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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Just Every Day Sense
A III the allied forces of IGNORANCE and mediocr
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A LII the allied forces of ignorance and mediocrity
IA are today arrayed against the intelligence and
ideaism of motherhood.
The modern mother has a tremendous task and
she must be a strong-minded individual if she is to
combat the influence of mass thinking that too soon
lays hold upon her child.
Even so, a good many fairly sensible people argue
that girls do not need much education. We con-
stantly are assailed by this preposterous suggestion.
Yet how is a woman to rear noble men if she herself
has not the means of developing her intellect and
her character?
Even the grace of God can not help her out of
his dilemma.
Women need beauty, we say, rather than brains,
10 interest men. That may be true. But if they
want to raise smart boys, they must have gray mat
ter to do it with.
We are told that a child's character is formed at
home before his fifth birthday. Is it not then i'm
perative that America have intelligent mothers if
she hopes in the future to have intelligent citizens?
There is no other way to argue it.
A ND heaven knows that along with intelligence
IA we must have courage. Only with the assistance
Of high valor can We accomplish the job of raising
boys who will lift America and the world out of the
slough of materialism into which we are all sunk
together.
The schools, big business, politics, society in gen.
eral, teach ignominious conformity. Any evidence
that a lad thinks for himself makes him these days
Immediately suspect. if not by the faculty, at least
by the school board. The words uprightneSs and
honor have become meaningless sounds in politics.
And do we perchance love peace? Then our chill
dren are likely to find themselves in colleges where
r. o. r. G. has turned the campus into a miniature
battlefield and where war continually is glorihed.
I dare assert this: Unless we teach our girls honor
and courage and common sense. we never can pro-
duce WaShingtonS. Jeffersons, and Lincolns again in
America. In the hands of the potential mothers lies
the fate of our civilization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26

had been marked by sprightly init
macieS.
Even the best and the most
thoroughgoing b~iographers have
not endeavored to impair Washing
tons reputation for austerity. But
he was not the prig first presented
by Parson Weems, who invented the
cherry tree legend, or prim as the
President pictured him in his adj
dress.
MI. Hoover is not a man much
addicted to reading, and his educa-
tional opportunities have been scant
1t was, accordingly, a mistake for
him to venture into any %generaliza-
ton about biography as he did
when he said:
Nor have 1 much patience with
those who undertake the irrational
humaniNng of Washington. He
had, indeed, fine qualities of friend
illness, of sociableness, of humane
ness, of simple hospitality, but we
have no need to lower u vision
from his unique qualities of great
ness, or to seek to depreciate the
unparalleled accomplishments of
the man who dominated and gave
birth to the being of a great ma
ton"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Indiana in Chains

Many thousands of Indiana citizens have cheered
Governor William Murray Of Oklahoma as he hurled
defiance to big business, to Hoover and to other
Democratic aspirants.
That cheer, under the kindly care of the politicians
of both big parties, are all that the people of Indiana
can give to any candidate. They have no votes for
President or Governor or s-enator-merely the chance
to express a preference between two candidates picked
by politicians.
When the primary law, at the very earnest behest
of Senator Watson, was repealed as far as the higher
Offices was concerned, Indiana was disfranchised.
Governor Murray is not the type that appeals to
men who meet in hotel rooms and settle the fate of
nations along in the early hours. He seems to have
a real appeal to the common man who demands a
change. NO one would deny Murray the eminence of
being different and affording a change.
Yet the travesty of the situation is that Murray,
or any other candidate, might win the applause and
approval Of an overwhelming majority of the voters
of the state and yet never receive a vote in a ma
tional convention.
The machinery by which candidates are selected
is now designed to prevent the people from expressing
themselves. To name delegates to conventions re-
quires organization and organization is the job of
politicians who find money in selfish spots to carry
on their work.
All that the people can do is to vote for a dele
gate to a minor convention and hope that he will
have a chance to express their sentiments.
In state conventions bosses again organize. The
voice of the people is lost in the whistle of the steam
roller and drowned by a gaveL.
Wise politicians, however, can learn something
from the visit of Murray.
His reception strongly suggests that the people
are tired of the old methods, the old phrases, the
old bunk.
1t suggests that the people are ready to follow a
man who offers a way out of unemployment and is
not afraid of breaking precedents.
1t suggests, most of all, a growing understanding
of the tyranny of selfish business, of speculative
greed that creates wide misery, of privileges given
to the few at the expense of the many.
In contrast to the outspoken, frank outbursts of
Murray, the silence of all candidates in this state
for important jobs on any issue becomes more than
significant.
The people may begin to inquire what candidates
stand for. If they do, they may even have energy
to find a way of expressing themselves despite the
shackles placed upon them by the politicians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Judge-Made Law

