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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Hanging Ruth Judd

We need not be sentimental about the spring hang
ing of Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd, the 27yearold preach
ers daughter of Phoenix Ariz. But be sensible
While it seems more unchivalrous it is no more
brutal to hang woman than man. Mrs. Judd obvi-
ousy is insane or abnormal but so have been most
male murderers who have been hanged and electro
cuted And Ruth Judd is not the first to be
hanged.
1t is not only the inhumanity of this coming per-
Torrance that shocks our sympathies it is the hypoc
risy and stupidity that shocks reason.
Arizona does not advance the doctrine of revenge,
and demands this womans life for the two that she
took It argues that she must be killed example
and deterrent to other murder minded citizens.
Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, the
states have executed some $4,000 men, They have ex-
ecuted only twenty-seven women The records in
twelve states between 1912 and 1919 show that for
some 10000 homcides there we're only 1856 executions
Thus, every killer had fifty mine chances to one of
escaping execution The chances of murderesS
escaping appear to be about 500 to l.
Murder is crime of passion. Were execution a
swift and certain retribution for every murder it is
doubtful if gallows or the chair would deter Since
it is neither the deterrent effect is almost nil.
The eight states that have abolished capital pun
ishment are not necessarily more humane They are
more intelligent Their iuries will convict read
ilv Hence with them punishment is more certain to
follow crime.
AS a matter of fact, in capital punishment states,
the murder death rate 81 per 100000 of population
as compared with AZ per 100000 in noncaptal pun
ishment states.
SO the hanging of an abnormal woman in Arizona
will be worse than useless gesture. Far from making
life in the United States secure, 1t only will
help to cheaper life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
The Real Problem
more pIeasar

An atomerg, in you don't know is the smallest
possible particle of energy-the ultimate building
block of which everything in the universe, from a
great mountain to Pickering candle flame, is made
It is described in the new theory of matter put
forward recently by DR.. E. K. Plyler of the Unver-
sity of North Carolina, and it is so incredibly small
that If you wanted to write down its size you would
have to put down a decimal point, follow it with
forty-seven cphers and then add the figure 7.
All of this while it is simply incomprehensib1e to
those of who don't happen to be physicists or
mathematicans, represents important new scen-
tiic advance, and demonstrates anew what marvel
ously active and intelligent thing the human brain
can be; but it also serves to show the curiously
uneven way in which our knowledge advances.
We can trace the kinship between matter and
energy down to point unbelievaby remote, and can
dssect the structure of all created things with pre-
cision that almost transcends thought; and vet on
such practical matters finding way in which all
human beings always have enough to eat and
enough to wear and a warm place to Sleep we some
times seem as incompetent as a group of school
children.
Again we can give fairly accurate account of how
the universe is put together-which everything con-
sidered is quite achievement-but we know no
more why or when or what it is all about than did
the buffalo hunting Indians of western plains two
centuries ago.
We make magnificent triumphs in our labora-
tories and send thought questing resessy beyond the
most remote frontiers; but we have not solved the
sinnpe problem of getting along with one another in
peace and harmony, and we have to spend crush
ing proportion of all wealth on weapons with
which to kill one another when quarrels get too
acrd.
If, some day. we can learn to apply the same in
teIigence that now goes to scientific research and
speculation to the homelieT problems of everyday life
we might be able to make this exceedingly pleas
ant and lvable world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
The Old Scarecrow

