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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TT looks as if we need more common sense on the
Il the bench.
Chicago judge who performs wedding cere-
monies free of charge generously presents each bride
with cook book, and calls that permanent seal
on the marriage" while New York City justice an
nounces that the husband who permits his wife to
work and help keep the home "forfeits whatever
control that might have been his by virtue of his
masculinity or preconceived concept of domestic
domnation"-if you know what that means.
Both these gentlemen, it seems to me. look at
matrimony with medieval squint. good many
people, even judges evade the trouble of thinking
about this question by such SubterfugeS.
To assume that good cooking puts permanent
seal upon marriage" is entirely senseess under
existing conditions
And that even should speak Of marriage now
as II it were state in which the man, because he
is slightly crazy even to the most conservative.
NOTHING is more wearisome than to hear these
IN ancient adages applied to modern problems. And
how the men love to apply them!
To agree with the Manhattan judge that no man
should marry unless he can keep up the home all
by his lonesome is rather tough upon domestically
inclined males, and would work hardship upon
thousands Of women who desire both husbands and
jobs.
Marriage must survive but it would have small
chance to do so if We permitted the mosshacks to
make all the rules.
The tempo OF modern life, whether We approve or
not, is vastly different from that of Victorian days.
Conditions have changed ,immeasurably since the
decorous 80s and to try to fit the regulations of that
time to modern and women is like trying to travel
@by htching to the automobile.
We not solve any of difficulties of living
by barking back to customs Of earlier day. But
We might get along faster if we applied some COM
mon sense to them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
"Hand-Set" Language

Credit Senator Byrnes of South Carolina with q
worthy suggestion He proposes platform writer
by men who have worked on hand-set country news
papers. He says they know how to be brief.
Or why not platform done with a chisel on
stone7 The panks that Moses put forth that way
have stood up fairly well.
Lincoln wrote his Gettysburg address with his knee
for desk, and no carbon copies That is one reason
for the strength of that document The story of
creation was confined to 900 words because every
little letter meant work.
Modern Inventions contribution to our present
troubles isn't all matter of chronological unempoy-
ment Typewriters, dicaphones and other devices for
making verbiage easy have contributed much to the
muddiness Of political affairs.
Alfred E. Smith has the same mechanical facil-
ties for turning out words as did the Republicans
when their masterpiece of verbosty was written But
all he said about prohibition was that he had been
against it from the start against it now and wants
it changed.
Not line about qualification by nonobservance" or
choosing between party affiliations and honest con-
vctions" safeguarding so as to be truly repre-
sentative
Just plain direct declaration that was typical of
the and his works and stands as symbol of why
he, or one of his type. instead of another word
monger, should lead this puzzlng nation during the
next four years.
We would not impose upon you the suggestion that
you reread that Republican plank That would be
asking too much. But we believe you will enjoy
reading second time this direct Smith statement:
THE eighteenth amendment never should have
been put into the Constitution. It is unavoidable
attacked it from the time it was first proposed and
prophesied its failure and stated that it would prove
to be the greatest ever put over on an u1ss-
pecting people.
I fought it when it was unpopular to take that
side Of the issue in many parts my own state and
in many other states OF the Union, and when every
weapon Of narrow minded intolerance was turned
against me.
Il carried the banner when the army was small
the straggers numerous and the opposition bitter
was then and am now for unconditional repeal of
the eighteenth amendment.
THE Volstead act should be amended at once bv
scientifically correct definition that will permit the
sale of beverages of reasonable alcoholic content The
people of the United States are entitled to this relief
which would divert the profits of the bootegger into
legitimate taxes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
Safety on the Fourth

Approach of the Fourth of July is a reminder
that the old campaign for safe and sane Fourth
naugurated years ago to check the rising toll of fire.
works casualties, needs to be emphasized this year
just much as ever.
To be sure the toll taken by the firecracker and
other explosives has been reduced vastly in recent
years But people seem to have gotten careful in
that respect only to get more careless in other ways
First and foremost, of course, comes the automo-
bile. 1t is just certain that July will bring long
list of traffic fatalities it is that the day after July
will be July 5. The holiday will jam the highways
and many people will be killed
The holidays also will send lot of people to the
water, and there will be good many drownings
There will be accidents in connection with picnic
bonf1res. There will be-but why go onP
The old. campaign for safety on the Fourth needs
support now as much as it ever did
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
A Sensible Proposal

