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Evening star., 1932-04-19
Packard surplus Increased.

NEW YORK, April 10 (P).-Stock-
holders of the Packard Motor Car Co.
yesterday voted to transfer Sl0,000,000
from capital to surplus, which will re-
turn to surplus one-half of the amount
taken from it in June, 1929, when OUT
standing stock was increased to 15,000,-
900 shares from 100000 shares.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
PARIS BOURsE PRICES.

PARIS. April 10 (Rl-Three per
cent rentes, II francs 10 centimes.
Five per cent loan, 101 francs 40
centimes.
centimes. The dollar was quoted at
IS francs 33& centimes.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
Anthracite Coal Production.

NEW YORK, April 10 [P).-Produc-
ton Of anthracite coal in the week
ended April amounted to 1921, 900
preceding week and 1,260,o00 IN the
like week of 1881.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
Fairly Steady Egg Markets.
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, April 19 (noon) R.-
Silver futures steady; sales, $50, 1000
ounces May, 1888 T; July, $3.50 bid;
September, 20 bid; october, 29.l5 bid;
December, $3.50 bid.
Evening star., 1932-04-19
NEW YORK BANK STOCKS
Banks,

NEW YORK, April 1s (R).-Over- the
counter market:
Evening star., 1932-04-19
U. s. TREASURY BALANCE.
By the Associated Pre-

BY the Associated Press.
Treasury receipts for April Is were
$4,000, ,996.13; expenditures, $5l, ,39l,-
64780; balance, $451 1888, 1914. Gus
toms duties for 16 days of April were
S11 1853, ,551 .06.
Evening star., 1932-04-19

Sales of Stocks New York Exchange
AN........ 100000 1900 Noon ...... 900
1880 PM. 100000 2:1o P.M........ 100000
cash
halfysarly
than 100 Partly
Plus Paid this
ePayable Plus So In stock b Pus
Paid last regular Pus ~ In stock Plus
2IsT
Evening star., 1932-04-19
Sales of Stocks on New Yorl

IL ~ Zenith Radio. ........
70 6N Zonite Prod Corp %
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
People s Voice

Editor Times-I have read YOUR
paper ever since it has been pub
llshed and I appreciate it, because
it gives the public a chance to speak
to the public and let the people
know they are not in ignorance.
Under existing conditions. I re-
specially request that the legisla-
ture now in session suspend the
regular order of business long
enough to pass the old age pension
law and give our Governor a chance
to redeem himself. Also. regulate
the loan shark graft of this citv
that Is robing the working people
The ones who made it possible for
the loan sharks to hold I'D people
ought to be in ? warmer climate
right now. The mo- the present
tax question needs is to stop the
graft they hang on the working man
who can't get a chance to earn
money to pay his taxes on time.
1 would suggest that these con-
ditions be looked after before the
present legislators stop to eat. for
lots Of working people are almost
doing that now.
JOHN AKERS.
518 Miami street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
Action in December

since congress has folded its tents and departed
after lew futile gestures the people of the country
must wait till next December to see the nation
started back on the long road Of prohibition reform
In the meantime:
The taxpayers, now groaning under weight of
taxes, must continue paying for prohibition en-
iorcement $5O,5OOoOo annually and receiving back in
hnes only 100000. The net cost of prohibition
since 1920 is estimated at $310OOOO0O
They will be losing in possible revenues from LIQUOR
taxes at least s1OOOOOO0OO a year. The estimated
loss since 1920 is $11 OOOOOOO
Courts will remain log jammed with prohibition
cases Federal courts alone forced to handle 10000
liquor cases year. work requiring two-thirds of their
time. Last month more than $4,000 criminal cases
resulting from enforcement activities were left on
the dockets of state and federal courts.
Men women and children will be harassed Jailed
perhaps killed in the vain attempt to enforce an I'M
enforceable law
Jails, now shamefully overcrowded will continue
to be cramped
The new racketeering underworld created by pro-
aibtion will continue to enrich itself, terrorize society,"
corrupt the police and courts defy decency and de-
moralze the enforcement of useful laws
Homes will be violated by dry shoppers wires will
be tapped by lawless agents, autoists will be am
pushed, all in the name of an experiment-noble in
purpose.
And worst of all, the attention of America will
be diverted from grave economic problems and cleo
tons decided upon an issue that never belonged in
politics.
December is long enough to wait Let the voters
speak plainly this fall that the present congress-
which comes back in December for a four months
session, will not dare delay action
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

