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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Waste in Government

This city Is joining in the crusade to reduce the
cost OF federal government.
Waste must be eliminated The people can not
pay on the present basis. The little leaks have BE-
come torrents. What tolerated in days Of In
nation because Of It's pettiness becomes important
in these defaulted hours
What is true Of the federal government is also
true Of local governments
The tax problem is important. But Il is also i'm
portant to stop waste at home Immediately and that
be done only by a special session Of the legis-
lature.
The transfer OF the gasoline tax to other uses
should be made at once.
The tax that was once needed to build one mile
of roaos could today build three II the labor were
paid on the basis Of made work in townships. 1t
could build two II the construction paid for at
prevailing rates Of labor But the state needs other
things more than it does cement roads.
The farmers need relief from taxes The idle
of cities need work. The real waste is the enforced
ideness that is increased by the waste in govern
ment funds.
Every unnecessary dollar taken from the farmer
and from industry today by taxation means q
duced wage for some worker and more men in the
ranks OF the idle.
real demand for a special session that will
change the direction OF the big fund at the
mand of the state would do to help Indiana
than appeal TO the federal government 70 cut The
wages Of It's workers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Hastings Hart

The death Of DR.. Hastings H. Hart. humanitarian
and Wckersham commission penal expert, should re-
call societys debt TO that band of prison reformers
whose tireeSs work is constructive and yet 50 lit
tie recognized.
Mans inhumanity TO man" leaves most Of us
helpless. 1t stirS such Hart, Kirchwey, Tan
nenbaum, Lawes. Bates, Mccormick and others to
lives devoted to the rebuilding Of the whole American
penal system.
Results OF their labors have been slow in showing
Aside from the reforms in federal prisons and in a
few states. such New York and Connecticut, most
OF our penitentiaries and practically the 1000 city
jails and lockups remain public nuisances" and the
sntequated and ineffective" things the Wickersham
commission called them.
At time when 100000 Americans are being
punished with unemployment for no fault of their
own, it is hard to stir sympathy for 500 900 men who
have violated laws
1t Is not necessary TO sympathize We need only
recall the waste and folly OF spending millions to turn
men out Of these institutions dangerous enemies
OF society than when they went in
AS former Chairman Wickersham recently said.
our slums and our prisons making criminals
Whatever the offense of the individual toward
society" he told New York audience, "the crimes
of organized society toward the individual are in
fnitely greater"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Wetward the Course

wetward the course Of opinion takes its way.
And. one by one Americas drys surrender TO its
nact The new recruits Of the last fortnight include
men and women of many faiths-repealers, thor
ourhly disguised with the noble experiment; modi-
ncationsts, still hoping and cropping; mere dry sub
mssionists.
All agree that the time has come for a showdown
on the eighteenth amendment and its offspring, the
yostead act. For instance
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen Of Florida, dry
daughter Of famous dry father: Il never have op-
posed referendum on prohibition. My father Cwil-
liam Jennings Bryan believed in the referendum
SO do I"
Chester RoweIl, California Hoover+ss and dry ed
,tor Of the wet San Francisco Chronicle: Let the
Constitution prevail and let the people rule mean
ing let's have referendum.
Oswald Garrison Willard, ex-dry editor OF the
Nation: Repeal the eighteenth amendment"
President Ernest NJ. Hopkins Of Dartmouth, for
mer dry: 7 am opposed to the eighteenth amend
ment. and believe 1t should be repealed.
Governor Henry S. Caulneld OF Missouri, also an
ex-dry: The reason we have not been able to sue
coed with the eighteenth amendment is because 1t
is fundamentally wrong; not wrong in purpose, but
wrong governmentany. II never was intended tEat
the federal government should police the entire
country" =
q Senator Thomas d. schall Of Minnesota, = dry:
II am willing to be quoted advocating referen-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
TT SEEMS TO ME BY H FR0TS

