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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
A Federal Job

The movement headed by Brigadier- General Pei
ham D. Glassford to ask congress for funds to feed
and care for the depression army Of transient men
and boys will enlist support from all who have given
this problem serious thought.
Relief must come at once.
1t is estimated that the states are being overrun
by upward Of 100000 homeless and jobless wan
derers The great bulk of these are under IS. At
least 100000 are boys
Many are college men, the great majority are from
good families AS they wander in box or hitch
hike from state to state they meet with unspeakable
conditions in flop houses and makeshift soup kitchens
always being forced to move to the next community.
Unless adequate care is offered, many will become
permanently unemployable vagabonds, some will be-
come degenerates and criminals Outside of Cali
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
progress Has Been Made.

Progress has been made" says the joint Hoover
Roosevelt statement the White House foreign debt
conversations. That is not much for the public to
go on. But-such as it is-it is hopeful.
Progress has been made if the President and the
Presidentelect have risen above campaign bitterness
to meet one problem which prolongs the depression
here and abroad.
Progress has been made, if Mr.. Hoover has
achieved enough patience to resubmt his recommen-
dalton rejected by congress last year for moratorium
pending investigation by congressional debt COM
mission.
Progress has been made, if Mr.. Roosevelt has
taken leadership-gven him by the eection-of the
Democratic party which really will control the lame
duck session well the congress.
Progress has been made if Mr.. Hoover and Mr..
Roosevelt have ignored party demagogs and listened
to the economists government experts and business
men with the uncolored facts.
Progress has been made if the President and the
President-elect have renowned parisanshp to pro-
vide the joint leadership necessary to make lame
duck congress face business problem in business
like manner
No intelligent business would force a debtor
into default without hearing what he has to say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Just Rubber STAMPS

OUCH radicals as Franklin, JEFF
~ ferson and James Wilson
thought the people could be trusted
to elect the head of the state, but
they were overwhelmed by a con-
sentative, skeptical majority.
After protracted debate, it was
decided that the President and the
Vice-President should be chosen bv
electors" who were to be nom
mated and voted on for that express
purpose. Each state was to choose
electors" the number being equal
to that of it's senators and repre-
sentatives combined.
These electors" were to meet at
the state capital on certain dav
and vote for President and a Vice
President of the United States.
without obligations to any party, or
lection. Then they we're to file GER
tif1cates Of their choice which would
be opened and tabulated in the
United States several months later.
We still go through that riga
marole, but it means nothing. The
electoral college" still is provided
for by the Constitution. In theory,
any elector, or group of electors,
could disregard party obligations
and vote for whom they pleased.
In practice, they merely act as rub
Der stamps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

fuss about it, much less imagine
that he was a square peg in round
hole.
GO throughout biography, if we
- had time to follow it out, Rob-
ertson of Brighton, did not want to
enter the church; he wanted to De
soldier. But despite his diSap-
pointment-perhaps because of it
he became one of the noblest voices
Of his age.
Robertson Nicoll had to give up
the work he loved best because of
illness, but he made the best of a
second choice, and became great
journalist. Many besides Sir James
Barrie could say of him, He gave
me my chancel"
We live from day to day-we have
to-and no day repeats day gone
by: therefore, we must play our
part. whatever it is, with our finest
stroke. If we can not play the first
violin in the symphony of life, we
can at least learn how to join in
tremendously, ceasing to play sharp
or sing fiat.
The first violin can not do with
out the second fiddle; and it is
great, even in the back row of the
orchestra, to hear under our fingers
that at least we have learned to be
skilful, the chime of the triangle
and the roll of the drums. OF an
actor recently dead it was said, He
was invaluable in minor parts
(copyrfght. 1882. United Feature syndicate)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23

