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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH SERVICE
Earache Must Have Expert Diagnosis

than the elbow, and it has to be
small elbow indeed that can get
inside the outer orif1ce.
When a boil begins in the canal,
it is accompanied by swelling, and
the swelling means pain.
The boil in the canal will come
to head just like a boil anywhere
else in the body. When it comes to
a head, it bursts and the swelling is
relieved.
With the relief of swelling comes
relief from the pain. When there is
a boil or even a severe pimple, pull
ing on the ear is painful and pres
sure in front or behind the ear, even
as slight as may be brought about
by chewing or movement of the
jaws will exaggerate the pain
In such cases nothing at all may
be visible from the outside.
However, the physician who looks
into the canal will see the swelling
partially blocking the view down to
the ear drum, and he can apply
antiseptic substances to interfere
with the growth of the germs, hot
applications to soothe the pain and
tenderness, and finally he can pune
ture or lance the boil to expedite the
removal of its contents.
In the meantime it is we'll to
remember that a boil begins where
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
Back to Nature
us the facts.

Harried by the world depression, the South Sea
Islands may do worse than abandon the gold stand
ard. They may give up the white mans standard
altogether.
In a resolution passed by the Agricultural Union
Of Tahiti and forwarded to France islanders are
urged to come out from under the white shadows, "
cast off the imported ways of missionaries and trad
ers eschew trousers Mother Hubbards schools, hymn
books and wage scales,
The appeal urges return to the carefree tribal
life of the early Polynesans before Capt. Cooks
ship departed leaving wake Of drink and disease
and the curse of Cain.
Some Americans have been thinking along this
very line. Climate and other little matters may
prevent our adopting loin-clohs and grass skirts We
don't exactly plan on diving for fish, stalking the
wooks with bow and arrow, eating poi and making
life into one grand hula dance But this depression
has started us wondering whether we haven't made
our lives too civilized" and complex for comfort
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
The League Dilemma

The friends of the League of Nations are in
dilemma. They have cause for rejoicing and fear.
And the same event-Japan's war of aggression
against Chna-s the source both of the rejoicing and
fear.
On the one hand, the emergency has driven the
United States into closer cooperation with the
league than any one believed possible few months
ago. AS recently as the Hughes regime at the state
department, the United States not even answering
league communications-on the theory, apparently,
that the league did not exist because the United
States was not a member, system of mumbojumho
that still is operated by the department in its policy
toward Soviet Russia.
BY slow steps, however the state department.
against its nention-has ended with representatives
at Geneva First observers and then delegates
sent to serve on sei-independent league commissions
Later Americans became full members Of definite
league organizations. And the secretary of
state is working hand-inhand with the league council
In this realistic process theories have gone by the
board There the cold fact that the other nations
were doing business through the league and if we
were to be in international action at aeSpecialy
in times of emergency-we had to 60 where that &C
ton was taking place. Hence the state departments
proper and inevitable cooperation with the league
in the Manchurian crisis
But while the japanese war thrust has driven the
United States closer to the league it also has revealed
the inherent weakness of the league an organiza-
ton on talk and short on action.
In Geneva they are admitting that the league
either must stop the Japanese its failure will
advertise the futiy of its vaunted peace machinery
That is hardly exaggeraton.
When the league failed in the Corfu crises of 1929
its advocates sought in its extreme youth
Give it time to grow strong they pleaded Five years
later it tried without success to keep Bolivia and
Paraguay from fighting. And another abi was Of
fered.
Today, however, its best friends realize that
It can not permit Japan to defy its covenants and
authority without inviting similar future aggression
by other powers II it can not make Japan keep the
peace certainly it not control France and Great
Britain-the two powers which chiefly control it.
Failure of the league, We believe, would be world
calamity Whatever its defects and weakness it is
the best peace machinery the world has. The KEEL
ogg pact and the nine-power Pacific treaty virtually
have been destroyed by refusal Of the United States
and other signatores to invoke them against Japan
who has violated them.
Therefore 1t is tremendously important that the
Ieaue act in defense of present and future peace
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14

manufactured under pre-depression wage costs. The
exchange of goods has been disrupted"
This might sound Ike persuasive argument If the
United States census bureau had not just given us
a complete picture Of wage-earnng America.
The bureau reports that there are 48,832589 wage
earning persons in the United States over 10 years
of age. OF these, just 1O482,323, including men
women and children, livelihood in agricultural
pursuits Another 1,150O64 earn living by extrac-
ton of minerals
So altogether, there just 1164O,389 persons in
the classes whose buying power the bank wishes to
restore at the expense Of the other 37192202.
What makes the doctrine even remarkable
is the fact that no matter how much the price of
manufactured products is cut by reason Of cutting
wages a great part of the eleven and half million
people still will be unable to buy. Thousands of
farmers have ceased to consume manufactured goods,
not because they haven't enough money but because
they haven't any money.
Meanwhile, the other thirty million wage
earners and their dependents buying less their
wages are cut
The bankers are correct in wanting agricultural
workers and mine workers back in the consuming
class. They must have adequate incomes before any
of us can enjoy real economic security again.
But there is a right and wrong way of bringing
this about. Whatever the solution of the farm prob
le it does not lie in reducing the rest of the popu
lation to want
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14

