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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Iodine Helps in Golfer Treatment

is infrequent and who get their
iodine regularly in food and water
An international conference on
goiter was held not long ago in
Switzerland and special considera-
ton was given to the taking of
iodine in the form of salt to which
iodine has been added.
In Switzerland the official prepare
ton used contains one part of
potassium iodide in 100000 parts OF
salt.
In Italy, twice as much iodide is
used. and in the United States the
proportion is approximately one
part in 5000.
1t has been found that seaf1sh
contain abundant amounts of this
substance and the provision of a
diet which contains large amounts
of seafish is useful in supplying
necessary iodine.
Of course, the possibility remains
that persons who do not need the
iodine may get regular doses of it
through table use of iodized salt
and thus be stimulated to symptoms
of hyperthyroidism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-In late issue of a
certain newspaper, was a cartoon
representing a railroad employee
holding half the world on his
shoulders, with words to the effect
that be has done his bit in &C
cepting the 10 per cent wage cut
without protest. A very fine example
of the heart of one fellow worker
to another.
Now that it has its pay roll down,
the Big Four has come to the con-
clusion that it can take a few more
drastic steps, in assuring its stock
holders that dividends will be paid.
although business conditions have
improved none in the least since the
cut in wages.
Thirty-two men will feel the cut
OF economy'S ak this month in a
certain Big -Four shop in this city.
How nice it will be for each and
every man to think that now. after
several years Of unfailing effort. he
can stay at home until business
conditions improve. He can helm his
wife wash clothes, listen to
prosperity debates on the radio.
learn to sew and numerous other
things while he and his family be-
come accustomed to hunger and
cold. n NON
Editor Times-Please give us a
change. I don't want any one to
think that I want to be ungratefuI
for the baskets Of groceries that I
have received of the trustee. but.
for our children'S sakes, can't some
OF our items be changed.
Give US eggs instead of jowI meat.
lard instead Of salmon, a few green
foods to eat once in while. Anv
one would tire of the same diet ali
the time, even though it was steak
or quail on toast. Is it out of rea-
son for US to ask for a change of
food in our baskets?
ONE OF HOOvERS BASKET
MEN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

for government economies They are interested in
accomplishment of genuine economies.
And, above all, they are interested in being hon
estly informed about their affairs and honestly as
sured that their government will be financially sound
during the coming year
Meanwhile, the President has proposed joint
economy commission. For more than two decades
bureau consolidation to cut down duplication and
waste has been advocated by party leaders. But
bureau consolidation abolition Of patronage.
And patronage is the life blood Of politics Hence
the program has gotten nowhere President Taft
in 1910 first officially advocated it.
Two objections heard in congress to the Hoo
yer plan. 1t is said that congressional committees
already in the midst of doing this job and that
q Hoover commission would mean more delay.
We are OF the opinion that such commission might
do a lot of good, provided congress went ahead in
the meantime with its own economy program If
the Hoover commission reported within thirty days.
suggested, its findings could be valuable-espe-
cay If the report helped to steer congress- the cab
met, and Hoover away from the patronage rocks.
The President should not con1ne himself to gen.
eral talk about economy Either he has specific cuts
in mind, or he hasn't. He should speak up and tell
where the needed cuts are to be made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

of iodine may be absolute or relative.
In some areas, much larger dosages
of iodine are required than in others.
When person develops a goiter
who has been receiving regularly the
recognized protective doses of iodine,
careful investigation is necessary to
determine whether his general body
condition includes other factors
which have caused the iodine treat
ment to fail.
The constant taking of overdoses
of iodine may stimulate glandular
action to such extent that the per-
son suffers from symptoms of
hyperthyroidism.
These symptoms include loss of
weight, rapid heart and nervous ir-
ritability, symptoms which also have
Eeen observed among women who
have taken thyroid gland substances
to cause reduction of weight.
1t has been established that the
danger is negligible when the dose
of iodine is so small that the total
amount taken daily does not exceed
the amount taken daily by people
who live in districts where goiter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Questions and
Answers

Can you see the stars in the day
time from the bottom of well?
The United States naval observa-
tory says that formerly there was a
widespread belief that stars could
be seen in the daytime from the
bottom Of deep well or mine shaft,
nearly as well as at night, but this
belief is now generally recognized
as being without foundation.
Has President Hoover been out
side the United States since he was
elected President?
No.
What is an alcalde?
1t is a Spanish word meaning
magistrate or judge.
What were the favorite hymns of
Abraham Lincoln?
They are said to have been Am
a Soldier of the Crosse" There Is
a Fountain Filled With Blood and
Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Another Russian MYTH