ISOLATION and repeated. One hundred
years from now I'll be dead, and in
the autograph shops they'll be
quarreling about my signature.
"You see, there1l be two sets.
Some collector will produce one
running, Thanks for your kind
letter. am inclosing the auto
graph you requested He will
compare that with the man who
has purchased for his own account
and risk at a great expense a
genuine Cancelled check made out.
Please pay to the order of Barney
Gallant twenty-five dollars (S25) ,
and followed by the maestro's fist.
Naturally the collectors are going
to quarrel, because they will find
that the signatures in the two items
are wholly dissimilar. Do you think
we have a right to muddle the
minds OF generations yet unborn?"
Il don't think they'll give a good
gosh darn" answered Miss Y. I
fired her the next day, but still I
think she was right.
Copyright. 1892. by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
HSERVICE----
Typhoid Fever Terror Is Curbed

New England states as whole were
the lowest ever recorded, except for
1928.
Reading Pa, and Utica, N. Y,
did not have single death from
typhoid fever in 1881. This is the
second time that Utica has had this
record.
Buffalo had less than one death
for every 100000 people. New York
had a slight increase in deaths from
typhoid fever in 1881, because OF
three small outbreaks which we're
traced to food handlers who were
typhoid fever carriers.
The cities In the east-north CEN
trail group led all others in its low
typhoid averages, Notwithstanding
the fact that there we're thirty one
deaths in Cleveland during the year;
twenty Of these were due to one
outbreak in the state hospital for
the insane.
South Bend has had two consecu-
tive years without death, and it
seems reasonable to believe from
the trend of the figures during the
last ten years that the great group
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
AmhideYfrnuS

With its left hand the government chastises
speakeasy beer vendors, stores selling home brew
markings" and even kitchen brewers With its right
hand 1t reaches out for in its new tax bill
by taxing the ingredients of illegal beer-an excise OF
10 cents gallon on brewers wort and cents a
pound on malt syrup.
With its left hand it padIocks, through federal
court decision and Colonel woodcocks willing legion
the grape concentrate business With its right hand
it losses s25OOoOOO of federal farm board funds to
California vneyardists who make and sell concentrate
and then slaps excise tax Of 20 cents gallon on
the very concentrate it outlaws.
With its left hand it turns thumbs down on legal
lied beer and wine that would help industry and
bring in revenue estimated at more than 600
year. Its right palm stretches forth for pittance
OF se7oOOoOo in excise taxes on the ingredients of
illegal beer and wine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
We Know Now

WE know now that sharp eyes
w and common sense could have
solved this mystery in three days;
that a properly organized search by
the men available would have To-
Gated the murdered child, spared the
nation ten weeks Of nerve-racking
anxiety, ended torture for the dis
tressed family, and saved kings
ransom.
We know now that there was no
criminal santa Claus waiting to
make restitution for a price; that
the problem was not TO get reporters
AMI peace officers out OF the way so
that he could sneak back I'M
observed.
We know now that it was not lack
of law which prevented a solution
Of the mystery, nor jealous en-
deavors Of the press to help, nor an
insatiate demand for news.
We know now that those natural
feelings which were permitted 10
dominate the case amounted to little
less than ar open invitation for
every crook and faker to impose on
people whose suffering, or Suscepti-
bility, had made them credulous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

