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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Speaking of Rackets

The laurels of civic virtue with which a senate
subcommittee has sought to the head of Judge
James H. Wilkerson might fit more becomingy if it
were not for the record of the Chicago Milwaukee
e. St. Paul receivership.
Organized racketeers do not appear in the case
but its story is arresting enough without them.
Receivershp proceedings took place in Judge Will
kersons federal district court He appointed two
ceivers selected by Kuhn, Loeb a. Company and the
National City Company reorganization managers, and
for the third receiver he himself selected Edward j.
Brundage his former law partner.
He awarded salaries of $4,000 and $4,000 year
to the receivers, and at the end Of their service
awarded them bonuses of 100000 EACH
He allowed the reorganization managers, whose
financial operations partly responsible for pre-
cptating the receivershp, approximately nine million
dollars for compensation" setting aside safeguards
with which the interstate commerce commission had
tried to surround this money collected from security
holders.
He denied the Jameson committee of bondholders
representing more than $l7O0o0O0 of St. Paul bonds
the right to intervene opposition to the reorganiza
ton pan though the interstate commerce commission
recognized the right of this group to be heard.
senate subcommittee, by a S-to-2 VOTE has found
Judge wkerson At for promotion to the circuit court
of appeals the sole ground that he gave Al Capone
somewhat longer sentence IMAM tnat notorious cnar-
acter had been led to expect.
Whether not it is true, as the United States dis
trict attorney testifes that wilkerson was party
to the agreement with Capone the fact remains that
the ST. Paul receivership sheds much more light on
wikersons sense of public morals than the other
case
No man blind indifferent to the social imphca-
tons of the great railroad recevership to the hnan-
cial manpulations that brought 1t on to the thou
sands of small investors who lost their savings be-
cause of it. is fit to sit on the federal bench
The brand of Wilkerson complacency which saw
nothing to crtcise the foreign and domestic bond
juggling of Kuhn, Loeb & Company and the Ma
tional City Company but rewarded their efforts with
fees amounting to almost nine million dollars-that
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Discrimination

Despite all talk about economy, there will be nc
major reductions in federal expenditures unless the
army and the navy forced to take their proper
uonate share of the cut. Our Quaker President il
doing his best to prevent this So is congress
II the 732460 civil employees of the federal gov
eminent who today threatened with a cut in
wages were to renquish all their wages and salarie:
curing the coming fiscal year, the savings to the
United States government hardly would equal two
thirds of the annual federal expenditures for past
and prospective wars" Isador Lubin, washington
economist points out.
Making allowance for deficiency bills the Hoover
budget makes virtually no cut in army-navy esti-
mates The current preparedness cost is $721 900 OOO
The s327G0eooO navy supply bill before the house
which includes than $4500000O for moderniza-
ton and new ships represents only per cent cut
But the interior department appropriation bill Just
passed by congress, and signed by the President
makes 35 per cent cut.
Such discrimination against civil activities of the
government in favor of military is madness It is
as unjustifed on financial as on moral grounds
BY this militaristc discrimination in the name
of economy, the President and congress are making
only small savings, but they are wecking some of
the most essential, effective and economical govern
ment services.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Just Every Day Sense
EEMINIsM has not changed the individual
BY MRS. wALTER FERGUSON

