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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I wish to state a
few facts and maybes for your
paper. Readers views is the front
page to me, as it tells the most
facts.
The other day I was talking to a
man, church goer, a good worker,
but radical, as you might say am.
He has a dog, a priced animal that
does wonders in his estimation. I
asked him if it wouldn't be more
honorable to spend his money on
some poor orphan without chance
of a good home than the money it
costs to KEEP the dog? His answer
was this, do you think I want to
take some kid in to grow up to be a
thief and disgrace me and my
family?
Now maybe the same can be ap-
piled to this depression. The rich
politician has a pet ne has to feed
instead of the poor working man.
We've got the eighteenth amend
ment, full jails, high taxes, mort
cages, low wages for those employed,
plenty of jobless, practically no mar
ket for the farmers products.
It is true We do not have to have
beer or strong drink. Why stop at
that? There is tobacco, coffee, tea
and soft drinks we can do without
also. Just as this man put it, we
are lower than a dog, why not take
all of our freedom that God gave
us, just to see how long we can
stand it? F. DRIFFILL.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DERHAPS Mr.. Hoover is right when he says that
4 the main thing wrong with us is that we have
lost our faith in religion
1t is quite plain that we have lost our faith in
something, and religion is as good any other name
for the intangible quality that has escaped u.s.
For religion embodieS something deeper than mere
trust IN a Supreme Being It also signifies faith in
ones fellow-man.
The citizenship of America that once believed SO
firmly in the integrity Of those set in positions Of
the credulities as well as from the customs of our
ancestors.
We know it is not possible that we now lack men
who are worthy of public confidence On the con-
trary there are many hundreds of sincere and we'll
meaning officials who today serve their state or their
nation with the keeneSt sense of responsibility and
the strictest adherence to standards of honor.
DUT somewhere along the years we have lost our
- belief in those who govern US Over and over we
elect them and hope for miracle to rekindle the
spark in the ashes of our burned-out faith. And
over and over We suffer disappointment and dsilu-
sion. 1t may be We expect too much.
But when nation like ours loses confidence in
its leaders it has, in a great measure also lost its
faith in its God The two always have been linked
closely in the public consciousness, and with the
breaking down of nations goes the breaking down of
religions.
When the rulers Of the earth stumbled into the
bloody way Of more than sixteen years ago they
turned the faces of their peoples against the Most
High. Primitives may continue to believe in the
goodness of Divinity while they wade knee deep in
the gore of their neighbors
But civilized beings can not survive such inconsist-
ent ethics without spiritual disaster.
1t would. indeed, be we'll if We could reSurrec our
faith in the working principles of religion But
words alone can not restore to us our lost faith.
The leaders have taken it from us The leaders
must give It to US again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
DAILYH SEFGVICE--
Haphazard Dieting Injuries Health

should take excessive quantities of
cod liver oil or cod liver oil tablets;
mo reason why they should expose
themselves to sunlight to the point
of burning.
Vitamin deficiency in any single
case can only be discovered by a
careful study of the diet and health
of the individual A haphazard
taking of great quantities of vita
min-containing foods with the hope
of improving health generally may
injure the very health that is try
ing to be conserved.
Most of what we know about the
vitamins has been learned from
feeding experiments on animals.
An animal is fed a diet deficient
in certain foods. 1t develops GER
tain disease conditions.
The substance is then supplied
and the animal RECEIVERS. Diets may
be varied in many ways. Today
throughout the world there are
hundreds of nutrition laboratories
in which feeding experiments are
carried out on fowls, fish and ami
mails.
Indeed, there are many nutrition
laboratories in which young men
volunteer their services in such feed
ing experiments for the good that
may accrue to mankind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

