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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Bear Meat Brings Fatal Disease

The bear was skinned and the
meat smoked and hung in the sun
for few days to dry. This meat
was divided among all the mem
bers of the hunting party and the
boy brought his share home,
passed it around in school and
among the neighbors.
Seven days after eating his first
dose of meat he became i'll with
nausea, vomiting, and pain in the
abdomen which lasted two or
three days and then disappeared.
He continued, however, to chew
the dried meat at odd times for a
period of several days.
Three or four days later he be-
came i'll in bed, with fever, dizzi-
ness, vomiting and prostration, and
with pain and stiffness in the
muscles.
Two weeks after the onset of his
illness he was delirious. His
breathing was labored and there
was general swelling of his tissues.
He died fifteen days after the onset
of his symptoms.
When the post mortem examina-
ton was made, the trichina organ
isms were found in his muscles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
Wet Only Once

A S in every other convention, of
"A course, the delegates are sure
to be great deal wetter than the
platform. New Jersey, just across the
corridor, singing 1.-THE Sidewalks of
New York" New Jersey has sung
it ten times in succession. I wish
New Jersey would stop. Still, I sup
pose we're wet only once.
The Massachusetts delegation ar
rived with all its regulars and al
ternates present, and in addition
two friends who merely went down
to see the boys off. The friends
didn't realize that the train had
started until shortly after passing
Toledo. 1t is that sort of a conven-
ton.
This is not said in a captious
spirit. like the convention. I like
it very much. The mood of the
gathering is more or less a cross
between a bachelor dinner and a
riot call in Union Square. New Jer-
sey again is singing THE Sidewalks
of New York" and somebody from
dry and bleeding Kansas is dropping
gin bottles down the airshaft.
There is a great deal of southern
hospitality around here. was in
vited to cool off ten times within
the first half-hour after arriving
Twice was DOGGY for the entire Re
publican convention. 1t is even
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27

CHICAGO, June 27-It looks like
a hot convention. Well, maybe it
isn't the heat so much as the hos
tility.
The Democrats have genius for
Showmanship. Two Democrats
agreeing with each other can make
more commotion than a thousand
Republicans embroiled in a bitter
deadlock. A Republican keynote
speaker would seem to deadpan
stooge if thrust into the present
gathering.
And yet one is apt to be fooled by
the Jeffersonian facility for casting
mean looks at all fellow party work.
ers and putting on prodigious dress
rehearsal. The fight may have been
left in the gymnasium.
1t is entirely possible that the I'M
trammeled democracy of 1882 may
be small spirited enough to adopt a
platform and submit to a candidate
without a single major engagement.
I hate to say it, but it is difficult
to see any present way in which
Governor Roosevelt can be stopped.
The buzzsaw is almost at the neck
of the heroine and as yet it is not
possible to detect even the faintest
trumpet call from the United States
cavalry. This looks very much like
a melodran1a without a happy
ending.
All the machinery is in the hands
of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The drama
is distinctly up to Alfred E. Smith.
Only Al can bring the show to it's
full theatrical potentialities.
And, even so, his inevitable role
seems more likely to be Prince Ham
let than Nick Carter. But he can be
the man against the stars, the fellow
who told the waves to stop, and the
devoted guardian who warned the
steamroller not to make left turn.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-As a constant read
err OF your paper, when I have the
money to pay for it, and feeling you
are fair in all things, would like
to say a few words.
We, the people of the United
States of America, are passing
through distressing times, as every
body knows, and nobody knows it
better than the laboring class of
people, who depend on their labor
from one day to the next for their
daily bread and shelter for their
families.
If capital must be helped by our
government, why not also do some
thing that will bring back the buy
ing power Of the people at the same
time? Why finance capital, with
its large salaries and overhead ex-
penses, when it does not help the
buying power of the American
people?
Why throw a rope to one drown
ing man and leave another to his
fate? If we can not buy and con-
sumo that which is raised by the
farmers, and that which is manu-
featured, what good will come of
spending money on some useless
scheme?
The United States has to wake
up to the fact that it is the buying
power Of the people which creates
the demand, that in turn creates
work to raise and manufacture
same. Stop the buying or cut it
down by low wages and you cripple
or destroy all industries.
We can not prosper by a dole
system which does not raise the
standards and morals of the people
and give them ambition of some
gain in life. 1t is not charity we
want and need.
As an industrious people, it is
an honest livelihood for ourselves
and families, with a future, that
We want. 1t is foolish to think the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27

