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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04

Indeed Washington has proceed
ed up till now under the wholly err
roneous impression that some choice
existed in the matter of feeding the
hungry and sheltering the homeless.
They have been so silent that
many rulers of America have acted
as if these things very well could
wait till next year, Or maybe the
year after.
The administration has been con-
tent to solve very pressing prob
lem by Offering the insufficient
lady fingers of present private char
ity and the vague future remedy OF
pie in the sky
And now, suddenly, the represent
atives and the senators and the
President himself find hungry and
accusing men encamped upon their
doorstep. The nebulous problem of
maybe" and perhaps" has become
in an instant a matter of immediate
decision. The "hows" and the
why's" have given way to "when?"
And I hold that such showdown
would be most salutary and en-
tightening if only the invading army
had not thrown to the four winds
three-quarters of its case.
If these men said boldly and
frankly, I'VE are citizens of the
United States who have gone cold
and threadbare and without en-
ployment through no fault of our
own. Now how about it?" l could
think of no adequate answer which
congress could make short of drastic
and immediate remedial legislation.
But the veterans have been fool
ish enough to put their worst foot
forward. Instead of Identifying
themselves as members of the eleven
million, they have chosen The lesser
role of presenting themselves as be-
longing to the three million who
we're mustered into service.
They ask for no change in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

T%HERE is a cheerful little volume written by Flea
l. nor Risley called 1.-THE Abandoned Orchard that
will act as tonic a downcast heart. 1t recountS
the adventures of woman who had lost husband and
job in the city and who, possessing an old orchard,
sets out to make living out of it. She makes some
thing more than living; she makes life.
gallant spirit and sense of humor always can
stage a comeback from the depths. Try looking
around you these days to find out how many people
are exhibiting both In spite of the sad sights 1t is
thrilling to witness the litless courage Of mankind.
And wonder whether women do not have just
the tnieth edge on men when it comes to courage.
There seems to be bulldog tenacity within the fem
mime soul that refuses to admit defeat
Thousands of men are trampng the highways
these days and cumming rides freight trains.
Hordes of veterans stormed Washington asking help
from congress Every city street discloses its little
group of male down and cutters, who the heart.
And in every town. as evidenced by fund campaigr6
of only two well-known organizations the Y NJ c. A.
and the Y. w. C. A. the former always receives the
larger sum from the community for upkeep and
charity.
WET there must be almost as many men
l. without jobs The girls face situation that is
just as desperate as that of the boys and more So
if consider its moral dangers. Sisters as well as
brothers are hungry.
Where are these women? Somewhere hiding their
broken Shoes starving their bodies that they may
have bare room to shelter them, soothing crying
men who come to them at night weary with disap-
pointmentS.
They are holding families together stretching thin
budgets or Shaving for board and in alien places
to keep body and soul together
Men and women are taking it on the chin these
days. And may we never forget that the women are
taking it q little more calamity than the men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Role of Energy

