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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. wALTER FERGUSON

THERE are phrases which we use to keep ourselves
cheerful and save the trouble of thinking.
Women for instance are fond of repeating this
"At least have attained business and political
equality with men"
So far as truth goes this is a sentence devoid
of meaning Although we have come far along the
road, we still have a hard trail to travel before We
reach that goal.
economic stress probably will set women back half
century. To us it will something more than
economizng or starving. 1t will mean that good
many of struggles for equal rights will have to
be made all again.
Freedoms for which so many splendid souls fought
will be lost to us for while. We shall be the VIC
TINS of the readustnent and shall be asked to sacr-
fee our DESIRES just were asked to discard our
femininity when the men began their pretty little
war game that ended SO badly for everybody.
nor though We may speak brave words, women
and children always have been pawns in the
hands of men. We are that today. We vote, but in
many places we have not the right to a Job If We
are married. Taxed we do not get the same pay for
the same work that men receive Subject to punish
ment for lawlessness have only slight representa-
ton in legislative bodies and are barred from holding
many high offices.
And our children still are forced into factories
before maturity. The animals in America have more
spent upon them than the babiess Far more atten-
ton is paid to breeding booded stock than give
to providing decent heritage for human infants.
Indeed, the things the women want and work
for are just about the last things given consideration
by men, Now once more in the name of patriotism,
We are asked TO forget desires and remember our
countrys need.
So many an ambitious young wife will give up
her ambitions and wash dishes, and hundreds of
thousands of girls will sacrifice careers to husband
And when this happens, how will the men reward
US? Probably, usual, by entrenching themselves
more safely behind their citadels Of power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Hogs and HOkum

The CHEEKY observation of DR.. Wilbur secretary of
the interior, that American children better off to-
day than in normal times made hardly more of hit
with the social workers than recent statement by
another Washington officehoder will make with the
farmers
American farmers are sitting pretty. observed DR..
R. W. Dunlap. assistant secretary of agriculture.
"They are the folks who best off," he Said land
their condition is improving steadily"
This will be news to Farmer Estes of Lttleton,
Coo who reports that he took in rs cents for seven
sheep that cost the ultimate consumer $S370 1t viii
puzzle Farmer Magnan out in FIT. Ripley, Mimi who
says he pocketed cents for a 25o-pound hog that
cost him $40 to raise
1t will mystify Freddie McCargo Of Randolph, Va.
who claims to have shipped Asst pounds Of tobacco to
market fifty miles distant and sold it for 81 cents
less than freight and warehouse charges.
1t will bring smiles to the faces of those farmers
who still smile and whose products selling for
less this year than last.
If Or. Coue's psychology could cure hard times,
such men as Dr. Wilbur and Dunlap would be our
most useful citizens Unfortunately, the call is for
economics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
I'm to the President

Congress- confronted with a new demand for cuts
in the federal budget, after it has spent six months
looking for ways to save, very properly has turned
to President Hoover with demand that he recon-
mend to them cuts to- the extent necessary for bal
ancing the budget
This is a duty resting on the shoulders of the
President under the federal budget act-which called
for careful fortnight recommendations from him
months ago.
1t is true that the President cut 1855 100000 from
the 1882 budget when he cast up the balance sheet
last December, and asked for new taxes. But these
were the first, obvious economies, the easiest ones
to make
When it was learned that taxes would not yield
the amounts of revenue first counted on, that more
savings must be made in the budget, the President
did not suggest to congress how these might be made
On the other hand his cabinet members, unre-
proved protested against cut after another pro-
posed in senate and house.
While Mr. Hoover was flaying a bewidered con-
gress for not making cuts drastcaly and promptly,
his secretaries were appealing to congress and the
country to prevent cuts. The President himself put
a stop to the most promising economy of al-that
to be effected by joining and navy departments
under one administrative head
Congress already has cut much under the 1882
budget figures as the President did-cuts that hurt
The President calls for cuts and the senate
has put the problem squarely up to him to solve
If Mr.. Hoover should have the courage and states
manship to demand reductions in our vast expendi-
lures for national Defense in ship subsidies and
our mail subsidies, the lawmakers and the voters
would stand behind him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
No Weasel Words

