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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
One Man or Many
After all. millionaire has only one stomach.

After ALL millionaire has only one stomach.
he can't possibly wear more than few hundred
pair Of shoes in a year. There is limit to the
clothes he wear, the beds he can sleep in, and
the yachts and automobiles in which he can ride.
There's one thing millionaire can't do, with
all his riches He can't consume enough goods to
keep enough factories working SO that there will be
jobs and food for the rest Of the people,
He may scatter bank notes recdessy here and
there, but, matter how much money he spends
it does not have the effect on industry that the same
amount of money would have if spent by hundred
thousand men, ten thousand men, for shoes and
overals, and Shirts and other necessities of life
That is why income tax figures just announced
by the treasury department have such grave import
In the first eight months of 1929, 5O4 men with
incomes of more than million dollars year pos
seSSed one-Swentieth of the nations wealth
Where there had been 7,259,944 persons filing
income taxes in 1920, only 4,O34,7O2 filed in 1929
And where, in 1920, six and half million men and
women with small incomes had almost fifteen and
half billion dollars to spend, in 1929 the number
Of small income earners had been reduced to three
Million and they had only little more than eight
billion dollars.
In ten years the number of men with incomes
OF more than million has, been multiplied by fifteen
and the total amount of their incomes has been
multiplied by twenty while the foundation of
the prosperity that made this possible has been
rottng away because the people who could have kept
factories hunlming and men and women working
had no money with which to buy.
A great economist predicted years ago that cap
italism would commit suicide through greed.
Unless we are ready to see capitalism end, and
with 1t the whole social order that we have known
heretofore, the increasing concentration of wealth
revealed by the treasury department. can not fail to
alarm u.s.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Dogs and Men

foundation has been established for study of
the problems of dogs, learn in dispatch from
Rockford, III. P M. Chapel, who endowed the
foundation, says its object is the maximum of hap
piness for dogs, and he says there are 100000
of them-or one to every four families.
The foundation is particularly interested in the
welfare of dogs obliged to live in apartments and
this is not surprising These dogs can't get out to
fight other dogs, they can't chase cats, and do other
things that dogs like to do.
They must submit to the indignity of wearing
muzzles and be led about by leashes. And many of
them are forced to wear blankets in the winter time
an cffense to dogs pride
THE dog probably is the last link binding man
to nature" says Chapel.
Perhaps he is right as far as city-dwelling dogs
are concerned. Country dogs lead happier lives.
They can herd cattle sheep chase rabbits talk to
other dogs, and pretty much lead their own lives,
barking and running when they feel like it.
Mr.. ChappelS foundation reminds us of the we'll
known euogy Of Senator Vest of Missouri to the dog
"The best friend man has in this world may
turn against him and become his enemy. His son
and daughter that he has reared with loving care
may become ungratefu Those nearest and dearest
to us, those whom trust with our happiness and
good name, may become traitors to their faith.
1.-The money that man has he may lose 1t flies
away from him when he may need it most. Mans
reputation may be sacrificed in a moment Of ILL
considered action The people who are prone to fall
on their knees and do us honor when success is with
lis may be the first to throw the stone Of malice
when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.
The one absolutely unselfish friend a may
have in this selfish world the one that never deserts
him, the one that never proves ungrateful or
aeacherous, is the dog"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
Reduce Your Weight at the Table

entirely of restricting diet, COM
bined with carefully directed exer-
else and in a few cases where there
was evidence that the thyroid was
deficient, a, prescription of q GER
tain amount of thyroid extract.
At the end of the course, which
lasted from a few weeks to several
months, 237 of the 294 had lost
weight, but 10 per cent had not lost
weight. For those who did lose,
the average reduction was fifteen
pounds.
Now these intelligent employees
had been instructed as to how to
eat and how to live so as to keep
their weight down to what might be
considered normal for their height.
At the end of the first year 224
of the original 294 were examined,
and it was found that only 80 per
cent had been able to maintain re-
duction in weight, but the vast ma
jority had regained about ten
pounds, or almost two-thirds of
the amount that they previously had
lost.
AT the end of the fifth year, 1913
of the original 294 still were en-
ployed by the company and thus
available for examination. It was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
1T SEEMS TO ME 81 H EES41s

