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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Boomerangs From Britain

British cabinet more embarrassing to American
interests than the national government announced
friday hardly could have been chosen.
Two posts touch American interests most directly
one IS that OF chancellor of the excheouer which is
concerned with tariffs and war debts and the other
is the naval minister.
For the first post they picked Neville Chamberlain
Tory high priest Of protective tariff. A Tory Sir
Bolton Eyres-M onsel, also has been made first lord
OF the admiralty. This big navy man. former naval
ofcer was chosen in violation of the long precedent
OF keeping service out of the job reserved for
civilian 1t was the Tory big navy group which helped
TO wreck the Coolidge Geneva disarmament confer
ence.
In stating the facts regarding the high tariff and
Dig navy policies of these two key cabinet officials
however, we are not passing adverse judgment
We believe that Americas high tariff provoked in
large part the present British swing toward that dis
astrous policy, and that Americas slowness in CO.
operating with the navy reduction policy of the
British Labor government is partly responsible for
the increasing strength of Britains big navy group
Therefore, Americans should be the last to con-
denim in selfrghteousness this unfortunate trend in
British tariff and naval policies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Refnra 1t Is Too Late

If the state department wants to stop the Man
churan war before it spreads beyond control now is
the time to try In Toxic and Geneva it is said that
the United States refuses to support the league
councils action in demanding withdrawal Of Japanese
troops America is said to have broken the interna-
tonal front.
Is that trueP
An editorial in the Osaka Mainichi, one of the
largest and most influential Japanese newspapers.
rejoices in the failure of the state department to
support the leagues demands.
In other words Japan is pushing farther her war
of aggression, in the belief that the United States
is not siding with world opinion against her.
If that is accurate understanding of American
policy it means that the United States government
has taken on itself-whatever its good intentions
the very grave responsibility of encouraging this war
We do not believe that is true. But we we'll can
understand how the silence of the department
has permitted this dangerous belief to spread
We think that the state department, behind its
mistaken Of secrecy, is supporting in prin-
ciple, if not in detail the leagues demand for Japa-
neSe withdrawal.
That the state department come into the open
seems to us urgently necessary. The world has a
right to know where America standS-whether we
support this whether we are against Japan's
aggression. And the Japanese people have a right
to know.
Germany would not have gone to war in 1914 if
she had known that Great Britain was against her.
Historians agree that British frankness would have
prevented the war; at least at that time.
Is Japan to be allowed to precipitate a war with
the erroneous idea that the United States is in
different?
public statement Of Americas attitude may not
please Japan, but it certainly will provide shock
OF enlightenment-perhaps a saving shock-to the
Osaka Mainichi and Japanese public opinion count
ing upon state department support.
The United States government publicly has given
its solemn pledge to cooperate with the league for
enforcement of the kellogg anti-war pact. The
league is acting; the league is on record The state
department is SILENT Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
His Opportunity

Senator Cuthbertson, fighting in the last
session of the legislature against proposal
to put all holding companies for utilities I'M
der regulation, said sue ha law was unnec-
essary.
He argued that the commission has all
the necessary power to protect the people
against grabs and CRAFTS.
Public Service Commissioner Culbertson,
faced by an appeal from the people of this
city for just rates for electricity and water,
now has his opportunity.
Just casual glance at the financial re-
ports would indicate the need for prompt
action.
Will he continue to threaten costly ap-
praisals and delays or will he find what the
holding company charges the local power
company for coal and what Clarence Geist
carries back to Philadelphia for so-called
management"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
The UnsOlved Murder


After weeks of trial, several thousands of dollars
OF expense, strain upon public imagination Jury
hnds itself unable to agree upon verdict, and the
mystery of the Lebanon picnic poison party is
unsolved.
The whole proceeding stupid. The trouble
began when officers of the law looked for a killer
instead Of a maniac.
Law, and especially criminal law is fossized in
past presidents and traditions 1t fails to take
advantage of the discoveries of sciences which it calls
inexact but which are much more Illuminating and
practical than the exact science of Blackstone.
Any attempt at wholesale killing is conclusive
evidence of a disordered mind. No sane person could
plan such an act. Even malice against some par
ticular persons greed for possible benefits could
not impel such deed.
Instead Of detectives and lawyers, the case called
for alieniss The search should have been directed
for a disordered mind not malicious heart The
hunt should have been for some who needed pro-
tective treatment and not punishment.
Costly murder trials with their inevitable public
interest are not the most enlightened method of pro-
tecting public safety.
Doctors as well detectives may still be useful
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Young Killers

