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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
Just Every Day Sense
In spite OF AN the advice you women have,
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TN spite of all the advice you women have" post
l. cards a disguised bachelor, your children are
brought up more badly than ever. All the warnings
from authorities do not seem able to move you from
your stubborn, animal-like attitude. Why do moth
ers spoil their children instead of bringing them up
intelligently?"
Well, the honest answer is that it is so much
easier to spoil them.
The person who never has had a child finds it
hard to get the light upon this question that is clear
as crystal to the average mother. And our position
is extremely difficult to explain. In fact, according
to all the standards of common-sense, it is unex-
plainable.
Nevertheless, bad as they are, things probably will
go on very much as they have always done between
mothers and children. The teaching we get these
days is excellent. Tt sounds fine to hear some lee
turer tell us exactly how we should behave to rear
fine progeny.
we read with avidity and the best intentions in
the world the sensible preachments in the newspapers
and magazines. Yet we go right on behaving like
wax in the hands of our infants.
COD made us like that, I suppose. And it's go
VI ing to take a lot OF frightfully hard work by
all the knowledgable folk to change us. Even then
I should not like to place any bets on their ulti-
mate success.
You see. sir, it's something like this: We do 50
desire that our children shall get what they want
IN a way it is a personal indulgence-our spelling
them. 1t is neither reasonable nor smart Of us. But
it's an Interchangeable frailty of parenthood.
There is something pliable, even melting, in the
heart Of a mother that compelS her to this course
And all this giving up Of things that you hear SO
much about-this observation-disclosures nothing to
that.
The simple fact is this: She loves; it pleases her
to give everything she can to the object of her af-
lection. She is a mother, and therefore something
Of q fool. And what can We do about it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
Wages Would Rise

GENATOR William E. Borah
~ suggests a conference to stabilize
silver at the ratio of fourteen to one
with gold. Sixteen to one was all
Bryan wanted, but let's not waste
time talking about that.
Silver at fourteen to one would
mean immediate and enormous
wealth for certain sections of this
country, and would tend to make
money cheaper and more plentiful
all along the line.
Wages and prices would rise, for
which politicians, labor leaders, and
farm BELIEVERS would be quick to
take credit, and creditors, though
getting the exact number of dollars
called for by mortgage, or contract,
would be Short-changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
The Danger Signal

The public service commission hung up a
new red flag of danger to the public interest
when that body tossed aside a petition by
citizens of Franklin for a new deal on cleo
trio rates.
The excuse given is that the people of
that city had entered into an agreement with
Citizen Jap Jones of Martinsville whereby
he would receive compensation if he sue
ceeded in getting relief for its people.
1t is now a crime to attack utilities, ap-
parently, for it is we'll known that, under the
tax board, it is almost impossible to get APP
preparations. approved which have for their
purpose the spending of tax money to fight
high rates charged to citizens.
theoretically, the commission is correct
in its position that no community should be
put to the trouble of employing experts to
obtain justice. The commission is presumed
to take care of the public.
But in practice every city has to fight and
fight and fight again to even get concessions,
to say nothing of fair play.
1t is not Of record that the commission
stepped forward to interfere with extortion-
ate rates when dehation had reduced the "re-
production" values of every plant in this
state.
It is not of record that the commission
has inquired into the extortionate charges of
operation that are apparent through the fees
given to holding companies for services such
as the purchase of coal in this city by the
nIncfrio oOO1nonu Of q n1sOfi+ of OF 1nocf E0
cents a ton to the parent concern.
1t is not of record that the commission
ever audits any report that is filed by a util-
ity until some burdened community enters its
protest and that then the utility companies
usually get all the best of it.
So it is necessary for the different COM
munities to get experts to fight their wars.
The trouble is that most experts, and this
goes for lawyers, auditors and engineers, are
under the pay of the utility companies and
that the people are Handicapped from the
start.
The barring of Jap Jones merely throws
another obstacle in the way of utility justice.
II means that the utility barons do not want
any fighters against them. 1t means that
the commission intends to discourage any
man from becoming expert in his knowledge
of the utility ~manipulations and practices.
The real danger is that the order is pub
lie notice that the utilities have become big
ger than the government itself.
1t is notice that the time has come for
the people to decide whether they will run
their own government or continue to assent
to the secret domination by the utility group.
Of course, Jones should have known bet
ter. The way to get along in this state is to
serve these interests, not to fight them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH
Early Ills May Leave Lifelong Mark