There is sense in the Hoover arms reduction plan.
In two points it is Enthusiastically clear. These two
points are essential. The rest is trimming
Hoover specifies the amount of reduction (about
one-third Of existing military and naval strength
and proposes to accomplish reduction according to
the scale set for the German army after the war
roughly 100000 troops for 65OOOoOO population, the
troops to be used for internal duty.
The absolute necessity for some such definite and
comprehensive program is obvious as daylight The
world lies under a burden of war casualties mental
physical and economic, that disgraces its leaders.
The Hoover plan provides starting point that
even statesmen in international concave should need
no experts" to interpret.
Accomplishment is, admittedly not simple as
exposition but the American proposal provides basis
for this-the German scale
The Hoover plan is minimum and in no way
radical when measured by the little sacrifice in
voved in its material realization The United States
army would not be affected, as the proposed cut is
reduction over and above the normal requirements
for policing" the country.
AS for the navy, the plan would require actual
cuts in the batteship and submarine program where
as some cruiser building might be necessary
Even So sensible step toward disarmament is
offered.
There are two ways of approaching disarmament
by which investment in arms is reduced.
This is unsatisfactory and impractical, because re-
auctions usually are small as to influence the po-
tentiaty OF war not at all.
The second is the direct scrapping method.
Disarmament is not, statesmen incline to be-
Iieve process of mental contortion wholly divorced
from reality 1t is realistic as the application of
an acetyene torch to the steel of dismantled ship
This was the method used to disarm Germany.
True, Germany had enemies sufficiently determined
in their attitude TO disarm her by force. But the
situation is not without analogy here.
Civilization has an enemy more potent and i'm
pressve than vengefl allies confronting defeated
Germany That enemy is and it is not only
CAPABLE of creating unmaginable havoc il permitted
to rise again. but we have learned that it is capable
Of destroying the world at stroke.
The Hoover plan seems to recognize the reality Of
this situation and seeks TO promote a realistic con-
ception Of 1t among the statesmen upon whom We
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23

charge him here and now with
violating his own admonition that
no citizen, high or low, should give
encouragement to radical thought
Or action. May I quote back to the
Texan a few lines from his own
statement:
All relief measures so far have
been purely temporary, and do not
go to the root of the trouble g.
enough work must be provided to
keep the people from starving, and
we shall be fortunate indeed if this
lrreducible cost minimum does not
greatly exceed the amount speci-
fed in the relief measures which I
sponsored"
Socialism, of course, looks to an
end result of much more than mere
sustenance above the starvation
line, but the party plank on the
problem of immediate relief sounds
strangely like the words of Mr..
Garner.
Only, the Socialists said it earlier.
So did the Communists. Once the
speaker begins to talk in terms of
billions for relief and more if nee
essary, he will find that he is dis
tinctly giving encouragement to
those radical theories which he de-
ploreS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
TT CEFMG tn MT nv HAYWOOD
Il OAA4VAO i ~ 4N4A oA BROUN

THE prohibition problem has
l. captured the center of the po-
litical stage in such way as to keep
every other issue in the wings.
Certainly, nobody has paid the
slightest attention to any amend
ment.
And in like fashion, the state
ment of Speaker John N. Garner
means little to the editorial COM
mentators and the headline writer's
except that the gentleman from
Texas at last has decided that he
is wet.
But John Nance Garner has
raised other interesting questions in
tossing his hat into the ring. On
the whole, he has been commend
ably frank, and yet 1 would like to
hear him explain more fully pre-
cisely what he means by one sec
ton of his announcement. He said:
THE constantly increasing tend
ency toward Socialism and Com
munism is the gravest possible mem
ace. The government should use
every means within its power to
prevent their further spread, and
they should receive no encourage
ment from any American citizen,
high or low"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23

is considerable pain. Should the
inf1amed tissue accumulate calcium,
it will show easily in an X-ray pic
ture.
However, it may fail to calcify, in
which case the X-ray picture mere
ly will show the swelling.
Exactly as one may relieve pain
in swollen boil or pimple by hav-
ing it properly opened, so also. &C
cording to DR.. Carp, can the in
f1ammation and pain of this con-
dition be relieved by permitting the
fluid in the swollen sac to escape.
This is accomplished by the ply
Sician through direct, sustained,
pressure over the point involved,
once the diagnosis has been made
certain.
In such instances the little sac
bursts, the fluid escapes into the
surrounding tissues, promptly is abb
sorbed, and relief is immediate.
Of course, if the pain associated
with bursting the bursa is too severe,
a slight breath of a gas anesthetic
permits the manipulation without
pain.
1t is customary also in such cases
to apply moderate heat by various
methods so as to aid absorption of
the products of Inflammation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
NJ. E. Tracy
Says:

