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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
If They are Wise

In explaining the purpose of the announced federal
billion-dollar bond ISSUE Officials admitted at first
that it was hoped to forestall increased taxes to
cover the deficit. But that story created such bad
impression officials now are saying that the bond
issue merely is for current financing before congress
meets and has relation to taxes.
All of which strikes pretty thin.
If it only we're a case of borrowing money to cover
the deficit until congress meets and possible increased
income taxes could be collected obviously there would
be no need of twenty-four-year bonds at per cent
Instead short-term financing at much lower in
terest rates and at large saving to the government
would be adequate. And that, in our Judgment, would
be the wise policy.
Apart from the financial loss to the government in
the announced policy we believe that longterm Dor
rowing to cover a mounting operating deficit is a
vicious principle. The budget should be balanced.
The bllion-donar deficit of last year and the
prospective deficit of an additional billion and half
this year should be met directly. Some expenditures
can be cut especially military and naval appropra-
TONS
Income can be raised by lowering the tariff and
thus revving foreign trade and dwindling re-
ceipts But that in itself would be inadequate.
A tax increase is essential No one disputes that.
The only argument is whether the tax increase should
be postponed for political reasons until after the
presidential election and whether it should be tax
on the poor or the rich.
Political expedency should not be allowed to de-
lay a necessary financial operation. Nor should
the pressure of large campaign contributors and
bankers be allowed to shift the tax burden to the
poor.
More than justice is involved 1t is a matter of
business revival. The only quick and easy way to
break up part of the Recommendation of wealth
which was produced by one-sided prosperity. and
which in turn has beeen major cause of the con-
tinuing depression is by increased upperbracket in
come and inheritance taxes.
Any attempt to make the mass of the people carry
heavier financial load, either by direct or indirect
taxation would curtail purchasing power still fur
Their and prolong the depression.
If the administration and its large campaign
contributors are WISE they Will that the rich can
afford to pay for revival of prosperity, from which
both rich and poor will profit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
SAYS:

We Americans Are Develop
ing Altogether Too Much
Faith IN Purely Mechanical
Remedies.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE farm
IN board has a very good reason
for not buying cotton. It cah't.
The $500,000,000 with which it set
out to stabilize prices practically is
gone. It's vast holdings have
shrunk by something like third
in value.
Even if it could find bankers will
ing to accept them as collateral,
the resulting loans would be COM
paratively small.
Theoretically, the farm board
scheme looked all right. 1t was
based on Mark Twains deduction
that about Is per cent of a given
commodity spelled the difference
between high and low prices.
Five hundred million dollars
should have been sufficient to cor
ner Is per cent of this country's
grain and cotton, but it wasn't.
Farmers planted too much and
the weather was too good.
While nothing can be done about
the weather, we should take the
farmers attitude as a warning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
The Operators Move

President Hoovers attempt to bring about a con-
ference between bitumnous coal operators and miners
to settle labor troubles has failed.
one hundred one of 100 operators to whom invi-
tations addressed by the secretaries of commerce
and labor either failed to answer or declined to at
tend Presumably their reason was belief that
such conference could accomplish nothing.
Will the operators, having declined to participate
in the governments effort, come forward with
a suggestion of their own?
Or will they sit by and do nothing to end the
chaos in the coal fields with its underpad workers,
its thousands with no work, and tens of thousands
of hungry women and children?
The alternative to voluntary measures is govern
ment compusion to keep necessary basic industry
operating and prevent citizens from starving
What have the operators to offer2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
And Orders Is Orders

In vetong the Norris Muscle Shoals BILL Presi-
dent Hoover said:
The real development of the resources and in
dustries of the Tennessee valley can be accomplished
only by the peoples in that valley themselves Muscle
Shoals can be administered only by the people on
the ground, responsible to their own communities
directing them solely for the benefit of their COM
munities, and not for the purposes of pursuit of
social theories or national politics Any other
deprives them of liberty"
So the President appointed commission.
The commission, meeting in Washington Tuesday.
called at the White House Asked the purpose of the
call, the chairman replied:
Largely to get our orders"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
The Cotton Market

