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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Burdening Business

State line wars and enmity between
bordering commemorative can be expected
to follow the passage Of laws limiting the size
of trucks on public highways.
The MEASURE now awaits the approval of
the Governor and thereafter trucks in In
diana must be much smaller than those used
in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Kentucky.
The heads of many business industries
protested against the rigid limitation on the
ground that their business is now geared up
to the use of trucks and it's passage will con-
fiscate their property and destroy their bust
nesses.
The railways and interurbans were in the
background with the support and approval of
the highway commission.
1t is significant that the Indiana measure
does not follow the recommendations of ma
tional associations which made scientific in
yestigation of the conditions of highways. 1t
appears to be blind thrust at the truck in
favor of the railways.
Such efforts, of course, must fail Labor
saving machinery may add to unemployment,
but it will not be discarded. Any step for
ward in transportation or manufacture will
be Permanent if it produce economies.
The action of the legislature seems to be
unwise because it adds new burdens to bust
ness instead of making business easier at a
time when it is punch drunk with many
blows. The Governor might help the state by
veto. But that is to much to expect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Difficult to Understand

White House ruinors suggesting q veto for the
Wagner employment agency bill seem incredible.
The President has turned thumbs down on food
loans or gifts for drought sufferers on loans of any
kind for the unemployed in cities, and on loans for
veterans
But this plan for national system of employment
agencies is one he himself helped formulate
1t is suggested that Hoover will stand by" his Sec
rotary Of labor whose substitute employment agency
bill was defeated. But his secretary Endorsed the
Wagner bill behalf Of his Brotherhood Of Railroad
Trainmen a short time before entering the cabinet
Either the rumors of Hoover veto are false, or
there is some mystery here
man who recommends, as president Of national
unemployment conference in 1921, that IAN adequate
permanent system OF employment offices be estab-
shed," to take the place of an inadequate existing
system; who sponsors committees in 1923 and 1924
echoing this recommendation reasonably can not re-
ject the plan in 1881.
Nor does be- if he is statesman, reject the measure
because it bears the name of man in the other DO
htical party.
The Wagner employment agency bill is needed now
as 1t never has been needed before Only three DAYS
remain before it dies or becomes law.
The President must decide now whether he will give
men out OF work a chance to help themselves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
A Modest Servant of Humanity

Some of our workers for civilization in the field
OF prison reform have received at least slight public
recognition for their devoted services to humanity
Such has been the case with Lewis E. Lawes Thomas
Mott Osborne, Clarence Darrow, Adolph Lewsohn
Dwight Morrow and few others.
Albert H. Votaw of Philadelphia long head of
the Pennsylvania Prison Society," was not so honored
with the paudits Of his fellowmen Yet it is prob
able that no other American of our generation has
given as long period of unselfsh service to the
cause of improving prison conditions as has
Mr.. Votaw.
He was the successor of Roberts and Richard Vaux
and their associates in the Society of Friends who
founded the Pennsylvania Prison Society and the
Pennsylvania prison system a century back He
carried on their tradition of service with more mod
ern and enlightened perspective.
He long was the chief figure in keeping Pennsyl-
vania in touch with new methods and humane pro-
cedure. Back in 1918 he took the lead in secur-
ing the creation Of the Pennsylvania commission to
investigate penal systems which ultimately secured
the thorough reorganization of the charities and
regional system of Pennsylvania on lines roughly
resembling Dwight MorrowS reforms in New JERSEY
MIR. Votaws praises may go unsung by his con-
temporaries, but the historian of American prison
reform will not neglect him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Page DiOgenes
compromise bil