Speaking fo- the insult utilities interests, one OF
the officials Of one of the various companies of that
organization told the students at De PAW that pub
lie ownership Of utilities would great increase
in taxes
It is queer that an organization which has so much
money and theoretically, many brains can not
discover new acarecrow to brighten the public.
For years the threat has been made that munich
pal ownership of a light water company WouN
mean that its management would get into politics
and become costly burden upon the ordinary citizen
To tell college boys who bright such old fables
is rather an insult to their intelligence and TINS
would be especially true at De Pauw where liberal
thought is encouraged and most of the students are
taking things apart to find out what makes them tick
The thought of the utilities, and especially the
insult utilities, saving the people from bankruptcy
by paying their taxes is pure humor.
AS matter CT fact it is because the utilities take
so much from the consumer that very many citizens
are unable to pay their taxes 1t is because the pyra
mid of holding company finance rests on an apex and
is now swaying in unlavorable winds that desperate
drive is being made to thwar any effort OF the peo-
pie to obtain justice.
The comparison OF the records Of cities with their
own electric plants and those which pay tribute to
insult will not frighten taxpayers.
The city of Washington for instance, has very
low tax rate because of the earnings Of its electric
plant The same is true of Anderson and Frankfort
and other benighted centers who do not fear pol
itcs"-except the kind of utility politics which cor
rupt legislatures names Governors and public service
commissioners becomes the government by the use OF
contributions to political parties
Compare the utility influence in politics with that
of the water plant at South Bend or in any other
enlightened community. The political influence OF
the water department is, at its limit confined to
very few job holders Utility politics stretches all
the way from corruption at the ballot boxes to cor
ruption in judicial chambers
To look upon utilities as tax saviors is to look
upon the bandit who has stolen your pocketbook and
gives you car fare home as philanthropist and
benefactor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
The WilkersOn Issue

Senator William E. Borah and his committee have
done we'll in refusing to be stampeded into conf1rma-
ton of Judge James H. Wilkerson as judge OF the
seventh circuit court of appeals.
There is an apparent effort by the judges hackers
to sweep him into office the of popular out
rage over the Lindbergh kidnapping President Frank
Loesch of the Chicago crime commission and Colonel
Isham Of the Secret Six just have issued appeals de-
caring that the senates failure to confirm Wilkerson
would be taken as vote for the triumph of the
gangsterS.'
With due recognition of Judge Wilkerson's conduct
in Chicago's recent cleanup" we submit that the
issue in washington is bigger than of that cy's
gangsterism 1t took some courage to send Al Ca
pone Terry Druggan, Frankie Lake and other public
enemies" to federal prison.
1t takes much more courage to be fair and just
under opposing pressure from powerful corporations
to lawfully striking American citizens. So woefully
has Judge Wilkerson failed to display this kind of
courage that he has forfeited his rights to promotion
to the second highest bench Of the land.
In 1922, Wilkerson, Harding appointee OF only
two months selected by Attorney General Harry
Daugherty issue against striking rail shopmen one
OF the most drastic and sweeping injunctions
issued from the bench an injunction forbidding
nuncation between union officials and strikers. pay
men of strike benefits peaceful picketng, of
legal activities
In 1924 Wlkerson issued another savage injunction
against the International Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers He laid down the doctrine that 'the right
to work is not absolute right.
In 1928 Wilkerson issued an injunction against the
Chicago musicians union virtually placing the menu
bers under involuntary servitude by forbiddng them
to leave their employment without consent of their
employers whether they held contracts or not.
AS stated by Donald Rchberg, railmen's counsel,
wIkerson "in his blind partisanship and antagonism
to labor unions not followed the law as laid down
ny the supreme court but has attempted to write
Jaws has violated existing laws and has sough5o
xkQA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
The Joker

There are, of course, some government activities
which might be done away with.
Yet, strangely enough it is the bureaus which reg
uate business in the interest of the consumer that
under heaviest attack-the interstate commerce
commission, which regulates railroads; the federal
trade commission which works to prevent monopolie
and unfair trade practices; the children's bureau
which fights child labor; the women's bureau which
demands decent working conditions for women.
These are the targets of politicians who are talk
ing most ptfuy about the condition of the taxpayer
and leading him to believe that his troubles will be
over if he reduce his bill for these starved
bureaus.
They do not tell him that his bill for subsistence
probably will go far higher than his tax bill ever has
gone if he throws away the federal safeguards for
the consumers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

