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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-06
Just Every Day Sense
By MS. walter Ferguson

ITO you believe the law against murders should
~ be repealed because we still have murderers?"
inquiries Mrs N B. F. of Denver, in passionate de-
Tense OF the eighteenth amendment.
Well, to be completely frank, do not believe the
law has prevented homicide. To forbid killing
the statute books is kind of terrorizng gesture
but it does not stop the crime especially in law
ridden country like ours where chance and graft en-
ter so strongly into court procedure.
All this law does in fact, is arrange punishment
for the deed
For the only deterrent of murder is the individual
conscience and well-developed sense of social re-
SpcnSibility
We may protect ourselves from murderers by
locking them up hanging them, but no law We ever
can invent will stop murder
For the average man is kept from crime by his
moral beliefs and training his ancestral traditions
He believes in his deepest soul that the taking of an
from it.
In short, when he stays his hand he obeys not
legal CODE but moral mandate
IF ceased to instn into the young the difference
Il between our present conception of right and
wrong, if they were permitted to grow up-and many
OF them are-without social conscience, no law
der the sun could keep them from vicious deeds
For law 1t seems to me, has in reality very little
to do with our behavior
And may add that left completely unmoved
by the argument that Washington and Lincoln if
st on earth, would champion the holy cause of pro-
hibiton. consider this rather bold assumption.
lheSe men stood for the finest freedon-that which
would prevent one class body of men from dictat-
ing to- or tyrannizng over another class body of
men.
Logic languishes in many dry arguments If a
law against murder does not prevent murder why
on earth pass another against beet under the fond
oeiuSion that II viii stop beer drinking2
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Due to Illusions

XTE went into the war ex-
w aggerating realities, telling
false tales about the enemy, and
promising impossible results in case
Of victory. We went into the post
war boom with similar Illusion
ments regarding debts, taxes and
the power Of humanity to absorb
losses.
We went into the depression
imagining that some evil genius was
prosecuting the righteous, that the
folly OF expecting Germany to foot
the war bill and Wall street to make
everybody rich counted for nothing.
There never has been any mystery
about the cause of trouble. Too
many human beings merely got
caught trying to get something for
nothing. They included n-share
margin buyers as we'll as the big
boys, and corrupt constables as well
as statesmen.
Recovery always has rested on the
proposition of putting enough back
into the kitty" to square accounts.
Now that we are beginning to
realize it, prospects look brighter.
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Shorter Hours

Not long ago, American workers won their long
fight for the eight-hour day. NOW the six-how day
or the fve-day week is coming.
For months union labor has been preaching
shorter hours as part Of the for the depression
Employers apparently are falling into line. More
than lOOoOOOOoO workers under the five
day week schedule, and the National Conference
board questioning 100 executives, finds that IS per
cent Of those replying have reduced working hours
to spread jobs.
The most definite employers movement comes
from New England. Governor Winant Of New
Hampshire and other members of the New England
conference unemployment have urged upon
President Hoover their so-called New Hampshire
plan" for a fve-day work week
This plan calls for careful scrutiny. 1t proposes
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liquid food or food that was soft
Modern dentistry has made il
possible for the aged to chew steaks
or vegetables of considerable fbrous
content.
1t is for this reason that the aged
frequently must resort to laxatives
or to mineral oil to aid the weak
ened intestinal muscles in handling
the waste material.
The aged are likely to suffer par
ticularly with Accommodations of mu-
cous material in the lungs; with di-
miniShed power Of the lungs to re-
pair themselves, small areas of de-
generated tissue break down and
the material accumulates and has to
be coughed out of the lung.
The continued inhalation and
coughing results in disturbances
such as neutrality-suspicious. or sim
liar complaints
The elderly are particularly prone
to Varicose veins, to inflammationS
Of the joints, and to fixed Joints
which follow inflammation.
Next: Cancer, a principal danger
for the aged.
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Not Such a Mystery