that land are groteSque, to be sure,
but it is not possible to escape the
temptation of giving them a some
what similar psychology.
I wouldn't put very much faith in
the plan of Mr. Van Looms Russian
friend. 1t seems to me a some
what coolish approach to begin a
conversation with another planet by
saying in effect, "Oh, look-we know
plane geometry"
AS one who struggled long, hard
and unsuccessfully with that hy-
potenuse in high school, my own
vision would include a Mars without
geometry or, indeed, arithmetic of
any sort. I even doubt that the So
called eXactitude of mathematics is
Of that brand of truth known as
eternal.
Beyond the Milky Way it is at
least possible that the sum of the
other two squares doesn't equal the
one set up on the hypotenuse. In
my very vague and confused notion
of what Einstein has been about, 1
believe I've heard it said that he has
found that a straight line isn't the
shortest distance between two
points.
If there is to be Mars for the
mental consolation of mystics, I
would much prefer it as a place
where none Of our rules holds good.
There, let us hope, that moss is on
the rolling stones, and that early
birds catch never a single worm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE --
Swallowing Food Is Speedy Process

! telligible. If, however, only one
half of the tongue is paralyzed
speech may be fairly good, but Ger
tain sounds, particularly L, S, E
and w, do not come out satisfac-
torily.
In certain diseases the nerves
affecting the palate are involved so
that there is paralysis of the palate
and of the pharynx
This occurs particularly in some
forms of infantile paralysis and
diphtheritic paralysis.
In such cases swallowing may be
so difficult that it becomes neces-
sary to feed the patient through
the nose.
Sometimes the paralysis is so
severe that there is interference
also with vomiting. This is most
unfortunate, because food under
such circumstances tends to get
into the windpipe and to produce
coughing, or it may actually get
down into the lungs and give rise
to pneumonia.
If an X-ray examination shows
that particles of material, made
opaque to X-ray, are getting in
to the windpipe and lungs, prompt
action must be taken to prevent
this complication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

pipe which is concerned with
speech.
Obviously, there are many fac
tors involved in swallowing, all parts
combining together.
Once the food starts to move, the
action is so rapid that it hardly
can be seen with the eye in x-ray
pictures, but has to be followed by
motion pictures.
Fluids go down much more rapid
ly than solid food. Liquids reach
the stomach in from one to two sec
onds, whereas solid foods may re-
quire seven to eight seconds.
If any one of the factors involved
in the swallowing mechanism is dis
turbed, the whole process may be
disturbed.
In paralysis of the tongue, which
means paralysis of the muscles in
volved, swallowing is disturbed and
also speech. In case the whole
tongue is paralyzed, it shrinks and
lies at the bottom of the mouth,
covered with saliva.
Such complete paralysis, however,
is quite rare. In most cases only
one portion of the tongue is in
volved.
If both parts of the tongue are
paralyzed, speech usually is unin-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Just Every Day Sense
rTHE western COLLEGE for Women at Oxford
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

1A1 WeSIeIA Oouege lot women at oxford, o.
Il recently conferred an LII. D. upon Mrs Elias
Compton And guess what for?
Because she is the mother of three noted sons
we nave done much talking about the nobility and
value Of maternity, but outside of mere words our
recognition OF mothers has been negligible The ex-
Presidents widow gets pension; the ex-sodiers wife
gets pension. The woman who gives to her country
a good and great citizen gets nothing.
If producing splendid and daughters is not
an achievement then nothing we do is worth while
Men and women who give notable service to their
nation and their race, in whatever field advance
civilizations progress The mother who has created
and trained them thus makes the finest of all con-
tributions to humanity.
woman wants no actual rewards for having
reared excellent children. Their reality is enough
of values, based on human rather than material
worth.
Our rewards of merit for motherhood always have
been out of line with oratorca expressions the
subject The spectacular accomplishment in any
calling receives praise while the long. slow diff
cult task remains unnotced.
THUS person who climbs suddenly to dizzy
i heights Of success Is acclaimed from coast to
coast, matter how speedily he may fall from that
emnence
But the stable steady citizen the diligent faith
would be unavaiing is seldom recognized and never
applauded.
The man who owns the money that makes possible
skyscraper is given the lions share Of glory The
architect who dreams it remains second in public
esteem, while the workers who actually build it have
no place there at all.
The holds true Of women's work The one
who creates great book is hailed as a genius; an
other who creates great individual is not regarded
as an important factor in national life.
Why not sort of Nobel prize for mothers? Theirs
Is the superlave contribution to SDciety and need
today, above all else, hne men and women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Mars SWimS Into Ken

