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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A MONG the Valiants of 1884, let us not forget
n to include the 10000 Chicago school teachers
who though they have not been paid since April were
all on hand for the beginning of the fall semester
/ doubt whether so many unpaid workers could
be mustered in any other calling 1t demonstrates
least that the teaching profession understands its
responsibilities and is unwilling to shirk them.
Chicago is preparing for a worlds fair in 1888 1t
might be good idea to exhibit of these teachers
specimens from the dry era Their fiat purses
would make splendid fell when contrasted with
the vast unbelievable that have been expended
in Cook county Illicit liquor.
And ne doubt city that has paid Mr.. Capone SO
well will get around to paying its teachers one of
these days.
OF course we do not know, we can but wonder
~ whether other public servants of Chicago have
lived for long on scrip. Do the alermen and the
police force and other political henchmen stay at their
posts so faithfully and for small reward?
1t stretches the imagination, but let us cogitate
upon how many of our congressman. how many of our
state legislators, would show up for work with no
prospect Of salaries.
No item of news has shown us what low state we
have fallen has this No other ever could call
our attention forcby to the evils that threaten
our government.
To parent, TO a school teacher, to any one who
has the welfare of children at heart, the outlook S
dscouraging For these Chicago pupils will march out
Of their casroomS by the hundreds of thousands into
world whose adults have so list their sense of honor
that the municipal government of the second city OF
the land makes its racketeers rich and leaves its
school teachers in penury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Just a Smoke Screen

THE people would approve many
Il more experiments if they were
assured of not being committed so
definitely as the present methods of
aw-making imply.
Lacking such assurance, they have
fallen back on argument, which
gives the best debaters, though not
the best thinkers, a great advan-
tage.
Oratory and demagoggery are re-
Sponsible for most of the laws in
this country Catch phrases have
formed a smoke screen to conceal
the purpose as we'll as the result in
many instances.
Worst of all, this habit has pre-
vented the development of any,
thing like scientific frame of mind
toward law and law-making.
Though demanding laboratory
methods in every other important
field, we are content to legislate on
a primitive, semi barbaric basis.
The idea of experimenting with a
particular regulation for a given
length of tirle still is beyond our
conception and, of course, we have
failed to devise any adequate
method of determining results.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
It's Just in Politics

EORTY years ago, the American
4 people were in a great stew over
trust-busting, as they called it. We
have the Sherman act and Clayton
act to show for it. Most everybody
would like to see them materially
altered for one reason or another,
yet the big idea is to do nothing,
until we are ready to commit our
selves permanently.
That is something we would not
think of doing with new type of
dynamo, or a new auto model. We'd
try the thing out to see how it
worked. If it didn't work, after a
fair trial, we'd scrap it. If it did,
we'd consider putting it on the
market.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
M. E. Tracy

We Do Things In Politics We
Wouldn't Do With Any
thing Else, and Demdgog-
gerry Is Responsible for
Most Of the LaaCs.
NEW YORK. oct. IA terrific
~ wind storm over short selling.
just as though it would, or could,
settle the question. Some say it's
the worst possible menace to BUSH
ness, while others call it indispen-
sable.
1t reminds one of two proofread-
ers arguing how to spell a word
for half an hour with a dictionary
right between them.
Stop short selling for six months,
or a year, and we all shall know
more about the part it really plays.
Up to this time, we have seen
only one side Of the picture. Com
mon sense suggests that look at
the other side is necessary before
we can come to an intelligent de-
cision,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Times Readers Voice Their Views

tons. If desire to lower taxes is
really desired, why not look into
the expenditure of money for poor
relief?
A few weeks ago I called on a
tenant who was back in his rent
several months to see if he had any
prospect of work or any chance to
pay some rent to be applied to the
November taxes. He is living on
the township and, of course, there
was no chance to receive cash.
During the conversation, his wife
remarked about the township
groceries. She said that she could
take less money and buy more gro
ceries if she were given the cash.
I asked to see the bills.
saw with only a glance that
she was right and a detailed ex-
animation of the bills showed that
the bills were 10 to II per cent too
high. The following week, when
his groceries were delivered, I was
there and made a note of the
amounts, the weights and the
quality.
On this bill found that by COM
parison with the prices which are
paid at almost any north side
grocery the township had paid 40
cents too much. The total of the
bill was 1929 and the grocery man
had a total Of $3.50. Among the
groceries was one pound of frank
furters which was two ounces short
according to my scales. Every
thing else weighed correctly.
Here is detailed list of his bill
with the prices and the same prices
at other stores, together with the
excess profit:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Forest CoIorfuI
NHRs. AKELEY calls particular

