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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
The Pastors. Twain and War

In the most militant attack on war ever recorded
by the clergy, the membership of the Ohio Pastors
Association says in formal resolutions:
I'VE never again will sanction or participate in
any war"
But won't they?
Without desiring to be cynical, we want once
again to quote Mark Twain war;
There never has been just one, never hon
orabe oneon the part of the instigator of the
can see a million years ahead and this rule never
will change in so many as half dozen instances.
THE loud little handful-as usual-will shout for
the war The pulpit will-warily and cautiously
object-at first the great big dull bulk of the nation
will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why
there should be war; and will say, earnestly and
Indignantly it is unjust and dishonorabe and there
is no necessity for it,.
Then the handful will shout louder A few fair
men on the other side will argue and against
the with speech and pen, and at first will have
a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last
long, those others will outshout them and presently
the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popu-
larity.
Before long, you will see this curious thing: The
speakers stoned from the platform and free speech
strangled by hordes OF furious men, who in their
secret hearts still at with those stoned speak
ers-as earler-but do not dare to say so.
And now the whole nation-pulpit and all-wil
take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and
mob any honest who ventures to open his mouth;
and presently such mouths will cease to open.
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies putting
the blame upon the nation that it attacked, and
every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing
falstes, and will study them diligently and refuse
to examine any refutations of them and thus he will
by and by. convince himself that the is just and
will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after
this process of grostesque self-deception"
Twain wrote that years before the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25

the dangers of water polluted by
sewage.
When the situation developes,
committees get busy, the city faith
ers are notified and a pure water
supply is insured Prevention is
far cheaper than cure.
The mortality from this disease
has been reduced by 98 per cent.
The control of carriers indicates
that there are about half as many
now as there were in 1910.
DR.. James G.. Cumming estimates
that it will require at least another
twenty-five years to eliminate car
riers entirely.
In the meantime, the barriers
against transmission can not be
lowered. Public water supplies
must continue to be purified and
chlorinated; milk must be pas
teurized, and human beings gener-
ally must be taught the Importance
of everyday hygiene, particularly
cleanliness Of the hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25

preston reparatons and revenge have all but ended
the republican regime.
Chancellor Breuning rules with dictatoral powers
which make Bismarck "the iron chancellor" seem
almost democrat by comparison. Even that fore
most of German liberal newspapers the Frankfurter
zeitung, holds that frank dictatorship would be
preferable to the neptude Of the present Reichstag
Hitler and his Fascist National Socialists have a
larger popular support than any other party. They
are destined almost inevitably to govern Germany
either alone or through coalition with the Catholic
Center party. One or more persons are killed and
a wounded every day in the clashes
between the National Socialists and their opponents
These things common that they no longer
are news" in Germany.
The republican regime is attacked on the ground
that it has gone its knees before France and that
it has wasted its substance in social welfare expen-
ditures. Neither charge is true in any significant
degree. The dubious criminal speculatons of great
German bankers and industralists have done more
to bring the present financial crisis than any ex-
penditmes for social relief
Preparations have been colossal problem to be
sure but something worse might have come if pay
ments had been suspended or repudiated earlier
Germans remember the horrors of the Ruhr invasion
and the winter of 1929
and repubcanism in Germany is the disastrous eco
nomic situation into which Germany has been
driven by reparaons and other aspects of the post
war policy of revenge. Some 100000 are unem-
poyed, and the figure will probably reach 100000
before the winter is over Artillery caissons rattle
through the streets picking up old clothes for the
destitute.
Except for three weeks, the stock exchange has
been closed since the middle of July. Reichsbank
reserves are low as 81 per cent, compared with
40 per cent, once the legal minimum. Wages still
being cut, in spite of the fact that it already
is hard for the workers to live under the existing
price schedules. Taxes terrific. Even salaried
persons often pay as much as 20 per cent of their
income
And the end is not yet The chancellor, with
frank realism, recently warned that additional bur-
dens would have to be imposed
Mr.. Elliott concludes that "after almost two
decades of war, famine blockade imitation, repara-
tons payments, and economic depression, Germany
finds itself off than at any time since Jena
and perhaps since the Thirty Years war"
The collapse of Germany, or a definite swing to
Fascism or Communism, would have momentous if
not fatal results for Europe The reverberations
would be in the United States, still further
depressing our already groggy business conditions.
1t is high time that temporizing and vacillation
be superseded by resoute international craftsmanship
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A MARYLAND gentleman offers this column the
N suggestion that American women could relieve
the crisis in Manchuria by refusing to buy silk most
of which comes from Japan.
He failed, however, to say how one could persuade
the women to this course of action Excellent, there
fore the idea is, it is impractical And here is the
reason:
In the same mail came another letter which says,
your constant championing Of women leaves me, a
woman cold" And there follows long account of the
wortheSSness and vcousneSS of women in general and
of how splendid, altruistc, and kindly all men are.
1t is impossible to muster feminine forces because
of the antagonsm which many of them feel for one
another. Hundreds of thousands of women despise
their kind. The old sex appeal is always working
and it does very good job of setting the females
against another.
DISCOUNTING the biological causes for this hos
- tlity, we also confronted by the fact that
only until comparatively recent years have we made
any attempts to stand by one another
Many soft hands cast stones at the Magdalen.
And>from that day unto this, there has been but a
slight decrease in the barrage.
One of the sureSt proofs that we making in
last three four decades there has been genun and
concerted action on the part of women to help one
another.
And still pessimistically must assert that it
would be impossible to prevail upon American
women to get behind any member of our sex for
any cause, as we did in the 1928 crusade for Mr..
Hoover.
by curtailment in the sale of her silks best would
get the men together to withdraw them from the
markets
regret to state that my sex has not yet the
strength of mind or the ability to cooperate that
would make his plan feasible. Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH SERVICE
Typhoid Requires Constant Vigilance