mark has made a special study of
the permanent defects of teeth due
to insuffciency of vitamins in the
diet of the infant.
Thirty-eight boys and 26 girls,
ranging in age from 8 to 20 years,
were studied. All of these children
had symptoms of deficiency of vita
min A in childhood.
AS a result of this deficiency, one
or both eyes had been removed in
twenty-three cases. In thirty of
the cases, one or both of the eyes
had shriveled, and in all cases seri-
Gus changes had taken place in
tissue Of the eye.
In a more recent study, having to
do particularly with the effects on
the teeth of the deficiency of other
vitamins in childhood, Bloch found
that a severe deficiency of vitamin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
Change IS Eternal

INHE' great question, says General
Il SHUTS, is this: "Can we from
some reunion or symposium of these
sciences obtain a world-picture or
synoptic view of the universe, based
on observation and calculation,
which + the instruments of Sci
ence, but reaching beyond the par
ticular phenomena which are it's
immediate field to a conception Of
the universe as a whole?
THAT was how science began-in
the attempt to find some simple
substances OF elements to which the
complex world of phenomena could
be reduced in the last analysis"
General SHUTS continued.
The century over which we now
look back, with its wonderful adj
vance in the methods and technious
of exact observation, has been a
period of specialization of decentral-
ization.
Have we now reached a point
where science again can become
universal in the ultimate outlook
Has a scientific world-picture be-
come possible?"
General SHUTS is aware of the
fact that there can be no final world
picture. This is essentially a twen-
tieth century viewpoint. For near
the end Of the eighteenth century.
around the year 1890, physicists
thought that they had completed
their exploration of the physical
world.
Then a few years later came the
discoveries of the X-ray, radium
and the %electron, to prove that they
were too optimistic.
of course" says Genera. SHUTS.
there can be no final picture at
any one stage of culture. The can
vas is as large as the universe. and
the moving finger of humanity it.
self will fill it in from age to age.
"All the advances of knowledge.
all the new insights gained from
those advances will be blended into
that picture from time to time"
CThe details of General Shuts
world picture vii be reviewed in
subsequent articlesO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05

A in infancy, resulting in a disease
of the eyes called xerophthalmia,
has serious effects on the child.
Hardly two-thirds of the children
reach the age of 8 years. After
this, their development goes on nor
mally, except that the eye disturb
ance may result in impaired vision
or complete blindness.
There seems to be no question
that an absence of vitamin D in
infancy results in disturbances of
formation of the skeleton and den
tai carries.
Dental anomalies in man seem to
be due chiefly TO abnormality of
the way in which the body takes
care of calcium and other minerals
during the period when the teeth
are calcifying.
Vitamin D is the chief vitamin
associated with Qualification process.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
TiCkIoS Our Pride

XXTE have the gold standard,
w with $4,000, OOO, 1000 to back it
up. Our annual income amounts to
fifteen times that amount. It is
paid with paper, of course, paper
which is accepted on faith.
If the wheels should stop sud-
denly, every n who had one of
those little green pieces of paper
which the government issues would
probably get real money for it, but
you'd be surprised how few people
actually had them.
England has abandoned the gold
standard, and most every American
feels a little cocky because that
puts the dollar in first place. It
tickleS our pride to think that we
now can buy the pound sterling for
$685., where we would have had to
pay $4.85 three or four months ago.
but the English debtor, except
where his obligation is in dollars.
can pay off just that much easier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
Biased History
TITO avoid all mention of wa

