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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
The Economy Test

Campaign orators of both parties talk fluenty of
federal economy but actual preparation of Che budget
for running the government in 1894 now is under
way behind closed doors in the United States treas
ury.
All departments and bureaus are at present pass
ing in review before the director of the budget whose
duty it is to know the value and necessity of every
perditure
Past and future expenditures are being scrutinized
in minute detail Available funds being alocated
between the civil and military branches of the GOV
eminent, between bureaus that serve business and
humanity between enforcement of the prohibition
law and all other enforcement duties of the govern
ment.
If there is to be saving, this is the time when
it should be made. The President and his budget
bureau are better equipped than congress ever can
be to discover and eliminate inefhciences in the
service and petty CRAFTS.
Yet last year it was left for congress to trim
three quarters of billion dollars from the estimates
submitted to it by President Hoover
And somehow, in the noise and confusion which
accompanied that congressional saving the country
lost sight Of the fact that this thing of making a
budget is the duty of the executive not the legisa
tive, branch of the government
1t was President Hoovers responsibility, under
existing law, to send to congress last winter a
scheoue OF expenditures and revenues which would
balance each other
Discovering some time after his budget had been
submitted that it would not balance it was the .uty
Of the President to determine where new economies
could be made and recommend them to congress
along with new taxes
He failed last year. He should not fail again
Years ago congress, determined that expenditures
should be made as scientifically as possible created
budget bureau to handle the problem and directed
the executive to budget all disbursements
But there is little point in this Arrangement unless
budget is submitted which is somewhere near
available revenues which does not have to be remade
in the troubled political atmosphere of congress.
President Hoover has direct Jurisdiction over the
budget, and over the men who will spend most of
the money He has his chance, right now to lead his
cabinet members, who opposed efforts at economy so
bitterly last year, firmly back into the paths of
reason.
He has another chance to make good on last years
glowing promises of naval and military economies
which ended with his cabinet members and one of
his secretaries beseeching congress to abandon its
tangible plans for effecting these same savings
If we are not again to reach the desperate impasse
which led last to poorly devised economies the
President must require his subordinates now to trim
the noneSsentas to tighten the pursestrings against
the mitarsts, the subsidy seekers the prohibition
lists, and all those who dip their fingers into the
countrys money without giving value received.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-What editorials
What a mind behind them. 1t must
be what mani"
Recognizing the situation, the
present economic situation, for lust
what it is, calling a spade by its
name, that is the type of mind,
daring to recognize truly desper-
ate situation, daring to voice a real
honest opinion of such in the face
of finance" that Is the mind be-
hind character which the Amer
lean public needs right now to guide
them.
Perhaps you have seen children.
ordinarily healthy, bright eyed.
rosy-cheeked, laughing, dimpling
cherubs, as they lose the rosy
cheeks and dimples, and blue circles
dim the once sparkling eyes and
the laughing, trusting faces wear
an unchildlike, fearful, sad look.
They don't know what it's all
about, why they can't have all they'd
like to cram down their little tum-
mics with pudgy hands. Perhaps
you've seen it. I have.
Knowing God has put plenty here
for us all to have enough. then
children do not have sufficient fooo.
Why, this is crime against hui
mainly. The American people,
most Of them, ask not much more
than plenty to eat, plenty to wear.
homes to raise their families in
comfort, and a few luxuries.
There is plenty for all, and if the
government does not soon begin to
function honestly and permit its
foundation to eat, to work, and re-
tain its self-respect and be happy in
living, then it is high time" that a
big improvement be made in that
government.
M. E. Tracy, in his Aug. 81 article,
is crazy as can be. He's never been
hungry. That is the blot and nasty
taste in our mouths from an other
wise intelligent editorial page. He
has political bosses for friends,
probably handshaker.
We've been here a comparatively
short time. Taken another paper
since making our home. The cour-
age displayed in you paper, the
character and foresight in your edi-
torials has made us stop the other
paper In the face of every kind Of
protest against our stop and we
now really are enjoying our paper,
The Times.
More power 10 you. If you only
knew what a few Of your subscrib-
ers say Of your paper, its courage.
you'd feel every ounce of energy,
every thought is putting courage
into their fight against starvation.
M. CLAY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
VICE--
PimpleS Are Puzzle in ''Teen Age

