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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16

Hoover will make very few campaign speeches.
Ditto Roosevelt Indeed Albany dispatch says the
Democratic candidate viii limit himself to two or
three
At the risk of appearing od-fashoned, we prefer
candidates ready to stand up and commit themselves
on campaign issues. Voters do not take kindly to
the office seeker who remains silent controversial
subjects
Several important matters regarding Hoover policy
remain to be cleared after the Presidents acceptance
speech of last week Among others foreign debts,
Russia, civil liberties and beer.
He devoted only five sentences to the problem of
trading debt cancellation for trade disarmament,
and managed in that short space to get both sides
of the fence Russian relations the key to American
foreign trade revival and to peace in the far east
not mentioned
Civil liberties which the fathers of the republic
considered the basis of free government but which
threatened by presidential use of the army
against unarmed citizens and by terrorist police tao
tics against unemployed in many cities were ignored
in the acceptance speech.
And the President forgot to mention whether he
favors or opposes modification of the Volstead act to
egalize and tax beer pending revision repeal of
the eighteenth amendment
Roosevelt also has much wider territory of I'M
explained policies than possibly be covered in two
or three campaign speeches. Though frank in adVo-
eating repeal of prohibition and immediate modih-
cation of the Volstead law he is hazy like Hoover
foreign debts.
His tariff pronouncements to date have been of
the H-and-but kind His words against imitation
might mean anything. Economic reform advertised
his strong point, still floats in lofty congratulations
about the forgotten man.
Roosevelt admits this. Each time he has spoken
he has promised to be more specific in the future
That future will come if he follows the report
ed plan of making only two or three speeches
Evasion is bad politics for either candidate in
crisis when voters are critical
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Signifying Nothing

Full OF sound and fury, the special session OF the
legislature turned back the clock to avoid the Con-
shtuton and turned back conscience to avoid doing
something constructive
Not quite true The diversion Of funds from the
highway commission to local units fine. The same
policy in regard to taxation might have helped more
If there is any comment to be made it is that the
big taxpayers and the big tax dodgers Jared very we'll
They succeeded in writing into the law new
theory or rather the old theory that the taxing powers
should be as far removed from the people as possible
For that the state tax board will have more
authority The elected officials in cities and counties
will be replaced by irresponsible commissions APP
pointed by judges. The people will find it more diff
cult to discover the men who fix the levies.
More than one hundred and fifty years ago the
founders of this republic went to to maintain the
principle that there can be taxation without repre-
sentation
Today the endeavor Of the privileged classes seems
to be to erect mythical King George who will replace
the elected officials supposed to represent the public
The state tax board, long the refuge of the priv-
legged interests is given more power Honest city and
county officials will find it difficult to operate
The power to tax is taken farther from the people
The session can not be classed as total failure.
But as it energies from the ether it will find it diff
cult to justify its product
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Relief Efficiency

Relief agencies have another task this fall one at
least secondary to their primary function of raising
funds to meet the winters needs That is the Job of
determining that funds raised are competentIy and
efficiently spent thus spreading relief among the
largest number.
This duty is by j. Herbert Case President of
the National Association of Community Chests and
Councils, who, with Newton D. Baker is planning the
campaign to furnish stimulation and leadership for
the countrywide welfare and relief mobilization
Writing in the Survey, Case urges adjustment of
welfare budgets, reduction of administrative ex-
penses, and, most important discontinuance or re-
arrangement of overlapping and duplicating organi-
cations with consolidation wherever practicable
Force OF circumstances undoubtedly caused welfare
and relief agencies. both public and private to read
just themselves to carry the new and heavy burden
of mounting multitudes of unemployed during these
last three years
But evidently there still is room for more COM
petent management, and particularly is there need
for determining that agencies functionng within
specified boundaries such as cities and counties do
not overlap.
Because of the foolish notion that the federal gov
ernments S3O0OO00OO fund will be broadcast over the
nation to every petitioner for help the local public
and private welfare and relief agencies will have a
difficult task raising sufficient funds this year.
But one thing that probably would stimulate Civ
ing would be the news that the agencies aiding the
unemployed have renovated and improved them
selves to insure distribution of help without waste or
delay.
Agencies that follow the advice Of Case will help
themselves and the distressed who depend upon them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Our Shirt Movement

