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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Too Much-Too Little

There are two good reasons why the federal farm
board should sell surplus wheat to the Chinese gov
eminent on easy terms requested by the Chinese
famine relief, u. S. A.
More than 100000 Chinese drought sufferers in
the Yangtse valley will starve unless they get this
wheat.
And tens of thousands of American farmers viii
be driven bankruptcy unless the federal farm
board gets rid of its white elephant surplus which
is seriously depressing the wheat market.
Here, then, is a lucky combination Of circun-
stances which permits the United States to help a
foreign people and at the same time help ourselves
Certainly there be no return of full American
prosperity long as grain prices below the cost of
production pauperze the farmer and thus tange the
purchasing power of large part of the consuming
population.
There is considerable mystery in Washington as
to why the administration has withheld support from
this Chinese plan which has been suggested so often
during the last year. Many explanations have been
given, none of which is convincing.
First it was said that China did not need and
could not use wheat. The testimony of the Chinese
Famine Relief U. s. A., highly responsible and
respected agency refutes that argument. The
Chinese need is terribly real and urgent
A second objection that the Chinese civil
war and lack of transport facilities would prevent
distribution TO Inc stricken areas, even II
wheat were landed in Chinese ports gratis This
argument now has been dSproved by John Earl
Baker adviser to the Chinese ministry of railways
whose demand for such grain prompted Wednesdays
appeal of the Chinese Famine Relief u S. A., to the
farm board.
The farm board has objected in the past that it
has authority to give away its grain; that only
congress has such power. This begs the question.
For the proposal is not to give the grain outright
but to sell it at low price and on long easy terms
Farm board terms apparently have been too stiff.
Even if it were a case of making gift, the Hoover
administration could use the effective methods
of advance canvass and pledge of congressional action
which overcame similar technical obstacles to the
Hoover moratorium on debts and reparations.
Or it could call special session of congress, for
which there are so many other issues needing quick
action.
Is it possible that one reason the administration
has been SO cold to this plan is that it fears any
generosity to Chinese hunger victims might re-
emphasize by contrast its refusal to grant federal
relief to American unemployment victims?
Whatever the true explanation, the administration
perhaps can afford to be hard boiled toward the
Chinese But it can not afford to prolong the Amer
lean depression by keeping its huge wheat surplus,
resulting from its stupid gambling in the Chicago
grain pit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
A New Red Committee
grain pit

There is sound common sense in Professor John
Dewey's idea Of committee to study methods OF
ending conditions which create reds.
Dewey says: 1.-THE recent organization by Matthew
Vol of committee of one hundred to combat the
reds in the United States may defect attention from
the underlying fact that radicalsm and overt acts
almost always are caused by economic or other in
Justice To permit the organization OF this COM
mittee to go unchallenged would seem to give sane
ton to the illogical assumption that dealing with
results will cure or remove causes
There are many flaws in our economic and
judicial system which makes bitter and discontinued
people look with longing on the prospect of a new
political system, but they can be corrected.
Meanwhile, one immediate danger, which never
fails to cause radicalism threatens and must be
dealt with at once. That is hunger. We have come
through winter of hunger; nothing but the season
makes the summer less dreadful; and We are ap-
preaching a winter in which every one comedies
want and privation will exceed anything we have
known before
The Presidents emergency committee reports that
private charity can not carry the whole burden of
relief this winter 1t calls on city and state govern
ments for aid
But these already are reaching a point where
their financial condition is serious. Taxes are not
being paid third of the real estate in eastern
city already has into the possession of the
government for delinquent taxes.
No agency but the federal government pre-
vent widespread hunger perhaps widespread riots
in the United States this winter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
The Old Stale Slogan

TINE south was riddled with evils
Il of this sort. And up and down
the land there stamped Republican
spellbinderS calling upon voters to
honor native stock and preserve the
Puritan tradition against Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion.
There was little sincerity in the
minds of most Of the speakers. They
merely said and did that for which
they were hired. But the seed was
sown. Here and there it landed in
fertile soil. We have come to be a
nation divided against itself. Even
the naturalized citizen lives in terror
and in fear.
And as the Wickersham report
truthfully says, This situation pro-
longs and deepens the immigrants
insecurity and delays his mental and
moral sterilization in the country
which he is seking to adopt"
We need a rebirth in trust and
confidence and fellowship.
Copyright 1881 by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Davis to. iJoinerS'

CENATOR DAVIS Of Pennsylvania
~ may be right in declaring that
you have to join something to get
anywhere in this country" though
a good deal depends on where you
want to get and what you want to
do when you get there.
Joining something offers a con-
venient outlet for the strut spirit
and herd instinct. Also, it possesses
advantages in political sense. AS
vehicle of self-expression, how
ever, not SO hot. When Senator
Davis says that. 'you can't express
yourself by yourself" he not only
defies the dictionary, but confuses
habit with facts. Look at Edison,
Einstein and Lindbergh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13