| Ell us give ear today TO a statement by George K
IL Schuler, who writes on Our Navy" in Plain Talk
magazine Mr.. Schiller is arguing for more appro-
pratons for the United States navy although he does
admit we have too many admras
His points consistent and he is to be congratu-
lated for putting into concrete terms the truth about
militaristic convictions.
Peace on EARTH says Mr.. Schiller land good will
to men may be the expression of beautiful and noble
sentiment, but from the standpoint of practical real
lty 1t remains an empty, hollow ideal"
This is day for candor. Pussyfooting has gone
out of fashion.
But do the majority of Christian people of this
or any land concur in Mr.. Schulers opinion won
der If so, then it's high time the worthy brethren
maze new confession of faith.
THOUGH we can not be noble let us at least be
Il frank. And if peace on earth and all il has
stood for Is naught but a mockery something to be
mouthed without meaning, why should we 60 on re-
peatng 1t, like parrots. in churches?
Mr.. Schuler, as well as any one I know has IN
covered the menace that threatens to overwhem lis
the menace of hypocrisy. For while we 60 before
the nations of the earth dressed in evangelical robes
posing as peace lovers and champions of human lib
erly, at home our navy and army, our patriots and
pohucians. our congress and churchmen. laugh in
ther sleeves at the Righteousness we preach abroad
The vital essence of religion thus is confessed
20 be meaningless claptrap. Our Bibles conceal
bayonets
Let us, then. like honest men and women stand
lorth Tor those things which believe to be true
II peace on earth is hollow ideal without sub
stance not worth striving for let abandon and
become plain pagans, ready at least to uphold sin
cerlty and candor, deceiving one, not even our
selves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
Method Is HOPELESS

A DESPERATE scramble for
A revenue has led many govern
ments to impose high tariffs, re-
CARELESS of their detrimental effect
on trade. Each move in this direc-
ton has led to other moves by way
of retaliation.
England was forced to abandon
free trade, or thought she was, and
the Ottawa conference comes about
as logical climax of her new
policy.
High money, low wages, and re-
duced trade are the results. The
farther governments go in trying to
recoup themselves through trade re-
strictlon, the worse off they become.
The method is simply hopeless. It
destroys the one chance of recovery.
and people are beginning to realize
as much. The world can not remain
solvent on sinking values, much less
pay its way out.
Something must be done to re-
store wages and prices, or. to put it
another way, bring money down.
Only two courses are open
either remove the barriers which
now block trade, or go in for in
fiation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20

known, a fit playmate for John D.
Rockefeller. I mean of course, the
elder Rockefeller, who has lust cele-
brated his 93d birthday. And even
in this claim I am giving myself a
break. Mr.. Rockefeller has led a
cleaner and more careful life than
L have known.
He still is playing golf, while ]
swore off ten years ago. No man OF
my emotional age should be ex-
pected to go chasing up hills and
down valleys failing away at a golf
pail With heavy niblick.
You will have, while I am gone a
man less burdened by years and
more naive about the city scene.
Yet in this respect I must defend
myself. In the matter of being a
sentimental sucker for urban adj
ventures, have not grown up so
much as half an inch in a quarter
century.
When 1 was a sophomore at COL
Iege, L had notion that it was in
some queer way smart to STAY up
all night in poker games. And now
IN the sere and yellow, must admit
That 1 still get some inner satisfac-
ton out of defying those hours
which are conventional.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
Lausanne and After

