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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29

While the cost Of maintaining the public schools
has been cut several hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars the city of Indianapolis still has no money for
night schools or for adult vocational schools
The wages of teachers have been reduced, not as
much some frantic taxpayers wanted them cut but
lower than the teachers believe to be reasonable.
Even with these economies, the several thousands
OF young men and women who have shown some Of
the ambitions of Lincoln by pursuing studies at
night after working in the day, will be unable to
60 ahead this year. Today it would be impossible
for Lincoln to educate himself by even the light
Of electricity to say nothing Of pine knobs 1t is the
age of speed and specialization. Education requires
direction
If night schools necessary in days of prosper
ity, they more needed in the days of adversely
More young and women will need the inspira-
ton Of hope and hope from an enlarged view
point. More will desire better equipment for that
prosperity that is around the corner the right
corner is turned.
In addition to the night school, the adult vocational
schools are more important than ever before. More
adults have time for study and for preparation for
more congenial tasks than manual labor The need
for manual labor is disappearing under power produc
ton The man and woman who survive must have
training.
These two departments of the schools should be
continued even there is no money to maintain them
They are of such vast social Importance that vol
uneer teachers should necessary be enlisted to care
for these classes.
The school houses of every community should be
converted into social centers this year where not
only education but entertainment and companion
ship will be available.
If those in charge of the buildings would make
the offer, it is probable that every community would
find leaders who would make the school houses at
tractive as neghborhood centers and that substi-
tutes for the vocation and night schools would be
produced by the communities themselves
This is the year when education and entertain
ment apparently must be produced without cost
There must be fun without money education
without price
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Light Breaks Through

Events Of the last few months have given rise
to extremely clear thinking on the power oues-
ton both the part of those seeking public Office
and those who will confer it.
In the old days the power issue was bitter affair
between consumers Of electricity and owners of cleo
trio companies. Now the lineup is somewhat differ
ent. Many of electricity also are owners
of utility stock And slowly they have awakened to
the fact that these two points of view are not neces
sarily antagonistic.
Government regulation of utilities, which in the
past has been regarded only as a weapon to be swung
in behalf of the consumer, means of keeping down
the expense of stockholders now is perceived
to be urgently necessary for protection of those who
have invested their savings in utility stocks and bonds
And it gradually becomes evident that rates held
to a minimum for the benefit Of the consumer in
the of electricity to the point where GER
tain and plentiful return is available for the investor
Governor Franklin d. Roosevelt made this point
very clear in his Portland address the utility prob
lem. Stating his belief in private ownership Of
utilities except where government ownership is
sary to secure good service to establish yard
stick or to conserve valuable resource he went on
to pledge himself for regulation of the issues of stocks
and bonds liabilities and Indebtedness, capital in
vestment and gross and net earnings.
"True regulation is for the equal benefit of the
consumer and the investor ne salo, ana Inc only
man who will suffer from true regulation is the
specuator the INSCRIPTIONS promoter, who levies
tribute equally from the man who buys the service
and from the man who invests his savings in this
great industry
Competent government supervision of securities,
as well as rates. does not mean fabulous returns for
an investor such those certain holding companies
have boasted in the past But 1T means fair return
and above ALL sure return.
1t means that overwhelming financial cataclysms
such as that which has swept thousands OF insult IN
yestors to the wall will not occur.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Modest Dolly Gam

(Au Editorial in the st. Paul Daily Newsl
Mrs Dolly Gam half-sister of the Vice President,
was delightfully."- frank in her interview with Twin
CITY newspaper women and men.
"rm here to make straight Hoover talk" she
said, I'm going to tell what he has done and what
the Democrats have not done"
This Mrs. Gam proceeded to do in her speech at
the Metropolitan theater Thursday evening. Before
that speech, however, the reporters were curious.
do you think the Wisconsin election will have
any bearing on the Republican campaign" she was
asked.
ooh I never discuss elections"
ewhat is your stand on prohibition and the Re
publican plank"
"oh, never discuss prohibition"
smile.
II am content to talk only President Hoover and
his accomplishments I never grant political inter-
views. All my speeches are prepared for me-"
Not many men campaigners would admit publicly
that their speeches all prepared for them. Few
would be so modest in the expression of their personal
views. Yet the poets say that women are vain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29