with the maturing of the body must
be the basic factor, because almost
invariably this condition develops.
A German student of the subject
examining hundreds of boys and
girls, found that 5.3 per cent of girls
II years of age and only as per
cent of boys 18 years of age were
free from blackheadS and come
dones, which constitute the begin
ming symptom of this condition.
Of course, once the blackhead APP
pears or once pimple begins, the
possibility Of secondary infection in
the opening of the skin by the
germs that always are present
thereon exists.
When these secondary infections
take place and become chronic, then
there is g. real disease of the skin,
commonly called acne.
Obviously, if the secondary infec-
ton is prevented, the condition is
much more likely to disappear with
out leaving scars and to improve
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
About EmUISiOnS
PARTICULARLY imports

A PARTICULARLY important
L n and interesting type of COL
loidal solution is known as an emul-
sion. 1t consists of two liquids and
third substance known as the
emulsifying agent.
Let us suppose that some olive oil
is mixed with glass of water. If
allowed 10 stand a little while, the
oil separates from the water and
floats on top of it.
But If a little soap is added TO
the mixture, the olive oil remains
suspended through the water in tiny
colloidal drops. The reason is that
the molecules of soap have formed
little protective coatings around the
dropiets of oil; because of these
coatings the droplets can not unite
and coalesce.
Consequently the oil remains sus-
pended in the water and a colloid
is formed
Mayonnaise dressing is such an
emulsion. Olive oil and vinegar
will not mix But the addition of
Cne yOlK OF an egg furnishes an
emulsifying agent and as a result
an emulsion is formed.
The making of emulsions is an
important process today. Various
cod liver oil preparations, for ex-
ample, are emulsions.
There are colloids of all sorts.
Any condition where one substance
is held in suspension in the form
OF small particles in another, con-
Stitutes colloid.
They may consist of solids sus-
pended in gases, as in the case of
smoke or dust clouds: they NAV
consist of liquid droplets suspended
IN a gas, as in the case Of a fog or
cloud; they may consist of liquids
In liquids, as in the case of emul-
sions; or of solids in solids. as for
example, when metals are used to
color glass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
Held in Suspension

IN the colloid, the substance in
Il volved is neither dissolved in the
liquor nor is it precipitated or
thrown down to the bottom.
Instead, it remains scattered
through the liquid in particles of
various sizes. The condition is de-
scribed technically by saying that
the particles are held in suspension.
Some colloidaI solutions appear to
the eye to be true solutions. A num-
Der Of tests, however, will reveal the
difference.
For example, when a beam of
light is passed through a colloidal
solution, the light is scattered in
all directions by the colloidal par
ticleS.
An examination of colloidal Solu-
tions with high-powered micro
scopes has revealed that the colloid-
al particles are not at rest but in
continual motion.
These vibratory motions, known
as Brownian movements, because a
botanist by the name of Robert
Brown first noticed them, are the
result of bombardment Of the COL
loidal particles by the molecules of
the liquid in which they are sus-
pended.
1t now is thought that it is this
molecular bombardment which keeps
the particles in suspension.
1t is interesting to note that Prof.
Einstein, in 1905, worked out the
mathematical proofs of the Brown
ian movements.
That was one of four pieces of
work which the famous German
scientist published in 1905. One of
the others was the special theory
Of relatively.
Colloidal particles will reflect light
and so the same substance in
colloidal condition will yield differ
ent colors, depending upon the size
OF the particles.
This is because the size influences
the ability to reflect different wave
lengths of light.
Thus, for example, colloidal So
luton Of gold may appear either
red, green, blue or violet, depending
upon size Of the colloidal particles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
Competence Is Needed

