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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
The Right TO Work

What is implied in the appeal of President Hoo
yer and other leaders for foryhour week for labor2
Speaking before the Mems Club of Bethel temple,
Rev. j. w. r. Mcguire, president Of ST. viators COL
lege and an economist Of note, declares that it is
the first official recognition of the right to work
If there be right on the part of an individual
to job, then somewhere in society there must be
duty to supply job
In these days of vast unemployment, there will
be more and discussion of this right If it be
right, and OF ways to enforce that right.
At the present time, who want work can
not discover who owes them the job.
That government, either state or local, must
furnish work when private employers fail suggests
that the country is turning toward Socialism, Com
munism FasciSm.
But if there be no obligation the part of gov
eminent to supply jobs, then the obligation must
be upon industry and there must be very definite
changes from the present system.
The right to work. if recognized, is also SOME
thing than the job itself 1t implies payment
of wages on basis that will permit the worker to
maintain family on high American standards Of
living It implies that he will not be paid in baskets
of food from charity, Official unofficial
The whole subject will command attention in the
next few months The twelve millions of idle are
becoming burden not only to themselves, but to
all industry. Ideness is luxury which society can
not afford.
Before the problem is settled many in high places
will be compelled to change their views and their
vocabularies.
The share work" movement is one step. It will
succeed only If it be done in Which permits
the highest Standards not the lowest of living for ALL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-President Hoover's
speech in Des Moines, in which he
promised higher tariff to the farm
er, has raised question in my
mind as to the actual facts regard
ing the whole tariff issue.
For several years the G. o. P. has
claimed that the tariff has devel-
oped the industry. of the country
and made this the most powerful
industrial nation in the world.
Republican leaders (and many
Democrats, also) have listened to
every plea of the individual tariff
grabbers, and never have been
known to refuse to cooperate in Sc
curing protection without regard to
the nations interest.
We started out to protect the in
FAINT industry and created an in
dustrial population of such magni-
tude that our very lives depend
upon the success of our manufactur-
ers, both in domestic and foreign
markets. Now it is proposed as a
remedy for all the farmers ills.
In the Presidents address we find
criticism Of the Democratic partyS
platform promise to bargain with
other nations to secure better mar
kets and scares the poor farmer
into believing that he viii get raw
deal.
Previously, the President has said
that what the country needed was
long view of things. Yet we find
him gloating over the fact that
there were scarcely any duties on
farm roducts before 1920, at a time
in which European farmers hardly
had recovered from the effects of
the World war.
Were they needed at that time?
And are the present duties of any
conceivable benefit now? It seems
to me that tariff hardly can be con-
.sidered except in their relation to
present conditions, and I suspect
that the President believes the same
thing.
Mr.. Hoover states that the man
ufacturer would secure all the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Little Humanity Left

EXPERTNESS, efficiency, system,
IL and discipline have been woven
into our business structure, until
there is little of the human element
left. AS in prison, men become
mere numbers, and, according to
one distinguished authority, our
banks prefer collateral to character.
Even charity has become a Stats
tical enterprise. Unframed people
are told that they are not qualified
to give intelligently. Lazarus and
the rich man have no direct con-
tact any more. The crumbs are
gathered up and doled out by spe-
cialistS.
The federal government has
grown too wise, rational, and sane
for straightforward, effective relief
IN case of personal distress through
public calamity.
President Hoover has discovered
that bread and butter form a good
common denomination of human
welfare, but finds it necessary to
iced strained banks and threatened
corporations on different diet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The child therefore visions the
image with one eye or the other,
choosing the one it is going to use.
Either eye may turn in, and to
most people 1t seems that both do.
In the most common types, there
is some power to fuse images, but
ar-sightedness in one eye in
terferes with such fusion.
If function is not strong, the
weak eye tends to turn in, but there
is double image.
1t is obvious that the correction
of this condition by proper
glasses is a great help in lessen
ing the effort of function and in
aiding development of proper vision.
When a child squints or has
cross-eyes, the first step is to have
the vision tested by a competent
specialist, who will examine the
eyes under the best possible condi.-
tons; namely using proper drops
in the eye to enable accurate
measurement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

1T is a great pity that in this
l. campaign, as in all others, we
are not able to fight out the issue
on precisely what one or the other
candidate has said.
1t is the custom to listen to the
words of political adversaries and
then eXclaim: "Oh, that's very
pretty, but of course we didn't
mean it,"
And even more often we are in
clined to say: well, he did men
ton black but he really was think
ing of brown
In my opinion, many men should
be defeated upon exactly what they
declare, their words being accepted
at fully 100 per cent of their face
value. I have Herbert Hoover spe-
officially in mind. Some of his
speeches have seemed to me utterly
honest and candid, and the more
frank he becomes, the more am
opposed to him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Intellectual Giants
.R. ABRAHAM FIEXNER