hurt you, that you SO conveniently
forget it?
Are you no longer for us who
have invested in real America, in
stead of selling it short? Has your
championship of the farmer and the
small nome owner descended to the
role of standing on the sidelines and
shouting, Don't push?
You warn us real estate owners to
think of ways of putting our for
mer tenants back to work Don't
you know that millions of us are
our own bankrupt tenants? Has it
never occurred to your tyro radical
ism that thousands of us are look
ing for jobs ourselves, or fair price
for our corn and hogs?
But do you think job or dollar
wheat is going to deceive us about
the rotten I'M American. distribution
of the tax burden of this state? You
talk like a royalist.
RALPH A. DOMAIN.
Route 1, Cory, Ind.
Editor Tines-One of your cor
respondents said that two thousand
homes daily are being foreclosed in
America. That means 100000 homes
destroyed in one year.
We have had three years of this
insane program that denies any
right to the purchaser of these
homes to retain his shelter, which
is paramount to any claim of lenders
when conditions prevent payment
of loans over which the home owner
has no control.
The very fact of TIE power of
lenders to destroy the credit of the
nation and individuals and then
conf1scate the collateral smacks of
tyranny that has few parallels. Any
judicial construction of law that
denies a home owner a prior right
to the use Of his nome in circum-
stances that are prevalent in this
conspiracy of wealth to destroy the
very foundations of government, i. e.
the home, is certainly far from
establishing the general welfare
justice, public safety, morals, and
general prosperity.
In equity no court has any right
to force upon society as a charge
the very persons who attempt to
establish homes and thereby main
tain the government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
HEALTH SERVICE
Complete II. B. Prevention Possible

The child of an earlier day played
In its own backyard at least until
the age of 6. Today it goes early
to nursery school and thereafter to
kindergarten.
Moreover, human beings now as
semble in crowds of thousands in
motion picture houses and of tens
and hundreds of thousands at base
ball and football games.
1t is easy enough to suggest that
young children be not admitted to
the presence of known consunp-
tives.
1t is far more difficult to estab-
lish the principle that they be kept
out of all gatherings where they
may be exposed to infection from
unknown sources.
There are, of course, still some
differences of opinion as to the
proper procedure for eliminating
tuberculosis.
We are not at this time prepared
to isolate all carriers of the germs
of this disease or to eXterminate
them, The fact is emphasized when
it is realized that practically every
one has had the disease by the time
he is Is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
The EARN Moratorium

President Hooyer's rs per cent moratorium crop
production loans is calculated 70 prevent some dis
tress and anxiety in midwest grain states. That it
will have political reaction being announced just be-
fore the Presidents speech in Des Moines, is not
doubted.
But its small scope seems unfair and discrimina-
tory.
If the President and the department of agricul-
ture find it necessary and beneficial to declare par
tial moratorium repaymens of loans made to grain
farmers in few states why is 1t not just as neces-
sary and just beneficial to extend this treatment
to all the half million and more farmers who have
borrowed
The explanation hat cotton. tobacco ana other
6SOnif
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
NJ. E. Tracy
Says