One Of the ironies of the depression is that
small group of politicians is trying to kill our Rus
sian trade. Not content with having destroyed 95
per cent of the Russian business of American firms
within the last two years this group proposes to
ban all Russian goods.
The theory is that Russian goods are produced by
forced labor. This myth has been dsproved so often
that it is somewhat strange to find Americans who
still believe it, if indeed there any of the propa-
gandsts who sincerely accept it as true
AS Secretary of the Treasury Mills recently pointed
out to Senator Oddie, in all test cases brought to
the treasury department to stop Russian shipments
under the forced labor clause of the law, American
firms presented aidavits refuting the charge and no
evidence was submitted to support the charge.
Despite this official finding by the treasury de-
partment the antitrade propagandists contend that
the existence of forced labor throughout Russia is
matter of general and common knowledge"
For the benefit of those who will not believe
the af1davits of American firms in treasury depart
ment hearings quote at random from few of
the many prominent Americans who have visited
Russia and investigated the charge.
Colonel Hugh L. experimentation were car
ried out by of the leading business men of the
country They have put themselves on record refuting
the forced labor allegations.
representative Henry I. Ralney (maJOrlty leader
of the house)-Labor is freer in Russia than in any
other country in the world
Sherwood Eddy (author OF "The Challenge of Rus
siaC-The propaganda that these products are the
results of convict forced labor may serve some spe
cial interests in the United States but is not sub
Stantiate6 by facts.
General w. N. Haskell Former chief Of American
relief administration)-The Russian worker is as
rule, more willing and enthusiastic than the American
Henry j. Freyn Chicago engineer)-The workers
and toilers are given first consideration.
H. r. Knckerbocker New York Evening Post and
Philadelphia Public Ledger correspondent, describing
10000 trip Of investgation)-I saw no signs of
forced labor under police compulsion.
Louis Fletcher Baltimore Sun correspondent, re-
porting on the charge of forced labor in the Man
ganeSe mnes)I say quite categoricaly that there
Is no forced labor in Chiaturi
Arnold Rukeyser american engineer replying to
the forced labor report)-Nothing could be farther
from the truth.
Thus another propaganda myth, used to kill
American trade at time when we need business
most, Is destroyed by facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

VXTHATEVER may be our political affiliations the
w opinions of Norman Thomas always are worth
hearing. His thinking is the sort that rises above
classes and creeds.
In his last book GAS I See It." just published by
Macmilan's, Mr.. Thomas talks about American
liberty.
This is subject that most of us think we know
a great deal ABOUT 1t is the favorite topic of our
orators and we like very much to sing that ours is
the 'hcme of the free"
1t also is our fond belief that when his liberty
is taken away from the American citizen he mmedi-
atey will rise in rebellion Like his forefathers at
Bunker hill, he will fight for his own.
Nothing, contends Mr.. Thomas, could be more
false than this assumption 1t is not true that hard
times lead men to revolt They lkeler to lead
them to serfike resignation. The masses are very
patient. Only long accumulated and unbearable
wrong ever move them.
THE average man today" writes Mr., Thomas,
would. if he had to choose, gladly exchange most
of his theoretical liberty for economic security There
is no tyranny the mind worse than the tyranny
of constant anxiety for tomorows bread"
LIE believes that with all our advertised privileges
l. of free press and free speech and free assoca-
vdual possesses also measure of economic security
Liberty can flourish only in the soil of equality.
heartily agree We do not yet have enough lib
erty. The poor man these days has very few privi-
legeS unless it be the privilege of starving to DEATH
Money is our magic talisman that opens the door
to al our freedoms Those without it are virtual
serfs. They live in novels, they work for pittance
without any security for the future they endure legal
injustice and they subject to instant CONSUMPTION
to fight and die for causes about which they know
nothing.
II The energy wasted by our good patriots in tell
ing about American liberty used in getting
liberty where We need 1t, patriotism might take on
a new meaning
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

"Put in nothing" Good radiance is
an excellent end in itself. Nature
I am told, abhors a vacuum, but
neither is it friendly to a con-
gestion.
Reed Harris, I gather, was for the
most part against something or
other. He didn't like college foot
ball or the college commons. He
fought Columbia fare and fanfare.
1t seems to me that every leader
worth his salt should put in at least
his days of preparation in seeking
something to tear down. Washington
and Lincoln lin order to make this
argument reSpectable) were both
men who spent great part of their
maturity in trying to destroy exist
ing institutions.
Certainly Washington had no
clear concept of the eventual form
of American government when he
took On the task of driving out the
British.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
BRITISH ATTACK SUCCESS
April


