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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-07
Travel Talk to Be Given

John Adam Moore will give an
Illustrated talk on his trip through
the southwestern part of the
United States, at 7:3O Friday night
in the Irvington Presbyterian
church basement. Parent council of
Boy Scout troop No. 3 is sponsor.
Half of our Presidents were born
either in Virginia or Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-07

indianapolis Recorders easily defeated
Seymour Reds at Seymour, 9 to ,. LeUy
Wadv held the Reds to four hits and
struck out eight Taylor of Recorders
poled homer Recorders have Sept.
n open Address T. Baldwin. 1920 Shrlver
avenue or call Ha 4505-M. Upton ana
Andersonvile, notice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-07

New Palestine dropped ten-inning
When Phipps caught one of Hunts offer
InngS toT home run New Palestine PLAYS
EuS9ylNe Merchants at Rushviue next
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-07

Lefty Hall struck out fifteen as the
Hope Cards defeated ,OHara Sans. 10 to /.
ties. Morristown will play at Hope sun
dav. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-07

q, Willard A. c. trounced South Side Cubs.
Il to z and IS to z. in a twin bill Monday
Baird and Sullivan hit home runs for the
NctorS For games call CHI 1892
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-07

Bargersyille Merchants added .wo more
victories to their list by turning back
Greensburg to 3. in a fast game Sunday
and humping the Beech Grove Reds on
Monday r. to O Next Sunday. Merchants
play Seymour at Merchants park.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

Don't let any one tell you Americans aren't slick
and resourceful folks.
Just read, for instance about some of the devices
recorded at the United States patent Office and de-
scribed in book called Beware of limitations"
To furnish the female face divine are two inven-
tons-one for reshaping milady's upper lip into
permanent cupids bow, the other mechanism to
create and preserve dimpes. To insure gallantry,
another clever fellow evolved device that auto
maticaly lifts the hat when the gentleman bows, the
said "saluting party" requiring not "the Of the
hands whatsoever"
Humane was a rat trap that instead of killing
the beastie simply attached bell to his neck so
that when he returned to his hole he would brighten
away all his fellows. Thoughtful was invention
of water wings for horses Ingenius were overshoes
with elastic pads for persons accustomed to jump
out of burning buildings
Happy were the thoughts that inspired the in
vention Of rocking chair that churns butter while
the farm wife takes her ease another rocking chair
with a bellows that blows cool air over the occu-
pants head But deceptive was a fishing tackle
equipped with a mirror, which. when submerged, be-
trayed the fish into thinking he a companion
and making him more eager to take the bait before
his competitor seizes it,
So don't worry about this country Some people
say we invented our way into this depression. Well,
with some of these inventors working for US, we'll
Just naturally invent way out again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
An Economist Speaks Out

there is any one fact which the depression has
brought home to U.s. it is the intellectual bankruptcy
OF most of our so-called industrial giants
Most business men do not know the way out Of our
difficulties The few who do too selfish to speak
out boldly against the system which produced them.
The frst-rate economists know well enough what
is the matter with us, but they dare not tell They
are fearful about holding their jobs if they express
themselves candidly on important subjects.
This leaves in sad state when it comes to
working for better order. Those who have power
are lacking in knowledge Those who know are lack
ing in both courage ard power.
One highly capable economist however, spoke out
candidly. This in recent address, Discourse in
Depression" delivered by Professor Rexford c. Tug
well Of Columbia university before the faculty and
student body Of Teachers college in that institution
The lecture received no publicity. but there have
been few comments on the current situation so sue
cinct and so thoroughly competent In it. he said:
1T is mistake to suppose that economists do not
know what causes depressions or how to avoid them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
HEALTH SERVICE
Fleas Can Be Driven From House
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spots under porches, in barns, and
henhouses.
These breeding places can be
made producers so far as deas
are concerned by spraying them
frequently with creosote oil.
Ground in which baby feas usual
1y develop should be sprinkled
thoroughly with salt and then given
a generous wetting down.
If these steps are carefully fol-
lowed, breeding of heas virtually
will stop.
AS for the f1eas you already have,
you face still another problem. They
usually are brought into the house
by pet animals and so you must re-
move the f1eas from these animals.
Washing in creoSote solution.
usually vii accomplish this purpose,
and by following this step with
thorough bath with soap and water,
the desired result nearly is always
obtained.
For houses already infested with
f1eas, the proble-n is not so simple.
Application of gasoline to the floors
after the rugs have been removed,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
The Tune Changes