The apparent settlement of the reparatons prob
lem at Lausanne and the building up of Anglo
French entente are matters of great interest to stu
tons
Those who comment on the settlement of repara-
lions usually so to extreme another in their
discussion of the Implications and consequences there
of. one camp holds that there is connection
whatever between reparatons and debts and that
We never should consider yielding another inch on
wiping out the debts owed to us by foreign powers
The other group contends that the reparations and
war debt problems bound inseparably together
and that must be willing to give the allies as
generous final settlement as they have accorded to
Germany.
Obviously, the truth lies between these two op-
posing views. There is no historical logical or nor
NAL connection between reparatons and war debts
The war debts loans, amounting with interest
to about l200000o00O contracted by the allies dur
ing the World
theory of fact regarding the responsibility for the
World the end thereof. They were out and
out foreign loans granted by the United States
If there was any legal moral reason for pay
ment of them in 1919, there is the same obligation
in 1882. Indeed there is perhaps more of psyche
logical reason for payment today, since We have
learned how grossly the allies deceived US with re-
spect to the reasons for our participation in the war
Preparations represent the actual indemnity i'm
posed by the allies Germany because she lost the
war. To give this indemnity moral fragrance, it was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
The figures Tell

DROFESSOR BEELEY analysed
Il the figures to find what per-
centage of the total number was in
cluded in the age group between Is
and "a years of age.
He found that in 1927 the per-
centage due to suicides of males in
this group was 60, an increase of
only / per cent over 1926. For fe-
males the percentage was 148. a
decrease Of ID over 1926.
In addition he found that the
percentages for both sexes in 1927
was lower thnn the average for the
twenty years from 1909 to 1923. in
elusive.
1T might be objected. however"
he says, that since the total num-
Der of students in American COL
leges and universities constitutes
only about per cent of all the
young men and women IS to %
years Of age in the general popula-
ton, it still would be possible to
have an increase in suicide among
college students without such fact
heaing readily apparent in the to-
Cals Tor this entire age-group.
True, but when it is remembered
that the total number of all suicides
In this age-group in 1927 was only
FPS GAP males, 483 femaIes), it will
be seen at once that any significant
increase in the number of suicides
within this age range would be
readily apparent.
Looking at the matter in still an
other way: In 1927 there was 1910
normal schools, colleges, universities
and professional schools in the
United States. If there had been
an average, let us say, of one stu
dent suicide in every two such in
stltutions "a total of 705 suicides).
the increase certainly would be an
parent in the total number of sui
sides for this age group.
Even so slight an increase as one
suicide to every five institutions still
would be apparent by comparisons
with the preceding years"
Professor Beeley concludes. there
fore, that there was no suicide
wave" in 1927.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
The St. Lawrence Treaty

A dream cherished by the American people for
many years seems fulfllment, with signature OF
the ST. Lawrence treaty
The huge waterway which is to connect the Great
Lakes with the ocean, will open the inland cities of
seven states to 80 per cent of the worlds shipping
1t will midwesterners believe, reduce materially the
cost of shipping grain
Not only in the field of transportation will the
waterway cause important economic changes Five
billion kilowatt hours of electric energy to be
developed in hydro plants this side of the
river. This is power than Boulder Dam,
Muscle Shoals, and several other projects combined
will generate
Problems connected with opening the waterway
are settled with completion of the treaty. Problems
having to do with control development, and disposal
of the power are not International negotiations
finished
Domestic negotiations, involving disputes fun
damental and of great Importance, have not be-
gun, and until they too are complete, the treaty
is not likely to be ratified by the senate.
1t is well, under these circumstances that the
senate foreign relations committee is preparing to
make an intensive study of the treaty and all its
ramifications while congress is in recess.
Such study should give the country opportunity
to become familiar with what has been done and what
has been left undone toward settling the ST.
Lawrence power problem.
1t should make clear the reasons for Governor
Franklin D. Roosevets insistence that the govern
ments of New York and the United States should
have come to an understanding before the latter
agreed to burden the cost of the power development
with two dams instead of one; and the reasons for
President Hoovers curt refusal to consult in any
manner the state which is to bear most of the cost
of the power project
The point is an interesting and important one
because of Roosevelt's frequent promises that his
state will retain control of its power and to it
that residents able to purchase power at lower
rates than any prevailing; because of the Bit
ter opposition of powerful utility companies to any
such course; and because of President Hoover's fire.
quently expressed opposition to public development of
power.
The committee can perform distinct public serv-
ice if it divests this matter of all political trappngs
and gives the public a clear understanding of the
actual situation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
The Curtis Blunder

