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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
The Wickersham Report

That Wickersham report ought to be useful in
more ways than one. To begin with, it Is meaty
reading-that is the body Of the report That fact
finding gives mighty little solace for the professional
and fanatical drys, and just little hope that the
states will do the enforcing and help put the thing
over, or that those who believe in temperance ever
will submit to having prohibition by federal fiat
rammed down their reluctant Threats.
The more conscientious but not fanatical drys read
and digest the findings of the commission the more
they will become convinced that it was great mis-
take to jam police ordinance into the Constitu-
tion and to try to regulate individual appetite and
habit with federal police force.
Every charge against prohibition made during the
last ten years is subsantiated by the report, and
while the names Of such Hobbies as the Anti-Saloon
League, the w. g. T. u, the Methodist Board, etc.,
and other dry organizations omitted still their
political activities organizations come In for a
castigation they can't get away from.
There's another reason why the report is valuable
1t has made the entire country talk so loudly about
prohibition that people are getting their minds of
the depression and not talking about it all the
time. When they forget it, they will wake up some
fine morning and find it isn't there
And while Sim Tess and other yes men are keep
ing Hoover's mind open and trying to put soft
cushions under him SO he sit on that rail fence
until next year, the tide keeps rising against the
eighteenth amendment.
Hoovers out isn't another commission but sub
mission OF the amendment, or its repeal, to state
conventions. He then can let the conflicting WINDS
blow freely through his open mind until after the
states get through voting
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Behind the Rreadline

Cycles OF depression do not Just happen There is
story behind every breadne
Inc striking difference between the current de-
preston and all that have gone before in our national
history is that today thoughtful people in every walk
OF life are looking behind the breadlnes.
AS late as 1921 our collective attitude toward de-
preston was the same toward earthquakes and hur-
rcanes II bad times we're not what the legalists call
an act OF God" they at least were something quite
as far beyond political control
But not so in 1880. America has n,at,,red a hit IN
her economic thinking and now regards depressions
as effects The nation now is searching seriously
for causes
Nor has the overproduction myth satisfied. In
tegent men and women still do not believe that too
much wheat is the basic cause of widespread
hunger, too much coal the cause of shivering. too
much building the explanation of so many made
quately sheltered
"Overproducton" is being interpreted to mean
'underconsumpton."
After some fourteen months, expert opinion con-
corning the economic stagnation is crystallized upon
Che era OF trenzed stock market speculation which
ended SO disastrously in October, 1929.
Presented first by the academic economists this ex-
PLANTATION now is confirmed by such organs of finance
as The Magazine of Wall Street, Moody's Investors
Pocket Manual and The Financial World.
Recent compilations from such authoritative
spokesman for the Street that the gross shrink
age in outstanding stocks of twenty market lead
ers during the last fifteen months aggregated little
more than twenty billion dollars. Seven stocks lost
more than billion dollars EACH two of them shrink
ing more than two billions each.
When President Green Of the American Federation
Of Labor appeared before senate committee to urge
passage of the Wagner bills, he estimated the total
loss of wages due to unemployment during the rrevi
Gus year at about three billion dollars; "a volume of
purchasing power" he added, which more than rep
resents the spread between normal business and de-
preston.
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Studying the Federal Courts

Now we are to have national study of law ad-
mnistration In the federal courts of the United
States and under plans approved by President Hoo
vers national commission law observance and en-
forcement.
Law schools of twelve universities will conduct
units Of research, each in its locality The work
will be supervised by commission made up of deans
of the twelve law schools.
And that's trouble with the survey--it is to be
made by lawyers. AS all federal courts are presided
over by judges and all judges have to b lea wyrse
fore they become judges. this is to be study Of
law and lawyers by themselves.
What we really need is a study OF law admnistra-
ton by psychiatrists for the administration of law
by any particular court depends largely upon how the
individual mind Of one two-egged human being who
happens by political appointment to be a Judge
works.
When we know the mental bias Of Judge. we gen.
orally anticipate how he viii interpret the law
under given circumstances For example it isn't diff
ncult to figure out the prejudice of federal judge
on any prohibition law if the Anti-Saloon League
through its political pull. got him his job 1t would
be the If he got on the bench through brewers
or distillers.
Those who interest themselves in procuring judicial
appointments know how a candidates mind works
before they indogse him And as reactionar% inter
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p a n CnNpv FREDERICK
AAA<A AOO4 Lands