And how do I know it won't do
any good? How can any man say
that? 1t would not be the first
occasion on which Al has come up
from the resin to swing his right.
There's glass in that Governors
jaw if only Smith can get him to
lower his guard for so much as a
second.
If no encounter of the kind
occurs, even those of us who hope
to get in on passes are going to ask
to get our money back. 1t is the
obligatory scene. Here's hoping Al
Smith really has a crown of thorns
tucked away in his back pocket.
One spectacle has been called off.
For the first time in many years the
Democrats are not going to fight
about prohibition. The plank will
not be dripping, but it will be
definitely wetter than that adopted
by the Republicans. In other words,
it will not be naked repeal.Y 1t will
be repeal with running pants
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
Just Every Day Sense
THERE IS Something patbetic about 49,
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

NHEHE IS something pathetic about women ILL.,
\ Mrs. Henry Peabody to whom the eiohteenth
aenoent Is as sacred as one of the commandments
mere are thousands of this type throughout the
. Uooniy. 1ney neheve 1t is wrong to drink they
pray mat nobody will do So and close their eves
completely to the fact that nearly everybody does
Inese women have one quality however that sets
tnem apart from the average male prohbitionist
1ney are sincere. They honestly think that people
can De egslated into cirtue, and rare indeed is the
man VINO has that convictSon in his heart.
majority of such women live in the country
and the small towns. They work hard and go faith
fully to church on Sunday
Ihey are as ignorant as babes in the wood of
what evils are going on because of their precious
prohibition. The bad booze that flows III their own
neighborhood they never smell.
THEY possess remarkable complacence and under
i stand very little about human nature Most of
them are staid respectable married women who set
Tie down placidy when young with some school-mate
sweetheart Their lives have been devoid of large
temptations
Ihey enjoy vcarious excitement by talking about
the widness of the modern girl They read only the
literature recommended by their church. which tells
them the things they want to know
They would no more set themselves to run down
the facts about anything than they would murder
their children Few Of them have any imaginations
and they are as set in their ways as the Sphinx
And 1t is this attitude that has undone them and
what eventually will wreck their cause. The stand
patter always is doomed to ultimate defeat and on
this subject these women standpatters of the first
order.
When this defeat comes as it will sooner or later
they viii not admit their mistakes They merely will
fold their hands piously and say that Satan has
triumphed.
One reason why they viii have lost is that they
have been SO SNUG and self-Tishteous.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
FOR years scientific medicine
l. has known the danger of eat
ing infected pork. Pork may be-
come infested with an organism
called the trichinella Spiralis
which produces a disease called
trichinosis, or trichiniasis.
These organisms get through
the wall of the bowel into the
blood and from the blood into the
muscles, where they are encapsu-
lated and where they produce ir-
ritation and pain.
1t has previously been known
that other animals beside pork
occasionally may be involved. In
deed, it has been established that
the rat may be concerned.
But now DR.. Albert T. Walker
reports an unusual instance in
which the eating of bear meat
brought about a death from this
disease.
A boy, 10 years old, in California,
joined a party of hunters and killed
a brown bear weighing about 400
pounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27

In any redistribution OF the s25,0OO,OOO highway
funds fairness and decency demand that large por-
ton be returned to the cities.
Indianapolis pays the larger part of this tax. 1t
obtains little or nothing in return.
One of the theories Of the gasoline tax benefit is
that it gives employment to those in need of jobs
The citizens of indianapolis pay the tax. There is
no money from that fund available for the employ
ment of indianapolis jobless.
This city could employ many men on street repair
work. There are streets which are in sad need of
such Improvement. But there no funds with which
to pay for the work. and the little that L being ac-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
The Bootleg Paradise

If the estimate of the indianapolis Manufacturers
Association is correct this state has been the bootleg
paradise.
In its interesting program to reduce taxes, the as
sociation suggests that the Wright bone dry law be
repealed at once and that tax of so cents pint be
levied on all whisky sold for medicinal purposes.
In that way say the big business men, some three
to five million dollars can be raised for the public
treasury.
Coupling this with the declaration that the associ-
alton stands firm against any violation of law and
that the order must be interpreted strictly as
opening the way only for those invalds and critically
i'll who may need whisky, you have the CHASTITY
thought that every man. woman and child in the state
uses between one and quarts of whisky each year
to preserve life and health.
Inasnuch as no death rate has been reported,
these revenues must go to the bootlegger whose
profits are presumed to be much than so cents
pint.
That the sale of whisky under unrestricted issue
of prescriptions by doctors would bring in such
nue. probably is true, long the state and nation
retain the hypocrisy of the eighteenth amendment.
The suggestion of such in taxation only can
mean that whisky will become panacea for every
thing from corns to leprosy and that no other medi
cneS will be used.
But it does carry with it great indictment of
present conditions. 1t is prison ofense to make,
have or drink low percentage beer and yet practically
every drug store exhibits and sells % per cent wine
made by the clients of Mabel Winehrandt part of
whom obtained twenty millions of dollars from the
government to finance themselves in the enterprise
of putting out grape tonics that in reality high
powered drinks.
No one will quarrel with the proposal Of the
manufacturers to take away part of the bootleg profits
and put the money to public use. The Wright law
has cost the state many millions. 1t has helped to
fill prisons for the benefit of prosecutors who get
bonus for convictions in liquor cases and whose at
tention centers upon this law to the axty of all 9TH
ers, because of this fact
When all. not part. of the profits from the dis
tributon of alcoholic beverages goes to the state
tax problems will be fewer and drunkenness reduced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27

