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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
It's Same Thing
xrTENNA is alarmed 81 : am =

VIENNA is alarmed at 1900 COT
' fee houses; thinks that is far
too many for city of 100000, and
has decided to reduce the number
to 400, or one to every 5000 people.
The Vienna coffee house is a
sort of club, where people meet
to talk over important business,
particularly politics. The authori-
ties have come to regard it as plot
hatchery.
1t requires no straining of the
imagination to visualize New York
speakeasieS in a similar light.
What more convenient place for the
crooks to meet, or, perhaps, get a
grubstake?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
What Do You Expect2

IT'S all right to be against prohi-
l. bition, but it's not all right to
tolerate, if not actually assist, or
gained disobedience to law.
This idea that people can disre-
gard one law openly without pro-
noting disregard for others is one
OF the worst illusionments that ever
afflicted the human race.
We have tried to meet the prohi-
bition issue in behind-t he-door
way-hiring criminals to get us
drinks, laughing while we Tapped it
up and protesting great astonish-
ment that the noble trade of boot
Logging failed to make the thief a
law-abiding citizen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
There Are Bright Spots

THERE still are bright spots if
Il one only looks for them. The
Lindberghs have arrived in Japan,
though "a bit late" as the colonel
remarked, and oil has reached 81
barrel in Kansas and Oklahoma.
That being the price Governor
Murray demanded when he shut
down the wells, every one is waiting
to see what he will do. The chances
are, he won't do anything, until he
is sure the companies mean it.
Did you happen to read what
Governor Murray had to say about
the farm boards suggestion that
cotton growers plough under every
third row?
He said he though it was uncon-
stitutional, thought that neither the
federal government, nor the state
could tell a man what to do with
his garden patch.
But, said he, the same thing
might be accomplished by a grading
system which would eliminate the
poor cotton on the ground of public
welfare.
Isn't it wonderful thing to I'M
derStand the constitution?
Can't make 'em plough it under,
but can stop 'em from selling it
through a grading system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
SCIENCE
-BY DAVID DIETZ

" eighing Less Than an
Ounce, the Thyroid Gland
Is One Of the Chief Regu-
latorS of the Human Bodu.
. ECENE experiments have shown
= that tadpoles, fed on thyroid.
develop at an extraordinary rate
and turn into frogs long before they
have attained the size at which the
transformation NJ ally would take
place.
In some experiments, tiny tad
poles quickly developed legs and
lost their tails, and turned into
miniature frogs no larger than flies.
In other recent expe~im~ tad
poles were deprived of thc.r thyroid
glands. These tadpoles failed to
turn ito frogs, but continued to
grow in size, attaining sizes far be-
You'd that of normal tadpoles. How
ever, when these tadpoles were fed
on thyroid. they began to develop
legs, lost their tails, and turned in
to frogs.
In still other experiments, GER
tain types Of salamanders which
possess gills and normally live in
streams, were fed on thyroid.
These Salamanders underwent
structural changes, developed lung
structures of sort, and were hence
forth able to live on land.
These are but a few of recent ex-
periments which point to the i'm
portance of the thyroid gland in the
scheme of life.
The thyroid is one of the duct
less glands, organs which manufac-
ture secretions known as hormones
which are poured directly into the
blood stream.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25

logical for authors to strive to get
in their own written style some of
the freedom of true talk. One does
not live by rules alone but by the
swift inspiration of passing thoughts
and fancies.
1t is enough to cultivate the ear.
Any sort of English is wrong if it
sounds ugly. Not all the copybooks
IN the world can support it. And a
mellowed phrase should be accept
able though it breaks hundred
regulations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
Questions and
Answers

What is the unit of currency in
Yugoslavia and what is its value in
our currency?
The dinar is the unit of currency,
par value, 1913 cents. The exchange
value on March 30, 1881, was only
1875 cents.
Who wrote the war song "Over
There?"
George M. Conan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
Daily Thought

But let all those that put their
trust in thee rejoice; let them
ever shout for joy, because thou
defendest them; let them also
that love thy name be joyful in
thee.-PSalms 5:1I.
Large asking and large expecta-
ton on our part honor Coda. L
Stone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25