CcIENCE gradually is revealing
~ many types of radiation which
hitherto were unsupported. At the
same time, it is also disclosino the
Importance Of radiation in the uni
verse.
According to the newest views
energy is the basic substance of the
universe. Matter is regarded as q.
sort of bottled energy"
All the life of the universe. saws
Sir James Jeans, may be regarded
as manifestations of energy mas
querad1ng in various forms, and all
the changes in the universe as en-
ergy running about from one Of
these forms to the other. but all
ways without altering its total
amount"
MOST prominent of recently dis
covered forms of radiation is the
cosrnlc ray, ray shorter than the
shortest known x-ray and so pen.
etratlng that it can pass through
thick walls of lead which ston ali
other known forms of radiation.
IL is apparent that the cosnio
rays must at all times Completely
penetrate all living organisms.
The cosmic rays have been re-
garded as rays coming from the
outer stretches of space. but recent
~ theory has been advanced that
they originate in the emergence of
sWift-moving electrons from the
SUM- -
Within recent years, it has also
been discovered that growing plants.
such as the onion, give off a form
OF radiation from the growing root
tips.
There has. however, been con-
siderable argument over this phe-
nomenon. Certain investigators in
sist that no such rays exist. while
others claim to have evidence of
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I have been a
reader of your paper for many
years. I read with interest your
Peoples Voice" ut Seems to Me"
M. E. Tracy your editorials and like
features in other papers, especially
pertaining to prohibition.
No one now is accusing the press
Of being dry. Following up a
thought brought out by contrib
utor recently in another daily pa
per, in case the repeal and the ref
erendum fail to change the prohi-
bition law, majority of the peo-
pie of our country voting that we
shall remain dry, will you, through
your columns, advocate that the
will of the majority shall be the
will of us all and advocate respect
for and enforcement of all laws?
In your editorial of June %, CDR.
Butler Sums Up" you represent DR..
Butler as master mind" and no
doubt he is, or should be, who thinks
as you say Straighter than his party,
and who is using his utmost efforts
to get a repeal of the prohibition
law.
VIII you please inform me if Mr..
Butler or his wife or his or her re-
lations, are holders of any brew
cry or diStillery shares of stock?
If you will publish this letter in
Peoples Voice" and follow with
your answer to the two questions
above, will appreciate.
w. P. JOHNSON.
North Vernon, Ind.
Editor Something should
be done in this city to protect the
employees of the Midland United
Company. Men of families who
have served the company for years
and who own their homes and are
and have been good citizens are be-
ing let out and men from other
cities, like Fl Wayne and Ham
mond, are being sent to replace
them.
A woman who lives next door to
rne told me that married women in
the company have husbands who are
working and making good wages.
Could The Times find out what is
wrong there and help out g. little
by telling the people of Indian
apolis?
Why can a light company cut
people out of its office and not cut
the light bills, too? / know that if
any one can md out about this
business The Times will.
A CITIZEN AND A TAXPAYER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
FOURTH CELEBRATION
July 4

ON July 4. 1913, American Inde4
~ pendence day was observed as
a. national holiday and other allied
nations, as well as in the United
States.
On the western front. Australian
and American troops stormed Hamel
and the trench system behind it on
the Somane sector. Two French at
tacks also gained ground.
In the Italian Alps, Austrian
forces suffered another reverse
losing ground in several sectors after
day Of hand-to-hand fighting.
English planes raided the GER
man submarine bases at Ostend.
Zeebrugge and Bruges on the Bel
gian coast and dropped nearly six
tons Of bombs. Several direct hits
were reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
New Approach

THAT quartz plate arrests the at
l. tention. A whole volume
might be written about it. Not that
there is anything mysterious about
it, a mere piece of transparent
quartz glass.
But it illustrates the difference
between the older superstitious ap-
proach to natural phenomena and
the newer scientific approach.
Professor Rain, faced with a
mysterious and dramatic demon
stration of a previously unsupported
human power proceeds to investi-
gate it in a scientific manner.
The unhindered radiations from
the subjects fingertips kill yeast in
five minutes. Therefore, he under
takes to find out the nature of tfa
radiationS.
1t is known that various sorts Of
radiations behave in different ways.
Thus, for example, visible light
penetrates ordinary glass, but ultra
violet light can not do so. Ultra
violet, however, is able to penetrate
quartz.
Professor Rain, therefore. under
takes experiments to track down the
exact nature of these human radia-
tons.
Just what they are, he is not vet
prepared to say. But he SAYS that
they are doubtless a physical
influence"
Other investigators of weak radf-
ations, apparently given off bV
muscle tissue of the human body.
have stated that these radiations
were very short ultra violet rays.
The rays discovered by Professor
Rain may prove TO be somewhat
similar. Perhaps they are even
shorter rays, beginning to approach
A-rays in the shortness of their
wave length.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Questions and
Answers