already developed, there were dur
ing the sixteen months following
4,578 cases and Gil deaths.
In each instance the outbreak was
traced to some contamination of
water by the carelessness of an in
dividual and the lack Of suitable
control.
In 1885, an epidemic occurred in
Plymouth, Pa, a mining town with
only 5000 inhabitants. There were
1,104 cases reported and ia deaths.
In this instance the outbreak was
caused by the careless disposal of
eXcretions of one patient with ty-
phoid fever who happened to live
in an isolated house on the bank
of one of the small brooks which
joined the river from which water
was put into the reservoir for the
town.
Every now and then a dramatic
outbreak occurs in some city which
has not given sufficient attention to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
Making Germany Safe for Democracy

Foremost of Woodrow Wilson's ideals was
making the world safe for democracy. In particular
he wished to make Germany democratic-to lib
crate it from its military masters and to establish
free and democratic institutions. What are the re-
suits and the prospects thirteen years after the birth
of the German republic?
The German people radically altered the political
institutions and traditions in accordance with Mr.
Wilson'S alluring suggestions. They hoped that as a
result they would receive justice and decent treat
ment.
Had not Mr.. Wilson said that we had no quarrel
with the German people? We were concerned only
with lifting from their backs the bellicose octopus
saddled on them by their rulers.
Did their conquerors meet the Germans half way
and make good the wilsonian idealsm? The answer
is contained in excellent survey of Germany at
the end of 1881 by John Elliott in the Nation Mr.
Elliott is Boshevik Hun He is the Berlin
correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune.
After the proclamation of the Weimar constitu-
ton, there real enthusiasm for republicanism in
Germany. BY 1925 even Marshal Won Hindenberg
was converted to the support of the new regime With
even halfway encouragement from abroad German
republicanism would have been assured of perma-
nency and success But the thirteen years ri re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Experiment With UItra-Vio-
let Rays to Maintain Health
of Animals Gagged an Zoo,
Where Normal Sunshine Is
Lacking.
ULTRAVIOLET lamps have been
- installed in the Pittsburgh zoo
by the Westinghouse Lamp Com
pany in an attempt to aid two all
ing lions. The two lions, Romeo
and his mate, have been in i'll
health for some months.
1t was thought that perhaps the
Pittsburgh zoo in the winter time
averaged less sunshine than the
African jungle, and so Councilman
Clifford B. Connolly, chairman of
the committee on parks and libra
ries, introduced a motion in the
Pittsburgh council to permit the
ultraviolet experiment.
A detailed study is to be made Of
the animals exposed to the Ultra
violet lamps to record the effect of
the rays upon them.
The Westinghouse engineers say
that ultraviolet lamps have been
tried in ZOOS before this and that
the results have been beneficial.
In ZOOS in London, where the high
per cent of foggy days cuts the
amount of sunlight which the ami
mails get to an extremely low figure,
difficulty was experienced with a
number of animals. The big rep
tiles, in particular, were affected
and refused to eat.
Exposure to ultraviolet lamps
gave the reptiles healthier appetiteS,
the Westinghouse engineers say.
The lamps were also tried in San
Francisco and were instrumental in
saving the life o. rare leopard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
ldlaneSS Disastrous