In the presence OF national dangers men used to
dress up in their coats of mail These days they put
on shirts.
In Italy MusSoni set the fashion in Fascist shirts
Of black. In Germany Hitler orders shirts of brown
upon his Nazis. In Ireland we read of green shirt
army And even in our own land there is a shirt
movement
Most Of the European shirted knights are led by
sef-appointed little dictators would-be dictators
who announce that they can run the government bet
ter than the peoples elected representatives The
American movement is more subtle
We do not refer to the khaki shirts" of the bonus
army. to the blue shirts" of Father Cox obless
band These profess to be political and democratic.
and probably are mere temporary dramatizatiGns
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
SCIENCE
BY DAVID nIETz

UgIiness Of Cities Is at Root
of Municipal Corruption.
Says Columbia Professor.
MUNICIPAL politics will improve
4Y1 when cities are made more
beautiful, according to Professor
George J. Cox of the fine arts fac
ulty of Columbia university.
Professor Cox believes that the
ugineSs Of American cities is at the
root Of municipal corruption.
The Columbia professor argues
that ugliness leads to lack of pride
and interest in the city and that
TINS opens the door wide for the
forces Of graft and corruption.
His argument advances an i'm
portant reason for turning the find
lngs Of science, engineering and
sociology to the task of beautifvinp
American cities.
There is a very direct and vital
relation between art and ethics in
that immensely important and vast
held, civic art, which covers every
thing from garbage cans to civic
halls, from stoplights and sky signs
to schools and colleges" he saws
I am not prepared to admit that
an esthetic person necessarily is
an ethical one, but what specula-
ton the condition of our cities and
the state of city politics coniures
up!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Japan VIII Be Saved
THERE are students and leaders

THERE are students and leaders
Il in Japan who perceive the
handwriting on the wall, who I'M
derstand that the old order is fight
ing for its life, and that all this talk
of expansion through chiYalry is
just part of the game.
There are statesmen who recog-
nize the popular cry for better iv-
ing standard and who believe their
country can do better by following
the pursuits of peace. There are
thinkers and philosophers who ap-
prehend clearly the source of trou-
BILE and who have no faith in the
hollow strutting of their reaction
airy rulers.
They will save Japan in the end,
just as those like the more saving
Germany, just as those like them
have saved every misguided nation
since the dawn of time.
Meanwhile, we face the realities
close at hand, such as the invasion
OF Manchuria, such as the foreign
policy which is designed to take
every possible advantage of a de-
moralized China, such as the pipe
dream thai Japan's prowess and the
worlds prejudice will make it easy
to handle Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

DERHAPS our greatest human error is the desire
to pile up fortunes Tor the benefit of our children
To be sure some of these gigantic legacies are used
to carry on great businesses that have been founded
bv those who amassed the wealth.
These give employment sometimes to hundreds OF
thousands of people, and Sc in sense are beyond the
control of the owner and have become boon to
humanity.
But in too many cases the money for which par
ents spend their lives working becomes the cause OF
amending grief and sorrow for their families
Bitterness and rancor and hatreds are engendered
by reason of this, our chief delusion: That we can
fortify children against the eNl fortunes OF life
by leaving them lot of money.
The tragedy that has overtaken the Reynolds fam
iy is a case in point. No doubt we now shall be
RECALLED with another sensational murder trial. all
because of the wealth and prominence of the per-
sons involved
A ND the troubles that have beset the numerous
N heirs" of the Wendell fortune in New York are
seemingly interminabe. Ere long this great property
will be disspated in the courts and the Wendell estate
and name will be forgotten forever.
Life has a way of upsettng our plans 1t Is tragic
to watch the struggles of men and women, the way
they drive themselves the way they plan the future
of their children, the way they dream of the en-
durance Of the fortunes they have made.
And how often in life do their air castles come
tumbling down before their eyes. How many times
they are disappointed and the end of life finds them
frustrated and helpless
There are very few really worth while legaces We
can leave our children. One is the memory of hap
by childhood. another is education the third is good
name
Few other things endure and most Of them art
not worth the efforts put forth to attain them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
HEALTH SERVICE -
Babe Didrikson's FeatS Analysed