TN a news dispatch the president
L of Harvard university is reported
to have found out by personal ex-
perience what Harvard undergrad
yates talk about.
According to the story, President
Lowell wandered into the dining
hall of one of the dormitories in
search of faculty member whom
he was unable to find. 'Thereupon
he sat down at table without in
Producing himself and joined in the
general conversation.
1--WE talked of Horace and Virgil
and the other Latin poets" Pres
ident Lowell said delightedly, "and I
don't think they recognized me-"
On this incident the head of
Harvard is disposed to argue even
more strongly for a house plan as
one which would have a decidedly
democratic influence.
But if the al1ecdote is founded on
fact-and I refuse to take it with
out several grains Of Salt-it seems
to me to indicate a deplorable con-
dition among the undergraduates of
a great university.
President Lowell thinks he wasn't
recognized. That may be so. Still,
they couldn't have thought he was
Butch McGuiness, the hammer
thrower. AT least the students knew
that here was an old gentleman Of
academic demeanor who would have
nothing worthwhile to contribute if
the talk veered around to the re-
lative merits Of Camera and Jack
Sharkey.
If A. Lawrence Lowell wants to
know what students talk about, he'd
better send a dictaphone next time
and stay away. This would make a
more accurate and interesting
record. Under this plan he might
even hear something about A. Law
renee Lowell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

some of your pieces from my pull
pit.
"You combined keen perspection
with what I thought was very
real moral earnestness. I agreed
with almost everything you had to
say about our political and eco
nomic theory and practice.
But found it hard to reconcile
what you wrote as a candidate with
your reports on your recent trip
away from New York. You wrote
with glee about the money you lost
or won in gambling.
"You reported your delight in
finding places where man may
spend as much as he pleases ON
drink without fear Of the law.
''You follow this up on March
with a piece in which you ask New
Workers, who, like your self, frequent
speakeasies without conjunction
see no harm in gambling and are
not unwilling to ask a friend about
fixing up some minor traffic viola
ton, to show a little indignation in
the face of the scandals unearthed
by Judge Seabury.
you may think what you like
about the policy Of prohibition.
only question your right inferentially
to encourage the attitude which
laughs at Speakeasies while at tne
same time calling for an ethical
sensitiveness to the greed and cor
ruption Of which murders are only
an incidental expression.
''I think you will have to ask fol-
long while for much more mora
indignation from those who car
gamble while thousands are waiting
in bread lines and who can bring
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
AStronomer-PrieStS

MANS Understanding has pro-
1V4 crossed slowly through the
ages. A great step forward was
taken by the ancient astronomer
priests of Babylon who learned to
predict eclipses and to follow the
motions of the planets.
There was less of caprice and
more of order in the universe for
the star-gazerv who could tell the
rising of planet or the occurrence
of an eclipse.
Perhaps our list of scientific uni
verse-makers should begin with the
names of two Chaldean astronom-
ers. They we're Naburiannu and
Kidinnu.
1t is only recently that science
has learned about them. Long years
Of study of obscure Babylonian
texts by a number of Jesuit scholars
in Germany, Fathers Epping, Strass-
maier, and Kugler, have revealed
their Importance.
They laid the foundations for
Greek astronomy and scientific cos
mogony.
Thales of Miletus was the first OF
the Greek universe makers. He
taught that the earth was a sphere.
that the stars shone by their own
light, and tat the moon shone by
reflected sunlight. Tllales lived
from $40 to SAG B. C.
Another universe maker among
the Greeks was Pythagaras, who
lived from about $50 to 497 B. C.
To him belongs the distinction Of
having been the first to teach that
the earth revolved around the sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

