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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
A Liberal Trend

review OF the actions Of the special session OF
the legislature shows advance in the direction of
liberal thought and policies, though the prac-
teal results leave much to be desired
For the first time a ma jorty Of the members Of
both houses voted for measures which attempt to curb
the greed of public utilities and to make public own
ership easier The next regular session complete
this and provide the necessary weapons to win
freedom from these extortions
The protest against the Wright bone dry law is an
indication that the state has thrown off the shackes
of bigotry and fanatcism and intends to return to
common sense and sanity in its efforts TO make
good by law.
The one backward step is the setting up Of ap-
pointive boards the final arbiters of tax matters.
That question settled by the Revolution which
based upon the protest against taxation without rep
resentaton. The appointive boards whether they be
the state tax board the county boards provided for
In the laws take the character Of autocracy.
The members are not responsible to the people
Any move to take the governing power away from
the voter and place in the hands of those who can
not be overthrow by ballots return the theory
OF the divine right OF kings and brings discrimination
and unfairness.
Possibly the best result of the special session will
be an object lesson for the regular session 1t
what must be done
That the special session came just before the cleo
ton should turn attention of the voter to the actions
Of members who again asking office. There are
some who made records which should give them
strength. Others have advertised themselves as be-
ing unworthy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
Just Every Day Sense
By Ms. walter FERGUSON

ONE of Americas wealthiest women woman
~ whose family has piled up vast fortune in the
west announces that she will leave the United States
because she is tired of being "lawed and taxed to
DEATH
1t is true that many things are wrong with our
country. But the plutocrats should be the last to
complain, since they in very large measure re-
Sponsible for our present woes
For generations the natural resources of the ma
ton have been used to build private fortunes In
divdualS have been given free hand and graciously
permitted to help themselves to every ounce of wealth
this continent possesses.
When it is possible for one man. over a couple of
decades, to accumulate fifty millions more dollars
neither he his heirs have cause for recrimnatonS
or complaints.
ot-the fortunate the rich the comfortable cry aloud
when their securities lose value and their incomes are
cut to half.
Halted in their pleasant occupation of getting far
more money than they ever can spend, they have
nothing but anathemas to heap upon their govern
ment.
THE rich people of the United States dare not
Il shirk their enormous responsibilities now. Ora
cious generous opulent America has opened her arms
to and from all places of the earth She
has heaped honor and money and happiness upon
them
She has encouraged and protected them. Is She
therefore to be cursed and deserted in her hour of
need, when the first faint dawn of evil fortune ap-
pears?
This indeed would be basest ingrattude 1t would
constitute treschery such as no honorable American
could tolerate
One fact must not be overlooked. The thing that
has wrecked civilizations has been the unconcern of
the prosperous class to the fate of the populace
With all the examples of history staring them in
the face it is not conceivable that the rich Of America
viii permit their selshness to overcome their good
sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
HoOver'S Boomerang

The President is having wretched luck with his red
scare His specially ordered grand jury investigation
of the bonus battle o. Pennsylvania avenue has ended
without finding a single red scapegoat.
Coming on top of the earlier investigation of forty
seven alleged Communists and radicals, all of whom
had to be released by the Washington authorities for
lack of evidence this completely discredts Hoovers
charge.
1t will be recalled that the President issued various
statements to defend his unpopular action in using
troops against unared citizens He said that so per
cent of the bonus marchers were not veterans.
He tried to make the public believe that the whole
thing was inspired by Communists, that the safety
of the government was threatened
OF course very few persons believed these absurd
White House tales Doubtless the President believed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
The 1868 ECLIPSE

flor the eclipse of Oct. ., 1859,
Il DR.. Smiley continues, the
moons shadow will strike the earth
at sunrise in southern New Eng
land, and will move at once out
over the Atlantic ocean"
This brings us to the eclipse Of
1868, the next important one.
For the eclipse of July 20, 1863,
he says, "Oppolzer's elements in
dictate that the moons shadow will
come down out of the northwest,
passing near the southwestern edge
Of Hudson bay and James bay,
crossing Maine near Belfast.
The accurate computations made
at the nautical almanac Office were
based on modern elements, and
consequently their determination Of
the path of totality of this eclipse
will be much more accurate than
this.
1T is interesting to note that
though the maximum duration Of
totality for the eclipse as given by
DR.. Robertson is 100 seconds, the
duration of totality for points in
Maine will be in the neighborhood
Of 70 seconds.
For points in Maine, totality in
the 1868 eclipse will begin about
$40 p. m, daylight saving time,
but because it will be near the
middle of the summer, the sun will
be almost as high above the hori-
zon as it will be at Fryeburg, Me.
at this years eclipse"
Oppolzer's book on eclipses now is
out of print, and copies are re-
garded not only as useful reference
books, but as rare treasures as well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Vitamin E Affects Reproduction

found to present poor appearance.
Their hair showed a lack of normal
health.
Vitamin is found in relative
abundance in lettuce, spinach, al
falfa and watercress, in the embryo
of cereal and particularly in wheat
germ oil.
1t is not found in cod liver oil,
which is. in general. a fairly rich
source of vitamins A and D.
While much has been learned as
to the nature of Vitamin E, it has
not been isolated in pure form.
There have been a few instances
in which women who have seemed
unable to carry a child through to
birth apparently have been relieved
of their difficulties by administra-
ton of this vitamin in large
amounts during the period between
conception and birth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

