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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
The Water RarOnS

Despite the fact that Public Service Commissioner
Cuthbertson protected the water company from
posture of the extortonate character of their rates
as compared with charges in other cities the public
did get squirt on of the practices of the water
barons at the Tuesday hearing.
The people found out that one of the operating
costs of the company is membership in a political
club for a man who lives in Philadelphia.
They discovered that contributions to an organiza-
ton whose chief function is demand for reduction
of wages of school teachers and policemen charged
as an operating expense of distributing water.
The people found that every good fellow" gesture
of the company in the way of memberships in civic
bodies or charitable groups directly from the
peoples pockets and does not reduce the profits of
the owners by single penny.
or course, the bookkeeping methods for hiding the
gigantic profits entirely beyond the original in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
Just Every Day Sense
no you remember the mother in the old fairy
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

no you remember the mother in the old fairy tale?
II She sat at her window, sewing, and looked out
at the snow. Then she wished that she might have
daughter with white skin, black hair and cheeks
as red roses the most beautiful girl in all the world
Every mother has the same secret desire. Stripped
of pretense, imagine would all be foolish enough
to demand, if We could, superlative physical beauty
for our girl children
So perhaps ii is rather fortunate that there are no
good fairies standing around ready to grant our
wishes.
1t may be trite, but nevertheless I believe it to
have prohted by, rare loneliness of face and form
If beauty always were innocent and uncaIculating,
like that Of the fairy tale child the story might be
different
But in these knowing days. a girl especially
lowered with PROJECTIONS is subjected to undue at
tention and therefore is the victim of more than
ordinary temptation. Nine times out of ten she SpoiS
her lie before she is old enough to know better.
60 if mothers were wise, we would wish for our
~ girls perfect health, first and only ordinary good
looks. All the happiest and most of the worthwhile
have been equipped thus for living
The tragedy queens of history, the sirens, the
powers behind the thrones were accounted beaut-
full. And they almost invariably suffered dire dis
appointment and often met tremendous downfals.
They were the stormy petreS Of femininity.
Though they sometimes may have altered the course
of nations, they did not in any sustain stability
of a world
The girl with ordinary good looks has a better
chance for successful career "a better chance for
getting a good husband, a better chance for living
a normal, satisfying life and a better chance to
enjoy contented old age than any beauty.
I think one of the most harmful things that has
developed in of exhbitionaliSm is the empha-
sis that have placed upon physical attractveness
We have crushed truth to earth t6Nseu cold creams
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

recent months, by far the most
frequent and the most serious &C
cidents occurred on two of the city's
boulevards so wide as to allow both
motorists and pedestrians ample
opportunity for maneuverS.
The case of running modern mo-
tor cars deceives drivers. The car
steps up it's pace without an ade-
quate realization by the driver that
increased speed has developed.
Unquestionably, fatigue plays a
part in many serious. accidents in
which drivers fall asleep at the
wheel, or become so fatigued that
their judgment as to distance and
pace is perverted.
Some tests should be made to eS-
tablish the outside limit of the ca
pacity of drivers to stay at the
wheel and some limitation should
be placed on the number of contin-
uous hours of driving permitted.
Coroners' figures in Great Britain
show that Is per cent of fatal acct
dents were primarily due to Excess
siYe speed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23

Fatigue Causes Many Auto Crashes

Invariably in fatal accidents there
are people who will testify that cars
we're going much slower than they
actually were going.
Statistics for one year in Great
Britain show that more deaths were
caused by cars going less than ten
miles an hour than by the cars go
ing at a much faster pace. But it
is hard to credit such statistics.
The head of the Safety First AS
ISOLATION in Great Britain is au-
thority for the statement that one
third Of the casualties occurring in
London were due to children run
ming across roads and 10 per cent
to children playing in the roads.
We seem indeed to have come to
the time in relationship to motor
accidents when they are looked upon
in fatalistic manner and when no
one is taking the. problem with
sufficient seriousness.
If this point of view is permitted
to persist, the number of deaths,
accidents, and injuries must inevita-
bly increase.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
FURTHER GERMAN SUCCESSES
March %

