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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
Sanity Is Lacking

NEW YORK, has not lacked ad-
~ vocates of sanily. The hopeless
condition in which she finds herself
can not be charged to the absence
of good advice, or honest efforts for
reform on the part of an intelligent
and courageous few.
All that is lacking is wide
awake, energetic interest on the part
Of the many.
Like so many sheep the Devil
dered citizens permit themselves to
be herded and manhandled, without
even so much as asking why, or
realizing that they must pay the
bill.
Renters vote to continue :, high
rate, just as though it would not
come back on them every month
in the year.
TIL notion that everybody gains
if a few are permitted to plumber
the public treasury has become an
obsession with your average New
Yorker. His sole interest in politics
is what he, or some friend, can
get out of it.
He has been taught to regard re-
trenchment as a sort of heresy.
No matter what happens, the Or
ganization's feedbag must be saved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

In addition to the poison that
they produce, and which is found in
the material in which they grow,
the germs also develop another poi
son, which gets into the human
body or into any living animal when
the germs themselves die and dis
integrate.
1t is believed that such secondary
symptoms of scarlet fever and such
complications as infected glands, in
fected ears, generalized blood
poisoning and similar disturbances
are due to the secondary poison.
The Dicks developed a method of
testing the skin of human beings to
determine whether they were likely
to develop scarlet fever if exposed
to it.
Moreover, they found that injec-
ton of a small amount of the toxin
or poison would cause the human
being to develop resistance to the
disease.
Furthermore, they found that the
injection of horse with this poison
would cause the horse to develop in
its blood an antitoxin which was
of value in overcoming scarlet
fever.
1t should be realized, of course,
that the antitoXin may be given in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

AntitOxin May Aid in Scarlet Fever

an ordinary case of the disease and
overcome the disease itself, but at
the same time the patient may have
the complications mentioned.
In instances when the fever is low
and the patient not very sick, it does
not appear to be desirable or even
worth while to inject the antitoXin.
However, if the patient is very sick
and if there are complications, it is
customary to give an injection Of
the antitoxin; and there already is
plenty of evidence to indicate that
it is effective
Because scarlet fever is not a
widespread disease any more, it APP
parently is also not worth while to
inject every child with a preventive
vaccine or to inoculate it with the
toxin against scarlet fever.
Such method should be used only
when a child has been exposed
definitely to a case of the disease or
when there is in a community
severe epidemic of scarlet fever.
There seems to be good evidence
that the child who is injected will
develop a resistance against scarlet
fever lasting at a minimum one
year, and perhaps much longer.
There are no records of any severe
accidents or injuries following the
use of these preventive methods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson


TN prohibition discussions the dry ladies are too
1 prone to produce theories instead of facts They
ignore all the vast changes that have taken place in
this country since the eighteenth amendment was in
corporated into the Constitution, and still live, argu-
tentatively, speaking in the ninetieS.
For instance they talk yet about the old-fashloned
husband who staggered home from the corner saloon
and beat up his wife. And she always bore it cring
ingly
What they overlook in this sad story is that no
modern woman would stand for such treatment and
that the courts would uphold her in any resistance.
They forget too, that the records today are crowd
the defendants.
But perhaps the most illogical of all their talking
points is the in which they contend that prohi
bition could be enforced the government wanted to
enforce it.
TINE facts long since have exploded that pretty
i theory For the truth is that the federal govern
Why? Because so many decent citizens do not want
it enforced because they do not believe it is good
law They resent its tyranny They detest the by
pocrSy it breeds.
And civilizations always have marched forward on
the feet of those who refused to obey tyrannous
laws. There is denying this. supine obedience
to any and every law would convert us into a
puny people unworthy of our heritages of liberty
1t is as much the duty of good citizen to strike
bad laws from the books as to put good ones there
To waste more money in an effort to cram prohi-
biton down the Threats of the American people would
be the most reckless extravaganza. Viewed econom-
lcally, 1t has been hopeless failure
And so far its moral aspects are concerned, the
majority of us beginning to define this word more
carefully. Temperance may be moral issue, but
prohibition by force never can be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
| Was Good Once

