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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-30

208 Mass. ave. - Capitol
Towers Pharmacy.
4th and H SITS. - Home
Drug Store.
GOT H st.-Carren'S Music
Store.
18th and Md. ave.-Luck-
ett'S Pharmacy.
7th and Md. ave.-Louis
F. Bradley.
North Capitol and Eye
Keneely'S Pharmacy.
goth and r. I. ave.-Col-
Inns Pharmacy, Wood
ridge.
$500 18th st.-.Brookland
Pharmacy, Brookland.
4th and r. I. ave.-John
G. Biggs' Pharmacy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
SmP0leV RUtIpr


Smedley D. Butler is retiring from the marines
after thirtytwo years of brilliant service from private
to major general. He has bought house in Pha-
delpha and it is reported, is going into politics. per-
haps to run for the United States senate
That sounds reasonable At the age of so and
an exceedingly active man, Butler is not apt to sit
in rocking chair, twiddling his thumbs.
He should make as good statesman as soldier
but we are not certain.
OF the four virtues which make for statesman
ship he has at least three
He is courageous. He is incorruptible. He has
genius for leadership He has shown moral courage
His incorruptbility is of the kind that can not be
bribed by the social lobby or the Establishments of
big business, which are so much more subtle and
common in political life than obvious money brbes
Butler the type of that people like and follow
His virtues are of the kind very much needed in
politics today
But there Is fourth requisite for craftsmanship.
Whether Butler has the necessary intelligence for
craftsmanship no will know until he is tested
in politics. But his speech at an American Legion
convention in Connecticut not encouraging.
He was crusading if the press reports are ac-
curate, against the paclsts and Communists and
against special session of congress Certainly there
are many intelligent persons who oppose pacifism,
Communism and special session. But Butler, as
reported. did not appeal to reason he appealed to
passion and prejudice. He said
'If the pacihsts and Communists gain possession
Of the government there will be 100000 men Just
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
Indiana Honored and Hopeful


The state of Indiana has been signally honored by
President Hoover in his appointment of Warren Fair
banks publisher of the News to his board of advisers
on unemployment
The people of this state have suspected for some
time that the President needed advice upon this sub
ject. He will receive it.
True, the President showed little interest a year
ago when another citizen of Indiana, Congressman
Louis Ludlow, attempted to secure a law that would
prevent unemployment and its inevitable distress.
Next winter so the President believes and many
others long have feared there will be much distress
There is danger of hunger. There is certainty of
evctions from humble homes for inability to pay rent
There will be many who will need clothing
In this emergency the citizens of this state will
have a spokesman to represent them with sympathy
and understanding and who will be in position to
coordinate and organize the relief forces of this
state This will give hope to the desperate and needy
It is understood at the start that the President
will oppose any reefof national character through
legislation. The distress must be dispelled by local
taxes voluntary charity preferably charity. There
is to be no humiliation and degrading dole"
Since the state has been honored and recognized
no man or woman of wealth refuse to answer any
plea for funds. They will give and give and give and
thus escape such radical suggestions as heavy income
taxes for relief.
era Of brotherly love and protective care
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
S2Q-657S1Q.S5

The fact that prohibition is responsible for two
thirds of the cost of federal criminal justice comes
home to us with particularly unpleasant emphasis in
this time of depression and federal deficits when
every dollar counts.
While times were good it didn't matter a great
deal if prohibition was costly. We had the money.
We grumbed little when some one pointed out to
us the cost of enforcement but federal taxes were
falling and that was all that seemed important.
Now, with a bigger tax bill lurking around the
corner, the disagreeable duty Of fact-facng be
put off longer
In attempting to enforce prohibition upon an I'M
willing people we have loaded ourselves with task
that is costing us $3965781985 year, in addition to
the cost in resentment of government dsrepect for
law and other intangibes.
For this expenditure we get what? Not prohibition
Not even the most convinced dry can believe that we
do.
This year we going to demand value returned
for what we spend. There will be no good-natured toll
erance of big bills that bring evident benefit
Perhaps this is the best thing that could happen
to our government. A new assessment and valuation
of what it is doing scarcely fail to improve it.
Governmental budgets, like all others, should have
weeded out of them from time to time experimental
expenditures that have not proved their worth That
means prohibition.
tax beer and light wines and a saving on
prohibition enforcement costs and crimes probably
would wipe out the annual billion dollar federal
deficit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22

