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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
The Indiana Lerionnaires

The division of the delegates to the American Le-
gion from this state on the subject of prohibition
indicates the measure to which politics may have
tered into the domination of that organization.
II there is any organization that should stand
firmly on the principle that the people have right
to direct their government it is that Of the men
who fought in the
The politicians of Indiana have long kept the
question of prohibition in the background, except
where it could be used to prejudice the fanatical
Both parties have hesitated to take any stand
whatever under a fear of the professional drys.
A majority of the Indiana delegates to the legion
voted for demand that congress resubmit thesmat
ter to the people for a final decision. These dele
gates represented the majority opinion of the legion
only the interference Of politicians at the state
vention prevented such a vote being taken here
1t is improbable that the people will tolerate for
any great period of time the evils that have come
through the eighteenth amendment 1t is idle to lay
the evils to the reinforcement. 1t is now recog-
nized by every government agency that enforcement
is impossible
Today the government is being corrupted from its
lowest policeman to much higher brackets by the
organized bootleg forces The racketeer has taken his
recognized place as dominant figure He terrifes by
his political power as he frightens with his machine
gun.
Inc INDIANA leglonnaIeS VINO nau Ine courage
to take stand deserve praise. They are right in
saying that it is not political question 1t is mat
ter of saving the nation and its stability.
The question ought not enable hard drinking hypo-
critics who pledge themselves to the professional drys
to get into Office there to serve secret masters of
privilege and mask their own servy to every force
of freedom by high-flown promises of supporting the
Constitution"
The question should not permit in wet territories,
similar servants of evil to obtain Office in order to
help rob their constituents.
1t is time to take the question out of partisan
politics and destroy it as a pretense and mask for
the unfit. The legion proposes to do this 1t pro-
poses to put it back in the hands of the people them
Selves to be voted upon not in connection with can
didates, but as an issue of it's own.
If the vote does nothing else, it will unhorse the
hypocrite and the pussyfooter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

+ Asst year, according to news from Boston, the
IL American Board of Foreign Missions, the old
est in the land spent two million dollars its bust
ness abroad.
Apart from efforts at evangelization it established
Schools set up hospitals dispensareS and clinics and
engaged in all kinds of social service
I do not wish to minimize the worth of all this,
but am still of the opinion that the two million
might have been spent better at home And for ex-
actly the same thing.
Anybody who believes that this nation is Chris
far indeed from the teachings of Jesus Christ A
large might be well used to get us back to the
simple fundamentals of our professed faith
Our iliteracy rate is high The number of citizens
who lack the rudments of education is too great,
while the poor the SICK and the unfortunate clamor
at doors.
THE missionary idea causes us to set too high a
l. valuation on our own excelences. Our religion
may be comforting, but the manner in which
we practice it is not always conducive to the good
Of the convert Our bathing facilities may be better
than those of the barbarian seek to reform, but
it is doubtful whether morals always are.
The history Of the Christian missionary movement
is OF inspiration 1t is a story of zeal, beauty
and self-sacrice and of lives of holy endeavor. But
tereSts followed the preacher and that after the
Bible stalked the warrior.
Cortez converted the AztecS but he also took
their land And it is highly doubtful whether the
Christians that wrested America from the Red In
dams did much more for God than they did for
themselves.
Our faith has produced saints, but entirely too
many soldiers have marched beneath the banners
of the Prince of Peace.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

heart, of the kidneys, and even
of the peritoneum, resulting final
ly in fatal peritonitiS.
There also is considerable evil
dence to indicate the relationship
of infected tonsils to colds, to in
fected ears, to fatigue, to nervous
ness and rheumatic symptoms.
If it could be proved definitely
that removal of the tonsils early
in life prevent entirely or diminish
greatly these diseases, routine re-
moval of the tonsils would be adj
vised by all physicians. Unfortun-
ately absolute proof of this fact
can not be provided.
There are many other possibili-
ties for the production of colds,
of nervousness and of fatigue be-
sides infection in the tonSils. Fur
thermore, the tonsils are not the
only gandular structures involved
in the upper respiratory tract.
The adenoids, which lie in the
postnasal cavity, also may be in
fected seriously and transmit infec-
ton to other parts of the body.
Hence the combination "tonsils and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
All Petty Reasons

