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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20

manifestations of scurvy and pei
lagra.
AS has been known for some
years, diet largely deficient in Vi
tanin c leads to manifestations of
scurvy.
A diet deficient in one Of the por-
tons Of vitamin B leads promptly
to manifestations Of pellagra.
If the standard coffee and sinkers
could be replaced by thick vege-
table soup and q certain amount Of
fresh fruit or leafy green vegetables,
if the coffee could be replaced by at
least a half-pint of milk, many Of
these disturbances would be avoided.
Unfortunately the members Of the
bread line have learned to love their
coffee and sinkers. They like the
stimulation of the coffee, the sweet
taste and the filling effect of the
doughnuts.
Whether they can be educated to
eat the more sufficient foods that
have been mentioned is a problem
for the social workers who are con-
cerned largely with the care Of the
unfortunate.
Here certainly Is some evidence
that an apple a day or an orange a
day will do much to keep the doc
tor away.
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NJ. E. Tracy
--.-.-SAYS.
on, Ldtin-Americcn Policy
Never Has. Consisted of
Anything but ReuersolS.

NEW YORK, April 2o.-Presi-
IN dent Hoover catches twenty
trout, while thirty American refu-
gees land at New Orleans. Why
not give the refugees trout din
ner at the White House?
Secretary Of State Stimson says
that the Nicaraguan situation has
changed since 1926. He says that
it was case Of organized armies
then, but that now it is case of
unorgaaized banditry, and that
while our marines could protect
Americans against the former, it
would involve a needless waste Of
life for them to attempt to do so
against the latter.
In ether words, we should yield
to thugs, after having squelched a
we'll directed revolution. The rea-
soning is sophisticated, rather than
clear. One hardly could blame
Latin Americans if they took it as
a suggestion that guerilla warfare
is the way to make revolution vir-
tuous in Uncle Sans eyes.
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REASON BY TH T.a%RIs

A BROTHER of Alice Roosevelt Longworth states
n that the latter will not be a candidate for the
seat held by her late husband in the house Of rep
resentatives, and her decision does honor to her
good sense.
It is refreshing to find congressman's widow who
dissents from the idea that the mere fact of sur
worship should give her seat in congress an idea
which has made substantial Roadway in recent years
There was another congressional widow, however,
who declined to stay in congress- the widow of Con-
gresham Wingo of Arkansas, and she took the po-
sltlon tatit was not right to hold Office under such
circumstances
DUBLIC Office should be filed according to the TT
L ness Of aspirants and<the desires of the voters
If any woman in America wants to run for con-
gress or for any other Office, let her run but on
own merits
Since universal suffrage arrived the women of
Indiana have shown themselves fully capable of run
ming for oflce without asking any quarter from any
body or without claiming any favors from any d.
recton, and we hope they will continue to stand on
their own merits.
For some time newspaper correspondents at Wash
ington have intinated that our statesmen at the ma
tional capital soon were to go into another salary
boosting hudde and elevate their annual receipts
from $4,000 to $l5Oo0
x
THIS increase is unwarranted and it should be
dealt blow in advance that will make statesmen
think befora they dig deeper into the national treas
ury
Public opinion can deal this blow and compel SEN
ators and representatives TO forth and pledge
themselves not TO indulge in any salary grab.
The present allowance of $4,000 is certainly ample
for the services rendered by these gentlemen in fact
all of them would be fighting for denomination Just as
valiantly if the salary stood where it did some years
ago, at half its present figure.
The avssage member could make $4,000 year
in private lfe and If he feels 1t injustice longer
to waste his valuable time at such paltry wage he
will md several thousand folks back home willing
to take up tia burden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
A Post for Grundy
r TNCLE JOE GRUNDY would be

