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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

young eyes can see the radish from
the window Maybe II just turn over
to give them look and then re-
lapse into sleep again.
At the moment my passion for
radishes is less than intense. Sup
pose they do bud and finely come
into full maturity without accident
what about it? They can all hang
on the vine for all 1 care. Even
with butter a radish is not so much.
But it isn't good thing for an
energetic man to allow himself to
lapse into complete idlenesS even
for a. little while. 1t rcts the char
acter I'd hate to come back from
my vacation to find myself the sort
Of person who says, well, that can
be done just as well tomorrow"
Regularity is the trick, and then
you don't even realize how hard
you are working. Accordingly it
will be part of my plan to try to
duplicate the regular regimen of a
columnist way out there on the
lonely two-acre plot north of SIAM
ford.
It isn't a good thing TO let the
wilderness get you. 1 don't want
anybody to mistake me for a men,
Der of the Royal Mounted after
have spent two weeks in roughing it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

I DO not believe we get true opinions on
i public questions in this country until we stop
herding and women into groups and assuming
that the organizations conviction is the conviction of
all its members.
This is very far from true Yet we read that be-
cause Mrs Frederick Past, president of the Y W. G.
A. publicly favors prohibition, the Womens Organ
izatlon for National Prohibition Reform Immediately
Jumps to the conclusion that the entire membership
of 100000 think she does
If these ladies had attended any Y w. c. A. con-
vention within recent years, they would know that
some of the most heated debates have been over the
question of endorsing the eighteenth amendment.
They would know that literally thousands of delegates
dlSapproyed OF this endorsement. They would know
that this year no such endorsement actually was made
Nearly every organization in this country APP
proaches this question warily, because it is their
TOUGHEST problem.
Church members no longer think as their pastors
tell them. And this is an excellent sign We have been
organization on-bound long enough
All MethodistS do not agree that Bishop Cannon is
a cody gentleman, do all members of the PIT A.
believe that Joy Elmer Morgan is the direct spokes-
for Divinity.
KXTILL we muster the courage to cut ourselves
w loose from the shackles of conventional thought
md stand forth boldly men and women and voters
rho refuse to have either material mental dctatorS?
It certainly is neither sportsmanlike nor true for
he prohibtionists to put forth such public state
ment as this, The right-minded women of the ma
ion, the home-oving women, the women who are
he mothers who will guide this nation through
form and STRESS standing firmly for prohi-
,ition as ever"
This assumption that all drys holy and virtuous
md all friends of change in the prohibition law are
evil and directed by the devil example of intol-
erance that has done much to bring the dry cause into
disfavor
We scarcely can measure the merits of motherhood
upon the wet and dry issue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Over-Enthusiasm

Inc policeman who third degreed Young L1vroor
stark, New York narcotic addict. to death at Q
Manhasset, Long Island, police station last week
was, we learn from the district attorney ~over-
enthusiastic"
Inc term is not chosen badly The enthusiasm
WIN which policemen of certain type crack skulls
peat and kick, starve and otherwise torture their
tellow-bengs, has been well-described bv invos+i
gators for the late Wickersham commission srd h.,
Ernest Hopkins in book on "Lawless Police y
lhls particular detective who still goes under tho
name of John Doe" had all the enthusiasms of
iiis Anao' lie questioned" the victim for eight
hours' blackened his eye and cracked his skull
But apparently because the lad was susnected If
having beaten and robbed a detectives mother Mr.
Doe became "over- enthusiastic" He did START 70
death by fracturing his Iarynx
Had the Long Island detective been only en-
thuSlaStlc the case would have remained ono If
Che thousands that the Wickersham commission
caHed mere habitual and routine practices" IT,
Iouno 1nese practices common in ten out of fifteen
CLUES investigated, in half of the states
10 defend the third degree is to advocate law
lessness the report said THE practice of coercino
confessions is violation of constitutional rights
Many forms of the practice are crimes The die
ulct attorney who wlnks at the third degree ioins
Vne ponce IN houting the Constitution and the
statutes he is sworn to maintain"
Inc problem seems to be to cure this tyne of
ponce enthusiasm. Laws will not do this. Srbsti
tuition OF humane and intelligent policemen will
In the meantime, the remedy urged by the com
mission should be tried. This is publicity and agi
tatlon by civic bodies and bar associations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Questions and
Answers