VXTHnE the people complain about governmental
w COSTS congress plays at hideand-seek with taxes
and appropriations Attempts to cut expenses in Uncle
Sans house have been pathetic and ludicrous and
spell tragedy for the honest business man.
Though we could not possibly finance another
naval conflict, we find ourselves still paying ex-
cessve sum for warships. Although the public which
is decidedly openly and even DANGEROUSLY against
has urged that such appropriations be trimmed, the
gentlemen Of congress have surrendered, lock- stock
and barrel to the military lobby. Our children may
cry for bread but we must buy guns.
Our country, which is called democracy and is
said to be government "of the people by the people
and for the people, presents today sorry spectacle
1t is beSet all sides by ravening patrots-politca
and martial And If abandoned to them longer. they
viii deyour it.
LOW rarely do we now see unselfsh service for
L l. native land a politician fighting for prncipel
Statesmen no longer regard our Union as whole
Only the small parcel Of ground upon which live
his constituents interests the average legislator
Every in Washington appears to work for one
purpose only-to get himself returned to ONCE by
some hook or crook.
Our country no longer is loved: it is looted by
those who have sworn to defend it. The great grab
act goes endlessly Political preferment, party
power, the polls and publicity the high principles
that actuate today's politician
And powerful Hobbies sit like wolves upon the con-
gressional doorstep Threats pressure. brides in the
form Of vote promises are used to gain any ends.
And beyond washington. the people wait. long suf-
fering patient and still hopeful thst AL the love OF
country may not be dead In the congressional breast
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of mid-western cities with nearly
10,0O0,O0O population is headed for
complete elimination OF typhoid
fever.
When it is considered that there
would have been 10000 cases Of the
disease with 5000 deaths in Chi
cago alone during 1881 if the rates
OF 1890 still prevailed, the world
will have some idea of what a ire
mendous accomplishment this has
been for science and for public
health.
All the rest of the country COM
pares favorably with the cities that
have been mentioned, except that
New Orleans suffers with a high
nonresident death rate.
There were sixty-five deaths from
typhoid in 1881 in New Orleans, but
forty-eight of these cases were
brought into the city from sur
rounding territory.
In Texas, Houston, San Antonio
and TT. Worth had excellent rates,
and are superior in this field to
Dallas and FL Paso.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
There Is No Substitute

THERE is no substitute for COM
L. mon honesty and a sense oi
social obligation, no possibility Of
so arranging matters that crime can
be profitable and decent people safe
at the same time.
The line between right and wrong
may wabble, but it must not be ig-
nored.
There Is no such animal as an
honest CRATER, or dependable kid
naper.
No matter how indistinct it may
appear, there always is a cleavage
between the forces OF good and
evil. No man can straddle it, with
out making things less secure for
himself and others. No nation can
think of disregarding it, without in
viting chaos.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Peoples Voice

Editor Times - What is it? A
water rate cut. a light rate cut?
Surely is something wrong. My
definition of the great farce is a
gouge into the poor mans purse.
The citizen asked for reduction,
and in all affairs there generally is
a day set for the committee Of both
sides to talk it over. But did these
companies do this?
No. They fixed It all up to suit
themselves and cut the water al
lowance to where the average fam
lily would be paying around 81 in
stead Of $108. I know many, fam
lilies who use more than TOO cubic
feet and are careful, too, in sum-
mer. In winter they pay as much
and don't have any sprinkling.
1 imagine they are laughing up
their sleeves at the stupidity of we
citizens trying to keep clean, cook
our food and drink all we need on
500 cubic feet a month.
More power to the editor Of The
Times, who is not afraid to voice
his own opinion; also, three cheers
for the two honest commissioners.
MRS. LOGENAN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Defines AbnormaIity

THE need for a new definition of
Il mental abnormality was point
ed by DR.. James Quinter Holsopple,
chief clinical psychologist o. the
New Jersey state department OF in
situations and agencies.
The present confusion In defini-
tion," DR.. Holsopple said, inhibits
psychological research in the prob
lens of mental disease, feeble
mindedness and delinquency be-
cause the problems themselves, usu-
ally phrased in terms of the abnor-
NAL, can not be stated clearly.
Applications Of psychology to the
practical handling of social prob
lens are often ineffective because
they depend upon some vague and
cratic concept of the nature of alb
normality."
An abnormal mental activity, as
DR.. Holsopple proposed to define it,
rs an activity which is more char
scteristic of the abnormal person
than Of the normal person."
AN abnormal person." his defini-
ton was, lis one who generally is
noticeable and who interferes with
other peoples satisfaction of de-
sire.
mo one of the definitions now
current fits well even that group
universally recognized as abnormal,
and all fail utterly to clarity the
situation with respect to borderline
cases.
THE definition propose fits, /
think, both the definite and the
borderline cases. II explains the
essentially social nature Of abnor-
mality."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Discussion of Soul

