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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20


Today newspaper men dedicating to a free
and untrammeled press writing nook in Thomas
Jeferson's lovely hilltop home, Monticello, in Vir-
gnia. The ceremonies celebrate the recent United
States supreme court decision against the Minnesota
gag law" and commemorate the life of the author
Of the Declaration of Independence who won for
US the guarantees OF freedom of speech assemblage
religion and education.
On the eve of winter of distress this event is
timely Some Amercans-disregarding history's les
son, that truth, like dynamite is dangerous only if
confned-will urge repressive measures to punish
discomfort. So the eternaly wise words of jefferson
come to us the years with unusual force today
THE liberty of speaking and writing guards our
other liberties"
There rights which it is useless to surrender
to the government and which government yet always
have been found to evade (Arnong) These are the
rights of thinking and publishing our thoughts by
speaking and writing"
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to
error and has nothing to fear from conflict unless
by human interpositon, disarmed of her natural
weapons, free argument and debate"
Differences of opinion, when permitted . . to
purify themselves by free discussion but as clouds
overspreading LANDS transiently and leaving our
horizon more bright and serene"
Where the press is free and every man able to
read all is we'll"
"A little rebellion now and then is good thing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
japan Can Not Stand Alone

Japan has shown wisdom and courage in with
drawing her objection to American participation in
the Manchurian discussions by the League of Ma
tons council That removes technical barrier to
settlement.
But, we pointed out Monday, that technical
dispute relatively unimportant. 1t does not
matter much whether the United States co-operates
with the league council from inside the door or out
sde-so long as there cooperation to preserve the
peace in this crisis
Unfortunately the United states, though chief
sponsor of the Kellogg pact has not invoked that
treaty. Relatedly the other powers have done so
DOW. Still the state department delays.
Assuming that the state department intends to
act some time it should realize that every added de-
lay advertises its lack of faith in its own treaty and
sacrifices American peace leadership
In this connection, today'S dispatches from TOXIC
are dsquieting. They state that Japan has no in
tention of withdrawing her troops in advance of a
settlement, and that the Toxic government under
stands that the United States will not take any lead
ing role in the worldwide efforts to preserve peace
in the far east
1t is difficult OF believe that this is an accurate
statement of American policy but it is easy to under
stand how the state departments failure to invoke
the Kellogg pact has produced this impression in
Toxic
There is thing, however, which Japan can
not msinterpret. That is the desire of a war-weary
world for peace.
Unless Japan honors her treaties by speedily
withdrawing her troops, she will be blamed by world
opinion for trying to wreck international peace ma
chinery.
No nation can stand alone against the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
HEALTH SERVICE
Sensitivity Likely to Be Inherited

80 per cent of the children devel-
oped such condition within the
first ten years of life.
The nature of the sensitivity de-
veloped, as pointed out by DR.. War
rem T. Vaughan, depends largely
on the conditions in which one lives.
Thus people who live in the
British Isles develop hay fever
chiefly from exposure to grasses,
while in the United States most
cases of hay fever are associated
with the polens of the ragweed.
In this country the concentration
of ragweed pollen in the air is much
greater than that of any other
plant, including the grasses.
1t was found that the children
of certain immigrants in New York
slept on felt pillows of which the
chief constituent was rabbit hair.
Most American children sleep on
feather pillows.
Thus more children of immigrants
were found sensitive to rabbit hair
than of the American population
and more of the American popula-
ton were found sensitive to chicken
feathers than of the immigrant
population.
Miners and bakers were found to
be sensitive to wheat flour. paper
makers to the dust of wood pulp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

, laboratory workers to the hair of
the guinea pigs and workers around
the race tracks to horse hair.
This would seem to indicate that
it is not specific senSitivity that
is inherited, but merely a general
tendency to sensitivity, the exact
nature of the disturbance depend
ing on the surroundings in which
the individual works and lives.
The symptoms associated with
sensitivity seem to depend to a con-
siderable extent on the way in which
the sensitizing substances get into
the body.
Sometimes it is inhaled: some
times it is eaten; sometimes it is
kept in prolonged contact with the
skin, and sometimes it is injected
under the skin. Thus, hay fever
sneezirg and running of the nose
may be associated with the inhala-
ton Of various pollens.
Eruptions on the skin are deveI-
oped from long contact with furs
and from the use of powder contain
ing orrls root, or some similar SUBJ
stance.
All sorts of foods may be involved
in food allergies - strawberries
usually causing hives; chocolate be-
ing associated with attacks of head
ache.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
A Federal Power Program