MRS. AKELEY calls particular
4V1 attention to the gorilla forest
in the Pare National Albert.
of all the highly diversified re-
glonS which represent all the zones
of climate of the earth and which
are low included in the Pare Ma
tional Albert" she says, "the goril-
las wilderness home is by all means
the most. impressive.
The landscape is startlingly beau
tiful. Giant forest monarchs crowd
upon each other, their gnarled and
long MISUNDERSTANDING branches
touching and INTERVIEWING. their
massive trunks, draped in long
towering banners of gray-beard
moss of pale green vines, starred
with golden flowers. Here and there.
IN crannieS of bark or in the moss.
brilliantly colored orchids flourish.
Round about is an almost i'm
penetrable underground frightened
by blossoms of many hues. The
LEAKAGE OF the forest, the masses of
gllStening leaves that top the great
trees, gleam in the fitful sunlight in
many changing shades of creamy
yeIlow, aquamarine and emerald.
never elsewhere have 1 seen the
iollage Of forest or so many var
liant shades of green.
The gorilla forest occurs at an
altitude of 5000 to 10000 feet above
sea-level. Once in a long while.
from vantage point on some VOL
canlc rampant, you can see a wide
and impressive view. One such was
on the slope Of Karisimbi, a mile
from our camp, where in 1926
spent six weeks studying the habitat
OF the mountain gorilla"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

For this basket of groceries worth
$2.89, the township must pay $3.50,
or profit of II per cent above the
normal profit that most grocers are
satisfied with. OF the eleven items
with too much on them, only one
was compared with chain store
price.
There are one or two other items
which could be lowered, but were
not, because I did not know what
the quality of the food was I am
not expecting the poor of the COM
munity to eat food of a poorer
quality, but since these are the
prices which I pay, then why should
not this man eat the same kind of
food that 1 do?
Either this man is not getting
enough food for his family or the
township is paying too much. He
works two days a week for this
amount and the food is supposed
to last him & week. He has wife
and three children to feed.
OF course it is impossible to give
them the cash to buy their food, but
it is true. as the mans wife said,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
We Make Mistakes

NTE are forced to make the law
w flexible, whether we like it
or not. That is Illustrated every
time congress, or state legislature
meets.
Instead of recognizing this as a
primary factor, however, we pro-
coed on the theory that we can keep
all the old stuff. The result is a
m GUN tainous accumulation of
statutes and regulations, many of
which are in conflict.
More often than not, we find that
we have made mistakes, but instead
of trying to prevent, or diminish,
this through a system of trial and
error, we go right on piling up of
fetal regulations on a permanent
basis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Wives Who Work

When all men and women who have sufficient
income TO live without working generously turn the.
JOBS over to the unemployed and retire to a life of
goH or bridge, or whatnot, it will be time to con-
slider seriously the suggestion of Representative Har
old Knutson Rep, Mimi that married women with
aoe-oodieo husbands be discharged from government
service and all other positions.
This suggestion has been advanced frequently DIR
ing the course of the depression and as frequently
rejected by sensible employers.
II all the married women workers who are with
out dependents were discharged today, the move
would not solve unemployment Even if an unem-
ployed person could be found capable to fill every
position thus left vacant, hundreds of thousands still
would remain without jobs
To do as Knutson suggests would be to attennt
10 cure an evil with an even greater evil To end
suddenly the careers of workers who have spent years
building them, and probably could not build them
over again, to transform these successful workers
suddenly into the status of dependents would be
drastic and unjustified 1t would be to single them
out deliberately as a future dole-receivng class.
Unempoyment's problems can be solved onlv bv
giving every one, and woman an opportunity
to work not by transferring the bitter cup of idle
ness from one hand to another
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
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REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK
October 2

October 2
ON Oct. 2, 1917, the English re-
" pulsed mass attack between
Polygon wood and Menin road in
Flanders, causing great losses to the
Germans.
Ready for the attack, the English
moved dow the Germans with rifle
and machine gun fire.
A correspondent wrote:
There was one officer who spent
all his time sniping from little
patch OF ground that had once been
a garden. He lay behind the heaped
ruin and used his field glasses to
watch the slopes of rising ground
on his left where human ants were
crawling.
Every now and then he fired and
picked of an ant, until his score
reached fifty"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
It Isn't Being Done

EAN'T conceive of doing anything
~ like that. 1t isn't according to
custom, or rules of the game.
The basic idea of politics is that
you mustn't change an old law, or
adopt new one, until you are
ready to make it permanent.
That's why we have so much
arguing and so little experimenting.
In other lines, we experiment first
and argue afterward, but when it
comes to law, or regulation, we pro-
coed on the theory that it is possible
to arrive at sound conclusions
through talk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Who Rules You?