DURPOSE of politics is to improve
l. government. In prosperous
times, this rule can be reversed for
a season or two, with government
left to the vagaries of fate, while
politicians get theirs. That is exactly
what happened in New York City.
The legislative investigation led
to a dust-throwing match, while
Walkers resignation brought the
whole performance to an abrupt,
unexpected, and inconclusive end.
The real reason for wanting
Walker out of the way was to make
room for some one who would do
better. If he prefers to go on chat
tering about "Vindication, that OBJ
viously is his privilege, but what
New York City needs is a more COM
petent administration than he was
able to give.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
ALLIED ADVANCE sLACKENs
Sept. 9

ON Sept. 9, 1918, the great Ger
~ man retreat from the positions
won in their spring offensives was
virtually complete and fighting was
principally Of a local nature, with
only minor detectives.
British forces advanced on a four
mile front south Of Havrincourt
wood, taking positions which dom
mated the wood they had taken the
previous day.
On other sectors Of the British
front, activity was confined to
trench raids and minor gains.
An American advance which had
been developing rapidly near st.
Gobain practically was stopped by
several German reserve divisions.
French troops reported minor
gains across the Crozat canal.
The west-bound Canadian liner
Missanabie was torpedoed In tbs
Atlantic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Up to date he has been a
grumblilg thunder cloud on the far
horizon. If he's going to storm, let
him storm or else clear up.
And for his own sake-for the
sake of his blood pressure, his heart
action, his fundamental metabolism
let AL speak out loud and clear.
He never has been man to humble,
and the year 1882 is hardly the time
for him to begin.
Surely Of all the millions of Amer
lean voters, Alfred E. Smith is the
first who ought to have a fierce
repugnance against a whispering
campaign.
(Copyright. 1882 by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Unless public spirited men and women
take upon themselves the burden of conduct
ing night schools, these very important in
stitutions will be abandoned.
The school board pressed by the tax
payers for economy, has no money for these
enterprises.
The adult vocational classes are gone for
this year, killed by the depression.
The board, so it asserted, had to choose
between the regular school system under
reduced wages for teachers, and these facil-
tiles for the underprivileged. The night
school went
Yet in no other time in all history was
the night school and the adult school so inn
portant
The big demand this winter will center
about the same means of filling the empty
hours of the idle man and woman and the
young boy and girl who are unable to attend
school in the day time.
In other years there was the attraction
Of paid entertainment. There was the oppor-
tunity for relaxation, for amusement, for
advancement to be had by purchase.
This year as many thousands will starve
mentally and spiritually as are hungry phys
ically.
UnQuestionably private charity and the
public purse will see that there are no starry
ing people in this community. The necessi-
ties of life will be furnished.
But men do not live by bread alone" The
truth of that statement will be more evil
dent this year than in times of plenty. In
other years, the common Interpretation was
that men also needed cake and meat Today
it means that men need release from worries,
cares and brooding thoughts.
The night school is as important, if not
more important, than the school for the boy
and girl of school age.
There should be such schools, perhaps
broadened to the scope of community centers
where amusement as we'll as education will
be offered
There are hundreds of college men and
women in this city who should be willing to
offer their services to such schools without
compensation, young men and women who
have profted from the public school system
and who should be willing to make this con-
tribution to our social system.
Somewhere in this city is a man with or
ganizing talent and passion for public serv-
ice who could lend these forces and secure
these teachers.
The man or woman who would volunteer
for this purpose this winter will find more
than fame. They will find satisfaction of
soul that can not be purchased.
But the hour demands a leader. Is there
one who will try the job?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
No Seat Upon SideIineS

