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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23

and Cd creation Of sterilization corporations to buy
up farm products when prices are low and to hold
them for sale until prices rose.
1t was hoped that withholding considerable block
Of farm products from the open market for time
would raise prices thus stabizing the general price
level Of farm products.
What has the farm board achieved?
Some 500 new cooperative associations have come
into existence since the farm board was set up Their
business activities have increased by per cent about
s1OoO0OOOo. Just how far the farm board was di-
recy responsible for development of these agricultural
co-operatives not be said
But its alleged responsibility has increased the
bitter attack upon the board by private business
interests which oppose the co-operatives At any rate
this growth OF cooperative agricultural enterprise
is healthy development.
The farm board has loaned some 1862, 29e, 100 to
these co-operatives which $317697 2o2 has been re-
paid AS these loans were made up to 100 per cent
the value of the holdings of these cooperative asso-
Citations at prices far higher than they today the
co-operatives were put in a bad plight
To the situation the farm board formed sta
bilization corporations in 1880 to hold up the price
of wheat and cotton. Some 3296410o0 bushels of
wheat bought at average price of 81 cents
a bushe and 1919 SO9 bales of cotton at an average
price of is cents pound Since that time wheat has
fallen below so cents bushe and cotton as low as
cents a pound.
In spite of the heroic efforts of the farm board the
condition Of the farmers has been going from bad
worse. AS Facts for Workers" summarizes the situa
ton:
prices Of wheat have sunk to the lowest quotations
on record, cotton is also extremely low are most
other crops The tariff the farm leaders predicted
has been totally ineffective in keeping up the price
moao
than the duty alone must be paid on imported wheat
1.-THE experiment to prove that sterilization
do little for the farmers in face of severe world
wide depression in face of surplus of production
that piles up year after year.
AT the same time it is highly expensive to the tan
payers. The result of these experiences to turn the
thoughts of all concerned to fundamental long
time measures such agricultural planning and land
policy"
In short, what American agriculture needs is an
operation, not massage.
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postage stamp and two eggs to pay
the tax on a box Of matches. Or he
might remember that it takes
100000 dozen eggs, or 1000 busy
hens whole year to pay a con-
gresham or a. Marion county judge
one years salary.
Now, the "don'ts" to Candidates
will read as follows:
Don't tell the voter that it takes
1OO-pound hog to buy the rear
tire for a Ford. Don't tell him that
il takes one and one-half bushels
of wheat, or two bushels OF corn
or four bushels of oats to buy five
gallons of gas; he already knows
that. :
Tell him that a commission IS
looking into the matter and will
report in seven years. But recon-
mend that he buy new autor1o-
bile. That will put some man to
work in Detroit and they need the
money over there worse than we
do.
Don't tell him that when ne mace
that mortgage on his house and
was getting $40 day he could have
paid it of with 400 days work,
while at his present income 1t
would take 1900 days work. Avoid
that.
But tell him you are strong for
keeping up the high American
standard Of living. Tell him that
no one is to blame for the present
condition, unless it is some one way
of IN Europe, that the causes OF
the present times are so obscure
that the secret service department
is following up every clew, and as
soon as sufficient evidence is ac-
luired commission will be ap-
pointed to report in fifteen years.
Encourage your voter to stop
boarding and put his money into
circulation; to buy q new car, re-
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-As the time for the
state conventions of the majer par
ties approach, it might be well to
make a few suggestions to the new
delegates and issue, as it were, a
small handbook to guide the plat
form builders and candidates.
In general, a platform must be
adopted that is forgotten easily.
Something that often is referred to
during heated campaign, but, like
the Constitution, with the possible
exception of the eighteenth amend
ment, or the ten commandments, it
can be referred to, but outside of the
title, left to be looked up later.
One suggestion would be to get in
plenty of flag waving. Don't forget
Bunker Hill or Gettysburg. Refer
often to Lincoln or Jackson, but
don't quote them. Stand for law
enforcement, but avoid becoming
personal. Stand squarely for re-
duced taxes, but avoid mentioning
reduced expenditures.
Give both barrels to the public
utilities, but through an oversight,
don't mention the public service
commission. Don't mention the
campaign fund, but don't forget to
work out a way to get it. Don't
mention the Volstead act, and by all
means don't say anything about 4
per cent.
That might lose the bankers vote,
for their rule is 8 per cent, The
finance company would demand ~
per cent, the tax collector would
demand 10 per cent every three
months. That would not fit in a
harmony platform.
So get by that issue by appealing
to the President TO appoint a COM
mission to report in five years.
Don't mention q chicken in every
pot" for the voter may remember
| that IL takes four eggs to buy q
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Less Bold Than Patrick

