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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
LabOr's Day

In other years. this day set aside by law Tor labor
working men marched in celebration Of their victories
Dyer unfair wages and unfair conditions.
Speakers pointed with pride 10 the rise in the
standards Of living of education and Of culture. They
prophesied an era when drudgery would be abolished
WREN the worker would live without fear, in comfort
and in the enjoyment Of all the Injuries made posi-
bic by science invention and machinery.
Today millions of men and women who want to
work are denied the right to work. Their families
live upon the crusts charity and does. They find
the schools being reduced in efficiency branch horar-
les closed even churches struggling for existence
On every hand are the natural resources and the
machinery to accomplish the most extravagant dream
Of any labor leader Of two decades ago.
There is machinery unfortunately idle, that could
turn out enough clothing for the millions who now
wear patches or rags.
The gananes are filled to overflowng-and yet
there is hunger
The railway yards are filled with cold engines and
empty cars waiting to bring the products Of the farm
10 the city and the products of the factory to the
farm.
Great cement highways stretch in network
across the land for the convenience Of the modern
miracle of the automobile-and the automobile fac
tories reduced to small percentage of their
capacity production, all of which could be used and
enjoyed by human beings
There is no lack of either the tools Of produc-
tion the materials
Thousands upon thousands of builders idle and
families crowd together in slums or uncomfortable
dwellings.
The youth who has spent his four years in college
and university training for the tasks of leadership
hnds himself denied the opportunity to his knowl
edge.
The big tragedy is that the high living standards
reached by this country through invention, science
machinery is being debated even more than prices
Of commodities and stocks.
This Labor Day might we'll be used for a serious
consideration of the conditions and a search for
solution that would end the ntolerable useless sense
less and thoroughly evil paradox
For unless the solution is found all the traditional
rights Of mankind written into the charter of human
liberty will disappear.
The right to life means the right to decent liv-
ing The right of liberty means freedom from fear
Of pauperism and of dependence.
The pursuit of happiness becomes impossible for
the man in bondage to conditions beyond his own
control.
All depend upon the right to work. For it is only
Through work labor, that independence or character
can be achieved or self-respect maintained.
The real struggle of labor in this era is not more
wages or better conditions, but the right of all
workers to work continuously and to work at
saving wage which will permit freedom in age from
the almshouse and grave in potter's field.
Business industry, craftsmanship have failed Per-
haps labor will not fail to find its own way out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
Pride and Alarm

Friends Of the childrens bureau of the United
States department Of labor celebrating this month its
twenty of service may point with pride and view
with alarm.
There is ground for pride in the fact that under
ats two chiefs the late Julia Iathrop and her sue
cessor Grace Abbott this bureau has grown to be one
bf the governments most useful institutions
1t has worked in city Sums in western prairie
Gowns, in mining camps and southern mountains, to
make easier the tasks of child bearing and child
gearing.
1t administered through seven years the Sheppard
Fowner act faithfully that it saved an estimated
$4,000 American babies lives It has led the fight
Tor this laws re-enactment in the interest of ma
ternity and infancy aid
1t has delved into and realistically described con-
0itions of child labor coal mine hunger the problems
ef the transient boy and other children
1t has stood between American childhood and the
borces that would destroy that childhood and always
has fought fearlessy and we'll
There is ground for alarm in the effort to starve
this essential social function of government and in
the power vested in the President to shift this
bureau into another and less friendly department.
where the cry of the children might not be heard so
distinctly
The sincere friends of healthy, happy childhood
wish for the childrens bureau many more decades of
unhampered service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
Making Amends