TTNCLE JOE GRUNDY would be
" Humpty-Du1npty Professor of
Foreign Trade. And in his course
he would endeavor to show that
traffic between nations may proceed
merrily, even when the green light
shows for exports and the red glares
in the face of imports.
But it might be just as well not
to have Professor Ham Fish lee
turing in an adjacent hall. Mr.. Fish
is, as all the world knows, color
blind.
To him there is no shade but red.
And upon seeing an exhibition of
the traffic lights in Uncle Joe's
course, he might seize him forth
with as a dangerous radical and a
menace to our democratic institu-
tions.
And for philosophy there is Tess.
Who could better explain to the
young Republicans the fact that
there has been some misconception
as to the message which Moses
brought down from Mt. Sinai.
Others may believe that the Ten
Commandments were written on the
tablets. Not so.
Professor Fess will tell the fresh
men and the seniors of old G. o. P.
that when the Lord spoke from the
thunders and lightnings the divine
injunction ran, vote the straight
Republican ticketI''
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and appreciated your editorials,
which are, in my opinion, the very
best to be found in any mid-western
paper. also the articles by Frederick
Lands, NJ. E. Tracy, and Haywood
Broun. We need many more frank,
sincere, and common sense writers
like these three.
I heartily agree with your COM
naent on Mr.. Ford's u11kind remark
relative to there being plenty of
work'if men wanted to work. May
I add that his recent statement
serves to remind the public of his
wild and malicious attacks made
some years ago on the Hebrew race?
The people also remember that
his paper continued to indulge in
viciousness against these people IN
til his TRADE began to touch his
bank account, then he "soft-ped-
aled" and tried to place on the
shoulders of one of his hirelings the
full responsibility of his unjust at
tacks. He didn't deceive anyone
then, and he is misleading no one
now.
The true American wants work
and not charity. He always has
worked when there was work and
will work now when work is given.
But for Mr.. Ford and the plutocrats
like him in control of our govern
nent, there would be today honest
toll for all men and Mr.. Ford could
save his sarcasm. G. G. H.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
SCIENCE
United States Coal Supply Is
Expected to Last for at
Least 1000 Years.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

COAL, nnankind's principal source
~ Of power at the present, is his
chief hope for the future in the
light of our present knowledge.
Barring possibility Of development Of
sources of atomic power or new
methods Of utilizing the energy Of
sunlight, things which as yet are
only dreams, mankind must pin its
hopes for the future upon coal.
Man has four chief sources OF
power at present-coal, falling water.
petroleum and natural gas. The
petroleum and natural gas are grad
ually giving out and the more pes
sinlistic statisticians predict their
end within a few decades.
Water power at present does not
offer a great deal Of competition to
coal except in such favorabls sites
for hydroelectric plants as Niagara
Falls.
Examination Of the coal situation.
however, leads to optimism. Unless
the world increases greatly the raps
at which 1t utilities coal, the supply
should last for considerable length
Of time.
The United States geological sur
vey estimates that when the first
white settlers arrived in America,
there were about three and half
trillion tons OF coal in this country
The survey estimates further that
to date we have mined and con-
suned about twenty-five billion tons
and that we now are mining it at
the rate Of about 500 million tons a
year.
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To the Very Bottom

Whatever property rights Of citizens may
/. be involved in the now notorious bill No. 6
will be protected in the civil courts But
that is not enough
Every change made in the case suggests
that the penitentiary should beckon to some
legislators, officials and lobbyists, if these
charges be only half true
Boiled down, the charge is made that
this bill was sent in entirely different form
to the Governor from that in which it passed
the senate.
The difference in the bill is in the fact
that it takes away from the city of Indian
apolis and other cities the right to regulate
bus traffic.
That may not be important But the
real damage is in the fact that as long as the
city could control the bus lines and be free
from the domination Of the public service
commission, which is and has been domi-
mated by utility interests, there should al
ways be club over greedy gentlemen who
may wish to either wreck the local car lines
or force impositions on the people.
The change in that regard was impor-
tant enough to make public officials forget
their oaths and even step into the shadows Of
the penitentiary, for there is no one SO guile
less as to believe that the change was made
by accident or mistake. This was no work
of bungler. It came from burglar.
Insessence it was pure treason, inasmuch
as it substitutes government by forgery and
fraud for government by the people No
one could do greater damage to our institu-
tons.
Where the civil courts leave off the Grim
inal courts must begin. Unless it is possible
to punish such a crime, we should close the
doors of our courts altogether and throw
away the keys to all prisons after their
gates are swung outward for all inmates. The
job should not be difficult.
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY H EE9Ss

