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The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
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ticians who are using their legion
membership as a pawn to advance
their own selfish interests.
Roosevelt now is holding the i'm
portant and remunerative Office of
governor general of the Philippine
islands ($25,000 per annum, I be-
lieve); General Hines is holding
down a political plum in Washing
ton Of director general of the vete-
rams bureau, which carries with it
magnificent remuneration, exact
amount unknown.
Neither of them of course knows
anything about the SWampS of want
and the jungles of poverty and will
not know while they remain on the
backs of the taxpayers, and could
not possibly understand what the
poor unfortunate veteran and his
underfed children have had to go
through during the last three years.
If the great engineer, their po-
litical leader, did know, I do not
think he would turn us down after
getting the great bankers $4,000, ,000,-
600, and with a spirit of great mag
nanimity, of his own free will and
accord, without even being asked,
proposed that we become the big
brother of all mankind (outside of
the United States and forgive them
the debts they owe the government
of these United States.
Eve think some one has blundered
and couldn't you tell 'em how? You
wrote we were heroes once, please
write we are starving now."
Senator watson is wrong if he
thinks the legion doesn't want the
adjusted compensation now. Some of
the political leaders holding good
fat public appointive Offices may
not need nor want it, but the thou
sands of former World war soldiers.
whether in the legion or out Of it,
need it and want it badly right now.
All these men earnestly will check
your paper and the Congressional
Record to find out who they shall
support when we march to the polls
this November. JOHN FOX.
Editor Times 'HooSiers take care
of their own" This is the last word
of Governor Leslie on the relief
question. 1t also is an outrageous
lie. No amount of charitable judg
ment could make it otherwise
We have not heard thta the Gov
ernor has lost the use Of his eyes.
and none but the blind could fail
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
IdlenoSS Hurts

A LOWER tariff and reciprocity
"A treaties form an essential part
of recovery which consists in get
ting our industries and our people
back to work.
That buying power on which pros
perity depends is not hurt half as
much by reduced wages as by idle
ness.
Assuming that the general price
level has dropped 25, or 80 per cent,
we could stand a similar drop in
pay, and still buy as usual, if all
of us were at work.
Only about three quarters of us
are at work, which is the real diff
flculty.
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to see the dire want and misery
that confronts us on every hand.
To say that the penny-pinching
charity now sanctimoniously being
handed out in this state even begins
to take care of the actual needs of
the thousands held today in the
grip Of restitution is to show a
dirty and brutal indifference to the
gigantic suffering of the masses.
1t shows fundamental incapacity
for human sympathy of any kind
1t shows how hollow and false are
Leslie's professions of regard for
the interest of the people. Like all
other politicians. the only interest
he knows is the interest of lot of
fatty stuffed money bags.
The question is: Just how long
will the people-the real people, the
people who are bearing the brunt
Of these fearful times-patiently en-
dure the starvation policy that men
like Leslie force upon them. How
long will it take them to join hands
and organize against the intolerable
tyranny and oppression that Leslie
and the capitalist class represent?
EUGENE STANTON.
537 S. West, st.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
FRENCH, BRITISH GAIN

March 81
NN March 81, 1918, for the first
~ time since the great German
offensive began, counter-attacks by
French and British forces were sue
cessful in taking back some of the
fruits of enemy advances.
British reserves attacked strongly
the new German positions near
Serre and regained much lost
ground.
Fresh French divisions attacked
on their front and recaptured the
villages of Ayencourt and Monchel.
Thousands of American troops
were ordered to reserve positions
just behind the battle front and
were ready to go into action in
case of another major offensive &C
ton on the part of the Germans.
News of allied successes was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm in
both France and England, where
the morale Of the people had been
shaken seriously by the early Ger
man victories.
One dark cloud on the horizon,
however, was the rumor that Ger
man storm troops had been with
drawn largely from the first battle
front and were being concentrated
for second major operation on an
other sector.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine

A MONG the most frequent inju-
4 \ ries to the eye is penetration
by some foreign substance, usually
part of metal wheel, hot spark
of metal, Or some similar substance.
DR.. G. H. Cross has recently an
alyzed 4,541 injuries to the eyes oc-
curing in industry, of which 2,67O
represented substance thrown into
the eye by accident.
Another common cause is the
caustic soda burn. There are many
industries in which caustic soda is
used.
While caustic soda burns do not
look severe the first time they are
examined, they may seem very seri-
Gus by the third day of the injury.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY HEHM99r FR3z%

community will share ar opinion
so gross and materialistic. If the
good doctors words mean what they
seem to mean, he is saying that any
marriage is good enough so long
as it complies with outer forms.
He sounds no trumpet call for
love and fire and spirit. So long
as a union is respectable, DR.. Cad
man thinks no more need be de-
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

NTANY ministers have COM
1V1 mented on the waning inf1u-
ence of the church, and generally
they blame the jazz age. 1t is held
that man today has grown jaded
and insensitive to the finer things
of life. I disagree. Not man so
much, but the ministry has turned
SNUG, satisfied and dowdy minded.
It isn't true that the community
turns a somewhat inattentive ear
toward the preachers because they
advance a scheme of life too diff
cult and lofty. The thing they ask
for isn't good enough. They have
succeeded in reducing daring and
revolutionary policy into series OF
dull and petty compromises.
Mystics and saints never fail to
capture the imagination of human
kind in any age. But these men
who climb into the pupits of the
town are little fellows.
In one church you may receive
each Sunday a slice of venomous
intolerance, which passes with some
for religion. One of the spiritual
leaders has a gift for nagging, and
still a third tempers his discourse
with worldly wisdom.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
SCIENCE
Atom Is Attacked on Four
Fronts by Modern Scien-
titic Methods.
by DAVID DIETZ'

Fronts by Modern Scien-
tifc Methods.
CCIENCE is launching an attack
- upon the secrets of the atom
with an intensity never before
equaled. The attack is proceed
ing along four fronts by widely diff
fering methods.
One is by use oS intense tempera-
lures, rivaling surface heat of the
sun. Another is by use Of intense
cold, rivaling frigidity of outer
space, temperature only a few de-
greeS above absolute zero.
The third method is the use of
artificial lightning. The fourth is
the use of powerful x-ray tubes.
tubes so powerful that their energy
equals that of a ton of radium.
The high temperatures, in the
neighborhood of 10000 degrees
Fahrenheit, will be attained with
the solar furnace at the Astro-
physical Laboratory of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology.
The solar furnace consists of
nineteen lenses each two feet in
diameter, mounted in a framework
with auxiliary mirrors so that the
sunlight gathered by all nineteen
is concentrated into a spot the size
OF your little fingernail. That spot
will reach the temperature Of TO-
600 degrees.
Metals and other materials will be
placed in large vacuum tubes and
the spot of sunlight trained on
them. The intense heat Immediate
ly will vaporize them Their be-
havior will then be studied with
the spectroscope and other devices.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Revision Is Vital
NXTORK can be provided to some
w extent through activities and

WORK can be provided to some
w extent through activities and
enterprises of a makeshift nature,
but that will not insure recovery.
The real job is to get the mills.
mines and farms in operation.
obviously it can not be accomplished
without opening adequate markets,
especially abroad.
AS far as the federal government
is concerned, every effort should be
made toward that end, and revision
OF the tariff is the place to begin.
The tariff makes rehabilitation of
foreign trade impossible, not only
because of the duties we have i'm
posed, but because of the general
policy to which our example has
given rise.
The United States has set a style
in tariff-making which is smother
ing international commerce. There
is little hope for us, or other
people, until the style changes.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
The Atonn'S S Nucleus

