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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Save Howard University

Education suffers unjust discrimination in the
interior department appropriations BILL now before
the senate Whether this injustice is deliberate or
unintentional is unimportant at this late day. The
wrong should be corrected quickly.
Howard university in Washington. one of the few
real institutions for higher learning of the Negro in
the United States is the chief victim Rapid progress
has been made by this university in recent years
Howard has won high rating from national educa-
tona organizations and boards and has the conf
dence of federal authorities from President Hoover
and Secretary of Interior Wilbur down.
The pending senate bill reduces the Howard ap-
preparation to $675OOO for next year. compared with
the first budget estimate of ST. and the current
figure of $1,560,000.
In times of depression and federal deficit, appro-
prations must be out But federal OUTLAWS for social
services and education should be cut least, because
they already are so pitifuly small. At least they
should not be asked to take than their pro-
portionate share of the slash
This rule has been violated in the case of Howard.
The cut the entire interior department appropria-
tons bill in the senate is only per cent while the
Howard cut is So per cent.
This is not economy 1t is close to murder. No
institution operating on a shoestrng can take blow
like that and survive effective school,
We appeal to the senate to save Howard university
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
A Chance to Lead

The greatest industrial state in the Union, New
York, is considering and apparently intends to ap-
prove, unemployment insurance legislation.
bill following closely the recommendations Of
the experts commission for six industrial states sub
mitted last month to the Governors of New York,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New jersey Connecticut
and Ohio, was studied in committee this week,
promptly Endorsed. and has gone to the legislature
for action before it adjourns next week
If the bill becomes law. it will be of the most
constructive acts of government to grow out of the
depression. It's benefits to working men can not be
felt Immediately, but unemployment insurance if
adopted generally, probably can do to prevent
future misery and suffering, such now are
enduring, than any other single policy.
The bill recommended, after months of study, has
the particular merit of providing specific incentive
to industry to stabilize its operations and keep its
men at work, to save payments it must make other
wise.
In this respect it appears to be more sound than
insurance plans tried in other countries No govern
ment dole" is attached in any manner to the plan
It is a cause for general rejoicing that New York
should pioneer in this important matter. To wiscon-
sin belongs the honor of being the first state to esab
lsh compulsory insurance, but New York. with its
wealth and power, do more than another could
to convince all states that the principle of unemploy-
ment insurance is sound and is good for business,
as we'll as good for men,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Milk for Babies

While the whole world worries over the question
Of whether the kidnapped baby obtains kind and
sufficient milk, thought may be given to the
thousands Of children under years of age in this city
month ago, official surveys indicated that there
we're 10000 children who we're not receiving milk,
at least enough milk
promise was made that this situation would
be corrected, but since that time there has been
very persistent drive to reduce the cost of feeding
the needy
1t is no answer to say that many children do not
like the taste of milk and will not drink it. The
best physicians say that milk diet is absolutely
necessary for children and that if it be denied there
will be heavy bill for sickness few years later.
The leadership of this city must see that the food
given is sufficient both in quantity and in kind to
support life.
An immediate survey of the situation and
curate check of homes into which trustee food il
delivered to see how many children without milk
would be the finest tribute that could be paid to the
Lindberghs whose hearts have been open to the
cry of need and whose sympathes with the suffering
Of others Is small factor in the universally of
sympathy with them in their dark hour of tragic
worry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
M. E. Tracy
SaYS

We Must Not Forget That the
Lindbergh Case Is Still
Only One Among Hun
dreds; That Kidnapping Is
Only One Phase of a Crime
Epidemic.
NEW YORK, March Slight
L column heads; bulletins over
the radio each hour or so; police,
constables and deputy sheriffs rae
ing up and down the road; and
when it's all over, the best we can
do is step aside while the distracted
parents offer cash and immunity
to the kdnapers if they will only
restore baby Lindbergh.
You can't quarrel with Einstein
for saying that the crime proves
lack of social sanity, though he
might have added that the general
reaction to it offers still more vivid
proof.
Millions of people have exhausted
themselves with futile speculation
and still more futile worry. We
glorify the performance because of
the obviously good intentions back
Of it. If it comes to a happy end
ing within few days, well and
good; but if not, we will be worn
out by the excessive excitement
and turn to something else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Source of the kidnapping Racket