problem Of finding work for the voorhees,
The highway commission is trying desperately to
spend as much possible before the special session
meets.
The commission Ia buying trucks and automobiles
In fleets They will be useless If the legislature does
its duty and dvers these funds to better uses than
roads whose necessity is dubious and whose value is
doubtful
But there may be some left in the fund for which
no commitments are made. If it is discovered that
tne funds have been spent reckessly in an endeayor
10 get rid OF the money in advance of the session the
answer should be the abolition of the present COM
mission and new set-up that is more responsive to
public opinion
NO question remains Of the commissions estimate
OF ITSELF 1t considers itself political body and it's
JOBS as patronage and plumber.
mat was proved when the commission demanded
'la1 every enploye pay percentage of wages to no.
Alcal treasures. That action alone would iuotif,
abolition of the commission, and any fight il nakes
10 retain control of the funds can be discounted
properly
But The cities do need relief. They pay the major
Pofuon OF the tax. They need the money for their
own Joness men. Any solution that fails to recoo-
hlAe this condition will be unjust
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
Move Toward CzariSm

TINE drift is toward dictatorship.
Il When we get to point where
majority, or even large minority,
of one of our two great parties is
willing to set aside old usages and
customs to make things easier for a
candidate, we merely are taking one
more step in the philosophy of
czarism.
1t was the original conception that
this republic so would be safe
guarded by checks and balances as
to minimize the personal element. It
was the original idea that general
policies would be formulated by rep
resentatives of the people and that
the Presidents duty would be to
carry them out.
We have strayed far from that
idea and that conception, not con-
sciously, perhaps, but through the
subtle influence of cheap politics.
Now we are ready to forget every
thing if, and when, the chance
arises to put on a stiff battle be-
tween candidates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
HEROISM rs REVEALED
June ~

I'm June 27, 1918, the story of the
" heroism of Private Frank P.
Lenert, American soldier
from Chicago, was made public.
Lenert had been surrounded by
eighty-three Germans while a small
American force was staging an at
tack.
His captors showed interest in
knowing how many Americans were
in the attacking party. They knew
that an American barrage behind
them had cut off their retreat.
Lenert informed them that eight
regiments were in the attack and
that they were following him. The
Gemans, seeing a huge force in
front of them, and the American
barrage behind, decided to surren-
der without fighting.
They agreed that Lenert should
have the honor of accepting the
surrender.
The American lined them all up,
made them throw away their rifles,
and marched them back to the
American lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
Rotation Important

TINE older theories which at
Il tempted to explain the forma-
ton of the sun and planets from
the condensation of nebula which
cast off the planets broke down
when the rotation of the various
members of the solar system was
studied.
The sun rotates on it's axis ap-
proximately once in twenty-six
days. CAS- matter of fact, the
observed rate of rotation is differ
ent at different latitudes.) The
earth turns on its axis once in
twenty-four hours. Jupiter makes
one rotation in approximately ten
hours.
1t will be seen, therefore, that
the amount or quantity of rotation
in the sun-known technically as
the moment Of momentum"-is
small for the sun and large for the
planets.
If the nebular hypothesis we're
correct, just the opposite would have
to be true. The sun, which is the
largest mass, would have to pos
sess the greatest moment Of mo-
mentum.
Otherwise, it is impossible to see
how it could have cast of the
planets.
The observed conditions, however,
fit very well into the planetesimal
hypothesis and are a natural con-
sequence Of it.
There are other considerations
which are met well by the planet
esimal hypothesis.
In the realm of geology, however,
the tidal theory, which assumes
that the material pulled from the
sun broke up at once into great
masses, which became globes of
gases, which liqdifed and then So
lidided, is more favored.
This is because most biologists
feel that the structure of the earth
can not be explained adequately
without assuming that the earth
was in molten state during its
early days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
Up to AL Smith

WHATEVER the politicians
w think, every newspaperman
expects Al Smith to do his duty.
We expect him to take the platform
at some point during the convention
and publicly declare just what he
thinks of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Probably it won't do any good, ex-
cept to the photographers, the
feature writer's, and the Utmost
heart of Al. He must speak now,
or forever hold the peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27

The Average Political Cam
pGign Has Degenerdted to
q DriveI of Names, Epi-
thetS and Personalities.
Saws

