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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
White House Censor

We've become accustomed to the White House
spokesman. We bow to the White House bouncer.
We can't seem to stomach the White House censor
This new institution is represented in the stocky
person of Lawrence Richey, one of the Hoover sec
retariat Until Rchey has been known merely
as the Hoover gumshoe man. In his new role of
lord censor to the President he comes right out into
the open And, like most censors, he has the cour-
age Of his preiudices.
On Aug. IL a letter was delivered to the White
House addressed to President Hoover 1t was protest
against OF tanks cavalry and gas in the of
unarmed bonus petitioners and against the subsequent
branding of these ex-soders as crooks and Commun-
lists 1t was signed by forty lone American citizens
Instead of delivering the letter, Richey pigeon
hoed it. Next day he wrote to one of the sgners,
Dr. John Haynes Holmes of New York chairman of
the American Civil Liberties Union saying: 1T (the
protest letter. is such tissue of Misrepresentation of
fact that do propose to present it to the Pres
Ident"
Quite aside from the fact that the letter was bull
warked with unassaiable evidence here is something
under the sun. We appreciate that the President
must be protected against cranks and needless an
noyances. But since when does secretary set him.
self up as censor of the Presidents important mail
and reject what in his opinion is unkind or I'M
true?
The White House of course, be insulated
thoroughly against public opinion by means of such
censorships. When this happens, we shall have gone
far upon strange and dangerous path.
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cation, And all must admit that these farmers are
about at the end Of their rope
Encouraged to plant during the war, they found
themselves in 1920 suddenly faced with lack of mar
kets and sudden deflation In eighteen months
farm crop values deprecated S3o0ooOOoOOo For
twelve years things became steadily worse.
Relief from Washington proved trfinp or worse
Realiatory tariffs destroyed the foreign market the
depression hammered down the domestic market. On1v
taxes remained normal
IN decade some Of the nations best farming re-
glons were turned into rural slums Now. with little
nope on the political horizon the farmers have decided
10 DO what city workers do strike for a living income
They declared a holiday on farm sales To persuade
other farmers to join them they started picket lines
and bockades of cities
Recently Sheriff P A. Lanson of Council Bluffs
said that his machine guns we're there to " people
II we must" He added we don't want to-" Nor does
America want him to kill people
This, like other problems of the depression. is not
one to be met on purely legal grounds Jobless pro-
tests, veterans demonstration farm strike coal mine
trouble-all these outbursts Of men driven to ex-
tremes must be treated the great human problems
that they are
They must not be met like the old world autocra-
cies met them, with Cossacks' swords machine-g1In
bullets, gas bombs and rifles
Aside from the nhumanity of such methods thew
do not pay He who takes the sword perishes bv the
sword.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
Available Work

Business leaders plan to stem the increase of I'M
employment by distribution of what they term
available work" The plan is to induce industry to
give employment to as many as possible by plac-
ing all on either shorter hours or fewer days.
At the same time it is announced that the weekly
wage received by the individual worker will be less
but the hourly wage will be maintained.
II remains to be seen whether those who in
the wage earning class will take kindly to the plan
of debated living conditions. All that the plan means
is that all workers will live on lower level instead Of
few being the lowest standard of mere sub
sistence
Perhaps labor may place its own. Interpretation Of
what may be termed available labor and not be
tent TO accept the assumption of the business leaders
that available labor is only that necessary to produce
enough to satisfy the present purchasing power,
rather than the consuming capacity.
Should there be any idle labor as long as there is
tenement or Stun to breed disease, crime and
misery?
Should there be idle labor until every family in this
country has not only the necessities of life but the
luxures that possible through mass produc-
ton invention and science?
Should there be any necessity for enforced idle
ness or shared employment while there is human
need on the one side and vast natural resources and
machine power ready to satisfy that need but unable
to function on the other?
This nation can never a basis Of produc-
ton OF the necessities of life. Machinery makes that
impossible 1t requires only estimated 30 per cent
OF the workers to produce enough food clothing and
shelter for the total population The 10 per cent must
be employed in the production Of what may be termed
Injuries
The sale of Injuries is obviously impossible if
workers are placed a basis of part-time employ
ment and low wages. The one way is to give labor
enough purchase the Injuries of life, not part of
labor but. all who work
NO one who works will be fooled by the statement
that the hourly wage rate will be maintained. That
means nothing The only real wage rate is an annual
one Human beings live all through the year and do
not measure their needs or desires by the hour.
The way to real sterilization of employment is to
be found in the Eagles bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Louis Ludlow which provides for a stabi-
zaticn of employment that would give every man the
right to work and work continuously at a saving wage
The problem of unemployment never will be solved
by debating living standards of workers.
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Is This Economy?