The strange epidemic of murders by the very
young has brought forth rebrth of the spirit OF
legal revenge that penoogsts hoped had been buried
long since under progressive sentiment
Russell Williams, II, has been sentenced to death
in Illinois. Jesus Borja, 15-year-old orphan has
been found guilty of murder in California and must
serve life sentence Herbert Nccolls, a Washing
ton state lad, only IL years old, has been given a
life sentence. And so it goes.
One of the notable recent advances in our civilza-
ton has been the recognition that the minds of the
young different from those of the old The al
most universal adoption of this double standard has
resulted in growing system of juvenile courts and
reformatories
The recent Wickersham reports recognized this
essential difference and urged improvement of the
reformatories probation and parole systems, and
juvenile case work Nationally, longer believe
in the total depravty of youth in infant damnaton
To execute minors or throw them into prison for
life turn backs upon the twentieth century,
its science, its realism and its humanity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TT looks as if the Renaissance of American home
l. life for which We have clamored so long is lust
around the corner And who has fathered it but Old
Man Depression himself!
Only the other night we dropped into the home of
a couple who have been wont to dine and dance regu-
larly, to find them playing anagrams with the chill
dren And next door neighbor says he is going to
read some Dickens this winter since he can't afford
a new car, and that he'll probably give UP his golf
now that he needs his country club dues for other
items.
In short, going to stay at home this fall
because there's nothing else to do when the pocket
book is fat
And that's not such bad thing, if you ask me-
Overlooking night clubs may be a sign of financial
prosperity, but they do not augur SO well for future
stability those od-fashoned family fireside con-
ferences with Pa and Ma and the kids sitting in.
There several fatal symptoms of our imitation
fever. Constant gadding about was one of them
TODAY the raucous noises have toned down the
l. dancing is less wild and liquor, being expensive.
is scarcer
good many white collared workers have donned
blue jeans.
And there are lights shining from home windows
again.
Hospitality may not be so lavish but it is a hum
dred times more genuine. We are getting back to a
few of the Simplicities that the poor always know
And If parents will spend time with their
children; if husbands will learn to talk companion
ably with their wives if boys and girls will read
more and dance less; and if the family circle can
regain its lost entity shall find that depression
masks the face of friend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
National Reforestation

Since is better to do the right thing in the wrong
way than the wrong thing in the right way the ma
tons conservaonists will rejoice in the victory for
New Yorks amendment providing for state refor-
estation program.
Apparently the voters of the Empire state very de-
cdedly wanted to apply economics to their farm
problem. Hence, they voted Tuesday for the clumsy
political expedients of writing recurring appropria-
ton into their Constitution to ge twhat they wanted
AS it stands, New York will spend $19OO00OO over
period of eleven years to buy up 100000 acres
Of idle and sub-marginal farm lands. These lands
then will be taken out Of competition with good farms
and planted to forests substituting useful and beau
full state forests for useless and ugly private farms.
New Yorks fortnight tackling of it's land problem
should be an inspiration to the federal and other
state governments.
More than 1OoOOOOOO acres of denuded forests and
submarginal farms in America have reverted to pub
lie ownership through tax deinquencies. Possibly
100000OOO more acres are being farmed in normal
times at loss. In New England, 100000 acres of
farms being abandoned annually. In the last
decade 100000 acres have gone out of use nation
ally, forcing 100000 Americans to desert the land.
The bulk of this idle land is worse than an eco
nomic milestone the countrys neck; the land is
deterorating through erosion, brush fires and other
And while these millions of acres are loaf
ing timber is being cut four times faster than it
is growing.
We face a timber famine within a generation'
Other states are stirring toward tree cropping.
New Jersey proposes to add more than 100000 acres
to its state forests. Pennsylvania has put its state
prisoners to work planting trees on state lands Cali
fornia ha big state park program.
Now that progressive states have started the fed
eral government should get behind the movement to
loan its scientists and its credit the poorer states
From every viewpoint agricultural timber-supply
conservation, esthetic-reforestation on a big scale
is essential to our national future.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07

ing layout in which the names
and pictures of a number of news
papermen would be included.
I said that I could not accept
election to the advertisement be-
cause I never smoked cigars. This
seemed to break him up a good deal.
mot even after dinner?" he asked
with real concern,
My heart was touched. but truth
IS truth, and gravely I shook INV
head.
We were both rather sad about it.
You're the last one on my list" he
explained. "All the others have
come in on it. Everybody whose
name and photograph we use gets a
COX OF banquet-size perfectos and
a hum1dor with his name on it."
Then inspiration came to him.
Couldn't we say" he suggested
That If you ever decided to smoke
cigars you most certainly would like
TO try the John Doe perfecto?"
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07

