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Evening star., 1932-04-14

Of less than 100000 population and rs
per cent in towns of less than 10000.
He did not name the amount involved.
'I don't like to prophecy and prom
ise" he said. but I hope with all the
things that are being done, while we
will not stop the effect of losses al
ready suffered we have made and will
make some contribution to recovery
with your help"
Confer With Hoover.
Earlier in the day President Hoover
had the affairs of the Reconstruction
Corporation up with Charles G. Dawes,
its president. and Meyer, who is chair
man of the board Secretary Mills was
another of his conferees.
Meanwhile at the Capitol progress
was reported on the Glass bill to re-
strict use OF Federal funds in specula-
ton, and curb chain banking. The
Senate Banking Committee received It
in revised form, discussed it an hour
and then recessed until Saturday, when
an attempt for vote will be made.
The legislation has been altered
three times, most changes being of an
administrative nature to carry out
recommendations by Meyer as chair
man of the Federal Reserve Board.
Evening star., 1932-04-14

Argentina has placed large contract
for American airplane engines.
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trolled by one country. by one group Of
nations, by one group of men,"
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Evading the Issue

one would imagine, in listening to many of our
public spelbinders that we have been brought into
our present sad state of economic depression through
the influence of Patagonia, New Zealand, Ceyon,
Abyssnia, or Russia.
We hear doorous accounts of our desperate straits
coupled with proud reference the absolute perfec
ton of American economic political and legal nstitu
tons.
A typical example is Governor Ritche of Mary
land In one of his radio addresses the other day,
he admitted the illogical and deplorable condition in
which we now find ourselves We starve in the midst
OF plenty
when the history of these times is written, one of
the least Understandable phenomena will be this
amazing phase of our economic system under which
millions of people, living in the richest country in the
world with agricultural produce and industrial
modites greatly in excess Of any possible demand
faced with extreme poverty"
These depressons are not inevitable. he says They
are the product Of laissez fare and competitive
nomc and political doctrines:
TT is said that business depressions are inevitable
that they come to us in cycles. 1t may be so, but
at any rate believe that depressons incident to
the application of the doctrine of aissez faire and
that the time has come to plan for sterilization of
industry and to insist upon maintenance of order in
our economic system"
These are cogent statesmanlike, and accurate OBJ
servations But Governor Ritchie then proceeds to
back-track by telling us that in any effort to deal
with the situation must not disturb the spirit of
american institutions which have proved so perfect
in their operation
He makes it clear that he means by the spirit of
American institutions the purely competitive order
and lassez faire in economics the doctrine of hands
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-08
The Wafer FiaScO

One easy way to remedy the situation created by
the compromise" in the demands of the people for
lower water rates is to file petition demanding
real action and see that member of the commits
sion other than member Cuthbertson give consider
alton.
The concession" to the city in the matter of bills
for fire hydrants and the reduction of minimum
charges has been than offset by increases for
a vast majority of consumers.
The water company, it is believed, got in
crease instead of reduction 1t will carry away
more money from indianapolis 1t is not compelled to
stop its eggsuckng habit of paying club for its
Philadelphia president out of the operating expenses
of the company.
The situation is unbelievable and incredible That
any community would permit itself to pay tribute to
the greed of any private concern for the of
fundamental need as water shows stupidity that
would amaze the most primitive and most credulous
of barbarians.
That any community will permit an increased
cost for the use Of water under present economic
conditions is more preposterous.
The company has admitted that its minimum
charge was far too high. 1t has admitted that it
pillaged public funds with extortionse charges 1t
should be easy to prove that it is also pillaging
private pocketbooks
Public-minded consumers should go into court to
prevent any increase for any citizen. Others might
file new demand for reductions. Unless this is
DONE there will be no relief until after January,
when new Governor, no matter who he may be, will
be compelled 20 take an entirely different attitude
toward these utility outrages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-08
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TWO headlines appear side by side in the evening
l. newspaper. Starvation, Poverty, Found Through
out the United States in Extensive Survey reads
Mellon Family Fortune Totals $7000,000000" says
the other
The primitive man in his jungle would find it no
harder to reconcile these statements than does the
average American citizen in whose country and under
whose laws they are ebazoned forth in uxtapoSition
for all to read. But wait This is not all.
The same paper announces completion of plans for
a new building in Washington to house the depart
ment of agriculture 1t will cost S12000000 and will
boast the largest floor space in the world with the
possible exception of the Tuilleries in France.
1t will be erected supposedly for the benefit of
agriculture in nation where the agricuturst him
self is starving to death.
IT is not hard to conclude that there is something
wrong in America. Something terribly, ominously
wrong Daily we hear himsy, foolish futile explana-
tons and equally futile plans for bringing back pros
perity.
People, good, honest, sincere folk, go from house
to house canvassng the cities for odd jobs for the
unemployed. Instructions are shouted to women,
Panaceas are broadcast over the radios
Endless pieces such this printed in the news
papers. The heart of the ordinary is torn with
apprehension for what may come
Yet we all stand helpless before a congress that
in the face of these appalling omens still plays its
silly political games and harangues the virtues of its
Intellectual parties.
The gorged Republicans make childish gestures of
diStrust at the lean Democrats. Neither party can
forget its label their ludicrously similar prn-
cpes Both cling to their petty programs in the face
Of disaster
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H FF97%