I v. McNutt was the logical man.
Paul, Of course, could and did pose
as an Irishman, but the khan ele-
ment knew better and knew that
Paul could be a good kluxer or be
almost anything if by so doing he
would advance the personal inter-
estS of Paul himself.
The result of that state conven-
ton is well known, as the Klan,
sweeping all before it in Indiana,
swept Paul v. McNutt into office as
state commander of the American
Legion in place Of real soldier and
real Irishman, O'Shaughnessy Of
Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Now what an inspiring sight it
is on this feast day of the
great Irish saint to behold Paul
v. McNutt as the principal speaker
before the A. o. H. of Marion
county. A few Of us sent word to
O'Shaughnessy of Lawrenceburg
asking him if he would care to be
present.
Of course, all Of us who are
Irish and members of the Legion
know what is back Of this spectacle.
It is caused by very few Irish
demagogs, Democratic politicians
who would stop at nothing to fur
Their their own political ambitions,
and they feel almost positive that
Paul v. McNutt, past Khan advo-
cate, bogus Irishman, and SO forth,
will be the next Governor of In
diana, and they are about to sue
coed in using this grand old Irish
organization to further the candi-
dacy of Paul V. McNutt in 1892. and
the rank and file of the A. %. Fl.
are sitting idly by and permitting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

found that of this 1913, only Il per
cent showed a further loss in weight
whereas the remainder who had lost
on an average of sixteen pounds
during the first treatment had re-
gained eighteen pounds in the fol-
lowing five years.
The important fact was discov-
cred that of all those who were
overweight, at least one-half were
descendants Of parents who were in
clined to be overweight.
1t was found that reduction in
weight was of benefit in lowering
the blood pressure and in helping
patients with heart disease and high
blood pressure.
Experiments showed that people
who are overweight can reduce and
maintain normal weight, provided
they are properly controlled In
the process.
However. the vast majority of peo-
pie do not have enough will power
self discipline, intelligence or what
ever it is that one chooses to cal
the mental stamina that is neces-
sary to maintain a reduction in
weight and to avoid the eating of
too much food.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
UpheavaI in Social Order

NIFTY years ago, the children of
Il this country learned a, great
deal of practical value through as
ISOLATION with animal life, but that
now is out Of the question for most
of them.
Automobiles don't cry with pain,
get sick and die. When one plays
out, there is nothing to regret but
the money loss. 1t wasn't so with
old Dobbin, or the pet calf.
Children are growing up with a
tensely mechanical viewpoint, not
only toward the contraptions of
steel, brass, and nickel with which
they are surrounded, but toward
everything else, their companions
included.
Again, we have done mighty
poor JOB in finding the obviously
needles substitutes.
And so one might go on ad in
t1niJun. Not only our economic
system has changed, but our social
order, religious viewpoint, and
habits of life. We have been so
interested in the prosperity angle
of it all as to leave a lot of gaps
unbridged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Little Ethical Training

NIFTY years ago most of our chill
Il dren acquired a definite concep-
ton Of right and wrong through
religious contact. Heaven onlv
knows how they are acquiring it
now.
We have tried to provide a sub
stitute in such institutions as the
Y. M. G. A, Y. w. G. A., and Boy
Scouts, but they usually come into
the child's life too late, while in
the majority of cases they don't
come at all.
Except as they can absorb it for
themselves, our children are getting
a mighty small amount of what
justly could be described as ethical
training, and it's mainly due to that
new order which we commonly
think Of as confined to industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Questions and
Answers

Was an airplane pilot killed dur
ing the filming of the motion pic
ture 'HeIPs Angelo"
Two pilots and a mechanic were
killed. The pilots were not, how
ever, stunning before the camera
at the time AL Johnson's plane
struck some wires while attempting
a landing at Caddo field, near Van
Mugs, Cal, and was wrecked; G. x.
Phillips crashed while en- route from
Los Angeles to Oakland in an S. E.
5 English plane. The mechanic, Phil
Jones, did sacrifice his life for movie
realism. The left wing Of his plane
collapsed as he was beginning tail
spin from an altitude of $500 feet.
The scene was to have depicted the
relic of a German aerial circus
executing hazardous tail spin
from a dizzy height.
What percentage of the football
games played by University Of
Notre Dame have been lost and won
since Knute Rockne became the
coach?
According to a recent newspaper
compilation, Notre Dame has lost
only Is games, won III and tied 6
during the fourteen years that
Knute Rockne has been coach
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
The Date Is April 2