Now comes the announcement that Nick
OudoVch, recipient Of unusual and excep-
tlonal favors from the Governor, is to be
deported Immediately instead of waiting ex-
plratlon of his minimum term for killing a
rival racketeer in late November, as origin
ally announced.
Likewise the warden at Michigan City
who recommended that Nick be given a
month of liberty to transact important
private business" says that he is quite sure
after talking to Nick, that Nick did not at
tend the farewell Capone party at Benton
HarbOr
True, when Nick got back from his
months sojourn outside the prison, other
inmates of the pen were led to believe that
Nick had been one of the chief guests just as
he had in his days Of liberty been one of the
chief lieutenants of Capone, ruling the gang
empire in the northland and purveying vice,
booze, dope, gambling and other such ''neces-
stiles" to that part Of the state.
In fact The Times received struggled
letter from the prison telling of the gossip
to this effect and its source. The prisoners
traced it to boast Of Nick himself that he
had been able not only to get his liberty but
have it extended so that it would include the
Capone festivities.
Possibly at some time the people may be
given some real information as to why
Sudovich was released. To date the affair
is mysterious and vague.
The warden says that he does not quite
remember why he recommended the parole
or the important business which forced
great state to give Nick his liberty.
1t might have been more booze, more
vice, more murder, as these had been his
chief activities.
The Governors office proclaims that the
parole was signed almost as a matter of
form after the warden had made his rec
ommendation, and did not question his
judgment in the matter.
Under these circumstances the trustees
of the prison might seem to have real
duty. They name the warden.
If they discover that the warden, in his
great mercy of heart, is solely responsible
for the release of this Capone crook, they
should fire him.
If they discover that he was told to sign
on the dotted line by those with enough po-
litical influence to force that action, they
might, if they have any self-respect, resign
rather than be so Inundated.
Releasing gangsters from the pen, espe-
cially those with killing records, should not
become a habit. 1t oversteps the boundary
line of tolerance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Hoover HardihOOd

DECLARING that 100000 per-
- sons are out of work in
Pennsylvania and that there is little
promise of improved conditions
this year, Governor Pinchot urges
President Hoover to call an extra
session of congress.
According to reports from Wash
ington, there is little likelihood
that President Hoover will do so.
How can this attitude be ex-
planned otherwise than that the
President thinks he can do a better
job alone than with congressional
assistance?
Maybe, he can, but such a view
requires some hardihood under ex-
listing conditions.
One Englishman, Sir Arthur
Thompson, says there are too many
people in the world and that some
thing must be done about it.
Another Englishman, Bertrand
Russell, is ready with a solution
let the family disappear and let
the state regulate birth by steriliz-
ing 95 per cent of the men and IS
per cent Of the women.
What a world this will be when
the theorists and planners get
through with it!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Eating Too Much

a MERICANS are beginning to
L "A put on too much weight be-
cause they eat too much, in the
opinion of DR.. Taylor.
"Overeating, relative to need, is
the major cause Of overweight" he
says. There are persons who over
eat and remain thin; there are also
persons who diet and grow fat. But
such persons are few in number, the
rare exceptions, abnormal, or at
least anomalous.
After all, human beings are ami
mails and animal huSbandry is
founded on the demonstrated doc
trine that feed makes fat. and fat
can not be gotten without feed.
THE easiest way of avoiding indi-
gestion in excess of requirements is
to use bulky foodstuffs with high
caloric content.
1t is possible to lose weight on a
full stomach three times a day; it
is possible to gain weight on a diet
which does not fill the stomach once
a day.
ct is in this respect that fruits
and vegetables are attractive; they
are invaluable for vitamins and
mineral elements, but they are also
valuable in satisfying hunger and
appetite without promoting over
weight.
There is an esthetic as well as a
physiology Of overweight. Over
weight consists largely of fat, with
its attendant water. Fat has way
of accommodating where it is really
not wanted and in regions where it
is CONSPICUOUS.
AN artist could distribute thirty
or forty pounds or fatty tissues over
the frame Of six-foot man with
retention of pleasing lines; but ma
ture fails to do So
What makes obesity less abhor-
rent to men in this country is in
part the fact that mE$.iline raj
ment is so nondescript that it does
moot look much worse on fat man
than on thin one"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
A National Menace

