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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Women Workers

Behind the census bureaus report that the
Der of married women who work for wages has in
creased go per cent in the last ten years lies dra
matte story Of changing economic conditions in the
United states-changing social conditions changing
relationships between husband and wife, parent and
children.
These changes go far back of the depression, to
the very roots Of modern living, and they will
tnue matter how the business curve rises falls
Married women go out to work primarily because
the incomes Of their husbands are not large enough
to support their families. AS long as there are fam
lilies, men and women bringing children into the
world and shoulderng responsibility for their lives
must have adequate, incomes or their
women must go out to work
Americans will not accept for themselves or their
children descent to the degraded depths of poverty
alternative. There can be no question about
the social wisdom Of wageearning mothers when the
alternative is starvation disease for children.
But even If business RECEIVERS to the point where
mems wages are adequate beyond any standard
achieved before the depression, married women will
to increasing extent continue to seek employment
outside their homes.
Sometimes the result will be good for their fam
flies. sometimes bad. in period of transition and ex
pertinent but the change is neyitable.
1t is due to a slow growth in women themselves a
desire to develop and exercise latent powers not
utilized in homes made scientifically convenient not
needed for the rearing of children beyond few short
years; desire to participate in the real struggle of
. today mental and moral struggle for world fit
to live n-as they participated, in an earlier day. in
. conquering the wilderness.
For many generations this tide will run strongly
and we will view the result with alarm or approval
as our emotions may dictate. Yet evolution can not
be stopped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17

aspects, fairly high degree of constancy prevailed
IN the presentation. For $780, 1905 and 1921 the
proportional amounts OF crime content as compared
with the total amounts Of reading matter and the
percentages of the total crime space assigned to the
front page did not differ materially"
Even more striking facts relative to the amount
Of space given to local crimes 1T was found that
local crime less intensvey portrayed in 1921
than for either of the earlier periods and in many
instances the emphasis was more pronounced in
1890 than in 19O4-5"
This was even true Of the more sensational crimes
which took place in Minneapolis and surrounding
territory:
From every consideration in the analysis murder
the most sensational crime reported, was portrayed
less emphaticaly in 1921 than for the earlier two
periods. In some phases of the presentation this
crime received more significant display in 1890 than
in 19O4-5.
The more sensational sex crimes received sub
stantiaIy progressive decreases in the emphasis of
display during each successive PERIOD only one of
the mder offenses in this category, 'commercalized
vice. was assigned stress in the reporting dur
ing 1921, as compared with the other two periods"
Especially significant is the fact that while there
was large increase in the number of crimes COM
mitted and in arrests between 1890 and 1921, the
actual proportion of space given to local crimes in
the Minneapolis papers decreased notably:
Considering that the proportional amounts of
space allotted to the local content as
with total reading matter had decreased from 1875
per cent in 1890 to 1873 per cent in 1921 it is sig
nfcant fact that the number of local arrests had
tripled in 1921 over the number in 1890.
Yet Minneapolis newspapers actually commented
upon smaller number of local arrests in 1921 than
in $780,
This finding, in itself, is strong indication that
the editorial policy of crime reporting during the last
few decades has been in the direction of giving less
emphasis to portrayal of crime news"
This is the sort of careful research which we need
to settle the controversy regarding presentation of
crime news in the papers. But it is only start and
can not be regarded as conclusive.
Minneapolis may not be representative of the
country as whole There may have been significant
changes in newspaper policy and practice regarding
crime news since 1921. s8-s
Further, this study in way touches upon the
crime policy of the tablods in the last decade
upon the growing popularity and circulation of this
type of newspaper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

1T has been my privilege to know several people
Il who, according to the usual meaning Of the word
were happy. AT elast they were content with their
fate and enjoyed themselves in the fullest of the
term.
One man of that sort is a noteworthy case, be-
his felicity is the result of his good And
of how few mortals can this be said!
When comparatively young, this man had grand
bit of luck. He was lawyer and he made large
sum of money. Always having cherished desire for
books and possessing fair for research he promptly
gave up his profession and having enough to live on
comfortably, he begin to build life rather than
fortune.
And so all his days have been blissfu1 days. He
has done the things he longed to do. He turned
his hobby into avocation and his avocation into
a vocation, and so attained great measure of con-
tent.
Now he grows old surrounded by his family his few
friends his books, and enjoying his memories he en-
vies no man.
~ should have been no regrets for him. He might
it Is true, have followed American traditions and built
for himself and his children a vast estate
He was capable of doing that. He lived at a time
when opportunities were tremendous and in a state
where fortunes were made easily.
But, being wiser than most, he realized early in
life that the making of money while it may fascinate
men, never wholly satisfy them. And he turned
his back upon the pursuit of wealth and ran after
knowledge instead.
He has been repaid for this decision thousand
times over. His home is not magnificent but rs
mind is And he knows that his books never VIII be-
tray him. They are there ready to befriend him. and
within them he finds balm for all tine ills Of living
American civilization needs more men like him
Power, money, fame, all desert oTe-but books and
the treasures they contain learning and all the JOY
It brings. remain with US until LIES end
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Questions and
Answers