II NTIREIY too much has been said, think, about
- woman's influence over man. 1t we except as
we must, the mothers power to make the son, tnlS
idea has no foundation in fact.
Indeed the reverse is true Mans influence over
woman far exceeds that OF woman over man. Before
we had the feminine freedom enjoy, the entire
life behavior. and thought of our sex was dictated by
men,
The old-fashoned housewife for instance, believed
implicitly that the double standard right not be-
cause logic or common sense told her So but because
men said it She lived in mans world and its
morality was mans morality.
Today's woman is but slightly better off in this
respect 1t is true that she is told constantly that
her behavior sets the pace for the age. This is largely
bunk however.
T HAVE known during my life several very fine
young women who were turned into liquor addicts
by bibulous husbands And never have known one
liquor addict who was reformed by his wife.
They do reform occasionally I am aware but only
because the individual realizes his danger because
somewhere in his nature he has been endowed with
will power and intelligence and a desire to be as
decent as he can.
This comes probably from his mother for all men
shaped long before they under the influence
of any other The mother alone fashion
a personality and she can do it only during the
infancy of the child.
1t therefore is wrong to try to make girls believe
that by any effort they can turn all young men they
know into noble beings. that by msbehaving they
can become the ruination of the boys
TT would be unwise to assert that all human beings
do not have certain slight influence over their
fellows But certainly women possess no undue power
in this line.
The idea is of course only very delightful delu-
sion. 1t lends pleasing sense of worth. It gives
us sensation of Importance
It justifies in feeling of superiority because
do generally feel morally superior to men-but it
first last, and all the time sentimental hauucna-
ton. A.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-When, some time
ago, the American Legion launched
its cleanup and repair campaign to
bring together idle men and idle
dollars" it was hailed hopefully as
a realistic program" But now, in
the light of the pitifully meager
results, it appears distinctly ITO
plan.
If it has, indeed, accomplished
anything, except on paper, where
are the men it has put back to
work? Since the campaign was
inaugurated employment has de-
clined even farther than the low
level on which it previously stood
And SO the results of this campaign.
in spite of all the publicity, are OBJ
viously nil.
In fact, the campaign was doomed
from the beginning, as any survey
Of similar campaigns launched
within the last two years readily
would have shown. These cam
paignS invariably prove the occa-
sion of lot of frantic activity.
and they get a warming salvo of
publicity, but in the end they are
distinguished chiefly by a deplo-
rable lack of results.
The reason should be obvious.
This is an individualistic society.
and no amount Of ballyhoo will per-
suade a rugged American individ-
ualist to part with his dollar when
1t becomes increasingly uncertain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
The Lot Next Door

City lots generally are too narrow They have not
increased in size in proportion to the spreading out
of the residence through use of the automobile
Even suburban lots too often have followed the
restricted dimensions of lots in the city proper
making the suburbs not much more desirable than
close-in property.
Present real estate prices offer many home-owners
opportunity to remedy this.
In many there is vacant lot next door
which be acquired cheaply
Buy the lot next door if you can. 1t will make
possible garden that will make your home much
more pleasant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
HEALTH SERVICE --
Rapid Spread Of Trench Mouth Shown
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

reportable to health authorities in
tthe same way that measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, and similar in
fictitious diseases are reportable.
1t happens that the state of New
York has made the condition re-
portable since 1922. Even though
all the cases probably are not re-
ported to the health authorities,
such statistics as are available in
dictate that Vincent's angina or
trench mouth has increased tenfold
from 1922 through 1880.
In Illinois the disease was made
reportable in 1880, but the ruling is
not strictly enforced and few den
fists or physicians realize that the
disease is reportable.
There is well-def1ned impress
sion that this disease is spread by
eating and drinking in restaurants
and in other places where a con-
siderable clientele is served, and
! where precautions in the washing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18

of dishes are not exceedingly strict.
1t is of course we'll known that the
disease may be spread by direct con-
tact such as occur in kissing.
Control of Vincent's angina de-
mands the utmost precaution on
the part of the public generally and
on the part of those who have the
disease to make certain that they do
not spread it.
1t demands special care in the
handling of dishes, glasses, towels
and every other material that may
come in contact with the infected
individual.
In this disease, small patches,
gray and ulcerating, appear around
the teeth and gums, on the cheeks
and even in the throat.
Some time ago it was shown that
the disease is comfortable through
the use Of an inexpensive sub
stance called sodium perborate as
a mouth wash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Incomes Slunnn