1T has been a universal source Of
4 wonderment how we could con-
sumo so much before the depres-
sion set in and get along with SC
little afterWard. People have wor-
ried themselves sick trying to solve
the mystery.
The process has led to many fan
tastic conclusions and more fantas-
tic suggestions, which only added to
the confusion. If so many hadn't
taken the problem as a crossword
puzzle, we would have made faster
Roadway.
That water, of course, has gone
by the mill, but still is worth pass
ing thought, especially because we
still must grapple with the factor
Of bewilderment.
The belief that civilization has
gone bankrupt, still is widespread.
So is the belief that nothing can
save it but some miracle, prefer
ably in the form of revolutionary
change.
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to cut all work hours 10 per cent, thereby adding
some 100000 workers now jobless to the nation:
pay roll.
But with the cut in time goes cut in wages, SO
that the total industrial wage bill remains unchanged
The present workers and stockholders would
contribute the cost of the sixth days wage from wages
and dividends to hire the new man. The employers
contribute nothing.
Economists will see in this plan bit Of Yankee
shrewdess that to miss the whole social theory
behind the shorter work period. That u.s. that men
IN the machine age can produce as much goods and
wealth in less time by reason of increased efficiency
This theory worked when we abandoned the old
twelve and ten-hour days for the eight-hour sched-
ule In experiments far it appears to have worked
also for the six-hour day.,
year ago the Kellogg company of Battle Creek
increased its three eghthou shifts to four six-hour
shifts and adjusted its wages to give the bulk of all
workers the old scale. Immediately company Off
Gals reported, efficiency increased.
Even with 20 per cent more workers. the COM
pany is in of its most prosperous years Western
Electric and Dupont companies reported somewhat
similar experiences under the fve-day week
II the New Hampshire plan become national we
shall, of course have fewer unemployed but all work.
srs will step down to a lower living standard This
iurther Will destroy markets and retard business re-
covery.
H. on the other hand employees increase efficiency
and eliminate waste, many of them probably can re-
duce hours without reducing pay. This will benefit
lnem by conserving the country's buying power for
their own products
Shorter hours will come. For not only should the
expressions jobess be absorbed but room should be
MADE for the "technoogicaly unemployed" who will
De with us after hard times are past
we must create millions of jobs" said President
Green OF the American Federation of Labor FRIDAY
shortening work hours is first step to do it."
Place on the payros of the country can be made
Tor ALL we believe, without further depressins vino
standards and reducing the purchasing power of the
people.
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Blamed on SpookS

DEOPLE just don't like to admit
L that disaster of this magni-
tude could be brought on by normal
human follies and defects. They
prefer to imagine that some evil in
f1uence crept up behind them; that
what happened was not their own
fault, and that they are powerless
to get out of the mess without SUI
pernatural help, or without doing
something they never thought of
before.
The civilized world has been wal
lowing in an atmosphere of eco
nomic and political mysticism, not
only since the depression began, but
since the great war began. 1t has
had one fit of demonology after an
other.
Prussianism was it's first great
DOGGY. Next came Bolshevisrn. Dur
ing the last three years it has been
one evil spook after another.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Such high blood pressure is dan
gerous only when the blood vessels
burst and hemorrhage into the brain
results in death.
OF course, old people suffer with
disturbances of digestion because OF
the changes that have taken place
in their secretions, but also be-
cause they have difficulty in keep
ing infection away from their teeth
and because they do not chew the
food properly.
The constipation of old age is
controlled largely by the taking of
mineral oil, which serves the pur-
pose of softening the intestinal mass
and making elimination easy.
This remedy is practically harm
less and adds years of health to
many older persons. Hemorrhoids
are frequent in the aged and are,
Of course, associated with constipa-
ton.
There was time when the teeth
of the human being gradually fell
out as he grew older, so that he
found himself, by the time he
reached old age, able to take only
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Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
Bunny" Austin-For the first
time in thirteen years, an Eng
hshman reached the finals in the
"all-comerS' singles at Wimbledon.
England, when H. w. Bunny"
Austin faced the American ace,
Ellsworth Vines, July 2, to whose
crushing attack he bowed, Ga, 6-3,
60. In 1919 A. R. F. Kingscote,
popular English World war vete-
ran, reached the finals and was
defeated by G. L. Patterson.
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The Daily Morning NaporS


