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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
More Propaganda

When the federal trade commission made the
country of the extent and the intricacies Of
power company propaganda, this enerprsing practice
did not end forthwith many credulous souls have
believed
Instead, we have the National Electric Light AS
ISOLATION within the last few weeks inviting its in
dividual members to distribute series of pamph
let's to inclose them with the monthly light bill, or
otherwise get them into the hands of the public;
and reminding them that these pamphlets can be
obtained for $40 thousand in quantities Of 100000
or more.
The article which n E. L. A. wishes broadcast over
the country was written for the Review Of Reviews
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
Jefferson on Wine

Despite their partys many Schisms, all good Demo-
Gratis bow to Thomas Jefferson as their prophet
Hence, when they meet in Washington on JAN 9
to fight it out Volsteadism, they should have be-
fore them the temperance views of the Sage Of Mon
ticelo. Fortunately Princeton trustee George E
Cranmer of Denver just has unearthed letter writ
ten by Jefferson to friend M De Neville, on this
subject
Il rejoice as moralist at the prospect of re-
duction of the duties wne by our national legs-
lature," he wrote.
ut is an error to view a tax on that liquor as
merely tax on the rich. 1t is prohibition of its use
for the middling classes of our citizens and con-
demnation of them to the poison of whisky, which
is desolating their houses.
mo nation is drunken where wine is cheap: and
none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes
ardent spirits the common beverage It is, in
TRUTH the only antidote to the bane of whisky
Elk but the duty at the rate of other merchan-
disc and we can drink wine here as cheap as we do
grog, and who will not prefer it? It's extended use
will carry health and comfort to a much-enIarged
circle
Every one in easy circumstances Gas the bulk of
our citizens are) will prefer to the poison to which
they are now driven by their government"
This letter written 11S years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
A Cost. Cutting Method

1T is high time that the opponents of unemploy-
ment insurance ceased skulking behind the skirts of
a silly word which has become tawdry excuse for
doing nothing at time when the whole country cries
out for some measure of constructive value"
This is no radical speaking no member of the
hunger march, not a senate liberal The speaker
is Ernest c. Draper vce-presdent of the Hills Bros.
Company Of New York.
He continued: Industry has nothing to fear from
a proper unemployment reserve fund law. 1t is a
wise and coSt-cuttng method Of production 1t will
not entirely solve the unemployment problem, but it
will attack it at its heart
Our efforts could accomplish more definite re-
suits both for worker and employer in one year than
all the co-ordinatng committees combined can &C
complish in six. 1t is time to come to grips with
this evil of unemployment in realistic and aggressive
fashion, rather than with furtveneSs or downright
deceit"
Here is an employer who does not consider insur-
ance for workers a device of his enemies, designed
to cripple or bankrupt him, but "a wise and cost
cutting method of production"
Other employers should put aside hysterical fears
and examine the matter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
Most LaWIeSS Nation

