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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

"ONE of the things this country needs writes an
~ enraged editor, "is revival of the old-fashioned
sewing circle. Too many women are skilled in the
mechanics of contract bridge, while American man
rebuild damaged socks and turn collars on frayed
shirts
Good gentlemen does not this smack of treason?
Is it not vicious and insidous propaganda designed
to break down big business?
For editor evidently forgetS that American
manhood also is crying out for women to keep up
normal spending Otherwise, so other editors tell
u.s. things will collapse The women must spend
every cent they possibly can business may go on
as usual and jobs may be kept and prosperity return
Let us see what would happen if the old-fashioned
sewing circle were revived. The women probably
would start to making their underwear their house
dresses their pillowcases and Sheets and good many
other things.
MANY manufacturers would be compelled to shut
1V1 their doors. Dress shops would go out of bust
ness. Department stores would suffer. If we turned
all the frayed collars husbands shirts, the shirt
makers would set up awful howl. If we darned and
redarned the socks, the hosiery would protest.
1t is obvious that the most haraSsed creatures at
large these days Is the American housewife The above
paragraph Is merely of thousands of items Of
fering her advice and criticism.
Already being weighted with responsibilities, this
gibe about the sewing circle probably will not move
her. She is told on one hand to spend freely and
on the other to squeeze every nickel
1t was the great male business genius, If I re-
member Alright, who took all our home work away
from us and put up innumerable factories to do it.
the while he announced that he was ushering in the
millennium.
In view of that fact, it's my opinion that the best
thing we do now is to ignore him.
7 do not know how things going to turn out,
but do wish the men would stop giving us advice
until they make up their minds about what they
want us to do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
In TeIeyiSiOn

CCANNING DISK for television
~ transmitter made from alumni
mum sheet.
Defensive pistol shooting gas
bullets utilizes tiny aluminium
castings for working parts.
New type of adjustable bread
slicer uses aluminium fiat and round
wire and aluminium sheet.
Aluminium extensively used in
construction of lathering device for
barber shops.
Aluminium alloy pistons for Diesel
electric locomotives.
Colored buttons made from alum
mum sheet iron used on work shirts.
Counter-balanced flagpole is easy
to manipulate.
Aluminium doors for hangers at
airport. Extremely light and easy
to open under all conditions.
Funnel-shaped reflector made
from aluminium alloy used to direct
sound in new "one-way" railroad
whistle.
Light aluminium forgings replace
cutter heads made from cast iron
on high speed milling machine.
Light aluminium doors for round
houses are easy to operate and re-
sist corrosion by coal gas.
Handy-sized compacts finished in
aluminium foil. The foil is buffed
and polished to give it bright sill
very finish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
HEALTH SERVICE
Extreme Care Needed in Using Radium
: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

distance from the body and the
hands.
In addition, it is customary to
put between the person handling the
radium and this material itself a
shelf covered with at least one CEN
timeter of sheet lead or it's equiva-
| lent.
Whenever radium is moved from
one room to another, it should be
carried in boxes made of lead.
The room in which the radiurn
is kept is usually leadlined room,
and room in which people do not
work constantly.
DR.. E. S. Ernst recommends that
radium, when not in use, be stored
in safe with lead protection
equivalent to five centimeters CT
lead for every 100 milligrams of ra-
dunn.
During the period when the ra-
dunn is being applied to the pa
tent, his room should not be visited
frequently, except by those who re
taking care of him, and sign
should be placed at the head of the
bed indicating that radium is being
employed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
GERMANS ARE STOPPED
March 30

.ON March 80, 1918, more cheer
~ ing news came from the sixty
mile battle front on French and
British positions by fresh Ger
man divisions we're repulsed with
great loss to the attackers.
This was the first day since March
81, when the great drive began. that
main positions had been held and
was the first indication that at last
the great German attack had been
stopped substantially.
Minor gains were made on the
sector held by the French, but these
were considered, of little value.
Paris was bombarded again by the
long-range gun, eight being killed.
th1rty-seven wounded.
The Netherlands government pro
tested seizure Of Dutch ships by the
allies. Holland had refused the offer
OF the allied governments for her
ships, only to have them seized on
the order of President Wilson for
use in carrying food and SUPPLIES to
France and England.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
People Voice

Editor Times-As the national
election is not very far around the
corner the powers of the almighty
party that engineer the G.. o. P.
are doing everything within their
power TO hypnotic the American
voters to vote for continuance of
the present Hoover prosperity" an
other four years.
In their fertile brain the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation has
been Matched, a gigantic institution
supported by the mass of American
people, to be operated by and for
big business for its pecuniary gain.
AS it is conceived, it acts merely
as a life saver, or rescue party, for
the billion-dollar corporation that
are in Dutch" financially. It is
not an instrument devised and de-
signed to benefit you and me or the
man in the street who lost his all
through the so-called frozen assets
in the defunct nationwide bank
failures.
His pile Is gone forever. as no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30