|T THINK that this column has
Il been too niggardly of late in
granting space to views and COM
ments of contributors. I have been
acting as if owned this place and
writing practically every line my
self.
Such Spartan fortitude should not
go on unchecked. I very we'll might
wear myself into a decline or, at
the very least, contrast delusions
of grandeur.
Accordingly I present forthwith
the strange case of Mr. T., who
writes:
volumes have been written about
how to overcome an inferiority
complex. What of the person who
is actually inferior socially? Should
he go about squeezing his way in
where he is not wanted? I think
not.
1T speak from experience. I am
bore. There is not one person in
the world who voluntarily would
come to me at this moment for a
f1ve-minute chat. I have tried the
different approved methods of be-
coming interesting without success.
IT think a bore should be told the
truth. Let him spend his time get
ting pleasure from his hobbies and
his business, without inf1icting him
self on people who don't want him.
ITO attempt to develop e, social
personality where it is mentally i'm
possible only will hurt the victim
by completely destroying the last
shreds of his already Debated ego
and make him unfit for business
and what pleasure he gets from
personal hobbies
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE -
DAILY HEALTH
New Facts Found on Skin Diseases

Out of 100 men in the plant,
eleven developed the symptoms.
These men were those who came in
contact with the sawdust and those
who Sandpapered the wood.
An inquiry revealed the fact that
there were some who did not break
out with eruptions on the skin, but
who did develop sneezing and run
ming noses while working in the
room where the wood was being
used.
A few of the men recovered while
they continued work, but some men
were unable to do so.
The importer from whom the
wood was purchased furnished
list of firms to whom the wood had
been sold. According to DR.. Louis
Schwartz of the United States Pub
lie Health Service, letters we're
written to all these firms, and it
was found that workers in nine of
the ten firms who had purchased
the wood had developed similar re-
actions.
A special study was made in order
to find out the nature of this Sensi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-08
The Manufacturers and Beer

