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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
It's the Bunk

a S a matter Of common sense,
L y we don't face one situation to-
day that we didn't face two
years ago, or need to do one thing
that we didn't need to do then.
What we are suffering is the d.
rect and inevitable consciousness of
what We neglect.
You have laughed at the man
in-Arkansas" who couldn't fix his
Ieaky roof when it rained and didn't
need it when it cleared of. Well.
his attitude wasn't any more shift
less or Illogical than that of some
Of our alleged leaders. They didn't
need to Go anything when times
were flush, and ROW that times are
hard, they think they can't.
You'll hear a lot Of that josh from
now on, especially in 1882. Youll
hear men say that they know things
are bad, but that they only will be
made worse by a disturbance; that
everybody must keep quiet for the
old home towns sake, or the good
of the party, or to maintain con-
hdence.
Don't pay any attention to it.
Right, truth, and justice are the
same old articles, whether times are
good or bad.
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Among the most interesting cases
are those that have been reported of
people so sensitive to fish glue that
they have an attack Of swelling OF
the tongue every time they lick a
postage stamp.
Some people are sensitive to milk
and have severe eczema; others are
sensitive to furs Of certain animals;
others to silk.
There are other causes as well. A
person may be sensitive to bacteri
or to their toxins. The most diff
cult forms are those in which peo-
pie become sensitized to the pro-
TENS Of seruns or to other sub
stances which may be injected into
the body.
Although such cases occur, they
are quite infrequent, since a New
York investigator found only two
cases among 10000 people who were
injected with antitoxira, and only
two severe recations among 5000
children given diphtlleria toxin
antitoxin.
This knowledge Of sensitivity has
been the means Of explaining a, vast
number Of unusual cases and
strange disorders which have pre-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
IT SEEMS TO ME BY Hg EyS21S

MIKE GOLD, one Of the most
1v4 spirited Of New York's Com
munists, IS absent in Russia on a
vacation. He supplies some interest
ing sidenghts on the Soviet's equiv
alent for the Algonquin round table.
Mr.. Gold begins with the rather
tall assertion that under the reign
Of Stain all petty jealousies among
authors have been eradicated.
every artist and writer who
comes to U.s." he says in the New
Masses, ''rnust be stimulated into
activity, not inherited. Our criti-
cism Of each other must be accurate,
but brotherly. We must not allow
the petty bound Bohemian jeal-
ousies to enter our new world"
But this is on Page 5, for on Page
6 he deals with one popular Soviet
author Of the day named KataeY
and observes that he wrote that
subtle and vicious lie, The En-
bezzlers.' ="
And Mr.. Gold adds in a trUa
spirit of proletarian brotherhood,
zone Of his plays running here now
is a cheap conventional French bed
room farce which he has plagiarized
and offered as a true picture Of
Soviet morality
The catiff, Kataev, is consigned
to the lowest Of the infernos by the
visiting conrade from New York.
"Such people as Kataev belong in
the United States" remarks the
tripper. "They would be happy
there and snatched up at once in
the dctional market"
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D \ CNNT nv FREDERICK
N1<L AOO4 Lands