I'D OBERT H. LUCAS, executive
IN director of the Republican ma
tional committee, is worried about
our colleges. He thinks that young
Republicans lose their faith while
studying at modern institutions Of
learning.
It seems that the professors are
turning radical. At any rate, they
are not teaching sound Republican
doctrine:
"Inasmucf," said Mr.. Lucas, -Fas
it seems to be hopeless to expect a
reform in the textbooks which teach
free trade, internationalisn, public
ownership Of private industry, abo-
lition of party government, etc.,
and inasmuch as it is apparently
equally hopeless to expect the
teachers in institutions Of higher
education to abandon their RADICAL
ism and socialistic theories, the ap-
proach to the young man and the
young woman who is about to be-
come citizen must be made indie
pendent of our educational system.
'This can best be done by organ
i5irg clubs and societies of young
Republican men and women in each
local community throughout the
country, under the leadership and
with the advice and counsel of the
regular state and county organiza-
ton leaders.
Many such clubs and societies
heretofore have been organized and
have accomplished great good for
the Republican party"
This seems a sound idea. But Mr..
Lucas has not developed his plan to
it's logical conclusion.
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Gangstars Fool us

A PLYING Secretary Stimson's
N theory to home problems, we
get a plausible explanation of gang
rule. If gangsters only would come
out in regiments, or even battalions,
permitting the establishment and
patrol Of neutral zones, We might be
able to 90 something.
The gangsters, however, proceed
a Ia SANDING, run around in small
squads, shoot from behind and pick
off their victims unawares.
If such tactics are too much for
the devil dogs, what can We expect
of ordinary cops and village con-
stables?
In complete accord with our ma
tional policy, the Iowa legislature
refuses to buy bullet-proof vests for
such citizens Of that state as may
visit Chicago. A joke, Of course,
but not without serious implication.
Some Of our forefathers would have
regarded the Nicaraguan situation,
not only as it exists today, but as
it had existed for the last sixteen
years, as equally ridiculous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
World Supply

THE worlds supply Of coal, ac-
/ cording TO an estimate of the
International Geological Congress. is
almost seven and a half trillion
tons. 1t will be noticed, therefore,
that the United States contains
about one-half of the worlds coal
reserves.
The figures for the world are as
follows:
America, sos, $4,000, 900 tons.
Europe, 764, 19O,000,0O0 tons.
Asia, 1878, $4,000 tons.
Africa, 1888, 100000 tons.
Oceania, 170,410,000, 900 tons.
There are some disquieting fea-
lures in the picture. Obviously, the
best coal is being mined first. AS a
result, the anthracite coal in the
United States probably will hold out,
only another century.
The best of the bitunninous coal
also is going fast. But there will
be plenty Of coal, even though not
OF the best grade, for a long time
to come.
And as long as the coal holds out,
mankind is assured Of fuel for heat
ing purposes and for operation of
furnaces, mills and electric power
plants.
Coal which is not now practical
to mine will become so as the
cheaper and easier obtained supplies
give out. The economic problem in
volved is one which will of necessity
be adjusted somehow.
It also is probable that the march
OF progress will continue to increase
the efficiency of power plants in the
future, just as it has in the past.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
Fear and Contempt

