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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Hnnver's RenlY

President Hoover replied to his critics Tuesday
night. It was his first campaign effort. 1t was a
fighting speech AS such, it stimulated hope in the
breasts Of his followers.
But his defense aroused more sympathy than
conviction He was trying the difficult task Of de-
Tending record of failure He and his party took
credit for prosperity. Now they given credit for
the crash.
1t may be Just or unjust-and we believe Mr..
Hoover, with all his faults, is blamed for too much
but there is an element Of retrbution about the
pubics attitude toward the administration.
Some of his defense rang true. His leadership did
help to keep us on the gold standard He did fight
the bo lus He did assist in Tending off fiat money
Re did help to stop the financial panic check
bank failures and open frozen credit channels. He
deserves praise for that.
But that is not enough And it is the tragedy
Of Mr.. Hoover that he not see that it is not
enough He still wants to pour in relief from the top
expecting it all to trcLe down to the bottom-from
the banker down to the breadne.
Three years of that method have failed to bring
industrial or agricultural revival Mr.. Hoover has
exhausted his resources. All he do now is to
ask people to have hope and pray.
He talks of more tariffs for the farmers, but he
should know, as they know from terrible experience
with the present Hoover rates that the high tariff is
not a cure, but
He talks of more credit, but he should know, as
they know that what the farmer and home owner
and business man and worker needs is not help to
get further into debt but help to get out of debt.
He talks of opposing cancellation of foreign debts,
but he should know, as they know, that these debts
are not being paid and will not be paid in the
near future-f ever. About the only thing he
offered Tuesday night to destroy the Hoover
farm sterilization machinery which has failed.
When the President attacked the Democratic
party on the basis of its weak record in the last
congress- he was more effective. On that record,
there is basis for the Presidents hot rebuke of the
Democratic party's legislative leadership. The
country we'll might hear more of the same.
The Des Moines speech will have served
full purpose if it puts the Democratic campagners
the defensive long enough to make them take stock
of their partys manifest shortcomings as DEM
onstrated in the last session of congress. The Dem
ocratic spokesman have the feeling of victory now; it
is time they were brought to consider the gravity
of the responsibility they seeking to take upon
themselves
The plight of the President who Travelled into
the midwest to defend his record and defy his critics
should furnish them with sufficient warning that
it is a hollow prize for which they reaching
if they not prepared to meet the problems undes
which the country nearly is so Frustrated.
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hasn't indianapolis taken over the
plant, anyway?
This is a great old world. Rail-
road rates just about where thew
were at the peak Of the war, with
100000 fewer employed and 10
per cent cut in wages. The rail-
roads crying for business, while the
big boys of the I. G. G. sit behind
their mahogany desks and let them
go broke by permitting the truck
industry to take what they call the
short haul tonnage.
1t has developed into zones, and
there are little or no short hauIs.
If the commission would permit the
rates to be reduced to pre-war
rates, and ask the employees to ac-
cept pre-war wages, they could and
would get some place and put thou
sands of men back to work.
That would put the trucks out of
business and throw it to the rail-
roads and everybody would be hap
py, except the truck men.
Railroad rates have reached the
producer and he is bucking the car
riers as an individual (Which be-
comes collective) by having his feed
hauled from as far as st. Louis and
his stock from Chicago to Indian
apolis territory. Multiple hundreds
are doing the same way.
The little fellow is not as dumb
as some may think, and he has a
way Of getting his stuff moved at
a reasonable rate, but not by rail-
road. I know that 90 per cent of
all hay moving across the country
is going by truck. This town in
1913 and 1914 was using twenty-five
cars of hay a day; now there isn't a
car a year; it is all moved by truck.
Same thing to all army canton
ments in all quarters. Why? Be-
cause the railroad rates are pro-
hibitive.
So much for that. In 1918 the
Indiana Bell Telephone book was
about Ia inches thick; now it is a
and the next issue, if rates stay
where they are, it will be q to T.
Many fewer employees since the
manual phones were put in. wages
reduced and rates same as war
time.
Multiplied thousands of phones
have been taken out and still going.
Single line house phones should be
$3.50 two-party line, or 81, then rs
to IS per cent of the removals would
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Views of Times Readers

