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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Are We Holding Tn France?

lead editorial in the New York Times recently
contained curious arithmetic and diplomatic
logic The United States represented as trying to
collect two dollars for every have loaned
France.
According to the Times editorial, we loaned France
$3,404,818,8O0, and are trying to make her pay us
s6S476741O4 in return If this were So there might
be something in the Uncle Shylock talk
Let us look into the facts as presented in the
standard monograph on the subject, Moulton and
Pasvolskys world War Debt Settlements" Here we
find that the original French debt before the funding
agreements, was $423O77 7OOO nearly billion more
than the New York Times estimate
The present value of the French debt, as funded,
is only $1,68 $4,000. BY present value" we mean
the which in sxty-two years, at the given rate
of interest viii yield total equal to the principal and
interest payments called for by the funding agree
ment with France
AS compared with the original debt of $423O777-
900 and the agreed upon interest at per cent this
represents a cancellation of no less than 603 per
cent. If France ultimately should pay us $6847-
6741O4 it is merely because she has asked for and
received long period for payments at very low
rate of interest.
Uncle Sam did not invent the laws and processes
of compound interest as an instrument wherewith
to scourge Marienne If France should prefer to cut
her vast military and naval expenditures and pay off
her debt quickly, she could reduce the total very
greatly below $684700O00o
1t often has been stated that the present value OF
the French debt is only roughly equal to what
France has borrowed from since the war. The
Times estimated the post-armstice loans at 81 2O7
477,8OO, a minimum figure AS just have seen,
the present value of the French debt to us is
81 6S1 500 OOO
Most interesting of all is the total omission of the
moral aspects of the issue of the Times editorial
When made this loan to France in good faith we
imagined that fighting to save France and
the world from wanton page by the Hunnish gorilla.
Scholars the world since have proved us that
the World of Frances making than OF
Germany's.
We were fighting, as far as France was concerned
to help her realize Poincares boyhood dream of get.
ting back Alsace Lorraine. This is idle rhetoric
In his university address in October 1920, M. Pon-
admitted in outburst of frankneSs: st could
discover no other reason why my generation should
go living except for the hope of recovering our
lost provinces" t...
This knocks the bottom out from under the per-
siStent French assertion that France was fighting
"ou war;" and. therefore, we should not collect
money spent in this The return of Alsace-
Lorraine of ours-no more than the
return of Texas to Mexico was matter of vital in
terest to France
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
LaWIeSS IniunctiOnS


Eight million men out of work have less interest
Just at present in curbing the inunctive power of
the federal courts than in finding jobs of some Sort
Yet labor's future, beyond the immediate emer-
gency will be determined to a great extent by sue
failure of the anti-injunction bill which con-
gress will be asked to vote on at this session.
In the last thirty years. the injunction has be-
come the most deadly threat raised against labor
1t has been used over and again to nulify the
tentative advantages of collective bargaining, and
stay labors weapon-the strike.
The senate judiciary committee, reporting last
year on abuses of the njunctve power cited an in
junction issued in 1890 in Iowa which forbade strk
ing mill workers to tell any one that strike was in
progress or to tell that the mill required workers
to sign obnoxious yellow dog" contracts.
They could not, without violating the injunction,
seek advice from attorney. A striking son might
not talk his father about his grievances And
if the injunction violated, offenders would have
been tried for contempt of court; in other words
tried for an act which entirely lawful under the
laws of the state, but made illegal by the Judge be-
fore whom they would be tried and sentenced.
The senate bill strictly limits use of the injunction
to where it is necessary to prevent actual vio
lence 1t brands yellow dog contracts as contrary to
public policy. 1t writes into federal statutes the
right of organized labor to bargain collectively.
Unless congress enacts this bill, labor will be
many years recovering from the disadvantage into
which its desperate need has forced it during the
depression, and winning back such decent living
wages as 1t had before
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
lOoSenoSS COnd0ned