TXTHEN the revolution broke out
wv in Brazil, we sought to help
the government by placing an en-
largo on arms, but only to discover
that the revolution had succeeded
in the meantime. It has been a
constant performance of blow hot
and blow cold, Until neither Latin
America nor our own citizens know
what to expect. One: year, we. are
all for protection" even to the
point of armed intervention, while
the next we are for evacuating
everybody, regardless Of loss.
batin-America is divided between
fear and contempt of the United
States. Our wealth, power and re-
sources are well understood, but our
capriciousness creates chronic doubt
and distrust as to how, when or for
what purpose, they may be used.
Things have reached such pass
that we can not be honestly gen.
erous without the risk of being mis-
understood. It goes without saying
that European diplomats have
taken advantage of the situation,
have used the Monroe doctrine to
make us interfere, and then use our
interference to create suSpicion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
Just Chatter

NXTHY have our marines been
wv there all this while, if it's
SO necessary to hurry them home
now? What was the big idea, to
begin with? Have we shed all the
blood for nothing, or were we
Unanswered into the mess by
sf1rewd European diplomats?
What will we do if England,
France or some other European
country insists on protection to its
nations, after our marines are
Withdrawn?
The chatter is of new Latin
American: policy because our re-
cent course in Nicaragua has been
reversed. That is nonsense. Our
Latin American policy never has
consisted of anything but reversals.
We just are running true to form.
For the last fifty years, no one,
inside or outside the United States,
has had the slightest~idea what this
government would do when a stu
alton arose in Latin America. In
Nicaragua, we began by supporting
a conservative government, and
wound up by compromising with
the liberals. Now we are running
out on the liberals because SANDING
is too tough. a proposition.
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Views Of Times Readers

Editor Times-Before the senate
committee on unemployment,
Brandt A. Scott of the West vir-
GINA Miners Federation gave testi-
mony concerning human misery
and serfdom which shanes Amer
lea in the eyes of the world.
I have in my possession a wage.
slip of a miner showing how, at
the end of two weeks of internit-
tent work for coal company, paid
mostly in scrip" Chat is, tokens
good only in company stores), he
owed the company more money
than when he began.
have seen miners living in
houses not as well built as an ordi-
nary COW shed and have talked with
a man dispossessed at night from
his shanty, al his chickens let
loose and his children's clothes
stolen by the dispossessing of1cersl
The misery is partly the conse-
quence Of a sick industry, partly
the fault of an incompetent and
often cruel industrial autocracy. IN
both cases it can be helped by social
legislation, unemployment insur-
ance and q strong union.
Numerous small, short, but heroic
strikes are helping to rebuild
union no longer under John l..
Lewis sitting control
The need of relief in all this is
great. The Red Cross is doing little
or nothing nothing in the case of
strikers against intolerable condi-
tons.
The emergency committee for
strikers relief, 112 East Nineteenth
street, New York City, of which 7
am chairman, is transmitting re-
lief funds which I can testify are
conpetently and fairly admin
istered by the miners own commit
tee. No need in America is greater.
NORMAN THOMAS.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN.

Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
IN times of economic depression,
4 when many people are without
income from work, it becomes nee
essary to establish bread lines to
provide them with food and what
technically are known as flop
houses" as a place of shelter.
For years the standard diet in
the bread line has been coffee and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20

in the catalog as American litera-
ture and what it will look like when
Hollywood has gone over it."
For finance, G. o. P. can have
Fall.
Hiram johnson can qualify as an
expert on the civilization and cul-
ture of Japan.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
Bread Line Diet Leads to Scurvv

sinkers. Unfortunately this is in
no sense of the word a competent
diet.
Although human being can live
on diet of coffee and sinkers for
some time, he begins promptly to
develop the symptoms Of deficiency
Of some Of the vitamins.
Thus it already is reported from
several metropolitan centers that
the inhabitants of Hobohernia are
appearing in the clinics with early
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20

How many home runs have been
scored by Babe Ruth since he has
been in major league baseball2
Exclusive Of world series games,
and including the season Of 1880,
he has a record of 565 home runs in
the major league.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
G. O. P. Rail-