THE best possible Justification of the federal in
l. come tax is the report that during the slump
year Of 1929 more than 500 persons paid taxes on
annual, incomes Of one million dollars.
The fellows who get the most money out of life
and the most protection out Of their country should
walk up to the captains tent and settle.
We paid our income tax the other day and we
didn't have to take an anestaetic to kill the pain.
True it was not so large as Rockefellers, but the
payment of any amount Of tax always has rked the
proud sons Of Lexington and Bunker Hill
1T didn't hurt bit because that tax represented a
little prosperity and the fellow who isn't willing to
give his country little slice Of the prosperity his
country permits him to make-well he's not the kind
OF bird to name your infant after.
But when it comes to paying tax on dead real es-
tate, that's horse Of another color
There's no prosperity in that-nothing but loss
and to pay for the privilege Of having a calamity,
well, there's no thrill in that
So that income tax Of ours was not so large as
Rockefellers but We sincerely wish it had bee for the
resulting implications are extremely pleasant.
The man who makes Rockefellers money ought to
be glad to come across.
THE more live and the more see Of time and
i chance. the more we realize that golden returns
often are quite independent Of thrift and industry
lot of money Just goes to lot OF people be-
is out for stroll and has other place to 60
tax on good luck is the most equitable PROPOSE
ton under the and if grea fortune ever should
so far forget itself to wander into neghbor-
hood and should close up like clam, then want
the Old Gentleman with the hour glass and scythe to
hit US with club
The taxation which caused our colonial ancestors
TO go to war was nothing compared with the unjust
taxation now piled upon dead land, and If foreign
power imposed it the lid would be blown OF before
shutdown.
But this does not necessarily mean that the wrong
VIII be borne compiacently forever
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fully equipped, I would like to re-
mind Mike Gold that just the same
sort Of tosh was talked about our
democratic army in this own land
Of ours when we surrendered ra-
tionality to embark upon 2, crusade
Bayonets, 7 gravely fear, just are
bayonets all the world over. Not
even holy Russia can beat them into
sentimental reminders Of home and
mother.
Steel which is sweet and steel
which is sanctified tears human It's
sue in precisely the same way as
that which has not been blessed by
Stain.
Again, though 7 have heard many
times that in the Soviet republic
the toiler comes first in the consid-
Grafton Of the state, it seems that
Gold, the intellectual, did not find
this rule to be enforced without
exceptions.
He writes Of "the daily bread and
cabbage soup Of 100000 human
beings" But did Mike Gold fare
forth on these rations? Well, not
exactly.
His travelling companions, after he
crossed the border were "a lead
ing MARKHAM critic" and two profess
sors, and Mr.. Gold observes, with
pardonable pride, ''they had an
enormous basket Of roast chicken,
baked apples, black bread and some
marvellous Tiflis wine"
1--WE ate, sang, smoked, drank and
talked about Dresser, Sinclair, Des
Passes, Hemingway, the new masses,
Herbert Hoover and Al Capone all
night, adds Mr.. Gold.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

People Are Much More Sen
sible, If Not More Virtuous,
Than They We're Before
Business Fell OF.
SAYS:

DITTSBURGH. March 27.-It all
4 began with a grocer who
thought he wasn't getting 2 square
deal, and who had courage enough
to say so.
Why couldn't anybody, except the
favored few, seem to get q fair
break when it came TO selling the
city food, he wanted to know?
Spurred on by such a shining ex-
ample Of inapertinence toward an
administration which had been al
lowed to run the city as il liked,
other people began to ask questions
Of similar nature about other mat
tiers.
Pittsburgh hardly had time to
realize what was up before it found
itself in the midst Of q cleanup
drive.
Neither the trouble, nor the sud-
den effort to correct it, are unique.
Look at Chicago; look at New York;
look at Asheville, n. G.
Rotten politics and inefficient gov
eminent represent not only ma
tion-wjde, but a worldwide condi-
ton. What else produced a Gandhi,
or made it possible for Ramsay
Macdonald to become premier Of
England?
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III 49,
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| AMgYDVGRSMNYI
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VIGNY'S BIRTH
March u

VIGNYS BIRTH
lIarch q
an March q, 1899, Alfred
" Count de Vigny, famous
French poet and novelist, was born
at Loches, France.
After receiving his early school
ing in Paris he entered the army
at 16 and served twenty years.
While a soldier he had published a
small volume Of verse, followed two
years later by the epic, 'Eloa," an
exquisite piece Of mystic fantasy.
IN 1926 Vigny published a long
historical romance, "Cinq Mars, .
which gained immediate and great
success.
Though he falsified his history a
little in this work, Vigny gained
the distinction Of being the first in
a field where Dumas and Hugo were
to gather brighter laurels.
Vigny did his bit in the romantic
regeneration of the drama by trans
lating Shakespeare's "Othello" and
by writing dramas.
But he saw the limitations Of TO
manticisn in drama and never
pursued his success. . IN 1915 he
vas elected to the Academy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
Among Best Sellers