MIR. HOOVER is incapable OF
1V1 facing facts. He don't even
like them. From the very begin
ing he has avoided solids and dealt
solely in vapors. It is quite in
character that he should offer
oxygen to Wall Street and chlorine
to the unemployed.
And in all seriousness I would
contend that a constitutional i'm
practically is Mr.. Hoover's great
weakness. Now that his term of Of
flee rapidly is drawing to a close, it
is no more than just that we should
attempt to be fair to a man who
has suffered almost as much as his
countrymen.
1t is nonsense to aSsail him as
one lacking in humanity and a de-
cent regard for the welfare Of
mankind. AS soon as time has en-
abled us to get some little prospec-
tive of the man he will be recog-
nized quite generally as no arch VII
Jain, but a tragic figure.
But for the accident of his as
cending to the White House, Herbert
Clark Hoover very well might have
lived and died as a wholly respec-
table and moderately popular mem
Der of the community.
But like many men who are by
nature inarticulate, President Hoo
yer is a worshiper of words. In pri-
vate life I have no doubt that he
nourished secret ambition to be a
writer. Millions Of people are type
struck. This group is even larger
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Origin of Petroleum

nL likewise can be traced to its
~ beginning with the process of
photosynthesis.
AT one time many scientists be-
lieved that mineral oil or petro-
leum had an inorganic origin. This
theory held that during the forma-
ton of the earth's surface rocks.
hydrogen and carbon were brought
together into various combinations
under great pressure and heat and
forced into various combinations.
Petroleum is essentially hydrogen
and carbon-what the chemist calls
hydrocarbon.
But today more scientists are in
clined to accept what is known as
the organic theory of the origin of
petroleum.
This theory holds that the pc
troleum in the earth is the result
OF Chemical changes in the remains
OF plant and animal life which in
habited the earth millions Of years
ago.
According to this theory. petro-
$1,000 W. @OA AAAC0 NAllGily lIOIn MI
mute plants and animals which lived
in swamps and the sea bottom
muds.
Oil. therefore, started with plant
growth, which depended on photo
synthesis.
That water power depends upon
the sun is obvious, for water power
depends upon the weather CYCLE. The
water Of rivers come from creeks
which in turn depend largely on the
run-off Of rains for their supply.
We do not understand completa-
ly all details of the weather. But
1t is obvious that it has its Begin
nings in the heating effect of the
sun on the earth's atmosphere.
The great air currents which are
at the bottom of weather phe-
nomena are started in this wav
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Questions and
Answers
What is the weight of the United
States dirigible Akron?

What is the weight of the United
States dirigible Akron?
About 100000 pounds.
Name the commonest, rafest and
most expensive minerals?
The commonest is quartz; ma
surium and rheniun are about the
rarest, and the platinum metals are
the most expensive.
Did Governor AL Smith receive
more votes for President than any
other DemOcra tic nominee?
He did, and President Hoover also
received more votes than any pre-
vious successful candidate.
How did the pay of private SOL
dierS in Canada. Australia and the
United States compare during the
World war?
The United States paid $50 a
month, Australia paid $43.50 and
Canada paid s33 month. The A.
E. F. received 10 per cent additional
for overseas service.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-In your Question
and Answer column of Fridays
Times, you have made a mistake
that I will ask you to correct.
The question was, who was the
Morse gid of warp" You tod the
inquirer that his na1ne was AS.
or Os.
This is wrong. As means eny god.
Odin, Thor. Freya, Loke. Baldur
Ioun, etc, were all "As'es.
The name Of the god of war is
Tyr. The "y'' is to be pronounced
like the u or ue.
H. COUCHERON AAMOT.
Editor Times-Is this the wear
OF Mugwamps to help get the coun-
try in shape again? They started
when Grover Cleveland beat Ben
Harrison, and once in a while thew
get together and help the Dem
ocrats clean the city and run the
clans out.
If this is the year, Editor. let's
get together and get Watson out
Now dear editor, tell me what's the
matter with Borah? Can we get
some one to take his place out there
in Idaho.
The writer of this letter is a Mug
wamp-a good, strong one-and he
wants to get out and help clean the
whole country up. T. r. HENRY.
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The English lack of success in
contending for their own coveted
all-comers' singles crown in the
last score years is strangely para
doXical. 1t has not been held by
an Englishman since A. w. Gore
defeated the Frenchman, A. H.
Colbert, in 1912.
A CHASTITY Funeral-The noun
famous region of Zicavo, Corsica,
is so rough and impossible that
to convey the body Of a villager
to the place of burial method
has to be resorted to which proba-
bly, is unique in, ghastliness. The
corpse, dressed in an ample goat
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Sources of Power