trunk, shorter and less muscular
legs, much more fat tissue on the
hips and thighs, smaller heart
and smaller lung capacity.
Her shoulders are narrow and all
her body less muscular. Moreover,
the basal metabolism of women is,
in general, lower than that of men.
Chemical changes go on in their
bodies more slowly.
Whenever a girl shows the re-
markable ability revealed by Miss
Didrikson she will be found to have
many masculine attributes in her
body structure.
The structure of the human body
places definite limitations on the
capacity to perform various feats.
AS long as men are built the way
they are, they will be able to run
just so fast.
The breaking of a world record
requires some special structure of
the body. The breaking Of numer-
Gus records in the current Olympic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16

OF misery We refer to a more powerful trend. It
could be named the hair shirt movement"
The hair shirts Of America, like their European
kin, are out to kill democracy. They seek to dis
credit congress at every turn. They call congress
men "demagogs" pests trouble-makers.
They work to rob congress Of power and vest it in
the executive or judiciary While many starched
fronts, they have no outer uniform. The thing that
binds them is a common feeling of irritation over
the interferences of popular WILL an inherent dis
trust of the voters. That is their hair shirt
This movement needs watching
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16

games may be associated with the
development of men especially
adapted for certain performances.
Their muscles contract a little
more rapidly and with greater eff
cheney than muscles have contract
ed before.
1t has been found that certain
races exhaust the human body COM
pletely. No man can run 400 met
ers at top speed.
Because of the nature of the
structure of the body of women, the
International Amateur Athletic
Federation, after the Amsterdam
games, eliminated the 800-meter
race, the 200-meter dash, the broad
jump and the shot put as unsuitable
events for women.
The fact that Miss Didrikson
holds the world record in the
broad jump for women as well as
many other records is still further
evidence Of the manner in which
her body is superior to that of the
ordinary woman for athletic events.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Who Wasted What?
INDEED, the Official explanation


INDEED, the official explanation
4 of the boom and the crash is not
altogether convincing. We are in
formed by President Hoover that
lin the soil poisoned by specula-
ton grew those ugly weeds OF
waste"
1 wonder what waste he is talk
ing about. Surely we did not con-
sumo too much wheat or cotton OF
oil or copper, because these COM
moditieS now exist in such profu-
sion that we are almost smoth-
cred by them.
Our fate has been that of a starv-
ing man pinioned down by an ava
lanche in a grain elevator.
Hoover has gone on the harsh diet
of eating his own words. To be
sure, he pauses to lay few linn
flowers at the feet of the noble
experiment, but in actuality he
has, by dint of prodigious effort
reached the precise point in 1892
which Al Smith achieved in 1923
And in this same portion of the
speech Herbert Hoover proves that
he is no great judge of pace. In
speaking of the bad old days be-
fore prohibition, the President said:
The eighteenth amendment
smashed that regime as by a stroke
Of lightning"
Now that we know Herbert Hoo
ver's conception of the speed of
lightning, we may understand bet
ter precisely what he means in say
ing that prosperity is just around
the corner"
Copyright. 1882. BY The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Taking Off His Makeup

