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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20

dropped now and then in some
passing phrase he seems to me to
be sort of American Hitherto.
When he talks about anything at
all it is of the good old days. That
always has been an excellent line
in American politics. 1t is the point
of view of Brookhart Norris, Muir
ray and others in both major parties
who are most inexactly classed as
radicals or progresSives.
Even the most casual ANALYSIS will
show the error of such recommended
tions. Radicalism, so-called, in
America always has been move
ment of farmers and small business
men. That is radicalism in so far
as 1t has touched the two major
parties.
Bryan, who was considered al
most revolutionary in his early days,
never had any conception of the
needs or desires of the industrial
classes. Like the men who have
maintained his tradition, he was
strictly corn and wheat radical.
1t is natural enough that the OPP
pressed middle class should seek
relief and political expression to es-
cape the burdens which the depres-
sion has brought upon it. But the
Utopia of which this group dreams
is probably impossible and almost
certainly not desirable.
1t represents desire to turn back
the hands Of the clock. And the
first move is to bust the trusts and
do away with chain stores and all
the enterprises which have snufted
out small-scale production.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

MERE goes entirely too much theoretical dis
Il cussion about children by persons who never
have had any, W
Every parent knows that it's the easiest thing ,,
ne world to say how children should be brought up
and the hardest thing in the world to do
Rearing a family is after all good deal lilo
maintaining political ambitions The theories seldom
are successful when practically applied We under
stand that, no matter how altrustic senator NAV
be, he is not able to get anywhere unless he PLAYS
according to the rules.
Most of his accomplishments are the results of
political trades. To be sure, this is not very fine
way of doing things But it is the way things are
done.
Exactly tile same rules hold true in parenthood.
Certain social and industrial conventions have been
set up. No matter what our ideas about child train
ing may be, we must proceed along the lines laid
alone.
TNHE truth is that your child is first and foremost
Il citizen of the American republic. He is that on
the very day of his birth and subject at once to a
force over which you have very puny control.
Every prospective mother, for instance being
something of sentmentalist. would prefer to have
her child born st home. Yet he generally comes
into the world in hospital room because that kind
has been decided upon as best by the medical pro-
feSson.
Every mother would like to give her child plenty
OF outdoor room for play. But too few have this
because landlords have decided to make money from
apartment houses, and we prize ground too highly.
And so good many Of our theories are only theo-
ries many parents know to their hearts sorrow
We can't bring up children to high ideals and
noble efforts and inspiring dreams until we change
our world
Until we get in this country new vision of social
justice vision of personal integrity and a new
vision Of what the successful life really is most of our
theories for child training viii be tried in vain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE --
Food Sensitivity Warning Signal

and all usual laboratory and X-ray
studies should be made to make
certain there is no other conspic-
uouS factor.
However, when the patient says
that his parents, grandparents,
brothers or sisters have asthma,
hay fever, eruptions, eczema, mi
graine, or recurrent colds and
coughs; when he says that many
foods disagree with him and that
others he simply can not eat be-
cause he dislikes them, the physi-
clan must be suspicious Of some
sensitivity to food and make a
special search for that sensitivity.
In this search it now is fire.
quently simple matter to test
the patients sensitivity by elimi-
mating all usual articles of food and
giving him only an extremely
simple diet, adding one article at
a time until his symptoms of sem
sitivity appear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
DEPUBLICAN partisans are

DEPUBLICAN partisans are
IN highly delighted and amused
by the fact that there is possibility
of a split in the Democratic party.
And even if the divergence of
opinion falls short of that, the
prospect of a fight upon the floor
of the convention makes the oppo-
sition merry.
One hardly can blame Repub-
lican for manifesting joy over any,
thing which tends to help his
cause, but he should not take a
contemptuous attitude toward the
pickering of his rivals, since it
manifests the most healthy symp-
tom now apparent in American
politics.
Republican harmony is not a
matter of principle, but rises solely
out of inertia and expediency. II
there were little more honesty
and courage in the majority ranks,
it would be possible to drive couple
of coaches and four between the
divergent wings of the Republican
party. Senator Smoot and Senator
La toilette have about as much in
common as is jointly possessed by
your columnist and John Gilbert,
the motion picture actor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
A Good" Calamity

