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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

DURING these lean days it has been frequently re-
~ marked that the boys in Jail are having better
time than those at large but up against it inasmuch
as those who are in are well fed, yet they toll not
neither do they spin.
You doubtless remember the days when jail 4irds
were compelled to earn their keep bv breaking stone
II no other activity presented itself
Why not interrupt the ping pong game and once
more call the boys to the nobility of toll?
lot of them arrange to be locked up in order to
be cushioned against the toll and stress of the world
Particularly is this true when the weather is cold
A charming picture of this strategy was presented
down in Missouri the other day.
A SHERIFF went away and left the Jail door wide
open, but on his return found all Of the pris-
oners in their places
He asked them why they didn't get away, and they
replied:
Leave our happy home? Not on your lIie!"
Fellow taxpayers, it's time to make them work!
Mahatma Gandh is having trouble with his folks
because they think he made too easy bargain with
They are trying to scalp him whenever he appears
in public.
This is the way our ancestors attacked John Law
when ne made the treaty with England after the
revolution
The burned him in efigy all over the country.
NXTE hear lot about the Red Menace" but there's
w no danger from the reds now in this country.
They are vociferous and spectacular, but there are
hfty-seyen varieties of them and they can't get to-
gether.
But there is real Red Menace" and if. Is what
Russia will do in the markets of the world when she
gets to going with her vast hive of prison labor for
Russia IS prison, you know-the largest the world
ever saw
a ND our American business men have been doing
all in their power to equip Russia for her deadlI
foray into world commerce
They have sent to Moscow their best experts and
in addition they have sold the Soviet the endless ma
chnery with which she will operate.
We do not believe that Mayor Walker is guilty Of
corruption in this Tammany mess, but we do believe
that ne has not been qualified his great response
bity.
re has not known what was going on; he has been
glad-handing visiting whale at the front door while
rats have been taking the place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EES279

president HOOVER has not
L carried with him into office the
same sensitivity for small peoples
which inspired him while he still
was a private citizen. 1t is difficult
to get any great number of Amer
leans excited about the Virgin Is
lands.
They're a long way of. They're
tiny. They do not enter into the
life of very many of us. And yet
our administration of this flung
group constitutes one of our great
est and one of our cruelest failures.
The President himself seems dis
posed to talk of our possessions as
if the only problem were one of ma
tional finance. He is quoted as say
ing, eve acquired an effective poor
house, comprising 80 per cent of the
population.
And he added, Viewed from
every point except remote naval
contingencies, it was unfortunate
that we ever acquired these islands. .
1t may have been unfortunate for
US. 1t was still more unfortunate
for the Virgin Islanders.
They did not ask to be taken over
into our empire. AS Mr.. Hoover
suggests, the purchase largely was
dictated by naval utility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
In RAhuttaI

IRON the Rev. Ignatius w. Cox
L OF Fordham university I have
received a protest against my COL
umn in which 1 commended that
Catholic clergy should not under
take to exercise a veto against the
decision Of Protestant churches to
indorSe the principle of birth con-
troll.
He writes, in part:
Don't you think that in your ar
ticle the attitude you took against
the utterances of FIR. Sheen, Fir.
Coughlin and myself was most il
liberal?
Is it not bigoted in you to deny
us the right to express our convic-
lions on a question of tremendous
moment for the boon or doom of
humanity, when you daily assume
the same right for yourself?
us it not fundamental to the lib
eral position that it expresses with
out let Or fear what it honestly be-
lieves to be the truth with regard to
situations deeply affecting the we'll
being Of mankind? The use of con-
traceptiyes involves more than eco
Monies or medicine.
1t involves the natural moral
law. What is contrary to the natu-
raj law can be neither good eco
Monies nor good morals. Neither
can it be even for the temporal good
and happiness Of human kind.
Feeling keenly and sincerely, as I
do after much study, that the use
of contraceptives is a deadly men
ace to the health and happiness, as
well as to the holiness, of mankind
I said, speaking with love of my
fellow man, what you called "a
tasteleSs thing"
I am willing to withdraw the
charge that FIR. Cox was guilty of
"a tasteless thing" The matter of
fact in dealing with public questions
seems to me comparatively unim-
portant.
Readily enough win grant his
complete sincerity. But here is the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
Unfit Peace Officers