+" a LWAYs play first fiddle or
4 n none at all" remarked man
who by hard work, as we'll as by
push and pull, had made his way to
the top. The answer is, Fiddlesticks;
play the part you can play best,
play it with the best art you can
command, and get a lot of fun out
of it. For the tune will end soon
enough. and all players will be as
forgotten as the first man who ever
ate an oyster.
Two soldiers were discussing this
matter recently, and one of them
recalled a saying by Turgeniev, the
Russian novelist, which is as full
of good sense as an egg is Of meat:
ct seems to me that to put oneself
in the second place is the whole sig
nificance of life"
There is much to be said on that
side Of the subject, if We really want
to get something out of life besides
fever and fret.
In the nature Of things there can
be only few first fiddles; life is
largely a matter of second choices
and second places. Not many of
us are doing the things we set out
to do, much less dreamed of do
ing.
OF old, st. Paul wanted to go to
Spain, but he had to stay and raise
money to feed the poor saints at
Jerusalem. Whether he ever got to
Spain or not we do not know: but
We do know that he did not make
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
M. E. Tracy
=

We Take More Time on Our
Elections Than OR Grand
fathers Did, Most of Which
Is Sheer Wastes
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-It takes
IN about one year to nominate.
elect, and install President of the
United States. That is ridiculous.
1t fails utterly to square with the
American idea of progress through
speed. 1t is not even up to the pace
set by countries that commonly are
regarded as conservative, If not
slow.
Without warning or preparation,
England can order general cleo
ton, conduct an effective campaign.
ard get new administration under
way within six weeks.
Since our elections are held at
regular intervals, and since every
body knows when they will take
place, We ought to do as well, If not
better. Instead. we take more time
than our grandfathers did when
they had to depend on OK carts and
gossip.
For people who can't bear to ride
under forty miles an hour, wko pre-
fer the telephone to mail, and who
want everything broadcast over the
radio the moment it occurs, we take
our politics with amazing patience.
Is it because we enjoy the game. or
lack ability to conduct public
affairs in an efficient manner?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Retarded by Custom

ITO get around this clumsy, OBJ
Il solete system, we have per-
mitted custom to establish slow
moving mechanism. 1t was last
January, or even before, that Frank
lin D. Roosevelt began his cam
paign for the Democratic nomina-
ton.
Since that time the whole country
has been more or less distracted by
politics, and now we are waiting fo1
March 4. To measurable extent
constructive, purposeful action has
been thwarted. 1t will be next
spring before we can get back to
normal.
That is too big price to pay fol
changing party control of the gov
eminent. The method should be
simplified and brought down to
date.
There Is no reason in the world
why more than two or three months
should intervene between the time q
President is nominated and takes
office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23

Health Magazine.
XXTHEN anything is swallowed,
w action begins when the food
that has been chewed is caught on
the tongue and pressed upward
against the hard palate.
/ This forces the food backwards
into the throat. From that time on
the mass is beyond control.
Contact of the food with the base
of the tongue and the back wall of
the throat stimulates certain nerves,
which. then cause the muscles to
contrast.
AS a result the soft palate is
pushed up, the pillars which guard
the entrance to the throat come to-
gether, the nose is shut off from the
mouth, thus keeping the food from
passing upward into the nose, and
down it goes.
At the same time, also, ordinar-
lily, the food can not get into the
lungs.
This closure is brought about by
a combined action of the tongue and
drawing upward and forward of
the larynx or that part of the wind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Bland Life and Gay One