The average person believes that laws are made
oy elected legislators, and that judges have no func-
lion except to enforce statutes written at the will OF
the people. Our government is intended to embody
that principle-one of the most fundamental in our
conception of democracy.
But a tragic difference exists between theory and
fact in this matter. That is why congress is concern
ing itself with legislation to limit drastically the is
suance of injunctions by federal courts.
1t has become the practice in labor disputes for
courts, at the instance of employers, to issue %injunc-
tons effectively preventing workers from striking or
otherwise protesting against wrongs done them.
These Injunctions, issued by a single judge, some
times with hearing and sometimes with none, make
illegal acts that specifically are permitted by state and
federal laws, or that are directly reserved to the
people by the Constitution of the United States.
Even where acts enjoined come under the cate
CORY Of crimes at common law or by statute, the labor
injunction causes an intolerable condition. Issues
of fact in proceedings under it are determined by a
single Judge, and the accused is denied the trial by
Jury, which has been a traditional right for many
hundreds of years.
He seldom is allowed even to cross-examine wit
nesses appearing against him.
Judge-made law has become tyranny of the most
dangerous sort threatening the United States.
1t is tyranny which threatens not only the Strik-
ing working man, but every citizen who wishes to ex-
ercise his constitutional right to freedom of speech
or freedom to express himself in the press.
BY contempt proceedings, judges now have the
power summarily to punish any statement about them
or the conduct of their court to which they object
The Norris bill pending in the senate and the La
Guardia bill in the house judiciary committee would
prohibit issuance of injunctions in labor disputes until
the applicant has tried to settle the dispute involved
by existing methods, until hearings have been held
with opportunity for cross-examination, and until il
has been shown that failure to obtain an injunction
would result in substantial and irreparable injury
1t forbids issuance of any injunction to uphold
yellow dog contract, or to restrain lawful aid to a law
full strike. 1t provides jury trial for all persons ac
cused under injunctions in labor disputes, and will h
amended to apply to all other cases, thus throwing
new protection around editors and others who criti-
else a court.
No legislation more vital to American democrat!
is before congress.
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TT CEENTC TO MI ~
l. OLL1N1O ~ WILL b1 BROUN

IN the same newspaper which car
L ried an account of the 200th an
niversary of George Washington's
birthday, I ran across a story about
another centennial ceremony. 1t
was a report from England of a
meeting held to mark the hun
dredth year since the death of
George Crabbe, the poet.
He lives chiefly in anthologies and
lecture courses and belongs, I sup
pose, among the enduring, but
minor singers. But he had his day
of dignity and fame, and the thing
which struck me was the complete
difference in the method Of APP
proach adopted by the speakers
who honored his memory. And it
was 10 meal group which gathered,
for John Masefield and Dean Inge
both paid their respects to the dead
poet.
George" said Dean Inge-and
lest there be any confusion 1 repeat
that he referred to the poet-"al-
ways liked women and children and
was a terrible firt. An old squire
of that day said, 'Damme, the first
time Crabbe dined at my house he
made love to my sister,
"Crabbe himself wrote, I have,
though at considerable distances,
six female friends unknown to each
other, but all very dear to me-"
Masefield remarked that Crabbe
took snuff and opium and that
whenever a pretty face came within
his ken che became a regular devil
of a fellow"
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The Pacific Basin

