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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
The Bonus Fight

The American Legion in this state an
nounces a determined drive for the immedi-
ate payment of the bonus
The National Economy League will try
to convince the people that such payment
at this time is impossible, that it can be paid
only at tremendous cost to all business and
would result in such financial chaos as to Gre
ate more unemployment, more misery, more
widespread dislocation of industry.
To those of the legion who proudly an
nounce that the movement now is in the
hands Of different group than the desper-
ate men who went to Washington, the ques-
ton may be put as to whether this is a de-
mand for bonus or a demand for relief
The answer is, of course, easy and con-
vincing.
If members were not in need because of
unemployment, not because of war services
there would be no demand for payment at
this time.
The whole movement for immediate pay
ment of debt not due for a decade comes
from the fact that unemployment has re-
duced many members of the legion and other
veterans organizations to want
Their troubles are exactly those of the
other citizens who will be compelled to pay
in some form of taxation, should the money
be printed or borrowed for this purpose.
If a job could be provided for every man
who today wants his bonus, only a few would
take the money, and those few would
waste it.
In the final analysis, the bonus payment
creates preferred class of those who want
governmental relief for unemployment.
All class legislation hurts those not in.
Guided in it's benefcence
The bonus is not the answer. At the
present time it means more disaster for those
who now demand it. In the end it could
easily result in national chaos.
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fed and kept warm through the
charm of Franklin Roosevelt.
And the remedies which he sug-
gests sound to me like pretty much
the same thing as Hoover plans,
only said more graciously
Merely Popularity Contest
IF you like, there is an issue be-
l. tween the two contenders of the
major parties in the matter of per-
sonality. Long ago I recovered
from the hereSy of assuming that
good fellows in office spread sweet
ness and light, even down to the
lower depths.
I honestly felt that it was impor-
tant that James j. Walker should
beat Hylan.
AS things stand now, I could wish
that Norman Thomas was a man Of
far less persuasive appeal. 1t wor-
rieS me that many are going to vote
for him because he is an attractive
personality, 1t isn't quite true
that any reason will do. Other
urges are so much more vital.
He deserves and should receive
support from those to whom our
present estate and even our estate
before the crash of 1929 didn't be-
gin to be good enough.
I suggest to voters that, after all,
this isn't a bathing beauty test, but
a national election.
Copyright. 1882. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
Science Aids Medicine in Il. B. War

There still are mothers who send
their sick children to public schools,
where they spread disease to the
well.
Modern civilization demands a
certain amount of control over ac-
lions of the individual.
The diagnosis, the treatment, and
perhaps the prevention of disease
in the individual has been and must
continue to be the work of the in
dividual physician.
The prevention of disease in the
community must be the work of the
public health officer and the social
service worker.
No doubt, the best results will
be accomplished in penetrating into
the unexplored regions of tuber-
culosis, and in lowering still further
the mortality rates by intelligent
and sympathetic cooperation Of
these three professions.
No small part Of their labors will
be the education of an uniformed
public as to the part that it must
play in securing the desired result.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

of artificial ultraviolet rays, of the
Xray, of various drugs and anes-
thetics, has come in fields correlated
with medicine and has been applied
to the benefit of the human being.
1t is quite conceivable that
progress in the control of tubercu-
lOsis may depend not only on dis
coveries made in the field of med
icine as such, but also on discov-
cries made in allied fields
The chemists, the physicists, the
psychologists, the workers in the
field of plant and animal husbandry
are all engaged in research which
may, in the end, lead to the type
of dramatic control of tuberculosis
that has been mentioned.
In the meantime, there is plenty
for idle hands to do.
I do not agree that the work of
social service in this field has been
a type of meddlesome shopping,
leading to little or no result.
There still are vast. numbers of
our population who have not been
educated as to the necessity of the
control of disease in its earliest
stages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
Need Can Be Determined

CRITICS of the Whitney plan
~ have wondered how it would
be possible to tell a needy veteran
from the other kind They could
find out by consulting the relief
committees, which have been up
against that same problem with re-
gard to all classes Of people.
Considering the vast sums of
money raised and expended to pre-
vent suffering, this is late day to
raise such issue.
The fact that we have chosen to
treat veterans all alike with regard
to adjusted compensation does not
mean that they are alike, but it has
forced them into position where
they had to ask relief on that basis.
1 never have been able to see the
wisdom or fairness of this govern
ment promising to%pay millionaire
$1,000 in 1945 and refusing a hun
CRY man bread in 1882, because both
came under a blanket law which
made no discrimination between
them.
I believe that the vast majority
Of people in this country are just
as much opposed to seeing any
veteran suffer as they are to dol
ing out a bit of easy money for the
convenience of those able to take
care of themselves.
believe that it is only common
sense to make a distinction, as Mr..
Whitney suggests, and that it would
do a great deal toward clarifying
the issue.
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Questions and
Answers