AT last a well-considered and comprehensive pub
lie utility policy for the federal government has been
formulated
Too frequently in the past have CROPPED
blindy when dealing with this subject of the
ends we would reach and equally of the ends
we sought.
But the public utilities committee of the national
progressive conference has not been afraid to face
the matter honestly, examine it from all Sides
ject WORKOUT ideas concerning it, look at the mpica
tons of the future, and suggest what may do.
1t selects for its end the actual control of public
utilities by the public since transportation light,
heat power and water are essential services and fur
nishing them is essentially function of the state
This is a position to which we have been giving
verbal approval years. with systems of public
regulation hopefully designed to exercise control over
rates and services.
But the committee faces the fact that public regu-
lation has not accomplished actual public control
of public utilities and never under present condi
tons. It suggests two remedies:
First that the government compete with existing
privately owned railroad and electric utilities. Com
munties in various parts of the United States have
tried this and found it decidedly effective The federal
trade commission recently found model private util
ity company operating in Cleveland giving excellent
service at low rates and making good money, due ap-
parently to the presence of rival municipal system
Second, that the government eliminate the specu-
lative profit motive from utility services owned
privately This, it suggests. be done by changing
the basis of valuation upon which rates are fixed let
ting the men in the utility business have generous
compensation for actual personal service and mod
crate compensation for actual investment, but no
more.
This is as logical and wise proposal as limiting
the salaries of public officials. Money paid for utility
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
BY DIR. MORRIS FTSHBEIN

d In. MOhhlS ElSd6ElN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THERE seems to be in certain
4 families a tendency toward
what is called allergy, a form of
sensitivity whereby the taking into
the body of certain forms of pro-
TEN results in symptoms that are
known as allergic symptoms.
For example, hay fever and
asthma may run in families-one
member of a family may have hay
fever, another asthma, another may
break out with eruptions of hives on
eating certain foods.
When both parents suffer from
some form of senSitivity, there is a
Likelihood that at least one-half
their children probably will develop
some form of Sensitivity during life.
These allergic manifestations may
skip one generation and the mother
and father be free, whereas the
children display various types of
allergy.
Investigations made with the Spe-
cial idea of allergy in mind revealed
some family history of sensitivity in
almost so per cent of cases.
In one series of cases, when both
mother and father had Sensitivity,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

chance to show what he needs to
speed up or open up his factory,
then see to it that he SO is aided,
this would do more immediate good
than spending such large sums on
charity.
If necessary, get connections with
some of the money our President is
loosening up, so it will go to work at
once.
In six months Indianapolis could
be manufacturing almost full blast,
if we would all buy and sell our
own manufactured goods first, and
know where we could procure the
same.
Anything will do, but do some
thing.
I've not heard of any effort along
this line. 0. F. SUNNAN.
1920 Central avenue.
Editor Times-I have been a sub
scriber to The Times all its life and
have appreciated it very much, es-
pecially the way it comes to the
support of the working man. I hope
everybody read the letter of Sept.
"a signed TIMES READER. I wish
could shake hands with that MAN
and I also wish he would run for
President.
If we could get President with
as much sense as he has, the U. S.
A. never would be in the shape it
is in today. He showed by his sense
of reasoning that the eighteenth
amendment is a farce, and that
figures won't lie, but the higher
ups have showed us that liars will
figure. 1 would like TO suggest to
our NO MEAN CITY that they
could stop this local panic in twenty
minutes if they wanted to.
All they would have to do would
be to stop married women who
have employed husbands from
working and stop all country peo-
pie from working in the city. En-
ploy no one outside of the City
limits. Common horse sense ought
to convince any business man that
employing country people is against
the city and also his own interests,
for the country man raises his liv-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
SAYS:

Remembering Ho1O We Went
Into Merico After Villa,
We, of All People, Should
Not Be Too Hasty in Form
ing an Opinion About
Japan.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2o.-Hope
IN spring eternal in the human
breast. Wherefore Al Capone,
though convicted of violating the
income tax law and facing a pos
sible sentence Of seventeen years,
says that "the fight is not finished"
Wherefore, Judge Seabury, who
is trying to find out just how rot
ten things really are in little old
New York, sends a process server
into Mexico to notify Mayor Walk
er's broker that he is wanted.
Wherefore, the ground on which
Japan rejects the proposal made to
her by the League of Nations is
taken to mean that the Manchuria
muddle may not turn out so badly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
We Went for Villa
THE League of Nations ask

THE League of Nations asked
i Japan to withdraw her troops
from Manchuria within three weeks
and begin direct negotiations with
China in one week.
In refusing to comply, Japan said
that such request indicated in
tolerable" suspicion of her motives.
In other words, that she had done
nothing and intended nothing to
warrant all the fuss.
1t is just possible that Japan may
be right.
Most everybody has taken it for
granted that she wanted Manchuria
and that the recent rumpus merely
was an excuse to provoke war with
China
Harking back to the way our own
government once sent an expedition
into Mexico after Pancho Villa, and
especially to the way it's motives
were misunderstood and misrepre-
sented by outsiders, we, of all peo-
pie, should not be too hasty in form
ing an opinion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Pays to Be Ready