THERE'S lot of agitation about changing the
Il calendar and having thirteen months instead of
twelve
What we want to know about this proposed change
is thisWill it make any difference fellows who
are engaged in the ancient and honorable business
renewing notes?
And there's another thing we should consider and
it is that make this change, it's up to name
this new month with great care.
Not knowing just where it would come in the pro-
cesSon, we can't settle on any name now.
EIRST Of all, we will have to keep our eyes peeled,
Il Secretary wilbur will name it after Hoover He
named the great dam out in Arizona after him. you
know, when nobody was looking.
Yes. sir this new month should be named only after
the greatest elaboration.
If it's cold month we should call it Coolidge and
If it's hot We could do no better than call it
Clara Bow.
If it's wet month, we ought to call it Raskob,
and if it's dry month, should call it Simeon Fess
If it's a windy month. it would be very hard to
settle on any one name. for there are so many sena
tors who have earned the distinction
TINE other day Senator AshIrst, who halls from
L the densely populated commonwealth of Arizona.
proposed that Uncle Sam go Gown in his jeans and
purchase from Mexico the long 5 IN hectic PENN
sula of Lower California.
The Mexicans became all shet up" about such
proposal, regarding it an affront to their
tional houor and they retorted by proposing to buy
a hunk of the u. S. A.
But the Mexicans are too late to accomplish any
They should have proposed this when Fall was.
secretary of the interior
Some are born great, while others achieve great
ness by not wearing necktie to presidential re-
cepton, as for instance the HoN0rable Joseph W.
TolheTt Of South Carolina sahl'
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Optimistic View
PHYSICISTS are divided in their
orai,aiorn DC To the raneSiIaiIitrr Of

PHYSICISTS are divided in their
Il opinion as to the possibility of
tapping natures store of energy.
DR.. R. A. Millikan, for example,
thinks that we never will get any
supply of energy by disrupting
atoms.
Others point out that the energy
released in the stars comes from a
type of heavy atom which does not
exist here on earth.
This is the view of Sir James
Jeans, who calls these heavy atoms
lucid atoms"
DR.. Mees, however, feels that we
may as well be optimistic.
ut is incredible to me that sooner
or later we shall not find some
method of tapping the sources Of
power which are the ultimate
sources of the universe" he says.
The future supply of chemical
materials for the human race there
fore depends primarily upon the
supply of coal, and while the
quantity Of those which can be used
is limited, since the size of the earth
itself is limited, it is very large
Nobody can make any accurate
estimate of the time for which the
coal supplies will last us, but it must
be measured in hundreds of years II
not in thousands, and to be con-
cerned abor the future supply of a
material available for so long calls
to ones mind the concern of the
British people a little more than
hundred years ago, when they were
afraid that the oak necessary fo-
the building Of battleships would be
exhausted.
Until the exhaustion of a
material is within one hundred
years. it is unnecessary and often
undesirable to be concerned about it.
The probability is that, by the
time the world is running ont of its
coal supply, some other source of
power will have been found"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
For Civil Liberties

Let it be hoped that in the great of proposed
legislation the lawmakers will not overlook two meas
designed to protect the civil liberties of the people
One Of these laws, interesting to newspapers espe
cially because it defends the guarantee of an
sored press would take away the arbitrary power of
judges to send to prison those who crtcise judges
The othe. important to labor organizations, would
prevent the use of injunctions in labor disputes.
Judge have usurped the power to punish for criti-
cism. They have sent many fearless editors to Jail
In such cases, under the guise Of protecting the
courts from outside influences they have punished
those who have exposed their own failures to give
Justice. They become accusers prosecutors, judges
and executioners. Fairness Of trial is an mpossi-
biity The proposal merely would give to the accuseda
trial before an impartial Judge, if such be
cured
The other measure affects more people and in
times of labor disputes would protect them against
an arbitrary refusal of the constitutional guarantee
of trial by jury.
One of the devices of unfair employers in disputes
is to obtain broad injunction prohibiting workers
from doing anything that interferes with the opera
ton of business. Any act speech by any worker
thereafter becomes the basis of jail sentence for
contempt.
There are laws on the statute books which make
crimes Of any act which could interfere improperly
with any legitimate business There against
violence and force. There are laws against assault
But in labor disputes employers who resort to the
injunction do not trust courts. They scorn the
cent right Of trial by jury. They want Short swift
way to put their opponents into Jail without trial
They reject the very foundations of our government
1t is to correct this abuse and invasion of civil
liberties that the limitations of injunctions is
proposed.
Every business should be hand to see that
it is passed rather than to be there many will be-
to oppose it.
1t will be and more necessary that all dis
putes be settled by reason. not force Oppression in
any form is chipping at the foundation rocks of our
institution. Refusal Of constitutional guarantees is
a sure way to greater perils
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---DAILY --
Insulin Proves Value in Saving Lives

plications of diabetes, make the
condition very serious.
Particularly serious to diabetic
is increased weight. The age of
obesity, the investigators say, is the
age of diabetes, of hardening of the
arteries and gangrene.
Hardening of the arteries is the
most difficult problem and is re-
sponsible for most of the rising
death rate.
If the patient with diabetes comes
promptly under the care of ply
sician, if he follows the instruction
as to diet and hygiene, and if he
is treated properly by means of
inslllin and other valuable methods,
his opportunity for life and for a
useful existence is greater than ever
before.
But he must remember that in
Sulin is not cure for diabetes; it is
a method of treatment which must
be followed vigorously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
ZZE1NSS
bITkle
ANNIVERSARY
SClIUBERTS BIRTH
Jan. 81