The New York Herald Tribune is the chief news
paper of that party which has as its head the expo
nent of the noble experiment. Here is what the
kidnapping racket:
kidnapping as a racket-that is to say, as pro-
fessional pursuit of underworld gangs-seems to have
had its origin recently 1926. Like most of the
other rackets with which the American is cursed
it began a by-product of the Illicit liquor traffic
THE explanation is simple enough. The liquor
traffic with its vast and its popular support
has corrupted the official world Those who engage
in it are the protected favorites of their partners
authority
But this partnership does not and not stop
with the Volstead violation 1t is bound to any
activity which its benehciaries select since no mat
ter what charge they may be arrested, they
in a position to expose the system.
once protected, always protected. Hence the pro-
liberation of rackets, including that of murder to
nothing of kidnapping 49,.
Good citizens who grind their teeth at the hideous
menace to their homes and liberty involved in this
enforcement of crime will do we'll to consider it's
underlying cause.
'Kidnapngs are nothing new, nor are other out
RACES on the peace of the community but it is no
mere coincidence that, with the progressive failure
of the prohibition experiment. their preparation has
become national scandal.
"The eighteenth amendment like rotten apple in
barrel, has tainted our whole civic order Its re-
moval is prerequisite to the re-establishment of
security"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Typical Example
Taking as typical example OF

TAKING as a typical example of
Il a migrating species the COM
mon milkweed butterfly, Clark ex-
plains the migration as follows:
"a very large number emerge
from the pupa at the same time,
engorge themselves together, and
reach the travelling and tree perch
ing stage of their adult life stimuli
taneously.
$50 we find in the air large num-
berS instead of isolated individuals.
The appearance of this insect in
swarms means, I believe, not that
they have gathered Intentionally
for the purpose of travelling, nut
simply that something has occurred
in their place of origin to cause
great numbers to emerge simultane-
ously.
Most Of the migrations of this
butterfly that have been reported
have been southerly. 1t is likely
that this will be found to be a func-
ton of the prevailing winds, plus
certain geographical features, such
as rivers and seacoast.
THE migrationS appear to be
simply a mass expression of the
normal habits of each individual in
migrating swarm, and the COM
monty observed direction of these
flights to the south seems to rest
solely upon the mechanics of
autumnal meteorology and to have
no other relation to the procession
Of the seasons"
Quite different phenomenon, he
believes, is involved in the migra-
tons of another family of butter
flies, the pierids, in which the mi
grating f1ocks are composed almost
entirely of males.
his case, he says, it seems to
Il an extension of the puddle
C. phenomenon.
some of the exiled males are
unable to get back to the fields
when there is intense pressure of
population. Then they simply wan
de. away, flying in a straight line
against the wind.
They are highly gregarious.
Other exiled males join in the flight
and the result is the exodus in a
loose swarm of all the bachelor
misfts.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Butterflies Migrate
"DRD migrations," Clark reports

"DIRD migrationS," Clark reports,
- ARE movements Of very def
mite nature from the breeding
grounds to another region more or
less remote, and back again by the
same route.
THE round trip is completed sew
eral or many times during the life
of the individual, and the move
ment usually involves all the nor
NAL and healthy individuals of a
species in a given area.
Butterfly migration rarely in
wolves more than a portion. and
often a relatively small portion, of
the individuals in any region.
80 far as the individuals are
concerned, the migrations are in
one direction only and, so far as
the species is concerned, there is
seldom any indication, of a definite
return movement.
"In some butterflies, migration is
regularly recurrent annual phe-
nomenon. In others it takes place
frequently. but at irregular intervals,
while in many it is observed only
occasionally"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05

their protest in the most violent fashion yet called
forth by the present distress Meanwhile in Washing
ton, house committee controlled by Democrats was
agreeing to slap federal general sales tax of 2A
cents on virtually all manufactured articles.
more dangerous folly hardly could be imagined
The men who sit in Washington in congress and
in the executive departments have their attention
fixed upon the coming presidential campaign They
expect to get campaign contributions from the rich
and they are refusing to place this years heavy tax
burden on wealthy shoulders. They pretend extreme
suffering does not exist
But if enough people grow angry in their privation
and misery neither the wel-to-do nor the party poll
tcians can benefit from this solicitude for wealth
money and government misjudge the point at which
the poor consumers and small merchants will cease
to be patient and passive, dire consequences may fol-
low.
II they are able to judge this point accurately. If
they impose new tax on the man with barely enough
to live and drive merchants out of business and no
trouble occurs, will the law-abding American people
fail to show resentment. even at the polls?
Will citizens permit their decency their capacity to
endure suffering in the interest OF orderly established
society, to be imposed on to this extent?
Congress should consider this matter well before
1t leV1es revenues for the coming year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Just Every Day Sense
TT was encouraging to find out how MANY rea
By MRS. WALTEB FERGUSON