Republican political managers found
that they had much to gain by cap
italizing the ill-will of the middle
west and the south against New
York City. Beyond the borders of
the metropolis there are many who
delight in saying that New York is
not American at all, but a foreign
settlement
And since Al Smith was the prod
uct of our sidewalks, it became easy
to involve him as the representative
of an alien principality. While it
is true that Herbert Clark Hoover
did not use this sort Of ammunition
in his own speeches, he hardly can
be ignorant of the extent to which
it was employed by his lieutenantS
of political strategy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Lost; RediSCoyered

HOMETS last held the public at
~ tention in 1927 when the Pons-
Winnecke comet came into view.
This comet has hyphenated name
because it was lost once and then
rediscovered.
AS the POnS-Winnecke comet ap-
preached the earth, astronomers
hoped it would prove a spectacular
sight. However, it did not.
For about a week it was visible
to the unaided eye as faint patch
of light about the diameter of the
full moon. 1t was so faint, how
ever, that most people, not know
ing exactly where to look for it,
were unable to see it.
The PonS-Winnecke comet first
was discovered in 1919 by Louis
Pons, a French astronomer. Pons
was most persistent comet-hunt-
er, finding no less than thirty-seVen
during his lifetime.
Johann Encke, famous German
astronomer, calculated the orbit of
the PonS comet and found it was
one of the Jupiter comets.
These are comets whose orbits
were changed by the gravitationaI
pull which they received when they
passed near the planet Jupiter.
AS result, they now revolve in
orbits, one end of which passes
around the sun while the other end
extends only a little beyond the
orbit Of Jupiter.
Encke calculated quite correctly
that the comet discovered by Pons
would go around its orbit in five
and half years. At the end of
that time, however, astronomers
failed to sight it.
On March 3, 1858, the German
observer, Winnecke, found comet
Subsequent study showed that he
had relocated the Pons comet and
it has since been called the Pons-
Winnecke comet.
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SSZZEExN
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JAPANESE MISSION ARRIVES
Aug. Is


I'm Aug. Is, 1917, a Japanese
" commission, headed by Wis
count K. Ishii, ambassador extraor-
binary and plenipotentiary, arrived
in the United States on a mission
of good will.
At a dinner given to the mission
the following day, Viscount Ishii
said:
I'VE are here to say that in this
tremendous struggle for those
rights and liberties America and
Japan are bound together; that
when the victory of the allied forces
is secure, America and japan should
so live that your sons and our sons
will have a certainty Of good neigh
borhood.
I'm the dawning Of this new day
Of stress and strain let us forget
the little molehills that have been
exaggerated into mountains to bar
our good relations let us to-
gether fix our eyes upon the star
of principle, which shall lead us
together most surely to a participa-
ton in the triumph OF the right
to a certain victory in the greatest
and, let US hope, the last great wal
In human history"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
The Political Boomerang

TT is my feeling that certain
L chickens are now coming home
to roost around the caves OF the
White House itself. Naturally. 1t
would be unfair to charge Presi-
dent Hoover with the genesis of our
present national sins against the
spirit of hospitality. No one man
could create this if he weuld. Never
theless, a grave charge does lie at
the. Presidents door.
In the national campaign Of 1925
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13

TINE report of the Wickersham
Il commission on the deportation
system represents the most useful
work which that body has accom-
plished. The statements offered are
specific and detailed, and a plau-
sible remedy is suggested.
Nine members signed the report,
and two refused, on the ground that
it was overSevere.
1t must be remembered that, while
Mr.. Hoover covered various regions
and shades of political opinion in
making his appointments to the
commission, there is not single
member who could by any stretch
of the imagination be called a radi-
cal. Indeed, not more than one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
NEINERAL salts in vegetables are
IVA frequently lost to the human
being by the cooking of vegetables in
water which is then thrown away,
carrying the vegetable salts with it.
The safe course is to cook the
vegetables in steam cookers which
retain the juices and thereby the
mineral salts.
The chief value of iron in the
body is as an essential part of the
hemoglobin or red coloring matter
of the blood. This substance is pri-
marily responsible for carrying the
oxygen in the blood to the cells of
the body which require it for health.
The body of an infant at birth
contains about three times as much
iron as that of a grown person. The
child at birth is ready to begin
growing at an exceedingly rapid
rate. If it continued all its life at
the rate at which it grows the first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
SCIENCE
A Medal Aacaits You If You
Find a Nel0 Comet. One
Visible to Naked Ege Is
Due, Astronomers BeIieye.
BY DAVID I)IETZ