IT is said on good authority that
4 the next report issued by the
Wickersham commission will en-
phasize the inadequacy and unre-
liability of crime statistics in this
country.
AS long as men with fractured
skulls are booked as common
DRINKS, how can we expect anything
else?
Peace officers who can't tell the
difference between the victim of
thugs and the victim of poison
hooch obviously are unfit to make
accurate reports
Arrest may mean anything, while
lack OF it may mean far more.
There is no way one can find out
what the police have accomplished,
much less what the community has
suffered.
The number of crimes committed
is not reflected by the number of
criminals caught, and the number
of criminals caught is not reflected
by the number convicted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

Peace Officers Who Can't Tell
the Difference Between the
Victim of Thugs and the
Victim Of Hoocb Are Unfit
to Make Accurate Reports.
NEW YORK, April 3.-Frank B.
Il German, master-at- arms and
clerk in the United States senate for
more than forty years, died in Chi
cage Wednesday morning under cir
cunstances which leave a bad taste
in the mouth.
He was visiting brother in Chi
cago. Last Monday afternoon he
went out for walk. At 10 o'clock
that night, passersby found him I'M
conscious on the sidewalk. When
summoned to the scene. police took
him to the station and locked him
up as a common drunk.
A little while afterWard, he re-
gained sufficient consciousness to
say that he had been assaulted and
robbed. Later investigations dis
closed that his skull had been frac-
tured.
It might have happened in any
American city. AS a matter of fact,
it has happened in several.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
Imnrgnino Our Sense of Humor

If YOU have any one grievance against France
it is that she constantly implies that we are ma
ton without humor. BY clever propaganda she IN
duced us to enter the World war to pull the french
and British chestnuts out of the fire we loaned
her much money After we had Cancelled GOT per
cent of what she had borrowed from us to aid IN
her war to recover Alsace and Lorraine, she con-
verified our Uncle Sam into Uncle Shylock
NOW the press announces that M. BRAND states
that 1T is evident that halt has come in our re-
1ations with Germany" The German Austrian Gus
toms treaty is held up as the most serious threat to
European peace since the arrnstice and revival OF
the horrible spirit of William II.
without calling any names or expressing any pref
erences for Pou or Boche let look into the back
ground of this matter France, with American aid
won the World war She Immediately recovered Alsace
and Lorraine and executed great gobs OF spoil from
Germany in the way Of COAL rolling stock livestock
and the like even though German women and babies
were starving like flies
Next she helped to knock Wilson'S Fourteen Points
into cooked hat and draft vindictive treaty
which will prevent European peace long as it re-
mains in operation.
She also secured heavy reparations payments from
Germany for starting the World war though the
most moderate of historians concede that France
was fully as guilty as Germany in 1914 She almost
hooked the United States into signing a pact with
Britain and France guaranteeing France perpetual
possession of her spells.
Next she built up a wall of steel about Germany.
She entered into firm treaty engagements with Bel
rium and helped to finance the large Belgian army
she made similar arrangements with the little en-
tente. composed of Czecho-Sloyaka, Rumania and
Yugoslavia.
Still closer relations exist between France and
Poland. and French francs help support the gigantic
Polish army Even Italy has been rendered de-
pendent by recent loans A secret AngoFrench naval
uact was rendered temporarily impotent only through
its exposure by Mr. Hearst.
Today France is by far the most impressive mill
tary power in the world. She has vast army in
Vulnerable well-trained reserves, incomparaby the
greatest air force in the world the most submarines
and three times as many tanks the rest of the
world combined.
Her own forces joined to those of her conederates
outnumber those OF Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and
European Turkey by than forty to
Never in European history has there been as one
sided military dictatorship on that continent Ger
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
. EPETITION of the use of
\ ~ opium, cocaine, and their de-
rivativeS results in addiction to
these drugs. Apparently the addic-
ton is the result of the will of the
individual to find in the effect of
the drug release from his worries
and pains, because the drug pro-
duces condition called euphoria.
a sense Of well being and happiness.
Withdrawal of the drug is asso-
ciated with pain of an intense
character, which the individual at
tempts to relieve by the taking OF
more narcotics.
When a person has reached this
stage in the use of the narcotic, he
is described by addicts as having
the habit, the colloquial term being
that he is "fooked."
DR.. w. L. Treadway of the United
States public health service is con-
WINGED that the chief factor in drug
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
Heinrich KoDDers
THE modern methods of mann