What are the meanings of the
terms intrOvert and uItravert in
psychology?
An introvert is person who
thinks chiefly about himself; a self
conferred person; and ultravert has
the opposite meaning.
What is nephritis?
An infaned condition Of the kid
neys.
Is the expression "He that wink.
eth with the eye causeth sorrow
in the Bible?
It is in Proverbs 1910.
What is the name for the ethical
theory that every event in time
both psychic and physical, has g
cause?
Determinism.
Who was secretary of the treas
ury under President Buchanan?
Howell Cobb, 1S57-1860; PhiIip
F. Thomas, 1860, and John A. Dix
1861.
Was Colonel Lindbergh a naviga.
tor or did he fly by dead reckOnin,
across the Atlantic?
He was not navigator and flew
by dead reckoning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -
Rheumatic Diseases Peril Children

dren admitted to a special hospital
for Rheumatism affecting the heart
were found to have been living in
easements.
While the exact cause of the dis
ease is not known, there seems to
be no doubt that it is related def
nitely to infection with an organism
of the streptococcus type.
In the vast majority Of cases,
there is record of severe tonsilitiS
with infection by such an organ
ism, but. in addition, the child who
is attacked seems to be sensitive in
some specific manner to the germs.
AS has been mentioned previously
in a discussion of this subject, chill
dren who complain greatly of what
are called growing pains" must be
especially investigated in relation
ship to an attack of this disorder.
1t is, after all, not the pains in
the joints that are serious in this
condition, but the changes that take
place in the heart.
Once it has been determined that
a child has this disease, there are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
A New System

GCOTT believes that a system
~ must be worked out in the.
future in which there will be a
scientific control of national re-
sources to take the place of the
competitive price system.
"The social system of the future
he says, must be adjusted to the
energy producing values which can
be regulated by scientific methods.
A price system and scientific pro-
duction can not exist side by side.p
Scott is associated with the Co
lumbia university industrial en-
cheering department in carrying
out the survey, and is being assist
ed by thirty-siX unemployed archi-
tectural craftsmen and engineers in
the pay of the architects emergency
committee, who are gathering sta
tisticS and drawing up the charts.
Sponsors Of the undertaking are
Julian Clarence Levi, chairman, and
Frederick Lee Alderman, vice
chairman of the committee; Profess
sor Walter Rautenstrauch of Co
lumbia and Scott.
About $50 charts have been COM
pleted, steel and cement being
among the commodities covered.
Wheat. cotton, rye, corn, rayon,
coal, power, zinc, lead, tin, and
aluminium are other products to be
charted in the survey, which will be
finished by next summer, it is ex-
pected.
The charts probably will be pub
lished upon completion next year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17

certain measures which should be
undertaken Immediately.
The fundamental treatment is
rest, but of course rest with proper
nursing and treatment is better
than rest alone.
Usually doctors say that such
children should lie fiat in bed I'M
til the disease quiets down, which
may take from six to twelve weeks,
and that they must then continue
in bed, at least in the vast majority
of cases, for another six months.
Unless this plan is followed, dam
age to the heart may be irreparable,
and the child may be crippled for
life.
There are, of course, cases in
which the disease seizeS with such
intensity and proceeds so rapidly
that death is just a matter of a
few weeks.
Throughout the world, physicians
are united in an attempt to find
some method of detecting this dis
ease in its earliest stages, as well as
"a specific method of attacking it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Why Didn't He Act2 >

NTHY did the President wait so
w long before telling us the
real story? Why did he allow us to
believe that little was needed, save
a conference of great industrial
leaders and a mild blurb in favor
of high wages.
BY his own confession, he and his
associates were the only ones who
realized the scope and effect of this
economic cataclysm.
That comes pretty close to fixing
responsibility for what has hap
pened, for the false optimism, use
less delays, and utter failure to take
needed precautions.
Under such circumstances, what
excuse can the Hoover arministra-
ton offer for waiting until the
United States was within a few
weeks of being forced off the gold
standard, or until Germany was
about to go bankrupt?
Under such circumstances, why
was not the public credit modified
two years ago, instead of just be-
fore election?
Is there any good reason why Mr..
Hoover's twelve measures" couldn't
have been recommended much ear
lier? Is there any good reason why
this shouldn't have been done, if he
and those around him knew what
was in store?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Man-PoWer Declines

