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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

memory and habit. That which is i'll
adjusted must go. But not every
timber needs the touch of the torch,
We will have to get along with
human nature. And though it is
quite possible to divert selfshness
and pettiness into new channels. we
shall still have to make use of the
individuals desire for prestige and
the pat upon the back.
The person who insists on
preaching of national self-suficie y
cy," says DR.. Butler, national o.
lation, national separation, and ma
tlonal indifference is only prolong-
ing the life of fear and is adding
1uel to a fire that is already con-
Stunning the wealth and prosperity of
the world. The self-deternoination
OF any nation may change into the
Se1-extermination of that nation"
International Is the Word
ITO this I subscribe utterly. I
find no hope for mankind in
any measures aimed solely at
parochial betterment. But it is not
wholly new thing that we should
make for ourselves visions of world
unity. This is not to distort utterly
the thought of mankind. These
dreams Away have been with us.
They have been preached elouuently
by both political and religious
leaders in the past.
And so think it may be pointed
out that international brotherhood
need not be wrench and a VOL
canic conversation. After all, there is
such thing as getting back to the
wisdom of the past-of returning to
fields where the seed has been
sown. In little patches of wilder
ness there are already meadows
where the flour and the grain
sprouted.
And 1 think the promise of that
millennium in which the lion was
to lie down with the lamb may be
made coed when Nicholas MURRAY
Butler speaks the other words which
come to the mind of those who have
been called arch rebels and insane
fanatics.
Copyright. 1881. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
A Long Road Still Ahead

IRON my point of view DR.. But
l. let still clings to certain an
tique notions. But I must be fair
in saying that almost more than any
other American he has popularized
the international point of view.
Of course, he has certain advan-
tages in presiding as a prophet of
the new order. Aside from the fact
that he speaks and writes with elo-
quence and skill, Nicholas Murray
Butler is not Imam to terrify the
conservative element of the popula-
ton out of a capacity for recep-
tivity.
Some of us radicals step upon our
own feet, For though we may
speak the truth-and even in we'll
considered termS-our reputation for
recklessness hangs like curtain be-
tween us and our listeners. More
attention is likely to be paid to the
same thought when it comes from
the lips of one considered ultra
respectable.
I have Immediately in mind the
address which DR.. Butler made to
the students of Barnard college at
their first assembly. In this he de-
clared that fear has become more
powerful than government, law and
traditional customs.
He declared that men are in ter
ror, lest that on which they depend
slip out from under them, and lest
those institutions and forms which
have been familiar for a thousand
years should collapse under their
very eyes"
And I quite agree that the hope
of change must depend upon a fell
lowship of confidence rather than
those quick decisions which arise
out of panic. never have been
among those who would try to pro-
mote reforms by saying, And if
this is not done blood will flow in
cascades down the streets of your
city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
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BONAR LAWS SPEECH
October II

.ON Oct. u, 1917, Bonar Law,
" British chancellor of the ex-
chequer, acting as representative OF
the prime minister, speaking at a
dinner rendered to Congressman
NIedill Mccormick in London, told
of Britain's reliance upon the
United States. He said:
at see it constantly stated in
German newspapers that that is the
last hope of the allies. We do rely
upon America, and with good rea-
son, for I, as chancellor of the ex-
chequer, am ready to say now what
I should have been very sorry to
admit six months ago, that without
the aid of the United States the
financial position of the allies
would have been in a very disas-
trous situation today.
I'VE have reason to be grateful
for the readiness Of the help which
has been given by Our allies on the
other side of the water in this re-
spect.
But while we rely on the United
States, that does not mean that We
are ceasing our own efforts"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
Peru Bans R0DeaferS

GPEAKING of elections, the peo-
~ pie of Peru voted Sunday under
some rather interesting new laws.
Among other things, these new
laws provide that every male citi-
zen 81 years or over shall register
and vote. In registering, he is pho
tographed and finger printed. Be-
fore voting, he must identify him
self by producing both the photo
graph and finger prints. If he fails
to comply with any of these pro-
visions, he is subject to a heavy
fine.
Whatever else may be said of such
a system, it precludes the necessity
of candidates and party workers
dragging voters to the polls and
thus removes what has become the
biggest excuse for collecting cam
paign funds in this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
Just Every Day Sense
A CQUAINT yourself with the pleasures whict
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

