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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
High Patriotism

The clear and determined" word veterans re-
lief comes at last not from President Hoover from
political leaders. but from veterans themselves.
Historic Importance, We think attaches to the pc
titon presented Thursday 10 the President and con-
gress demanding. in the Of group Of veterans
headed by Archibald B. Rooseve t. son Of Theodore
Roosevelt reduction in the great item Of the fed
eral BUDGET where hundreds Of millions Of dollars
be savec without injustice and without impalring any
essential function Of the government
Here is action. Here is honesty. Here is plain
speaking Here Is service Of the highest kind coming
10 the country's aid from Americans whose loyalty
is beyond question.
These are veterano who remind the President and
congress that the outstanding oppression placed
citizens Of the nation today is that series of egis
latve acts whereby veterans are receiving compen-
sation and benefits costing the people s4OOOOOOOO
for disabilities not, m fact, resulting from their
service" ...-.....
These are veterans who point out that the total
amount expended by the federal government for vet
Grams Of the World war already is about seOoOOOO-
uOO and, If continued at the present rate, without
changes in the law the government will have spent
s2i 5O0O0OOOo in 1915 equal to the cost Of the
itself"
These veterans who declare that IAN i'm
meIse ana growing egalzed abuse has been fastened
Upon the people which has reached point beyond toll
Grafton and which demands immediate abatement"
All the scripps- Howard newspapers have said
about the proposed veterans bureau in the recent
series Of articles by Talcott Powell and in editorials
is borne out fully by this mercilessy frank petition
from veterans
The point We have made again and a-ain-that
deserving veterans and their dependents should not
have TO be stinted millions may 20 10 the unde-
serving-comes out clearer and sharper than ever
As he reads this petition blush Of shame must
rise to the cheeks Of any congressman who has
thought Of veterans relief solely in terms Of votes
The finger points at HIM.
And the courageous step these petitioners have
taken not only should kill all further talk of new
oonus but should, think. galyanize congress into
promptly cutting s45OOOOOOO from the 81 100000 mn
appropriation for vetersns-and thus secure at least
That much easing Of the budget problem.
All honor to the veterans in this rroup who have
not forgotten how TO the good old American right
Of petition in an hour Of national need
Their is fine initiatve-a bold act Of leadership
--one the country will applaud and remember Theirs
Is high patriotism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

Because of pressure at home,
children are found on the streets
selling candy and trinkets and
many of them are begging.
In a recent address, Governor
Pinchot of Pennsylvania quoted
cases in which adult workers were
discharged and boys and girls put
to work at from 81 to 81 a week.
In New York City, the Butcher
Workers Union reports that 1000
boys are employed in butcher shops
not only delivering orders. but
plucking fowls, preparing meats and
doing porter work.
There are. of course, hundreds OF
thousands of children working on
farms, many of them hired and
kept under conditions of bad hous-
ing. long hours and low pay.
In this matter We are concerned
not so much with the economic sit
uation as with the effects on the
health of these children of long
hours of work, insufficient sleep and
exposure to cold, heat and. above
all, dangerous dusts.
II the economic conditions of to-
day force children into occupations
that are hazardous to their health.
the country will pay twenty years
from now for the evils that could
have been prevented today.
Already the number of institu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Back to the Facts

DUT a little examination will
ID show that none of these sugges-
tons or criticisms will quite stand
up in the face of the facts. First OF
all, Seth w. Richardson, assistant
attorney-ge general, who investigated
conditions in the islands after Ka-
hahawai had been killed found no
grounds for the charge that general
lawlessness prevailed in the terri
tory.
The race issue of which so much
has been heard has been raised far
more frequently beyond the borders
of Honolulu than in the city itself
Indeed, the United Press reports
that "the seven white men on the
jury voted solidly for the man.
slaughter verdict. while the two Chi
nese and three Hawaiians held out
for forty-eight hours for acquittal.
This may be no more than a
rumor, but in any case 1t is difficult
TO pin the responsibility Of the
Massie verdict upon the influence of
men of mixed blood who formed a
minority. Both the prosecutor and
the presiding Judge we're Americans.
AS for Mr.. Malone's suggestion
that jurisdiction be transferred to
California, it would seem not un-
fitting to ask that the state first
clear itself of the shame of the
Mooney case before it undertakes TO
set itself up as the home Of impair
tial justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Child Labor PerilS Next Generation

