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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
A Valiant Warrior for Peace

David Starr Jordan died last week at the age Of
&c. OF his one appropriately might quote the
Scrptura passage the effect that he fought good
fight and kept the faith
He scientist of international repute whose
scholarly bridged the three-score years which
lie between the Agassz and that of Einstein and
PIanck.
He educational pioneer who built up a
great university in the far west and kept reasonably
free for the expression Of honest opinion in spite
most annoying and inquisitorial interference from
relatives of the donor. No British prime minister
was more harassed by the meddlngs of Queen
Victoria.
1t is we'll known that he sincerely regretted the
one great blot upon his educational career the oustng
of the distinguished professor Edward Answorth Ross
for telling the truth relative to the labor policies
of Leland Stanford Sr.
But it is apostle of peace rather than as
scientist educator that Dr. Jordan will be best and
longest remembered. He 1ttingy was chosen presi-
dent of the Carnegie Peace Foundation and director
of the World Peace Foundation.
When the time of strains and stresses for pacists
came after 1914 DR.. Jordan stuck by his guns while
subsequent heads of these great peace foundations
scurried for and began bowling for the blood of
enemies, real imaginary. He labored valianty at
grave risk of both health and his very life to keep
us out of the conflict.
He suffered great humiliation for his courage and
consistency The patrioteers among the authorities
at Cornell university started to revoke his two
Cornell degrees and strike his name from the list OF
alumni of that institution
Fortunately the level heads who remained loyal
to the principles of Andrew D. White prevailed, and
the great institution at Ithaca was saved from fool
hardy and ungenerous act which would have harmed
Cornell more than Dr. Jordan.
Once the war on, DR.. Jordan voluntarily of
fered his services and asserted that as long as his
country was at war, the only way out was forward.
But he did not become an intellectual and moral
war casualty He remained steadfast paciist to the
end, and in 1924 awarded the Herman peace prize
of $4,000 for the best plan to advance the cause
international understanding and Cancellation.
Many have believed him far more entitled to the
Nobel peace prize than many recipients of the award
No fair-minded person, whether he agrees with
DR.. Jordan's philosophy not, will deny him lead
ing place among the American heroes who have led
in the battle for world peace.
He stands with Elihu Burritt, William Laid.
Charles Sumner, Albert Smiley Andrew Carnegie.
William Jennings Bryan and Edwin D. Mead No men
OF war have served their country better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Moonev-BiIIings Boycotts

Abstract argument and appeal invoking justice,
logic and humanity having failed through four po-
liticsl regimes in California to free Tom Mooney
and Warren Billings. lovers Of fair play apparently
are turning to harsher measures.
The Arizona Federation of Labor, with only one
dissenting in its convention passed resolutions
calling for boycott of all CALIFORNIA; manufactured
goods until the men are free.
In far-of Sweden, mass meeting of $500 people
passed resolutions calling upon all Swedish sport
clubs to boycott the Olympic games, be held for
the first time American SOIL in Los Angeles next
summer
The ant-calitornia movement 50 far. i small,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
M. E. Tracy
CAYC.
SAYS.

If the Hoover Administration
Was Surprised By the Wage
Cuts, 1t Must Haze Been
Asleep More SoundIy Than
We Thought.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-No one
Inc can doubt the sincerity of the
Hoover administrators diSappoint-
ment at all this wage cutting.
The effect on 1882 is too obvious.
If the Hoover administration was
surprised, however, it must have
been asleep more soundly than most
of us thought.
Other people hoped that some
miracle would intervene to save the
existing wage scale, but very few Of
them were fooled.
BY and large, the country had
reconciled itself to the inevitability
of wage cuts, if the business slump
continued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
SCIENCE
A 25-Year-Old Journal Is the
Clearing House for the
Worlds Discoveries and
Progress IN Chemistrv.
BY DAVID IIETZ