r AM afraid that even resolu-
Z ton will not serve to soothe en-
tirely the savage breast Of all who
meet in competition upon the lit
erary lists, although it may be
merely a coincidence that Mr..
Kataev's book, 1.-THE Embezzler, p"
sold just a trifie better than Mr..
Colds excellent study called Jews
Without Money"
Nor does one have to travel so
far afield to retain the fear that
authors may remain a rule unto
themselves under any economic dis
pensation whatsoever.
There IS as yet no evidence that
Theodore Dreiser's more recent
Soviet sympatllies have done much
to sweeten his disposition.
And in reading between the lines
of Mike Colds notes upon the glor-
ious existence Of Stains subjects, I
ind other indications that some
thing Of the old Adam remains even
in the hearts Of consecrated Com
nunists.
Thus, when he speaks Of members
Of the Red army he strikes fani-
liar note in his insistence that this
is quite a different sort Of thing
from other military machines.
It is not one Of George Creel's
Minute Men in 1917, but the revo-
tionary Nike Gold who writes in
1881. "They remind one Of Wash
ington's ragged farm hands march
ing in review at Valley Forge.
They remind one Of ones father
and mother and brothers, and their
bayonets are not nlilitarism-they
are ones own weapons Of self-de-
fense."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
Deaf and Dumb

WHO can say where we would
w have gone, with our specuIa-
ton, our financial tricks. our no
lltical machines and our xackets,
but for this grim reminder Of what
they were. costing?
Two years ago, we were not only
content with a lot of obviously
rotten conditions, but ready to cheer
them; ready to wink at the rawest
kind Of nlismanagement and in
Justice, ready to believe that the
concentration of wealth in q few
hands was. not so bad.
When Informed that a couple. of
milliopaires had come mighty near
getting away with the bulk of the
governments oil reserve, MANY
people took it as a huge joke.
AS for the high jinks staged By
politicians like Ware, or gang leaders
like Capone-Well, they Just went
with a big, happy, prosperous
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
Owen Needed

sewage, there is a battle be-
4 tween the protocol. present and
the bacteria. Ordinarily. it is won
Oy the bacteria, which multiply far
more rapidly than the protozoa
cFeatlng conditions suitable TO their
own growth and MULTIPLICATION and
un1aVorable to the protocol.
IT. wilson showed how the tide Of
battle could be turned in the favor
OF The protocol by the introduction
OF a supply Of oxygen. The oxygen
causes the protocol to thrive and
they grow in such numbers that
they devour all the bacteria present
When all the bacteria have beer
consumed, the protocol are left
without food. They die and their
bodies settle with the nurifieI
Sludge, which then can be converte6
into fertilizer.
Among the protocol which feed
on the bacteria IS one form known
as the paramecium. The parane-
cum IS a little oblong, somewhat
Slpper-l1ke cell, covered with short
halr-like processes called ella.
The rapid vibration Of these ella
propeI the paramecium through the
water and it ingests bacteria
through a gullet at the end of a
little depression known as the oral
groove.
Another helpful protocol is called
vorucella. 1t has a rather round
nooy, ending in a long. hair-like
TAI by which it anchors itself in a
fixed place. - "
II mas q mouth or oral groove sur
rounded by vibrating ella which
propel bacteria into it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
Illinois RepeaIs

The Illinois state legislature has passed a bill
repeating the states prohibition enforcement law.
1t now is before the Governor, and if signed will
withdraw support from federal enforcement efforts
Illinois is Of course wet in reality and has BEEN so
it is unlikely that the legislation would alter condi-
lions much.
The state in q referendum voted two to one for
repeal so the act of the legislature carries out the
will OF the voters. However no substitute is offered
The state could not, of course, legalize the sale Of
liquor, so long as federal statutes stand
The legislation in Illinois follows memorial to
congress from the legislature Of Massachusetts to call
convention of the states under Article Of the
Constitution to consider repeal OF the eighteenth
amendment, The Wisconsin state assembly has
pending before it measure asking congress to ar
range for national referendum on the prohibition
question.
Meantime, legislation for modification or repeal Of
the prohibition act is pending in many states-Cal-
forna, Montana, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North
Dakota, Rhode Island among them.
The next congress will be dry and it is not to be
expected that there will be any immediate action on
the proposals of the states Their action is extremely
significant, however, in showing the trend of public
sentiment Finally. perhaps, enough of the states
will speak to upset the Volstead act
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
Daily Thought