(NONCERNING the conhguratlOn
~ of the Pacific basin, DR..
Vaughan says:
THE conhguration of the floor Of
the Pacific basin differs in several
important respects from that of all
the other ocean basins.
There are in it no continuous.
more Or less meridianal, elevations
such as the middle Atlantic rise, and
there are no great transverse ridges
such as Walf1sh ridge and the Rio
Grande swell.
cat it's northern end the Pacific
is more or less cut off from the
Arctic ocean by the shallow water
in Boring Strait and the Aleutian
islands, but some water appears to
enter the north Pacific from the
southwest section of Boring sea.
"On the west side of the Pacific
there is a succession Of island arcs
behind which are partially inclosed
seas. One of these seas, the Ok
hotsk sea, appears to be a source
whence a part of the cold water in
the north Pacific is derived.
t"Tbe southern end of the Pacific
is widely haring and is in commu-
nication with the waters on the
north side Of Antarctica and with
the waters of the Indian ocean
south Of New Zealand and Aus
tralia.
On the east side of its southern
end, communication with the south
Atlantic is INSTRUCTED by the island
arc Of the Antarctic Archipelago.
which already has been mentioned.
although there are within the
Pacific basin numerous ridges, such
as the Hawaiian Ridge, there is
none that extends entirely across
the ocean basin and divides it into
north and south sections, such as
the case in the Atlantic basin.
: The bottom conformation of the
Pacific is such as to allow a more
extensive meridianal movement of
bottom waters and also a more I'M
INSTRUCTED movement between east
and west than in the Atlantic"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
The Atlantic Basin

THE general circulation of the
oceans, as already stated, fur
ther is modified by the contours of
the ocean basins. DR.. Vaughan
points out the following significant
facts about the Atlantic basin:
THE S-shaped Middle Atlantic
rise extends almost the entire
length of the Atlantic ocean and
divides it into two troughs. That
part of the ridge north of the equa-
tor is known as the north Atlantic
rise, and that south of the equa-
tor is known as the south Atlantic
rise.
Free communication between the
northern end of the Atlantic ocean
and the Arctic ocean is INSTRUCTED
by the Iceland swell, which extends
from the northern end of Scot
land to Iceland and is continuous to
Greenland, and by the relatively
shallow water on the west side of
Greenland.
Conditions on the two sides Of
the Iceland swell are very different
as the section across the part of it
between the Shetland and Farce
islands, known as the Wyville
Thompson ridge, as given by Muir
ray and Hort, plainly shows.
ION the north side of the ridge,
the bottom water, at a depth of
about 300 meters, has a temperature
of zero degrees centigrade, whereas
on the south side the water of a
depth of 1000 meters has a temper
allure of 4 degrees centigrade.
Shallow bottom holds back from
the north Atlantic the cold water
of the Arctic ocean.
Two important submarine ridges
that affect the circulation in the
southern part of the east Atlantic
are Walf1sh ridge, which extends
from the west coast of Africa in
latitude 20 degrees south, south
westward to join the south Attain
tic rise i'll latitude about 35 degrees
south. and the Atlantic-Indian
transverse rise, which is an abrupt
ly bent eastward continuation Of
the southern end of the south At
lantic rise"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26