TN 1905, he says, the production
Il of a barrel of cement required
It's man hours a,-barrel, a man hour
being the number of hours a unit a.
man. In 1880, according to the
chart. it required only about 0.45
man hours a barrel.
1T took 1921 man hours to build
car in 1904, 313 man hours TO
build one in 1919, when the peak of
employment was reached, and only
90 hours to build one in 1929" Scott
continues. THE steel produced in
1900 amounted to 100000 metric
tons, and required 600,000,000 man
hours.
In 1929, with production Of
'58,000O00 metric tons, only no.
100000 man hours were needed.
Thirteen man hours ton were re-
CURED in 1929, as compared with 10
in 1900.
and steel, it must be remem-
bered, was one of the slowest in
dustries in undermining production
and increasing efficiency.
1t is only recently that any
wholesale speeding up of produc-
ton methods has been effected.
Other industries show far
greater decline in the amount of
man power needed for production
of a unit of their commodity.
"The bottle industry is an ex-
IRENE. One machine in a bottle
works today replaces hundreds of
men, who would hace been required
in 1905"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
War is Blamed

DRESIDENT HOOVER'S idea of
Il this depression, as disclosed by
his Cleveland speech on Saturday
night, is that it was brought on
largely by the war.
He took the opposition sharply to
task for falling to understand what
an awful catastrophe the war was,
and what terrific effect it had on
trade currents and economic struc-
lures.
With great clarity of detail, he
pointed out hoow man-power had
been reduced, how debts had been
accumulated, how existing forms of
government had been threatened.
or overthrown, how revolution hao
broken out in many countries, and
how the stage had been set for a
general collapse long before the
Wall Street crash.
1t was mastery enumeration of
events which made the depression
inevitable long before 1929, and
which left the Coolidge boom and
the Smoot-Hawley tariff virtually
blameless.
One could not listen to the Presi-
dents glib recital without marveling
at his grasp Of the causes which put
US where we are.
But if he had such a clear I'M
derStanding Of the relentless COM
blnation devised by fate, then he
must have sensed the size and pro-
portion of the collapse when it came.
must have realized just how great
a disaster had overtaken the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Man Who Held the Bag

+ HAVE no doubt that President
l. Hoover feels keenly some of the
sharp criticism directed at him be-
cause of the depression. In all
truth and sincerity, he has a right
to say that this thing was not of
his making.
At times he has dashed out in
anger at some who aSsailed him, but
he never has been shrewd enough to
attack the right man.
The logical thing for Herbert
Clark Hoover to do would be to walk
UP to Calvin Coolidge some day and
punch him right in the nose. 1t
was Calvin Coolidge who laid the
mine which blew up the Hoover adj
miniStration.
Fortunately for Coolidge, it was
time fuse and he himself was
miles away when the explosion
came.
There dawned a day during the
bull market Of Mr.. Coolidge's sec
ond term when brokers loans had
pyramiGed to such point that
even the feverish gamblers of Wall
Street began to get little uneasy
and remember that there are to-
morrows and tomorrows. And on
that day Goodtime Calvin issued a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Peoples Voice
Keening Cool With Ca

Editor Times
I READ President Hoover's Iowa
Il speech, in which he substan-
TALLY admitted that the present
three years depression was the re-
suit Of a few mistakes he recently
had discovered in the financial and
economic system that he and his
administration had adopted, and not
from the basic principles thereof;
and that if he was not returned to
the White House so he could correct
his mistakes, all hopes Of getting
any relief from the depression
would be lost.
At first I thought of the "trag-
edy" of losing all hopes of relief by
losing Mr.. Hoover; yet I was appre-
hensive Of the terrible fate of the
millions Of mortgaged farmers, of
the millions Of jobless workers, with
their wives and children hungry and
cold, who had, with fortitude," been
waiting on Mr.. Hoover since 1928 to
make good the same promises then
that he made to Iowa farmers.
/ was not only apprehensive of
our fate, but was astounded. when
MIR. Hoover admitted that Wall
street and London international
bankers-gamblers- operating under
our gold standard, had taken out
OF the United States treasury two
billion five hundred million dollars
of gold, leaving only enough gold
in the treasury to maintain the gold
standard two weeks longer, and
that he, through strategy" defeat
ed his opponents, by authorizing
Charles G. Dawes to take up to as
much as one billion five hundred
million dollars Of the peoples taxes
out, Of the United States treasury,
and loan it to stranded banks, rail-
roads, insurance companies and the
utilities, for the benefit of the
farmer and laborer-through the
processes of "percolation."
In so doing, he saved" the gold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
1T SEEMS TOME BY HE ET03S

speculative America danced over
the edge of the cliff.
Since we generally are content to
gaze along the surface of anything
political or economic, it may be that
Calvin Coolidge will remain for
some years to come as symbol of
sanity, prosperity and industrial
peace.
But this conception will not stand
the touch of even a shallow rake
The name of Calvin Coolidge will
not rank high when the scholars
have had a little chance to evaluate
the true essence of his administra-
ton. I'll sell him short for pos
terity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