If the delegates to the Democratic convention,
which meets in indianapolis next week, sense the
demands of the people, they will know that this is
not the year for weasel words or the lodging Of any
issue.
The Republican platform adopted a week ago
leaves much to be desired from the standpoint Of
the independent voter who wants some real changes
in government that will be reflected industrial and
governmental affairs.
While the prohibition plank of the Republican
platform is advertised as wet" proposal it is not
as clear or as plain as those who believe that the
present situation is intolerable would desire.
At its best it is assertion that the people have
right to rule themselves this question, an ad-
vance of course from their attitude of years that
when the Ant-saloon League speaks, the people
must obey.
But there is nothing said to what that party
would do if the question Of repeal of the eighteenth
amendment were submitted to the people.
1t takes no stand against racketeering, against
the tyranny of the federal prohibition agents. against
the use OF official power punish political enemies
against the new infames that have been introduced
under the federal agents who protect their friends
and punish their political enemies.
1t does not even pledge its legislators to repeal
the Wright law, although it does go as far as to say
that they favor such action upon this local nstru-
ment of tyranny and injustice.
What the people of Indiana demanding is
a repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the sub
sttuton of a system that will no longer produce
a crop of gunner to supplant orderly government
The people want system that will permit temper
ance and produce something more than bad whisky
and graft.
There is a spefa need that the promise to the
people the mat tier of utility control be plain and
clear. The utilitieB dominate government. There is
a strong suspicion that they dominated the Repub-
ncan convention working with Watson
The exactions of these utilities heavy. They
have failed to respond to the trend of the times 1t
is impossible to regulate them under the present
system and public ownership or local control must
be adopted
This is year for pussyfooters or trimmers. The
situation demands strong and straight speaking.
The forces that have brought the bankruptcy of the
farmer the distress of the merchant, the impoversh
ment of the worker must be overthrown
That can not be done by attempting to placate
those who have ruled through corruption in the past.
The people demand the overthrow of special priv
lege of every sort and kind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Peoples Voice

Editor Times - The Associated
Press reports Senator Simeon D.
Tess of Ohio as saying that the pro-
hibition issue must be ironed out
so that both sides will be fully
satisfied" and there must be mo
straddling or ambiguity"
What are the facts? One side
wants prohibition. The other side
wants relief. No honest declara-
ton in the platform can or will
satisfy both sides. If there is no
"straddling or ambiguity" the plat
form must declare either for or
against prohibition. If it does that,
it can not satisfy both sides.
The senator's statement is inter-
eSting in that it exemplifies the
mental caliber of all too many of
our lawmakers. We have the pitt
fup spectacle of these cringing souls,
bereft of courage, fearful lest they
shall incur the opposition of either
vets or drys. One of two things
is true: Either they seek the sup
port of the drys under misrep-
resentation of their intention or
they are misrepresenting their in
tention to the vets.
What the voters want and have
right to expect is a clear-cut dec
laration of intention. They are
utterly fed up on the cheap poll
ticians who have made fetish of
the word moves" 1t is this per-
sistent Misrepresentation of fact"
that has led to the contempt felt
for the politician by the average
man on the street"
In business we would call it
fraud" In politics we will answer
by election. We will vote for a
change on the theory that no
change could be worse.
We are looking for men in high
Office who will declare definite con-
victions. We may not agree with
them, but, by the eternal, We will
know where they stand.
HARRY E. VEDDERp
5lS North Delaware street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15