ON April 7, 1918, British troops
~ stormed new German positions
on the Ancre river, north of Albert,
in a counter attack which allied
bulletins described as completely
successful.
In another section of the front in
Picardy, however, German shock
divisions took Pierremande and Fo-
lembray after stiff fighting. Pres
sure on this front, however, was not
so great as to be alarming.
Two German raids on American
trenches near Toul were repulsed
with slight losses to the Americans.
Increasing activity on the Lys sec
tor was reported by Portuguese pa
trole and there was some anxiety for
safety of British, Belgian and Portu-
guesee positions if a major German
attack should be directed at them.
Turkish troops recaptured Arda-
han in Armenia, after defeating the
hastily gathered Armenian army.
The Soviet government at Mos
COW sent additional protests to Ger
many on the invasion Of Kursk
province by German and Ukrainian
troops.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Sheer Pandering

liver since the war our veterans
IL have been caricatured by a
bunch of lobbyists paraded before
the public as winners and pan
handlers, held up as unable, or I'M
willing, to take care of themselves.
1t was an unparalleled exhibition
of sheer pandering, and it did not
reflect faithfully the attitude of
those men who became it's uncon-
scious victims.
Ninety per cent of this yell for a
full cash bonus was manufactured
out of whole cloth by a gang of
professional strutters. OF course,
the rank and file did not object,
because they had only a vague idea
Of what was being done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Dancers and Musicians

VILLAGE entertainments were
' not uncommon among the
American Indians. 1t is known that
the later Creek and Cherokee town
houses were used for such enter
tainments.
Dancers and musicians took part
in these entertainments. Fire pits
furnished misunderstanding ancient
counterpart of the modern footlight.
1t is thought probable that this
custom may have extended back
into the very ancient cultures in
Mississippi.
While announcing the facts OF his
curious find in the proceedings of
the United States national museum.
Collins himself offers only tentative
explanations.
The field Of the southeastern
Indians, he says, lis one of the
most difficult for the archeologist
who seeks to reconstruct a picture
OF the life of a vanished people.
All the buildings were of wood.
Consequently not a trace of them
is left. The archeologist is guided
solely by descriptions of early
travellers.
Moreover, the land has been cul-
tivated for centuries and most of
the sites have been plowed over. In
the present case. only the fact that
the post holes were sunk in fairly
deep trenches, below the depth
reached by the pillow share, made it
possible to locate them"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE last twenty-five years have
l. seen great scientific advance in
the attempt to overcome goiter, that
swelling of the throat associated
with enlargement of the thyroid
gland, and which sometimes gives
rise to a series of symptoms serious
to health and menacing life itself.
Probably the most significant de-
velopment is the discovery of the in
fuence of iodine deficiency on the
causation of the simple swelling of
the gland.
Although there are discrepancies
in some of the observations, the fact
remains that, in general, the Incl
dence of goiter in any community
can be greatly reduced by the regu-
lar giving of small doses of iodine.
This fact has been we'll established.
There are, of course, other factors
which enter and which modify the
to the giving of iodine.
Thus the question of dosage en-
ters into the picture. The efficiency
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Real Need Coming

WTHEN our veterans are old
w they will need help much
more than they do now. Why not
save some of our liberality against
that day? Why raid the treasury
until people have no choice but to
protect themselves?
The government has been led into
a course of prodigality in connec-
ton with veterans relief which may
well cost total of fifty, or sixty
billion dollars. That is a staggering
sum of money, especially in the light
of existing conditions.
Relief should be authorized with
strict regard to need. No govern
ment on earth can afford to do
otherwise. We have too many I'M
fortunates who must be helped to
squander our surplus on those who
can get along without help, no mat
ter how noble their conduct, or how
cheerfully they faced the supreme
risk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Misplaced Generosity

A PROGRAM has been shaped
L n whereby the taxpayers of this
country easily may be called upon
to spend $4,000 or $4,000 on a
veteran who suffered not the Slight
est injury in connection with the
war, or his training for the war.
AS the telegram sent by Willard
Straight post points out, free hos
pitalization has been carried to an
extreme which threatens grave in
justice to the dependents of dead
soldiers. Everything in sight has
been grabbed for the living, regard
less of actual need.
Facts show" says the telegram,
"that statutes sponsored by the
American Legion discriminate
against widows and other depend
entS of veterans killed in war serV-
ice and favor living veterans re-
ceiving payments for disabilities
having nothing to do with the war.
Is this because dead veterans cast
no Votes?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

TINE case of Columbia university
Il against Reed Harris seems to
me an interesting and a helpful
happening. I am all for the under
graduate editor who has been eX-
PEELED because of his editorials, but,
in cold fact, it must be admitted
that the punishment will be Stimu~
lating for him rather than painful.
In such circumstances, college
officials are quite powerless. Fail
IRE to be graduated seldom dogs
anybody as major tragedy, and
it is the very helplessness of deans
and such like which makes them
behave with such extraordinary
folly.
Clarence E. Lovejoy, secretary Of
the alumni association, was in
favor of the disciplinary action and
is quoted as saying, mo one student
has done as much as Harris to ruin
the reputation of Columbia"
If Mr.. Lovejoy finally achieves
a moment of mature reflection upon
the subject, he will realize that he
has spoken without much benefit
of logic. Surely the reputation of
Columbia suffers more deeply and
widely through a piece of publicly
heralded tyranny than because of
necessarily obscure editorials in
college paper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Youth Asks Questions

