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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-20
Ha,Uley Warehouse
Greetings, folks!

Greetings, folks!
There aren't many more weeks of
warehouse work SO you'd better begin
to appreciate us if you aren't already
doing SO. There are many reasons why
Please turn to page 50
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-20

United States "a, 5s2,OOO 27,9O8 900
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Government in Business

II am opposed firmly to the government entering
into any business the major purpose OF which is com
petition with our citizens" said President Hoover
when he vetoed the Muscle Shoals bill last year.
When the new congress met President Hoover
creation of a new home loan banking
System, with no apparent perturbation over such a
system competing with private existing agencies for
making home loans.
He also recommended, and is about to put into
corporation. It's purpose will be to get up to its neck
in the banking business, which banks privately oper-
ated ana individually owned should have been able to
handle--but we're not.
But President Hoover opposes government opera
ton Of Muscle Shoals, which the government built and
owns. There seems to be, in the Presidents mind,
some important difference between the government
operating a plant it already owns.
There is, Of course, no real difference. But Presi-
dent Hoover, in that same Shoals veto message, said:
Il hesitate to contemplate the future of our in5ti-
tutions, of our government, and Of our country, if the
preoccupation Of its officials is no longer to be the
promotion of justice and equal opportunity, but is to
be devoted TO barter in the markets. This is not
liberalism, it is degeneration"
President Hoover might care to edit that state
ment now, particularly that last sentence, in the face
Of his newest recommendation for the government
to go into business.
Government in business? Certainly the govern
ment is in business; irrevocably in business. 1t has
been for some years; it will continue to be in business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Freedom of Conscience

Church members of all sects, believing that the
United States supreme courts fve-to-four decision
in the MacIntosh-Bland cases throttles the conscience
of Amerioan-born citizens, as we'll as raising a bar
against aliens whose beliefs forbid them to bear arms,
are organizing to demand that congress amend the
the naturalization laws so that no alien shall be de-
MED citizenship because of conscientious objection to
war.
The churches supported the World war when this
country entered it in 1917, and they may support other
wars, but this fact does not make less impressive their
present ~insistence that freedom Of conscience is a
freedom which must not be surrendered.
While churches as organizations have not been
pacifsts in actual practice, they recognize the funda-
mental need OF the individual to decide for himself
what course he shall follow when temporal demands
and spiritual injunctions conflict.
Only by action Of the sort the churches propose
can we get back to the intent OF the Constitution.
whose founders thought it important that "the free
exercise of religion" be guaranteed within this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Judge. CardOZO

President Hoover is moving slowly, and evidently
with great care, in sitting the names of men urged
upon him for appointment to the United States SUI
preme court.
He is to be c~omplimented on his apparent effort
to make no mistake. The President knows, as the
country knows, that there is no more important po-
sition in the land that a place on the supreme bench.
There sits the court that in the last ANALYSIS governs
this country.
If, unmoved by any consideration except an I'M
shakable desire to name the best man available, Hoo
yer eliminates the candidates one by one, he will, in
the opinion of leaders of the bench and bar, finally
fix upon one man.
That man will be Bejamin N. Cardozo, chief judge
of the New York state court of appeals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

showed a higher rate in the use
of patent medicines and the habit
ual use of laxatives and in various
kidney diseases.
A recent survey by the United
States public health service at
tempts to find out whether or not
the occupation bears any direct
relationship to the fact that work.
ers in skilled trades should have
greater impairment than those in
other occupations.
For instance, it is found that I'M
corrected defective vision was seen
more frequently among garment
workers and tailors, a group whose
eyesight is constantly strained.
Defective hearing is found most
frequently among blackSmiths, foun-
dry workers, iron workers, metal
workers and carpenters, a group
in which noise is a definite factor.
For cariouS teeth and pyorrhea
painters have the highest rates, per-
haps associated with their constant
contact with lead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
-DAILY HEALTH
Craftsmen Most Subject to Ills

