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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
A New Slant on France

BY coincidence, on the day that France asked for
cancellation of her debt to the United States, there
appeared from the presses of Ray Long and Richard
Smith a book entitled "Our Genial Enemy, France"
1t is written by Edwin S. Schoonmaker economist and
historian
Those who have cherished sentimental love for
the French republic will be angered at its argument.
Those who have been wondering about what is hap
pening to this world will be interested in the histor-
cal indictment of French policies and of her present
activities
It endeavors to explain, for example, how France
has been able to drain the gold supplies of other
nations in the past years when during those years
the trade balance against her in of $780,
100000 The amount of gold which she has with
drawn from other nations in that period amounted
to two billions, three hundred millions
Gold is the ruler of the world this remarkable
book. BY it, nations be Frustrated. Lack Of it
brings misery to countless millions.
Is there connection between the collapse of in
dustry in this country and the withdrawal of gold
from the United States made possible by adven-
ture in high finance perpetrated by a nation?
This author believes that there is very definite
connection.
To those who are interested in new views upon
the world in which we live the book should be provoc-
ative Of thought. Economists will undoubtedly make
it the subject Of many discussions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
A TRANSFORMATION Study

Al Smith recognizes that the railroads chief diff
cutes are caused by the depression. The committee
OF which he and Calvin Coolidge are members has re-
tanned experts to help study problems of steam
rers and propose remedies new methods and changes
IN regulatory laws to protect not only railroads but
investors and shippers as well
Presdent-Elect Roosevelt has traced the outlines
OF program he hopes to enacted to provide bene-
hts Tor these same groups; and congress soon through
It's committees will undertake railroad inquiries.
The interstate commerce commission forever is con-
cerned with the problems of the railroads and WAYS
to meet them
All these things helpful. and some good will
result from them. But what is more necessary and
important now is intelligent far-seeing study not
OF railroads. or bus lines pipe lines arpane lines
alone, but of transportation as a whole
Unfortunately few even among the experts are able
because OF other duties and other interests to devote
their time to the whole field of transportation Even
the Interstate commerce commission is overburdened
with lnnumerable individual cases. large and small
The railroads are, OF course, the backbone OF our
transportation system; but there are other parts
equally important in their fields
Out of the Coolidge Smith committee might come
program for fitting these conflicting parts into a
single, Efficient whole
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Labor's Opportunitv

When the American Federation of Labor meets
next week in Cincinnati its officials and delegates
should realize that before has their opportunity
for leadership been great 1t is theirs by default
To become effective leaders in such day as this,
the workers must widen their horizon lift their sights
They want jobs at good wages, and peace, security
and happiness for their families But none of these
blessings can be found merely by grubbing in our
own back yard
There are 100000 idle men here and abroad
All suffer from economic disorders common to the
civilized world. No nation can insuate itself and
remain secure. Hence, American workers should in
terest themselves in world disarmament, in in
telligent settlement of war debts. in abandoning
trade destroying tariffs, in Russian trade and recog-
milton, in world economic planning.
At home the problems call for the same sort Of
vision. Here we want what H. c. Wells calls the
big voices speaking with logic and courage for
q planned and ordered industrial system.
We want a labor movement that really moves to-
ward such reforms as industrial cooperation and
planning an honest and just tax system tEat tends
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Germany Maneuvers

Germany's cabinet maneuvers are not important
Won Papen and his monocle cabinet who seem to have
resigned and been reappointed in the space of few
hours are puppets. General Won Schleicher the man
closest to the aged President Won Hindenburg and
ruler of the army, will remain the power of Germany
For many months one of Won schleicher's problems
has been to rub out Hitler, his competitor in reac-
tionary leadership of German discomfort That can
be achieved either by defeating Htlers Fascist troops
If and when he is foolish enough to risk armed re-
bellion, or by absorbing the Fascist chief into the
cabinet, where he will have big name and RESPONSE
bilty, but little actual power.
This weeks cabinet developments simply reflect the
currents revealed at the recent electon-that Hitler
has passed his peak and that the only real challenge
TO the existing counterrevolutonary dictatorship of
the Won Scheicher type is the sow-growing Commun
list movement.
Republican liberal Germany is submerged, thanks
largely to the continuing Versailles policies of the al
hes which have crippled Germany's economic life and
driven her hungry people to desperate extremes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
More MYTHS