One of the chief dangers is of the
type of accident to the eye that
occurs in the child who plays with
knife, fork, or scissors.
In industries of various types, and
particularly among structural steel
workers, there also is possibility of
perforating injury of the eyeball.
In consideration of this subject,
DR.. Bernard Samuels points out how
greatly the use of the X-ray has
benefited the prevention of this dis
order. In an earlier day, a tiny
piece of metal could get into the
eye and be~overlooked.
After it got in the eye, it grad
ually was surrounded by the tissues;
then it became impossible to remove
it by any method without destroy
ing the eye.
After foreign substance has been
In the eye for a few weeks or
months, it is practically impossible
ITO remove it.
Nowadays the X-ray discovers any
tiny particle of steel or metal.
Furthermore, the fact that the steel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Practical Politics

There is something refreshingIy frank, and at the
same time something puzzling, in the Democratic
appeal for campaign funds just issued and signed by
party leaders.
Campaign contributions often are solicited in more
or less secret; announcements Of large contributions
usually news.
But now comes the Democratic party, glowing
with hope, getting down to bedrock in its appeal
for money to carry on its campaign.
The united victory fund appeal" starts with the
statement that "ths is message of practical politics.
and it recounts how Republican officeholders are in
a position to help the G. o. P. treasury, and how
great financial interests have reaped profit out
of the administrations tariff bill"
But it contains this naive statement:
Nor should it be lost sight of that dollar in
the Democratic treasury today may be worth many
dollars later on"
Are the Democrats promising, by ndirection, the
favors they condemn in the Republican administra-
ton?
That statement ought to be interpreted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Says

There Is No Vision at the Re
publican National Conuen-
ton, only a Cheap, Trof-
ticking, Safety First Phi
losophy.-
NEW YORK, June 15.-what
IN promises to be the most re-
dictionary, illiberal, unprogressive
Republican convention since 1900
now is in session, with the old guard
in complete control and censorship
clamped on about everything, ex-
cept praise of the Hoover record.
The preliminaries were enough to
identify standpatism as the ruling
emotion.
Keynoting for the campaign,
Senator L. j. Dickinson of Iowa for
got to mention prohibition, and who
can doubt that this was in obedi-
ence to orders? What he offered
was a blurb on the tariff and a
little romancing as to what might
have happened because of the de-
preston but for President Hoover's
nation-saving graces.
He allowed the American people
no credit for the courage and pa
tience with which they have en-
dured three years of distress and
disappointment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15

is hot when it enters the eye means
that it is free from germs.
The physician can not, of course,
know that the other eye will de-
velop sympathetic opllthalmia until
it becomes affected, but he does
know that in considerable num-
Der of cases the condition occurs.
He therefore watches carefully
any injury to the eye, to be sure
that the condition is not present
and to do everything possible to
prevent progress at the earliest mo-
ment.
The rules which guide the doctor
in determining when to remove the
injured eye to prevent sympathetic
Inflammation of the other are prac-
tical ones.
If the vision of the eye is de-
Stroyed, if it is soft, if it is painful,
and if the condition seems to be
progressive, he removes the eye
promptly.
In many instances without
doubt, vision Of the remaining eye
has been saved by such prompt
action,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15

and clothing establishment, raise vegetables on va
cant lots, reclaim small farms for the hungry.
On the banks Of the Mississippi, near ST. Louis, is
"Hooyervile," city of 1900 jobless. These have
their own mayor, fire department. police sand court
There being no money, there is little crime and the
police go swimming
The Hooveryille News Americas only johless news
paper, broadcasts 1--WE are badly in need of funds
but practices tolerance
On the banks Of the Potomac, thousands of Job
less veterans are bivouacked on wet grass and mud
as to congress for bonus they hardly ex
pect to get Their self-discipline is amazing their
patience Job-like
In New York, Chicago Philadelphia, Bridgeport
Akron and other cities, thousands of UNEMPLOYED
unions have been formed These supply legal aid to
prevent eectments supervise hunger relief organize
the planting of vacant lots and farms, demand of
states and nation direct relief funds unemployment
insurance, public works and substantial help
Our country is fortunate that so far this spirit of
self-help and restraint rules the millions of suffering
unemployed Surely congress and the states and cities
will meet them halfway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Here's Leading Man

