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The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

"N EARTHA" said a proud mother, "is doing very
lNl we'll this year. Besides her regular Junior high
school course she is taking music and one French
lesson a week, and Miss Simpson is tutoring her In
the math she missed last year Really, hardly have
time for anything ese what with getting Martha OIL
to her appointments"
Martha is H. She is rushed dizzily from one task
to another and in her effort to be on time she is
constantly taut and nervousy unstrlng.
In short, Martha is being what we call educated
Each Of her teachers, spurred by dutiful mother
is concerned with how many facts can be crammed
into her small skull. No doubt she will turn out a
brilliant young lady, according to modern standards,
with perhaps a degree from Vassar.
But what of the real Martha-the spirit that dwellS
within the slight bodythe soul of Martha that must
sometimes cry aloud for peace?
THE girls of this generation have the worst possible
Il training for motherhood. We are rearing too
many Marthas.
The poor little things never have time to sit with
quiet folded hands, thinking the long thoughts of
childhood They have little time for natural play
because their lives regulated entirely by adults
Where are they to learn the serenity and fortitude
that came to Of earlier generation who had
time to contemplate the abiding truths Of life?
The feverish rush that our kind of civilization
makes inevitable harms the children most of all And
large part of the education we give them is utterly
useless for living.
We need another Jean Jacques Rousseau the man
who flashed like meteor into the garish and artificial
civilization of the eighteenth century and who fought
for a more natural education for the children.
It may seem absurd, but in many ways we are
exactly as superficial and tawdry as the French OF
Rousseau's day
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Bridge VS.. Politics

If a luncheon and dinner table census OF con-
versar1on could be taken this week it probably would
disclose that the contest in progress between one
Culbertson and one Lenz is claiming a far greater
share of interest at the present time than the Presi
dents proposal to increases taxes his policy in Man
churia or the controversy to whether his one
year moratorium intergovernmental debts shall be
approved.
Yet the problems with which Washington is
wrestling are not any harder to understand than the
Intcacies of two rival systems of bridge playing and
they have infinitely more to do with the life of each
American individual.
The tax policy affects mans income, perhaps his
Job. What happens in Manchuria will peace
or war; life or death. In the question of intergov
ernmenal debts is involved the economic future of
the world
More than anything else, the indifference of Amer
leans to matters of vital public policy must be ac-
counted for by the feeling of futity which has come
to surround both government and business.
The American people are allowed to play ally
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

of Lincoln" with heresy hunters and
red-baiters.
The old-fashioned patriots were
more to my fancy than the new
tangled ones. Many of the gentle
men who signed the Declaration of
Independence would be surprised to
learn that a belief in the inalienable
right of revolution has now become
an arch crime here in America.
Free speech and free thought
ought to mean more than the privi-
lege of grumbling about the
weather.
I have no doubt that Mr.. Doak
could produce for me hundreds of
alien radicals who would seem in
my mind wholly wrong-headed. AS
individuals and personalities I could
myself get along quite happily with
out them.
But when he begins to load ships
with bitter visionaries who have
dreamed violent dreams we are
sending along with them something
OF our own. We are saying: Here,
before you go, take this with you.
1t is our Bill of Rights. We can't
use it any more"
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Cancer Is on Increase, bit 1t
Is Not Contagious, Says DR..
Elliott C. Cutler, Noted
Surgeon.
TUMORS, the abnormal growths
Il which include cancer, seem to
be on the increase, according to
DR.. Elliott G. Cutler, professor OF
survey at the Western Reserve uni
verSity medical school, and noted
surgeon.
DR.. Cutler explains the exact use
to which the medical profession puts
the term, cancer.
Cancer itself in medicine is a
term restricted to the malignant
tumors Of tissues which cover other
tissues" he says. Malignant tu-
mors of the skin, of the lining of the
mouth, or of the whole intestinal
tract, thus are classified as cancers.
Also structures derived from lining
or covering tissues such as the liver,
which grows out from the intestine,
are called cancers.
"The word cancer is derived from
the Latin word for crab, which indi-
Gates that its use was suggested
either from the difficulty Of dislo-
eating a crab from its nest or be-
cause Of its many legs radiating
away from its body like the sec
ondary growing portions of malig-
nant tumor."
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-For forty years I
have worked in and around the coal
mines, helping to provide warmth
and fuel to run machinery. Ten
years more, I worked part time on
the railroad, and part time as a car
penter. Fifty years of hard and
useful labor. And for this my use
tulness to society, my reward by a
great nation, the richest, and most
civilized CD today has forced me to
stand in the "breadline," begging for
bread.
AS I glanced over the Zine" I
saw young and old, men and women,
some older than myself, and some
I am sure have worked hard and
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Cancer Spreads