XXTE have passed more restric-
w tive laws, authorized more
probes and put more people in jail
because of their opinion during the
last fifteen years than during any
similar period in this country's his
tory.
What we have not done is catch
the thieves and cut-throats.
The result speaks for itself. The
United States of America has be-
come the most lawless nation on
earth.
If it were not for insurance COM
panieS, private detective agencies
and other voluntary institutions
the American people would be in
dire straits.
The law enforcement machine,
for which they pay such an enor-
nous amount of money, and which
has been expanded to astonishing
proportions, has broken down COM
pletely.
In spite of the crowded prisons
and glutted dockets, we are not
making progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ME judge was talking. "Nr. Hoover" he said will
4 be reelected. Things are going to get better.
The financial powers of the east will begin to turn
loose some OF their money before long It always hap
pens In campaign year. And with the return of
prosperity Hoover is sure of going back to the White
House,
Probably the judge was right But if this is true
and these mythical moneyed powers can bring back
good times by the mere opening of their bank vault
then say they all should be hanged for not having
done that two years ago.
1t happens that good many of us do not believe
this sort of thing. Yet it is talked generally among
certain groups who claim to understand political
methods and who are familiar with campaign plan
ming
If this is our system, then it is an accursed one
and should be abandoned before it wrecks U.s.
II THERE are number of things wrong with our
n highly praised plan of economics. One of them
is the manner in which permit the stock market to
regulate business This is an unwholeSome sort of
thing and deserves the severest condemnation Here
is an incident of what it makes possible:
The other day a certain man in certain city club
sat down for game of bridge. During the first hand
his broker called him about recent flyer in wheat.
Sell" he yelled into the telephone. "SeI at once
And he came beck and bid three no-trumps.
Before the rubber was over, he was called again.
Smlllngly he returned and told his companions he
had cleaned up $4,000 during the rubber
What caricature of economics that little happen
ing presents! Men who sweat and toll to raise the
wheat are paid less thar dollar for it.
Men who never hantle, touch, or even see it, and
VINO II they were given bEShel of grain could find
receptacle larger than cocktail shaker in which
farmer who sows and reaps earn at present prices
In Ave years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
New Era Starring

nR. FOSDICK also discussed the
II Importance of archaeology and
the lessons which the unearthing
of the past has for the world.
Archaeology shows us the debris
of civilizations that stretch from the
dawn of history up to our own
Observation-Disclosures that dreamed
of Immortality and are now dead,
he said. What archaeology tells us
is that nothing external is perma-
nent. Sooner or later there comes
to all human institutions the final
rap on the door
Archaeology looks to the past and
it deals with death. And yet, of
course, in another sense, it deals
with life, too. The spark never is
extinguished.
civilizations perish and are for
gotten; institutions are buried I'M
der hundreds of cubic feet of earth,
but somehow or other the spirit re-
mains to manifest itself in new
forms.
"Our world has outgrown its old
framework, and the cracks and fls-
sures which now are appearing in
the social structure seem to indicate
the breaking up of one era and the
starting point of another.
Apparently we have arrived at
one of those crucial points--like the
Renaissance and Reformation
when old ideas and values no longer
serve, and new intellectual scaffold-
ing and new social controls have to
be built on the ashes of what has
gone.
"Our civilization is predominantly
civilization of things. 1t is a
civilization Of electric refrigerators,
automobiles, vacuum cleaners and
thousands Of other contrivances
without which no man is happy and
no home is complete. We live in
kind of mental and 10-cent store,
our minds cluttered with gear"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
A New S O S

The schools Of America, we learn from report
Of the National Education Association on Child
hood and the Depression" being squeezed, like
nut in a nutcracker, between two forces. One is
oyercrowding, due to enforced idleness of young
people, The other is hard-tine pressure upon
schools from state county, and city governments,
tending to starve education especially in the rural
regions
Colleges and city schools are being packed to
their limits Reports from 200 colleges and uni
versities show heavy increases in enrollnents. In
federally- aided vocational education courses, in
creased enrolment in 1881 over 1880 was 1874 per cent
The depression also caused a 81 per cent decrease
under 1929 in the number of children of IA and Is
leaving school for work There is significant in
crease in high school enrollments.
On the other hand, with thousands of farmers
unable to pay taxes appropriations for education
in rural sections are being slashed. Terms are be-
ing cut to few months in the year. Teachers
salaries are being reduced and the nations 100000
teachers buying power reduced.
Family generalization and lack of proper food and
clothing are keeping many children at home. sit
is reported that some rural teachers are conduct
ing their schools in return for room and board
a practice common to pioneer days, but long ago
abandoned"
The back-to-school movement in cities is a whole
ering of school standards in rural sections is much
more serious to Americas future. And, according to
the National Education Association both of these
needless.
There is no evidence" the report states, "that
America is spending more than it can afford for de-
-veopment of its human resources. 1t is true that
some communities may have reached limit in the
amount which they can provide for education under
the outworn public revenue systems which they con-
tnue to tolerate.
This situation does not mean that school costs
must reduced but Their that the present unfair
and ineffective methods of taxation must be remade.
Given modern just, and wel-administered tax Sys-
tenn and proper method of distribution every COM
munity in the United States can afford complete,
generous education for every of its children with
out unduly heavy taxes"
In a democracy that depends for its success upon
an educated citzenry, economy that undermines it's
school system is false economy.
Evidently we need a new slogan An IS o S"
meaning "Save Our Schools
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04