On Thursday at dusk President Curtis with
out precedent good reason, authority called out
100 armed United States marines to protect" the
Capitol at Washington from a line of bonus march
ers.
That serious clash between our soldiers and our
ex-sodiers avoided through the prompt action of
Washingtons police chief in asking that the marines
be recalled Immediately to their barracks reflects
credit upon Curtis does it relieve him from re-
sponsibility for his amazing act
Armed soldiers have not been called out to pro-
ect the halls of congress in many years. in fact not
since the Civil war, when invading army actually
threatened
Nor were they needed in this case. Throughout
the weeks in which the thousands of bonus demon
strators have been milling about Capitol hill the
best of order has been maintained
This due first to strict seIf-discipline among
the bonus eXpeditionary forces" and next, to the
behavior of the police.
The conduct of the latter thus far we'll might be
an example to every police force in the country. 1t
has been reasonable and tolerant, but firm.
Curtis, of course, should have known that only
the President is empowered by the Constitution to call
out the troops The Vice-Presdent who has had a
marine liason" officer in his office for the last week
acted not only in high-handed and dangerous man
ner, but he acted Illegally
These difficult times. They may be made into
bloody and tragic times by such hgh-trigger DISPLAYS
of fear and hysteria. Whenever the police pull their
guns tear bombs against hungry citizens as in
St Louis, Detroit, Los Angeles and other places thev
stir discomfort to angry revolt and SOW seeds of Sc
rous disorder.
Vice-President Curtis should be among the first
to see all this. That he has not is deplorable
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
CyniCiSnn Blamed

DROFESSOR BEELEY points out
4 that most writer's, in discussing
the subject, assumed that the AL
legged wave was a fact and under
took to point out its causes and~to
suggest a cure.
"A favorite explanation made bv
certain glib critics of higher educa-
ton, he says, was the growing
cynicism' in college circles and the
substitution of mechanistic philoso-
phies' for the students religious be.
liefs.
I'm the minds of many other OBJ
servers, however, the question I'M
mediately arose as to whether there
was a bona fide epidemic of suicide
among college students, or whether
the so-called wave merely was an
Illusion created by the newspapers
treatment of few spectacular
cases."
Professor Beeley has undertaken
to answer the question by a study
of the United States census bureau
mortality statistics.
First he finds that the general
death rate from suicide for the
population at large in 1927 was 1873
per 100000 people. This rate was
0.5 per cent higher than the rate
for 1926, but 0.3 lower than the rate
for 1923.
Moreover, this rate was GA per
cent lower than the average rate
from 1909 to 1928 inclusive.
1T is quite obvious, therefore"
Professor Beeley says, that there
was no marked increase in the gen.
eral suicide death rate for 1927 in
the United States"
He turns next to the question of
suicides among the age groups
which would include college stu
dents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
LandWard 10!