Nearly forty years ago the republic of France per-
mitted herself to be deceived grossly Her military
courts sent 10 Devils island the innocent Captain
Alfred Dreyfus charge of selling military secrets
to the Germans.
He had served five tortured years before it was
proved that crooked fellow officers had framed" him
with forged notes His pardon cause was argued
eloquently by such famed Frenchmen as lola and
Clemenceau. Finally he released, renstated in
the army as leutenant-coone served with distinc-
ton In the great war and retired as member of the
Legion of Honor
The other day Colonel Dreyfus, at the age of 70.
was notified that the League of Human Rights will
place slab to commemorate the spot at Port Halib
guen where he stepped ashore after his exile
France never will make complete amends for pln-
ishing an innocent man. But she has done her best
California is famous for the American Drevfus
case She holds in prison Mooney and Billings.
Like France California permitted prejudced interests
to frame" these two to jail for life.
AS in France leading citizens plead for their par-
don Yet they have served more than three times as
long as did Frances prisoner
Some day California will free Mooney and Billings
Inc longer she waits the she makes their serv
tude celebrated cause" and the harder it will be 70
make amends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
Gales Changes Presidents

diplomat, Ortiz Rubo, resigns as President of
Mexico and the minister of war, General Rodriguez
takes his place The quick election is by congress
under an ambiguous clause in the Constitution
The country voted for Obregon, but he was as
ssssinated-and in Obergons term three other men
have served in succession Portes Gill; Ortiz Rubio and
Rodriguez
Behind all of them has been Mexico's strong man,
Gales Ortiz Rubio resigned when Gales support
was withdrawn from him. Then the national revo-
lutionary party picked General Rodriguez The party
controls congress through virtual monopoly, and
Gales controls the party.
Such in brief is the story of Mexcos not unex-
pected change of presidents in the middle of term
Viewed as peaceful change in contrast to the
former method of violent overthrow this represents
progress in popular government But judged By the
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH SERVICE
TOnsil Removal Curbs Germ Carrying

their tonsils- removed and compared
them with children who had not
had their tonsils removed, so far as
concerns the relationship to scarlet
fever.
OF 600 children with scarlet fever,
122, or 20 per cent, had had their
tonSils removed previously.
The degree of severity of the
disease was about the same in
those who had their tonsils removed
as in those who had not.
About the same percentage of
both groups developed complica-
tions, and the rate of disappearance
of the germs from the throat was
about equal in children with and in
those without tonsils.
However, the children who had
had their tonsils removed had a
few less organisms in the period of
convalescence than did those who
still had their tonsils.
Apparently therefore, removal of
tonsils is not extremely important
so far as relates to the severity of
scarlet fever or inability to recover
from the condition completely and
without complications.
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Not Important

Roosevelt wasted campaign speech at Bridge
port Conn, Saturday night What he had to say
was OF no consequence. Touching lightly on one sub
Jec after another he finally brushed the vital issue
OF taxation and the need for local government econ
omy and reorganization But when, where and how?
He didn't say.
This performance was letdown from his yigor
and courage in handling the Walker case
Only two months of the campaign remain To
date Roosevelt has been specific on the subject of
prohibition and vague almost everything else
Several times he has announced that he would bring
his congratulations to earth in future speeches.
The voters still are waiting
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tests which Gales himself laid down when he mag
unanimously gave up the presidency, events Of the
last week indicate that Mexico has made little if any
progress toward responsible government by party
rather than by persons
These events also seem to show that Mexicos an
cent curse, domination of the nation by the army
still exists.
Elevation OF General Rodriguez is welcomed by GER
tain American and other foreign interests whom he
mas oefriended at the expense of Mexican labor.
There is nothing in his recent record to arouse
hope that the president will restore the govern
ment-for-the-p people given by younger and better
Gales than now dictates behind the scenes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