IN situations like the present, when
Il thousands of people are in
distress, you can see major reason
for petty crimes, but that is not the
greatest trouble.
What bothers us is major crime
for petty reasons, and that is
characteristic of some of our other
activities.
You see an autoist driving sixty
miles an hour, passing up traffic
lights, if no cop happens to be
around, taking his life IN his hands
every moment and, ten to one, he
has no cause to hurry.
You see two men in a hot argu-
ment, waving their arms, calling
each other names and threatening
violence, and it's ten to one that
they are quarreling over some I'M
important detail.
You hear of children burned to
death in a locked house only to
learn that the parents had gone to
a movie.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times am beginning to
understand why there are robberies,
bootlegging joints, and women who
sell their souls for mere pittance;
why men and women commit sui
eide and murder. For the last five
years we have had nothing but re-
verses.
From an honest, tax paying $50
week earning family, we've been re-
duced to a state bordering on pau
perism, through no fault of our
own. When our first job hzzled on
account of the firm going bankrupt,
we just drew up our belts, cut down
all possible expenses, and with a
set grin set forth in quest of an
other job.
After several weeks of daily
search of every possible place where
men were hired, I landed a job in
an auto factory at night work. MAX
ing $22 to SGT week, out of which
must come, lacking few cents, the
sum of 81 a week car fare.
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that. bought cheap used car and
got enough passengers to enable me
to save the 81 for the family for
about three months.
This job held out and then the
depression set in, I was laid off in
definitely, with hundreds of others.
Again I set forth on a job hunt.
This time landed one at a fence
factory, paying at the best SIS to
$40, as I had to wait my chance
at getting on a machine.
For a family of seven, this sum
scarcely will cover necessities, let
alone keeping up appearances or
personal comforts.
held this job practically all
winter, then the factory shut down
and for many months our living
was a hand to mouth affair. Our
rent and insurance got in arrears
and to save our insurance we began
to sell our best pieces of furniture
until at this writing our furnish
ings are just a few odds and <ends
of things that even the junk man
refuses.
After weeks of search everywhere
that I could get to, I finally bagged
a job with a local firm and for
nearly three years I've been there,
sometimes making as low as 81 a
week and all the way up at various
times to $40 to $50. And over a
period of seven months my weekly
wage was less than SIS a week.
Now if such wages (and it was
the best I could do and am lucky
to have that, as there are II or if
teen families right in my town who
aren't even fortunate enough to
have a pretense of a job are con-
ducive to law-abiding citizenship,
I wish you'd put it down in black
and white on the front page of your
paper.
Our family numbers seven, four
children in school to buy books and
clothes for and the school manages
to change two or three books in
each grade every year. There are
taxes, and insurance to pay and,
ii you expect an undertaken, you
have to have insurance, for that is
the first question he puts to any one
before he begins his duties.
Then there's coal and lights and
rent and water.
Work is so scarce at the shop
where I'm employed that three
more weeks will cover it all, at the
rate of S13 a week. Now what I'd
like to ask the law makers, the gov
ernments, the fraternal orders, the
readers Of The indianapolis Times
and all religious societies just how
many such cases there are in the
state of Indiana, in the United
States, that equal mine and worse.
For my part I'd rather steal or
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walton Army, as we know that it
then will be given out properly.
Prohibition, charity funds, and
commissions are the largest racket
for the politicians that this country
ever knew, and it will be hard to
tear them from it.
What we do need in this country
is laws that can and will be en-
forced and laws that can not be
used by politicians as a source of
graft, and lawyers who will keep
the cases drawn out until the crimi-
nails money is exhausted and then
have the judge give him medal.
A poor starving devil who steals a
loaf of bread is either drunk or the
worst kind of criminal and gets
three years within twenty-four
hours.
The largest thing that will help
the welfare of this country is for
congress to dispense with the serv-
ices of our President, Andy Mellon,
who is there merely to see that
things are run for his and his
friends benefit, and another year
with Andy will see all of the money
in the world owned by him and his
friends.
Let the engineer who has made
millions from monthly salary take
over Melons job until his term is
up, but let congress tie his hands, as
he, like our good Governor, does not
to this day know just what it is all
about.
If the exploiting of the American
people by the millionaire class and
the politicians does not cease, it
must mean back to 1776.
I have voted the Republican ticket
for many years, and last year voted
Democrat, and see what I got in
our play boy legislature, so don't
know how to vote next time.
H. EGAN.
781 Middle drive, Woodruff Place.
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PEACE NOTE REPLY
September rs

