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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Amusing If True

Republican managers are worried. They fear the
Hoover notification ceremony Thursday may be
crowded off the front pages on the counter attraction
of Roosevelts trial of Mayor Jimmy Walker.
Since President Hoover probably already has heard
of his denomination by the Chicago convention some
weeks ago, and since that will not be startling
to the public, their excuse for the ceremony is to
pump up publicity for the campaign.
They feel that Roosevelt has out-smarted them in
holding his show on the date already appropriated
by the Republicans. The fact that Cousin Frank
learned this trick from President Roosevelt, who
worked it effectively Charles Evans Hughes many
years ago, does not make it any funnier to the
G. o. P strategists.
Added to their trouble is report that Calvin
Coolidge does not find it convenient to come to
Washington for the Hoover fireworks.
All of this is very amusing to the Democrats
and very painful to the Republicans. But can
not see that this has anything to do with the kind
of public attention Hoover gets at his notification.
1t is Just another of those quaint notions poll
ticians have about publicity
The truth is that Hoover speeches in the past
often have fallen flat when he had the stage to
himself and no competition from Roosevelt.
If Hoover has anything to say Thursday, he will
get all the public hearing he wants, regardless of
Roosevelt If he has nothing to say but to repeat
the Republican platform evasions, naturally the pub
lie will not be interested.
Publicity stunts and tricks for or against a cam
didate can not make or break him. The candidate
makes or breaks himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Gandhi and Hillman

Again the Amalgamated Clothing Workers have
proved themselves the smartest union in America.
Ihey were the first to establish the rule of i'm
partial labor arbitrators in an industry They led
IN workers education They met the housing problem
with cooperative apartments
When they could not get fair play from an en-
poyer' they started factory and took his business
Hundreds Of banks failed but theirs went on. safe
and sound They down ant-Iabor Injunction
judges by taking their cases to the United States
senate.
1hey made unemployment insurance reality
years before others began talking about it as a
theory And President Hillman of the Amalgamated
had proposed 10 government officials national eco
nomc council and the unit organization of whole in
dustres long before industrialsts like owen D Young
mad started to explore the idea.
Now Hillman is developing new strike technique
or rather, reviving very old one With long and
honorable record of labor peace and union co-opera
ton in its dealings with large responsible firms in
the clothing industry the Amalgamated occasionally
stu has to battle against small Sweatshops
In New York, when a sweatShop truck pulls out.
the strikers throw themselves in front of the wheels
to be run over. The driver jams on his brakes The
truck stops, and then slowly turns back In America
as in Gandhis India it is very easy but very hard
to kill man whose only weapon is passive resistance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. walter Ferguson

NINETY-fve full years was lifes gift to Ellen
' Browning ScrippS. And what panorama of
events crowded into that interval
To review the activities of her remarkable per-
son is to see what century has wrought in the
progress of man-and more especially of woman
Coming into the world shortly before Victoria
assembled Englands throne Miss Scripps survived to
see that day dawn when woman unattended took
of from this continent to fly to Europe
Her own initial trip across the Atlantic in 1843
consumed forty-four days. Amelia Earhart few it
in fewer hours Between these two events much
history was made.
And Ellen ScrippS helped to make it in America
Combined in her nature were the finest feminine
virtues and the intrepidity and force of the male
pioneer She was an adventurer of the spirit.
EOSTER-MOTHER to her half-brothers while still
Il a mere girl she a scrupulous housewife a
teacher student Staunch ally in the great news
paper experiment during its first desperate struggles
the originator of column IDEA that later developed
into the Newspaper Enterprise Association fnancier
philanthropst, and friend to humanity.
No one can guess how much she contributed to
the family success Not until We are able to measure
the power of womans ambition, influence and love
can we tell what great part this woman played
in shaping the Scripps destiny.
That she has been powerful factor in the edu-
catonal progress of women there can be no doubt.
Her hfe however, inspirational not so much for
the things she accomplished but because she per-
formed so well each duty that presented to her.
she olo not run away from unpleasant tasks nor
try to escape life.
Her money is the least of her legacies The ex-
ample OF her daily life is her monumental achieve
ment and contains more splendid lessons for girls
than all the education they can acquire in the COL
leges she endowed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10