ON Jan. 81, 1897, Franz Schu-
~ bert, a famous Austrian COM
poser, was born at Vienna, the son
of poor schoolmaster.
At II Franz became a singer in
the court choir and later leading
violinist in the school band. At II
he began writing songs and at Is
his supreme gift Of lyric melody
was revealed in THE Ereking," one
Of the worlds most dramatic songs,
written by him in single day.
His brief life, spent chiefly in the
drudgery Of teaching, was ha-
raised by financial embarrassment
and embittered by the slow recogni-
ton accorded his works. Schubert's
fame rests upon his songs, some 500
in number.
"Of the modern song,' writes a
critic, Schubert not only is the
originator, but. to this very day.
the unsurpassed master Had
Schubert written nothing but these
songs, he sti1 would be among the
immnrtals."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

not necessary to use large amounts
of this substance, and these inves-
tigators believe it is better to use
smaller doses, repeated at more fire.
quent intervals if necessary.
The Investigators find that there
has been an increasing mortality
from diabetes because of the, fact
that there are more cases of the dis
ease and that they are more severe
in recent years than formerly.
The general death rate from dia-
betes continues to rise in spite of
insulin, but there has been de-
cline in the death rate of persons
below 10.
The total number of deaths be-
low 40 years of age also shows
a slight decline.
However, from 40 years onward
the death rate is rising, for the
simple reason that hardening of
the arteries and gangrene, as COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
Always On Hand

If any citizen were unconvinced OF the
necessity of placing some curb upon the hold
ing companies for public utilities, ne need
doubt no longer
Experience has taught the people that
when the bankers unanimously agree on the
merit of public utility problem, the public
is about to be gyped.
The bankers in the past have backed with
the same unanirnity every proposal Of util-
tiles which when successful have burdened
the people and when killed have later been
demonstrated to be unfair and onerous.
The bankers Endorsed the terms OF the
light merger whose conduct is now mat
ter Of concern to merchants who borrow
money from bankers.
The bankers lined up with the proposed
insult merger in the state, but the people re-
beled. They were for the proposed street car
reorganization. AS matter Of fact they have
always been on hand when any public utility
wanted anything, no matter how unfair
it may have been to the public. Almost i
would seem that they permit their dollars to
do their thinking for them on such matters.
The passage Of the holding company
measure may not be the way to get at the
~unearned profits of such of these companies
as are organized to keep secret the amount OF
plumber they take
The assertion that it is legally impossible
to control them may be right, for the utili-
ties have canny way of knowing what
courts will say when the utilities appeal for
protection.
But the public now knows that some Of
these companies are in actuality fences for
loot. Possibly the present law would per-
NIT commission that was really intent on
protecting public interest to get all the facts
from the books of the individual utilities
whose stock is held by the corporate parent
If that be true, the reorganization of the
present public service commission, with its
membership running the gauntlet of either
house or senate approval, may be the way
out.
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Following is the explanation Of
Ripley's believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
Shakespeare Never Saw An
Actress-Until 1860 the English
theater was an exclusively mas
culine organization. Men and
boys enacted all the roles. The
heroine usually was acted by a
beardless boy, while older fem
mime characters would be repre-
scented by fully grown men. The
England of Shakespeare's time
placed actors in the same cate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
Common Sense Shown

IT'S not very pleasant and it's not
L very helpful to criticise ones
government, especially in times like
these, but if the people in our cities
and towns had taken Washington
for model, where would we be?
The only thing that has saved
this country from a monumental
disaster is the steadiness of its To-
cal institutions, the fine common
sense displayed by those close
enough to actual conditions to real
lze what they implied and what
had to be done.
No one can travel across this
country without marveling at the
patience and intelligence with which
people everywhere are laying aside
their differences, or refraining from
stirring up unnecessary commotion.
They would like to carry on as
usual, Of course, like to keep up the
sham battle of politics, or play the
gameof business rivalry. But they
have seen too much not to realize
the folly Of it.
From Maine to California you
find them, not making the depression
an excuse for factional fights or fritz
tering away their time in useless
controversy, but doing everything
they can to obtain cooperation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-31
Washington Fails us