E>EMINISM has not changed the individual mans
attitude toward women, contends COR
respondent wa
That I think, is mistaken Surnise While IT, is
easy 70 point out the chief flaw in the feminist are
ment, namely, that should strive to be as
exactly like men possible yet certainly the hitter
attacks upon the then existent order and the acrmo
NOUS DEBATES aroused by the most aggressive fem
nne agltatorS, did result in change in the think
ing of men,
There are two masculine strongholds that refuse
to yield to the encroachng forces of the ladesthe
superintendent and the super-stupid males The
former usually scientists and philosophers regard us
as SO many biological bugs made for provocative DUR
poses only and prophesy doom for us in the end
The latter, entrenched behind their Notifications
OF solid sex egotSm and their belief that God mere
~ large, digned male, also close their eyes to
facts and repeat the worn-out platitudes meant to
put woman in her rightful and inferior place
DUT between these two extremes, there is a ire
- mendous multitude of men who have changed
their ideas about women-ideas as to our ability OUR
worth and our influence
They have discovered and most of them are will
ing to admit, that are after ALL not hopelessly
dense, nor hopeesSly incapable. Although many still
damn us with faint praise" the fact that the faint
question
1 firmly believe that not the least of the MANY
benefits conferred upon civilization by the feminist
wrong as she may have been in some of her theories
is that benefit which has come to man himself by
reason of her existence.
For man, as well woman, has been stimulated
TO cogitation upon this question And man has been
brought face to face with the depth of his own
intolerance and his misconceptions of human justice
In the last analysis, woman's freedom has been
mans freedom also, mental release from hamper
ing, pernicious, and immoral preiudices-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Secret Rates

That the rates for electricity for large had
been secretly reduced year ago should not surprise
citizens who know anything about either the public
service commission or the owners Of the electric
monopoly
1t is quite in keeping with the history of that
concern and of the commission that special favors
should be given to those most able to pay and that
the average citizen without any prestige or pull
should be soaked to pay the bills.
The thing happened which the law providing for
state regulation sought to preventive giving Of what
amounts to a rebate to a favored few
The theory Of regulation is based on the idea that
there will be no discrimination Yet discrimination
occurs when schedule can be fled secretly to pro-
vide for very favored few Of the consumers
That such a schedule was in operation last year
may account for singular lack of interest in the
petition filed by the South Side Civic Clubs and The
city administration Men who might be expected to
become active in the public interest found themselves
unable to take leadership
The fact that the rate practically concealed
by the commission stamps the entire transaction with
suspicion The tardy explanation by that body that
the schedule always open to public inspection is
subterfuge 1t is quite easy to make it difficult for
citizens to find documents which may be technically
on file but, for all practical results carefully hidden
from the public and the press.
The incident should revive interest in the appeal
of the public for rate basis for domestic users
The report of the company for the past year more
than justihes such inquiry. Its valuation rose
suspciousy. mysterious increase of approximately
fourteen millions of dollars in valuation for rate pur-
poses should not pass unchalenged
Now that there is open evidence of a purpose to
deal out favors to the powerful it is time for some
defenders Of the rest of the citizens to come to the
front with a demand for real relief.
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Good News

The American Civil Liberties Union reports that
this period of discomfort has been the quieest win
ter in recent years for prosecutions arrests
and police interference with meetings"
Although it the third winter of wholesale
unemployment, attended by widespread suffering
there was remarkable absence of food riots and
radical disorders 1t contrary to all prophecies
of police and radicals alike"
Such conditions brings out in sharper relief the
exceptions. These were chiefly the killing of four
obess demonstrators at the Ford plant at Dearborn
police brutality against anti-war paraders before the
Japanese government offices at Chicago and Wash
ington the continued state of siege in Kentucky coal
counties
Repression we are told is strongest in the south,
in California, Pennsylvania and in New England tex
tile towns" Southern California lis beset by the
activities of the Better America Federation and the
Los Angeles red squad with its brutal and unlawful
raids meetings"
The "City of the Angels" still is distinguished as
Pthe worst municipal district in the country"
Principal agencies of repression are the depart
ment of labor and the federal judges who issue in
functions against labor unions; prosecutions under
state sedition and criminal Syndicalism laws police
action; mob violence the report records.
Notable victories for freedom include: A United
States supreme court reversal of the California red
flag law conviction; voidng of the Minnesota press
gag law; an Ohio ruling declaring the state crm-
ina syndicalism law unconstitutional passage of the
federal antinjunction act; parong of two Centralia
W. w. prisoners; decision of the state department
to end American control in Haiti; reversal of the
Doak deportation policy, to permit aliens to depart
voluntarily to lands of their choosing; free speech
forum in Detroit; outlawry of yellow dog contracts"
in Arizona, California, Ohio Oregon and Wisconsin;
admission of Dr. Marie Slopes books by federal court
order; and others.
But, at the moment these gains obscured
by Governor James Rolphs refusal of a pardon to
Tom Mooney, for sixteen years the victim of class
terrorism of the courts and executives of the state
of California.
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reminds me of some dear friend or
well-remembered episode. Thus,
for instance, I bet on a horse called
EiSenberg, because 1 used to go to
dentist named Roseblum. And,
of course, I fall for Night Club OF
Applause or William Shakespeare or
anything with which have per-
Sonal tieup.
But as far as I can recollect, 1
never knew anybody called Hous-
sain. I don't want to hurt the
feelings of either the horse or his
owner in confessing that I bet on
him simply and solely because he
was quoted at 80 to l.
In the last race it is invariably
my custom to pick a long shot. BY
that time nothing else save the
death of a rich uncle, is going to
do me much good.
Houssain was as good as 10 TO
for a place and, mark you, only four
horses we're entered in the race.
Being Of a mathematical turn of
mind, I did a little mental arith-
metic and figured that the chance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25