Many politicians opposed to foreign debt
moratorium and conditional reduction because they
believe that public opinion is opposed. To play safe
politically they always follow, rather than lead public
opinion But the difficulty that this type of poll
tican follows public opinion so far behind he usually
is wrong,
The same politicians who now are afraid Of public
disapproval of intelligent debt policy until
recently just positive that Russian recognition
would be politically inexpedient.
And until the election they were certain that wet
sentiment in the country had not reached majority
proportions. The same lag between the politician
and public opinion apparent in woman suffrage,
the lame duck amendment, and many other issues
They build up myth of popular hostility which
either existed or has ceased to exist. Then
for long while that self-created myth continues to
parayze their action.
To the politicians in Washington still stumbling
under the delusion that the country is opposed to
q conditional reduction of foreign debts in exchange
for arms reduction or trade preferences as better
alternative than default and resulting financial chaos
we commend a study of the enthusiastic public re-
ception given the Borah and AL Smith proposals.
Or they might read the statement just made by
the master of the National Grange, Louis j. Taber.
He urges extension of the foreign debt moratorium
and "a credit of from 10 to 20 per cent reduction
all purchases of agricultural products in the United
States"
There would be nothing significant about Tabers
statement except for the fact that the farmers Of the
country supposed to be 100 per cent ireconcabe
on any foreign debt adjustment. Thus is another
political myth exploded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Movies Are Not Dangerous to Eyes

HOWEVER, people who are in
4 lclined to have trouble with vi
sion and those easily disturbed emo
tionally may suffer some i'll effects
from attendance on motion pictures,
for several reasons.
In the first place, there are star
Ting changes Of light that tire the
eyes; in the second place, the films
sometimes are jerky, because the
apparatus Tor projection is weak or
the speed is not regulated properly
The investigators have worked out
sort of motion picture hygiene
which is. useful. They say that it is
desirable in the case of children and
young people to have daylight or
subdued light screens.
Programs should be arranged SO
/ that longer or shorter scenes are
alternated.
Projection of any part of film
should not be longer than ten or f1f-
teen minutes, followed by intervals
of from two to three minutes, and
then the light may be brought on
gradually.
Of course, film of fifteen minute
length probably is best suited to ed
ucational purposes.
However, it is difficult to say how
the ordinary drama could be con-
densed into fifteen minute length.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Keep the Schools Open

The tax rate for the maintenance Of schools has
been cut to the point where the school year must be
shortened, reducing teachers salaries raising the
sinking fund for the payment of bonds be postponed
The board has taken the position that the law de-
mands that the sinking fund be collected and that
the schools must be debated
The state tax board holds different view, and
takes the attitude that this fund legally be avoid
ed during the depression.
Whatever the law, the sinking fund should not
be raised at the expense of education for children
or salaries for teachers.
AS matter Of fact the debts of the schools were
incurred when money cheap and labor and mate
rails were high priced
To set aside very costly dollars in time when
labor is almost worthless and building materials at
their lowest levels is not good business
Debts should be debated along with labor and
commodities If substantial honesty in business to
be preserved.
The belief that dollar is always a dollar has
been proved to fiction. The dollar today worth
at least SLIGO on former price levels.
Good business would seem to dictate that saving
money for future payments be postponed until prices
are again inflated and labor is again employed
The salaries of teachers have already been slashed
To further reduce them by shortening the school year
is rank injustice.
But the most serious aspect is the fact that the
school children Of today denied the full opportunities
for education, can never catch up lost time.
If the law be mandatory, as the school board in
ssts and some legal decisions suggest, the legsa
ture should change the law.
Certainly lawyers will find some legal way to save
the schools and place any burden involved upon the
creditors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Under normal physiological con-
ditions, moving pictures do not
cause serious eye fatigue. Since
viewing moving pictures is distant
vision, it does not demand so great
an ocular effort as near vision
such as reading for a corresponding
length of time.
when eye strain is caused by
moving pictures it is due to one
or another preventable condition,
such as too prolonged fixing of
the attention on a single point, or
defective visual function, to bad
position of the observer in rela-
ton to the screen, to poor films,
improper manipulation of the ap-
paratus, to faulty projection or to
improper illumination.
with these reservations there
is no more harm to the eyes in
viewing the moving pictures with
modern improved methods than
there is in any other normal use
of the eyes"
Apparently, therefore, it may be
said that the motion pictures, as
such, do not have q harmful in
f1tence on the sight of normal,
healthy people.
Neither should they be injurious
to the nervous system Of normal,
healthy people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
MYSTERY Sbrouds Past

