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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

Washington and Lincoln, oar
Greatest National Leaders,
Had Little IN Common.
SAYS

IT is q coincidence that our two
! greatest national leaders-Wash-
ington and Lincoln-should have
been born in F bruary. It Is not
a coincidence that they should have
had so little in common.
The very talents which separate
great men from the common run
generally separate them from each
other.
Lincoln was born to poverty, while
Washington was born to fortune.
Both started out to be surveyors.
Washington succeeded, as he did in
most things, while Lincoln failed,
as he did in most things.
Washington, the aristocrat, took
command OF a revolution which did
not appeal to most Of his class.
Lincoln, the commoner, became
the outstanding leader Of a move
ment which was conceived and
famed into fame by intellectual
highhrows.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
Curing the Weather

Everybody is talking about the weather. but nobody
is doing anything about it, Mark Twain once said.
Can we do anything about the weather?
Many scientists say They see definite rela-
ton between rainfall and forests. Russian expert
ments reveal that in forested areas rainfall is three
inches heavier than the open steppes. Raphael
zon forestry expert of St Paul. says that forests give
off more moisture than the ocean by ratio of to g.
We know that forests are ideal natural reservoirs
for holding rain that does fall Without forests
we will become like China victim of alternate floods
and drought rivers yellow and silted our water
sheds eroded Of their best SOIL our pasture lands hard
and baked
And we fast are becoming ike China. Representa-
tive Harry EnglebrgEt Of California recently told the
house committee on agriculture that only one-sizth
OF our virgin timber remains that we are consuming
our timber supply by use and by fires at rate four
times greater than We are growing it, that timber
in private ownership at this rate will last only
twenty one yearsl
Three things we should do Immediately One is
to prepare an orderly program to reproof our forests
Another is to regulate logging practices to prevent the
appalling waste Of careless cutting. The third is
nationwide plan for reforesting denuded areas
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

terial shortages, with respect to both
national and world markets.
Sumner was of course looking
back over his shoulder into the late
ni11eties, as well as right around
him. The whole world was thinking
in terms Of new worlds to conquer,
and the Malthusian idea Of over
breeding races seemed q real threat.
Any over-plus of Cow pasture looked
like a gold mine.
Finally, nobody had made an i'm
pressive guess at the possibilities of
science in increasing per capita, per
acre and other per unit productivity.
Nor had consideration been given
decreasing birth rates. Acceptance
Of the Sumner notion seemed
logical enough.
And, as long as the population in
crease continued undated, it
worked. 1t wasn't working so well
just before the late great war, but
when that started it appeared to be
working again-until 1921. It hasn't
been working since. But neverthe-
less loC or politicians, and a GER
tain sort Of economists, still are
talking about it.
Il tt
TUST to put this theory in its
y place with respect to the pres
ent discussion, the citation of a
few facts is in order.
In the first place, the British
Empire has been in a bad way eco
nonically for a longer period than
has the United States, and started
going down hill many years before
the war.
At all times during the last cen
tury and more the British people
have had access, on a per capita
basis, to more free land'' and I'M
developed natural resources than
have Americans.
The existence Of undevelopsd
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