The cotton south, while attempting to struggle with
its own problem still is looking to the federal farm
board for help.
1t might purchase more cotton, but this only
would increase its troubles when it came to dispose
OF these holdings and probably increase its losses
The board says it will buy no more for the present
1t might advance more money to farmers through
co-operatives, but it only would be advancing these
persons their own money whether or not production
reduction was pledged part of the collateral
1t might sanction the 1882 cotton holiday being pro-
posed throughout the SOUTH but it could do this only
by refusing to look forward to the distress that would
be rampant next year when cotton farms and
tenants would have no incomes
1t might hold conferences with representatives of
other producing countries but any acreage re-
duction agreements that might result would be use
less in the present distress.
1t might spend hundred million dollars, as some
have suggested but this would have to be paid event.
ually by those who might benefit temporarily.
Evidently, the board suggested it's cotton destruc
ton plan in sheer desperation, occasioned by the
immense crop forecast this year and the prospect that
two years supply of staple would be available at the
end Of this picking season. Its desperate plan has
been abandoned utterly, as it should have been.
1t must realize by now that neither "stabilization'
operations any other artificial means of revving
a depressed market actually will work.
1t must be known that farm relief" is not to be
obtained Immediately by law rule, regulation, or any
group of them.
Farm relief means, of course, profitable prices
for farm products. They are obtainable nowhere
now; will they be until consumption equals pro-
duction That means when the unemployed and part
time employed of the United States and foreign
countries afford to buy again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02

proaches the mature ripened con-
dition.
Naturally ripened tomatoes con-
tanned the most vitamin c, full
grown green tomatoes were next
and the small immature fruit con-
tanned the least of all. The ethylene
treatment of the tomatoes does not
produce any significant change in
their vitamin G potency.
1t is important to point out that
in their studies the Investigators
have used only the juice of the
tomato, whereas previous in
vestigatorS have used both the pulp
and the juice.
So far as the use of tomato Juice
as a source of vitamins is concerned,
the government investigators feel
that vine-ripened tomatoes are pre-
ferable to those picked green and
treated with ethylene gas to develop
the color characteristic of ripe fruit.
There is no evidence that ethylene
ripening has any bad effect on the
vitaminS that may have developed
in the products up t. the time when
they are treated with ethylene.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Too Much Stinting

COMEHOW, somewhere, the slack
~ must be gathered in, and with
out too great delay. Not forever
will hungry people remain content
or satisfied with the explanation
that they suffer because of better
management and new economies
indeed, I rather think that we NAV
have to form an entirely new no.
Clon OF governmental financing.
Once worked upon a newspaper
which dwindled and then died. The
first sign of fatal illness was a man
agerial notice that everything must
be cut down from salaries to the
size of the printed page.
1t seemed to me that if the paper
languished in its existing form, then
1t needed to give the reader not less
but more, if it were to recover.
Likewise, I think that america s
way out may we'll lie not in the
economies of Mellon, but in the
broader vision and the freer hand
of some executive who will admit
that it is up to a government 10
see that there must be work for the
voorhees,.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

lected at different stages of their
development.
The matter is particularly impor-
tant because tomatoes are used in
infant feeding to provide vitamin G
as preventive of scurvy; to provide
vitamin A for resistance to disease,
and for its general value in pro-
noting growth and to provide vita
min B, which is related to appetite
and digestion.
Tomatoes that were mature, but
green, tomatoes naturally ripened on
the vines, small immature green to-
matoes, mature green tomatoes RI
pened with etEylene we're tested on
animals as to their content of these
three vitamins.
The evidence indicates that nat
urally ripened tomatoes are better
source of vitamins A, B and G than
any others studied.
No material difference was OBJ
served in the vitamin A content of
any of the lots, nor of the vitamin
E content. However, the vitamin c
value of tomatoes seems to increase
as the fruit develops and ap-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Even Hunger No Novelty

WET, though the income tax has
Il bowed my head and bloodied it.
L am still for it in. principle. From
now on all of us will have to learn
new standard of taxation. There
is no point in going back ten years
or thirty-f1ve years and figuring out
what proportion of any mans
wealth was taken back from him
in taxation.
A new era is dawning. Little by
little the community begins to real
ize its obligation to the unemployed.
This realization comes quite slowly
and in only small degree does it
represent a growth of good will. 1t
is rather sharpening of common
sense.
Abraham Lincoln was dealing in
no f1owery oratorical metaphor
when he declared that no country
could exist half slave and half free.
1t should be equally apparent that
national existence itself is threat
ened by breadline days and nights.
In spite of the lack of political
imagination among the jobless no
one can reasonably expect six or
ten million to starve quietly and
without protest indefinitely.
1t is not within my power or my
hope to prolong the life of capital
ism. But if had millions or any
fraction thereof I hope I would
have enough gumption to see t'..e
immediate concessions necessary to
stability.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
'VXTHY women fail" is discussed in a recent

