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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
FRANCE LESS CONVINCING

The French debt plea is less convincing than
the British Britain is short on god France is long
on gold Britain is suffering terribly from the de-
preston; France is more sef-contained and more
prosperous than any other country in Europe
Britain, in the earlier debt funding agreements,
received from only one-half as much reduction
as did France.
1t therefore is iladvised for France of all coun-
tries to take leadership in the movement for down
ward revision of war debts to the United States
1t is especially unfortunate that she has devoted
most of her argument to the plea for postpone
ment of Dec. Is payments, for of all the debtors
the least inconvenience.
France should realize that her raid on our gold
supply and her failure to cooperate with the United
States at the disarmament conference and for
maintenance of peace treaties in the far east,
strengthened congressional opposition to revision of
French debt terms
just unjust-and we are inclined to think it
is partly us-that is the present state of congress
sonal opinion which in turn reflects dominant
section of public opinion.
We believe that the only case which can be
made for reduction in the French debt-after
France has made the December payments that
the United States can gain more from the improve
ment in world economic and political conditions
sulting from effective debt settlement than the
United States could gain in forcing France and
others to default.
France has no moral or legal claim upon The
issue is solely of enlightened self-interest on
the part Of the United States. And even here there
Is necessary and very important qualification.
1t is to selfinterest to help e-estabsh world
prosperity and peace, and to cooperate in debt
settlement part of that recovery. But debt
settlement is only one part of the requirement for
world recovery.
Reduction of trade and tariff barriers and of
provocative armament extravaganza are even more
necessary, as Senator Borah has emphasized.
1t would be stupid for the United States to make
debt settlement without some assurance of set
Ting the larger related issues Indeed taken alone
debt reduction could result actually in increasing
armament expenditures-as happened following our
last reduction of debts.
No foreign debtor and France least of ALL can
expect American debt revision until it accepts the
direct relation between debts and ornaments and
trade barriers, and until it acts accordingly.
French military domination of Europe and tacit
French support of Japanese military domination in
the far east are deeper of world chaos than
all the debts combined.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
JOBS PREFERRED: RIIT-

Members of the Ohio Manufacturers Association
casting somber eyes at the proposal for compulsory
unemployment insurance recently made in their
state have announced that the difference between
such scheme and an outright dole is only the
difference between tweedle dee and tweedee dunn;
and their spokesman has pointed out:
THE average American citizen who at this mo-
ment may be in need desires job, not charity The
exception, who prefers charity to work, deserves
little consideration"
All OF which, OF course is as clear as daylight and
as true as twice two-is-four But what of it? This
average American may prefer job to handout
but he has peculiar distaSte for starvation
If he demands now that the next depression find
industry with well-defned plan for caring for
its workers. is it greatly to be wondered at?
Now that Toxic announces "Manchukuo" should
be spelled 'Manchoukuo," most OF us viii go on
calling it Manchura just the same
Huey Long says he has no particular explanation
for his rapid rise in politics Probably will go down
another unsolved mystery.
The machine age has made most things lot
easier, but the old black walnut's just as much
problem ever.
Slice Iootpal mas oSC It's monopoly on the sports
pages, the we-known setting sun will have to cast
its golden rays wherever it find place
1t may be small consolation to the jobless man.
but he should be told that efficiency experts are in
the boat with him.
Whatever else the new year may bring, you can
count on calendars of that shy Indian girl and the
roaring locomotive
With toys more realistic than ever, we needn't
be surprised if Junior grows more skeptical of the
way Santa's whiskers At.
The phiosophic soul who started this better late
than never" business must have done his Christmas
shopping early.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Built Laboratory

A S with other lecturers, there
N came time when he wished
that he had some one who would
do the talking for him, and three
years ago the idea occurred to
him that there was a place in
the business and educational
world for some such device.
He built a small laboratory and
undertook experimental work to
develop a device that would COM
bine, properly and economically,
voice and pictures.
Associated with Fischer in de-
velopment of the technical side
of the program was Harry A.
Chase, an expert photographer,
who likewise is globe-trotter and
who had accompanied Lowell
Thomas to Arabia, where the two
Of them we're with the famous
Lawrence Of Arabia"
The three years work came to
a successful conclusion with the
perfection Of the visual voice" a
small unit. light in weight. about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Every Day Religion
: BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON :

own mind: What is the use, any,
way? What difference does it
make? What is it all about? Is
the game worth the candle? Is
it worth while? The world is
against me. If I can get by with
it, why not?
Such self-cynicism does things
to us. 1t is like taking a dose of
slow poison. For, as man ha-
bitually talks to himself, so he
is before he is aware of it. Such
talk has a strange hypnotic pow
er, because it appeals to our ten
dency to recline, to whine, which
is deep down in us.
All of us know how easy it is
to fall into facilitating talk with
ourselves, in a dismal mood of
depression, when we feel as worth
less as a rundown shoe at rum
mage sale. Or it may be an in
verted vanity in which we seek
healing for some hurt.
Anyway, by a law of the mind,
if we say a thing to ourselves
often enough, it becomes true for
us. Happily, by the same law,
we may talk ourselves out of de-
feat and despair, if we tell our
selves a brighter, more sensible
truth.
lConrriaht 1922 United Feature Syndicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Work Swept Aside