ON Sept. Is, 1917 DR.. Won Seyd-
" Ter, the Austrian premier, gave
his opinion on the peace proposals
of Pope Benedict. Won Seydler said
in part:
Our readiness to arrive at an
agreement with our enemies is
absolutely serious and sincere and
is inspired by the consciousness of
our strength.
But if our enemies are not pre-
pared to take the profered hand,
we will continue our defensive war
to the utmost.
Believing that strong Austria,
insuling contentment of all races,
is TIE best guarantee Of lasting
peace, we are striving to reform the
constitution, and the government
resolutely condemns the mistaken
view held by certain parties that
Austria's salvation is to be hoped
for from Austria's enemies"
On this cay in the World war,
Germany and France each lost a
famed aviator when Captain Guy
nemer. French airman and Lieuten-
ant Vosse, German. were killed in
battle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
No DecadenCe Here

Nv GOOCOOllOC IOI
Asst Friday Grove recorded his
- thirtieth victory. And in the
entire season he has been charged
with only three defeats. Moreover.
1t is pertinent to dwell upon the
TACT that even in his reverses he
pitched brilliantly, only to be nosed
out by some narrow margin. Others
have won more games, notably
Sergeant Jimmy Bagby, back in
1920. But Grove stands supreme
among left-handers, and his win
ming percentage constitutes an all
time record.
It may be, however, that, in spite
OF his notable achievement. less
glamour will be associated with
Grove than that which surrounds
the. dead and gone. Unfortunately.
he seems to lack the requisite &C.
centricity which makes for genius.
or, at least, the Semblance of genius.
Possibly posterity will give more.
heed to RUDE Waddell because he
went on fishing trips at inappro-
pirate times and made for himself
a myth as well as pitching record.
1t was Waddell, you may remem-
Der, who upon occasion called the
entire outfield in and proceeded to
strike out the next three batters.
And, though Grove probably has as
much speed and as sharp a curve
as his Philadelphia predecessor, he
can not quite match him in the
matter Of moving down batters by
the strikeout route.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
Damp, but Victorious

MY favorite type among the
1V1 artists was jeff Tesreau, once
with the Giants and now coach
for Dartmouth. During one par
ticular season certain love letters
of Tesreau became public property
through the medium of breach of
promise suit. And one missive
have always treasured in my heart.
1t began:
Honey Lambkins:
They knocked me out Of the box
in Boston yesterday. But it wasn't
my fault. A cold wind was blowing
and I couldn't get warmed up.
can't pitch unless I sweat"
And in this sentimental outburst
of Mr.. Tesreau'S to his love I think
I see the germ of moral which
should be needed by all Of us who
act or write or paint pictures. Not
for us should be the self-contained
and careful product of the stingy
individual who proceeds with all his
pores closed.
Like JEFF himself upon the mound,
1 suggest that we toss into the eff
fort all the energy which can be
mustered. Indeed, I look for a bet
ter and sweeter world when every
one is living at q pace to put HIM
self in a lather.
tcopyright 1891. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
We Won't Stop Crime