TINE race angle of this revolving
l. crime in Hawaii must not be
allowed to become smoke screen
for corrupt, or incompetent officials.
In so far as it can be attributed
to general conditions, or tolerated
customs, they are largely to blame,
since they, and they alone, had it
within their power to take correc-
tive measures.
Reports coming from Hawaii indi-
cate that certain loose practices
have been winked at, not only in a
political, but in a social sense.
There have been stories of I'M
usual familiarity and freedom on
the part of young lady tourists
with half-castes who teach swim
ming by day and play the ukulele
by night.
Hospital records, recently brought
to light, suggest that doctors have
known more about the CHASTITY re-
suits of such relations than they
have told.
Court records leave it to be in
ferred that peace officers have had
little success in preventing crimes,
or catching criminals, and that
prosecutors have Jared no better in
convicting them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
The Other Question

After committees debate different proposals for
tax relief and canvass the members of the legislature
for pledges If special session is held, they might
ask one other question
What will happen if special sesson>is not held
and relief is not given to the farmer and the jobess
worker?
Already delinquencies In tax payments have
created problem for the state government
Already many farming communities find them
selves unable to raise money for local governments
and many farmers faced with the sale Of their
farms for taxes.
Already the home in cities and the owners
of rental properties find the going hard.
What will happen after another period of tax pay
rnent arrives and more delinquences recorded in
the books of the tax collectors?
Very rapidly the situation is being created where
1t is not matter Of special session Or session,
but way out
Perhaps the magicians and the politicians can
discover something to use for money in maintaining
the government.
Finally the solemn fact may be projected into the
public mind that the time has come for action and
that the period of argument and debate has passed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
TT SEEMS TO ME BY HE FEg1%

A PLAN has been formulated in
IN New York for distribution of
clothes to needy persons. These
clothes can be sent by any one in
New York to the nearest police sta
ton, whence they will be taken to a
renovating plant operated by the
unemployment relief committee and
cleansed and repaired before being
distributed.
I'm all for the plan. But I want
to mark two dangers which always
exist in the case of any measure
designed to furnish temporary re-
lief. I don't think we should ever
lose sight of the fact that it is
temporary. I've known people to go
out and buy a couple of apples and
then return home glowing as if they
had solved the unemployment prob
lem.
On the other hand, / have no pa
thence at all with people who say
"This is just an expedient for the
moment. I'm not interested in
things like that"
They have a feeling of righteous
ness, too. They think they are be-
ing scientific and logical. They are
not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Make Cotton Pulp

COTTON, he recalled, became
~ scarce during the World war
and was almost unobtainable, even
for such important uses as surgical
dressing at the battlefront.
ut was suggested at laboratory
conference that good substitute
could be made from wool pulp.
Rapid progress was MADE
"In the process as evolved" he
added, "a white bleachsd pulp was
first converted by special 1:sinteg-
rating machines into what resem-
bled snow storm Of ceIlulosc
f1bers.
This came into contact with a
cloud or mist of adhesives, the COM
bined material setting quietly on
moving screen, then passing
through a drier and emerging as a
thick sheet of porous structure, well
adapted to the specifications of a
surgical absorbent bandage.
Before regular production was
started the war stopped and the
material became unnecessary. Seek
ing a method of Salvaging this de-
velopment we studied the properties
Of the material and its adaptability
to other uses.
IAN outstanding characteristic
was its heat insulating property, an
other its ability to absorb sound.
TO develop commercial use as
building material it was necessary
to reduce the cost greatly, which
was done by eliminating the bleach
ing operation and using a cheaper
grade of material pulp mill screen
ings. Thus evolved the commercial
product known as 'balsam WOOL"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Lame Duck Chances