The manufacturers Of the state demand the repeal
Of the Wright bone dry law and modification of the
Volstead act that will permit the sale of beer.
That should starte some of the politicians who
still under the hallucnation that the Ant-salocn
League and professional dry leaders are more pow
crful than public sentiment.
The attitude Of the manufacturers comes from
realization that the bootegger has become the only
prosperous business in these days of depression
and that legitimate business is being taxed to the
verge of bankruptcy while the law breaker escapes
with millions
few years ago these men would not have
dared to take this stand They had been silenced
by the fallacious argument that prohibition gave
them more production from their workers and that
these sober wage earners saving money No one
ever pretended that prohibition would or could in
terfere with the drinking habits of the rich.
The professional dry claimed that prohibition had
not only created, but perpetually insured prosperity
The people told that the loss of revenue to the
government immaterial and inconsequential when
compared to the very material benefits to the public
The manufacturers know better now They know
that the hootlegger thrives, that gangdom rules in
many cities, that the burden of taxation for law en-
forceent under conditions created by prohibition is
too heavy to bear
Therefore these of Indiana demand that beer
be made and sold legtmately as path to temper
ance and, most important, means of raising rev.
enues for government
State and local GOV rnments have lost, so it is
estimated at least ten billions of dollars of revenue
that would have been collected under the laws that
were repealed by prohibition and the Volstead act.
The problem of balanced budget would not exist
had that money been available for taxes.
The worst indictment is, of course, against the
conditions created by prohibition. Crime has in
creased Youth has been debauched The bootlegger
has become the most important member of society.
Gangsters control government 1t has failed to cure
a single evil it supposed to correct.
Indiana should send 70 congress men who will
reflect the sentiments of the state When the manu-
facturers whose members individually large con-
rbutors to dry crusades take stand for beer poll
ticians should get wise
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reform measures.
Let us examine this highly characteristic attitude
in the light Of the most elementary logic and know-
edge of American history
In the first place. if we starve in the face of ex-
cess agricultural and manufactured products, whose
fault is it? Certainly not that of China, Turkey or
Morocco 1t is due very specifically to the inefficient
and illogical American socioeconomc system of 1882.
We not pass the buck to anybody else. We
need not assume for the moment that any other
system would work better but certainly our defects
today American weaknesses.
In the second place, just what justification has
Governor Ritchie in speaking so confidently and
eulogistically concerning the complete success Of
American institutions? 1t would seem rather too
early to dogmatze that point. Success is judged
logically by ultimate results
We do not call a bank successful if it fails dis
astrously after few decades of lusory prosperity
We do not call man successful if he ends up in the
poorhouse after several years of ostentatous souan-
dering of funds
We well may hope that American institutions will
prove successful but now is the time for searching
sef-examinaton and courageous readjustment 1t is
no time for SNUG compacency and retrospective
boastng
Finally, what kind of logic is it to demand that
we leave untouched the admitted cause of our trou-
bles? What would we say of commissioner of public
health who, in the midst of typhoid epidemic, in
sisted that the admittedly polluted water supply
should not be cleaned up?
Governor Richie says that we are in a bad way
that unlimited competition is the chief cause of our
economic sickness, that this laissez faire is the core
of the American spirit and system and that we must
save ourselves But we must not interfere with the
spirit of American institutions
La
lions are of the present and future as well as of the
past They will be better in the future Just in pro-
portion we recognize and repudiate mistakes Of
the past.
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Too Undesirable

TINE new tax bill is not a semi
l. Socialistic measure, as its OPP
ponents have charged 1t is merely
plain, understandable measure for
producing SO much revenue. The
fact that'it is plain and under
standabIe, accounts for most of the
opposition. What the opposition
wants is some method whereby
those at the top painlessly can ex-
tract the required cash from those
at the bottom.
They haven't given up the idea be-
cause it was beaten in the house,
They are out to do all they can in
the senate, and they are being as
sisted by the treasury department.
There are, perhaps, some minor
changes which could be made in
the tax bill, without injury, or in
justice, but that is not what the
opposition has in mind.
The opposition is working for the
sole purpose of tearing the bill to
pieces, bit by bit, until congress is
driven to accept the sales tax by
WEAKNESS and lack of time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-08
No Seats for Sale

