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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-14

GERS in helping to right conditions of the present
One of the men present is noted Lincoln col
lector and knows every smallest incident of the
1905, but is frankly uninterested in national or
international affairs Of today.
nERHAPs our idea of an intellectual is partially
wrong The man familiar with the reigns Of
the Egyptian Pharaohs or Greek and Roman TRACE
dies is known among us as a scholar. Whereas he
who tries to find out something about his own
period is considered fiippant modern with no in
tellectual leanings.
The hours spent by hordes of women on inter-
preting passage of Shakespeare or Browning in
some new fashion might il utilized in coming the
statements Of modern poets and statesmen, reshape
the destinies Of mankind
After all, Tut and Nero and Napoleon and Ras-
putin are dead. But Mussolin and Hitler and
Stain are alive and are helping to create world
in which our children will have to live.
When the ice upon which you skate is thick and
unbreakable you afford to gaze behind YOU. but
when it is thin and the going is precarious you must
be alert to Che periIs at hand II you hope to survive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-14
FRONTIER LAW

1t will seem strange to many that California has
progressed so amazingly in material refnements yet
still sanctions the anarchy common to the pioneer
days of eighty years ago.
The latest reported outrage is the kidnapping of
six leaders of striking orchard workers in the other
wise idyllic Vaca valley, near San Francisco. They
were, say dispatches, taken from Jail by a mob
painted red beaten, and deported. Vacavilles police
chief did nothing. They were striking against
wage reduction to Is cents an hour.
These acts reminiscent of the scenes at Hang
town in the Gold Rush days or the Chinese riots on
San Franciscos sand lots, appear strangely out OF
place in the great and modern commonwealth of
California today.
They can not be condoned, but they may be ex-
planned partially by the fact that California justice
itself is so shot with awessness that four governors
have allowed two innocent labor leaders, Mooney
and Billings, to suffer in Jail for sixteen years.
Where governors judges and lawyers are busy
mastering the lawless science of the law the code
less myriad of precedent perhaps we should not be
shocked when lesser citizens revert to anarchy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-14
THE OHIO PLAN

One silver lining to the depression cloud is the
movement toward job insurance
Ohio may follow Wisconsin in adopting state
compulsory unemployment insurance law A leg
islatve committee has urged such measure upon
the New York legislature. So far nine state COM
missions have reported favorably on the principle.
Commissions are at work in Massachusetts,, I'LL
nois, California and Connecticut More than
Of states will consider legislation this winter
and it is predicted that half Of them may adopt
job insurance laws
The Ohio plan has been worked out by com
mission of exceptionally qualified men, headed by
the economist William M. Leiserson. Like the
American Federation of Labor plan it provides for
a state fund into which all major employers must
pay premiums equal to per cent of their pay rolls
The worker contributes l per cent The states
contribution is maintenance of free employment
services and administration of the fund When a
worker loses his job he is entitled to one-half his
regular wage for period of fifteen weeks
The commission found that if Ohio had adopted
such system in 1923 it would have entered the de-
preston of 1929 with a reserve of $1040O00OO It
could have distributed $18OO0OOO0 during the first
two years of hard times. This would have had great
effect "in keeping the decline within normal
bounds"
Social and political forces in America" says
the report, "are moving in the direction of insur-
ance the method of providing against industrial
insecurity, and we do not doubt that before long
every industrial state in the Union will have an
unemployment insurance law. as it has workmens
compensation law"
America az large owes much to these courageous
pioneering states. States like New York, Wisconsin,
Ohio and California have found that humane legis-
lation does not handicap them in competing with
backward states
The federal government help to speed this
enlightened movement by establishing federal-state
free employment services. and by allowing income
tax reduction to encourage employers to pay into
job insurance funds
Both Of these measures, proposed by Senator
Robert Wagner of New York should be taken up by
congress at once.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-14
Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

THEN, too, other ties may have
Il been tugging at his heart
love of his mother earth, and
memories of old scenes. Why did
IbSen, as the end drew near, leave
sunny Italy and return to his sea-
washed northern land? Was it
an intuition, genius, of place, a
homing instinct of the soul which
longs to leave the earth where it
entered it?
The little fish in the silver pool
in the hills senses a hint of win
ter in the air, and betakes HIM
self to deeper waters. Amid the
feathery gold of falling maple
leaves, the bird packs his baggage
and goes south, following view
less path.
The soul of man also has it's
deep and delicate instincts, and
in the cleaning of life turns
again home" Winged and wistful
it is, played upon by influences
finer than we can follow, it is
drawn toward the source of it's
life, which also is the solace of
all its sorrows.
Is there an instinct for death,
as tenacious at the end as the in
stinct of life has beer through all
the years, by which we are gently
drawn away from the old, fami-
liar scene? We must endure our
end as our coming hither-
readiness is ALL"
Downright, 1892. United Feature Syndicate
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do she would be in a much stronger position in
requesting a reopening Of debt terms.
But, without condoning Frances serious error,
we can admit the sincerity Of many of the French.
We can understand why they should be offended
when we, in effect, slammed the door Of discussion
in their faces
When President Hoover proposed revival by
congress of the debt commission hear the debtors
pleas, we supported him. We though that Mr..
Roosevelt as leader of the party which controls
congress- Numbered in refusing to cooperate with
the President in this nonpartisan policy.
Since congress alone has power to act, the Demo-
cratic stand has deadlocked effective negotiation.
We still think that the door for discussion should
be left open.
This is no time for inyectiye. Let this nation
show its pose and not out-French the French.
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SCIENCE
New Animals Found
BY DAVID DIETz