Health Magazine.
HISTORICALLY vitamin 3
4 l. comes first, but because these
vitaminS are recognized in the hui
man mind alphabetically they are
here being discussed in alphabet
cal order.
1t will be remembered that vita
min 81 was really discovered by
Eijkman, who fed the polishings OF
rice to the sailors and thereby pre-
vented beriberi. Hundreds of feed
ing experiments have been con-
Quoted with this vitamin since that
time.
Indeed, much is already known
concerning its chemical character
but that knowledge is so compli-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25

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 nf
this naper.=Thn Editnr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
Time to Quit Theorizing

THINGS are critical not only in
Il England, but in many other
countries. Indeed, it is hardly ex-
travagant to say that they are criti-
cal throughout most of the civilized
world.
The question of what to do has
ceased to be academic. 1t now is a
matter of bread and meat for mil
lions of people. True craftsmanship
will quit theorizing and go to work
with the means at hand. That is
what Macdonald has done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
Appetite Stimulated by Vitamin B

This is the twenty fourth of a series of
thirty-six timely articles by DIR. Morris
Fishbein on GOOD Truths and Follies."
dealing with such much discussed but
little known subjects as calories, vi
tamins. minerals. digestion and balanced
diet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
Less FriIIS and More Meat

DUT an interesting point is raised
Oin the suggestion that revolu-
ton may occur which will bridge
the gap between the written and
the spoken word. Indeed, that
movement already has gained mo-
mentum. Hemingway, for one, is
endeavoring to make pages of print
serve as a stenographic report of
the sounds which takers make.
And I am not willing to admit
that this process necessarily debases
the mother tongue. If we have be-
gun to create two separate Ian
guages, the fault lies not with the
takers, but with the writer's. And
more particularly with the very cap
tious grammarians.
1t is not unreasonable that the
public should shy away from the
precision of ut is I" and take ref
uge with Its me-" The second
version is more concise and Just as
clear, and in the struggle for sur
vival it has every chance to win.
In fact, the day of 1T is T. al
ready has dinmed. Grammarians
can not avail when the rules which
they set forth happen to be tyran-
meal. Many dull fellows were held
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
A StiCkIer for Form

A LII fields of journalism are
L n made to bear the lash of the
professors scorn.
L have SEEM" he writes, "the I'M
ceasing torrent that flows from the
press become each year more VOL
luminous, more turbid, and more
turgid and have come to the con-
clusion that todays English is bad.
that tomorrow'S English will be
worse and that the day after to-
morrow'S will be so completely made
safe for democracy as to realize
Henry Bradley'S prophetic vision of
the tremendous revolution of Gre
ating a new literary language on
the basis of the spoken tongue"
Come, now. professor. That's a
pretty long sentence for a man who
asserts that the strength of written
English should lie in it's simplicity.
1t hardly would survive the blue
pencil of even the kindlieSt copy
desk.
To my ear a phrase such as twill
be so completely made safe" is at
least as ugly and awkward as any
split infinitive. And the play upon
"turbid" and "turgid" can scarcely
escape the charge of redundancy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
Hoover Strikes Down Two Faithful
Servants Who Have Stood By
the People Against the Power
Octopus.