L may be true that in few respects we do not
measure up to the standarsd of our grandnothers
but am inclined to believe that in this matter as
IN so many others, distance lends enchantn1ent.
1t Is weI-known fact, and one we hear a good
deal about, that the old-fashioned woman ALWAYS
made the best of bad marriage and did not trust
TO divorce for freedom and happiness
We are told therefore that her character was finer
than ours and her wisdom more profound
But am not so sure that grandma is to be an
plauoed for this. Being totally ignorant of divorce
that quality which call wisdom NAV in her have
been merely resignation.
She lived contentedly enough without modern
plumbing, too and put up with such inconvenience
just as she put up with a no-account husband-be-
cause she had to. There literally was nothing else to
be done
imagine that if lawyers and divorce courts and
reSpecabihty had been in grandmas day exactly what
they are now much of the feminine virtues of former
times would not have existed
A FTER all customs, conventions and standards
n have great deal to do with how men and
women behave Practically everything in fact
Grandma was resigned, quiet, modest, industrious
person because no decent woman then was otherwise
The fashion in ladies different.
But taken whole women probably were lust
as essentially faulty as they are today. They only
appear splendid through the perspective van
shed years.
In short it seems to me tommyrot to say that men
and womenare worse now than they ever have been
Our grandmothers and grandfathers were nodded to
the standards Of the period in which they lived just
We are
They possessed similar sheep-like qualities and fol-
lowed the then prevailing fashion in morals. AND
there is no particular virtue in being exactly like
ones grandmother
Civilization would come TO a complete standstill Il
this were our ambition.
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Views Of Times Readers

Editor Times-I want to thank
you for your cooperation and ass
sistarice to the Rev. Morris Coers
of the Thirty-First Street Baptist
church, I believe if indianapolis
had a radio station belonging to
church we would have more decent
programs. The world today needs
the gospel preached more than ever
before, and it is up to the Christian
people to pull together and work
to that end.
am not a member of that
church, but belong to>the great body
of Christ, and it is my earnest
prayer that indianapolis may have
station run by Christian people
under Christian principles, because
I, for one, would like to put of the
air a lot of this jazz and tobacco
advertisements.
Keep up your good work and let
us pull harder for the right and
Justice. TIMES READER.
Editor Times-The Democratic
party is to be congratulated on the
! high-class candidates chosen for
the coming November election. As
for the county candidates. they
could not be beat. If they use the
same amount of brains in the 1888
! primary election they will be sue
/ cessful in electing another Demo-
I cratic mayor.
Our present mayor is sure to have
all the Republican debts paid and
if succeeded by man of his own
caliber, will keep them paid But
as the Democrats go to bat only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05

every sixteen years, they always pay
off the debts in four years. This
last payroll, Of course, is a handicap
in vote getting, as many a vote is
got with job, and to cut off Jobs
cuts off votes.
The world knows the Republican
party is the champion in creating
useless jobs for deserving" ward
heelers and precinct workers, al
though it is robbing the public, and
the debt is paid by the overbur-
dehed taxpayers. Yet this old out
fit has been in the gyp game so
long, national, state and local, that
they are case-hardened. Once in a
while one Of them gets a rap in the
big house" but most of these old
reprobates know the game too well
ard can avoid this.
Tom Marshall said: What this
country needs is a good scent cigar. -
but we basket stiffs" think what
this country needs is for the farm
ers to raise hogs without jowl and
to educate merchants that sixteen
ounces make a pound, as you are
not weighing gold when weighing
jowl or beans.
This depression has put Hoover
eyes in many pair of pants, yet
they are trying to put the old an
Gent gag previous to election. that
happy days are here again"
WILLIAM LEMON.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05

DR.. N. G. Shaw studied partic-
ularly the relationship of removal
of the tonsils to prevention of
diphtheria. A study of a large
number of children, using the
Schick test as a means of determin-
ing their immunity to dipththeria,
did not indicate that removal of
the tonsils served in any way to
give the children better resistance
to diphtheria than was had by
children who still had their tonsils
These studies are an indication
Of the way in which medical sci
ence continues to test and retest its
procedures.
They do not in any way indicate
the desirability of keeping enlarged
or infected tonsils in the throat.
Such tonsils are a menace and
should be seen by physician who
will determine when and how they
are to be removed.
The studies do indicate that the
tonsils are not particularly associ-
ated with the prevention of scarlet
fever or diphtheria, or with occur
renee of complications in these dis
orders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
BY DAVID DIETZ.