Does the Pope receive salary?
He receives the Peters Pence
donations, but no fixed salary.
What was the maiden name of
President CleveIand's wife?
Frances Folsom.
What is a pangrammatist?
One who makes sentences con-
tanning all the letters Of the alpha
bet.
Why is it considered lucky to find
four-leaf clover?
Because the four leaves are ar
ranged in the form of cross. For
this reason it is supposed to possess
some special virtue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
A Challenge to Our Cities

The urgent need of every large city for funds
with which to carry on settlement, playground and
similar activities among its underprvileged groups
is emphasized sharply by recent report from city
mission i'll New York.
This mission, which specializes in providing brief
country vacations" for children from the tenement
areas reports that the children it is caring for this
summer are weaker and puner than before.
Instead Of trying to give them a little recreation
it is working to prevent them from actual breakdown
and from diseases of malnutriton.
The depression is beginning to levy its toll on
child health and the toll is a cruel one.
similar problem is present in every stable city
The challenge to unsupported and private relief
agencies is one that must be met Whatever hap
pens, the children of the unemployed must be pro-
tected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association, end of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
Turing the warm season of the
~ year, care of the skin is far
more important than during other
periods.
The constant secretion of per-
Spiration causes the accumulation
of waste products on the skin, the
presence of heat and moisture aids
the development of germs of vari-
Gus types, and contact in swimming
pools, bathing resorts, locker rooms
of golf clubs, and similar places
with vast numbers of people makes
the possibility Of contamination of
the skin much more frequent.
Obviously the most important
factor in caring for the skin is
bathing. Bathing is. not especially
essential to perfect health, and
there are records of people who
have lived fairly healthful exist
ences for long periods Of time with
out bathing.
However, it is recognized that the
skin Of the body constantly is she'd
ding dead cells and that the COM
bination of this dead tissue with
the dirt that comes on the body with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Need of Haste

TT has inspired our legislative and
L executive rulers with false con-
fidence. Cabinet members and con-
gressmen have talked about direct
relief as if it we're a somwhat aca-
demic subject. Legislation has
Jagged while we debated measures Of
pressing moment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Daily Thoughts

But Jesus turned him about,
and when he saw her. he said,
Daughter. be of good comfort; :
thy faith hath made thee whole.
And the woman was made whole
from that hour.-St. Matthew
1922.
Man should ever look to his last
day, and no one should be called
happy before his funeral.-Ovid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
SCIENCE
Discovery of Nelo Radiation
From Human Beings Nay
Solve Some Mysteries of
Witchcraft Beliefs.
BY DAVID DIETZ'
| NEW radiation has been ac


A NEW radiation has been added
"A to the list of mysterious forces
loose in the universe. This time it
is radiation emanating from
human blood, from the eye, the
fnger-tips, and the end of the nose.
1t recalls to mind ancient tales Of
vitcheraft with sufficient force to
end cold shivers up and down the
spine.
One would De tempted to dismiss
1t as wild notion if tt were not
that the announcement comes from
Cornell university, from the
laboratory of Professor Otto Rahn.
one of the worlds best kIown bac-
teriologists.
1t may be, therefore, that the new
discovery may provide rational ex-
PLANTATION for some of the old tales
of witchcraft 1t also may serve to
show that some of the hysteria over
witchcraft may have been grounded
in physical reality.
Professor Rain has found that
the radiations are present apparent
" in all persons, but much more
pronounced in the case of some.
He found one person who emitted
such strong rays from his fingers
that they would kill yeast in five
minutes.
However, when a quartz plate
was placed between the persons
fingers and the yeast, it took fifteen
minutes to kill the yeast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Even a Communist