GEVENTY-FIVE diners finished a
~ dinner during the recent con-
vention at Buffalo of the American
Chemical Society, with a birthday
cake. There we're twenty-five can
dies on the cake.
The dinner was in honor Of the
twenty-f1fth birthday of Chemical
Abstracts, one of the publications
Of the American Chemical Society
and one of the mot useful and
valuable publications in the world.
The seventy-five diners were a
few Of the scientists who make this
publication possible.
Special tribute was paid at the
dinner to a number of scientists
who have served as abstractors or
assistant editors since the founding
Of Chemical Abstracts" They are
G. E. Barton, Paul Escher, c. E.
Munroe. L. A. Olney, w. H. Ross.
A. H. Sabin, F. P. Undo-t-''l. L. E.
Warren and F. w. Zerban.
Chemical Abstracts is an ex-
ample Of the special kinds of serv-
ices which have beer made neces-
sary by the growth Of science.
So many publications now deal
with chemistry, publishing the re-
suits Of experiments, new discover
les and so on, that it would be i'm
possible for any one man to read
all of them. So Chemical Abstracts
publishes brief digests or abstracts
Of the articles appc- ling in these
other magazines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Still Fed the Bunk
XXTHETHER organized indust

WHETHER organized industry
w has borne as much of the
burden as it should, it has borne
more than it ever did before--pass-
ing dividends and cutting salaries
before it asked sacrifices of those in
the ranks.
How any one could imagine that
industry would not be compelled to
ask sacrifices of those in the ranks,
unless something we're done to re-
store, or relieve it, is mystery for
future ages to explain, yet such
seems 20 have been the big idea.
No matter how low wheat went,
or steel production fell off, no mat
ter what the reports on foreign
trade showed, or how unemploy-
ment increased, we still were fed
with the illusionment that wage
scales would be maintained, and
that those who thought the gov
eminent should extend helping
hand were glaringly pink, if not
red.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Questions and
Answers

Does the word money, in its
broadcast sense, mean only coins or
bills that we commonly use?
In its broadeSt sense, money is
any material that by agreement
serves as a common medium of ex-
change and measure of value in
trade. Specifically it is a standard
of value and medium of payment
established by law.
Who was The Father Of the
CONSTITUTIONS"
It is a nickname for President
James Madison.
What is the significance of the
bundle of rods and an Ak, on the
United States dimes?
It is the Roman fasces, an en-
blem of power, that was carried be-
for the chief magistrates in ancient
Rome, as a symbol of their power
over life and limb.
What is the derivation and mean
ing of the name Susette?
French from the Hebrew Susan,
meaning q lily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Wartime Suffering

THERE were industrial confer
l. ences, of course, there was the
farm board, and there was the bo-
nus, but when you come to size it
all up, what was there by way of
honest-to-God effective measures of
relief that fitted the situation?
Though no exact, or even APP
proximate, figures are available, it
is not going too far to say that the
American people have suffered as
much during the last three years as
they did during the war, that they
have experienced as great physical
distress, and that they have lost as
much money.
Perhaps not as many of them
have died by violence, but consider
ing the increase of suicide, murder,
accident and avoidable disease, even
that is possible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
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ANTI-LA TOILETTE MOVE

ANTI-LA TOILETTE MOVE
September "A
0N Sept. "a, 1917, the expulsion
~ Of Senator Robert M. La Fol-
lette Of Wisconsin from the
United States senate, was demand
ed in a petition addressed to the
United States senate by the Min
nesota public safety commission.
The commission made this
move upon the false basis of the
report Of a speech La Toilette
made at st. Paul. He was quoted
as saying: I'VE had no griey-
ances at the hands of Germany"
But what he really said was that
We had grievances"
Formal charges against La
Toilette were introduced by Sen
ator Kellogg of Minnesota. but
the senate committee which con-
sidered them, by vote Of 9 to 2,
recommended the adoption of a
resolution that the charges be
dismissed for the reason that
the speech in question doesn't
justify any action by the senate"
This resolution was adopted by
a vote Of so to 81, with Senator
Kellogg, who brought the charges.
voting to dismiss them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Body Louise Transmits TyphuS Fever

