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The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Your Real Bosses

At last the real bosses of the people re-
veal themselves. They are the members of
the tax board. 1t is probably true that they
do not make their own decisions. Invisible
forces do that But these board members
are all that the people can see.
When these members arrogantly de-
clare that they intend to see whether stem
ographers in the school board offices stop
minute to powder their noses, they have de-
clared themselves the super government of
the state.
AS to the ability Of these men to run
either school or any other big enterprise
there is lacking much proof. The manner
in which they were selected suggests other
wise.
This government is based on the theory
that it is at all times very close to the people
and in the hands of those selected by the
people.
Not one member of this state tax board
could have been elected to the school board
at the election which overturned previous
control. If any of the members had ever
aspired to the office, they might easily have
become members of the boards against which
the people revolted.
But named members of the tax board
they have the arrogance to declare that they
may personally inspect the Offices to see just
what clerks are working hard.
That threat shows the attitude Of the
members. It shows them as un-American
as any Russian commissar in his Soviet office.
1t is the attitude of all relationships.
For one of these members to cast asper-
sions on the patriotism of the school board
or school officials is merely to show that he
has no concept of real patriotism or the real
principles of American government. If he
had, he would take some pains to preserve
local self government.
Probably these board members will cut
the funds demanded by every civic organiza-
tion for the proper operation of the schools.
1t is to be expected.
When that is DONE the people will know
where to place the blame, but that will be
tragic consolation. These members, listen
ing to the voice of the masters, are de-
termined to destroy the kindergartens, the
libraries, the adult schools
Only public uprising can save them.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

r SUPPOSE we never shall grow so intelligent that
l. We can think of women think of men-and
regard them individuals and citizens
At any rate, out of Glasgow university has come
its author, Professor Burns women of the
gravest menaceS to the white race
Dire things does he predict because we have too
much freedom, too much escape from household
duties and too easy contact with men and their
world.
This seems to not only a threadbare but a
very tireSome theory. If argue that all creatures
should eat by the sweat of their brows, and that man.
too grows less fine his leisure increases then it
might be sensible for us to say that women should
keep at their immemorial dreary routines.
But so long most of efforts now are directed
to essening the labors humanity in general there
is no sense in insisting that should keep per-
petually Scrubbing.
THE truth is that we have no more escaped work
i ing with our hands than the men have. We still
have many individuals who toll arduously at mo-
notonous tasks notably the miners, the farmers the
roadworkerS and certain other classes bat machines
have given men much leisure they have given
to us.
And right now the wives of the mining group
work just hard their husbands do and suffer as
greatly. There may be washing machine in the
farm kitchen, but there also is tractor in the fields
And the riding plow for men came in years before
there was running water in rural home
Far be it from me to cast aspersion upon men and
their industry. But I do not believe that anybody
prove that as whole they work any more these
days than women do.
And you differentiate between the when
it comes to destroying countries races? We rise
and fall together, after ALL and and women
share common fate.
Besides all this, If history is correct many good
civilization has perished account of the general
cussedness Of men, I suppose that while the stones
were falling. they all screamed "cheTchez Ia femme.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I am constant
reader Of your paper and have been
for years and I like your Voice Of
the People column. I don't know
whether it's due to the unemploy-
ment situation or what is the cause
of it, but I believe with some people
it is a habit to say, "I'll pay you
tomorrow or I'll pay you next week"
My husband is an iceman and 1
wonder if people realize that an ice
man has to pay cash for all the ice
he takes out, and when the people
don't pay for the ice they buy, he
doesn't make very much at the end
Of the day.
I'm more sure that if people only
would stop and think that even an
iceman has bills to pay, and a fam
lily to keep, they would try and have
the money when the ice is delivered
to them. ICEMAN'S WIFE.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
HEALTH SERVICE