TN 1923 Herbert Clark Hoover was
i presented to the country as a
man in whom the best features of
conservatism and liberalism were
merged. But if this picture repre-
scented in any degree an actual con-
fusion in the mind of the candidate
those doubts have by now been
cleared up.
A term in Office has clarified Mr..
Hoovers point of view. He comes
before the voter now as an arch and
avowed conservative.
1t is not unreasonable under the
American system that one contender
in national election should repre-
sent the ideas of those who wish to
cling to things as they are. In
his speech President Hoover quail
fies as an almost fawless exponent
of this cause. There is not the
slightest suggestion of liberalism
in his declarations from beginning
to end.
But it is a pity that the address
leaves so little for the Democrats
to get their teeth in. Franklin D
Roosevelt could, if he would, sub
scribe sincerely to the Hoover pro-
gram, with no more than a couple
Of minor exceptions"
Indeed, by a curious twist the
President has undertaken to aim
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
History IS ReDeating

! CTRANGE history is in the max
~ ing. 1t began many years ago,
though we could not see it that way
at the time. 1t began, as strange
history usually does, with the death
furry of an old order.
The violence which we took so
seriously, and which we still regard
with awe, emanated from the
strength Of mortal disease.
Like Germany under the kaisers,
Japan under the shoguns is an ana
chronism. She does not belong to
twentieth century civilization in a
political or social sense. Realization
of this is driving her to pursue the
same policy that brought four
teenth-century conceptions to a
bloody end on the western front.
Except for military purposes, ia
pan does not sense the meaning of
this industrial age. No more did
"kultur."
With all her mechanical back
wardness and political confusion,
China has a more modern view
point.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Questions and
Answers

Which metal first was used by
man?
Probably gold. Free gold was
found in the beds of streams and
did not have to be extracted from
ore. 1t was used for ornaments be-
fore any other metal was discov-
cred, The first metal put to prac-
teal use was copper, from which
knives and other implements were
made at least 5000 years ago.
Name the principal parts of
speech in English grammar?
Noun. pronoun, adjective, verb
adverb, proposition, conjunction and
interjection.
Is puerto Rico" the proper way
to spell the name of the island?
That is the spelling which has
been adopted legally.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-The press reports
Hoover as saying "a cloud of lob
hyists hovers over congress-" News
reports say THE halls Of congress
eve are and always have been veri-
tally infested with lobbyists" II
these are truthful statements, why
| are they there?
Do they represent friends or foes
of our government? Do we owe
them anything? Are they there to
demand that congress does its duty
by the people at large?
Since these outside intruders al
ways thrust themselves into halls
of congress, by what authority are
they there?
Are they experts whom our legis-
lators require to instruct them how
and what to do? If so, who pays
them? And who selects them? And
what are their peculiar qualifica-
tons? BY whose authority do they
hover as a cloud over congress? And
way are Lney permitted 10 clog the
wheels Of legislation? Why are they
not driven out? Are they superior
to government? If not, why tolerate
them?
Well. you can each answer all
my questions so far. You all know
they are the paid representatives
Of strictly private interests, who seek
to influence legislation in favor OF
various profit-making men and in
stitutions.
You know they are dangerous
public enemies. All men know it.,
all admit it. Yet no effort is made
by our administration to drive them
out as the bonus boys we're driven
out.
During war between European
nations, this government felt it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
Art and Engineering

DROFEssOR cox points out
i that he is not decrying progress
or trying to make the hands of the
clock stand still.
I am not advocating a return
to turnpikes, buggies and beaver
hats" he continues, but I do say
that when great roads, magnifi-
Gently engineered, are driven through
this country, art should play its
part and do the thing triumphantly
with dignity and pride in it's own
times, and respect for the ameni-
ties of the countryside and what
ever emblems of an earlier and in
many ways more beautiful civiliza-
ton may yet survive.
. Instead, we make slatterns of
the native beauty spots.
1t is deplorable and humil-
iating experience to ride by road to
Philadelphia. 1t could be a decent
progress. Happily, our newer park
ways often are admirable works of
art and engineering"
Professor Cox undoubtedly is
quite right in contending that the
same thought that goes into the
engineering phases of laying a road
ought to be given to the problem of
keeping that road beautiful.
The United States has too many
motor Sums" today. Likewise, a
great skyscraper rising a few blocks
from squalid slum is obvious testi-
mony that we have done only half
the job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