GPEAKING of Edison and the
~ worldwide tribute being paid
him, S. w. Stratton, chairman of
the Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology, died while debating a
letter about the great inventor for
Boston newspapers.
Life is like that. You never can
tell where, or whom, the lightning
will strike next. 1t pays to be ready.
not in superstitious, maudlin way,
but for the sake of those who must
carry on.
Too many of us neglect putting
our affairs in order. That always
leads to unnecessary confusion and
often to hardship for those we love
best.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
WTHAT is the matter with the modern woman? ?"
Wv This is question that is asked interminablv

Nm \
w This is a question that is asked interminably
If you happen to be a modern woman it gets dull
and tiresome with repetition.
To put ones finger upon the chief feminine fault
right now is difficult since if we are to believe the
pubic prints they are so numerous and gigantic
According to my idea however there is onv one
that deserves very severe criticism That is our
dogged determination to remain a perpetual thirty
Thomas Burke has lately written a touching and
very lovely book called The Flower of Life" In il
he proves that the most blessed contentment comes
from an acceptance of the inevitable
Today's woman refuses to accept the inevita5ility
of middle age, and in that lies the reason for nine
tenths of her foolsh behavior and her tragic mis-
takes.
THE idea, for instance, that the pleasures of twenty
Il should be enjoyed with equal gusto at forty is
quite preposterous. Or that the things we like doing
at thirty we shall also like doing at sixty
1t is becauses have committed ourselves to this
unbalanced ideal that we suffer not only the con-
demnation of the neghbors, but the diSSatsfactons
that gnaw at our souls.
The mother of a new baby often will fail to enjoy
the sweets of this period of her life because she is
fearful of missing social pleasures She works her-
self up into passion of CONSERVATION, and before
she knows it her child off to school and she has lost
irretrievably the thrills of his infancy.
know women who expend enough worry on their
craving hair TO have carried Job through in facing
the maSseuse
The matter with them is thatgthey have no sense
OF the values Of life and utterly ignorant Of true
beauty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Questions and
Answers

What is the record attendance at
cricket match and a baseball
game?
The record at a cricket match was
262, 467 in Melbourne, Australia. in
1929. For major league baseball it
was 1926 at double-header be-
tween the New York Yankees and
the Philadelphia Athletics at Yam
kee stadium, New York, Sept. 9,
1928.
What is meant by pigeon or
chicken breasted?
The terms are applied to persons
who have deformity in which the
chest is flattened at the sides and
the breast bone is pressed forward
and outward. It is also a slang term
for those who have high chest or
prominent breast bone.
How long is the Belmont race
track?
A mile and one-eighth.
What are agents of provocateur?
Persons employed by the police or
governments and individuals to in
stigate otherwise law abiding per-
sons to commit punishable crimes.
Who was the author of the slogan.
Equal rights to all and special
privileges to nOne?"
Thomas jefferson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Tragic UnpreparednesS

nEATH is not pleasant to think
~ about but it can't be avoided.
Sooner or later, you and I are 60
ing to pass out. We ought to make
things as easy as we can for those
who will be left behind. Most of us
would, If we realized what IL meant.
The fact that we don't realize it is
our own fault.
We just put the possibility out of
our minds on the assumption that
nothing can happen to us, no mat
ter how often it happens to others.
That, and that alone, explains
why so many widows find them
selves in poverty when they ought
to be well off. why so many solvent
estates are frittered away through
incompetent handling, why so many
children are obliged to go to work
when they ought to be getting an
education.
What are the qualifications fol-
American ministers and ambassa.
dOrS?
None are prescribed by law, anc
being appointees of the President
ne uses his own judgment regard
ing their qualifications.
What are the best. sources of vita
min d?
Cod liver oil, liver and egg yolk
are rich sources, and milk and dairy
products contain it in small but ap-
preciable amounts.
Is it possible to compress light?
No
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

ing at home all but his sugar and
coffee and he buys that from his
home town or the huckster wagon
who passes his home.
I would like to ask if the ones
appointed by the President and
others to look after the relief and
unemployed situation are working
men out of work? If not, why are
they not impeached?
S. P. ROBERTSON.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Napoleon or EdiSon7

TWO struggles have been in
n progress since the dawn of
consciousness-one in which men
tried to Guido each other; the other
in which they tried to overcome
their natural limitations. Napoleon
typif1es the first; Edison the second.
Which of them do you think we
should teach our children to accept
as model?
Edison probably brought the
greatest revolution in human meth
DDS and habits of any single indi-
vidual, outside of religion, who ever
lived. He couldn't have done it had
he wasted his time arguing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
DeCenCyIS Not Dead

IF bad intentions crop up where
L you least expect them, so do good
ones. Indeed, one of the most sur
priSing things about life is the un-
expected decency of people.
Here is Sam Lockett of Knoxville.
Tenn, with his face all slashed and
his nose cut off, but refusing to
prosecute the neighbor who did it,
because somebody needs to look
after four kids. And here is a great
Chicago surgeon Offering to repair
the damage after hearing how Sam
felt about it, and the American Air
ways Company giving him free
transportation.
There is a lot of good in people.
All it takes is good deed to bring
it out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
SCIENCE
-RY DAN1N DIETZ.

