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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
paddock the POOrhOuse"

American liberals, who have said some unkino
things about CALIFORNIA; calous treatment of Mooney
and Billings, must dof their hats to the Golden
state for its pioneering social code written under
former Governor Hiram johnson and for it's loyalty
to the Johnson tradition since.
None of the modern statutes written by California
has been successful than its old age security law
This law, substituting pensions for the old aims
house method, has operated two years. A survey,
based QUESTIONABLE sent to officials of the states
1ftyeight countless reveals that the law saves the
taxpayers $259,92 year for each aged INDECENT.
Since this law was passed, 500 inmates of poor
houses have been able to leave these makeshft
shelters and resume natural lives. Approximately
400 have escaped entering poorhouses
While the pension averages only $2S a month, the
average cost Of maintaining patients in amshouses
is $4474 a month.
Thus besides saving many a heartbreak, California
is saving money
Cainornia's experience is duplicated in New York
and other pension states. 1t could become general
if the DlConnery BILL granting federal aid for old
age pensions were passed
Since this is in reality economy measure the
lConnery bill should be passed in behalf of both
the aged poor and the nations taxpayers
Senator Capper, fighting also for a pension law
for the District of Columbia has raised the slogan
paddock the poorhouse." This should become a
national demand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
The House Tax Bill

Passage of the billon-doar revenue bill by the
house should silence the propagandists who still are
trying to brighten the country with the cry of an I'M
balanced budget The house bill balances the federal
operating budget. There was any real danger
that the house would fail to do this
To be sure, the house bill is not yet law. 1t must go
through the senate, then back to the house, and
finally through conference. The final law doubtless
will be somewhat different.
But there is no reason to believe that it will leave
an operating deficit that it will depart materially
from the general principles of traditional American
taxation to which the house bill adheres.
Two events in the house late Friday, however, in
dictate that the forces fighting for general sales tax
and against high income and estate tax are de-
termined to keep the country in nervous state
revenue uncertainties long as possible.
Republicans tried to reopen the bitter sales tax
battle, despite their decisive defeat of week ago.
Those who attempted to revive this dead showed
that they do not care how much they rock
the boat of public confidence, or how much they
ieopardze balanced budget if they only tax the
poor mans necessities
Secretary of Treasury Mills played into the hands
of the unsuccessful wreckers. AT the last minute he
informed the house that the sales substitutes would
not raise the desired revenue which might have had
the effect of stampedng the house to the sales
tax
In other words Mills lowered the estimates on sales
tax alternatives which he himself had given the house
and which the house had used in its sincere desire
to balance the budget.
To complete the confusion Mills added that there
was no chance Of achieving the federal economies to
which the house pledging itself
The administration in the person of Mills thus
put itself at the decisive moment in the position of
obstructing an increase in revenues and cut in ex-
.oenditures, the essentials of a balanced budget
In the circumstances. the public is apt to believe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Some Other Uses

COUGAR has been used as an
~ ingredient of compounds for
removing boiler SCALE" the two
scientists continue. More than
thirty patents had been issued I'D
until 1912 for the inclusion of SUI
crosse in explosives in amounts from
6 to 40 per cent.
Sugar finds frequent use as a
filler, appearing in dyes, tanning
materials and leather. Printers
rolls and photograph pads have been
made with glue and sugar.
Sugar frequently is used in phar-
maceutical preparations such as in
compromising of pills and as sac
charates of various metals.
Because of it's antiseptic prom
critics in concentrated solution. su-
crosse has been used in treatment
of wounds.
The chemical properties of SUI
crosse have been used in removing
calcium hydroxide from hides after
they have been dehaired, utilizing
the formation of soluble calcium
monosaccharate.
01IIIIdrly, calcium may be re-
moved from certain calcined min
erals. Invert sugar has been used
IN the Silvering of mirrors.
Powell has proposed to treat
wood by impregnation with sugar
solutions. He claims his process
prevents shrihkage and season
checking, and protects against the
attacks of termites.
Rice advocates the same usage
and makes extensive claims for the
value Of his treated woods"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02