In 1896 senate committee headed bv Bill Nve,s
nephew Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. ner
formed a gallant service by exposing the fabulous
prices paid for seats in the nations upper house
1t investigated eighteen state campaigns It folnd
that to fill one-thrd of the senates seats at least
$o5OOOoO had been spent that year, sum fifteen
times greater than the annual senatorial salaries in
volved
1t found that amounts expended ranged from
$4,000 10 more than 100000. that $4ooooo was
spent in vain effort to elect woman to the SEN
ate, that 100000 was invested by the Ware machine
in Pennsylvania
Inc committee probably saved one of the coun-
trys most valuable servants, Senator Norris. from
defeat by unearthing the shabby plot of G. O. p.
posses against him in Nebraska. It revealed to an
amazed country the extremes to which political
bigotry had led Bishop Cannon.
The 1882 elections upon us, and there is no
watchful Nye committee
Times are harder and the political bosses poorer;
but ccmbinationa Of capital are bigger They have
learned things about the Washington government.
things about subsidies, loans, handouts and tax
evasions,
While seats on the stock exchange are down seats
in the United States senate are not Considering
some of the tremendous issues ahead a seat in the
closely divided senate we'll might be worth millions
A resolution introduced by Senator Dickinson of
Iowa to create another such senate committee on cleo
ton expenditures lies in committee If this is to be
passed and financed, the senate should insist on no
further delay.
The $4,000 the Nye committee cost was a we'll
spent pittance when viewed in relation to the re-
suits The senate should insure its own integrity by
creating another committee to watch the nations
polls.
mo senate seats for sale" should be posted where
all may read
visiting Frenchman says that prohibition has put
romance in liquor over here Maybe that's what gives
is that foreign flavor.
Fashion note Woman's shoes are to be more
pointed. Husbands who play bridge are considering
a violent protest
A prisoner shot his way out of the Jail at South
Bend, Ind. He must have been broke
A member says congress never will cancel the war
debts. Maybe not, but what about Europe?
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tivity. Samples of the wood, of the
sawdust, and of the veneer, and
also of the leaves of the tree, were
subjected to careful investigation.
In the study piece of gauze
about a half inch square was mois-
tened with water and it's surface
completely covered with sawdust,
this this was placed on piece of
rubber sheeting, which, in turn, was
placed on a piece of filtrate.
This then was applied to the
skin of the back and kept in place
by being covered with adhesive
plaster. In each case involving a
worker who had developed an erup-
ton there was positive reaction
under the patch.
The incident is only one of the
many ways in which modern indus
try is beginning to find out about
sensitivity with its significance for
workers.
The scientific term for such sensi-
tivity is allergy. 1t is the same
condition that causes hay fever,
asthma, food poisoning and many
other symptoms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-08
Profit on Tax2
THE sales tax has obvio

THE sales tax has obvious adj
Il vantages for business and in
dustry. In the first place, it can
be passed on to the consumer, with
out his realizing it. In the second
place, prices can be boosted more
than is necessary.
Not only the tax itself, but a
whole lot more can be covered up in
the retail cost of articles. There
is no way of tracing it, except by
the employment of expert account
ants. Even if there were, what
could the consumer do about it?
When you pay an extra cent for
a postage stamp, or cents on a
dollar theater ticket, you know ex-
actly how much the government is
getting, but when the manufacturer
pays 2l5 per cent, you don't know
how much he, the wholesaler and
the retailer, may have soaked you
for good measure.
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A Cheer for the DryS

A ND here is w. A. r., who re-
L Dukes me for disloyalty to
serious drinkers. He thinks that we
should line up solidly behind the
Anti-Saloon league and all the
forces wich would preserve things as
they are.
Il view with alarm" he writes,
"the growing tendency of the people
to look with favor upon the effort
to repeal or modify the national
prohibition act. The adoption of a
liquor dispensing system such as in
effect in Canada, where liquor can
be obtained only at certain times
and at certain places, would cause
much dissatisfaction among our
more serious imbibers.
Under our more liberal proce-
dure, a great variety of fairly good
liquor Improving all the time) can
be had at almost any hour and
within a literal stones throw of any
place where civilized man has
settled.
II oppose vigorously the advocates
of light wines and beer only on
the ground that it is impossible to
concoct a satisfactory Tom Collins
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word, I realize that in all proba-
bility fall short of being a truly
prize winning bore.
Do hear cries of mo! No! No!"?
In spite of the interruption I must
repeat that am of less than
championship caliber. And the e--1e
thing is true of Mr.. z. No man
who has even an inkling that he
can be tiresome is capable of ever
becoming the kingpin in his class.
A really inspired bore does not
even suspect his own process in this
line. Even his best friends won't
tell him. They simply steal away,
and he is not a man to take hint.
Either you have it or you have
not. Mr.. 2. does not belong to that
exalted group. Indeed, he can not
ever make it. I will wager any
modest sum that I can convince
him of this in five minutes.
I'D hardly care to risk fifteen
for fear that he might exclaim:
You're right, my lad. refuse the
nomination and retire in your favor.
You've won it,"
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Loo Drastic
THE early attempts used much