the skin has been broken or irri-
tated, and that any manipulation OF
the canal for the removal of wax OF
any hard instrument inside the
canal may be the first step toward
the formation of a boil.
The second and more frequent
cause of earache is infection behind
the ear drum.
This usually occurs from extern
sion of infection in the throat
through the eustachian tube. This
tube connects the back of the nose
with the middle ear.
Forced blowing of the nose forces
the infectious matter from the back
of the nose into the ear.
Then comes the hardness of
hearing, the swelling, the pain, the
fever and all of the symptoms as
ISOLATED with ear infection.
The expert who looks into the
ear will see the ear drum red, swol-
len and bullying. In order to pre-
vent the extension of the infection
to the mastoid, with the develop
ment of mastoiditis, it may be
necessary to puncture the ear drum
and thus to permit the infectious
material to come out.
This will not, of course, cause
permanent injury to the hearing
provided the puncture is made soon
enough to prevent destruction and
damage of the important tissues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DR ALFRED ADLER, in his newest volume, What
- Life Should Mean to YOU" warns the very
cookies of y heart when he says kind word for our
old and much abused friend, the inferoriy complex
This is the way he puts it:
"Inferiority feelings not within themselves abb
normal They the cause of all the improvements
in the position of mankind. Science ITSELF for ex-
ample can arise only when the people feel their ignor-
ance and their need to foresee the future Indeed It
seems to me that all human culture is based upon
feelings Of inferiority."
Now that is not only psychology it's common sense.
And what a welcome relief from all this talk about
the need for every one to feel superior. That has
grown not only tiresome but has made nuisances out
of a large number of otherwise very pleasant folk
T DON'T know how you are, but I'm always over
4 loved when I meet somebody with well-devel-
oped sense of inferior!ty 1t is such soothing
perence after the bouts with the superior people 1t
gives you chance to get word in occasionally. TO
feel your personality expand and to see that you
may not be such a dumb dud after all.
With these ubiquitous s. C.'s, the sensation is
different You feel a good deal like fat tire and
finally come to actual dislike what with having to
listen to their cocksure opinions and the recital of
their accomplishments.
1t may be true, as some professors tell us, that
these superior people the only ones who ever will
get along in the world Well, let them go ahead. And
that they will not poster the rest of who do not
believe we know everything and little uncertain
of our excellence
It's been my observation that the superiority COM
pick is best appreciated at long distance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
Mystery Explained

CTETSON'S discovery cleared up a
~ mystery which had puzzled
radio fans. In the early days of
radio, it had been possible to tune
in stations 1000 miles away with
the aid of one-tube receiving sets.
AS receiving sets became larger
and contained more tubes nd as
broadcaSting stations became more
powerful, radio reception, instead of
improving, grew worse.
Many attempts were made to ex-
plain this over-crowding of the
ether, and so on.
But the real reason, as DR.. Stet-
son pointed out, was that radio con-
ditionS continuously we're growing
worse.
Sun spots go through a cycle, the
time from a minimum number of
spots to a maximum and began
again to a minimum usually being
about eleven and one-half years.
BY a strange trick of fate, radio
broadcasting became popular just
about the time that sun spots began
to increase. The result was that re-
ceiving conditions were at their best
at the beginning and grew continu-
ously worse and worse with the
passage of time.
Conditions reached their worst in
1929. Since then. according to DR..
Stetson, they have been growing
better. The improvement, at first
slow, has been faster recently.
DR.. Stetson believes that they will
continue to grow better, reaching
their optimum in 1884.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views


