraud and corruption.
When the supreme court uses such strong language
you may rest assured that there is ground for it.
XXTELL, how about the attitude of ex-secretary
w Fall, who now asks presidential pardon? Has
ne confessed his sin and thrown himself upon the
mercy OF the court those invoking mercy are sup
posed to do?
Not as anybody has heard up to date.
On the contrary Fall has fought this criminal
charge for seven long years. He has invoked every
techncality every artif1ce every device every delay
every single feature OF courthouse horse play.
When every other scheme failed, Fall went into
court with medical experts and convinced the judge
that he was suffering from hobnaed liver ossiaca-
ton OF the gizzard modification of the epiglotts
gallstones or something else.
1T has been the most notorious case of razze dazzle
l. in our criminal annals and other nation in the
world would have endured it.
This has been the attitude of this defendant to-
ward the country which honored him far beyond his
deserts the country before which he now stands con-
victed Of having betrayed for money
Even now there is no humility in him
The same Drazen deflance marks his attitude
He makes no confession; he admits no wrong
He still is the snow-white angel who did business
With Doheny and Sinclair
For his crime he has been given only one year. the
same term given the poor man who steals chicken
Falls crime is the greater because he knew better
He was a United States senator and then cabinet
officer and he should pay the peBalty.
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PROTEST. Ar ODESSA


May Is
IN May 10, 1917, a Jewish dem
~ onstration took place at
Odessa, Russia, where some tbo1,S
sands gathered in front of the Pn-
manian consulate to protest against
recent lll-treatment Of Jews in Ri
mania. - -'"
One Of the delegates elected bv
the crowd presented to NJ. Greciann
the consul-generaI, a written pro-
test against the reported acts Of
violence. 0 %
The consul-generaI teIegraphed
the protest to Jassy and comnuni-
Gated to the delegates a telegram
from Jassy stating that the whole
Jewish question was to be dealt with
in the current session Of the Pm
manian parliament.
Just two days prior to the pro-
test at Odessa a deputatior of Pu-
manian Jews called on King Ferdi-
nand and presented him with a note
begging him to take the native Jews
under his protection.
Accompanying the note was an
appeal which the native Jews had
distributed to Jassy on May 6,
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Open Gambling
A GAIN, the local moralists have

A GAIN, the local moralists have
IN lifted their hands in horror at
the fact that gambling is legalized
in Reno. Here we have a law against
it. But how does that work?
You or I may go to a New York
race track tomorrow afternoon and
place a bet on every race. 1t will
not be necessary to be personally
acquainted with a bookmaker.
The individual intent on gambling
need only arrive a little early and
poke about in the dark spaces I'M
der the grand stand.
There he may find a bookmaker's
runner and to him intrust an en-
velop containing cash. Against that
deposit he may place his wagers.
OF course, odds will not be dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Control Changes

XXTHERE control of the land
w used to be the all-important
question, it now is control of COM
modities-wheat, gold, oil and so
on. Russia would not be regarded as
threat by any one but for her
possible ability to smash prices and
demoralize markets through state
controlled labor.
We are not half as scared of what
she may do to politics as what she
may do to bread.
Civilization slowly is changing
from a geographical to an industrial
basis, with control of those raw
materials which are necessary to
keep it going as the true source of
power.
That is why we got so excited
about Teapot Dome five years ago,
and why the news that our navy
will purchase large quantities Of oil
from foreign company is given
prominent space.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Food BoIfing Fatal
lake Apple Pie Straight

WHATEVER else may be said of
w our culinary shortcomings,
good old apple pie still reigns SUI
preme, if the results of a cooking
contest staged in New York this
week can be trusted.
Object of this contest was to de-
termine whether the kind grandma
used to make, or the more modern
concoction, adulterated with eggs,
nuts, cornstarch or other foreign
substances, was preferable. Expo
nentS of the mid-Victorian product
won hands down. There wasn't even
a dissenting vote.
If you're abreast of the times,
you'll take your apple pie straight
from now on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Are there any government prof.