Washington ZIP Chief Ac-
countant William V. King and So
licitor Charles A. Russell of the
Federal Power Commission were
dismissed from their posts immed-
lately after Chairman George Otis
Smith and Commissioners Garsaud
and Draper were sworn in as a
majority of the new federal body
in charge of granting power sites
for public or private development,
on December %. King and Russell,
by refusing to approve the inflat-
ed and fraudulent claims of pre-
license investment, filed by pow
er companies, had saved to con-
sumers of electricity the added
burden of hundreds of millions of
dollars in inflated valuation claims
They had stood out for year and
a half against Executive Secretary
Bonner and the trio of Hoover
cabinet members Wilbur, Hyde
and Good followed by Hurley
who comprised the old commission.
Congress had created an independ-
ent cmmission after the public had
come to realize that the power
trust had a firm ally in Bonner.
President Hoover had picked five
men for the new commission, and
as soon as confirmed they struck
down the two faithful public SER
wants who had blocked the power
trust game.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
FARM BOARD DEFENDS ACTION IN
TRADING IN GRAINS AND COTTON.
Co-operaves Must Do Business in Same Way Regular
Trading Agencies to Meet Competition is Assertion
to Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Washington, Dec. 27.-The farm
board replied today to COMPRESSION
al criticism of its trading in cot
ton and grain futures by explain
ing it was necessary because of
the system which has been estab-
lished by private operators:
Addressing Chairman McNary of
the senate agriculture committee,
the board wrote:
"The cooperative marketing as
sociations in wheat and cotton are
agencies set up by farmers to mar
get their products in competition
with private merchants. In order
to compete for business on even
terms, these co-operatives must be
in position to give the same SER
vices and enjoy the same advan-
tages as a private merchant.
"To do this they have found it
necessary to make use of existing
marketing facilities of which un-
der existing conditions, futures
trading operations are an integral
part.
"Resorting to hedging opera
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02

blame the closing of the bank on
"rumors. On Monday night the
bank officials ordered the arrest of
two depositors for spreading false
rumOrs." The rumors did not prove
false this morning when 10000 de-
positors at one branch alone tried
to get their money.
In order to try to stop the run
on the bank Broderick issued a
statement in which he said. "They
have plenty of money to satisfy
all depositors." This proved to be
a lie. There was not plenty of
money and the depositors must
now wait as 10000 Bank of U. S.
depositors are waiting.
Examiner Pebbles Lies
The fact that the run on the
bank continued after Broderick's
"reassuring" statement shows that
the people are losing faith in the
fake statements of the politicians
when it come to question of the
safety of their hard-earned money
in savings banks.
The closing of this $25,000,000
bank within two weeks after the
crash of the $265, 100000 Bank of
U. S. in the heart of the financial
center of the United States shows
the rapid development of the crisis
and its effects on the banking sys-
tenn. There have already been well
over 100 bank failures in 1880,
with assets of over 700 million dol
lars involved. This exceeds all rec
Ords in the history of the United
States.
N. Y. DepOsitOrs Total 100000
The total number of depositors
involved in New York bank fail
ures is over 100000 and with THEN
families they represent more than
a million people.
Run Started by Rum Seizure
1t is reliably reported that the
closing of the bank was precipitat-
ed by the recent capture by gov
eminent officials of several large
cargoes of liquor, the purchase of
which had been financed by the
bank officials.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
Conference Leaders Battle

Opening games scheduled for the
week following the Christmas holi-
days viii find the leaders in the
Little Four Conference battling
each other for first place. At pres
ent three teams are undefeated in
league games, but after the smoke
of battle clears next week there
will remain only one school perch
ed in first place. Outlook and
Whitehall, doped as the strongest
teams in the league, meet at Out
look on January 7th in what is ex-
pected to be the thriller of the sea-
son. Whitehall has little edge
on the percentage column with a
record of four victories and no de,
feats. Both Outlook and White
tail have defeated Flaxville with
practically the same comparative
scores. On Friday, January 9th,
Outlook journeys to Comertown to
play the other undefeated team in
the conference. Little is known
of the strength of the Comertown
team, but from what dope is avail
able another scrappv battle is
looked forward to. Flaxville and
Redstone, the hardluckers of the
league, with four defeats and no
victories seem out of the running
as far as the championship is con.
cerned; but are well capable of
upsetting any team in the confer
ence. Their losses were due to a
little bad luck and the fact that
they have PLAYED their toughest
games at the start of the season.
The games were lost by a small
margin. All teams in the confer
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02