How can burning oil be ex-
tinguished?
1t can be smothered with sand
or earth or a wet blanket or rug
Or it can be extinguished with a
chemical eXtenguisher.
Do ex-Presidents and their widows
receive a pension from the govern
ment?
Former Presidents do not receive
a pension. 1t has been the practice
of congress to grant special pensions
to widows of former Presidents.
How many known chemical eIe-
mentS are there?
Ninety-two.
Who was the leading man in the
motion picture "The Big Trail?"
John Wayne.
Under what religious auspices was
the funeral services of Florenz
Ziegfeld conducted?
Protestant Episcopal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
Plan Seems Fair

A S readers of this column know,
L n I am opposed to payment of
the bonus as provided by the Pat
man bill, but 1 find it much more
difficult to quarrel with the Whit
ney plan.
I can see the injustice of asking
the hard-preSsed taxpayers of this
country to put up money for men
who don't need it. I can see the
risk of issuing paper money.
I can see the desirability of re-
sisting what threatens to become a
constant and increasing demand on
the public treasury.
But when it comes to refusing
help for men in actual want, on
the ground that "a contracts a con-
tract" especially after all that has
been done to assist banks and cor
porations, I am not so sure that
care to go on record as favoring it.
1t strikes me as putting rather
cold-blooded Interpretation on pub
lie policy.
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The Important Thing

a N editorial in a recent issue of
n the New York Times calls at
tention to the argument between
Millikan and Compton and express
es relief over the fact that Compton
says that if he is right, then Milli-
kan is wrong.
It calls attention to the fact that
lately, when two conflicting observa-
tons are made, scientists assume
that both are right.
Eddington, for example, this
writer says, puts down equations to
prove that the universe is expand
ing and shrinking at the same time.
Or, for example, scientists think
of space as being both finite and in
finite.
It's too bad this editorial writer
was not present at one conversation
we had at Cambridge. During dis
cussion in a group which included
Eddington, DR.. Karl H. Compton.
Arthur's older brother and the pres
ident of Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology, suggested that the cos
mic rays may be both particles and
waves.
His idea was that swift cleo
irons entering the earth's atmos-
phere might give rise to extremely
short waves when they collided with
the atoms of air. Thus, both cleo
irons and short waves would be
present.
In conclusion, I would like to al
lude to conversation 1 had in
Cambridge with DR.. Walter 6.
Adams, director of Mt. Wilson OBJ
servatory
His astronomers have been max
ing the measurements upon which
EAlstein, De Sitter, Eddington and
others. have been basing much of
the discussion concerning the ex-
panding universe and so on.
7 asked Adams what they were
going to do in the midst Of the
present profusion of conflicting
opinions.
He said that they were going to
go right on making measurements
and accommodating new data.
That is che important thing. It is
interesting that scientists are in VIC
lent disagreement. 1t is important
that new data is being accumulated.
1t is to be hoped that eventually
all the facts will be sorted out and
an agreement reached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
Eddington'S View

T Asst month, at the meeting Of
~ the International Astronomical
Union in Cambridge, Mass, I talked
with Sir Arthur Eddington, world
famous British astronomer.
Eddington said that he thought
Millikan's view of the formation of
cosnlic rays the most probable, but
that he disagreed completely with
Millikan as to their significance.
Millikan regards the cosmic rays
as proof that the universe is not
running down. To him, they are
cosmic rainbow of hope, proof that
somewhere in space, the universe is
being wound up again.
Eddington says he does not see
why that follows. Stars, he says, are
aggregations of matter giving off
energy. Gradually, they are cooling
off and in the process becoming
denser.
According to <Eddington, the
process by which light atoms COM
bine to form heavier ones, giving off
cosmic rays while so doing, is ex-
actly the same kind of a process.
To him, cosnic rays are just one
more proof that the universe is run
ming down.
Sir F. w. Aston, another world
famous scientist, was also at the
Cambridge meeting. Aston told me
that he agreed with Eddington that
the universe probably was running
down, but that he could not agree
with Millikan Or Eddington about
the origin of the cosmic rays.
He said that the evidence that
they were formed by the union of
light atoms to make heavy ones
seemed very unlikely to him.
While we were at the Cambridge
meeting, we received news of Arthur
Compton's measurements north of
the Arctic Circle.
Compton said that the rays were
DETECTED by the North Magnetic
Pole and that therefore they were
In other words, he said
that they were particles and not
waves at all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
People S Voice