Constipation is found most fire.
quently among workers in sedentary
occupations.
Varicose veins are seen most fire.
quently among workers constantly
on their feet, and backache most
frequently among miners, who
usually work in a STOPPING position.
F1at-feet are found exclusively
among walters, domestic help, bar
bers and butchers-again a group
compelled to be much on the feet.
Thus the higher rates for skilled
workers T explained in some in
stances by the occupation.
In most instances, however, they
seem to be the result of several
factors, including social, educa-
tional, and economic causes and.
of course, any type of injury may
occur in any class of worker.
The survey emphasizes particular
ly the necessity for a thorough study
OF every case to eliminate not only
direct, but also indirect, causes of
disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times-A movement be-
ing fostered among school officials
of the country has as it's purpose
the reduction in salaries of the ma
tons teachers. Naturally, little diff
ficulty is expected, as teachers are
so constituted and situated that
they fear to fight back.
They have been throttled so
often by politicians that much of
their stamina has been squeezed
out, and backbones reduced to
mushy marrow. If the teaching pro-
fession is to retain the high stand
ard attained, after so many years,
and go forward in releasing man
from ignorance, superstition and
greed-control, it must rise in its
might and show the country that
real men and women, with remade
backbone, make up this indispen-
sable group.
Teachers are not insensible tn the
the fact that retrenchmen is need
ed at the present time, that gov
erning expenses are beyond the in
comes, and that taxes are a burden
to a great mass of the common
people.
Certainly, taxes al not be high
er and should be reduced; but why
pick on this one group for the sac
rifce? Are teachers to bear all the
burden and become the Scapegoat
for all other high salaried groups,
on the altar of tax reduction? No!
Every teacher should echo the word
and stand firmly against such i'm
position.
Living expense for the teacher is
no more reduced than for all other
wage earners! Already large re-
auctions have been made in their
salaries, and now another is pro-
posed. Will we stand for it, or de-
mand that other groups show an
equal patriotic spirit and accept a
like reduction?
Governing officials, federal, state
and local, yet are receiving war
time salaries. They say these can
not be reduced except through long
legal procedure.
They would like to be agreeable
and do their bit in this tax-reduc-
ing exercise, but just can't untangIe
the red tape. This may be true,
but there is nc legal barrier pre-
venting all such high-salaried, soft
jobbers from ~refunding, to all pay
ing treasures, a sum equivalent to
reduction or proposed from the
teachers.
Enough money would find its way
back into the various treasures to
permit of substantial tax reductions.
Yes, when all public salaried in
dividllals agree, in writing, to such
arrangement and share in this
noble movement, the teachers glad
ly will cooperate. So come on noT,
you political patriots, and show the
stuff in you; otherwise, you are
barking up the wrong tree.
Teachers, straighten your back,
square your shoulders, and stand
against any further movement to
make this great profession a mere
political football.
JAMES W. CORY.
Editor Times-Perfectly safe and
sound investment, paying ga per
cent interest. That is what all the
swindlers say.
But no risk; interest paid every
day. Yes, that is what those bum
oil stock statesmen said.
This is different, though. Oh,
yesI Those Florida land statesmen
said their land was different. II
was. Youbculd not raise hell on it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28

Bankers have the reputation of being cold, con-
sentative and not in the least subject to stampede. In
some detailed respects that reputation is correct. But,
in the larger sense, bankers, like other members of
the human race, run in herd and are subject to mass
psychology.
In 1928 and 1929 the sky for the bankers was the
limit. Now they are moving as intensely in the other
direction.
Ogden Mills, undersecretary of the treasury, de-
scribes how, in the most timely advice the bankers
have had from a high governmental source in many,
many moons.
The present banking rage is for ~liquidity.
But here is the way an unrestrained struggle for
liquidity actually works, as pointed out by Mills.
Take a simple illustration. Assume a town with
two banks, bank A and bank B. Bank A wishes to
increase it's cash and so make itself more liquid.
cit accordingly sells $4,000 worth of governmental
securitie5 at an attractive price to a depositor in B.
The depositor pays for them with a check drawn on
B. B pays A $4,000 in cash and its deposits are re-
duced by $4,000. AS cash is increased $4,000, but
its deposits are not. B, finding its deposits reduced
and its cash depleted, in its turn sells securities to a
depositor in A thus reducing AS deposits $4,000 and
restoring $4,000 of BIS cash.
1.-The net result is a decrease in the deposits and
investments Of both banks and a reduction in the
market value of their remaining assets, but no i'm
provement in their cash position.
I'm fact, the banks are, if anything, less liquid.
than at the beginning of the operation, since they
have disposed of some of their best assets and have
weakened the market for other securities.
1T is very much this kind of operation that has
been going on in recent months in the United States,
with a consequent tremendous decline in the prices
of all Investment securities. The situation has been
aggravated greatly by this process of bank credit at
triton, and yet this is a process which to a very great
extent is within the control Of the banks themselves"
A good motto for bankers, as for all Of us, is: DO
all things in moderation.
The banking profession is in a fair way to become
so liquid that it will be, as the saying goes, all wet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Career Brilliant
CONANT. res