OUR forefathers were far
~ ahead OF their time, and we
must go back where they left off,
to be up to date. They set up
a very simple and, therefore, a
very workable form of government.
They surrounded it with checks
and balances to provide the great
est possible degree of personal
liberty and local freedom.
The last fifty years has seen
much of their work swept aside
in the name of political conServa-
tisn, business efficiency, and eX-
pert management. Government
has come to be a thing Of annoy
ance and restraint.
1t has entered the home and the
workshop, becoming wet blanket
in its efforts to act as wet nurse.
The petty tyranny and rising cost
of public administration amount
to little less than handicaps to
individual success.
People find it hard to live nor
NAL lives and pursue normal &C
tivities without running foul of
some regulation, or official.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Schick Test Aids Diphtheria Fight

at l year of age, and about IS per
cent at years of age.
Apparently, through mild infec-
lions, this susceptibility then be-
gins to decrease so that approx
mately 80 per cent are susceptible
at 10 years, and Is per cent at IS
years.
In the presence of an epidemic
it is. of course, desirable that
Schick tests be performed on all
children exposed, so as to know
which ones are to be especially
watched and which ones are to be
immunized Immediately against
the disease by use of toxin-anti-
toxin or toxoid.
Millions of children have been
given toxin antitoxin and toxoid
without the slightest harmful re-
actions, so that it has become Gus
tomary in most large cities where
there are competent health de-
partments to recommend immuni
cation of all children against
diphtheria
Next-TOxins and antitoxins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

Muscle Shoals bill after another helped make good
the boast
The power industry mas had its chance at unregu-
lated operation. It's holding company system pro-
vding opportunity to initiate capitalization to drain
off excessive fees and to conceal ownership and con-
troll has rendered ineffective what regulation was
attempted in the last quarter century
And at the end of the path was the insult de-
bacle, Illustrating nothing else could do the fol-
lies and dangers of that course
The people who buy service from utilities and the
people who buy stock from them are through being
fooled, and they through being frightened They
want, as they always have wanted, prosperous
stable power industry, earning fair return on its
investment.
But Mr.. Roosevelt echoes the conviction of mil
lions of his fellow citizens when he states that the
way to achieve this end is by regulation bulwarked
by government demonstrations at model plants, of
the fair cost of power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
AWdken to Sham

THE gigantic, complicated, ex-
Il pensive mechanism was sup
posed to safeguard us physically,
financially and morally. With
the federal reserve banking Sys-
tenn, the Volstead act, and a
multitude of bureaus, we were
supposed to have been placed we'll
out of harms reach.
We liked the performance, be-
cause we were told that it was
safe, sane and conservative. We
realized that it represented a de-
parture from the original ideas,
but consoled ourselves with the
thought that it was just a modern
Interpretation of them.
Twelve years of rum-running
and three years of depression
have walked us up to the sham
for which we fell.
There was nothing sincere,
wholesome, nor constructive about
it, nothing that really made the
average man any better or any
happier. On the other hand,
there was a great deal to make
him miserable.
The inflated values, stock wat
ering, racketeering and political
corruption with which we have
been afflicted can not be blamed
on world conditions. They came
about mainly as results of our
own folly, and the foolish expert
menting we not only permitted,
but encouraged, on the part of
government is mainly to blame.
The recent election was a real
protest, not so much against a
candidate, or party as against
a drift. We are going back to
liberty and self-reliance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

This is the fourth Of a series of six
articles bv Dr.. Fishbeln on the preven-
tion and treatment of diphtheria.
DURING the first few days OF
- diphtheria the child should
have liquid diet as nourishing
as possible, including plenty OF
milk and eggnog and cereals.
Thereafter its diet may be i'm
proved gradually, particularly
with substances that will aid the
rebuilding of blood which may
have been injured by the infec-
ton.
In the prevention of diphtheria
in recent years, chief reliance has
been placed on the use of the
Schick test, on toxin antitoxin
and on toxoid. The Schick test is
simply method of injecting a
very small amount of the toxin Of
diphtheria into the skin.
Those persons who can develop
antitoxin in their blood, against
the diphtheria poison will have
negative test.
On the other hand. those who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
IN Which I Play the Craven