Wyoming Once Was Home
of Many Varieties of Dino
SGurs.
THE worlds largest dinosaur is
i in the Peabody museum Of
natural history of Yale university.
The skeleton of the huge monster is
20 feet long and Is feet high.
Scientists at the museum. estimate
that in life the creature must have
weighed between 81 and 40 tons. The
foSSilized bones of the dinosaur
which have been mounted in the
museum weigh six tons.
Although this dinosaur recently
was "reassembled, its bones were
dug up more than fifty years ago at
Como Bluff. Wyo.
Wyoming and the nearby states
were, some million of years ago. the
homes Of many varieties of dino
saurS.
The one in the Peabody museum
is OF the type known scientifically. as
"a Brontosaurus. The Brontosaurus
was a vegetarian. living on plants,
He had four heavy pillar like legs.
an extremely long neck, and a long
tail. The legs are ponderous and
elephantine.
The head was extremely small
Brontosaurus ran to Drawn. not
brains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
GERMAN RETREAT
September 5.

ON Sept. 5, 1918, German forces
~ retreated on a twenty-mile
front north of the Vesle. French and
American troops forced a passage Of
the river and occupied Chassemy,
Bucy-le-Long, Branelle, Vauczere,
and Blanzy.
British regiments forced a passage
Of the Canal du Nord on a front of
fifteen miles and drove the Ger
mans eastward in a hard days
fighting.
Germans also were reported leay-
ing Lens, but British troops were
reluctant to occupy it, because of the
poison gas left there by the retreat
ing troops
An American troopship, the Per-
sic, was torpedoed of the coast of.
England, but the 1900 troops were
removed without the loss of life
The ship was beached successfully
after the soldiers had been taken
of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
Great Dan for Edison

A T 8 o'clock on the afternoon of
L n Sept. 4, 1882, the first electric
light plant in this country was
turned on. It was a great day for
Thomas A. Edison, the 35-year-oId
inventor, and his hackers. 1t also
was great day for skeptics.
New York City had been await
ing the event for months. There
had been deal of arguing, pro
and con, though mostly con- The
lncandeScent lamp had been flick
ering at Menlo park nearly three
years. Vast numbers of people had
crossed into Jersey for the express
purpose Of seeing il
1t had been written up in news
papers and magazines. A corpora
ton, capitalized at $3OO,O0O had
been formed to perfect and promote
it, and now the New York Edison
Company, capitalized at $1,000, 900,
was about to try it.
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She spoke of new world and
promised land this side of Jordan.
And there was in the small, strained
voice the intensity and anxiety of
one who can not wait.
The tradition of the chamber was
broken when Frau Zetkin utilized
the formal occasion for a f1ercely
partisan attack upon Won linden
burg and called for his impeach-
ment. The general is more than
30. Perhaps this is not yet young
mans world.
1t was too serious and STERN for
comedy, but surely there was irony
in this duel-a fight about tomor-
row between those already weary
with the years and days. It was
as if two spent hourglasses should
lunge and lock in final combat.
A Curious Kind of KinShip
A ND though a gulf always has
"A been spread between the mil
itary chief and the violent revolu-
tionary, there was evident a for
gotten and unacknowledged kin
ship. Hindenburg has many times
called on his countrymen to give
force to the uttermost and so fight
and die for the Fatherland.
And with voice so feeble that it
could not reach to more than few
rows of the silent house, Frau zet-
kin called upon her followers to take
up arms and check the threat OF
war by shooting down all who be-
lieve in ruthlessness.
She dashed with her tongue as
towards all who would not seek
peace by wading first in blood. Her
hoarse voice broke, and she leaned
back for moment against the
arms of the two women who stood
beside her.
Yet each time she Strengthened
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
Questions and
-
Answers