tions for mentally defective and
handicapped people is growing out
Of all proportion to the well popula-
ton.
The employment of hundreds OF
thousands of children, placed un-
der conditions which will stunt
their growth and thwart their men,
tai development, will mean still
further burden in erection and
maintenance OF such institutions
in the future.
Governor Franklin d. Roose-
welt of New York emphasized in
a single sentence the dangers OF
child employment in industry.
He said. I'VE know that the in
dustrial openings for young people
between ID and 10 are in most
cases blind alleys, repetitive shops
demoralizing rather than stimulat-
ing to children employed in them.
One of the aims of the Chi
drens Charter of the White House
Conference on Child Health and
Protection is concerned particu-
larly with the question of child
labor, and says, For every child
protection against labor that
stunts growth. either physical or
mental, that limits education. that
deprives children of the right of
comradeship and Of play"
Next-Handicapped children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H ERg7S

MANY of the cancellations
1Vl thrown into the wind by the
American press about the Massie
case seem to me distinctly unfair
to Hawaii and its citizens. Thus
find Paul Block writing an edi-
torial in which he says:
Word comes from Honolulu that
the most fiendish of all men, those
who assault womanhood, those who
destroy the purity and sanctity of
the home, are to have control of
our islands in the Pacific. For that Is
what the verdict against the For
tsScue- Massie family and their loyal
friends means"
The New York Herald Tribune in
more temperate language wonders
whether the jury system can be
effectively applied to mixed popu-
lations ill-trained in the traditions
of such law and order"
Dudley Field Malone believed
that justice would be furthered by
transferring the case to Governor
Rolph's California.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06

complete leap over the evidence in
hand.
1t was almost a plea of guilty
which the defendants entered. In
sanity was offered in the case of
Lieutenant Massie, but the three
others stood before the bar Of JUS
tice as admitted accessories to the
vengeance of a man whose mind
had given way under a great strain.
Naval officers of high rank who
publicly expressed approval Of the
defendants course of action, said
In effect they were in favor OF an
American officers losing his head
at time OF acute crisis. In all
logic 1 think that is an unreason-
able position for an admiral.
I am glad that mercy was ex-
tended to the four defendants, but
IL seems to me that it would not
have been mercy. but sheer hypoc-
risy, to pretend that they were in
nocent of any offerse against the
orderly processes of justice.
Copyright. 1882. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Action of Acid

TTOELZEL and Miss Da Costa be-
II lieve that the hydrochloric
acid, which is normally in the stom-
ach. sets up an irritation in the abb
sence OF sufficient protein in the
diet.
They believe that this irritation
leads to formation of ulcers.
When the diet contains sufficient
protein, they believe that a chemical
reaction between the proteins and
the hydrochloric acid prevents this
irritation.
Some starvation or undernutri-
ton was practically always present
when ulcers developed" the workers
reported. Nevertheless, 1t could be
shown that undernutrition itself
was not responsible. When an ex-
elusive diet Of bran was given, no
ulcers developed.
In fact. ulcers produced bv star
Walton or protein restriction would
heal with diets of practically moth
ing but bran. Presumably. the effect
OF bran in this connection is ex-
planned partly by its acid-bindinr
power and partly by the dilutinq
effect OF the bulk.
Rats on diets high in fat, but
low in protein, developed ulcers. but
not as readily as rats kept on high
CARBOHYDRATE diets with a similar
protein content
Rats on diets with as much as
30 per cent protein did not develop
ulcers, even though some hydro
chloric acid was added"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Not Even a Mouse