NOR the first few days there was
L considerable frankness in high
European circles regarding the debt
settlement, as tentatively arranged.
There we're expressions of hope that
the United States would fall in line
and intimations that this hope was
based on something more substan-
tial than guesswork.
No sooner did unfavorable news
from Washington arrive, however,
than the tune began to change. Eu-
rope was not trying to influence,
or coerce, the United States; Europe
had not taken American debts into
account while adjusting her own;
Europe had not acted on word from
America, either official or unofficial.
You can pick phrases out Of the
polite balderdash and prove any
thing, but the treaty, the gentle
mems agreement and the accord
remain.
European governments have
united on definite program of
action. The fact that this program
is made contingent on what the
United States does tells the whole
story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
bubble About Words

INDEED, as far as I can see. the
l. dispute is not even an economic
one. -'-'--O
1t is a philologic fight as to
whether Reputation" is a prettier
word than cancellation. I think
revision" is sWeeter than either.
AT the moment the public tenn
per Is wholly set against anv fur
ther reduction in the debt. The
general mass Of Americans believe
that the money to make up for the
payments would have to come
directly out Of their own pockets.
They seem to have simple faith
IN the efficiency Of saying, Europe
must pay" Nobody has come for
ward with an answer to the simple
inquiry. But if Europe doesn't pay,
what them"
The plain truth is that the con-
sequent trade revival following a
settlement Of the debts and repara-
tons would make the sum at issue
seem a trifle. We are behaving like
Sam Smith, who sued Joe Brown
for 10 cents.
Sam won, all right, and collected
ms dime, but a cursory examina-
ton Of the time expended and the
lawyers fees showed that it had
cost him just s25.36 to gain his
point.
l do not think we need be a peo-
pie TOO proud to use a little common
sense. There is no wisdom in crv-
ing over split debts.
Copyright. 1882. BY The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

followed by scrubbing of all floors,
usually will kill them.
Sometimes this process must be
used a second time to get all the
f1eas.
Fortunately, plague, the principal
disease carried by heas, has been
eliminated in the United States.
Flea bites, if painful, should be
treated with a weak solution Of
menthol or camphor.
And you should remember in
bathing the household pets that &
cats skin is very tender and that
the creosote solution for him must
be very weak.
Much has been said and written
about the remarkable jumping
power of the ordinary flea. Au-
thoritative tests show that his maxi
mum is thirteen inches horizontally
and about half that distance YER
tically.
That means that flea can't come
jumping in the window after you
have eliminated his brothers and
sisters in the manner recommended
in this article.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
Germany Their AIibi

XK7E face carefully mapped out
w campaign for debt revision,
which, if necessity arises, will Gull
inmate in reputation.
European governments have come
to the conclusion that they can get
out Of paying most, if not all, of
what they owe us. They wouldn't
say anything so crude, or impolitG
at this time. but that is what they
have in mind.
Germany is their alibi. They
haven't collected anywhere nearly
as much from her as they expected,
and think we should share the dis
appointment as part of the war.
They also think that we have scads
of money through the trade which
our loans made possible and that
we we'll can afford to write off the
debt.
This kind of reasoning may not
be talked Of plainly in official cir
cles, but it is talked of plainly in
drawing rooms, hotel Hobbies, and
restaurants, and has woven It's way
into European politics from London
to Rome.
While sound policy for the future
has profound bearing on the
course we should take toward the
debts owed us, there are certain
principles at issue.
In the first place, we did not loan
European governments money with
any implication that it represented
part OF our share in the war. In
the second, If default occurs, it
should be brought about in such
way as to put the blame where it
belongs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
Just Every Day Sense
"NEUzzLE warl" cries Roman ROLAND, famou
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NTUZZLE war!" cries Roman ROLAND, famous Eu-
1V1 ropean novelist calling for world movement
by peace lovers to outlaw war.
Without doubt, the most effective and the only
way we rid ourselves Of this to pub
lie opinion the earth against it, To say this is
not possible is like saying that never shall find
cure for cancer.
Possibilities of the future uncertain but bound
less. We do not yet know to what heights men may
rise 1t therefore is shortSghted to assert that war
never can be abolished
Every knowS-and every honest man will ad-
mit-that the common people never want war. They
are afraid of it, They die in it. All those who have
taken the trouble to study history realize that
always have been made and that they always will be
made by the dissemination of propaganda that is
more often than not built upon falsehoods.
Men and women who cheer the parades and watch
their sons and brothers and lovers march away to die
are aroused to that pitch of remuneration by emotional
hysteria fostered by groups employed for that pur
pose alone in every land.
MO war spirit Is the honest sane natural express
sion of honest sane, natural feeling. It's spark
must be kndled by some outside factor; it must be
Wtalzed and kept agow by incessant care, and its
efervescence is as transient as foam upon glass.
Charges have been made that pacifsts hys-
terical. That well may be true. But is it not as
sensible to become emotionaly excited about war
before it starts to fall into ecstasies about it
soon the drums begin to beat2
little excitement today may prevent bloody ex-
element tomorrow.
And the clang Of the cynbals sending forth their
call for and women to enlist in war to outlaw
war is as high and fine cause as any crusader or
patriot ever essayed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
Lausanne Decision Counts