Editor Times-Wanted, a. job. We
have done all we can to help our
selves. Unable to find work, behind
on house payments, unable to raise
loan to re-fnance the house pay
ments, put loan on furniture to pay
taxes after the bank closed, father
in bee i'll, threatened with eviction
unless we can start carrying the
payments on house and keep them
up. Something has to be done. No
job, no money, and if we do lose
out here, the street, with everything
gone.
And yet, out-o f-towners come in
and get work. Why not start a
campaign among factory men and
everywhere else to eliminate out-of-
town men, who draw their money
each week and spend it elsewhere?
Is it any wonder we are bitter, those
of us who are trying, in the face
of high taxes, to acquire a home?
Even a $40 week job would save
our home and give us something
to eat besides, and keep our insur-
ance.
I firmly believe that if the people
who live out of town were laid off
and the jobs given to the ones who
live in Indianapolis we would not
be faced with soup kitchens, bread
lines, poor fund deficits, and all the
other evils of unemployment.
People want work, not charity.
The ones with money are going to
have to open their purses for char
ity. Why not open our shops and
hold the manufactured products for
the market? Unless the working
man has a job, the wheels of in
dustry do not turn, and if he is
working he has to spend his money
to live, and it is kept in circulation
and every one enjoys good times.
If the working class is not work.
ing, the money isn't being spent.
Those who have it hold on to it,
and we suffer like we have for the
last few years.
he
Editor TimeS-I wish to compli-
ment The Times for taking up the
fight against the public utilities,
for The Times is the only paper
in Indianapolis that has the well
fare of the common people at
heart.
But we can not expect a reduc-
ton OF rates until We get state Off
Gals who are not controlled by the
public utilities and the insult in
terests, and the Republican party
is controlled for and by the big
interests.
The Democratic party never has
been in the clutches of the money
powers and a Democratic Governor
could appoint a public service COM
mission for the benefit of tn people
and not the utilities, as it is at the
present time. And the voters should
make sure, before election time,
that their candidate did favor a re-
duction of rates, and also favored
municipal ownership of the public
utilities.
Municipal ownership will solve
the tax problem after it has been
in operation few years.
If it had not been for The In
dianapolis Times, dumbbells like
myself never would have known of
the meager wages paid by contrac-
tors on state roads, or Of the water
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
How They Live

Six million or unemployed We hear the
figures and we hear stories about breadnes and soup
Kitchens and every of us has had the experience
of being asked for money either by who down
and out themselves or from organizations which will
administer public relief.
But Just how are these unemployed and their
dependents managing to exist? If they are not
starving how do they live? We wish the Presidents
unemployment committee would find out and tell us.
The facts would do us good. We can stand to hear
them.
In England they have found out. The Royal Com
mission on Unemployment Insurance undertook a
special survey in eight industrial centers Ito ascertain
what happens to unemployed persons whose unem-
ploynent benefit is disallowed and in particular to
discover to what extent they apply for outdoor relief
from the poor law authority and if they do not apply
how they find means of support"
The English found out a surprising thing. Com
paratively speaking, very few of the unemployed
whose benefits had been cut off were willing to apply
for the dole There was an intense hatred of the
poor law and millions preferred to use up all their
savings first and then depend upon relatives and
friends for help rather than seek public charity
In fact, only about one person out of six of the
unemployed whose benefits had been cut off had
asked for the dole. But help from neighbors and
relatives was responsible for keeping starvation away
from so per cent of such homes.
A man earning $40 week, it seems, even though
he has wife and three four children will go on
short rations himself to share with his neghbor who
is earning nothing and who likewise has wife and
three or four children.
small proportion of those thrown out of work
were able to obtain sort of intermittent employ
merit which brought in little money 1t might not
be enough to keep the family going, but it would
help and after that relatives and friends stepped In
It would do us good in this country to know just
how our millions in distress managing to keep
body and soul together We hope the Presidents I'M
employment committee and the Red Cross will give
us the facts.
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and light companies excessive
gouge, and if your paper had been
in the days of Rip Van Wrinkle, he
would have missed fifteen years of
his twenty-year sleep, for you sure
wake them up. More power to you.
WILLIAM LEMON.
Editor Times-I have been a
reader of your paper for a long
time, and truly believe you are
the working mans friend. The big
question in my mind is, how am I
going to make men out of my
boys on empty stomachs, in a cold
house?
We are just the ordinary working
mans family, three nice boys, H.,
II and years old. Always have
had clean, comfortable furniture
and a nice house that the boys
could bring their little friends to
and feel proud of. Never have
dressed them except as ordinary
children, but have been able to keep
them clean, we'll fed and comfort
able.
Now old man depression" is here.
Consequently, when they are
ashamed of tennis shoes that are
threadbare, have one pair of trou-
sers each and say, Mother, the boys
laugh at our Clothes" and, Mother,
the teacher says if we don't get our
books we won't pass what are we
to do? We always have paid cash
for groceries, SO now when the last
pay check is all gone, and it was
received four weeks ago, just what
will happen? We do not want char
ity, do not want sympathy, just a
chance in this world Of plenty, to
keep my boys the little men 1 have
started to make of them.
Will some one else suggest a So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
Rushing to Cover