VOU can call the problem by any
L name you like and attribute it
to any cause you like, but its Solu-
ton lies in finding normal amount
Of work.
Men can stand low wages and
small profits, even to the extent of
suffering, but they can not stand
idIeness indefinitely and keep their
heads.
Idleness as by-product of pros
perity is bad enough, but as by
product of poverty it represents
nothing less than a threat to order
ly life.
Nor should this threat be meas
ured in terms Of petty, personal
crime, or interpreted as including
no more than sporadic outbreaks at
the worst, since it generates a dis
trust and lack of confidence which
may endure for generations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
Saving Wild Animals

1T is interesting to see the latest
l. discoveries Of science being used
to preserve the lives of wild ami
mails. Once upon a time mans only
interest in a wild animal was to
kill it.
But the killing of wild animals
has gone on at such a pace that
many authorities look forward to a
day when there will be no more
wild animals. They will be known
only from stuffed specimens in ZOOS.
1t is fact that Africa, which in
the minds of many is swarming
with wild animals, is facing the ex-
junction of its famous animals.
All governments of Africa have had
to adopt stringent measures to re-
strict hunting. Permits are now re-
CURED and the number of animals
which may be killed by one hunter
is strictly limited.
The Belgian government has set
aside number of large tracts, one
OF them known as the Albert Ma
tional park, in which no hunting at
all is permitted
This has been done with the
hopes of preserving a portion of
Africa in its original wiIdness.
The Albert national park includes
the mountain slopes which are the
homes of the gorilla. Authorities
say that if the Belgian government
had not taken this action, the 60
rilla would have become extinct in
"a relatively few years.
For these reasons, such expert
ments as those now going forward
in Pittsburgh are extremely impor-
tant.
The day may not be distant when
the only living wild animals will
I've III ZOOS. 1t therefore is impor-
tant that we learn how to keep
these animals healthy and happy in
captivity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
give us Work

TINE man out of work may have
> i ideas as to why society can find
nothing for him to do, but they are
overshadowed by his feeling of COM
plete helpleSSnesS.
That is the most dangerous and
destructive feeling known to human
nature.
The millions Of unemployed, not
only here, but abroad, are not with
out appreciation Of what has been
and is being done in their behalf.
They are grateful for the soup
Kitchens, breadlines and other evil
dences of a charitable inclination
on the part of those who can af-
ford it. What they want most
however, is an opportunity to dc
something for themselves.
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BEggS