Under caption which suggests that "hrst-cass
calamity" might do little good, the Chamber Of
Commerce prints this very timely advertisement:
Nero hdded while Rome burned and today we call
him heather autocrat. Yet right here in your own
home town-n Indianapolis, If you please we sit
pney by while the mercess march Of events in this
the year Of our depression tramples under foot"
Just what the merciless events which trsmple
usP
In the first place, there is the very heavy burden
Of utility rates which take from every industry bust
ness and home owner extortionate part Of income
to pay for very doubtful probably illegal, and GER
tainly immoral practices of these monopolies
The conferences between the city and the water
and electric barons developed some very strange
habits
1t is now known that there we're two sets Of 1nsn-
eal ststementsone which the electric company gave
to member Cuhbertson of the commission and another
which painted glowing prosperity to prospective stock
purchasers There supineness in many inf1u-
entail quarters when this developed
1t also appeared that the price of coal paid by
the company to its twin brother Of the holding
company far higher than that which other coal
companies charged in the open market, so much
higher in fact that the take for single year would
amount to very considerable profit over and above
AS far as the water company was concerned, there
was a supineness when it was shown that the club
dues and charitable donations of it's Philadelphia
president to quasipubic organizations were charged
to the operating expenses of the company and col
lected from people who charged for what they
never got.
One of the other events was the very general de-
mand for special session of the legislature to re-
distribute the tax burden that is rapidly conhscating
real estate. There was demand that the special
session the gasoline funds for poor relief lift
the burden of local taxing units.
But, as the chamber strikingy points out, eve
sit supinely by and protest against this special
session that would catch the big tax dodger and cut
out unnecessary expense In these days of our de-
preston.
To many, especially the iobess and those whose
only revenue is the made work employment the
gift of charity the calamity has become first class"
The chamber does we'll to point out the necessity
for concerted action-and let it be hoped that the
action takes direction that means relief from the
present conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

fever, eczema, eruption on the skin,
or migraine.
There is no doubt that the tax
ing of food to which the person is
sensitive may cause strong and
rapid construction of the muscula-
ture of the bowel, and that, as a
result, the patient will have a
spasm of the bowel with pain and
soreness, and sometimes with
vomiting or diarrhea.
This does not mean, of course,
that every person who has these
symptoms is sensitive TO food
The symptoms must be taken as
a warning signal that something
is. wrong and that a careful study
is necessary to determine whether
or not there is infection, abnor-
mality, or sensitivity to food.
Before the condition is called
allergic OF representative, a care
full study must be made of the
physical condition of the patient,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
SCIENCE
FREDDY Week Was an Insti-
tuition of the Ancient Hit
titeS and ASsyridnS.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

THE five-day week tried out by
l. Soviet Russia isn't as new as
some observers of modern life may
think it is. The HittiteS and the
ASsyrians used it 1000 years ago.
The discovery that a five-day
week was in vogue in 1900 B. G. has
been made through deciphering in
scriptions on clay tablets found at
Alishar by the Hittite expedition
of the Oriental Institute Of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
The clay tablets, discovered by
DR.. II. H. Won Der Osten, director
of the expedition, are being trans
lated in Chicago by DR.. I. j. Gelb
of the staff of the Oriental insti-
tute.
The Oriental institute, which re-
Gently moved into a new build
ing. provided by the generosity of
John D. Rockefeller Jr. and other
patrons of learning, is devoted to
the recapture of mankinds early
history.
1t now has twelve expeditions in
the field at work on strategic sites
along a 3,500-mile horseshoe front.
extending from the upper Nile val
ley to Persia.
The head of the Oriental institute
is the distinguished student of ar
theology and ancient civilizations,
DR.. James H. Breasted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
Roosevelt in the West