Editor TimeS-Residing in our mo
mean city" for 72 years, have, at
the age of rs, been arrested or had
meetings broken up that many times
during the last four years. Slept
some ten nights in the city prison,
bailed out by friends and relatives
about twenty times, detained per-
haps twenty times on the first floor
of police station until too late to
speak on the corner of Market and
Illinois streets, taken home about
twenty times, taken for a walk
for several blocks and released,
several times taken to the front of
the police station and taken home,
twice on one Sunday.
Once while passing out books, for
which I had a license to sell, was
arrested and placed in the dungeon
for eight hours and this outrage
was not entered on the police record.
have been slugged, slapped, and
manhandled by our police, called the
vilest of names, sentenced to the
penal farm for thirty days for not
promising to stay off the streets,
appealed and discharged in circuit
court.
Police have tried to keep me off
of a certain corner, whether I spoke
or not. Quite recently four diff
ferent arrests for profanity,
vagrancy, disorderly conduct, and
breaking up of a religious meeting
were continued from day to day
until I was tried for all four.
Hardly possible to be released on
all four charges, more so when
supported by false evidence. Fined
$40 in all, spent five hours in county
Jail until released by relatives on
appeal bond. And all this in the
land of the free and the home Of the
unemployed"
CHARLES H. KRAUsE sR.
Editor Times-I have been a read
er of your paper for years, and like
it, and I note quite a few things
written by patrons worth while.
I would like to have some one
advise me how to proceed to get
a lower rate on gas. If one fails
to pay on the dot, the price is $1.05,
while it at one time was SIS cents
and quite a while at so cents.
Labor is about as low now as when
the 60-cent rate was on, and pre-
sumo at least Is per cent less help
is being used now than then. Why
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World Supnly
WHETHER industries wi

WHaE.T.!lHER industries will
" switch over to these alternate
methods depends upon compar-
alive operating costs.
Ot course when the day arrives
That the world begins to run out of
sulphur, there will be no choice in
the matter.
Inc worlds sulphur resources
nave been estimated at from 56 =
100000 to 21O0O,OOO metric tons 50
there is little immediate danger of
any scarcity" Taylor says.
The largest reserves are in ItaIv
and the United States. conservative
~ estimated at 25,OO0.OOO and 40
OOO,OOO tons, respectively.
chile is reported to have :. 500 OOo
tons averaging 70 to 80 per cent.
Spain 100000 to 1,75O 900 tons aver,
aging Is to 80 per cent: and ,Tanan
several million tons of so per cent
ore. AO
The producing deposits Of Ita1v
ana Texas have the advantage of
Inc lowest cost of production. IF
Inc estimate Of 10000. 900 metric
tons being the available resources
OF the United States is correct, then
the supply will be exhausted in fif-
Teen years, If our consumption and
expectation continues at the pre-
sent rate Of 2,525,0OO tons yearly.
Even If our reserves were slIffi-
clent for fifty years, conservation of
sulphur should receive our serious
consideration if we are to continue
to use 1t as a raw material in our
basic industries"
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needs. 1t requires protein to build
tissue; carbohydrates and fat for
energy.
1t requires vitamins for their spe-
cif1c properties in prevention of
certain diseases, and also for eStab-
fishing healthful state in which
there is increased resistance to dis
ease.
1t requires mineral salts to take
care of the loss of such substances
in the body chemistry, and also to
build bone, teeth and blood.
1t has been we'll established that
the best method to get such mate
rails into the body is in a we'll
selected diet, rather than by the
taking of capsules of the various
substances needed.
The absorption, when taken in
the form of food, not only is more
pleasurable, but also more efficient.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
DAILY SERVICE
Growing Girl Needs Plenty of Food

