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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
The Wizard Returns

And so again speaks the great one-time imperial
wizard now generaliSsmo of the White Band;
Americans, beware! Poison gas is sweeping over
our countryi Human reptiles breathing deadly fumes
are trying to strange the nation! Disguised as a
political y-Communism-these scorpions are
tearing at the vtals of our government jobs
homes our very lives"
This is the old flavor of the great William Joseph
Simmons founder of the Ku-Klux Khan. he who
wrote fiery assaults upon the Catholic, the Jew, the
alien the Negro, and changed the famed cash regis
ter at $40 and more head.
Now he is operating in New York head Of the
White Band, claiming 100000 members. There are
traces of the same old Khan spirit in his ritual
ism; the more cash you put in, the higher you go
into the secrets
In New York, too, is Edward Young Clarke, the
promoter who put the fire under the boiler of Khan
dom and put feathers in the good old tar of racial
and religious hatred He is head of the patriotic
ant-graft Esskaye
These stalwarts of the Khan welded gigantic ma
tion-wide forces of hate of man for man, setting
nieghbOr against neighbOr, ther against son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Taking Our Medicine

Great Britain's new tariff bill is in retaliation
against our Hoover high tariff law and the general
tariff was precpitated by act In the commercial
field, America is guilty of the same kind of ruthless
aggression as Japan in the military field. Indeed
the tariff war we started has been even more ex-
pensive and destructive to date than the Japanese
adventure.
Since Great Britain is largest customer, the
wall she is raising against trade will injure
American business and labor, either directly or 1ndi-
rectly 1t is an especially serious development COM
ing on top Of similar retaliation by Canada, our larg-
est customer until the tariff
We get the i'll effects coming and going. Not
only do we lose the foreign trade, but factories
have moved by the hundreds to Canada and England
to get under the tariff wall and employ foreign
workers No wonder there is no decrease in our
army of 100000 unemployed
President Hoover and congress were warned of
this disastrous result in $780, when they enacted the
Hawley- smoot law over the protest of HOO econ
omists, majority of the press, and leading bankers
and industrialists
Perhaps that error be forgiven, put down to
plain petty politics which frequently acts Capitol
Hill and the White House. But nothing can excuse
President Hoover and congress for failing to repeal
the suicidal higher tariff law
Little was expected of the Republican old guard.
But the country had right to expect the Democrats
after all their verbal rantng against the law to try
to repeal it.
The country is watching the Democrats on the
tariff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

- TOW and then the movies are enlightening; es-
~ pecially the news reels A short time ago an
audience of respondent taxpayers, seeking momen-
tary escape from the burdens of reality viewed upon
the screen the activities of that portion OF our army
now stationed at FIT. Riley, Kan.
This film offered food for thought as well as en-
tertainment. Beautiful horses, carrying booted and
spurred military gentlemen, put through fancy
gaits The drill was pleasing and exceptionally
skillful.
Next we had sight of the lieutenants doing their
cross country stuff. They sped through covert and
wood like baroneted Englishmen riding to hounds
Their coursers did high jumps. They skinned over
hedges and fences and bitches and skittered down
slippery hillSides. Then they put on fast game OF
polo.
hand how thrilling is the life of part Of great
army Of defense.
i one remembers that tanks now are used generally
important dispatches who killed their noble steeds
racing to headquarters went out with the advent of
the telephone and wireless
A humble citizen might have been more impressed
he had not recalled that the day of riding blood
up to the bride bit is definitely and that the
horse so ia ras usefulness in battle is concerned, is
as extinct as the cutleSS.
In this day OF airplanes it is senseless to train
army horses to high jumping as it would be to train
bird dogs to carry help to the wounded Why not cut
expenses by grounding" some of our horse majors?
True, the caparsoned steed lend glamor to the
military man, but when ponder tlat the taxpayer
Is putting up for the oats feel that we could get
along with fewer cavalry colonies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Back Injuries Require Prompt Rest
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

are between the bones acting as
shock absorbers.
The bones of the spine and the
disks are fitted together in such a
way that certain points act as sta
bilizerS. These are not built to sup
port the whole weight of the body.
They help to keep it in proper posi-
ton.
If through bad posture or wrong
mechanical construction the weight
of the body is thrown backward or
forward, preSsures are brought to
bear on parts of the bones and on
the soft tissues that are not built
to stand such pressure, with result
ing inflammation, pain, even a Sc
we're acute injury associated with
backache.
Whenever an injury takes place,
fluid pours out and swelling fol-
lows. Then comes pressure from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Debated Sunernnen