TINE mass meeting on the New
l. York vice investigation will be
held on the night of April 2 at
Town Hall. The management of
Town Hall has kindly agreed to fur
nish its auditorium without charge,
so naturally admission will be free.
And this colunnist is glad to point
out that he is not playing the role
Of Lord Bountiful, or anything like
that.
If Jimmy Walker resigns or is
ousted before April 2 We'll hold the
meeting anyway. Details to come.
Speaking of his rendezvous with
Palm Springs, CAL, Jimmy Walker
said in Chicago; ''They tell me that
no matter how hot the sun gets out
there, it never blisters."
Possibly the citizens of New York
may contrive, even at this distance,
to make up for that lack. There
seenr-to be number of New Workers
who are eager and enthusiastic
about presenting the mayor with a
blister in absentio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17

In the Neac Order of Things
Our Children Are Getting
Mighty Little of What
Might Be Called Ethical
Training.
CPEAK1NG of revolutions, possible,
~ imaginary and otherwise. we
Americans are emerging from one
of the greatest in human history,
We fail to realize it, because the
usual noise has been lacking.
We don't know what to do because
the situation is unprecedented. Most
Of our problems originate in the
necessity of readjustment, however,
which proves the point.
No nation on earth ever was COM
PEELED to grapple with more sweep
ing changes in the same length of
time. Tie fact that those changes
have been brought about without
strife and bloodshed does not alter
their character.
Except as it retains the same
Constitution and the same flag, the
United States of 1881 bears little
resemblance to the United States of
1881, or even 1881.
Look at the traffic on our city
streets, the way we spend Sunday,
the city manager form Of govern
ment, the soda pop bill, the racket,
the federal court, or a hundred and
one other things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Views of Times Readers

Editor TineS-JuSt a few re-
marks regarding an announcement
published a few days ago in the
press regarding celebration Of st.
Patrick's day by the Ancient Order
Of Hibernians of Indianapolis and
Marion county.
A few years ago, prior to the
annual state convention of the
American Legion, among the prom
inent candidates for state COM
mander Of the legion was a fine
young Irishnan who had seen
some tough service overseas. His
name was O'Shaugnessy; his home
in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
That particular convention was
held during the heyday of the XII
Klux Khan Of Indiana and, of
course, the khan, being no respecter
of persons or organizations, found
its Shiny way into the ranks of the
American Legion and, of course,
such ten-dollar Americans never
could let such a calamity befall the
American Legion of Indiana as to
have a man named O'Shaugnessy,
a Catholic, to become state COM
nander.
So, one Of the principal saviors
Of the legion in those days of peril
was Bowman Elder, who at that
time stood very high in the mem
bership and councils of the Ku-
Klux Khan and who since has been
doing all in his power to cause the
legion members to forget his pillow
slip connections.
Bowman Elder at that time cast
about for a candidate with whom
to defeat the terrible O'Shaugnessy
threat, and with the assistance of
the khan influence, then within the
state legion. they decided that Paul
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American MedicaI
Association and of HyKeia, the Health
Magazine.

A FAMOUS German physician
A said that the chief measure
of Importance in preventing over
weight was the cultivation of SUI
flcient will power to avoid the TAX
ing Of too much food.
A celebrated specialist said that
the only exercise of any import
ance in the reduction of weight
was the ability to turn the head
slowly from left to right and back
again, indicating that one did not
care for second helping at the
table.
Some experiments just COM
pleted by one of the large life in
surance companies indicate that
self-discipline required to maintain
permanent reduction in weight is
evidently too severe for most people
who weigh too much.
DR.. H. H. Fellows began an ex-
pertinent in 1923 with 294 over
weight employees in an attempt to
reduce their weight.
The treatment consisted almost
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Charge Is Startling