How much agricultural land has
the United States, and how much
of it is cultivated for crops or pas
ture?
In 1880 there was 986, I'll 900
acres of farm land, of which about
464,155,0O0 acres were pasture, 64.-
$4,000 woodland not pasture: "a
$4,000 other land, and about ALB
$4,000 acres were crop land.
How is artificial honey made?
Boil white sugar and water until
thick, and adding little real honey
and a few drops Of peppermint when
cool.
Please quote the verse entitled
My Garden" by Thomas E. Brown?
NV garden is lonesome thing-Got yot
me Vertest school
OF peace: and vet the fool
contends that God is not.
NOT God in gardens? When the sun is
Nav but have sign
lis Yerv sure God walks In mine"
Are the heads of governments of
the states of India elected or an
pointed?
They are appointed by the British
king.
Can the President of the United
States pardon persons convicted
under state laws?
His pardonlng power extends
only to persons convicted in federal
courts. and those convicted under
state laws can be pardoned by the
Governor of the state.
Where did Andrew Jackson live
when he was elected President of
the United States?
Nashville, Tenn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Free Cities

The city of Brazil is fighting to free itself
from bondage to the bankrupt insult inter-
ests.
To escape, it needs legislation by the
special session. SO do all other cities which
may some day awaken to the fact that the
only path to real freedom from utility DOM
nation lies in public ownership.
The citizens of Brazil have become tired
of paying so large share of their earnings
to this collapsed financial inverted pyramid.
That the whole weird structure of high
finance is in charge of bankers brings no
hope. They know that the bankers will prob
ably be even more greedy than was the insult
octopus, which still has life enough left to
send it's lobbyists and legislative agents to
the legislature to defeat remedial measures.
The measure which Brazil presents as a
solution is so apparently and obviously just
that opposition would seem to be impossible.
But the opposition is there Under cover,
lawyers for the utilities are fighting.
This measure provides that cities may
either buy or build their own utilities on Sc
curities based on the earnings of such utili-
ties
Of course, it may be impossible for many
cities to take advantage of this law. The
banking monopoly may make it impossible
for larger cities to find credit for this pur-
pose. Bankers have habit of wanting some
thing more than legal interest when they
finance utilities.
But Brazil is in a happy position 1t
wants to install its own lighting plant, to
supply it's own electricity. 1t owns it's own
distributing system. 1t pays an extortionate
rate to the insult organization. The rates
are even higher than in indianapolis, where
they are plenty high.
The people Of that city look with envy
upon such cities as Logansport and Wash
ington, Indiana, where the people pay low
rates and still earn enough from their utility
plants to reduce their taxes to point where
confscation is, at least not general.
Other cities must learn this same lesson.
They must learn that no city is really free as
long as it pays tribute to private capital on
it's common necessities. For private capital,
under present morality, always takes more
than it earns. In the utility business, it hides
behind holding companies with their greedy
subsidiaries, their secret contracts for coal,
their secret charges for management and
engineering and purchases.
Free cities must have common ownership
of common necessities such as water and
electricity and gas.
This Pell bill opens one door slightly for
this change. 1t may have to be broadened
later. The mayors of the cities are active.
They are fighting at last. The depression
has taught them the necessity of escape.
Keep your eyes on the legislature The
members who vote against this measure
brand themselves as utility-minded if not
utility-owned.
Freedom from utility exactions and eX-
tortions would do more to solve the tax
problem than any slashes of salaries, no mat
ter how necessary such reductions may be
in these days when the public and private
cash boxes are becoming Mother Hubbard
cupboards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Not Building for Future

THERE are very few structures in
Il this country that will last 100
years and very few that could not
be dispensed with, except as they
have been woven into our specula-
tive, installment-bu buying system of
credit.
We have not built, and are not
building for the future. This has
been woven so definitely into our
habit of thought that we dislike to
think of anything more than week
or month ahead.
AS a nation, we lack detectives.
Even our ideas of developing trade
have shrunk to level of sheer OPP
portunism.
If market opens we may enter,
and if war breaks out, we may
join the fray, but we never are quite
sure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
1900 PRISONERS TAKEN
July 10

July 10
ON July 10, 1918, American and
~ French forces continued their
drive between the Aisne and Marine
rivers with great success.
They announced that more than
1900 German prisoners had been
taken and that $50 heavy guns had
been captured.
German newspapers admitted the
seriousness of the defeat suffered
only three days after the beginning
OF what began as a major German
offensive effort.
French troops also made impor-
tant gains near Rheims, and British
forces stormed Veteran after a dav
of hard fighting.
The most significant factor in the
weeks fighting was that the Ger
mans were everywhere on the de-
tensiye, for the first time since the
beginning Of the year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