In sober truthfulness, we were not.
even in those days, opulent enough
to afford so high priced an after
dinner speaker. We found that out
much later.
James j. Walker is not without
friends today. His charm is authen-
tic but 1 feel that in the last two
years it has worn little thread
bare in some spots.
And even among those faithful
ones to whom Jimmy still is the
eternal good fellow, I doubt that
many would contend that he is quite
the type to cope with the pressing
prob lens of unemployment.
evictions, starvation and muddled
city finance. The quips may be as
good as they ever were, but we laugh
less readily,
James J. Walker says that he has
invested the better part of his
life in public office" And we have
a right to ask, Who got the
dividends?"
lCopvrioht 1922 nv The rinoes1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

In the female. the change does
not affect the tissues, but does afp
feet the developing embryo or the
new progeny.
Apparently this vitamin can be
stored in the body for considerable
periods of time. If this were not
the case, there would be serious
interference with the continued
reproductions of various animal
species.
While the absence Of any vitamin
entirely from the diet may result in
appearance Of specific processes of
degeneration and changes of i'm
portance in certain tissues, there
also are changes that affect the
tissues generally and which may
thus lead to Illness.
Animals kept on general de-
f1ciency of vitamin E for long
periods of time after birth were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
It's to Be Nice Farley

IF we were selling Russia the steel
IL she now is buying from Germany,
or getting our rightful share of
European trade, or collecting $780,
100000 on beer annually, instead of
handing it over to bootleggers,
things would not be as bad as they
are, but does any one expect the
conference to take up such matters?
Certainly not. That would be
touching politics, and politics is
barred.
The conference will be nice,
especially with regard to all ques-
tons affecting the administration.
1t carefully will refrain from ex-
pressing opinions that might hurt,
or from making suggestions that
might imply mistakes. 1t will be
idealiStic, chiefly for the object of
avoiding disagreeabIe realities.
1t will function as conferences are
expected to function-daring little.
doing little, and accomplishing little.
through fear of creating a dis
turbance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
SCIENCE
to See SIN Eclipse
Aug. 81: Merit One IN 1915.
-BY DAVID DIETZ--


Millions to See San ECLIPSE
Aug. 81; Merit One IN 1915.
MILLIONS Of people viii see the
1F1 eclipse of the sun which takes
place on Aug. 81. The eclipse viii
be total in a track extending across
the province Of Quebec and New
England.
The coming of this eclipse has
given rise to a discussion as to when
another total eclipse of the sun will
be visible in the United States. Early
reports fixed the date Of the next
eclipse variously as 1870. 2O17 and
2024.
A more careful study of the stu
alton has revealed. however, that
the United States will not have to
wait quite that long for another
eclipse.
DR.. Charles H. Smiley of Brown
university points out that the next
four total eclipses of the sun which
VIII be visible in the United States
viii occur on July 9. 1945, June 80.
1854, Oct. ?, 1859 and July 20. 1868.
Unfortunately. however. the first
three eclipses all take place in the
United States either at or near sun
rise
Consequently, they will not be as
spectacular as the eclipse of the
present month, nor will they furnish
astronomers with anything like the
same opportunity for scientific OBJ
servation.
This means, therefore, that the
next solar eclipse of scientific value
does not occur until July 20, 1868. a
wait of thirty-one years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
The ECLIPSE Tracks

IN 1887, DR.. Theodore Ritter Won
Il Oppolzer published at Vienna a
book titled Canon der Finster-
nisse, that is, Canon of Eclipses. q"
1t gave the approximate data for
5000 eclipses of the sun and $500
of the moon between 1907 B. c. and
2l62 A. d. The book also contained
maps showing the approximate
tracks of the solar eclipses in the
northern hemisphere.
DR.. Smiley points out that it is
the approximate character of the
maps that have given rise to the
erroneous statements concerning
coming eclipSes. He says that Oppol-
zer's calculations are much more
accurate than his maps.
From Oppolzer's calculations. DR..
Smiley has traced the approximate
paths of the four eclipses which will
be visible in the United States after
the present month.
For the eclipse of July Q. 1945."
he says, the moons shadow will
strike the earth at sunrise Just north
Of Boise, Idaho 1t Will sweep
across the northwestern section of
Ontario, over Hudson bay and
across the northern part of Quebec.
For a point just south of Hudson
strait, the duration Of totally will
be about a minute The sun will be
about "a degrees above the horizon
there.
For the eclipse of June 30. 1854.
the moons shadow will strike the
earth at sunrise in north central
Nebraska. 1t will pass over Lake
Superior, going near the southern
end OF James bay and on out near
the southern tip of Greenland.
For point in northern Quebec
the duration Of totality will be about
two minutes. The sun will then be
about q degrees above the hori-
zon."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
NJ. E. Tracy