"NTHY women fall is discussed in recent mag
w azine article by Lorine Pruette who you will
remember was authority for the statement not long
ago that the country would be better off without the
men.
The woman who wishes to be famous" she writes,
should not marry. Early in her career she must
give up the weakness of the wish to be pleasing"
Although we will not dispute these arguments and
admit that it is possible for women to succeed in
most work II they give it their undivided attention
still the question keeps popping up, What of it?"
Women fail in careers because they usually do
not care enough about succeeding Most of them
are wise enough to know that being famous gets you
nowhere, so far as actual happiness in concerned.
The ruthleSSnesS that drives the average man on
his ambitious way does not strike a woman as an
entirely praiseworthy attribute. In the first place
she realizes he should too that it is not possible
for every citizen of a country to be famous.
1t is, however, quite possible for every citizen to
be happy, if we used our wits bit.
XXTOMEN know that there are certain subtle vic
w tories over existence that are worth more than
all the laurelS of the strong They aware, too,
that such victories yield more splendid and per-
manent reward for their attainment.
Most of us, believe, quite content to leave
the large share Of the professional and business
cess to the men. And topsy-turvy place the world
would be if this were not the case.
1t is not given to all to excel equally in the
same work So far actual usefulness is concerned
the good mechanic is necessary the good medco
Each has his place to fill
And so the work done by women, if not exactly the
same kind in which delight, is work quite
sential to community welfare and progress.
Success is a relative term And it is a little weari>
some to assume that woman can succeed unless
she does so in Office.
Why not leave to the men their paltry games OF
chance, their evanescent glories and their hollow VIC
tories? We given the children who constitute
the ultimate victory over life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
THEY'LL Have a Plan

FARMERS won't be so optimistic
Il next year. They know that there
are feats which even Uncle Sam
can't perform.
Instead of taking it on the nose.
however, they probably will come
forward with some other plan by
which they can plant every acre
in sight and still hope for good
prices.
Barring a great and unforeseen
shortage in other countries, that is
out of the question.
No system yet devised will pro-
tect people against the effect of
overproduction. If they can't find
new markets, or stimulate consump-
ton in some artificial way, their
only choice is to produce less, or
take a loss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
It's Too Mechanical

W7E Americans are developing
w altogether too much faith in
purely mechanical remedies-prohi-
bition, the farm board, anti-gun
toting laws, and so on.
Governor Roosevelt of New York
recommends that authority to issue
pistol permits" be transferred from
justices of the supreme court to
SheriffS and police chiefs, that all
those applying for permits be finger
printed, that permits run for only
one year, and that separate permit
be required for each and every pistol.
One need not quarrel with these
recommendations to wonder why the
judges have failed, or whether the
police chiefs and Sheriffs will do any
better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02

Is the phrase in the preamble of
the Constitution Sin order to form
a more perfect union" grammatical?
Can anything be more perfect?
Grammatarians generally agree
that perfect may be compared by
prefiXing more or most, when it has
the sense of partaking in a higher
or lower degree of the qualities that
make up absolute perfection. In
this sense We simply admit that
nothing in the world is absolutely
hawlesS.
Who was Johnny AppleSeed?
Els real name was John Chap
man. He was born in Springfield,
Mass, in ITS. He claimed that his
mission in life was to have apple
trees growing in the western wilder
ness when the settler arrived. 1t is
believed that his first nursery was
in a narrow valley along the Ohio
river, opposite what is now Wells
burg, w, Va. 1t is estimated that
he set out more than 100 nurseries
in the forests. Many of the finest
orchards in the early days of Ohio
and Indiana were composed of trees
bought from Johnny Appleseed. He
would dig the soil and plant thou
sands of apple, peach and pear
seeds. When he had built a fence
Of brush around the spot to keep
away grazing animals, he moved on,
and the arriving settlers would find
and use the trees they could buy
for practically nothing.
What is the population of China?
The estimated population in 1890
was 439, 759. $50.
Who preceded Governor Murray
as Governor of Oklahoma?
w. ]. Holloway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
A Problem of Men

T TNDER existing conditions, all a
~ New York thug has to do is
go across the Hudson and buy a
gun, or, if he doesn't want to take
the chance that involves, get a per-
NIT in some devious way known to
thuggery and corrupt politics.
How many gangsters have been
caught without guns? Not many,
and some have had permits to prove
their right to carry them? How did
they come by those permits?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Can Not See Far