TINE early attempts used much
Il too drastic methods and yielded
very impure products, Professor
Conant said.
For example, Berzelius, in 1889,
used strong acids and alkalies with
no success" he continued. Yer
dell in 1851 obtained a very impure
product containing iron.
He concluded that chlorophyll
and hemoglobin (the red coloring
material of blood were related,
since both contained iron.
"Hemoglobin really does, but we
now know that pure chlorophyll
does not. His facts were wrong, but
his idea that the green and red
pigments were related turned out
to be correct.
This hypothesis of connection
between these two compounds has
fascinated investigators since his
day and the exact degree of rela-
tionship has been deduced incor-
rectly number of times.
"Hoppe-Seyler in 1879 was the
flrst TO bring real evidence to show
a relation. He isolated a crude
chlorophyll Git contained 1 per cent
OF phosphorus, an element really not
present in chlorophylD.
From this chlorophyll, by the
drastic action of alkalies, he OBJ
tanned blush substance which
with ACIDS yielded a beautiful RED
compound with a very striking abb
sorption spectrum.
Ihls spectrum was very similar
10 that OF a compound he had OBJ
tanned shortly before from hemo-
glooln by splitting off the protein
ana treating the real pigment
heml-with strong acids.
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GONE years age, when NAH jongg
~ was a popular form of amuse-
ment, cases were reported by physi-
clans of eruptions on the skin,
which became known finally as lac
quer dermatitis.
1t finally was determined that
some ingredient of the lacquer
placed on the NAH jongg boxes, and
sometimes on the tiles, in Japan
was the source which aroused these
reactions in people especially sensi-
tive to the lacquer.
Recently a group of workers in
a cabinet-making plant, employing
about 100 men, began to break out
with eruptions on their hands, their
forearms, and in some cases also on
the entire face and neck.
Indeed, few of the men devel-
oped such swelling about the face
that the eyes we're swollen shut.
1t was found that all the cases
occurred while the men were work
ing on an order which called for the
use of Brazilian walnut.
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Red COMPOUNDS

THESE two red compounds he
a called porphyrins = the one
from plants phylloporphyrin. the
other from blood neutrality-suspicious. >
Professor Conant went on. ssThev
were close relatives, but not identi-
cal substances, and both were Oh
tanned by drastic reactions.
In 1901 Nencki showed further
that both hemin (from blood) and
a crude chlorophyll yielded a vola-
Tile mixture of bases known as
pyrols.
The exact composition of this
mixture was shown by Willstaetter
a few years later, but Nencki was
the first to show pyrol nuclei were
involved in the structure of both
tne coloring matter of leaves ard
Of blood
From this point on, progress on
Inc nature of the blood pigment va
rapid BY oxidation and reduction
huSter was able to obtain fragments
which led him in 1910 to nronose
a formula for the porphyrins which
recent work by Hans Fischer hos
SHOWN to be essentially correct.
Our knowledge of the exact
chemistry Of chlorophyll is largely
que TO Willstaetter's labors from
1906-14.> 'ii
He proved that there were two
chioropnyi!s = chlorophyll A and
cnlorophyu Railways present in
all plants. a.
Contrary to the older idea that
tnere are great variety Of chloro-
pnyiis' ne showed that these two
green pigments were the only ONES
present in nature. O''''
together with them always occur
Two yellow pigments, carotin and