What Any Conference Can
DO at This Time to Boom
Business Is Not Quite
Clear.
NEW YORK. Aug. IA confer
IN ence by all means, If President
Hoover wants one, and let no one
be Grass, or unkind in assigning the
motive 1t is possible. of course,
that he called it for political rea-
sons.
On the other hand, it is possible
that he acted from force of habit.
His fondness for conferences is well
known. He has gone quite a while
without one. Maybe the old urge
got beyond his control.
What a conference can do to
boom business at this precise mo-
ment it not so clear. Probably not
muCh. but in that lies the assurance
that no great harm will come of
it. The one in 1929 scarcely made
a rifle, except on paper.
Business kept right on going down
in spite of it, That warrants the
hope that business will keep right
on going up in spite of another.
If the President wants to hear
some cheering words from those on
the firing line, few will begrudge
him the privileges, and if they
should happen to result in cam
paign contribution or two, why
that's the way we do things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
FRENCH MAKE GAINS

ON Aug. II, 1918, French troops
~ penetrated German positions
north of Autreches to a depth OF
more than a mile in three-mile
front in bitter fighting
Americans in Lorraine stormed
the village of Frapolle after heavy
artillery preparation.
British and Canadian forces con-
tinued their smashing tactics in
Picardy and made several impor-
tant gains.
Pressure on the German army on
the western front was extremely
heavy and the German high COM
mand was hard put to find reserves
to replace the troops worn out by
weeks of continuous battle.
Allied commanders were in bet
ter position. replacing tired units
with fresh American divisions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
Even After Election
many American executives

VTERY many American executives
' take the wholly erroneous idea
that when majority vote has put
them into office, their direct pub
lie responsibility ends until next
election day rolls around.
This idea of sort of elected die
tatorship has no sanction in Amer
lean precedent, even in those COM
munities which have failed to es-
tablish machinery providing for
recall.
Once in plaintive ditty, James
j. Walker inquired: will you love
me in December as you did in
May?" I think he ought to be re-
minded of the philosophic concept
which underlies this wistful in
quiry. 1t is quite irrelevant for
him to point, as he has often done,
to the huge majority which he
rolled up in 1929.
BY calendar count alone, that is
almost three years ago. And in
the march of events it is much
longer.
1t is true that the crash had be-
gun when Jimmy swept into office,
but it still was day and age when
people felt that the storm was no
more than a passing shower. Pros
perity had done no more than go
around the corner to telephone.
Jimmy was part of that jazz age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
Questions and
Answers

What is the world running rec
ord for four miles?
Nineteen minutes, 1876 seconds.
What is the address of Helen
Wills Moody?
1870 Sacramento street, San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Which factories manufacture cell
lophane?
1t is an exclusive product of the
Du Pont Cellophane Company of
New York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
What of Tariff, Russia?

A CCORDING to the Presidents
II call, this conference will serve
the purpose Of organizing a con-
certed program of action along the
whole economic front" 1t sounds
military, but just where is the eco
nomic front, not in toto, but in re-
spect to its more important sectors?
Does it happen to include the
tariff wall, for instance, or the bar
riers to Russian trade, or a tax on
beer through modification of the
Volstead act?
To put the thing bluntly, what
will this concerted program of &C
ticn" contain, outside of blurbs
about the living standard, enforced
furloughs instead Of pay cuts, the
necessity of credit expansion with
out real money, and the deSirability
Of credit expansion without real
money, and the desirability of re-
trenchment without reducing ex-
penses?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

will form the nucleus of a state or
ganization, with headquarters in
Indianapolis.
We we're called tramps and buns
by the newspapers, but let us go on
record to say that the citizens of
Washington were for us 100 per
cent. Could we have lived there as
long as we did, be tramps and buns,
and still, at the end, have the public
esteem and sympathy that we did?
When we arrived in Washington
after from three days to two weeks
travel in freight cars, we might
have looked like tramps, but at heart
we are just red FLOODED, two-fsted
American ex-soldiers, fighting for
something belonging to us that will
help keep the wolf away from the
door.
What ex-soldier wants to be a
pan-handler when he knows he has
money coming to him he can't COL
lect?
Approximately IS per cent OF
these men have no homes and no
one TO turn 10 for help. They look
to the B. z. F. for help. What a
blessing it would be if We onlv
could wake somebody up and start
the ball rolling toward employment
and help, not only for the ex-soldier.
but for all unemployed.
E Z. CAMPBELL,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
We Have a Right to Know