THOUGH rates are higher, it is
l. estimated that the income tax
will produce 20 per cent less than
it did last year That means an
even greater decline in income.
Last year the income was Is per
cent below what it was the year
before.
Putting two and two together, it
seems fair to say that the American
people are earning only about
three-f1fths as much as they did
in 1929.
just before he left Office, Presi-
dent Coolidge estimated the ma
TONS total income at about $780,
000,000,000 year. If he was
right, the nations income is about
$54 ,000,000000 now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Tax Boost Unfair

TT is not right for congress to hurl
L Is per cent increase of taxes at
the American people under such
conditions. 1t is not right for con-
gress to think of any increase at all,
until it has done what it could to
bring government expenses into
line with the taxpayers pocketbook,
The discharge of a few clerks can
not, and will not satisfy the pur-
pose. There are poor men enough
on our streets already.
The economizing must be genuine
to mean anything, and must be
made by those who best can afford
it.
Private business has found it i'm
possible to make the necessary econ
omies without pay cuts. How can
government hope to do otherwise?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Time to Cut Costs
EEDERAL. state and local tax

FEDERAL, state and local taxes
4 run from eight to ten billion
dollars year, and they haven't
gone down any during the last three
years.
With an income of 100000, 900 900
in 1929, about 10 per cent of what
the American people earned went
for taxes. With the income down
by two-f1fths, taxes now account
for more than Is per cent.
AS matter of even-handed fair
ness, the time has arrived to cut
costs.
Industry has had to take a cut,
trade has had to take a cut and
agriculture has had to take a cut.
There are very few people in this
country getting what they were
three years ago. whether in divi-
dends, profit, rent, or wages.
When you get down among the
workers, you find that the cut is
even more drastic. One out of
eight is idle, two out of eight are
working only part time and the
other five are glad to take what
they can get.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
BY DAVID DIETZ-
Fuel and Food Directly from
Sunlight Is Aim of Science,

Fuel and Food Directly from
Sunlight Is Aim of Science,
CCIENCE is a step nearer to the
~ goal of abolishing coal mines.
oil wells, and farms. It is a step
nearer to the day when man viii be
free of the soil, getting his fuel and
food directly from sunlight.
The world of science now knows
the essential nature of the chloro-
phyll molecule. Chlorophyll is the
green coloring matter in the cells of
plants, the stuff that makes the
leaves green.
Today, our food and fuel both
come from the sun, but by an in
direct route.
All green plants carry on a
process known as photosyntheSiS.
The plant abSorbS carbon dioxide
from the air through pores" or
openings in the leaves. 1t abSorbs
water from the soil through its
roots.
AAlCn Will tic C1lC1 Sy VI ouIlllStlbt
it combines the water and carbon
dioxide into sugars and starches.
However, this manufacturing pro-
cess, known as photosynthesis, is
possible only when the leaves con-
tain chlorophyll
Our food consists of animals and
plants. Animals, in their turn, eat
plants. Therefore, the process of
photoSynthesiS, the method by
which the plant manufactures the
substance of its own tissues, is the
fundamental process which keeps
us all alive.
1t also accounts for our fuel, for
our fuel consists of wood, the sub
stance of living plants, of coal,
which consists of fossilized plants.
Or of petroleum, the remains of an
Gent plant or animal life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
ByrnS Points Way
ID REPRESENTATIVE BYRN

