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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
"Their Rightful Place"

When the working classes of other countries have
revolted against oppression and tyranny they have
risen at the time against the church, Identify
ing it as ally of the other side of the struggle
In this country the Federal Council of Churches in
Americal just has accommodated the principles OF
religion in way that could make the church strong
ally of the working and the man who has no
work
In Protestant churches next Sunday the coun-
CHS Labor day message will be read, calling on the
churches to take their rightfu place of ethical
leadership" in solving the grave economic problems
Of today.
Society must turn its attention increasingly to the
uusoundness of the present distribution of the ma
ional income and to the control of the money
making spirit which lies behind it, says the message
Public sentiment also must turn against the amass-
ing of property especially through stock speculation
without regard for social consequences.
ITO make progress toward society organized
on the basis of justice and brotherhood we need to
raise vital questions with respect to the present
nomc order. When prosperity shall have returned
is it to be the same kind we have known in the past?
History indicates that return to such prosperity
will be temporary only and that another depression
with its human suffering will follow unless funda-
mental changes made"
The churches ask for a system of national plan
ming adjusted to worldwide trends instead of "our
ht-or-miss economy" and for "a new concept of the
position and needs OF all workers and producers on
the basis of justice, not charity"
1t suggests provisions for an ample wage stabili-
cation of employment and adequate protection
against interruptions in the opportunity to earn
such as workmen's compensation, health insurance
unemployment insurance maternity benefits and old
age pensions
Some of the disinherited look scornfuly upon re-
ligion as offering nothing to mankind except pie
in the sky But the churches adopt the principles
of their federal council they will be approaching
closer. perhaps than they have ever come in actual
practice to the religion of the Hebrew and Christian
prophets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
All We Need Is Music

I'm fact, a certain amount of war
l. time hysteria actually does per-
wade a good deal of our popular
thinking. Consider, for instance, the
very frequent suggestion that the
Sullivan law should be repealed and
every honest man permitted to carry
a gun in order to be able to shoot
it out with the. gangsters in case of
emergency.
Now, pause a moment to think
just what this would mean. We will
waive the objection that it might
be little difficult to identify just
which of US are honest enough to
bear arms. 1t isn't really a question
of honesty, but of temper.
I regard myself as a good citizen
within reason and a person of
pacific sentiment. And yet I i'm
mediately would become a COM
munal danger if armed with a re-
volver. Once or twice during the
year I get so angry at somebody
that I am intent upon his demolition
If there was nothing more than a
trigger to pull, would do that while
my black rage lasted.
And this, I think, is no more than
the normal allowance of temper. If
we all went armed the streets and
corridors of the city would be strewn
with the bodies of head walters, bus
boys and hat check girls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Not in HOLLYWOOD

1T is not exaggerating to say that
Il we have thousands of killers in
this country, or that the vast
majority of them understand no
other language than that of phySi-
cal force.
The glamor of their temporary
success, the money they have made,
and the publicity they are getting
constitute the most powerful phase
of corresponding propaganda
with which we are afflicted.
Immature youth is impressed by
the dispatch and precision with
which gangland enforces it's code,
especially when compared to the
law.
Immature youth worships codes
and masters. It's love of rigidly
enforced discipline and swift jus
tice is inherent. It's instinct is to
follow and initiate men who can
do things. 0
All it needs is an opportunity to
cheer for detectives, peace officers
and prosecutors, but the oppor-
tunity must be real. 1t can't be
made in Hollywood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Who Spends It?

The proposal to spend the $3.50, 900 Sur
plus" in the maintenance department of the
E-Sghway Sands for work on roads by men
who need work has merit.
But the highway commission, by its own
acts, has raised grave doubt as to its
ability to spend either that sum or any other
with wisdom or judgment
Some weeks ago the commission decided
because one of it's branches had money that it
had not dispersed among favorites, to adver-
tise for bids on over one hundred trucks.
Representatives of truck manufacturers
spent thousands of dollars in preparing esti-
mates for their bids, They, too, hire men.
Every wasted dollar for their companies
means loss of job later by some industrial
worker.
Now the commission, perhaps because of
the protest against giving the contract to the
one institution that has heretofore obtained
contracts, and whose sales agent is high in
the councils of the administration, has the
audacity to admit that it needs no trucks
at all.
That is an admission that the commits
sion was either so ignorant of it's own needs
or had some deep and sinister purpose in
view that it intended to throw away three
quarters of million of dollars.
1t seems that the commission indicts it.
self Of being unsafe to trust with vast sums
of money and that it is especially unfit to
handle money that is intended to be used for
purposes of relief as we'll as for utility.
The established record of that commits
sion suggests that the money would be spent
for political workers of the dominant party
who have been largely unemployed for the
last two years by direct vote of the peo-
pie of their communities.
If there is no necessity for trucks, why
were the manufacturers asked to compete?
If the department does need trucks it
may be suggested that workers in factories
are also idle and that it is essential that they
be given support.
The truth is, of course, that the commits
sion intended to hand out a political plum
and got into JAM 1t is evident that there is
disharmony and pickering inside the depart
ment that has created jealousy and rivalry
between two divisions of that department. 1t
is also true that the commission needs reno
walton.
These comments, of course, do not apply
to Commissioner Sapp, the new member who
has shown courage and integrity.
The Governor would do we'll to accept
three designations before embarking on the
venture of using public funds to relieve the
iObleSS A very GOOD idea is otherwise like
y to be wrecked at the start.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03