One Of the causes of distress during times of I'M
employment is the excessive charges for utility
services
This is especially true in Indiana, which has no
control the holding companies, the legal fences
for the loot of these corporate interests.
The state permits continuous. income on values
of plants The holding company is the legal invention
by which excessive returns be taken by the pro-
motors and insiders without rendering any adequate
services.
The telephone company is one Of the big offenders
and the public learns that the charge against the
people for high salaries for executives of its holding
companies is unwaranted.
The electric light company in this city does some
strange tricks with its holding company, such as
charging an Excise" tax to operation. It's purchase
of coal is another of chaking up huge charges
for the benefit of the promoters It's report before the
public service commission, probably never read by the
members, show plainly that the people are suffering
impostions
What the water company does is a Shame, but
owner Geist has partially atoned for his sins through
the gift of an alleged pipe organ to political club
A general demand for reduction of utility rates
might produce results, even from a subseryient and
blind public service commission.
If obtained, this would help the property owner
who will be called upon for more money for public
charity
The south side has started the demand Will the
rest of the city take part in the effort?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22

Since the corner stone of prosperous democracy is
free land-owning yeomanry of the SOIL there is dis
quoting significance in figures just made public by
the bureau of agricultural economies
Here it is shown that nearly one-half of the
farmers of the United States do not own their own
farms, but work under the backward system of land
tenancy.
In the last decade tenancy on farms has increased
from 1871 per cent to 424 per cent In the last five
years every state but six-New York Connecticut
New Jersey, Pennsylvania Delaware and Arizona
showed an increased tenancy
The south apparently has traded black chattel
slavery for something approaching white economic
slavery All states in which more than one-half of
the farmers tenants are in the SOUTH Mississippi
holds the lead for the nation with I'll per cent of
its farmers ting land owned by Others Texas Okla
homa, Arkansas Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, all
have tenancy of more than so per cent.
Equally alarming is the growing tenancy in the
midwest, in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa,
Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas the Dakotas In Ohio
it is 262 per cent, in Indiana 30 per cent.
Is it possible that the United States is becoming
a nation of peasants?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22

Apparently the Observation-Disclosures
have found that the condition may
be overcome by eating birds liver,
cooked or raw, rabbits liver, Gods
liver and cod liver oil. All of these
substances contain Yitamin A in
considerable amounts.
Strangely enough the natives have
the custom of steaming the sore
eyes over the cooking liver, which is
then eaten. French surgeons, as long
ago as 1911, described a similar
method Of treatment for sailors
with night-blindness Most of the
cases of night-blindness clear up
in few days after few meals Of
liver.
In the body of a child before
birth practically ALL of the vitamin
A it has is found in the liver. In
the early months of growth the
liver is very large and it tends to
become smaller up to the time when
the child is born.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A CHICAGO judge, sentencing l5-year-old boy to
n eighteen years in the penitentiary severely lee
tured the parents and blamed them for his downfall
Yet our crime wave goes much deeper than the
neglect of parents Nor it thus be explained
away.
This particular youth shot a policeman who had
surprised him in the act of stealing swim in a high
school building pool This prank in itself was not
wrong. The fact that it was forbidden made it
1t is the strict surveillance deeds harmless in
themselves that make large share of boys criminals
Granted that the parents of the lad had not reared
him properly, had they in their turn been rightly
trained to be parents? Apparently not.
They, too, perhaps were the victims Of bad up
bringing And yet we have rigid law against birth
control information and in most states against the
sterilization of criminals
4 GAIN, this boy had a gun, which was the true
L cause of the murder Fear of the policeman, and
gun, two perfect incentives to crime Who manu-
featured this weapon? Who sold or gave it to a
child?
Parents can not be the sole guardians of their
children. Society," the government, the municipality
also share with them the responsibility of caring for
the youth of the land Chicago does not have clean
skirts Her politicians, even her policemen not
without sin.
Vicious things have happened within her boun-
diaries. And 15-year-old criminals some of the
fruits of this evil sowing Corruption in government
in society. in business, we'll as careless parents
creates bad boys and girls. Even the law of which
the sentencing judge is part can not claim per-
lection.
Tom Mooney entered prison the year our Chicago
lad was born and yet the courts neither have freed
nor ap.logized to him.
The greatest manufacturer of crime in any land
is injustice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =

suffer from deficiency diseases.
Scurvy is not particularly COM
mon; in fact, not as common as
might be expected. But beri beri
and various forms of polyneuritis
are fairly frequent, and disturbances
Of the eyes, such as develop in
animals fed on diets deficient in
vitanlin A, are exceedingly frequent.
The most common deficiency of
the eye to be found is called by the
physician functional hemeralopia. .
The common name for this con-
dition is night-blindness. In this
disease the person is unable to see
by night.
incidentally the night blindness
is associated with other disturbances
of the eyes in the form of inf1am-
nation which are easily produced in
animals by putting them on diets
which are deficient in vitamin A.
These disturbances are readily cured
by adding vitamin A to the diet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22