T LIKE Communists even less than
Il they like me, but any person who
undertakes to tell a bonus march,
er that his claim for help rests
upon broader base than his serv-
ice in the late war is doing a good
job for truth and eventual salvation.
No matter what mans economic
or political beliefs may be, 1 hold
that he reasonably can not deny the
assertion that not this country or
any other should long endure until
it is wiling to face directly the
problem of the lost, the wretched
and the dispossessed.
copyright. 1882. bv The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04

oay after day, at each conventon-were too sharp
to leave any room for doubt The orator is going
to have to change his style. The tricks that went
over big in the day Of vast outdoor meetings fall
utterly fat on the radio
The passionate shout becomes a nuisance; the
impressive pause becomes bore. The orator of to-
morrow will be the man who can say what he has
To say quickly quietly and without restraint. The
school OF Senator Sounder is done for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or DISAGREEMENT
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
No Middle Ground Here

MO nation, city or state will run
L " itself. If and when the people
fail, an oligarchy assumes control
An oligarchy is the same thing,
whether in the form of a crowned
head or machine politics.
There is no middle ground be-
tween tyranny and popular govern
ment. If and when the people cease
to safeguard their interests, dicta-
torship follows, just as surely as
night follows day. The fact that
they may have adopted good Con-
Stitution, or enacted excellent laws,
will not save them.
Constitutions and laws work only
as they are obeyed and enforced.
The worst mistake people can make
is to permit changes in a constitu-
ton or the adoption of laws which
they do not intend to enforce.
That, however, is the mistake they
are most likely to make if they 6e-
pend on anger or excitability to
guide them, if they substitute i'm
pulse for steady, intelligent thought.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04

British woman has written her first novel at 30
What a splendid example for women writers!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04

system under which they have
struggled and gone under. All they
want is a down payment and they
will call it quits and return to that
same state of society in which they
have been thrown for loss.
n n
Just One More Round
or course, man who has moth
~ ing at all is better off with
$3.50 to $500. But if he is a person
OF any reasonable amount of mag
nation, he ought to see that his lot
Is not fundamentally improved.
When a man has lost his all upon a
wheel, you or 1, when in funds
might give him another stake. But
not too joyfully I think.
We would assume, quite properly
that If he could not beat the game
before, another stackof chips mere
ly would prolong his losing streak
for a while.
These men who ask for a new
stake ought to be asking for a new
deck. 1t is held against the Com
munists that they have tried to
preach their doctrine to the veter-
ans, and most of the newspapers
report that they have had singu-
larly small success.
That, think, is pity, and it has
occurred because neither the veter-
ans nor the Communists of Amer
lea are particularly bright. Both
ex-soldiers and Soviet propagandists
suffer from an unfortunate dogma
tism. A. starving man is apt to strain
words like theology" and "eco-
nomic determinism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
0verpIayed Our Hand

IF the opportunities of prosperity
Il had not been overplayed and
abused, would we be in such a
slump? If we had not tried to cure
the slump by passing an unreason-
able tariff bill, would we have lost
any such portion of our foreign
trade.
Prohibition came about as the
illogical reaction to excessive drink
ing and to the greed of those who
wanted to make still greater for
tunes out of it.
Farm relief, as we call it, amounts
to little more than a tumble of
half baked remedies and compro-
misses, each and every one of which
has left agriculture a little worse
off than it was before.
The whole miserable performance
goes back to an attitude of mind
which seeks Improvement by COM
polling somebody to do the think
ing, by clamor for miracles while
the majority of us play golf or bor-
row ideas from Hollywood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Eternal Vigilance Needed
Average Cltlzen.


Il TERNAL vigilance is the price
Il of liberty. People simply can
not maintain the rights and privi-
leges which go with democracy I'M
less they accept its responsibilities.
There is no substitute for their sus-
tanned interest. Let it flag, even
for short time, and something in
furious is sure to happen.
You justly can attribute nine
tenths of the trouble we are in to
negligence on the one hand ana
spasms of excitement on the other,
to intellectual laziness interspersed
with fits Of emotionahsm.
When conditions become intoler-
able, we fly to savage extremes, per-
nit ourselves to be sold quack rene
dies, and generally make matters
worse, until bitter experience puts
us on the right track.
Take the depression, foreign trade,
farm relief, or the eighteenth
amendment, and see if this is not so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-04
Says:

No One Has F0tten DO1Cn on
the job of Politics More
Completely Than Has the
Average Citizen.
OUR government has grown big,
- complicated and expensive. 1t
needs more attention than it ever
did, but probably gets less. That,
more than anything else, is what
ails it. That, more chan anything
else, explains the incompetence and
corruption.
Organized minorities could not
run the show, as they do, but for
an Indifferent, apathetic majority.
Cliques could not lobby bad laws
through congress but for bored,
blase public opinion.
No one has fallen down on the
job of politics more completely than
has the average citizen.
Taking his cue from the whistle,
time clock and goosestep of Big
Business, the average citizen is quite
content to be bossed, quite content
to let somebody do his thinking for
him.
If it isn't done right, he argues,
get somebody else, but how can he
know whether it is done right if he
fails to think on his own account?
Evening star., 1932-07-15
WALKERS FRIEND
HAS Job TO 1888
Mayor Names Personal Ply
sician to s22, 500 Position
for Long Term.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 15.-Mayor Wal
ker has appointed his friend and per-
sional physician, DR.. William Schroeder.
jr, to long term as commissioner of
sanitation, which will keep him on the
city pay roll until July /, 1888. 1t be-
came known today.
The term which DR.. Schroeder.
chairman of the commission, originally
held expires July /. 1885.
At the same time the mayor appointed
Leonard C. Smith. engineering member
of the commission, to the term DR..
Schroeder vacated.
There was no formal announcement
at City Hall nor would anybody in the
mayors Office discuss political Specula-
ton that the shifting might have been
done to insure DR.. Schroeder's retention
in the city's service in the event the
mayor would be removed on the charges
pending against him.
Early in 1929 the Sanitation Commis-
sion was organized and three commits
sioner jobs paying s22,500 annually
were provided. DR.. Schroeder was ap-
pointed to one Of them and Charles S.
Hand, also a friend of the mayor, was
named to fill another.
Hand resigned last month with the
statement he could mo longer tolerate
tions" of DR.: Schroeder. The latter
vigorously defended his administration.
Under the law all original appoint.
ments to the Sanitation Commission are
for two-year terms. Then the commits
sioners are eligible for four-year terms
and after that reappointment to six
year terms.
Evening star., 1932-07-15
HULL HITS marrow
ISOLATION OF U. S.
Denies Similarity Between
Tariff Platforms at Virginia
Public Affairs Institute.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNIVERSITY, Va, July 15.-Sen-
ator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, in dis
cussing the Democratic tariff position,
said last night that the party platform
''indicts the narrow, selfish and un-
sound policy of economic isolation
which, since 1920, has been carried to
the utmost extremes in this country"
Senator Hull, addressing the Univer-
sity of Virginia Institute of Public AZ
fairs, asserted that these same plat
form provisions proclaim the clear-cut
and fundamental difference of eco
nomic policies in contrast with those Of
the party in power"
He vigorously denied the contention
that there Is no fundamental difference
between the tariff platforms of the two
major parties.
Charging that the Republican tariff
and commercial policy only contem-
plates a home market for our produc-
tions with no serious concern about
markets for our surpluses," the speaker
said the Democratic platform, on the
other hand, lis that our impregnable
home market must be supplemented by
adequate foreign markets for our ever
increasing domestic SurpluSes, and that
satisfactory disposition of such surplus
production has become an indispensable
factor in the full employment of labor,
in our permanent progress, and In our
sound and balanced prosperity.
The Democratic platform defines a
program Of policies as broad as our ex.
panded domestic and international eco
nomic interests. 1t condemns the ex-
cesses, inequalities and injuries of the
Smoot -Hawley act"
The Senator criticized President
Hoover and Secretary Mills for what
he termed an attempt to becloud and
seriously misinterpret some of the more
vital phases" Of the Democratic plat
form.