have lost their vitamin c to con-
siderable extent. Potatoes contain
less vitamin G than oranges, lem
onS and tomatoes.
Because they are eaten so much
more widely than the citrous fruits,
they deserve special consideration.
The leafy green vegetables are good
supplies of vitamin G, particularly
as they can be eaten raw. Raw
cabbage, spinach, watercress are
fine examples.
The extensive use in the southern
part of the United States of COL
lardS and turnip greens shows them
to be also excellent sources of vita
min G, as are kale and Brussels
sprouts.
Because of the fact that milk is
not rich in vitamin c, it has been
quite customary to supply orange
juice, tomato juice and similar sub
stances to infants so that they may
have a sufficient amount of this es-
Sential substance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Work, Not Charity, Is Wanted
There Will be Many Hungry in City This Winter Despite
Mayors Optimism, Says Mother

Editor Times - I have been a
reader Of The Times ever since it
was the Sun" Your paper is a
splendid paper, with what believe
are men of principle behind it. But
there are things printed from time
to time that sure get my Irish up
Our mayor went visiting and
made a speech. He says he doesn't
believe anyone in Indianapolis went
hungry last winter. Oh, he doesn't?
Well he is mistaken, to say the
least.
1 know that I put my children to
bed many a night hungry, and ex-
pect to do SO again this winter. I
don't take the least stock in all
this charity talk" Those of us
who really need help-well, try to
get any. If you swallow your pride
and go and beg the trustee for help,
you feel disgraced and degraded.
No one will do it until actual
starvation stares him in the face.
And you get So worth of groceries
for a family Of eight. If one could
get milk and nourishing food, it
would help, but the stuff we have
to take is no benefit, because nine
times out of ten child's stomach is
so weak it can not hold the harsh
food. They must eat or starve.
And the result is sickness.
Mr.. Stetson put in plea to keep
the children in school. We parents
are perfectly willing. Above all
things, we wish our children to have
an education, but can Mr.. Stetson
explain to one anxious mother how
it's to be done, with no steady work
for the father?
My husband sells this and that,
and during the summer, we have
enough food, but our rent man
causes us more worry than any one
should have to bear. About every
thee weeks he calls and informs us
if the rent isn't paid by such and
such a time he wants his house.
The rent is about SIS more than
it should be, as it is like barn and
ready to fall down on our heads,
to say nothing of vermin. And our
worries are the worries of thou
sands.
All this talk is just talk, nothing
more. Mr.. Hiner offers free trans
portation for the jobless. That
would be a great help to us, as my
husband needs to travel from town
to town and hiking is a
doubtful mode of travel.
The thought of winter frightens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

For a grown person, a pint of
orange juice daily containing the
juice of one lemon, together with
one-fourth to one-half head of
lettuce or its equivalent in raw cab
bage is recommended by Hanke as
sufficient to prevent any vitamin c
deficiency.
1t need not be considered that
this formula is an especially scien-
tif1c one. 1t has not been proved
that the vitamin c of cabbage, let
tuce or lemons is any different
from that of oranges, tomatoes or
strawberries.
If one wishes to make up his vita
min c in some other manner, he
will probably be just as healthful
as if he accepts the proposed list
by Hanke.
Apparently much more vitamin c
is needed for general protection of
the teeth than is needed for the
prevention of scurvy. Dried carrots
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03

us. We hate this charity business,
it's so indispensable. We want
work. With six children, we need
at least $40 a week and that would
mean good management.
MRS. H. H.
Editor Times-I wonder if the
Board of Trade president knows
that many of the city firemen, po-
licemen, teachers and other public
employees own their own homes or
are paying On homes, hoping to own
them some day. Also that all these
people pay taxes.
Reduce wages? How are they to
keep up payments, pay taxes and
keep other purchasing powers? All
these people give generously to the
community fund and other char
tiles.
One department donated funds to
the needy every day at a certain
hour last winter.
Extra donations of food, clothing,
etc., at Thanksgiving and Christmas
also show generosity.
A TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Age Is Debated