ON April Is, 1918, German troops
~ occupied a part of Mont KEN
mel, one of the key positions in the
Lys sector, after a day of heavy
fighting with the British and French
troops.
French troops were forced out
of Hangard by fresh German
shock troops.
Fighting of great intensity con-
tinued, with German gains being
small, on the entire Lys front. Five
new German divisions we're in the
battle, allied Officials said.
British counter-attacks regained
some of the ground lost early in
the day, but pressure on the entire
British front was very great.
Germany sent an ultimatum to
Holland, demanding the right to
transport certain supplies not used
in war through Dutch territory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH
Iron Is Important Element of Diet

/ ing concerning the iron content of
ordinary vegetables and fruits.
Not all food substances are equal
ly rich in this important metal.
The metal is important because
it takes part in the formation of
the haemoglobin, or red coloring
matter of the blood.
If there is insufficient haemoglob-
in, breathing is difficult, energy
disappears, and resistance to disease
apparently is lowered.
The investigator examined spe-
cimens of fruits and vegetables from
various parts of the country and
checked reports made by chemists.
He found certain fruit juices and
foods are exceedingly poor in iron
content
The list includes apples, cucum-
bers, grapefruit, lemon and orange
juice, peaches, pears, pineapples and
watermelon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25

I The vegetables that have the
highest content of iron include lima
beans, broccoli leaves, dandelion
greens, kale, parsley, English peas,
spinach, turnip tops and watercress.
Among the vegetables and foods
considered to be good sources of iron
are artichokeS, asparagus, string
beans, blackberries, cabbage, caui-
flower, green lettuce, onion tops,
pumpkins potatoes and raspberries.
1t is found that iron in plants is
associated with the chlorophylI,
which is particularly rich on the
leaves.
The green-colored vegetables are
of the greatest Importance for their
iron content, as we'll as for many
other nutritive factors. The average
American diet would be much i'm
proved by more liberal use of
green vegetables.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Questions and
Answers

What is the origin of the word
blimp?
1t is said to have originated from
90" for balloon" and limp" TO
designate limp balloon" A yep
pelin type dirigible has a rigid
framework covered with fabric in
which the gas is held in balloon
cites. A blinp has only a rigid
lower section, and the pressure CT
the gas keeps the upper part filled
out.
What teams played in the state
finals of the basketball tournament
in 1881?
Muncie, Kendallville, Washington,
Elkhart, Shortridge, Logansport,
Brownstown, Frankfort, Button,
Greencastle, Evansville Central,
Marion, Rushville, Horace Mann
Gary, Wiley (Terre Haute) and
Greensburg.
On what days of the week were
April IL, 1891; May 16, 1895, and
Aug. 9, 1918.
Saturday, Thursday and Friday.
respectively.
What is the Cuban rumba?
A rapid dance, somewhat resem-
bling fast tango, combined with
the hula-hula. 1t has an eccentric
rhythm.
What is remote control In radio
broadcasting?
The term applies to broadcasting
where the transmitter is in one
location and the operator, by means
of electric switches, operates it
from another location.
Are there more men than women
in France, Germany and the United
States?
Germany has 48O7 per cent males
and 5193 per cent females: France
has &c, 1852 ,8S4 females and 1874, 1855
males. and the United States has
62,137, $50 males and 60,637, 1856
females.
Is q person born in the District
of Columbia eligible to the office of
President Of the United States?
! Yes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
SCIENCE
Earthquakes Have Shocked
and Terrified Mankin d
From the Earliest Times.
BY DAVID DIETZ--