like the men of the American Legion who will rise
up and strange them"
That is jingoism No intelligent person expects
the small number Of Communists to seize the gov
eminent Pacihsts already legally rule the country.
in the sense that the Kellogg outawry war treaty
is in full force. threat that the American Legion
may some time rise up and strangle" any other
group of citizens is very dangerous claptrap
In attacking the idea Of special session of con-
gress he said this only would encourage the sort
OF legislative quackery that always makes its appear
ance in times like the present"
Instead Of giving reasons he called names-and
in so doing he used the same language almost YER
batim as used for months by administration poll
ticians and yes men.
Buffers mind apparently either is-a rubber stamp
or it has not been functioning on political questions
From his record it is hard to believe that he is a
rubber stamp. So perhaps the explanation is that
as military man, he has not had the opportunity
to use his head political questions.
If he will begin to use his head now, we believe
Butler with his courage honesty and leadership can
render great service to his country politically.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-In line with the
legal battle being staged at the
present time between blind people
playing music on the streets, and
the Indianapolis police force, I wish
to state a few facts.
AS I understand it, most of the
complaint has come from the mer-
chants of Washington street, who
claim that the blind musicians are a
hindrance to their business. These
same merchants last winter were
solicited by myself and another
member of the Welfare League for
the Blind to try to find means
whereby this continuous playing on
the streets would not be necessary
for the blind peoples
At that time the blind people Of
the state we're attempting to get
through the legislature form Of re-
lief for the blind. These same mer-
chants who now are complaining so
loudly, turned a deaf ear to all our
requests and attempts at co-opera-
ton, referring us to the Merchants
Association and Mr.. Balch. We at
tempted time and again to secure
an audience with this gentleman,
but to no avail. The bill was killed
and the blind are still at a loss as
to what to do to keep from starving.
The charities have refused help to
them, stating as their excuse that
the commission here is adequate to
take care of the situation. The fact
is that the commission is employing
81 blind people out of 5000 in the
state.
At the preliminary hearing Tues
day morning in superior court room
2, one of the police officers who has
been doing a considerable amount
of the arresting of the blind musi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

What Boys and Girls Are
Taught IN School Has Far
More to Do With Perpet-
uating War Than What Is
Spent on Forts and Fleets.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.--Of arms
IN and a conference, we sing. with
the idea of making debt revision
contingent on pledges to cut down
military establishments, just as
though peace were a matter of bar
gain and sale, just as though we
could buy up the prejudices, ira
ditions and hatreds which plague
Europe and chart them off to some
city dump.
AS to the debts, we can agree to
a revision before disaster super
venes, or wait for them to bring on
a worse financial crash.
AS to the military establishments,
they could be wiped off the map
and still leave war just around the
corner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
THEY TELL Me

| cunbent commander, is a Democrat,
so were Fred Wiecking Of Bluffton. a
possible candidate for congress, and
Frank McHale of Logansport.
On the other hand, Forrest Har-
ness of Kokomo and Raymond
Springer Of Connersville are Re
publicans. The latter is mentioned
as potentiality for the G. o. P.
nomination for Governor or attor-
ney-generaI.
The report is current now that
Senator James E. Watson, recog-
nizing the political Importance of
the Legion, has urged Ralph Gates
Of Columbia City, former Twelfth
district G. o. P chairman, and his
adherent, to enter the lists for state
commander.
Gates avowed purpose, it is de-
clared, is to stop Jay E. White of
South Bend, Republican of indie
pendent leanings The accusation
brought by Watson's friends against
w 4AbC 10 bA4dG 1lC 14cS 4slGINQbJ lCd14-
ings.
James J. Patched of Union City,
postmaster there for twelve years
and formerly head of the Indiana
Republican Editorial Association,
also has entered the race.
This makes three Republicans
against two Democrats, Joseph P.
Zimmerman Of indianapolis, run
ner-up to Young last year, and P.
T. (Butch) Haas Of Fl. Wayne
Both White and Zimmerman are
outspoken against politics in the
Legion.
How real and strong this feeling
exists in that organization will be
exemplified best by is choice for
commander.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
War Born in Hearts

IT'S toss-up as to whether big
i ornaments do more to promote
strife, or to prevent it. You don't
have to dig very far into history
to realize this.
Look at all the revolutions that
have occurred during the last year.
Were they the result of huge mill
tary organizations? Look at what
a few Cubans have done during the
last few days, and they had little
to begin with but a committee and
a grievance.
War is made in the hearts of men,
not in gun factories. What boys
and girls are taught in school has
far more to do with perpetuating
it than what is spent on forts and
fleets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
Back of the STAGE