TITO avoid all mention of war in
L the school books would be not
only silly but less than frank. And
yet I do object to the familiar prac-
tice of grammar and high schools in
o-verstressing the military achieve
ments of our country.
Moreover, I think it should be
possible to reach some general
agreement and Interpretation of
various conflicts. After all, the sci
entists of the world are able to meet
in conclave and join in supporting
certain undoubted facts in the par
ticular field.
I mean we haven't a German YER
sion of chemistry and a French one
and an English one. Boys and girls
in every land are taught that water
is composed of hydrogen and oxy-
gen. The study of chemistry or
physics is not used as a prop in
peculiarly national propaganda for
patriotism.
But the child in France and the
child in Germany do not study
precisely the same version of the
Franco-Prussian wal. Even within
our own borders, certain sections of
the country instruct the budding
youth in a theory and set of facts
concerning the Civil war which does
not obtain in the schools of Boston
or New York.
It is difficult for even learned
men to agree On the precise causa-
tive factors of a conflict. But after
twenty or fifty years the mistS be-
gin to lift, and true scholars will be
able to reach at least a common
denomination. And from these men
should come a true and rational &C
count Of the occurrences which are
20 be set down in school books.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05

consolidation, that workers interests be protected
On the coal dilemma, it deplores President Hoover's
failure to call a coal conference.
The council speaks firmly against child labor. and
against the drive for lower wages. It ~criticises the
defeat Of the Independently aid bill; welcomes
the new old age pension states, now providing pen
sion laws for 100000 inhabitants; promises sup
port Of the seamen's act and the anti-injunction bin.
1t favors Volstead act modification for 2.75 per
cent beer. 1t speaks ambiguously on the Doak sub
stitute for the vetoed Wagner bill for adequate en-
ployment services. 1t fails to mention Mooney and
Billings, and other civil liberty cases. 2
The key Of the report is its analysis of labor's
new wage theory"-that high wages and shorter hours
are not only the workers salvation, but society's, since
the workers are the consumers and prosperity de-
ponds upon high purchasing power, low wages and
long hours would destroy our high-geared mass pro-
duction industry.
We regret that the A. F. of L. did not go farther
and present labors plan for the necessary basic re-
organization of industry, as Swope has presented
the plan of advanced capital. That job still is wait
ing for the A. F. of L.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05

II. G. WELLS said several in
IL teresting things in a London
radio broadcast about what he
would do if he were dictator of the
world. He touched upon one
theme, which possibly he developed
at greater length, although the
news reports are scanty. Mr.. Wells
is quoted as saying;
MY dictatorship would be es-
sentially an educational dictator
ship. For the better part of the
twenty years I would have the
young forgetting their old, narrow,
blood-stained histories and learn
ing of the great adventure of man
kind"
MI. Wells spoke of a general
council which would work for
peace. And he also suggested that
there should be only n sort of
money in the world.
1 wonder whether the foundation
of amity might not rest in a uni
versa1 system of education to be
supervised by delegates selected
from each nation. I am thinking
in particular terms of history.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05

cents was put on a delinquent, il
for a few days, and has been raised
to 16 cents in the last month-for
the poor starved, helpless man tc
pay to the Light and Power COM
pany. A READER.
Editor Times-Your recent en-
tightening editorials regarding the
public utilities have won my sin
cere admiration for your excellent
paper. It is my belief that if we
are to win this fight against these
ravenous utilities, we must join
forces. We must not stop with a
mere protest.
The Times has shown the people
the way. The Times has disclosed
to the public the enormous profits
reaped by these utilities, profits en-
tirely out of proportion with the
true valuation of the property held
by the various companies.
Rates are allowed in proportion
to the valuation placed on the
property used by the utility to give
the public service. The law reads,
the rates. tolls and charges shall
be such as will provide the amounts
required over and above the rea-
sonable and necessary operating ex-
penses to maintain such property
in an operating state Of efficiency
corresponding to the progress Of
the industry.
It can not be said truthfully that
the operation expenses and the ex-
penses of maintaining the property
of the utilities are at the same level
they were in 1929. Everything has
been reduced but the rates. These
utilities are taking advantage Of
valuation placed upon them when
everything else was valued much
higher.
The public service commission
may, at any time, on its own initi-
ative, make a revaluation of such
property. 1t is quite evident that
the public service commission does
not intend to act on its own initia-
tive. 1t has ignored the press and
the public's demands.
1t remains for some group Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05

