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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
IT. B. Takes Heavy Toll in Factories

this susceptibility may be due to
the crowded conditions under which
they live and to the poor nutri-
ton from which many of them
suffer.
Highest rates for tuberculosis
are found among workers exposed
to SILICA dust, such as those in
mines, grinders and buffers, stone
workers. pottery workers and work
erS in clay and glass industries.
Obviously the attack should be
made especially on groups which
have high rate.
In this Andeavor it is important
that early diagnosis be made and
that the manner in which the dis
ease is distributed be given wide
spread publicity.
Death rate from tuberculosis to-
day is less than one-half what it
was few decades ago.
1t is conceivable that concentra-
ton of the attack at the points
where the condition is most viru-
lent will bring about another halv-
ing of the rate in the next twenty
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Just Every Day Sense
. READER wants to know whether do not {
BIZ MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

READER wants to know whether 1 do not agree
IN that larger percentage of married people are
unfaithful than before. I do not
There may be more philandering wives right now
than statistics could show forty or fifty years ago,
but believe there is appreciable increase on the
male side.
There might, indeed, be a slight decrease. For
when the double standard of morals was regarded as
a sacred code wives were forced to conduct them
selves carefully since if they slipped ever so slightly
their husbands could divorce them without any rou-
BILE whatever. The men, of course were immune from
any punishment for the same offense.
Now, however, since we have begun to see the
flaws in such system and believe that morals were
made for well women, there is great
change in thinking upon the question.
The boys of this generation while they may prefer
wives of unimpeachable chastity, do not condemn so
harshly the behavior in girls and women in
which they themselves indulge. Love, therefore has
a and deeper meaning
A ND much we may deplore the slipShod moral
ity of the present. We console ourselves with
the thought that out of these changes will come a
saner and happier relationship between the sexes.
Morals really are on the upward rather than the
downward trend.
The loss of girls virtue, no matter how young
guileless she may have been once was the mark
Of everlasting disgrace. A mistake, though
prompted by the highest love, sounded her doom if
her lover abandoned her.
Never could she hope to escape from the clamor
of slanderous tongues. Today We have grown in
Christian charity, if not in decorum. We no longer
condemn such girl to perpetual ignominy.
Men are beginning to understand at last that girls
too, subject to temptation and that though they
may fall they still preserve their souls integrity
And this, it seems to me, is something which we
should praise rather than condemn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Futile Politics

Equally futile are the latest gestures of the Presi
dent and the house of representatives toward balanc
ing the federal budget. The house passed oil and
coal tariff disguised as tax bill.
The President ordered congress to cut expenditures
but not to touch the militarynaval budget the one
place large cut is possible.
While we can not agree with partisans who hold
Hoover chiefly responsible for the depression, GER
tainly he and his administration are responsible for
acts such as the tariff measure, which intensified
the depression and are responsible for the two years
of dangerous delay in facing the facts of the de-
preston.
Having failed to the extent of two and half bill
lion dollars to balance the last two budgets, the ad-
ministraton might at least have cut to the bone its
estimates for next year.
Instead, the President now is blaming the Demo-
Gratis who already have taken several STABLE chunks
of the Hoover budget.
There is no chance of balancing the budget, how
ever without military cuts The President and every
one in Washington has known this for long time.
Hoover started out with much ballyhoo about the
reductions he going to make in the army and
navy and each year. when the White House battle
of the budget is over, the Hoover military economy
plan turns out to have been camouaage.
Now the President goes step further, in addition
to refusing to make military cuts himself he vir-
tually orders congress not to do so.
Our army and navy costs about $7ooooo,oOo," he
says. I'VE should not reduce the strength of our
defense further"
He admits that more than half of the budget of
four billions "can not be reduced; it is largely an
inheritance of the great through increase Of pay
ment on government obligations and the of vet
Grams and their families"
When he adds the $7OoOoOooo current war budget
to the total which congress must not touch there
remains out of the four billion only and one-thrd
billion dollars for the entire operation and services of
the civilian government.
To expect congress to make the necessary saving
entirely of that restricted civilian budget without
wreckng vital government functions is unreasonable.
1t can not be done. And Hoover knows 1t not be
done.
While the President issuing his statement a
high tariff bloc Of Republicans and Democrats In
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the United States for 1929 was rs
per 100000 people.
If deaths from tuberculosis of the
industrial population were excluded,
this rate probably would be much
lower than rs.
When figures for industrial work
ers are analysed, we find the disease
is concentrated primarily among
men and Negroes. The rates for the
sexes are not different under the
age of 10.
From 10 to Is, the rate among
girls is much higher than among
boys, and from IS to 20 it is twice
as high among girls as among
boys.
1t is IS per cent higher among
girls than boys from 20 to IS, but
after Is begins to be lower among
women. At the ages from 45 to SIS
the rate for tuberculosis among
women is one-third as high as
among men.
Negroes seem to be. particularly
susceptible to this disease, although
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28