A new back-to- the-land movement is taking place
in the United States
Announcement from the United States depart
ment of agricultures bureau of economics reveals
that the farms of the country last year had net
increase in population of $4,000 over 1880.
Whereas 1,472,OOO persons left farms for cities.
$4,000 people moved farmward. Surplus of rural
births over deaths was 441OOO The 1881 increase
was "the largest and most significant" recorded in
decade.
We should like to hail this landward movement
as an inspiring adventure, return to the healing
verities Of the rustic life.
Unhappily, it is far from that. Unlike the earlier
successive conquests of the American frontiers this
movement is described by the bureau almost
wholly an attempt to obtain low-cost housing and
partial subsistence"
These returning thousands are city failures They
go back to the land poorer in purse and faith than
when they left it. And the land they are settling
is poorer, too, than the fallow prairies and newly
cleared forest lands that the old pioneers needed
only to scratch to make blossom into wealth.
But these families probably have chosen wisely
They are likely to be happier, healthier and more
secure than In the cities they left If they do not
become rich, at least they will not starve.
We should have prepared for real back-to-the-
land movement We should have worked out a
taona land policy, retiring and reforesting the mil
lions of acres of submarginal land 100000000 acres
of which have back to public ownership through
tax delinquences, planning for small suburban gar
den farms where partial living may be made from
factory wages conserving our good land, otherwise
utilizing wisely our greatest heritage.
The new frontier is along the line of recreated
and readiusted agriculture that will insure fair
living to those who practice it,
We have ample good land in spite of wasteful
methods OF the past. And do not have to send
city-weary folks back to what have become little
better than rural slums.
That the United States has not worked out
land program is one of it's major social failures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
-DAILY HEALTH
Harm Seen in Regurgitation of Food

Illumination is more commonly found
in high-strung, neurotic people and
that the habit also may be acquired
by imitation.
Cases have been recorded in
which fathers, sons and grandsons
practiced the habit, so that there
may be some hereditary back
ground
If the food is regurgitated from
the stomach Immediately after be-
ing swallowed, it still may have the
original taste and re-chewing may
be agreeable.
However, the habit in general is
not healthful and may lead to star
walton and emaciation.
Some people who ruminate do not
suffer from the condition, but find
it most embarrassing. They usually
are rapid eaters who also attempt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
New LAMPS for Old

A ND yet my eyes can not very
L n we'll record all those things
which are vivid and surprising in
the daily panorama of Manhattan.
II dWarfs pass by, or men on stills
accept them as part of the reg
uIar procession
The Empire State building losses
into the sky lovely line. 1t is our
version of the old East Indian rome
trlck. And quite a little better I
believe, for this time Orders of steel
ana blocks of masonry have been
hung aloft to stand under their
own peculiar magic and not return
crashing down upon our heads
But man who has covered the
waterfront will have a vision to
observe things which are all too
familiar to these old eyes. I wish
Max Miller luck and make of him
nut one request as coming from
one newspaper man to another
Please don't be as good as I know
you can be. This is a tough world
Tor jobless columnist."
Copyright 1882. BY The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
SCIENCE
Investigator Spikes Story Of
GREAT Suicide Ware"
Among College Students.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

.
no you remember the suicide
IL wave" among college students
in 1922 If you do, you will be in
terested to know that there was no
suicide wave
At least that is the conclusion
reached by Professor Arthur L. Bee
ley of the University of Utah from
a study Of the Mortality Statistics"
Just published by the United States
census bureau.
Professor Beeley points out that
an adequate study of the so-caued
suicide wave" of 1927 was impos-
slole until these statistics were COL
leeted and made public,
During the first three months Of
1927 there were twenty-six suicides
by college students. Most of them
were by young men from eminent
families. Naturally, these suicides
received considerable space in the
newspapers of the nation.
AS result, there was the assumn-
ton that wave of self destruction
was sweeping over the nations in
situations of higher learning. This
not only received serious discussion
throughout the country, but became
a favorite theme among the COLLEGE
humor magazines.
One magazine printed elaborate
instructions informing a student
now to dispose of himself without
mountaineering his fellow students
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-20
Mandate of the Ace

CTANLEY BALDWIN is right
~ when he says that Great Brit
ain must look to world trade, rather
than her own. All nations must
lock to world trade. Such is the
mandate of this age.
For the first time since the dawn
of consciousness, men are able to
draw supplies and exchange COM
modities on worldwide basis.
That, more than any other fact,
represents the triumph Of modern
civilization.
While equalization Of prices may
be desirable, especially between coun-
tries that maintain widely different
standards of living, trade restric-
ton is out of tune with the times.
Not only the prosperity, but the
progress, of every land is depend
ent on the freest possible exchange
Of goods. We could Lot operate the
existing industrial system, much less
expand it, on any other basis.