In the drive by big property owners to reduce
taxes demand is being made to close some of the
branch Libraries. The plea of course is that it costs
too much to keep them open
Since jobs became few, the libraries have been
used more and more Each afternoon many men
may be found in the reading rooms In other days.
these were at work
The demand is not so much for food for empty
bellies as occupation for empty hours.
More and more people find it impossible to buy
entertainment More and more people are desperate
for some relief from idleness.
The library offers the safest and the finest form
OF entertainment. The thoughts in the printed page
are less bitter than the insurgent thoughts in the
mind of the man without job.
The big taxpayers who demand the closing of the
libraries to save pennies should think it over They
may discover that there is real economy in such
q program.
Librarians are much cheaper than policemen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
The Farm Strikers

AS the fight of embattled farmers along the picket
fines of Iowa and Nebraska spreads and assumes
more ominous phase, the officers of the law should
be reminded that their duty is to with mini
mum Of force and maximum of tact and tolerance.
The corn belt situation today is not unlike that
IF the bonus march of Washington in July While
technically the demonstrators sometimes may be in
the wrong, the very extremity Of their desperation
pleads for them just because Of this desperation,
undue display of force may drive them to ex-
treme acts
AS the bonus protest transformed overnight
from peaceful demonstration into shameful trag-
edy, so may this farmers holiday" be turned into
blood by hard-boied and hair trigger sheriffs and
gusrdsmen
Farmers Of the midwest the nations most
conservative and law-loying citizens They do not
resort TO strikes and pcketng without extreme provo
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NOTHING is more amusing these days than to
listen to mems political prophecies In fact it
Is amusing to listen to men talk about anything
at all especially if you woman who has
been trained to preserve discreet silence while the
lordly male holds forth
There are many things to be learned about the
peculiar nature OF gentlemen, if you will keep still
md out is that few Of them know what they are
talking about.
Each is convinced of the infallibility Of his own
Judgment, and every likes best the sound of his
own voice
A group Of men, even learned and intelligent men
discoursing on world problems make fine study
IN egotiSm. They do not like to listen to one an
other any more than are said to do-and
they don't do it often.
Given a cocktail apiece and the noodgates will
be open and you may then observe them each
sitting alone within of standardization
The room will be filled with noble conversation
but look closely and you will see that not one of
lhem is interested in any opinion save his own.
NHEY will remind you of trio of mothers talk
ing about their babies All, needless of the Won
ders of the neighbours child are aglow bursting with
desire to pour forth the marvelS of particular
infant prodigy
Or you may have watched four or five small boys
absorbed over toy or a make believe game. None
pays the slightest heed to the others
Each is occupied completely with his Imaginative
processes each chatters to his own ears each is
cerned magnfcenty with himself.
Men, like children, are supreme egoists. Only some
contrive to hide this trait better than others
OF them are by nature the perfect politician
II. AS they claim. they have keen sense Of humor,
Why 90 they never laugh at themselves?
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ligiouS issue, only it is carried on
entirely along the back stairs. And
by a supreme and impudent irony
the Republicans who appealed to
Know Nothingism" in 1928 now
are angling to get votes from
Catholics on the strength of the
Whispered charge that Franklin
Roosevelt is a sympathizer with the
khan.
The G. o. P. never has scorned
to play both sides of the street, but
1t does seem to me just bit thick
Tor the party which set the witch
fires burning four years ago to pose
now privately as the foe of intoIer-
ance and the friend of religious
freedom.
Even though he makes no dec
laration on any other subject I
hope that Editor Al will not neglect
this phase Of the situation in some
leader for the New Outlook.
Copyright 1882 by The Tin,es
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Foods That Upset Stomach Traced

really is the result of beginning
cold or associated with excessive
emotion.
People who become angry too
readily or too angry on slight prov
ocation may have disturbances of
digestion at the same time.
The simplest method of finding
out whether food is responsible
for unusual symptoms is, of course,
to do without food altogether for a
few days or even a week.
If, under these circumstances, the
distress continues, one would know
that the food was not the chief
cause of the trouble.
If, however, the symptoms disap-
pear, one food after another could
be added to the diet and thus test
made for the first appearance of
symptoms in relationship to a GER
tain food substance.
Because fasting may be Distress
full, it is not customary to eliminate
all foods but to begin with very
simple diet.
Dr. Alvarez suggests as a use
full elimination diet one that con-
tains nothing but lamb, rice, potato,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
Says