nR. TAYLOR believes that the
~ national overweight is a ma
tional menace.
1T is commonly believed, he says,
that overweight, within limits, is
an asset in childhood and Adde'S
cence, the expression of high nutri-
ton promoting resistance to disease.
After 80, however, and especially
after so, overweight is unquestion-
ably no asset, but liability. A pro-
nounced degree of overweight which
Is obesity brings diseases in its train,
OF which diabetes is the striking il
lustration.
rs is not generally realized how
large a proportion of those with
overweight after so approach ODE
sity. Medical experience and life
insurance analysis of sickness and
death make it clear that even mod
crate overweight imposes a burden
on the organs of circulation.
Disease of the circulation rep
resent the outstanding cause of
death after 40. Withou, going lto
details, it is accepted that over
weight increases the incidence of
diseases and raises the death rate.
THE expectation Of life is in
creasing, but the span of life is not
being extended. The increasing
proportion of men and women who
pass so must give more than casual
attention to the trend of body
weight.
Bathroom scales are at once a
guide and an inspiration"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
london Gets Them

THE metropolitan district of Lon
4 don, with a population of
100000, had twenty-one murders
last year. Eleven of the murderers
we're caught and convicted, nine
committed suicide, and only one re-
mains unaccounted for by the police.
In the metropolitan district of
New York, with a population of
100000. there were 421 murders
last year, but only $50 arrests we're
made and less than fifty convictions
obtained.
The failure of New York police to
get that "baby killer" is no mystery.
An organization that fails in so
many ordinary cases is in no con-
dition to handle extraordinary cases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

TXTHAT is known as the antineu-
w rite vitamin is not really a
substance to be used for all forms
of Inflammation of the nerves.
The vitamin that prevents Scurvy
unquestionably has other functions,
and vitamin A, which was called
the antiophthalmic vitamin, has
unquestionably other services for
the body.
Another attempt to classify vita
minis is based on the fact that they
are soluble in fats or in water.
Hence, vitamins A and D have been
known as fat soluble A and D, and
vitamin G is known as water solu-
BILE G.
The substance formerly known as
vitamin B has been found in two
different vitaminS which are now
known as vitamin 81 and vitamin
b or vitamin G. The letter F has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Looking for Trouble?
the Kellogg pact outlaw

MYTH the Kellogg pact outlaw
w ing war nicely signed, sealed
and delivered, why should France
and Russia be negotiating a non
aggression agreement?
1t sounds like the old diplomacy,
in spite of all that has been said,
or done to boost the new.
If they mean what they have
solemnly sworn in common with all
civilized countries, why should
France and Russia be eXacting re-
ciprocal promises from each other
not to interfere if either gets into
trouble?
Doesn't it sound as though one,
or the other, or both, we're looking
for trouble?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Forty Love

TURNING to 1.-The Art of Lawn
Il Tennis" by William Tilden II,
I find the comforting information
that William A Larned won the
singles at past 40. Men of 60 are
seen daily on the clubs courts of
England and America enjoying their
game as keenly as any boy. 1t is
to this game, in great measure, that
they owe the physical fitness which
enables them to play at their adj
vanced age
Yet, after all, this is not quite so
comforting. I know one or two of
these iron athletes who have out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