ruptcy because Of Chinese trade losses caused bv a
war in which they have no voice.
Our appeal to Americans to diferentiate between
the japanese war lords and the Japanese people is
based not upon sentimentality, but upon facts. It is
a fact that wide and numerous japanese groups have
opposed this war from the beginning.
Now there are reliable reports that even large navy
and army groups are against the war, and that there
have been protests at the official military academy,
followed by court-martial of young officers.
In this connection the United Press has done a
highly intelligent and fearless job Of reporting. of
great service both to America and japan. The United
Press, in a dispatch Thursday by its far eastern man
ager, Miles H. Vaughn, stated:
"A fair and impartial report of the extraordinary
conditions existing in Japan must include the fact
that a strong liberal bloc Of opinion looks upon the
Shanghai expedition with very little enthusiasm.
In fact, very probably the bulk of the civilian and
so-called navy element would be glad to be out of
the business altogether, if it could without loss of ma
tional prestige.
The so-called intellectualS have opposed war. on
the ground that world opinion would condemn and
Isolate Japan. Also, in this group has been sustained
The theory that Baron Kijuro Shidehara is right in
his contention that cooperation between Chinese and
japanese is the corner stone of any solution of their
problem.
For the same reason, certain of the elder States
men, including Prince Kimmochi Saionii and Count
Nonuk1 Maxine, opposed the Shanghai adventure"
For that Japan which is the victim of its madmen.
who must be curbed by peace forces at home and
ABROAD America has abiding friendship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26

At a time wien men are subjected
to unusual worries, stress and strain
they should be physically fit. The
old proverb-mens sana in corpore
sana-a sound mind in a sound
body-never demanded so much
emphasis as at this time.
1t is economical to be healthy,
whether you are a bricklayer or the
big boss" The only way to be GER
tain that you are healthful is to
have a periodic physical examina-
ton. Which will find any tempor-
airy disabilities or any beginning
inadequacies.
The interlocking cogs of the
human machine get along well if
left largely alone when they are in
normal condition.
The moment one part begins to
weaken, excess strain is thrown on
some other portion exactly as with
a machine. The earlier the weaken
ing is detected, the better it is for
the whole apparatus.
Next: Worry.
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Says:

Japaw Has Lost More During
the Last Four Months b.
Way of Good Opinion, Re
spect and Confidence Than
q Dozen ManchNriaS CoMld
Offset.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Japan
In speaks as a minority Of one in
taking issue with Secretary Slim
son.
Throughout the whole wide world,
not an official voice thus far has
been raised in her support.
She should be warned by the uni
versal coldneSs with which her
quibbling has been greeted.
Who cares which paragraph OF
the nine-power treaty was agreed
to first?
Who believes that internal dis
cord laid Chinese territory open to
violation?
Such sophistries are unworthy OF
respect.
The issue does not hang on the
history of a conference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
The Job of Lily Painting

GURELY Mr.. Hoover does rot
mean to suggest that any BIZ
ographer worth his salt or his sub
Ject should mass all the available
material and then cast aside every
thing which does not fit within the
tight confines of eulogy?
1 do not think that any of the
great dead are honored much by
being bedded down in stained glass.
A hundred years ago it was pro-
posed that Washington be buried
IN a crypt in the Capitol. but his
great-nephew, John Washington.
refused, saying, "Let Washington
slumber, farmer-like, where he re-
tired from the cares of state to till
the ground"
And even in life he was of the
earth. I think there should be a
little more merriment at any mans
birthday, even the two hundredth
than Herbert Clark Hoover sug-
gested.
Perhaps the President was not
quite the man for the task. but
somebody should have mentioned
the fact that it was Washington's
daily custom to drink a pint of Ma
delra wine for dinner and that he
was a great wrestler and loved to
dance.
Even the hunblest of us has a
right to hope that after 200 years
there shall be no whispering over
the grave, but that somebody with
a pleasant smile may stand and
tell the truth entire.
Copyright. 1892. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Powers Ignored

TITO begin with, every govern
l. ment which signed the nine
power treaty had a right to expect
that it would be consulted regard
ing any act which threatened, sug-
gested, or implied it's violation.
The fact that Japan may have
had her own ideas of what it meant
under certain circumstances gave
her no authority to read such a
meaning into it.
At best, she is guilty of ignor-
ing her associates, of giving them
no chance to be heard, of acting
without their consent or advice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
How Justified?

XXTHAT good reason can Japan
w offer for not laying her
grievances, as well as her plan of
procedure, before the other sigma
tories of the nine-power treaty, or
the league of nations?
If she had no desire, save to re-
store order in Manchuria, why
didn't she begin by laying her cards
openly on the table?
Is she astonished at the prospect
of armed rivalry on the Pacific
after this brazen assault on a weak
and unsuSpecting neighbor, this
%gratuitous affront to her partners
in a solemn contract?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
SCIENCE
DAVID DIET7.