W7H1CH reminds me that
w should have added Patrict
Henry to the list of those conscript-
ed Tor the contribution of flowers
OF speech. Franklin Roosevelt
undoubtedly rang out his words
boldly and looked toward the audi
ence with flashing eye.
Here was a gallant and a coura-
geous figure, and hats went sailing
up to the Skylight. But what does
1t mean? Is it reasonable to hail
tnls as an answer to Al Smith?
After all, I can't remember that
Al ever said he was in favor of
Americas being governed by q plu-
tocracy. Ritchie didn't say it or
Baker-or even Hoover, for that
matter.
So if We are all agreed that we
should not be governed by a plu-
tocracy, what earthly reason is there
Tor any candidate to stress his op-
position to itP
Certainly it took no courage to
cry, IF that be treason, make the
most of it,"
When Patrick Henry said that,
he really was taking a chance. He
might have been arrested, convict
ed and sentenced for his remark.
But I hardly think Franklin Roose-
welt actually believes he is in dan
ger Of the firing squad because of
his ringing declaration against plu-
tocracy.
No, I do not feel that Franklin
Roosevelt put anything much but
his larynx and his book Of Bart
let's Familiar Quotations" into the
st. Paul speech. II you ike preva-
lent styles in oreconvention oratory.
I think that the address was no bet
ter and no worse than a hundred
others which have been made and
will be.
Indeed, will go further and sd-
NIT that, in my opinion, Franklin
Roosevelt would make Just as good
q President as Pierce or Polk. But
the time demands a true pinch hit
ter who will really take a cut at the
woes which assail us, and so far
Roosevelt seems to be the sort of
hitter who Is likely to let the third
strike drift over the plate without
even taking his bat from his shoul-
der.
tcOpyrighs. 1881 By Ths rmsH
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Quick Money

CIRCULATION has tended to
~ concentrate holdings and credit.
Big loans on big stock issues, or
big stock deals, have become the
vogue. What a stock is worth,
rather than what the business back
of it is worth, has become the all
important consideration.
For this reason many business
executives have been inspired to
neglect their jobs while they tried
to make quick money by gambling
in the stock of their own concerns.
In other words, speculation has
tended to divert attention from
honest, consistent effort in the de-
velopment of business and industry.
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Questions and
Answers

Are japanese permitted to ac-
quire and own land In the United
States?
Japanese aliens, that is all who
were not born in this country, can
not own or acquire land in Arizona,
California, Delaware. Idaho, Louisi-
ana, Oregon and Washington. In
some other states they can acquire
lands subject to some minor Ani-
tations, and in others there are no
restrictions.
Is the bite Of tarantula fatal?
The ordinary tarantula's bite is
painful but not dangerous.
Why does glass covered with black
paint crack when exposed to the
direct rays Of the sun more readily
than plain glass?
Because black absorbs more heat
rays than plain or other colored
glass.
What Is . corduroy road?
One made Of logs laid croSSways
presenting . ribbed surface re-
sembling corduroy cloth.
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Different Gamble

DROPONENTS of organized spec
l. ulation always are arguing that
it is nothing but the gamble which
goes with every phase of life, that
there is no difference between buy
ing, or selling a stock and buying,
or selling a restaurant, that Who
ever tries to make dollar must
take some risk and so on.
The comparison is false. 1t is
not the same thing to earn money
by betting on your own ability
that it is to make it by betting on
another mans ability.
There is no sense in the hypothe-
sis that the turn of a card repre-
sents the same kind of gamble, or
same kind of risk as planting an
acre of corn.
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Market Misleading

EXPERTS, as well as ordinary
IL folks, have been mislead by
the results of speculation. They had
the utmost faith in values that
were too high three years ago. They
have no faith at all in values that
are too low right now.
If stock quotations meant what
is claimed for them this country
would be only about fifth, or a
fourth, as we'll off as it was in the
summer of 1929. Hard as times
are, no one believes anything like
that.
Listed stocks seldom reflect the
true condition of our economic
structure That is because they are
subject to forces and pressures
which have little connection with,
or little interest in, its true con-
dition.
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How Mountains Grow
THESE minor readjustments O