THE first number on the bill was
4 Senator L. j. Dickinson of Iowa,
who works in one. Mr.. Dickinson is
rural comic somewhat after the
style of Chic Sale, but with duller
material. He is, as matter of fact
straight man rather than a comic,
and no talking act can stand quite
so long a time.
Senator Dickinson works without
dialect, songs, or dances. He has a
pleasing presence and a good voice.
The act is neatly costumed, with the
lead wearing blue serge coat, white
duck pants, brown tie and black
and white shoes. 1t ran thirty-nine
minutes with one bow.
Somebody ought to tell the sena-
tor to wait for his laughs. And
somebody else ought to tell him now
long to wait.
The technique of the performer is
somewhat after the manner of Ib-
sen, Euripides and Eugene O'Neill.
One Of the chief characters in the
drama frequently was mentioned,
but never praised. The audience
was informed that Herbert Hoover
saved the United States from a
panic and also preserved Europe
and parts of Asia from complete de-
Struction.
This would be more interesting
and convincing if it were acted out.
Failing that, L. j. Dickinson would
do well to introduce a stooge, or a
soft shoe dance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
The old Bunk
TINE convention is being bally

TINE convention is being bally-
Il hooed as dominated by substan-
tial business men. Il Gounds like
'96, with a so-called campaign of
education in prospect. One easily
can guess how much we are about
to hear concerning the danger of
novelties and innovations; how
carefully and continuously we shall
be informed that this is no time to
rock the boat, or make experiments.
One easily can guess, too, that, no
matter what kind of prohibition
plank is adopted, the issue will be
presented as nonpartisan and, there
fore, not pertinent to discuss from a
partisan standpoint.
We are obviously in for the same
old song and dance, d well-organ-
lied, well-trained chorus to sing
praises of the record. Prosperity
having collapsed, the boys and girls
are going to tell us how efficiently
the wreck has been salvaged and
how thankful we should be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
The DryS Threaten
r HEARD a swarm Of gentlel

4 HEARD swarm of gentlemen
l. drys and ladies threaten and
cajole, but always they talked in
terms of votes and the electoral
college. What has become of the
idealism which used to be associ-
ated with the prohibition move
ment?
The best that these people could
do was to talk in terms of brazen
machine term politics. Indeed, my
heart bled when F. Scott Mcbride
spoke with passion against the at
tempt of the wet forces to "coerce
congressman" But the speaker who
sent me scurrying back into the wet
ranks. and it may be forever, was
DR.. Daniel A. Polling.
He gave the resolutions committee
and the assembled spectators one
of those road company leading man
smiles. He was rosy and Y. N.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Broun Is Wet Again

I DON'T know whether or not
Il President Hoover cares, but 1
have turned dripping wet all over
again. I mean politically. 1t would
be hard to be otherwise after hear
ing ten dry speakers, one after
another, in the course of half hour.
Upon first arriving here, I was i'm
pressed by fellow newspapermkn who
were all crying into their beer
about poor old Mrs. Peabody who
left Massachusetts, when it turned
wet and went to Florida.
Now Florida has been shot from
under her. But I no longer care
where Mrs. Peabody parks her con-
victlon, because I have heard her
speak, Out of the entire battery of
dry speakers, not one undertook to
answer the charge of the vets that
the eighteenth amendment is work
ing badly. Instead, they all turned
legalistic and argued like con-
stitutional lawyers.
Mrs. Ella Boole, who has been
going up and down the country for
years, talking about citizenship and
patriotism, announced blandly that
if her crowd failed to get what they
demanded from the Republican
convention, they would all sit home
and Sulk and refrain from voting
at all. And if that is patriotism,
then Herbert Hoover is Clark
Gable.
also had the privilege of listen
ing to Raymond Robbins, who used
to be a Bull Moose and all for
initiative, referendum, and the re-
call of judicial decisions. Mr.. Rob-
bins argued that no action on a
constitutional amendment ever
should be left to anything but state
legislatures, because the people
could not be trusted if allowed to
vote for delegates to constitutional
conventions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Inhless Self.Heln