DROFESSOR CONANT, regarded
Il as n of the most brilliant of
the younger organic chemists which
this country has produced, was born
in Dorchester, Mass, in 1898.
After attending the Roxbury Latin
school for six years, he entered Har-
ward university, where he received
the A. B. in 1913 and the Phi. D. in
1916.
Upon his graduation he became
an instructor in chemistry at Har-
ward, and in the following year en-
tered the army as a lieutenant in
the sanitary corps, later becoming
a major in the research division in
the chemical warfare service.
AT the close of the war Professor
Conant returned to Harvard as an
assistant professor of chemistry. He,
became an associate professor I'M
1925 and a full professor in 1927.
Meanwhile, he had acted as a Wis
it1ng lecturer at the University Of
California summer school.
Professor Conant is a former
u Vic OISdL1l DIVISION OF
the American Chemical Society and
of the northeastern section of the
American Chemical Society.
He is the author of "Organic
Chemistry" joint author of "Practi-
cal Chemistry" and editor-in-chief
of Vol. II and TX of Organic Syn
theses"
His research has included work
in reduction and oxidation, hemo-
globin, free radicals, a cumulative
study of organic reacoisn, and the
chemistry of %chlorophyl.
He is a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and
OF the National Academy of
Sciences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Commits Second Medal

TINE Nichols medal is the second
j. outstanding scientific honor won
by Professor Conant this year in
recognition of his work. The other
was the Chandler medal of Column
bia university.
He will receive the Chandler
medal of Columbia university on
Feb. 5, and the Nichols medal on
March II.
At the Nichols medal ceremony
Professor Conant will deliver an ad-
dress On "An Introduction to the
C%hlorophyl Molecule." DR.. Walter
S. Lands, chairman of the New
York section and vi~ce-president of
the American Cyanamid Company,
will preside. Professor James F.
Norris of Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology and Professor Hans T.
Clarke of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia univer-
Sity will be other speakers.
Professor Conant in his Chandler
medal address will discuss "Equili-
bria and Rates of Some Organic
Reactions"
The late DR.. William H. Nichols
established the Nichols medals to
encourage original research in chem
iStry.
The award is determined by the
research published during the last
year which in the opinion of the
jury is most original and stimula-
tive to further research.
DR.. Nichols waS chairman of the
board tof the Allied Chemical and
Dye Corporation, a charter member
OF the American Chemical Society,
and a benefactor of New York uni
versity and other institutions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Childish Diplomacy

4 CCORDING to United Press
"A reports, the League of Ma
tons is dubious about indorsing
this c%ountry's policy toward Japan
because this country failed to get
behind its program.
What hope can there be for sub
stantial progress in dealing with
great international problems as long
as such childishness plays a domi-
nant part?
The league won't play our game
because = we wouldn't play the
leagues game, though both were
intended to accomplish the same
end.
Small wonder that Japan refuses
to take notes and suggestions from
the west seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28