TOAL, Oil and water power, the
~ three sources of power today.
are all the contribution of the sun
Photosynthesis, the process by
which we get our food at present,
is the process which built up our
coal supplies.
Some one once said that coal was
fossil sunlight-that when we burned
coal we were releasing the sun
beams that fell upon the earth mil
lions of years ago.
Millions of years ago a luxurious
vegetation grew in certain areas OF
the earth's surface. There were
gigantic ferns, tall as trees, and
similar plants. These plants grew
in swampy areas.
Their growth, it must be remem-
bered, was due to the sun. These
plants, like the plants OF today.
built up their tissues out Of the car
bon dioXide of the air and the
water of the soil with the energy
OF sunlight
In time, the swamps in which
these plants grew began to fill up
with decaying vegetation. In time
this decaying vegetation. chiefly
through the action of certain types
OF bacteria living in it, turned to
peat.
Incidentally, there are many peat
Dogs to be found in the world to-
day, and also many swamps in
which the formation of peat is 60
ing on.
Then, with the passage of more
centuries. the peat was buried under
layers of sand and clay.
Gradually, other changes took
place in the past. The percentage
of hydrogen and oxygen in the
peat was decreased, bringing about
a corresponding increase in the
percentage of carbon. Thus, in
time, the peat was changed into
coal.
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NJ. E. Tracy
Everything That Has Been
Done This Year to End the
Depression Could H q 4 G
Been Done Last Year.
Says

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Prospects
1 = for business recovery are
brighter than at any time since the
stock market crash three years ago.
This obviously is due to a favorable
combination of circumstances. For
one thing, the government has
adopted some very impressive
measures of relief, assistance, and
economy.
For another, the prohibition farce
seems likely to be ended. For still
another, Europe really has begun to
clear up the reparations tangle.
To sum it up, the policy Of in
action is being replaced by one of
action. 1t might have been done
before, but not without changing
human nature. When in trouble.
people waste about so much time
looking for miracles.
They simply won't undertake any
thing new, Or drastic, until they
have to. Everything that has been
done this year could have been done,
and should have been done, one
year ago. President Hoover had
just as good reasons for offering his
recovery program in the fall of 1880
as in the fall of 1881.
Europe had just as good reasons
for tackling the debt situation. The
American people had just as good
reasons for insisting that something
be 6"ne about the Volstead act and
eighteenth amendment.
The age-old tendency to put off
things was about all that stood in
the way.
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@ TO-DAY SO
WORLD WAR !
ANNIVERSARY
GGR ofGSE
AMERICANS ADVANCE
Aug. 6

mug
ON Aug. 6, 1918. the fierce battle
" over the possession of the val
ley Of the Vesle river continued be-
tween the American and German
troops.
After beating off several strong
counter attacks, the American
forces pushed forward at nightfall
and made several important ad-
vanceS.
French units near Montdidier sur
prised the opposing German forces
and seized a strong section of the
German defenses.
Two counter-attac failed to
dislodge them after day Of inten-
Sive fighting.
Japan announced that troops had
been dispatched to the Russian port
of Vladivostok to protest the lives
and property Of Japanese citizens. /"
The. port was in the hands of the
Soviet governments
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-Jardtn dAcclrmd1aton Paris