Sometimes warts disappear after
irritation with the ultraviolet or
with the x-ray, which also may
change the chemical reactions in
the human body.
Various drugs have been applied,
which sometimes actually do de-
stroy the wart and on other occa-
sions change the condition of the
blood.
The mere fact that warts disap-
pear spontaneously causes some
doubt as to the use of any method
of treatment, since it never is pos
sible to say whether the warts
would have disappeared without the
treatment.
1t is known that actual surgical
removal Of the wart Or its destruc-
ton by appropriate agents does get
rid Of the Wart every time.
Other methods quite frequently
fail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Ridiculous Cures Used for Warts

wart be rubbed with a piece of
green, uncooked pork until the skin
around the wart becomes red, then
burying the pork.
Another involves tying a thread
about the wart until the thread cuts
into the wart, then burying the
thread.
In this country several Indian
methods involve massaging the
wart vigorously during lightning,
making a plea to the new moon, ap-
plying the blood of a hedgehog, and
invoking special gods who are sup
posed to be associated with warts.
Of course, these magic cures
are ridiculous.
DR.. zwick believes that the Spon-
taneous disappearance of the warts
must be due to some chemical
change in the body which makes
the body an unfavorable soil for the
causative virus or organism respon-
Sible for the Wart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
FRENCH MAKE GAINS
ApriI 2

ON April 2, 1918, French and
" British troops operating on the
Picardy battlefront made further
minor gains and succeeded in stop
ping continued German attacks,
which lacked the force of those
which characterized the early days
Of the offensive.
French troops stormed German
positions near La Fere and held
them throughout the day.
Paris newspapers announced that
the great German offensive had
been stopped and the French cele-
brated as if a great victory had
been won.
The Italian steamer Alessandra
was torpedoed and sunk by a Ger
man submarine of the Island of
Madeira.
American troops, in reserve be-
hind the British section of the west
ern front, now numbered more than
100000 men. Those engaged on the
front or in reserve on the French
section numbered approximately
zoe, 900.
OF this force, seven divisions, or
nearly 100000 men, we're considered
ready for front line duty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON


XTERY soon after the Lindbergh baby had been
' stolen there appeared in number of newspa-
pers picture which showed of orphan children
kneeng in prayer for the safe return Of little Charles
The small son in our house saw this picture 1t
impressed him very much. With his thoughts cropping
among the impenetrable mysteries of a grown-u up
world where baby could be stolen from his safe bed
and loving parents he felt confident that God would
hear the voices of the orphans.
Then he went to Sunday school, where he joined
in other prayers asking the same divine favor.
Now what is a mother to do when she faces such
a situation? If the Lindbergh baby is brought home
all will be well. The boys faith in Heaven will be
justified If the baby is not restored, what kind of
reaction will to innumerable children?
With the best intentions in the world We COM
NIT many crimes against the child in the name of
religion. Such examples as this, however, should
prove that we do not do enough intelligent bordering
whether We are building up or destroying faith
GROWN UPS, after many tribulations, realize that
" good many of their prayers never are answered
We comfort ourselves by saying that God knows best
But each time we leave the infant to plead for
something he may not receive, confuse his
thinking SOW dark needs of distrust in his nature
and the very sensitive we may plunge into oceans
of misery.
Read once more THE Story of an African Farm,
If you have forgotten the tragic grief that can come
to the imaginative trusting child who finds his faith
shattered There is no finer example of the harm
good people do in their attempts to explain the
unexplanable.
It seems to me that organized religions should
think long before announces universal prayers for
any Failure to obtain the tiiings desired may
be disastrous to the faith OF thousands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02

