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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
A Valiant Priest

There is ringing challenge to American economic
attitudes toward labor in the article by the Rev
Father Roderick MacEachen on 1.-THE Church and
Social Justice" in the Atlantic Monthly Father Mac
Eachen is no pulpit reformer He has done
notable work relieving distress among West Virginia
miners He makes it clear that our present economic
system puts money and politics ahead Of humanity
in scale of values:
ut is incredible that in a modern democracy there
exists official responsibility for 100000 workmen
class; their lot is left to the fortuitous need
whim of the individual employer Neither the govern
ment the individual employer has any RESPONSE
bility to provide work for all. 49,.
Under our present system the manufacturer pays
the amount of taxes on his property and con-
tnues to pay interest his borrowed capital whether
business is good or dull; only human values
duced wiped out in times of depression. Captains
Of industry do not have such responsibility for the
livelihood of their employees as they have for the
payment of taxes and interest -
1.-The crimes of all the cars of all the RuSsias
scarcely are more heinous than the crime of social
injustice that is being committed against the Ameri
can workmen today 1t is crime similar to those so
often reported from coroner's inquests: Committed
by the hands of persons unknown"
Father MacEachen holds that social justice means
nothing less than guaranteeing all able -boded men
the right to work.
How. then, apply social justice in this instance?
Undoubtedly it demands that we recognize the work
ers right to work. This follows because his right to
live depends upon his right to work Furthermore all
workers have the right to work at all times since all
have the right to live at all times. This is the appi-
cation of social justice"
The example of contemporary Russia affords a
relevant warning to organized religion to what
follows liberation of long-standing social injustces
through the thousand years of czarsm the Russians
would not now tearing down the temples of religion
and driving its priests across the borders"
win the American cardinals archbishops, and
bishops rise up in the name of the Popes latest en-
cyclical on labor and back this valiant priest?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
We Ought to Learn

YOU'RE also going to hear a lot
Il about debt revision, the tariff.
silver and Russian trade.
If the campaign of 1882 is not
one OF the most interesting ever
held in this country, it will be be-
cause the American people have lost
their appetite for argument, infor-
nation, and scandal.
With such reservoirs as the
Wickersham report and the Seabury
investigation to draw on, and what
congress is more than likely to dig
up, once it gets the probing ma
chine to work, we ought to have
a campaign which really will ac-
complish something toward the res
toration of interest in politics.
What is better, we ought to
learn things of real, constructive
value and renew the habit of think
ing about those problems which are
Of serious Importance.
Personally, I feel that the per-
Torrance will be entertaining and
instructive and that, no matter who
wins, we shall come out of it a lot
better off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Football Pessimists

Opening of the football season brings to mind again
one of the most curious features of the autumn sport
the fact that football coaches are the worlds most
confirmed pesSinlistS.
In other sports it is considered proper to look fol-
victory now and then. A baseball teams manager
will announce on the of battle, that he confidently
expects his players to knock the spots off the oppoSi
tion prize fighter will tell all and sundry that he
will hammer his foe into jelly.
But football? The coach'S voice gets sad when you
ask him for prediction. He tells you of injuries
of poor material of all sorts of bad omens and leaves
you feeling that his team will be lucky if it avoids
complete annhilation
What is there about football that causes that
anyway?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Cut the Budget

Each session of congress sees the hoppers in botl,
houses crammed with bills seeking appropriations
from the federal treasury.
Congress does not get upset about these measures
because congress knows that many Of the authors of
these bills know that they will come to nothing at all
More than few of them are only window dressing.
intended to impress constituents back home
The more meritorious Of these get attention Some
OF this group actually passed and some appropr-
atons made. Probably more money is spent thus
than should be-
Those having little no merit sometimes get
through-through congress- the budget bureau and the
White House
1t is a favorite pastime in Washington to add I'D
the total appropriations asked in such bills as these
II is, however, only pastme for the total usually
comes to such vast sum that it doesn't mean much
1t also is an interesting game to point to these to-
tails and blame congress for extravaganza Congress
sometimes is extravaganza but extravaganza is to be
determined on the amounts actually appropriated.
not upon the amounts asked, and particularly the
amounts even the askers never expect to get
And certainly not by adding up duplicate bills by
different congressman seeking the same end.
There, of course, must be rigid economy in con-
gressional appropriations next session. There will
have to be, in the face of treasury deficit which
already is more than billion and quarter dollars.
Economies will not balance the federal budget but
they will help.
By postponing construction of six of the eleven new
destroyers President Hoover and the navy depart
ment are setting example for other government
departments and for congress-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Just Every Day Sense
VX nth autumn begins the renewed activities of t
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