A NEW book called "Sir Billy
n Howe" throws novel and use
full light upon the American revo-
luton. The subject of this biog-
raphy, by Bellamy Partridge, is, of
course, the British general who
charged up Bunker Hill and later
opposed George Washington in sew
eral major engagements.
When 1 first heard of him in the
history books during my adolescence,
he seemed the blacklist of the vii
lains. Not only was he the vicious
foe of American institutions, but a
gross and gluttonous man who lin
gered at Mrs. Murray's farmhouse
drinking Madeira when he might
have been up and doing in the bust
ness of capturing the continental
army.
Strangely enough, blamed him
for his sloth even though it marred
his effectiveness in a bad cause.
And now it seems, according to the
researches of Mr.. Partridge, that
maybe General Howe wasn't very
anxious to win the war. The author
does not quite suggest that the
various battles of the conflict were
in the bag, but he notes the fact
that the heart of Howe was not
precisely in the endeavor to conquer
the colonistS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28

MOST members of the great in
1F1 sect family which include
grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets
supposedly are protected by colors
almost indistinguishable from the
background of soil or vegetation"
DR.. McAtee continues.
This coloration includes a great
variety of earth tintS, rock and sand
textures, the browns, green's, and
grays of living and dead vegetation.
together with appropriate mixtures
of yellow, orange, rose and Silvery
white.
"The wing-covers of certain katy
dds look like leaves. So close is
the imitation that there are mark
ings like the spots on leaves. Tue
to fungi or the tracks of leaf mining
insects.
Some of them are most remark
able leapers. Some mimic other in
sects, such as ants and beetles.
yet these devices are of little
avail. Nearly a tenth of all the
identidcations of insects in bird
Stomachs are Of this family.
They constitute a staple bird
food. Some of the most effectively
colored, from a protectionist stand
point, are among the most COM
monty eaten.
THE moths and butterflies, some
Of which have carried mimicry to
an extreme stage, seem to fare no
better. The larvae of some species.
although really helpless and de-
fenseless, look like allegedly danger
Gus forms.
Others have repugnant odors.
warning colors, and terrifying atti-
tudes. Yet caterpillars of many
species, including the most highly
protected, are favorite tidbits of
birds; in fact, they are priced in the
bird kingdom as baby food
"One species of twiglike cater
pillar practically has been ex-
terminated in cities by the English
sparrow"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Peoples Voice

EDITOR Times-Prohibition has
mad hard time. The backward in
Iluence was the war. War ALWAYS
IS a demoralizing influence. The
VICTOR and vanquished alike lose in
every war. -
America has lost TWENTY-FIVE vears
OF moral achievement by the yav
through moral letdoWn which has
TAKEN place. Life has been cbean-
ened and murders have greatly in
creased; property rights have been
rendered less secure, and thefts and
racketeering have developed enor-
mouSly; respect for all standards has
peen lessened, with consequent vio-
lations Of law.
All this is not the result of nrobi-
bition, though the liquor forces have
strlYen desperately to make men
think so. For every war has shown
these same after results. They fol-
lowed our Civil war, when there
was no eighteenth amendment.
prohibition has been far from a
!allure, though so successful has
been the propaganda handed to us
that some people honestly believe
prohibition has failed utterly. The
reason men believe prohibition has
1alled is because we have accepted
the statements of the subsidized
newspapers and the politicians.
Granted that prohibition has
not been the success that we had
hoped, what shall we do about it?
Violate the law? Repeal the law and
go back to the days of the open
saloon, when there was a saloon for
every 275 Of Chicago population, and
the debauching of boys and girls
and politics much worse than it is
now?
Modify the law in favor of light
wine and beer? The people who
argue for this are not drinking light
wine and beer now, but cocktails and
hard liquor. The plea for modifica-
ton is merely a subterfuge.
Let us go on with prohibition and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Too Much Politics

DURING the last two months,
- congress has gone from one
crazy extreme to another while the
Hoover administration has twiddled
its thumbs.
The treasury department has no
plan, except the one sketched out
by Mr.. Mellon just before he re-
signed.
The President is reported as so
anxious to give congress a free
hand that he has not taken time
TO read the Glass bill.
Call it by any name you like, but
what it amounts to is a rotten game
of politics in which a few progress
sive leaders honestly are trying to
find a way out, while Democratic
and Republican wire pullers try to
shape the performance so that it
will help one party, or the other,
no matter what damage is done the
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
CoWardIY Confusion

BALANCING the federal budget
ID requires no greater economies,
or readjustments on the part of the
federal government than private
business has been obliged to make.
There is not, and never has been
any mystery in the problem.
The series of schemes by which
it was attempted to thrust this
burden on ultimate consumers pre-
sent nothing but the cheapest kind
of politics.
The real extent to which cowar-
dice and confusion reign in con-
gress was revealed when Democrats
began to vote for unreasonable
tariff boosts after having helped de-
feat the sales tax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Popular Dish