president who had courage to FIGHT
trusts and monopolies. He said
that if any one group was allowed
to form combinations powerful
enough to control any one line Of
business it would kill all smaH
competitors and put thousands ont
of employment.
When trusts are allowed, they put
IN labor-saving machinery that the
small business can not afford and
turn the work out so fast that few
men are needed, and then only at
part time. They say this makes the
products cheaper, but it does not
help the poor man.
If these trusts were broken there
would be thousands of small con
Germs, each one with its full quota
OF help to take their place. Thou
sands OF travelling men again would
travel from one place to another
instead Of one man calling at tne
head office in New York.
A country is in had shape when
a boy getting out of school and
having courage to go in business for
himself has no chance, as all forms
OF business are controlled by wall
street.
II prosperity ever is to return. we
VIII have to go back to small l.
Germs, to make work for all.
Why did that Wall Street COM
mittee call on the President and
ask to have the antitrust laws re-
pealed or to have the penalty re-
moved? They knew they were vio-
lating the law for their own good
Let the law be enforced and all men
have jobs. JOHN HOLIDAY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Administration Unfair

THE Hoover administration is
l. not playing fair with congress,
or the public. 1t is not doing what
it can and should to make the tax
burden lighter.
If congress provides the money,
it will go right on spending as
usual The taxpayers have no hope
of relief, except through congress,
and they can not realize that hope
without making themselves heard.
The Hoover administration is not
exceptional in its appetite for
money.
By our own demands, we, the
people, have taught every branch
of government and every party to be
extravagant, to believe in a show
of service, to gather its henchmen
around the pie counter and keep
them there. Curtailment of ex-
penses is the last thing a public
official, or political leader thinks
of in these United States.
Economy in government is like
the weather. We talk about it
more than anything else, but do
nothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Governments Turn

IF the people of this country put
Il up four dollars by way of new
or increased taxes, the government
ought to save one. Even so, the
government would be making far
less of contribution to the COM
mon good than the average clerk,
Stenographer, or ditch-digger.
If congress heaps another billion
dollars on the tax load and the
people stand for it, the government
ought to show its good faith by
saving a quarter of a billion.
More than one board of directors
has gone further. More than one
we'll paid executive has taken a
bigger cut in order to spare those
at the foot of the line.
And don't be deceived by all this
propaganda that is being put out
with regard to the relative weight
Of taxation here and in other
countries.
Government taxes may be much
higher in some European countries
than they are here, but don't get
too excited over that until you have
learned more about local taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Cost Is Small

TINE two scientists reported that
4 use Of sugar in laying bricks or
plastering wall does not increase
materially the cost of the work.
The process, they said, is simple.
The sugar merely is dissolved in
water, which then is mixed with
the sand and lime. They said it
was necessary to use about five or
six pounds of sugar to every 100
pounds of lime.
The work at the Mellon institute
has been carried out by the sugar
fellowship established by the sugar
institute.
The fellowship has a twofoId pur-
pose, to carry on biochemical in
vestigations concerning the place
of sugar in the diet and to study
possibilities of the use of sugar as
a raw material in industry.
Drs. Cox and MetschI have been
working upon the second phase VI
the work, namely the industrial use
of sugar.
They report that a search of
available literature shows little use
of sugar in industry. A prize of
fered in 1906 by a syndicate of
French reflners and amounting to
100000 francs Tor any one develop
ing an industrial use of sugar which
would total. 100000 tons has not
been claimed.
'Vivien in 1912 reviewed the uses
of sugar exhaustively," they say.
"Rolfe has given a summary of vi
vien's paper. OF the uses described
by these authors, probably the in
clusion of sugar in transparent
soaps accounts for the greatest ton
mage"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02