The Republican Party Has
Become SO Saturated With
Conservatism That It Lacks
the Ability to Appraise
Popular d e M md for
Change.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2e.-Gov-
1 Y ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt is
on safe ground when he attacks the
Republican prohibition straddle. The
Republican party has made no such
tactical blGnder in years. 1t shows
the Supplying effect Of conserva-
tism.
The Republican party has become
so saturated with conservatism as
not only to be against change, but
to lack the ability Of appraising a
popular demand for change.
1t is apparent that many Repub-
lican leaders still doubt the depth
Of anti-prohibition sentiment. Other
wise, they would not be half so
anxious to placate the drys.
President Hoover and his board
of strategy are not making subtle
or clever moves with regard to the
eighteenth amendment. Their one
idea is to avoid a false step.
Like all dyed-in- the-wool conserv-
atives, they are looking for a sure
thing bet, and, being unable to find
1t, are trying to hedge.
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Rotation of Sun

TINE sun rotates upon its axis
4 just as the earth does. This
fact has been ascertained by OBJ
servation of sun spots.
Just as the earth rotates upon its
own axis in a counter-c lockwise di-
rection, so does the sun.
By counter-cloCkWise, a motion in
the opposite direction TO that OF
the hands Of a clock is meant. This
is the general motion of the solar
system.
All the planets revolve about the
sun in counter ClOckwise direction.
Observation of different sun spots.
however. give different rates of ro-
tation for the sun. The answer to
this riddle first was pointed out
about 1860 by Darlington. who
showed that sun spots travel fast
est at the equator of the sun and
slower to the north or south of it.
In other words, the equatorial
region of the sun is revolving more
rapidly than the regions to the
north or south Of it.
This extraordinary state of affairs
is possible only because of the case
GUS nature of the suns surface.
Many authorities today believe that
the sun is gaseous through and
through.
E. w. and Mrs. Maunder, British
astronomers who have made care
full study Of solar rotations. analyz-
ing records of the Greenwich OBJ
servatory from 1879 to 1900, give
24.65 days as the period of rotation
at the equator.
Twenty degrees from the equator
it is 2519 days, while 30 degrees
from the equator it is 25.85 days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29

butter, gelatin and canned pears.
The only drink allowed is water.
Soda fountain drinks, candy and
even chewing gum must not be
touched during the test diet. Any
thing that is put into the mouth
may complicate the problem.
This diet gradually may be in
creased, if symptoms do not develop,
by first adding milk, then bread,
then mush made from wheat. AS
soon as the disagreeable symptoms
appear, the last article added to the
diet is eliminated and the test is
made to see if the SYMPTOMS fail to
appear as long as this item is out of
the diet.
The procedure is relatively simple.
Gradually eggs, cheese and SINH
lar substances are added, so that it
is finally possible to determine lust
which substance must be omitted
completely.
In large group of cases of sem
sltlvity to various foods, cabbage
was found most frequently respon-
sible, then apples, then tomatoes.
milk, chocolate, onions, lettuce
coffee, Strawberries, eggs, meat. Gu
cumberS, fats and greasy foods.
sweets and so on down the list.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29
Afraid to Act

THE way the two parties have
Il lined up on prohibition goes
deeper than the issue itself. It
illustrates the underlying attitude
toward ALL issues.
The Democratic leadership. as re-
vealed in the convention and Gov
ernor Roosevelt's utterances. is will
ling to try something different.
That it has been called radical be-
cause Of this shows in what horror
such attitude is held by those in
control Of the Republican party.
If the Republican party had been
blessed with the disposition or
courage to try something different.
we would not have been so long
turning the corner of this de-
preston.
About everything President Hoo
yer has recommended during the
last year could have been and
should have been recommended the
year before. The trouble is that
he is not sure of his ground. The
same trouble bothers him with re-
gard to prohibition.
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ably was the very symbol of COM
plete hon partisan.
But readers need not take the
prospectus of the New Outlook too
seriously IN this respect. Alfred E.
Smith has been a partisan all his
life, and the mere title of editor
is not likely to effect a complete
change in his political metabolism.
The present national campaign
marks his longest stretch of ap-
proXimate silence. Of course, he
has pledged support to the Demo-
cratic platform and ticket and let
it go at that. But in other years
the support of Smith has meant
rather more than the wave of a
handkerchief accompanied by
"Goodby; take keer of yourself"
Or Even on the 'Raddio'
T WOULD rather see Smith on the
L stump than in the sanctum. 1t is
within his privilege to support
whichever cause makes the closest
approach to his beliefs and SYM
pathies. do not think for minute
that his long service in the Demo-
cratic party makes it mandatort
for him to whoop things up for a
candidate whether he approves of
him or not.
Indeed, 1 have always felt that
one of the governors weaknesses
was his party loyalty and the sup
port which he gave to designations
which seemed to me deplorable.
His present reticence is almost a
revolution according to the psyche
logical standards of a strict party
man. But I would have him go much
further. 1 do not think the voice of
Al should be thrown away in the
coming campaign.
We may take it for granted that
Mr.. Smith is not going to indorse
Herbert Hoover. But that leaves
him a wide field of choice. Many
would listen with attention and en-
thusiaSm we're Al to speak up loudly
ana clearly IN favor OF Norman
Thomas. I grant that I do not
think any such action is likely, and
yet I recommend it.
And I certainly believe that it
would be better for his soul and for
a clear-cut decision by the electo-
rate for Mr.. Smith to speak out
much more fully on the Issues and
the personalities involved.
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NOYON is TAKEN
Aug. 20

