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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25

W. Dulles in connection with American loans to
Prussia This is contained in the section Closeup
Men" in the chapter lobbying.
Dulles formerly was chief Of the Near Eastern
division of the state department He left to join the
well known firm of Sullivan and Cromwell attorneys
for j. P Morgan & Company. The state department
became rather skeptca of all loans to Germany after
1925, and S. Parker Gilbert agentgenera of repara-
lions, was especially vehement in warning against
more loans to Germany. Now for the story told in
the Merry Co Round:
I'm the fall of 1927 Harris, Forbes, and group
OF associated bankers desired to float $4,000 900
loan to the Free State of Prussia The state depart
ment, because of the complaints of both S. Parker
Gilbert and the reich, held up the loan
THE bankers got worried. After several attempts
to get the loan passed. they finally sent Allen Dulles
down to visit his former colleagues in Washington
Dulles is grandson Of former secretary of state,
John w. Foster. Also, he was a nephew of the late
secretary of state, Robert Lansing.
He played round of golf with Frank B. Kellogg
and came back with the state departments letter
passing the loan.
Today the state department is doing it's best to
cancel $l1O00000,000 of European war debts which
American taxpayers will have to pay to save private
loans made by Harris Forbes and other bankers: and
there is grave doubt despite the state departments
efforts and despite the Hoover moratorium whether
these loans, lobbied through the state department
ever will be repaid"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
Beer by Christmas

There about $50 congressional districts in
which the prohibition issue is drawn-mostIy as be-
tween outright repeal and Hoover's impracticable
revision plan of federal police for dry states
Scripps Howard poll indicates there may not be 100
bone Grys in the seventy-third congress-
But the politicians must not be allowed to forget
that prohibition still is with us. 1t is still moral
economic, and government issue of the first magni-
tude.
Had Hoover been smart or the Democrats
ageous repeal and modification legislation would
have been passed by congress after the June con-
ventions The politicians with their eye on the po-
ltica campaign preferred to wait until after election
We have had thirteen years of waiting, and the
time has come for action The lame duck session in
December has prohibition far up it's program and
the Democratic leaders have declared for action on
beer tax bill
The repeal resolution is fundamentally the most
important of course 1t should be submitted before
jan l, that the large majority of legislatures
meeting early in 1888 may lay plans for state con-
ventions.
There appears little doubt that two-thirds of the
country, if not two-thrds of the lame duck" mem
bers, are anxious to have the question submitted.
And there should be no hesitancy controversy
over the mere question of submitting the issue of
straight forward repeal to the people
A new treasury deficit, which may reach another
billion dollars, hangs heavy over our heads Our
high income tax rates will not begin to bear for
several months and some of the excuses are dis
appointing in their revenues.
This deficit at least in part be met with rev.
enue from a beer tax.
This too, is problem for December, not next May.
1t has been demonstrated that law Iegazing
and taxing beer at the wartime rate will bring in
immediate revenues of large proportions probably
$35O0OOeC0 year and more if many of the dry states
follow present trends and modify state prohibition
In the present situation the government needs
all the revenue it get, for unemployment relief
and other means of combating the depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
State Department, Bankers and Loans

Governor Roosevelt's Columbus speech the debate
between the state department and Senator Glass,
subsequent reverberatiors and revived interest in
international finance raise wildly the issue of the
relation of the state department to bankers loans
abroad.
To a student of the problem, 1t is evident that
indiscriminate charges that the state department
always encourages private loans abroad and blanket
denals by the department both wide of the mark
Usually, the bankers float their own loans on their
own responsibility, but at times the state department
actually has taken the initiative. in the of
some loans to Nicaragua and Honduras in ls11ls and
to Cuba in 1922.
IN the case Of the loans in the last decade to
German states the responsibility to have been
mainly that of the bankers, the state department
being culpable only In lack Of backbone.
There is interesting item contained in the
recent More Merry Round" on the work Of Allen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
TT CEEMO tn ME ~ HAYWOOD
4 Il OAA4NAO l. ~ AN11 d BROUN