MAN has been SO successful in
Iva wrestling territory away from
the animals of the world that
many authorities are certain that
the day is not far-distant when
wild animals will be nothing but
memories and stuffed exhibits in
museums.
And yet eminent authorities are
equally certain that there still
may be many kinds of mammals
as yet unknown to the eye of
man.
These unknown species, it is
thought, may still Turk in the few
spots on earth which man has not
yet visited, such obscure corners
of the earth as dense jungles,
high mountain ranges, or isolated
islands.
A few, previously unknown spe
cimens, have been added recently
to the collection of the Smithson-
ian Institution of Washington.
Among these is a black ape from
the Island of Celebes
According to Gerrit, S. Miller
Jr., the Smithsonian curator of
mammals, it belongs to the ba-
boon family and is smaller re-
lative to the big Celebess ape that
is to be found in a number Of
American ZOOS.
Another animal, new to science,
is a previously unknown type Of
vole, tiny rat-like rodent which
lives in burrows above the timber
line in the Endicott mountains
of Alaska.
The fact that scientists now
are familiar with it was due to a
peculiar accident. One came out
of its burrow and was stepped on
by a man wearing snoWshoes. It
became entangled in the webbing
Of the snowshoe and so was
caught.
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in Measles

dying is fifty times greater than
in measles in a child between 5
and Is.
WHENEVER case appears in
w a school the parents of
other children should be warned
that case has occurred and that
they should be on the lookout for
symptoms of infection in their
own children.
Parents should be warned par
ticularly to keep their children
who have measles, away from
other children who may not have
had the disease.
When child with measles is
put to bed promptly and given
satisfactory care Of the type that
previously has been mentioned, it
tends to get well.
The prevention of the cornplica-
tons in measles is due largely to
the kind Of attention given.
Careful management, skillsul
nursing, and early control of COM
plications by competent medical
attention make all the difference
between prompt recovery and the
possibility Of permanent compli-
cations or death.
Next: German Measles.
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XXTHY did Shakespeare sell his

WIZ did Shakespeare sell his
w holdings in London and
go back to Stratford-on-Avo
while he was still a young man?
OF course, men grew old earlier in
those days than they do today.
Even Lincoln, at a later time,
wrote of himself as "old and
withered" at 48.
Today, years do not count, and
this change of mental attitude is
one of the most remarkable revo-
lutions in our generation. In our
age it is question, not of years,
but whether we have lost the zest
and tang of life.
For one thing, Shakespeare,
wise in SO many ways, was wise
enough to know when to quit,
when to knock of and call it a
day. He had wrought in wonders
and, being good business man
besides, he thought it time to take
his fortune and his fame and re-
tire.
Why go on making money. if
he was able to quit at his best
and rest, before his mind be-
gan to fragile out? Maybe ro-
nance had become routine, and
he wanted time to gather up the
threads of his thought and weave
them into q pattern, as he did in
The Tempest" with its serene
glow of wisdom and of wonder.
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From Siberia

II. w. NELSON Of the United
u States biological survey iden-
titled the vole as new species.
The vole is believed to be one Of
the last Of the North American
mammals to have migrated into
Alaska from Siberia over the. land
bridge believed once to have con-
nected the two continents.
E. A. Goldman, also of the bio
logical survey, identified two new
members Of the cat family in the
Smithsonian collection. Both are
"long-taiIed tiger cats, closely re-
lated to the Central American
ocelot.
One was captured in the high
mountains Of the Oaxaco province
of Mexico, the other in Yucatan.
Members Of the biological sur
vey also found new species Of
fox in a collection from the Trim
idad valley desert Of Lower Cal
ifornia.
Probably the most interesting
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Skeletons Studied