A S late as last June Al was a
"A political leader wearing a
white plume and brandishing a
sword. He can't go neutral now
until 1858, at the earliest. NO one
should try to tell him in which
quarter his duty lies.
1 have heard it said that Gov
ernor Smith feels that he owes no
debt to the Democratic party, since
upon several occasions he sacrificed
his inclinations, his interest, and his
peace Of mind to obey the man.
dates Of the organization. do not
think there ever was an obligation
to mere party interests. That is
not what I am talking about now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
Chance for All to Choose

MIR. HOOVER, with all his faults
4V1 does not stand quite palpahly
as the candidate of all ultra con-
servatives. If that is AIS political
philosophy and adherence, let him
say so. Franklin D. Roosevelt is far
from being the perfect exponent of
the liberal point of view. But it
SO happens that he is the only can
didate running under that particu-
lar pennant.
If Al is liberal, it might interest
us all to know why he is not at the
shoulder Of Roosevelt.
Norman Thomas represents po-
litical radicaliSm. Quite few fol-
lowers of Al will support Thomas
Does Smith approve and lend aid
to this movement or not? I think
he ought to say.
William z. Foster is the leader OF
those who believe in violent revolu-
ton, with political activity as a tri-
vial by product. And what has Al
got to say about this?
1t seems to me that Hoover
Roosevelt, Thomas and Foster just
about cover the field of economic
theory. With choice so wide and
varied, I do not see how any man
can very well say that there is not
single candidate who does not
come within hailing distance of his
own sincere beliefs.
Naturally he may contend that
there are conservatives whom he
would support more eagerly than
Herbert Hoover, and I won't argue
if any man declares that he easily
can conceive Of a revolutionary less
opportunistic and evasive than Will
liam z. Foster. But each will do
as symbol of his cause until the
next man comes along.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

-------a----~JctlS .--------------
-Four Days IN the Mayors
Chair Prove That Mckee
Has Leadership Qualities
That Jimmy Walker Did
Not Have.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. g.
IN Mckee is showing up Jimmy
Walker in a most effective way.
Four days have suficed for him to
give New Workers a real demon
stration of the difference between
leadership and bluff.
Neither can any judge insinuate
that he has disregarded the rules
Of evidence while doing so. The
kind of proof he offers is beyond
the range of legal quibbling.
Walker launched his economy
drive with an appeal to policemen,
firemen and other city employees for
the voluntary sacrifice Of one
months pay. Mckee begins by cut
ting his own salary 37lz per cent,
or sacrificing more than four
months pay.
Walker told other people how
they could tighten the city's bur-
den. Mckee accepts his share.
An emergency like that which
confronts New York City and all
other communities calls for some
thing more than good advice. This
is one time when leaders must do
better than wisecrack.
Taxpayers have stood about all
they can. So have rent payers. Be
sides, nothing has occurred to in
dictate that next winter will be much
easier than the last three.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
| eader to WaIIfIoWer

MO one, as far as I know, de-
IN mands that Al should put a
paper cap on his head and spring
into the center of the floor as leader
of the cotillion for any Of the avail
able candidates.
But 1 do think it would be
monstrous if he spent the entire
evening meeting each proffer of a
friendly hand with the curt reply,
Lets sit this one out
I am not speaking wholly of the
welfare of the electorate. I think
it would be a salutary thing for the
health of the democracy to have Al
make his attitude plain and ap-
parent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
TT generally is well recognized
L that boys and girls reaching the
age of II or 10 years suddenly be-
gin to deevlop pinples and black
heads or comedones on their faces.
Careful scientific studies have
been made in an endeavor to de-
termine just what the relationship
is between this maturing of the
body and the development of rim
pies, because there seems to be no
question but there is a causal con-
nection.
1t has been explained as being
the result of some change in the
blood Or in the glands, as due to
some change in diet, or other fac
tors, but actually there is no ex-
PLANTATION that satisfies.
1t seems reasonable to believe, as
one physician asserts, that some
change in the sex glands associated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those Of
one OF Americas most inter-
esting writers and are ure-
sented without regard to their
agreement or DISAGREEMENT
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
SCIENCE
CoHoid Chemistry Expected
to Lead to Many DiscoU-
cries of Importance.
-RY DAVID DTFTZ