have the unmitigated nerve and gall
to charge them ~ per cent interest.
1t is no fault Of these poor wage
earners that they have become the
victims Of these loan sharks, for
unemployment, sickness, and in
some instances death has forced
them to mortgage their furniture
and household goods to these sharks
to get a little money to tide them
over until they could find work.
When once in the clutches of
these loan sharks, it is difficult to
get out, as the interest charge often
far exceeds the principal.
II it is crime under the 1917
law, Section 1928, for one class to
charge more than 8 per cent inter-
est on the dollar, why are the loan
sharks permitted to charge the out
rageous and criminal rate Of A per
cent on the dollar?
The law that permits these loan
sharks to fleece the poor wage earn
ers Of our city and state should be
wiped out Immediately.
There is no doubt in my mind
that the law that penalties one class
for charging more than 8 per cent
interest on the dollar, then legal
ICES another class Of lenders under
the law to charge q per cent in
terest on the dollar is class legisla-
ton and unconstitutional and
should be repealed.
Representative Wilson has intro
duced bill in the house for the
relief Of these poor, deserving, but
unfortunate wage earners, and when
it was referred to judiciary A COM
n1ittee, it is a well-known fact that
the chairman, assisted by q few
others who compose that committee,
undertook to play horse with Mr..
wilson's bill and when the facts
leaked out, which deserve a thor
ough investigation on the part Of the
house Of representatives, Mr.. Wilson
had this bill transferred to another
committee It is a safe bet that
the slackers who have tried to block
this deserving bill will soon be sent
to the woods, where they belong.
H. A. BUSBY.
1927 Broadway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

4 -
Indianapolis VII Be Host.
March so to April s. to Scores
Of Famed Scientists.
THE increasing usefulness Of
L chemistry in the realm Of medi-
cine, viii form one Of the chief
topics Of discussion when the
American Chemical Society holds
its annual meeting in Indianapolis
from March 80 to April 3.
Nationally famous psychologists
and medical men as well as chem
lists and biochemists will discuss the
advances which are made in the IN
derstanding Of the chemistry Of life
processes both in health and dis
ease.
One of the features Of the meet
ing will be a symposium on the
subject Contemporary Develop
ments in the Chemistry Of Physio-
logically Active Substances"
IEliS symposium VIII be under
auspices Of the society's divisions
Of biological, medicinal and organic
chemistry. Professor James B. Con-
nant Of Harvard university will act
as chairman.
One Of the great discoveries Of
twentieth century science is the
way in which minute amounts Of
certain potent chemical substances
play an almost dominating role in
the behavior OF living organisms.
a new science has sprung up on
the border between biology and
chemistry. Appropriately it has
been named biochemistry.
Hormones and vitanlins are two
subjects which will come in for dis
cussion at the Indianapolis meet
ing. These substances still are
mysteries in many ways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
No EamiIIaritias


wETASHINGTON was methodical
wv and meticulous, a stickler for
conventions, always well dressed,
always dignifed.
Lincoln was prone to be careless,
if not slovenly, both as to personal
appearance and as to work.
Still you can't imagine Washing
ton flooring such an opponent as
Stephen a. Douglas in debate, or
writing the Gettysburg address.
No more can you imagine Lin
coin refusing to pardon Andre.
The chances are that Washington
never told a funny story in his life,
while Lincoln seldom missed the
chance. Yet it is Lincoln whom we
visualize as much the sadder man.
Few Of his best acQuaintances
ever ventured to take liberties with
Washington. Robert Morris did it
once merely by slapping him on the
back and exclairning, "Ain't it so,
general?" only to receive such a
cold, rehuking stare as he remem-
bered to his dying day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

