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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
A Leader and Builder


Today the, city mourns the passing Of man who
gave direction and purpose to every unselhsh move
ment which has engaged the thought and hearts Of
indianapolis for than two generations.
Whatever titles his church gave to him, he was
known to his parshioners and to the city at large
Father Gavisk, the good friend, the wise counselor,
the courageous crusader for humanity.
AS a priest, he knew his parish AS a citizen he
knew his city.
He understood the needs of broken and his
understanding sympathy with those who found them
selves in prison brought to him national recognition
as a student of crime and, more important of the
best means by which the bruised human beings might
be salvaged for society
Today and tomorrow thousands will march by his
bier to pay their tributes of love and of affection
that had come with personal contact
The city whole, owes him much He has
been leader in many enterprises. His commenda-
ton gave confidence to public projects. His silence
brought doubt.
His monument is engraved upon the hearts Of
men and women whom he helped His influence is
mpershable because it will appear again and again
through all the years in the lives changed from fail
ure to success through his wise counsel from evil into
hneness by his sympathy and understanding
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Will Roosevelt Answer?

we ask our readers to be patient with the two
presidential candidates now shooting figures at each
other to prove in each case that the opposing party
is traitor to federal economy
To be sure, figures always are hard to follow.
especially when they disagree as partisan figures
have way of doing
But there are some figures so outstanding that
they can not even be obscred by the bitter partisan
ship of this Hoover Roosevelt fight.
Certainly the Roosevelt charge and proof that the
the hoover administration has run the country into
the red is not news, Every knows that, without
listening to Roosevelt
And every one also knows that the Democrats in
congress partly responsible for government ex-
travagance, without listening to Hoovers abored re-
minder of that pertinent fact
But out Of this debate come other facts, which.
unfortunately, not understood by the average
citizen. These facts are:
J. The tax burden is chiefly local rather than a
federal problem, because the national government
takes only 80 cents of the tax dollar
Q The bulk of federal expenditures has nothing
whatever to do with the civil functions which most
citizens think of constituting government Of the
three and twothirds billion dollars in the current
ordinary budget only two-thirds of one billion goes
to civil governmental the rest goes to war incIud-
ing two billion to the debt and army navy and one
billion to veterans.
8. Therefore, any major federal economy or tax
cut can be achieved only by reducing military and
veteran appropriations.
That is why most of the economy talk which the
American public has heard in recent years from its
politicians has been bunk The politicians have had
no intention of cutting those two big appropriations
President Hoover at Detroit performed great
service in public education in pointing out that the
much discussed "bion-doar saving" or Is per cent
cut is possible only by drastic army-navy and vet
eran reductions.
This newspaper for several years has been trying
to drive home this truth every time politician of
either party talked economy generalities
Since this is the key to economy, the voters have
a right to know where every congressional and pres-
dental candidate stands on the issue
President Hoover has declared himself. At De-
trot he specifically opposed any army-navy reduc-
ton, until there is international disarmament
agreement, which, of course is not in sight.
OF the proposal to cut the veterans billion in half
he said that would be gross injustice" That ends
any hope of large scale economy from Hoover and
the Republicans
What about Roosevelt and the Democrats who
promise to billion? Hoover challenges them
to say whether they will take most Of this out of
military and veteran expenditures, or whether they
are making demagogic promises they will not keep.
That is fair question. Until Roosevelt answers
that question definitely his economy pledge is
meaningless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Just Every Day Sense
BY Mrs. walter Ferguson

children of ministers occupy a difficult nosition
- in community life. They exist almost constantly
under the critical of laity that too harsh in its
judgments.
And this is not their supreme hardship For IN
many instances their parents set for them impossible
standards of behavior. Urged on by the knowledge
that the congregations expect excellent examples from
those who dwell in parsonages these men and women
exact too much from their children.
So the child or the adolescent whose father occu-
pies pulpit finds his trivial misdemeanor exag-
gerated into roguery in the public mind
And he also suffers from the fact that his parents
often earnest in desire to please church mem
bers that they do not take time enough to under
stand children.
The truth is that very large per cent of our great
men have been reared in the homes of ministers But
we are prone to forget that Instead we are quick to
point out the maid or lad who walks from the par
sonage doors to the primrose paths of evil
NTE are, in the mass cruel about this 1t may be
w that are partially justified in a critical att-
tude. good many of us are wearied by the type of
preacher who lays down so many rules of restraint
and howlS our sins so Justify.
1t is perhaps only natural that we jeer little
when his own household lapses from virtue.
But toward the child, we should display more gen.
crosby In any event, he is not altogether to blame
believe that once the parsonage and the pulpit
make the same effort to study and understand the
child mind that the psychologist has, the whole race
will benefit and improve
There always is a reason for the behavior of chill
dren And while do not advocate complete submits
sion to all the isn5 do think that religious leaders
should search for the motive that prompts the deed
before the scoding is given or the punishment set
Preachers exercise tremendous influence. And
the morates would receive great impetus if every
clergyman would make the child rather than the adult
his responsibility
If we wasted less time on sinners and spent more
on children, could have revival of spirituality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24