If Diogenes had been in New York City last Sun
day, his quest for honest man would have been
realized. The Rev. Dr. Fulton j. Sheen professor of
fundamental theology at the Catholic University Of
America preached sermon in ST. Patricks cathedral
He came out definitely against liberation in the
field of religious belief He declared that the intol-
erance Of the Catholic church was wholly justified
by the fact that 1t is the dviney appointed custodian
of revealed spiritual truth The church could not be
tolerant and be true to its trust.
AS Dr. Sheen puts 1t: THE intolerance OF the
Catholic church is the intolerance of divinity. On
questions Of ministry and doctrine. the Catholic
church refuses to be 'broadminded'"
One may differ with Dr. Sheen on the validity of
the claim of the Catholic church to divine pretensions
but he not bring into question his logic or his
candor.
Granted his premises that Jesus Christ varily was
the Son Of God. that He desired to establish His
church on earth, that He personally commissioned
Peter to organize It. that Peter did so and became
the first bishop Of Rome that the popes have been
the lineaI and spiritual of ST. Peter that
the pope is the viceregent Of Christ on earth and
that when the pope speaks officially on matters of
faith and morals his doctrine possesses infaIlible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02

THE death of the widow of Admiral DEWEY recalls
4 an incident with which the young people may not
De 1ailar After his victory at Manila bay the coun-
try went wild, and nnetenths of the boy babies who
arrived around that time were named Dewey.
Then those who didn't have any babies to name
after Dewey and who wanted to register their affec-
tlon passed the hat and bought the admiral house
IN washington, whereupon Dewey proceeded to put
the mouse In his wife's name and then his admirers
dropped him like hot potato.
TT aroused thousand times the furore caused bv
General Buffers collision with MusSolini absurd
as the thing was, and it was said to have made the
admiral very unhappy, for it shakes one I'm very
violently TO be hurled from pedestal.
This reference to General Butler reminds us that
ne Is riding to fall IN his vehicle of rash statement
Last week he made two speeches, and in those
TWO speeches. were several statements that were
without foundation, and fellow doesn't have to work
at such business many days to dscredt himself
A MOTHER smart-Aleck author from England j.
n B. Priestly by name, arrived in New York the
other day and proceeded Immediately to hand out
profound conclusions regarding Americans all of the
same to the effect that We are utterly hopeless
1t would be depressing to learn this from the au-
gust lips of literary insect it not that we are
accustomed to learn it periodically from English
writer's who are long on impudence and short on
advertising.
IRON the standpoint of publicity it pays and we
IL regret that there are enough American snobs to
ionize the Englshman who harpoons them to make it
profitable in dollars and cents but from the more
important standpoint of lasting international good
WILL it is a liability.
Such upstairs no more represent the body of the
English people than self-appointed ambassador of
mischief such Sinclair Lewis represents the peo-
pie OF this country, but many do not pause to draw
the distinction The result is feeling toward Eng
land which is far from affectionate.
If all nations could keep their garruous squirts at
home, it would be substantial contribution to the
harmony of mankind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH
Children's Lies Puzzle Psychologists

If parents compel the child to do
something which it feels is unjust,
it is likely to respond by resentment
in the form of equivocation and
evasion.
The parents are so much more
powerful than the child that the
child of necessity responds to sub
terfuge If compelled to do something
that it does not understand.
Hence, as Doctor Alexander
points out, it is necessary for the
parent who demands restrictions of
the child to compensate in some
manner SO it may realize the value
of restrictions.
The parent should, of course, en-
deavor to understand the reason for
various inhibitions.
The child recognizes in it's parent
master. It always is the ten
dency of those who are dependent to
endeavor to please the master.
Thus the child sometimes lies to
please the parent, realizing that
such pleasure will be compensated
by a reward.
There is finally the lying that is
purely the result of fanciful in1agi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Stubborn Traits
r EEUWENHOEK made MANY