tions, insofar as they find it pos
sible and desirable to do so, great
ly reduces their problem of financ-
ing their operations. In the past
six months, when wheat prices
have been almost constantly de-
clining, the Farmers National
Grain corporation would have suf-
fered disastrously heavy losses if
it had not hedged its wheat sup
plies"
The board said it did not want
this explanation to be taken as a
recommendation in support of the
present system of future trading,
adding:
"But we have to recognize that
it is the system that has been built
up over a period of 70 years on
which practically all wheat or cot
ton is handled both for domestic
use and for export; and it is oul
conclusion that under existing
conditions cooperative marketing
associations and sterilization cor
porations must, in appropriate
practical ways, deal in futures as
well as in spot wheat or cotton"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02

largely responsible for bringing on
the crash, and they have proved
themselves powerless.
How long is private banking
leadership to continue? Maybe the
statistics of bank failures for JAN
uary and February, always the two
worst months for unemployment,
will help to answer that question.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02

Hon. Sam Teagarden, stormy pc
trel of central Montana, widely
known newspaper man and politi-
clan, editor of Teagarden's Re-
porter of Denton, and Senator
elect from Fergus, "signed Off on
the morning of Friday, December
10Th, at the home of his daughter
at Lewiston.
In the death of Sam Teagarden,
the state loses one of its outstand-
ing and most aggressive progress
sives. 1t is particularly unfortun-
ate at thi time, as it was expected
that Teagarden would be one of
the battlers for the people in the
Safe Senate this winter, His pass
ing leaves Fergus county without
representation in the Senate of
Montana. To secure a man to
take Teagarden's place in that
body will require a special election,
and the session will be partly over
before the new election can occur.
However, it is mandatory under
the law that an election shall be
called. However the time for the
campaign need not be protracted.
In regard to Teagarden's death.
his paper, Teagarden's Recorder,
has the following TO say:
1t is with deep sadness that
we inform The Recorders read
ers this week, of the death of
Editor Sam w. Teagarden,
which occurred at two o'clock
Friday morning, December 18th,
at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Guy Dodge, in LewistOwn,
where he was taken on the train
Thursday evening, a few hours
prior to his decease. Editor Tea
garden, as our readers all know,
had been in a poor state of
health for a long time and to
many his death is not at all sur
prising. However, during the
past two weeks, or rather up to
Monday night of this week, he
was able to be about as usual
and had planned on taking the
trip on Tuesday to Fort Benton,
with A. c. Edwards, ]. B. Dick
son and r. S. Andrew to attend
the highway meeting. Monday
night he was taken seriously ill
and was bitterly disappointed
that he was unable to accompany
them. Tuesday afternoon he
was feeling somewhat better
, but Wednesday his condition
took change for the worse and
the following day his daughter
and husband were summoned
from LewistOwn. After their ar
;; rival and after consultation with
DIR. Paul Halleck, who was called
In, it was decided to take him to
! LewistOwn where MIR. and Mrs.
Dodge could assist in caring for
him. Mrs. Teagarden accOmpa-
| MED him on the train and it was
! she who called up this morning,
! Friday, the paper being a day
late in publicatiOn), and inform
ed us that Mr.. Teagarden had
passed away at the hour above
stated. Funeral arrangements
; have not been perfected at the
i hour of going to press"
The funeral, one of the larges
! ever witnessed in that city, wa
= held at Lewistown, at the chape
t Distinguished pioneers of the stat
t were pallbearers. Interment wa
e made at Lewiston.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
INCREASES AT
u. S. MINT IN DENVER

Denver, Dec. 20 The United
States mint in Denver received
gold and silver bullion valued at
$13,402, 37796 in 1880, said a re-
port today of Frank E.. Shepard,
superintendent. Of this amount
$12,720,670.41 was gold. The total
amount of bullion was 1882, 163. 80
greater than that of 1929.
Colorado contributed $3,160,255
in gold and S76,549.76 in silver.
South Dakota shipped the larg-
est amount of gold-$8,311,357.77
Most of it came from the famous
Homestake mine.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
TEN MORE IN THE SOUTH

Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 81 Ten
banks and two branches in eleven
northeast Mississippi towns were
closed today. All were within a ra-
dius of about 30 miles and the sit
uatiOn was described as a local one
by S. J. High, president of the
Peoples Bank and Trust Company,
of Tupelo, the largest Of the clos
ed banks.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02