, automobile engine does better than
20-horse power.
One of the chief uses of exercise
today is to aid reduction. Correct
diet and exercise, adapted to in
dividual needs, will aid health and
life, but too strenuous exercise, par
ticularly when accompanied by
wrong diet, will destroy health and
wreck mental efficiency.
The worst thing about exercising
to reduce is that exercise stimulates
the appetite tremendously and fol-
lowing this restriction of the
diet becomes torture.
Sooner or later the exercising be-
comes monotonous or difficult, but
the habit of hearty eating is in
grained and continues long after the
exercise is given up. That is what
physicians call g vicious circle.
Perhaps the most interesting in
formation available in connection
with the whole subject has been
evolved by the eminent British phys
iologist, A. v. Hill.
In may track events and other
athletic performances the ability to
win is not a matter of muscle
strength, but rather of muscle sense.
This means correcting timing, skilled
performance and vital capacity.
The practiced pitcher can throw
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Study Effect of Diet


nIET long has been thought to
- be one of the items which
effect the condition of teeth. Def
ciencies in diet thus become a pos
sible cause from within of dental
carries.
Extensive work has proved that
lack of certain vitamines is reflected
quickly and definitely by a certain
picture of changes within tooth
structure" Prof. Beckwith says.
1T seems very probable, more
over, that such changes resulting
from improper diet may be attended
by increasing susceptibility to bac-
teriaI invasion. Doubtless the ques-
ton of the relationship Of diet to
tooth structure is one of vast i'm
portance.
There is a great demand for the
element calcium within the animal
body during childhood and also dur
ing pregnancy, for these are periods
when bone and dental structure of
the body are in procses of forma-
ton.
Calcium is necessary to the for
nation of these tissues particularly.
1t is not strange therefore that
dental carries often appear in
tensively during these periods"
Among the bacteria which have
been thought to contribute to the
decay of teeth, Prof. Beckwith says
that two different groups have been
studied.
These are bacterium which takes
the form of a long slender rod, and
a streptococcus, that is, a sphere
shaped bacterium which slugs to
others of its kind, forming little
chain-like structures.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

Tooth Decay, Bane of Hu-
mans Since the Days of the
Gaze Man, Still Is a Puzzle
to Science.
THE decay of teeth may be due
4 to certain bacteria which pro-
duce a chemical condition, which
in turn causes the enamel of teeth
to break down.
This view is advanced tentatively
by Professor T. D. Beckwith as a
result Of experiments which he has
carried on in the department Of
bacteriology Of the University of
California.
Dental carries, to use the medical
term for the condition, is one Of the
Oldest diseases Of which we have
knowledge.
Prehistoric remains bear clear
testimony to the fact that the cave
man suffered from it. But it is a
disease concerning which we know
practically nothing.
AT present, it is not possible to
do anything but to wait until a
tooth shows signs of decay and then
have the dentist drill and I'LL 1t.
There are today two prevailing
theories concerning the reason for
dental carries.
One school of thought maintains
that the decay of teeth is caused
by conditions within the body, or to
state the case technically, that
dental carries is due to endogenous
factors.
The other school believes that it
is due to exogenous factors, that is,
to factors or causes outside the
body. Naturally one thinks first of
bacteria as a possible source out
side the body itself which might
lead to the decay of teeth.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
A True Believer

DUT, in spite of the slow pace
ID there was no suggestion Of in
decision. Although impromptu, the
speech carried the impression that
the Indian revolutionist knew pre-
cisely what he wanted to say. To
be sure, he did not depart from slo-
gans and programs which he has
enunciated many times before. The
phrases themselves were not Strik-
ing. But the intensity of emotional
utterance did move at least one
listener very nightly.
Gandhi'S belief in peace rested
upon his shoulders like a mantle
woven fast. No, more than that. 1t
seemed to enter into the very es-
sence of his personality. And the
thing which excited me was that
here in this warning world a brand
new philosophy is on foot. New not
in the sense of theory, but wholly
novel in the fact that a large-scale
experiment is being made for the
first time
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Daily Thought