THIS talk about decisions having
l. been reached on European
debts without regard to American
debts just as well might be dismissed
as sheer bunk. Whether the subject
of American debts was mentioned
officially makes little difference.
Whether certain prominent Amer
leans mentioned it unofficially over
tea cup, or wine glass, makes less
difference. It is unnecessary to
analyze the method pursued to
know what we face. Nothing counts
but what the conferees at Lausanne
finally decided.
The fact that their decision was
put on tentative basis should not
be taken seriously. Like astute
diplomats, they opened the cam
paign for debt revision, or cancella-
ton, with soft music. They wanted
to see how the United States would
react to a hint, wanted to find out
just what they were up against.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

the tombS which we have raised
would more appropriately be dedi-
Gated to "the unknowing soldier"
And yet I can not agree with the
notion of those who would put away
Europe and forget about it. Some
have preached that the best way
for us to insure ourselves Of peace
is to avoid all foreign entangle-
ments of any sort, including the
League of Nations and the world
court. But they seem to forget what
happened in 1914 and, more par
ticularly, what occurred in 1917.
When the great storm broke we
were at least reasonably remote
from it's apparent causes. No agree
ments or alliances committed us to
action, and within three years we
were engulfed with all the rest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

They have enough knowledge from which to gen.
eralize The difficulty is that they think the cure
might be worse than the disease-or at least they
have shrewd notion that western people would
swallow the medicine they might be forced to pre-
scribe"
DR.. Tugwell, however, does not shirk the respon-
siblity.
The reasons for the economic debacIe since 1929
are plain enough. They to be found in excessive
profits derived from high prices and low wages This
discouraged sales and reduced purchasing power
Intrenched privilege, gorging on irresponsible
pronts led us into condition Of general insecurity
for both capital and labor
When the bubble burst, those who had BETRAYED
us were able to pass the burdens Of the present col
lapse to the mass OF the people, thus escaping for
the most part the penalty for their own SINS
Dr. Tugwell distinguishes between immediate plans
Tor turning the corner" and more fundamental re-
construction which will save from the rapidly al
tering ups and downs of the economic roller coaster
Of capitalism
The key to the immediate recovery is to be found
IN repairing "our nationally damaged purchasing pow
er Practically, this means extreme income taxa
ton and distribution by government to consumers
who will spend for goods start the productive pro
cesses again and gradually restore their own earning
power. {. =
The support OF purchasing power is the point of
aCtacK which has the most possibilities Lacking this
Inc whole institutional structure is built on sand"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
To Ends of the Earth

IN the world of today, war is a
i magnet. Isolation was not a pro-
lection fifteen years ago. The ocean
is less wide than had been supposed.
If any other conflict occurred, we
should all do our desperate best to
stay away, but for our own self
interest we would do even better to
lend help in seeing that no conflict
comes.
Whether we like it or not, there is
no feasible way of declaring our
selves out of the family of nations.
Our present system of standing on
the edge of the pond and making
faces at our neighbors is good deal
less than successful isolation.
Moreover, it seems a little illogical
that in American public life the
men who shout the loudest for an
American self-contained behind a
Chinese wall are the very ones who
make the speeches in which it is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
.NNE of the most annoying of all
" common insects is the loWIy
flea. He moves about on the skin,
biting as he goes.
Few serious cases are reported
from flea bites, and most of them
are infections which had their be-
ginning with an insignificant look
ing irritation, but f1eas can be and
are a nuisance wherever they &C.
cur in quantities.
And that nuisance is one that no
home-owner need endure. Fleas
can be eliminated if proper steps
are taken.
In fighting fleas, it must be re-
nembered that their principal
breeding places are on soil or in
dust containing vegetable or animal
matter.
Moisture must be present and the
breeding place nearly always is one
protected from sun and rain.
Usual breeding places are damp
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
The Highway Workers