OcHeQuIS Oh gdmeS'
January Z. Whitehall at Out
look.
January 9. Outlook at Conner
town.
January %. Redstone at Out
look.
January %. Whitehall at Com
ertown.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
KING AND RUSSELL ARE DISMISSED
FROM u. S. POWER COMMISSION

out. Rep. Will Wood, chairman of
the Republican congressional cam
paign committee, emerging from a
talk with President Hoover, an
nounced that every good Repub-
ican" would stand squarely behind
Lucas in his attempted killing off
of Sen. Norris. That announce
ment showed where Hoover stands,
and emphasized the challenge to
all the prOgressives, foes of power
trust government, by the admins
tration.
RECALLS
ANCIENT HISTORY
The Hoover-Norris war is lik-
ened to the war between Taft and
Pinchot in 1911, which started
when Louis B. CLAWS, an en-
plOyee in the land office, was dis
missed by Secretary Ballinger be-
cause he tried to block the giving
of vast coal deposits in Alaska to
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS interests.
When Chief Forester Clifford
PinchOt, in charge of national for
est lands which contained part of
the coal spoke out in defense of
CLAWS, Taft dismissed him also.
Then congress started an investi-
cation, and the voters gave their
decision by electing Wilson in the
fall of 1912.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
BONNER OKEY
AT WHITE HOUSE

Bonner, resigning his job indi-
Gated that he was still in favor at
the White House - a suggestion
that nobody in the capital doubted.
Smith had been warned by liberals
who are defenders of public own
ership that dismissal of Russell
and w. V. King would start a new
fight to Gust the power combine
from operation of the commission.
The new chairman ignored this
warning.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02

CHILDREN hate to take medicine
as rule, but every child loves
the taste of Castoria. And this pure
vegetable preparation is just as good
as it tastes; just as bland and just as
harmless as the recipe reads.
When Baby's cry warns of collie,
a few drops of Castoria has him
soothed, asleep again in a jiffy. Moth
ing is more valuable in diarrhea.
When coated tongue or bad breath
tell of constipation, invoke its gentle
aid to cleanse and regulate a chiId's
bowels. In colds or children's diseases,
you should use it to keep the system
from clogging.
Castoria is sold in every drugstore;
the genuine always bears Chas. H
Fletcher's signature.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02
SAM TEAGARDEN
"SICNED OFF,

Senator Elect of Fergus County
Died at 2 O'clock, Friday Morn
ing, December 10, At the Home
of His Daughter in Lewiston
Leaves Fergus County Without
Representation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-01-02

Continued from First Paae)
absolutely honest man, but who
has allowed himself to be mislead
by the slick and plausible talk and
representations of Frank French
and the corrupt Republican gang
which has been looting and NAL
administering the county in viola
ton of the law and in contempt of
the authority of the state, is not
satisfied with the way that things
have been going and therefore is
glad to be away from meetings.
Anker is, and has been, in a bad
situation, in that he is a minority
member of the Board, he could do
nothing in the face of the French
Iverson combination and was lust
forced to ego along" In fact it is
said that French and his tool LIVER
son used to meet secretly, lay their
plans, and then slip it over onto
Victor Anker, always pushing An
ker forward because of his high
standing for honesty and integrity
among the people of the county. Ii
is even rumored that Anker is so
disguised with things and affairs,
that he is seriously thinking of re-
signing. However, it is said that
he will be back home about the
middle of the month when he will
no doubt announce his intentions
Anker, now with Carl Hansen on
the Board, has a chance to have
some say about things, with the
assurance that there will be no Sc.
cret meetings between Carl Han.
sen and Frank French behind his
back, and with the assurance OF
this condition things may look bet.
ter to him, and he may decide t.
stay.
Meeting All Set
When the farmers and taxpayer:
arrived about fifty strong, mostly
from the Dagmar-C oalridge coun
TRY, with few from other section,
that happened to be in the COUNT
seat, and took advantage of tn,
opportunity of the occasion. the,
found the commissioners cali set.
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