special study with view to de-
termine actual needs.
All of these girls were in school
or playing outdoors, and they var
led greatly in growth and in weight.
1t was found that they ranged
from 1,765 calories to 1925 calories
day. For only two individuals was
the average as high as 1900 calories
daily.
There is no question that girls
from to II require increased food
because of the demand on them for
energy, not only energy to supply
the amount used up in their daily
activities, but also to take care of
growth.
This is proved particularly by the
fact that the daily intake increases
with age, but as the girl grows to-
ward maturity it tends to decrease.
The human body requires food
to take acre of certain definite
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
How Does Roosevelt Stand?

DNho4DENI HOOVER can be ex-
4 cuSed from discussing foreign
a11alrS, because his record speaks
Tor itself. This is not the case with
Governor Roosevelt, who comes be-
lore the country as champion of .
new order.
1t is absurd to suppose that Gov
e[nor Roosevelt looks upon foreign
aHalrS as unimportant in any pro-
gram of recovery. 1t is equally alb
Surd to suppose that he hopes to dc
anything of constructive value with
out taking them into account
Such being the case, his compara-
1--WE silence is little less than amaz-
Ing. Not only the people of this
country, but people throughout the
world, would like to know what he
has in mind regarding those prob
lens which plague the international
horizon.
Would he continue to refuse a
conference with Russia? Would he
go on proposing one moratorium
after another on European debts
Would he be content to make aca-
demlc suggestions with regard to
Manchuria?
Governor Roosevelt has made
some very impressive statements on
the tariff and silver, but that is
| scarcely enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
GERMANS IN RETREAT
Oct. 5

ON Oct. 5, 1918, the Germans
" hurriedly evacuated Lille and
began a movement to abandon the
Belgian coast region. They retreat
ed on a wide front north of Rheims
and in Champagne.
The British crossed the ScheIdt
canal on the eight-mile front be-
tween Crevecoeur and LIE Catelet,
and entered Lens.
Three hundred lives were lost
when the Japanese liner Hirano
Maru was sunk off the Irish coast.
Austria Hungary appealed to
President Wilson to conclude an
armiStice Immediately and start ne
gotiationS for peace. Russia abro-
gated the treaty of peace with
Turkey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05

fessor Copeland will overlook, I am
reminded of alcoholic liquors.
The Communists do not like me,
and it is their custom in public
print and private street corner
meeting to assail the Socialist party
upon the grounds that I drink gin.
The pertinence of this escapes me.
If it were true that I had been cor
rupted in my youth by Norman
Thomas I could understand the
drive. The facts are otherwise.
Long before my conversion I drank
gin. Socialism has not added a
cubit to my ration.
Gin quite possibly is bad for me
or any other young man, but can
not understand why the party-I
mean the political one-Should be
held responsible. Even though I
were a follower of Foster, I probably
should solace myself with vodka.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Use in Industry
COMMERCIAL sulphuric acid

COMMERCIAL sulphuric acid is
~ made by diluting concentrated
sulphuric acid or oil of Vitriol, as
it is more often called. with water.
Oil of vitriol is a thick, colorless.
oily liquid, much heavier than
water, liquid which chars paper
and cloth like fire, which Kisses like
something alive when it touches
water, which is capable Of dissolv-
ing away human flesh.
Without this powerful oily LIQUID.
mankind soon would find itself
without steel, gasoline, lubricating
oil, electric storage batteries. gall
vanized iron, white paper, leather,
celluloid, dyestuffS, and a great ar
ray of synthetic products, drugs and
the like.
Sulphurlc acid is required in the
making of dynamite. Without dvna-
mite most mining operations would
come to a halt and the world soon
would find itself without an ade-
quate supply of metals.
All the other products mentioned
require sulphuric acid in their
manufacture.
In 1925 the total production of
sulphuric acid in the world was
I4,o8O,OOO tons, of which the United
States produced 100000 tons.
according to a report made to the
american Chemical Society by A
M. Taylor, consulting chemical en-
glneer of New York, there is M
danger of the worlds supply of
sulphur giving out during the pres
ent generation.
But nevertheless, SO he saws
every major industry now depend
ent upon the use of sulphuric acid
is experimenting to find methods
the acid.
In many cases, the laboratories
nave succeeded in developing the
new processes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
SCIENCE
Exhaustion of Sulphur Sup
ply Is Menace Facing IN
duStrieS of World.
BY DAVID DIETZ