We could and did feed, clothe and
house millions of men to fight the
Germans. We refuse to do just that
to fight poverty, a more bitter and
dangerous foe.
The War Wasn't Private
DURING the war we would have
~ laughed at anybody who said,
This is all very well, but it must be
done by private initiative" We
weren't afraid in those days of pau
perizing the young men who be-
came the wards of the state.
We even insisted upon presenting
overcoats and baked beans to many
who were reluctant to accept these
gifts from a generous and warlike
government. 1t seems much easier
to turn a deaf ear to those who cry
out for help.
Both voters and congressman are
very slow to grasp facts, even
though they lie at your elbows and
at mine. Once upon time a guest
in hotel called for a bellboy and
ordered a glass of ice water. Two
minutes later he repeated the order,
and within a few seconds he sum-
moned him again.
Pardon my curiosity" said the
bellboy, "but why do you want so
much ice water?"
ooh, I'm so sorry to trouble you,"
replied the guest, "but my bedroom
is on fire."
Here in America we still are
treating a conflagration with tiny
tumblers of relief which we call
block-aid, the Salvation Army, and
private charity. We can not make
up our minds that the traditions
and the inhibitions of the past are
Of little use to us now.
Even the streams of salty tears
which run down the cheeks of Mr..
Hearst in regard to property rights
and "BolSheviks" in congress will
not suffice to put out the blaze.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Sy mbolizing the Nuisances

Representative Johnson Of Oklahoma announces
his intention of offering a resolution providing that
the new 3-cent stamp bear the picture of Herbert
Hoover. We rise to offer substitute.
The likeness of Andrew j. VoIstead would be even
more symbolic.
And while at it, why overlook some of
the other nuisance taxes We going to have to
pay SO that The bootiegger may go free and the
racketccr unburdened?
Why not picture of F. Scott Mcbride on every
package of gun and of Clarence True Wilson on
all the match boxes?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Questions and
Answers

How many women have paid the
death penalty for crime in the
United States? How many have
been electrocuted?
TWenty-six in all, in New York.
g in Pennsylvania, 2 in Vermont, 2
in New jersey and l each in .Vir-
ginia, Georgia, District of Columbia,
Louisiana and Arizona. Four have
been electrocuted, in New York,
and in Pennsylvania.
How many rounds were fought
when Jess Willard knocked out Jack
Johnson in Havana, Cuba, in 1915?
Twenty-Six
Which amendment to the Consti-
tuition provides for women suffrage?
The nineteenth.
How many men and women are
enrolled in the colleges of the United
States?
In the 1,076 colleges and univer-
sites in the United States there are
500, 244 men students and 256,137
women. a total of 919,3S1,
Can the President of the United
States pardon an official who has
been impeached?
The Presidents pardoning power
is restricted to those who are con-
icted in the federal courts for
offenseS against the United States
statutes. He has no pardon power
in the case of impeachments.
Is there a town in the United
States named Santa Claus?
Yes, in Indiana.
Where did Charles Dickens live
when he wrote THE Tale of Two
Cities?"
In the Albion hotel, Broadstairs,
England.
Do Mexicans belong to the white
or the red race?
They are largely a mixture of
Spanish and Indian ancestry. Ac-
cording to local custom if Spanish
blood largely predominates, they are
considered as belonging to the white
race and if Indian blood predomi-
mates, they are clasSed in the red
race.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
SCIENCE.
Sugar IN Mortar Adds Great
h to Strength Of Building.
BY DAVID DIETZ-


CUGAR in your coffee is an old
~ idea. but would you put sugar
in the mortar if you we're building
a brick wall or a bridge?
The old Romans did and modern
scientific research just has demon
stated that it was a smart idea.
Buildings, bridges and other
structural work, built with the aid
of a little common cane sugar, viii
be stronger and last longer than
present. day buildings.
That is the findings of scientists
at the Mellon Institute of Indus
trial Research of Pittsburgh.
The work carried on at the Mel
Ion institute by DR.. Gerard j. Cox
and DR.. John Metschl was ex-
planned before a meeting of the
sugar division of the American
Chemical Society in New Orleans.
The two scientists reported that
the "sweetening" of mortar by the
addition of cane sugar increased its
tensile strength approximately so
per cent, thus adding greatly to
the life of the structure built with
the mortar.
They also reported that the addi-
ton of sugar to plaster had the
same effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
RANDOLPH HEARST

