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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
The BOOtstraps

The house. which Thursday takes up the
$1,100COO,OOO revenue BILL should realize that it has
before it a solemn responsibility. For in that bill
is a radical dangerous and untried departure from
the fiscal tradition of this country-the general
sales tax.
Exclusion of handful of items called necessities
and the provision that the tax is to be collected by
some 100000 manufacturers and thus can be dubbed
q manufacturers TAX" do not disguise the fact that
this is a sales tax.
The Democratic spokesman, with belated conniv-
ance OF the treasury officials propose in this bill
to saddle on the United States consumers tax to
collect $6OOOOOOOO, or than one-half of the
amount of the bill
And, because a sales tax always hits the men of
small means harder than the rich, the bulk of this
huge sum will come from the pockets of 100000
already burdened farmers and wage earners
We are we trust, emerging from the worst depres-
sion of recent years. The only guarantee of perma
nent prosperity is the well-beng of the At
time when everything should be done to increase their
buying power will congress take action to decrease R
The Republican tariff went far toward destroying
American foreign trade. Now the Democratic sales
tax proposes to strike blow at the revival of indus
try at home.
Historically indirect taxes, sales or excise taxes
always have reduced consumption and stifed trade.
One need read only of the effect of the salt tax
upon India the effect of excise taxes on Ireland the
effect of Napoeons elaborate system of indirect taxes
upon the prosperity of France to realize the danger
of this experiment.
Taxes should be collected from those best able to
pay and in proportion to ability to pay The sales
tax works in exactly the ratio to this rule of
justice and efficiency.
We believe that most of the needed revenue can be
raised in these times, by higher income taxes
and luxury tax. If not it be raised by beer
tax. The balance can be borrowed pending a return
of prosperity and taxing capacity.
Rehabilitation of buying power will not just
happen 1t certainly should not be further hampered.
We recall only one person who claimed to have lifted
himself from bog by the bootstraps. He Baron
Munchausen, known the greatest liar of fiction
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Long Live the League

If the League of Nations survives as an effective
international organization for peace it will be despite
efforts of the big powers to destroy its strength This
has been suspected for several years.
But never it crystal clear to all the world until
Great Britain and France openly began to block
league action in the far eastern crisis.
AS virtual dictators of the league council those
two powers for several weeks have prevented the
council from invoking the league machinery against
Japan as vioator of the league covenant. Part
of their obstruction consisted in preventing the
Gil from joining the United States completely in out
having the fruits of Japanese conquest
The obstruction was in line, Of course, with the
action of the British and French governments them
selves as signatories of the ninepower and kellogg
treaties in refusing to follow the United States in
holding Japan to those treaties.
When the small nations-more interested in pre-
serving the league peace machinery than support
ing Japanese imperiansm-wanted a session of the
league assembly they at first were blocked by the
big powers
After the league assembly was called, but before
it convened Great Britain again tried unSuccesSfuly
to prevent the assembly meeting.
Since the assembly session began the big powers,
under British leadership have tried in every way to
minimize the effect of the small nations criticism
of Japan and to prohibit the assembly from invoking
the league enforcement articles which are supposed
to be applied automatically against violator of the
covenant.
British policy is resented very widely in England
The governments policy is opposed not onlygby the
labor party and the liberal press but by large
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Runners Time Selves to Beat Fatigue

breaking of the individual fiberS,
with the appearance of what ath-
letes call charley horse"
The person who is trained in
physical efforts knows how to use
his tissues to the best advantage.
He does this by keeping his oxy-
gen debt" as low as possible. The
maximum of oxygen taken in is
reached usually from two to three
minutes after the beginning of work.
Once this point is reached, it is
possible to work harder and faster,
hence any one about to engage in
a severe muscular performance may
breathe rapidly and deeply five or
six times before starting, and warm
up by proper exercises.
The warming-up process is regu-
larly INDUCED in by prize fighters,
baseball players, chorus girls, and
others about to submit their mus
Cular systems to severe strain.
It is important to teach children
early the necessity for the warming
up process, because the child at
play or in competition with other
children may produce exhaustion in
its body without the realization that
exhaustion is dangerous and is pre-
ventable by proper procedures.
Next: Fatigue for the business
man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09

the league and the United States
At mass meeting of protest held in London Mon
day night, various groups were represented by per-
sons as famous Viscount Grey, Sir Arthur SaIter
Viscountess Astor, Sir Frederick Whyte and Vis-
count Cecil.
Meanwhile, at Geneva the British government
not only is preventing effective assembly action but
has failed to carry out the armstice instructions of
the assembly and has failed to report Shanghai in
formation to the assembly as instructed knowing that
the ASSEMBLY not act without such information
These obstruction tactics of Britain and the other
big powers have become so extreme that they have
been challenged formally, not only by the Chinese
delegate but by the president of the league as
sembly.
AS friends of the league we admit that the league
has lost moral prestige and political strength by its
failure to date to apply its own covenant.
But We deny the frequent prophecy of league
enemies that this means the end of the league. We
do not believe that it is possible to kill SO easily and
quickly organization which carries the loyalty and
faith of so many hundreds of millions of people
This emergency has not proved the futility of the
league It merely has proved that the league of
fftyodd nations not function under the Dictator
ship of few large imperialistic powers.
And its assembly meeting is evident that the small
nations are awakening to that fact
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
The PROHIBITION Department