Oxygen Valuable in Pneumonia Cases

the person to get enough oxygen.
Thousands of cases of pneumonia
have now been treated by this
method, and the results are suffi-
GENTLY favorable to warrant its
consideration in every difficult case.
Because the most serious cases have
been selected for this type of treat
ment, it is at present difficult to
evaluate it exactly.
There are, of course, other types
of cases in which lack of oxygen
in the blood is conspicuous such as,
for example, collapse of the lungs
after operation, severe cases of
asthma, severe cases of asphyxia-
ton, heart failure, and other dis
turbanceS of the heart.
Today many of the leading hos
pitfalls of the country have installed
oxygen chambers, rooms especially
fitted for supplying oxygen to the
patient while lying in bed, the en-
tire bed wheeled into the oxygen
room.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE Eyo4}S

GONE men who are dependent for
~ a livelihood upon the theater
object because I said recently that
such activities tend to corrode the
brain. And, in particular, exception
has been taken to the use of George
Jean Nathan as a horrible example.
If I understand the contention of
the faultfinders, Nathan's brain,
good or bad, has not altered at all
in twenty years. 1t may be so.
Probably a stronger case for my side
could be built up around George
Cohan.
Here we have an instance of an
active intelligence subjected to the
long ordeal of contact with things
theatrical, and believe that few
will care to argue that Cohan bulkS
as large as he did shortly after the
turn of the century.
1t seems long time since he was
advanced seriously by many as the
greatest of American playWrights.
Any such list made out today would
be long time getting down to
Cohan. Possibly the praise was in
discreet even in the old days, but
there is no denying that a new force
seemed to have come to Broadway
when Seven Keys to Baldpate" first
was produced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

that it contains at times a very low
amount of oxygen.
If oxygen is given to a patient
with pneumonia, the amount Of
oxygen in the blood is raised greatly
and the patients thereby breathe
more easily and have a better OPP
portunity to recover.
The use of oxygen has been de-
layed by the necessity for the de-
velopment of special apparatus
with which it may be supplied to
those who need it.
AS an outgrowth of this need
there has been developed an oxygen
tent which is placed over the patient
as he lies in bed.
The gas is supplied to the tent
from an oxygen tank connected
with a motor and with suitable de-
vices for cooling.
In pneumonia consolidation of the
lungs takes place and the air
spaces are filled with purulent ma
terial. Therefore, it is difficult for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-Your fight against
utility rates is most commendable.
The public is indebted oeeply to
The Times for its previous crusades
for better government and square
deal for the people.
I really think, however, in your
present contest for decent utility
rate, you should include the tele-
phone company. just few years
back we we're paying $3.50 a month
in the business district for what was
called the new phone and $3.50 a
month for the old phone. We were
assured If they were permitted to
merge phones would be cheaper and
service better.
The result is we are paying $3.50
for a phone which before the
merger cost but $3.50. This rate
from the standpoint of common
sense and decency, can not be de-
Tended.
It is fine for our big men and
leading citizens to lead and be ac-
tive in the great work of human re-
lief caused by unemployment, but
it would be master stroke to re-
lieve the householders and the small
business man of a telephone rate
that is positively unjust and I'M
bearable.
We are educated to the necessity
of using the phone, yet the rate
has been raised till only the rich
and most prosperous can use and
enjoy it. Not many people wish to
see the government enter extern
sively in business affairs, but what
do we expect to do when, in every
instance that the capitalist gets
control of a public utility where
there is no competition, he proceeds
to abuse and ride the public. No,
thew shouldn't, but they do.
The cost of a business phone now
almost EQUALS the Office rent. Yes,
from $3.50 to $3.50 is some jump,
and if you use the new kind Of re-
ceiver it is a little more.
CITIZEN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
The Wampum Standard

COLD is a wonderful metal-soft,
" heavy, noncorrosive and vir-
tually indestructible. Still, lot of
its power is due to tradition. For
5000 years and more, human beings
have been taught to believe in it,
with the fact that everybody wanted
some as the main prop of the be-
lief.
You and want it because every
body else wants it, because we can
swap it for bread and meat when
we can't swap anything else.
North American Indians used
wampum in the same way and be-
lieved in it just as firmly. In
habitants of isolated, sandy islands
have been found using common, Or
binary rocks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
REBELS TAKE PEIROGRAD
November Z


