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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Looking Ahead to 1850

Americans will do well to remember the admonition
Of John Moody president of financial and business
service that people should plan their business
and investments for 1850, rather than an expected
boom year or two hence.
Moody points out, as every one has suspected that
In the natural course of events prosperity will return
but that after the recovery will experience undue
speculation and another slump just we have in the
past
1.-The trouble with us is that we haven't the needed
long perspective" he said. "When we buy should
invest our money saney in sound things and stick to
them with a long view ahead-not an overnight turn
All that sounds rather like schoolboy'S thrift
lesson But every one will have to admit that the
"get-rch-quck" urge is responsible for most of
troubles. Time was when the average young man
planned on making his fortune period Of twenty
or thirty years. Then came the stock market boom
of 1928 and 1929 Investors expected 10 to 100 per
cent returns almost overnight.
The bubble finally burst and, the current story
goes, those who picked lemons in 1929 are selling
apples today.
Moody reminds us that the great business and in
vestments fortunes have been made by companies
that have grown steadily a long period.
When America is plunged into the throes Of an
other boom, Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen will do well
TO follow big business example.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Present Uses

ULTRAVIOLET, sometimes to-
" gether with visible light, from
the sun or artificial sources Dor
cas- continues, lis used at present
in the Photographic industries, such
as photo-engraving, lithographing,
and printing; in the textile In
dustry for the bleaching or grassing
of the best quality Of linen; in the
leather industry for the final step
in the manufacture Of patent
leather; in the food industry for in
creasing the vitamin D content OF
foods, for sterilizing water for pub
lie water supplies, or for the manu-
facture of various beverages, and for
sun-drying fruit; and in the petro-
leum industry to remove the bloom
from lubricating oils.
Elsewhere artificially produced
ultraviolet is used in accelerated
tests of the durability Of many ar
ticles.
Many substances are subjected to
such tests in the routine control
laboratories in the course Of manu-
facture.
"These include paints, varnishes,
dyes and dyed textiles, wall paper.
colored printed matter, ink, rubber,
Illuminated glass, and gasoline"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
HEALTH SERVICE
Patients Have Faith in Prescriptions

which to choose, the modern physi-
clan has thousands of drugs and
preparations from which he may
make choice.
These are divided into classes de-
pending upon effects which they
have, as proved in most instances,
by careful tests on animals.
Thus some remedies are specific
and suited only to a single disease.
Of this nature, are diphtheria
antitoxin, scarlet fever antitoxin,
and similar preparations called
biologic preparations made by
causing animals to develop in their
blood substances specifically de-
signed to attack the disease con-
cerned.
Another type of drug is drug of
chemical nature which has been
proved to have the special virtue of
attacking certain germs.
Of this character is quinine used
in malaria, and arsphenamine or
Salvarsan as used in syphilis.
However, in the latter condition
the physician is not limited to any
one preparation, since it has also
been shown that preparations of
mercury and of biSrnuth have the
special power Of attacking the Or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE REE22S

T SAT and watched a paper die.
4 We waited in the home OF a man
who once had run it. A flash came
over the phone. The World was
ended.
F. P. A. looked eagerly at bowl
of fruit upon the table and said,
''Mr Swope, where have you been
buying your apples?"
The World fired me, and the
Telegram gave me a job. Now, the
Telegram owns the World. This is
fantastic set of chances almost
like those which might appear in
somebody's dream Of revenge.
But I never thought much of re-
venge. I wouldn't give a nickel for
this one. If I could, by raising my
hand, bring dead papers back to life
I'd do so.
Sometimes in this column I've
opposed the theories of those who
would break up mergers, end chain
stores and try the trick of I'M
scrambling large-scale production.
I've said that this could not be
done-that it wasn't even expedient.
In the long run the happiness Of all
Of us depends upon increased eff
cheney and shorter sum of toll
That's true. I still believe it. ]
wouldn't weep about a shoe factory
or branch line railroad shutting
down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
New Processes

nORCAS expects that the new
II lamp will lead to the CONNER
cial development of many processes
in which light is used to bring about
chemical reactions, processes known
technically as photochernical re-
actions.
"A great number Of reactions at
present known only as laboratory
curiosities no doubt eventually will
become industrial processes with
this development of more powerful
and convenient light sources" he
says.
Some mineral waters are about
to be sterilized by exposure in thin
films to this light. Accelerated
tests are now made more rapidly
than before because of the greater
intensity Of these long burning
lamps.
"PhotochemicaI reactions are at
present important, and the increas-
ing quantity Of research and devel-
opment work in progress on the
chemical reactions themselves and
the equipment with which to ac-
conplish them indicates that ultra
violet will assume q more important
place in industry in the near fu-
ture"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
What About Congress?