skin, is mounted on a horse. The
seat of the dead rider is quite
rigid, the body being held in po-
sition by cord and pieces of wood,
while the chin is held upright by
forked twig fixed to the saddle.
1t is an extraordinary and fan
taStic sight, but most interesting
is the mounts reaction to the
task. The horse is so frightened
at its load that it is useless for
any further employment. No horse
has been known to carry a dead
rider a second time.
MOnday-"A Colony of Fleas."
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an executive address.
n
A Chance for a Statement
QUT by far his most tragic fail
- ure lay in his treatment of the
oonuS army. This was a situation
requiring definite action. Mr.. Hon
yer never was able to make I'D his
mind to do anything.
mind to do anything.
practlcaI, because he called out the
infantry, the cavalry and the tanks
But even this was no more than q
gesture. The problem merely was
Snl1ted from one locality to another
Inc whole maneuver was an inter
Iuoe Tor another Hoover speech.
Above the tramp Of marching feet
tnere arose the clickety-click of
the presidential typewriter. One
almost can picture the harassed man
IN his Office nervously pacing the
flooor. His face is furrowed and his
halr is rumpled. A terrific prob
lem oesets him. He can't thing of
the right word.
Then, with happy cry, he leaps
70 the machine and writes "a
challenge to the authority of the
United States government has been
met swiftly and firmly" And to
Top 1t off and settle everything. he
also coins the phrase, Communists
and persons with criminal records
Instead Of private secretary
Herbert Hoover ought to be fur.
niShed with good copy-reader
armed with blue pencil. This in
valuable assistant would be en-
powered to cry out every now and
then, Hold on, Herbert: don't
carry yourself away!"
He could, for instance. point o,t
that the leader of the Communist
faction in the B. E. F. never claimed
more than 300 followers. He might
also remind the budding author that
the department of justice up to date
has identified only six men with
police or criminal records"
And it might not be amiss to point
out Johnstown on the map and in
form Mr.. Hoover that there stir is
problem as to whether 5000 men
are to live or starve publicly TO
death.
But there are so many things the
man with the blue pencil would have
to do. Perhaps it would be a bet
ter idea to take away Mr.. Hoover's
typewriter and tell swiftly and
firmly" Fewer adverbs, Mr.. Presi-
dent, and more action" -
tcoDyright. 1882. By The Timesl
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than that composed of people who
wish they could go on the stage.
They Took His Stuff

ONCE in office Mr.. Hoover found
~ to his delight that he could
compose little pieces and that the
newspapers would carry these es-
says. Upon occasion he even made
the front page.
Calvin Coolidge, possessing very
little more literary talent than his
successor, also asked leave to print.
But he never made the fatal mis-
take Of taking his writing seriously.
Indeed, he made public confession
that he was a hack by becoming a
newspaper colunnist.
Mr.. Hoover's strange malady con-
slsts in his inability to recognize the
difference between the word and
the deed. He put chicken and
couple of cars on paper and was
then astonished to find that thew
did not Immediately pop up in pots
and garages.
And to this day he can not recon-
Gle himself to the fact that an ex-
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Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
OLD people have particular diff
" Guilty in walking, for many rea-
sons. First, there may be weaken
ing of the legs, due to lack of force
in the circulation; sometimes pain
in the muscles results from imper-
feet circulation.
Often the older persons walk with
short steps, because in this way they
are better able to control their
sense of balance.
While the aged may have high
blood pressure, it is not SO serious
as in youth. Thus DR.. David Ries-
man described a woman 81 years
old, who for twenty-five years had
a blood pressure over $50.
In such cases, because of the
hardening of the arteries, high blood
pressure may be necessary to main
tain life.