IT is this secondary growth Of the
Il cancer which makes it so diff
cult to deal with.
"Tumors in the malignant group
not only grow locally, destroying
the local tissues, but send out fine
growths into the little lymphatic
spaces in the body which eventu-
ally reach to other organs" DR..
Cutler says.
"In the case of certain tumors,
cells break off into the blood YES
sells of the tumor and are carried
elsewhere in the body.
''Just as grass seed may be blown
by the wind and settle in some dis
tant spot, so these cells that break
off and go elsewhere in the blood
vessels make new growths Of the
same kind of tumor at the places
where they are halted.
There are, unfortunately, tumors
of other structures besides the COW
ering and lining membranes which
are even more rapid in their growth
than cancers.
"Such tumors are called sarcomas,
are more common in young people,
and arise in relation to bones or
other parts of the body.
GAS a whole, tumor is a disease
of middle and late life, but tumors
may arise early in life and If they
do. because of the greater capacity
Of the youthful body to grow, are
likely to be more serious.
"Tumors are more frequent in
females than in males, largely be-
cause a considerable proportion Of
tumors arise in relation to the
breasts or the generative organs Of
the female"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

amined the bread, when found one
loaf just as hard as any police club,
which I as defense kept handy.
Some day, when the true story of
our present day conditions has been
written, it will be a sad story to
read. s. A. NELSON.
Editor Times-I have been a con-
sistent reader of The Times for a
number of years and like the way
the paper is put out to the people,
not afraid to print the truth or
afraid to hurt some politicians
feelings.
In regard to charity at the pres
ent time, what the people want is
work and not charity. No wonder
they send out delinquent tax lists.
If taxes were down where they be-
long, there would not be so much
tax delinquency.
If man hasn't work, or II he Is
working, the average man is Just
existing and that's about all. It's
true that clothing, food, and rent
are reasonable, but if you haven't
the dollar it doesn't make any diff
ference. SO let's hope that some
thing is done for the working peo-
pie, as we have suffered long enough.
GEORGE WOLFE.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Questions and
Answers

What American general sent the
signal to his troops in the words
"HOId the fort for 1 am COming?"
William Tecumseh Sherman, on
Oct. 5, 1864, signaled over the heads
of the Confederate army from
Kenesaw mountain to Allatoona,
eighteen miles distant, Hold the
fort! am coming"
Of what material are the radio
crystals made?
The National Radio Institute says
that the three best and most COM
monty used crystals are silicon, gal
ena and iron pyrites. Galena is
perhaps more sensitive than the
others, but will stand less load.
Silicon requires more pressure for
contact, will stand a greater load
but sensitivity is not so great. Iron
pyrites is very much like silicon in
its characteristics.
Is a police dog of a definite
breed?
The name police dog does not in
dicate any particular breed of dogs
but merely a purpose to which dogs
of various breeds can be, and are
trained. Shepherd dogs of Germany
France, Russia and Belgium, and
purebred dogs of other breeds, cross
breeds and mongrels have been
trained and used as police dogs.
How much do polar bears and
black bears weigh at birth?
Polar bears from Is to 20 ounces
and black bears from u to 16
ounces.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
It's a Real Peril

