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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Bibles and Bullets

Ancient and medieval scholars imprisoned and
even put to death because of their learning but it is
startling in modern America to find a member of
congress in danger of his official life for the same
reason.
Representative Ross A. Collins of Mississippi who
is running for reelection, is being attacked because
several years ago, he sponsored purchase for the IL
brary Of congress of the volbehr collection of 5000
rare volumes, including the Gutenberg Bible
Both from the standpoint of religion and of cul-
ture, it would natural for the people of Mssis-
sippi to appreciate this official act which saved to
America valuable documents which otherwise would
have gone to Europe Instead it is beraed as extray
agant folly.
Yet If there is member of congress who has
stood firmly and consistently for government economy
in the last few years it Ross Collins AS chairman
OF the house subcommittee in charge of war DEPART
ment appropriations he had the difficult task last
winter of trying to bring about economies in the one
government department which refused to economize
of its own accord.
His determination brought about savings of at least
$125OOoOO, and would have brought even more had it
not been for strength OF the army lobby in the senate
These real and practical economies probably are
the actual reason for the attack being made upon him
A large part of the army and majority of the
mouse OF representatives supported Collins in his
tentlon that economies he proposed in the military
machine actually would increase efficiency of national
defense, rather than impair it in, any way But Of
course, his fight made powerful enemies
The people of Mississippi who are about to pass on
this record have an opportunity to show descrimina
ton in rewarding public service
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
The Law Lays

The National Woman's party pointedly expressed
the hope that the United States supreme court soon
to be housed in its new quarters will acquire new
concepts OF the legal rights of with its new
abode
When one recalls that only few months ago the
court refused to hear the plea of Massachusetts
woman that exclusion of her sex from jury lists had
hel@the constitutional guarantee of equal pro-
lection Of the law, it is easy to sympathize with the
womans party point of view.
Inc courts refusal was made in the face of a pre-
Vious decision that for any state to debar Negroes
from jury service an infringement of the Con-
Stitution
IN factories and stores in business and professions
IN colleges at the polls in most of the important con-
tacIS OF he women have been recognized as citizens
with an equal right to prove their abilities and mar
ticipate in life of the nation
Inc laws lag behind public sentiment as thew al
ways 90 and farther back lags the supreme court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Boomerang

More American companies viii go into the red and
more American workmen will be thrown on the streets
as result of the Canadian British tariff agree
ment The Canadian rates went into effect wednes-
day and the British rates will follow soon probably
within month. In both gases, American trade is
hard hit.
We not complain of injustice. Our two best
customers simply retaiating against our mon
strous Hawleysmoot act which precpitated this lat
est world tariff war.
II America insists shutting out the goods of
other nations must expect them to barriers
against us Perhaps the misguided American voters
Republican and Democratic, who have been fooled in
the past by the prosperity through-tarif myth. will
learn from this bitter experience
Although we can not criticise the motives of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. walter Ferguson

TT is unfortunate that Mr. Hoover felt moved to
broadcast an appeal to American women Flat
tering as it may have sounded and proud as we NAV
feel to be designated thus savors that appeal
called too many poignant recolectons.
Those whose memory run back forty EIGHT
months can remember with what ardor the women
OF the United States labored for Mr. Hoover That
campaign was more than a campaign. 1t was
crusade mobilization of the hosts of righteousness
Farmers wives in the middle west drove their lit
tie FordS and carried the message of RepublicaniSm
to their less enthusiastic nefghbors Other women
travelled by bus and train through the states and over
the nation at the inSSent urging of party leaders and
with pous, zeal recited the virtues of the G. o. P.
We rallied like great army, determined to save
our land from the mythical dangers of Vatican rule
from New York east side dictation and frcrl return
of the corner saloon.
r ARGE sums of money went into that crusade In
~ my home state, which normally is Democratic
approximately $4,000 was used. and you'd be sur
prised to know how little of that sum the women
received
When the farmers wife applied for IS bill to
buy her gas, she chided gently because she did
not work for love alone.
A good many others still are hundreds of dollars
out Of purse for. their pains The somehow dis
trbuted these funds to suit their whims and many of
them were paid handsomely to make the distribution.
lean woman? She still is holding the sack. Steadily
slowly persistently she has been edged out Of office
She has been edged out of political positions She
has been edged out of industry.
While we can not blame Mr.. Hoover for that, We
can blame the other males of the G. O. P.
Women are concerned about their country. But it
is beginning to dawn on us that the oftener we
rescue it. the poorer are REGARDS and the verse
of 1t seems to be- From political parties this year
we should like less hattery and more action
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
ENERGY and Wealth