NNE night after dinner sat and
W listened to Frank Ward O'Mal-
ley talk for two hours, and I never
said a word, which is pretty I'M
uslal for me.
But O'Malley was talking about
the old Sun. He felt romantic
about the paper, because he spent
the best years of his life on it. And
was fascinated because it was the
paper I wished to join and never
could argue around to my way OF
thinking. They took my name and
address dozen times. but nothing
happened.
O'Malley was one of the chief
reasons why I wanted to be on the
Sun. He seemed to be everything
a newspaper man ought to be. My
first assignment as a cub took me
to Tammany picnic which O'Mal-
ley was covering.
1t was a traditional sort of story
for him, and he had three or four
good lines left over which he gave
me. The jokes he discarded were
nv lead.
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People Voice

Editor Times-At this time, dur
ing the trying period of this de-
preston, Republican newspapers,
with their bias eamoufiage, are try
ing to deceive the voters of Indiana
and the nation.
1t is their intention to have us
think that Senator James Watson
is no other than Old Santa Claus,
giving the small home owner his
first present.
Ballyhooing Jim entered the SEN
ate in 1916. His record for labor
and the small home. owner is a dis
grace to humanity. Never has he
given them any consideration.
But at the eleventh hour, when
he felt that he needed 10000 votes
to put him over this fall, he pulled
the ruse of a good Samaritan, and
railroaded through the home loan
bank bill.
Why has Watson waited sixteen
years to give the poor man some
consideration?
Let me take you back to the Re-
publican state convention of June
8 and 9, 1882. A poisonous letter
was mailed to each delegate con-
denlning a certain candidate for the
governorship.
This letter read, in part: what
Indiana needs today is a Governor
VIII judicial experience-one fully
acquainted with all the problems of
the state government-instead Of a
farmer which has been yelling
lower taxes, farm relief, and pro-
rect the home owners
Should not the public utilities
md money interests Of the state be
given the very same nsideration
as farmer and q small home
owner? This lower tax matter and
farm relief in a very small mat
ter"
Now, Watson says, "the small
home owner must be saved" But
in June, when he headed the list
of double-crossers, which nominated
Springer, the small home owner
was a secondary matter.
Springer might have been a good
Judge, but the odor that raised from
that nomination had the nauseating
stencil Of Watson and Henry Mar
shall. c. ]. CURTIS.
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and 1881, as compared with 40.5 per
cent among white women.
In an attempt to analyze the
causes of suicide, the report
states that the people who commit
suicide represent a group more
easily upset mentally and emotion
ally than are people in general.
They are people with insufficient
ly developed reactions toward life,
who are thrown off balance by pro-
vocationS.
In other words, they break down
under strains which other people
manage to Surmount. Sometimes
the strain arises from economic
conditions sometimes because of
troubles with friends and relatives
Most often, however, the basic
difficulty is the personality of the
individual concerned.
Obviously the way to prevent
suicide is to develop a proper atti-
tude toward life in the young. This
is a responsibility of the entire
community.
Young people must be given a
proper mental and emotional out
look. They must learn to be calm
and to react properly toward the
difficult situations that invariably
arise in the lives of every one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
The Age of O'MaIIey

A YEAR or so before O'Malley's
1 n death in France, I ran into a
brilliant young city editor who told
me that the familiar story of a
golden age of reporting was sheer
myth. He said that he had looked
into the files and that in his opinion
news was being written better to-
day than in the age of the old Sun.
I'm inclined to think that may be
true, but nobody can judge a news
story years or even many days after
the fact. Most of those which get
buried into books seem to lose a
great deal in the process and turn
to dust. A good newspaper story
should be just a little damp behind
the ears.
O'Malley wrote for the age of
Jacks and Rector'S and Churchill's
for the age of O'Malley, in fact.
Naturally, I do not believe that his
name has been carved in rock. That
I think, will not happen to any
newspaper man.
O'Malley will be remembered as
long as there are those who knew
him and his stuff at first hand,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
BELLEAU WOOD CLEARED
October 25