MYTH autumn begins the renewed activities of the
w womens clubs. Into these nationwide organ
zatons there goes stupendous energy, coupled with
super human effort Yet the progress make is so
painfully slow as to be almost imperceptible.
We may well face the facts. It is possible by
these methods for women to acquire quantities of
culture but at least so per cent of our work for
public welfare is wasted And it always will be wasted
so long as occupy the position of agitatorS and
crusaders
For men still hold the power of legislation. And
though we have the vote and though at times we
appear to be doing much, the truth is that we do
not get very far nowhere at ALL in fact except where
the men want us to 60
OUR efforts in behalf of greater maternity aid seem
~ to have failed Our child labor laws have not
made much progress. Our clamors for rigid en-
forcement of the prohibition law, our passionate
passing of resolutions, voting, has resulted
in fiasco.
Our fevered work against the high tariff for
naught Our long, hard struggle for world peace re-
suits in threats of war from every side
One reason, am convinced, that so many of our
battles are lost is because the American woman has
developed club mind. Most of her thinking is done
at long distance and by committee The principles
OF her superior officers those for which she works.
And all the culture and refinement that she has
acquired during her club make her entirely too
adylike to protest anything she may disapprove The
average club member, therefore is a lady figure, a
puppet in the hands of her national board.
What we women need these days is less culture
and more courage. And more thinking in the home
and lever committee meetings wouldn't be at all a
bad thing now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Questions and
Answers

What is done with the ashes of
cremated persons?
The ashes are placed in a special
box and delivered to the family of
the deceased person. Sometimes the
ashes are put in burial urn and
buried in the ground or placed in
crypt or mausoleum. Others bury
them under a tree, placing tablet
on the tree for a marker. Seme-
times they are scattered over the
water, or to the winds.
Who discovered Greenland and
why was it so named?
1t was discovered by Norsemen
about 900 A. D. and is said to have
been named by Eric the Red in 986
who hoped to attract immigrants
from Iceland by giving it an at
tractive name.
Is enclose or inclOSe correct?
They are alternative spellings, but
Oxford dictionary says that stymo-
logical propriety is in favor of en-.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Situation Too Tense

MORE important than all else,
1V1 we are going to have another
whirl with congress before the
conventions meet.
What congress will do is prob
lematical, but the situation is too
tense for any one to suppose that
it will remain quiescent.
Ray Tucker reports that bills to
regulate stock trading, especially
with regard to short sales, will be
introduced.
No one can review what has &C.
Cured, or what some of the lead
ers have said, without believing that
he is right.
President Hoover was not par
ticularly kind in what he said about
bears" last June.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Cites Three Main Ties

DUT while there are countless va
- rieties of meanings" DR.. Adler
does not accord them all equal va
idity.
1--WE can distinguish some which
answer better and some which an
swer worse" he writes, some where
the mistake is small and some
where it is large.
1--WE can discover what it is that
the better meanings share in COM
mon, what it is that the worse
meanings lack.
I'm this way we can obtain a
scientific meaning of life a COM
mon measure of true meanings, a
meaning which enables us to meet
reality in so far as 1t concerns
mankind.
Here again we must remember
that true means true for mankind,
true for the purpose and aims Of
human beings. There is no other
truth than this; and If another
truth existed, it could never concern
us; we could never know it; It would
be meaningless"
Every human being. DR.. Adler
continues, has three main ties.o
The first, ne claims, is the fact
that we must live our lives upon the
face of the earth, enduring the
restrictions which physical condi-
tionS imply.
The second is that each of us
must live his life in association with
the rest of the human race.
The third is the fact that there
are two sexes. 1.-THE problem of love
and marriage belong to this third
tie" he writes.
Individual psychology has found
no problems in life which can not
be grouped under these three main
problems-occupational, social and
sexual" he writes. 1T is in his re-
spouse to these three problems that
every individual human being un-
failingly reveals his own deep sense
OF the meaning Of life"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30

and orthopedic surgeons believe
there is an intimate relationship be-
tween body mechanics and health
are the following:
When no actual change in the
body tissue can be found, failure to
gain weight and digestive disturb
ances, even with a good diet, a-e
frequently associated with poor
posture.
Furthermore, the weight tends to
increase and the digestive disturb
ances to stop when the poor body
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
English Textile Workers