T SUPPOSE the gravest indictment
4 to be drawn against our present
economic setup is the mental quail
ity which it has brought about in
its most prominent graduates. Lead
ers of finance, captains Of industry
may be shrewd as you please in or
ganizing business and in directing
output.
But only handful can see with
in five years beyond the end Of
their respective noses. Practically
all the&men in power accepted at
face value the promise of a new
prosperity around the corner. They
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HR EYS3%

feeling on this matter. In 1880
the stars were favorable in their
courses to most of my endeavors. I
felt affluent. Indeed, I behaved
as if the various rackets we're go
ing to last forever.
And then one patent medicine
which had used me on the air de-
cided that detective stories would be
more enticing for customers with
sluggish livers. I was put out of the
studio into the driving snowstorm.
And, more than that, there lurked
above my head the tax which should
be paid in this year of 1881.
But now the planets are less ia
vorable, and what I had is gone be-
yond recall. At the moment my best
endeavor is to get the people at
Washington to take a little down
and so much week for a long, long
time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Bet on Sure Thing

XXTHEN people think they are
w safe, they take little thought
Of protecting themselves.
That is, and always has been, the
chief effect of government guaran-
tees.
But for the expectation that Uncle
Sam could, and would, hold up
prices by purchasing the surplus,
farmers would have shown a greater
disposition to curtail crops, especially
in cotton and grain.
They merely bet on what they
considered a sure thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Questions and Answers

Who is the author of the proverb
"a house divided against itself can
not Stand?"
Abraham Lincoln. The statement
was made about the north and the
south at the time of the Civil war.
What is the largest island in the
world?
Greenland, if Australia, which is
sometimes classed as a continent,
is excluded.
Where are the Pribilof islands?
In the Boring sea.
What proportion of watermelon
is water?
Watermelons contain an average
of 92.5 per cent water and 6.5 per
cert carbohydrates, largely sugar.
From what source is ivory OBJ
tanned?
From the tusks of elephants. Sim
liar substances obtained from the
hippopotamuS, narWhal, walruS, and
some other animals is commonly
called ivory.
For what purpose were the pyra-
midS in Egypt built?
AS the tombs of the Pharaohs,
monarchS of Egypt.
Where is Acadia National park
located?
On Mt. Desert island of the coast
Of Maine.
Where does Edward Rice Bur-
roughs, the author, live?
At ReSeda, Cal.
How many farms were there in
the United States in 1850?
1,449,073.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Ha, the B0OtIeggers

A NTI-GUN toting laws, no mat
L A ter what they provide, or by
whom enforced, rest On the same
theory as prohibition; the big idea
being to make bad men good by
depriving good men of something
or other.
Well, if you can bootleg gin, why
not guns, or, to come a little closer
home, if the New York police have
been unable to close Speakeasies.
or catch racketeers, how do they
expect to stop pistol carrying?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Too Many Doors Now

EXTE are not going to get any,
w where in solving the crime
problem until We do better job of
catching and convicting criminals.
Whether outlawing weapons will
do any good, it certainly will open
another profitable door for the
smuggler and corrupt politicians.
We have enough such doors to
watch already.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02

.7doAkF b1Tt7e
fAMNEVER$ARY|
ARREST RUSS REBELS
Sept. 2

ON Sept. 2, 1917, Kerensky, the
~ Russian leader, arrested many
well-known officers, civilians and
politicians in Moscow in an effort to
crush a revolutionary plot.
German airplanes raided East
Kent, on the British coast.
Meanwhile, Germans crossed the
Diva river near Uxkul, on the east
ern front, and pushed northward.
They also advanced toward Rigo
from the south.
In the italian campaign, Italians
pushed on in the Brestovizza valley
on this date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02


TOMATOES may be artifcially
- colored and ripened by ex-
posture to cthylene gas, so also
may such products as the citrus
fruits, including oranges and LEM
onS and bananas.
Products ripened with ethylene
have more uniform color and f1rmer
texture than those allowed to ripen
naturally before being gathered.
The Investigators, DrS. D. B.
Jones and E. M. Nelson of the
United States department of ag-
riculture, have recently made a
comparative study of the vitanin
of tomatoes treated with ethylene
gas as compared with those coll
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02

didn't even bother to ask which
corner.
1t is not unreasonable to assume
that America might muddle back
into a period of better times-that
is, better times in the sense of
stock market quotations and upper
middle-clasS prosperity.
But it is hard to see how the old
gospel Of rugged individualism can
suffice for salvation in this machine
age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Daily Thought

Behold, these are the ungOdIy,
who prosper in the world; they
increase in riches.-Psalms 1912.
Great abundance of riches can
not of any man be both gathered
and kept without Sin.-Erasmus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-02
Ethylene Gas Ripens Citrus

This is the thirty-f1rst Of series of
thirty-Six timely articles by DIR. Morris
Fishbein on Good Truths and FOlIies,"
dealing with such much discussed but
little known subjects as calories, vita
minis, minerals, digestion and balanced
diet.