THE charts give new picture Of
4 the trend of our industrial civil
lization, according to Scott.
The charts give a picture of our
civilization in the only accurate
terms in which it can be depicted"
he says 1T can not be done, as
economists do it, by computing
monetary wealth.
Economics merely is the path
ology Of privately-owned wealth.
Although monetary wealth is the
only wealth in our. price system of
production to attempt to evaluate
modern civilization in dollars is to
attempt to build a house with
rubber yardstick.
The United States, these charts
show. expends in energy 10000
calories per capita a day. The figure
for the ancient Greeks and the
modern Chinese is 1000 to 1000
calories per capita a day.
Our great difficulty is the fact
that the tremendous energy ex-
pended in this country is not dis
tributed.
Under the present industrial
system, unemployment will con-
tinue to increase until a maximum
point is reached, which will bring
about collapse of the system"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Recovery and Rabbits
xBs. CARRIE CHAPMAN GAIT

MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN GAIT
wi is quoted as saying, President
Hoover had no more to do with the
depression than rabbit"
I don't think the smile is alto
gether felicitous, for she goes on to
say, Republican or Democrat, no
one could have stopped it-not a
single man knows how to stop a de-
preston; it is like a fever or small
pox."
This argument in favor of the
reelection of the present admins
tration always has puzzled me. We
are told now that Herbert Clark
Hoover's promise to abolish poverty
back in 1923 we're beyond the power
of any man to fulfill-which makes
me wonder why he made them.
Natural causes of deep-seated sort,
far beyond the power of man caused
the depression.
But if that is so does it seem en-
tirely logical to accept the oft re-
peated statement of Mr.. Hoover and
his leaders that the only people
capable of ending the difficulty must
be Republican?
If there were any disposition to
admit that possibly Herbert Clark
Hoover, with the best intentions in
the world. did his bit to get us into
the gully, could see some sense in
saying that he might. through his
knowledge of the terrain on the way
down, be sculiarly fitted to lead
us back to- Where We came from.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Your Leisure Hour

What will you do with your leisure hours when
the time comes that you will have at least three
fourths of each day free from work?
The new problem is that of leisure 1t is here
now. 1t came with enforced idleness 1t will be
permanent because of the inevitable reimbursement of
industry and business
To the hundreds of thousands who have lost their
jobs the problem Of what to do with time is quite as
acute as the question of getting the necessities of life
To the employed who have been placed on part
time or staggered work, the matter is of some mo-
ment To every person, the problem will be pre-
sented very soon because work days and work weeks
will be Shortened
The future of this country will not be determined
during working hours. 1t will be settled by what peo-
pie 10 with their leisure hours
Science coupled with inventive genius has so in
creased the processes of production that it requires
Spy 30 per cent of the workers an eighth day
% rwoduce all the necessities for the whole population
= That means that work must be distributed, with
more Leisure for every cne or that living standards
must be increased to a point where every one will
have fsll the Injuries now possible only for the
very 'fich-
. Tnat both these things will happen is inevitable
but society has not yet been educated to the point
of making this transition without shock
y The truth is that most of us have forgotten how
Most of us depend upon money to buy entertain
Inent and amusement. Very few have developed the
Capacity of companonship The competition in life
and the struggle for existence has been too harsh
In this CITY, the Leisure Hour Clubs are proposing
q novel experiment. They merely suggest that in
these days of leisure people in the various To-
calities unite to find fun and entertainment and
neighborliness in ways that cost no money.
= They suggest that social centers be established,
with rooms where and women meet during
their hours of leisure. They propose that there be
entertainments with lectures music dancing, games.
They propose to solve the problem of leisure by
operation and to enable human beings to satisfy
their minds and souls They declare war upon I'M
employed minds and hearts.
Here is opportunity for those who may have
talent for organization. If you have such talent
get in touch with Dwight S. Ritter at 916 Majestic
building.
Very soon the different centers will ask for talent
from outside their own communities You may be
able to sing. You may play some musical instrument
You may be a specialist topic of general in
terest There will be opportunity in all these centers
for these talents.
Here is solution for the real problem of unem-
ployment-the employment of Leisure Hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

into the vaporous state. The large
lamps are more powerful than SUM-
light for the amount of ultraviolet
that they provide.
There also are available bulbs of
the usual incandescent type which
have heating tungsten f1lament and
small pool of mercury.
When the current is turned on
the filament becomes heated and
vaporizes the mercury to establish
an arc. Such a lamp is much less
intense than the quartz mercury
arc.
Indeed, DR.. Macrea asserts that
it's total light intensity at three feet
is about one-half that of average
sunlight.
Another type is the carbon arc,
which develops the ultraviolet
through the passing current be-
tween two carbons composed of
mixtures with various metallic sub
stances.
Comparisons have been made as
to the value of all these devices
for prevention or treatment of
ricketts,.
1t is found that the amount nee
essary for prevention of ricketts, is
about one-fourth of that desirable
for cure of this disease.
In determining the exact relation
ship, it was found that the quartz
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15