Are there any government prof.
ects at PIT. Barrow, Alaska?
The United States government
has a reindeer station at Pit Bar
row, Alaska, for the purpose Of as
sisting in the maintenance Of the
natives. 1t has also established a
radio station there. Point Barrow
is important as the stepping of"
point for all of the scientific ex-
petitions to that part of the Arctic.
Does an American citizen have to
have a passport to go to Colombia
and Ecuador in South America?
Does he have to be vaccinated?
Passports are required of Amer
lean citizens TO go to Colombia and
Ecuador. Applicants for vises for
Ecuador are required to present to
the viseing officers q vaccination
certificate showing that the appli-
cants have been vaccinated or re-
vaccinated against smallpox.
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played. The bookmaker simply will
recite them out of one corner of his
mouth to the little group which sur
rounds him.
And this is legal, for the courts
have decided that it is not a crime
to make friendly personal wager.
Because of the preliminary de-
post of cash, the bookmaker be-
comes the little friend of all the
world.
And so we sit and pride ourselves
upon our righteousness and look
askance at Reno because it does
publicly those very things which
here are permitted only to those
who are willing to whisper behind
a protecting hand.
(Convrioht 1871 nv Tho rtr,esl
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the world with their families aboard army transports
at $3.50 day, their country should wish them well.
They will see and study other civilizations and to
that extent they viii become world-ninded.
When they return to Capitol Hill they will be less
apt to the lingo flag Of the isolatonists, scott
at efforts at internatonalsm take the short-sighted
view Of provincials.
They may understand that safety does not lie in
the biggest navy in the world nor economic security in
higher tariff walls, embargoes deportations.
Let's not call them junketeers "innocents
abroad" Let's wish that every member of congress
would study world problems with which his country
essentially is concerned.
Let's go farther and wish that his constituents
we're able to do the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Maintaining Fiction

JUDGES go through the fiction Of
y trying to dismiss all cases in
which they have reason to suspect
that the plaintiff and defendant are
conducting a friendly action.
I can't quite see that this state
is more civilized because it demands
that husband and wife must come
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
SCIENCE
Childbirth Mortality Figures
by DAVID DIETZ-

Childbirth Mortality Figures
Shoto Shocking Conditions
IN the United States. -. -.
A SUGGESTION made by DR..
N Howard w. Haggard, associate
professor Of physiology at Yale uni
versity, deserves emphatic repeti-
ton.
Speaking over the radio about
Mothers day, DR.. Haggard sug-
gested that for every sum Of money
spent on flowers on Mothers day.
an equal amount be given to ma
ternity hospital or other maternity
organization.
DR.. Haggard made his suggestion
in view of the fact that the United
States has a higher death rate for
childbirth than any Of the twenty
other countries from which statis-
tics are available.
The giving Of flowers, as DR.. Hag-
gard phrased it, Ito those who have
survived childbirth" is, in his opin-
ion, "a hypocritical gesture" in view
OF the nations reckless indiffer-
ence' to the mortality figures.
Beyond a doubt, flowers are given
with all sincerity on Mothers day.
But beyond a doubt, DR.. Haggard is
absolutely right in criticiSing the
nation for its lack of action in the
lace OF the appalling mortality
figures.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Deaths Unnecessary

W prove MS contention Of the
a value Of adequate care, DR..
Haggard cites the fact that the
Masternity Center Association sup
plies complete education and medi-
cal care to mothers requesting it in
one area Of New York City.
The maternity death rate among
women receiving this free service is
% per thousand.
In other words, this association
achieves lower death rate than
that of any nation.
DR.. Haggard broadcasts FREQUENT
radio talks under the general title
OF Devils, Drugs and Doctors"
That is the title of a book he wrote
a year ago or so. Readers may re-
call that 1 recommended the book
at the time of its publication.
The book tells the slow growth of
medical knowledge. It tells how
superstitionS slowly gave way to OBJ
serVatlon and experimentation.
IL tells Of the terrible conditions
which existed in cities a few hun
ored years ago, when hospitals were
centers OF infection and every city
periodically was swept by epidemics
and plaques.
AS one reads the account, he won
GERS now the human race ever man.
aged to survive at all.
We are proud today of our tre-
mendous advances in medicine and
hospital technique. We have every
reason to be proud.
But such figures as DR.. Haggard
quotes concerning the maternity
death rate, makes it apparent that
tne battle is not yet won. There
still is work to do.
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Daily Thought

And the man Elkanah, and all
his house, went up to offer unto
the Lord the yearly sacrifice. and
his vow.-I Samuel 1:2I.
The gods are deaf to hot and
peevish vows; they are polluted Of
terlngs, more abhorred than spotted
lvers in the sacriflce.-Shakespeare.
When did the income tax amend
ment to the Constitution 90 into
effect? Did all the states ratify it2
The sixteenth amendment giving
congress the power to levy an in
come tax was proposed by the
slxty-hrst congress. July u, 1903,
and ratified by the legislatures of
all states except Connecticut. Flor
i1e, Pennsylvania, Rhode Isl. i'd.
Utah and Virginia. II went into
effect Feb Is, 1918.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13
Another Bedtime CHAPTER