European Politicians Are
Stringing Hoover on Dis
armament, Just as. They
Strung Woodrow Wilson Is
Years Ago.
NEW YORK. June 2S.-"Abso-
4 lutely una ept a BILE" says
Joseph Paul-Boncour, speaking for
France, with regard to President
Hoover's latest disarmament pro-
posal, and the conferees at Lau-
same appear to be in for another
series of headaches.
The formula of reduction by one
third is too simple. What the dip
lomats and experts want is an OPP
portunity to horse trade. How else
can they prove that their profession
means anything? How else can they
justify all the gable about tonnage
and caliber?
Besides, President Hoover has
shown his hand too freely, has let
everybody know how intensely in
terested he is in disarmament, has
created an impression that he is
willing to go to almost any length
to get it.
European politicians are not over
looking such an obvious bet. Right
ly, or wrongly, they assume that
the President of the United States
is ready to concede much for dis
armament, and that it is their bust
ness to find out just how much be-
fore closing any bargain.
To put it brutally, European poll
ticians are stringing Hoover, just as
they strung the late Woodrow Will
son thirteen years ago; feeding him
flattery, persuading him to lay his
cards on the table, weighing the
value of every trump that he holds,
and then stalling while they think
up ways to beat him in the final
play.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
Must Have Safety

IF you lived in a lawless COM
i munity, would you throw away
the old shotgun until court had
been established and a constable
appointed in whom you had conf
dence? Certainly you wouldn't, and
no more will the world.
If we want reign of law, in
stead of reign of force, the first
thing to do is create necessary
agencies. Until that has been done
no nation is going to scrap what
ages have taught its people to re-
gard as their one effective means
of defense.
Organized peace demands a diff
ferent international structure from
organized war. People are not 60
ing to tear down the one until they
see how the other looks.
A government that won't help
build the peace structure is only
wasting time when it breaches
abandonment of the war structure,
A reign of law, such as Wilson
visioned and such as Hoover ap-
parently would like to see, calls for
more than scrapping a few battle
ships, or passing resolutions against
air raids.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
Stage Not Ready
no begin with, the stage is n

THO begin with, the stage is not
l. set for genuine disarmament.
The world has no substitute for its
armies and navieS, no agency for
keeping the peace, or administering
justice among governments.
Paradoxically enough, our own
government, which is making the
most noise about disarmament, has
refused to help the world create
such agency, has declined to join
the League Of Nations on any basis,
or the world court without reser-
vations.
OF course, Europe regards Presi-
dent Hoover's proposal as just one
more play to the galleries, noble
from the standpoint Of idealism,
perhaps, but hopelessly premature.
1t is mathematically true that the
world could save ten or fteen bill
lion dollars during the next decade
by reducing its military expenditures
one-third.
1t is equally true that the Ameri-
can people could pay their taxes
without great discomfort if they
gave up hooch.
armament, habit, custom and tradi-
ton count for more than an au-
ditor's report.
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Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-You may be amazed
to know, sir, that there are great
big, he-men playboys- about-town in
indianapolis who are not hesitating
to sacrifice (almosD all, even in
times like these.
Doubtless, you, too, Mr.. Editor,
have wept often, even as l, over
those knock kneed, sway backed
maidens, who, attired in a beach
garment consisting of a couple OF
straps, or less, litter our local bath
ing pools--not to swim. but to dis
play.
Some day, sir, perhaps, it will be
explained why so few feminine fig
ures look good in bathing suit
But where is the woman who will
admit she is not one of the chosen
to preen and parade?
Now, this season, we have the
male of the species.
They're on exhibition any of these
hot afternoons.
See, they never go near the water;
but there they are, their brawny
physiques in readiness for any or
all admiring glances
Some of them wear only trunks
held up, thank goodness, by wide
and very fancy belts.
And, sir, my particular pets are
those who merely roll down the tops
of their bathing suits to the limit
the la " ALLOWS
I'm pleased to report that this
variety does not walk, but usually is
draped on stools, boxes, on the edge
Of the pool, or merely Tolls on the
sand. Otherwise, I must shudder
to consider the possible shock to
public modesty.
The questions arise then:
Are they the promoters of mud
ist Indianapolis of the future?
Are they benefactors in "sacrific-
ing ALI that we may know that
there yet is husky beauty outside the
Tarzan thrillers?
Or, are they just sun-tan goofs?
My mother never taught me any
thing like this.
I am flabbergasted; may pass
out in your arms?
SUNRURNED SUSAN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
Heat and Cold

TINE actual temperature range
Il within which life can survive is
very narrow. There are some bac-
terra and other one-celled nlants
which thrive in the waters OF hot
springs and geysers.
But they are an exception. Most
forms of life which we know can
not survive very high temperatures
Tor any length of time.
In addition, they can not exist
for any great length of time at tenn
peratures below freezing point of
water.
Animals on earth can withstand
low temperatures, but plants can
not. Continuous cold weather would
kill off all plants, leaving animals to
die of starvation.
But life requires more than the
proper temperature. Other prime re-
quirementS are water and air. Wa
ter is one of the chief constituents
OF all living things on earth.
The protoplasm, the chemical
stuff, which makes up the cells of
both plants and animals, is largely
water, ranging all the way from so
per cent to 81 per cent water.
Certain constituents of the atmos-
phere also are necessary to life, par
ticularly oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Animals breathe oxygen. Plants
manufacture the sugars and
starches in their tissues from the
carbon dioxide of the air and from
water.
Nitrogen, another constituent of
the atmosphere, also is necessary for
life. Plants require certain COM
pounds of nitrogen, soluble nitrates,
to grow. for nitrogen is one of the
constituents of protoplasm.
Nitrogen also serves a useful pur-
pose, diluting the oxygen of the at
mosphere. Life would run at too
rapid rate in an atmosphere of all
oxygen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
He's Not Socialist