famous music publisher made several worthy
philanthropies It remained for the facetous head
line writer to remark that he benefited charities to
the tune of 100000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Tirnes-Being a constant
reader Of The Times for the last
twelve years, permit me as a World
war veteran to voice by opposition
to the views of some of the people
who are opposing a cash payment
of the bonus certificates. Congress
assumed the obligation Of equaling
the pay Of the veterans to conform
with the wages Of those who stayed
at home by allowing us $1.25 a day
for foreign service and 81 day for
home service.
Then congress, under pressure for
a cash payment by a few million
service men, called in Mr.. Mellon
and few Wall Street wizards to
help out, and naturally they opposed
any form of payment.
Congress is trying to be agreeable
with Wall Street, and the ex-servics
man, in order to get their votes next
election, SO they offer us a so per
cent loan, and we will have to con-
tinue to pay interest on our own
money.
In 1917 we assumed the duty Of
going to France and whipping the
kaiser's armies, and made the
world safe for democracy. This
job we did 100 per cent. we did not
come back and say, will we COM
promise with the Heinies, by half
whipping them and letting them
go?'
Some Of these birds who stayed at
home stood on the curb as we
passed by, slapped US on the back,
said: Nothing will be too good for
you when you return" and nothing
is what we got and are still get
ting.
They call it easy money, so why
didn't they go with us and get some,
too? Some Of them might have
gone, but their grandma had the
asthma and they had to stay at
home with her. In all probability it
is these asthma boys who are max
ing the biggest howl, calling 1t a gift
and a raid on the treasury.
A LEGIONNAIRE.
Editor Times-Four hundred loan
sharks operating in this state under
the law that permits them to charge
the criminal rate Of q per cent on
the dollar, forty-three Of this num-
Der right here in Indianapolis dur
ing the year 1929 loaned the wage
earners Of this state $4,000, 900, and
during the year 1880 loaned out s19.-
100000 at - per cent interest, which
they advertise is lawful.
At present more than 100000 Of
our poor wage earners have fallen
victims to these loan sharks who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

Bloodhounds, a news item says are being used
in England to track down escaped convicts. AND
perhaps they are goaded on by the cry "Ffe, fl, 70
FUN, small the blood of an Englishmun"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

Editor Times-I am interested in
these so-called charitable irstitu-
tons such as the Red Cross, Com
munity Fund, and Public Welfare.
The few men who are fortunate
enough TO have few days work
in a week have to contribute to the
above institutions apd what am
wondering about e where is this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

King Alfonso's Rule in Balance" says a head
line rule which doubtless is measured by martial
feet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
Daily Thoughts

Reproach hath broken my heart:
and am full Of heaviness.--
Psalm 1920.
Few love to hear the sins they love
to act.-Shakespeare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
By ROBERT P. sCRTPPs

@SO---~S[ AO(~S+@ y
1T is curious how paper plans
4 for human progress develop in
the minds Of their authors and, if
the authors be forceful, in the
minds Of their contemporaries, into
accepted panaceas for all human
ills.
The late great DR.. Charles Sum
ne@ wrote an essay that summed
up a large mart Of the economic
thinking in America of the early
years Of this century. From it per-
haps stem med such theories as the
single taI plan Of Henry George.
The title Of the essay was Land
Hunger"
The theory was that so long as
you had in a country, or available
to people, free or cheap land
land in the economic sense sig
nifying also undeveloped natural re-
sources, like mines, water power,
etc.,-the individual prosperity of
that nation was guaranteed.
Anyway, nothing short of foreign
invasion could upset it. Indus
trialists who did not pay relatively
high wages would lose their work
ers, who would go farming. The
Birmingham cotton spinner, the
Leeds steel worker, would leave
England and go to Canada or Aus
tralia if things got tough for him
at home.
The New England cotton spin
ner or Pittsburgh steel worker
would pull out and go west.
+ 4
DUT all this was & generation ago.
- AS it applied to this country at
least, it APPLIED at a time of great
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
WASHINGTON the Puritan

WYE think Of Lincoln as some
w thing of a Puritan, chiefly
because he stood with New England
on the slavery and secession
questions, yet Washington was
vastly more Puritanical in his
attitude toward things in general.
Lincoln found it easy to forgive
the sentinel who slept at his post,
but not Washington.
Washington was a man of iron in
all respects, absolutely faithful in
the performance of his own DUTY
and willing to tolerate no less in
others. He believed not only in
rules, but in the necessity Of strict
compliance with them.
He might forgive those who failed
after an honest effort, though even
that waS uncertain, but those who
failed because of timidity or dis
obedience could look for scant COM
fort when he called them to account.
1t was Washingtons unbending
nature that held this newborn and
badly denoralized country together
during the dark days Of revolution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23
| incnLn Had Svnnnathv