TITO me the suggestion of canals
Il upon the surface of the red
planet gives strength to the theory
that across the ether there may
dwell a placid people. The Dutch
are always with us, so why hold
out against the chance of Hol-
landers in Mars?
In great houSeboats they float all
day, drinking real gin out of stone
jugs. The principal industries are
mandolin and cards, for on a canal
boat in a temperate zone there is
not much to do but sing and play
contract.
And there is an idea that neither
the Russian nor the Britisfer ad-
vanced as clew to communication.
Why not place upon some great
meadow a stunning set of thirteen
cards and then wait for the faint
radio flash from across the neck
of the worlds, IF you're asking me
Id bid two spades?"
Copyright. 1882. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Isolated InsuIin
IN 1913 Professor Abel succeede

IN 1913 Professor Abel succeeded in
l. iSolating hormone which is Sc
creted by the glands in the skin or
the toad. This hormone is some
what similar to adrenaline.
Abel named it bufagin. It is a
powerful heart stimulant and has
an action similar to that of digi-
tails.
In many ways Professor Abel has
been sort of Sherlock Holmes in
the realm of biology, devoting his
time to tracing down powerful but
elusive substances, which although
present in tiny quantities, exercise
vast influences upon the living or
ganism.
Thus, for example, he succeeded
in isolating the active agent in GER
tain poisonous mushrooms.
In 1926 he undertook to isolate
pure insulin. Banting and Nc
Leod, in their famous work which
won them the Nobel prize, succeeded
in obtaining an extract from the
pancreatic glands Of animals which
is known as insulin.
More exactly, it is an extract
which contains insulin among other
substances, many of them proteins.
Abel succeeded in separating out
the insulin as a crystalline COM
pound. This paved the wa Y for
much important work upon the
nature of insuline and its role in
the living organism.
No record of Professor AbeYs
work would be complete without
mention of the many men whom
he has trained during his years at
Johns Hopkins.
A long list could be made of his
former pupils who now are dis
tinguished as professors, research
workers and nnadico1 y,,-o ,4fAs~,..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
We Ignore Constitution


A PPARENTLY, the trouble goes
L N back to a habit of thought
which paralyzes us whenever and
wherever the Constitution is in
volved. We just can't stand the
idea of removing anything from
that sacred document, no matter
how Anticipated or unavoidable it
may be.
We have nullified the eighteenth
amendment for twelve years and
the fifteenth for sixty. Contrary
to popular opinion, they do not fur
nlsh the only, or even the worst.
example of hypocritical defiance.
For more than century we have
ignored the constitutional method
OF choosing a President and a Vice
President.
With a few notable exceptions.
the men who founded this republic
had little confidence in the masses,
That is not surprising. Democracy,
as we have come to understand it.
was new thing.
Universal suffrage never had been
tried, and the prevalence of litter
acy caused most statesmen and phi
losophers to regard it as impractical,
save within narrow limits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Questions and
Answers

How much federal tax did whole
sale and retail liquor dealers pay
before prohibition?
Wholesale dealers paid 500 a
year; retail dealers paid $25; whole
sale dealers in malt liquors paid
$50, and retail dealers in malt liq-
uors paid $40.
Does an automobile consume more
gasoline when running fast or slow?
More gasoline is consumed when
going at a high rate of speed, be-
cause the higher speed requires more
gas to force the pistons.
What is the value of goods that an
American tourist can bring back to
this country free of duty?
One hundred dollars.
What is the highest point in
North America that has a tele-
phone?
The top Of Pixies Peak, Colo,
14,109 feet above sea level.
Did Alfred E. Smith carry New
York City in the 1928 presidential
election?
Yes.
How is the horse power Of a
stream determined?
1t equals the weight of water in
pounds falling per second, multiplied
by the distance through which it
falls. in feet, and the product is di-
vided by $50.
How much does water weigh per
cubic foot?
62.35 pounds.
When viii the next session OF
congress convene?
Dec. 5, 1881.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Chemistry of Life

