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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

the extraordinary campaign which
built up this small man in the eyes
Of his fellow citizens.
1t was probably the greaest pro-
pagandic achievement ever carried
to success in this country.
Take that simple phrase so often
associated with Herbert Clark
Hoover in his early political days.
I refer to "the great engineer"
Modern research has disclosed the
fact that Mr.. Hoover's connection
with the mining industry was al
most wholly that of the promoter
rather than the technician.
And, after the manner of all pro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Leader Is Needed

DUT now, with the ebb, it is
~ necessary for us to find some
man with a vision beyond the mere
comfort Of consoling phrases. The
philosophy of the Standpatter may
be persuasive until the deck begins
to burn. But when the conflagra-
ton starts, any country needs a.
leader who has the gumption to
turn and to jump. And it really
does make a difference in which
direction.
1t has been said again and again
that there is no need to worry or
complain about the present depres-
sion, because we are sure to climb
out on the other side. It has been
pointed out by partisans of things
as they are that this is by no means
the first period of hard times
known in America.
Indeed, it is easy to establish the
cyclical quality of suffering and pri-
walton even in the richest country
in the world.
But I'm blessed if I can under
stand why this should be an argu-
ment for the preservation of the
present system in it's entirety. A
motor which misses once every so
often on most of its cylinders isn't
geared right
And the great engineer will be
the man who can set it on a basis
which will keep it from the neces-
sity of such frequent trips to the
repair shop
Copyright. 1881. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IT'S all very well to call upon the American house
l. wife to exercise her ingenuity and thrift and so
resuscitate expiring prosperity but long
have the politician with us, no good will come of that
1t is not the housewife who has wasted substance of
America. 1t is the henchmen of political parties
Our government costs us a great deal more than
it is worth Perhaps at this particular time it would
be unwise to retrench since that would letting
out many civic, state, and national workers and thus
swell the ranks of the unemployed
But did you ever hear of an individual a nation
who cut down expenses when prosperity en-
joyed? Is there any assurance that the depres-
sion is over and resume cockness. the vicious
accumulation of barnacieS on the old Ship of State
will not continue and even increase?
Are we ever going to scrape them of? And what
will happen to our ship eventually if we do not?
She'll sink. That's certain. At any rate now is a
very good time to contemplate dry dock for getting
rid Of leeches.
XXTHEN We face cold hard facts, the money each
w party spends elections would feed all the
hungry in the land Even the kindIiest critic admits
that it took pretty good number OF millions to put
Mr.. Hoover in the White House in 1928.
How much will it take to put him back in 1882?
And how much can the Democrats rake up to run
their man?
Whatever this may be and however it terminates,
1t probably will not be worth it to the taxpayers
1t should be considered a high crime for either
party TO spend more than a moderate sum on any
election. For when Offices are valuable to any group
of men that they will put up millions for themselves
or their friends to sit there something is wrong with
the system, and the common citizen is likely to be
the goat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Ont Of the Grave

CPEAKING Of death, Lewellyn
~ Hall, of Cleveland had a narrow
escape from it, much narrower
than one likes to think about.
He collapsed while sitting in a
rocking chair. His wife could detect
no signs of life, so she called a
police ambulance. The police could
detect no signs of life, so they
started for the morgue with the
body.
Hall being 80 years of age, the in
cident was not regarded as unusual.
On their way to the morgue, the
police stopped at a hospital to get
the necessary death certificate.
Like all the others who had ex-
amined him, the physicians could
detect no signs Of life in Hall, but
some sixth sense inspired them to
try a stimulant, and it worked.
The man not only regained con-
seriousness, but walked in on the
mourning neighbors who had
gathered at his house during his
brief absence. When Mrs. Hall
tainted at the shock, he helped to
revive her.
Such things happen, in spite of all
folks say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
ADVANTAGES Cited