method Of checking overpopulation is it not bound to
substitute another means to a necessary end?
Two such substitutes exist One is war, through
the ages the inevitable result of crowding too many
people into too small territory alternative from
which the world shudders
The other is artificial control of birth, the solution
to which thousands of educated persons in every
country turn.
Oh course no government will require its people
10 ADOPT this practice but intelligent government
able to face conditions they exist and to look into
practicable future will not place obstacles in its
way.
1t is time for the United States to step into this
category and annul its laws regarding distribution OF
contraceptve information, not only for Puerto Rico
where the need is immediate and pressing but for
the rest Of its territory
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
In the Name of Peace

The birth rate in Puerto Rico averaged Alt to the
thousand in 1881, while the death rate averaged 2O4
to the thousand, increase of 1854 persons in
year Governor James r. Beverley says in his annual
report.
He pointed out that further net additions to pop
ulation in the island inevitably must result in greater
distress and poverty and ultimately to rising death
rate"
Attempts are being made, as they would be under
any civilized government to improve public health,
eliminate diseases better living conditions and other
wise prolong life in Puerto Rico
But if a government is to interfere with natures
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
The Good Earth

From down in Dixie come REPORTS of q bact-to-
the~farm movement drawing thousands of iobless and
cty-weary folks to the soil that once nurtlred them
The United States department of agriculture an
nounces that the trek to town which since 1921 had
Slapped rural America of 100000 people has been
turned back
Last year the farm regions gained $4,000 people.
the hrst substantial gain of decade This wear the
gain will be larger.
Many will hear this news gratefully The good
eartn is more friendly haven than city streets
But as panacea for unemployment in a complex
world the land movement is all too simple.
The soil yields its bounty grudgingly. Endless
pitfalls wait for inexperienced and underhnanced
farmers The song of the soil may prove siren song
Listen to the warning words of the national land use
planning committee:
city folk, unfamiliar with agricultural conditions
are prone to develop exaggerated ideas as To the
with which a living can be obtained in the country
1t is certain that the great majority of unem
ployed do not have sufficient capital to purchase q
farm or even operate commercial farm on a rental
basis and the possibility of their having return
above subsistence is extremely doubtful under pres
ent economic conditions.
In most cases farms have been abandoned be-
cause they undesirable economically or socially
and usually offer little more than bare shelter and
food, and possibly fuel,
Land hunger, always stirring the soils of normal
men, is almost irresistible to the jobess So now they
the march
Their hegira, now largely led by chance should be
directed and protected The new land seekers should
be aided in settling good land and defended against
land sharks. Otherwise, the movement will result
in mere substitution of rural for city Sums
The land use planning committee has urged that
states set up committees to cooperate with the fed
eral government in directing the back-to the
movement.
Senator McNary of Oregon has a measure pend
ing in congress, providing for such machinery. If
the land movement is to be of real benefit to the
jobless, such measure should be passed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Rise of Cancer Menace Discounted

One of the problems which arises
in this connection is the question
as to whether or not cancer is tend
ing to occur at progressively young
err ages.
She made a very careful analysis
on this point and finds that there is
no apparent tendency for the age
of death from cancer to be lower in
1921 than it was in 1901.
In fact, the average age at death
from cancer in 1901 was SO and the
average age at death from cancer
in 1921 was GIT Thus the average
age at which cancer claims its vic
Tins is not decreasing.
Moreover, Dr. Macklin shows by
her figures that the real increase
in percentage of deaths from can
Ger is in people over so years of
age.
The real reason there are more
deaths from cancer, both actually
and relatively, is obvious from a
study of what medicine has done
to improve the health of mankind
generally.
In 1901, the causes of death were
such conditions as infectious dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
ALLIES ROUT GERMANS
Oct. "a