d ETURN Of the soul to psvcho-
~ logical discussions was dis
cussed by DR.. Henry E. starr. head
OF the department of psychology
and director OF the psychologicaI
and mental hygiene clinic of Rut-
gers university.
Today" DR.. Starr said. "whether
Tor good Or Ill, the soul Is retuyn-
ing TO psychology. And it is return
ing. IN part at least, under the guise
OF personality
We must not be too fearful OF
the old words or too enraptured bv
the new, but should insist upon
clarity and consistency Of defni-
ton in every case"
DR.. Starr attacked psychologists
who allowed themselves to be
come slaves of the little godlets
OF the schools-worshiper of
narrow creedal system, whether of
Freud, Kohler, Pavlov, Watson, or
another"
1T is well to face sauarelv DIR
own limitations" he suggested ain
the manner of the modern physicist.
rather than attempt to mask A.
feeling of inferiority with an air
of infallibility.
"The physicist frankly admits his
inability to predict the behavior of
an electron even in his own labora-
tory under experimentally- controlled
conditions.
Yet many psychologist feels
inferior because he can not predict
with 100 per cent accuracy the be-
havior Of some Jim Jones out on
the highway Of life"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

Wrong Habits IN Children
Are Corrected Rapidly IN
Clinic Experiments.
INTERESTING topics. ranging
4 from the prevention Of bad
habits in children to the question
Of the existence Of the soul. were
discussed at the annual meeting OF
the Association Of Consulting Psy-
biologists held at Columbia uni
versity.
Developments OF wrong habits in
children may be prevented or cor
rected by psychological examination
given between the ages of 4 months
and "a years, Or. Eleanor G.
Kemp, director Of the Psychological
center New York. declared.
"One hundred thirty-five babies
OF normal intelligence, ranging
from 6 to 80 months Of ace. were
examined by psychologists at the
Wells babies clinic OF the Fifth
Avenue hospital" Or. Kemp ex-
planned. Parents Of the group we're
given instructions as to proper
habit building.
The result was that eating Diff
culties disappeared, cases of tan
trumS were avoided, cases of STAN
mering due to wrong enforcement
Of the right hand in left-handed
children prevented. and thumb
sucking and other undesirable
habits overcome.
Comparison Of the group of 1875
and IL normal children who had
had no preventive psychological
treatment revealed that five of the
twelve were thumb-suckers, where
as only four OF the 1855 we're. and
these four had already overcome
the habit.
Other wrong habits were in each
case possessed by a larger number
OF children in the group of twelve,
tran in the entire collection of the
lS5 tested children"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
The Age of Hypocrisy

MUCH Of the trouble we are in
N1 harks back to the illusionment
that people can be crooked in
certain respects and straight in
others; that collateral Is better
security than character; that clever
ness brings greater reward than re-
liability, and that success is not the
real thing, unless 1t can be measured
by money.
God knows why little Charles
Lindbergh was murdered, but in
directly, the wicked, wanton, cause
less crime can be attributed to the
wise-cracking, jazzed-up, hypo-
critical age in which We live-an
age that pays racketeers for protec-
ton, that elects crooks to office, on
the ground that they are smart
politicians, that outlaws bootleggers,
buys their goods at exorbitant
prices, and then claps them in jail
when they fail to pay income taxes
on the profits they make.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
NEW SHIPS COMPLETED
May II

ON May IA, 1918, it was an
~ ncunced that the first million
tons OF ships had been completed
and delivered to the United states
government under supervision Of
the shipping board.
The number of ships delivered to-
tailed about $50, more than half Of
which had been constructed since
the first Of the year.
An agreement was made between
allies and the United States provid-
ing that all United States imports
first should receive sanction Of the
war trade board.
American troops renewed attacks
on Monte Carno and advanced on
the Italian lines at Dosso Casino.
AS If in retaliation, the Italian
naval force torpedoed and sank an
Austrian dreadncught in Pola har-
Dor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Questions and
Answers