Thank the Lord" is the grateful sigh Of many
whenever congress adjourns There is growing feel
ing that congress is necessary ev and the less it
is in session the better.
We can understand this attitude, but we do not
share it.
OF course, congress talks too much and does too
little; and the little it does often is wrong All Of
which is very discouragng to believers In efficient
smooth-running government,
That lack of efficiency however, is not the fault
of congress It is the fault of democracy Democracy
is the most Cumbersome method of government ever
devised. Democracy is government by discussion.
We have had that kind of government in this
country from the beginning. This is rather late in
the day to make the discovery that it very round
about and slow method.
The idea of fatherS-and Of most Americans
until recently-was that, although cumbersome
democracy the surest and therefore the quickest
method in the long run.
1t was believed that the people could be trusted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Three Days More

Three legislative days remain for the
present session to do something for the peo-
pie of the state.
Thus far the record is discouraging.
Aside from the passage of the Old Age Pen
sion bill, the credit side of the ledger is
somewhat barren. There are many debts in
the way of good measures killed.
The jobless asked for bread. The legis-
lators were apparently afraid to hand them
even the proverbial stone. They gave nothing
at all.
The farmers pleaded for tax relief. The
few who remain in that industry will still
be taxed in the same old way.
The people as whole rebelled against
utility greed, but the holding company trick
will still hide the plumber of these greedy
corporations.
Stupidity, if not worse, will continue to
handle the twenty millions of dollars raised
by auto owners for good roads.
The legislature is, apparently, ruled by
the bureaus it created in the past. The
members bargain for favors. Others shrink
before the power of the utility and highway
boards
The fathers Of children are still in the
grip of the school book trust.
AS a matter of fact, the legislator who
goes home can report to his little political
group that nothing has been done to inter
fere with the small machines or to disturb
ancient greeds and graft. Of course, there
are three days left
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Still Pulling the Old Gag

The debate recently before the League for Indus
trial Democracy in New York City brought forth
once more the moldy demand that industry be left
free to work out its own solution of the unemploy-
ment problem.
Debating Professor Maynard Kruger of the Whar-
ton school Of Philadelphia Noel Sargent manager of
the industrial relations department. of the National
Association of Manufacturers, denounced compulsory
unemployment insurance.
He demanded that employers be left to their own
devices in this matter. According to Sargent public
unemployment insurance means putting an economic
question under political control"
This objection to subjecting economic problems to
political control is not particularly impressive When
have manufacturers objected on this ground to the
protective tariff? Have the railroads protested against
legislation forwarding mergers and other policies
which the railroads favor?
What type of question is more legitmately subject
TO political control than an economic question:
Nor one be bowled over by the proposition
that industry should be left free to provide its own
unemployment insurance and other of relief
1t has been given a hundred years to do this, but
the opportunity never has been exploited.
Such employer schemes as exist are inadequate
In nature and microscopic in volume. They are not
q drop in the bucket of what is required.
Serious warnings in 1921, 1924 and 1927 brought
effective results Nor has the present devastating
depression produced any general effort of employers
to handle the relief problem
If employers want to be left free to work out their
own schemes then their best argument would be the
production Of such plans adequate in conception and
impressive in number. If employers are serious
in this connection, they well may hump themselves
This depression well may be their last opportunity
for independent action
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
- H 4 NnN NV FREDERICK
= N-'-<A AOOA LANDS

TT took sham battle at Panama to convince the
officials of the navy that aiYplanes are needed to
ueleno tne canal against attack but the average man
mas known it ever since the world war; during which
different nations had to hide their navies to nro
tect them from the sky.
Aside from submarines destroyers and airplane
carriers We don't need navy department EXCEPT to
furnish football team to play the army eleven every
Thanksgiving.
The title of the secretary of the navy should be
solete. 0
ONE of the saddest things of modern times oc-
~ Cured up at Montreal the other day when a hotel
guest grabbed biscuit and threw it at waiter and
struck him on the jaw and broke it-not the biscuit
but the jaw.
An ancient landmark is passing
Colored porterS who carried the universal name
George" are passing before the Filipnos who have
beeen adopted by the Pullman company.
The FflipinoS are very alert mentally; they hold
their hands out the first trip.
Bills have been introduced in the New York legisla-
ture to prevent judges from being directors of corpora
tons or being in business of any kind
This would seem to be the proper caper
XXTE were informed the other day that General
w Smedley Butler now charges ST. 600 a speech
and II this is SO, it proves once that nothing
pays like advertising.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once upon time delivered
lectures for IS night but in his day there was no
MusSolini to go after
1t is said there will be revolution in Nicaragua
Immediately after marines get out, but this will
not be anything new for Nicaragua and besides it's
none Of business and the President is right to
bring the boys back home.
NHE raiding of this aristocratc club in Philadel-
phia and the seizure of 600 cases of rare Joy water
suggests the idea that this kind Of enforcement had
been carried out nationwide scale immediately
after the adoption of the eighteenth amendment.
prohibition now would be enforced as wen as any
other law.
The trouble has been that the poor man has known
that the rich was getting just about all he
wanted and taking no pains toeonceal the fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05