Therefore with joy shall We
draw water out of the wells of
Salvation.-ISaiah II: 3.
The condition of salvation is that
kind of belief in Jesus Christ which
authenticates itself in repentance
for the past and in an amendment
of life for the future.-L. L. Noble.
Did the French army use taxicabs
to carry troops to the front in the
World war?
Taxicabs were used to carry
troops from Paris on Sept. 8, 1914,
during the first battle of the Marne.
General Galheni, in order to move
division to the front as quickly as
possible, requisitioned 1,100 Paris
taxis, carrying five men each, to
transport troops to Nauteuil.
To what race do Arabs belong?
To the Semetic family of the
white race.
What date was President Hoover
in indianapolis?
President and Mrs. Hoover were
in indianapolis on June Is, 1891.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HFTMq9D ETG4GS

kind can retrace its footsteps and
give back the railroad, the airplane
the steamer and the vast consign-
ment of 1uxuries and necessities
which are the product of any in
dustrial system. This applies to
proletarian production as. well as
that which is carried on for profit
AS yet Gandhi has not said that
he advocated this life of delving
and spinning for any save his own
countrymen. But if it worked in
India all of us others might well be
touched by it. Nationally I do not
think it is possible. Emotionally ]
am wholly for it, and at the very
worst it is a. lovely dream for all OF
us who live within the canyons OF
great city.
While Gandhi was speaking a
curious noise accompanied his
words. I don't mean static. 1t was
the sound of voices, rather mocking
in tone. I knew that it was not
possible for anybody to heckle the
Mahatma in the small room in
Kingsley Hall from which he spoke.
The next day I read in the paper
that outside the house children we're
playing street games and shouting,
wholly unmindful of the man and
the message behind the shuttered
windows. Yet, although they neither
heard nor comprehended, their wis
dom will in the end be greater than
that of Gandhi Or Mussolini or
Stain.
They will live to find out what
this new world is going to be. They
will be able to feel it with their
fingertips.
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
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PAINLEvE's SPEECH

OepC. 1o
ON Sept. 18, 1917, Premier Paul
~ Painleve of France declared
the views of the French govern
ment on the minimum aims of
France and the irreconcilable atti-
tude of France and Germany on
Alsace-Lorraine.
Premier Painleve declared:
"The Instrumentation of Alsace-
Lorraine, reparation for the damage
and ruin wrought by the enemy
and a peace which shall not be a
peace of constraint or violence, con-
tanning in itself the germ of future
wars, whether strong or weak, shall
be oppressed, a peace in which ef-
fective guarantees shall protect the
society of nations against all aggres-
sion on the part of one among
them-these are the noble war aims
Of France, if one can speak of war
aims when it is question of a ma
ton which, during forty-four years
despite her open wounds, has done
everything to spare humanity the
horrors Of war.
GAS long as these aims are not
reached, France will continue to
fight"
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
A FTER all what does the aver

4 FTER all what does the aver
L n age person accomplish by his
exercise?
The physiologists have found that
healthful man with well-developed
muscles, who is working very hard,
can sustain an average output of
about one-tenth horse power for
eight or ten hours.
If he works himself up to an OUT
put Of two -tenths-hors power, he
is exhausted in two or three hours.
Expert rowerS in racing shells can
work up to five e-tenths or Six-tenths-
horse power, but they are all
through after twenty minutes.
A Ford car or any kind of motor
gets far more done with less wear
and tear on the machine than oc-
ours with the human machine.
For ten to fifteen seconds, the
amount of time required for a 100
yard dash, a human being can de-
velop, according to Haggard, as
much as three to three and a half
horse power.
But what of it? Any kind of an
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Stand Is COURAGEOUS