THIS is a condition that con-
i gress should keep in mind. 1t
does not take very large crowd,
or very long time to start run
on bank, and the same thing
goes for every phase of economics,
no matter how big.
We have an infltration Of pes
simiSm in America which already
has reached dangerous proportions
and which thrives on the kind of
politics being played at Washing
ton right now.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
It's Human Nature

NTE are not dealing with an
w algebraic equation, but with
the volcanic forces of human ma
ture.
We know about how much gold
there is and who has it. We know
that it is a pitifully small amount
compared to the paper obligations.
We have seen values hutuate in
this country during the last five
years without rhyme or reason. We
have seen one government after an
other suspend gold payments and
try all kinds of experiments in an
effort to stabilize its currency and
credit,
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
0Id-F aShioned Hospitality

IF it is true-and it is-that many
i aliens do not like our government
it may also be pointed out that Mr..
Doak's own department. does not
precisely play the part of the warm
and kindly host. Among the secre-
tary Of labor's suggestions is the
recommendation that a law should
be enacted to provide for finger
printing all those who are natural
lied.
In other words, Mr.. Doak would
have us say to the new citizen: ''We
now welcome you into the family.
You are one Of us. You share with
US the grea. geritage Of that liberty
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Keep an Eye Peeled

CPECULATORS still are able to
~ make money, as was Illustrated
by what happened in Japan last
Saturday, but those who work for a
living see little improvement, or
prospect of improvement.
People not only here, but abroad,
have been very patient, but it would
be foolish to expect too much. Ad-
mitting that the chance for a Red
revolution has well-nigh passed, it
still is possible for angry and i'm
poverished millions to be sold quack
remedies.
The time is not auspicious for
anything save steady, serious atten-
ton to business on the part of
those in control of public affairs.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Nothing for Granted

THE man is blind, deaf and
4 dumb who fails to realize that
we are dealing with a situation
which is 80 per cent psychological
and in which politics, economics,
tradition, and prejudice are con-
fused hopelessly.
A general restoration of confidence
obviously is essential, but how?
Certainly not by frittering away
time with cheap partisan cIaptrap.
We don't know whether bottom
has been struck, or not, and until
we do know, we have no right to
take it for granted.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
BY DIR MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
ID ECORDS in the Bible and his
IN tories of epidemicS indicate
there was a time when leprosy was
among the most feared of all epi-
denies.
Today it is unimportant as a
cause Of either sickness or death in
the United States.
In 1926 only one person under
20 years of age died from this dis
ease in this country, and in 1927
and in 1923 no one under 20 years
of age died Of leprosy.
Nevertheless a considerable num-
ber of cases may be found in any
great population, and there are
constantly from 200 to 300 per-
sons with leprosy in the Federal
leproSarium in Louisiana.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Loss of Faith Appalling

r HAVE lived with two genera
l. tions in this country and,
frankly, I never have heard the
kind Of talk I hear today. What
the most rabid soapbox orator
shouts has grown insipid compared
to what some supposedly sane and
respectable people whisper when
they get off in quiet corners.
The loss of faith is appalling, and
it is reflected in action, as we'll as
words.
This boarding about which you
hear occasionally, is no dream.
Millions of dollars actually are be-
ing withdrawn from circulation to
be put in what the owner considers
a "Safe place"
While the majority of capitalists,
f1nanciers and business men are
striving honestly to restore conf
dence-some of them at the risk
of everything they. possess-a fright
ened minority is spelling much Of
their effort.
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Not CONTAGIOUS
DR. CUTLER is emphatic in his
~ opinion that bacteria are not