1T would be unfair to blame all
l. our financial difficulties on the
bankers. They were caught off
guard like the rest of us, but largely
because they took too many tips
from a few big boys, set too much
store by the call market and fell
for the notion that certain great
houses could not possibly go wrong.
Indeed, the most remarkable
phase of this whole business is the
deflation of some of our supposed
super-men, some Of the industrial
and commercial wizards whom we
had clothed with God-like at
tributes, but who have turned out
to be common clay.
They were as badly fooled by
prosperity" as the common herd
and when it collapsed, they weren't
any wiser as to what should be
done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Making Copy for Cables

NOR is the safety of peace in
IN creased by any martial display
upon our part. Rather it serves as
inspiration for Floyd Gibbons to
write as he did:
Believe me, boys and girls, you
don't know how helpful it is to know
that three more American destroy
ers are out there in the Yangtze
with their guns uncovered and that
the Asiatic fleet is full-drafting it
up the China sea, with the good old
Thirty-frst army regiment on the
Chaumont and gang of 500 leath-
ernecks with them"
But when Floyd Gibbons says
helpful" he fails to specify help
full to whom" Having been close
friend of Gibbons for years, I think
know what he means. venture
the guess that he means that this
show of force heightens the tension,
increases the excitement, and serves
to build up the story.
But with the warmest personal
feelings in the world for Floyd, am
heartily opposed to having Wash
ington cooperate in an effort to
furnish him with copy There are
many more convincing symbols of
peaceful intent than destroyers
with their guns uncovered"
In fact, it does not seem to me
that the halfway house into which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
AIR RAIDS IN ITALY
February 6

ON Feb. 6, 1918, four Italian
" cities Calliano, Bassano,
Treviso and Mestre-Were raided
by enemy airplanes.
In reprisal, an Italian aviator
dropped ton Of bombs on the
hostile aviation grounds at Motto
di Livenza.
A report was made the next
day that since Jan. &c, 1873
matter of thirteen days-f1fty-six
Teuton planes had been brought
down by allied airmen on the
italian front.
The American freighter, Ala
nance, was sunk off the English
coast by a submarine. Six lives
were lost.
The Aurania, sister ship to the
Cunard liner Andanis, which was
torpedoed and sunk of the Ulster
coast on Jan. 81, was attacked by
a submarine, but remained
af1oat.
General Mackensen sent an Ill
timatum to the Rumania gov
eminent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Range of Subjects

THE seven authors of "Psy-
i chology at Work" and the
subjects which they discuss are as
follows:
DR.. Lois Hayden Meek, director,
Child Development institute, Teach
ers college, Columbia university:
Psychology and the Pre-School
Child
DR.. Arnold Gesell, director, Clinic
of Child Development, Yale uni
versity: THE Study and Guidance
of Infant Behavior"
DR.. Arthur I. Gates, professor of
educational psychology, Teachers
college, Columbia university: "Psy-
chology and Education"
DR.. Mark A. May, professor OF
educational psychology and execu-
tive secretary, institute of human
relations, Yale university: The
Foundations of Personality"
DR.. Walter R. Miles, professor of
experimental psychology, Stanford
university: Psychology and the
Professions, Medicine, Law and
Theology
DR.. Morris S. Viteles, assistant
professor of psychology, University
of Pennsylvania: Psychology and
Industry"
DR.. Floyd H. Airport, professor Of
social and political psychology,
school of citizenship and public
affairs, Syracuse university: "Psy-
chology in Relation to Social and
Political Problems"
The book also contains a foreword
written by DR.. Robert S. Wood"
worth, professor of psychology, Co
lumbia university.
The book grew out Of a series of
lectures on Psychology and Its
Useful Applications" which was ar
ranged by the Psychological Cor
poration of New York, and given
under its auspices during the
winter of 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06

the swelling on the nerves or blood
vessels, and the pain may be severe.
Since a sufficient amount of
swelling to cause pain may not de-
velop for some hours after the in
jury, painful symptoms sometimes
do not occur for as long as twenty
four hours.
The treatment of any strain or
sprain involves first of all complete
rest until the Inflammation has
quoted down, then the patient must
be properly strapped to prevent fur
Their injury.
The strapping is done to keep the
patient from getting into a position
which will cause further strain.
If the original swelling and pain
are not so great as to demand i'm
mediate rest, the strapping may be
done Immediately and the individ-
ual may proceed with his work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06

like to have sufficient power to pro-
mitigate and enforce single ordi-
nance. 1t would merely stipulate
that big headlines may never be
used by newspapers except in time
of peace.
In certain quarters it is said that
the outbreak in China puts an end
to all movements for international
cooperation and world peace. I
don't see why.
insufficient cooperation was the
very thing which brought about the
present crisis, and I fail to see how
any person can read accounts of the
bombing of defenseless men, women.
and children without dedicating
himself all over again to the task of
RIDING mankind of these horrors
and brutalities.
Copyright 1882. bv The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Confidence Shaken
NEW YORK, Feb. s.