IT is fact, however, that there are
l. many psychological aspects to
the question of calendar reform.
The need for giving these attention
is stressed by Professor Howard C.
Warren Of Princeton university who
has been a student of the question
for many years.
THE popular mind clings to ira
dition in the fundamentals of life"
says Professor Warren, "aS shown
in our persistent cleaving to our be-
wildering system Of weights and
measures, and the British adherence
to their inconvenient monetary sys-
tenn. 1t often requires a social
cataclysm, like the French revolu-
ton, to uproot these traditions.
AN added difficulty arises in the
case Of calendar reform, due to re-
ligious doctrines and prejudices.
In Christian, Jewish and Mo-
hammedan countries the seven-day
week with its one day of rest, has
been recognized from time imme-
mortal, and any attempted dislo-
cation Of this cycle inevitably meets
violent opposition.
The real problem, then, is how to
overcome this popular inertia and
religious protest.
"Of the two proposed schemes, the
thirteen-month year and the
smoothened twelve month year, each
has certain advantages. It is easier
to associate day and date in the
thirteen month scheme, since these
are the same in every month; the
seventh always falls on Saturday,
the thirteenth always a Friday.
In the twelve-month calander
one has to remember three associa-
tons; in the Swiss calendar, for in
stance, the first of the month is
Monday in January, Wednesday in
February, Friday in March; Mon
day again in April, and so on-a
very simple and easy reckoning
compared with our present calendar
where no one but an expert can
tell on what day the twelfth Of next
October falls, or the date of Labor
day, or when school or college will
open next year."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
This Small World

THE world may be growing
L smaller, but people are grow
ing more numerous. What is more.
we keep better track of what they
are doing. That accounts for the
seeming increase of queer incidents
and human interest stories.
You hardly would look for the re-
port of a fatal encounter with a
lion on the front page of a New
York newspaper, but there it was
IN Fridays World Telegram
straight from Africa, and with all
the details.
w. H. Herren, railroad contractor
OF Aberdeen, Wash, had gone on a
hunt for big game, taking some
friends and motion picture camera
along.
Having wounded lion, he
thought it would be interesting to
film the beast before it died, but it
turned on him UNEXPECTEDLY and he
was so badly torn in the struggle
that he died a couple of days later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Progress and Problems

WE excuse ourselves because of
w the new problems involved,
but who imagines that another set
will not have developed by the time
we understand those we are now up
against, if not before.
New problems constitute an ines
capable part of progress.
We must expect to meet them
continuously and eternally, if we
go on, must expect to get into tight
places, make plumbers and suffer the
consequences.
There is no such thing as stabil-
ity save through stagnation.
Something can be done to ease
the shock, but it will be a shock just
the same.
Life insurance has done a great
deal to take the money sting out of
death. When you have said that,
however, you have said it all.
Death goes right on, and it's mis-
fortune, even if the widow and chill
dren do get few dollars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
CAPTURE OF ITALIANS
OCT. 81

ON Oct. 81, 1917, an official re-
~ port from Berlin announced
that 10000 Italians and 1000
guns had been captured on the
Tagliamento Plain.
The engagements in which the
Italians were captured, were de-
cleared in the dispatch to have
been very successful"
A new Austrian army under
General Won Krobatin moved
southwestward from the Carnic
Alps and attacked Gemona. The
Germans pushed on southeast
ward from Udine.
On the same day, Germans in
Brazil were declared in revolt.
The Brazilian army was n1ozilized
to handle the situation.
Chairman Hurley of the United
States shipping board, promised
that the United States would
have ready during 1918 ships
totaling 5000, 900 tons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

IDRS. D. N. DUNLAP and R. M.
~ Murray Lyon, Scotch physi-
clans, are convinced that most peo-
pie who get fat do so because they
eat too much and take too little
exercise.
There are. however, many in
stances in which two people eat ex-
actly the same diet in the same
amounts, one becoming overweight
and the other retaining normal
weight. The obvious difference in
these two cases is the manner in
which the body disposes of the food
that is taken in.
1t is we'll established that the
glands of the body, including par
ticularly the pituitary, the thyroid
and the sex glands, are related to
the question of the disposal of
sugars and of fat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Meet the World