DR. ABRAHAM FLExNER, in
~ establishing his new Institute
of Advanced Study, seems in some
ways to have returned to the an
Gent ideals Of the university.
He has begun by signing Profess
Sor Albert Einstein as his professor
Of mathematics and theoretical
physics. Other intellectual giants
are to be added to the, faculty.
Apparently the plan is to give
these men time and quiet for re-
searches of their own and to sur
round them with graduate students
Of high intellect and serious pur-
pose, students who can profit by
association with great masters.
1t seems to me that DR.. Flexner
is applying to his new institute a
plan not widely different from the
one upon which he organized the
medical schools Of the United
States.
While secretary Of the general
education board Of the Rockefeller
foundation, he persuaded John D.
Rockefeller Jr. to put up $4,000 900.
He watched this with an equal
suf from number of rich men.
and with it rebuilt number Of the
nations medical schools.
All these schools have operated
on a program which called for i'm
portant research programs, facu1-
ties of high ability and rigorous
standards of students.
However, it seems to me that e
would be a mistake for any one to
assume that all the universities Of
the nation could go over to the sort
Of program outlined by DR.. Flex-
ner, to the exclusion Of their other
activities.
Success of the extension work of
Columbia university, City College Of
New York, Cleveland College of
Western Reserve university and
other organizations, is in itself SUI
f1cient justification for this type Of
work.
The graduate student sufficiently
well trained to sit at the feet Of
Einstein should have the opportu-
nifty.
But in addition, the intelligent
young man, earning his living as a
salesman or clerk, who is willing to
devote an evening a week to find
ing out what the Einstein theory Is
about, should not be denied the OPP
portunity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
M. E. Tracy
SAWS.

For the Last Thirty Years
This Nation Has Been
Moving Steadily ToWard
Rule By a Benevolent Ar-is-
tocracy.
NEW YORK, Oct. Ill am
IN moved to testify in this
gospel-of-fear meeting. not by way
of protest, but as part of the chorus.
I, also, am afraid, though not Of
the same things, or for the same
reasons, which appear to daunt
some others.
shall not fire the cook, or
chloroform the cat, if Franklin D.
Roosevelt is elected, but shall
worry a great deal over what is sure
to happen if the philosophy repre-
sented by old guard Republicans is
permitted to go much farther in
Warping our form of government.
The DOGGY which looms on our
political horizon is made Of more
menacing stuff than temporary
decline Of prices and wages. The
depression is but a shadow of its
substance.
For the last thirty years, and
especially for the last twelve, this
nation has been moving steadily
toward rule by a benevolent aris-
tocracy, toward group control of its
finances, industries and resources.
We have much more to fear from
the MusSolini scheme than from
red propaganda.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Difficult Problems

THE fact that the modern uni
l. versity is both a research insti-
tuition and a teaching institution
has given rise TO many difficult
problems.
The situation has been aggravated
still more by the recent demand for
university extension work, including
downtown college branches. night
instruction, extension lectures, radio
lectures, and instruction by mail.
A few years ago there was COM
plant that the only road to promo
ton in a university was through the
field of research, that the instructor
who wished to give his best efforts
and energies to the business of
teaching found himself left behind,
while promotion came to the man
who had published large volume
Of research.
1t also was inferred that there
was great deal of so-called re-
search work published that might
just as well have gone unpublished.
Within recent years, there has
Oeen demand Tor new type OF
educator, the sort of man who I'M
derstood public psychology suffi-
GENTLY we'll to administer extension
branches Of a university.
The ancient university was a sim
pie thing compared to its modern
offspring. In the beginning, the
university consisted of a teacher and
his pupils.
1t was, however, even in those
days, a dual institution. For the
master attracted students because
he had something original to say,
and that meant, therefore, that he
was engaged in research.
But the problem was not compli-
Gated by dormitories, football teams.
endowment campaigns, real estate
holdings, alumni associations, fra
ternities, or prohibition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