Oh HEN HERMAN SOCCESSES
March %
ON March %, 1918, the great
~ German offensive in Picardy
continued, the attackers driving
the British back more than five
miles on twenty five mile front.
German bulletins on the battle
said that their troops were on
schedule in the drive and had taken
more than $4,000 prisoners.
The Fifth British army, under
General Cough, was in full retreat
and was almost demoralized, the
German reports said. The group in
question was composed Of 100000
veteran troops.
Admitting that the fate of the
war hung in the balance, French
divisions were rushed hastily into
the breach made between the Brit
ish and French lines and succeeded
in stopping, for the time, the Ger
man assaults.
In this phase of the action, 3d.
900 French troops were opposed by
nearly 10000 Germans.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig,
in command of the British forces in
France, asked for further French
and American reinforcementS i'm
mediately, in view of prospects for
still further attacks from new Ger
man divisions, reported to have
been moved into the salient created
by the offensive Of the three pre-
vious days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
Wealth DiSSipated

MUCH that happened was due
4VA to mistaken policies right here
at home, to overproduction in GER
tain basic lines. to overconfidence
in the security of our position, to an
unreasonable imitation of values. to
an Unwise dissipation of our sur
plus wealth.
Major industries we're overbuilt,
capital was watered and stocks
were doomed. People were crowded
into our cities and given jobs, with
little concern as to whether the set
up would be permanent. Apart
ments and hotels literally were
thrown together for their accommo-
dalton.
Everybody was going to live in a
rented room, or fiat and get pay
check each Saturday night. Taxes
mounted and rents rose. It was a
beautiful system, and no one want
ed to believe it could go wrong.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
Mysterious Universe

QUT while scientists agree upon
- the essential unity of the uni
verse, there still are conflicting
opinions about details of the struc-
ture of the universe.
A number of eminent scientists
have undertaken to give pictures of
the physical universe. One of them.
written in language which is I'M
derstandable to the average Iaymen.
is given in Sir James Jeans ex-
cellent book, The Mysterious Uni
verse"
This book, which enjoyed wide
circulation at the time of its pub
lication, has been reissued by the
Macmillan Company in a dollar
edition.
Personally, we like the dollar edi-
ton better than the original edition.
since it is printed in a better type
face. It also is worthy of note that
the new edition has been revised
and otherwise brought up to date
by Jeans, so that it contains MANY
pages of new material not in the
original edition.
The book is divided into five
chapters. Four deal with the uni.
verse from the viewpoint of the
scientist. The fifth represents an
excursion into philosophy.
1t is this last chapter, perhaps,
which has stirred up the most COM
ment. Among those who have at
tackled it is Bertrand Russell, who
takes both Sir Arthur Eddington
and Jeans to task for their recent
excursions into philosophy.
The older mechanistic concept of
the universe pictured God as the
engineer of creation. Jeans view
has been summed up as express
ing the opinion that God is
mathematician"
The point is that Jeans pictures a
universe which is fundamentally
mathematical rather than mechan-
ical.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-The lower middle
class, composed of small merchants
and professional people, maintains
in the present crisis a very anus
ing position. Thoroughly frightened
by the rapid shrinkage of their in
vestments and of their incomes, yet
fighting desperately to maintain
their respectable front, they clutch
frantically at every offering of the
current quacks of economic medi-
cine" Every panacea, no matter
how preposterously utopian, is taken
eagerly to their bosoms.
In consequence, we see them
zealously embracing anti-hoarding
campaigns, job-fnding campaigns,
and the multitude of other cam
paigns initiated by their overlords,
the big financial and industrial
capitalists, in vain attempt to
stem the tide of rapid disintegra-
ton.
Blinded, in their fright, by the
need of some hope and assurance,
they fail to see the futile made
quacy of all these campaigns.
The withdrawing campaign, to
begin with, is a fake from start
to finish. The mass of the people,
it is obvious, can not be boarding,
for they already have been. MIXED
dry. And such boarding as the
middle class itself has done it I'M
doubtedly will continue to do, for
while its hopes are very general,
its fears are very precise and Spe-
cif1c-fears, that is, for whatever
cash remaining.
The bulk of the money, however,
remains in the hands of the banks
and big corporations. Read the cor
poration reports today, if you will,
and always note the boast of
strong, liquid position"
Our capitalist rulers, therefore, in
initiating the withdrawing cam
paign, merely we're starting sham
battle against a practice of which
only they were conspicuously guilty
And this capitalist boarding will go
on, for our big banks and corpora
tons still must maintain a strong
liquid position"
Furthermore, the purpose OF this
campaign was announced as that OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
Space Is Large
TINE first conclusion reached in
n,,, ,,,ndert, r11r,rn,r Of the uni