A MONG the arguments which
L n have ragged over Java Man and
Piltdown Man has been the discus
sion of their relative ages.
Doubt and suspicion have been
cast on both fossils ever since they
were found and the lively con-
troversies concerning their age,
their nature and afiinities have pre-
vented any general agreement as 10
their real significance" DR.. Smith
says.
Both were deposited in gravels
or tufaceous material along with
remains of extinct mammals of va
rious geological ages, and the as
ISOLATION of particular fossils with
the human remains was an open
question.
1.-THE Ape Man of Java at first
was supposed to be Piocene in age.
Then opinion gradually changed.
and most writer's now assume from
the evidence of the elephant fossils
such as "Stegodon" that the gravels
on the banks of the Solo river
(Wnerc the Java man was IOuno)
are lower PleiStocene.
Professors Dietrich of Berlin and
Osborn of New York now regard
the proboscidean and other quad
rupeds associated with the Pithe-
canthropus as middle Pleistocene,
and the Ape Man as another in
stance of the survival of a very
primitive type of mammal in a for
est environment where food was
plentiful and safety was assured by
concealment or flight rather than
by open competition with the use
of weapons.
IF this opinion should be con-
f1rmed-and Mr. Van Els, the geol-
ogist in charge of the survey of the
Solo region, is now preparing an
authoritative opinion on the ques-
tion-then Pithecanthropus might
prove to be the degenerate descend
ant of more primitive weaponless
form such as Sinanthropus seems
to be"
(Pithecanthropus is the scientific
name for the Java Ape Man, and
Sinanthropus, the name for the
Picking MANI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
More Primitive

THE Peking Man is a much more
Il generalized and primitive type
than either the Java Man or the
Piltdown Man, DR.. Smith states.
THE examination of his remains
enables us to picture what the COM
mon ancestor of all three-the as
yet hypothetical Pliocene hIan-was
like" he adds.
AT this point, perhaps, the lay
man will request some enlighten-
ment upon the hypothetical Plio-
Gene Man"
AS previously stated, the glacial
age is known as the Pleistocene Era.
1t ended about $4,000 years ago and
began about 100000 years ago.
The geological era just preceding
the PleiStocene Era is known as the
Pliocene Era.
Now when Smith, Reed and
others assign an antiquity of l.
100000 years of mankind, they are
assuming that there was some sort
Of manlike creature in the Phocene
Era.
But no one has yet unearthed any
such fossil. Hence, Pliocene Man
at the moment must remain hypo-
thetical.
Among American scholars who
are certain that Pliocene fossils of
man will be found eventually is
DR.. Henry Fairfield Osborn, dis
tinguished president of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History
DR.. Osborn assigns mankind an
antiquity far greater than any of
the figures quoted. He thinks that
mankind arose 100000 or even TO-
100000 years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HF FTS32%

7 AM beginning to get worried
1about the crime wave. 1t isn't
really the wave which terrif1es me
so much as the undertow. I mean
the mass of fool plans and sug-
gestions which now are being
poured into the papers.
Retired Army Officer" Good
Citizen" and Decent American" are
tumbling over one another to sug-
gest remedies. A dozen times have
observed some middle-aged gentle
man at a party lean forward in his
chair and exclaim earnestly: 81 tell
you this isn't just ordinary crime we
are dealing with. This is war. And
we must treat it in that way"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
OUGHT to Be a Law

MEANWHILE, have we any law
1V1 under which DR.. Gettler can
be charged with putting out anti
prohibition propaganda, and if we
have not, what about making one?
If We are afraid to take chances
with a Bolshevist pamphlet, or a
gang film, what about the report of
a scientific discovery which might
lead some poor boob to believe that
there is no danger in taking a lit
tie nip now and then?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Maybe It's Providence

4 GAIN, think it wise to point
L y out that this crime wave, as
we'll as any other, depends largely
upon a comparatively small num-
Der of spectacular episodes. We do
not base our belief upon any sound
statistical study.
I will grant readily enough that
New York is beset with a large
amount of criminality. And yet it
is by no means the roaring mining
camp which a few frightened folk
believe.
For instance, I speak as a house
holder whose apartment has been
unlocked for almost two years.
lost the key the day after I moved
in. As yet nothing has gone amiss.
This. hope, will not be regarded
as an open letter to second STORY
men.
I hasten to point out that there
really is nothing for a marauder to
take except few paintings and a
pair of shoes. There used to be
clothes as well. But now both suits
are at the theater.
The name of the playhouse does
not matter, though it will be fur
nished on request to any reader who
sends a self addressed stamped en-
velope.
Most Of us live with a fair degree
of safety within the limits of New
York. And there is small excuse
for the growth of savage, sullen and
stupid feeling in regard to prison
reform. We are now in a season
in which that ancient phrase mice
old ladies of both sexes" is being
dragged out Of camphor to belabor
all who think that prisons should
have a certain reconstructive value.
Moreover, those who favor the use
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Blame Yourself