ganism responsible, and that iodine
may be of value in attacking the
LESSONS of the disease.
Other drugs which have specific
virtues include the anesthetics
which bring about Inconsistencies;
digitalis, which slows and enforces
the beat Of the heart; caffein, which
stimulates the higher centers of the
brain; iron, which increases the
hemoglobin or red coloring matter
of the blood, and the newer dye
substances, which, when injected
tend to localize invariably in certain
organs.
Thus it may be seen that the
specific effect of a drug may be in
its tendency to attack only a GER
tain type of organism, or in it's eff
feet to bring about certain def
mite function, or in it's effect to &c
to a certain part of the body every
time.
There used to be joke about
the doctor who had a pill for every
organ in the body and the colored
boy who wanted to know how the
pill always found the particular or
gan for which it was intended.
Modern science has turned this
joke into a fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05

to make fewer mistakes concerning their own inter
est than any small privileged class running the gov
eminent
Since the war. democracy has been unpopular. es-
peciay in Europe. In many countries democracy has
been pushed aside in favor of dictatorship Dictator
ship does things without debate; it is swift
In this country had a family disguised dicta-
torship during the war. We still have it as hang
over. The President and the supreme court have
usrped many powers Of the representative branch of
the government
On top Of that, when the country is in economic
danger the cry goes up that congress should be sent
home that it must not be allowed to meet in special
session. This obviously is reversal Of the whole
theory of government on which this democracy was
founded
That in itself is not bad There is no reason wbv
we should not depart from democratic methods if they
have failed and if we have found better method
But have we found better methodp
The record demonstrates the opposite to be true.
The record shows that congress- with all its faults
has been the chief guardian of the peoples liberties
and chief protector Of the peoples interests.
The record shows that the executive more often
has been lacking in wisdom, in initiative, and in
courage in meeting national crises.
Take the last year. The disastrous higher tariff.
which destroyed export trade and prolonged the
business depression, forced upon an unwilling
congress by the President.
Before the depression congress tried to check the
speculative market and to plan against unemploy-
ment but was blocked by the President
When congress was out Of session and there was
no one to prod him, the President did nothing eff
1ectVe through last summer and fall to cope with the
drought or unemployment This winter congress has
tried repeatedly to provide direct relief for drought
and unemployment sufferers, and to set up advance
machinery and planning to handle future emergen-
cies-only to be thwarted in most cases nv the rasi
dent.
On most issues. from Muscle Shoals and power to
maternity and infancy aid congress was on the side
OF the people and the President was not That has
been true this year, and most other years.
TO usurp the powers of congress or to DESTROY the
public confidence in congress is to undermine repre-
sentative government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05

mere machinery. The fact of
presses and linotype equipment
never was stressed in the proceed
ings. This didn't count.
The intangibles of newspaper
are the men and the women who
make it.
First in America, and now in a
frenzied form in Russia, there grows
a cult which bows and bangs its
head upon the floor in worship of
the machine.
In some calculations man is no
more than a device to pull upon a
gadget. But here, at last, there was
talk of millions, and checks in huge
amounts were passed-not for ap-
paratuS, moving belts and intricate
mechanism. This was deal for
a name.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Millions for a Soul

DUT newspapers are different.
- I'm newspaper man. There
are many things to be said for this
new combination.
It is my sincere belief that the
Scripps-Howard chain is qualified
by It's record and its potentialities
to carry on the Pulitzer tradition of
liberal journalism. In fact, I'll go
further and say that, as far as my
personal experience goes, the Tele-
gram has been more alert and vail
ant in its independent attitude
than the World papers.
Yet I hope, at least, that this
may be the end of mergers. The
economic pressure for consolida-
ton still continues. A newspaper
is. among other things, a business.
A newspaper is a rule unto itself.
It has a soul for salvation or dam
nation. I was pleased to hear much
said about intangibles in all the ac-
counts Of the preliminary negotia-
tons leading up to the present mer-
ger.
was glad that for once the
emphasize was taken away from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Going Backward

