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The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

With swoop and dash, again demonstrating
the effectiveness Of the veterans lobby the house of
representatives has voted to add from ten to fifteen
million dollars to the nations expense during the
worst year Of the depression.
1t did this by the overwhelming score of 316 to 16.
And, to provide touch of irony, it picked its
time breathing spell in its economy session. 1t
jammed this through under suspension of the rules
and a forty-minute limit in debate.
On April 10, Talcott Powell in one Of his series
on the cost of veterans relief described in detail
precisely this customary technique of the veterans
lobby. He wrote: Bills favorabiy reported usually
pass under suspension of the rules. which limits de-
bate and forbids amendments from the floor"
The bill, which not only adds from ten to fifteen
millions to federal expense for the year. but repre-
sents commitment of many, many times that num-
OF millions for the years to come running true
to form and to schedule.
There has been much bewailing of lack OF leader
ship and of efficiency in these dark times But there
is no lack of either in operation of the veterans lobby
Its performance is perfect.
The pension bill adds another chapter to the al
ready long list of departures from the original relief
plan the of which to take care of cases
arising from direct service casualties.
Pensions for widows and orphans OF men killed
in the war have been in effect for years This
measure makes eHglole WlooWs ana ofpnans OF VET
erans who have died since the and who die in
the future provided childless widows annual in
come outside of daily labor less than $3.50 and the
income of orphans or widows with children is not
more than S4OO.
This despite the cold fact of nation, already
billions of dollars in the hole actually increasing
expense since the depression started and that hap
penng while its taxpayers capacity to pay has
dwindled at an ever-accelerating rate
No business and no individual can survive on de-
clning income and increasing costs-and neither can
a government.
The problem is: What can this country afford?
Our budget is unbalanced. We spending more
than we take in. The end of that is destruction
1t therefore is imperative that we stop the spend
ing of millions with such nonchalant wave of the
hand the house of representatives gave on MondG
when the latest pension bill passed.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

This Nations Credit Is Not
Ine1h0uStible, Nor Hes Its
Stability Been Guaranteed
By Providence.
NEW YORK, May At looks as
Y though We were headed for
imitation, not of a studied. reason
able sort that might be Of some
benefit. but Of the half-baked,
eleventh-hour variety that knows
no restraint, once it gets started.
We dream Of pegging dollars at
the 1926 level. of bringing prices
and wages back by the magic wand
Of legislation.
Bad as times may be, they are
not bad enough to convince poll
ticians that retrenchment is neces-
sary. except in homeopathic doses.
The idea of increased revenue
through taxation still is taken much
more seriously as a buck passing
game than as an emergency meas
ure. Those who want to escape
payment, or hold their jobs are
making nine-tenths OF the noise.
Every special tax and every item
of economy thus far proposed has
brought forth an outcry, but the
proposition of putting the govern
ment on sound financial basis
stirs little interest.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

"VXTELDING with gases and elec-
wv tricity are relatively new
processes. but have a background OF
more than decade Of scientific re-
search" Sparagen says. In recent
years. such welding has been
adapted to buildings and bridges.
welding came to the attention of
engineers during the World war as
an aid in shipbuilding. Prior TO this
time, it had been used with varied
success in repair work, particularly
on the railroads.
Good Yields could be produced
under certain conditions, whereas
poor YIELDS resulted in others. Weld
ing experts we're unable to give sat-
isfsctory reasons. Investigations
started during the war were con-
tinued.
With the organization of the
American Welding Society and its
research department, the American
bureau of welding, this research
work was expanded.
Leading structural engineers =
few years ago began to study the
application Of welding TO the fabri-
cation Of steel structures. Investiga-
tors in this country and Australia
undertook tests.
"A few important structures we're
fabricated by welding, including
some gas holders in Australia. some
small ships here and in Europe and
few small buildings in this country
and in England"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
GERMAN ATTACK FAILS
May 4