GAVE for the brief period covered
~ by written records, we know lit
tie about the past. The begin
ming of the human race remains
about as complete mystery as it's
end.
There may be something in the
story of the flood. We merely NAV
be rebuilding what was DESTROYED
when the sea rose and ice covered
the land in the northern hemis-
phere. What we call our original
progenitors may have been the
stunted left-overs of crushed
world, a virtually exterminated
species.
AS Shakespeare says, there are
tides in the affairs of men, and
many of them take more than six
hours to ebb and flow.
We assume that our race has
moved steadily forward and upward
since it made its appearance that
the processes by which it has been
evolved worked in only one direc-
ton, and that no great recession. or
sweeping disaster interrupted the
parade after it began.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE election is over but our job is far from I'm
Il ished.
For this country never will see the sunshny up-
lands of prosperity through the efforts of any PreSi
dent alone or any set of lawmakers It will take the
combined efforts of all citizens.
Now that we have survived the campaign why not
consider the stupidity of doing out aims to Abe I'M
fortunate? The greatest of virtues may be charity
but we fast are making it national vice. since with
1T we continue to cover multitudes of economic sins
Some way somehow in the future, work must be
aided to help themselves. For this is the only true
charity.
And the housewife need never feel that she can
not have part in such program of reconstruction
She too, is in position to give jobs, although they
be only minor ones.
The single girl, the widow, and the middle-aged
spinSter have in many localities been overlooked
pletely by social agencies and relief organizations.
Today thousands of these women face despair.
1T is up to the home women to help them. Many
of us, realize, have not the money nor the room
to do so. But the other hand thousands are able
to contribute little to the work of rehabitating this
portion of society.
Find some girl woman-and you need not hunt
long or far to do SOTO whom in return for work you
can give food shelter. and perhaps carfare that
she may continue her vocational training her edu
cation.
These are days when we dare not be unkind To
answer the door TO peddler to give a smile If We
can not buy. guess how much this may mean
TO some soul who confrontS GethSemanel
It may be impossible to give aid TO all who ask.
But u IS not beyond our power to give pleasant words
And the spirits OF the crushed need these almost as
mucn as their bodies need bread
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
TT SEEMS TO ME BY HE Ey92Ps

A N English astronomer who pre-
IA fers, for fairly obvious rea-
sons to remain nameless has been
bombarding the London newspapers
with a suggestion as to new meth
cd of signaling to Mars.
We all have heard of the canals
of that planet, and there is theory
df there isn't, it is being started
right now that those strange mark
ings merely represent an effort on
the part of the Martians to spell
out, for our benefit, What hath
God wrought" or, maybe, Block
that kick!"
If you believe this, there is every
reason to lend support to the prof.
ect of sending back a friendly nod
Earth in its present somewhat sour
state hardly can afford to be high
hat with any member of the solar
system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18

to equalize wealth and increase buying power among
the masses social insurance for security of the aged
the sick, the injured and the jobless; shorter work
week and day to absorb the technologically unem-
ployed; adult education to absorb the new leisure:
absolute freedom Of speech press and assemblage
to permit peaceful and orderly change
None Of these can come without dynamic fear
less and statesmanlike labor movement Such a
movement viii find no time for chasing aliens and
reds for jurisdictona disputes for alliances with
reactionary political rings
If the A. r. of L. measures up to its opportunities,
1t will shake loose those and those policies which
so long have been drag upon the progress of labor
and Of the nation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-As a unit, these
various tax reduction leagues are
getting to the point where they
may be classed as ranking public
enemy No. 1. They are attempting
to have a Roman holiday at the
expense Of police, firemen and
teachers.
Their latest achievement is the
Gripping Of the school system, one
Of the most necessary functions in
any large city. They also are at
tempting to give an air of benevo-
lence to their work by inveigling
the average worker and home
owner into their midst by telling
them, no doubt, that the wages paid
to the aforementioned classes drive
the harassed taxpayers into bank
ruptcy.
This is far from the truth. The
tax ills of Indianapolis date back
to the era of super-government that
controlled the city and state a few
years back. It is on record that one
years expenditures Of the school
board at that time would have been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
A Deep Problem

THAT, too, is within the realm of
Il possibility, but it hardly har-
monies with the spiral curve and
wave motion which seem to doni-
nate everything, the continuous
repetition of phenomena which
though varying a little, are near
enough alike to appear similar.
There have been several ice ages,
and we now are living in the inter-
val between two-that is, if another
occurs. Shall we assume that an
other is not going to occur, or that
there were no men on earth in the
preceding interval?
Shall we take it for granted that
we stand at the end of an old road,
or the beginning of a new one, that
our existence marks the peak of
planetary life?
Deep water-much deeper than
the war debt problem, prohibition,
or the tariff, any one of which is
more than enough to tax our poor
little brains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Remember the Risks

DUT to me the whole fascinating
- business of exchanging ideas
with Mars carries with it lot OF
incidental danger. It may be that
our civilization is far more advanced
than theirs.
For all we know, they still are liv-
ing in the Dark Ages, and believ-
ing that it is seven years bad luck
to break mirror and that you
shouldn't take three lights from a
match.
If they are dumb as that, we will
have wasted a lot OF energy to get
nothing more than a possible ooh
YEAH" or SOS your old mani
Think of the tragedy of spending
years Of research work to perfect
communication and then having
flashed through the ether back at
us, Don't take any wooden nickelS. .
And there are even more tragic
possibilities. Mars, if I remember
my astronomy (Which I could easily
put in my left eye), is quite bit
smaller than the earth.
Being more compact, it may well
be better organized and far ahead
of US in intellect. Suppose it read
lily grasps our first timid prefer OF
spinach message and replies, ooh
run along and get reputation"
A planet as far away as that
might be enormously snobbish and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
10000 Years Ago