IT was encouraging to find out how many readers
Il resented the idea set forth in an earlier column
that women's friendships often turn to enmity
Inc implication was a little too general perhaps
ana certainly out OF date. But nothing ever has
pleased me more than the protests that followed be-
cause it proves that women are at last alert to their
own decent qualities.
The most irritating old-fashioned feminine char
acterstlc was our readiness to accept without
all the charges hurled against us For generations
women have been the most Spineless cravens about
defending themselves and each other
They have sat in churches and lecture halls and
heard their sex roundly denounced They have read
the most absurd criticisms with equaninty They
even nave joined in the general chorus of vtupera-
ton against themselves every time anything went
wrong.
But she old lies are swallowed no more It has
taken us long time to learn that we are no worse
ana no better, than men; but we know our lesson.
THERE is growing up today among women feel
ing OF solidarity and friendliness that augrs well
Ior the future 1t forecasts just social order
ana more splendid cooperation between sexes
TO attain this state, however We have had to fight
pre1uoice ignorance and religious bgotry as well as
ourselves.
The old theory which taught that women were
created by God more viruouS than men and vet that
they must be kept in inferior and service positions
was not only inconsistent but unreasonable
We heard, for instance that only men were loyal
honorable, broadminded and capable of the larger
idealisms. Yet in the same breath it was explained
that humanity'S fate rested in womans hand since
mothers alone could influence, improve and uplft
It's high time women looked at ourselves
without favor but also without prejudice Let's give
ourselves pat on the back now Ind then.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
What EffiCiencyI

NALL the boys in to handle a
~ kidnapping, or murder case,
and they are usually about as be-
wildered as the rest of us.
The law enforcement machine has
simply broken down under load Of
petty offenses and picayunnish
duties.
Nine-tenths of the so-called ar
rests represent nothing but nag
ging, which makes the public sore
and Indifferent.
When something important hap
pens we have to reshape the whole
operation of our police power, call
out the reserves, call in special in
vestigators and in the final analysis
bet on popular sentiment to get the
job done right.
This is ridiculous in a country
which pretends to be efficient and
which boasts of its capacity to meet
the unexpected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Our Crime Endemic

A SITUATION such as we face
IA and such as is brought wildly
to light by this outrage calls for
steadineSS.
We must not forget that, though
the Lindberghs case is by far the
most sensational of it's kind, it is
still only one among hundreds, or
that kidnapping is only one phase Of
a crime epidemic.
1t is a thankless task to keep
On repeating how lawlesS this coun-
try has become, or how Indifferent
most people are to the known facts
of it's disgraceful record.
The malady has been developing
over a long period. It's inception
goes back to craze for easy money
on the one hand, and a disrespect
for law on the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Another Stab?

Maternity and infancy aid again is in Jeopardy.
This time it is in the United States senate COM
merce committee that administration senators and
some southern Democrats seek to block vote on
this important piece of social legislation The vote
on the new Jones' Bankhead bill is said to be 10 to
TO- with the possibility that Senator Harris Dem,
CAD, now ILL., may cast the deciding vote
In view OF its loud protestations in behalf of chill
drens welfare and public health protection it seems
almost incredible that the administration again will
assume the blame of letting this bill die in
committee.
For seven years the Sheppard Towner act carried
on its hve-saving job 1t saved $4,000 American
babies But it was allowed to lapse in 1928. Revived
two years ago the Jones BILL it was defeated last
session by its administration friends"
Now with it's sponsors agreed to accept the pub
lie health service amendments with the budget bu-
reau acquiescent with every responsible health and
social worker urging its passage as an emergency
necessity, the sort of administration methods
apparently are being used to kill it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Mystery of Butterflies IN
crease in Number After
Storm Explained.
THE mystery of why there is an
Il enormous increase of some
species of butterflies following
storms has been cleared by Austin
H. Clark, noted biologist of the
Smithsonian institution.
Clark, who has made a study of
butterflies for many years, sets
forth his observations in a recent
publication Of the Smithsonian in
stitution, titled Butterflies of the
District of Columbia"
The milkweed butterfly is one
that seems to increase greatly after
storms. Most of the new butter
flies noted are insects Just newly
emerged from the chrysalids, Clark
found.
1T would seem evident" he says,
that the moisture provided by a
shower enables many of these in
sects, previously prevented from
emerging by the dryness, to escape
from the chrysalids.
In the cases I have studied it
could not be due to the normal
appearance of a late brood, as this
normally takes place gradually over
several weeks"
Butterflies, like birds and certain
varieties of mammals, have their
migrations, Clark found, but these
movements differ in essential de-
tails from those of the higher ami
mails.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05