The courts now have the case Of Coroner Vehling
and will determine not only his guilt or innocence of
violation of the law but his fitness to continue in that
office
The Times had not little to do with the bringing
Of these charges Continued criticism sent to The
Times prompted investigation. The inquiries by a
member of The Times staff suggested that the criti-
cisms we're we'll founded Prosecutor Wilson took the
results of these Investigations to the grand jury and
the indictment and impeachment charges followed
The lesson for the people is the necessity of scam
ming closely all asprants for office and not to per-
NIT their attention to be exclusively concerned with
the so-caled larger jobs.
Perhaps the real cure for inefficency in office is
the shortening of the ballot in order to make the job
Of voting less perpleng In reality long ballots de-
stroy self-government No citizen is able to judge
the comparative qualifications of all candidates for
many offices.
Aside from one or two offices for which there may
be spirited contest public interest centers on party
tickets and nomination becomes election through
straight party ballots.
When the weak and inefficient come into power
there then arises the stastefu task Of exposing them
to public attention The Times believes that is the
job Of independent newspapers to make these ex-
posurea when necessary. 1t would much prefer the
happier job of prasing the efficient and the useful
The Times will be happy when public interest in
public affairs is great enough to protect government
from unfortunate episodes Until that time it
VOL continue to gave the facts, without bias without
rancor and certainly without any consideration for
political parties factions of parties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
HEALTH
Pork Should Be Cooked Thoroughly

On the sixth or seventh day the
fertilized female burrows into the
wall of the intestine. BY the ninth
or tenth day the embryos released
by the female are found in fair
numbers in the muscles.
The embryo grows rapidly in the
muscle, becoming completely de-
veloped in about fifteen days, then
it coils up and q wall is formed
around it.
Of course, when the muscle meat
containing these embryos is eaten,
the whole process is repeated in
the animal that eats the meat.
In 1900 cases of trichinosis that
occurred in the United States, raw
sausage was the cause in 225 cases,
raw ham in 213 cases, sausage in
al cases, and incompletely cooked
pork in $40 cases.
TrichinosiS resembles typhoid
fever and chronic rheumatism in its
early stages, and it is only careful
investigation by a physician that
can reveal the cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
Too Many Laws

TN spite of all the amending, re-
Il vising and psycho-anazlyzing, it
still is possible to sit within two feet
of a. man who has it in mind to
murder you Or pick your pocket
without suspecting it.
AS long as that condition prevails
crime will have to be recognized and
dealt with as purely personal
proposition.
We not only need fewer laws, but
simpler laws. Above all else. we
need to pay more attention to their
enforcement after they are passed
and to the question of whether we
ourselves are willing to obey them
beforehand.
Because of this blind faith in sys-
tenn and the disregard Of personal
consequences which goes with it,
millions of Americans have voted
conplacently for regulations and
inhibitions which had no intent of
observing, but which they were
willing to accept for "the other fell
low"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04