" A CQUAINT yourself with the pleasures which cost
= nothing in dollars and cents" DR.. Mabel Doug
lass dean of the New Jersey college for women wise
ly advises her undergraduates.
How badly youth needs this ad1nontion is proves
by the vast cost of American anusements and the
utterly inadequate satisfaction they to give.
No man is successful unless he has found for his
soul source of inner content To teach us how
to do this should be the main purpose of education
Yet the vocational IDEAL coupled with our materiaistic
conception of success, has contryed to upset this
purpose.
We all know that it is possible to live contentedy
without great income. The trouble is that so few
of us have learned how to do it. Our development
cation. Our ideals have been built money stand
ards alone.
w do not read for themselves but who get their lit
erary ideas from the movies we have very little en-
lghened conversation but great deal of bridge play
ing fox high stakes.
Instead of enjoying the esthetc pleasure one gets
badly we tune the radio and listen to other
people play.
Our entire system of education our whole civiliza-
on in fact, has been erected upon the theory that
the more luxuries have the more contented we
would be- This is, without doubt false theory
The way to true happiness lies in being intel
ectually alive. We have before our eyes today the
proof of that
Probably Nahatma Gandhi of India is the
worlds happest man, and his only garment is a
oin cleth. But he dresses his intellect in many
:olored raiment and his SOU is flame that warns
the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
Caternillars

The other day man was picked up on a street
dead of starvation Around him were wealth and
plenty
In China, more than 100000 people have died
recently, due to drought, flood, and famine On this
side of the ocean that Pangborn and Herndon
spanned in forty-one hours, barns granaries, and
warehouses bursting with food and the farm board
urges farmers to pillow under crops
Over America this winter will wander an arnv of
homeless men who will sleep under newspapers in
public parks, camp under bridges gather in "ungles
like beasts Of the field.
The war department has 100000 surplus army
blankets, $4,000 army COTS $1,000 tents, 1876 great
field kitchens, armories The sterilization board has
150O00000 bushels of wheat equivalent to 5000
one-pound loaves of Bread and it has 1O5OOOO bags
Of Brazilian coffee, enough to make nearly six billion
cups of steaming coffee.
Whole nations suffer, yet America and France.
choking with gold, hesitate to do the simple chart
table essential thing of writing down reparatons and
debts and lowering the tariff walls that have stfed
world trade.
Henri Fabre, French naturalist is quoted by Dr.
James Harvey Rogers in his recent book, America
Weighs Her Gold" as marveling at the stupidity of
pine caterpllars These, he says will travel in an
answering circle about the rim of a vase for days
starving in sight of food freezing in sight of their
nests simply because caterpillar has set the route
with a silken path.
Surely we humans should display more gumption
than pine caterpillars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medics
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MAGAZINE

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
1T has been found that the blood
L serum of people who have re-
Gently recovered from the disease
contains a substance which is of
the greatest Importance in attack
ing the disease.
It is therefore desirable that an
injection of such serum be made
into the muscles and into the spine
of the child that is affected as soon
as possible.
This seems to be of particular i'm
portance in preventing paralysis,
which is one of the most serious
results of this disorder.
During the first few weeks Of the
disease, the child must be kept alb
solutely at rest because infamed or
Initiated tissue will always do better
when quiet.
Later a competent physician, by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
How can an unassisted triple play
be made in baseball?

By the second baSeman or the
shortstop in the following manner:
With runners on first and second
bases, batter hits a hard line drive
toward second which appears to be
going to clear the infield and both
runners start to advance; fielder
leaps high in the air, catches the
drive, steps on second base thereby
automatically retiring the runner
originally on that base and then
runs down and tags the other run
ner before he can get back to first
base
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

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 ~
this uaDer.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
SCIENCE
.RY DAVID DIETZ-

Care IN Making Electrical
installations and Repairs
VIII CIT Nations $780,
100000 Annual Fire Bill.
MINE out Of every ten fires could
IN be prevented in the OPTION of
the experts of the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany, who have been collecting
statistics upon the subject.
They point out that fires break
out year after year, regardless Of
whether we are in a period Of pros
perity or a period of depression. The
annual toll is 10000 lives and $780,
100000 worth of property.
This tremendous fire loss exists
mainly on account of carelesSness
which thrives only because the dan
ger OF fire and the magnitude of its
losses are not more widely under
Stood" the experts report.
The national bill for fires amounts
to yearly sum OF SALT for every
man, woman and child in the ma
ton. The experts say that this
could be reduced to 40 cents per
capita by the exercise of proper
care. In addition, they say that
5000 of the 10000 lives lost an
nually by fire could be saved.
The subject interests the Westing-
house people particularly because
one of the important items on the
list of causes of unnecessary fires is
faulty electrical appliances and
wiring"
The greatest danger, the experts
say. does not come from the original
wiring of a house. This is usually
done we'll and properly inspected by
an authorized municipal inspector.
Difficulties arise through sub
sequent tampering with the cleo
trical system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
Tapping Hazardous