T AM no marvel, although I was
L runner-up in an eighth grade
spelling bee some little time ago.
Since then I seem to have lost my
touch. Possibly I keep too much
weight on my right foot when try
ing to spell.
Whatever the reason, there are
many hard words and some simple
ones which I invariably slice. But
what does it matter? There are a
number of superb spoilers in the
proofroom and the composing room.
They see TO it that I do not dis
grace myself.
1t is my notion that by the time
a LAD or a lass can read and spell
very little more formal instruction
is needed except by the choice Of
the scholar. The elective system
ought to begin at about the age
of 10. The lad who can not be
come excited about the fact that
a straight line is the shortest dis
lance between two points ought not
to be bothered with this interest
ing theory.
In fact, he should be removed to
more congenial chimes in order to
make room for those runners who
want to run.
have a vague impression that
some Of the higher mathematicians
have announced that the axiom is
no longer true. Einstein and others
have brought curves back into favor.
And all this initiates me no end
because. whether it is true or false,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
NeighbOrs Again

This winter is a fine time to get back to the habit
Of being neighbors
The word meant something generation ago. It
stood for the biggest force in Americansm 1t stood
Tor kindness, companonship human contacts.
The spirit of neighborliness can flourish only
where there is an approximate economic level.
1t almost disappeared when few people began
70 get rich and when all wanted to become wealthy
~ can not exist in atmosphere Of selfshness.
The age Of machinery has destroyed that fine spirit
Which once held together the families of the farming
communities. The cities never really had it,
But neighborliness was one of the finest phases
OF American life while it lasted 1t meant cooper
alton in education 1t meant sharing of sorrows and
sharing of joys
Unemployment in cities may create an opportu-
nifty for the return of this spirit through community
centers
The big need this year is amusement and enter
tainment Not many will have the money to buy
fun And fun, real fun, is as essential as food or
shelter. With many compelled to live lives of leisure.
there will be a necessity of learning how to have
fun without money
Most people have reached the stage that has been
the dream of ala life without work
When men become rich enough To live without
work, they hunt for amusement. Most of them had
little imagination and had to buy their fun. They
paid people to amuse them.
Men who forced into leisure need amuse-
ment much more than those who can afford to be
idle The nation easily become hysterca through
unemployment and worry.
The one way out is a cooperative effort to find
clean amusement without money. Social centers are
really clubs They should be started in every sec
ton of the city In them the old spirit of neghbor
illness can come back.
A leader in every block could start the movement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
The Delay in Relief


There is an excellent reason why claims of the
administration that it has relieved unemployment
and improved economic conditions do not impress
the country 1t is to be found in the records of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The corporation given billion and a half
dollars July to loan to cities states districts and
private corporations for construction work. This
money was expected to put at least million
to work
Today three months later, with hundreds of loan
applications before the corporation six have been
acted favorably $50 584 $40 has been loaned work
is in sight for 11O55 men. Three of the six loans
made only this week and the others less than
a month ago.
Since July the administration has had it in its
power to give business tremendous boost, to bring
about billion and half dollars worth of construc-
ton with attendant improvement of material and
supply industries to call back into hundred
lines of activity, to increase buying power, But its
record of accomplishment is almost blank.
Diigent attempts to be fair find little in
tenuation of the do-nothing policy The Reconstruc
ton Finance Corporation was a going concern when
the relief bill became law. It's members had known
for at least three months that legislation of this sort
would be enacted.
While congress and the President disputed
how much mercy money should be distributed, and
how much the federal government itself should spend
on job-giving construction the plan for loans for
other building never in doubt.
Nor have applications for loans been slow in reach
ing the corporation Projects whose engineering and
financial details have been worked out for years.
waiting only a chance to borrow money, listed
while the relief bill pending in congress, and
local officials in charge of them have not delayed
in turning to the government for help.
The administration defends its delays by saying
it is being careful with public money Its critics recall
that the relief plan, including that for self-Iqudat
ing construction loans, accepted reluctantly by
the administration after Democratic leaders had made
its enactment a certainty.
They charge that the plan isn't being allowed to
work at present for fear Democrats will reap credit
for it.
But motives in this sort of thing less i'm
portant than results. There is no reason why pub
lie officials should be cautious with money given
them to relieve desperate human emergency than
ordinary hard-hSted business with profit
making money.
What is still in the power of the corporation to
do before winter makes suffering bitter should
be done once without regard to election politics
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

T was writing the other day about
L schools and what cumbers them
and what they leave out. In some
respects I probably have not kept
abreast Of the times.
Some of my complaints are anti
quated. The world does move, and
so does the system Of education. But
a bit more slowly.
The most serious charge which
ca be leveled is not of my making
There must be something wrong
with the manner in which we teach
the young idea to shoot when such
large number of pupils hate their
studies with so palpable passion.
Learning can be good fun. Even
in my own indolent way have en-
joyed the contact with ideas upon
several occasions. In our graduate
schools the man who is intent upon
getting a grasp of some subject or
other is by no means rare. Nor do
I believe that colleges harass their
young men much beyond the point
Of endurance.
But when a lad in high school or
the lower grades tells me that he
loves his classes and his dear
teacher I look at him askance. I
think to myself that he is either an
unwholesome type or fragrant lit
tie liar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
A Tribute to Hindenburg