ON May 4, 1918, German at
~ tack on LOGON was repulsed,
with heavy losses. British and
French forces in Picardy continued
heir local counter attacks, improv-
ing their positions at Meteren and
at Locre, after sharp fighting
American troops in the Lorraine
sector raided the German lines and
penetrated to the third line Of de-
fense near Holloville.
A French shell was reported to
have disabled the last of the long
range German guns which had been
shelling Paris since the start Of the
great German drive on March II.
The United States senate adopted
the sedition bill, permitting the
government to punish disloyal acts
and utterances for the duration Of
the war
Berlin dispatches said that a
treaty of peace between Rumania
and the Central Powers had been
agreed upon and would be signed
within week.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
Guard Nation First

A TWO BILLION DOLLAR
n deficit may not sound very
alarming for a nation estimated to
be worth three hundred billion, but
coming on top of a thr e-year de-
preston, an international mora
torium, and so per cent slump IN
trade and profit, it is not to be
taken lightly.
Certainly, such a situation calls
for more than the indiscriminate
appropriation of public funds for
those who may, or may not, need
help, or futile wrangling over in
consequential items of thrift.
1t should be apparent to even the
dullest mind that the nation is of
more Importance than any group,
or clique within the nation, and
that its interests should be safe
| guarded first.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

II American farmers once possessors Of the ma
ton are not to be turned into peasants their taxes
must be reduced and their buying power restored.
Renck w. Dunlap, assistant secretary OF sgricul-
ture saws that an American farmer now must toll
one year out Of every just TO pay taxes! In GER
tain regions taxes high that farmers must buy
their own farms back every nine years to keep them
out of the sheriffs hands.
Agricultures total annual tax burden is more than
81 900 100000 or nearly sS,OOOOOO a day No other
industry carries such a load.
While the farmers taxes have gone up 226 per
cent since 1914. mis- buying power has been cut In
half The things he sells bring him SO cents, as COM
pared with dollar in 1914; the things he buys cost
si14 compared with the 1914 iriex Of 81.
Results, of course, devastating. More than
l0oO000O0 recently have gone into public own
ership through tax delinquencies. For example, in
1877 nearly one-fourth OF of seventeen coun-
ties in wisconsin was put under the hammer because
of delinquent taxes: in Mississippi. Senator Howell
told the senate, 10000 farms. one-fourth Of the
states farm area have been put up at sheris sales
Many of those who remain on the land resort to
barter. IN some sections. farms reverting TO
conditions comparable with city slums.
Remedies lie in social action. States. counties and
cities should not wait for the federal government TO
do al the economizing Since they account for 10
per cent Of tax burdens they should apply economy
and efnciency consolidate duplicating functions, en-
expenses drive out grafters and wasters adopt sys-
TENS comparable to the city manager plan
More Of the tax burden should be taken from real
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
SCIENCE
-RY DAVID DIETZ-
Welding Net0 Departure IN
Building Modern Ste el-
Frame House.
4 LL-wELDED steel frame houses

A LL-wELDED steel frame houses
n will be common in the near fu-
ture, according to william Sparagen.
secretary Of the American Bureau or
Welding.
Sparagen sets forth his views IN
a report prepared for the Engineer
ing Foundation of New York.
Welding possesses the advantage
of being noiseless. The fact, plus
economies and ease of application.
according TO Sparagen, recommend
II for construction OF homes.
More than Us municipalities
have adopted welding in their build
ing codes. he says. With accurate
design data, control c. products IS
made sure through employment Of
qualified welders and inspectors. and
designs adapted to welding.
welding has been helpful in steel
buildings to resist earthquake and
wind. which in some instances would
require unusually elaborate designs
II riveted.
"An example is the new head
quarters Of the Southern California
Edison Co. at Los Angeles.
The heaviest welded truss to date
weighs so tons, with span OF 96
feet and a height of Is feet. Il was
installed for the Forest Lawn Me-
mortal Park mausoleum."
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

to 60 out and tell the world that
there is no God is just as much a
missionary as the man who believes
that China will be lost unless it is
converted to Methodism.
1t is not within my purpose or
power to prove which one is right.
For the sake of the record, may
as we'll set down the fact that /
am not myself either a Methodist
or an atheist. But in saying this
am merely seeking to establish
my own neutral position.
I recognize the right of both the
yea and the nay sayers TO full, free
and fervent expression OF their
opinion. The fanatic on either side
may turn out to be a nuisance no
end, and yet our discomfort is not
sufficient reason for the imposition
o. any curb.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
Questions and
Answers