which they could be held down after
being dragged away from their
mother. I'll lay ten to one against
that theory, too. The emotional ma
ture OF the individual is pretty
nearly complete by 6 or 7.
or course, by din of much instr1Ic-
tlon the growing lads can be taught
mat their mother was a naisfit in
mooern society and that they are
well quit of her. But 1 am Won
oering whether that itself consti-
tutes a superb start in the matter
OF erecting strong character.
And, come to think of it. I won
der whether it is altogether amiss
10 give little thought to the wom-
an IN The case and her rights and
ner feelings. Perhaps nobody ever
CoId Justice Graham Witschief of
Inc supreme court the facts of life
l think that before he rendered
Judgment he should have been re-
minded that one can become p
grandfather quite casually. 1t is
even more remote than being a
father.
Bearing child is an ordeal
rms Is also true of having two
chlldren. do not think that moth
ernood IS sacred. But it makes
grave demands upon woman And
IN any even-handed sort of Justice
the time of tribulation should he
put into the balance against all
proven parties and excursions into
noise and high jinks.
l hardly think anybody con-
tended that even the widest party
lasted quite as long as one of the
periods Of preparation and of wait
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

from the bowel, by finding the
parasite in portions of the meat
that have not been consumed, and
finally by taking a piece out of the
muscles at the painful point and
finding the parasite in the muscle.
Trichina could be eliminated
completely if all meat could be
refrigerated at degrees F. for
twenty days; if before use it could
be thoroughly cooked or cured, be-
cause the parasite of trichina dies
at 131 degrees F.; if rats could be
completely exterminated around
the meat shops, slaughter houses
and hog pens, and finally if the
swill and offal fed to the hogs could
be cooked thoroughly or otherwise
disinfected.
When meat infested with trichina
is eaten, the cyst wall of the para
site is digested in the stomach and
the worms get out. They then go
into the small intestines, where
they grow to maturity in two or
three days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
Catch the CUIDrit
much of the violen

THOUGH much of the violence
Il from which we suffer can be
traced to the power of organization,
an individual usually is responsible
for it, either as boss of the perform
ance or as acting on his own initia-
tive.
Catch that individual and you
have solved the problem. Try to
solve it by restricting the organi-
cation, particularly in ways that are
contrary to law and custom, and
you get nowhere.
This idea of burning books or
gagging soap-boX orators in order
to purge the human race of evil
is not only repugnant to common
sense, but usually does more harm
than good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
America Next

Finland, apparently by an overwhelming majority
has voted to abandon prohibition and repeal its twelve
year-old dry law. The nationwide referendum re-
turned to i majority for repeal in Helsngfors,
where only Csc voters favored even modification The
Communists, according to reports fought for prohi-
btion, on the ground that it was stirring unrest
among the workers. !
Should the government follow this with repeal as
is likely, Finland will return to regulation ard tenn
perance. This would leave the United States alone
as a so-called prohibition nation.
Other nations have tried to stop mems drinking
by national law. All have given it up as a failure
Russia imposed prohibition as a war measure but
repealed it in 1925. Five years earlier Esthona and
Latvia gave it up. In 1916 Norway tried it, only to
return to regulation and local option in 1927.
In Sweden the successful Bratt system of regula-
ton was established in 1919 and still is in force
Strict regulation applies in Denmark Great Britain,
Irish Free State Belgium and Italy.
During the war, eight of the nine provinces of
Canada adopted prohibition. All, save Prince Ed
ward Island, have returned to regulation PebScites
have gone against prohibition in New Zealand and
in Australia's populous provinces of New South
Wales and Victoria
F1nland'S experience is of particular value as a
guide to our national conduct. HOMOGENEOUS folk
OF Nordic blood and Lutheran faith were ideal sub
jects for such experiment in moral RECOMMENDATION
Even there it failed miserably
federation of Finnish judges found extremely
undesirable results" Liquor consumption increased
under the law by more than so per cent Crime,
oootlegging corruption thrived. Finally national
commission, like own Wickersham commission.
found the law failure
If Finland fails what can be expected of western
land OF many races creeds and habits such as ours?
On Jan. 4, President Hoover it is said, win issue
special message to congress law enforcement in
the United States His recommendations will in
ciude many made by the late Wickersham COM
mission
Will he include the recommendation of seven of
the eleven members of that body for repeal or rodi
fcation of the Volstead law?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HR EYE2s}