What rein can hold licentious
wickedness, when down the hill he
holds his fierce career?
peare.
Be ye strong therefore, and let
not your hands be weak: for your
work shall be rewarded.-11
Chronicles 1851.
To be strong is to be happy
T.ongfellow.
Who pOpularized the phrase Gin
nocuous desuetude" and how was
it used?
President Cleveland used the
phrase in a message to congress in
1885, speaking Of certain laws that
had been revived after long disuse.
It has the sense Of harmless dis
use.
What was chevalier?
II is e French title, correspond
ing to the English knight.
What was the vote for Smith and
for Hoover in New York in the last
Presidential election? ~.
New York gave Smith 1,l67,so7
and Hoover 7l4,l02
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN


CCrENTIFIC knowledge of SEN
- sitivity to various substances is
of comparatively recent develop
nent. Certainly all the important
material has been brought together
since the beginning Of the TWEEN
tieth century.
Some Of the comnonest exam
pies of sensitivity are mentioned
by DR.. Francis Rackemann in a re-
cent publication on the subject.
The commoneSt type is the per-
son who develops each year, dur
ing late August and September, at
tacks Of itching eyes, weeping, and
head cold, because he is sensitive
to the pollens Of ragweed.
Another type is the fireman who
had asthma only when he slept
IN the drehouse near the horses, but
whose asthma disappeared when
The motor apparatus replaced the
horses.
He was sensitive to horse dan
drUff. Some women sneeze when
they mix dough for baking. because
they are sensitive to wheat flour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
Disaster Is Eye-Opener

DEOPLE are much more sensible.
L If not more virtuous, than they
were before trade fell of, especially
here in America.
Many Of them even can endure
the suggestion that q fairer distri-
button Of wealth is desirable. with
out getting mad or yelling "red" at
the man who makes it.
The same favorable reaction is
discernible in other countries.
England finds it possible to con-
slider the possibility Of an autono-
nous India, while France has given
up the idea Of moving a dozen divi-
slons up to the Rhine every time 2.
German. says something she doesn't
like.
It's disoouraging to believe that
people can't recognize their foIIies,
or won't, until disaster results.
With all our educating, training
and specializing, it seems as though
we might foresee and forestalI some
Of the trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

lone item Of newspaper gossip which
has not yet penetrated into the land
where the proletariat is dictator and
where for convenience sake Mr.. Sta
lin is the proletariat.
Between songs I would have liked
to tell the saga of the encounter be-
tween Theodore Dresser and SIN
clair Lewis, though 7 would have
been forced to admit that the affair
ended unhappily and not in dou-
bic knockout.
(Copyright 1881 by The .TirnAsl-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

Editor Tines-In The Times Of
March 10, writer harshly con
demns the present parole system in
Indiana.
The writer does not seem to know
that Is per cent Of all paroled pris-
oners make good. Society never
hears Of the fellow who has made
good, only the one who IS a second
time loser.
The state gives the paroled
prisoner SIS and a please don't rain
suit" and tells him TO 90 and sin
no more. Why not give him a round
trip ticket? Take the hope Of parole
from a prisoner and you have an
animal that viii stop at nothing.
Don't lick a fellow when ne is
down.
ONE WHO HAS MADE GOOD.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Sci enlist Leads Protozoan
Army IN It's Var Against
Microbes.
TUE battle Of the microbesi That
4 describes one Of the latest tri-
umphs Of the machine age. It her
aids the day when microbe engi-
neerlng will take its place among
the other engineering professions.
The grand marshal Of this first
war OF the microbes is DR.. John Ar
thur Wilson Of Milwaukee. who Just
has been awarded the William H
Nichols medal Of the American
Chemical Society.
One Of the modern WAYS Of fight
ing an insect pest is 70 turn loose
a second insect which feeds on and
destroys the first.
DR. Wilson used g similar plan
TO solve the sewage problem Of Mil
waukee, building what now Is
looked upon as the most efficient
publication plant in the world.
The pollution in sewage consists
Of millions upon millions Of BAG
terra and the soluable products Of
decomposition which are created by
the activity Of these bacteria.
DR.. Wilson turned to animal mi
crobes, protocol, to give them their
technical name, as the means Of
solving the problem.
PROTOCOL are microscopic one
celled animals. A drop Of pond wa
ter placed under q microscope
usually reveals several varieties.
Perhaps the most familiar one is the
amoeba.
just as many large animals
browse on plants, so the protocol
iced on q diet Of bacteria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