0NeOCT. "a, 1918, the Americans
" attacked east of the Meuse and
reached the Freya position, after
having advanced on f1fteen-mile
front on Oct. % to take Brieulles,
Tamla farm, and other points north
of Bantheville.
British forces drove the Germans
back on the whole front between
the Sabre canal and the Scheldt,
capturing several Strongholds on
both sides of Valenciennes.
In the Italian campaign, allied
forces began an offensive between
the Brenta and Piave rivers.
On Oct. %, President Wilson had
replied to Germany's suggestion for
an armistice, calling for surrender
and expressing doubt as to the
popularization of the German gov
eminent.
The President announced the
question of an armistice had been
submitted to the allied governments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-America, today.
claims consideration that for vital
welfare and Importance perhaps
never before has been equaled, Ger
tainly never surpassed. Her people
loaded with taxes to supply in
large measure deficiencies brought
thoughtlessly about by foreign con-
cessionS and favored financial opera
lions; her markets congested by
favored tariffs in the interest of vast
corporations; her populations idle,
want in their homes, gestures and
promises Of relief bringing none
all like Dead Sea fruit crumbling to
ashes on the lips.
THE rich man deSpot, the poor
banditti." I'll fares a land to
Fastening ills a prey, where wealth
accumulates and men decay" The
power Of empire, the tyranny and
love of favored wealth, the despot-
ism of the autocrat have taken
their cherished place in the nations
capital, have intrenched themselves
IN the nations chief magiStracy.
These conditions as they stand
offer a problem in a climax of
long past, out of ages of unbroken
selfiShneSs and exclusive power ever
leading to disaster and ruin. In
creaSing power in America has
cryStallized into being spirit of alb
solute denial Of any or all consid-
Grafton save retention of the power
to rule-or ruin.
One law never changes-the law
that all things change. Even the
follies of a ruler who rules solely
for his own selfish ambition and de-
Sires, leaving the people to take
their uncertain chances, even such
have their limitations. The people
have been patient; how long will
they remain so? How long will power
in the interest of selfish wealth
ignore the appeals of humanity?
Following elections in Maine,
winter, want and unemployment be-
fore us, the hurried completion OF a
fund of s1,50O,0Oo for C. o. P. cleo
toral purpose, together with in
structionS to a presidential cam
paign manager to further explain
the issues to the people. Really,
are the American people entirely
lacking in intelligence?
JAMES PAXTON VOORHEES,.
Plainfield. Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
E. Tracy
Saws

No President of the United
States Ever Changed HIS
Mind About So Many Prob
lens In an Equal Length of
Time as Has Mr.. HooUer.
New YORK, Oct. "a. - -Four
IN years ago Mr.. Hoover led us to
believe that the country was in good
shape, that there was nothing much
the matter with the price of stocks,
brokers' loans, foreign debts, or pro-
hibition, and that all we needed to
preserve prosperity was to keep the
Republican party in power.
No President of the United States
ever changed his mind about so
many major problems in an equal
length of time.
He now feels that the prohibition
law might be changed to good pur-
pose and he knows exactly what
caused the depression, not as an
unexpected event in 1929, but as the
inevitable result of world conditions
created by the great war.
Right after the crash, he pre-
sented himself as the apostle of OPP
timism, giving us to understand that
prosperity was right around the
corner" and that no more than an
industrial conference was required
to stabilize the market and restore
trade.
Even in the black summer of 1881,
ne saw no necessity for calling con-
greSs into session, but proposed
moratorium on the strength of tele-
grams to its leaders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24

eases, appendicitis, childbirth and
similar causes.
In 1921, due to improved SANTA
ton, typhoid practically had dis
appeared; the increase in our knowl-
edge of infectious diseases controls
diphtheria and other infectious dis
eases.
Surgical skill so greatly has i'm
proved that appendicitis is dag
nosed early in more cases and OPP
Grated on satisfactorily in more
cases.
Nevertheless, there has been
working against what medicine can
do for the complexity of modern
civilization and the increase in the
number of deaths from diabetes and
from heart disease.
In 1901, the average age of death
in Canada was 81; in 1921 it was
38.5. In 1901, the death rate per
1000, was Is; in 1921 it was 1915.
DR.. Macklin concludes:
Cancer is increasing because,
by preventive methods, there has
been created a large population to
grow old and, having grown old
they are kept from dying of those
ills from which they formerly SUI
| fered'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Excuse Is Weak

PUT now Mr.. Hoover tells us
- that, as the consequence of
conditions which warranted that
moratorium, the United States
came very near being forced of the
gold standard, which he describes
as about the worst calamity that
could happen.
Last fall, the President laid a
program before congress which he
said would balance the budget.
Congress passed the program, as
he is fond of asserting, but the
budget is not balanced.
The budget is so far from being
balanced that the government has
run behind $5OO,OOO,OOO since June
80 of the present year.
In an effort to explain such
plumbers and mistakes, President
Hoover says that things could
have been worse" They could, in
deed, and, by the same token, they
could have been better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24