The people of this city believed that they
had elected a mayor and a city council to
administer their affairs.
After misrule under the old gang ma
chine and brief respite during the receiver
ship under Mayor Slack after crisis of
moral bankruptcy, the citizen thought he had
solved his problems.
Mayor Sullivan went into office with the
confidence of the people. That confidence
has increased. He has been cautious, con-
servative, careful and constructive.
Now it develops that the forces that
hourished under the Duvalls are more power
full than the elected heads of the city gov
eminent and that their final bulwark is the
state board of tax commissioners, who as
sert the right to tell the people of this city
not only how much they can spend each year
but how they shall spend it.
This commission should receive the atten-
ton of the next legislature and certainly of
the next candidates for Governor. A promise
to either abolish the board or to Danish its
membership would be welcomed.
Just what interests are being served by
this commission and by those organizations
in whose names protests against the mayors
tax budget is being made is shown in the
demand that the city chop off a. compare
lively small sum needed to fight the battle for
public ownership Of the gas company.
The utilities do not like public ownership.
In that battle the city is pitted against high
finance and the whole brood of utilities.
Successful operation of the gas plant
might lead to municipal water supply, a
municipal electric system That would cut
out the opportunity to gain millions by ex-
tortion for these necessities.
1t is proposed to tie the hands of the city
as it battles with these financial giants. At
the best, the city is David fighting Coli
ath. The commission proposed to steal his
sling shot. The DIRECTORS would steal the
stone in his hand.
The tragedy of it is that the commission
may have the legal right to carry out this
immoral purpose and thus help the utility
magnates defeat what has been battle Of
years.
When this phase of the situation is un-
derstood, the other objections can be dis
missed as unworthy of consideration.
Any group that proposes such treason to
this city at this time is not worthy of any
consideration. For it is treason to all the
years to come. 1t is treason to growth and
safety and justice.
The battle for public ownership has only
begun. 1t will be bitter despite the victory
in the first skirmish.
There will be appeals to courts until the
last semblance of technical plea has been
exhausted There is no question as to the
moral rights of the city. The people own
the plant. They do not yet have what they
own.
Incidentally any organization that does
not repudiate such demand on the part of
its representatives is destined to forfeit any
claim to public confidence.
The people of this city should rise in in
dgnation against this attack on Mayor Sui
Ivan. He is fighting the fight for the peo-
pie. He should have and will have public
support
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TT long has been known that the
l. gradual change of the position
of man from that of a four footed
animal to one that walks on two
feet brought about significant
changes in the activities of the
tissues within the body.
DIR. r. L. Waterfeld has shown
that definite changes take place in
the amount of fluid circulating in
the blood with a change in posture.
Formerly, it had been shown that
if an individual remained stationary
in the erect posture the total
amount of blood volume gradually
diminished for about half an hour,
when it reached a constant level
approximately II per cent less than
when the individual lies down.
In the erect posture there is a
diminution in the amount of water
and of other substances in the cir
culation.
1t has been thought that this was
due to f1ltering of these substances
through the blood vessel walls, be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Jefferson Had Idea

THE illusionment of permanency
Il is tragic factor in our poll
teal attitude.
How can we expect to make prog
ress with irf1exible laws?
What is statecraft but the express
sion of life as developed and altered
by education?
Thomas Jefferson said that the
Constitution ought to be rewritten
each twenty years or SO, because no
generation had right to impose its
will on the next.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

that she could take less money and
buy more.
I am not criticising the expen-
diture of public money through the
retail grocers, because the expendi-
lures of taxes is to a certain extent
local business, but there is nc
reason for certain men making an
excess profit of II per cent because
it is public money.
II Marion county proposes to
spend $1,000,000 in poor relief dur
ing the coming winter, and it is
all spent in this manner, it will
cause the useless spending of $780,
OOO. That is more than enough to
avoid a cut in public employees nav
and would not mean less to eat for
our poor, either.
N. c. THOMPSON.
6140 Central avenue.
Editor Times-Usually you are
correct, but in The Times recently.
under the caption of How much is
stone weight" the information
given is at fault.
A stone (avoirdupois) is always IA
pounds. The English ton is 2.24O
pounds, having 20 hundredweights
OF 112 pounds each. There are
eight stones to the hundredweight
and two stones to the quarter, %
pounds.
The stone is used every dav in
reporting weights. All sporting COL
umns give the weights of the Jock
eyes in stones and pounds, thus a
jockey weighing SO pounds would
be reported at stone IL pounds.
w. B. H.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Now See the Mess

IT'S curious thing that we can
Il not perceive the wisdom of adopt
ing temporary measures just to see
how they work.
If we had put prohibition on a
purely experimental basis, agreeing
to try it for five, ten or even fifteen
years, we wouldn't be in the mess
we are.
Couldn't think of anything so sim
pie, or sensible, but we had to have
it in the Constitution, or not at all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