Exhaustion of Sulphur Sup
ply Is Menace Facing IN
duStrieS of World.
IN the research laboratories Of big
= industrial companies as well as
universities. in the United States. in
Germany. in Japan, in practically
every country of the world. scien-
fists and engineers are asking them
selves a question. 1t is: How can We
get along without sulphur?
These men foresee a day when the
worlds supply of sulphur will give
out
From time to time, there is con-
siderable discussion of what the
world will do when its supplies of
petroleum give out Various labora-
tories are at work on substitutes for
petroleum.
The most promising is the process
for the INCORPORATION of coal, by
which gasoline is manufactured
from coal by addition of hydrogen
at high temperature and pressure.
The worlds supply of coal, ac-
cording to the best estimates, will
last a couple of thousand years yet.
The sulphur problem, however, is
much more important one, al
though few laymen. in all probable
ity, realize the Importance of sui
phur in the modern industrial
world.
1t would be entirely proper to re-
fer to the present age as the Age
of Sulphur Acid, for the manufac-
ture Of Sulphuric acid is so inpor-
tant that its statistics are an index
Of the trend of industry.
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Speaking Of Professors

OpGdKlIlS vi / UlGSSUlO
CPEAKING of professors, I am
- moved to lament that Charles
Townsend Copeland has, after many
years, left the Harvard yard. The
room in Hollis will not know again
the like of the little man from
Maine.
He would be justified in trying to
deny the accusation. but the fact
remains that here is one Of many
former pupils whose literary moods
and whose manner were set years
ago by the most vivid personality
known in American universities OF
our day.
Nor was it a matter Of mass
production for Jack Reed, and sat
under the same instruction and
turned out differently.
The elms of Cambridge fell under
a blight before the depression, and
good Harvard men said the old
place would not look the same. But
in that room where nobody came
much before or stayed much after
II there was greater growth and
foliage than could be found in for
est of elms.
For me he answered the question:
Can any good thing come out OF
New EngIand?" But doubt that it
will ever happen again.
And when he left the ancient edi-
flee. built out of the profits of a
Puritan lottery, COpey wrote to one
of his pupils to explain that he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-05
Says

History Contains FeaO Eram-
pies of a Nation Sacrificing
Leadership So Quickly or
UseIeSsly as Has the United
States Since 1919.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-The cam
IN paign still is dumb regarding
I foreign problems. Neither presi-
Dental candidate seems particularly
interested in this all-important
field.
This is strange, considering the
responsibilities a President faces in
it and the power he can exercise.
One can only guess why Mr.. Hoo
yer and Mr.. Roosevelt are so coy
when it comes to war debts, Russia,
and the Manchurian crises. If the
depression is Of worldwide origin
and if recovery depends on world
wide remedies, such subjects are
worthy of discussion in connection
with remedial plans.
Farm relief obviously is impossi-
bic, unless We cease to produce
surplus, or find market for it. In
dustry can not hope to get back on
its feet as long as foreign trade re-
mains at its present low level.
Thousands of American laborers
are out of work because this country
is not getting its rightful share of
Russian purchases. The idea that
this nation can be revitalized by its
people living off one another is
preposterouS.
Foreign relations and foreign trade
played a big part in producing hard
times, which means that they must
be made to play an equally big part
IN restoring good times.
The tariff, of course, is a keystone
IN the arch of our gradual isolation.
It must be revised downward to set
the right fashion, if for no other
reason.
The tariff, however, is but one
phase of a policy which has set us
apart from the rest of the world
and made our country a common
target for all forms of envy and re-
taliation.
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Useless Sacrifice Made

