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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06

10 cut all work hours 10 per cent thereby adding
some 100000 workers now jobless to the nations
pay roll.
But with the cut in time goes a cut in wages so
that the total industrial wage bill remains unchanged.
The present workers and stockholders would
contribute the cost of the sixth days wage from wages
and dividends to hire the new man. The employers
contribute nothing.
Economists will see in this plan bit of Yankee
shrewdness that to miss the whole social the
DRY behind the shorter work period That is that
in the machine age produce as much goods and
wealth in less time by of increased efficiency.
This theory worked when we abandoned the old
twelve and ten-hour days for the eght-how sched-
ue. In experiments far appears to have worked
also for the six hour day
year ago the Kellogg company Of Battle Greek
increased its three eght-hour shifts to four sixhour
shifts and adjusted its wages to give the bulk of all
workers the old scale. Immediately, company off
Gals reported, efficiency increased.
Even with 20 per cent more workers. the COM
pany in one of its most prosperous years Western
Electric and Dupont companies reported somewhat
similar experiences under the fve-day week
If the New Hampshire plan become national we
SHALL of course have fewer unemployed but all work
will step down to lower living standard. This
further will destroy markets and retard business re-
covery
IT, on the other hand, employees increase efficiency
and eliminate waste many of them probably can re-
duce hours without reducing pay. This will benefit
them by conserving the countrys buying power for
their products.
Shorter hours will come. For not only should the
depressions obless be absorbed but room should be
made for the "technologically unemployed" who will
be with us after hard times are past
I'VE must create millions of jobs" said President
Green OF the American Federation of Labor Friday
Shortening work hours is a first step to do it,"
Place on the payrolls of the country can be made
for ALL we believe, without further depressing living
standards and reducing the purchasing power of the
people,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Katsuii Debuchi

.1ananese Ambassador Katsuii Debuchi is soon to
leave Washington for home. Reports are that he is
to be replaced.
If that is true it is not only regretabe, but
little omnous. 1t is an open secret that the MILL
tarists of Japan were dissatisfied with his handling
of Nppon's Manchurian invasion episode in this
country
He was too conciliatory, they said. Too mild with
the state department.
Few diplomats have made more friends in Amer
lea than Ambassador Debuch. Few have handled
themselves better in difficult situation During the
most dangerous moments of the Japanese ChineSe
conflict when the entire world was frankly critical Oh
Japan's actions, he kept his feet on the ground He
never lost his head Nor did he lose his emper-and
that was the most important of all His contagious
smile and his personality carried him much farther
at Washington than any amount of table-pounding
Bluster is seldom aid to diplomacy, as Japan mas
very good reason to know But for her threat OF
"serous consequences uttered on the of a vote
in congress on Japanese exclusion the act most likely
never would have passed.
A similar gesture at the height of the Sino-Japa-
nese crisis. to put it conservatvely,N would have
availed Japan exactly nothing whatever. 1t would
have aggravated instead of appeased, world sentl-
ment against Japanese aggression
Today Japan is reported to be contemplating new
imperialstic ventures in Asia. If that is So then true
diplomacy of the very highest order, not saber-rat-
ting will be vital abroad.
We trust therefore, that if Ambassador Debuchl
is replaced at washington it will not be by two
sword mltary-minded swashbuckler of the take-it-
or-leave-it type.
This we hope because we realize fully the value of,
and sincerely desire the maximum friendship be-
tween Japan and the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

"Do you believe the law against murders should
IL be repealed because still have murderers?"
inquiries Mrs N. B. F. of Denver, in a passionate de-
tense Of the eighteenth amendment.
Well to be completely frank, do not believe the
law has prevented a homicide. To forbid killing
on the statute books kind of terrorizing gesture
but it does not stop the crime, especially in law
ridden country like ours where chance and graft
ter so strongly into court procedure.
All this law does, in fact, is arrange punishment
for the deed.
For the only deterrent of murder is the Individual
conscience and weI-developed sense of social re-
sponsibillty.
We may protect ourselves from mlTderers by
locking them up or hanging them, but law ever
can invent will stop murder.
For the average is kept from crime by his
moral beliefs and training, his ancestral traditions
He believes his deepest that the taking
from it.
In short, when he stays his hand he obeys not a
legal CODE but moral mandate.
IF we ceased to instll into the young the difference
i between our present conception of right and
wrong If they were permitted to grow up-and many
OF them are-wlthout social conscience, no law I'M
der the could keep them from vicious deeds.
For law it seems to me, has in reality very little
to do with our behavior.
And may I add that am left completely unmoved
by the argument that Washington and Lincoln if
still earth would champion the holy of pro-
hibition. 1 consider this rather bold assumption.
These men stood for the finest freedom-that which
would prevent one class or body Of from dictat-
ing to- or tyrannizng over another class body of
men.
Logic languishes in many dry arguments If a
law against murder does not prevent murder. why
On earth pass another against beer under the fond
delusion that it viii stop beer drinking?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Such high blood pressure is dam
gerous only when the blood vessels
burst and hemorrhage into the brain
results in death.
OF course, old people suffer with
disturbances of digestion because of
the changes that have taken place
in their secretions, but also be-
cause they have difficulty in keep
ing infection away from their teeth
and because they do not chew the
food properly.
The constipation of old age is
controlled largely by the taking of
mineral oil, which serves the pur-
pose of Softening the intestinal mass
and making elimination easy.
This remedy is practically harm
less and adds years of health to
many older persons. Hemorrhoids
are frequent in the aged and are,
of course, associated with constipa-
ton.
There was a time when the teeth
of the human being gradually fell
out as he grew older, so that he
found himself, by the time he
reached old age, able to take only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Shorter Hours