What is bimetalism?
II is the name for that theory Of
money tnat is based upon both gold
and silver as standards, the valus
and ratio Of these metals being fixed
by law and international agree
ment.
Where and when was Merton
Downey borng
Wallingford, Conn, Nov. IA, 1901.
Did American imports decrease
in 1880 from the preceding year?
The total imports in 1880 amounts
ed TO s3,062. .000.000, a 30 per cent
reduction in value from the pre-
ceding year.
When a grandfather, his son and
grandson all bearing the same name
are living, how are they desig-
mated?
The grandfather is the senior,
the son the junior and the grand
son is designated as III.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
A Case of Folly

TT is strange that we should feel
i as we do, with the spectacle of
Europe before our eyes, with an in
ternational moratorium in force. and
half the civilized world unable to
meet its debts.
Have men learned nothing from
the collapse of public securities
abroad? Do they imagine that this
country has grown so great as to be
an exception to the operation of
economic laws?
There is no human institution so
secure that it can not be under
mined by human folly.
Three years ago. we all were OBJ
sessed with the idea that some of
our great corporations were un-
shakable; but look at the stock
market report.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
Must Maintain Credit

MO one can quarrel with the
IN idea of trying to be just to
every group of citizens, whether
from the standpoint of economy or
taxation. but that idea must be
subordinated to the manifest needs
of the country.
After all, the real problem is to
maintain public credit and public
confidence. It is not an easy
problem. 1t includes disappointment
and sacrifice all along the line.
Meeting a situation like that
which confronts the United States
calls for the same kind of CO.
operation as war There is no way
in which people can buy themselves
into prosperity; no way in which
public credit can be strained be-
yond certain limits, without the
risk of smashing it: no way in
which imitation can be made to take
the place of productive work with
out cheap money as the result.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
FiVe-Year Program

TINE art Of welding received con-
i siderable impetus from the
five-year program launched by the
structural steel welding commits
tee.
It's scope and thoroughness COM
manded the attention OF architects
and engineers. "Sparagen says: 1T
involved the fabrication and testing
of several thousand specimens
welded by sixty-one welders at thir-
ty-nine shops and tested at twenty
four laboratories, including college
and commercial institutions, and
the United States bureau of stand
ards. This research disclosed no
harmful effect on the base metal
due to Welding.
Since tests on 2.495 specimens in
dicated that joints commercially
welded by qualified welderS may be
expected to possess strengths with
in - per cent of general average
results, engineers and architects
may feel secure in expecting, in their
completed structures. the strengths
required by their drawings.
"A new hotel building was recent
ly erected at Hot Springs, Va, be-
tween two existing structures. It was
necessary to avoid the noise OF nv
citing.
This structure was twelve stories,
and was the first so-called tier
building OF this size to be welded.
"A five-story heavy duty ware
house was constructed by the Amer
ican Bridge Co. for the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing
Company.
The continuity of beams and GRID
ers which was provided resulted in
a IL per cent saving in steel "
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HBH%S9D BR0TS

scale demonstration of the per-
suasiveness of a secular religion. II
can even take unto itself all the
bigotry of affirmative dogma.
There are heresies in negation as
we'll as avowal. The familier advice
that every one of us should seize
upon some belief which he can es-
pouse with passion doesn't cover
enough ground.
1t is possible to live, on this earth
at least. full, complete and happy
life upon the basis of fervency in
doubt and denial
Copyright. 1892 bv The Times
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