The textile workers in England's Lancashire dis
trict seem to have established once more their rep
utation for being fair.
Mahatma Gandhi scheduled to address them, was
warned he might be lynched. His boycott movement
IN India is largely responsible for the depressed con-
dition of the English textile industry. Due to him
many textile workers have been without jobs for
months and months.
But Gandhi went through with it-and the unem-
ployed textile workers cheered him to the echo.
During the American Civil war the blockade on
southern cotton almost ruined these same Lancashire
textile workers. But while Englands upper class
openly favored recognition of the Confederacy the
textile workers ardent supporters of the Union
British aid for President Davis would have revived
the textile trade But the textile workers hate hui
man slavery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
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ON Sept. 80, 1917, Viscount Ishii,
" head of the japanese imperial
mission to the United States, off,
cially denied japanese aggression
in China.
The mikado's official spokesman
likewise said that the doors of
both Japan and China were open to
Americans. He continued:
81 am persuaded that the grun-
blings and the whisperingS about
door closed in China by the Japa-
nese against America did not come
from the broad and generous heart
of the enterprising American in
New York or elsewhere, but are the
result of ten years of an enemy's
effort to create prejudice and dis
trust.
I'VE will cooperate. We will
help and we viii hold, each of US,
what is guaranteed under that
agreement"
c'The agreement" was the agree
ment of 1903 between the United
States secretary of state and the
japanese ambassador. Takahira)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
You'll Hear a Lot

THIS has been quite a year for
Il Investigations, but next year is
going to make it look rather color
less.
Both major parties are on the
hunt for campaign material, and
some of the things that have hap
pened in connection with our bank
ing system and stock market
promise pay dirt.
Politicians would be less than
human if they overlooked such a
bet.
You're going to hear a lot of
testimony about call money, brok-
erS' loans and bank failures before
another September.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30

broad and narrow, robust and slen-
der.
An analysis of various types Of
body build indicates, according to
DR.. Robert B. Osgood, that the more
serious and significant faults of
body mechanics are found among
people of the slender. type Of build.
This no doubt represents the asso-
citation that invariably occurs be-
tween poor nutrition and slovenly
posture.
Among other reasons why spe-
cialists in the diseases of children
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
They Are Puzzled

d lightly or wrongly, the Amer
N lean people think they have
learned a great deal about Specula-
ton and its effect since 1929.
Rightly or wrongly, they are be-
ginning to think there is a sharp
distinction between legitimate bust
ness and all this swapping of paper,
some of which was obviously loaded
beforehand.
Where and how to draw the line
is what puzzles them.
Certain it is that they will not
go on living with such an astound-
ing and continuous f1uctuation of
values, without trying to do some
thing about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Actions Give Answer

DR. ADLERS paragraphs upon
- the meaning of life are most
interesting and illuminating. He
writes:
eff we asked a man, What is the
meaning of life?' he would perhaps
be unable to answer. For the most
part people do not bother them
selves with the question or try to
formulate replies.
ct is true that the question is as
old as human history and that in
our own time young people-and
older people as well-will often
break out with the cry, But what
is life for? What does life means?
1--WE can say, however, that they
ask only when they have suffered
defeat. So long as everything is
plain sailing and no difficult tests
are set before them the question
never is put into words.
1T is in his actions that every
man inevitably puts the question
and answers it.
eff we close our ears to his words
and observe his actions, we shall
find that he has his own individual
meaning of life and that all his
postureS, attitudes. movements, ex-
pressions, mannerisms, ambitions,
habits and character traits accord
with this meaning.
"He behaves as if he could rely
upon certain Interpretation of life.
In all his actions there is an inn
plicit reckoning up of the world
and of himself; verdict, I am like
this and the universe is like that a
meaning given to life.
There are as many meanings
given to life as there are human
beings, and as we have suggested,
perhaps each meaning involves
more or less of mistake. No one
possesses the absolute meaning Of
life, and we may say that any
meaning which is at all serviceable
can not be called absolutely wrong.
"All meanings are varieties be-
tween these two limits"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30

Editor Times-I want to tell you
something about the Indiana state
penal farm.
I served five days on the state
farm for vagrancy, because 1 at
tended a meeting of the unemployed
in indianapolis, before I was bailed
out by the International Labor De-
Tense.
We have one good man serving
one year and $500 fine there, and
they refuse to accept his appeal
bond. He is Theodore Luesse.
Take my advice and keep away
from the penal farm, for they will
starve you, then work you to death
Then they will whip you if you
don't keep your end of the work up
Some people say this country is
fine, but call this slavery.
b They put you in buildings and
keep you wet all the time. Any time
it rains you might just as we'll be
outside.
They make you work in the stone
quarry, wading in water up to your
knees, then they feed you Slop.
Is it right that man, merely be-
cause he is unemployed, should be
forced to stand this kind of treat
ment? JOBLESS MAN.
Editor Tirnes-Mr. Hoover says
don't cut wages" and the moguls
Of industry dutifully chant I'VE
won't" This is fine talk 1t sounds
good over the radio and it looks
good in print. The talk is all right,
but only the miserable facts count.
The facts are that wage slashes
are being made not here and there,
but everywhcre. Right here in In
dianapolis if you want to find it.
Don't go to the bosses. Go to the
workers. Go to a certain cabinet
factory. Ask about the group sys-
tenn" Three months ago the plant
cut it's scale to about 81 cents an
hour.
Now under the group system, -
the bosses are increasing the guam
tity Of work and cutting the wages
to about 20 cents an hour!
If a worker does have a job, how
is he going to live on wages like
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Easily Could Be Bolt