ILL va A4AAVNo Rooo AAboh VI
l. their lives concealed from
their enemies in galleries in wood
or underground, or in well-built
nests" DR.. McAtee says. They have
soldier caste, well armed with
strong jaws.
"They emit a corrosive secretion.
Some of them have warning colors.
Yet enormous numbers of them fall
prey to birds. They even are eaten
by man.
Frogs, rats, jackals, mongooses,
jungle cats, dogs, lizards. spiders and
ants devour them. Their protective
mechaniSms appear to be failures,
but, the study shows, they are not
eaten out of proportion to their
abundance.
THE walkingstick' family, &C
cording to the protectionist theory,
has reached the acme of protective
mimicry. Various species look like
sticks of grass, bits of moss or
pieces of lichen-covered bark. Some
are covered with strong spines, like
thorns.
yet many of them are eaten by
birds and their sluggishness makes
them the victims of grazing ami
mails whose huge mouths engulf in
discriminatory great quantities of
grass and insects"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28

+ Square Garden and almost out of
danger.
If Billy Howe had his life to live
over again wonder what he would
have done. His inaction in the time
OF crisis was not, 1 think. con-
dltloned by his conscious mind. In
some less accessible Granny of the
brain there fingered a devitalizing
What the hell"
The Madeira was of the best. ma
ture and fragrant-in fact, lust off
the boat. And there sat Billy Howe
Sir William to his soldiers-witb
his feet stretched out, a glass in his
nand, saying, IF you've heard this
before, please stop me-"
Now, nobody ever stops q COM
mander-in-chief, no matter how
ancient the anecdote. 1T seems q
travelling salesman came to an inn
All the world trembled and
General Howe labored the jest heard
round the world.
but suppose one of the aids had
oeen a seventh son and endowed
with prophetic vision. He might
nave leveled an accusing finger and
exclaimed, while we dawdle, a ma
tlon is being born which in a CEN
Jury and a half will know Brookbart
ana prohibition and Hoover and the
sales tax" ''-N' VIC
ana what would the general have
zone IN that case? How should 7
know? Perhaps he would mer r =
nave called for another Madeira and
Iepieo. Well, aren't they traitors
10 The king?-God save himI Tet
deserve it," Aii0y
(Copyrigt. 1892. By The rir...,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28

the house was trying to make water run up hill by a
tax on oil imports.
This tariff measure which has no place in a tax
bill and which defeated during the last high tariff
legislation, would yield revenue because it vr-
tually would embargo imports, as Secretary of the
Treasury Mills has pointed out
OF course it would make consumers pay more for
gasoline; it would enrich oil companies with large
surplus stocks though it would not help the country
the government.
Having voted tariffs oil, coal and coke imports
the house listened to glib demands for tariffs on
score of other commodities-au in the name of tax
legislation.
The Hoover administration already has prolonged
the depression to the point of desperation by its billion
dollar high tariff law of 1880. If the best the Demo
cratic house do is to raise the killing Hoo
yer tariff wall higher, the country no longer can
expect aid from either the Republican or Democratic
leadership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28

seek better enforcement and renew
our educational program. Prohibi-
ton should not have been blamed
for every i'll that has come. But
those ills would have been greater
without the help of prohibition.
The genius of men never has writ
ten a law that the liquor traffic
would not violate if it interfered
with its profits. What prohibiticel
needs is for us to quit whining. quit
violating the law, and give the law
an even break.
The enemies of a law make poor
enforcement agents. Be a 100 per
cent American and uphold the Con-
stitution Of the United States.
Our country needs more men like
Thomas A. Edison, who. in 1890
said: Il feel that prohibition is the
greatest experiment yet made to
benefit man.
G. G. HARSHBARGER.
Ladoga. Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Details Demanded

II believe in making Indiana the most respected
state in the United States so that HOLSTERS every
where may always take just pride in their COM
monwealth"
The statement comes from James Ogden, attor-
ney-general of the state, in his announcement that
he might be urged to accept the governorship
1t will find response in all hearts and minds All
citizens would like to this accomplished
But the statement seems to be lacking in some
thing FOR which the people have been listening
Why has Indiana not been respected above, or at
least Oil equality, with other states?
Will the encouragement please tell the voters
what in his opinion has brought about this unfor-
tunate condition of affairs?
The implication of course is that its government
has been in bad hands or been badly directed by
its governing powers, and by inevitable inference,
that the Governor being able to correct this stua-
ton, has been responsible for it.
In just what way would he. as Governor, proceed
to correct the situation?
Of course, lie would change the highway COM
mission and get ria of some of the suspicion that
attaches to the spending of twenty millions year.
That would be obvious.
But would tho Governor proceed to toss out
the public service commission, such as was pledged
by a candidate for the nomination on a different
party?
would ne make 1t respected by hberatlng the peo
pie from the control and the ooting by public util-
tiles? Or would that be job for the next attorney
general?
Would he become the vigorous advocate of income
taxes to relieve the farms and the small home owners?
Or would he talk of tax justice and let the sheriff
become the greatest of realtors?
The people will agree with Mr.. ogden that the
thing ne pledges should be accomplished. He may
be the man to do the job But before he, or any
other candidate receives the commission from the
people, he must give details
Step forward, Mr.. Ogden, and all others. The
just The state is not respected by Hoosers
anywhere instead of everywhere. Just how will you
bring it back to self-respect?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Only a Political Promise