THERE is evidence. heaped up
i and running over, which
proves that the mayor of New York
has regarded his official job as a
sort of license granting him privi-
leges not shared by other citizens.
He seems to resent even the fact
that he has been called upon to give
an accounting.
No matter what the ultimate de-
cision may be, I think it is the right
of any community to call upon its
mayor, its governor, or its President
to stand up and explain how and
where and why.
For instance, President Hoover
sent word that he was not in to
a group which wished to question
him as to his reasons for calling
out the troops against the bonus
army. I do not think it is within
the rights of a President to refuse
contact with sincere citizens bent
upon getting information upon q
vital subject.
I think it is particularly open to
criticism, since all recent American
Presidents, including Herbert Hoo
yer. have been all too ready to grant
an audience to this motion picture
star or that amateur golf champion.
1t seemed to me singularly unfor-
tunate some months ago that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

tnem-the mere fact that he called out the army in
stead Of talking with the bonus leaders shows he was
nervous enough to believe anything
II Hoover had not lost his head he would have
remembered that Brigadier-GeneraI Frank T. Hines
director of veterans administration had reported Off
claly that the percentage of veterans in the group
was not 90 but 80 per cent and that two-thjrds of
them had served overseas.
II Hoover had not lost his head he would have re-
membered that General Glassford in charge of Wash
lngton police had the situation under control and
opposed the use of troops.
II hoover had not lost his head be would not have
told the public that the troops acted humanelv uhen
the pubic had read many press accounts bv evewt-
neSseS and had seen news pictures dsproving the
statement
Alter all those errors, Hoover might have realized
that his red bugaboo was silly
But, with an amazing capacity for self-punishnent
ne asked for grand jury Investigation Playing into
the PRESIDENTS hands, the judge told the iurv he
hoped would find that the bonus marchers were not
veterans, but violent radicals
Inc proceedings were one-sided; testimony was
taken against the veterans, but not for then, A
veterans affidavit that federal secret agents provoed
the riot was Ignored
Even So the worst the grand jury could find in this
aHeged revolutionary attempt to overthrow the gov
eminent was that anti Communist veterans were
guilty of violence
ana all three OF these men were wounded overseas
according to official army and navy records One holds
the Distinguished Service Cross
NO" That the legal proceedings, which were to have
supported his action, have shown no cause for his
misuse Oh the army and for misinforming the public
WHAT Is The President going to do about it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
Sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

President Hoover could not find
time to receive the mother of Tom
Mooney. Only a week or so before
he had chatted with Mary Pickford
Maybe it wasn't Mary Pickford.
Perhaps it was Greta Carlo, but
the point remains the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

Health Magazine.
THE vitamins proceed from A
l. to E. Sometimes vitamin B is
divided into two vitamins, called
vitamin F and vitamln G.
Most people know something
about the results of the deficiency
oof vitamins A, B, C and D, in the
form of blindness, polyneuritis and
pellagra, scurvy and ricketts,, ac-
cording to which Of the vitamins
happen to be absent.
Few people realize what has
been learned regarding vitamin E.
In case this vitamin is kept alb
sent from the diets of animals,
they develop an incapability to re-
produce. In the male the GER
minal cells degenerate completely
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
EASY Mayor to Follow

IT'S charm was a pleasant relief
II after the crabapple personality
of John F. Hylan. Back in the days
of the Walker election, there was
feeling that the great metropolitan
amusement center of America
should have a glib and cheerful
greeter After all, this was the port
to which aviators, explorers, and
channel swimmers came.
In those days nobody thought for
moment of asking fremen and
Judges to sacrifice a months pay to
ease the tribulation of city ex-
ecutives. Many felt that we could
afford playboy mayor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

IF I am not going to have wit
i nesses here" said James j.
Walker, lit means that am going
to be removed from office-public
office in which l have invested the
better part of my life. must not
have it all snuffed out"
At the very beginning of the
hearing in Albany, it seems to me
that Mayor Walker has put the en-
phasis on a phase of the situation
where it does not belong. He has
tried to suggest that the drive
against him is part of some personal
feud.
But III all fairness. it must be said
that the case is not one of Samuel
against Jimmy, but of the people Of
New York against the Honorable
James j. Walker, mayor of New
York City.
Il have invested the better part
of my life" he says, but has the man
any complete conception of the fact
that in this investment he has stood
as the trustee of millions of men
and women?