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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

an outstanding producer of good pictures, Ernst
N Lubitsch is entitled to respectful hearing. He
insists that it is impossible to make fine pictures
without sex interest since the most dramatic conflicts
of life are the conflicts Of SEX
This audience of one agrees However, it would
be splendid thing if could impress upon some
producers that in real life we not perpetually
going through conflicts and that there are many
hours when we are not concerned with at all.
Some of our Hollywood overlords appear to forget
that.
I have small patience, however with those who
always are crying down the movies because while
this NAV be our newest and crudest industry, it is
improving all the time.
1t is true that a good many pictures impoS-
Sble and sentimental stories of wSh-fulllment with
a strong appeal to the adoleScent mind. But it is
also true that the number of good pictures is grow
ing steadily.
MO doubt we always shall have cheap and shoddy
~ pictures, just as we always have had cheap and
shoddy books and plays. We do not close up the pub
fishing houses and the theaters for that.
And those critics who are Surfeted with stage and
screen productions in New York have adequate
conception of what it means to the country man to
be able to the best moving pictures at the very
same time they are shown in metropolitan centerS
know of nothing that has so helped to rid the
provincial Of his feeling of inferiority and ignorance
as the radio and the moving pictures For the first
time in history, in respect the farmer has the
same chance with the city dweller.
This fact, I convinced, will bring about a
change in our national viewpoint. And that change
will be for the better in spite of general wangs
about mass mindedness and standardization.
The fact is that never before have people known
much about their fellows at the opposite side OF
the country and the earth. The chance for educa-
uonal advance and understanding by means of the
radio and the movies is beyond imagination:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Words. Words

Dr. Vizetelly and the rest of the dctionarans must
be busy these days unscrambng and trying to define
the new argot brought upon us by the depression.
Broadening the base" "reinhation,' "counter-in-
haton,n "liquidity" frozen assets" balancing the
budget" bear rsids'-al these, and more have been
thrust upon us among the other evils of the depres
sion.
These phrases may mean something to the eminent
bankers and economists who foisted them upon us
But they are hazy to the rest of us.
Why have not the bankers the quality Of express
sion Of the underworld and the sporting writersP
What we need is some plain language in the high
places.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
The Water Rates

No will quarrel with the statement that the
compromise schedule of rates for the water company
the best that could be obtained from utility
minded commissioner by a city administration that
was handicapped for lack of funds with which to
fight
No will quarrel with the charge that the rates
still too high and higher for large group of
citizens than they were before.
All that was obtained was confession that the
company has been charging small home owners on
an unfair basis for years and that its hands had
reached much too deep into the city tax funds for
hydrant fees
The reductions were voluntary. The increases
were illegal and immoral
The stark fact is that the company has been
charging to operating expense the club dues of its
Philadelphia president its contribution to organiza
tions working against public interest its charities
and it's tributes to minority groups.
The bigger fact is that its profits have been in
defensibe morally extortionate in the aggregate
t,rdarsome to the prosperity of the city and with
out any relationship to the actual investment of its
eastern owners.
1t has collected for years on a theory which it
established in the supreme court its rates should
be based on a probematical cost of reproducing its
plant, including the reproduction of the God-made
river and water Sheds That actual basis was trans
lated terms of high priced labor and commodities
If the same rule were applied today, by a COM
mission and court not thoroughly hypnotized by the
power of money and the pleas of utility mainipula-
tors the rates for all, large and small users
would be cut at least 20 per cent and perhaps more
Pleading before unfriendy jury may be futile
thing. 1t may be necessary to wait until January
of next year. Then there will be a Governor
who according to all signs will be pledged to the peo-
pies interests and under obligation to the utility
fiction
But the day must come when the people are per-
mitted to live without paying tribute to private in
dividuals who have shown themselves very csllous
to public interest.
Public ownership of water supply for this city
is necessary. There are enough idle men to build
new one If the of the present system persist
in their obstinate greed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
War Finds a Way

ID ANNING a few devices an6
- contraptions has little bearing
on disarmament. 1t might save
some money, though even that is
doubtful. 1t certainly would not
prevent, or civilize war.
To hear some people talk, you'd
think that ancient war was a pink
tea, that civilian populations used
to be safe and that men couldn't dc
very effective job of killing with
old-fashioned tools.
Those people are just frightened
by their day dreams. They have
been careless in their reading OF
history. They fail to realize what
efficient butchers, looters and rapers
the old boys were.
Twelve-inch guns are not re-
quired to lay waste town, or
poison gas to exterminate coun-
tryside. Men knew how to wipe
their fellow beings off the map long
before they ever heard of high ex-
plOSiVes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETz

Solomon Had the Right Idea
When He Declared There Is
Nothing NeW Under the
San.
U ING SOLOMON is alleged to
N have said there was nothing
new under the sun. Recent archeo-
logical discoveries. reported at
meeting of the American Oriental
Society at the oriental institute of
the University Of Chicago, would
seem to indicate that King Solomon
had somewhat Of the right idea.
! Changes in interest rates and
commodity prices were traced back
to $50 B. c., while the notion of
brushing ones teeth was traced
back to 100 B. c. In addition it
was pointed out that the ancient
Egyptians employed proofreaders.
Evidence of a business upheaval
in ancient Assyro- Babylonia about
the year $50 B. C. was reported by
w. H. DubberStein of the oriental
/ institute.
A study of clay tablets of that
age showed that in one year inter
est rates jumped from 20 to 40 per
cent, while the prices Of a buShel
of dates or barley rose from a quar-
ter shekel to a half shekel.
Dubbersteins suggestion that in
ternal difficulties of the Persian ad-
ministration were responsible for
the business upheaval.
The study of Babylonian business
documents, now in the possession of
the oriental institute, indicates that
the Babylonians often required Sc
curitieS for their loans in the form
of slaves or property.
These securities, referred to as
pledges" were used by the lender
until the loan was repaid, and
therefore constituted form of in
/ tereSt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Peoples Voice

Editor Times - After the first
few hundred attempts and a won
derful display of courage, I'll feel
reasonably assured that praise and
appreciation of a wonderful paper
isn't enough and that letter from
Connersville isn't worthy Of any
particular notice.
I haven't the slightest desire to
become literary genius, but when
some hard-headed dry explains, in
most elaborate way, the gorgeous
effects of prohibition, I rant and
rave and pull a Tom Helm, sit
right down and, with no regard for
grammatical errors, start roarin'.
We weren't criticised when we
were asked to shoulder a musket or
yank the trigger of a machine gun,
but perhaps some of us feel bit
more keenly than others the sting
of the prohibition dragon-fly.
Maybe we shouldn't cry out in
pain when we live in deadly fear
of being kicked out, bag and bag
gage, or shiver from the cold, and
in doubt from whence cometh the
next meal for our families.
1t has been said that time cures
all wounds" but it doesn't fill an
empty stomach. I'll stand behind
the latter part of that sentence.
w. D. CAMPBELL.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14

Rheumatic Cures Number Thousands

ritis remedies being sold in Ameri-
can drug stores.
These remedies usually contain,
as is pointed out by Drs. Edward H.
Rynearson and Philip S. Hench,
some product of salicylic acid, or of
henobarbital,. mild cathartic and
usually some alkaline preparation.
There are, of course, cases in
which the administration of one or
all these drugs may be inadviSable,
yet time and again patients expert
ment with these methods on their
bodies who would not think for a
moment of experimenting with a
substitute for gasoline in their cars.
1t is we'll known that persons with
rheumatic conditions occasionally
get better and again relapse, with
out any certain understanding for
the reasons of either improvement
or relapse.
Unfortunately, each improvement
may be taken as evidence of the
value of some new treatment and
not as natural improvement in
course of the disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Intelligent Economy

It is as true today as IL was a few months
ago-when everybody was procaiming it-that an in
teigent program of public works would help restore
prosperity.
Yet today the government is about to abandon
important public works on which it already is en-
gagged. 1t has failed to create new employment and
proposes to destroy the useful employment of many
thousands of workers.
That is what is meant by the contemplated slash
in the appropriation for Boulder dam, for instance
The same is true to other proposed slashes
If this is to be done, it should be done only as
last resort There other and better ways to save
money.
Economies could and should be made in the federal
budget.
Roughly speaking, third of the cost of running
the federal government for the coming fiscal year
will be to the costs Of the war and navy depart
ments. The war department budget for the coming
year calls for $42S,o4OSO2 About 1923 100000 of
this will go for strictly military costs
The navy will spend $343 900 0O0 The total military
expenditures will be approximately $666OOoOoo This is
about s1OOOOoooo more than the country spent for
that purpose in 1924.
Even if consolidation of the two departments is
impossible because of presidential opposition at least
$45,OOOOOO could be cut from the war department by
N~NN~S~S~ANA
guard organized reserves, r. O. T. c. and c. M. T. G.
The country trains, uniforms equips and feeds the
thousands of men in these services pays for summer
camp vacation for them and seeks to guide them
in their political thinking
Another $5oO0O0OO could be saved by postponng
new naval construction and cutting that amount from
the naval BILL with additional sums from the navy's
educational services.
If congress sensibly should omit from the budget
the S44OOOOOO it proposes to spend for enforcing
hbition restrictions which the people are getting ready
to wipe shortly from the statute books it could afford
to forget entirely about pay cuts.
If it should decline to subsidize ship owners to the
extent of $28OOOOOO in mail contracts and $35,0OO,-
100000 in building loans and airpIane companies
$19,00O,000 additional for mail contracts it would need
to worry about Diminishing efficient and faith
full employees
Economy can be achieved without making the de-
preston worse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