ON Aug. 90, 1918, allied forces in
~ Picar6y continued their victo-
rious drive against the German
troops, the French taking Noyon;
the British, Bapaume, and the
Americans, numerous villages.
The Germans were in full re-
treat along a front of more than
forty miles as the day ended.
Allied gains during the days bat
tie were regarded as the most i'm
portant of any single day of the
year. Prisoners captured showed
plainly that German morale was
breaking under the steady pounding
Of the allied forces.
On the Atlantic seaboard the
fishing schooner Cleaning was sunk
by a German submarine off the
coast Of Nova Scotia, and an addi-
tional fleet Of destroyers was or
dered to comb >the region for sub
marines, which had been unusually
active
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia the
Health Magazine.

THROUGH experience, many
4 people learn that certain foods
seem to disagree with them.
DR.. Walter G. Alvarez points out
that some people have nausea or
fiatulence on drinking milk, some
people have hives after eating
strawberries, others are nauseated
and weak whenever they eat she'll
fish.
With a view to discovering just
which foods are the troublemakers,
he suggests that such people make
a written record Of all the unusual
foods that they have eaten during
the previous twenty-four hours,
whenever they develop an attack.
1t also should be remembered that
whereas an ordinary amount Of
some foods may not cause trouble,
extraordinary amounts may do so,
so that reference also should be
made to such food excuses.
Sometimes the disturbance that
apparently is due to eating the food
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29

A LIS got a job I'm glad, be-
"A because he was out in Chi
cago a little while age making in
quiries about some position which
didn't pan out.
1 can't remember now whether it
was the hours or the pay or the
condition of the range in the
White House. Maybe the people
out there who had the giving of the
job decided that AL wasn't the type
That's the one thing that puzzles
me a little about the new enter
price. Alfred E. Smith, editor"
falls upon my ears with an unfa-
miliar sound. You have probably
read that he is to run THE New
Outlook, a new nonpartisan monthly
magazine" I suppose it is the
phrase "nonpartisan" which makes
the new association sound little
curious.
Until very recently, at least, Gov
ernor Smith always has been for
things or against them. Possibly L
am doing an injustice to the fun
damental meaning of the word
"nonpartisan' when I admit that to
me it is a rather cherries label for
man or magazine.
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Of Use to Republicans

THE plain fact is that his reti-
Il cence has been of great value
to the Republican party. The whis-
perers are using it hard. Those who
deplored the raising of the religious
issue in 1923 now may learn how
foolish it is to think that any prob
lem is settled merely because it is
kept underground.
Once again there is a distinct re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-29

utilities bar honest, news-seekinp
reporters, most of our readers stand
f1rmy on both feet behind you on
the prohibition question.
You are as safe as a girl in
church on that particular issue. and
as further evidence we will quote a
statement by the old but reliable
irish novelist. George Bernard
Shaw. He replies. when asked for
statement on liquor questions,
that Liquor, to the poor man. is
the chloroform that enables him to
endure the painful operation of
living" w. D. CAMPBELL,
Editor Times-The G. o. p. saws
Stick to the Constitution. It was
good enough for our fathers; it
should be good enough for US"
Why did you and your fathers
change from the spinning wheel, the
ox-cart, the horse and buggy for
more modern ways and methods?
Everything is changing and the
Constitution of our forefathers has
outlived its usefulness and is OBJ
solete
l object to Constitution that
allows few states to hold back and
keep on the books a law that the
majority of the states have found
is detrimental to their own interests
and is against the will of a majority
of the people.
The Boston tea party members
threw the tea overheard because
they objected to increased taxes.
and they established this great
country. Will the people have to
organize another Boston tea party
to get justice in this land of So
called liberty?
ROY F. HUBBARD.