1T is to be expected that the mag
Il nets will develop such tremendous
magnetic fields that it will be posi-
bic to pull the nucleus of an atom
to pieces.
The big problem facing the
world of physics today is the struc-
ture of the nucleus of the atom. It
is believed that the atom consists
Of a nucleus around which negative
electrons revolve.
The nucleus in the case of hydro
gen, the simplest known atom, is
believed to be single positive cleo
tron. In the case of helium, the
next atom, the nucleus is thought
to be composed of four positive cleo
irons and two negative electrons.
While this seems to be true on
the basis of pretty good evidence, no
one yet has succeeded in breaking
up the nucleus of helium atom.
There seems to be good reason for
believing that the atoms of heavier
elements are composed of consoli-
dationS of the nuclei of helium and
hydrogen atoms.
This belief largely is based on the
evidence of radium. The nucleus
of the fadium atom disintegrates
spontaneously, giving off various
sorts of rays, one of which, the
alpha ray, is composed of the nu-
clei of helium atoms.
Use of high potential electric cur
rentS-artificial lightning bolts-and
the use of powerful X-ray tubes also
have this same objective, the disin-
tegration of the nucleus of the atom.
Two methods Of generating high
electric currents have been sug-
gested recently.
One is the generator designed by
DR.. Robert j. Van De Graft of
Princeton university. 1t makes use
of moving silk belts to concentrate
static electricity upon huge metal
lie spheres.
The other method, developed in
Germany, uses wires, like radio
aerials, strung on mountain sides to
concentrate atmospheric electricity.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Little Less Than Spiritual

lT WISH to put in evidence let
ter sent to DR.. S. Parkes Cadman
and his reply, printed in this syn
dicated column. His questioner
asks:
"a couple have been married four
years, but are mismated, having no
love for each other, and under New
York laws neither can secure a di-
vorce. Is it not sacrilege for both
parties to remain married when
they are both so unhappy"
And to this DR.. Cadman replies
mo cohabitation is a sacrilege so
long as it is sanctioned by church
and state and by the right behavior
of the parties cohabitating."
Lowest Common Factor
THIS may be good enough for
l. churchmen, but I refuse to be-
neve that the greater part of the
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
About how many calves does an
elephant bear in a life time?

Very little is known about the
breeding of elephants as only few
have been bred in captivity. At
Copenhagen, one elephant has had
three or four calves in many years.
The period of CESSATION is about %
months. They begin breeding at
thirty years and continue until they
are 80 years old.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
SenSeIeSS Censorship

In 1920, despite Senator Smoots opposition con-
gress under the leadership of Senator Cutting odi-
fled the customs censorship by permitting juries to
decide what books fit to enter our uncontaminated
land.
Now Senator Cutting proposes to finish the Job
by taking arbitrary powers of censorship from the
government.
Few realize that the solicitor Of the postofice
sits in absolute dictatorship our reading matter
Fattened on seventy years of unchaenged authority
this otherwise obscure Office in Washington is almost
supreme in the realm of literature
The solicitor, the slightest pretext may exclude
from the mails anything he regards obscene or
"sedltious' fraudulent" Recourse to the courts
rarely succeeds since the sender prove the post
Office to have nlsused it's discretion grossly.
Naturally such power vested in one individual
often is abused absurdly. First information comes
from the local postmaster whose ideas on obscenity
often lag bit behind the march of science For
instance an educational pamphlet used by the Y M
c. A. and others The Sex Side of Life" passed
freely through the mails for four years. only to be
excluded as obscene in 1922. After it's author was
indicted tried, and released as innocent by New
York's upper court, the book readmtted.
At time report of the Chicago vice COM
mission headed by Episcopal Dean Sumner, was ex-
cuded. While Three Weeks" was being mailed, such
Love and Its Afnities" sanger's History of Prosti-
tuition were being excluded
Circulars advertising the book "Rasputin" were
barred in 1880, but the book itself was admitted.
Using the political clause Mooney Billings
pamphlets excluded as libelous to California,
stickers protesting marine rule in Nicaragua we're
excluded false" attack Mussolni was barred
embarrassing to Italy
Under Cuttings bill, the postmaster must send all
matter he believes illegal to the United States dis
trict attorney of the district where it was mailed
with the request that libel proceedings be instituted
before jury
The criminal penalty would be limited to matter
deposited within five years after the prohibiting
dict. Open records of all excluded matter would be
kept. And all -mailable matter is defined clearly
and paragraphcd
If We must have censorship, let it be intelligent
and orderly. The Cutting bill should be passed.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

Prices Are DolOn Where We
Could Rebuild Our Foreign
Trade, but the Tariff
Stands IN the Way.