r EEUWENHOEK made many i'm
~ portant discoveries besides that
of the existence of bacteria. Among
them was the discovery Of the red
corpuscles of the blood
1t was on Aug. Is. 1878, that
Leewuenhoek, while examining
drop of his own blood, discovered
the existence of the red corpuscleS.
He communicated this discovery
to the Royal Society Of London on
April "a, 1914.
The lapse of time between those
dates will serve to call attention to
the fact that he was in no hurry
to make his discoveries public.
But more than that was involved.
Leeweunhoek always wanted to be
sure that he was right. The stub
born trait that made him grind away
year after year at his microscopes.
keeping his methods and his micro
scopes secret, and the active curl
osity which caused him to examine
everything that caught his fancy
under the microscope we're matched
by an iron determination to be abb
solutely right about what he saw.
On a later occasion, in a letter
to the Royal society on June 9, 1899.
Leeuewnhoek reveals a great deal Of
his character. He writes:
Regarding my glasses, I will not
boast. make them as well as is
in my power. For many years the
lenses have been better mounted.
On the grinding and mounting Of
a tense much depends.
I have known those who ground
lenses and who considered them
selves competent to do so, but were
not fitted for the work, because
they could not tell an incorrectly
ground lens from correctly ground
one.
"As one is able to discriminate be-
tween good and a poor tense, BY
so much is one able to fashion a
perfect lens"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HF FE62fS

INVEST OF THE HUDSON-I'm
wv what you might call avari-
ciouS, and yet am not thrifty. I
have taken to heart the advice
which has been going around lately
about buying stocks outright and
putting them in safe deposit vault
and forgetting them-that is, I do
everything except forget about them.
The only thing I forget is the
number of the safe deposit box.
You see, I never have been an
efficient bookkeeper. Only this
morning I got letter from the gov
eminent, in which they said they
wanted to see me about my 1929 in
come tax. I was requested to bring
all books and papers referring to the
matter.
think they must have gotten
hold of the wrong name. My in
come wasn't the sort which gets
into ledgers and requires a filing
system. I could bring all the books
and papers between my thumb and
first finger.
But somehow they don't seem to
like it if you say, MY guess is
that this year I lost $315.25 in the
stock market" At that, I think
they got all the best of the deduc-
tion.
wouldn't be certain that maybe
it wasn't $400-but the government
ought to have sense enough to know
that I must have lost something.
How could I make any money in
that market?
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nation. Thus the child will invent
strange tales to please iself in a
world in which pleasure sometimes
is found with great difficulty.
Sometimes the lying of the child
is, however, not the harmless type
of lying that is imaginative and
fantastic, but the pathologic lie in
vented for the definite purpose of
deceit.
This type Of lying is seen, of
course, in grown-ups as well as in
children, and represents in many
cases mental disorder requiring
careful study by an expert to get
at the basis of the disturbance and
thus to correct it.
A child whose mind is troubled
by some social or moral condition
that it does not understand may lie
to compensate in its own mind for
the conflict that is going on.
Hence it Is especially necessary
that the parents be sufficiently close
to their children to detect the
mental conflict and to explain it
away logically, rather than to force
the child into lying to obtain mental
quietude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
M. E. Tracy

ProrGtion of OH Has It's
Drawbacks, bat 1t is the
Most Sensible Way of
Handling q Glutted Mar
ket.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, March
~ 2.-When Texas, Oklahoma and
California began to flood the coun-
try with oil, as they did two or three
years ago, the first thought was to
curtail production and keep I'D
prices until the situation had right
ed itself.
All three states adopted laws
whereby the pipeline companies
could refuse to take more than a
certain percentage of oil offered,
that percentage applying to every
one in a given field alike.
The scheme was trotted out as a
method Of conservation" but gen.
orally was understood and accepted
as designed to keep up prices.
1t has kept up prices fairly well,
which is, perhaps, its very worst
feature, because very wild cater
who could get the money has taken
it as an excuse to drill more wells.
Instead of lessening the supply
and clearing the market, this pro-
ration scheme has led to over
production, and there is far more
difference between the oil now on
tap and what the country can con-
sumo than there was when it
started.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
There's a Catch Here
THOSE interested in oil at til