MIR. SWOPE has taken a cou-
A'A rageous stand, not on impulse,
but after carefully weighing the
consequences. Every sentence in his
address proves that.
He has exposed himself to the
possibility of bitter criticism, but
that is, and always has been, the
lot of those who lead.
Those conservatives who want no
tinkering with what they call basic
laws" will see his plan as nothing
less than a Red challenge. The
radicals who want the government
to boss everything will regard it as
too conservative.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
One Great DANGER

THE great danger of the swope
IL plan is that politicians will
take it over, once industry has put
it into operation.
To answer that, just ask yourself
what politicians are likely to do if
industry fails, or refuses to adopt
some such plan.
You have seen martial law irf the
oil fields and one state legislature
vote for a cotton holiday in 1882
You have seen public compensation
laws and old-age pension laws
spread over an widening terri
tory.
Indeed, you have seen innumer-
able signs to indicate that politics
will undertake the job of stabiliza-
tion and security if industry hesi-
tates.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
MISSISSTPPT dentist is of

A MISSISSIPPI dentist is offer
L n ing to accept cotton at 10 cents
a pound in exchange for his services
and the University of Louisiana will
take it for fees and tuition at the
going price, with a proviso that if
the price rises before it is sold, the
seller will get the profit.
Some small midweStern colleges
are adopting a similar policy with
regard to wheat, all of which sug-
gests that the people not only are
thinking, but translating some of
their thoughts into practical action.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18

1T was impressive to hear Gandhi's
L voice coming slow-footedly across
the Atlantic from Kingsley Hall, in
London. Back in the day when ]
had a radio job, it was my boast
that my delivery was slowest in the
current ether. But it would be i'm
possible to compete with the Indian
leader in the matter of being de-
liberate.
I am told by those who have seen
him that this manner of speech
seems wholly appropriate when the
orator is visible. To the radio
listener there was just a hint of
theatricality. And it must be ad-
mitted that Gandhi prepared an en-
trance for himself by lingering over
his goat milk even after the cry,
You're on the air!" had come to
him,
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Few Better Ones

II IKE every human proposition,
IL this plan presents difficulties
as well as advantages. Insofar as ii
promises greater security for work.
ers and a greater degree of stabil-
ization for industry, it will appeal
to popular sentiment, but insofar as
1t brushes aside some of our pet
traditions, it will not
Those who have been schooled to
believe in competition, antitrust
laws, and individual freedom, not
only in politics, but in business, will
ind it hard to applaud this plan
without an argument, but they will
ind it equally hard to think up a
better one.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
The Public Mind

THOUGH the Huey p. Long plan
Il for holiday next year has
failed, many southern states ap-
pear in mood to restrict produc-
ton by law.
The Texas house already has
adopted bill to limit the planting
OF cotton to one-third of the cul-
tlvated land, and an Oklahoma con-
ference has approved the same idea
That should show what is in the
public mind with regard to stabiliz-
ing conditions.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
It's Quite Curious

1T is curious thing that, though
L we fully appreciate what the
elimination of prejudices and
traditions have done for scientific
and mechanical progress, we still
cling to them in politics and eco
nomics.
We not only have written them
into the constitution, but into many
laws and regulations, assuming
that as long as our ideals are high
or our intentions good, intelligence
doesn't count.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Infection Is PuZZIing

DROFESSOR BECKWITH warns
Il us against expecting any simple
explanation of dental carries. He
points out that bacterial infection
implies the breaking down of the
resistance of the tissues to the bac-
terra.
"Bacteriologists rapidly have been
approaching the conclusion that
disease is much more complex than
merely the growth of bacteria with
in certain tissues of a host" he
says.
Infection denotes a change in
degree of activity of at least two
different factors: First, there is to
be considered the invasive power of
the bacterial organism, and second,
resistance on the part of the tissues
concerned.
According to our modern con-
cepts of growth of bacteria, their
virulence, which is really their in
vaSive power, may vary. Reasons
for these changes are understood
very imperfectly at the present
time.
"The ability to resist bacterial in
vasions on the part of the tissues of
the host constitutes another vari-
able. Infection thus results from
the overturn of a balance between
a potential invader on the one hand
and tissues of changing resistance
upon the other.
"At the same time then one must
not ignore the fact that, no matter
how weakened in resistance tissues
may be, there can be no infection
without the presence of an infect
ing agent.
Unfortunately the injecting
agent usually is close by in this
world of ours, but these principles
underlying infection doubtless hold
in the consideration of dental carries
just as they do in other examples
of invasion by bacterial FORMS
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18