Those shouting thousands of Germans who
trooped down the streets of Berlin to shout birth
day greetings for President Won Hindenburg repre-
sented when you stop to think about it, one Of the
most encouraging factors in the entire European
situation today
The celebration was expression of the pro-
found loyalty and respect which the average Ger
feels for the aging warrior, and that sentiment
is perhaps, about as good bulwark Europe today
possesses against disaster
Germany is being pulled about sorely these days.
Revolution is hardly than a hands breadth
distant.
Hitler, the Hohenzollerns, the Communists-all are
watching their chance all have strong public support,
all would seize power tomorrow if conditions were
just little bit more favorable.
But in all this confusion, Germany has one thing
to tie tots stalwart incorruptibe old president.
And it is that very feeling of confidence and love
which gives us our best for hoping that the
final outcome of things in central Europe will not
be as bad as 1t easily might be-
All this of course, is only another way of saying
that the intangible things in human affairs usually
are the most important
The feeling which large number of people hap
pen to have for one man is something you can not
put into the scales.
You can't measure it, as you can Hitlers shock
troops; you can't dissect it, you dissect the
group which seeks to restore the Hohenzollern
dynasty.
1t simply is there, more potent than any of these
more material things just midas love for Gandh
proved not so long ago, to be so much more potent
than any of the more tangible elements in the Indian
equation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
Saws

New York City Is Convicted
Of Dumbness; Too Stupid
to Help Itself.
NEW YORK. Oct. S-New York
L City stands before the ma
ton convicted of dumbness. With
depression shrieking economy, with
man in the mayors chair ready
to enforce it, with machine politics
battered to a state Of confusion, ano
with the stage all set for action,
the people of New York still were
incapable of freeing themselves
from boss rule.
I is an epic in the fatty de-
generation Of public opinion, an
extravaganza in pure hickishness.
New York, center Of banking, art,
culture and uncensored shows, is
unable to realize her sorry plight,
much less do anything about it.
Financiers have warned her that
she could not expect credit unless
the budgets were cut, and a hun
dred cases have been cited to prove
how this could be done without i'm
pairing the public service.
But the Seabury investigation
goes for naught; Governor Roose-
velt's fight for clean government
becomes futile; and the ousting Of
Walker merely makes room for an
other willing servant of machine
politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H ETg3%

there may have to be little sweat
and suasion.
will agree that two subjects are
necessary in the equipment Of any
man or woman who hopes to reach
the status Of a reasonable human
being. 1t really is good idea that
we should all be able to read and
write.
Spelling, put forward as sort
of torment, makes very little differ
ence. 1t is just as easy to under
stand what a bad speller is telling
you as to interpret the perfection
of a master who never misses.
My older brother went far be-
yond me in college. I mean he
was graduated and he can not spell
at all. But when he says that he
swarmed down with the rest of the
alumni to "uproot the COLE poasts,
I know perfectly well what he is
talking about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
The Address to Women

The President, in his address to American women
Friday was almost as reckless as he was in the
four year ago when he talked of abohshing poverty
Indeed. he laid claim to having made long strides in
that very direction
1--WE We have won that safety for them and for
YOU" he said in describing what his administration
has done for homes farms savings bank deposits and
insurance policies the future he pledged protec
ton against new depressionS security and indepen
dence of the family and the home wider opportunity
and equal opportunity for the individual development
of moral and spiritual equality in the nation
STRENGTHENING of national ideals and national char
acter.
There is doubt about the appeal which such as
pirationss make to American women
And women who devote more time to bridge than
to current affairs may accept with faith the Presi-
dents assertion that his tariff policy has prevented
his opponents from placing the fate of American
workers and American farmers in the hands of for
eigners"
Others however, may regard it with a new skep-
ticism.
Those who know only vaguely what the President
was talking about when he referred to the Collier BILL
the Godsborough BILL the Gasque BILL the Rainey BILL
and others will accept his Characterization of them
as threatening to destroy recovery"
Others knowing the contents of the measures to
which he refers, will be inclined to argue
While the Hoover address to women no doubt was
intended to be attering many of them may not have
found it So 1t did not assume an audience of
thinkers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
Rule by One Party