Mountains, PlateduS and Val
legs on the Ocean Floor
Haze Important Bearing
on It's Circulation.
TINE ocean basins have a topog-
raphy as varied as the con-
tinentS, There are mountains.
plateaus and valleys on the floors Of
the oceans.
The contours of the ocean bot
toms have an important bearing
upon circulation of the oceans. &C
cording to DR.. Thomas wayland
Vaughan. director of the ScrippS In
stitute of Oceanography at La Jolla,
Cal.
DR.. Vaughan points out that pri-
marily the circulation of both the
atmosphere and the oceanic waters
are due to the suns heat and the
rotation of the earth.
These primary causes are modi-
fed by the dragging effect of the
air currents upon the surface waters
of the oceans.
AS a result of the angle at which
the suns rays strike the earth, caus-
ing different portions to be heated
more than others, and as a result
OF the earth'S rotation and the To-
cation of the continents. there are
i've more or less permanent areas
OF high barometric pressure over
the oceans.
These r known as the north At
lantic high, the south Atlantic high,
the north Pacific high, the south
Pacific high and the Indian ocean
high.
These thighs" govern the location
Of the trade winds in the Atlantic
and Pacific which are to be found
between the equator and these highs.
The general direction of the trade
winds is eastward. Westward drifts
are to be found between the highs
and the polar regions.
The waters of the ocean follow the
same general drift a. do the winds,
DR.. Vaughan saws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Dirking in the Dark

IF MI. Hoover had anything more
l. than an o~ratorical flourish in
mind, he was probably referring to
the work of w. E. Woodward and
Rupert Hughes. Both authors have
received much editorial condemna-
ton from commentators who are
opposed to Undertaking the life Of
George Washington"
And this charge has been made
for the most part by critics who
have never read more than a few
lines of either Hughes or Wood
ward. IN neither instance could
such an accusation be maintained.
It is not likely that Herbert Hoo
yer is familiar with the Rupert
Hughes series, for it is a massive
job and not yet complete. Compe-
tent historians like DR.. Harry Elmer
Barnes rate it as among the most
important of all the lives. Mr..
Hughes took nothing away from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

apticipations pays little, if any, at
tention to what his competitors are
doing.
The moment he comes under
stress, when sales begin to fall,
when collections are poor, every
thing his competitors say or do
worries him. At such times every
one travels about with a chip on
the shoulder ready to fight at the
drop of the hat.
1t is obviously therefore of the
greatest Importance to avoid, if pos
sible, every cause of stimulus or
every factor that may be con-
cerned in dissatisfaction or I'M
rest.
The employe who works under
good conditions of ventilation,
temperature and lighting, whose
routine is broken by rest pauses and
lunch periods, and who is enabled
to avoid fatigue, is much more I'M
likely to be irritable and dissatis-
fed than the one who is constantly
subject to monotony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Germany Outdone

Japan has elected not only to
-. interpret the nine-power treaty
as she pleases, but to act in such a
manner as flouts every aspect and
aspiration of the peace movement.
To all intents and purposes, she
has dynamited the disarmament
conference now going on at &C.
neva, smashed faith in the League
Of Nations and persuaded most
Americans that this country needs
a bigger navy.
Worse still, she has isolated her
self more completely from the civ
lized world than did Germany in
1914,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-26
Manufactured War

1T commonly is believed that
Il there are two Japans-one rep
resented by an old, aristocratic war
party; the other by a rapidly grow
ing element of progressive, peace
loving people.
1t is said that the imperialists
now in control of the Japanese
government stand for class and
traditional power, rather than ma
jority sentiment, and that the bulk
of the people would turn against
them but for the conviction that
the country'S honor is at stake.
Same old story of manufactured
war and manufactured patriotism
to back it up; same old trick of
getting a nation involved and then
telling the common people they
must save it,