DEOPLE never will get very far
4 with courts, leagues, pacts and
other formal methods of co-opera-
ton, until they really know one
another.
Personal contact is out of the
question. 1t would take at least
1000 years to shake hands with. or
say "how do you do" to the adults
On earth.
Publicity through every possible
means is our only hope of develop
ing the right kind of acquaintance
ship and understanding.
Whatever may be their shortcom-
lngS IN other respects, the news
paper are performing a wonderful
service in this one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
NJ. E. Tracy
People Never WIZ Get Very
Far With Courts, Leagues
and PGcts Until The q
Really KnoaO Each Other.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Speaking
on the possibility Of preventing de-
pressions, Albert H. Wiggin, dis
tinguished banker, says that what
we have learned, the next generation
will forget"
That isn't all Of it. The next
generation will try new ex-
periments, on the value of which we
are unable to give it good advice.
Most every one admits that the de-
preston through which We are pass
ing is without precedent. that many
Of the causes which brought it about
are of recent origin, that the reason
we didn't see it coming, or haven't
done more to ameliorate it, lies in
the fact that it caught US COM
pletely off guard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
No Work and No Beer

A ND so I think that emphasis
L A should be placed on work rather
than beer. 1t is a little silly to
talk about mans right to a bever-
age during days in which he is shut
off from his bread.
Accordingly, would prefer rad
ical dry as against a conservative
wet. Or, to put it in even more pre-
else terms, Norris would be my
man, in spite of his dryness, as
against the genial, damp, and con-
sentative Ritchie of Maryland.
1t is a pity that so much of our
public thinking gets off on side
tracks and One-siXteenth way meas
ures. There was, for instance, the
recent conference between Premier
Laval and President Hoover. That it
was better than nothing at all I am
ready to admit. But that isn't any
thing much.
The joint statement issued by our
President and the French premier
had just about as much color as a
tepid glass of water. It represented
no disposition to embark upon the
necessary reconstruction of the
world.
Now and again people praise Her.
bert Hoover, because they say he
represents the view of those who
would discourage rocking the boat.
This seems to me to constitute an
altogether false concept of the
world in which we set. The boat is
rocking. We should not. fool our
selves about that.
And, rather than try to hold a
leaky craft on even keel, it would
be much more sensible to look for
a stancher and more sturdy
steamer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
SCIENCE
BY DAVID I)IETZ-

The Proposed 13-MOnth Cal
endar Would Create a Fri
day the 18Th" EUery Month
and a NelO Year Day With
No Other Name.
THE subject of calendar reform
Il is a topic of much discussion
today among scientists, economists
and business men. Recently a
QUESTIONABLE was circulated among
members of the American Astro-
nomical Society as means of OBJ
tanning the opinions of the nations
leading astronomers upon the sub
ject.
The movement has received con-
siderable impetus from the fact
that George Eastman, capitalist and
philanthropiSt, and the head of the
Eastman Kodak Company, has be-
come an ardent advocate of calen-
dar Simplification.
Several schemes for reforming
the calendar have been suggested.
The most drastic is the thirteenth
month calendar, which would pro-
vide thirteen months of % DAYS with
an extra day which would be New
Years day. New Years day would
belong to no month and would have
no designation as a week day. Each
year would begin with New Years
day, which would be followed i'm
mediately by Sunday, Jan. /.
Other less drastic schemes merely
would smooth out some of the IL
Irregularities of the present twelve
month calendar.
1t has been pointed out jokingly
-bkt the joke may have some basis
of truth-that a chief objection to
the thirteenth-m calendar
would arise in many quarers from
the fact that every month of its
year would contain a Friday, the
18th. And worst of all the thirteenth
month would have a Friday, the
18th.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Acquaintance WidenS

INOQ NITIINITOC VYTUGTTO
ON the same front page was the
~ story of a boy-eating tiger in
Siam-a tiger that wouldn't take
the second bite out of an old man.
1t all shows what wonderful new
system We have developed, and how
hard it is for anything. strange, i'm
portant, or interesting to occur,
without immediate and widespread
publicity.
That, more than anything else,
is helping people to know each
other, to establish a community of
interest and sympathetic under
standing, which, after all, is the
only sound basis of peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

motors, Herbert Hoover came to
look only on the bright side of
things. When a mine is far away,
it is easy to convince yourself of
the thickness of the vein and of it's
enduring quality.
And it was characteristic then
that prosperity should have been
ballyhooed to us as if it were a
bonanza which never could be ex-
hausted. Indeed, but for the turn
of vast economic tides, Mr.. Hoover
might have ridden forces over
which he had no control to the
same political popularity which
draped itself around the innocent
shoulders of Calvin Coolidge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