Editor Times-My countrymen, we
have entered another national po-
litical campaign calling the elector-
ate of the country to vote on Nov.
8, as to whether they are content
with the status of government
affairs, as a result of nearly twelve
years of unbroken Republican rule.
Not so much as a Democrat nor as
a spokesman for any party, but as
an American citizen, I should think
not, however, what little one must
know about a great nation COM
posed of forty-eight sovereign states,
with diversified interests, and con-
ficting applications of policies best
suited to meet the requirements of
each, with people varying in in
dustry, habit, and intellectual
capacity, home training and ed
ucational pursuits.
Yet it does seem to me that, after
going through what the people have
in the last several years. they would
know from dire and disheartening
experience that Hoover has neither
statecraft or leadership and that.
knowing as much as the average
American does about government,
good laws and the discipline of in
situations, they would all vote the
Democratic ticket this election.
If a little fellow like me would
dare cast the slightest shadow upon
the President Of our country, I
should like to ask the voters: Did
not Mr.. Hoover tell US that he
would do his best to help the labor
ing class? Has ne done it? Didn't
he say he would not allow wage
cut and that we should maintain
our standard Of living. Didn't ne
say emphatically that prosperity
was just around the corner?
May the Lord once more Bless
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
SaneSt PROPOSAL Yet

N|HAIEVER else may be
w thought of Mr.. Whitney's
plan, it would seem to square the
bonus situation with actual need,
the governments financial straits,
and practical business methods.
From the pro-bonus viewpoint, it
is quite the sanest proposal yet
made.
1t eliminates the squandering of
public funds on those who can get
along without assistance. 1t pre-
cludes the dangerous venture of in
f1ation. 1t humanizes q controversy
which thus far has been warped by
technically and red tape.
AS Mr. Whitney says, IF I gave
man my note, due in ten years,
and he were to come to me at the
end of five, explaining that he was
in desperate circumstances and
needed the money for actual neces-
stiles, I would be brute not to pay
him if I could"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DTETZ.

Frank Sulliuan Sees Great
Fun IN Astronomy, Proving
Every Theory Wrong After
-Four Days.
Drank SULLIVAN, the engag-
ing humorist, writes in the
New Yorker an amusing take-off on
the recent solar eclipse.
He tells of a new theory known
as the "smudge theory" which was
the sensation of the astronomical
world until Professor Einstein proved
it wrong four days later.
All astronomical theories, he re-
marks, are proved wrong after four
days. And, he adds, that is what
makes astronomy so much fun.
Many readers, following in par
ticular the argument going on be-
tween DR.. R. A. Millikan and DR..
Arthur H. Compton, Americas
only two living holders of the Nobel
prize in physics, over the nature OF
the mysterious cosmic rays, may feel
that Sullivan is right.
The world was excited few
years ago when DR.. Millikan an
nounced that the cosmic rays were
waves like X-rays, only thousands
of times shorter than X-rays and
thousands Of times more penetrat-
ing.
Millikan, following many expert
ments, took the position that the
rays came in equally from all di-
rections and represented the syn
thesis of heavy atoms from light
ones in the far corners Of the uni
verse.
This was his position when I
talked to him last spring. Whether
he will change his mind as re-
suit of the experiments, which he
is conducting at the present time,
remains to be seen.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
HaaJfh


TINE mechanical methods of
Il treating tuberculosis are, of
course, aided by the use of suitable
preparations for inducing rest, as
well as by attempts to attack the
germ and its effects with drugs, in
the same way tina tarsphenamine
attacks the germ of syphilis or that
diphtheria antitoxin attacks the
poisons of that disease.
Out of this type of research
came such preparations as sanoc-
rysin, the gold cure; cynacuprol, the
copper cyanourate-potassium cya-
hide cure; and the biologic prepara-
lions known as the Dryer antigen,
the Spahlinger, vaccine and the
Calmette NEGOTIATIONS or B. G.. G.
Some of these already have been
abandoned; the value of the 9TH
ers is doubtful, or at best unestab-
EShed.
With every discovery in the field
of science, medicine has gained.
The development of the microscope,
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!:

Cornelius Y. Whitneys Plan
to Help Veterans Is Sanest
Yet From Pro-Bonus Vie,O-
point.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-Cornelius
IN v. Whitney, Democratic can
didate for congress in the First New
York district, favors immediate pay
ment Of the bonus to needy veter-
ans.
1t is his contention that such vet
Grams must be taken care Of in some
way, and that no institution is def
nitely so obligated to see that they
are taken care of as the govern
ment of the United States.
He suggests that boards be ap-
pointed to pass on the merits of
each individual case and that pay
ment Of the bonus be limited to
such cases as are approved.
He also suggests that the required
money be raised by legalizing and
taxing beer.
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he is no rampaging radical. And
the best way he could do that was
to crawl into the lions cage out
where insurgency begins and offers
to Smith Wildman Brookhart and
other lone providers the crumbs of
ladyfngers.
Fall Pleasantly on Ear
T DO not mean that Governor
l. Roosevelt's speeches have not
been animated by a pleasant liter
airy style and Illuminated by what
seems to be charming personality.
Nor will I accuse him, as some of
his detractors have done, of being
vague.
1t seems to me that he has made
his meaning quite plain. And if
I read his message Alright he is say
ing to the multiitudes, Il am safe,
sane, and smiling" This puts him
one up on Herbert Hoover.
Upon many occasions I have been
accused of being pro-Roosevelt.
And that is based upon my very
strong conviction that he can not
possibly lose the election. 1t will be
a landslide. Governor Roosevelt has
made an effective campaign upon
the slogan that all America needs
is new coat of paint.
The cards have been stacked in
his favor Not only has he fallen
heir to the support of those who
would just as soon vote for Old Nick
himself as back the incumbent, but
he has won new converts through
his personality.
After all, Governor Roosevelt is
running in a land which often calls
third-rate novels great because the
author has charm. 1t is a country
in which actresses are hailed as
second buses because they have
charm.
1t is region where sIipshod
newspaper columns very often are
accepted as excellent because the
man who wrote them is so whin-
steal.
But charm is almost as poor a
butter for parsnips as good inten-
tons. During a severe winter the
unemployed will not be clothed and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03
BRITISH SMASH THROUGH


Oct. 3
nN Oct. 3. 1918, the British broke
~ the German line on an eight
mile front from Sequehart to the
Scheldt canal, north of Bony, taking
many small towns and 5000 prison.
ers in a five-mile drive.
The French advanced east and
south of st. Quentin after COM
pleting their victory in the city the
preceding day.
They cleared the enemy from its
positions north and west of Rheims.
American, British and Italian
warshipS anchored at Durazzo. after
destroying the naval base there on
Oct. 2. Bulgarian troops evacuated
Serbia.
The British admiralty announced
that in the second quarter of 1918
the worlds merchant shipping loss
was 932.556 tons-a reduction of
So per cent from the figure for the
corresponding period in 1917.
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An On0inOUS Silence

THERE followed a brief five or
Il six seconds of silence and then
the apologize voice of the an
nouncer:
Something's wrong, folks. The
referee is talking to the two boys.
Oh! He's throwing them out of the
ring for stalling"
And that, ladies and gentlemen,
is what think of the big main bout
between Herbert Clark Hoover and
Franklin D. Roosevelt. For all the
sound and the fury, it is no contest.
I will not deny that President
Hoover is extremely anxious to stay
in the White House and that Cover
nor Roosevelt wants to get there.
But they are not fighting about any
thing in particular.
Whatever hope there may have
been of the semblance of a contest
has disappeared since the Demo-
cratic leaders swing through the
west. Apparently Governor Roose-
welt went west to win the east.
I mean that he has endeavored to
prove to certain important conserv-
atives along the Atlantic coast that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-03

CHARLES. BUTTERWORTH, a
~ Hollywood actor now resident
in New York, once planned to go
to Los Angeles fight with GER
tain of his California friends, De-
layed by one thing and another,
they decided to stay home and
listen to the bout over the radio.
And their disappointment at not
having put in any appearance was
intense, because from the moment
of the opening gong the announcer
pictured the encounter as the battle
of the century.
THE boys leap to the center Of the
ring!" he cried. Ace hangs a ter
rifle right on the Germans jaw. The
German responds with a right and
a left and a right. Oh, boy! Oh,
boy This is certainly one swell
scrap.
Nov they're standing toe to toe
and exchanging punches. Science has
been thrown to the wind. This is
nature in the raw. Somebody's got
to RdrOp."
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
ore Of Americas most inter-
eSting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Daily Thoughts

Then spake Jesus again unto
them, saying, am the light of the ,
world; he that folIowest me shall
not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life.-St. John
8:12.
To worship rightly is to love each
other, each smile a hymn, each
kindly deed a prayer.-Whittier
our country and give us peace and
prosperity through the election Of
Roosevelt and Garner is my hope
for all.
Clay City Ind.
WILLIAM COOPRIDER-
Evening star., 1932-11-04

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