OtUItdc tf5 tftc ~ w
INTEw YORK, March 31-Con-
IN slant use of the word de
preston" has led people to think Of
recovery as a return to 1928 condi-
tions. The thought has done much
to prevent readjustments that were
not only wise, but inescapable.
Private business has engaged in a
futile struggle to retain, or restore
prices. Public business has been con-
Quoted with the idea that routine
expenditures could be maintained
because the slump in revenue was
temporary.
During the last two years, most
Of us have clung to the hope that a
few weeks, or a few months would
see us back where we were.
The time has come to discard that
sort Of rubbish. We are not in a
hole between two solid levels. We
have fallen off a sand pile. Bad as
conditions are right now they are
nearer normal with respect to prices
and values than were those preced-
ing the crash.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

When was the last eclipse of the
sun visible in the United States?
On April 28, 1880. it was visible as
total eclipse in northern CAL
ifornia, Oregon, Idaho. Nevada and
western Utah.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

Most women don't go by the newest fashions al
exchange says. They go buy them!
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

And now Chicago presents "crooner" murd
Well, Chicago has always been first along those lin
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

A coin dug up in Italy has been puzzing the ex-
oerts They can't decide which is heads or tails
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

news item says women in Russia get the sam
wages as men. That's nothing new. American wivt
have been doing that for years.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

Style experts tell that print fabrics are to be
very fashionable this summer That will get many o
girl into print for the first time.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31

All ten members of the supreme court of Albania
were removed for "unprofesSional conduct" Slowly
but surely, American ideas and American customs arr
conquering the world.
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manded. For sanctification. he
would substitute sanction.
This bears only the dimmest re-
lationShip to the gospel which shook
the world. 1t was not respectability
that men once upon a time came
from their boats and homes to fol-
low after great Leader.
Il n
It Asks Too Little
A ND so 1 repeat, the church
L N dwindleS because it asks too lit
tie. Why should anybody be excited
by a preacher who pretends that a
sacrament may be reduced to the
mere business of formal compliance
with the custom of the country?
Render unto Caesar" is only the
beginning of the exhortation.
May I remind the most popular
clergyman of our day that even aft
er church and state are satisfied
there still is the claim of God to be
considered?
(CopYrigt. 1882. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times., 1932-03-31
Daily Thought

How long halt ye between two
opinions?-I Kings 1921.
There is nothing more pitiable in
the world than an irresolute man
oscillating between two feelings
who willingly would unite the two
and who does not perceive that
nothing can unite them.-Goethe.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-16
By HOWARD FEREBEE

N UTE. Montana, the last h;tching
post of the Old West. from which
national prohibition drew its most
effective weapon. faces a dry and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-16

FEDERAL agents with trucks are carrying
L away these mellow old fixtures. reminders
of the days when John Barleycorn was other
than police court character.
Replacing their substantial bars and baroom
furniture with plank and couple Of barrels,
bootleggers have gone Easter" TO use their
own expression.
''Here we've been trying to run things on
the square and make the places little home
like for the boys one bartender told the
writer. Nov the government says it can take
our property-well. things will change. our sa-
looms will be like those Joints down east-a
back room where someone deals of the r,p."
The swinging doors-and Butte wa. proud
of the fact that man didn't have to sneak up
an alley to get drink-have been relocated
to the free-and-easy past. along with the bars
and the heavy loaded glass light fixtures which
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-02-16