This is no gold mine in Africa or
oil well in Siberia but a sound, safe
company right here in Indianapolis.
Bah! It is hard to believe that
any company in Indianapolis is
paying more than 20 per cent, and
doing it honestly.
Any company paying 20 per cent
is certainly honest to the stock
holders. The stockholders do not
sell that kind Of stock.
But this stock is different. 1t is
extra preferred stock.
All good, bad, and Indifferent
stock was alike in the stock mar
ket crash. Not the extra preferred
stock. Who ever heard Of extra
preferred stock? What Is it?
Well, regular preferred stock
agrees to pay dividends on the pre-
ferred stock before paying anything
on the common stock.
Easy! The company goes broke,
and in the hands Of a receiver, and
you can whistle for your dividends
on all their stock.
That is just the beauty Of this
extra preferred stock. When the
company quits paying dividends, it
has to quit business and the law
will not let it quit.
The laws are all in favor of the
rich.
Right! And this is a poor mans
stock.
If it is so good, why do the rich
not buy all of it?
They do buy some when the auto
breaks down or they park in the
wrong place.
There is no company in Indian
apoliS with stock like that. Yes?
Prove it and I will buy 500 worth
to get rid of you. This is nv busy
day.
How about the indianapolis Street
Railway?
Why, that company, can it nav
expenses, much less dividends? No
you do not know stock. They have
no extra preferred stock? Saws Won
GFOAy OdYs
snow me and collect your Sion
l TOLD you it was a poor mans
SCock and the best advice any bank
er or broker a give you is NOT tn
ouy any more Of a stock than Won
can use, no matter how good II IL
l will sell you 81 worth, which IS
all you need at a time and you al
ways can get more.
You funny joker, what are Vol
talking about? Street car tokens
hal! Those fool pants buttonsI 7
never bother with them. Sure. You
do not know a good investment
when you see one.
Where do you get the e24 ner
cent? Easy! If you ride back and
forth to work every day and take
the Mrs. to the park on SUNDAY.
you use 81 worth of tokens in a
week. If you pay cash fare. 16
times 2 cents is SLIP. That is 10
cents saving in a week; So weeks
times IL cents is 1924 on an invest
ment of 81 in a year.
/ knew there was a catch in r.
l invest $50 in a year.
Figure, man, figure. You dc NOT.
That $50 is operating expenses. not
investment, and is not $50 worth
OF riding returned to you?
Our professor in college always
said figures don't lie, but liars viii
figure, so figure it yourself and see
who is lying. F. M.
Editor TimeS-What's the matter
that We hear so little about full
payment Of the World war bonus:
Are all the real war veterans tongue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
NJ. E. Tracy
Says:

Submarines Are Instruments
of TreGchery, Useless IN
Peace, of Doubtful Value in
War. Disarmament Should
Begin With Their Adolf
ton.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Another
IN submarine gone down-the ff-
teenth since Versailles, with nearly
600 lives sacrificed to no good pur-
pose.
Every so often some good-hearted
soul suggests the abolition of sub
marines, but only to be laughed out
Of c~ountenance as an impractical
dreamer.
AS long as n nation builds sub
marines all others feel they must.
France argues that submarines
represent her strongest element of
defense against a sea attack, for
getting how they turned the whole
civilized world against Germany.
Submarines are instruments of
treachery, useless in peace and of
doubtful value in war. Disarma-
ment should begin with their abo-
lition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Amen, Mr., BakerI

NEWTON D. BAKER is right in,
IN declaring that it would be
unwise to make the league of ma
tons a political issue at this time.
The vast majority Of Americans
are opposed to the league, except
as a theoretically good thing. Nor
is their attitude due wholly to
stubbornesS, or provincialism.
If they have much to learn, so
has the league which hardly can
be described as more than a high
grade debating society, with old
fashioned diplomacy pulling wires
and manipulating decisions from
behind the scenes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
Violence in Depressions

The hunger and misery in which upward of ten
million Americans and their dependents find them
selves this winter has alarmed observers, running all
the way from the Pope to General Smedley Butler.
In his Encyclical Of Oct. 3, His Holiness said: THE
want Of so many families and of their children, if not
provided for. threatens to push them-which may
God avert-to the point Of evaporation"
Two days before General Butler had declared in
Philadelphia: THE threat of revolution Kings over
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
World of Raw Spots