spond with some of your readers.
However, that may be best, as we
need competition in all things.
I want to compliment The Times
for it's fight against graft, high rates
and crime, and hope the good work
may go ahead.
If it is unemployment that is the
matter with this country. think as
the one who sent Mr.. Hoover the
suggestion that we do away with
some of the man-saving machinery.
It is my belief that the worst ma
chine is the mammoth political ma
chine.
Instead of the government being
ruled by the people, the masses are
ruled by the classes, and, right at
this point, as another great political
campaign is approaching, is a good
time for the masses to get busy 1t
will be no trouble for those offices
to select good honorable men and
women to pledge themselves to cut
out one-half of the boards, bureaus.
and commissions and other UNI
called for nuisances.
DILAPIDATED FARMER.
Editor Times-While there is
much discussion concerning the
passing of an old age pension law,
I think it would be well to consider
just how this will work, and the
exact amount of good it will do for
those for whom it is intended.
No one has any greater pity and
love for the welfare Of our aged
than I, and I, for one, would not lay
straw in the way of any method
which can be worked out for their
good.
Suppose they received a pension of
$40 or $25 or even more month
and lived possibly with their rela-
tiveS, usually daughter or son.
How many really are wanted in
the home? How much would they
get of it? Would they be any more
welcome after the first few dollars
were paid in? And if they had to
live by themselves, how far would
this amount go?
Consider also that they have to
have some one to care for them
when they are i'll and ought not be
left alone. AS a rule they have to
do just exactly as their relatives
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Hot Baths Help to Combat Disease

malaria attack acts by raising the
temperature of the body to such
extent that the germs were killed.
1t generally is accepted that a
hot bath has definite effects in
speeding up the chemistry of the
body. This is shown by the in
crease Of non-protein nitrogen and
carbon dioxide in the blood.
It also is established that white
blood cells are increased following
a hot bath, and particularly the
form of white blood cell that is i'm
portant in attacking infection.
This result is brought about by
the hot bath itself, and is not in
fuenced by adding salts, oils, ONT
ments, muds or anything else to
the bath.
Physicians have advised the use
of hot baths for patients with govt,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05

rheumatic infections, and various
nervous disorders.
If the patient is put in the bath
with the water pleasantly warm
and the temperature of the water
gradually increased, it is possible to
raise the body temperature of the
patient to such extent that the
thermometer placed in the mouth
will record from 1914 to los degrees.
Obviously such procedure is
potent for harm when wrongly
used, as we'll as for good if prop
erly used. Some people become
faint in a hot bath.
Patients with heart disease or
with a serious condition of the
blood vessels may be harmed by re-
naming in such a bath too long or
by being submitted to sudden
changes of temperature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
Questions and
Answers

When a furnace in a house gives
off noticeable fumes of hydrogen
sulphide, is that an indication that
the furnace is in a dangerous con-
dition?
The United States bureau Of
standards says that gas coming
from coal furnace with the odor
OF hydrogen sulphide almost Ger
talnly contains carbon monoxide. a
deadly gas. The escape Of any gas
OF this kind into living rooms is GER
tainly hazard to health, and NAV
be even to life. Without question
the fue should be so repaired that
no further odor will be detected I'M
DER any conditions of normal opera
ton.
What year was the first TTnited
States census taken?
In 1870.
Where and when was John
haskob born and of what descenf9
Born in Lockport, N. Y. His
Iatner was an Alsacian and his
mother was Irish.
Why do oil wagons have chain.
dragging on the ground?
To prevent a possible explos;on
as result of static electricity which
may be set up by the motion of the
liquid in the tank truck. The chain
provides a metal ground for the
harmless escape Of such static cleo
tricity.
Have diamonds been found in the
United States?
They have been found in Arkansas
Georgia, North and South Carolina
Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio
and Michigan. More have been
found in Arkansas than anywhere
else in North America, that state
having the only diamond nine
which has been extensively worked.
What is the nationality and
meaning Of the name Yawger?
It Is Of Angio-Saxon origin and
means timid one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
GrOuCing of Roses

Do the happy adventure of growing your
home garden Success with not hard for the
followed years nearly everybody
of garden from
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05
BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES
T.


ON March 5, 1918, the British
~ house of commons was in
formed that losses to British ship
ing from submarines had averaged
10000 tons weekly in January and
10000 tons weekly in February.
United States troops in the Lor-
raine sector repulSed a German
trench raid after a short skirmish.
American losses were slight and
no prisoners were taken by the
Germans.
Rulnanian and German troops
stopped fighting as news of an ar
mistice between the two nations
became known.
1t was reported that Austrian
troops we're being transferred
rapidly to the Italian zone from
the Rumanian front.
German troops halted in their
advance into Russia.