IL 1STORY contains few examples
II of a nation sacrificing leader
ship so quickly or uselessly as has
the United States since 1919.
The miserable performance goes
back to partisan politics.
Republican leaders made I'D their.
minds to ruin Wilson and rejected
a great program of world stabiliza-
ZION to accomplish it. It was q
tragedy of the first magnitude. vet
not one of those leaders conopre-
hended as much.
They were out to win a canonaior
ana that was sufficient to hind
Chem to consequences of a monu-
mental blunder.
When this government refused IN
SIT down at the council table with
other governments, it began to brew
the bitter draught from which all
humanity is suffering TODAY.
Inc present depression was horn
OF the stupid, mistaken policy fo,.
winch Harding stood and which has
characterized the two succeeding
administrations. >'---e
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0verStaying Welcome

D ECENTLY President Herbert
IN Hoover sent a note of congrat-
ulation to a gentleman who had
been employed for seventy-one years
in the same department store. He
said that he should be proud.
1 don't think so. To me that sug-
geSts inertia rather than fidelity. It
is true that I have myself spent
twenty-five years in newspaper work.
But not in the same place.
I am proud to say that I have
been fired several times. And still
have hopes.
DOWNRIGHT. 1872. bv The Tirnssl
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE By01s}

wanted to be a little nearer an ele-
vator. And he added his new tele-
phone number X-1588- saying:
you can remember that by it's be-
ing one mineral after the year of
the execution of Mary, Queen of
Scots"
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be reinstated. Business would be
picking up.
Western Union and Postal rates
are the same as when Uncle Sam
took them over, with an added tax
now to help balance the budget.
I wonder what an efficiency ex-
pert would do to increase income If
he had the opportunity.
o. D. KENDRICK, Board Of Trade.
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Daily Thoughts

And he that taketh not his
cross, and followeth after me is
not worthy of me.-St. Matthew
1898.
The Sower of the seed is aSSuredly
the author of the whole harvest OF
mischief .-DemoStheneS
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when it fit to do so, instead of being arbitrarily
adjourned March 4 every other year, with public
business left undone attended to hastily.
If the amendment becomes effective next October,
there is every to hope it will representative
governnnt will have a opportunity to demon
strate whether it is all the American people have
hoped.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
NE@S' w . ANAVAO 7 AOAA1SA1A4N
Editor Journal of the American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MapazinA

Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
THE growing girl, like the grow
Il ing boy, needs much food and,
indeed, special types of food for
adequate growth and health.
In a recent survey of the subject,
Miss Wait and DR.. Lydia j. Rob-
erts point out that many of the
studies previously made have been
concerned with sick girls and under
weight girls, rather than those who
might be considered normal and
we'll nourished.
Figures have varied greatly. Thus,
certain English observers found that
girls from 10 to II years of age re-
quire as much as 2,756 to 1910
calories day.
Fifty-two girls were subjected to
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Ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those of
one Of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre.
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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The School of a Dream
was speaking the other

w HEN L was speaking the other
W day of the school of which
some of us might dream, forgot to
add the important point that, what
ever its plan or schedule, it can not
fulfill any bright vision unless it
contains within its walls one great
teacher.
That is harsh stipulation. have
known one. There may be others,
but Copey was alone from 1906 until
1910, and from the other colleges of
the coast and hinterland I have
heard no raving on the part of
graduates.
I can not even name most of
those to whose lectures I listened
with inattention some quarter of a.
century ago. 1 did nothing to dis
tlnguish myself, but now we're quits.
l can't remember them.