ON Oct. Is, 1918, Americans
" cleared Belleau wood of Ger
mans and held Hill $50 in fierce
fighting.
British troops reached the lie
Quesnoy- Valenciennes railway on a
front of six miles while French at
tackled on the Serre and the Aisne
on front Of forty miles, advancing
at all points.
British, French and Italian troops
pushed their offensive on the Ital-
ian front, between the Brenta and
Piave rivers, taking 5000 prisoners.
In Asia Minor. British forces on
the Tigris reached Kerkuk and the
mouth Of the lesser Fab.
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do not think any reporter should
ask for a better epitaph than HE
was good once upon time"
The concern of the craft is with
"late last night" or "early this
morning" Not with posterity. And
I think that perhaps the satisfaction
of having somebody say, THAT was
swell story you had in today's
paper" may quite readily stand up
against the dim hope that in some,
future age your name or fame may
be tepidly banded about in col
lege class labeled in the catalog as
American Literature 22A-the his
tory of American literature down to
1945."
Frank Ward O'Malley does not
belong to the ages, but to us. Let
posterity scurry around for its own,
O'Malleys if it thinks that it can
find them.
One of Great Reporters
TIE was, I think, one of the great
L i reporters. OF late have seen
much brilliant writing in the news
columns of several newspapers. But
something has gone out of the word
reporter"
Today when man writes good
account of a fire, a shipwreck or
a football game in Sing Sing. there
is the ominous possibility that he
is about to take flight and leave the
job of turning large words into little
ones.
The bright young boy will show up
presently in Hollywood, or he will
be writing stuff for the maya
zines.
I respect the magazines, though
somewhat from distance, and yet
I never have loved them. There are
not more than two famous fiction
writer's of our day who seem. to be
half as important as a dozen re-
porters of this generation.
Some day I intend to punch a
literary critic when he condescends
to something and says: IT'S good
journalism" What does he know
that's better?
O'AIalley himself lived to be-
come a prolific magazine contrib
utor and to leave that small inner
room in the old Sun where all who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
Spiral NebuIae

Nov at vast distances from the
IN earth are the spiral nebulae.
These are very much farther away
than the stars Of our own Milky
Way or galaxy.
The nearest spiral is 100000 light
years away. A light-year is six
trillion miles.) Many spirals are
more than 100000 Iight-years
away.
The Mt. Wilson astronomers at
tached an extremely powerful spec
troscope to the 100-inch telescope,
the worlds largest telescope, and
began a study of the spectra of
these distant spirals.
Some of these spirals, apparently,
are great masses of gases, while
others are galaxies Of stars like our
own Milky Way.
The Mt. Wilson study showed
that all the spiral nebulae indicated
a shift of their spectrum lines to-
ward the red. This is what is
meant by the red shift"
The study also indicated another
peculiar fact. The farther awav
the spiral, the greater the red shift.
If we interpret this red shift in
the usual way. it means that every
spiral is moving away from the
earth and that the farther awav
they are, the faster. they are NOV
ing.
In the case of spirals about Is
million light-years away. Just about
at the limit of visibility Of the 100
inch telescope, the speed comes out
at the incredible speed of 24o0
miles a second.
1t is difficult to assume that our
earth is some center of repulsion
from which the rest of the cosmos
is fleeing.
But this state of affairs ia lust
what one would observe in an ex-
panding universe.
II the universe was growing like
a balloon into which air was
pumped, no matter where Won were
IN 1t, everything else would seem to
be receding from you.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TINE causes Of suicide have con-
Il stituted an interesting study for
psychologists and physicians for
many years. About 10000 persons
kill themselves in this country every
year.
There has been a gradual in
crease in the suicide rate for some
time and statisticians have been
trying to analyze the motivation,
the methods of suicide chosen, and
similar factors, with a view to
bringing about a decrease. There
are some interesting factors to be
considered.
For one thing, the suicide rate
increases rapidly with age; men
commit suicide more frequently
than do women, and different races
of people have different suicide
rates.
Statisticians of a large insurance
company recently have investigated
figures for the policy holders in
volved. They find that the suicide
rate began to rise as early as 1925
and has risen steadily ever since
that time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25
The Power Commission