Is a 24-cent United States airmaiI
stamp of 1918, carmine and rose, on
cover, of any value?
It is catalogued at 81.
What do the letters F. A. P, on a
road sign stand for?
Federal aid project.
What is the home address Of
Maude Adams, the actress?
Ronkonkoma, Long Island, N. Y.
Do alien husbands of American
citizens automatically acquire the
citizenship of their wives?
No
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NJ. E. Tracy
SANS

W nut " US LtJ6 Lth6y hOF
Than Fifty Years Ago,
When We Had No Electric
Lights?
DEOPLE always have, and no
l. doubt always will, find it hard
TO imagine what the future holds,
but for the first time in history
they are finding it almost as diff
ficult to picture what the past was
like.
The world of 500 or even 100 years
ago has become unreal. Mechanical
power has wrought a violent revo-
luton, not only in habits of work,
but in habits of life and thought. 1t
has been a revolution at the bot
tom, rather than at the top, reach
ing down into the homes and GUS
toms of the masses.
Tin cans, telephones, bathrooms
and oil burners, not to mention a
hundred and one other innovations
what would life be like without
them? What was it like, and how
did people manage to get along so
well?
Above all else, what was life
like without electric lights? We
have had them only fifty years, and
yet they seem quite Indispensable
Can you think of a great city at
night without its blazing store
fronts and well-lighted streets?
What did the inhabitants of
Babylon and Rome do after the sun
went down? Was it safe for women
Cor even men, to be out? What luck
did the authorities have in suppress
ing crime, or were honest folk
obliged to stay indoors?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-05
Faced Great Task

DRODUCING an incandeScent
l. lamp that would burn was only
part of Edison,s task. Having done
that much, he found it necessary
to develop new and better dy-
namo with engines that would run
parallel" meters to measure the
current, recording machinery and
fixtures.
Above all else, he had to find the
required capital, persuade the board
of aldermen to grant him a fran
chise, and sell sufficient number
of customers on the idea to war
rant starting operations.
AS usual, the experts were di-
vided. Some said that an incan-
descent lamp was unscientif1c and
impossible. Others said that while
it might be all right in theory, it
would turn out all wrong in prac-
tice. A few gave it wholehearted
approval.
Under such circumstances, the
raising of $1,O0O,OO0 must be re-
garded as an example of both cour-
age and faith on the part of those
who actually put it up.
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by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN


Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of HSgeia, the
Health Magazine.
IN two of the common diseases
i that affect children, namely,
scarlet fever and diphtheria, many,
if not most, Of the symptoms relate
to the throat.
For this reason, the question as
to whether removal of the tonsils is
of any help in preventing scarlet
fever or in making it less severe is
of Importance.
Children who have diphtheria,
and who have large tonsils, fire.
quently suffer more than those
whose tonsils have been removed.
Frequently those who have diph-
liberia continue to carry the germs
in their Threats after recovery from
the disease.
Apparently the presence of infect
ed tonsils is likely to encourage the
development of carrier rather than
to discourage it.
Recently, DR.. William L. Bradford
studied all children in the schools
in Rochester, N. Y, who had had
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q Real SnOrtSn0An

I OOKING back, it is easy enough
IL to see the wisdom of betting
real money on strange, surprising,
and unexpected innovations. Look
ing forward, it's another story.
Those who backed Edison could
not look back. There was no
precedent for what he proposed.
The incandescent lamp stood for a
new conception, not only with re-
gard to illumination, but with re-
gard to electricity.
Added to that, the public was
not so mechanically minded as it
is today. Many of the modern
miracles which make us receptive
to novel ideas had not occurred.
The telephone still was in it's in
fancy. Bicycles, even of the high
wheel type, hardly had appeared.
The auto was twelve years away,
and flying still was regarded as not
only impossible but contrary to the
divine plan.
One can but admire the hardi-
hood of those capitalists who put
up the cash. They were real sports
men,