IN advocating a change in the pro-
Il hibition law, let us avoid the silly
attitude which brought it into be-
ing.
We did not stop crime by adopt
ing 1t, and We are not going to stop
crime by repeating, or modifying it.
Prohibition has helped crime by
financing certain activities and or
CARNATIONS in the underworld and
by encouraging the protection OF
criminals, not only through corrupt
politics, but growing disrespect for
law. Beyond that, it has little bear
ing on the crime problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25

Our Greatest Weakness Tsl
Motion Without Purpose.
Speed Without Ob5ectiUe,
Excitement Without Justi-
fcdtion.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-The
IN American Legion now is lined
up with the American Bar Associa-
ton. the American Medical Asso-
citation, and the American Fedora
ton of Labor for a showdown on
prohibition.
Is it too much to expect that
political leaders see the wisdom of
giving the American people an
opportunity to express themselves?
In this connection, please remem-
Der that a great deal could be done
to hberalize the prohibition law.
without repeating, or modifying the
eighteenth amendment, enough,
perhaps, to make it Of some practi-
cal value, instead Of costly nui-
Sance.
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Dat Ole Devil Efficiency

UNFORTUNATELY, something
~ of calculation and coolish eff
cheney enters into the technique of
the lanky lefthander of today.
When first he came from Baltimore.
Grove was all fire and fury. His
every pitch was an attempt to
thrust the ball by his adversary
without even letting him lay so
much as the edge of the bat upon
the ball.
Those days have gone. Connie
Mack, the games greatest techni-
clan, tanned this youthful en-
thusiasm and channeled it into
the grooves of efficiency.
In the days of his youth Lefty
Grove had a habit of spending his
art before the end of the sixth
inning and then blowing up with a
loud, resounding bang. He has been
taught to jockey along and take his
ease when working with an ade-
quate lead.
Although he gets his share of
strikeouts, there is a disposition on
his part to make the batter hit and
spare himself some extra effort.
The smoke ball is not his constant
delivery, but held il reserve for
times of crisis.
In other words, Lefty Grove has
evolved from the complete artist,
putting everything of shoulder and
soul into each pitch, and now is
much more the captain Of industry
working upon statistical charts of
profit and percentage.
I suppose that this particular
form of tragedy afflicts many out
side the field of baseball. 1t is true
of writer's and AT painters. They
come to know restraint and a Ger
tain caution. : They attune their
offerings to the public rather than
attuning the public to themselves.
I like the more exuberant sort of
pitching and of painting which
slapS on the whole capacity of the
man with every delivery of brush or
wrist. For me the gaudy forms of
art and baseball are the best.
1t is a pity that so many of us
are frightened by that hogey called
bad taste" AS I understand it, bad
taste generally is sin tied up with
doing too much rather than too
little.
I think that the arch crime lies
much more among those who are
guilty of understateme-lt and over
restraint. The calm precision, the
f1nesse. the sickness of the ex-
perienced practitioner. leaves me
lukewarm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
It Seems Incredible

THE authorities of Suffolk
L County, Long Island, are hunt
ing for lunatics in connection with
the Ceilings murder, because it
seems incredible that any man in
his right mind could have COM
mitted it.
We would be compelled to regard
good many murder cases that
way but for indisputable evidence
to the contrary.
Off-hand, I can recall the case Of
grandmother who was shot be-
cause she wouldn't give her 15-year-
old grandson a dollar, a millionaire
who jumped out of a window when
he discovered that his fortune had
shrunk by one third, a conductor
who was slain because he refused to
pay a gambling debt of ten cents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
Result of PiQue

ITO certain extent, the crime
l. problem is bound up with the
disorder and discourtesy which
characterize our daily life, the dis
position to crowd each other of the
sidewalk if it helps us to go a little
faster, the inability to throw off our
tenseneSs even for moment, the
everlasting urge to get in ahead"
Our greatest weakness is motion
without purpose. speed without OBJ
jective, excitement without iustifi-
cation.
You can see some excuse for
suicide if man is afflicted with an
lncurable disease, OF has done some
thing which promises to blast his
life, hut half our suicides are the
result of childish pique.
The same thing is true of our
murders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
They Don't Care