! levers in StaIiniSm probably is not
inspired by the Jealousy of the lead
ers, who wish to keep the prominent
posts for themselves. Largely the
red tape which surrounds recruiting
is merely matter of poor organiza-
ton and inefhciency.
The official organs of the Com
munist party in this country are
candid in printing many letters
from workers who have been &C
cepted as wholly qualified, but re-
main without the walls because
some branch or other has been too
busy to get round to the detail of
Signifying formal acceptance.
1t is, of course, entirely possible
to feel an admiration for the Soviets
and still maintain that local lead
ership shows no such intelligent
capacity for direction as has been
displayed by scores of mighty Rus
slams.
Indeed, if the Communist party
of America were to bestow a silver
cup each year to the individual who
has done most to further their
movement it would not in 1882 to
Foster, Ford or Ampter. Herbert
Hoover would win hands down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10

Hei eafoS on tne table, and make it plain that she
d ueSnng from the top and not from the bottom
In TINS the appearance is important as the
ieali'y Inc deal not only must be right, but look
right.
Inere is an increasing conviction in the United
that Just and final settlement of reparations
ahu war oents would be big step toward better
.'ieS IL also Is understood over here that there can
De no Sucn settlement without the United States If
'"e issue put up to them properly, therefore, the
american people doubtless will do their part
But-and in our judgment this is highly innor
tsnt-lt must be put up to them properly The Ameri-
can people will refuse to consider any concession over
oeot until assured that the rest of the nations are
"totng square" and that the common effort and the
common sacrifice will be of a nature tn brine obo,+
real improvement in world conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Slum Clearance

II idle capital will be satisfied with small but
sure returns, it will find plenty of work in every
large city Of the United States This lies in projects
for rebuilding the evil and shabby tenements called
"homes" for millions of American families.
According to DR.. Edith Elmer wood, housing
expert, one-third Of Americas families live in
100000 homes unfit for human habitation. They
cost, in crime, illness and premature death, toll
of nearly s15,OOOOOOOOO year.
Some start has been made. In 1927, under
Governor AL Smith New York passed a housing
act which permits any corporation willing to limit
its dividends to per cent to escape state taxes if it
builds specified apartments that rent for s11 month
or less room
well-manned state board is empowered to ex-
ercse the right of eminent domain in acquiring land
to cooperate with cities and otherwise to encourage
private capital to replace what Smith calls these old
landmarks with new"
According to Governor Roosevelt, six large pro-
jects have been built under this law all involving
investments of 100000 One of these cost 100000
and houses $500 persons at an average cost of $1l
a room. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
has built another and even in hard times, has a
long waiting list.
Cleveland is planning removal of six blghted
two miles wide into which are packed $4,000
souls With less definite plans the Architects Club
and the Rosenwald fund are considering removal
OF a portion of Chicago's old Gold Coast"
Private interests in Philadelphia plan to mod
ernie old homes into apartments to rent for Sc
room. In Newark life insurance company plans to
rebuild block, selling the inner portion to the city
for a park st. Louis plans a removal project to
care for 100000 persons at cost Of $6000000
The federal governments Reconstruction Finance
Corporation is empowered to make loans to linn
tied dividend corporations for such projects Of
the bulk of credit must from private
sources.
The difficulty is in getting second mortgage
money. If phianthropc folk willing to take per
per cent interest would cooperate with the
government to supply this need many great projects
in slum abatement could begin at once.
What inspiring music could start the march
back to prosperity than the tune of hammer and
saw, building better homes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10