Now comes the highway commission and
its close friends with the plea that diver
sion of its many millions to cities and coun-
ties would throw 10000 construction work.
ers out of jobs.
It is precisely because that commission
has failed to either provide work or to en-
force the payment Of decent wages that the
funds should be sent back to cities where
men can be employed on street repair at
decent wages.
The number of men employed by the
contract system of building roads is very
small when compared with the total expendi-
ture of more thai twenty millions of dollars.
Most of the men employed under the
commission are for maintenance of old roads
and not for new ones. New roads are built
by machinery.
Where common labor is employed, the
contractors, taken as whole, have paid
wages that amount to a scandal.
Within this county men have been paid
as low as Is cents an hour on state road con-
tracts.
The commission has on repeated occa-
sions declared that it would prevent these
outrages. The Times has exposed such con-
ditions in many parts of the state. And the
commission never has stopped the conditions
nor declared a slave-driVer contractor who
profits by the necessities of human beings
an unfit contractor.
The contracts are still awarded to men
who have so little regard for human beings
or social values that they buy labor in the
open market without regard to the ability
of men to live upon their wage.
1t is now too late for this commission to
appeal for public support on the ground that
it provides work for voorhees,.
It provides slaves for profteers. 1t has
pleaded helplessness when slave wages have
been paid.
The legislature will fail in its purpose if
it does not divest this commission of its
funds and turn the money back to cities and
counties which are struggling with the al
most impossible task of providing relief for
the voorhees,.
The cities have much better record than
the highway commission in finding work.
Most of them have made" work. Most of
them have some regard for human values
and human problems. No city has per-
mitted men to be employed, when they re-
ceived any wage, at the low standards per-
mitted on state roads.
The state can get along without more
roads until prosperity returns or is brought
back. The roads now built will be used less
and less until men get work. The cities are
faced with the problem of feeding hungry
men and women.
The cities pay the gasoline tax and auto
mobile licenses in far greater amounts than
do the agricultural counties in which roads
are built
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
Venus and Mars

NESLA'S dream OF communicate
Il ing with the other planets
hinges upon two things: First it
assumes that there is intelligent
forms Of life on other planets.
Second, it assumes that radio
waves can leave the earth's atmos-
phere and reach other planets.
AS to life on other planets. as
tronomerS generally are agreed that
there are only two planets in our
solar system which might support
life. They are the earth's imme-
date neighbors, Venus and Mars.
Little Mercury is too close to the
sun for life as we know it. The
other planets are too far away and
therefore too cold.
Tesla thinks that some planet
might have beings more intelligent
or in a higher state of civilization
than mankind. He says. truly
enough, that communication with
them might be to our benefit.
There seems little reason to think
that civilization would be more adj
vanced on Venus than on the earth.
The planet Venus is just about the
size Of our earth.
There doesn't seem much reason
to believe that evolution would have
proceeded any more rapidly on
Venus than on the earth. In fact.
1t may have gone slower, for the
telescope reveals that tha y11ana+ 10
surrounded with dense mantle
OF clouds, SO heavy that the tele-
scope can not penetrate it.
This may have influenced the
course Of physical evolution. It
seems entirely sound to suppose that
II human beings were on Venus, this
envelope Of dense clouds would have
slowed up their cultural develop
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
Gifts of the Stars
the mathematician

DOINCARE, the mathematician
L pointed out that science beear
with astronomy. Sometimes a ma
who prides himself on being VIII
he calls practical asks me WI
good" as astronomy.
The answer is that he received
his practical" gifts from science
automobiles, airplanes, elect
lights, and so on-about 1000 We.
sooner than he otherwise mis-
have received them, because
astronomy.
For it was by the study of +
stars that man first learned tn
the universe was a cosmos and n
chaos, that nature was ruled
order and not by caprice, that the
were laws Of nature which might
learned and put to use. i.
The whole development Of science
and engineering might have been
delayed centuries had it not been
Tor the study Of astronomy.
And so it is difficult to believe
that the inhabitants of Venus-it
there are any-could be as far adj
vanced as those of the earth, since
they have been denied the oppor-
tunlty OF studying the heavens.
The planet Mars is only half the
size Of the earth. 1t may be, there
fore, that this planet cooled and
solidifled long before the earth did.
Perhaps there is an older civiliza-
ton on Mars. This is the belief Of
astronomers, who assume that the
so-called canals are marvellous enr-
neering feats. Their opinion, how
ever, is offset by the opinion Of
those astronomers who believe that
the canals are only haphazard
markings on the planets surface.
But even if Mars has a civiliza-
ton superior to ours, there remains
the problem Of getting radio waves
out Of our own atmosphere and
through the atmosphere Of Mars.
There are some engineers who
DOUBT that this ever can be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-16
Says:

European Governments Have
Decided to Pool Their In
terests for a Concerted
Drive on the United States.
NEW YORK, July 16.-European
IN statesmen virtually have con-
tradicted one another as to what
happened at Lausanne. One or two
even have come pretty near con-
tradicting themselves.
But let's dismiss all that as so
much political froth. The result
speaks for ITSELF. In view of the
treaty proposed, the gentlemen's
agreement made, and the accord
reached between France and Eng
land, there can be no misunder-
standing over the kind Of strategy
Europe has decided to pursue.
To put it bluntly, European gov
ernments have decided to pool their
interests and submerge their diff
ferences for a concerted drive on
the United States. They would pre-
fer, of course. that the United States
yielded without fuss. Barring that,
they are prepared to exert pressure.