NEW YORK, June 27-The pa
IN pathetic part Of this Demo-
cratic tumult at Chicago is that it
arises, not from differences Of
opinion as to what should be done
to help the country, but from the
conflict of personal ambitions.
Take away the quarreling over
candidates, and there would be little
left to threaten violent discord.
The possibility that a great party
may be wrecked is less appalling
than is the petty cause out Of which
it grows.
Proclaiming that this is a govern
ment of law, not men, we frequently
forget the former to stage a first
class brawl over the latter.
Starting out to solve some grave
problem, or correct some dangerous
situation, we are more than apt to
end up in grand row as to who
shall occupy the big chair.
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A Rare Event

DUT 1t Is also apparent, on the
- basis of the law of probability,
that such a close approach would
happen sooner to some stars than
to others.
Some authorities think that such
close approaches may have occurred
during the last $4,000, 00OO 900 900
years to about one out of every
100000 stars.
Since our galaxy contains about
10000, 100000 stars, this would mean
that there would be 10000 planetary
systems in our galaxy. This, of
course, is a mathematical specula-
ton, which no telescope is power
full enough to check.
However, there is considerable
consolation for us in the fact that
such close approaches are rare. For
it is obvious that another such close
approach Of star to our sun would
wreck the solar system and in all
probability destroy the earth.
1t appears, therefore, that man
kind may wrestle with problems of
depression, war and the like for the
next few trillion years or so with
out any interference from a pass
ing star.
If we grant, then, that our solar
system may have been born as the
result OF the gravitational pull of a.
passing star, the next question is
whether such an event would pro-
duce the kind of a solar system
we have.
The most noticeable thing about
our solar system is the fact that
most of its mass is concentrated in
the sun. The sun accounts for al
most 99.9 per cent of the mass.
The planets and their satellites,
the comets, and the meterors. ac-
count for only little more than
one-tenth of l per cent.
This fact fits the theory very we'll
for it is reasonable to suppose that
a passing star would pull only a.
slight amount of material out of the
sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ,


The Earth Probably Can
Wrestle Along for a FeiO
TrilJion. Years More With
out Danger From a Passing
Star.
THE successful test of any theory
Il is that it fits the facts. Let US
therefore, see how the theories
seeking to account for the origin of
the earth check up with astronom-
ical observations.
The planetesimal hypothesis Of
Chamberin and Moulton holds that
the earth and the other planets
were formed from material pulled
from the sun by the gravitational
attraction of a passing star.
This material is supposed to have
condensed quickly into small bits or
"planetismals." These, through the
action Of gravitation, were CONSOLE
dated, the larger bits acting as
nuclei to attract the smaller. Thus,
the planets and their satellites are
believed to have grown by the accre-
ton of planetesimals.
Since the planetesimal hypothesis,
as we'll as all other recent theories,
are based upon the assumption that
another star passed very close to our
sun, we first must consider posi-
bility of such close approach.
A statistical study of the motions
Of the stars indicates that such an
event is possible. though very rare.
DR.. F. R. Moulton calculates that
the possibility of any given star
passing within close range of an
other star is about once in 100000
000,000,O00 years.
Our sun, and in fact our entire
galaxy of stars. is believed to be
only $4,000, OO0,OOOOOO years old.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-27

TINE average campaign has de-
Il generated to a drivel of names,
epithets and personalities.
The discussion of issues has given
place to the discussion of candi-
dates. We even have talked about
the kind of socks they wear, the
quality of their smiles and whether
their wives would make good hos
tesses.
Such attitude, palpably is child
ish, but that is its least drawback.
1t tends to exaggerate the impor-
lance of men over principle and to
make the guidance of the nation
dependent on a person, rather than
on policy.
We gradually are developing the
theory that if we nominate and
elect the right man, nothing serious
can happen.
That, of course, leads to the as
sumption that the man whom we
nominate and elect must not be
handicapped, since he, and he
alone, constitutes our salvation.
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Daily Thoughts

Ye have sown much, and bring
in little; We eat, but We have not
enough; We drink, but ye are not
filed with drink; We clothe you,
but there is none warm; and he
that earneth wages earneth wages
TO put it into bag with holes
Haggai lie.
Nor is there on earth a more
powerful advocate for vice than pow
What was the gist of the Colds
borough bill, which recently passed
congress?
The bill was an instruction to the
federal reserve board and the fed
eral reserve banks to manipulate
credit so as to bring prices in the
United States back to the level Of
the average between 1921 and 1929.
How many children under 10
years of age are there in the United
States?
The 1880 census enumerated A.
60S,991.
Which state has the smallest
population?
Nevada. The 1880 population was
sl.o5s.
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woman writer says the way to reform wavward
husband IS to keep him amused. However nor1,
american women have found the shotgun surer
remedy. ""1e
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possible to saunter in and look at
the candidates, each of whom sits in
his cubicle on floor B of the Con-
gress hotel.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one OF Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paDer.-The Editor.