a chef on the payroll Of the bootlessing fra
ternty. Card tables. easy chairs. and other
comforts. together with diversions which once
included horseshoe pitching ground and pee
wee golf course. make Jail life comparable to
that in an exclusive sanatorium.
Scofers facetiously assert that married men
have been allowed to go home nights; and it
used to be said that it was not necessary for
jailed bootleggers to go on the water wagon
while serving their terms.
These stories, of course. are subject to
questioning. Yet they indicate the popular be-
lief that term in bootleggers' section was
something like vacation.
NOV all is changed. Butte's bootleggers
| : have discovered there is dry law. and
that Uncle Sam can clamp down the lid.
When Jackson's raiders swooped down on
Butte. the bootleggers were taken unaware.
They handed over the evidence as in times
past, made bond and reopened their saloons.
Imagine their amazement when agents were so
unothodox as to return as often as four times!
Such procedure was unheard Of.
The bootleggers began to get worried. Some
of them were indignant.
why. cant tolerate this. one Of them
said. It's running my business. My custom
ers are being driven away. 1t isn't fair.
have to put up bail for the boys and I've got
to pay their fines and continue their salaries If
they go to JAIL"
Charles Penasa filed claim against the es-
tate of Dominick .Cuslielmana for S. day
for 30-day Jail sentence he served
The probate judge denied the claim on the
ground that Cuslielmana received no benefit
from Penasa's service.
Throughout prohibition. the bootleg king
has been free to operate. expand his sphere of
influence and grow rich. for he could hire bar
tenders who were willing to take the rap In
event of raid.
As result of the supreme courts decision,
= even if the big operator is not thrown in
Jail, his property where the liquor was sold is
con6scated
Thus the government for the first time has
an effective power which reaches beyond the
puppets in the liquor traffic and strikes the boss
operator in his most vulnerable spot-the pure.
Although Jackson has not made good
q his threat to dry up Butte. he has closed
81 it up.
q Christmas and New Years found those
n inseparable holiday companions. Tom and
u Jerry, among those absent. It was the
q first time in many years that halt dozen
u or more Butte establishments neglected to
II place neat cards in the windows ANNOUNCE
81 ing the presence inside of the steaming
81 bowl around which many fond memory
a became alive.
Il And Butte. whose spirit has ever been
j one Of keeping its vices out in the open, un-
glded. of calling a man man until he
proved himself otherwise. went on about
its way.
The day will come'-you hear It
more often these days-'whe we'll net
chance to change It ALL"
Butte generally votes Democratic. Il wa.
largely responsible for repeating the state bro.
hbition law. And Butte's thirsty one. are
waiting for the next election;
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effective weapon. faces dry and
coloress future.
For after all these years, prohibition has
come to Butte. the greatest mining camp on
earth''-a camp featured in fiction The
Wide Open Town" Perch Of the Devil
and ''Sin in the Desert.
Not that the town is without drinks. Quite
the contrary. Butte still has plenty of whisky
straight. but its spirituous children--toddies.
cocktails and stir-ups-have been laid low
And gambling. heritage of the rp-roarins
days when the Montana metropolis was rude
mining camp. likewise is being run out.
Such is the fate of the city which only two
months ago helplessly placed in the hands OF
federal agents the most deadly weapon yet
used against the bootlegger.
For when the supreme court, acting
Butte case, decreed con6scation of speakeasy
and night club equipment was legal post
conviction penalty. it spelled the economic ruin.
if not the determination. of thousands Of boot
leggers in all the states, from Maine to Cali
fornia.
WITHIN an hour after the courts decision.
w federal dry agents started the almost i'm
possible task of closing Butte saloons.
Open saloons Aourished agleam IN their ma
hogany bars. brass footballs and accessories.
elaborate back-bar mirrors. and old-fashioned
oil paintings.
Through more than decade of prohibition,
Butte had remained aloof. 1t was town
where a man could elbow his way through the
crowds of the street. pass swinging doors and
amble up to friendly bar where his two-bit
piece would ring back as only silver cana
sound much loved in the west
Butte. says Prohibition Administrator
Carl Jackson, doesn't even know the meaning
of prohibition. guess the saloons have never
been closed. The bootleggers themselves trea,
you with respect"
Now since Jackscn's visit to Butte. with his
assignment of large number of agents to re-
main until the town is dry. all is changing rap
idly. If Butte didn't know about prohibition,
il is learning fast