The lame duck amendment to the Constitution,
which no one openly opposes, but which, somehow,
never quite gets through congress, has passed the
senate once more. Since 1923 it has passed every
senate.
In the house, no voice ever is raised against it,
but delays and evasions constantly have blocked it's
path.
If representative government not correct this
comparatively simple flaw in its machinery, then
something fundamental is wrong with it. Until the
lame duck amendment is passed and congressman
permitted to begin their duties two months after
they elected, the government not reflect &C
curately the wishes of the electorate.
Indifference to such measure and acquescence in
delays must indicate an unheathfu indifference to
the prerogatives which citizens of republic should
hold most dear The Democrats control the house
If there is more evasion, they will be responsible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14

the world or the nation ever has
known.
And it has been just as indiscrim-
mating in it's selection of victims.
A long time ago used to hear
phrase-perhaps it was in Sunday
school-about the deserving poor.
You heard it, too, at one time or
another-and unfortunately it still
persists.
I say unfortunately because it is
founded on a fallacy. 1t rests upon
the assumption that some people
are poor because of bad luck and
others are poor because they want
to be.
Even now T occasionally hear peo-
pie say: "Of course they could all
get jobs if they wanted to-" Nothing
makes me quite as mad as to hear
that. In fact within a week a lady
in a night club said: why don't
they go back to the land?" And that
I imagine, made me even a little
more angry.
Even if there were land to be had
for the asking, I wondered what the
destitute were supposed to do with
it. Certainly there is no great de-
mand at the moment for more men
to grow more wheat and wreck the
market even more stridently. And
the same goes for cotton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14

| coat will never know whence it
came and you will have no knowl-
edge as to the person who receives
it. am for that kind of giving
and receiving.
You are doing a little something
for man-and not a particular in
dividual. I don't even think that
those who give should be told that
they are actuated chiefly by gener-
osity or by duty. The necessity to
give is just as great as the neceS-
Sity to receive.
L never liked the word generosity
very much. Charity has an even
less musical sound. Necessity has
certain sort of dignity. And I am
not being fantastic in stressing it
in regard to the giver.
After all, man does his best work
when motivated by an intelligent
Self-interest. We gradually are
learning that a far-reaching fellow
ship can come out of precisely this
point Of view. More and more it
becomes evident that all who have
enlisted for duration on this planet
are members of the same army
passengers on the same ship.
Anything which disturbs a part
of the organization or structure is
felt in the entity. 1t runs along
the keel.
Poverty, want and suffering
these are the worst of all possible
diseases. And 1 think that we are
beginning to find them very con-
tagious. A slum is a bad place
even for those who don't live in it.
(CopYright 1892. bv The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Easier to Lay

THE new brick, because of its
Il light weight, will enable
bricklayer to lay two bricks with
the same effort now needed to lay
one. That, says DR.. Burgess, will
cut the cost of bricklaying in two.
At present, so he points out, it
costs four times as much to lay a
brick as it does to manufacture it.
DR.. Burgess and his associates are
at work on a number of other prob
lens connected with the building
industry.
The work on the clay brick Illus
trates how great improvements and
great economies are to be attained
in relatively simple ways.
In accepting the Perkin medal,
DR.. Burgess spoke upon Research
for Pleasure or for Gold"
1.-THE scientist has great oppor-
tunity if he will bring himself to
share in the affairs of business, and
the business man could forget his
troubles if he would but experience
some of the joys which come
through research DR.. Burgess said.
I'm a partnership of the two lies
opportunity for betterment."
Reviewing his thirty-seven years
devoted to scientific research, DR..
Burgess told how attempts to make
artificial bandages for wounded SOL
diers led to the production of muf-
flers for absorbing noise and in
creaSing the efficiency of automobile
engines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
HEALTH SERVICE
Drastic Weight Changes Dangerous

IN a consideration of this sub
L ject, Doctor Davenport points
out that inheritance of body build
must be considered carefully when
those who are naturally slender go
in for reducing or gaining weight.
If one is normally slender or nor
mally stout, it is difficult, if not
dangerous, to try to change the
body build. Semi-starvation will
reduce weight, but will also reduce
resistance to disease.
The naturally slender person who
tries putting on weight by overeat-
ing puts too much work on his
stomach and digestive tract, and
may suffer loss of appetite and in
ability to eat comfortably.
Doctor Davenport gives the eX-
ceedingly good advice, LET us be
glad that we are ourselves and not
try to drown our personalities in
the way of the average"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Need of the Moment

