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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ATH1LE this column does not advocate the pro-
wv miscuous beating OF women it does feel that
the enraged citizen who pon2meled lady friend when
she tried to blackmail him by filing $4,000 breach
of promise suit justified in his behavior.
The love racket is growing altogether too raw
these days Everything man does can be twisted by
attorney into claims for cash, and we all know
these weak minded gentlemen of the jury seldom can
withstand feminine tears.
Thus the dame who allows her gangSter instincts
to run away with her has excellent chance to
clean up.
But Il going to endure these ridiculous
breach Of promise suits if the shyster lawyers al
lowed to trump UP such business and our dgni1ed
judges willing to sit through days to hear them
out then certainly the thing should work both ways.
Tt should be possible for man who is out of cash
temporarily to sue rich woman who has made ten
der promises to his pleadings Love letters from the
lady might also make rich and humorous reading in
the courtroom.
IT is not to be wondered at that any man who has
l. endured such experience at the hands of a woman
becomes misogynist From that time forth the fe-
male will be for him a snare and delusion. He will
evade her as much possible.
What is worse, he longer will respect the sex
to which she belongs For the remainder of his life
he will spread propaganda against it.
1t seems to me, If we women desire to preserve
our integrity reputable citizens we should cease to
tolerate legal injustceS that by all the standards
Of honor intolerable.
The men. even though they have the law in their
hands, plainly unable to help themselves.
Is it not time for concerted feminine agitation
against such practices before the American barr
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
"Great Silenceso

Governor RitchieS frankneSS about his presiden-
tial ambitions is as unusual as it is admirable.
"Of course would like to be President; who would
not?" he told his admirers at the Jackson day BAN
quet in Baltimore Thursday night.
Realizing the appealing nature of his own frank
ness the Governor went step farther and chded
President Hoover for the great silences which char
acterzed the recent presidential message to congress-
1t may a complete surprise to Ritchie
that many readers of his candidate speech will ind
in it great silences and many other sections which
might have been taken bodily from the Hoover
speeches of which the Governor is so critical.
Ritche's chief text is the glory of American ndi-
vidualism and the evil of government in business,
theme made familiar by long list of Republican
Presidents, including Hoover
Specifically, he apparently joins Hoover in oppos-
Ing federal aid for local relief agencies unable to
cope with the national unemployment Problem. At
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Study Required
TIME requirements for the deg

THE requirements for the degree
Il of master of science, as set up
by Columbia, are of a high order.
They follow:
"A period of study after the in
terreship of not less than three.
years in the university or in hos
pitfalls and laboratories recognized by
it, at least one calendar year of
which must be spent in this uni
versity.
"Such intensive graduate training
in the basic medical sciences of
anatomy, embryology, physiology.
biochemistry, pharmacology, path
ology, bacteriology and in other
fields of science as shall be recon-
mended by the departments con-
cerned and approved by the adj
mlnlstrative board on post graduate
studies in medicine.
An active experience during the
three-year period of not less than
eighteen months in the hospital.
clinics and diagnostic laboratories of
the specially elected.
Written, oral and practical ex-
aminat1ons and dissertation nav
be prescribed in the speciality elected
and in clinical, laboratory and public
health fields to which the speciality
is related.
"A student admitted to the uni
versity for postgraduate medical
training may become a candidate for
the degree Of doctor of philosophy,
if he meets the requirements for
that degree that are prescribed by
the faculties of political science, phi
losophy and pure science
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
HEALTH
Child May Have Blood Pressure Ills

children increases with age, but the
pressure in girls tends to decrease
after the sixteenth year. The aver
age blood pressures of girls appear
to be higher than those for boys for
the ages from 10 to Is years.
After the thirteenth year, the
pressures of boys exceed those of
girls, the difference increasing with
age.
Children who mature early are
more likely to reach the normal
adult blood pressure because they
are heavier, having a larger chest
girth and greater lung capacity
than those who do not mature early.
1t must be remembered that the
determination of the blood pres
sure today involves two readings,
one known as the systolic pres
sure and the other as the diastolic
blood pressure.
The chief force back of the cir
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EY025S

NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
L Y says that Americans, partic-
ularly the young ones, have lost
their manners. If that is so, it is
a grievous fault. Nor will it suffice
to say of any nation that it could
not lose that which it never had.
Most of my contacts are with per-
sons of my own age, and so I can
not post as an authority on youth
and it's moods. Of course, do not
spend all my life with aged cronies.
Even in the speakeasies one some
times sees the young and innocent
lined up around the bar.
But in rather more seriousness I
am wondering whether a loss in
manners may not indicate a growth
in other and more useful directions.
Civilization, like nature, abhorS a
vacuum, and when one quality dis
appears another rusheS in to take
it's place. A well-mannered youth
is, in my opinion, quite a little less
than the noblest goal of human po-
tentiaIitieS,
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culation is the motor action of the
heart. The second most important
factor is the width of the blood yes
sells through which the blood passes
and the amount of elastic recoil
in the walls of those blood vessels.
The systolic blood pressure is the
tension of the blood in the arteries
at the height of the heart beat.
That is the higher of the two blood
pressure figures.
The diastolic pressure is the ten
sion of the blood in the arteries
during the period when the heart
is filling up and getting ready to
beat again.
Because the diastolic pressure
represents a minimum and because
the blood vessels are not likely to
show any changes of Importance
during youth. the diastolic pressure
usually is disregarded until the age
of 90 is reached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Our Governor in
sistS that the relief agencies are
entirely adequate to take care of
situation in Indiana.
am an ex-service man, 81 years
old in good health and always have
endeavored to provide for my FAM
lily honestly.
I am now unable to secure work
of any nature and have humbly
begged these relief agencies for as
sistance, which doesn't seem to be
forthcoming.
am now faced with eviction and
the loss of the home that we have
tried so hard to make.
Must I stand idly by and see my
wife and children put out in the
street?
I don't want charitable relief. I
want an opportunity to work.
Cases like mine, and even worse,
are plentiful. What are We to do?
DISCOURAGED.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
WILSON'S WAR AIMS
January 8

ON Jan. 8, 1918, President Wilson
- set forth Americas war aims
in a memorable address before a
joint session of congress.
President Wilson's IA points"
as conditions of peace were: (D
Open covenants of peace; CD
absolute freedom of navigation;
80 removal of economic barriers
and establishment of equality of
trade; "a guarantees of reduction
of ornaments; go impartial adjust
ment of all colonial claims; go
evacuation of all Russian territory:
% Evacuation and restoration of
Belgium; CD all French territory
freed and invaded sections restored
and wrong" done by Prussia to
France in the matter of Alsace-
Lorraine in 1871 righted; 90 read
justment of the frontiers of Italy;
(10) free, autonomous government
for Austria-Hungary; Old Rumania,
Serbia, Montenegro evacuated and
occupied sections restored; (12)
sovereign government and security
Of life for Turkey; d3) creation of
an independent Polish state; 14)
formation Of a general association of
nations to guarantee political in
dependence and territorial integrity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Are People Helpless?

Are the people really helpless when they face
injustice from the public utilities?
Apparently the present machinery for regulation
is not operated at a speed that will give relief when
relief is needed
Some weeks ago the city government and the
South Side Civic Clubs asked the public service
commission for reduction in rates water and
electricity.
There seemed to be no question as to either the
necessity the justice of such request.
The water company has taken enormous dividends
on the Geist investment in common stock on the
theory that it would cost many more millions TO
reproduce the plant than Geist paid for it.
So far the record shows no claim the part Of
Geist that he is collecting invested funds. He
is collecting on prices for labor and commodities
and a writeup in the value of the canal which was
originally constructed by the people.
AS far as the electric interests are concerned
their own reports show vast profits made for It's
holding company through coal purchases, engineer
ing fees and other tricks of high finance which take
its operation out of the realm of fair and square
deal for the people who furnish the streets and also
the money.
One member of the public service commission sug-
gested that the matter might be settled by compro-
mise. It was his thought that the utilities might
relent trfe in their greed and the city be salts
fed. No such spirit has been shown. The water
baron sends his army of lawyers to the hearing with
the arrogant statement that he is entitled to levy
still greater tribute his Indianapolis serfdom The
electric interests weasel in words and unctious in
manner show no inclination to stop any egg-sucking
habits.
There the matter stands The public service COM
mission shows no interest in speeding up the legal
processes The threat is made that hearing IS TOO
costly to be had at this time.
That means that regulation of utilities has become
farce and that the net result is protection for the
utilities in their greeds and none for the people.
1t is time to start planning tickets for the
next legislature of men and who are out from
the influence of these interests and who will pass
laws with teeth in them
Indiana must be freed from these extortons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Il. ATTEMPT Self

ANSCili ~ WI IVY
CPEAKING of relief measures, it
~ is not true that the home
folks have been so negligent as
some of the stories coming out of
this district would indicate. In
Middlesboro, for instance, a fund
of $4,000 has been raised to pro-
vide part-time work for the unem-
ployed this winter, while Pineville
has raised a fund of $4,000 and
Harlan county is undertaking to
raise one of $4,000, half of which
already has been subscribed.
These funds are being admin
istered by central relief commit
tees which are not dominated by
coal operators, and members of
which have told me would not dis
criminate between union and non
union miners.
In addition to the funds already
subscribed, local chapters of the
Red Cross are at work collecting
food and clothing, and an appeal
has been made to chapters in other
sections of Kentucky which already
has resulted in the promise of sub
Stantial contributions.
Even with this amount of help
in prospect, the winter promises to
be hard for thousands of people,
including small tradesman as we'll
as miners, and quite a few small
coal operators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Questions and
Answers