Before any congressman, especially Democratic
congressman, from Indiana votes money to the
prohibition department a serious effort should be
made to discover how far that unit is being used to
persecute rather than prosecute.
Mayor George Dale is vehement in his declaration
of his own innocence and charges that he is being
FRAMED" by agents Of the government
The charge is much more serious than the Incl
dents cited against Dale in the indictment for
Epracy to violate the liquor law the validity Of which
will be demonstrated at the trial of Dale.
If his charge be true then some curb should be
placed upon prohibition agents who their jobs
10 political influence and who shifted apparently
at the whm and to suit the purpose Of high govern
mental officials
Politicians have attempted to the federal courts
in the past to protect themselves from exposure and
to punish those who have dared to challenge corrup
ton in high PLACES
One such case is now written into the records of
the supreme court of this state in affirmation of
the conviction of one Klnck, the bodyguard Of
D. c. Stephenson.
When Duval was mayor of this city and not pris-
oner in the county JAIL before Governor had been
indicted and pleaded the statute of limitations, an
effort made to procure the indictment Of the
editor Of The Times and Thomas Adams now dead, a
valiant and courageous editor of Vincennes what
was alleged to be an affidavit.
The plan was to indict upon the affidavit in
order to discred the crusades for good government
then being made by Adams and The Times
The signature to the purported affidavit was a
forgery Yet it handed to the then federal prose-
ctor by the political boss of this county, George "
Coffin, and the indictment requested.
The local prosecutor, William Remy, convicted
Klnck for procuring the illegal jurat of a notary
and Knck is under sentence to prison, and now
fugitive from justice. He was in the pay of very
high politicians
So it may be well to examine the charges of Dale
before they dismissed as the plea of a man who
has been caught.
If Dale is guilty, he should be punished. If his
charges are true, something should happen to the
prohibition unit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Built for Battle

THE other new species, which has
4 been named "styracosaurus
ovatus," is represented only bv the
top of the skull, which shows it to
be a hitherto undescribed type of
the great horned dinosaurs.
1t probably was a contemporary
OF palaeoscincus-a much larger
animal and also a plant eater.
The specimen shows that
styraco-Saurus was about as well
equipped for offense as palaeoscincus
for Defense Gilmore says. THE
outstanding popularity is found in
the six great horns, or hornIike bone
processes, that project from the
skull
Specimens of closely related
species show that this great crea-
ture probably had, in proportion to
its weight, the smallest brain of any
animal that ever lived on land.
The enormous skull, six feet
long, contains space for nervous
tissue only about the size of !,
mans fist.
Some idea of what styracosaurus
must have looked like in life, might
be obtained by imagining a Texas
horned toad magnified about 100
times.
1.-THE result would be an even
Weirder animal than the ancient
monster"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Says:

The Legion, A. F. of L. and
Other Organizations Back
of the Campaign to Create
Jobs Not only Are to Be
Congratulated, but Sap
ported.
NEW YORK, March s.-This
IN war against depression"
promises to accomplish something
because it is based on the idea Of
providing work through increased
activity all along the line, because
it goes directly to the people and
to the point, because it is free from
those roundabout methods which
have spoiled so many past efforts.
Work is and has been the one
great essential of recovery, but
many of our leaders have assumed
that it was not to be had, except
by special dispensation of the lords
of trade and finance.
With that mind, the government
has adopted heroic measures to
precipitate them, has demanded
enormous sacrifices of the people,
has done everything it could to
make things easier for the big boys
on the theory that they, in their
gratitude, ultimately would make
things easier for the little boys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Not Enough

Thanks to congress that finally was permitted
to vote its convictions and to President who acqu-
esced, 100000 bushels of the federal farm boards
surplus wheat is on the way to the hungry unem-
poyed.
This is gratifying and very significant
But neither congress nor the President should stop
here.
The Democrats $182,oOo,OoO road bill will furnish
work; the wheat bill will help feed the hungry;
other measures will assist.
But still local governments generally are unable
to bear the burden of steady unemployment among
millions, and private charities, that in many in
stances have done splendid work with limited funds
and limited facilities, are inadequate.
There should he legislation like the La Toilette
Costigan relief bill if the federal government is to
bear the full share of its responsibility in this crisis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE =

All races for more than 440 yards
are done with quick start, a SLOW
er middle run" and sprint at the
end.
Psychologists have measured the
maximum capacity of the body by
testing the runner. A trained run
ner does not exhaust himself COM
pletely in any race up to 200 yards.
He begins to be exhausted at 300
yards and the 440-yard run, or a
quarter mile run, is enough COM
pletely to exhaust even a first-clasS
Splinter.
Obviously the amount of work
and the speed of the performance
depend on the training and on the
ability of the tissues to utilize
oxygen and to get rid of waste
products.
Furthermore, the fatigue in some
one part of the body may be re-
f1ected in other portions.
Continued use of the legs to the
point of exhaustion in any type of
work or play will interfere with &C.
curate and speedy work by the arms
and hands
If muscles are used to the point
of fatigue, stiffness and soreness
will develop and then follows
swelling of the muscles and even
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IF Our So-called REIMBURSEMENT period" could wit
Il the extinction of but half of our more than
thousand national associations, leagues and societies
we can say that we have not suffered in vain.
For we are, God knows, organization-ridd peo-
pie. We harasSed by noble causes and broken
by dues The money taken out of smaller commun-
titles and sent to upift in foreign fields used for
upkeep Of national headquarters in some city would
If kept at home, feed all the hungry of the vicinity
And the way we scramble, trying to scrape up
enough cash to keep grand gentlemen and danes
travelling about for the good of the order" would be
funny if it we're not so sad.
Our thinking has become standardized largely be-
cause it is done in committee rooms by a set of
officers And certainly practice spiritual prostitu-
ton when We hang to causes in which we do not
Enthusiastically believe, while we commit the added
imbecility of paying our good money to do so.
MANY woman is willing to sell her mental
1V1 birthright for poor mess of social pottage
She joins organizations mainly because the neighbors
to be universal to educate, uplift and reform every
body she can.
And the result often is organized chaos and in
telectual and financial bankruptcy. For every Ku-
Klux Khan must have its imperial wizard every D
A. r. its president general, every grand lodge its
grand master and every Elk his exalted ruler
And their upkeep is tremendous: Secretaries
travelling expenses headquarters, to say nothing
conventions and the streams of printed material that
pour from their publicity departments without ceas-
ing.
Organization may mean strength but surely too
many organizations signify weakness. Especially of
the head. We can't pay our taxessbecause we have
to pay our dues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09

For all they know, the signs
which read Keep off the grass
merely are some wild and flower
ing shrub due pretty soon to bios
som. At any rate, the command
set orth is lost upon them.
All this seems logical enough
Think of yourself as an Grant
Alredale which has left behind him
eight rooms, back yard and bath.
Upon a frosty morning in a glade
you are awakened by roaring
angry noise. Subways you know and
steam pipes and even the static
which is fetched into the house my
means of discs.
This is another noise. Never did
you hear it in city streets or houses.
Louder and f1ercer is the sound.
Anger and hunger are both in it.
And now, as the breeze comes across
the little lake where the swans
and rowboats live, there is no need
to puzzle about the Interpretation
OF these sounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Lions Before Breakfast

A SURER message comes to the
L A nose of the dog. This is a
strange and extraordinary thing,
but that smell is lion and nothing
else in the world. The amateur
wolf Of a week never has come
across that same danger signal in
his life.
He can not name it, but his nose
knows. Ancestral memories rise
like little brooks in spring. In an
instant he is one with his forbears.
The reproach and the weakness of
civilization drop from his shoulders.
Spot isn't Spot any more, and
neither is Rover. This is no puppy
biscuit molycoddle now, but a wild
beast at bay. He bares his teeth,
and then he runs until he has left
the Gagged lion far behind him.
And probably he wags his tail,
buoyed up by the feeling that
through his own proves he has
won for himself another day of life
and liver. And of course he never
stops to thank his stars or any
passing policeman who guards US
all from license and the lions.
(Copyright 1882. bv The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
InnnOrtant Start

NTOW we are going to the man in
~ the street, the modest house
holder, the small merchant and
manufacturer, with a plea to do
more.
It sounds so simple as to be I'M
interesting, but in that lies its real
effectiveness.
The fact that 177,OO0 jobs already
have been found, most of them for
at least six months, should be re-
garded as more than encouraging.
Best of all, the work thus provided
is useful, constructive and of such
nature as to make those engaged
in it feel that they are once more
paying their way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I would like to
answer the woman who signed her
self "An EXT. Beer"
I would like to ask this woman,
who left Sunnyside to continue her
convalescence at home, why she left
the most wonderful institution of
its kind in the country to go home,
where she knew her husband could
not afford the comforts and the
nourishing food and constant atten-
ton of a physician, which are es-
sential to the proper care Of the
T B. patient.
I do not happen to be in any way
connected with Sunnyside or the
Sunnyside Guild, but I do happen
to know of the good that they are
doing out there, and they are ac-
ccmpIishing this good even without
the necessary funds.
They should have an apprfpria-
! ton twice as large as they have.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Give a Job