Science and Machinery. in the
End, VIII Serve IndiUid-
udlism.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2e.-If I be-
II lieved all the organizing, merg-
ing and consolidating we're neces-
sary, 1 would be. not a Socialist,
but a Communist. If I believed
that science and machinery actu-
ally we're driving us toward Mono
poly. I would concede that Soviet
Russia stood for a batter scheme
of things than American big bust
ness.
believe nothing of the kind. In
the end, science and machinery will
serve individualism. The auto is a
vivid illustration of how this can
and will be done.
The first great development of
modern transportation was based
on the idea of moving people in
great numbers on rigid rails and
in accordance with inf1exible sched-
ules. Naturally enough, it led to
tremendous organizations, with all
the political and economic evils in
cident thereto.
We tried to solve the problem
thus created by law, but only to
find ourselves sinking deeper and
deeper into the mire. No one knows
where we would be today, or into
what strange paths the railroad is
sue would have led us, if science
had not come to our rescue with the
automotive vehicle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29

crops bringing relatively more this year than
wheat is insufficient
We doubt that either Hoover or his department
of agriculture will be able to Withstand the pressure
that inevitably win be brought by producers of other
crops in other sections for inclusion under this
forum.
Fair treatment will impel extension Of the admin
lstration's kind treatment beyond grain farmers.
But would not it have been better if this had been
done at the outset? The answer is that it would!
The moratorium serves the important purpose of
stressing the distress in agriculture NOV. But still it
touches but very small corner of the problem Of
the national farm debt, which somehow must be lifted.
The executive might set q splendid example to pri-
yae farm creditors by arranging plan for easing the
farm debt burden borne jointly by the government
and farmers through the federal land banks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Just Every Day Sense
By Mrs. walter Ferguson

A SIGNIFICANT straw in the wind is the recent
n statement of Editor Gertrude B. Lane. who
commits the Woman's Home Companion to the forces
working for repeal of the eighteenth amendment
In her initial announcement, Miss Lane says that
she always has thought this piece of unwise legsla-
ton, but so long as the majority of her readers
favored the amendment, mention of the subject
was made in the magazines pages
This is splendid If somewhat belated confession.
The champions of the eighteenth amendment were
ardent believers in its ability to bring about moral
reform Practically all the women who once worked
for the cause believed in it, although much hardly
can be said for all its male promoters.
Our mistake dawned gradually upon us. But, be-
ing mortal, we hated to admit error so have let
things ride, going from bad to worse, getting more
and more enmeshed in a web Of evil until today
patience is becoming exhausted
~ gain recruits, It's almost as funny to watch the
rush to that side as it to see the stampede
toward the dry banner. The change in public opinion
has been so obvious that it no longer be ignored
This announcement that one of the leading home
magazines has decided definitely to break with pro-
hihition will do great deal to crystalline the think
ing Of women on this much-debated question
And home women are thinking about It. They
are dubious over moral reforms by law. They no
longer are convinced that patitudes can serve as
panaceas for national Ills
All slogans have lost their meaning. They have
learned that the law is Intellectual to change the
nature Of men.
y getting ready to change it on this particular issue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29

on the foundry, income tax. fire,
tornado, compensation, liability,
boiler insurance, coal, water, power,
equipment Of factory.
If I were a capitalist and had
money invested in a mine or foun-
dry and was carrying the above
mentioned items, I would expect TO
make profit or would close down,
just as the laboring man strikes
when he does not get what he
wants.
The capitalist is not in business
for his health, and neither is ]. j.
H. or the Socialist party. The So
cialist party. without the capitalist.
can give to the laboring man moth
ing that the other two major par
ties can not give.
The panic, as the Socialists like to
hear it called, was on in July. 1880.
The government, in trying to relieve
the situation. ordered new home
for the department Of commerce.
The fathers we're getting So a day
working on the new building. asked
for s13 day July /. and $i4 a day
Oct. /, 1880.
This increase was refused. They
went out on strike. am wonder
ing how j. J. H. or the Socialist
party would handle such a situa-
ton. o. v. II.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Ozone Is Screen