to Lead to Many DiscoU-
cries of Importance.
CHEMISTS expect many i'm
~ portant discoveries Of great i'm
portance to industry. agriculture,
and medicine, to come in the fu-
ture in the field of colloid chemistry.
This is one of the newest fields
of investigation and consequently
one in which there is yet more, to
be discovered than is known.
The colloid is a sort of ''in-
between" state of matter, defying
exact attempts at classification. To
understand colloids, we first must
get in mind the ordinary behavior
of matter.
Let us suppose that we have
dropped handful of fine sand into
tumbler of water. After a short
time, the grains of sand all settle
to the bottom. The sand is insoluble
in water.
On the other hand, let us sup
pose that we put some table salt
in the tumbler of water. The salt
disappears entirely from view. We
say that it has dissolved IN the
water.
What has happened is that the
crystals of salt have broken down
and the individual molecules of salt
now are scattered about among the
molecules of the water.
In addition, many of the mole
cules of salt further have broken
into electrified atoms known as
ions.
Between the phenomenon repre-
sented by the insolubility of the
sand and that represented by the
solubility of the salt is the "in-be-
tween" realm of the colloid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Charlie Chaplin doesn't want his children to follow
IN MS footsteps Perhaps he read somewhere that pie
crusts are not good for growing children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

How many native Americans of
BelgianS, Swiss and French parent
age are there?
The 1880 census enumerated 3d.
897 persons Belgian parentage, 1885,
373 French and 26O,993 Swiss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Judging by the way the stock market has been act
ing by now all the bears should be nearly bare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

When was the first steel ship
built?
1t was a paddle steamer. Ma Rob-
ert, built at Birkenhead, England,
in 1857, for the Livingstone expedi-
ton. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

Spanish bull which chased a matador out of the
arena was rounded up and shot. Over here we would
have smplied the process by having the judges award
the decision to the matador
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

writer says that America incurred very little i'll
VIII by entering the World war But we'd be willing
to trade little Ill will for some hard cash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09

merely object to Smith of Fulton
Fish Market suddenly turning Del
phic on us all and saying, Maybe
yes, and maybe no."
l have heard it said on extremely
roundabout authority that AL thinks
the election of Franklin Roosevelt
would be a disaster. When I say
roundabout" mean that it came
to me from the report of a friends
friends testimony of what the sec
ond cousin of an acquaintance had
said to him.
I haven't the slightest idea of
what Al actually thinks. I am
curious to know. Let him say it.
There have been years in which
it seemed to me that absenteeism
was juStifiable position in regard
to presidential election. 1 can not
see why any man should take much
trouble to register and vote in any
election which seems to him a mere
sham battle between two candidates
equally worthy or equally impos-
Sible.
But I think that the field of choice
is adequately covered at the present
moment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
Daily Thoughts

And it shall come to pass in the
day that the Lord shall give thee
rest from thy sorrow, ard from
thy fear, and from the hard bond
age wherein thou vast made to
Serve.-Isaiah 1913.
Fear always springs from ignor.
ance. Emerson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-09
A Thrifty Idea

The Scotch people are not, we've been told, a
spendthrift race. So when they go down into the
kties for an extra penny it is likely to be for
thing useful
Scotland's minister of labor has instituted an ex-
pertinent in physical training for the jobless In Glas
gov and other cities training will be offered to men
between the ages of 18 and 30 The courses last for
twelve weeks and each young will have an hours
lesson every other day.
The purpose is to combat the physical deteriora-
ton that so often accompanies long periods of un-
employment"
Why could not our cities and states offer such
courses at schools and Fairgrounds? Physical fitness
Is hard to build, easy to lose 1t is worth saving