message over so many thousand
miles.
Possibly he might say that this
would not matter. Perhaps I have
been unjust in suggesting that his
delayed appearance was wholly a
theatrical gesture. Maybe there
was symbolism in that, too. He
might contend that the goat milk
of the individual is more important
than the precise time schedule of a
national hookup.
Man Won't Go Backward
NEW economists, whether con-
Il servative or radical, will give
much heed to the notion that man
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
Prejudice Still Rules

ATEANWHILE, the mayor Of At
1V1 lanta is informed that his
services as Sunday school teacher
no longer are desired by Grace
Methodist church because of his
prohibition views.
That shows that prejudice and
tradition still exercise a powerful
influence in this country, that many
of us obey them not only with re-
gard to the specific question in
volved, but with regard to our gen.
eral attitude.
Prejudice and tradition constitute
the greatest obstacles to the Swope
plan, or to any other plan based
on radical chance.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18
SAYS: -

It VIII Be Hard to Think Up
q Plan to Equal or Better
That offered By Gerard
SwOpe.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-with-
IN out attempting to appraise
its value, or advisability, I like the
spirit which the Swope plan repre-
sents, the fearless, clean-cut think
ing, the obviously sincere desire to
offer something constructive.
1t opens the way for definite, pur-
poseful discussion, lack of which
has been one of our greatest handi-
caps.
1t is revolutionary, of course, but
isn't the situation out of which it
grew? Haven't we tried old-fash-
ioned remedies long enough to sus-
pect their effectiveness?
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18

ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one OF Americas most, inter
eSting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to the;E
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude nf
this uaper.-The Editor
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18

creased powers for effective regulation of these super
powerful private trade associations.
If the laws are charged to permit this giant uni
hcaton Of inquiries, neither law nor supreme court
decision must restrict the government in regulatory
function. Until such law can be framed-with or
without constitutional amendment-the plan will not
be practicable
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18

Chicago woman divorced her husband because
he took goat automobile riding and wouldn't take
her. Sure thing, the goat wasn't back-seat driver
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18

German scientist predicts that food some day
will be made from coal. And yet there are folks who
complain of Jumps in their mashed potatoes
The Indianapolis times., 1931-09-18

Most movie critics, says the official sage, judge the
films on hearsay.
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The Ely miner., 1931-02-13
NEW LUMBER TO BETTER
LOCAL HOME BUILDING

OF tremendous interest to local home
owners, home builders and the lumber
trade was the announcement of new
precision lumber for house framing, re-
ceived today by the McMahan Lumber
Company.
The announcement of the new lum-
Der. which Is designed to further better
home construction during 1881, came
from F. < WeyerhaeuSer, Spokane,
Washington, representing the largest
group of affiliated lumber interests in
this country.
This new structural lumber, known
as four square guide-line framing, has
been developed with a number of un-
usual features that make 1t easier TO
build better homes" according to MIR.
Weyerhaeuser's statement received
here.
These features make possible better
construction without additional ex-
pense, and consequently We believe the
new lumber will have decided influence
on increasing home construction and
improving employment conditions in
the building trades during 1884,
Many people are familiar with pack
aged lumber This new precision lum-
Der goes even farther to help the
builder build WELL Every piece is ac-
curately squared on the ends and cut
to exact lengths. Perhaps the most
interesting fsaturs of this new lumber