American dwelling is seriously defective" but the
statement was made by the committee of expert
architects and it bespeaks their sincerity
whole side Of our economic and social life as a
nation will be improved if the President through his
experts can point definite way toward better and
cheaper homes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
Daily Thought

Therefore they sacrifice unto
their net, and burn incense unto
their drag; because by them their
portion is fat, and their meat
Observation-Disclosures 2:16.
When half-gods go. the gods ar
riVe.=Emerson
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31
As BACKGROUND Made Him

rs background Wade Him
ONCE upon a time I used to pic
~ ture Herbert Clark Hoover as
an arch villain. Now I have
changed my mind I don't think he
is an arch anything.
After all, a certain touch of
genius is essential to the great
malevolents of history. Mr.. Hoover
undoubtedly is far more sincere
than his enemies are willing to adj
nit. He is victim of his press
agents.
Sometime the story will be told OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-31

How many factories in the United
States build aircraft, and how many
employees do they have?
In 1929 there were 1T aircraft
factories, employing 1856 workers
with annual pay rolls totaling Sl8,-
804, 527.
What are the dates and places for
the Grand Army of the Republic
encampment this year?
Des Moines, Ia. Sent IN to Is !.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
WOMAN DEFIANT OVER ARREST IN
 MINE TROUBLE
Aided Families of Miners
 and Is Thrown Into Cell
 as Criminal Syndicalist

Harlan, Ky. Aug 20,--tUP)--- An attractive 23 year old woman facing a ?0-ycar sequence on n charge Of criminal syndicalisn told tho United Press to-day: "l will stny in Harlan county Jail all my life before I'll be scared out of this coal field trouble" She |, Mrs Jessie Wakefield, field representative of tho Iptcrnntional Labor Defense. She has been in jnii two weeks.
 "Becauso gave good food Co families of miners in Jnil, distri' butod literature Tor thcir cause and made speeches in Harlan. | wns arrested and placed in jail, under $i0.00o' bonds, pcrsecuted to satisfy the coal operators" An in' vestigation. Mrs Wakefield said, showed nt least 40 families m the county "deetitute" because of the Imprisonment of miners on charges of murder and criminh ayndlcnlism. Aid to them ceased after she was jailed. she said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
JUDGE PEASLEY INJUNCTION IS
 SOME CHANGED
Judge O'SuIlivan Permits Peaceful Picketing at New Haven Factory

Bridgeport, Conn. Aug 20.---Up) Permission for peaceful picket Ing has been granted strikers of the Arthur Seigman. Inc, necktic factory In New Haven by Superior Court Judge Patrick B. O'Sulllvnn'
 strikers had pctltioncd Tor dis- solution of temporary Injunction against their pickoting Issued Fr'- day by Judge Frederick M. reaslcy. Moro thnn 200 were in court yes- tcrduy and some 60 witnesses were ready to testify for tho company The hearing lasted all day with no indication of q conclusion before tonight when Judge O'Sullivan asked counsel to confer with hih' In chambers. Al the end of the two- hour conference tho court ans nounced it would not bcneccssary to hear witnesses as ho had de- cided to modify the injunction to permit peaceful p'ckctina. He warned against intimidation or breach of the peace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
RHODE ISLAND TO HAVE PADDOCK
 PROCEEDINGS
Asst U. $. District Attor. ney Beane Has Been Ordered to Lock Up Wet Spots