THE Iowa militia has been called
Il out-1,500 men under arms,
costing the state a lot of money
and what's the row?
Why, farmers in three or four
counties don't want their cattle
tested for tuberculosis; say it's all
nonsense and that the testing does
more harm than good.
Instead of exercising little pa
thence and betting on the process
of reason and education, the health
authorities rush in with an army,
well knowing that some one is like
ly to get killed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor 10 rnaI of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

MANY years have passed since
AVA the medical profession first
recognized the Importance of re-
moval of infected tonsils because
of their relationship to disease.
Tonsils sometimes are removed
simply because they are so greatly
enlarged as to interfere with swal-
lowing and breathing. Between the
simple enlargement and the severe
states of infection in which the ton
sis are filled with pus, there is a
wide variety of possibilities.
Much investigation has been
done to prove that the infection
in the tonsils may be carried by
the blood to other parts of the
body, and there set up secondary
infections which threaten life.
There are established cases
in which infection of the tonsils
was followed by infection of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25

bootleg than ask the county for aid,
knowing the procedure as / do, but
at present I've had to do neither,
due to letting the years taxes go
delinquent, getting behind on the
rent about five months, buying the
kids only one summer dress and
one suit apiece and one pair of
shoes and stockings.
Our prospects for the winter are
certainly dreary, for we've skimped
and saved and done with make
shifts for so long that our clothes
and bed clothes are giving out.
It looks like it would be far more
sensible for the money people to
put few dollars on families that
are doing their best with what they
have than to put it on monuments
and statues costing millions of dol
lars while hundreds of future citi-
zens face cold dreary winters, half
clothed, half fed and looking to
mother and dad for warmth and
comfort that mother and dad are
helpless to provide unless they re-
sort to unlawful methods.
Hope this letter will be printed in
the readers column, that it may
waken people to the fact that China
is not the only place where people
are hungry and having troubles.
There are plenty in Indiana who
would appreciate a job with suf-
flcient pay at least to provide win
ter comfort for a family of children.
MOTHER AND DAD.
P. S.-Borrowed this paper to
write this on.
Editor TimeEI have read with
interest many cures for the relief
of the unfortunate this winter, and
among them noted one that the
highway fund be turned over to
some charitable organization to dis
tribute, as the travelling public has
plenty of roads and can put up with
it for a few years, and the poor
devil with no heat or something
to eat does not require roads.
I would suggest in connection
with this suggestion that all relief
money be turned over to the Sal
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IT SEEMS
TO NE
- BY Haywood Broun -
Days Long Past Had Their
Great Men, bat They Never
Had a Lefty Grove.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this
column are those Of one Of Americas
most interesting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their agree
ment or disagreement with the editorial
attitude Of this paper.-The Editor.
TN an age which is not likely to be
4 described as golden, we constant
ly are being reminded Of the fact
that things are not what they used
to be. To hear the veterans speak,
there were giants IN those days.
Actors stalked the stage and mani
tested stature rot prevalent
among us.
The great composers are dead.
The painters and the sculptors of
another age lowered over their pig
my survivors Of the year 1881. At
least, so I hear. wasn't there when
the marvels and miracles paraded
to the delight of an enthusiastic
public.
But there is, at least, one point at
Wnlcn we OF the younger and the
mlddle-aged generation may chal-
lenge the CATERS who sit in the
CHIMNEY corner and grow reminis-
cent about past glories.
One man among us can stand I'D
ana stop their wagging tongues.
FOR when was there ever in the his
tory OF the world, from the days of
Perlcles down to this very after
noon, as great Southpaw pitcher
as Mr.. Lefty Grove of the AthleticsP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-09-25
DAILY THOUGHT

And Jesus called a little child
unto him, and set him in the
midst of them.-Matthew 1872.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but
hard words bruise tie heart of a
,hild.-Longfellow.