1t is not only in Chicago that interesting and i'm
portant things are happening.
In Seattle, $4,000 jobless and women have or
gained the Unemployed Citizens League to adj
minister some sl5OOOO of monthly public relief These
jobless. working under twenty-five cooperative
district committees run their own garage, conduct
commissaries investigate needy families, repair and
repant old houses send voorhees, into forests to
cut and distribute fuel wood and raise funds by Civ
ing dances.
In Tacoma, jobless committees own shoe factory
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15

DI I'm MOhhAS FlSnbE1N
once, after he had injured an
~ eye, an Irishman was told that
it would have to be removed
to prevent development of SYM
pathetic ophthalmia.
When he asked what that was,
he was told that the second eye was
likely to develop Inflammation
through sympathy with the first eye.
His characteristic response was,
To the devil with such sympathy
The problem of sympathetic
ophthalmia is one that has given
great concern to specialists in dis
eases OF the eye, because there is
nothing else in human knowledge
of disease quite similar.
If pimple develops on one hand,
that does not necessarily cause a
boil on the other; but if an eye
becomes severely damaged or in
fected so that the eyeball is per-
forated, not infrequently the other
eye promptly develops trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE
June Is

ON June Is, 1918, while German
~ troops were retreating on the
Disc front, Autro-Hungarian forces
on the Italian front massed for a
great offensive on a 97-mile line
from the Asiago plateau to the sea.
In their first encounters, they
were successful, crossing the Piave
in several places and obtaining
other small advantages.
Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker announced that on this day
more than 100000 American troops
were in France, and that they had
taken up large scale fighting on the
western front.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H E10zS

glorify the Republican adminiStra-
ton in ziegfeldian extravaganza,
much more kindly criticisms must
be extended to the smaller show
which was staged in the Florentine
room of the Congress hotel before
the platform committee.
Maybe it isn't the Florentine
room. 1t could be the Elizabethan
room or Queen Anne parlor. Any
how, it was one of those paneled
places in hotel where three or four
hundred people can be squeezed in
with comfort and seven hundred
come. The wet and dry fight was
staged in dramatic and effective
manner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15
Citizen in Every Cell
THE ironY Of the Speaker oftf

NHE irony OF the speaker often
l. was over the head of his au-
dience. Thus he got no laughs at
all when he boasted that one Of the
proudest achievements of Mr.. Hoo
ver's administration was the fact
that twice as many people ARE now
in detention for violation of federal
statutes as we're in jails and penal
institutions five years ago."
Evidently the old gag about a
Chicken in every pot" is to give
way to "a citizen in every cell
But if the Republican party feb
down lamentahly in its efforts to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15

&C. A. all over. His heartiness of
speech and manner induced sciatic
pains. He gave us a regular "25
cents for the chocolate, buddy" sort
OF speech.
Even his opponents were "old
scouts" to DR.. Polling. And as a
neutral observer, I gravely was
tempted to rise in my seat and say,
take your amendment and do with
1t as suggest, but don't you old
scout me-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-15

CHICAGO, June 15.-The show
~ which opened at the Chicago
stadium Tuesday is called the Re-
publican national convention of 1882.
Even as hot weather revue, it does
not seem a hit. At the first per-
Torrance. the attraction already
was in the cut rates and it's chance
of getting off the nut appears to be
slim.
OF course it may be speeded up
here and there and better routined,
for it is ony fair to say that Re
publican Convention of 1882" opened
cold. Indeed, even colder than is
customary.
But the chief trouble seems to be
lack of heart interest. The show
is clean, but dull. Since there is no
central thread around which to wind
the entertainment, the piece cries
out for some personality and this
element is wholly lacking.
Unless the performers are willing
to go cooperative, there is slight
possibility of a run. The house is
much too big for the type of attrac-
ton offered. Somebody should tell
the producers that what they have
on their hands is an intimate show,
if anything, and a theater seating
seven or eight hundred ought to be
ample for their needs.