Who are the Americans on the
permanent court of international
arbitration at The Hague?
There are only three at present:
Elihu Root, John Bassett Moore
and Newton D. Baker. The late
Roland w. Boyden was member
of the court and his successor has
not been appointed.
What is the area of land and
water on the earth?
The total superficial area of the
earth is 6,950,000 square miles, of
which 1876, 100000 square miles is
water and 57,510,000 square miles
is land.
What is the widest street in the
United States?
Canal street in New Orleans. La,
is believed to be the widest. It is
200 feet from curb to curb.
Where is the largest university In
the world?
Columbia university in New York,
which has more than $4,000 stu
dents, is the largest university in
the United States and in the world.
What are the common names for
sodium carbonate and sodium chic
ride?
Sodium carbonate is washing soda
and sodium chloride is common
table salt.
What religion in India has the
largest number of adherents?
Hindu, which Rumbers ZIG, ,586
adherents,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Radicals Flourish

WHILE it is impossible to say
w precisely just how many
miners are out of work in Bell and
Harlan counties, the number would
seem to be somewhere between 5000
and 1000, which means that at least
10000 people, or one-dfth the
population, are without regular
means of support.
Worse still, there is not a miner
with full time work in prospect
throughout the entire field. OBJ
viously, such a situation could not
be corrected by controversies be-
tween capital and labor, and, as far
as I can find out, neither the
miners nor the mine owners think
it could.
But it represents a clover patch
for doctrinnaireS whose remedies
run all the way from new kind of
union to new kind of government,
especially if they can back up their
promises and predictions with a
bowl of hot soup.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Strikes Are Futile

MUCH of the recent organizing
4VA about which you have heard
is largely among the unemployed
whose one hope in life centers
around nothing more dangerous
than the prospect of something to
eat or wear. In other words, any
one can start a strike among the
idle miners here by promising them
assistance.
But it is different and a much
harder matter to get those en-
ployed to join. The strike called
by the national miners Jan. l has
been in progress one week.
With the exception of closing a
few very small mines, of persuading
few miners to leave some of the
large ones for a day or two, and of
arranging protest meetings in the
courthouse yard at Pineville, where
nine outlanders are in jail on
charges of criminal syndicalism, it
has accomplished little.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Mines Hard Hit

MANY of the small operators
1VA either have gone broke or been
forced out Of business. Of twenty
seven mines running in the Mid
dlesboro area three years ago, only
nine remain in operation. Of sixty
nine operating in Harlan county six
years ago, forty-seven are now open.
Three years ago, 1,785 miners
were at work in the NIiddlesboro
district. Today, there are only 1,13O.
Harlan county was giving fairly
steady work to $4,000 miners. Right
now it is giving part time work to
less than 5000.
Carloadings for the entire district,
as reported by the L. & N. railroad,
dropped from daily average of
1,274 in October, 1928, to one of 564
for last December.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Father COx's Army

The second hunger army to march into the ma
tons capital within few weeks Thursday descended
upon the White House and congress- with demands
for immediate federal relief.
Far less militant was this army than the band
of $500 which came to tell its woes on Dec. 7. IN
stead of shouting, they marched silently Instead
of a cenched fist, this army held out an open palm.
It's leader Pittsburgh priest Yet its implica-
tons we're even more serious than the frsts.
Here band of at least 10000, mostly young
men. They were recruited hurredly from a single
community around Pittsburgh Had there been trucks
enough, there would have been more They rolled
through rain and cold the mountains of Penn
sylvania and Maryland in stream of autos and
trucks eight miles long 1t was no joy ride
Many stood packed in trucks all the way slept
under wet blankets and went for long hours without
meals, as the rain soaked through their clothing.
Father Cox their leader, probably is no economist.
Apparently he just wanted the President and admin
istration to see that there actually is unemploy
ment problem in America. He wanted the President
to see the unemployed men themselves
He perhaps was not unmindful of the strong atti-
tude taken by the President at the beginning Of the
present crisis An attitude that assumed that the
depression was little more than temporary unpeas
antness conured up by his political enemies. He
could not have been unmindfu of the Presidents
continued obstruction of all efforts toward direct
federal relief He wanted the President to look up
from the soothing statistics that emanate easily
from the White House and look into the eyes of
hungry men.
unless there is immediate relief" said the priest
to the President, God help America"
The President in reply referred to the program
he has presented to congress- designed to improve
business conditions. This program, in the main, is
good one
But it does not, in any way, meet the immediate
and dire need of such men as the 10000 who travelled
to Washington Thursday.
To meet that need the President must drop his
opposition to direct federal relief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Not What / Preach