nUE to the fact that the earth's
II upper atmosphere contains a
form of electrified oxygen known as
ozone, the very shortest wave
lengths of ultra violet light in the
suns radiation do not penetrate to
the earth'S surface. The ozone acts
as a screen through which the
shorter rays are unable to penetrate.
The amount of ozone in the
earth's atmosphere is so little that
If it were all condensed into a layer
on the earth's surface, the laver
would be about half an inch in
thickness.
Yet 1t is that slight layer of ozone
which keeps life on the earth.
For the shorter ultra violet rays
are deadly. If the forms of life on
earth were exposed to them. it would
be only a short time until life no
longer existed upon the earth's sur
face.
1t is interesting to note that it
is the action of the ultra violet radi-
alton on the earths atmosphere
which causes the ozone to be formed.
Thus the earth has a protective
mechanism. If the ultra violet radi-
alton of the sun is increased, the
amount of ozone in the earth's at
mosphere is increased automatically.
In the experiments at the Smith
sonian Institution. DR.. Metre has
been using laboratory methods of
generating ultra violet rays of the
very short variety, the deadly sort
which are screened off the earth's
surface by the layer of ozone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Chaos Is Invited
.NHERE are few natural monopo-

TNHERE are few natural monopo-
Il lies outside the field of COM
munication, and that can be COW
cred fairly and efficiently by either
private or public control, as is
demonstrated by the postoff1ce de-
partment and the telephone system.
Efficiency, as rated by ledgers,
card catalog and graphs, furnishes
an excuse for monopoly in any field,
but it is a narrow, provincial, pre-
JUDGED sort of efficiency, which ig-
nores the larger side of progress.
1t is the kind of efficiency which
invites chaos or stagnation, which
can not Withstand the changes that
60 with inventivenesS, experimental
ton and the. liberty to think.
There is no advantage in organiz-
ing 10000 grocery stores under one
head because a group of ten or If
teen can handle goods at less cost
than single units. Neither is there
any sense in putting all the cotton
mills under a unified control be-
cause one cotton mill needs so many
spindles to function efficiently, or
a certain number of cotton mills is
needed to supply bleachery, or a
print works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Science to Rescue

r WOULD regard this age as head
l. ed for state Socialism in an ex-
IRENE form if I did not believe that
science. can and will solve many of
the problems which appeal to many
of us as wholly political.
l would look for super power and
a power trust to be imposed on the
people of this country within two
generations, if I did not believe that
science can and will produce small,
economical generating units and
thus emancipate the individual from
the network of wires which threat
ems to enmesh him.
I would look for oil to develop one
of the greatest and most powerful
trusts ever conceived if I did not
believe science can and will produce
cheaper fuel. q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29

Editor Times-I have been a read
er of your paper for quite while,
and 1 appreciate your fearless atti-
tude in regard to your editorials,
but of course don't always agree
with you.
I want to give my opinion of the
Republican party. When you hear
them pirate, you would think that
no other party could run the gov
eminent. But those ideas are all
bunk. Now lets see, we have had
some Democratic governments and
I wish to say not one Of them was
half as rotten as the one we have
at present.
That great engineer, Herbert Hoo
yer, has been a colossal flop, and
as soon as the people get rid of him,
the better it will be for them, but
of course Hoover is just like his
party, always catering to the rich
and powerful in place of being a
friend to the public in general.
FRED SPRAESSER.
Editor Times-Your editorial re-
buke to the realtors threat to use
force to lower taxes comes like a
blow to an old Scripps- Howard
champion.
Shades of the penny press Has
the canker worm of plutocratic
American insincerity at last gnawed
into the vitals of the nations light
house?
There can be no solution of the
tax problem until men are again
at their normal work at saving
wage" Bunk!
Where were you before October,
1929? Are you asking us to stifle
our memory of real estates plight
in the boom days?. WHAT have jobs
to do with an equitable distribution
of the tax burden?
Are you saying that when the
boys go back to work, the big boys
suddenly will grow generous and
start paying their fair share of the
taxes for the first time in history?
Have you forgotten that Indiana
has no corporation income tax, no
income tax of any kind, forgotten
how kind we are to our owners of
intangibles?
Have you no real estate? No?
Would a corporation income tax
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Public Control Inevitable