- - IN 4 = sfAA| - -
William Green Advocates
Consideration Of the Prob
lens of Humanity as Wen
as Those of the Machine.
XKTILLIAM GREEN. president Of
w the American Federation Of
Labor, is the latest authority to
ioin the ranks of those who exhort
engineers to consider the problems
of humanity as well as those of the
machine.
From the scientific standpoint,
Green is in good company, for no
less a scientific authority than Prof.
Albert Einstein himself holds the
same view.
In February of this year, while
visiting the Pacific coast, Einstein
addressed the students of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology.
why does this magnificent ap-
piled science which saves work and
makes life easier, bring us so little
happiness?" he said. THE simple
answer is: Because we have not yet
learned to make sensible use of it.
ut is not enough that you should
understand about applied science,
in order that your work may in
crease mans blessings. Concern for
the man himself and his fate al
ways must form the chief interest
Of all your technical endeavorS.
Never forget this in the midst of
your diagrams and equations.
Green sets forth his opinions in
symposium collected by the En-
gineering Foundation of New York
upon the subject of Benefits from
Engineering Progress"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
BrOun Rests

Haywood Brodn, conductor of
1T Seems to Me-" is enjoying
his annual vacation. His col
umn again will appear on The
Times editorial page, starting
Monday. Oct. %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20

service is the report points out essentially money
since its payment is condition Of daily subsistence
and we long have rejected the idea that large fortunes
may with propriety be amassed out of tax money.
program which, if adopted would be as effective
this will be fought bitterly 1t will Ie attacked as
sociastic or communistc though, as Chairman DON
aid Richberg says:
The program is the product not of socialistic the
ory, but of faith in cooperative indiyiduasm In
dvidual freedom can be preserved only through OPP
posing equally the tyranny of industrial dctators and
of political dictators who would control all industry
This program is a sound foundation for future
action 1t deserves the most thorough careful study
by the law makers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
WhOOps!

Students checking on their professors in Columbia
university lectures found twentysx guilty of first de-
gree murder of the Kings English One professor used
don't" instead of doesn't" seventeen times in one
lecture. Another said ''the people that" And one
went far to say IF any any questions to
ask they should ask them now"
Hooray! We're going right out and split couple
of inflnitives If college professor don't have to
carefully handle their grammar why should us?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Workers Have Equity

" VI tNOi - ' u ' " IN III
HAVING created the machine
= l. age, it is up to scientists and
engineers to tackle the larger prob
lens which have come with it,
Green says. In particular, he in
SistS that workers have an equity
in industry that must be accorded
the same Importance as the in
vestment of capital.
Technical progress has brought
most difficult problems to workers
and industry" he says. Our term.
chronological unemployment ex-
presses an experience that has often
made science seem the enemy Of
wage earnerS.
But this is because science has
been used without taking into con-
sideration the fact that wage earn
ers have an equity in their Jobs.
1--WE have learned how to make
quantities, but we have not learned
how to get them to the people who
can use them or how to distribute
equitably the returns from Joint
products. We are attempting to
turn these currents through the old
channels We developed in the days
of hand production.
Wage earnerS make a very i'm
portant investment in industry.
They put in the time and labor
necessary to turn out the products
of the industry; they put in their
creative capacity, their intelli-
gence, their work lives.
eve have reached the time when
securities for these nonmaterial in
vestments must be given considera-
ton commensurate with that for
capital investments.
Merely speeding up the industrial
machine is not an unmixed good
unless engineers realize that these
changes profoundly affect human
lives and plan to make the influence
constructive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Fighters Get the GIorv

7 ISIIl6T0 O6l Tic OI0TV
IF human experience shows how
L easy it is to quarrel over little
things, it also shows how it is posi-
bic to get by the very biggest with
out trouble.
Sometimes, you wonder if we are
not too thoroughly sold on combat
ivenesS; if our politics, our courts,
and our daily life wouldn't all be
better off with less argument.
Up to this time, the debaters and
lighters have had most of the glory
but have we been wise m giving
them so much?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-20
Daily Thought

For the drunkard and the gIut-
ION shall come to poverty: and
drowsiness shall cIothe a man
with rags.-Proverbs 1921.
There is hardly crime before me-
that is not directly or indirectly
caused by strong drink.-Judge
Coleridge.