D LA Wiz 1JlElL
Uncle Sam Is Putting on Too
Much Weight for HIS O1On
Good, Says DR.. Taylor, Cit
ing Dangers Of Obesity.
THE picture of Uncle Sam as
Il lean and lank individual soon
will be a complete myth, according
to DR.. Alonzo E. Taylor of Stanford
university.
Uncle Sam. he believes, has been
putting on weight at. a Scandalous
pace. His waistband is expanding
and threatens to continue to DO so
during the next decade.
Young girls may enter the dieting
craze with so much excess enthu-
siasm that health authorities have
to issue warnings against the dan
gers of malnutrition. But, aeCoc d.
ing to Dr.. Taylor. the older folks
who least can stand the burden OF
overweight, are buSily acquiring it.
We suffer, according to DR.. Tay-
lor, from national overweight" It
is, he believes, a trend Of the times.
There are instructive impulses
and physiological tendencies in the
direction of overweight, which will
prevail unless restrained or coun-
teracted," he says.
I'VE live in economic circum-
stances which permit an easy func-
tioning of the influences making for
overweight. The national income
is rising The proportion Of the
national income required to cover
the retail cost of the food supply is
relatively small.
'FoodStuffs are available in ex-
traordinary variety and profusion.
The per capita food requirement is
declining. Economic restraint on
eating is lacking except in the poor
est classes"
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ueSSS 49,,
TqoAkt b 4Tk4eI
ANNIVGRSARYs
NAVY ORDERS SHIPS

NAVY ORDERS SHIPS
Aug. 20.
ON Aug. 20, 1917, Secretary ct
~ the Navy JosephuS Daniels
conferred with representatives OF
twenty-five ship and engine build
ers for the purpose of providing the
United States with more destroyers
than any other power.
"Desuoyers, he said, "are the one
thing submarines fear"
Secretary of the navy Daniels in
Dictated the navy department would
order all the destroyers the build
erS could produce.
The sum of $500 100000 was men
tione as necessary to carry out this
program. A four-year building plan
was proposed.
On this date also General Petain
won victory before Verdun, break
ing the enemy line and capturing
German defenses on both sides Of
the Meuse. More that 1000 prison.
erS were taken.
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Missed His Chance

WAL Street 6tt. has Hls,..i paid - more
casion and mulcted suckers just as
gloriously.
Ponzi should have bought a seat
on the exchange and promised
nothing.
Gambling with other peoples
money is all right if you play the
game according to law.
It's about like the recent ruling
that beer violates prohibition while
wine bricks do not.
Lotteries are not according to law
in this country. Some other coun-
tries not only allow them, but oper-
ate them as government monopo-
lies.
Though the italian government
views Ponzi as an undesirable per-
son, it has no ScrupleS about run
ming a lottery from which it de-
rives three times as much revenue
as from the state-owned railroads
and telephones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without re ~ard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

When a ship enters foreign
port what flag does it fly?
1t flies the flag of the country
where it is registered and the flag
of the nation whose port it is en-
tering, on separate stats.
What dimensions are the airplane
carriers Lexington and Saratoga,
and how many planes will each
carry?
They are 888 feet long, 106 feet
beam and carry about 100 airplanes
each.
What is the average height of
men and women in this country?
For men it is feet inches, and
for women, feet inches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Same Old CIinun

IN spite of the Kellogg pact, the
Il league and the world court, it
looks very much as though the old
clique idea were regaining favor in
Europe
The diplomats appear to be do
ing exactly what they were twenty
five years ago, and great military
establishments are being held in
readiness to back them up.
Disappointing as this may be, we
can not afford to close our eyes
to it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

A LREADY work had played so
IA much of a part in his life, -
said the novelist, that he did not
really begin to play until he had
reached the comparatively ad-
vanced age of 49,"
This paragraph from a book soon
to be published came to me like a
blow in the face. For years and
years I had been going along
buoyed up by the comments of
readers who wrote in from time to
time to say: "Of course, you are
still a young man. You will learn
better as you grow older"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE REg2S

his thirties, but now I find my at
tention turning more and more to
the fact that Hindenburg is 70 and
Joffre is TO-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
When | Was a Young Man

THERE were men like that in one
l. of the lands which CULVER
visited. They never died, and prob
ably they played a sharp game of
tennis, and later in the clubhouse
they were accustomed to sit around
and say how much better the actors
used to be fifty years ago. Every
body hated them and stayed away
from their company in droves.
No, set no store of hope on be-
ing a 60-year-old prodigy at lawn
tennis. I dodder about the court
already. I had just as soon be gray
and bald and all the rest Of it if
only I ever can grow young enough
to write bold and slashing novel
and be suppressed by Mr.. Sumner.
Copyright. 1881. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