T HAVE known pleasant judges.
L know a judge who overbids when
vulnerable. But I would not like to
sit upon the bench, and, in partic-
ular, I'd hate to be Supreme Court
Justice Graham Witschief.
He undertook in his court to play
an omniscent role, and to this
mortal eye ne made a mess of it.
At any rate, I read, 1.-TWO small boys
who pleaded tearfully to be left with
their mother were dragged, kicking
and screaming, out of her embrace
and carried to the limousine of
their grandparents, who had just
won their custody by decision of
Supreme Court Justice Witschief."
According to the newspaper &C
count, "The justice was of the opin-
ion the children would enjoy them
selves more with their mother, but
added, Too great freedom is not
conducive to the erection of strong
character"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

OCCASIONALLY there develops
~ an epidemic of infestation
with the worms from pork that has
not been cooked or cured properly.
In rare cases the meat of other
animals is involved, but in prac-
tically every instance reported in
this country it has been uncooked
pork that has caused the epidemic.
Practically no one dies of this
disease, but the person who has it
suffers great deal of pain and is
incapacitated for a. considerable
period of time.
One of the chief symptoms of the
disease is the pain in the muscles
and the swelling of the face.
The physician makes his dag
nosis by changes that are caused in
the blood, by isolating the parasite
in washings from the stomach or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
Prosperity Not Enough
"XXTE have Unanswered ourselves

WE have ed Unanswered hneu hss, ourselves ,s,3.,
vered by our machines-into a po-
Sition where the very existence of
our civilization seems to depend
upon our capacity to consume" Dr.
Fosdick continued.
But no great civilization can be
built on the ideal Of consumption as
the chief end Of man. Today as in
all previous generations there is the
the same fundamental incompatible
ity between the things of the world
and the things of the spirit.
consequently OUTS is an age that
would stand condemned by all the
foremost teachers and prophets
from the beginning of history.
AT this moment we are praying
for the return Of prosperity. What
do we mean by prosperity? Do we
mean a society of patterned minds
in which every man desires what
ever his neighbor has, and life is a
hectic race for gadgets and knick-
knacks?
Surely If prosperity means only
houses and furniture and automo-
biles and radios and telephones and
all the other paraphernalia of liv-
ing-and no life that transcends all
these mechanisms-then we should
earnestly pray that the blight of
prosperity never may return.
Here in this building we can see
the records of ancient wisdom and
old mistakes and lessons that were
not learned in time. Out of this
building can come, if We use it
wisely, knowledge and inspiration
by which our generation can find
It's way with surer footsteps to
fairer future
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04
WILSON AND RAILWAYS
Jan. 4

ON Jan. (, 1918, President Will
~ son, addressing q. joint session
of the houses of congress, urged
legislation to put into complete eff
feet the new system Of railroads
under governmental control.
The President recommended as
basis for compensation the average
net income of the three years end
ing June 30, 1917, which, COM
puted from the returns Of the inter-
state commerce commission, was
81 ,049, 974977.
The shipping board asked for the
power of contract for 100000, 600
worth of ships.
The British hospital ship Rewa
was torpedoed and sunk in the Eng
lish Channel.
German troops forced back four
British advanced positions in the
Cambrai region.
British aviators dropped bombs on
Denain, Ledeghm, and the Menin-
RculeTs railroad station.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-04

The Whole CiUiIized World Is
Afflicted With a DeIusion
That 1t Can Cure Crime By
Mauling Society. That Is
Why We Haze Prohibition.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-More than
L 5000 bills have been placed
before congress since it assembled
in December. Of this amazing
number, only six have been passed.
Among those passed was one to adj
NIT Olympic athletes free from i'm
migration restrictions.
Come what may, congress is not
going to let this country enter 1882
unprepared for sport.