Not long ago. American workers won their long
fight for the eight-hour day Now the six-hour day
or the five-day week is coming.
For months union labor has been preaching
shorter hours as part of the for the depression
Employers apparently falling into line More
than 100000 600 workers now are under the Ave
day week schedule. and the National Conference
beard questioning 100 executives, finds that IS per
cent Of those replying have reduced working hours
to spread jobs
The most definite employers movement comes
from New England. Governor Winant Of New
Hampshire and other members of the New England
conference on unemployment have urged upon
President Hoover their so-called New Hampshire
plan" for a nve-day work week.
This plan calls for careful scrutiny ItuprOposes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Blamed on SpookS

DEOPLE just don't like to admit
L that disaster of this magni-
tude could be brought on by normal
human follies and defects. They
prefer to imagine that some evil in
f1uence crept up behind them; that
what happened was not their own
fault, and that they are powerless
to get out of the mess without SUI
pernatural help, or without doing
something they never thought of
before.
The civilized world has been wal
lowing in an atmosphere of eco
nomic and political mysticism, not
only since the depression began, but
since the great war began. 1t has
had one fit of demonology after an
other.
Prussianism was lis first great
DOGGY. Next came Bolshevism. Dur
ing the last three years it has been
one evil spook after another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Not Such a MYSTERY

1T has been a universal source OF
Il wonderment how we could con-
sumo so much before the depres-
sion set in and get along with SO
little afterward. People have wor-
ried themselves sick trying to solve
the mystery.
The process has led to many fan
tastic conclusions and more fantas-
tic suggestions, which only added to
the confusion. If so many hadn't
taken the problem as crossword
puzzle, we would have made faster
Roadway.
That water, of course, has gone
by the mill, but still is worth a pass
ing thought, especially because we
still must grapple with the factor
of bewilderment.
The belief that civilization has
gone bankrupt, still is widespread.
So is the belief that nothing can
save it but some miracle, prefer
ably in the form of revolutionary
change.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Due to Illusions

WE went into the war ex-
w aggerating realities, telling
false tales about the enemy, and
promising impossible results in case
Of victory. We went into the post
war boom with similar illusion
ments regarding debts, taxes and
the power of humanity to absorb
losses.
We went into the depression
imagining that some evil genius was
prosecuting the righteous, that the
folly of expecting Germany to foot
the war bill and Wall street to make
everybody rich counted for nothing
There never has been any mystery
about the cause of trouble. Too
many human beings merely got
caught trying to get something for
nothing. They included ten share
margin buyers as well as the big
boys, and corrupt constables as well
as statesmen.
Recovery always has rested on the
proposition of putting enough back
into the kitty" to square accounts
Now that we are beginning to
realize it, prospects look brighter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06

liquid food or food that was soft.
Modern dentistry has made it
possible for the aged to chew steaks
or vegetables of considerable fbrous
content.
1t is for this reason that the aged
frequently must resort to laxatives
or to mineral oil to aid the weak
ened intestinal muscles in handling
the waste material.
The aged are likely to suffer par
ticularly with accumulationS of mu-
cous material in the lungs; with di-
n1inished power of the lungs to re-
pair themselves, small areas of de-
generated tissue break down and
the material accumulates and has to
be coughed out of the lung.
The continued inhalation and
coughing results in disturbances
such as broncho-pneumonia or sim
liar complaints.
The elderly are particularly prone
to varicose veins, to inflammations
of the joints, and to fixed joints
which follow inflammation.
Next: Cancer, a principal danger
for the aged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06