Lincoln Had Sympathy
Z INCOLN, on the other hand,
l. possessed a deep and under
standing sympathy with the weak
nesses Of men. He always could eZ-
cuse more easily than he could pun
isa. Discipline irked him, routine
irked him and, except in the one
great cause, methodical industry
irked him.
No doubt Lincoln would have
proved an utter failure as leader of
the American Revolution, but in the
civil war he was the nations tower
Of strength. But for his patience,
his willingness to make every effort
to gain peoples good will before re-
sorting to harsh measures, the Dor
der states and, perhaps, the war
itself would have been lost.
Both Had Common Sense
I'm our curious way of arriving at
4 conclusions, we have come to
regard Washington as the out
standing champion of federalism,
centralized authority, representa-
tive government and all the other
things which are opposed to So
called progressive tendencies, while
we have come to regard Lincoln
as the embodiment of liberalism.
Yet it was Lincoln who wrote "flnis"
to the doctrine of absolute state
sovereignty and whose success, more
than any other single influence, led
to the adoption of such amend
ments to the Constitution as altered
its original purpose.
If we never had adopted the
fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments, it is doubtful if any one
would have had enough nerve to
propose the eighteenth.
It is equally doubtful that either
Lincoln or Washington would favor
the eighteenth amendment if they
were in a position to express them
selves, in spite of the formers
strong feeling against liquor or the
latter's strong feeling for central
lied power.
Different as they were in origin,
environment, habit Of thought and
attitude toward life, they bore a
striking resemblance to each other
and to most great men in one vital
respect. Both were blessed with
common sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

pUT all this was q generation ago.
- AS it applied to this country at
least, it APPLIED at a time of great
and steady population increases,
when at frequent intervals there &C
tually existed foodstuf and raw ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-23

Indianapolis WI Be Host,
March so to April s. to Scores
Of Famed Scientists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
LAST SHOWING TO-DAY OF 1.-THE MAN WHO CAME
 BACK" AT NEW GARDEN

Capacity audiences are being drawn this week to the New Garden theater where Janet Gaynor ana Charles Farrell are starring in Raoul Walsh's Fox Movietone drama, The Man Who Came Back" Miss Gay nor and Farrell excel everything they have ever done before by their masterful performances while Direc- tor Walsh has turned Jules Eckert Goodman's sensational stage nit Into one of the finest screen dramas or the year. The final screenings Will take place to-day and every lady at- tending will receive sweetheart photograph of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.
 The companion picture is "A Royal Romance" with Pauline Starke and William Collire Jr. The short sub jects are Revenge is Sweet, Vita phone comedy and a Pathe review. Coming tomorrow is "Way of All Men" with Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Dorothy Revier and Noar Beery. Most daring document of humanity the screen has ever presented. Paints the battle of life in strokes shorn of sham. Tells of kid who loved, and forgot, until tragedy put his new love, to the supreme test. The companion feature Is Charles Buddy" Rogers in "Along Came Youth" a Paramount picture. The chaotic charmer cheats at love-a little. Charles Rogers has a repu- tation wished on him and strives to live up to it. In "Along Came Youth" With Stuart Erwin and Frances Dee. There will be a num- Der of selected short subjects and ladies can secure another piece of China for their dinner service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
WHAT THE PRESS AGENTS SAY
NEW TALKIE SENSATION, 1.-THE
 PUBLIC ENEMY" TO OPEN 8 DAY RUN AT STATE TOMORROW