THERE. is, Of course, a unit of
Il efficiency in every line-a set
up which handles a given COM
modify at minimum cost. We pay
little attention to that aspect of the
problem.
What we demand is the biggest
possible Set-up, no matter how much
water it takes to produce the capital,
Or how much useless overhead creeps
into the structure.
There are few great concerns in
this country that could meet the
competition of smaller rivals without
employing unfair means, or cutting
prices below cost on occasion. ali Of
which goes into the capital account,
not only as matter of dollars and
cents, but as matter of general
encouragement.
Private monopoly, if carried too
far, can have but one end. That is
public control. Neither should we
delude ourselves with the comfort
able illusion that public control will
be satisfied by mere regulation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29

Were this not the case, the NOR
tally among adults would be terri
f1c. The earlier infection establishes
a resistance against the severe in
lection of later years.
The only regions in the world
thus far free from tuberculosis are
those in which primitive savages
live completely away from all hui
man civilization.
The savage and barbarian races
of central Africa and Asia have no
tuberculosis until White people
bring it to them.
The tuberculin test applied to one
group of natives in the interior of
Africa brought only 90 per cent of
positive results, and in one village
far inland only per cent reacted.
The dangers to such native races
on first admixture with the whites
is tremendous.
The Negroes in the crowded dis
tricts in northern cities have the
highest tuberculosis rate of any
group in tbs community.
The Mexican population of Chi
cago has eleven times the average
rate of the rest of the population.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Algae Killed

IN her experiments, DR.. Meier
a formed spectrum of ultra-vio-
let light, a spectrum which of course
was invisible to the eye.
This then was permitted to fall
upon glass plate which was
covered with Aim of living green
algae.
The experiments, showed that all
wave lengths of ultra violet were
not equally deadly Some wave
lengths left the algae unframed.
Others killed them.
When the algae were unframed,
they remained green. Where the
light killed them, they turned white.
Hence the plate became literally
spectrum of death"
For just as it is possible to tell
the wave length of any line in an
ordinary spectrum by measuring its
position in the spectrum, so by
measuring the position Of the white
lines on the green algae, it was pos
Sible to tell the wave lengths of
ultraviolet which were deadly to
the algae.
The experiments open up the way
for considerable investigation. OBJ
viously, the question which hobs UP
at once is why certain wave lengths
should kill the algae while others
do not.
Futher investigation may show
that only certain wave lengths are
able to penetrate to the interior of
the afgae.
Undoubtedly the Smithsonian SCI
entists will make the same expert
ment with bacteria and other min
ute organisms.
1t would seem probable in adj
vance of the actual experiment that
different spectrum of death"
would be obtained for each organ
ism used.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29
Questions and
Answers

Is the bite of the amphibian
called water dog or mud puppy,
poisonous?
No.
What legendary charms repose
in amethySts?
They are reputed to dispel sleep
sharpen the intellect, prevent in
toxication, give victory to soldiers
and protection from sorcery.
When and from whom did Benny
Leonard win the world lightweight
championship?
From Freddy Welsh, May %, 1917.
Where does one apply for a pat
emit?
Write to the United States patent
office, Washington, d. C.
What are the addresses of Bobby
Jones and viii Rogers?
Bobby Jones, Atlanta Trust build
ing, Atlanta, Ga; Will Rogers, Bev-
erly Hills, Cal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-29

MYTH the truly extensive knowl-
w edge of tuberculosis which we
have, it's complete prevention ulti-
mately should be a possibility
However, perfect success in a
problem of this kind is not likely in
day, a month, or even a genera
ton.
The path to prevention seems to
be clear. Young children must not
be exposed to infection, or, in any
event, the possibility of infection
in young children must be reduced
to a minimum.
Let us consider what this means
in our modern civilization. Human
contacts have been multiplied enor-
mously. Today the home has large
ly disappeared in our great cities;
instead, we have the apartment
house, housing from three to fifty
families.
Obviously under such circum-
stances children are exposed not
only to their own parents and rela-
tives, but to vast numbers of other
children and other families.