A ND the mountains shall be
L n thrown down, and the steep
places shall fall. and every wall shall
fall to the ground"
So wrote the prophet. Ezekiel. Civ
ing us an excellent description Of an
earthquake.
From early times. the earthquake
has Mortified mankind. As previous
" pointed out, men are shocked by
its apparent sucdenness, but the
geologist knows that it is only the
manifestation Of forces at work in
the earth all the time.
An examination of the rocks that
form the earth's surface furnishes
ample evidence of the movements
of the earth's crust and the tremen-
dous strains and stresses which the
rocks undergo as result Of the
movement.
For, everywhere, we find that the
large areas of rocks are broken into
smaller areas by cracks or fractures.
These fractures most easily are
observed in quarrieS or in exposed
cliffs along the edge of some stream.
They also are very conspicuous in
mountainous regions.
Some of these cracks and frac-
lures are believed to extend down to
a depth of about twelve miles, where
the pressure is so great to prevent
further fracturing. AS a rule, mass
OF rock will be fractured by two sys-
TENS of cracks at various angles to
each other. This condition is known
technically as jointing.
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Why Not Face It2
XXTHY' are our supposed gres
w minds so frightened bv ii

XXTHY' are our supposed great
w minds so frightened by the
obvious?
The leaders of both parties know
exactly what they must do, know
that popular sentiment has under
gone a profound change, and that
the dry cause is hopeless.
Why not come right out and face
the music? That is what average
people are doing and what they
expect of their leaders.
AS a matter of fact, average peo-
pie are wholly responsible for the
situation which confronts their
leaders. Average people are forcing
both parties to take up the prohi-
bition issue.
Why should either party be afraid
to take it up?
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OF any one entry out of four COM
ing either first or second ought tc
be even money.
L considered telling the oralist
that he had made a mistake. n
was not my intention to make any
terrific killing upon the first after
noon. 1t is more strategic, l believe
70 sneak up on the bookmakers. If
you make them think at the Begin
nlng that you are a tyro at the
paStlme, there is a much better
chance later of getting a generous
price when the great day comes.
Neat but Hardly Gaudy
HOUSSAIN was not much to look
4 Il at when he paraded past the
stand. He was decidedly a chunky
horse and better for line buckinq
than open field running. AS he
swept by 1 called to him, "You can
be part owner of an intimate revue
if you come first or second"
He SHE'D and very nearly threw
his rider before proceeding. And
when the barrier was sprung, where
was HousSain? He was first by a
length. At the quarter it was too
lengths. At the three-quarter pole
Houssain was all by himself. And
so he was at the finish, for, as ill
luck would have it, the race hap
pened to be mile and sixteenth
OF course, have seen horses stop
before, but never more than over
night. Houssain didn't just stop
he staked out a claim an eighth of
a mile behind the other horses and
decided to settle.
l must go to the races again. I
want to see what the horses do
when they come to that point in
the track where Houssain is i'm
bedded. Do they. wonder, step
on him or jump over?
(Copyright. 1889. bv The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Says:

# Hoover We're to Come ON
With q Wringing Wet
State m e n t, 1t Wouldn't
Alternate Half the Support
1t Would Attract.
NEW YORK, April 25.-If Presi-
~ dent Hoover runs on a wet
platform, the charge Of inconsis-
tency will do him vastly more good
than harm.
For every dry vote he might lose,
he would gain ten out of sympathy
with his change of attitude.
People are not going to turn
against a man for doing what they
themselves have done.
This idea that leaders must go on
singing the same tune forever is one
of the absurdest traditions Of
American politics.
We admit that consistency is not
a virtue in ordinary folks. We ex-
pect them to change their minds.
We regard them ignorant if they do
not. Every campaign is neither
more nor less than an appeal to
average voters to switch from one
party to the other, or adopt a diff
ferent opinion with regard to some
theory Of government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25
Daily Thought

His enemies shall lick the dust.
Psalms 1873.
Though punishment be slow, still
it comes.-George Herbert.
What is the total personnel Of
the United States navy, naval re-
serves, marine corps and Marine
corps reserves?
AS of Nov. 1, 1890. there we're
1905 officers and 1924 enlisted
men III the navy; in the reserves,
6.078 officers and 2S,821 enlisted
naen; in the marine corps, 1882 of
ficers, and 1858 enlisted men, and
IN the marine reserve AS officers
md 9,ll9 enlisted men.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia. the
Health MaEazine.


GONE years ago there was a great
~ advertising campaign on behalf
of raisins, based on the idea that
humans beings did not get enough
iron in their food and therefore
ought to eat a great many raisins
for excess iron.
True, raisinS do contain iron,
but they also provide the person
who eats them with seeds, pulp,
stems, and other material which he
may not want and which are
irritating to a sensitive intestinal
tract.
The bureau of home economics of
the United States department of
agriculture recently has made avail
able a report by Hazel K. Stiegel-
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brand of complacency, Of civic conscience is largely
responsible for the plight in which this country finds
itself today.
Wilkerson's further appointment of his friend
Brundage to post where he could be showered by
the court with money from the defunct company's
assets needs no comment. 1t can command the adj
miration of no one except, perhaps Capone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-25

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.
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GEOLOGICAL Faults

A LARGE fracture which can be
4 n traced in continuous line for
a distance of hundred feet or
more-in some cases they extend
for thousands of feet-is known as
a flSsure. Frequently the rock Law
ers are displaced on one side of
the fisSure, the displacement being
horizontal in some cases and YER
tical in others.
When this has taken place, the
rock layers are said to be faulted.
The fault is conclusive evidence
that the rock mass on one side of
the fsSure has moved.
Sometimes, when rock layers are
so tilted that the fault is inclined
at low angle, the layers on one
side of it may be pushed up over
the layers on the other side.
This is known as thrust-faulting
and is frequently found in noun
famous regions. With the passage
Of many centuries, rock layers may
be pushed along for miles in a
thrust-fault. Most mountainous
regions bear ample testimony to
this.
An earthquake is a trembling or
shaking of the earths surface. Most
earthquakes and all the big ones,
start at faults, the earthquake be-
ing the result of the sudden Slip
ping or moving of the rock layers
on one side of the fault.
The great San Francisco earth
quake, for example, which occurred
on April 10, 1906, started with a
sudden movement of the San An
dreas fault.
One side of this fault moved
horizontal distance varying from
seven to twenty-one feet at differ
ent places and a vertical distance
varying from one to three feet.
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Recording EarthouakeS


Z EARTHQUAKES, despite the
II common belief, are not rare
phenomena. There is not day in
the year that several earthquakes do
not take place.
These, for the most part, are so
faint that they do not do any dam
age. They are registered, however,
on the seismographs, the delicate
instruments which scientists use to
detect and record earthquakes.
All earthquakes set up waves
which travel out through the earth
in all directions. These waves can
be detected thousands of miles
away by the seismograph.
One form of this instrument con-
sists of delicately mounted pen
dulum.
The waves of the quake set the
pendulum in vibration, which, in
turn, communicates them to an
ingenious system of levers.
These levers magnify the vibra-
tions and, in turn, communicate
them to recording pen, which
traces the record Of the quake on
revolving drum.