There have been signs during the political cam
paign, that the federal power commission might be
undergoing renaissance but the peregrnations of its
executive secretary between desks at Republican
campaign headquarters in New York and his office
leaves the matter in some doubt
The commission has, of course resolved that
hereafter employees must not collect campaign funds or
engage in certain other political activities Yet it's
chairman, George Otis Smith, has announced that he
approved McCuens absence for campaign work and
sees nothing wrong in it,
The public has had hard time making I'D its
mind about this cautious power commission Since
the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the
definite injection of power as an issue in the cam
palgn, an apparent change has taken place and
many commendable efforts toward regulation have
been made.
The commission has recommended federal regula
ton of holding companies and managed To do 60 q
few weeks before the companies began CRYING ont for
the same thing 1t has ordered removed from the
capital accounts of the Alabama Power Company
several million dollars of padding
1t has announced that it was misunderstood all
along on the New River case and believes the river is
navigable, the point on which Appalachian Electric
Power Company went into the courts in an attempt
to evade regulation.
Finally, it has, for the first time asserted it's au-
thorty to regulate security issues in the attempted
transfer Of Clarion River Power Company assets to
another company. But it has not yet restored to
operation the famous Order % for general regula-
tlon OF securities annued as the first act of the men
who took office under Hoover
These are all steps toward decent intelligent en-
torcement of the water power act Whether they
continue in the future may be decided to great ex
ent by the man selected to fill an existing vacancy
There is nothing in the Hoover administration
to indicate that he will encourage vigorous thorough
going enforcement of the federal water power act
There is much to indicate he will not including let
tiers on the subject written by Hoover and Just
brought to light.
Honest enforcement of the act means hundreds
OF millions OF dollars to the American people, as we'll
as economic and social benefits of nestimable worth
This is one of the most important matters demand
ing decision from the public at the present time
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SCIENCE.
BY DAVID DTFTZ.

The Red Shift" Of the Spiral
Nebulae Nay Be Called
Confirmation Of the En-
ponding Universe.
NTHILE Einstein, Eddington. De
W Sitter, and others are ham
mering out the details Of their
theories of the expanding universe
1t is important to remember that
these theories are based upon
certain observational facts.
The layman. therefore, must not
regard the talk about the expand
ing universe as theoretical specula-
ton only
Even if the whole notion of an ex-
panding universe should be
abandoned, the obServational facts
remain to be explained.
Einstein's recent address in Ber-
lin indicates that he has returned
w t4AC AOCb Va oil C<AydAAAA1Ae IAAA-
verse and placed the start Of the
period of expansion at ten billion
years ago.
This agrees with the figure which
Eddington gives for the age of the
universe.
De Sitter and Lemaitre arrived at
the idea of an expanding universe
from a study of Einstein's theory
of relatively, Eddington arrives at
the idea from study of the
equations for the structure of the
atom.
But the observational fact which
may be regarded as confirmation of
the theory of an expanding uni
verse is the so-called ''redshift" of
the spiral nebulae.
This was discovered by DR.. Edwin
E. Hubble, DR.. Milton S. Humason
and other astronomers at Mt. VIII
son observatory of California.
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Red Shift
mo understand the talk about