or when there is irritation of the
valve where such emptying occurs,
the symptoms are quite definite
The usual manifestations include
discomfort, two or three hours after
a meal, relieved by taking bicar-
bonite of soda.
The first symptoms of this dis
turbance are heartburn, belching of
acid, and the development of a
large amount of saliva.
The people who have this COM
bination of symptoms find fire.
quently that it comes on during cold
weather, after worry or exposure
and that it is much worse when
they are constipated.
Obviously, the determination of
exactly what is wrong under such
circumstances is of the greatest i'm
portance.
The physician makes his diagno-
sis after careful study of the case.
including the use of X-rays to view
the stomach while actually working,
and including also a study of the
fluid secreted by the stomach dur
ing the process of digestion.
The control of the condition
through suitable medication and
diet is a relatively simple matter,
once its cause is understood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
The Lesson of Lausanne

BY their egregious plumbers at Lausanne and
after, European statesmen have managed to pile
new and mountainous obstacles in the already rocky
to much desired constructive reparations and
war debts settlement
Alusions to secret understandings and gentle
mems agreements the part of European nations
to settle their obligations then pass the buck to the
United States on reaching Washington have set the
place ablaze.
Nor have the explanations" of the statesmen in
volved served to quench the fire. Oh the contrary
with every fresh admission and denial reiteration
and refutaton from across the Atlantic the heat on
this side grows.
This to say the least, is unfortunate Congress-
which will have to approve any debt revision that may
be arranged with Europe has set its face against any
change. The most mertorious plan any one could
evolve now would be capped under microscope, then
probably rejected general principles
In diplomacy there is no greater crime than stu
pidty. The Lausanne conferees fumbIed their cards
and seemed to pull some from under the table The
full portent of their agreement still is not known
definitely.
Thus at time when above all others confidence
is vital factor in the situation, the international
atmosphere is thick with the fog Of suspicion
Said Senator Reed, administration leader from
Pennsylvania: This government has closed its doors
to revision of the debts"
That Senator Reed was speaking for the present
congress, believe. But we are not willing to be-
lieve that he was voicing the final decision, either of
congress or Of the American people. Said Andrew
Mellon, when secretary of the treasury:
Il know of no fairer formula than capacity to pay
TO ask debtor nation to pay substantially less than
it is able without undue burden its people is to
do an injustice to taxpayers; while to ask
foreign debtor to pay than its capacity is to
be guilty of act Of injustice such as can not be
charged against us"
That we think, represents American opinion bet
ter than the statement Of Senator Reed. But such
opinion is conditional. Europe must play With all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Not a Nice Story

In Uniontown Pa. Mrs. Anna Chess 80, served
week of twenty-day sentence in Jail because she
cooked and served golden winged woodpecker called
flicker" She did it to feed her hungry children
who had killed the bird in violation of the law.
The family was unable to raise the fine and costs
of $2050 When Governor Pinchot read of it, he sent
the money to release the mother.
Mrs. Chess shouldn't have cooked the bird But
neither should she have been faced with the alterna-
tive of seeing her children go hungry.
Not nice story, but one that should be read by
those who insist there is danger of starvation in
this wealthy land
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Power Still Lacking

MO doubt all the pacts, institu-
IN lions, and doctrines incident
to the peace movement are helping
to produce the right frame Of mind
for its progress, but that is about all
that can be said for most of them,
thus far.
Nothing has been done which
justifies the assumption that hui
mainly is prepared to take the nee
essary steps. A League of Nations
has been formed, it is true, but only
to shiver and sidestep in the face of
real emergencies.
A world court has been instituted,
but with virtually no authority to
enforce its orders. An anti-War pact
has been signed, but with nothing
to back it up, and this non-recogni-
ton doctrine is made of the same
stuff.
A horrible thought, maybe, but we
are not going to convince the world
that force is wrong, save through
the application of superior force.
That does not mean that we
must get down in the gutter and
roll with the brawlers, but that we
must develop power that they will
respect.
We must do this, moreover, not
only for their sake, but for our own.
People are not going to give up their
old methods until or unless they are
assured of a better one.
Disarmament is out of the uues-
ton, as long as the civilized world
lacks substitute for the national
armies and navies now maintained
"a substitute which will challenge
popular confidence and respect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
The Strategy of Hoover