A PUBLISHER who need not be
IA nameless. since it was Max
SchuSter of Simon & SchuSter, VEN
tured an excellent suggestion at the
luncheon of the Wednesday Culture
Club recently. Mr.. Schuster thinks
that they should be REORGANIZATION
for holders of college degrees. Five
years after graduation Bachelor
of Arts should be called upon to JUS
tify his right to retain his diploma.
It is Mr.. Schuster's contention
that many a man says well, that's
that" as soon as he has heard the
news that he squeezed through his
final examinations. Thereafter he
makes no attempt to keep abreast
Of the thought Of his times.
Mr.. Schuster's concern with this
problem is not wholly matte of
disinterested public spirit. He has
found that some of the most in
veterate and stubborn of nonreaderS
are college men.
Being a publisher, Mr.. Schuster
OC14CNCS U11clG Ol4CIC OllOu40 NC q
moral obligation upon anybody who
belongs to "the company of educat-
ed men" to read something some
time. He agrees that it need not be
anything under his imprint.
T THINK the scheme is a good
i one, but since no test papers
have been prepared as yet, the best
that can do is to answer a set of
queries which I found this after
noon in the lower righthand corner
of the desk. I was rummaging
around in the hopes of finding an
old column.
do not know whether it was an
uplift organization or a life insur-
ance company which prepared the
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Views Of Times Readers

is created for only one purpose, and
that is to get back all the farmer
and worker have accumulated, either
through unfinished payments, mort
cages, or taxes. How much longer
is the American worker going to
sleep on?
Next year is election and if we
can survive our 'stagger starvation
system" that long what will we do?
Vote for the C. o. P. and more
Hooverism?
Vote for the Democrats and suffer
the same Cor worse)?
Compromise and take Socialism,
which constitutes the reform of both
old parties?
Accept the new Liberty" party,
which is Fascistism?
Or will We organize in one big
union, side by side, and vote for
our own rights and freedom, a gov
eminent for, of and by the people?
BILL.
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Editor Times-With so much
talk going on about relief, we all
wonder when it will come and what
the outcome will be. Looks like
the government has the same at
titude as Governor Rolph in regard
to MONEYS pardon, there is no
hurry"
Senator La Toilette wants to Gre
ate jobs for three people at $4,000
year. Why should any one re-
ceive a salary like this on any con-
Sideration, let alone on cause like
this? Why, I understand that even
Josef Stain is leading the Russian
government for $3.50 a month,
building the greatest system and
society the world ever has known,
while our own Hoover gets $4,000
a year to burden starved Americans.
We are face to face with the
greatest problem we ever have had.
Hoover does nothing but appoint
commissions and blow off a lot of
hot steam. He gave the farmers
relief Yes, relieved them of all
they had and made "serfs" of them
and chain gang" slaves Of the
working people.
Now he comes along with another
system to loosen up the credit sys-
tenn" so Americans can buy more
and buy homes. What working
man has little enough sense to go
ahead again and start buying a
home, farm, furniture or auto on
the credit system and have it taken
away from him?
They blow stall up with patriot
ism, have faith be patient, pros
perity's around the. corner, new
credits and banking systems on one
side and take away what little we
have on the other.
History shows us that every seven
to ten years we have a panic, which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
Tan Protects Humans

.NNE problem which the engineers
" must solve is that of how much
ultraviolet the animals need and
how much they can stand.
Man requires a certain amount Of
ultraviolet, but too much is bad.
Natures method of protecting man
from an overdose of sunshine is by
tanning his skin.
AS spring and summer progress,
the skin acquires darker and dark
er huge. The tan has the effect Of
shutting out the ultraviolet of the
suns rays.
Over-enthusiastic individuals who
take advantage of the first warm
day to expose themselves for long
periods to the direct rays of the sun
pay the penalty by acquiring a bad
case of Sunburn.
1t is probable, however, that GER
tain animals can stand much larger
doses of sunshine than man can.
The habit of snakes, alligators and
other reptiles, to lie for hours in the
hot sunshine is well known.
Ihese animals, no doubt, would
require considerable exposure to the
ultraviolet lamp. In the case of
other animals, it will be necessary
to give them smaller doses in all
probability.
Fur-bearing animals, no doubt,
Will require larger doses since it is
doubtful if very much ultraviolet
penetrates their hides.
Some experiments in the past
have shown that the use of ultra
violet increases the quality of the
fur OF fur-bearing animals.
This is reported to have been the
case with the leopard in the San
Francisco zoo who was treated with
ultraviolet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
Dictatorship NeXt2