nc ulOO6In methods of mann
Il facture Of coke are known as
by-product processes, because the
gases which in the beehive oven
were diSsipated into the atmosphere
are now caught and used.
Two processes are used. One is
known as the gas retort process
the other as the by-product coke
oven process. Both make use of
what is known as high Temperature
carbonization.
Instead Of igniting the coal as in
tne beehive process, the coal is in
closed in a chamber which is heat
ed from without. A temperature of
about 1000 degrees, Centigrade. is
used. 49, =
The gas retort process produces q
poor grade of coke, since it was de-
signed primarily to yield gas. The
py-product coke-oven process Yields
excellent coke and rapidly is replac-
ing the other process, since recent
developments make it possible to
produce both good coke and good
gas with it.
One of the pioneers in the devel-
opment of the by-product oven was
Heinrich Koppers, whose designs
were introduced into this countrv bv
the United States Steel Corpora
ton in 1910.
More recent improvements have
been made by Joseph Becker of
Pittsburgh and most of the new
ovens are being built according to
his designs.
The Becker oven really Is a huge
manufacturing plant in itself. Coal
IS discharged directly from the rail
road cars into hoppers from which
moving belts carry it to chambers
where it is either broken into small
bits or pulverized.
Next it goes into ovens capable of
holding thirty tons of coal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
Secular Happiness

T THINK that if the problem
4 could be confined to the imme-
date welfare of man, no argument
against contraception could stand
up. It has been, and is being, sup
ported by men just as sincere as
Father Cox.
The medical arguments are based
upon an existing condition. If birth
control were a field wholly free to
the Investigators, I ventured the
guess that much might be discov-
cred by research men.
I even will make this concession:
In a world of more equitable dis
tribution of the worlds goods, the
problem conceivably might be less
pressing. But 1 question the secular
logic of any one who says "You must
be content with that estate to which
it has pleased God to call you"
And you must be content not only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
Questions and Answers

Can the age of Holsters be told by
their size?
The United State bureau of fish
cries says that Holsters weighing
from Is to IS pounds are estimated
to have reached an age of so years
or more; when 9 inches long thew
should be from 5 to 6 years old. at
a inches, 8 to IA years, and II
inches, IA to 20 years old.
Was Old IrOnsides engaged in the
attacks upon Tripoli during our war
against the Barbary pirates?
The Constitution-Old Ironsides-
took part in three out Of the five
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Coal Mast Be Changed to
Coke Before II Can Be
Used for Manufacture Of
Steel.
ME modern magic Of science is
A well Illustrated by the indus
trlaI processes connected with the
manufacture OF coke.
materials which once upon a time
we're allowed to 60 I'D the chimney
now are saved and made to Weld
sFeater profit than that received
from the coke itself
once upon a time coke was man
u1actured with the use of beehive
ovens, so-called because they look
IKE peehlyes. The oven was open
at the top. -
IL was loaded with coal and the
coal lgnlted. But once combustion
began, the vent at the tn If tbs
oven was almost entirely closed 50
that the coal merely smoldered. As
d result the gases were driven out
OF Ine coal, escaping through the
opening in the TOP
Wnen the gases were driven of
ehe coa4 was changed to coke. Coke
Is ABOUT 30 per cent carbon. the re-
naming constituents being a little
ash and few Of the very heavy hv-
drocarbons. ~
The Importance Of coke to modern
INDUSTRY can not be overestimated
Inc present age frequently is called
the age OF coal and iron BI,t cote
IS the link between the two Coal
must be changed to coke before II
steel ~ { Vi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

point at issue. It is a futile thing
to debate birth control with
Catholic priest, because even if the
non-Catholic wins the argument as
to the secular utility of contracep-
tive measures, the priest retains the
buried ace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this DaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
where did corn originate?

Corn or maize originated in
America, probably in Peru, where
fossil remains show it was in
existence for many hundreds of
years. Some early writer's main
tanned that it came from Asia and
others say Africa, but the theory
of American origin is now gener-
ally accepted by scholars. The So
called corn Of the ancients of the
cid world represents other forms
Of grain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
What is education?