IT long has been recognized that
Il exercise places extraordinary de-
mands on the human tissues, par
ticularly if the exercise is long con-
tinued, perhaps to the point of eXa
haustion, or if it is done at such
rate as to tax severely the accom-
mediation of the body.
Years ago it was recognized that
there might be occasions in which
albumin would appear in the ex-
creted fluid, or urine, without the
presence of Bright's disease or any
actual Inflammation Of the kidney.
It was found as long ago as 1904
that constant standing in one posi-
: ton might cause the sudden ap-
pearance of albumin
1t occurred to investigators in the
University of Wisconsin that there
must be some basis for the failure
of the kidney, revealed in this man
ner.
They, therefore, studied forty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Your Questions Answered

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Just for Memory

QUT the one troublesome thing
- is that columnists are so easiIv
forgotten. I can come back and
find everything just about as I left
IL. But will the stay-at-homes re-
member me? When the vacation
period was arranged the managing
editor said to me with great show
OF hearty cheerfulness: 'Now YOU
go and take good rest and don't
worry about anything. I've found
swell substitute to fill in for you
Naturally I blanched and an
sWered: "A swell substituted What
do you mean Don't worry? Who's
going TO do the column?"
Have a good vacation and dont
worry, Haywood" was the reply.
Copyright. 1892 BY The Times,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Not 90 Much Health

DROPER care will be maintained
L not to become too aggressively
healthy.
The front door has been fixed up
with little slot window arrange
ment, and I'm not allowed in until I
show membership card or explain
that I'm a friend of Charlie Duck
worth's. An acquaintance kindly
has promised to drop in along about
2 o'clock each morning and to sit in
the corner and sing Sweet Alkaline
in an intoxicated manner.
This will serve to remind me that
the life of the big city still is 60
ing on and to familiarize me with
local conditions.
From a strictly newspaper point
Of view, can console myself with
one thing. Not much change is 60
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

ing to take place in the political
situation during my absence. The
speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt
ana Herbert Hoover will not be al
tered appreciably by anybody's two
weeks layoff.
Mr. Hoover'S speeches have re-
NAMED the same during layoffs
much longer than that A column
ISL can go away and return to find
the old machines still missing on
the same old cylinders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
eSting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
M. E. Tracy
Saw

OR Social and Economic
Order Lacks Anchorage,
We Are Becoming Mental
Non1ads.
NEW YORK, July 19.-Though
~ it must be approved by the
Canadian parliament and United
States senate before going into eff
feet, We can afford to regard the
st. Lawrence treaty as an accom-
plished fact, and improvement of
the great river as virtually author
lied.
The project will take ten years
to complete and cost s8O0,000,O00
President Hoover describes it as
the greatest internal improvement
yet undertaken on the continent Of
North America" and he is right.
Instead of feeling cocky, however,
We should feel very much ashamed.
1t is a disgrace to our resources,
intelligence and boosted civilization
that we have not undertaken great
er things long ere this.
THE greatest internal improve
ment yet undertaken on the CONT
nent of North America" and it
wouldn't pay our movie bill for six
months, or our candy bill for more
than a couple of years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Achievements Are Puny

MYTH the exception of a few
w Skyscrapers and the Panama
canal, we have built nothing that
could be described as a monument
nothing to compare with the Pyra-
midS, or the Acropolis, especially
when our wealth and ingenuity are
taken into account.
The Babylonians did more for
rowboat traffic on the Euphrates
than we have done for steam traffic
on the Mississippi.
By and large, our energy has been
squandered on temporary construc-
ton, particularly of the sort which
caters to physical thrill.
To put it mildly, we suffer from a
shoot the chute" complex.
That is one thing that ails our
psychology. We lack the capacity
to think of solidity and perma-
nence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

No wonder Mussoni is popular in Italy. At
recent gathering he served his followers with
bologna. All We get here is boloney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

One glance at the two vce-presidential candi-
oates shows that the old game of cowboy and Indian
is about to be revived
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

statesman says that must ga back to 1912
habits Judging from the jokes We hear over the
radio 1t would seem that at least start already has
been made
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

More than half of the customers of one light
company are paying their bills in cash to avoid the
check tax. But congress outguessed them on that
one There's tax on electric current, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

Philadelphia still likes to be known as the Citv
OF Brotherly Love, but the most ardent native
VIII admit that the bootleggers and police have been
carrying a good slogan too far.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

Foreign lipsticks have been barred from Russia
by order of the Soviet government Maybe we haven't
been making them red enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

The real cause of the depression an economist
says was overbuying the installment plan. Which
is Just new way of saying that the EASY payments
aren't easy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
Daily Thoughts

For ] say unto you, That I'M
TO every one which hath shall
be given: and from him that hath
not, even that he hath shall be
taken away from him.-St. Luke
1925.
Gold is the fools curtain which
hides all his defects from the world.
-Feltham.
What are the official world walk
ing records for one hour and one
mile?
One mile, 6 minutes 25.8 seconds,
by G. H. Goulding, June 4, 1910.
One hour. miles 438 yards, by G.
E. Larner, Sept. 80, 1905.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19
IT SEEMS TO ME BY H FR97{S