AllOlllCl OCulIillO OllNlJlCi
TRY CzAR wOODCOCK's "spe-
IL cial council Of ten college
professors, who will immediate them
selves on the altar Of public service
by conducting a scholarly research"
into the sociological effects of pro-
hibition, without pay, does not APP
pear to have stirred up any great
degree of enthusiasm.
DR.. Charles Grey Shaw Of New
York university thinks the council
will be worth about what it is sup
posed to cost-nothing.
Charles H. Curran, whose wet
views make him a prejudiced wit
ness, regards it as just one more
chapter in the "bedtime story known
as national prohibition"
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Prohibition Ruins Cooks

A LEXANDER A. C AS tn AID,
IN famous chef, who will come
back to take charge of the new Wal
dorf- Astoria kitchens next fall, says
that prohibition has ruined the am
billions of all good chefs in this coun-
try.
Their hardest job, in his opinion,
is planning meals that can be
washed down with water, which is
something, he says, mo civilized
man yet ever enjoyed.
But lack Of alcoholic flavor is not
the only complaint which M. Gas
tuad has to register regarding our
gastronomic customs.
"a New Yorker can eat whole
banquet IN exactly thirty minutes"
he declares, over which Europeans
would spend a delightful two hours.
Food Boiling Fatal
CPEED has come to the table as
~ well as to the street, We save
a lot of time that we don't know
what to do with, in both cases. Our
loss in an artistic sense, though very
important, probably counts for less
than the unnecessary suffering we
endure.
A good many Americans die each
year from no more mysterious cause
than boiling their food.
Mr.. Woodcock's special council
could do worse than give that
suffering some attention.
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NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

Speed Has Come to the Din
ing Table as Well as to the
Street.
TT takes the same kind Of me-
4 chanical knowledge and expert
ness to pick lock that it takes to
make one.
Also, and contrary to what some
people believe, a chance to think
things over behind the bars occa-
sionally turns one from the wrong
road to the right one.
Harold Marks, ex-cracksman,
serving long term at San Quentin,
Cal, just has invented a lock which
authorities describe as 'thiefproof.
The lock unites the key and COM
bination principles, with words in
stead of numbers controlling the
latter.
The key can not be inserted until
the right words show up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

With the appeal of the thrty-three prominent
authors for liberation of Tom Mooney in COM
plete sympathy
There can be answer to their indictment Of
California justice except the pardon which has been
delayed fourteen years. In their telegram to Gov
ernor Rolph the issue is stated squarely:
"All the facts in the case as brought out in the
supreme court hearings convince us that Mooney and
Billings were convicted perjured testimony and
are as Trial Judge Griffin states, innocent Of the
crimes with which they were charged.
1--WE are at a loss to understand why California
still imprisons men of whose innocence such clear
proof has been brought out. The issue is concern
not only to Cafornans, but to those eager for the
of justice throughout the country"
We are proud to print the names of the signers Of
this pardon appeal
Sinclair Lewis Sherwood Anderson, Mary Austin,
Harry Elmer Barnes, Stephen Vincent Benet Konrad
Berkovic, Haywood Broun, Howard Brubaker, Elmer
Davis Walter Prichard Eaton George Allan England,
John Erskine Edna Ferber, Dorothy Garfield Fisher
Lewis Gannett, John Palmer Gavit, Rupert Hughes,
Fannie Hurst, Inez Haynes Irwin, H. L. Mencken,
Edna ST. Vincent Millay, Albert Bigeow Paine, Cor
nea Stratton Parker, Elmer Rice, Felix Rosenberg,
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vincent
Starrett Mary Heaton Worse, Joshua Wanhope, Rob-
inson Jeffers, VIII Irwin, William Allen White.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

If the FrancoItalian naval discord ever is patche
up truce would be stranger than fiction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

When and by whom was the first
piano made in this country? What
is the oldest piano firm now in
this country?
The first pianos made in this
country were made by Babcock
Brothers in Boston in 1910. The
first pianos made in New York were
made by Robert Stoddard of Lon
don in 1920. In 1921 Dubois joined
him. The firm soon became known
as the Bacon Piano Company Of
New York. The Babcocks later
worked for the Chickering & Sons
Company, which began work in 1923
1t is now the oldest piano company
in this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

They call him LEGS" Diamond, but the fellow
seems to be on his back most of the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-13

In Spain they are calling the fellows who cleal
up after the toreadors "bull-collectors"
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Folks fond of wise-oracs take lots of punishment
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When does afternoon end and
evening begin?
The dictionary defines afternoon
as that part Of the day between
noon and sunset, and evening as the
close Of the day and the beginning
of night; in strict sense, from sun
SET until dark.