TINE first conclusion reached in
l. any modern survey of the uni
verse is that space is so very large
and the earth is so very small.
Our earth is one planet circling
around q sun which is one of some,
OOO,0OO,OO0 suns or stars in the
galaxy.
Our galaxy, or Milky Way, is es-
sentially q structure like the other
galaxies in space. These galaxies
are best known by the name of
spiral nebulae.
The total number Of spirals or
galaxies in the universe, according,
to the calculations of DR.. WilIem
de Sitter, are about 80,000000,O0O.
In other words, there are twice as
many galaxies in the universe as
there are stars in our own Milky
Way.
A second conclusion, pointed out
by Jeans, is that the physical uni
verse seems so hostile to life.
Outer space, with a temperature
probably only four degrees above
absolute zero, is far too cold for life
as we know it. Absolute zero is 459
degrees below zero on the Fahren-
heit thermometer.
Most of the objects in the uni
verse are far too hot for life as we
know it. The surface temperature
of stars ranges from 1000 to $1,000
degrees Fahrenheit.
Into such a universe" SAYS
Jeans, eve have stumbled. If not by
mistake, at least as the result of.
what may properly be described as
an accident"
With such stage setting for the
drama of life, it is no wonder that
philosophers disagree over the rid
die of the universe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23

ention of the public utility law and unjusthed under
any theory of regulation
1t is not difficult to be good fellow" with other
peoples money. That is the reason this company and
other utilities send their handshakers into public
groups to mingIe with the crowds and lead them.
They can participate in various activities and become
prominent. The bill is charged directly to the public
Just how a membership in a political club for
Clarence Gest Of Philadelphia can contribute to the
delivery of water to citizens of indianapolis may be
understandable to Cuthbertson and to other utility
minded officials, The people may require an explana-
ton.
Mayor Sullivan and his legal staff gathered a large
amount of evidence concerning rates charged for
water in other cities That information showed that
the rates in this city high. The mayor believes
them to be more than Just high" They are unfair
and unjust.
But the city has not been permitted to present
this evidence of extortion and greed
Technical objections prevented this public dis
closure The water company did not dare let its
customers know the truth If the truth could be sup
pressed.
But enough has been disclosed to demonstrate
that the people entitled to relief. If it is i'm
possible to obtain it by regulation the people may
decide to build new plant. A concern that charges
political contributions to its operating costs deserves
little consideration.
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which enables me to come in con-
tact with both wealthy and Door
people Of our city. I find in a great
many homes that both husbands
and wives are working.
Would it not be much better for
concerns which know Of cases of
this kind to employ people if they
are capable-and surely there are
plenty of good, honest, and faith
full among the many unemployed
at present-to fill the places of
married women, who do not par
ticularly need to work? I was sur
prised TO learn from one OF my
clients of musician working in a
local vaudeville theater seven DAYS
week, and his wife employed at
one of our large department stores.
This musician boasts of the good
salary that he and his wife earn.
The musicians union should COM
pei him to divide his work.
No concern should employ a
married woman when her husband
is working. or a married man II his
wife is working.
INSURANCE AGENT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23