x y Hliio lCtZOl QOUO
HERE are some more dangers to
4 L which the experts call atten-
ton:
In SO out of 100 cases where fire
has been caused by faulty extern
sion cord, the cord is below stand
ard. 1t may have understood wire,
insufficient rubber insulation or in
adequate covering.
Such lamp cord overheats to dan
gerously high temperatures. Also,
the slightest rough handling breaks
down its insulation, resulting in a
short circuit.
Extension wiring is often found
cleated to Dashboard. This is
dangerous practice, because in this
position the wire is exposed to
scuf1ng and humping when furni-
ture is moved or vacuum sweeper
used in its vicinity. The humping
and scufhng break the insulation
and short circuits result.
Another hazardous practice is
that of tapping an extension cord
from a wall switch. Short circuits
are liable to occur either within the
switch or between the wall and the
switch face PTS where the cord
emerges.
I'm the installation of door-bell
transformers, the high voltage wires
are sometimes incorrectly allowed to
cross the low voltage wires. A cor
rect installation can be made just
a. easily and is far safer"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
Daily Thought

For we walk by faith, not by
sight.-Corinthians 81.
Life crowns dark as we go on, till
only one clear light is left shining
on it, and that is faith.-Mme.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE EF935S

effectively than they can be driven
a foot.
And so I think it is well to point
out that even Utopia must take some
cognizance of local custom and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
BogY Methods Won't Work

T DO not. deny the possibility. even
l. in America, of chaotic change
But there is no point in using this
as a weapon for needed revolution
It merely stifens the backbone of
those whose feet are set in the old
modes. It is still true that people
can be led q mile more quickly and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
arm Abandonment

a CCORDING to the census bu-
L A reau, nine out of every twenty
Americans now live in metropolitan
areas containing more than 100000
people. There are ninety-three such
areas in the United States.
The cityward drift about which we
talk SO much evidently has done as
much to draw people from small
towns as from farms. Disregard of
that fact is one reason why its eff
fects are not more clearly appre-
ciated.
We have not abandoned agricul-
ture to any such extent as some
folks imagine. What we have done
Is to concentrate in fewer and larger
communities. A perfectly logical
result Of improved TRANSPORTATION
methods, when you come to think it
over.
Farming 0VerStreSSed
EXCEPT at the very outset, this
IL nation never was so whole
heartedly agricultural as current
writing would indicate. Even in Co
lonial days, trade and manufacture
played a large part in its prosperity.
If you happened to be born in a
village of 500, or 1000 people, you do
not need to be told how few of them
actually depended on farming. There
were the blacksmith shop, the car
penter'S shop, the harness shop, the
grocery store keeper, the lawyer,
doctor, minister and so on.
We really haven't changed the
proportion very much.
We just have made up our minds
that if living in town is preferable,
1t might as well be in a good town.
II n
Distances Reduced
T OTIS of farmers live in good
Il towns and lots of country peo-
pie work in good towns. The auto,
hard-surfaced highway, buses and
electric lines have made it possible.
To the man who has to get some
where morning and night, twenty
miles is no farther these days than
three miles was fifty years ago.
! The convenient distance between
Office and home, or home and the
bright lights has been multiplied
about seven times during the last
two generations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

Potawatami Indians claiming they we're cheated
plan to sue for billion dollars for lands in the heart
of Chicago If the suit against Chicago were for 40
cents, the Indians still would have to be classed as
incurabe optimists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12


Editor Times-The most extrava-
CANT and nonsensical use and waste
Of public funds is in the statehouse
in every department and in almost
every room in each department,
even in the janitors' room. There
is very fancy bottle Of drinking
water there. The good old tax
payer drinks city water, well water,
and out of springs and creeks, but
he must pay high for the special
drinking water for state employees,
and I'll bet plenty the state pays
well for that water. (The joke of it
is, was told by one who witnessed
it, that the bottles are filed with
city water, the state of Indiana
paying two water bills.
j. F. WALKER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
NJ. E. Tracy

The Thorough Trial Which
England Has GiUen the
Dole Probably VIII Prove a
Blessing to Other Coun-
tries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