IF that were possible, the case for
Il disarmament looks worse than it
did in 1914. Not only are there
more men under arms in Europe,
but there are more raw spots
throughout the world.
Japan is making an open bid for
control of the Orient by force, India
is seething with revolt, half the
governments in Latin America are
not only the products of armed up
heaval, but kept in power by a show
Of force. A second seizure of the
Ruhr because of Germany's failure
to pay PREPARATIONS is not improb-
able.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
japan Determined

CHINA met all of Japan's de-
~ mands at Shanghai. Does any
one suppose Japan was bIuffing, or
that Shanghai would not have been
taken, had a message of COM
pliance not been received?
Japan has meant business all
along. The rest Of the world has
not. That little difference explains
the trouble.
Harking back to their own ex-
perimental, ambiguous way of doing
things, Europe and America as
sumed that Japan was bluffing and
that little was needed to stop her
but a few noble gestures.
M. BRAND outlined a perfectly
gorgeous program of reconciliation
for the League of Nations, and Sec
rotary Stimson made some I'M
Improbable observations, but
neither had the slightest idea what
they would do if Japan failed to
take the hint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28
SCIENCE
by DAVID D1ETZ-

Science Honors Professor
James Bryant Conant for
His Research on the Sub
ject of Chlorophyl.
THE late DR.. Edwin E. slosson
4 cnce said that We could solve
many of our problems if we only
knew as much chemistry as a tree.
Mankind slowly is making progress
in that direction. The latest step
just has won the William H. Nichols
medal for the man who made it.
The medal, awarded annually by
the American Chemical Society just
has been given to Professor James
Bryant C0nant, chairman Of the
division Of chemistry of Harvard
university. The medal goes to
Professor Conant for his studies
upon the subject o. chlorophyl.
A tree, and e.ery other green
plant for that matter, feeds and
grows through a process known as
photoSynthesis. The leaves Of the
plant absorb carbon dioxide from
the air.
The roots taken in water from
the soil. The plant, with the
energy Of sunlight, puts these two
together into NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and starches.
The process, however, only can
be carried on when the leaves con-
tain a green pigment known as
chlorophyl.
This pigment is a catalyzing
agent. 1t apparently makes pos
Sible a chemical reaction which
otherwise could not occur.
If we knew as much chemistry
as a plant, we could free mankind
from his dependence upon farms
and forests, and manufacture food
and fuel in factories using sun
light as the source of energy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-28

tied, or have they lost the pen we
mad in 1917? I think it is about
lime we started u "barrage" and
a real offensive, or I am afraid We
are all going to be out of luck.
What we need is a few more rom
greSSmen like Wright Patman of
1exaS, who really is for the veteran
ana not afraid to voice his senti-
menus before congress and state the
ruin about the feeling of the ex-
service men in regard to the money
rlghtfully due them.
All we hear is relief here and
heI there and doing nothing but
taxing people more here and moro
tnere, and soon those who are he
ing taxed beyond despair are poino,
TO need relief, and then we will have
the big question-where is tbe
money coming from?
Congress passed a bill for tuo
million dollars for veterans relief
not long ago, for pensions and vet
Grams, bureau expenses. About one
tnIro OF this is going to veterans
and the other two-thirds is the cost
OF distribution. Why shouldn't
congress pass a bill for PAYMENT in
tun and do away with two-thirds
OF these bookkeepers and the other
Office help, as their services no
longer would be needed?
The amount it would take TO nav
the bonus the government would
save in two years, as there would
be no bookkeeping to do on the
service certificates. What we ex-
service men want is what is right
fully due us and not in the form
of relief, for jowl bacon (Hoover
ham) and navy beans don't put
shoes on your babies feet. Let's
all make a drive for payment in
full.
I am q red-hot Democratic ex-
service man, formerly of the One
hundred sixty-fifth infantry, Sixty
ninth regulars, from New York.
WILLIAM F. CHERRY,
447 North Warman avenue.