NNE of the most helpful things
~ about academic life in Amer
lea during the last twenty years has
been the growth of undergraduate
frankness and dissent. We live in
a world oppressed and plagued by
constructive criticism.
New ideas have an imperfect
chance to grow, because the job of
wedding is performed indifferently.
Most of us are polite even to
politicians. AFFECT failures in
executive office manage to stave off
attack by pleading piteously that
what we want is constructive
criticism"
1t is held, most fallaciously, that
no one has a right to say Away
with this or that" until such time
as he is ready to suggest replace
mentS. But very often the mere
abolition of an evil is in itself a
distinct gain to the community.
No mayor at all might be three
and half times as good as the
maintenance of a gross incompetent.
The housewrecker performs use
full communal service, and, as far
as I know, nobody ever has con-
tended that he first must qualify as
an architect before he can touch
a single beam.
In the arts specifically the
theater) in politics and in economics
we need fewer critics intent upon
pointing out the beautiful and good
and more rugged fellows equipped
to show up the false, the hypo-
critical and the shoddy. 1t is
favorite reproach of the drys that
the vets want to abolish the
Volstead act and the eighteenth
amendment, but they are ready
with nothing to put in their place.
But the blunt answer to that is,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
SCIENCE
Excavations in Ancient m
dian Village Reveal Traces
of "Old Op'ry House"
BY DAVID DIETZ


dian Village Reveal Traces
of "OId Op'ry House"
THE old village opera house, once
Il an important part Of every
small American town, may be older
as an institution than is the Amer
lean republic.
Excavations by an archeo1ogist of
the Smithsonian institute suggest
that the village opera house may be
a prehistoric American institution.
The archeologist, DR.. Henry B.
Collins Jr., has brought to light in
an ancient Indian village site in
Mississippi the ground plan of a
building which might be reconstruct
ed as a small theater with two tiers
of seats capable Of seating an audi
ence of 100.
This of course does not mean that
the old structure necessarily was a
theater But DR.. Collins says that
it does not easily fit into the plan of
any other sort of building.
He also says that fragments of
pottery found in the excavation in
dictate that the structure was built
by a prehistoric people and not by
any of the Indian tribes which oc-
cupied that part of the country
after the arrival of the white people,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
let'S Keen Our Heads

IT goes without saying that the
l. country can not do too much for
veteran who was injured in the
war, or for the dependents of one
who was killed, but beyond that we
should exercise sensible control
over the proposition of relief.
There is no logic in the oft-re-
peated assertion that nothing is too
good for a man who spent two
months, or even two years, in
cantonment. Many were better off
for doing so. Few suffered more
than they would have in civilian
life.
The 100000 young men whom
we modified were the pick of the
land. Only about half of them ever
reached Europe and only about a
fourth saw service at the front.
The theory that all of them should
be treated alike is ridiculous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
In Cotton Field
T TNDER the plowed surface Of

4tOA1Ab tAAC PlOWCu uIldCE Oh
~ cotton field, Collins found
three concentric circular trenches,
in the bottom of which were post
holes. The outer trench contained
holes for heavy timberS such as
might have been used to support a
fiat roof on a large circular house.
The two inner trenches contained
holes for smaller timbers. These
might have supported the tiers Of
seats.
This ground plan differs radical
ly from that of a Creek or Cherokee
town house," Smithsonian scien-
lists say. "On the latter there was
a peaked roof supported at the CEN
ter by means of heavy pole and
on the outside by circle of lighter
timbers. The roof of the prehistoric
structure must have been fiat, since
there is no trace of center timbers."
In the center of the ground plan
was a square outlined by four rows
of post holes from six to eight
inches in diameter and eight to
sixteen inches apart.
Alllo might 'HdVe Deen the stage.
Also in the interior were two fire
pits, filled with ashes and refuse.
They may have been used in relig-
lous ceremonies.
Collins offers an alternative to
the theater hypothesis in the ex-
PLANTATION that the same site NAV
have been used for four buildings at
different times, the floors of which
are represented by the different
rows of post holes.
But the fact remains" he says,
that the circular trenches and the
square are arranged in such an
orderly fashion as to suggest a
single structure, or possibly single
walled house that later was incor-
porated as a part of larger and
more complex structure"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard 10 their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.=The Editnr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07
Daily Thought

All Is vanity and vexation of
spirit. Ecclesiastes liza.
10 be mans own fool is bad
enough, but the vain man is every
body's fool.-William Penn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-07

If congress raises the income taxes much higher
it will be better to turn the income over to the gov
eminent and keep the tax