Due, Astronomers Believe.
A STRONOMERS are on the look
L n out these days for a comet of
magnificent proportions.
They are rather Of the opinion.
on the basis of the law Of averages.
that it won't be so long now before
a so-called "naked-eye comet hoves
into view, that is, comet which
is easily visible to the unaided eye.
and which proves a spectacular
sight in the night sky.
In fact, on the basis Of the law
Of averages, such a comet should
have come into view within the last
few years. Among those who
thought we probably would get it
was Professor Henry Norris Russell.
dean of American astronomers.
The last one was Brooks comet,
visible in 1911.
The early part of the present
century was rich in spectacular
comets, as such things CO. for 1t had
three of them, Halley's, in 1910, and
Moorehouse's comet in 1908, as
vel as Brooks in 1911.
These comets we're magnificent
sights and attracted worldwide at
tention from laymep as well as as
tronomers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Questions and
Answers

Has the former King Alfonso of
Spain any brothers?
He was a posthumouS child and
the only son of the late King AL
fonso XII of Spain by his second
marriage. He had no children by
his first marriage. There were
three children by his second mar
riage, Maria de las Mercedes, who
died Oct. II, 1904; Maria Therese,
who died Sept. %, 1912, and the de-
posed King Alfonso XIII.
What is rennet?
The dried stomach Of certain
hoofed animals, especially the mu-
cous membranes lining the fourth
stomach of a ruminant, as calf or
sheep, which, owing to the ferment
it contains, is capable Of ferment-
ing milk.
How many Jews are there in the
world?
According to David Trietsch,
German Jewish statiStician, there
are 100000 Jews in the world.
What is the origin of the old pro-
verb Borrowing from Peter to pay
PauI?"
It is derived from the old saying
ito rob Peter and pay Paul." which
is said to have originated in the
time of King Edward VI Of Eng
land, when the lands of st. Peters
at Westminster we're appropriated
to raise money for the repair Of
St. Pauls in London.
What are the three economic ages
of the earth?
Stone age, which includes the
eolithic, paleolithic and neolithic
ages; the bronze age, and the iron
age.
Out of what material were the
ships used by Columbus construct
ed?
Wood.
= What are the diameters Of the
earth and Mars and Jupiter?
b Earth 1913 miles; Mars, 4,23O
miles. and Jupiter, $500 miles.
Is Battling Nelson, the former
lightweight boxing champion, liv-
J ing?
Yes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
IndiyiduaIiSn0

THE thought that individualism
Il has become obsolete is absurd.
A Ford organization may appear to
stand for mass thinking, but how
about Ford.
What would Russia be without a
Stain, and would it be at all with
out a Marx, or a Lenin?
No matter how big the ship, it
needs a captain, and before him,
an architect.
Nothing did so much to make
Lindbergh a hero as the fact that
he flew alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Daily Thought

And keep the charge of the Lord
thy God, to walk in His ways, TO
keep His statutes, and His COM
mandmentS, and His judgments,
and His testimonies, as it is writ
ten in the law Of Moses, that
thou mayest prosper in all that
thou doest, and whithersOever
thou turneSt thyself.-Kings q.
The history Of all the great char
acters of the Bible is summed UP
in one sentence: They acquainted
themselves with God, and &C
guessed in His will in all things
Richard Cecil.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this naper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Earl Had Great Idea

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13

This Is the fourteenth of a series of
twenty-six timely articles by DR.. Morris
Fishbein on GOOD Truths and FOllies."
dealing with such much discussed but
little known subjects as Galleries. vita
minis. minerals. digestion and balanced
diet,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Dangerous Thinking

THIS curious and alarming sit
L uation has reached a point
where revolution threatens many
lands and where rumors of war are
becoming common.
Whence come these rumors Of
war? Are they the by-product of
Shrewd observation, or misguided
desire? They certainly appear to
multiply as the depression continues,
which implies an ugly thought.
Is is possible that some people
regard war as the best means by
which to recuperate their fortunes?
One hates to believe it, yet the at
mosphere is such as to make that
conclusion plausible, if not in
escapable.
War has come to play a strangely
conspicuous part in run-of-the-mill
conversation. You hear people say
not only that it is likely to occur,
but that it might be good thing.
If psychology means what we
think it does, that is a dangerous
attitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
World Paradox