Pan-J0pGnism Is Coming to
Take the Place Of Pdn-Ger-
nGnism.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-sadeo
IN Iraki, war minister of Japan,
gives clear, candid outline of the
part which he thinks his country
should play in world affairs. 1t is
an imperialistic part, excused and
justified by all the old-time human
itarian arguments.
Asia, according to Mr.. Iraki, has
been dominated too long and too
completely by the white race. Be-
ing unable to free herself from such
domination, there is nothing for it
but a rescue by Japan.
If Japan does this, she has a
right to expect the reward of virtue.
In Mr.. Irakj's opinion, the reward
should include Mongolia, as well as
Manchuris.
Opposition by the United States
and Russia is to be taken into &C
count, but not needed. Nothing,
indeed, must be permitted to inter-
fere with Japan's predestined role.
It's the Prussian idea all over
acknowledgements coming to
take the place of Pan Germanism.
The former drove Russia into
Bolshevism. The latter may drive
Russia and the United States into
friendship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-16
A Job in Patchwork

n JOU Ill OlOl w vi n
EOR instance, Mr.. Hoover gives a
l. great deal Of attention to de-
vices by which America may be
pulled out of a slump and restored
to some status approXimating that
which existed before the crash.
But he has made no contribution
whatever TO the even more impor-
tant problem of establishing a sys-
tenn proof against periodic panics.
He states that we were poisoned
by speculation and by "exploita-
ton and abuse of financial power.
1t is perhaps a little late IN the
day to mention the fact that there
is no record OF the Presidents ever
having raised finger to discourage
that speculative mood.
But it is not impairment to note
the fact that the present tendency
to shoot the works is being hailed
as the dawn of new prosperity
1aSnlOneQ by Cne administration
wisdom and benevolence.
In other words, from the politica.
point of view one mans poisonous
speculation" becomes another's RE
publican prosperity"
If stocks behaved in dizzy fash
ion in 1928 and 1929 it is not un-
reasonable to contend that they are
doing precisely that today. Anc
the same people who say that g
cooperative commonwealth is i'm
possible because you can't change
human nature" blandly contend
that we now would establish SANE
| prosperity" on the ruins of a specu-
lative orgy because the people have
learned the lesson of this expert
! ence." The burnt child may dreac
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should take part. It reached into
every neighborhood in our country.
and dragged men from their homes
to engage in that foreign war.
1t Communicated the cooperation
Of all citizens that they make gar
dens, buy bonds, etc, to help fight
foreign war. And we all Joined
hands in support Of the government.
We produced food for our army,
and for hungry private citizens in
Belgium and Russia. And Herbert
Hoover never hesitated to call for
more shiploads Of food, so long as
hunger prevailed over there.
But now, Herbert Hoover says he
will not tolerate American citizens
demanding direct individual help.
when hunger, due to unemployment.
is threatening them with dire SUI
fering.
We unhesitatingly took these SOL
der boys into that foreign war. We
drew upon all citizens to lend
hand in support of our army, fed
foreigners families, and responded
to the call Of what we are taught
Is our government.
Now hunger and lack of other hui
man comforts threaten many Of our
soldiers who lived to return. They
ask, because of this crisis of unem-
ployment, that our government an
ticipate the debt it has agreed will
be due them in 1945. They ask this
as favor, knowing that our coun-
try actually suffers from an over
plus of all life necessities, but our
government says no.
These same soldiers can read and
the papers tell them that a bank
in Chicago, a bankrupt city. calls
for $40, 100000 and it at once is sent
there. Railroads ask for huge loans
with which to make improvements
and they are granted.
Now this writer submits that it is
not easy for the ordinary mind to
understand why Europe and our big
banks and railroads can be helped
so quickly and our soldiers. whose
very lives we Communicated. can
not be considered. Is war the only
time they are worth considering?
Let us think little.
A. j. KINNEAR.
Martinsville. Ind.