Roosevelt at his best in answering questions
sent to all candidates by ten leading social welfare
workers Equally satisfactory probably will be
given by the Socialist candidate Norman Thomas
President Hoover has not answered but his record
itself is negative answer showing that he opposes
adequate and prompt federal relief for depression
victims.
Roosevelt pledges himself to prompt and generous
federal unemployment relief to supplement inadequate
local aid, not as matter of charity but as matter
of social duty"
general government economy program which will
not however, be pracced at the expense Of starving
people"
Long-range planning and financing of public works
during prosperous times for construction during de-
preston, policy advocated by Hoover ten years ago.
but deserted by him when elected
public works program which will include not only
sef-hqudating projects but also projects essential to
public welfare such as schools Fairgrounds and slum
abatement
Compulsory state unemployment insurance re-
serves, based sound insurance financing
nationally co-ordinated system of state-federaI
employment exchanges as provided by the Wagner
bill, vetoed by Hoover
Continuance of the United States children's bureau
and cuts in child welfare appropriations
Increase of the school age to 16 as necessary to
child welfare and to increased adult employment by
diminishing child labor
In advocating this constructive welfare program
Roosevelt takes his place beside the social service
leaders of the nation who have worked in vain for
these reforms during the Hoover administration
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15

Canadians and British in their attempted defense
retaliation, We do question their intelligence
Just as America has suffered from her high tariff
so Canada and Britain will suffer erecting artificial
barriers and stopping the normal flow of world trade
Most of the trade exchange among these three
countres-the United States, Canada and Britain
has been normal, and, SUCH mutually advantageous
We only can hope that this disastrous trade war
will not continue long that the next administration
in Washington will take the initiative in trade truce
and resumption Of natural commercial relations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine. =
TTHERE now are available to
4 those who want to get sunlight
various methods of securing the
ultra violet value that it contains.
Natural sunlight may have dis
advantages not associated with the
artificial sources, for sunlight is not
available on cloudy or rainy days,
and varies in intensity with time of
day and season of year.
Use of sunlight outdoors has the
added value of fresh air and the
stimulation that comes with being
outdoors.
The vitamin D value, therefore,
may be available not only in the
sunlight and in artificial light, but
in irradiated foods, in viosterol, cod
liver oil, or in other ways.
A lamp used merely to prevent
ricketts, or a deficiency of vitamin
D does not need to be as powerful
as one used for certain forms of
disease. Among the lamps avail
able for use in the home are those
which develop ultraviolet through
an arc carried by mercury in a
quartz tube
The passing of the electric cur
rent causes the mercury to pass
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
What Charts Show
THE survey, according to Scott

TINE survey, according to Scott,
i explains what is happening in
the United States today
Prior to 1900, the charts show
very little huctuation in the pro-
duction of the ma or commodities"
he says. Since then the oscills-
tions grow tremendous, increasing in
frequency and in amplitude.
The man power needed in the
production of each commodity slips
down, even as the total installed
horse power increases.
The facts revealed by the charts
completed through 1920 clearly in
dictate the coming Of the present
depression, although the figures
point to 1880 instead Of 1929 as the
year of the crash.
AS efficiency approaches 100 per-
cent, employment nears zero. AS
the number of machines increases,
so the fluctuations in employment
and production increase.
Our major slumps hit new lows
each time, our booms new highs. We
oscillate closer to infinity on the one
hand, and to zero on the other.
THE maximum of employment in
industry was reached in 1918, and
has declined ever since that date.
Total production, on the other hand,
reached its maximum in 1929.
This ratio of increased produc-
ton and declining employment is
to be found in every major industry,
as the charts indicate.
Employment may be considered.
therefore, an inverse factor in the
rate of production"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Peoples Voice

Editor Things must be
getting serious in the @. o. p.
camp when Silent Cal is persuaded
to say something of my party"
The charge has been made. Mr..
Coolidge said, that the Republican
party and its candidates do not
show any solicitude for the welfare
Of the common run" of people.
We do not know Just what Mr..
Coolidge meant by common run"
but suppose he meant the mass Of
the people. Whatever he meant.
the statement is true, according to
the principles of Alexander Ham
llton, founder OF the Federaiist
party, that has changed its name
so many times to keep in existence,
and finally parked on the tail end
OF the Democratic Republican par
TVS name and now calls itself "the
Republican party"
Mr.. Hamilton believed, and said:
That the British government was
the best in the world, and that he
doubted much whether anything
short OF 1t would do in America. -.
He also believed that the people
naturally are unequal, and that
rights of minorities must be Sc
cured by checks and balances. That
is the principle on which the Re-
publican party was built, and an
organization is no better than the
principle upon which it was
founded.
Hamilton's idea was monarchy.
and we now have it, with a British
subject for President, Mr.. Hoover.
According to a Photographic COPY,
Mr.. Hoover's registration at the
town hall, royal borough of Ken
sington, for voting purposes in Eng
land, was as follows: Nov. /. 1911;
Oct. 81, 1912; Nov. l, 1912; Noe. 81,
1913; Nov. /, 1913; Oct. 81. 1914 I
Nov. l, 1914, and Oct. 81, 1915. We
all know for a person to register
he must be subject of the coun-
try. Mr.. Hoover must have be-
come British subject to vote in
England, or to register with the
intention of voting It also NAV
account for the high tariff. to give
England a chance to recover some
Of her foreign trade. while the
United States is boycoted.
READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15