There are records of serious in
jury and deaths of people who have
walked off from hospitals carrying
radium in their bodies. The use OF
radium is not simple matter.
1t has to be applied under con-
trolled conditions and according to
the physical changes that have
taken place in the individual pa
tient.
Experts nowadays use both
X-ray and radium in a combined
attack on cancer. The supply of
radium available for the treatment
Of cancer is limited.
It's use is, therefore, comfortable
by the reliable institutions that
have it.
Unfortunately a considerable
number of charlatans of one type
or another have exploited the
word "radium" without them
selves having actual radium or
radium products for the purpose.
The general interest in an ele-
ment SO potent and so valuable
as this has made the very word
"radium" selling word for
quackS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
Speed the DaYI
DROHIBITIoN has done as mi

DROHIBITION has done as much
L as the slump in business, if not
more, to create financial embarrass-
ment at Washington and subject
the American people to tax burdens
such as they never knew in time
of peace.
In addition, this "noble expert
ment" has set the stage for such
an era of gang rule and racketeer-
ing as is unique in the history Of
civilized government.
If the nuisance taxes about to
be imposed on us lead to a realiza-
ton of those two points, they will
be a real blessing.
If the people accept them as a
makeshift, until such time as con-
gress can be persuaded to do the
sensible thing they will have &C
complished a purpose of as great
consequence as balancing the
budget.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30

The Nuisance Taaes Should
Be q Constant Reminder
That Prohibition Has IN.
creased Our Tar Burden
and Fostered an Era o.
Gang Rule.
NEW YORK, March 3o.-Last
IN week, millions of people
imagined that the federal budget
could not be balanced without a
sales tax. Now they know better.
It took the ways and means COM
mittee only three days to frame a
substitute, and it took the house
only three hours 20 pass half the
items.
In one sense, this substitute i'm
poses a sales tax of varying degree
on certain specified articles and
transactions, but the fact that the
articles and transactions are speci-
fed makes a great difference.
If the general sales tax measure
had been adopted, consumers could
not have told just how much they
were paying the government be-
cause the amount would have been
hidden in the price.
The substitute leaves no doubt on
that point. When you pay cents
for a postage stamp, instead of 2, or
an extra 6 cents when you buy a
dollar theater ticket, you will not
have to guess at the amount Uncle
Sam is getting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
Tribute to 0utIaWry

VOU and would not be con-
Il fronted with the necessity of
paying these nuisance taxes which
congress is now adopting, except for
one simple fact.
Politically dry lawmakers, who
still represent majority in con-
gress, would rather tax us than the
beer barons. They do not put it that
way, of course, but that is what it
amounts to.
These nuisance taxes represent a
tribute to unlawful trade, political
graft and broken laws.
Outside of producing the cash
which is needed to meet an
emergency, their one virtue con-
sistS in the fact that they may
arouse a long-suffering public to ex-
press itself with such force as
politicians can not misunderstood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
Questions and
Answers
Was Colonel Charles A. Lind
hnr.nIa s.,.n drrnf tod f,nr,n n nnIInnn0

Was Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh graduated from a college?
He had two years in the chemi-
cal engineering course at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1920, but
left the university without gradu-
alton to enroll in a flying school at
Lincoln, Neb., in 1922.
How high are the mountains
Whitney, Rainier. Mckinley and
Shasta?
Whitney is 1896 feet; Rainier,
14,4O8 feet; Mckinley, 10000 feet,
and Shasta 14,161 feet.
How large a population did San
Francisco have in 1910?
416,913.
How many miles of state high
way has Ohio?
At the end Of 1880 it had II ,343
miles.
Are atomic weight and specific
gravity the same?
Atomic weight is the weight of an
atom of substance compared with
the weight of an atom of hydrogen;
specific gravity indicates the weight
of a substance compared with the
weight of an equal volume Of water.
Will oxygen ignite?
Pure oxygen will not ignite.
How does Cincinnati, O., rank In
population of large cities?
Sixteenth,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30

lof Tammany rule, and, though his
charges went unheeded, they formed
the backbone of the Investigation
INTO the magistrates courts. La
Guardia manages to be factual and
tervid at the same time.
His successful fight against the
sales tax required great political
courage. He had to war against
both Republican and Democratic
leadership. More than that, it was
necessary for him to incur the
enmity of William Randolph Hearst
who is the real father of tho
measure.
Garner, the favorite son of the
publisher, soon proved to have a
glass jaw and went down without
even striking blow in his own de-
tense. Yet there still was left able
opposition, and La Guardia con-
quered it without any Organization
support whatsoever. Not within DIR
time has an individual won such q
striking legislative victory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
They viii Make Him Paw