TTPON numerous occasions I have
written polemics against the
practice of removing your hat in the
elevator. In all logic there is no
reason for such custom in the lifts
OF modern business skyscrapers. If
social pressure attempted to enforce
the custom would rebel with my
whole heart and soul. Since it does
not, I generally do take off my hat.
DR.. Butler hardly can have been
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the head of a great educational in
stltution all these years without
picking up some smattering of psy-
chology and Nicholas ought to know
that salmon and lot of other peo-
pie delight to swim upstream.
So it is with the Victorian tradi-
ton. 1t will survive, but first it was
necessary for it to be DESTROYED
Longfellow never came into his
rlghtful estate until all intellectuaIs
had scoffed at him. At that precise
moment the tide turned and the
sophisticated ones began to seek out
hllltops from which to declare that
ne really was not so bad, after all.
In other words, chivalry and good
manners are dead. Long live chiv-
airy and good manners!
Copyright 1892 nv The Tip,esl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
A Little Less Than Kind

T DO not much enjoy the COM
l. pany of the brash, the loud, and
the pushing, but I think there al
ways is room in the middle ground.
1t would pain-in fact, it has panied
me at such times as the very young
have treated me with marked dis
dain. But I am not wholly salts
fed to be in the company Of juniors
who preface all remarks aimed in
my direction with that soaring word,
Sir"
I don't want to be "Sir." Not for
another fifteen or twenty years, at
least. And even then I won't like it.
Whenever I am met with marked
respect by members of the rising
generation, I go home and count the
white hairs on my temples.
It is quite possible that DR.. But
Ter has confused simplifcation OF
manners with their disappearance.
If this is true, think the good gray
educator errs in his lamentations.
More properly rejoicings should be
showered upon the new dispense
ton. The romantic tradition does
not belong in the modern age.
It is impossible, for instance, to
take off your hat to lady in the
subway without running the risk of
butting out the eye of fellow pas
senger. Chivalry never should go to
such lengths. In fact, if I were
Chivalry I should seek the nearest
cliff and jump off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
Curb Bogus Specialists

Oul u DU8uS Op6Ctdllolo
DEAN RAPPLEYE discusses the
- present situation with great
frankness. He adds:
1T is possible now for physicians
to come to New York or to go to
another medical center and watch
operations and attend clinics for
period of few months and return
to their own communities as self
labeled specialists with complete
freedom to practice a surgical or
any other speciality. The action
taken by Columbia university is in
the direction of helping to correct
this situation
The new regulations for the de-
gree of master of science in post
graduate medical education at Co
lumbia follow:
The university grants recogni-
ton for acceptable postgraduate
work in the clinical specialties by
means of the degree of master of
science.
This degree is nonspecif1c, that
is, it does not carry a designation of
the special field of study to which
the student has devoted himself.
only a broad definition of re-
quirements is stated in order to per-
NIT heXibility in the training for
the various clinical specialties and
adaptation of that training to the
needs and preparation of each stu
dent.
The specific requirements for each
of the Specialties are formulated by
the departments concerned.
"A student who wishes to secure
the degree of master of science in
postgraduate medical work must
present evidence Of graduation from
medical school approved by Co
lumbia university, and completion
of an interneship of not less than
one year after graduation in a hos
pital approved by Columbia univer-
Sity."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
SAY VS.

Kentucky's Coal Fields Rep
resent q CloUer Patch for
Doctrinnaires, Especially u
They Can Back Up Then
Promises With a Bowl OF
Soup.
M1DDLEsBORo, KY, Jan. g.
From a strictly industrial standpoint
there is no well-defned issue back
of the trouble which has afflicted
the Harlan coal mining district since
last spring.
With wages down, thousands of
miners idle and only part-time work
for the rest; with coal selling at a
lower price than it has for many
years, and with poor prospects for
selling it at that; with not coal
company paying dividends, and most
Of them barely able to meet operat-
ing expenses, the usual cleavage be-
tween capital and labor has been
eliminated.
No general lockout has been or
dered, and no general strike has
been called until one week ago, but
there has been a multitude of irri-
tating incidents.
Miners have been evicted from
company owned houses in the Har-
Ian region for joining the union,
various attempts have been made to
organize them on one basis or an
other, sporadic strikes have &C.
CURED and more have been threat
ened, the number of mine guards
and special deputy sheriffs has been
increased, and relief measures have
proved inadequate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-08
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.


NTHEREAS the average adult is
w much concerned about his
blood pressure, he seldom gives
thought to the fact that children
may on occasion have high or low
blood pressures of significance.
A survey recently made of q con-
siderable number of children indi-
Gates that up to the eighth or ninth
year gradual changes in blood pres
sure seem to be due simply to the
fact that the child is growing older.
After that time, however, other
forces become active in changing
the level of the blood pressure. These
forces may include changing rates
of growth, unusual development, or
glandular factors of Importance.
The average blood pressure of