pertinent need not be noble simply
because it has been SO described in
an executive address.
Il
A Chance for a Statement
DUT by far his most tragic fall
ID ure lay in his treatment of the
bonus army. This was a situation
requiring definite action. Mr.. Hoo
yer never was able to make up his
mind to do anything.
He has been hailed as firm and
practical, because he called out the
infantry, the cavalry and the tanks.
But even this was no more than a
gesture. The problem merely was
shifted from one locality to another.
The whole maneuver was an inter
Jude for another Hoover speech.
Above the tramp Of marching feet
there arose the clickety-click of
the presidential typewriter. One
almost can picture the harassed man
in his Office nervously pacing the
floor. His face is furrowed and his
hair is rumpled. A terrific prob
lem besets him. He can't think OF
the right word.
Then, with happy cry, he leaps
to the machine and writes, "a
challenge to the authority Of the
United States government has been
met swiftly and firmly" And, to
top it off and settle everything, he
also coins the phrase, Communists
and persons with criminal records.
Instead Of a private secretary,
Herbert Hoover ought to be fur
nished with good copy-reader
armed with blue pencil. This in
valuable assistant would be en-
powered to cry out every now and
then, Hold on, Herbert; don't
carry yourself away"
He could, for instance, point cut
that the leader of the Communist
faction in the B. z. F. never claimed
more than 300 followers. He might
also remind the budding author that
the department CT justice up to date
has identified only six men with
police or criminal records"
And it might not be amiss to point
out Johnstown on the map and in
form Mr.. Hoover that there still is
a problem as to whether 5000 men
are to live or Starve publicly to
death.
But there are so many things the
man with the blue pencil would have
to DO. Perhaps it would be bet
ter idea to take away Mr.. Hoover
typewriter and tell swiftly and
firmly" Fewer adverbs. Mr.. Presi-
dent, and more action"
lcopyriRht. 1882. b. The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-In your Question
and Answer column of Fridays
Times, you have made a mistake
that I will ask you to correct.
The question was, Who was the
Morse god of WARP" You told the
inquirer that his name was As.
or Os.
This is wrong. AS means any god.
Odin, Thor, Freya, Loke, Baldur,
Idun, etc, were all "As"es.
The name of the god Of war is
Tyr. The "y" is to be pronounced
like the or ue
H. COUCHERON AAMOT.
Editor Times-Is this the year
Of Mugwumps to help get the coun-
try in shape again? They started
when Grover Cleveland beat Ben
Harrison, and once in a while they
get together and help the Dem
ocrats clean the city and run the
clans out
If this is the year, Editor, let's
get together and get Watson out.
Now dear editor, tell me what's the
matter with Borah? Can we get
some one to take his place out there
in Idaho?
The writer Of this letter is a Mug
wump-a good strong one-and he
wants to get out and help clean the
whole country up. T. r. HENRY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Questions and
Answers

What is the weight of the United
States dirigible Akron?
About 100000 pounds.
Name the cOmmOnest, rareSt and
most expensive minerals?
The commonest is quartz; ma
Surium and rhenium are about the
rareSt, and the platinum metals are
the most expensive.
Did Governor AL Smith receive
more votes for President than any
other Democratic nominee?
He did, and President Hoover also
received more votes than any pre-
vlous successful candidate.
How did the pay of private sol
diers in Canada. Australia and the
United States compare during the
World war?
The United States paid $50 g
month, Australia paid $43.50 and
Canada paid S33 month. The A
E. F. received 10 per cent additional
Tor overseas service.
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The English lack of success in
contending for their own coveted
all-comers' singles crown in the
last score years is strangely para
doxical. 1t has not been held by
an Englishman since A. w. Gore
defeated the Frenchman, A. H.
Colbert, in 1912.
A CHASTITY FuneraI-The noun
famous region of zicavo, Corsica,
is so rough and impossible that
to convey the body of a villager
to the place of burial a method
has to be resorted to which proba-
bly, is unique in ghastliness. The
corpse, dressed in an ample goat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Sources of Power

NOAL, oil and water power, the
~ three sources of power today,
are all the contribution of the sun.
PhotoSynthesis, the process by
which we get our food at present,
is the process which built up our
coal supplies.
Some one once said that coal was
fossil Sunlight-that when we burned
coal We were releasing the sun
beams that fell upon the earth mil
lions of years ago.
Millions of years ago a luxurious
vegetation grew in certain areas OF
the earth'S surface. There were
gigantic ferns, tall as trees. and
similar plants. These plants grew
in swampy areas.
Their growth, it must be remem-
bered, was due to the sun. These
plants, like the plants of today.
built up their tissues out of the car
bon dioXide of the air and the
water Of the soil with the energy
Of sunlight.
In time, the Swamps in which
UAASOO P4dlAbo S1CW DcSdu W I'LL uD
with decaying vegetation. In time,
this decaying vegetation, chiefly
through the action of certain types
of bacteria living in it, turned to
peat.
incidentally, there are many peat
boys to be found in the world to-
day, and also many Swamps in
which the formation of peat is go
ing on.
Then, with the passage of more
centuries, the peat was buried under
layers Of sand and clay.
Gradually, other changes took
place in the past. The percentage
of hydrogen and oxygen in the
peat was decreased, bringing about
a corresponding increase in the
percentage of carbon. Thus. in
time, the peat was changed into
coal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06