A S yet, think it will be possible
1 n for Mr.. Garner to defend him
self against the charge Of being a
Socialist. would be glad to appear
as one of cloud of character wit
nesses to testify that he is no such
thing.
But if the district attorney
changed his tactics just a little and
inquired, 'but isn't he just little
Socialistic in his ideas about unem-
ployment relief" candor would
compel me to admit that there was
at least a faint in the man.
And so I advise Mr.. Garner to call
off the bloodhounds and abandon
his idea of a federal drive against
the red menace.
Unless, of course, he really would
like to split a cell in Atlanta with
Norris, La Toilette, Foster, Thomas,
and, on certain days, even Nicholas
Murray Butler.
Copyright. 1882. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23


Health Magazine.
MODERN medicine and surgery
1V1recognize various conditions due
to special occupations, special cir
cumStances or to certain sports.
Quite recently one surgeon de-
scribed a fracture of the kneecap
that had occurred in a considerable
number of cases when motor car
stopped suddenly and the kneecap
came in contact with the instrument
board of the car.
Football players have suffered
particularly with dislocation of
the cartilage on the inside, between
the big bone of the thigh and the
larger of the two small bones of the
leg.
The strain on the wrist and on
the elbow associated with modern
tennis has developed the term ten
mis- elbow"
This condition, as pointed out by
DR.. Louis Carp, is, however, not
strictly limited to tennis players.
1t occurs not only as the result of
sports requiring the use of a racquet,
such as tennis and squash, but also
in golf and baseball; and in various
occupations which demand lifting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
In 1892

Huge slush funds" always have been in the head
lines of other political conventions The words are
missing this year. But slush funds, like all other
things in this life are relative
If by chance the Democratic convention of 1882
gets deadlocked did the in 1924 and into
weeks instead of days, the price of cot or ham
sandwich for a delegate will be slush fund
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
Daily Thoughts

And all this assembly shall
know that the Lord saveth not
with sword and spear: for the
battle is the Lords, and he will
give you into our hands.-I Samuel
17:45.
To manage men one ought X
have a sharp mind in a velve
sheath.-George Eliot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-23
Garner Goes Far

THAT seems to me a rather
i more startling statement than
Mr.. Gamers enlistment in favor
of repeal. If his words mean what
they seem to mean, bluff Jack OF
Texas intends to make Ham Fish
seem like a revolutionist.
Even Herbert Hoover in his at
titude of dognatic conservatism has
not yet gone to the length Of sug-
costing that no American citizen
has right to espouse radical
causes.
Possibly Mr.. Garner is looking
for some way to prevent the grave
unemployment problem which may
arise among enforcement officers
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MANY factors
VXTHEN we come to examine our
WV ~. nnr4h LA I'D 4l,nA IL

XXTHEN we come to examine our
w own earth, we find that life
exists upon it for a great variety of
circumstances. The failure Of any
one of these, so it seems, would have
made life impossible.
First Of ALL our earth is not too
close to the sun and not too far
from it.
Fortunately, our earth rotates
upon it's axis at favorable rate of
speed. If our earth, like the planet
Mercury, also kept the same face
turned toward the sun, one side of
the earth would be baked to an in
tolerable temperature, while the
other side would freeze. ~
Next, there is the revolution Of
the earth around the sun and the
angle at which the earth is tipped
upon its axis.
These facts account for the sea-
sons as we know them. Suppose that
the earth, like Jupiter, took almost
twelve years to go around the sun.
Would life as we know it exist on
the earth? In all probability, it
would not.
Size of the earth is important
for life. Were the earth as small as
Mercury or our moon, it would not
be able to hold to its atmosphere.
The neon. for example, has no at
moSphere. We're the earth very
much larger, its gravitational pull
would be too great for our muscles.
In the earth's atmosphere, there
is a little ozone, an electrified form
of oxygen. There is enough ozone in
the earth's atmosphere to equal
layer, if it we're all brought down to
the earth's surface, about half an
inch thick.
Yet that little ozone is just
enough to screen out certain very
short violet rays of the sun,
which, If they got through the at
mosphere, would kill off all forms of
life.
On such delicate mechanisms does
the continuity of life on earth de-
pend.
Do the members Of the house of
representatives and United states
senate receive the same salary?