NDOUBTEDLY La Guardia will
~ have to pay for his temerity
IL is nonsense to talk about him as
a mere careerist, for from now on
the hand of every boss is against
him.
The truth of the matter is that he
put up his battle purely upon the
urge OF a sincere conviction. He has
oeen licked in good causes before
and may again. They have counted
nine over Fiorello upon occasion. but
never ten.
Nor Is it true that he has de-
stroyed all hope of budget balancing
without having any constructive
suggestion to make. From the be-
ginning, he has been one of the
most effective advocates of prohihi-
ton repeal and its attendant reve-
nue..
II the finances of the country are
10 be muddled, the blame lies
squarely at the door of those who
insist that it is better to 20 both
hungry and thirsty at the same
time.
Attaboy, Fiorello!
(Copyrigt. 1882. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30

scheme now or prospective has been
promulgated to recover or retrieve
his lost lifetime savings.
The big banks and corporations
are the guilty parties to this hoard
ing spree. Press reports last week
showed that one corporation alone
the United States Steel CORPORA
ton, had s100,000,0O0 surplus in its
Golfers, which was Of no benefit to
any one.
The subsidized press tells the
public that all that is lacking is
confidence. Well, that is true. Lack
of confidence in the government,
courts, banks and the Hoover adj
ministration.
If the phrase, lack Of conf
dence," could be coined into one
word specifying the prevalent dis
ease, 1 would call it too much
"Hooveritis.
FRANK T. BAINE JR.
Editor Times-There is real merit
in the suggestion of Postmaster
Leslie D. Clancy as to distribution
Of liquor by the internal revenue de-
partment through the poStofTice.
Wouldn't this prevent the boot
logger and racketeer from muscling
in, should the eighteenth amendment
be repealed? Whatever legislation
is enacted for goodness sake let's
get rid of the bootlegger and
racketeer. G. D. SMITH.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

It92 Uses for Aluminium are
Listed IN Bulletin Showing
Constant Progress.
NEW uses found for aluminium
~ range from floor-plates for
battleships to imitation rifles car
ried by the chorus of the Ziegfeld
Follies: from tubing for automo-
bile gasoline lines to untearabls
cards.
One hundred ninety-two uses,
listed in a bulletin just issued by
the Aluminium Company of Amer
lea, illustrate how constant progress
is made through research. Here
are a few of the more interesting
items in the list:
Drawing instruments for drafts
men made from strong aluminium
alloys. Light in weight, strong, rigid,
and well balanced.
Embossed aluminium foil covers
walls. Harmonizes with moderniStic
| furnishings.
Aluminium hardware saves weight
| for airplane luggage carrier.
I Aluminium disks record sound eff
fectS for talkie pictures.
Magazine to hold golf balls made
from aluminium tubing. Attached as
handle to the caddy bag and may
be locked to prevent theft.
House numbers made from alumni
mum sheet.
Light aluminium basket used to
save weight on experimental high
altitude balloon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
Lest We FORGET
THE substitute will be

TINE substitute will be as an
Il moving as the general sales tax
would have been in some respects,
but it will be open and easily
identified. For that reason, it will
not lend itself to price boosting.
Because it is specific and itemized,
people constantly will be reminded
of its presence, and how it might
have been avoided.
It should be thought of and re-
ferred to as a compound of nuis-
ance taxes, and a tribute to
racketeers.
It could have been avoided by a
tax on beer.
That is something for people to
remember every time they pay over
the pennies, or percentages for
which it calls.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
Beer Could Bear It

1T goes without saying that the
L budget should be balanced, and
that cutting down government ex-
penses by $250,OOO,OO0 and raising
$3O0,000,O00 by taxation represents a
sensible way Of getting the $3.50, 000,-
900 required.
The $3O0,OOO,0OO to be raised by
taxation could have been produced
by leving 2 cents pint on beer.
Instead, this vast amount of
money, and whole lot more, will
continue to finance an illegal traffic,
with political corruption, disrespect
for law and increase of crime as the
logical by-products.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30