In 1880, two Texas physicians
trapped a number of wild rats in
and around feed stores in a small
town in Texas in which number
of cases of typhus have occurred in
recent years.
A number of the fieas were Sc
cured from these rats and investi-
gated in the laboratories of the
Bailey university college OF medi-
cine.
Some of the fieas were ground up
into a solution and injected into
guinea pigs, which promptly de-
veloped symptoms. 1t was found
that the virus from the rat flea
could be transmitted to animals.
Immunity tests between the strain
of the virus obtained from the rat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24

heas and strain obtained from a
proved case of typhus fever in
Dictated definitely the relationship
between the rat flea virus and the
typhus fever virus.
The rat has already been con-
victed of being a vector and car
rier of plague. There seems to be
no doubt that the rat may also be
associated with the spread of other
diseases. Rats and mice breed
rapidly.
Permitted to breed without con-
troll, they soon overrun premises
and would quite certainly overrun
the world.
They should be stamped out, be-
cause their field of usefulness has
not yet been demonstrated and to
civilized man they are menace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Don't Be Deceived

IT'S a terrible thing to reduce the
i earning capacity of workers by
10 or Is per cent, but let's not
deceive ourselves as to the real
cause, or place the blame where it
does not belong.
With 100000 out of employment,
with some of our greatest indus
tries operating at rs, go or even so
per cent of normal production, with
foreign trade down, and foreign
competition taking away some of
our best markets, it stood to rea-
son that wages would be cut if
something weren't done to revive
business.
The one important question is,
who would, and should, have done
that something?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24

but it might well spread and bear down heavily upon
CALIFORNIA; pocket-nerve.
AS an expression Of mass opinion, the boycott has
proved grimly effective at times Its weakness how
ever, is that it makes the innocent suffer for the
guilty.
The Mooney Billings outrage can not be laid at
the door Of CALIFORNIA; 100000 people, But should
Mooney Billings boycott prove effective these $780,
600 would suffer
To protect themselves against worldwide protest
and its economic consequences, the people of Cali
fornia might declare boycott of their own 1t
should be aimed against the bameworthy parties the
week-kneed politicians who take orders from small
group of selfish, anti-labor employers.
1t is these Governors and judges and their hackers
who making one of the farest states in the
Union hateful byword in every land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Much Bigger Problems

XXTHEN such song and dance
w lost it's appeal, Washington
turned to the theory that if we real
ly were in trouble, private industry
and local government must get us
out.
Washington, you understand, had
bigger problems to solve-disarma
ment, for instance, though it
wouldn't join the League of Nations,
and the salvage of Germany, though
it denied that PREPARATIONS had any
thing to do with what allied nations
owed us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24