WHETHER we can provide a
Wy sufficient amount of work
through monopoly and mass pro-
duction, without going in for state
control and dictatorship, is some
thing which deserves great deal of
attention.
Our forefathers were able to pro-
vide it by encouraging small enter
prises, home owning and individual
initiative. They did not escape
panics and depression, but they were
in a better position to meet them
than we are.
When the ordinary lines of en-
ployment failed they were not COM
PEELED to walk the streets. They
always could find something to do
about the house, or in the garden,
and generally in such a way as
brought meat and drink.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
RuSSiaIS Example

TIME secret of Russia's success is
l. work. Leaders of the capital
istic world could do worse than keep
that in mind.
The Russian people may be get
ting comparatively little to show
for their labor, but they are busy,
and that inspires them with hope.
No matter how well off people
may be, they fall easy victims to
despair when placed in a position
where they can not do anything to
help themselves.
You have seen this illustrated in
dozens of suicides during the last
two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-25
Our Theory Improved

XXTE are pursuing the theory that
w everybody can be put on a
pay roll and live in a rented house,
that wealth can be coagulated into
vast pools, that property can pass
into the hands of few, that big
business can be permitted to elm
mate little business, that boards Of
directors can exercise more intimate
Icontrol of life than state legisla-
lures, that private financial institu-
lions can become strong enough to
determine public policy, without af-
fecting the principles and ideals
on which this republic was founded.
Maybe so, but we yet have to
prove it.
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Have l a lie plan'?" No.
"Am working at it?" No.
What am I worth in dollars and
cents?" can afford to pay about
ten cents on the dollar.
How did acquire this?" Thrift
II n Il
Seven-Card Stud Bad Game
"XXTHY am I where I am flnan-
wv cially?" I always insist that
it was just bad luck. They quit
early on me.
who am I socially?" Well, my
name was in the Social Register for
one issue, but that was more than
fifteen years ago. A man has prom
ised to put me up for the Elks. A
member of the Racquet Club calls
me by my first name, and Jansen
wants to see me.
why am I what I am morally?'
It's part of the general letdown &C.
casioned by the war.
What of my religious Iife?" I'm
mystic.
"Am I God-fearing?" I would like
to. say no, because think it's a
rotten, bad frame of mind for any,
body of any decent sort of religious
feeling. 1t is the ultimate BIAS
phemy. But I must say eyes" Par
ticularly in thunderStorms.
"Clean-minded?" That needs
more definition. I'm moderately
ribald, but I should say was fairly
clean-minded.
"Helpful?' Yes, sometimes.
do I realize that I am part of
Gods great world plan?" I certainly
do not. God doesn't interfere with
people that way.
Am I working to make the world
wiser?" Yes.
'Betterq" Yes.
"Happier?" Yes.
But now I find I've done it all
wrong. At the bottom Of the ques-
tionnaire I discovered: take your
time in answering these questions.
Read over, think over, every ques-
ton before you answer any. Show
the answers to no one. Six months
later go over your answers to see
what progress you have made and
again at the end of the year. Try
to make a showing"
1 didn't understand in the begin
ming that the matter was to be con-
Tidential. The best / can do is to
request you to keep everything
have said to yourself.
copyright. 1882. BY The Times)
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KUHLMANNS SPEECHES
Jan. rs

ON Jan. Is, 1918, and also on
" the following day. DR.. Won
Kuhlmann, German foreign min
lister, speaking before the main
committee of the reichstag, JUS
titled the policy pursued by the
German representatives at Brest-
Litovsk and denounced the Boil
shevil,i as the ruling force.
He said: Herr Trotzky twice
declared in open discussion that
our government has no other
basis than force. The Bolshevik
maintain themselves by brutal
force; their arguments are cannon
and machine guns. The Bolsheviki
preach beautifully, but practice
otherwise.
1.-THE statements of the Bolshe-
Wiki show that these gentlemen
are indulging in another policy
than that of concluding an open
and honorable peace with the
bourgeois governments of the
central powers, which are hated
like poison"