AS a matter of fact, he generally
has his name placed on the ballot
as an independent as we'll as a Re-
publican.
To be sure, he is not the darling
of organized radicalism. Orthodox
Socialists will not admit him as a
kinsman, since he operates outside
their lines. Yet I venture to say
that any Socialist elected to Wash
ington would find himself seeing eye
to eye with La Guardia on vast
majority of all measures.
1t is fair enough for conservative
commentators to attack him as one
who has no respect or consideration
for the avowed principles of the Re
publican party. But they are wholly
wrong if they attempt to impugn
his sincerity and honesty and cour-
age.
Indeed, it is a little ironical for
stanch Hooverites to assail him for
lack of regularity, since the local
Republican organization knitted him
with gleeful ferocity when he ran
for mayor of New York City. He
owes nothing to the orthodox.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MAGAZINE,

Health Magazine.
1T long since has been recognized
L that, radium is of special virtue
in the control of cancer. Today
early diagnosis, surgical removal,
and treatment with radium and
X-ray constitute the main reliance
in all cases of this disease.
Radium is, however, such an i'm
portant substance from the point of
view of it's effects on the human
body that all sorts of methods have
had to be developed to protect those
who us and apply it.
Cases are on record and have had
wide publicity in which girls who
painted watch diaIs have suffered
destructive bone conditions from
continued action of radium.
The skin, specially that of the
hands, must be protected at all
times from direct contact with I'M
filtered radium.
For this reason, the radium must
be handled with long forceps, pref
erably made of wood, so long that
the radium will be at considerable
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
The Jokes on us

THE joke, of course, is on New
Il York, but the jest is bitter
one. In the choice between the can
didates of the two major parties,
Gotham citizens had the opportun-
ity to select man who is national
leader or to pick a Tammany politi-
clan who makes good after-dinner
speeches.
BY large majority we fiocked to
Jimmy Walker, who dimes well. 1t
must also be admitted that our
mayor goes to a better tailor. Amer
lea seems to be addicted to selection
by shirt fronts. We elect two kinds
to high executive of1ce-stuffed and
hair.
Even before the revelations of the
Seabury committee, La Guardia
pointed out the manifest iniquities
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers 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, 1932-03-30
Daily Thought

Vanity of vanities, sayeth the
preacher; all Is vanity.-Ecclesi-
aStes us.
Vanity is the foundation of the
most ridiculous and contemplate
yices.-Adam Smith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
TT STEMS tn MT nv HAYWOOD
L l. OAL4V1O ~ 4N11 d BROUN

A T time when brickbatS are fly
N ing in the direction of con-
gress, I think it appropriate to be-
stow at least once bouquet. For
tunately, in the case of the in
dividuaI have in mind the wreath
need not take a floral form. He
would not be unwilling, believe, to
reach for a cocktail instead of a
crocuS.
The real leadership in the house
has come into the hands of a man
who has won that position wholly
by his own driving force. The ORTIZ
odox members of the Republican
party are not in sympathy with his
political views.
He is, in the eyes of many, a
Socialist in sleeps clothings and to-
day, in spite of all opposition, he
stands as the most powerful and
persuasive member of the lower
house, if not of the entire congress.
Naturally you have guessed by now
that I mean Fiorello La Guardia.
EOE Lldlly Udyo 11OW JOu WILL HC
reading editorials in which he will
be denounced as a shameless dema-
cog intent wholly upon his own in
terests and preferment. Even the
most ardent of his enemies upon the
floor knows better than that.
An arch standpatter in the senate
said privately a few weeks ago:
Down here we recognize the fact
that La Guardia is the fellow we've
got to fight. He's always on the job,
and he's one of the few men in
Washington with a definite political
philosophy"
II n
Of Course He's Radical
T A GUARDIA is confessedly a
IL radical. Republicans have
right to point out if they please that
he uses the party label merely as a
convenience. He would admit as
much himself. 1t is the program
and not the designation which in
terestS him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-30
Of Course He's Radical
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-12

it should not be such difficult matter to get
relief from the company
Since the 1ayoffs, there has been a distinct
lack of interest in the leaflets. Since nothing is
done, they probably feel there is no use anyway
and they throw the leaflets away.
Many of the workers are home owners and
belong to the taxpayers association controlled by
the company. We will have to carry on work
inside this organization.
On the election of the F. S. u delegate, we
put out two leaflets, and We had lot of ma
terial in the shop paper. The leaflets aroused
great deal of interest. After a campaign through
leaflets and newspaper publicity, we had pretty
good meeting and the same delegate that we
proposed was nominated by worker that didn't
belong to the organization. This delegate was
pretty well known and has a lot of prestige in
the city, and attracted lot of interest.
How does the group function; what are its
activities? In all the work that we carried
through we followed the method of leahet dis
tribution inside the shop, information from the
company unions, working on individual workers,
organizing union groups, visiting contacts, con-