VACATION begins as soon as
' Wednesdays column is written,
and I'm going to rush things little
by saying farewell twenty-four
hours in advance.
l do not regard two weeks abb
sence from the firing line as this
papers tragedy. The thing has hap
pened before, and generally life has
gone on about as usual AS usual, I
leave my post with qualms. This is
no time to set even so much as
twenty-four hours between your
self and job.
And yet I feel more worthy
recipient of rest than I did twelve
months ago. I think was better
this year. Nobody told me; I just
made that up myself. And it may
be merely one of those middle-aged
illusions. But, hot or cold, I'm 60
ing away.
AS a rule, vacations have not been
lucky for me. Too often something
comes up. Once it was running for
Office and next time putting on a
show This year-Heaven help me!
its going to be raising radishes.
Among Sedentary Jobs
THIS profession BELTS man with
i nothing on his hands but time.
AS I understand the business, you
go out and look at the radish bed
along about in the morning or
1870 in the afternoon. The latter
plan seems better. I. hardly think I
would arise at daybreak to see a
century plant burst into bloom.
If the radishes seem to be get
ting along all right, you don't do
anything. Just wander back into the
house with a good book. And if
they're not doing so we'll, there S
nothing much you can do about
that either, except to go back into
the house and pour yourself good,
stiff drink.
With a little practice it may not
be necessary to do all that walking
from the bedroom to the garden.
On clear day anybody with good
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-19

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
The Washington times., 1932-08-23
MODEL PLANES
SET RECORDS

Soaring high into air( their
fragile wings vibrating under
the strain of rapidly whirring
properrors, two diminutive air.
plane models broke District
model records today.
The record-breaking flights
were the high spots of the morn,
ing contest which marked the
second day of the 1892 District
model aircraft tournament held
this year at Boiling Field.
, George Leffli set the first new
mark with an H. L. scientific
airplane. which scared aloft for
"a minutes and 81 seconds.
Shortly after, Morris Krucuff
flew a dynamic model IS seconds
for a new District record. The
best sea plane mark of the day
was set by a model flown by
Jack Caik, which remained aloft
6 minutes and 4 seconds.
Harold Gatty, round-the-world
flier, was among interested spec
tators watching the contest. The
flights will continue through to-
day and tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1932-08-23
NURSEDENANDS
INVESTIGATION

Mrs. Lucille Silver, blonde nurse,
of the 2400 block North Capitol
ST., is indignant over what she
believes to be the failure of au-
thoritiec to act after she was
found beaten and unconscious
near Conduit Road last Saturday.
Mrs. Silver said she will visit
the State attorneys office in
Rockville today to insist on ac-
ton.
She says, too, that accounts
Of her misadventures. are erro-
neous in stating that she drank.
She said she never took drink
in her life.
The Washington times., 1932-08-23
MUST Be
SPREAD THIN

Aid to Washington's needy will
have to be "srread thin" if the
$350,000 appropriated at the last
session Of Congress is to last until
Congress meets again.
This forecast was made by L.
A. Halbert, supervisor Of the EN-.
ergency relief bureau, in his re-
port to George S. Wilson, director
of the Bureau of Public Welfare.
at the end of the first three
weeks operation of the agency.
The bureau, he said. has ex-
pended $24,129.35. Of this amount
$22,08413 had gone directly for
relief. Less than 10 per cent. he
said, or $2,045.22 had been used
for administrative purposes.
Since the bureau began func-
tioning the applications have
averaged between 200 and 300
daily. This average was main.
tained yesterday when 228 new
applications we're made.
The Washington times., 1932-08-23
OFFICIAL
LISTS COSTS

The Public Utilities Commission
hearing on rates Of the CheSa-
peake & Potomac Telephone
Company took another course to-
day when estimates Of the COM
pany's engineering costs were de
tailed.
Roy w. Prince, the company's
chief engineer, stated that for
1880 and 1881 the costs were 7.9
per cent applicable to the COM
pany's gross additions. He eX-
planned that the costs were ascer-
tained in a clearing account,
then apportioned to particular
properties OF the company.
The cost for 1880, he said,
we're 9.04 per cent; and for 1881,
678 per cent.
The engineer was then led
through a channel of testimony
to refute statements made by
Thomas R. Tate, commission
engineer, to the effect that GER
tain properties of the company
were not useful. He detailed the
development of the Cleveland
Emerson exchange building at
Fortieth and Wisconsin Avenue
Northwest and the North-Poto-
mac-Decatur exchange building at
Fourteenth and R Streets North
west.