WAS about to suggest that the lady would
4 actor who played the peasant
fomentng public baw Many say sharply to woman
in front will please your there turned
upon me the countenance
ployers. -
JuSce righteous anger and passion for artistic
all on my side And, acute SelfconscouSness
hrst-night audience
laughter because Francis Lederer
IAN during scene which he playing superb gentleman in the
n row at the opening OF The Gay Divorce thrust
voice. - - 'NF " LAO
1t wasn't really all that
nave seen and heard the members o company
IL Is hard to find silver
possible hat the tneaer be pleasant place when the
Four hundred has been reduced TO about
by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

Business and professional men aware that
something is going on at the other side of the
world of which they not afford to be ignorant.
Economists and students travellers and schol-
ars, are not ignoring venture that is stranger
than anything that has emanated from the hope
full dreams of men since the bastile fell.
n USSIA is vast domain. 1t comprises one-sixth
IN of the earths surface and nurtures 161 millions
of people 1t possesses every phase of climate save
the distinctly tropical.
1t has every material resource and every variety
of timber and cereal. 1t is nearly sef-sustaining
as any other power with the possible exception of
Great Britain.
Can a sensible nation afford to overlook these
facts? And even if we could bring ourselves to such
an extreme folly does it not exhibit immeasurable
stupidity to shut our eyes to certain governmental
innovations now going on there, simply because we
may disapprove them9
For something new is coming out OF Russia An
almost steady stream of new ideas, new literature.
new blunderings toward high goal, new ways OF
thinking and of living whole new sense OF values
Most of these things may fail But for us to
laugh at them seems to me almost as silly as the
foolish merriment that followed the glorious though
futile effort at Kitty Hawk not so many years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Keeping the Talk Ahve

MEN there under
discussion the
pie to simply because there performer speaking
lines And worst of ALL the appreciation
deadly than
1t misfortune the other to sit
just behind lady who enjoying the wanted
her three friends to know how much she
the whole
who wouldn't take anything their of humor
When of the Russian characters the e
claimed Nov, isn't
wonder where earth they you quaint
1'
Fred agreed that she
But the LADY habbled You know think Of
funniest plays I've this
We really must tel man who pavs
the
how much he without any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Questions and
Answers

O-How does the area and pop
ulation of the United States,
including Alaska, compare with
that of Canada?
A-The area of continental
United States and Alaska is 3,613,-
189 square miles and the popula-
ton is 122,834,324; the area of
Canada is 3,690,043 square miles
and the population is 10,353,77S.
Q-What were the provisions of
the Patman bill passed by the
house of representatives during
the last session of congress?
Att provided for issuance Of
paper money without any gold
or security backing to provide for
the payment of the bonus.
GLOW many stores are con-
troHed by the F. w. Woolworth
company in the United States
and abroad?
AT the end of 1881 they had
1903 stores in the United States,
Canada, and Cuba, 428 in Great
Britain and 60 in Germany.
Estate the population Of
Cleveland, o.
A-The 1880 census showed
9OO,429.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
SCIENCE
Hears Self Lecture
BY DAVID DIETz

DURING the last five years 1
~ have lectured some hundreds
of times upon the subject of as
tronomy. The other day, for the
first time, I had the unique ex-
perience of sitting in the audience
and listening to myself deliver an
illustrated lecture on the stars.
The experience was made pos
sible by device known as the
visual voice." developed by A. T.
Fischer, president of the Visual
Training Corporation of Cleve-
land.
In one small unit, the instru-
ment combines means for project
ing series of pictures upon the
screen while the lecturers voice,
previously recorded, issues from a
loud speaker.
A lecture, once recorded, can be
given any number of times, and,
in addition, without the presence
of the lecturer.
1t is possible, therefore, to reach
a far larger audience through it
than any lecturer ever can hope
to reach in person.
The story back of the visual"
voice is interesting. For twenty
five years, Fischer has been an
advertising and merchandising
expert. Among the problems with
which he has dealt has been the
training of sales personnel. In
this work he found that an idea
was assimilated quickest if it
could be presented both usually
and orally.
Fischer's hobbies have been
globe trotting and photography,
and he has taken thousands Of
pictures in all parts of the world.
These he turned into stereopti-
con slides with which to entertain
his friends, building a miniature
theater in his own home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
NJ E. Tracy Says SRnSo oE TE o5 z4T uR

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-The re-
L form movement now sweeping
this country comes as a natural
by-product of depression, but runs
counter to what some people ex-
pected. There is no red cast to it.
Instead of calling for novel ex-
periments, it breathes a new and
hardened faith in old American
principles. What else can you
make of the demand for repeating
the eighteenth amendment, or the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

it has been taken. 1t has steered
the ship of state lar from her
course. This America of ours is
not the political structure it was
seventy-five or even fifty years
ago. Three generations have seen
it change from liberal republic
to a centralized bureaucracy.
We are going back for our re-
forms, and we must to be truly
progressive. We have not been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