drugs which diminish pain; removal
of foci of infection in the teeth.
tonsils, and other parts of the body;
use of physical therapy in the form
of hot baths, electric development of
heat in the tissues, and, finally, a
controlled diet.
Unfortunately, most patients with
rheumatic infiammations do not
undertake a regular course of treat
ment under competent care.
They experiment with one method
or another without realizing that
the attack on this disease must be a
profound and complete attack.
Forty per cent of patients treated
for rheumatic infiammations were
found to have experimental at one
time or another with all sorts of
rheumatic cures offered in bottles
in drug stores.
1t is stated that 5000 different
rheumatic cures are sold in Ger
many, and a brief investigation in
this country revealed at least $50
patented rheumatism, govt and neu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
A Nice Biz FroWn

NEW of us can attain pessimism
Il upon a scale as grand and lofty
as that which Washington achieved,
but each can do something in his
own way. I have found pessimism
a solace and comfort even in little
things.
It is, for instance, my annual
practice to declare roundly each
autumn that Yale is going to win
the football game. Sometimes the
Ellis take me at nay word and pro-
coed to mop up Harvard. In that
event the edge of the tragedy is
tempered quite bit for me because
of my having moved into a mood
of expectancy.
And when Harvard wins, of
course, my joys doubled, since such
a happening represents a bolt from
the blue. Moreover, all ties are in
my favor, since each constitutes a
moral victory.
There is such thing as crying,
Wolf at the doorl" once too sell
dom. And this, I think, has been
besetting sin of the present adj
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Questions and
Answers

Was King Solomon Negro?
No, he was of the Semitic branch
of the Caucasian race.
How old is Alfonso XIII. former
king of Spain?
He was born on May II, 1886.
Where is the United States Coast
Guard academy?
New London, Conn.
Do West Madison street and Fiji
ty-firSt street, in Chicago, intersect?
No.
When and where was Blair Niles
born?
She was born at Coles Ferry, Va.
References consulted do not give
the date.
When was Pola Negri born?
Jan. 3, 1897.
Who was the author of the play
upon which the motion picture,
"The Beloved Bachelor" was
based? !.
Edward H. Peple.
How may one address Charles
Ellis, the billiard player?
Care of the National Billiard As
ISOLATION of America, $40 South
Wabash avenue. Chicago.
When did President Hoover sign
the HawIey- SmOot tariff bill?
At 1888 p. m, eastern standard
time, June II, 1880.
How much has it cost the federal
government to enforce prohibition?
These data are too long to in
clude in this column. The Times
Washington bureau, 1922 New York
avenue, N. w, Washington, D. c.,
will be glad to send a compilation
on the subject to any reader who
sends a request for same, accom-
panied by a cent stamp for re-
turn postage.
What is the definition of the
slang term apple saucer"
1t is generally used derogatorily
to mean "fiattering palaver."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14

tain that everything is going to turn
out for the best. Under that theory
it is always possible to lie back and
nap another hour.
And 1 would defend many of our
Presidents from the charge hurled
at them by Secretary Hurley. For
instance, there was George Wash
ington, who wrote in Revolutionary
days to one Of his generals and
declared that affairs were in so de-
plorable a condition las to fill the
mind with the most anxious and
alarming fears"
Indeed, one of his most brilliaht
exploits has been celebrated in a
large and well-known painting. He
crossed the Delaware and confound-
ed band of HeSsian optimists who
were addicted to the Hoover Hurley
formula of looking up the bright
side of things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Temple Inscriptions

A NCIENT Egypt employed the
L n services of proofreaders.
John A. Wilson of the oriental in
stitute said. They were Used to cor
rect inscriptions on the temples.
Wilson found many instances
where hiero2lyphs carved on temple
walls had teen corrected by filing
parts of tlcn up with plaster and
recarying them.
He also found that the correction
were indicated by scribss who actec
as proofreadeys, using red ink fol
the purpose.
There are instances in the tenn
pies where the red line lies clearly
across the carved and painted
figure" Wilson says.
He goes on to say. there are MANY
reasons why the inscriptions needed
proofreading. The scrihes were try
ing to couch their texts in speech
which had died out as a spoken
language several hundred years be-
fore.
Furthermore, the inscribing of
the texts on a stone wall was a COM
plicated process. with plenty of OPP
portunity for errors and omissions.
But if the proofreading wasn't al
ways good.
THE texts are still heavy with
barbarisms, both grammatical and
artistic" he adds.
He notes however, an attempt to
be accurate, and calls attention to
one inscription in which a list of
booty captured from the Libyans
was changed so that the number of
swords captured was altered from
124 to 1913.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
M: E. Tracy
Says:

Talk Must Go Deeper Than
the Latest DeGth-Dealing
Contrivance Before We
Make Much Progress With
Disarmament.
NEW YORK, April 14.-"Hey
' dad" says Henry, Whats
this disarmament huddle all about?'
We'll" I explain, "the nations
are trying to see if they can not
agree on a program which would
permit them to spend less money
for war equipment"
But I thought war had been
outlawed."
1T has in theory"
What do you mean, theory?"
"The nations have signed a treaty
whereby they agree not to make
war on each other, unless attacked
and to regard war as crime"
If that is so, why can't they get
rid Of most of the war junk? What
are they afraid OFF"
Some of them do not appear to
trust each other as much as they
should"
You mean some of them think
the others would go back on their
word"
That is about the size of it,"
"Oh yeah! And I suppose they
will go right on telling us kids not
to cheat"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
* TODAY SO
&c., Is THE SIP
WORLD WAP \
ANNIVERSARY
~ 9fAGE
GERMANS ADVANCE
April Ii

ON April IA, 1918, heavy fighting
" on the Lys front resulted in
capture of Merris and Vieux Ber-
gum by German troops.
British forces continued to hold
Neuve Eglise against German at
tacks, but gains made on the fanks
by the Germans rendered the town
vulnerable by assaults from three
sides by nightfall and military ex-
perts regarded the towns fall as
inevitable.
American troops on the Toul sec
tor again were attacked by German
forces, but succeeded in BEATING
them off after sharp fighting. More
than regiment of enemy troops
participated in the attack.
The German long-range gun
again bombarded Paris. but losses
there we're small.
] German troops in Finland occu-
pied Hyving and we're reported NOV
ing on Helsingfors unoppoSed by
the Russian Red Guards in the
vicinity.
Finnish White Guards were re-
ported aiding the Germans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Wasted Time
DISARM LAMENT? The bc

.nISARMAMENT? The boys
- might just as we'll quit
Geneva and save the board bill.
There is little but pretense back of
the show AS a Russian delegate
once put it, the way to disarm is
to diSarm.
This quibbling about gun caliber,
poison gas, tanks and other modern
implements of murder is worse
than waste of time. 1t conceals
the real issue.
While success in war may depend
on superior weapons, the idea that
war is legitimate never has and
never will. AS long as that idea
prevails, nations will distrust each
other. AS long as they distrust each
other, they will not disarm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Education Needed

THE talk must go deeper than
l. the latest death-dealing con-
trivance befc-e we can hope to make
much progress with disarmament.
The trouble is that we have not
been sold on the purpose, except as
soothing syrup for taxpayers.
The majority of people, especially
of those in high places, do not be-
lieve that substantial disarmament
is safe. They still see potential
enemies on every horizon, still look
on war as likely to break out in any
quarter at any time.
AS long as that attitude pre-
dominates, we might just as we'll
dismiss the contracts and confer
ences as so much hooey, and admit
that it will take years of education
to bring about the necessary
change
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
RELIGIOUS Bite
THE ancient Indo-Europeans

n ILL 0AANALllb "
l. 100 B. c. made a religious rite
of the brushing of teeth. according
to DR.. George v. Bobrinskoy, assist
ant professor of Sanskrit at the
University of Chicago.
These early Indians had no tooth
pastes, but they brushed the teeth
thoroughly. he said.
For toothbrush, they used twig
taken from living tree, a species
of fig tree being recommended for
the purpose. he continued. It was
imperative that the bark remain on
the twig. The toothbrush" could
be used but once.
There was long list Of days
when the rite either must be omitted
or performed in a different manner.
he said, and on such days the
cleansing of the mouth by rinsine
with twelve mouthfuls of water was
substituted.
A prayer to be delivered before
and after the brushing of the teeth
was translated as, 20 Lord of the
Forest, grant us long life, strength,
glory, progeny, cattle, riches and
knowledge"
Professor Bobrinskoy also trans
lated a passage from Buddhist lit
erature which read: There are
five evils, o monks, resulting from
the omission of the chewing of the
toothstick. Which five? 1t is det-
rimental to the cyesight; the
mouth becomes evil-smeliing; the
taste-conducting nerves of the
tongue are not cleansed; bile,
phlegm and food cover the tongue
over, and ones meal does not please
one"
Sounds almost like magazine al
or radio program, doesn't it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Adult SophiStrY

VOU can go to the books OF
4 statecraft, or diplomacy and
demonstrate that it is perfectly log
ical to outlaw war and still arm
nations. to the teeth, but you can't
make a 15-year -old boy under
stand it.
Why? Because he has not out
grown the illusionment that prom
ises are to be kept, especially when
made by governments. He is not
sufficiently we'll educated to appre-
ciate the tricks and sophistries with
which we play to the gallery.