ONE of the greatest problems
" confronting physicians today
is the control of rheumatic disease
in children. 1t has been pointed
out that 40 per cent of the deaths
from disease of the heart are due
to rheumatic infections.
Disease of the heart represent the
major cause of deaths at all ages.
It is strange observation that
rheumatic disease, particularly of
the type known as rheumatic fever,
does not occur in tropical areas, but
is practically limited to temperate
climates.
DR.. D. D. Payne, in charge of one
Of the large centers for the study of
this disease in London, finds that
dampnesS, overcrowding, and bad
nutrition combine to render a child
a suitable victim for an attack of
this condition.
Indeed, 6.8 per cent Of the chill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17

TIME wisdom" of Calvin Coolidge
l. generally is classed as home
ly," which means, 1 suppose, that it
is something we all have heard
many times before.
And there is a disposition to &C
cept as gospel most statements
which have become familiar through
repetition. But there are fallacies
which keep on rolling along as per-
sistently as any axiom.
Mr.. Coolidge paid homage to one
gross nisconception when he said
1T is very easy to criticise after the
event. 1 have no taste for CRITICS.
ing. I must prefer to present the
constructive and statesmanlike pro-
gram of my party"
Indeed, it seems to me that in
these brief sentences two extremely
harmful errors are celebrated.
In the first place, it isn't easy to
criticise after the event. So-called
statesmanlike programs are founded
all too often on the notion that
there never was a yesterday and
that there is to be no tomorrow.
Indeed, what Mr.. Coolidge calls
constructive" seems to me a mere
cynical disregard for fundamental
causes and a willingness to follow
Omar's formula of needing only tot
day and paying no attention to the
rumble of a distant drum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
OSTEND is EVACUATED


ON Oct. II, 1918, American and
~ British forces joined in an at
tacE on a nine-mile front north
east of Bohain and drove forward
two miles. On the preceding day,
the Americans had captured Grand
Pre-.
British entered Lille and Douai.
Germany evacuated Ostend and
British naval forces entered the
harbor. Belgian patrols entered
BrugeS.
In the Balkans, Serbs captured
Alexinatz and Krushevatz. Teuton
forces withdrew in western Serbia
into Montenegro, after evacuating
Diakova.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
Says

~ IOOC6f AtUtt~bU Lftb OF6ut
Extent. and the Ceases Of
the Depression, Why DID
He Wait SO Long to Act?
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-President
IN Hoover is justified in resentlng
slurS and insinuations against his
labor record as a mining engineer
in South Africa twenty-five years
ago. Such stale and dirty gossip has
no place in a national campaign.
The American people have some
thing more important to think about
than the yagaries of young man
seeking fame and. fortune on the
frontiers of civilization.
The only Hoover record with
which they can afford to be con-
cerned is the one dating from
March 4, 1929, and made in the
White House.
The only Hoover views that count
are those dealing with present-day
problems. The man is running for
reelection as head of the greatest
republic on earth and in the midst
of the greatest depression of mod
ern times.
He is running in the shadow of
apparent failure. His attitude is
necessarily defensive. Fairness de-
mands that the discussion be re-
stricted to pertinent facts and opin-
ions.
Fairness also demands that the
discussion be based largely on his
own explanation of why he did GER
tain things, why he proposes to do
certain other things, and why he
thinks he should be reelected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DTFTZ-

COhtrot OF Production and
Distribution to PreUent
DepresSions Deemed Pos
Sible.
PRODUCTION and distribution
Il can be controlled to eliminates.
depressions in the future In the
opinion OF Howard Scott. consulting
technologist Of New York
Three thousand charts each
showing the history of an industris1
or agricultural product, are being
prepared at Columbia universie,
under SCOTS direction.
These charts, which have been
discussed in this department. are
part of an energy survey" being
made at Columbia under auspices Of
the department of industrial engi-
neering Of Columbia university and
the architects emergency commit
tee of New York.
According to Scott, the charts
show what has happened in Amer.
lean industry. They show. he says.
that as production has increased
and the consumption of energy has
increased, the need for man-power
has decreased.
Each boom, he says, has gone
higher and each slump has gone
lower.
Scott quotes some figures to show
how the need of man-power has de-
creased in industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-17

Unfortunately, laws not laws when the rep
resentaves of the people enact them in this coun-
try Before they can stand with any degree of
permanence, they must the gamut of the courts
and meet the approval Of detached in every way
from popular sentiment.
So the federal anti-injunction act, successful in
congress after many years, has started on the tor
tuouS path through the courts 1t was invoked in a
labor dispute in the District OF Columbia recently
and upheld.
1t is gratifying to have it survive its first test
successfully, and to emerge without having it's pur-
poses interpreted away, too often happens in the
courts.