This is the twentieth of a series of
thirty-Six timely articles by DR.. Morris
F:shbein on Food Truths and FOIIies."
dealing. with such much discussed, but
little known subjects as calOries. vita
minis. minerals. digestion and balanced
diet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

lived their generation, and they are
among the bores of the world. After
one of them has captured the third
set by dashing to the net and VOL
leying your shot off at sharp
angle he invariably rubs it in by
asking you to guess how old you
think he is. I always answer,
"Ninety-six
But there is no discouraging him
or stopping him before he has gone
on to tell you about breaking the ice
in the tub for his morning plunge.
There is an unearthly air about
these men whom God has forgotten.
They are like those Prussian SOL
diers of Frederick who continued to
stand after swords and bullets had
gone through them and required
the services of some one to go about
the field and push them over. so
that they might be decently buried.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

Who played opposite Joan Craw-
ford in Montana Moon?"
John Mack Brown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
aggression Agreement?

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-Charles
~ Ponzi, who made quite hit
in Massachusetts, eleven years ago
by promising investors so per cent
profit in forty-five days, who
collected 100000 on the strength
of it and was sent to prison be-
cause he failed to make good, will
be due for parole in October.
That only means more trouble
for Mr.. Ponzi, since the immigra-
ton officials have a deportation
warrant ready to serve on him the
moment he gets out.
The warrant calls for his Danish
ment to Italy, but the Italian gov
eminent has indicated that it pre-
fers his room to his company He
can't go to Canada, because he
once served a two-year prison term
there.
Taken all around, it looks like
tough winter for Mr.. Ponzi.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Daily Thoughts

Daily Thoughts
They that SOW in tears shall
reap in jOy.-PsaImS 1865.
Lofty mountains are full Of
springs; great hearts are full of
tears.-Joseph Roux.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20
Old Age Must Have Its Fling

UId Age Must Have Its Fling
DE MORGAN started to blaze at
1.-the age Of so, and James HUI
neker was the keeneSt of all the
critics to hail anything in any art
which was new and hitherto I'M
classified. And he, too, wrote his
first novel, Painted Wells" long
after so.
1t was novel which I did not
like very much, but all its faults
we're those of youth. Some of it
actually sophomore. 1t was more
like the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald
than any living author. felt that
it was first novel by "promis-
ing" man, and 30 and 29 and all
those ages seemed to me mere YER
dant days in the hatchery.
I remember a sweet girl reporter
going to Major General Sibert,
commander Of the First division in
its early days in France. and ask
ing, General, don't you think this
is a young mans WARP"
Sibert grinned behind his gray
mustache and said, When I was in
West Point I used to bear in mind
that Napoleon won some of his
greatest victories while he was in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-20

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
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Some Day May Be Today

A ND now I find that I have
IA grown older. [ have reached a
comparatively advanced age, and the
problem of whether I have learned
better is present and persistent. 1t
no longer can be put off as some
thing which will work out all right
in time.
Some day." says the young man
to himself, I'm going to sit down
and write a novel or the great
American drama Or an epic poem"
Then some day comes and the
young man finds that his joints are
stiff and he can't sit down.
However, I am not quite prepared
to admit that 42 is the deadline
1t seemed old age to me for a long
time. When I was reporting base
ball the players used to call Roy
Hartzell, over on third base, the
old man" because he was all of 90,
and veterans of 80 constantly were
dropping out because of advancing
age and the pressure of recruits of
10 and 20.
But then I got on to plays and
books and Bernard Shaw was doing
all the timely hitting in the pinches
and, to mix the metaphor, breaking
loose and running the length of the
field, putting a straight arm into the
faces of all who would tackle him