THE general, according to his
Il biographer, was a Liberal in
home politics, and when he ran for
parliament as Wing he roundly
declared that if offered command
in q British army against America
he would refuse it.
But when the appointment came
it was not an offer, but royal
mandate. Moreover, Howe had won
the election, and so he grudgingly
accepted the appointment to for
eign service.
He swung into action first at
Bunker Hill, and it is Partridge's
contention that this might have
been a decisive British triumph in
stead of a Boston suburb if only
Howe had followed up his victory.
In school they said the result was
all for our side and that the rebels
finally quit firing because they grew
weary of looking into the whites of
British eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
Billions in Beer

TWO cents a pint on beer would
l. produce 100000, 600, according
to the lowest estimate.
Who doubts that the remaining
$3.50, 100000 could be taken care of
by cuts in government expenses?
Unenforced prohibition and I'M
necessary extravaganza are the real
obstacles.
The American people will go right
on drinking about so much beer
whether it is taxed or not. Also,
they will go right on paying for a
lot of stage stuff in connection with
the government if congress fails to
interfere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
ONCE tuberculosis is concen-
~ trated in certain groups, the
campaign against this disease must
be centered on these groups rather
than attempting to take il all the
people.
tuberculosis is much more prev
alent in the industrial population
than in farmers, business men, and
professional workers.
People who live in cities and in
towns and who draw their support
from employment in industries are
the ones primarily concerned.
In 1880 the death rate from all
forms of tuberculosis among indus
trial policy holders in a large in
surance company was 81.3 per 100,-
900.
In contrast, the death rate for
ordinary policy holders for that year
from tuberculosis was only 487 per
100000 The death rate for tuber-
culosis among all of the people in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-28
The Water Compromise

Properly speaking, the people won no
victory in its contest before the public
service commission for fair water rates. All
that it got was concession, the terms of
which we're dictated by Clarence Geist and
accepted by the city because there was no
chance of obtaining more from the public
service commission
The city will reduce its tax rate. That
was the concession. The water company
will cut down its outrageous bills to the ex-
tent of $4,000 and collect $1,000 of this
back from big consumers.
The other change is that of policy. The
company will abandon its practice of robbing
the poor to pay the bills of the more COM
Portable and now play no favorites among
citizens as to the source Of its revenues.
The minimum rate is cut to $108 a
month. That saves AZ cents. But larger
users of water are expected to pay what is
saved to these small consumers. Hereto
fore the little fellow bore the unfair charge.
All that the water barons promised was
that they would cut down their charges
against the city They expect to take all
they have been taking except $4,000.
The company asserts that it has the right
to say how much each citizen must pay for
this necessity of life and that there is no es-
cape because it has title to all sources of
water for this city.
The situation is monstrous and absurd.
1t should be the signal for fight in the next
legislature to set this city free from such
control. There must be laws making pub
lie ownership of water supplies easy and not
difficult. There must be laws that will per-
nit the people to free themselves from this
bondage.
There was no demand from the public
service commission that this company quit
it's larcenous practice of charging club dues,
contributions to civic organizations and char
tiles, payments to groups that have public
influence as an operating expense.
There was no demand from the public
service commission that the company show a
a reason for paying, as an operating cost,
salary of $1,000 every month to Geist, the
president, who seldom visits this city. The
people pay this tribute. What he does to earn
IIllSS Ill Vic Lac VI LilS 1dCC CIldG TIC
salaried managers to run the plant, must re-
main a mystery.
There are ways of escape, of course The
most obvious is public ownership and the
building of new plant if there is insistence
upon high valuation. The other is to revert
to primitive sources and methods of supply
such as was adopted by large downtown
hotel Wells can still be dug. Men are idle.
The people can save themselves. The
ballot box next November is the path The
people need Governor who is under no
secret obligations to the utility crowd.
The people need legislature staunch
enough to withstand the Establishments of
the campers at the Claypool, who represent
organized greed.
The fight has just begun One crust has
fallen from the table. But as yet nothing
like justice has been obtained.