TIME and again those who are
Il careless with their statistics
shout that cancer is increasing; that
it is becoming a greater and great
er menace, and that something
ought to be done about it. s
1t has been argued repeatedly
in this column that there has been
no actual increase in cancer, and
that the so-called increase is an ap-
parent rather than a real one.
The figures brought, forward tc
support the statement that cancer
is increasing are the death rates
from disease per 100000 of popula-
ton.
DR.. Madge T. Macklin carefully
has analysed the causes of death
in Canada since 1900. She points
out that more people now live tc
the cancer age than did formerly
the diagnosis is much better to-
day than it was twenty years ago
that the mortality records are better
kept now than they were before
and that many more people get early
and good medical treatment now
than used to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24

snowstorm, as I remember, I went
to the ripps-Howard papers and
explained that I needed a job very
badly, but that I felt strongly a de-
sire to say my own things in my
own way, without any close scrutiny
Of the particular policy of the paper
On which I was employed.
Rather to my surprise, this
suggestion not only was adopted,
but amplif1ed, and for year or
more appeared under a little box
which explained that I might be
mistaken, malicious, wrong-headed,
or what-not. The paper did not
undertake to agree with me or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Conflicting Figures

THEN came the formation Of the
Il theory of an expanding uni
verse. This was based on both
theoretical considerations and OBJ
Sensational facts.
De Sitter and Lemaitre showed
that the Einstein equations led to
an expanding universe. Hubble and
his associates found by observations
with the 100-inch telescope at Mt.
Wilson that all the distant spiral
nebulae were receding from the
earth.
The farther away they were, the
faster they seemed to be running
away, just what one would expect
in an expanding universe.
Next, scientists calculated the
rate at which the universe was ex-
panding. This worked ouk>so that
the universe would double its size
every thirteen hundred million
years.
Now it became apparent at once
that such state of affairs could
not have been going on for fifteen
trillion years.
On the basis Of the expanding
universe, Eddington arrived at the
conclusion that the universe could
only be ten billion years old.
That figure is very unsatisfactory
to students of stellar evolution. It
maens that they will have to revise
all their theories as to the rate at
which stellar evolution goes on.
Now Einstein comes forward and
accepts ten billion years as the
period during which the universe
has been expanding.
Judging from the brief cables re-
ceived so far. he may be willing TO
accept a static universe as having
existed before then.
This would help the astronomers.
But Einstein says that he has rea-
son to suppose that the earth came
into existence at the same time that
the apparent expansion Of the uni
verse began.
This makes the earth ten billion
years old-seven or eight billion
years older than biologists are pre-
pared to admit.
Ten billion looks like a trouble
some figure at this time. 1t is too
small for the astronomers and too
big for the biologists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Hoover F allied

TINE tariff could have been re-
Il vised to encourage a more lib
eral attitude toward internationa.
commerce on the part of all gov
ernments, instead of being stub
bornly, willfully, deliberately main
tanned as the basis of retaliation.
Relief work could have been or
gained on a Sounder and more
comprehensive scale, with the
proper federal support and super
vision.
But all such measures would have
required action by congress, as well
as frank information regarding the
true state of affairs.
According to the record, Presi-
dent Hoover failed to summon con-
gress, and, according to the state
ment he now is making, he failed
to let the country know what he
claims to have known about the
scope and extent of it's peril.
Still, he contends that he has
won a great victory over depression
and ought to be reelected as a re.
ward of merit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-24
Expanding Universe

THE twentieth century scientist
l. has those pieces of the puzzle.
But he isn't all together sure where
they go.
Unlike his predecessor of the nine
tenth century he is not in the least
certain that he has all the pieces
in his hands. In fact, he is fairly
certain that he hasn't.
Now, ever since the piece labeled
expanding universe" was found,
there has been difficulty in making
the pieces OF the puzzle fit together
properly.
1t is the time scale that makes
all the trouble.
Originally. the theory of Laplace
sought to account for the origin of
the entire solar system at one time.
This would make the sun and earth
equally old.
The development of twentieth
century astronomy, however, showed
that the sun was very much older
than the earth.
Biologists had arrived at an age
VI dDOuJ Two DIlllOn years 1Or Cne
earth. Some biologists prefer a fig
ure of three billion.
Studies of the sun and stars, how
ever, indicated that they were at
least fifteen trillion years old. Sir
James Jeans put a maximum figure
of 200 trillion years on the uni
verse.
This would have made difficulties
if it were not that chemists had
already abandoned the nebular hy-
potheSis Of Laplace.
In its place they had accepted
the hypothesis of Chamberlin and
Moulton, which held that the sun
had existed for long time without
planets and that the planets were
born when star passed near our
sun, pulling the material of the
planets out of the sun.
1t, therefore, was quite easy to
imagine that the sun, like the other
stars, had existed for about fifteen
trillion years. Then two billion
years ago, an accident to the sun
brought the earth and other plan
cts into existence.