THOSE interested in oil at the
4 well-head are getting tired Of
seeing the valve shut twenty-five
out of the twenty-four hours.
They're wrong to feel that way, but
it's human nature.
Just take the case home to your
self. Suppose you had a gusher
in the back yard, as is true of many
homes in and around Oklahoma
City, and suppose it would run 500
barrels q day If let alone, but you
could sell only twenty-five, because
the pipeline company wouldn't take
any more. How would you feel?
You'd realize it was one way of
keeping up the price and you'd
stand it all right for a while, but
you'd see wells going down all
around you, you'd hear about this
or that little operator being forced
to sell out to the big boys, and you'd
begin to wonder If there wasn't
something back of the scheme be-
sides price.
Also, you'd begin to wonder If
something couldn't be done that
would work better than proration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
A Dumb SUGGESTION

TOVERNOR MURRAY of Okla
" homa recommends that the
three great producing states out
law, or penalize, those companies
that import crude from abroad, just
as though such a thing were possible
under the federal Constitution, or
would be sensible if it were.
At present, this country is buying
less than one gallon Of crude oil
abroad to every ten produced at
home. If the entire importation
were stopped, the outlet for domestic
supply would be increased by less
than 10 per cent, and what would
that amount to, in a situation which
calls for curtailment of production
by as much as 95 per cent in some
cases.
Besides, an embargo, or a tariff
having the effect of a partial en-
barge, probably would lose us more
in foreign markets than we gained
at home, and add to a depression
which was brought about largely by
the same kind of nonsense.
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Glasses Deceive

A ND then Leeuwenhoek goes on
L \ in this same letter to make a
most Illuminating remark about the
use Of a microscope.
The truth will be attested by ev-
cry biologist today, from the pro-
lessor who has worked in the lab
oratory for years to the freshman
who just has had his first look at
an amoeba under the lens. Leu
wenhoek continues:
"And If one has made a perfect
lens and tries to make new dis
coveries with it, one must not Judge
his discoveries at first sight, but
must see them often.
ITO brag, to make a noise about
a thing commonly is called to sec
through glass. When one looks
through glass at first, one may
see one thing and later another
thing, and when one investigates
the findings they may be false.
ut is easy for people. even those
who are accustomed to look through
glasses, to be deceived, to be mis-
led"
The drawings which Leeuwenhoek
made Of the red blood corpuscles
showed that he was not mistaken in
what he saw. His drawings show
that he noted a darker spot or nue.
leus in each corpuscle.
Leeuwenhoek used a number OF
rather arbitrary expressions tn de-
note size. One Of them was a grain
Of sand.
He writes that 100 blood disks"
as he called the corpuscles, if placed
in a row, would equal the diameter
Of a grain Of sand.
He also examined the blood Of
many animals, birds, and fish and
found the blood corpuscles to be
present in each case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Some Queer Thinking

nUITE few people have turned
" their attention to the task of
finding a substitute, and though
none of them has succeeded to the
satisfaction of the majority, or any
thing like it, their combined efforts
have served not only to arouse
much sentiment against proraticn,
but to set the stage for some queer
thinking.
Gradually the issue has been re-
stated and realigned to fit that
moss-eaten formula Of "big bust
ness versus the people" The fact
that Standard Oil favors proration
has been made to mean that there
must be something crooked about
it, while the fact that Harry F. Sin
clair is ballyhooing for the other
side has been taken as revealing
hitherto unperceived virtues on his
part.
Some wild caters and independ-
ent operators have worked them
selves into such a stew that they
are actually yelling for the lid to
be taken off and the bottom kicked
out of the market, just as though
they would not be crushed in the
process and a lot of others with
them,
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Professors Help
SZZEIxxSSS>
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| ANN(VER$ARYI
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BIRTH OF sCHURZ
March 2

BlRIH OE SCHURZ
March 2
ON March 2, 1929, Carl Schurz,
" a famous American political
leader and soldier, was born near
Cologne, Germany. Educated at
the University of Bonn, he later
took part in the revolutionary
movement of 1848, but finally was
forced to flee to Switzerland.
He emigrated to the United States
in 1852 and settled at WATERFOWL,
Wis. Less than ten years later he
was appointed minister to Spain by
President Lincoln, but resigned at
the outbreak Of the Civil war to
join the Union army.
Appointed brigadier genera. and
later promoted to major general,
Schurz commanded a division at
Charlottesville and a corps at Get
tysburg.
After the war he engaged In
journalistic work. From 1869 to 1875
he was United States senator from
Missouri.
He presided over the Cincinnati
convention which nominated Gree
ley for President. From 1877 to
1881 he served as secretary of the
interior.
In 1918, seven years after his
death, a monument was erected. to
him on Morningside Heights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Just Color