MEANWHILE, we face another
1Y1 kind of paradox-the paradox
of a world in distress when it should
be happy and contented.
What has happened to cause all
the woe and bewilderment? We
have been given forty reasons, If
not more, but few of them sound
convincing.
Mathematically, you can prove
that there are just as many mouths
to be fed as there were three years
ago. just as many bodies to be
clothed, just as many appetites to
be satisfied, and so on.
But there is not nearly as much
work and, consequently, not nearly
as much happiness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
WnI Are Three

r INDBERGH not only flew alone,
II but, now that he, is married,
takes his wife along.
That appeals to people throughout
the civilized world. They see it not
only as an ideal, but as a posi-
bility, wholesome and constructive,
which each and every one of them
can hope to attain in principle.
They regard it as a good example
for their children. It challenges
their respect, as well as their ad-
miration.
TINE Lindberghs, after flying
Il across Canada and Alaska,
predict great things for aviation in
the north.
The region is in peculiar need Of
such service as flying can render,
they say, and presents far less diff
culties than they had supposed.
The thought is intriguing. What
we have always regarded as cold,
worthless waste, may turn out to be
one of the worlds greatest high
ways.
Human experience is filled with
Just such paradoXeS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13

Would it be right to refer to the king of Denmark
who is peeved because of alleged Norwegian aggres-
Sions, as the melancholy Dane?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
q Dangerous Attitude.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.-Jack
IN Oegs) Diamond gets the limit
-four years in prison and $1,000,
in fines. You don't hear any weep
ing, but New York editors headline
it as Tuesdays big event. If the
exceptional is news, that tells the
whole story.
The law has been after Diamond
fifteen years. 1t has tackled him
twenty-four times. Outside of a
minor victory almost at the start,
this is the only time it has downed
him.
More significant than all that,
hundreds, if not thousands of
racketeers, who are his superiorS
in every respect, go their merry,
offensive way, just as though moth
ing had happened.
Diamonds conviction is a sign of
what could, and should be accom-
plished; nothing more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
NJ. E. Tracy

You Hear People Sag War
Might Be a Good Thing. If
Psychology Means What
We Think 1t Does, That Is
n Dnn0erOns Attitude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13

What are the diameters Of the
earth and Mars and Jupiter?
I Earth 1913 miles; Mars, 4,230
miles. and Jupiter, $500 miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13

Is Battling Nelson, the former
lightweight boxing champion, liv-
ing?
Yes.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
AREA OF WASHINGTON
 ONCE COVERED BY SEA

WASHINGTON, Mar, II, P- Six times within a million years much of what is now the nations capital is believed to have been at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean.
 c. Wythe Cook, of the United States geological survey, has re- ported that conclusion to the Washington Academy of Sciences after a geological study of this locality since the era of big gla- ciers.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
LET DOWN FILMS

NEW YORK, Mar, II. (R- Shortly after the He De France left port James Ray took off in an auto gyro plane from Miller Field, Sta ten Island, and as the liner passed Ambrose lightship he caught up with her, settled down over the the ships stern and let down sev- eral reels of news films, consigned to London.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
PLAN PILGRIMAGE

MONTREAL, Mar. II. (Rl-About 15O men and women Pilgrims are planning to visit the shrine of the Little Flower, Saint Therese, of the Child Jesus at Lisieaux, France, sailing from here July End aboard Melita. The pilgrimage is to be the Canadian Pacific steamship held under the auspices of the Car melite Partners.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
BEAT SCHOOLGIRL

HANFORD, Calf. Mar. II. (Ar-- Amy Toner, principal, and Ernest Mcintyre, teacher of the Excel sion school district near here have resigned as a result of parental complaint over their alleged beat ing of Alice Nunez, Is years old, be- cause she came to school with cosmetics on her face.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
FASTER CRAFT FOR
 COLONEL L|ND8ERGA

BURBANK, Calif., Mar, l2, P) More speed for Colonel Lind bergh is promised in the estab- lishment of a new record from San Francisco to Los Angeles by air.
 One hour and B minutes be- tween the Oakland airport and the United airport is the time of a test flight of new re- tracticable monoplane built for Lindbergh. The previous time was one hour and 53 minutes.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
ACCEPTS DELIVERY

KEEL, Germany, Mar. II. (R- William K. Vanderbilt accepted delivery of his new palatial yacht of $500 tons, hoisting the American flag over the vessel after a tria. cruise in the Baltic.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
HOT PLACE

BUENOS AIRES, Mar, II, (P)- The Argentine is sweltering in the worst heat wave of the season. Sev- eral sunstrokes were reported when it was more than 100 degrees Fah renheit here. A soccer player died from Sunstroke.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
TERM OF COURT

The court officials will arrive on the SS Yukon from Valdez enroute to Anchorage where q term of court will be held As far as is known there are no criminal cases on the calendar only naturalization and possi- bly, civil actions.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
NOTICE

The Belmont Trading Company will shortly open for business as traders in all kinds of merchan- disc, new and secondhand. at the old log house on Fifth Ave.
 Joe Hoffman
Seward daily gateway., 1931-03-12
TWO SOURCES

NEW YORK, Mar. II. (R) For mer United States Judge Paul Line barger. now legal adviser to the Chinese National Government and special treaty envoy to America said that If the Chinese govern ment did not get a silver bullion loan from the United States 1t would get 1t from Soviet Russia.