The voluntary offer of the insult utility
interests to cut electric rates in seventy
towns in the southern part of the state is
an encouraging sign. But it is not the
answer.
All that it means is that this shrewd or
ganization, whose activities in politics in
Illinois and Indiana have been somewhat
notorious, is attempting to dodge the results
of their own carefully planned scheme to tax
the people on watered valuations.
Whatever reduction is offered may be
taken as too small.
The same rules of rate fixing must be
applied in days of defatation as were used
during the fat days when these utilities col
lected on high labor and commodity costs on
plants built with cheap labor and cheap COM
modities. For years they reaped where they
had not sown. Now they are merely trying
to keep on with part of their customary
plumber instead of being forced to do justice.
What is interesting to Indianapolis in its
offer is the fact that when the rates are cut
for these sparsely settled communities they
will then be about what the local holding COM
pany is charging for this city.
The difference in cost Of operation is, of
course, evident. In the small communities
serving farming and quarry communities, it
is necessary to string high tension wires The
customers are scattered. 1t is necessary to
keep up long lines and make repairs in
winter.
In this city the market is compact. The
customers are packed together. The invest
ment for distribution per consumer is rela-
lively much smaller. And yet the rates will
be the same.
What the public should impress upon the
public service commission is the fact that no
rate is just until all the grabs and larcenies
of the holding companies are eliminated.
There is no justice for the public as long
as holding company, not amenable to law,
charges huge fees for engineering and man.
agement.
There can be no justice as long as these
holding companies collect fees and commits
sions on purchases that should be bought in
the open market and not from the sub
salaries of these same holding companies.
There can be no just rates until the graft
extortion and larceny is taken away.
The utilities are running to cover. They
should be chased into the open.
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WAR BOARD NAMED
October IA

NN Oct. IA, 1917, President Wood
" row Wilson named the mem
bers of the war trade board, COM
posed of members of the exports ad-
ministration board which it re-
placed.
President Wilson appointed the
new board under power conferred
by the trading with the enemy act
The new board was composed of
DR.. Alonzo E. Taylor, representing
the secretary of agriculture;
Thomas D. Jones, representing the
secretary of commerce; Beaver
White, representing the food adj
ministration; Frank c. Munson,
representative of the secretary of
the treasury.
This board licensed exports and
exercised control over imports.
On this same date President Will
son officially designated Oct. AZ as
Liberty Loan day.
In his proclamation he said: 1.-THE
might of the United States is being
modified and organized to strike a
mortal blow at autocracy in the de-
Tense of outraged American rights
and the cause Of liberty"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
No Sport Depression

TUNES may be hard, but not
Il hard enough to reduce attend
ance at the world series very much,
or discourage football coaches for
the coming season.
You'd never guess there was a
depression, to see the crowds at
wrestling matches, or polo games.
Some people say that this is all
wrong, that we are only wasting
a great deal of time and money
and that something ought to be
done to stop it.
You'd have more patience with
them if the tendency weren't as old
as the hills, if innumerable wars
hadn't been fought chiefly because
people couldn't find any other way
to satisfy their craving for sport
for the trial by combat, which seems
to be woven into the very fiber Of
our being.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
Brings Out Best

GAY what you will, but sport
~ leaves no room for doubt that
there is nothing like a contest to
bring out the best in people, and
nothing like a substantial reward
to induce them to enter contests.
You hear folks say that we have
too much sport outside the class
room. Probably we do, but did you
ever stop to think that this is be-
cause we have so little inside the
classroom?
Youth wants nothing so much as
to try its strength and prove its
ability. Give it proper chance
and it will discover through it's own
efforts what it can do best. Rob
it of that chance in one particular
line and it will create another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
A MONG the agonizing pains that
4 n aff1ict mankind, earache ranks
next to toothache in frequency, and
probably next to what is called a
Jumping" toothache for painful
ness.
DR.. Joseph Hopper lists some of
the common causes of earache. The
average man can guess at the cause
OF his stomachache or even at the
cause of his headache, but he will
do little with trying to determine
the cause of the earache because an
inspection of the ear by some one
trained in the examination of ears
is necessary in order to make a Ger
tain diagnosis.
Sometimes an earache is brought
about by boil or an Inflammation
in the canal leading from the ex-
terror down to the ear drum. There
was a time when any good toilet
kit had an ear spoon as one of the
accessories.
The ear spoon disappeared long
before the toothpick lost caste in
polite society.
1t is now good advice never to
put anything into the ear smaller
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-14
C0n1muniSm'S Flaw

NUR schools and colleges are
~ running to sport because youth
demands opportunity to progress by
means of trial and error, to risk
failure for the sake of establishing
prestige.
1t has been denied that oppor-
tunity by a system which has be-
come hopelessly mechanical and
which seeks to grind everybody out
according to a common pattern.
You can't level life and keep it
interesting. That's the big flaw in
Communism, as Stain, shrewd poll
tician that he is, already realizes.
There must be rewards for the
strong, penalties for the lazy and
consideration for the weak, but this
can not be worked out Except on a
fair field, with everyone given an
equal chance at the start.