WO01O NC OOAA4CuAAAAA5 w OAAOW @OA Oee1
efforts, instead of needless suffer-
ing and mental anxiety on the part
of the needy and relief of the rich
from fear of paying dele.
Editor Times-When a parent
finds it necessary to ask the school
authorities to buy his child's books,
why can't the school people do it
without letting all other pupils
know Of it. 1t is an actual handi-
cap to child to have his poverty
advertised.
1t puts discouraging blanket of
humility and injured pride over
him and prevents pleasant relations
with his fellows. Why keep up the
farce of opening school meetings
with prayer and disregard such an
important and vital matter as this?
am writing your paper because
you seem to keep your columns open
to the poor man as well as the rich.
A PARENT.
Editor Times-I want to thank
the editor Of The indianapolis Times
for the five editorial articles pub
lished Sept. 10, 1881. They not only
expressed the view and the broad
nindednesS of the editor, but the
thought, I will say, of IS per cent
of the citizens Of the United States.
1t would pay every American citi-
zen to take these five articles, read
them, and study them until they
understood the meaning of every
word and sentence contained there
in. 1t may take some of us quite
a while to get the correct meaning,
but it will pay a hundredfold to
take the time and energy to mas
ter the job, and I am sure you will
find in those five articles the very
causes of our trouble today, and the
answer to the question, why do we
get into this kind of trouble?''
I remember when I first read DR..
Drummond'S Natural Law in the
Spiritual World" I did not have
much luck, but after I read it over
good many times I began to find
out what it was all about. My adj
vice to the readers of The Times
and everybody else is, if you have
not those five articles, get them,
read them, study them until you
thoroughly understand them. You
will derive real benefit.
j. E. BENNETT.
1922 Bradbury street.
Editor Times-We have heard a
great deal Of complaining, during
the last ten years, about the pre-
vailing "crime wave" but won
der whether any of your readers
ever had occasion to realize that
much of it is due, partly by way Of
provocation and partly in the way
of direct contribution, to the ac-
tivities of many gentlemen who
actually are being paid by taXpay-
ers to suppress crime.
What is crime" in the first
place? An interference or an at
tempt Of interfering with the rights
of our fellow beings in the enjoy
ment of what our state Constitution
Gale life, liberty and pursuit of
happiness" and punishable not
solely at the request Of the partic-
ular individual affected, but on be-
half of society in general.
For instance, if I should kidnap
a person and then lock him up in
some private cellar or barn, would
be liable TO criminal prosecution.
Why? Because although only one
single person has been injured, yet
if such practice were permitted le-
gally, each and every one of us
would be living in constant danger
Of being kidnapped.
] doubt if the meauest despot that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
America Leads


Il by the staff of Chemical Alb
stractS are published in all parts
of the world. They number 1900.
Professor Crane points out that
the United States leads the world
in the publication of journals de-
voted to chemistry, having no less
than 404.
The British Empire is second with
226. Then comes Germany with 218.
France is fourth with 129 while
Italy is fifth with eighty. Japan is
sixth with fifty-eight and Russia
is seventh with forty-two.
Holland has twenty-nine chemical
journals, Austria has twenty, Swe-
den, twenty; Belgium, nineteen;
Norway, fourteen; Switzerland,
twelve; Argentine, eleven; China,
ten; Denmark, ten; Czecho- Slova-
kia, nine; Spain, nine; Rumania,
eight, and PoARnd, seven.
The other nations of the world
have total Of forty-two chemical
publications.
In addition to checking chemical
publications, the staff Of Chemi-
cal Abstracts finds it necessary to
keep tab as well on many journals
dealing with medicine, agriculture,
biology, physics and other subjects.
This is because there are many
points at which chemistry overlaps
these other fields.
They find it necessary even to
watch journals of astronomy. From
one point of view, a star is a great
chemical laboratory where reactions
occur under conditions of tempera-
ture and pressure which can not be
realized here on earth.
Therefore, the chemist sometimes
has to go to the stars for informa-
ton about the behav'-- of chemical
elements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN,
Editor Journal of the American Medics
Association and of Hygeia, the
"

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE condition called typhus
Il fever was formerly considered
to be a disease largely associated
with the tropics, war conditions and
prison life.
Investigations made by Howard
Taylor Tickets, supplemented
largely by those of other Americans,
revealed the fact that +yphus fever
is transmitted by the body louise,
which explained to considerable
extent it's special character.
Recent Investigations made by
Texas physicians indicate that this
condition may be transmitted not
only by the body louise but also by
the rat flea.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Daily Thought

A false witness shall not be un-
punished, and he that speaketh
lies shall perish.--PrOverbs 1873.
Falsehcod and death are synony-
mous.-Rancrofts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
Aid TO Research