benefits of international agreements
on the tariff. Well, what Of it? The
stock argument of the peasant farm
er hardly can stand the light Of day.
The very nature of farm products
causes such an enormous shipping
bill that competition is barely
possible. Also, the condition of the
European farmer can not readily
be said to be worse than the plight
of our own tillers of the soil, and
I contend that the farmer will
secure prosperity only when the
purchasing power Of the great in
dustrial centers is guaranteed.
The farmer can profit more by
increased industrial trade than by
any tariff on farm products except
as may be placed to prevent dump
ing.
Even the most rabid Of tariff ex-
ponents now contend that pro-
lection has developed our industry
to such extent that many Of our
duties should be lowered so our in
u CeSC0 C144O4CA1(y dl4NA c1~AAA III 4AAcoo
production shall not go to waste on
a limited domestic market.
believe your newspaper would
render public service by publishing
more statistical information and ex-
planning the effect of individual
items on the general condition of
our factories. A little light on these
matters might mean good deal to
voters who, in the very nature of
things, hardly can grasp definite
solution from the meager and
partisan discussions on the subject
Even. the President says that he
does not agree with many Of the
provisions of the present law. ]
wonder If he, too, might be more
specific.
FRANCIS MEUNIER.
1924 North Alabama street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Only as a Stopgap

FINDER certain emergencies it
~ may be the quickest way in
which relief can be modified for
those who suffer. I spoke briefly
for block-aid last year, but I will
not do SO again.
I think we have had ample time
to learn that this is the inconse-
quential and evasive way of dealing
with fundamental problems. The
whole business of private contribu-
tons and private allowances gets
down to a familiar analogy which I
have used in many speeches.
On one bright and brisk morning
you may happen to be walking
along pier jutting out into the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Wisdom. Not Wit
prosperity

Word comes from the cold hills of New Hampshire
that the people about to choose another Moses
to lead them from their affection into the promised
land.
For years Senator George Higgins Moses has not
restrained his biting wit. Today his very Smart
cracks rise to plague him. His 1923 remark about
the menace of Hoover" his sneers at Harding, at
Hubert Work, at Frank Kellogg, at nearly every
prominent Republican since Taft, have irked the
regulars his "sons of the wild jackass epithet has
stamped him as foe of progressives.
In fat years the voters welcome the sallies of a
court jester. In lean ones like these they demand
wisdom instead Of wit. Mayor Jimmy Walker found
this out. Senator Moses may, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Questions and
Answers

Has Ireland any extensive for
ests?
The scattered forests in Ireland
constitute about 100000 acres, ap-
proximately IL per cent of the
total area, and lie chiefly in Lem
ster and Munster provinces.
What are the ingredients in
glass?
Sand, lime and soda, mixed to-
gether and melted.
Why were the Great Lakes so
called?
Because Of their size.
Where did the famous st. VaIen-
tines day massacre take place?
Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

Modern University Is Com
pler Institution, of Myriad
Activities.
DY now the colleges and thu ur,s-
- versities Of the nation havs
settled down to the serious business
of the fall term New students have
been indicted safely into the stu
dent body.
Flag rushes. pushban contests
and other forms Of Jolihcation, In
which freshmen and sophomorea
make each others acquaintance by
ripping one another's shirts into
shreds, are out Of the way for an
other year.
The modern university Is a dual
institution. Side by side with the
teaching of students, the work Of
research is carried on.
Since only a few Students form the
habit of reading technical journals
regularly in their undergraduate
days, they often are unaware Of the
complex problems which their pro-
fessors are working upon in the
same laboratories where they worry
through the routine experiments Of
elementary courses.
Scientific research also Is carried
on in America by special institutions
endowed for the purpose and by
research laboratories attached to
large corporations.
Examples of the former type are
the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington and the Smithsonian InSti-
tuition. Examples Of the latter type
are to be found in the laboratories
of the General Electric Company,
the Eastman Kodak Company. the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Company, and others.
But the greatest volume Of re-
search work is carried out by the
faculty members Of colleges and
universities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
EOR long time any attempt to
II control crosseyes in children
was prevented, because people
thought that the cross-eyes were
due to fright, shock, an infectious
disease, or some accident to the
mother.
In a consideration of the sub
ject, DR.. Luther G. Peter points out
that most children at birth are far
sighted.
Moreover, the eyes of the child at
birth are not perfectly co-ordinated
or CAPABLE of working together.
After six or eight weeks the eyes
begin to work tremendously, and
by the end of the first year in
most children the two eyes travel to-
gether.
Each eye sees singly, but the
images blend. In some forms of
squirt or cross-eye scientifically
called strabismus) they appear to
blend in two images.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
81 TO-DAY Sc
{ WORLD WAP
ANNIVERSARY
RG4yofANE,
GERMANS ASK TRUCE
October 21