THERE admittedly is deep dis
Il satisfaction within the Repub-
lican party. 1t easily might culmi-
nate in a bolt. If it does, the Demo-
Gratis will win. No Elijah is needed
to foresee as much.
The Republican party has no
choice but stand, or fall with Hoo
yer. 1t may fall, anyway, but that
is not half so certain as some
Democrats would like to believe.
Usually a depression means de-
feat for the party in power, but not
always. That of 1907 resulted in no
turnover. Besides, the one now 60
ing on is peculiar. It's worldwide
character furnishes the Hoover adj
ministration with fairly good alibi.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30

mechanics is changed to good body
mechanics.
When the action of the bowels is
sluggish and irregular a change
from poor body mechanics to good
body mechanics brings about more
active action of the bowels and
greater regularity.
People who tend to vonlit at fairly
regular intervals and who have a
dizziness and nausea sometimes are
greatly improved when their body
mechanics is improved.
Finally, people who are lackadais-
ical, easily fatigued, round-shoul-
dered and depressed, and who seem
to lack what psychologists call body
tone" and what the quacks call vim,
vigor and vitality, seems to show
great improvement in alertness, en-
durance and vigor when their pos
ture and muscle tone are improved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ,

What Does Life Mean?"
Every Man ANSWERS That
Question With His Actions,
Writes Dr.. Adler in His
Book.
DR. ALFRED ADLER Of viennas
II whose theories about psychol-
ogy are we'll known to the reading
public as a result of his own books,
the books of his disciples and the
books Of his critics, addresses his
latest book to the general public.
Its provocative title is What Life
Should Mean to You"
In it, DR.. Adler gives his own an
swers to many riddles Of life.
Among these riddles which he
boldly attacks are: What makes a
successful marriage? What makes a.
man a criminal? Why do children
cry?
What is depression? What is hfe2
What is love? What is laziness2
Why are men polygamous2 What
is the purpose of dreams? What are
the causes of inferiority?
Whether or not you accept DR..
Adler's answers will depend upon
whether you adhere to his school OF
psychology.
In any event, you will find What
Life Should Mean to You an ex-
cellent and fascinating book. ut
has just been published by Little
Brown & Co. at 49,
This book" says DR.. Adler in his
dedication, is dedicated to the hui
man family in the hope that its
members may learn from these
pages to understand themselves
better"
Human beings" says DR.. Adler
in the opening paragraph OF the
book, live in the realm Of mean
ings. We do not experience pure
circumstances; we always ex-
perience circumstances in their
significance for men,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
Improper Posture Invites Illness

This is the second of series of four
articles by DR.. Morris Fishbein, health
authority, on the Importance of good
posture to health. With the coming of
the indoor season this short series is
particularly fitting at this time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30

Is there any place in the Bible
that tells how and where the apos-
tie Peter met his death?
The Bible does not tell how Peter
met his death. 1t is due to tradi-
ton that the story of his crucifxion
head downward has been so widely
accepted. The only Bible reference
to his death is found In John 21:1a
and 10, which is eouched in general
terms with no definite explanation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

Republican Party Has No
Choice bit to Stand or Fall
With Hs.5Uer; Any Other
Way Is Just Suicide.
NEW YORK, Sept. 80. = Once
1 y again, Calvin Coolidge shows
better sense than some of his adj
mirers. They would have plunged
him into a contest with President
Hoover for the Republican nominal
ton next year.
That would have been suicide for
the Republican party. The situa-
ton has become too critical for it
to swap horses. AS Mr.. Coolidge
says, the nomination would be
worth nothing to anyone but
Hoover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
They're Already Talking


A LOT can happen between now
n and next fall. Unless all signs
fail, lot will happen. The crisis
in England and the abandonment
of the gold standard by other
countries promise some radical
changes in finance and trade.
Senator Watson already is talking
about raise in the tariff to prevent
the dumping of foreign goods made
possible through cheaper money
abroad.
Senator Borah thinks that silver
ought to be restored, not only for
the. good it would do this country,
but or the purchasing power it would
create in other countries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
1322 Bradbury street.

What is the oldest city in the
world?
Damascus in Syria is thought by
scholars to be the oldest exist
ing city,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30

Football may be overemphasized, says the office
sage, but to the fellows who heave the forwards it's
just passing fancy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30

Sailing from Europe to New York, Mayor Jimmy
Walker low in spirits. He'll probably capitalize
on it by writing Trans Atlantic Blues"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-30
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.