George Washington declined to
accept salary while he was Presi-
dent Of the United States, but in
order not to establish a precedent
he accepted of the S25,000 appro-
priated enough TO cover his ex-
penses. The salary of the Presi-
dent remained at $4,000 until
Grants second term, March 3. 1873,
when it was increased to $50, 900;
in the second session of the sixtieth
congress the salary was fixed at
SIS, 200, during the administration
of President Taft. The salary at
present is $4,000 a year with an
allowance for travelling expenses.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
Both Are PrOseIyterS

IF sheer ardor is the test of the re-
l. ligious nature. I can testify from
personal experience that the en-
battled atheist can seize upon a
buttonhole and cling TO it with just
as much tenacity as any Billy Sun
day. These gentleman are playing
the opposite side of the street from
the clergy, but it is the same street,
and 1 do not understand why they
should be so eager to deny their
cousinship with the dominies.
When I was young and strictly
brought up, was much impressed
by an argument which now seems to
me fallacious. I was told that If a
man lost all religious faith, that was
his privilege, but chat it was cruel
Of him to attempt to break down
the comfortable and sustaining be-
liefs which solaced the misery of
others.
That is not a fair statement of
the case, for the rampant atheist
viii contend with you till the dawn
or later that dogmatic creeds do not
bring JOY into the world. but only
apprehension. suffering, and sorrow.
All generalizations are incorrect.
I have know religious views to make
for peace and contentnent in GER
tain cases and to be a scourge and
a torment in other instances. II de-
pends upon the dogma and upon
the individual.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEN

Ons AtAOANAAA2
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE laws of most states and
l. municipalities now demand that
the child be vaccinated successfully
against smallpox before it is per-
m.tteo to enter school. There is
plenty of evidence from all over the
world to indicate that smallpox vac
cination actually protects against
the disease. Millions of people have
been vaccinated successfully with
out harm.
Nowadays the child also should
be given the benefit of immuniza-
ton against diphtheria with toxin
antitoxin or with toXoid. Here also
millions of children have had the
prevention without harm, and the
scientific records show definitely
that the death rates and the
amount of illness from diphtheria
are decreasing steadily.
Today these are the two methods
of incubation against disease which
are established fully and which well
may be recommended as routine for
every child.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
The Nation" Goes Wet

And now it's Oswald Garrison Wizards Nation
that joins the swelling chorus with editorial ob
cato: Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment"
For years the Nation has held stubbornly to its
dry faith. It's view not that of the bigots but
that of liberals who thought prohibition would clear
the brains of the working men and increase the
purchasing power of the masses
Now it sees that the laws enforcement is hopeless
and that conditions steadily have grown worse" 1t
the President tossing aside his wickersham
commissions wet report and remaining "oblivious to
growing corruption growing defiance to the funda-
mental law, and the Constitution ITSELF His sue
cessor, The Nation thinks will do no better.
Under the circumstances, what else is there left
but to ask for repeal? Willard urges congress forth
with to vote substitute amendment abolishing the
offending eighteenth and to call upon the states to
ratify the change at especially called conventions.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

NOTHING has occurred TO re-
IN lieve men of the necessity of
using their wits. We are in posses
sion of no machine that will run
itself, no system that can with
stand neglect.
Rich and powerful as this gov
ernment of ours is, still it requires
the wide-awake, conscientious serv-
ice of its citizens, particularly of
those selected to run it. It's credit
is not inexhaustible and its sta
bility has not been guaranteed by
providence,
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

estate and shifted to properly graduated incomes,
estate and gift President Hoover at the Rich
mond conference OF Governors showed the unequal
burden borne by real estate
Also. by legalizing and taxing, liquor budgets can
be balanced without slashing education and other
essential functions.
Finally, the spread between the farmers buying
and selling power can be narrowed by reducing the
high tariff by which he goldbricked in 1880.
BY doing nothing We must sit by and watch
Americas independent farmers become serfs.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