HOARDING is not due to a child
Il 4 ish impulse. You couldn't To-
cate one billion three hundred mil
lion dollars in this, or any other
country, without finding any num-
Der of practical, hard-headed folks.
We are up against something
more than a spasm or fright.
This wholesale withdrawal of
money evidences real concern, and
the concern goes back to some very
raw mismanagement of finances.
People have lost confidence be-
cause they have lost money through
no fault of their own, because they
have been led into making invest
ments by those supposed to know
which have turned out badly, be-
cause they have seen one bank after
another go down, not as a result
of the slump in business, but as a
consequence of unwise and unneces-
sary speculation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Adult Education

I'm the chapter devoted to "Psy-
i chology and Education" DR..
Gates discusses, among other things,
the subject of adult education. He
points out that psychology has DEM
onstrated that the old notion that
one was too old to learn after 30
was a great mistake.
According to Professor Gates "the
decade of maximum learning capac-
tiles in all those tasks which re-
quire intellectual facility and re-
tentiveness is from 20 to 80. The
period from 80 to 49," he declares,
lis superior to the 10 to 20 decade,
and the span from 40 to so is only
slightly inferior to that from 30
to 40.
There is evidence" Professor
Gates continues, that many school
subjects, such as history, sicence,
philosophy, economics, literature,
and others may, in considerable
measure, be learned more effectively
after 35 than before.
There are doubtless many Voca-
tional activities, now denied to
adults over 40, which may be
learned as we'll and as rapidly after
35 as before.
THE more carefully psychologists
and educators study the relations
Of competence to age, the more Ger
tain they become that the growing
tendency to refuse employment in
discriminatory to older men is an
unwise and preventable tragedy.
If the future brings as radical
changes in industrial life as the
past fifty years have brought. we
should have agencies for vocational
selection, guidance, and re-educa-
ton in recognition of the entire
feasibility Of learning a new voca-
ton at intervals of ten years, more
Dr. less. as conditions demand"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Another Holmes

It is more than three weeks since Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes resigned as member of the United
States supreme court. During this period, President
Hoover is reported to have been examining with care
the qualifications of jursts and lawyers suggested
his successor.
We hope Hoovers study has convinced him-as
hundreds of Others Republicans and Democrats alike,
have been convinced-that the man best qualified to
succeed Justice Holmes is Chief Justice Benjamin N
Cardozo of the New York state court of appeals
In accepting Justice Holmes resignation, Hoover
wrote: mo appreciation could express even feeby
would represent the gratitude of the American peo-
pie for your whole life of wonderful public service.
The selection of Judge Cardozo would be practical
evidence that this appreciation" means more than
hollow words
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Faith the Cure

HOARDING will cease when the
Il l. cause for it has been removed,
and not before.
Like so many other present-day
ills, it can be traced directly to lack
of faith, which means that it will
continue until faith is resored.
Restoring faith sounds like a very
academic proposition, but it is not.
Faith was hurt by practices and
enterprises which touched people
right down where they live; it will
have to be rehabilitated the same
way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HE RyS4S

Washington has Scurried is a very
satisfactory mansion for any shade
of opinion. A pacif1St may well say
that our little feet of fighters an
chored off the bund is too big for
safety And, on the other hand,
stanch defenders of big stick policies
may argue with logic that we have
sent too small a force to be of any
practical use in the event of actual
hostilitieS.
DeStroyers are the gnats of the
navy. And there is no tenable point
Of view which maintains that the
acute situation in the east may be
solved by singing readiness on
our part.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Questions and
Answers

What nationality is JeSSica Drag
Onette, the radio singer, and what is
her age and past history?
She comes from French and Ital-
ian parentage, and was born in CAL
cutta, India. At the age of 6 she
was brought to the United States,
and was educated at a convent
school in New Jersey. She sang a
solo part in Max Reinhardt's pro-
duction of 1.-The Miracle" in New
York about five years ago and later
played Kathie in "The Student
Prince" and in 1926 she was the
ingenue in THE Grand Street Fol-
lies" She is about "a years old and
is not a member of any opera COM
pany.
What is metaphysics?
In current usage it is the syste-
matte study or science of the first
principle of being and knowledge:
the reasoned doctrine of the essen
tial nature and fundamental rela-
tons of all that is real; it is a part
of the general study of philosophy
in the nature of life or being.
What was the score of the Army
Navy football game played for
charity at the Yankee stadium in
December, 1880?
Army defeated Navy by 6 to 0.
On which finger should an en-
gagement ring be worn?
On the third finger of the left
hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Lax Regulation