THESE minor readjustments or
Il warpings of the earth's crust
in time set up strains that cause
a breaking and greater readjust-
ment between the rising and setting
masses of rock.
When these take place, large rock
masses frequently are buckled up
into great mountain ranges. Eight
establishments of the sort which
bring mountain ranges into exist
ence are believed to have taken
place in North America during the
lifetime of the earth.
Finally there are the great
periods Of readjustment when the
parts of the continents as units are
lifted above or sunk below the sea
level.
Biologists believe that there have
been six such major readjustments
in the history of the world. They
believe that the earth passed
through a period of major read
justment just prior to our present
era and that as a result the con-
tinents stand higher above the
oceans today than they have dur
ing most of the earth's history.
1t is necessary to keep in mind
the geological scale Of time in or
der to understand these readjust-
ments.
To human. being, a century is
a very long time; few men live 100
years. But in geology, $4,000
years is rather small unit of
time.
For a great mountain range to
rise may take from 100000 to $780,
900 years.
Next: EARTHQUAKES
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What Would Happen2

lust what would happen if we
- closed the stock exchange, if
securities had to be sold over the
counter, if bankers had to study and
analyze each particular enterprise
in order to find out what it was
worth and if the presidents, vice
president, general managers and de-
partment heads of corporations had
little other chance to make money
than by doing better work?
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Speculative Values

T AM a skeptic about open, or
= gained stock-trading as ar
essential factor of economic
progress.
Speculation in stocks undoubtedly
has helped big corporations to
merge, or float capital loans, but is
that an unmixed blessing?
Speculation undoubtedly relieves
the banker of having to study and
analyze corporation reports. All he
needs is to read the last quotation.
Our credit system has come to
rest mainly on listed securities, and
the value of those securities has
come to be determined largely by
what professional traders will give,
or take, not for investment pur-
poses, but as a gamble.
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ALLIES ATTACK ZEEBRUGGE
April Or

ON April %, 1918, the allies
" waged a successful sea battle
against the German submarine
bases at Zeebrugge and Ostend.
British naval forces, headed by
Vice Commander Keyes, With the
cooperation of French destroyers.
succeeded in bottling up the har-
Dor at zeebrugge by sinking three
battleship hulks at the entrance.
All three were loaded with cement
that became solid concrete on
contact with the water. While the
undertaking was highly successful,
the allies lost fifty officers and 538
men.
at Ostend the attempt to close
the harbor was unsuccessful. Two
ship hulks sunk in the water of
the harbor were not effectively
placed, and another attempt was
planned for a few weeks later.
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furnish his home, and buy a couple
of vacant lots. Avoid wet and dry
arguments.
Mention the Presidents name and
congress with wartime loyalty, and
avoid abusing any one, except a
corner policeman, perhaps. BY
adopting these suggestions, we will
be able to promote great harmony
and educational campaign which
the people are so sorely in need.
BERT WILHELM.
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One Foot in the Notes

THERE ought to be primer for
i voters, and it might well begin
with the Injunction, Never trust q
quoter." For my own part I would
like to add, And cut the candidate
who is reminded of an anecdote."
But that is possibly whim. The
first commandment is the more i'm
portant.
In the case of the st. Paul speech,
I found myself badly fooled by the
headlines. In half q dozen papers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the
Health MAGAZINE


Health Magazine.
TIME difference between man and
i the ape is the difference be-
tween an automatic machine and
reasoning power. In other words,
brains make the human being diff
ferent from the animal.
In Liverpool, DR.. w. Blair Bell,
noted British surgeon, considered
some of the means devised for de-
ternining whether a person has the
amount of brains necessary for sue
cess in life.
1t commonly is said that one man
has brains and another has not, the
comparison usually referring to
what most people consider average.
The mental tests commonly used
fail to take into account numerous
factors which are significant; for
example, the amount of sleep that
the individual has had, his physical
state of health, and perhaps the
variations in the testers.
What we call intellectual gifts,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Radium Causes Heat

N 11d1N recent years IL mas been
w suggested that the periodic
movements Of the earth's crust
which cause volcanis action and
earthquakes might be phenomena
restricted to the crust itself and not
in any way concerning the interior
of the earth.
Professor Joly's radium theory
takes this point of view. He has
suggested that accumulations of
radioactive material in the earth's
crust may be the underlying cause.
This material would cause a rise
in temperature deep in the earth's
crust, resulting finally in the melt
ing of the deep layers of rock. Such
melting would, of course, be &C
companied by expansion Of the
rocks.
In time, however, the heat would
be disSipated and the rocks again
would contract and solidify. This
would cause contraction Of the
earth's crust.
According to Professor Joly's
theory, therefore, there would be
a periodic oscillation of the earth's
crust rather than a continuous
gradual contraction.
AS contraction goes on in the
earth's crust, it first sets up strains
that cause movements of small por-
tons of the earth's crust. The diff
ference of elevation caused by these
warpingS is only several hundred
feet as rule.
Minor adjustments or warpings of
this sort are known to be going on
in many parts Of the world at the
present time. For example, the sea
coast of Scandinavia Is slowly
rising.
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Mostly Dead Authors