Smith plan Tor
revising the gov
eminent of New
York City. or
President-E e c t
RooSevelt's deter
mination to re-
duce the number
of federal boards
and commissions?
All this brings
to mind the curl
GUS paradox of
our situation.
Conservatism is
not the steady
ing, st a n d p a t
foroo fOr which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

half the size of an ordinary suit
case.
lt is operated by connecting il
10 any convenient electric light
socket and turning on the switch.
educators always have had their
eyes upon mechanical devices
which would aid their work. The
stereoptlcon has been a part of
the college classroom for genera
tons. 1t is used to a lesser ex-
tent in high schools and perhaps
only occasionally in grammar
schools.
But its use is on the increase.
and in Cleveland, for example.
the school system maintains an
educational museum which de-
votes a large part of its effort to
circulation of sets of sStereopti-
con pictures through the schools.
Other Devices
THE monograph also has
Il found its way into education
to a certain extent. It's chief use
has been in the field of music,
making available for music ap-
probation classes the works of
the great masters as played by
famous orchestras and soloists.
Attempts, however, have been
made to use the photograph in
other fields. Recently Science
Service made a series of phono-
graph records of short talks by
eminent scientists.
The motion picture also has
appealed to many educators.
Travel pictures and news reels
themselves undoubtedly possess
considerable educational value.
Just recently the University of
Chicago has undertaken to make
a number Of talking movies deal
ing with physics and chemistry.
Fischer believes that the visual
voice" possesses a number Of adj
Vantages over the talking movie.
He points out that the making
Tor talking movie is expensive
and that projection equipment
also is fairly high in price.
He also calls attention to the
fact that many educators feel that
they get better results from
classes by the use Of stereopticon
views than they do with motion
pictures.
In other words, the motion
diverts the attention of the
student from the essentials upon
which the eacher wishes him to
concentrate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

That is the American people ac-
cord her literary, artistic and So
Geological recognition.
The Russian experiment has
been the subject of more CONVEX
Sation, has had more study and
more thought given it during the
last few years than almost any
other topic. Thousands of wom-
ems club have made and are max
ing a determined effort to gather
oil nossihla information about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Just Plain Sense
: BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Il kept that we probably are many millions out
II of pocket the fact that the United States
of America does not officially recognize the United
states of Soviet Russia may not be of momentous
consequence. 1t merely signifies that usual, the
politician is three or four jumps behind his con-
stituents in mental alertneSs.
Plainly speaking, America does recognize Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY. DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeian, the
Health Magazine

do not have antitoxin or who can
not develop it will have a positive
Schick test.
In positive Schick test the
spot at which the toxin was in
jected becomes red and slightly
raised within twenty-four to
forty EIGHT hours.
The application of Schick tests
in thousands of cases has shown
that about 8 per cent of newly
born and young infants are sus-
ceptible to diphtheria, which
means that they are likely to be-
come infected if exposed to the
disease.
The remainder are not likely to
have the disease at this early age,
because they have from their
mothers a certain amount of re-
siStance to the disease.
This gradually is lost, however,
so that from 80 per cent to 40 per
cent Of children viii be susceptible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
It Seems to Me:
BY WOOD ROUN,

TTERE and there have heard complaints that
l. L the theater of today is not everything
which it should be. In my opinion, New York
doesn't deserve drama even half as good as it
gets.
1t generally is held that the stage is suffer-
ing because people stay away from the play
houses. I only can say that on many evenings
I have sat next to patrons who would help the
art of acting nightly by remaining at home.
In ln,,cr n..roorioncn I seIdnrn have seen had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
When the Drama Was Silent

ONCE time the habit audible comment blamed
~ people who kept running
fire the while reading the captions
the artuate
the patrons quickly silent
will the big motion
heaters places Legitimate exactly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

On request, sent with stamped
addressed envelope, Mr.. Ripley
will furnish proof of anything
depicted by him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

Ideals and opinions
expressed in this
column are those of
one of Americas
m Ost interesting
writers and are
presented without
regard to their
agreement with the
editorial attitude of
this p a p e THE
Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

quite rampant they this particularly
if is
fashionable audience" happens present
babel the amount Of sable,
ermine wrap front of it is
money that will somebody whose head will
before the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03
Daily Thought

Verify. verify, say unto you. he
that believeth on me hath ever
lasting life-St. John Sat.
COLITUDE is the audience
- chamber of God.-Anne c.
Lynch.