Si1Uer at II to I Would Mean
Enormous and Immediate
Wealth for Certain Sec
tions of This Country.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-A hectic
IN fall this, with its plans and
preparations for what every one
admits will be the hardest winter in
years-plans and preparations that
go all the way from a silver con-
ference to a pair of secondhand
shoes for some poor kid.
Pope Plus asks for a crusade of
mercy" throughout christendom,
while the management Of the Worth
county fair in Georgia announces
that it will accept cottonseed, Shelled
corn, peanuts or fresh eggs for
admission.
Premier Pierre Laval of France
calls Lord Reading from England
to take up the general position"
with money as the chief topic Of
discussion.
Worlds champion Max Schmel-
ing, who made $1,000 in his bout
with Stribling, gives $4,000 for re-
lief, while Judge Dunklee Of Den
yer reduces Mrs. Norman B. Smiths
alimony from 500 to $50 a month
on the ground that her former hus-
band, whose salary has been cut,
no longer can afford to pay on the
1929 basis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
-The Peoples Voice-
Taxes Saved?' That's Big Laugh
Lebanon Man SCOTS at "Relief' Which Leslie and Leg
isldture Would GiUe.

Editor Times-Having been a
reader of your paper from its first
issue, I wish to inform you that I
approve of the fearless stand your
paper takes in most of things. The
worst error I ever have observed
was your stand for Hoover for PreSi-
dent in 1923.
I would think that a person as
intelligent as the editor of The
Times could take n look at Hoo
ver's face and discover that he is an
American joke without a single
qualification for being President ex-
cept to draw his salary. I see in
your paper of Oct. 1, 1881, on the
first page, an article showing that
the farm bureau had saved the tax
payers of Indiana $4,000, 600.
I think they used the wrong word
when they said saved" They pos
sibly have reduced the taxes ten
million this year so they "a add
twenty million next year. The same
article suggests the Governor call
Clle leSlSldCuIG III SpeC1d1 SeSSlOIl W
make tax reduction.
The writer has used the wrong
word again. If the legislature will
reduce salaries and state, county
and township expenses, it will not
need to say anything about tax
reduction. The idea of the Gov
ernor calling a special session Of
the legislature and ordering it to
reduce the taxes after he has spent
$4,000 on cigaret stands and other
luxuries and paying $4,000 for
cleaning the ~statehouse when it
could have been done for $4,000!
Don't think for one minute that
taxes will be reduced as long as
such legalized robbery exists. The
legislature should meet and i'm
peach the Governor and also dis
franchise him for life. Our levy was
reduced in Boone county last year
4 cents, to be raised 9 cents this
year. H. NJ. COULTER.
Editor Times-I enjoy and COM
mend your campaign against high
rates of the Indianapolis public util-
tiles. Remember that a tax of 8
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
TrV to BUV Groceries

nURING the last ten years, some
IL of our greatest fnanciers and
statesmen have been arranging set
Elements whereby nations were
bound to pay off debts for the next
half century. Does any one imagine
that those settlements will stand,
that the obligations will not be
cancelled, or liquidated through the
good old method of imitation?
Here IN America, we have loaded
the people with debt through high
power craftsmanship, creating pros
perity, as we told each other, but
with a lot of overdue notes and
worthless trumpery to show for it
right now.
You still can buy an auto, or a
photograph on credit, but Just try
to buy a winters supply of gro
ceries.
There not only has been a great
expansion of credit, but a great
diversion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
International Language