'iNOtlJ COQu RUlllUI
IF any part of Franklin Roose-
4 velt's scholarly address touched
a single issue raised by AL Smith.
am the brother-in- law of Demos
themes. He quoted Woodrow Will
son On the philosophy of the fed
erallSts, Theodore Roosevelt on
manhood, Abraham Lincoln on
secession, and Chesterton on the
habits of British tram passengers
Voters like to be told the honesty
is the best policy, that two and two
is four and that it is better to be
prosperous than poor. Picture the
deafening applause which must
have greeted Roosevelt when he
said: This government is not and
never shall be governed by pluto
cracy. This government is not and
never shall be governed by a mob.
1t is to this national community
OF interest that we shall dedicate
ourselves tonight. If that be trea-
son make the most Of it,"
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Daily Thought

We all do fade as = Leaf
Isaiah 64:6.
Death hath thousand doors 10
let out hfe.-Massinger
What is the speed Of the fastest
regular railroad train In the United
States?
The Boardwalk flyer operated by
the Philadelphia d Reading rail-
road between Philadelphia and At
lantic City, travels nfty-Six miles In
f1fty-fiye minutes.
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M. E. Tracy
Speculation Has Tended to
Divert Attention From
Honest, Consistent Effort
in the Development of
Says
Business and. Industry.

- w. r ffN~'NN ~
Business and Industry.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Richard
c. Whitney, head Of the New York
Stock Exchange, says that short
selling is essential to speculation. I
am inclined to agree. Stock trading
without short sales would be like a
game of solitaire. But how essential
is speculation to legitimate busi-
ness?
General Charles C. Dawes, head
Of the Finance Reconstruction Cor
poration, describes the New York
Stock Exchange as a peanut stand, I"
and operations on it as "picaylnish"
compared to our real business ac-
tivities.
1t does not follow that Dawes is
wrong because Whitney is right. A
certain rule may be essential to stud
poker, but that hardly proves that
stud poker is essential to industry.
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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 disbursement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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A Note to Republicans

The fate of this city and county may be deter
mined by the action Of the next national conventions
Citizens have the sheep habit
But in such condition it may be we'll to remind
the Republican voters that they have the respon-
sbility Of naming ticket whose nominees will be
decent intelligent and devoted to the public interest
They may be elected.
In this situation there is a special duty placed
upon those who vote in the Republican primary to
see that Judson Stark is nominated for prosecuting
attorney
The present prosecutor has carried in the trad-
tons established by Bill Remy, when he dehed the
power OF organized politics. Herbert E. Wilson, the
Democratic incumbent, has made good
But there is just the chance that the roulette of
politics may sweep into power political opponent.
In that case there should be no question to the
responsibility of Republican voters. They should
that Cof1nism does not grab that Office. does not
have the power which gives immunity to crime, to
punish enemies by Indictment to give freedom to
criminals
If, perchance, the Republican ticket should win,
Judson Stark should go back into Office.
In a contest between Herbert Wilson and Judson
Stark, the independent voter might play golf on
election day.
With the price of soap at $3.50 bar, Russia
automatically becomes small boys paradise.
One marriage in every six ends in divorce, but the
other five couples fight it out to the bitter end
That soft coal mined in Kentucky seems to come
pretty hard at that
Only one man was killed in the Chicago primaries,
and his death accident. How the old town
has changed!
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Volcanic Eruptions and
Earthquakes Are Sudden
Manifestat ions of the
Notwithstanding Forces
in the Edrth's Crust.
ID ALBUM was the underlying
N and fundamental cause Of the
great volcanic eruptions in the
Andes which treated South Ameri-
can cities to a shower OF ashes, &C
cording to the theory Of Professor
Jolly of Dublin.
Both volcanic eruptionS and
earthquakes are the sudden mani
feStations Of forces which are con-
tinuously at work within the earth's
crust. the so-called mountain-build-
ing forces which buckle up the
earth's surface into mountain
ranges.
Professor Joly's theory is one cf
the newer theories to explain these
contractions Of the earth'S crust.
1t has been assumed generally
that this contraction was the result
of shrinkage Of the earth's inte-
rior occaSioned by the loss Of heat
from the earth interior.
II the interior of the earth
shrank, the earth's crust would be
too large for it. AS a result, great
stresses and strains would be set
up in it which over a long period
would change the shape of the
earth'S crust.
Since the continents are lighter
rocks and the ocean beds heavier
rocks. adjustment would take place
through sinking of the ocean bot
toms and subsequent rising of the
continents.
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Only one man was killed in the Chicago primaries,
and his death was accident. How the old town
has changed
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That soft coal mined in Kentucky seems to come
pretty hard at that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23

One marriage in every six ends in divorce, but the
other five couples fight it out to the bitter end.
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With the price of soap at $3.50 bar, Russia
automatically becomes a small boys paradise.
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