DY the close of the present year,
ID Chemical Abstracts will have
published abstracts of $4,000 ar
ticles, according - Professor E. J
Crane, its editor.
A reserve army of specialists
scattered throughout the United
States, aids the Office force of
Chemical Abstracts. Professor Crane
or one of his assistants assigns i'm
portant papers to members of this
reserve for abstracting.
Forty-f1ve associate editors pass
on the abstracts before they go into
the magazine.
The publication of Chemical Alb
StractS is SO important to the prog
ress of chemistry because of the
nature of modern scientific research.
Great discoveries today are seldom
sudden. They represent the cul-
mination of years of research.
A scientist in France or Italy or
Germany makes small discovery.
1t has puzzling features which in
terest other scientists. Soon there
Will NC 41lCI1 III 41olA a NlOACAA SObAA-
tries working on the same problem.
1t seems as if the problem is at a
standstill when, perhaps. an addi-
tional discovery is made by an Eng
lishman or an American.
1t is necessary that some means
be provided by which each worker
may keep tab on what the other is
doing.
This haStens the progress, by
making it possible for each expert
menter to profit by what the other
has found.
And so it goes on until suddenly
someone makes a discovery Of ma
jor Importance to the world. This
last discovery holds t. center of
the world stage. But it would not
have been possible without all the
work which went on fore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
It's Getting Old

ONCE the crash of 1929, Wash
- ington stubbornly has refused to
recognize this depression as a public
emergency.
First, it argued that there wasn't
any depression, that the country
was up against little more than a
temporary lull in business, and that
everything would be all right in the
spring.
We have heard that for three
springs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
WaShington'S Attitude

ID USINESS merely is borrowing
ID page from the government,
merely reducing expenses as the
best way to meet diminished
revenue, and balance its budget.
While Washington may not have
reduced any government employees
pay, it has pursued policy that
reduced the number of government
employees.
Worse still, it has pursued a policy
that made it increasingly difficult
for American business to recover
foreign markets.
DR.. Julius Klein is opposed to
great expenditures for public works,
on the ground. that they would tend
to remove capital from private
enterprise,
That epitomizes Washington'S
attitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-24
The Peoples Voice
Hoover Is Not the Right Man
President Has Shown His Inability to Handle Relief
Problem, Says Writer.

would be something to show for our
efforts, instead of needless suffer-
ing and mental anxiety on the part
of the needy and relief of the rich
from fear of paying dele.
i s. l.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-02
TOWNSEND
Items of Personal and Social In
terest Cleaned About Town

/ Townsend, Dec. six local gun
ners with four dogs netted 104
rabbits in three-day hunt. This
was an exceptionally good record
and believed to be one seldom
equalled during the hunting season.
So far this year the number of
hunters have exceeded that of last
year and as rule each hunter has
bagged more game than in prev
ious seasons, it is believed. The
partridge shooting has also been
lively with the birds apparently in
fewer coveys, but more to the COW
ey when found. A number of city
gunners have enjoyed these hunts
and all returned home, happy over
their success from this and other
sections of the State.
James Guessford, of this place, is
reported as steadily improving
from the serious injuries he sus-
tanned in a runaway accident rec
emily when the two fractions hors-
es become unmanageable, running
away throwing him out forcibly
upon the ground. He was prompt
ly removed to the Delaware Hos
pital and for several days his con-
dition remained critical.
Mr.. Isaac Wainer, well-known
merchant of Townsend, was taken
to the Delaware Hospital where an
operation for appendicitis was per-
formed. He is reported as stead
lily improving.
During the past few days iocks
of wild geese were seen flying over
this locality vending their way
southwark The sight of so many
of the wold fowl hunting a warm
er climate for the winter months,
was the signal for weather profits
to believe that this is a sure sign
of approaching cold weather. The
f1ocks are, no doubt, coming from
the Great Lakes region and the
Canadian feeding grounds.
Revival services at the M. E.
Church continued through last
week with four conversions on
Sunday night, this making total
of Is since the revival began. Nine
of the new members Joined the
church.
Mr.. George Lurty has returned
home after spending some time in
Philadelphia, Pa.
Miss Edna David, of near Smyr-
ma, has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. Harold Outten.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Frank McVey of