tsr-TtNst,fs sAsbsstf5,l1 s,auf:x :xrAlsd sds,, .--George 70, SBeane, Assistant W S district attorney. hns been insfrlct cd to start paddock proceedings against Rhode Island yiolatorp of the prohibition law.
 Sinco prohibition only one saloon has been padlocked in the state but with Beane's appointment to hnn- de such cases the practice is cx- pccted to become widespread. Own- CTS of the properties will he prose- cuted as well as bartenders arrest ed in raids on bpeakeasies and sn- looms.
 Beane's appointment was made last night by 1T. S. District At- torncy Henry M. Boss, Jr.. after n conference with assistant U. $. At torney General c. Aaron Young quist who visited here in connection with the drive against bootlegging and federal income tax evasion.
 Boss announced todny n checkup will be made of all federal alcohol permits issued in this district. He said he believed n large amount of tho alcohol issued to Rhidc Is- land cosmetic manufactures wns being diverted Into illegal chan nels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
MEAN TILE PARALYSIS
 SOME AID
Manufacture of "Mechani- cal Lungs" Has Taken Great Boost - Small Plant in Boston Works Night and Day

Boston. Aug 20.-UP)-Deprcs- sion or no depression, the me chanical lung" industry Is booming
 A small manufacturing concern In tho Back Bay Is operating night and day to fll the demand for this comparatively new device.
 Current prevalence of infantile paralysis In several eastern states has measurably increased the num- Der of orders, according to officials of Warren D. Collins. Inc. the only concern In tho country which pro- duces this automatic breathing ma chine.
 The lung" costing $2,0O0. is known as the Drinkcr respirator. having been invented by Professor Philip Drinkcr of the Harvard School of Public Honlth in 1927. Though the rcSpirator has several uses. 1t has proved especially valu- able in the treatment of infnntIle paralysis. An 18-year- girl, vic-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
WIFE OF YOUNG JOHN CABOT IS
 SERIOUSLY ILL
Not a Case of Attempted Suicide Says Her Path. er.in.Law, Dr Hugh Cabot

Boston. Aug 20--tuP)-tIope was held today for the recovery Of Mrs John Bolt Cabot, wife of tho scion of one Of Boston's oldest families who was fin serious con ditlon at Massachusetts General hospital
 Her father .in.Iaw. Dr Hugh Ca bot. consulting surgeon of the Mayo Brothers of Rochester, Minn., wns somewhat mystiiled as to the nature Of her Illness. Indications were. however, that Mrs Cabot may have taken m overdose of sleeping tab let's.
 "Any suggestion Of suicide is quite unJuStiiiod md has no basis, v Dr Cabot suid, The young woman. daughter of the Rev and Mrs Ed ward F. Dixon of Moores, pa.. was found by her husband lying uncon. scious in their west end apartment Monday. their first wedding anni. vcrmry. some improvement in Mrs Cabot's condition was reported overnight and doctors believed she would recover. Young Cabot is ga years old and q student nt Massa- chusctts Institute Of Technology.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20
CHARLESTON STATE PRISON
 PUT UNDER EXTRA GUARDS
 TOPREVENT ANY OUTBREAK

Nine men, believed to have bern tho ring leaders of the dis turbancc. were removed from their cells and placed in solitary con finement. They were to he held there until the situation qiietcd down.
 To-day the inmates had reached a state of suilen silence but War. den Hoasett believed they would remain orderly. He said tho Tou- bio started when threa prisoners escaped n few weeks ago. From the prison grapevine" hc said he learned tho three men we're to hay opened the way for some too more prisoenrs to escape but failed 10 do 10 and their !disa ppointnien' at not esttinR their chance q, free dom. he believed. was responsible for the present disobodience ol eutAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-20

Boston. Aug ?o.--tuP) )--- Extra guards. state and local police were in readiness to-day to qucll any outbreak nt CharIestown state pri- son where some S75 inmates brooded rcstlcssly after a night Of "ynmmerins' and general disor- der.
 Special guards were posted last night and after conference bc. tween pr A. Warren Stearns. state col i-sioper of corrections. and Warden Jnmcs r.. HoRsctt state police were notified to be in readiness in case of outbreak,
 The entire institution was flood cd with scarchliRhts but guards were unable to silence tho "yam mering" and a continual roar o' dtscontent and hanging Of tn plates and cell doors was heard most all night