TINE war against depression" is
Il not intended to raise money for
experts to disburse. 1t comprehends
no fund, no overhead, no board of
control.
Tt is being conducted simply and
solely with the idea of getting those
who can afford it to promise that
they will provide extra work by
making repairs, charging their
business, constructing new buildings,
improving their land, or doing any,
thing else that appeals to them as
worth while.
The war rests on bigger and
more wholesome plan than merely
to get people to expend so much
cash. 1t presumes a certain amount
of initiative on their part, a re-
awakenment of their faith and am
bition, a renewed interest in their
own affairs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
Let's All HeIpI

TINE American Legion, American
l. Federation of Labor and other
organizations back of the campaign
not only are to be congratulated,
but supported.
They have hit on plan which is
bound to succeed if enough people
help to carry it out.
We have all been sold on the
thesis that mass buying power is
the basis of prosperity.
The trouble is that We have come
to associate mass buying power with
comparatively few big pay rolls
and a comparatively few we'll adj
vertised articles of trade.
The notion that much of impor-
lance could be accomplished by
each of us doing what he could to
make small improvements and
small expansions has not played the
part it should
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
COn1DIete MYSTERY

CTUDY of the other bones shows.
~ Gilmore says, that it could not
have been used for such a purpose.
1T was so heavy that the animal
hardly could have lifted the tail.
even with an extreme effort" he
says.
Furthermore, several of the YER
tebrae in the tail we're fused to-
gether, so that this organ did not
have the requisite flexibility for
swinging. .
Actually, the huge ball must
have been dragged along the ground
when the dinosaur moved, much
as the convict must drag the heavy
steel ball attached to his leg. The
effect of the bone mass would have
been to prevent the tail rising from
the ground.
The mystery of this queer ana
tomical feature is increased by the
TACT that palaeoScincuS might have
been IN a bad fix if his unWieldv
tail got stuck in the mud.
Although living in a swampy en-
Vlronment he probably spent most
OF ms time on the sandy margins
OF the marsh, largely to avoid the
danger of becoming mired."
PaIaeoscincuS rugosidenS, Gilmore
says, also had a thick bone cover
which he could close down over his
eye.
ConcaVe pieces of bone-shaped
perfectly to fit over an eye, were
found unattached in each orbital
cavity. They hardly could have
served any other purpose than IS
eye covers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09

ON March 9, 1918, the British an
~ nounced that shipping losses
for the previous week had been fiji
teen ships of more than 1000 tons
displacement each.
This announcement confirmed the
opinion that submarine activities
were increasing and caused great
concern in England, dependent on
its ships for food both at home and
for its troops in France.
Fighting on the western front
still was confined to minor trench
actions, but it was increasingly ap-
parent that German troops were
being massed for major offensive
at an early date.
Many divisions from the Russian
front we're known to be in the Ger
man lines in France.
British troops in Palestine con-
tinued their advance, and reported
taking many Turkish soldiers
prisoners.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09

by any dole. He comes to think of
the liver ration as something earned
by his own initiative. Talk to him
Of direct relief and he will growl as
flercely as any Republican states
man.
To him the liver is simply a part
of the wild life of the park. He
stalks his prey and creeps upon it,
meeting the gossipy dead leaves
with all the velvet of his paws. Inch
by inch he comes closer to the
quarry in the platter.
One false step and the meat either
will run or fight. There is no sound
Within a few weeks the wild dog of
Central park has learned to tread
softly.
At last there is lunge and a
leap. Big jaws click, and with a
crunch the hunting dog beats down
the last resistance of the liver.
you would, would you'll" he
growls and carries the carcass to his
lair, where he devours it. But the
platter is left behind as sop to
civilization.
n n n
Within City'S Wilderness
DUT in most ways the life is
ID wholly wild. This is an exist
ence uncomplicated by brief ex-
cursions to any back yard or walks
tight-throttled by leash. There is
no giving of a paw or speaking for
tidbits or sitting up for fragments
from masters supper.
Turf lies beneath the feet, and
there are spots where the trees
edge close enough to shut out all
sight of the city.
And the annoyance of city smells
is less, particularly on clear, cold
mornings in March. You cannot
convince any of these dogs that
they are merely carrying on in a
municipal and partly preserved
jungle.