Standardization by devauation of the pound or at the
old rate. Germany already has established a new
currency gold, and is not apt to irt with worth
less mark disaster again France very successfully
has devaluated the franc on gold basis
Any American decision now would be premature
But if the United States to meet competition with
Britain and other foreign countries forced to per-
NIT limited and controlled imitation that can be done
by the government bond route without dangerous
tampering with our gold standard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
HEALTH SERVICE------
Posture Affects Blood Circulation

cause of the increased pressure on
them when the individual stands
erect.
DR.. Waterfield found that these
observations were correct, and that
not only is the fluid matter of the
blood less when the individual is
erect for any length of time, but
that also the blood cells become
per cent less.
Of particular interest is the effect
of standing erect upon the legs.
Special studies were made as to this
point.
The amount of fluid was tested
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
by DAVID DTETZ

Parks, Deep in Africo's Inter-
Tor, Preserve Jungle Beasts
for Scientific Study.
THERE are. no doubt, many peo-
= pie, inspired perhaps by recent
movies. who think Of Africa as a
vast, dark, bowling wilderness where
one at any moment is likely to be
confronted by lion, an elephant,
or a band of natives on the war
path.
But the facts in the case seem to
be that the wild phase Of African
life is fast drawing to a close. The
natives rapidly are attaining the
viewpoints of civilization and the
wild animal life threatens to dis
appear.
Many authorities upon wild life
believe that the day may come when
the only lions or elephants to be
seen will be stuffed specimens in
museums.
The Belgian government acted to
Stave off that day by establishing a
great national game preserve in the
Belgian Congo. 1t is known as the
Pare National Albert. This con-
sisted of 100000 acres.
just recently plans were made for
two new game preserves, one Of
100000 acres to be known as the
Pare Leopold, and another of SOC. 1000
acres to be known as the Pare
Ruwenzori.
One of the chief purposes of these
national parks is to preserve Afri-
can wild life for the purposes Of
scientific study.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

Editor T1meS-I am wondering
whether any of our public spirited
leaders, of various walks, ever seri-
ously have considered the feasibility
of sponsoring a movement for the
purpose of aiding and qualifying the
masses for the task of voluntarily
and independently organizing into
groups to start and conduct indus
trial enterprises of their own-along
profit sharing lines.
The universal change in our in
dCStrial activities-from the handi-
craft to the machine-mode of pro-
duction-has hypnotized the major
ity of us into the belief that he who
lacks sufficient capital to start
business has but one available re-
course open-in order to eat.
And that is the policy of being
absolutely dependent on owners of
industrial establishments for
"job," in the same sense as a horse
is dependent on its owner for hay
and oats.
Now, as an unbiased student of
economic problems attached to no
political mess of any kind I dare
maintain that our only escape from
the prevailing ills lies in teaching
the masses to so adapt themselves
(psychologically, mentally, physical
ly, morally, etc. to the prevailing
system of mass production that all
of us Irrespective of present class
distinctions) might derive the great
est possible good.
No power can stop one man from
starting, owning and controlling a
factory. But (get this) thousand
billion gods could not enable him to
run and operate that factory abSo-
lutely alone without hiring others.
When one man is owner and the
rest more hirelings, no power Oegal,
moral or PHYSICAL could or should
stop him from refusing to pay, if he
so chooses. more than 81 as wages
for every $40 or $40 worth of work
produced in his factory, depending
on how good business man he is.
No power can stop him from re-
fusing to hire men over IS, or per-
sisting in hiring married women.
This means, according to official
United States statistics, it takes
nearly 100000, 100000 to pur-
chase at retail all the wealth pro-
! duced in this country annually,
while labor only gets, approx
mately, about s1O,OOO,0O0,OOO as
wages for producing the wealth.
Suppose, on the other hand, that
alphabetically speaking), each and
every economic establishment in this
country, mines, factories, mills,
stores, railroads, etc., was owned
and controlled in common by those
therein actively employed and joint
ly received the full value of the
wealth or service rendered, how
would it suit you?
DAVID HORN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

This is the fourth of series of four
articles by DIR. Morris Fishbein, health
authority, on the Importance of good
posture to health. With the coming of
the indoor season this short series is
particularly fitting at this time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
Daily Thought

And he built his sanctuary like
high palaces, like the earth which
ne hath established for ever
Psalms 1859.
Everywhere, through all ages OF
the Christian world, no church ever
perceived the Word of God to be
against it.-Hooker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
1913 South Mridian street.

Editor Times-Among many COM
meilts made for lowering of taxes is
the proposal for reduction Of the
pay of city employees. 1t is said
that 100000 can be saved in this
way.
Having worked for the city several
years in previous administrations,
I can say that civil city employees
pay is not large and only compares
evenly with that OF private corpora
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

Los Angeles pastor says New York city needs
man like Mussolini. Expect II Duce to demand an
immediate apology.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

Gelatin is mass of holes says scientist. That
would be some consolation if they could get the holes
to match your tie.