How much silver does n silver dol
lar contain?
1t contains S71.25-4S0 OF an ounce
of silver.
Who is president Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, and what Is his
salary?
The President Of the United States
is president OF the American Red
Gross. He receives no salary from
that organization.
When and where was the last
worlds fair held In the United
States?
1t was the Philadelphia sesqui-
centennial exposition in 1925.
What constitutes n thoroughbred
among animals?
One that is bred from the purest
blood or stock, Of a breed kept pure
for many generations.
Who was the secretary Of COM
merce and labor in the cabinet Of
President Roosevelt?
First, Greoge B. Cortelyou; sec
ond, Victor H. Metcalf, and third,
Oscar S. Straus.
What Is the term Of Office foE
members Of the German reichstag.
When was the last election?
The term is four years and the
last election was Sept. 4.
What is Eddie Cantor's real name
and where was he born?
His real name Is Izzy Iskowitch
He was born in New York, Jan. 81
1898, and is Of Hebrew descent.
1t is a French word meaning
prose writer.
Who Is the American minister Il
Bulgaria?
Henry Warrior Shoemaker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
FRED zee MAKES ICE
At The ICE PLANT
N MANHATTAN. KANSAS

Following is the explanation Of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
A Jonah Of a Key Tag-W. S.
Black, q resident Of Ravenna,
Neb., accidentally lost his key ring
while visiting in Lincoln, Neb., in
1922. Failing to recover it, he
dismissed the incident rom his
mind. On Nov. 10, 1880, he was
informed by mail that Clyde
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14

Critchfield of Woodward, Okla,
just had found the address tag
Of the key ring in the stomach of
a ten-pound catfish caught at
Dunlap, Kan.
In view of the fact that the
loser never had been in that part
Of Kansas, the route the tag must
have taken to the stomach OF the
catfish is extremely bewildering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Il Was Fairly Academic

TN the past I have not been ada
Il mant about autographs. The
problem was not frequent or press
ing. In the course of the years, I
suppose, I sent out maybe twenty
or thirty. But in those days ]
could afford to have a secretary and
it seemed so simple to be gracious.
It merely was a matter Of saying,
Miss 2, will you please send an
autograph to this little old lady in
Yonkers?"
The amount of correspondence
entailed in the job was seldom very
great and Miss z. was extremely
obliging. She could do a highly
competent signature, although /
myself rather preferred the Hey
wood Broun" as executed by Miss
Y, her predecessor.
At the beginning I had a few
compunctions. I took up the mat
ter with Miss Y. after the mild de-
ception had gone on for a few
weeks.
I'm worried" said.
She expressed polite and tepid
curiosity as to my concern.
I'm worried about posterity," I
told her.
At first she did not quite seem
to catch the drift OF my remark
and answered with a certain hauteur
that it was her practice never 10
discuss personal matters with her
employer and could she 60 out i'm
mediately TO keep a luncheon date
with her sister.
She grew calmer when ex-
planned that I was referring to
autographs and not offspring. But
she still seemed puzzled
Its like this I explained. "One
hundred years from now I'll be
dead"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14

There is excellent authority for
this strange fish story.
A Most "Courteu" Ex-champion
Jess Willard has been a de-
PENDANT in 726 lawsuits since the
day he won tbs championship
from Jack Johnson. He has lost
none of these numerous legal Tits
and now is facing his 727th en-
gagement with the law with con-
fidence, according to latest re-
ports.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TYPHOID FEVER is in many
Il ways an index to the health OF
a community. The control of ty-
phoid depends on pure water, pure
milk, pure food, proper disposal OF
sewage, and isolation Of typhoid
carriers.
For twenty years the Journal OF
American Medical Association has
been publishing the typhoid fever
mortality rates Of our cities Of more
than 100000 population.
During this time the rates have
fallen so that today there is every
indication that most large cities in
this country have adequate control
of sanitation.
Five of fourteen large New Eng
land cities did not have a single
death from typhoid in 1881, and
Boston had only one death for
every 100000 people.
The typhoid fever death rates for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-14
Let L Be a Warning

T EFT the denouement of this
IL awful drama be a warning. Let
grief over the unhappy fate Of this
innocent child, whom society failed
to protect, be the basis Of reconse-
Grafton, not to blind fury that
weakens and demoralizes, once it has
spent its force, but to those immu-
table principles of social justice,
which are the same yesterday, today,
and forever.
Over the lifeless form of that baby
who enjoyed boundless love. but who
was hurled into eternity with no one
by to shed an honest tear, let us
swear an oath to abandon the
thought that safety can be bought
from crooks, or law be made strong
by compromising with lawless ele-
ments.