THIS might be as good day as
i any other for a disconnected col
umn. For instance, I am panied,
but only to the extent of couple of
paragraphs, by a recent prohibition
speech in which a famous professor,
whose name escapes me, declared
THE crude, maudlin gregarious-
ness that comes after the third
glass of wine is a temporary, de-
ceptive thing-fool's gold. You can't
build anything of it."
1 wish l could remember the pro-
fessor's name. I'd certainly like to
know where he got that wine.
But beyond that am shocked by
the gross materialiSm of his point
of view. I do not like to think even
of the total abstainer as man who
accepts the proffered sarsaparilla
grudgingly and asks, What is there
in it for me?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Saws

The Issue Is Not Roosevelt on
Hoover, but Whether You,
Belieue in Democracy or
PdternGliSm.
NEW YORK. Oct. 15.-Of course
IN a man like Senator Hiram
johnson could not support President
Hoover without subordinating his
conscience and convictions to the
brass collar of partisanship.
The present administration has
done vastly more to justify a Bull
Moose" movement than did that of
/ Taft twenty years ago, when Sen
ator johnson lined up with Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Once against, we face an issue
which has plagued this republic
since it was established. Once again,
those who believe in a government
by, of, and for the people find them
selves obliged to forget party alleg-
lance.
Once again, the Hamiltonians
have come into control of the adj
ministration, with vested interests
and 9pecial privileges determining
us policy. Once again, smugness
has enthroned itself at Washington.
doing out favors to a Goldfish aris-
tocracy, with the idea that no other
way Of helping those in distress is
either safe or righteous.
once again, the tie between this
government and its people has be-
come circuitous and indirect. once
again, the soul of Thomas Jefferson
calls across the ages for reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
Schools and Prisons

States counties, and cities planning ito cut down
their public school budgets first should read an an
peal sent out by the National Education Association
The N E. A finds that it costs $500 a year to
keep man In prison. 1t costs only 500 year to
keep child in school, Furnishing about half a mil
hon criminals costs $1,5o0OOOOOO annually. Educat-
ing 26OOOOOO children costs less than $25OOOoo OOC
year
Evauated at its lowest level education is ou1
best crime preventive 1t is the cheapest commodity
on the market, costing every person of voting age
only 10 cents day.
Crime is the most costly thing we have Whereas
schools educate prisons do prevent or cure crime
Cutting school budgets can be the rankest ex-
travagance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EFoS%

Walter Lippmann had an editorial
poking fun at the fanatic and point
ing cut that, after all, the world
had not ended.
But that editorial must have been
written several hours before the
time set for the doom.
1t would have been a good joke
on Mr.. Lippmann if the world had
ended and his editorial never had
appeared.
Random Recommendations
THE best book 1 have read re-
l. Gently is Bloody Years." by
F. Yeats-Brow And the best song
I've heard around in the theaters is
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime 2"
from Americana"
And If I may be permitted to go
on delving into literature and music.
l would like to add to my list Cath
arine Brody's Nobody Starves" and
Herman Hupfelds Let's Put Out
the Lights
Copyright, 1882 bv The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-15
SCIENCE.
BY DAVID DIETZ

Flnctuation in Industry and
Agriculture Shown by
5000 Charts.
THREE thousand charts. showing
Il the history of as MANY indus
trial and agricultural products from,
1880 to 1880. are being prepared a.
Columbia university.
The project. under direction NJ
Howard Scott, consulting tech
nologist, is part Of the energy
survey of the North American
continent. undertaken Jointly by the
department OF industrial engineer
ing of Columbia university and the
architects emergency committee of
New York.
The survey. according to Professor
Walter Rautenstrauch. head of the
department of industrial engineer
ing, hopes to trace exclusively the
industrial and agricultural develop
ment of the United States during
the last 100 years in terms of pro-
duction, employment and energy ex-
penditure.
The charts will show four basic
facts about each of 5000 products,
ranging from wheat and cotton to
iron and STEEL
They are: Amount of energy ex-
pended annually in production,
number of men employed, number
of hours employed, and amount of
production.
The charts also will reveal, in the
case of each product, rate of
growth of production, decline in
man-power required per unit of pro-
duction, and total installed horse
power required per unit of pro-
duction.