TN 1898, Professor Abel joined the
Il Johns Hopkins medical school
and for fifteen years was head Of
both the departments of physiolog-
ical chemistry and pharmacology.
(Pharmacology is the science of
drugs and their use in medical
practice)
In Europe, during his years at
various universities, Professor Abel
came in contact with the leading
medical men of the continent.
He attended lectures by leading
research men and made the rounds
in the hospitals with the leading
clinical authorities. He had an am
pie preparation to become one of
the leaders in American medicine.
Professor Abel's chief interest lay
in the chemistry of the living or
ganism and at an early date he I'M
dertook studies of the substances
known as hormones.
The hormones are chemical sub
stances poured into the blood stream
by various ductlesS glands.
These hormones regulate and con-
troll many body processes. A short
age or an overdose of any particular
hormone usually results in a seri-
GUS condition of disease.
In 1895 Professor Abel started a
series of experiments to isolate the
blood pressure raising hormone.
which is secreted by the central
portion or medulla of the adrenal
glands.
He succeeded in obtaining it in a
relatively free form which he named
epinephrine. Later, another re-
search worker, Takamine, obtained
it in a still purer form which he
named adrenaline.
Adrenaline is well known because
of its use in medicine as a stimu-
liant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I am a 27-year- old
man with wife and three little
girls. The oldest one is in the first
grade Of school. I am unemployed
and have to depend on my wife's
folks and my own for a place even
to sleep and eat.
Oh, what a relief it would be if
I had a job that paid me just one
third Of $500. I have three trades
at any one of which, in good times,
I can earn a good living, but there
are too many such wives as "One
proud to be a working wife" to help
keep me, and a lot more as bad
of, If not worse, out of employment.
My wife never has worked away
from home, and I think any. man
who will let his wife work when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-23
Do You Dare?

Only great sympathy or a great fear
Will enable the workers for the Community
Fund to raise the amount which is estimated
at the lowest sum needed to prevent suffer-
ing and want and at the same time maintain
some decent standard of social morals.
In other years, the emphasis has been
upon sympathy. 1t is easy to be sympathetic
when prosperous, well fed and well condi-
toned. 1t is not so spontaneous in days of
adversely
In other years the needs of women and
children, the sick, and the aged, of the un-
fortunate and the distressed, tugged at heart
strings and, in turn, tugged at pocketbooks,
SO that this city never failed to raise the
amount necessary.
In other words, Indianapolis proved itself
to be city of civilized people, remote from
savagery which permits its unfortunates to
die and where self-preservation is not only
the first, but the only law
There was a satisfaction in the thought
that the needy were cared for, that the sick
were healed, that the aged were protected.
The Community Fund paid in these other
years in rich dividend of complacency upon
the part of those who contributed and could
feel that through their gifts human beings
were more comfortable
This year is different
1t is different because, unless it be last
year, there probably was never a contribu-
ton to that fund which involved, in any def
mite sense, a personal sacrifice.
&c ~ 81
their time. But the money that went into
the fund did not mean the missing of meal
or a movie.
No one was compelled to change one
habit of life in order that the benefcent re-
suits might be achieved.
1t is a different year because the need has
increased enormously and the sum necessary
is larger. 1t is a different year because every
one has felt the pinch of reduced incomes.
Those who had enormous incomes have found
them lessened. Those who have work and
wages are earning less. The pay envelope
is smaller. There are enforced vacations.
This year brings the real test of whether
we are civilized or still living in the jungle.
This yearwill show whether people, them
selves in reduced conditions, are willing to-
sacrifice that other human beings may have
the necessities of life.
This is the year when gifts will be meas
ured, not on their size but upon the amount
of sacrifice involved in the donation. This is
the year of the Widows Mite.
For those who may feel no urge of sac
rifice, there should be another question.
Such people are ruled by their brains, not by
their hearts. They may even boast of being
Indifferent to others.
To them, there is one consideration which
can not be escaped. What will happen if this
fund is not raised?
That picture is not pleasant The hard of
heart and clear of mind will easily find the
answer. To them, before they refuse def
nitely to contribute, let this suggestion be
made:
Picture conditions if this fund is not COM
pleted. Then ask yourself, Do You Dare to
Refuse?