VOU might as well say of man
l. struggling in deep water: Let
him founder. Therell be a motor
launch along this way in about half
an hour" The common sense thing
to do is to throw him life pre-
server first and then get boat. And
it might be an excellent idea to hur-
ry the boat along.
New Workers and indeed all
Americans, have lived more than
two years now with this acute prob
lem of unemployment. Some have
helped many times and they are
getting little bored.
But 1 beg to remind everybody,
including myself, that those Of us
who have chance to give any
thing at all are not nearly as bored
as those who tramp the streets
every day in search of work.
There is a curious psychology in
clothes. Only people with an as
sured income can afford to look I'M
tidy. Every employer, whether he
is right or wrong. wants to hire only
those who seem to be on their toes.
And clothes can do that. Anybody
with a good suit throws his Shout
ders back a little more. I know it
from personal experience got
myself a good suit a couple Of years
ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14

Harding appointee to the federal bench. He is
charged by labor with having drafted at the behest
open shop interests, Illinois bill that might have
ouawed trade unions and injured farmers co-opera-
tives.
Among his first judicial acts was the 1922 railway
shop strike injunction, of the most sweeping IN
functions handed down in a labor dispute Two
years later he issued another drastic Injunction
against electrical workers, containing this dictum
THE right to work is not an absolute right"
According to Labor, the rail workers organ Judge
Illinois politics since 1902" and always has been
machine politician close to the insult power interests
and is bitterly antagonistc to organized labor"
Kenneth Macintosh Of Seattle, named by Hoover
to succeed the late and able Judge Rudkin in the
Ninth district, is opposed by the president of the
Washington State Federation of Labor for alleged bias
against the workers. Rich and conservative Mackn-
tosh Stanford university classmate of Hoover.
Certainly he lacks outstanding judicial ability or
poise AS Wickersham commissioner he tight-roped
between wet and drywet in support Of the Anderson
Swedish plan, dry in calling prohibition "an expert
ment noble in purpose" achieving splendid results
He joined in Suppressing the Mooney report. AS
state supreme justice, he led crusade to disbar
young attorney who had volunteered his services in
representing the Centralia I. w. w. defendants
More lately, he quoted as urging that 12-year-
old Herbert Nccolis, boy slayer, should be hanged
The senate is not apt to confirm the court promo
ton Of two such questionable judges as ikerson and
Macintosh.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Questions and
Answers

To what race did King Solomon
belong?
He was Hebrew Of the Semitic
race.
How many motion pictures have
been released since 1915?
The Film Daily Year Book lists
1880 feature pictures released be-
tween 1915 and 1881.
Where is the largest department
store in the world?
Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago.
The total area of floor space is
1,717583 square feet.
Is it unlawful to burn or tear up
United States postage stamps?
If the stamps are purchased and
paid for it is no dffense.
How many Indian reservations
are there in the United States?
Two hundred and thirteen.
Who holds the women's altitude
record in aviation?
Ruth Nichols established the rec
ord of 23,743 feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
SAYS:

The Race Angle of This Re-
Uolting Crime nv Hdl0dii
Must Not Be AlloaUed to
Become q Smoke Screen for
Corrupt or Incompetent
Officials.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14-There are
IN two aspects of the Hawaiian
situation which should not be over
looked.
First, the atrocious crime which
brought it to a climax is not Pc
culiar to any race, or country.
Second, if such crimes have been
encouraged by rotten politics and
lax law enforcement, Americans will
find it hard to deny their share Of
responsibility.
Americans have been running Ha-
waii for thirty-four years, filling
most Of the important Offices, writing
most of the laws and setting most
of the social standards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Apparently it is most important
to know that the nutrition is ade-
quate and then to observe the way
in which the weight changes. In
telling people what they ought to
weigh, doctors do best when they
consider each case by itself.
1t is necessary to know the fam
ily'S tendencies, to find out what
the person eats and to what extent
the food is utilized. 1t is important
to know the extent to which the
patient exercises.
If persons weight has been
stationary for a long time, if he
is able to do effective work, if he
has no obvious disease, and if his
build is like that of other members
of his family, he may conclude
safely that his weight is normal
for him.
If, on the other hand, weight be-
gins to increase without any ex-
PLANTATION in increased appetite or
lessened exercise, it is desirable
to look for some special cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Peoples Voice

Editor Times - The celebrated
om-of-Speach allowed the
soap-box orators of Trafalgar
Square has nothing on that offered
to any who wish to "Voice Their
Views in The Times. If cash
Adrift" (whatever that means)
wanted a pair of shoes and a hat
from the Salvation Army Industrial
Home, the proper way would have
been for him to have made appli-
cation to the relief Office, 205 West
Pearl street, and not have come
into our room and helped himself
as he admits doing.
How long could we operate if it
we're broadcast that all who would
might just come and help them
selves from our meager stock. We
would be wiped out in a day.
The Salvation Army Industrial
Home offers no apology for its
existence. In the last year, the
Salvation Army Industrial Home
1877 West Georgia street, provided
about 10000 days Of labor to men
otherwise out of work. For this
it gave approximately 10000 good
meals, 5000 lodgings and more than
$4,000 in cash. Not one dollar in
cash was asked for or received from
any source to make these results
possible.
The waste paper and other ma
terials given to our collecting trucks
mean meals, beds and cash &C
needy men.
MALCOLM SALMOND,
Manager
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Just Every Day Sense
ONE can tell from his letter that "a Much-I
y " rio AEa,, i,as ..AEost z,;..a l,o
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ONE tell from his letter that "a Nfuch-Mar-
~ ried Man" has suffered. "Most wives" he tells
me, "are regular hel-catS when man wants to at
tend lodge or have little game with the boys.
"The ordinary married fellow has job his
hands when he tells his wife he is going out to spend
the evening"
shall not dispute this statement But from what
angle we regard it. we must admit that there is
for this particular hell-cattish attitude
the part of the average wife Surely she not born
with these suspicious traits ful-fedged in her dspo-
siGion.
These noSing habits and police instincts must have
acquired. Either instructions or experience must
have bred them in her, because it would be unfair
sex of Mrs. Caudles.
The typical woman does not like her husband to
go out at night without her. because she suspects him.
Why does she suspect him? Because she has been
taught by a disillusioned mother that all men are
liars or because she has been deceived herself.
L truth from the beginning of their married life
and when I say this I am presuming that he is not
deceiving her-wn not have any trouble this score
If he does not happen to be married to a fool
But the first lie discovered dSilluSions woman so
greatly that sometimes she does not recognize the
truth when she hears it. And there is doubt that
many well-intentioned husband has been driven to
unathfulneSs by the unjust accusations OF his mate
We can not build career upon lies; neither can
We hope to erect home upon such fiimsy founda-
ton. Truth essential to happy relationship be-
tween and wife.
And the normal woman who knows she can de-
pend upon her husbands word viii not suspect him or
object to reasonable amount g masculine liberty,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-14
Cleanup in Order

THERE are reasons for believing
l. that Hawaiian politics has
come to depend on placating this, or
that, racial group and that certain
officials have adopted rather SER
vile attitude for the sake of popu-
larity.
Obviously, an investigation is in
order.
The multiplicity of charges and
insinuations that have been made
leaves the Washington administra-
ton no other course.
The facts should be brought out
no matter what the cost, or whom
they hurt, and if the facts warrant
it, there should be no. hesitation
or delay in cleaning house.