GEORGE M. BENSON, in
- charge of the United States
Bird Refuge at Lake Malheur, for
warded two of the bison skeletons
and skulls to Washington.
Bailey's examination of them
showed that they did not agree
with the skeletons Of any known
variety of bison.
New species of animals are most
likely to be found in the animal
families that are most secretive,
as, for example. the bats which
hide in the daytime and fly at
night. 1t is easier, therefore, for
bats to escape the eye of natural
lists and collectors.
New kinds Of animals also are
likely to come to light among the
burrowing animals, which also
have an advantage in keeping out
Of the sight Of collectors.
Within the last two months,
Miller has described three new
species Of bats and Nelson has
found four new types Of ground
squirrels. Two of the bats came
from South America, the third
from the Island Of Celebes.
The ground squirrels came from
the mountains Of California and
Oregon.
The Smithsonian scientists also
uncovered seven new species Of
raccoons recently. Three came
from southeastern states, one
from Minnesota and one from the
Snake River valley Of Washington.
The sixth came from Vancouver
island and the seventh from Bar
BADGES.
But despite the fact that new
species are being found. it is fact
that man gradually is driving the
animals out of existence.
It is probably a fact that II all
restrictions were lifted on the
hunting of African big game, there
soon would be none left.
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chickenpox, diphtheria and scar
let fever.
MEASLES is noted also FOR
1V1 lowering resistance to tuber-
culosiS, SO that children who have
quiescent infections with tubercu-
losiS in the glands, the bones, the
joints, or the lungs may develop
activity in these foci when they
become infected with measles.
It is a mistake to consider
measles a trivial disease. Per-
haps many children do not die of
measles, the number approximate
ing in this country 1000 a year.
Diphtheria causes twice as many
deaths, scarlet fever half as many.
and whooping cough about the
same number.
However, many complications
cause serious conditions that are
carried through life.
Seventy-five per cent of all the
deaths from measles occur in chill
dren under 3. and 80 per cent of
all the deaths occur in children
under 5.
If child gets measles before it
Is ! year old, the chance Of it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-14
THE FRENCH DEFAULT

France has done foolish thing. 1t is up to us
to keep our heads and not make bad matter worse.
In refusing to make the debt payment, the
French chamber acted under pressure of nfamed
public sentiment. The Herriot government tried
to restrain that public pressure, and failed So,
whatever the technical phrase used the net effect
is that France is defauting, at least temporarily.
Frances blunder not be justified. If she
made the December payment which she is able to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-14

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-There is
IN little mystery in the French
attitude toward the war debt in
stallment due us Dec. Is.
France paid us nothing for sew
eral years after the war. Then she
arranged a settlement whereby we
agreed to reduce the amount of
her debt nearly one-half.
Frenchmen are logical in assum-
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France Tries Scare

XXTHEN German delegates to
w the Versailles conference
complained that a reduced army
was humiliating and unjust, they
were informed by joint note
from the allies that it would help
Germany pay her debts.
Had France reduced her army
to double that allowed Germany.
she could have met her debt in
stallments to us without diff
Guilty.
The trouble with France is
that she thinks we can be scared
into almost anything where cash
is concerned, and that nonpay-
ment, or a threat of default, can
be depended on to bring us to
terms.
Well, France taught us how to
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curb its spread.
CONTAGIOUS material from
~ the patient with measles
spreads the disease. This ma
terial is found chiefly in the ex-
cretions from the nose and throat.
Every possible step must be
taken to prevent other children
from coming in contact with these
excretions.
Occasionally, there are infec-
tons Of the ear with discharges.
The discharges from the ear also
nay contain the infectious sub
stances, although quite frequently
the ear is infected secondarily with
other germs, such SIS the strepto-
cocci, which always are present in
the throat.
When resistance of the body is
broken down by any one disease, a
human being becomes susceptible
to infections with others.
Measles is particularly impor-
tant in this regard. 1t has been
noticed that epidemics of measles
frequently are followed by inva-
sion Of other contagious dis
eases, such as whooping cough.
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concerning ourselves with the
problems of the present.
It's amazing how assiduously
we study former governments
while we let ours take care of
itself.
1t may be that a return to the
Saxons, the Plantaganets, or the
Tudors is a way of escape. But
undoubtedly a share of the energy
we used in probing into the re-
nesses of the mast might do won
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Daily Thought

For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord
Romans 6:23.
n n y
T EFT us have faith that right
II makes might, and in that faith
let us dare to do our duty as we
it.-Abraham Lincoln.
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The Rattle OF Pure Bunk

MERE has been altogether both economy
shape the work and voluntary relief again
been told that America have degrading
to those who burden upon the
Taxpayers who
But considerable proportion voluntary voun
tary at all Many ntmag
to their employees chat
regular portion
Whether
C only choce was to give or get out And think that them
would feel that there
In giving 1t the tax collectors themselves
some part of their concern which no
-- "-0A eAE40SS
100 often this sort of voluntary relief merely manufactured
more Needy cases. The
tenance has been forced little where life
possible. ~ ~ ' N0ONie'
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During the recent campaign,
President Hoover asserted that
the. forced liquidation of Amer
lean securities held in France
nearly forced us off the gold
standard.
If France lacked the money to
pay her honest debts, how did she
get hold of those securities?
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ing That failure to
pay helped them
to get such settle
ment and that the
game can be
worked again.
Non-payment is
the best possible
proof of inability
t 0 pay. U n d e r
ordinary cir C UNI =
stances, we would
accept it as such.
Things have oc-
CURED, how e yer,
which leave us a
little skeptical in
Francois case
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Questions and
Answers /.