THE mountain labored and did
Il not bring forth even as much
as mouse.
Legal balderdash was satisfied
with ten-year sentence. which a
scared Governor promptly reduced
TO one hour.
The assault case which opened the
drama now will be forgotten, though
1t has led to one killing and blasted
quite few regulations.
What. may one ask, was the ora
tory and the expert testimony all
about?
Just what have the taxpayers of
Hawaii to show for their good
money?
For that matter, just what have
the taxpayers of most any place to
show for their good money as a re-
suit Of nine out Of ten cases where
statutory bombast clashes with WELL
defined customs?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
The Real Basis

XXTHAT people actually think
w and do should be the basis
of their legal structure, which is
Just another way of saying that law
can be no stronger than the senti-
ment behind it.
Sentiment. especially with regard
to the right, or wrong OF things,
is matter of practice and ex-
perience. Tlough it may change
toward some detail over night. it
is slow and difficult to alter to-
ward fundamentals.
The written law becomes unwork-
able and unsafe whenever il is too
much at variance with the unwrit-
ten law.
Deny people a chance to express
their conceptions of what is Just
in court, and you only force them
to destroy the courts work. That
is exactly what has happened in the
Massie case.
The court tried and convicted
Massie and his three associates.
Public sentiment smashed it all
within the space OF hours. How long
can courts hope to retain public
confidence and respect under con-
ditions like that?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-If township relief
is for the needy, why not do it in
a strictly honorable way?
Start a wholesale grocery store
at once in a cheap large room or
house, employ only unemployed men
TO run the store, sell all groceries TO
the needy at cost.
Here are just few Of the I'M
Just prices that the man who worked
for two days at hard labor for the
township is compelled TO pay at the
store the township selects for the
needy. He pays 30 cents for a peck
Of potatoes; pay Is cents. He pays
l8 cents for one dozen eggs; I pay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06

Economists see significant change coming over
America. immigration has turned into emigration
Birth rates decline. Science is conquering old-age
diseases
Dr. Louis l. Dublin Of the Metropolitan Life In
surance Company thinks that by 1875 we shall have
static population Of l4oO0oOOO which then viii be-
gin 10 decline Dr. o. E. Baker, federal farm econo-
mist. foresees the population peak in twenty-five
years.
We are, it seems emerging from the Jazz age and
becoming race Of mddle-aged and old folks BY
1850 the mean length of an Americans life may be the
biblical three-score-
I'VE shall have to adopt ourselves to a society in
which out Of every three people is elderly If not
old" DR.. Dublin says
Signs multiply to show the change is upon us Chi
csgo musicians rebel against grooming of the valee
variety. Jazz religion is waning, as shown by the
plant of the Rev. Billy Sunday that his congregations
are now less spiritual than of yore, and the plans
the Rev. Aimee makes for leasing her temple in Los
Angeles
Golf courses swarm with elderly people DR. Lii
lien Martin, 30. drives her own car from San Fran
cisco to New York ecturng en- route on ways for her
contemporaries to keep fit for the job Matrons have
quit dressing like happers.
Politics calls to old as well as young. Young Gov
ernors like Phil La Toilette and Floyd Olson are the
exception among gubernatorial gray-heads The SEN
ate lives up to its Latin meaning of IAN assembly Of
cd men" by an average age among senators of 5s6
yrsrs.
Its leaders are such septua genarans as Vce-Pres-
ident Curtis and Senators Norris Glass Walsh. Fess
Smoot, Swanson and others. Our No. l diplomat is
Ambassador Mellon, IT,
While these may not like Father william. be able
to turn back somersault right through the door
they do equally astonishing things
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Letting Down the Bars