DR. CUTLER is emphatic in his
~ opinion that bacteria are not
the cause Of cancer.
Cancer is not contagious" he
says, '1t is not caused by bacteria
or other infectious agents, and it
is in no sense a germ disease such
as pneumonia or tuberculosis.
"In all the thousands Of recorded
operations for cancer, there is no
report of a doctor, a nurse, or any
other person who has been in close
contact with the patient ever hav-
ing acquired cancer from the in
dividual.
Experiments even have been
carried out by inoculating cancer
from one person to the next without
the tumor growing in the second in
dividual. These experiments have
been performed by doctors upon
themselves.
"It is important that you should
know this, because there have been
cases where unfortunate people who
have had cancer have been neg
lected because of the fact that they
were thought to be dangerous to the
rest Of the family"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one Of Americas most inter.
eSting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

elect congress, it is prevented from taking Office
for thirteen months, far too late to act on some
issues that governed at the polls.
And as for business-t is little wonder that when
bankers and ndustrialists from whose rule there is
no recourse to the voting booth tell the senate and
the people that depressons never be ended that
unemployment can never be solved-it is little won
der that Americans turn from this prospect in despair
That does not mean that they have no alternative
1t would be comparatively simple to cast off the
restrictions that stand between the electorate and
It's government; end proposals already are pending
for intelligent planning and study of business to
counteract the counsels of despair.
1t is entirely matter Of intelligent interest on the
part of those people with intellectual capacity suf
hcient to grasp partners bidding signals or play a
trump hand in triumph.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Appar-
IN emily. the big idea at Wash
ington to hold somebody responsible
for something-Hoover for the
moratorium, bankers for foreign
bonds, Democrats for a revenue
program and so on.
A good enough game, If next
years election were the only thing
in sight. but who believes that?
Here it is, Dec. Is, and we didn't
get the money-millions of money,
which half a dozen of the greatest
governments on earth had promised
to pay.
The immediate loss is of no great
consequence, even though it may
raise our taxes 81 for each man,
woman and child.
What counts is whether these
governments can pull through, or
whether they are headed for bank
ruptcy.
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Some Signs of lmpatienCe

Some Signs of lmpatience
1T seems to me that it is Mr.. Doak
l. himself, the cabinet member,
who is manifesting an extreme
radicalism. One has a right to infer
from his language that Mr.. Doak
regards the courts Of the United
States as a nuisance and that he
would much prefer to be able to
proceed without being too much
concerned with the legal rights OF
persons under peril of deportation.
Moreover, it is we'll to remember
that in certain instances being
turned back may be the equivalent
of a death sentence. Several agita-
tors have been shipped to lands
where their radical beliefs conStl-
tuted cause for execution.
In such cases, and in many others,
it is no more than reasonable that
the accused man or woman should
fight to remain. Nor does it seem
to me that minded Americans
should be called unpatriotic If they
insist that the closest sort of scru.'
tiny should be exercised in such
cases.
At least, if that is un-American,
Mr.. Doak may make what he
pleases of it as far as I am con-
cerned.
Eighteen thousand men and
women and children deported in a
single year! That is a very consid-
erable number, and in many in
stances the uprooting carried with it
the seeds of tragedy. I am not
among those who insist that the
government is always wrong, but the
law of averages itself would seem to
indicate that less than justice was
done in dealing with some one of
the many thousands.
Certainly there should be no COM
plant against the difficulty which
Mr.. Doak deplores. 1t ought to be
difficult to deport an individual be-
cause of his opinions. Indeed I
would have it impossible.
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Freedom of Research