NN Nov. z, 1917, the garrison al
~ Petrograd joined the cause Of
the Maximalists and seized the city
with comparatively little fighting.
The night the military revolu-
tionary committee of the Bolsheviki
issued a proclamation to the army
workmen and proletariat of Petro-
grad:
I'VE have deposed the govern
ment of Kerensky. The change
was accomplished without blood
shed.
1.-THE Petrograd Council of Work
mems and Soldiers Delegates con-
siders the following program of the
new authority:
l. Offer of an immediate demo-
cratic peace.
20. Immediate handing over Of
large proportional lands to peas
ants.
80. Transmission of all author
ity to the Council of Workmens'
and Soldiers Delegates.
a. The honest convocation Of a
constitutional assembly.
Soldiers! For peace, for bread
for land, and for the power Of the
peopleI"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Striving for InperSonal

4 T times have been gravely
L A tempted to make my column
more imperSonal. A change in
heroes might be appreciated. Only
yesterday an elderly gentleman as
sailed me in person with harsh
words about my work. Since the
scene was social, thought at first
that his intention was only humor-
GUS and kidded along as best could.
Soon I perceived he meant all he
said; nor was he very tight, at that.
"You are not educated at ALL" he
told me, "and because you know
nothing, you are compelled to ex-
plot your own personality continu-
ously."
Rather feebly answered that this
at least was subject with which
I had some familiarity, to which he
replied, eyes, but it's such an un-
pleasant personality"
When an argument gets to that
stage there is nothing to do but
hit your opponent on the Jaw or
walk away. I could not hit him, for
he was an elderly man of almost 40.
1t seemed to me, however, upon re-
lection, that possibly owed my
self an apology.
AS a matter of fact, I am not an
unpleasant personality. This 'I'
never was precisely Haywood Broun.
Even in autobiography man is
tempted to use his imagination and
shuttle things round bit. Possibly
grave injustice has been done here
frequently to an admirable char
acter.
The Broun of this page swaggers
and sometimes cringes. He is pre-
sented as a patron of speakeasies. a
poker player and a generally shift
less person. The real man behind
this fictional screen is quite differ
ent. He is one of the hardest and
most reliable workers I have ever
known. And naturally one does not
have to be all jittery with rum in
order to write about it.
There is such a thing as a senti-
mental abstainer who can cheer
himself up by listing wines and ales
and beers and touching none at all.
l shall have to quit writing about
Broun altogether or present him in
truer and more attractive colors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Worth Maintaining

CHINA and quite few other
~ countries use silver as a basis
for their currency. Their credit
would be all right if the rest of the
world used it, but with the rest of
the world demanding gold, thew
can't buy in proportion to their gen.
eral resources and producing power.
Sometimes you wonder whether
the gold standard is worth main
tanning, in face of this obvious re-
straint on trade; whether we
wouldn't all be better off if some
medium could be adopted which
would permit fairer and more elastic
exchange all around.
We certainly are not doing our
selves, or other people, any good by
keeping up a system which dimin-
ishes the very thing it was supposed
to promote.
We have money for just one pur-
pose-to facilitate and increase
trade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07

ture the trick of pace in building
mystery farce. He Softened the way
for others.
And that is the trouble with
technique unless backed up with a
power and passion to deal in reali-
ties. Cohan had nothing to say, but
he said it very well. That distinc-
ton having passed into the hands Of
younger men, there remains little
to Conan except the undoubted fact
that when the history of the Amer
lean stage comes to be written the
historian will of necessity include a
footnote reading, "Cohan, George
a producer and playwright who was
popular around the time of the
Spanish american war"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
Dyes Curb Injury

DEVELOPMENT of net preserva-
IL tives, according to DR.. Robert
son, has narrowed to two types, a
copper resinate fluid for the treat
ing Of gill nets. and cuprous oxide
paint for trap and pound nets.
The difference in physical prop
critics of different types of nets has
made impractical the evolution Of
any universal net preservative.
1.-THE art of net preservation has
benefited by the advances made in
preserving marine piling and in
treating other textiles" DR.. Robert
son points out. 1.-THE synthesis Of
new compounds might help the fight
against the deterioration of nets"
archaeological inquiry revealed
interesting phenomena which led to
tests of new textiles and new types
of preservative treatment.
ct was noted that when the ten
sile strength of fibers began to de-
crease rapidly, the bacteria at the
same time had entered the lumen Of
the cotton fiber, and that the two
events were simultaneous" DR..
Robertson continues.
"The f1bers began to swell rapidly
after this entry. The swelling was
accompanied by a quick growth of
bacteria, which presumably were
feeding on the heterogeneous matter
in the pitch.
"The flbers wasted away within
until destruction was complete"
To combat this destructive force
in gill net experiments were con-
Quoted with dyes which stop the
growth of the bacteria.
dyed thread has the very real
advantage of being as light in
weight and as flexible as the origi-
nal twine," DR.. Robertson adds.
"and hence has great opportunities
before it in the preparation of gill
nets"