DAY RUN AT STATE TOMORROW
 If you have ever thought that gangster pictures have had their day and are now passe. you will change your mind on seeing "The Public Enomy," which opens day en- gagement tomorrow at the Warner Bros State theater.
 Racketeer pictures of the senti- mental preachy type, in which a "moll' saves the day for justice and humanity, are the type that are hit by this very realistic Warner Bros production. At last we have a pie ture of gangland as it really is.
 The firm begins in the days of 1909, introducing the two main characters as young boys who go In for petty thieving. In this manner, their characters are so logically built that the balance of the pie ture becomes an intense biographl- cal document.
 There is history in 1t, too. The very beginnings of the beer racket are detailed, and to those who Know their post-Volstead Chicago history will immediately recognize Tn the characters of Tom Powers ana Matt Doyle the well known Chicago un- derworld figures of Frankie Lake and Terry Druggan, who operated the first breweries and beer trucks after prohibition.
 With a stirring story linking everything together, "The Public Enemy" really gives us g. picturiza- tion of the rise, and sometimes the fall, of many notorious underworld characters whose names and deeds are but very thinly disguised.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
TAILUIAH BANKHEAD. NEW SCREEN SENSATION, AT FOX. POLL PALACE TO-DAY IN "TARNISHED LADY"

Paramount's amazing new star, Tallulah Bankhead, making her American debut in her first Para mount picture, "Tarnished Lady," at the Fox-Poli Palace theater the first half of this week. is one of the outstanding personalities of the screen. A rare combination of Greto Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and doz- en other favorites all rolled into one, Miss Bankhead combines rare south ern beauty, high dramatic ability, and a delicious baritone grooming voice that reaches right down into your shoes. 'In "Tarnished Lady, , she has a strong supporting cast in- cluding Give Brook and Phoebe Foster. "Tarnished Lady" is un- rolled on the giant Granduscope screen of the Palace five times daily starting at 1880, 3:42, 5:45, 7:57 and 10:09 D. m. The performance is continuous from 1880 to 11:30 p. m., and the last complete perform ance at night starts at 9:15 daylight saving time. "Tarnished Laly" is 8 thrilling love story of modern New York high society with Tallulah as the girl who marries for money, leaves her husband, and then dis covers she loves him best after all. Give Brook plays the husband, who marries girl only to have her walk out on him the night he loses his fortune in the stock crash. The sur rounding program includes a Pathe comedy, Rough House Rhythm" a Talkartoon Cartoon, Male Man; and the very latest issue of the Fox Movietone Newsreel. Ut speaks for itself" Still showing the pick of the pictures from Fox, Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer and Paramount, all the new 1881 Paramount pictures are shown exclusively first-run in Wa terbury at the Fox-Poli Palace thea ter Only
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
WATERBURY FOLLIES AND o T H E R VAUDEVILLE ACTS PLUS PICTURE THE HOT HEIIs-
 ESS' CLOSING AT STRAND.

Perforances this afternoon and evening mark the final showings of the deluxe stage and screen show now at Warner Brothers Strand theater. Heading the stage show are "The Waterbury Follies'' a cleverly staged and enacted revue made up all local talent directed by professionals. Several local fav- orites are in the large cast. Other big Broadway acts are also on the bill. The feature picture is "The Hot Heiress' starring Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Thelma Todd with other favorites in the supporting cast.
 ''The Hot Heiress" presents the startling adventures of Juliette Hun- ter, 9 Park avenue society girl, whose rroving eye sees and covets who monchalantly works among the steel girders of the skyscraper, which is mushrooming up, next door to the hifalutin Hunter apart ment.
 Hap, one lucky day, misses the rivet that Dugan, his comical help CT, losses to him. The hot metal hurtles into the dainty boudoir of Juliette, igniting the cadpet. Hay and Dugan crawl into the high room to put out the blaze and Juliette promptly feigns a faint in the arms of the handsome Hap. She then and there decides to capture him for a husband, in spite of the wealthy man-about-town to whom she is engaged. And from then on the fun begins a plenty.
 '"The Hot Heiress'' is the sort of entertainment that puts old man care on the run. It is ancient story of love that laugs at locksmiths, in a modern setting-with oyertones of the life of the magical city, which O. Henry called "Bagdad on the Subway" Put on your list of pictures that must be seen, "The Hot Heiress.''