TINE Presidents contribution to
Il the cause we'll may be a part
of deep Republican strategy. To
pose as the stanch defender of the
Constitution against the threat OF
bloody revolution, Mr.. Hoover must
do his bit toward building up the
DOGGY. No man can say what num-
bers Communism may command in
America within ten years.
Still less could any guess about a
span Of twenty years be accurate.
But at the moment the plain fact
is that the movement is small in
the big cities and almost unknown
in the rural regions. Israel Ampter,
running for President in the Dor
ough of Manhattan in 1881, polled
only 1900 votes.
Probably President Hoover is
much better informed than he pre-
tends to be. He hardly could excite
the country about the grave danger
lying in so small a nusleuS as the
present Communist party. Accord
ingly, it seems to him sound tao
tics to accept every Communist
claim and add on a little for good
measure.
This curious teamwork was ex-
hibited after the statement from
the White House concerning the red
menace of the bonus army. Com
munist headquarters Immediately
stood by the President and admit
ted that its leaders had inspired
the bonus march and had been re-
Sponsible for the clash with the
police and all subsequent disorder.
This was accommodating on the
part of the Communists. but far
from accurate. The truth is that
Mr.. Foster and his associates came
into the march belatedly. The
groups which began the movement
to Washington were conservative
right up to the point of being re-
dictionary in regard to everything
but the bonus.
& Although the leadership fluctu-
ated. there never was the slightest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
VIII We Go the Linlit2

1T is natural to infer that non
4 recognition means a willingness
to go the limit, but if so, why not
talk straight? If the idea is to let
non-recognition take it's normal
course and evolve into economic
boycotts, or the application of force,
why be squeamish?
To be effective, non-recognition
would require widespread co-opera-
ton. Are the nations, or even a
majority of them, prepared to guar
antee that?
Are we, who have refused to join
the League of Nations, for fear our
sovereignty would be impaired, pre-
pared to give it? Are we prepared
to join other nations in a general
move against some neighboring ma
ton. because the majority wants lis
to, or do we prefer to reserve the
right to form our own opinion?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Shepherd or Farmer

EARLY man lived a life which
II differed in many respects from
that of today. One of its chief diff
ferences was that it was lived mostly
outdoors. He was a shepherd or a
farmer.
He was accutely aware of every
change in the weather, for it had
an almost immediate effect upon
his comfort and frequently his
safety.
The change of the seasons and the
daily aspect TO the sun We're matters
of importance to him. He studied
them and tried to explain them
and, consequently, solar mythology
came into existence.
Mythology of the Aryan National"
In the thought of these early
ages the sun was the child of night
or darkness, the dawn came before
he was born and died as he rose in
the heavens.
He strangled the serpents of the
night, he went forth like a bride
groom out of his chamber, and like
giant he run his course.
He had to do battle with clouds
and storms. Sometimes his light
grew dim under their gloomy veil,
and the children of men shuddered
at the wrath of the hidden sun.
His course might be brilliant and
beneficient, or gloomy, sullen and
capricious. He might be a warrior,
friend, or destroyer. The rays
of the sun were changed into golden
hair, into spears and lances, and
robes of light"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
In Egyptian Days