LILLIAN RANOOLEd HGAt[SI
w is very angry. In fact, his
feelings have been hurt to such an
extent that he thinks it might be
a good idea to try Herbert Hoover
all over again.
Mr.. Patterson of the New York
Daily News is Of the same opinion.
This right-about face was caused
by the defeat of the sales tax. In
the case of the owner of the Daily
News, no great change in ostensible
point Of view fairly can be charged.
He never has pretended to be any,
thing but conservative.
But Mr.. Hearst always has been
the friend of the common people
on Mondays, Tuesdays, and alter
nate Thursdays. He is their friend
right up to the point that big
property interests are threatened.
Indeed, he is a rampant radical as
long as none of his own goats is
touched by taxation program.
1t is true that the revolt in the
house was not inspired for the most
part by any clear minded economic
philosophy. The gentlemen who
ganged Mr.. Garner knew what they
were against without being at all
sure what they we're for. The
strident charge of socialism" is
very apt to send many of them
scurrying back into the ranks again.
4
The Beginning of Wisdom
WET even a blind resentment
i against old measures under
which the poor must pay for their
poverty seems to me the beginning
of wisdom. The end requires even
more courage and steadfastness. For
years the words "condscation" and
'conhscatory" have been enough to
terrify every congressman.
In \ time of emergency, our ma
tional legislature deemed it wise to
pass a bill by which the individual
could be drafted for military pur-
poses. His very life was potentially
forfeit to the state. But we didn't
call that "confiscation." We called
it ''conScription," and most of the
millions submitted to it tamely
enough.
Since that day there has been a
certain amount of idle and insin-
cere talk by politicians about draft
ing wealth in the event of another
national emergency.
That emergency now is upon US.
1t was, indeed, a member of the
United States supreme court who
pointed out that the conditions
which we now face are more critical
than those imposed by the war. And
yet there is violent verbal opposi-
ton to any far-reaching plan TO
use sweeping remedies for relief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Economy Assumed

ITO begin at the beginning and
4 state the problem roughly, one
billion and a quarter dollars we're
required to balance the budget.
Congress was asked to raise one
billion one hundred million by tax
alton on the assumption that the
government would take care Of the
rest by cutting expenses.
During the last few weeks the
idea gradually has gained ground
that if congress provided one billion
through new, or increased taxes, it
would have done quite enough, and
that the government ought to make
up the balance by trimming down
expenditures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Views Of Times Readers

Editor Times-If Clarence OAR
row is a champion Of the poor and
unfortunate, challenge him to
champion the cause of all working
men in the United States and bring
suit against the encouragement
and President to compel them to
enforce the antitrust laws.
Theodore Roosevelt was the only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
BY DR.. NORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
CIR NORMAN WALKER, a great
~ British physician, said that,
'the ways of warts are mysterious. .
Every one knows that groups of
warts sometimes vanish following
various magical methods and that
they appear as mysteriously as they
disappear.
This fact caused DR.. Karl zwick
to investigate some of the mySteri-
GUS methods by which warts are
caused to disappear" to find out
whether there was any actual
virtue in any of these methods.
One method involves applying the
cut surface of an apple to the wart
at the time when the moon is wan
ing and then burying the apple.
Another method suggests that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02
Where's That HeID?

CONGRESS has tried to reduce
~ appropriations, as well as i'm
pose taxes. 1t had a right to eX-
pect cheerful cooperation on the
part of President Hoover and his
official family.
INSTEAD of having that co-opera-
tion," says Speaker Garner, every
cabinet member is going over to
the senate and yowling that we are
running their departments.
These same cabinet officers and
Mr.. Hoover, he declares, could save
that $250,O0O,OO0 themselves if
they wanted to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-02

Whelmed the Labor ministry came
out OF its reluctance to attempt any
basic legislation whatsoever. It
never ventured beyond the tumbler
stage.
And here in America We must
make up our minds that property
rights ought to take not only back
seat, but very silent one, until
human necessities have been sup
piled.
lCopvrigt. 1892 bv The Timesl