r SAY partisan politics." adj
a visedly, because everybody is
charging the other fellow with it,
and everybody can't be wrong.
Maybe, It's essential to the opera
ton of a democracy. Maybe we
should lose the knack of running
this government, if party leaders
were to stop their campaigning and
stump speaking, even for one win
ter.
But it certainly is a good thing
that the plain people, or even the
lesser political lights in their towns,
cities and states, don't feel called
upon to follow suit.
1 am not one of those who pretend
to know just what Washington
should do regarding every detail,
but I am convinced that if the aver
age city, town or state had taken
Washington as model, we would
be far worse off than we are.
We have heard a great deal from
Washington concerning what ought
to be done for relief, but we have
heard ten times as much by way of
futile argument that prevented it
from being done.
Whether the senate ever appro-
PIRATES that $25, 100000, it's just as
well that our hungry. folks didn't
have to wait for it. So, too, it's
just as well that our towns and
states have found it possible to
start some work without waiting for
the federal government TO get
around.
And, best of all, it's just as well
that private business and volunteer
committees took this thing serious
enough to get busy long ago.
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SCIENCE
Nature Extremely Lavish and
Man Stingy in Use of
D.
by DAVID DIETZ

Nature Extremely Lavish and
Man Stingy in Use of
Posoer.
MATURE has no efficiency en-
IN gineer. That is the chief diff
ference between natures way Of do
ing things and mans way Of doing
things, says DR.. c. E. K. Mees, di-
rector Of research and development
of the Eastman Kodak Company,
points out
Man has been driven to efficiency
methods because of the little power
which he has been able to COM
mand. he says. Nature is prodigal
Of energy because her supply Of it
is so vast
DR.. AIees believes that the future
will be changes in mans methods
as he learns to tap the great store
houses Of energy Of nature.
AT the present time man-pro-
duced power is very costly and we
have to economic 1t to the great
est possible extent" DR.. Mees says.
we can not transmit it to long
distances. because to do so involves
waste, and the natural order of
things is that man always finds it
necessary to avoid waste because his
reserves are so limited, whereas in
nature the waste is prodigious and
the resources are unlimited.
I'm nature there are no efficiency
engineers. If a factory were to start
to produce fish, they would make
tremendous efforts to insure that a
large proportion of all the fish start
ed reached the eventual market.
A loss of 20 per cent in the process
OF production certainly would grieve
the engineers of the factory, but,
when nature produces fish. millions
of eggs are laid. only few thou
sand CT which develop into fish at
all, and only a few units into ma
ture fish that can reproduce their
kind"
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The Solar System

MOT only processes here on
1 y earth, but in the solar system
as well, illustrate the lavishneSs of
natures methods, DR.. Mees tells.
eff an engineer had organized the
solar SYSTEM" he continues, ''he
presumably would have tried to get
a sun so arranged that its radiation
was directed toward those of the
planets that it was considered nee
essary to warm and that the re-
mainder Of its radiation was con-
served. But the actual sun which
warns us so efficiently radiates its
energy in every direction and
wastes, if we may use the word,
two and half million times as
much energy as falls on the planets.
1.-THE whole of nature is made on
this plan. Almost all the matter in
the universe is at a temperature
quite unsuitable for life; probably
nearly all the matter is far too hot,
and practically all the rest is far
too cold
1.-THE amount Of matter in the
whole universe which is at tenn
perature between the freezing and
boiling points of water, in which
range alone life as We know it is
conceivable, is probably less COM.
pared with the matter in the uni
verse than a single speck of dust
compared with the earth.
IF we could, for instance. break
down matter and turn it into
radiation, power would be available
in linitleSs quantities, and we
could afford to waste it as nature
does.
eve could warm our homes and
propel our vehicles and run our
machinery by radiation of which
only small proportion achieves
the end that we desire and most
of which was thrown away as far
as actual utilization is concerned"
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Better Than Guns

a ND the word fought" is used
4 \ advisedly. An armed rebellion
by the natives of India would have
caused vast bloodshed and turmoil
out I don't see how anybody can
question the ability Of the British
to put down such an uprising.
Even an attacking multitude can
not prevail against a few machine
guns well administered. But nc
technique has ever been devised to
halt the progress Of unarmed mer
who advance relentlessly.
OF course, they, too, may be shot
down, but the killing merely inten-
sites the validity and power Of the
opinion which they serve.
One of the most dramatic hap
penings in the whole Indian cam
paign was a march Of great bearded
Sikhs-men trained to arms-whC
stood passively while the police beat
them unconscious with their slaves
Indeed, the police confessed them
selves powerless to stay such &
demonstration because they hac
neither the stomach nor the heart
to go on striking down men who
would not fight back.
Against the pleas and the orders
Of Gandhi, the revolt at times broke
out into f1IIrries Of violence, but in
every case where rebels turned ag-
gressive. the cause lost ground. The
backbone of the triumph lives ir
the conduct Of the non-resistants.
In spite Of this popularity Of Mr.
Chesterton as a writer, it Is hard
for the public in general to GRASP
the essential vitality Of paradaxes