CHARLES SMITH, president Of
~ American Association for the
Advancement of Atheism, just has
won court victory which seems
to me extremely harmful to the
cause which he represents.
Mr.. Smith was arrested after a
New York street corner meeting on
the ground that he had violated a
city ordinance which prohibits
preaching without n license. The
court of special sessions affirmed
the conviction, but this decision has
just been reversed by the court Of
appeals.
I assume that Mr.. Smith, like all
ardent evangelists, cared less about
the penalty than the principle Of
the thing. He based his defense
upon the contention that the ordi-
nance in question applied only to
religious teaching, and the highest
court of the state of New York
upheld him by deciding that the
statute in question does not include
the attempt of the defendant to
show that for centuries the ma
jority of us have been wrong"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one Of Americas most inter-
estinx writers and are pre-
sented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

Freethinker Can Be Merry
ON the other hand there is no
~ truth at all in the notion that
all unhelievers are Grabbed, cynical
and bitter folk, taking a perverse
pleasure in the business Of convert
ing disciples int their own defeat
ism. Certain atheists Of my ac-
Quaintance are flied with a right
eous glow as they proceed busily
about their missionary work.
They get just as much sense of
blessedness out Of unmasking" or
"expoeing" the Bible as anybody in
a pulpit seems to derive out Of ex-
pounding It.
It is entirely erroneous to as
sumo that there are no martyrs ex-
cept Christian ones. / haven't a
doubt that Mr.. Smith gladly would
embrace an opportunity to be
thrown to the lions for what he be-
leves. Or. rather. what he doesn't
believe.
But ii is not necessary to build
the case upon any individual in
stance. In Russia we have large
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

La Gusrdia says the stock market is crooked Some
thing viii have to be done about him. Next he'll be
telling us that wrestling matches fixed.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

When steel went off the dividend for its common
stock it broke precedent of seventeen years stand
ing. Stockholders unanimously against following
the new precedent that long.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

This IL the third of series Of ak
articles by Or. Fishbein on Your Child's
Health" Others will follow daily.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
DiSoWning Natural Kin

DlS0WlllIlg Ndtul Ill NH
0N the face OF it. this sounds
" like a victory for free speech
and freedom of assembly, but lit
tie scruity will show that it is pre-
cisely the opposite. Preachers are
bound by special prohibitions, such
as that forbldding unlicensed street
corner worship, only because they
are the recipients of peculiar legis-
lative favors.
If Mr.. Smith we're to establish a
temple upon Filth avenue in New
York for services in which to deny
the existence of a Creator, he would
not be allowed to claim tax exemp-
ton, on the ground that this was
religious edifice.
And it seems to me that he should
make his fight along these lines. He
ought to claim for himself the same
status and the same disabilities as
obtain in the case of disseminators
of the more orthodox faiths. Fun
damentally. atheism Is religion.
Denial is Just as positive an act as
affirmation.
The individual who gets a CALI
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04
Daily Thought

Say TO them that are of a fear
full heart, Be strong, fear not:
behold, your God will come with
vengeance, even God with a rec
ompence; He will come and save
you.-Isaiah, 1874.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-04

The best thing which we derive
from history is the enthusiasm that
it raises in us.-Goethe.
The Washington times., 1932-10-07
FIREMAN GIVEN
MERIT AWARD

Z The Red Cross Award of Merit,
the only such presentation that
has been made in Montgomery
county, and possibly the only one
in Maryland, has been given to
w. Valentine Wilson, chief of the
Rockville Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, for saving the life of
Charles West, Darnestown, Md,
last April.
a Chief Wilson responded with
the Rockville fire rescue squad to
a call after an automobile acci-
dent near Rockville the night of
April 10. Young West was found
unconscious with blood squirting
from a cash in his throat.
Wilson pinches the severed
tugular vein with his fingers and
stopped the flow of blood, while
West was taken to Emergency
Hospital by the rescue squad
truck.
: Chief Wilson rode beside the
injured boy on his knees all the
way to the hospital from Rock
vile, although his knuckles had
become numb from his task. The
trip to the hospital had been
timed and it has been reported
that Chief Wilson had held the
severed jugular vein together for
exactly 81 minutes.
Doctors at Emergency Hospital
gave Wilson credit for saving the
boys life.