The hearing of charges of censorship brought
against United States department of commerce heads
by Dr. Ray o. Hail. ousted economist brings again to
the fore a condition that might become serious if.
indeed, it already is not So This is the right now
limited of government experts to absolute freedom of
research.
Regardless of Halls case, it is well known that
government experts often held under the thumb
of political expediency
Hall wrote the commerce departments annual re-
port on "The Balance of International Payments. .
His comments upon the effect of the Smoot-H -Hawley
tariff on foreign trade and prohibitions effect
American Canadian tourist traffic were deleted
The Wickersham commissions prohibition report
was tnkered with and it's Mooney Billings report was
suppressed. Unemployment figures from the census
bureau have according to charges met similar fates
The right of government experts to make public
statements or speeches is curtated.
The question is not always simple when it applies
to an official report. way out can be found by the
simple expedent of allowing the expert full pay, but
in case of disagreement the political head
of the department to append foonotes to his report
dsavowing responsibility contradcting the expert
If the expert in government is to mean anything
except an added expense he must be absolutely free
to find the facts and to tell them. If democracy is
to succeed we must have more experts in government
Experts with strings on them are mere puppeCS'
their findings are not fact, but propaganda.
Chicago is staging it's fourteenth grand jury in
vestigaton of its sanitary district 'Whoopee Era"
With the new title and a chorus of comedy gals and
an assortment of political comedians they ought to put
1t over this time.
The president of Wyoming university is staging a
one-man crusade against petting. But the students
are still neck and neck. In fact Of the co-eds
are so fast they're several laps ahead.
New York is organizing to put on grand opera at
popular prices Probably account of the depression
the artists sing lower.
Census reports say France now has population
of 4189500O. In which case, Of course, 5OOOO'OOO
Frenchmen can't be wrong
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Daily Thought

For the wrath of man worketh
not the righteousness of God
James 1870.
Anger is a short Madness
Horace.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

What is the shortest distance by
boat from San Francisco to Manila,
p. J.?
1t is 6,221 nautical miles, or 1854
statute miles.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY HEYTq9D EY04%

for which Washington and Lincoln
strove.
Kindly step over to the desk and
let the nice, kind secret service man
flngerprint you before you take this
opportunity to steal some of the
silver spoons on the way out"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

XXTILLIAM N. DOAK, secretary
w of labor, reports that during
the first six months of this calendar
year 1926 immigrants were ad-
mitted and that in the last fiscal
year $4,000 aliens we're deported.
And he supplements these rather
startling figures with postscript in
which he complains that too much
consideration is being shown to the
strangers within our gates.
The turnover. seems to Secretary
Doak too slow and too small. At any
rate, he says in speaking Of "ex-
treme radicals"
"The deportation Of these alien
enemies of the country requires
greater effort than in the case OF
any other class. Their activities are
carried on in such an insidious
manner that necessary proof is diff
ficult to uncover.
Even in cases where guilt is
clearly shown, deportation proceed
ings are hampered by every possible
resort to the courts and by persis-
tent propaganda or the part of un-
American organizations of Amerl-
can citizens"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
Making a RennOnStranCe

Making a Rem0nStranCe
TN other words, I make mild re-
Il n1onStrance against the theory
that the stranger within our gates
can be expected to bubble with
patriotism and pride if we treat him
like pickpocket.
1t would be more tactfuI, at the
very least, not to rattle the hand
cuffs While the convert to our de-
mocracy is being asked to Join in
singing ''The Star-Spangled Ban
ner."
But there is no point in my pre-
tending that nothing more than a.
mild, liberal resentment against a
few eXcesses is in my heart. I de-
plore every deportation which is
based on what man thinks. To me
it is impossible to identify "the land
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Census reports say France now has population
of Al, $4,000. In which caSe Of course, 5O'OOOOOt
Frenchmen can't be wrong.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

New York is organizing to put on grand opera al
popular prices Probably account of the depression
the artists can sing lower
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The president Of Wyoming university is staging
one-man crusade against petting. But the student
are still neck and neck. In fact some Of the coed
are so fast they're several laps ahead.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15
SAYS:

The Loss of Faith IN the
United States Is Appalling
and 1t Is Reflected IN Ac-
ton as Well as Words.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-12-15

Chicago is staging its fourteenth grand jury In
vestigation of it's sanitary district "Whoopee Era
With the new title and chorus of comedy gals ant
an assortment of political comedians they ought to pu
1t over this time.