THIS 17-year-old maiden may
i have been a flirt and fallen prey
to some jealous sutton; hayward
wife, overtaken by her angry spouse,
or a Joan OF Arc, cut off before her
time.
But that is not the most interest
ing part of her story for us.
She lived on this continent long
before written history began, long
before there was an Egypt, or a
Babylon
How did she get here, and who
were her people?
Did she represent race or civili-
cation that was dying out, or new
and higher order?
There are those who believe that
men not only inhabited the earth
before the last ice age, but that they
had attained a considerable degree
Of enlightenment.
Such thing is not beyond the
realm of possibility, although it
makes one SILVER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
SPACE and Spinach

A S 1 understand the professors
IN scheme, he suggests that we
organize to grow some millionaire
tract with a dark vegetable, such as
spinach. These patches of green
easily can be detected by the Mar
tians if their telescopes are as good
as those which we have.
And the spinach is to be grown
in such a way that it will form a
gigantic geometric f1gure-a FIVE
pointed star or a right-angle tri-
angle or the outline of Mickey
Mouse.
think that if we are going to &c
to all that trouble, we might as well
be a great deal more articulate.
With million acres and enough
spinach, We readily could be much
more explicit. Suppose we begin
with right-angle triangle and
Mars comes back with square.
Does that get us any place?
We would have to waste an entire
summer lot Of labor and great
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TINE question constantly is raised
L as to whether motion pictures
are bad for the eyes. Parents
wonder how often children should
be permitted to attend, whetherthey
should sit in the front or rear in the
house, whether it is dangerous tc
view the pictures from the side, and
how much, if at all, eyes may be
harmed by attending motion picture
performances.
In 1890, the bureau of the League
of Nations made public report de-
veloped by special committee in
Italy on this subject.
The report was based on ques-
tionnaire sent to almost $4,000 chill
dren and young people in Italy.
About one-fourth of these stated
that the eyes tired after watch
ing films. About twice as many said
that their eyes did not feel tired OF
strained in the least, and the others
seemed to be doubtful.
According to statement issued
by one of the leading authorities
of the Society for the Prevention OF
Blindness in this country, motion
pictures do not cause as much strain
to the eye as reading a book. DR.
Park Lewis has said:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
Questions and
Answers

What provisions did the Adamson
act make in reference to working
hours for railroad employees?
Beginning Jan. l, 1917, the act
provided that eight hours should be
deemed the standard or measure of
days work, for the purpose Of
reckoning the compensation of en-
ployes engaged in the operation of
trains, except Independently owned
and operated railroads less than 100
miles in length, and electric, street
and interurban railroads.
On which bank of the Ohio river
is the boundary between Ohio and
West Virginia?
The north bank of the Ohio river
forms the boundary of the state of
Ohio. According to an old colonial
treaty, Virginia had jurisdiction up
to the northern bank of the Ohio
river and when the states of Ken
lucky and West Virginia were
formed this boundary continued.
WnaC is the origin OF the maxim,
God helps those who help them
SelveS?"
This old proverb is found in many
languages. Algernon Sidney used it
in Discourse Concerning Govern
ment," and it also was used by
Cervantes and others.
Did President Wilson veto the
VOlstead act?
1t was passed over his veto by
both houses Of congress.
Can the residents Of Washington,
d. c., vote in elections?
No.
Should all the words of a motto
be, capitalized?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-18
NJ. E. Tracy

ClScOYeTy OF GlftS OketetOn
10000 Years Old, IN Min
nesota, Starts Long. Train
of Conjecture.
NEW YORK. Nov. 1S.-The find
1 y ing Of a girls skeleton beneath
eleven feet Of silt in the bed of a
dried-up Minnesota lake is just one
more episode in the unsolved riddle
of human ancestry.
According to science, the young
lady met her death some 10000
years ago and while large part
Of North America still was. covered
with ice.
There are indications that she
was killed by some fellow being who
employed a spear, or an arrow, but
that hardly proves that she was
murdered in the common meaning
Of the word.
She appears to have been at
tackled from in front, and she may
have been engaged in the gentle
art of war. At all events, dagger,
with the point broken, was found
nearby.
Fancy could weave hundred
tales around this fragmentary bit
of evidence from the long dead
past, with a good probability that
none of them would be very close
to the truth.