ONCE the bars are let down so
~ that the individual may mete
out private punishment under proper
provocation, you are going to get
into the terrific muddle Of trying
to determine in each case Just where
statute ends and the unwritten law
begins.
It seems to me much sounder to
rule out unwritten law altogether.
Indeed, a juror is bound by his oath
to support the code and not be
swayed by his sympathies.
Sometimes this procedure seems
to make for harshness, but few will
contend after sober thought that il
is not the best system in the long
run. The jurors in the Massie case
were not called upon to pass upon
the guilt or innocence of the men
charged with the assault sspon Mrs.
Massie. They could not properly
go into that.
Clarence Darrow is one Of nv
heroes. To me his eloquence is
more persuasive than that Of any
man alive. Very possibly if I had
been Juror he might have swayed
me into voting for an acquittal.
And yet I hope not, because any
such verdict would have been a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
SCIENCE
Experiments With Rats Moy
Help in Finding Cure for
Stomach Ulcers.
BY DAVID DEFY

MEDICAL science is step
wi nearer to the cure OF ulcers
Of the stomach. as result OF ex-
periments carried on at the Uni
versity Of Chicago.
The experiments shed new light
on the cause Of gastric and duodenal
ulcers and perhaps may point the
road to their cure. The series Of ex-
periments was performed on rats
by Frederick Hoelzel and Esther da
Costa. research workers in the de-
partment OF physiology of the uni
verSity.
The two experimenters found that
lack OF a normal protein content in
the diet would induce gastric ulcers
in rats.
During the last year, they have
controlled the diets Of 400 rats.
Ulcers resulted in 70 per cent OF
the cases.
This is the first time that ulcers
have been produced so consistently
by altering the dietary regime of
healthy animals" DR.. A. ]. Carl
son. chairman of the department.
said. The results are not ap-
plicable to human cases as yet,
however.
Mans stomach is too far diff
ferent from that of a rat. We hope
to be able 10 press our studies 70
the point where they will have
practical application to man in the
near future"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. wALrEB FERGUSON

nNE OF the saddest things in life is the fact that
- the woman with the overdeveloped maternal in
stlnct seldom makes good mother. This NAV SOUND
paradoNcal, but the facts support it.
Inc harder you work at something the more likely
you VIII be to make zzle of your Job which is true
OF only one vocation, and that is wifehood
There is good reason for this of course Int get
ing That reason through the head Of the proud parent
Is very difficult task.
7 belong TO the pure mother type" I've heard
women boast. or I'm completely wrapped I'D in NV
family" or Il not interested in anything in the
world but my children" and so on
whenever you hear that sort Of talk YOU may he
sure that sorrow Of some kind for somebody will be
the result For the children of such woman unless
they are strong enough to break loose from the
string VIII be hopeeSsy inadequate to cope with life
The greatest crime such a woman commits is in
ner attempts to make her children exactly ike her
And this is failing from which we all suffer to GER
tain degree.
a ND do not make the mistake Of thinking that
L \ your great love should exempt you from criti-
cism. II makes no difference how much You NAV
from the letters OF your affection that will mark Won
as good a bad mother
Besides that. about twothirds Of that sort of love
the kind. mean that boast about on Mothers
Gay and that nils the ballad makers with inspiration
lis nothing in the wcS.S but pure serfishness We
want our children to stay with us for instance not
because We love them but because we love ourselves
too much.
And It should be plain that the woman who takes
no account OF world affairs. OF the changing times Of
the progress Of civilization or Of the slow and cease
Be competent to citizens for any glorious to-
morrow
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II. He pays Is cents for five pounds
Of flour; pay 40 cents for twenty
four pounds buy ten bars Of
laundry soap for % cents and he
pays 5 cents for one cake.
This same store advertises low
cut price on most of these grocer
les. but the man who has to work
at hard labor for two days for the
township is not allowed to get this
low price. Why? He has to pay
the rich mans price. Who gets this
profit? MRS. P. r. NJ.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
Why Be So FuSSY2