Now psychologists say the slow driver causes mos
of the automobile crashes. The fast ones probabl,
just get into them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
Fuse Safety Device

nNE of the greatest fire dangers
~ is the replacing of blown out
electrical fuses with pieces Of cop
per wire, a copper penny, a hair
pin or some other metallic object.
A burnt-out fuse should be replaced
only with another fuse, for the fuse
is an important safety device.
The Westinghouse people tell
about a case in Pittsburgh:
AN example of the frightful con-
sequences that may result from
faulty wiring occurred in Pittsburgh
a few months ago. A home for the
aged took fire after dark and in the
chaos which followed, forty-eight
died of burns or shock.
In number of fatalities it was the
worst conf1agration in the city'S his
tory. Testimony at the coroner's
inquest disclosed that the buildings
fuse board had been tempered with
by attendants Who had replaced a
burned out fuse with a piece of cop
per wire.
Although the cause Of the fire
was not established officially this
makeship repair in the fuse board
may have been responsible for the
fire. The coroner emphasized that
this is an exceedingly dangerous
practice
The inspectors approval on
wiring installation is practically a
guarantee against an electrical fire;
tampering by an inexperienced per-
son invites the dangers Of fires.
electrical fires in the home are
sometimes caused by overheated
wires and short circuits. If too
many electrical appliances are load
ed on a single pair Of INFUSED wires,
the excessive current drawn over
heats the wires.
"A short circuit, or short occurs
when current escapes to an outside
conductor through a break in a
wires insulation. Unless a fuse
blows" serious harm from over
heating or sparkling is almost sure
to result"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

NEW YORK, Oct. II. - The
III French press has made a star
ting discovery with regard to our
dollar. The poor old thing is headed
straight for imitation. Too bad, of
course, but what can one do? Moth
ing at all, except offer condolence
and then exchange it for something
preferably francs.
The French press made a similar
discovery with regard to the pound
sterling some months back, and it
worked.
Some people never know when to
let well enough alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

Those Brooklyn legionnaires who are clamor
for beer apparently aren't men about town.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

Three major scandals are brewing in Hollywood
says writer. Say just what is a major scandal"
in Hollywood?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

Anyway, wine bricks make excellent foundations
for certain cellars
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Please accept a
word of appreciation for the edi-
torial wives Who Work." which
appeared in Fridays issue of The
Times. That is the most sane and
sensible view of the matter I ever
have seen printed.
A canvas of the married women
who are working outside the home
would show that 999 per cent of
them have certain obligations and
responsibilities which only their
employment will help fulfill. A
very minor number may be work
ing to buy fur coats, expensive cars,
and live in fine apartments. Per-
sonally, I do not know of one.
do know one who is making a
home for and educating her two
nieces; another keeps an invalid
brother, who has been belfast for
eight years; still another is main
tanning home for her two mother
less cousins and her own boy; an
OOAACA 40 44CAP1A4S Ouy q 1IOLllS anu
aids her own brother, also her hus-
bands brother, in clothing the chill
dren ind has given (not loaned a
very substantial sum to prevent
lapse of insurance and aid in time
of illness and unemployment; an
other is furnishing a home for her
sister and baby, and saving to buy
home at some future time.
Working Wives" do not have
many privileges of church, lodges
and club work; however, all we ask
is a chance to live our lives as our
obligations require. We may not
all nave dependents" but do feel
partial responsibility, at least, for
members of our families.
AS your editorial so finely ex-
presses it-"give every one. man
and woman, an opportunity to
work, not by transferring the bitter
cup Of idleness from one hand to
another" ONE OF THEM.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

Now that Al Capones income has been cut to
$2,OoOOOO we can expect the gangs to take mat
ters into their own hands and bring back prosperity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

Moving pictures, says doctor, are easier on the
optics than books And yet people are operated upon
for film on the eye!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

The government is lining up to prosecute tax
ploterS. Well maybe the line had to be drawn some
where
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-18
He Does His Best.

Difficulties of law enforcement are
strikingly seen, not without their touch
of humor. in the inspection for plants
bearing the japanese beetle which goes
on every day at the District line at
Chevy Chase Circle. There an agent
Of the Department Of Agriculture is sta
toned, charged with the task of stopping
all persons bearing plants with earth
around their roots. and seeing that they
possess the necessary certificates show
ing such earth to be free from beetles.
While this quarantine has been in
effect for several weeks, only a few days
before Easter was any real attempt
made to enforce it. Before that time
the majesty Of the law, as embodied in
printed words OH sign, was supposed
to take care of the situation. AS the
quarantine now works out, one officer
is expected to stop all persons with
plants, and TO prevent their entry into
Maryland unless certain requirements
are observed. It is obviously impossi-
ole for this officer to do more than halt
automobiles with visible plants peeking
from the reaf windows of their cars.
Honest housewives with capacious shop
ping bags, at the botto1 Of which they
may store many plants, are evidently
exempt from all bother about japanese
beetles. so long as they take the street
car, and keep their bag of groceries
on the floor.
Perhaps it is better that one beetle
be caught per day than that this one
insect be permitted to seek happy
home in some nearby Maryland gar
den. But surely If the quarantine
against infected plants is to be worth
while, IT should be enforced completely
and just how the authorities are COINS
to do it passes the understanding o