T AM one of those who do not be-
L lieve that the World war was
the by-product of the Krupp works,
or the German war machine, or
even the political and diplomatic
system which called for them.
Back of all that stage stuff there
was something of more general and
in6mate power, something that
reached right down to where av-
erage people lived and made them
trust the performance as they
trusted nothing else.
That something has not been eX-
purgated from the scheme of things,
and the scheme Of things won't
change very much until it is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22

Industrial Demands

NV w u lGAt y VI
NNE Of the great difficulties con-
~ fronting colleges today is that
of hanging on to teachers of chem
istry.
The chemical industries have adj
vanced to the point where no spe-
cialist has too great a knowledge for
the demands made upon him.
The old division between "theoret-
ical" and practical has disap-
peared. The more theory a man
knows, the more useful he is in
practice today.
The result has been a competition
between industrial organizations
and educational institutions for the
best men. Industry, having more
money to spend, usually has won
the competition.
This has gone on until education
leaders have seen fit to issue warn
ings, pointing out that if all the
teachers are taken away from the
colleges, it will not be possible to
turn out any more competent stu
dents.
It has been suggested that plans
could be worked out by which a COL
lege might keep an expert while an
industry shared part of his time,
employing him as a consultant or
part-time worker.
The American Chemical Society
also is beginning to turn its atten-
ton to means of spreading chemi-
cal education outside of the formal
educational institutions. A cam
paign is being waged to "humanize"
chemistry.
Part of this campaign consists Of
stimulating adult education orgari-
cations and women's clubs to devote
programs to chemistry.
DR.. Smith, who founded the divi-
sion Of chemical education, was
born in York, Pa, on May %. 1856.
He was educated at Pennsylvania
college and the University of Cot
Jingen.
He became provost of the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania in 1911, holding
that position until his death in 1929.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
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}ANN|YGR$ARY|
SHARP ACTION ON FRONTS


Aug. %
nN Aug. %, 1917, the British cap
" tured strategic positions for a
mile along the Ypres-Menin road,
repulsed counter attacks of the Ger
man crown prince, and penetrated
the German trenches to the north.
Sharp actions on several other
fronts took place on this date also.
The Germans began an offensive
between the Tirul marshes and the
River IA, and penetrated the Rus
sian positions.
The Italians advanced on the
northern and southern wings of the
Isonzo front in the great drive on
Trieste.
Zeppelins raided Yorkshire, Eng
land, killing one man, and Gotha
airplanes raided Dover, Margate
and Ramsgate, killing eleven per-
sons and injured thirteen. Eight
German planes were shot down.
Germans attacked Vandelaincourt
hospital, killing ten wounded men,
one woman nurse, and nine men
nurses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
'GI0ry' of Battle

I'm spite Of all the peace treaties
l. that have been signed, all the
pacts, leagues and courts that have
been established, war still is held
up as mans most glorious achieve
ment before the eyes of each sue
ceeding generation of children.
They are trained to believe that
human progress was made possible
by certain number of conflicts and
battles; that if the other side had
won on this or that field, civiliza-
ton would have persisted.
They are trained to remember
dates and names in connection with
the most bloody tragedies, and to
associate patriotism with violence
and death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
Jungle Thinking

IF we are sincere, we have got to
l. go much farther than formal
declarations. or acts entitled acts.
We are dealing with thought habits
that go back to the jungle, that
assume honor and virtue to be diff
ferent over the hill, that can't con-
ceive of anything good outside the
sacred circle and that are based on
what men can do to each other,
rather than on what they can do
for each other.
The Trojan war still plays big
part in our conception of culture,
when it should have been laid aside
with the armor and farming meth
DDS of that day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-22
BY BEN STERN

U EEP the Legion out of politics"
IN again is the cry, as the In
diana department of the American
Legion convenes in Anderson today
for its annual convention.
But just like the G. A. R. i'm
mediately following the Civil war,
the Legion has all the earmarks to-
day of being a political body.
A glance at its state commanders
for the past few years and the line
up of candidates for that post IN
the field today reveals that politics
figures strongly.
The Democrats have in the main
controlled the state Legion organ
ization for several years.
This is explained by one member
with the remark: THE Repub-
Icans were in political power so
long in the state that they did not
need the legion"
The Democrats, on the other
hand, have had time to lay siege to
the organization and efficacy Of this
work was demonstrated in the 1880
campaign when the members did
yeoman service.
=
Where the G. A. R. was controlled
by the Republicans because the ma
iority of the members were Of that
political persuasion, the Democrats,
as a result Of Woodrow Wilson be-
ing the war President, have made
play for the American Legion.
Outstanding example in Indiana of
Democratic importance in that or
ganization is Paul V. McNutt, for
mer national commander, and now
outstanding candidate in that party
for Governor.
Floyd Young Of Vincennes, in