providing the funds and credits
necessary for starting up the wheels
of industry again. But now it ap-
pears that our big industrialists are
our most conspicuous hoarders.
They therefore have all the funds
and credits needed for starting up
the gigantic machines they control
But they will not use them, because
the output of these machines would
have no markets, and the industrial
lists would have no profits.
To speak of the anti-hoarding
campaign is to speak of the biggest
hoax ever perpetrated on the Amer.
lean people.
WILLIAM AYERS.
Box 242 G, R. r. II.
Editor Unrestricted action for
employment is winning throughout
the nation, proving that the con-
solidated forces of all America can
achieve any task for common good.
Our organization is throwing its
full strength into this campaign in
the belief that one million jobs can
be found in America for one mil
lion workers now unemployed.
Nationally, the American Fedora
ton of Labor has Endorsed the
united action campaign and is
part of it. But the campaign is
not labor'S campaign or the legion'S
campaign, or the campaign of any
particular organization. We are
not seeking jobs only for union
men, or only for legion members,
but for all who are unemployed.
My particular message to the
people of this community is, do
not leave this work to be done by
the labor organization alone, or by
the advertising men alone, or by
any group or organization alone
It is the task of every man and
woman in this city and in the ma
ton. It is a task calling for united
action, with all organizations and
all men and women working to-
gether.
Great strength of the campaign
lies in the fact that it is the cam
paign of a united America-it is
everybody's campaign against I'M
employment. At last we have gone
about meeting this issue as we
would go about winning war. A
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
Initiation Not All

THERE was more wrong with the
Il system than imitation. It took
no account of those changes which
occur as the result of invention, or
mere caprice. 1t was not prepared
for what oil did to coal, or electric
refrigerators did to the ice man.
At the rate farms were being
abandoned, it looked as though
every article of food would go up in
price, but the reducing craze more
than offset the reduction of acreage.
Closed cars and steam-heated
houses played havoc with the textile
trade. Safety razors wrought a
revolution in the barber trade.
Movies put the legitimate theater
out of commission. Talkies lost the
local orchestra player his job. And
so one might go on ad inf1nitum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Scientists Still Are in Con-
fict on Structure of the
Universe.
A DEMONSTRATION of the
"A unity of the universe has
been, from one point of view, the
chief triumph of modern science.
1t has been shown that our bodies
and the distant stars are made of
the same stuff. The laws that con-
troll the falling of a stone also con-
troll the motions Of a double star.
AS the late DR.. E. E. SlosSon said,
Science means simplification. It
substitutes single rule for mil
lion miscellaneous observations"
To the savage, Nature was fun Of
caprice. The modern scientist finds
that the behavior of Nature is pre-
dictable in many instances.
The chemist has reduced the stuff
of the physical universe to ninety
two chemical elements. The ply
oAS4oI A4do 1COuCCQ Nl4CoC Au4 blltI uY
showing that the atoms of the
chemical elements merely represent
different combinations of two ele-
mentary particles, the positive and
negative electron.
1T is strange, rs Sir William
Bragg has said, "tnat the immense
variety of nature can be resolved
into a series of numbers"
But modern theoretical physics
goes even further and regards both
the positive and negative electrons
as manifestations of energy, bot
tied energy" as it is sometimes
called.
"All the life of the universe. saws
Sir James Jeans, may be regarded
as manifestations of energy mas
querading in various forms. and all
the changes in the universe as en-
ergy running about from one of
these forms to the other. but al
ways without altering its total
amount"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
Prosperous Ease Then