TITO a large extent, the problem
Il of restoring popular confidence
in banks is one for bankers to solve,
but the federal government and
the states can help.
The states can help by adopting
more rigid regulations for the in
Spection and supervision of banks.
The federal government can help
by stopping the haphazard, unre-
Stricted sale of foreign securities.
While these two items do not
cover the field by any means, they
would contribute great deal to
make depositors and investors feel
safer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
leadership at Fault

BECAUSE we got into the mess
ID by following bad leadership, we
are yelling for good leadership to
pull us out.
What we have overlooked all
along is the fact that, whether times
are good or bad, much of the leader
ship must come from the bottom,
from among the plain people.
Whenever we get to a point where
we permit a few to do our think
ing for us, we are headed for trou-
bic, because they win take advan-
tage of the privilege. That's hu-
man nature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

By Dh. MORRlS ElSHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
THE spine is made up of a large
u number of joints. AS long as
these joints are used within normal
range of motion there is no strain.
When motion is forced beyond
the extreme of normal range, a
strain may occur. The muscles or
Iigaments compensate for over
strain. If they did not, all of the
joints of the body would constantly
be in trouble.
When the body is being handled
properly, from a mechanical point
of view, the weight of the body in
a standing or sitting position is
carried on the bodies of the bones
of the spine, with the tissues that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
A One Law Dictator

GONE little time ago was sup
~ posed to write an article in a
series on What I Would Do If !
Were Dictator" I didn't write it,
because my article would merely
have consisted Of single sentence,
Il would immediately resign"
Yet in the last few days I have
decided on one reservation. I would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
People s Voice

Editor Times - The American
Legion either is camaflouging or
seeking publicity in it's advocacy of
the reduction of interest rates on
World war adjusted compensation
certificates. 1t most certainly is not
representing the need or the desire
of the rank and file Of the ex-service
men.
What the veterans want is a set
tlement now in cash on these certi-
ficateS and not a reduced rate of
interest, with the certificate matur-
ing in 1915. The eX-service men are
interested in furnishing food, shell
ter and clothing for their families
now. Their services were rendered
on demand, not twenty years from
the date of enlistment. Possibly a
third of them will not be here in
1945 and the only thing the govern
ment can do at that distant date
will be to furnish the customary
neadstone.
why 90 the leaders OF the Amer
lean Legion insist on following a
policy contrary to the mandate of
their membership, in no way rep
resentative of the ex-service men.
Twenty-Five delegations of the
legion were instructed by their state
organizations to vote for the i'm
mediate cash payment of all adjust
ed compensation certificates at their
last national encampment in De-
troit.
Politics and personal ambition
practiced by their national officers
defeated this direct mandate. Now
these same officials would beclohd
the issue with a lot of talk about
reduced interest rates. Silence
would be welcome as far as the ma
tional officers of the legion are con-
cerned, especially at a time when
the Veterans of Foreign Wars are
fighting with every ounce Of
strength they have for the passage
in congress of bill that will give
the nations defenders what right
fully is theirs, the cash on these
graveyard bonus certificates.
ARTHUR G. GRESHAM.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06
Lives at Home and Abroad


DUT it would be folly to relax in
ID the matter of taking all proper
emotional precautions. The greatest
threat lies in that very dangerous
theory that Americans in foreign
countries are entitled to the armed
protection Of our forces.
Naturally I am not eager to see
the lives of any of our countrymen
needlessly endangered, but would
not have them guarded by measures
which might threaten millions.
The protection of our people in
Shanghai should remain a second
airy consideration, giving precedence
to the protection of peace itself.
Speaking of the western powers,
Walter Lippmann writes that they
must send ships and troops to
Shanghai not to threaten Japan, but
to guard and, if necessary, remove
the large colony of foreigners who
are there and in the interior cities.
Nevertheless the assembling of
any considerable fleet must carry
with it the suggestion of threat,
even though our intentions may be
the best in the world. The japanese
are likely to be a little skeptical OF
our undivided desire to transport
our nationals to places of safety by
means of a flock of destroyers.
An unarmed passenger ship might
seem logically the better sort of YES
sci for transport duty. Fast fighting
ships are practically useless for such
! purposes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06

Has the ratio of males to females
increased in the United States?
In 1920 there we're $4,000, 431 males
and 5l,810,189 females, and in 1880
there were 62,137O8O males and Co.
637,966 females. The ratio of fe-
males to male has increased.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-06

Ideals and opinions expressed
iii this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
eSting. writers and are prc-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreenert
with the editorial attitude of
this DaDer.-The Editor.