DUT the fun of owning ten shares
Id of this or that consist very
largely in going and loking at it
now and then. Some certificates
are much prettier than others.
like the orange ones quite we'll:
I've got five shares Of Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad. It's one Of the
prettiest designs you would care to
see.
That's q well-known railroad, I
believe, but I don't know where we
start or where we finish. Ohio is a
pretty big place. think they ought
to be more definite than that, and
since 1 have no intention of going
to Ohio, or to Chesapeake either, I
don't suppose I ever will get a
chance to look at my only railroad.
The best I can do is to pat the
back of the certificate every couple
of weeks. 1t has a nice, silky tex
ture. I've had fair luck with blue
certificates, but the green ones are
no good as far as I'm concerned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-The move to abol-
ish the direct primary should be
resisted by every citizen interested
in representative government. It
may have its shortcomings, but it is
much better than the old convention
system, when men to fill public Of
fees were hand-picked by certain
gentlement of none too savory repu-
tations. There are quite a few fine
men in office today who would not
be there if they had to be nom
mated in convention.
Instead of weakening the law, as
they die here in the last session of
the legislature by removing the
president, senators and Governor
from its provisions, it should be
strengthened by abolishing the eau
Gus and convention altogether and
make the direct nomination of all
officers mandatory and final.
If what is left of the law in IN
diana is repealed, it will take a
long time to get it back. Therefore,
it should not be repealed.
WILLIAM MURPHY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Questions and
Answers

How many nurses were enrolled in
the army nurses corps during the
World war, and how many were sent
overseas? How many were killed or
wounded?
The maximum number of trained
nurses enrolled in the army nurse
corps during the World war was
23,159. The largest number overseas
was 1925. From April 6, 1917, to
June 1919, there was I'll deaths of
army nurses serving with the A. E.
F. One hundred seventy army
nurses died in the United tates
during the World war. None we're
killed in action and none died of
wounds. Only three were wounded
and two were killed on a transport
10 May, 1917.
Who won the Nobel prizes for
1880?
The prize winners were: Medi-
cine, DR.. Karl LandSteiner; litera-
ture, Sinclair Lewis; peace, Frank
kellogg; chemistry, Hans Fischer,
and physics, Sir c. v. Raman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
Most Sensible Nav

DECORATION has it's risks and
l. drawbacks, but, by and large
it is the most sensible way of han
ding a glutted market which COM
ing interests supply. Outside Of
that, it is the only way of saving
weaker competitors whom a free
for-all price war soon would wipe
out of existence.
Arbitrary curtailment of produc-
ton would be disastrous as a gen.
eral proposition, but as a temporary
measure of relief to meet a giver
situation with regard to a giver
commodity, it is the one alternative
to chaos for all and ruin for some
Cotton farmers should have ac.
copied it long ago. If they don't
they'll soon be in worse shape thar
the oil producers are right now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-02
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health


Magazine.
NNE problem that disturbs par
" ents as much as any other is
the tendency of children to invent
the most fantastic explanations for
their actions an dto indulge IN what
plainly and bluntly is called lying,
on what sometimes appears to be
Slight provocation.
In association with recent at
tempts to analyze scientifically the
reasons for the conduct of the child,
the psychologists have given special
attention to this problem.
Professor Franz Alexander be-
ieves that children lie because they
need to lie more than do adults in
order to satisfy their wishes and to
maintain themselves toward condi-
tons in the outer world.
Therefore, children lie because
adults compel them to lie.
The child, when it comes into the
world, has no knowledge of right or
wrong, and its code of conduct is
determined by its parents.