D REPRESENTATIVE BYRNS OF
IN Tennessee has suggested a
graduated cut in federal salaries
beginning with low percentage
for those of $4,000 or $4,000, and
rising to 20 per cent for congress
men.
congressman get $4,000 a year
with quite a few allowances. II
they took a 20 per cent cut. it
would be no more than the majority
of $4,000 men in private life have
taken.
A 20 per cent cut means less to
the man getting $4,000 than any
cut at all means to the man getting
$4,000, and cut in public pay is no
worse than cut in private pay.
We have overworked the notion
that it was all right to keep up
government pay rolls and govern
ment expenses because prosperity
was just around the corner" and
because it would be a shame to set
private business the wrong kind of
example.
The time has come to play fair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18

and to exercise power conferred upon his
court"
AS stated by Labor, the railmens organ, "Wilker-
son has been mixed up with Cook county and Illinois
politics since 1902 always has been machine poll
cian close to the insult power interests and has been
bitterly sntagonistic to organized labor Wilkerson
was so satisfactory to the insult and other interests
that the machine recommended him to the federal
bench"
Wilkerson is too notorious as an injunction judge
to deserve federal promotion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
GERMANS SEIZE PROPERTY
March ia

ON March 10, 1918, the German
~ government announced confis-
cation of all American property in
Germany in reprisal for seizure of
/ German property in the United
States.
Belgian troops repulsed heavy
German raids in the region of Dix
nude.
The British advance in Palestine
was continued, several additional
towns being captured.
Fighting between Armenian and
Turkish troops was reported from
Armenia.
Artillery bombardments from
German guns on the western front
became general.
This was taken as an effort to
screen the movement of German
troops for a major offensive ex-
pected to begin with a week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18

"THE clerk refrained from call
4 ing his name and he did not
vote, although he always is free to,
if he wishes"
The sentence is culled from a
Washington news dispatch regard
ing the fine, fortnight attitude of
John Nance Garner, Speaker of the
house, in regard to the test on pro-
hibition repeal.
John Nance Garner-there he
stands like the Rock of Gibraltar,
and Just as silent. Other candi-
dates for the presidency have gone
into the convention animated by
some descriptive phrase like "tne
happy warrior" or the great en-
gineer." It seems only fitting that
Speaker Garner should also be pre-
sented to the republic attired in
some descriptive and appealing
blurb.
He does not happen to be my
favorite candidate, but am suf1-
GENTLY nonpartisan to do what /
can to put the gentleman from
Texas on an equal footing with his
fellows. How about some such
slogan as "Vote for John Nance
Garner, the fighting CLAMP"
Takes a Good Picture
TT has been said of Speaker Gar
i ner that he is the darling of his
colleagues and of the Washington
correspondents. It is no state secret
that President Hoover is not pre-
cisely good fellow" in his social
contacts. But in all fairness it
should be noted that the White
House has not been center or
hilarity within these many years.
White House dinners are dreary,
and the fiction of the command
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18
Questions and
Answers

What is a lunar month?
1t extends from new moon to new
moon.
How many automobile garages
and service stations has the United
States?
Approximately $4,000 storage ga
RACES, 100000 repair shops and serv-
ice stations and about $1,000 retail
supply stores and departments.
How old is Charlie Chaplin?
Forty-two.
Is Hetty Green, the American
woman financier, still living?
She died in 1916.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-18

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
THERE is a wen-def1ned impress
A. sion among doctors and den
lists that the condition known dur
ing the war as trench mouth, a
form of infection of the mouth and
gums, is increasing definitely in this
country.
To check this contention, DR.. I.
Disraeli conducted survey among
public health officials, dental
schools and individual dentists as to
frequency of the condition as seen
in their practices.
Between 80 and 80 per cent of
the persons questioned were con-
vinced that the disease is definitely
on the increase.
1t is, of course, impossible to be
certain that this opinion is correct,
since the condition is not generally