DUT L would not limit this uni
D versal curriculum of which I am
talking to a m narrative in
the historical field. 7 think there
could be something held by all for
use and general profit if a lingual
agreement could be obtained.
I mean that a standard educa-
ton should consist of instruction in
the mother tongue and n other
language to be agreed upon by the
delegates. This secondary study
could be some artificial system, such
as Esperanto. But I am afraid
there is much to be said against
this.
None Of the created languages
ever has achieved the warmth, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
Money Has Best of Il

THEAP money is tough on the
" creditor, though no tougher
than cheap cotton or wheat on the
farmer.
Those who deal exclusively in
money want it stable. The same is
true of those who deal in grain,
steel or copper.
Generally speaking, money has
the best of it because of government
backing, yet there is just as great a
need for stability in other lines.
The cotton and wheat farmers
actually have lost half a years work
because of what has happened to
the price of their products. That
phase of our economic set-up is just
as important as the note, or mort
gage phase.
Some of those who shout loudest
for stable money not only tolerate,
but encourage, fuctuation in other
fields.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
Leads to Bankruptcy

IMAGES are being cut, prices are
w being cut, and budgets are
being cut, all of which means higher
money and an increased hardship
for debtors.
BY stabilizing the franc at 4 cents,
or one fifth Of its value, France
made it possible for her debtors to
pay off at 20 cents on the dollar.
Through tremendous issues of
paper money, Germany made it
possible for her debtors to pay off at
as low a rate as one-tenth of one
per cent in some cases.
An overdose OF debt generally
leads to bankruptcy, or imitation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
~NHENS>
T7q9ATF sg1TEleH
ANNIVERSARY
TAKE 4,44s PRISONERS

OCE0DeT ,
ON Oct. 5, 1917, Field Marshal
~ Haig, of the British forces, an
nounced that his drive at Ypres
had Melted to date, 4,446 prisoners
and was developing into one Of the
greatest battles of the war.
On this date also the French
repulsed an attack on the AiSne,
in Champagne, and in Upper Al
SAGE, and the Russians, in the
Kikatsh-Amadia sector of the eau
casian front, took the village of
Nereman, fifty miles north of
Mosul.
The British advanced up the
Tigris.
Theodore Roosevelt and Mayor
Mitchell of New York addressed
a loyalty rally in Madison Square
Garden, speaking to thousands of
persons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-05
Picture Understandable

THE "~By-Product" column of the
l. Sunday New York Times OBJ
served that General Shuts world
picture starts under the severe
handicap of being easily understood.
Many readers who have struggled
with some of the complexities of
relatively may indeed feel that
modern scientists go out of their
way to be complicated and involved.
We must remember, however, that
new and strange things always seem
complicated. Newton's theory OF
gravitation seemed just as strange
and complicated in its day as does
EinStein's theory Of relatively today.
The great difficulty, as General
SHUTS points out, is that we gain
an obvious and superficial view OF
the universe through our senses.
We call this the common sense
view of the universe" Then we be-
come surprised, and often irritated.
when science comes forward to tell
us that there is more to the uni
verse than our senses perceive.
Il am going to ask the question:
said General SHUTS in beginning his
address, what sort of world picture
is science leading to? Is science
tending toward a definite scientific
outlook on the universe, and how
does it differ from the traditional
outlook Of common sense?
"The question is not without it's
interest. For our world-view is
closely connected with our sense Of
ultimate values, our reading of the
riddle of the universe, and of the
meaning of life and of human
destiny.
Our scientific world-picture will
draw its material from all the SCI
ences. Among these, physical Sci
ence within view of its revolu-
tionary discoveries in recent years
be a most important source.
But no less important will be the
contribution of the biological SCI
ences with their clear revelation Of
organic structure and function as
well as of organic evolution.
"And last, not least, the social
and mental sciences not only will
supply valuable material, but espe-
cially methods of Interpretation,
insights into meanings and values,
without which the p%erspectives Of
our world-picture would be hope
leSSly wrong.