In general sense it is the de-
velopment of the whole nature Of
mankind, physical, intellectual and
moral, through interaction with
every phrase Of his environment;
in narrower and more usual sense,
it is the development Of the pow
ers and capacities Of the mind
through special processes Of train
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

attacks between July Is and Sept.
4 1904.
Does a man have TO De cs.izez
of the United to joint the army?
He must either be a citizen or
have made legal declaration of his
intention to become one.
What is the atomic weight of
gold and lead?
Gold is 1872 and lead is 207 %.
What is the real name of Olive
Palmer, who sings over the radio?
Virginia Earle Murphy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

Men who think, says noted physician, are more
likely to get sick than those who don't We've noticed
that motorists have been looking rather hearty of
late.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

Are the Filipinos American citi-
ZenS?
Filipinos are not American citi-
zens. They are citizens Of the
Philippine islands and have the
status in int. asional law Of
American nationals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

AT least" said the fellow with the mumps, I'm
having gland time"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

She is the heroine of Homers
"Iliad," who eloped from Athens
with Trojan named Paris, and
the Greeks followed in ships and
laid siege to Troy, which was finally
destroyed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

Il beg your pardon" as the LITER wrote the Go,
ernor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
Daily Thought

Yet man is born unto trouble,
as the sparks fly upward.-Job sd.
Know this, that trouble comes
swifter than the things we desire
PIautus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
Who Framed Mho2

HUNDREDS of Chicago women
L L having gone out on their own
account and discovered how glori-
ously the people were being short
weighted, the states attorney makes
a spectacular raid on city hall, pick
ing up twenty eight men as well as
most of the records in the office of
the sealers of weights and measures.
Big Bill Thompson, who Just has
been renominated for mayor and
who represents a different faction
of the Republican party from that
of the states attorney, says that it
is all political trick to help his
Democratic opponent.
just another illustration of how
partisan politics enters into every
character Of law enforcement.
Let a man in public office be
charged with anything these days,
and his first alibi is to yell Frame.
up!" at the opposition. The people
can't tell who or what to believe.
The only thing they are sure of
is lying, or cheating, somewhere.
To the same extent that partisan
ship has become a smoke screen for
dishonesty. it obscures honest effort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

Whit IIuIIS anu FcSOtE7DICo OOIE
tain Yitanin b?
Among the fruits are oranges,
grapefruit and prunes, and among
the vegetables. beets. cabbage. car
rots, lettuce. peas. potatoes, spinach
and tomatoes. Milk and buttermilk.
whole wheat bread and rice also
contain Vitanin 3.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03

VI " 10 IIdVGll lNO LONGER
TN February, 1918, 10000 aliens
E were admitted to The United
States. In February, 1881, the num-
Der was little more than 5000.
That speaks of a profound change
in our policy; also, in our future
development from a social. indus
trial, and political standpoint. This
nation will not grow as fast during
the next twenty-five years as it has
during the last twenty-five. It will
no be able to build cities with such
rapidity, or stage such stupendous
shifts in its population.
Neither will it be regarded in the
same light by people of foreign
lands, especially oppressed people.
Until the great war, this country
was looked upon universally as the
worlds one haven of refuge. Now
it is looked upon universally as the
worlds Croesus, rich, powerful,
threatening.
II
Mo Drain on Treasury
THE United States is rich, in
Il spite of public debt six times
as large as it ever owed before the
World war, and in spite of prob
able. deficit of $7O0,OOO,O0 this year.
AS matter of fact, that deficit
means less than the figures would
seem to indicate. All the treasury
needs to do is hold down little
on paying off the public debt to
balance the budget.
AS a matter of fact the amount
advanced veterans as loans doesn't
men an added oDligtion. When the
government issued veteran certif1-
Gates six years ago, it Immediately
began to accumulate a sinking fund
to provide for redeeeming them
twenty years hence.
That sinking fund now contains
about $800OO0,000, and will be added
to regularly each year until the
certificates mature.
Whatever the government adj
vances by way Of loans, it will not
have to pay. in the end. In other
words, the veterans are getting
nothing that they weren't promised
originally. They merely are getting
it a little sooner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
| ID II n CnN NY FREDERICK
ANA<A AA/O4 Lands

nUR1NG these lean days it has been frequently re-
~ marked that the boys in Jail are having better
tme than those at large but up against it nasmuch
as those who in are well fed yet thew toll not
neither do they spin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-03
By DR.. MORRIS FIsHBFIN

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