ITO understand the talk about the
l. expanding universe, 1t is
necessary to be familiar with this
red shift
Perhaps you have noticed that
when railroad train is approach
ing, the sound of the whistle rises.
This is because the motion of the
trains crowds the sound waves upon
each other and we get more to the
second than we should.
This raises the apparent fire.
quency of the sound waves and
hence the pitch. When the train
recedes from us, the pitch of the
whistle drops, because we are now
getting fewer sound waves to the
second than we should.
This phenomenon is known as
the "Doppler effect" after the
scientist who first noticed it.
We find similar phenomenon in
the case Of light. The prism OF
spectroscope divides the light of
star into rainbow of colors called
the spectrum.
This rainbow is crossed with black
lines, which are the Identification
marks of the various chemical ele-
ments in the star What the spec
troscope really does is to sort out
the stars light according to fire.
quencies of the light waves.
At one end of the spectrum is
the red, which is the light of low
est frequency. At The other end is
the violet, which is the light Of
highest frequency.
Now. If a star Is moving to-
ward us, we get an effect similar to
that noted in the case of the loco
motive whistles The light waves
are crowded upon us by the mo-
ton of the star.
We get more waves to the second
than we should. Consequently, their
apparent frequency goes up and we
find all the lines in the stars spec
trum shifted toward the violet.
If the star is receding from us,
the opposite effect is observed and
the spectrum lines are shifted to-
ward the red.
Consequently, the shift Of the
lines in the spectrum of a star indi-
Gates whether the star is moving
toward the earth or away from it.
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Questions and
Answers

Are aliens who have their first
papers declaring their intention to
become American citizens entitled
to the rights and privileges Of citi-
zenship?
No.
Which American high school has
the largest student enrolment?
De Witt Clinton high school in
New York City has an enrolment
Of approximately 10000.
Give the number and value Of half
cent pieces issued by the govern
ment in 1925? What Is the present
day value Of one Of these coins.
Sixty-three thousand coins we're
issued, having a value Of $315. Half
cent coins of that date now have
catalog value Of 5 to 10 cents.
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Spoke Only of the Paper

.nN the particular night I men
- toned at the beginning, I don't
remember that O'Malley ever said a
word about a single piece he wrote
after leaving newspaper work. 1t
was all of the men who are the
wing shots of the craft.
Leave it to the novelists to shoot
the game which sleeps or Strolls or
swims upon the surface of the wa
ter, so that they can sneak up on it..
l remember we finally took the
discussion to Texas Guinan's, be-
cause we wanted to find some late
place where there would be enough
noise to talk under.
And I'm glad that O'MalIey lived
in the pre-column days. He would
have been good at it, and I still
think it's an honorable profession.
But something has changed a lit
tie in this journalistic age of "by"
and "by" II may be for the better.
I don't know. I have a feeling that
possibly a little of the spinal fluid
of the newspaper has been drained
off.
1 don't think that being re-
porter is just means to an end.
think it's goal. And that
think largely because I knew and
loved Frank Ward O'Malley.
Copyright, 1892. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-25

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
Sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this naner.-The Editor.
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Says

One Grand Slide DolCnhil
in Tl0eIUe Years Of Repub-
licdn Rule.
NEW YORK, oct. 25.-Cutting
~ down through the junk heap
of statistics, stage tricks, inconse-
quential details, impulsive promises,
and speculative propositions that
have come to obscure this campaign,
it is possible to find certain basic
facts, which any one can under
stand, and about which there is no
controversy.
When the Republican party as
sumed control Of it twelve years ago,
this government was in excellent
condition. 1t faced a heavy debt, to
be sure, but its debt was small COM
pared to that of England, France,
or Germany.
1t had emerged from the war vir-
tually uninjured It's man power had
not been reduced to any noticeable
extent, its industrial structure had
not been dislocated, its credit had
not been impaired.
In 1921, the United States was the
one great nation that owed outsiders
nothing and that seemed to be in an
unassailable position from finan-
cial and commercial standpoint.
BY comparison with European
countries, she was preposterously
solvent. Circumstances compelled
them to recognize her economic SUI
premacy and look to her for world
leadership.
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Daily Thought

For the Lord will not forsake
his people for his great names
sake: because it hath pleased the
Lord to make You his people,
Samuel 1922.
The brave unfortunate are oul
best acquaintance. Francis.