MISUNDERSTANDING all the
1 pretense and hypocrisy. most
people will not convict a man for
murder committed under certain
conditions and are inclined to be
even more indulgent toward a
woman.
Sex relations, whether as pre-
scribed by law, or custom, have a
profound bearing on this attitude.
We claim to want the truth re-
garding sex relations, but why not
include homicide as we'll as birth
control? Why be so fussy over a
.ew old blue laws and so Indifferent
toward equally absurd ones of a
more modern brand.
Self-expression, as we call it.
runs to killing, as well as free love.
If we are going TO be guided by
what people actually think and do,
we have got to take the robust with
the romantic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
This is the fifth Of a series Of six
articles By DR.. Fishbein.
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBER

Editor Journal OF the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
TN 1904, the national child labor
4 committee was formed. 1t was
found at that time that $500 young
boys we're employed in glass works
and that so per cent Of these boys
were working at night every other
week.
Sixty thousand children under Il
years of age were employed in tex
tile mills in the dusty atmosphere
Of the carding cotton and spinning
rooms. Ten thousand boys under
Ia years of age were working in coal
mines, some Of them underground
others in the breakers where clouds
of coal dust were breathed into their
lungs.
Recent figures indicate that al
most 100000 children from 10 TO
Is years of age were taken out Of
labor between 1910 and 1920, but the
end of the situation is not yet in
sight.
The present economic situation
causes employers in some states
TO seek young people who can be
hired at lower wages than are given
to adults.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
NJ. E. Tracy
Says:

Justice Today Fails to Accord
With What the Average
Person Thinks and Under
stands.
NEW YORK. May 6.-The Massie
1 V case is Just one more of those
unnecessary. expensive farces which
serve no purpose so well as 70 breed
contempt for the law.
II the four defendants deserve a
full pardon, they neves should have
been tried.
Had the law functioned effectively
10 begin with. they never would have
done anything calling for a trial.
The performance originated in
the simple fact that protection and
justice were not to be had through
appeal 70 the law. That Is precisely
where it ended.
After all the pomp. prying. and
parade, no one is satisfied with the
result.
You can start with any premise
you Ike, or fall back on any
prejudice. and still find it impossible
10 square the result with common
sense, or common decency, as they
are understood by average people.
That is the great trouble with
regularly constituted justice these
days. 1t fails 70 accord with what
the average person thinks and
understands. 1t prefers to be tech
nical and highbrow, denying that
there is such thing as unwritten
law. pretending that age-old
customs and conceptions can be set
aside by a few resounding phrases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06

collection of Americans was more
faithful to Anglo-Saxon traditions
Of civilized justice than the mixed
jury in Honolulu.
Nobody is going to deny that
Lieutenant MasSie took the law
into his own hands alter terrific
provocation. But if the enormity
of the original offense is to serve
as complete justification for private
vengeance, We might as well give
up the fight against lynch law and
mob violence.
The recent killing of prisoner
in Kansas followed an unspeakable
crime, and yet I doubt that public
opinion would do well % call it an
honor Staying and; accordingly, for
the best interests Of the community.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-06
AUSTRALIANS ADVANCE
Nav s


ON May 6, 1918, Australian troops
~ drove the Germans back near
Morlancourt, between the Ancre and
Somme river, in day Of heavy
fighting.
The advance relieved the pressure
on Amiens and was regarded as an
important gain. although it was Of
a local nature.
Canadian troops IN the same sec
tor Of the western front made slight,
unimportant gains. Americans,
brigaded with the British, we're
sheIled heavily by the Germans, but
no attack was made. Countless
mustard gas shells we're dropped in
the American sector.
The third Liberty loan drive. for
$1,000. 900. 900. was oversubscribed. 1t
was announced in Washington.
Removal of John K. Caldwell
United States consul at vladivostok,
was demanded by the Soviet govern
ment. The state department in
washington Immediately announced
that he would not be removed