PROPAGANDA has a great deal
l. to do with crime, but the real
effective kind is emanating from
more intimate and Subtler sources
than Hollywood.
It's enanating from parents who
violate the law, and laugh when
children ask them to explain.
It's emanating from the report
that men in blue coats have direct
ed boys to speakeasies.
It's emanating from surprising
lack of honesty all along the line
from the older student who cheats
and gets away with it; from the
whispered tales of adventure and
romance that go the rounds wher-
ever young folks get together; from
the unwillingness of older people to
take their boys and girls around
with them, because it interferes
with their pleasure, and many other
habits and customs which seem I'M
important,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
&ZZXNSS
IB1TE7eH
ANNIVERSARY
H9S'74tH
GERMANS TAKE RIGA
Sanfauahav. 2

OEhMANS TAKE RIGA
September
ON Sept. 8, 1917, the Russians
~ abandoned Riga and the Ger
mans entered and occupied the city
without resistance.
On this date also Germans con-
Quoted an air raid over England.
killing 1O8 persons and injurhlg
ninety-two. The raid was a com
plete surprise.
President Wilson welcomed SOL
diers Of the national army into the
nations service on this de.e. He
addressed message to them, say
ing: You are undertaking a great
duty. The heart of the whole coun-
try is with you.
For this great war draws us all
together, makes us all comrades and
brothers, as all true Americans felt
themselves to be when We f-st made
good our national independence"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Wheat for tie Hungry

Suggestions for the distribution of raw, unmilled
wheat to feed the hungry and unemployed this
winter may sound bit fantastic at first
but, accoralg DR.. Ernest H. Lines chief medical
director OF the New York Life Insurance Company
wheat be used in this way most effectively.
Wheat cooked whole and served with little sugar
and butter is paatable and highly nutritious, he says
and pound or two day prepared this way furnishes
a fairly well-baanced diet.
II vegetables or fruit can be added so much the
better. The cost of such a meal would be only few
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Just Compare Them

TN England, youth is content to
Il make the Bobby its hero. Why
because the Bobby gets his man.
Twenty-one murders in London
last year, and only one unsolved.
-Four hundred and twenty-one
murders in New York last year, and
more than a third unsolved.
Many of the murders in New
York were committed by gangsters,
who not only got their man, but
laughed at the law.
AS long as we have a propaganda
mill like that, it won't do much good
to get excited over movies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
A Fine, Healthy Baby

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03

completely acquit the alien as the
chief factor in the criminal ele-
ment. Why can't we stick to
reason? The notion that it is
possible to scream or club or lynch
our way out of a difficulty is pre-
poSterous. There is no reason for
us to lose our nerve and still less
to lose our wits.
II
Need Scientific Diagnosis
IT has been said before many
l. times that the need is to get
down to the cause of crime. The
cause always will be far more i'm
portant than crime itself.
Even the bloody and spectacular
gun duels along our public high
ways may serve a purpose, if they
heighten curiosity as to what lies
behind all this.
And-depend upon 1.-THE solu-
ton will not lie in any lash or moose
or gun. We shall have to find de-
vices which dig deeper and more
permanently.
Copyright. 1881 BY The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
M. E. Tracy
Perhaps We Should Have a
Ld10 to Punish This Scien-
fist for Putting out Anti
Dry Propaganda.
SAWS.
Dry Propaganda.

NEW YOPn, Sept. .3.-More
L v work for dry agents.
DR.. Alexander o. Gettler, New
York toxicologist, who has per-
formed 10000 autopsies, says that
every human body contains alcohol.
Il have taken as much as a half
drop from the brain of a man who
never touched liquor in his life, "
he tells the United Press.
He has not been able to discover
in what part of the body the alcohol
is manufactured. Sounds like the
usual alibi, but let that pass.
The immediate problem is to run
down the offending gland, or organ,
and paddock it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03

Ideals and opinions EXPRESSED
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter.
esting writer's and are pre.
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this uaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
Daily Thought

For we can do nothing against
the truth, but for the truth
Corinthians 1873.
Truth is mighty and it will pre-
vail.-Esdras.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03

Now that harem gates have been unlocked and
Turkish women are free, movie directors will have
to hunt up some bunch to get their heroes into
trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-03
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
1T is estimated the average child
4 needs about as much vitamin G
as can be furnished by two tea
spoofuls of orange juice a day.
Vitamin G is important not only for
the prevention of scurvy but is also
associated with defects of growth of
the bones and of the teeth.
1t is already understood that the
prevention of ricketts, and of dental
cares involves not only a sufficient
amount of vitamin D in the diet
but also of vitamin G.