THINGS have come to such a
l. pass that there are no longer
two parties in New York, except by
appearance.
The so-called Republican organ
izations are not bossed by their own
leaders, but by the Democratic
overlords.
Every election is preceded by
deals and trades for a division of
patronage - Democratic leaders
parceling out certain local jobs to
Republicans in exchange for such
state or national jobs as Repub-
lican leaders can get for Democrats.
It was this practice that brought
Senator Hofstadter into the lime
light.
Hofstadter headed the legislative
committee which was appointed to
investigate New York City affairs,
and for which Judge Samuel Sea-
bury acted as chief counsel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
HofStadter Is Duped

IN the recent patronage deal, Hof-
i stadter permitted himself to be
proposed and Endorsed by Tammany
hall for seat on the supreme
bench; in other words, to accept a
job which pays $4,000 year at
the hands of the political machine
which he was supposed to have con-
victed of extravaganza and incom-
petence.
The bar association is indignant,
as we'll it might be, and w. Kings
land Macy, chairman of the Repub-
lican state committee, has called on
Hofstadter to repudiate his nomina-
ton for the sake of decent politics.
But the average New Yorker takes
it all as a good joke. In the same
way, the average New Yorker takes
a $500, 100000 budget as a good joke,
and regards Acting Mayor Mckee
as a near traitor for attempting to
cut it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
ReviSionS of Later Years

INV lOiOllO VI GLA vi OLki y
INDEED, I have spent the greater
L. part of twenty years in grad
ually removing from my mind con-
cepts which were handed to me as
unassailable. I no longer think that
"Silas Manner is a good novel or
Longfellow a charter member of the
fraternity of inspired poets.
Longfellow is a fine case in point.
In my day the teacher insisted that
he was of magnificent stature.
Later, while on my own, I fell in
with the rebels who would give the
old gentleman nothing at all. And
in the last three years, through dint
of research, have come to the con-
clusion that both camps were in
error.
He was neither genius nor pot
boiler, but a pretty good poet. They
should have told me that in the
first place. 1t would have saved a
lot Of time.
But probably the best system
would be to tell the scholar moth
ing and let him decide For in
stance, in my visionary school some
body will extend a deck of classics
and near classics, as if they were
playing cards, and say: 1T doesn't
make any difference. I'm not try
ing to force any card upon you.
just take any one at ALL
The lad who happened to hit upon
Shakespeare out of his own free
will actually might grow up to like
him
Copyright. 1882. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIr
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health MAGAZINE

ORDINARILY, scarlet fever is
~ an acute infectious condition
which comes on suddenly, with vom-
iting, high fever, severe sore throat
and a brilliant red spotting or rash
over neck, chest and back.
There also is likely to be a very
intense rednesS of the inside of the
mouth and the tonsils, and an ap-
pearance of the tongue like that OF
a strawberry.
Usually the rash lasts from three
to five days. The fever goes on at
the same time. Then the fever
gradually disappears and the rash
fades.
From a week to ten days after the
disappearance of the rash, the skin
begins to peel or, as is said scien-
tifically, to desquamate.
Some years ago Drs. George F.
and Gladys Henry Dick found the
cause of this disease to be a germ
of the type known as q streptococ-
Gus which produces a poison or
toxin.
This poison or toxin is found in
the material in which the germs are
growing. When such germs get
into the body, they produce scarlet
fever.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
So They Tell Me

A ND this estimate is based upon
"A the fact that any such emotion
runs counter to almost all human
experience. I knew a boy of IA who
took to raising bees, and at the end
Of the year he could discourse at
length and with interest upon the
habits of the hive.
He seemed to get kick out Of
picking up all there was to know
about these cooperative insects.
But the trick lay in the fact that he
happened upon bees Of his own &C
cord.
If anybody had sent him home
saying This is required reading,
and on Thursday we will have an
examination upon the life of the
bee" he would have learned it
badly or not at all
In all humility I ask whether 1t
might not be possible to arrange
schools in such a way that pupils
were not pushed, but merely STUN
bled across histories, books Of geo.
graphy, and even elementary alge-
bra. AT the beginning, I suppose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

and New York City. He began
committing long before this form
of endeavor became part of the
daily life of the suburbanite.
In those days he was obliged to
make his daily trip by stage to
the Oranges, where he boarded a
mail train for his destination.
The veteran commuter is 80 years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

Following is the explanation of
Ripley'S Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
Sixty-fOur Years as Commuter
On Aug. 1, 1882, the hale and
hearty Addison Day embarked on
his sixty-fourth successive year as
a communter via tie Lackawanna
railroad between Chatham, N. j.,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or Disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.