NN Oct. 81, 1918, Germany sug-
~ gested to President Wilson ar
rangements for an armistice, an
nounced. that her submarines would
be restricted and told Of govern
ment reforms.
The allies advanced on a ninety
mile front from the Dutch border
TO the Disc, east Of st. Quentin.
Germans in northern Belgium were
forced back upon Client and the
Scheldt.
In the Balkans, French troops
reached the Danube near Vidin,
shelled an enemy moEitor. and
drove it ashore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one Of Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

has forestalled violence and conserved British work
ers health and morale during the depression.
Our people must be cared for during lean times
To feed them by the hand Of charity now costs us
upward of billion dollars year, How much better
for their respect and the nations to care for them
from ndustrys surplus earnings set aside reserves
during the fat yearsI
Unemployment insurance and job exchanges will
not solve our economic muddle. They will, however
guarantee more security, industry to plan its
future. and exercise from society the specter Of
want
These reforms are cheaper, in the long rum than
breadlines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
IT SEEMS TOME BY HF FE91%

To be sure, i'll the year 1882, as
in the year Is B. c., there is dis
position to draw red behring's across
the trail. Thus, in one recent adj
dress Herbert Clark Hoover dashed
out furiously against those who
said that in his mine promotion
days he hired coolie labor at star
walton wages.
This Mr.. Hoover denied, but it is
not and should not be one of the
major issues of the campaign. After
all, the mass of voters are much
more interested in what workers get
now than what they received
twenty-five years ago in the days
of the great engineers novitiate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Even So, | Don't Like Him

A ND 1 am more sincerely against
L a President Hoovers reelection
than ever before, after hearing his
eloquent radio address appealing for
aid to swell community chests and
help the status of the unemployed.
am against that thoroughly sin
cere message because, it seems to
me, entirely wrong-headed. Herbert
Clark Hoover persists in the be-
lief that joblessness is a local issue,
to be handled by each community
through private relief organizations.
He sticks to a system which already
has been shown to be inadequate.
The dole carries with it certain
dignity No man need be ashamed
of receiving a government allow
ance, because it is an acknowledge
ment on the part Of the executives
Of the nation that they have blum
dered and are trying to make atone
ment for their error.
But charity is depressing thing
which inSpirits neither the one who
gives nor the receiver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

The American Academy of Speech derides the use
of "punkn" for pumpkin" It's just another case where
the American Academy of Speech is right-and the
rest of the world is wrong
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

Bernard Shaw declares patriotism is ''pernicious,
pschopathic form of diocy" But probably his words
will be wasted on American politicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

A scientist denies that the average man is get
ting bigger but it must be admitted he feels bigger,
around election time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

Secretary of Agriculture Hyde MIXED COW recent
y for the first time in twenty years. and wonder
if he noticed any difference in the cows Of today and
yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
Millions Are Ruined

ME government has become an
Il aloof, isolated institution as far
as the great masses are concerned.
If they get relief, or attain recovery.
1t must be through the good offices
OF their betters. Under the pro-
gram of succor by proxy, millions
nave been ruined at the bottom to
safeguard thousands at the top, and
they have been ruined more COM
pletely in a spiritual than in a
financial sense.
They have been trained to
mendicancy by form of assistance
which forces them to beg. Their
very souls have been atrophied by
exquisite humiliation in the name
Of charity.
That is something which always
goes with the creed of moral. DO
litical, and economic purveyance by
a selected few, but it is opposed
Numerically to the original con-
ceptS of this republic.
Great Loss IS Spiritual
SHE spirit we have killed. the
Il ambition we have crushed, the
manhood and womanhood we have
destroyed by a laundering leader
ship in this depression represents
much more Of loss than we have
sustained financially.
Nor can the blilndering be attrib-
uted justly to excitement in the
face Of an unexpected disaster, for
1t is Inherent to the scheme of
politics and economic aspirations
promoted by every administration
since that Of Woodrow Wilson.
1t is part and parcel of the atti-
tude which advised us that every
thing was all right in the spring of
1929, which saw nothing dangerous
in brokers' loans, though they
amounted to $4,000 100000 and
were strangling legitimate credit,
which promised the abolition of
poverty just before Wall Street COL
lapsed, which helped Kreuger in his
swindling operations by putting an
embargo on Russian matches, which
was so blind to the size and scope
Of the depression that the federal
government was $4,000 100000 in the
hole before it realized that the bud
get was out of balance, and which
can't believe that things are so
awfully bad, because health statis-
tics show low death rate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

An eastern school sent up expedition 10000 feet
to study the Winds which seems like an unnecessary
expense with the campaign speeches being flung
around right here on the ground
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

The insult proceedings may reveal the astounding
fact that extradition is something the Greeks not
have word for.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

The National Geographic Society says that if the
diamond holdings of the United States divided
equally each family would have between $3.50 and
$500 worth of diamonds. And surely, by this time in
the hook shop
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21

The disarmament conference has announced it
faces the difficulty of framing invitation that
Germany will accept" There they CO. framing again!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-21
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Modern University Is Com
pIer Institution, Of Myriad
Activities.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.