ONCE the professors in existing
- colleges have gone in for
heresies, why not found here and
now G. o. P. university, which
shall be not only 100 per cent Amer
lean, but also 100 per cent Repub-
lican?
It should be easy to assemble q
faculty for such a university. For
instance, Big Bill the Builds is at
liberty for the movement. Naturally.
the chair of municipal government
would be assigned to Mr.. Thompson.
Personally, I would like to see
Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart
included, even though his Republic
anisrn has been at times under fire.
Nobody but Senator Brookhart
properly could fill one highly essen
tiaI chair in any Republican uni
versity. I refer to the professorship
of shifting and shopping.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
One Woman and a Mob

courageous woman last Saturday saved one
Negro from mob in Tennessee. while in nearby
town another Negro was taken from the jail and
kAanged in the courthouse yard.
The sherts wife who saved the Negro saved justice
while we wish there were more like her. neither
Tenhessee nor any other state should have to depend
upo lone women to avert the stigma OF mopTiolence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
The Noble Experiment

president HOOVER, as. soon as
L available, should take over the
chemistry or. physics Of G. o. P.
university. There in the laboratory
he might demonstrate his revolu-
tionary scientific concept that the
nobility of an experiment varies in
versely with it's efficiency and prac-
t sahility.
And old G. Q. P. certainly should
bid for Borah. Mr.. Borah properly
might give a series Of lectures on
political expediency. His theme song
would be "He who fights and runs
away will live to be q Progressive
some other day"
And let us not forget Will Hays.
Naturally, he will find a spot for
himself in the English department.
His course might best be described
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20

better name for the back seat of roadster if
you've ever driven in one in cold weather, is the
grunbe seat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20

A sculptor has modelled study head of tramp.
Thereby inviting critics to rate it as bum work
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
Daily Thought

They that pillow iniquity, and
sow wickedness, reap the same
Job 4:e.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20

Why does the United States gov
eminent continue to issue So bills
when they are so unpopular?
Two dollar bills may be unpop-
ular in some sections of the country,
but in other sections they are IN
demand for pay rolls, and for that
reason the government continues TO
issue them.
What are the real names OF the
Four Marx brothers?
Harpo Marx is Arthur Groucho
is julius; Chico is Leonard, and
zeppo is Herbert y
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-20
There should be federal statute outlawing lynch
ing, and federal enforcement

III5, dIIu 4bO5LdI 5LILOILELItIlJs-
The Republican party's platform Of 1928 said:
we renew our recommendation that the congress
enact at the earliest possible date federal anti
ynching law, that the full influence of the federal
government may be welded to exterminate this
hideous crime"
In an official document issued recently by the
Republican national committee, the partys platform
pledges are listed in column, and in a parallel
column is told what has been done to fulfill each Of
them. Beside the ant-lynching plank is a blank
space.
Yet. President Hoover said: Platform pledges
must not be empty gestures"
This should be remembered by the Republican
spokesman now transforming the south.
Meanwhile, what do the Democrats propose to
do about the national disgrace of lynching?
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The wickedness of the few makes
the calamity Of the many.-Publius
Syrus.
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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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m&GEZ1xxSSSm
H7doAkF b ITe7E
}AM(lVER$AAYI
!:
TURKEYS BREAK
April 20

I'm April 20, 1917, the Turkish
~ government officially informed
the American embassy that diplo-
matte relations with the United
States had been broken OF.
Abran Elkus, the American am
bassador, was i'll with typhus fever
at the time, and was compelled to
remain at Constantinople for some
weeks afterward. His staff remained
with him
Three days later the American
state department gave passports to
Abdul Hak Husssin Bey, first secre-
tary and charge d'afaires of the
embassy, and other members of the
staff.
The Turkish ambassador, A. Rus
tenn Bey, was recalled by the gov
arnment early in the war on ac-
count of injudicious criticisms of
the President. --@
Robert College and Bible House
and its branches were closed, and
Americans left the Turkish capital.