ID ENOUF, an eminent student of
IN Egyptian mythology, regards
all Of it as solar in origin. He
writes:
Whatever may be the case in
other mythologies,. look upon the
sunrise and sunset, on the daily re-
turn of day and night, on the battle
between light and darkness, on the
whole solar drama in all it's details
that is acted every day, every
month, every year, in heaven and
in earth as the principal subject
Of Egyptian mythology"
A common feature of early my
thologies is the connection between
the sun-god and navigation.
This perhaps grew out Of the fact
that the seashore marked a
boundary from which the early
mariner could not stray very far
in his little sailing vessels, whereas
he saw the sun rising or setting
apparently out of the sea on the
horizon.
LII OJAlCA WOLOos lllC sui lldNl-
gated territory he dared not at
tempt
The Importance of the sun in
helping the early mariner to de-
termine his direction and course
undoubtedly played a large part
also.
In Egyptian temples, representa-
tons of Ra, the sun-god, sailing
boat over the ocean of heaven, are
common.
The Greeks regarded their sun
god, Apollo, as the founder of
navigation. The same distinction
was accorded by the Romans to
Janus, their sun-god.
Peruvian mythology pictures the
sun-god as coming from out the sea
and later departing in a boat.
Perhaps the modern mariner, who
determines his position on the
ocean by Shooting the sun with
a sextant, will feel a bond of under
standing between himself and the
founders of these ancient legends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBETN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TINE term, indigestion" is an
4 unscientific word like, "dys-
pepsia," but almost everybody
knows what it means.
1t merely means that the person
who suffers with this symptom is
having trouble with the digestion
of his food or in absorbing it.
Most processes of the body under
normal conditions take place with
out any notice on the part of the
person in whom they are going on.
Just as soon as any of the physio-
logic processes begins to attract ex-
ira attention because of pain, noise,
irritation, irregularities or any other
disturbance, it assumes the nature
of a disease, even though it is really
only a symptom.
The digestive organs are, in
general, not sensitive to heat or
cold, or to light pressure. On the
other hand, they are in intimate
contact with organs in which there
is acute senSibility, so that dis
turbance in the digestive organs
may be called to attention through
feelings in organs adjacent.
Many people get used to a certain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10

Practically All Early Mythol-
Ogy Is Based on the SIN.
BY DAVID DIETZ.
THE sun is not only responsible

THE sun is not only responsible
i for the existence of this earth
itself for the possibility Of life upon
it, and for the beginning Of astron-
omy-and through astronomy all
science-but it is responsible as well
for a vast literature.
Practically all early mythology is
a solar mythology.
1T permeateS the early history Of
all people" writes Olcott. Its in
fluence has made itself felt in every
age, and many of the customs that
govern our lives today are of solar
origin"
In the most primitive cultures. We
find the sun regarded as an animal.
In certain legends of the American
Indians, for example, the sun is
called hare. Among certain tribes
in India, the sun is thought to be
bull.
Students of mythology refer to
such conceptions of the sun as ami
nlistic or zoomorphic.
Later, the sun is regarded as a
man or woman, a conception known
technically as anthropomorphic.
These anthropomorphic concep-
tons eliminate in the complex leg
ends and beliefs surrounding such
presentations of the sun as that
of Osiris in Egypt, Apollo in Greece,
c. Balder in the Morse countries.
Indeed, it might almost be said"
writes Clarke, that all the great
steps in the onward march of the
human race could be found recorded
in the various and multiple personi-
fications of the sun"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-10
Needs Something Stronger

A S long as something stronger
L n than nonrecognition is re-
quired to keep peace in a county vii
lage, something stronger will be re-
quired to keep peace in the world.
AS long as nations dare go no
farther than threaten nonrecogni-
ton as penalty for war, war will
continue.
When a nation is mad enough,
or greedy enough, to fight, it is mad
enough, and greedy enough, to defy
public sentiment.
The last war should convince us
how little can be expected of an
adverse public sentiment on the out
side. What nation involved paid
the slightest attention to its neigh
bors? What nation was moved by
the opinion of outsiders?
In this connection, Ie5 us keep
the fact clearly in mind that no ma
ton ever went to war thinking it
was wrong. All history proves that.