4 A y w - a y
Q-What is the name or the
kind of pipe used by Charles G.
Dawes?
A-Underslung pipe.
Alt was released in 1929 and
took two years to produce.
Q-How do gun crews on bat
tleships protect their ears against
the defamation?
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responsibility the shoulders
faithfully which
been
teachers policemen and hremen should
locked make good stupid politicians
would further and that of the bankers who
their civic might
appropriately their consider the question
whether little cca, scrubbng might not be indicated
Personally bankers above politicians the
matter integrity intelligence would idle that
certain financial giants nodded appcaby the
few years.
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ERTAIN enterprises doing they can or could
\ hardly continue without cut in running think
The form OF rerencbment often has been bged
OF hypocrisy
The announcement reads that has been found to
impose 10 cert but in the interest of school spirit democracy
and fair deal this cut is to be equal all along the line Good old
100000
instead the 100000 which he had
He will try middle through without wmperng Willie the
Office boy has fair complaint he
week instead Of SO
think Willie right howl 81
docked means lot him than which
going to get
And SO in the the
bankers are gong TIC off, to help the entire
Copyright 1882
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1t Seems to Me:
HEYW Cd BRoUN

T AM beginning to get little sick Of certain
4 standing headline in the newspapers of New
Ycrk 1t reads. Bankers Demand Economy in
City Government"
Nobody can deny that there has been graft
waste and Encouragement in city government.
1t would be foolish to make any attempt to talk
away the fact that municipal finances are in
sorry state Present facts must be met, and
money which has gone over the dam can not be
Suiced back But I am resentful of the fact that
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Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

OUR so-called Study Group listened to talk on
~ the Plantaganet kings of England. We we're
mature men and with the right of franchise
T. was instructive but something had all learned
at high school and then forgotten Any one looking
IN upon us we'll might have asked why We were not
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discovery is that of an animal
which was completely unknown
to man while it lived.
The animal is a hitherto I'M
described kind. Of bison. It's bones
just have been recognized by YER
non Bailey of the biological survey
as constituting a species of bison
never before listed.
The bones came to light in
1880, when the prolonged drought
caused most of the water in Lake
Malheur, Ore, to evaporate. This
left much of the lake bed dry and
hundreds of buffalo bones were
exposed.
There are no records of white
men ever having seen buffaloes in
this part of the country, although
there is plenty of evidence that
these animals once occupied the
Malheur and other valleys Of
Oregon.
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in fields where cuts actually will draw blood.
do not think there is any true saving in cheap
teachers, policemen, fremen or other technical
workers. I would have the city spend more
rather than less upon its hospitals, which are be-
ginning to be seriously undermined. And sure
ly direct relief for the unemployed demands a
larger budget and not a smaller one.
Graft never has yet been pinched out by
squeezing in the wrong places.
And what is true of city government is also
valid in regard to national government We are
not going to lift ourselves out of a depression
by the simple and cruel device of cutting the paw
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They Might Come in Themselves

ND think that if a made lift
city difficulties might
cate themselves little fully that which
they urging civil servants.
Indeed believe that the scutnized
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U. S. Doesn't Apologize


IF France wants to default, it
l. is her sovereign right, but It
is also her sole responsibility.
She has not been driven to in
sclvency, as her gold reserve
proves. She has had ample cash
with which to maintain a huge
military establishment and finance
buffer states.
She has been able to embarrass
England and thought herself Suf-
f1ciently strong to raid the United
States treasury. Such circum-
stances do not indicate poverty.
AS to ourselves, we have moth
ing for which to apologize. The
government and taxpayers of this
country have gone far to main
tain economic stability. They
have advanced huge credits, re-
duced debts, and gone without
payments.
They have acknowledged claims
which we're preposterous and
waived damages to which they
justly were entitled. They have
seen governments use money
which should have been paid
them for purposes to which they
are opposed.
They have seen great war ma
chimes develop in countries that
were supposed to be too poor to
pay even small installments on
their debt. They have seen trade
diverted from this country with
subsidies from treasures that
were supposed to be empty.
The American people still de-
sire to do what they can for re-
covery and peace, but they are
getting rather impatient with
some of the alleged cooperation.
They took it for granted that
the world was ready to bet on
good faith, instead of arms, but
just now it looks as though the
world rather would have arms
than pay its debts.
The American people are dis
appointed. but not afraid.