WE travel where we used to stay
w at home, and, to make travel
ing comfortable, We have built a
bigger and better road system than
all the nations Of antiquity put to-
gether.
We have come to regard this as
rather commonplace, a necessary
convenience, or, at most, a rather
stable achievement. The idea
that it has played havoc with some
of our customs and methods seldom
enters our heads, but it has.
Just to give one example, it has
forced lis to place three-fourths of
our cops at street intersections,
which means that, though we have
enlarged our police force greatly,
we actually have fewer men watch
ing crooks and criminals than we
had twenty-five years ago.
A study of this particular situa-
ton recently made in Chicago shows
that of the city's 6,700 policemen, all
but 760 are assigned to special duty.
There probably are ten times as
many gangsterS, yet people wonder
how the racket survives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
Earth at Center

T is interesting to trace the steps
4 in mans Understanding. From
The start, he naturally assumed that
his earth was the center of the uni
verse.
1t is possible to reconstruct the
Biblical idea of cosmogonv from a
reading of Genesis. The earth was
a great fiat plain. The sky was an
actual vault or ceiling over the
earth.
The stars were lights suspended
from the ceiling. The moon and
the sun were merely larger lights.
as Genesis tells us, one to shine by
day and the other by night
When it rained, it was because
tllr windows of the sky had been
opened, permitting the waters which
were above the armament to leak
through.
Similar simple cosmogonies were
developed by other ancient peoples.
The Greeks in the time of Homer.
Tor example, not only imagined that
the earth was the center of the
universe, but that Greece was the
center Of the earth.
The earth of the Homeric Greeks
was a sort of plate-shaped affair.
Around its rim ran what Homer
called the "River ocean" The sun
was the chariot of the sun god who
drove it across the sky each day
from east to west.
At first, it was supposed that the
sun god went by boat on the River
ocean behind a screen of obscuring
mountains from the point of sun
set to the point of sunrise. Later
it was supposed that he Travelled
under the earth. This necessitated
an earth raised up on pillars.
The ancient Indians had a SINH
lar idea. They believed the earth
was supported ON the backs of four
gigantic elephants. These in turn
stood upon a gigantic turtle who
tioated on a universal ocean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
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H7doAKF d TTEae|
ST. PATRICK's DAY
March IL

INN March II Irishmen, whereycr
~ they may happen to be, cello
brate the festival of st. Patrick
their great national saint who died
on that date in 493, at the patri-
archal age of 106.
The day is a national holiday in
Ireland and is observed with much
enthusiasm. The shamrock is worn
everywhere, in commemoration OF
the fact that when st. Patrick was
preaching the doctrine of the Trim
ity he made use of this plant, bear
ing three leaves upon one stem as
symbol Of the great mystery.
st. Patrick's work in Ireland
may be summed up by saying that
he founded 365 churches and plant
ed a school by the side Of each;
that he organized at least one
archiepiscopal see, consecrated two
or more bishops, established one or
two colleges, and civilized the peo-
pie generally.
The most popular Of the Legends
regarding the saint Is that which
gives him credit for driving all the
snakes out Of Ireland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-17
At Least 1t Isn't News

T DON'T know why the good pas
4 tor should be bewildered. He
may, in all logic, oppose many of my
theories and most Of my habits. But
it can hardly be news that I go to
speakeasies.
And, as a matter of fact, in the
congressional campaign to which he
refers I ran as a wringing wet, and
frequently announced that 1 was
for the immediate repeal of the
Volstead act, if possible.
I maintain that it was not incorn-
patible for me to put silver dollars
on q roulette wheel at Aqua
Caliente, Sonora, Mexico, and Still
have sincere interest in the prob
lens Of unemployment.
In fact, I'll bet the good pastor
two silver dollars that in addit on
to playing more poker than he has,
I've also devoted more time and
work to the problem of unemploy-
ment.
But any such discussion is trivial
and tasteless. My habits have moth
ing to do with the civic situation.
I'm not running for anything OF
planning to run.
Copyright. 1881. BY The Times)