KTAHATMA GANDHI appears tC
1V1be the only man alive who can
get away with the idea that progress
lies in setting the clock back, and
he couldn't in any other land but
India.
Even with India back of him, he
has had to be content with a COM
promise which does not amount to
much, and for perfectly obvious
reasons.
From political standpoint, Can
dhi and his associates are right in
asking for more freedom, but free
dom means nothing unless it in
cludeS the right to think and to
translate thought into improve
mentS.
There is no salvation for the peo-
pie of India, or any other land, in
reverting to the customs of thou
sand years ago. Their only hope of
work and prosperity lies in taking
advantage CT human knowledge.
Instead ofatelling them to go back
to hand looms and the spinning
wheel, Gandhi should be encourage
ing his followers to kill the snakes
and other deadly animals, clear the
jungle, build roads, and open up
the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-.
Nea0 Carbon Arc Lamp Is
Finding Important Place
IN .SerernL Industries
.RY nAVIn nITTZ
IN Several Industries.

a NEW type Of carbon arc lamp
IA for production Of ultraviolet
light for use in industry has been
perfected by the National Carbon
Company, with headquarters in
Cleveland.
The new lamp IS finding applica-
tons in the leather industry, the
textile industry, the oil industry.
and in new processes for purifying
mineral waters and irradiating
cereals, according to a report from
the American Chemical Society.
Banks OF the new lamps can be
used to replace the sun in many
processes where materials formerly
were exposed to the action Of sun
Light as for example in the making
Of patent leather.
The lamps give more efficient re-
suits than sunlight, according to DR..
NJ. j. Dorcas of the National Car
bon Company, because they are
under control at all times and al
ways can be regulated. Sunlight
depends upon the state Of the
weather.
He also points out that the range
OF wave lengths furnished by the
sun IS limited. 1t is possible with
the aid Of the new lamp to obtain
many wave lengths not present in
sunlight which are advantageous
for certain industrial processes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Hits Other Industries

A IL told, this country now has
IA 10000 miles Of pipeline carry
ing oil or gas.
Not only the coal industry, but
the railroads have been hard hit.
Driven to desperation by an I'M
expected slump in freight, and en-
couraged by a more indulgent at
titude toward mergers on the part
of the federal government, the
railroads, or some of their officials,
at least, have fallen for the idea
of attempting to block competition
by arbitrary means.
They are doing what they can
to have trucks unreasonably taxed
and regulated, to block the i'm
provement of inland waterways, and
to obtain laws whereby pipe lines
not only would be classified as COM
mon carriers, but be barred from
conveying oil or gas which belonged
to the company owning them.
That's all a mistake. Railroad
officials who indorse such tactics
only are creating unnecessary an
tagoniSn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
A Long Shot

ONCE my feeling is strong that
- a newspaper neither can rise
nor fail beyond or below its staff,
7 was stirred by the notion-the
dream-that World men might take
over the World.
I realize, as they do now, the
difficulties which lay in the path
Of any such plan. I'll readily adj
nit that 1000 to would be a gen.
erous price against any such under
taking.
But we are, Or ought to be, lovers
of long shots. There's nothing par
ticularly stirring when the favorite
coasts home in front. Although the
newspaper crowd didn't put its
project over, it isn't fair to call this
miss plain failure.
The night it died went late to
see the men I knew and had worked
with long ago-that is, two years, OF
maybe three, which is a long span
in the life of any rowing and re-
bellious columnist.
I never found the paper pounding
and pulsing quite so much as it die
noW-when it was dead.
For almost the first time in M
life I watched reporters animated
by a group consciousness. Newspa.
per men are blandly and, I think
blindly individualistic. Once I wa
president Of a press writer's union
There were four members.
Nobody would join us, because thI
average reporter carried in hi
knapsack the baton Of managing
editor, or even the dim hope Of be
ing some day a dramatic critic.
What did he want with organi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05

zation? He stood on two feet-a
single unit.
But as the World passed, we sat
together in a very vigorous sort of
democracy. At first I felt I might
be out OF place as one who was an
ex-World man. But by in the
morning we were all Eek" We had
ex-managlng editor, ex-city editor
and dozens Of ex-reporters.
Naturally, have both hope and
confidence in the new paper. Like
John Browns body, the World goes
marching on. To heights, I hope.
But something is gone. They
aren't all marching. Men have
dropped out.
copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-05
Wasted Energy

NANDHI retires after promising
" Lord Irwin that he will quit
the nonsense in exchange for plan
OF autonomy which leaves England
In control of midas military and
financial affairs, and congress ad-
journs after having spent three
months making things as tough as
possible for President Hoover.
1t looks like a considerable amount
Of wasted energy in both cases. If
either Gandhi or congress has &C
complished anything that couldn't
have been accomplished with half
the balderdash, there is something
wrong with the multiplication table.
All winter long, congress has acted
just like the IriShman who told his
wife, 81 do not bate you because
I hate you; I bate you to show my
authority"
The most constructive Job con-
gress might have done after the re-
lief program was out of the way
approving our entrance into the
world court-it wouldn't even take
time to discuss.