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 Daper.-The Editor
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And the Heather

TT sounds like a jolly party and
/ singularly similar to many held
on almost any Main street corner
by members Of the hated bour-
geoisie.
7 should like to have been there
myself, for 7 could have brought up
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

secure a place where the good work
will not be intefered with, that many
may be drawn to them.
MRS. HARRY LONGWORTH
Connersville, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27
The Old .Refrain

VXTAIvING the interesting Freu-
w dian problem as TO why any
body should be reminded Of his
mother By the sight Of q warrior
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

This globe Of ours say scientists. is more than
two billion years Old They could tel THAT just by
looking at the face Of the earth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

BEST in the long rum may be an admirable slogan
but it never would do for hosiery manufacturers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

Slaves to fashion, shop dealers notice, give orders
instead of take them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

The janitor is one who hopes there will be no
April fueling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

Babe Ruth got ducking in Florida because he
couldn't handle an oar. The jumps, however, think
he'll get in a good row before the seasons DER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

From the scarlty evening gowns we have seen, We
would say the designers are very aboriginal
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a composer received inspiration for an opera
among the naoonshining mountaineers. good title
might be "Oft in the Silly Night"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-27

Everything is subject to change except, OF course
the taxi driver.
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The Soviet government awards prizes to janito
who save most fuel. A cold proposition, that.
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To be strong is to be happy
T.ongfellow.
The Washington times., 1931-01-27
CRATER IS DEAD,
SAYS LETTER

NEW YORK, Jan. 27 U.N.S0.
"JOe Crater is dead. No use
looking for him. He was buried
August 22, after being in the
water two weeks. AS no identi-
fication was made, he was bur
led as an unidentified pauper
IS miles from New York. Sorry
/ can't tell you where 1t is
but it's true"
Received September 20
This was the anonymous letter,
signed IS. S." received by the Dis
trict Attorneys office here on
Sept. % last, a month and a hall
following the disappearance OF Su,
preme Court Justice Joseph Force
Crater.
Today District Attorney Thomas
C. T. Grain was in receipt Of an
other anonymous communication
1t was poStmarked Buffalo, N. Y,
Jan. "a, and read:
"You will never behold Crater
again. He fell into deep chaSm
at Crown Point, N. Y. He was
standing on the edge of a bluff
when the soil gave way and he
fell to the bottom and was in
Stantly killed. There were four
men in the party, all tourists.
The others kept their mouths
shut about what happened. His
body was recovered and buried
in the village cemetery by the
village undertaken"
Points Agree
While Crown Point, N. Y, is
considerably more than IS miles
from New York City, the similar
ity of other portions of the two
letters, received four months apart
and mailed from widely divergent
points. compelled the attention of
investigators.
The Washington times., 1931-01-27
TARDIEU NAMED
BY LAVAL

PARIS, Jan. 27 G.N.S).-Ad-
herring closely to the ministerial
lineup of the last Andre Tardieu
government, which preceded the
Theodore Steeg coalition that
crashed Thursday, Sen. Pierre
Laval successfully ended 48 hours
of negotiations today by forming
a cabinet.
Tardieu Gets Post
The new government includes
10 ministers who held portfolios
under the Tardieu regime, with
the former premier himself in the
humble post of minister of agri-
culture. Aristide BRAND was
again given his cherished office
of foreign minister, while Andre
Maginot was appointed to head
the war ministry, post he held
under Tardieu.
M. Laval, in addition to being
premier, retained for himself the
important ministry Of the interior.