Following is the explanation of
RipIeys Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
Bunny" Austin-For the first
time in thirteen years, an Eng
lishman reached the finals in the
"all-comers' singles at Wimbledon,
England, when H. w. Bunny"
Austin faced the American ace,
Ellsworth Vines, July 2, to whose
crushing attack he bowed, GA, 6-3,
60. In 1919 A. r. F. Kingscote,
popular English World war vete-
ran, reached the finals and was
defeated by G. L. Patterson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
M. E. Tracy
Everything That Has Been
Done This Year to End the
Depression Could HG D e
Been Done Last Year.

Depression G on Id II q q e
Been Done Last Year.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Prospects
1 Y for business recovery are
brighter than at any time since the
stock market crash three years ago.
This obviously is due to a favorable
combination of circumstances. For
one thing, the government has
adopted some very impressive
measures Of relief, assistance, and
economy.
For another, the prohibition farce
seems likely to be ended. For still
another, Europe really has begun to
clear np the reparaticns tangle.
To sum it up, the policy of in
action is being replaced by one of
action. 1t might have been done
before, but not without changing
human nature. When in trouble
people waste about so much time
looking for miracles.
They simply won't undertake any,
thing new, Or drastic, until they
have to. Everything that has been
done this year could have been done,
and should have been done, one
year ago. President Hoover had
just as good reasons for Offering his
recovery program in the fall of 1880
as in the fall of 1881.
Europe had just as good reasons
for tackling the debt situation. The
American people had just as good
reasons for insisting that something
be re about the Volstead act and
eighteenth amendment.
The age-old tendency to put off
things was about all that stood in
the way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06

skin, is mounted on a horse. The
seat Of the dead rider is quite
rigid, the body being held in po-
sition by cord and pieces of wood,
while the chin is held upright by
a forked twig fixed to the saddle.
1t is an extraordinary and fan
tastic sight, but most interesting
is the mounts reaction to the
task. The horse is so frightened
at. its load that it is useless for
any further employment. No horse
has been known to carry dead
rider a second time.
MOnday-"A Colony of FIeas."
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Your Questions Answered

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your problems.
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Origin Of Petroleum


nIL likewise can be traced to its
" beginning with the process of
photoSynthesiS.
AT one time many scientists be-
lleVed that mineral oil or petro-
leum had an inorganic origin. This
theory held that during the forma-
ton Of the earth's surface rocks,
hydrogen and carbon were brought
together into various combinations
under great pressure and heat and
forced into various combinations.
Petroleum is essentially hydrogen
and carbon-what the chemist calls
hydrocarbon.
But today more scientists are in
clined to accept what is known as
the organic theory of the origin OF
petroleum.
This theory. holds that the pc
troleum in the earth is the result
OF chemical changes in the remains
of plant and animal life which in
habited the earth millions of years
ago.
According to this theory, petro-
leum was formed chiefly from mi
mute plants and animals which lived
in swamps and the sea bottom
muds.
Oil, therefore, started with plant
growth, which depended on photo
synthesis.
That water power depends upon
the sun is obvious, for water power
depends upon the weather cycle. The
water Of rivers come from creeks,
which in turn depend largely on the
run-off Of rains for their supply.
We do not understand complete
ly all details of the weather. But
1t is obvious that it has its begin
nings in the heating effect of the
sun on the earth's atmosphere.
The great air currents which are
at the bottom of weather phe-
nomena are started in this way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
BY DAVID DIETZ

Back of Our Electric Lights,
Electric Cars and Electric
Elevators Is the Po.oer of
the Sun.
MODERN civilization depends
1V1 upon the sun. That is a fact
that we often lose sight of.
Every one realizes, of course. that
life itself depends upon the sun. For
without the sun, our earth would
have neither heat nor light. Il would
be a frozen globe, wandering in a
sea Of darkness.
Our food supply, likewise, depends
upon the sun, for without the sun
plants would not grow. Plants build
up the sugars and Starches of their
tissues out of the carbon dioxide of
the air and the water of the soil.
The energy for this manufacture
ing process is furnished by the sun
light. The process is known as
photosynthesis.
But in addition, the aspects of
present-day life which We group un-
der the heading of modern civiliza-
ton, are in particular the result of
solar activity.
Modern civilization is built upon
the availability of power. 1t some
times is called a machine civiliza-
ton. But machine civilization
is a power civilization, since it takes
power to make the machine go.
Back of our electric lights, our
electric street cars, our electric loco
motives, our electric elevators and
our countless electric machines is
the power house." where the
whirring turbines generate the cleo
tricity with the aid of coal, oil or
water power.