THERE came a time when our
J. economic structure was held I'D
by a few gigantic enterprises which
couldn't stop, or retrench, even if
those in control had wanted to.
Sheer momentum drove them for
ward, with their stocks mounting
and their reputation and impregna-
bility taking deeper root in the pub
lie mind.
At last, it seemed as if we had
found way to be prosperous with
uot doing much, except watch the
ticker, or listen for the whistle.
Nor were we tightwadS with our
good fortune. If the rest of the
world needed little cash, all we
asked was a note, or bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
IN the last year for which figures
L are available, 5000 people lost
their lives and 10000 were injured
in England as the result of motor
accidents.
Our own figures are worse. They
indicated that 1880 were killed
and 962,325 injured in 835,25O auto
mobile accidents in 1880.
All sorts of analyses have been
made as to the causes of motor
accidents. They are beginning to
be taken for granted.
Newspapers conduct serious cam
paigns without much effect, and
then decide that motor accidents are
hardly news.
Studies have been made of rec
ords, but it is hard to understand
why, in the city of Chicago, during
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-23
M. E.. Tracy
We Are Beginning to Under
stand That Ne1D Work Must
Says:

We Are Beginning to Under
stand That Ne10 Work Must
Be Found for Millions Of
Men and Billions of Capital.
NEW YORK, March 23-This
IN country faces a greater re-
adjustment than most people realize.
More than anything else, the
crash of 1929 revealed a situation
that could not, and should not be
restored.
Had it been the genuine article, it
would not have collapsed.
While the depression justly can
be attributed to worldwide condi-
tions, it should be remembered that
this country played a major part in
bringing about those conditions.
Since 1914, the United States has
been recognized as the worlds hnan-
cial and industrial leader.
We can not deny large share of
responsibility for what happened.
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war would not be the war of any
single group. It would be the con-
Germ of the nation, with all play
ing proper part. That is the basis
upon which this great campaign
against employment now is being
Waged.
A million employers are being
asked to add one or more to their
pay rolls. One will act because a
million others are doing the same
thing at the same time for the COM
mon good. The steady flow of
reports showing jobs found, which
means wage earners going back to
work and to the earning of wages,
proves that the campaign is sound,
and that it is marching on to vic
tory.
Organized labor can join in such
a campaign as this because it is
sound in principle, because we are
concerned in every movement that
is genuinely helpful to workers, or
ganized and unorganized, but prin-
cipally because this campaign Is
succeeding.
It is the hope of organized labor
that every member will join with
all other forces, with all the other
factors and with all the other men
and women of this city in the
united action campaign for en-
ployment. The national goal is a
million jobs for workers now I'M
employed. I know our city can find
jobs for its own unemployed by
united action.
EMIL SALISBURY,
Secretary TndianaOo1fs Central
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Secretary indianapolis Central
Labor Union.

Editor Times-A vast army of
restaurant workers, drug and
grocery store clerks is putting in
from ten to twelve hours day, six
and seven days q week. Long dis
lance truck drivers are working
for thirty-six and even as long as
forty-f1ve hours at a stretch.
During this time they are load
ing, unloading or driving. This is
dangerous, not only to themselves,
but to any one whom they meet.
These long hours prove to my mind
that there is plenty of work for the
laboring class if the profit-rnad en-
ployers were not making every one
in their employ do from so to 100
per cent more than is fair to ex-
pect of one person.
The depression has not killed or
even hurt most business. There
are many firms growing, but for
the most part they are making two
men do work that would require
three men under more fair labor
laws.
Before the Civil war, this coun-
try was blessed with the Scots Sys-
tenn of banking, the same system
now in use in Canada. I think a lit
tie general education in banking
systems would do the public good
and be well within the ability of
the press to provide.
I believe that if the public I'M
derstood the two systems it would
understand the present situation
better. Not only that, but they would
in all probability clamor for a re-
turn to the Scots system, instead
of the present one, which gives so
much power to the big banker.
There is no reason why this coun-
try can not be as nearly free from
bankruptcy as is Canada.
P. D. O.
Editor Times-Your good paper
always is first to take up the mat
tiers pertaining TO welfare OF the
people of indianapolis and Indiana.
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What is the speed Of the fastest
United States battIeship?
The U. S. S. Florida has a speed
of 22.S knots per hour.