Franklin D. Roosevelt possesses the gift of Ian
guage. A scholar with fine memory, he has that
happy faculty making vivid the point he is stress
Ing by citations from history by simple, under
standable story example.
Referring in his ST. Paul speech to the great need
for recognizing the interdependence of communities
and industries that make up the nation for breaking
down of the sectionalism that had grown with pros
perity, he was reminded of Chestertons remark
corning the members of the British empire
They are, he says, like the passengers in an ON
nbus; they get to know each other only in case of
an accident"
Of the Hawley-Smoot tariff, signed by President
Hoover in face of the warnings of 1000 American
economists, Roosevelt said;
Would he have ignored a warning by thousand
engineers that bridge which the national govern
ment was building was unsafe?"
Commenting the Republican use of the old
"dont-swap- horses the middle stream
gument, Roosevelt countered with:
There are others who laughingy will tell you that
the appeal should have been worded Don't swap
toboggans while you riding down hill"
Building his main theme, appeal for consid-
Grafton of the needs of all the groups and all the
sections in arriving at for our present all
ments he pointed to Jefferson as "one of the first
to recognize the community of interest between the
ship owner in New York and the boatmsn the
upper reaches of the Ohio"
Franklin Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt Wilson were
at his fingers tip as he constructed his argument.
His exposition of his power program was especially
clear He would retain the governments power sites
but would limit entrance of the government in the
transmission business to those in which private
capital tried to take advantage of the public through
unfair rates or otherwise.
He favors federal regulation of interstate power
business. He would base rates fair return
actual cash investment.
With the Roosevelt power program this newspaper
has been and is in agreement.
1t is a program which calls for a high degree of
courage to put into action.
His tolerance toward Al Smith, his reference to
Smith as his distinguished predecessor, effective
Roosevelt turned the other cheek" That simple
Biblical form of countering slap is in politics,
but whenever used is exceedingly effective.
Judged on basis of the speech itself as we'll
tempered literary product, Roosevelt commands ad-
miraton.
1t is an unfortunate thing, however. that Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20

all must end somewhere. We must
have change and have it soon.
They are bowling now about
taxes and balancing the budget, yet
they don't explain who juggled the
finances of the country into such an
awful shape. Their own bowling in
diets them.
Still, when the budget needs ball
ancing so badly they find time to
pass bills for billions to aid big
business and no time to consider
the plight of millions of the unem-
ployed.
The two old parties have proved
themselves hand in hand on what
has passed and it is reasonable to
believe that they will be hand in
hand in the future. If they stay
in power and continue their attitude
of ignoring the issues, then the
threat Of revolution will become an
actuality.
If 1t takes a revolution to solve
our difficulties, it probably will be
the best way of Kidding ourselves
of rotten leaders.
God give us strength and light
that we may see justice done.
Els VERDAD.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20

Editor Times-In a recent edition
of The Times there appeared an ar
ticle under the heading, "City En-
ployes to Face Salary Cut"
Toward the end of this article
we find about 100000 is devoted
to salaries. More than two-thirds
of this sum is used for salaries OF
more than 1000 f1remen and police
men,"
The citizens of indianapolis have
their homes and furniture insured;
the merchants and manufacturers
have their buildings and stock in
sured against fire; all pay substan-
tial premiums each year. And, in
turn. they are taxed to pay Tor fire
apparatus and firemen's salaries, to
protect their properties against fire.
What seems to be wrong?
Should the insurance companies
paw the firemen'S salaries or would
it be better for the citizens to pool
their premiums and carry their own
insurance?
Maybe this is one Of the reasons
insurance companies can d44OIu W
build skyscrapers in New York City.
GRANT HEEBNER.
To the People Of Tndiana-Wake
up, you people of Indiana, of the
United States. Our country is fac
ing a situation more dangerous
than any it ever has faced before.
Our leaders have betrayed us. They
have sold our heritage Of life, lib
erty, and pursuit of happiness for
dollars. A serious threat of revolu-
ton looms on the horizon. Wake
up! We yet might prevent it.
Our leaders are not leaders, but
are granting, stupid politicians, a
vampirish clan, sucking the blood
of the nation, allied with those
whose greed and lust for power
brought on this worst of depresSions
We must purge our government
and take it out Of the hands OF
politicians and financial wizards
and put it into the hands of the
people.
Common sense tells us we car
not continue as We are going. Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
liked hY Secrecy

THE question is not only what
4 shall be done about war debts.
but whether it shall be done in open
meeting.
The secrecy with which one finan-
cial crisis after another has been
permitted to creep up on the Ameri-
can people is turning their cor
diality and generosity into resent
ment.
They realize that they have made
mistakes and have been miSunder-
stood because of it, that they have
been too free with advice on occa-
sion and laid themselves open to i'm
position.
At the same time they do not
feel that they should be ignored I'M
til their services are indispensable
and then be calmly told what to do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
TIT OEEHC M MT NV HAYWOOD
i J. >O1ZL1V1O ~ 4N11 D1 BROUN

deal in a small back room in which
everything is saved but honor.
wonder where on earth the no
ton arose that politics should be
peaceful and hypocritical and nam
by-pamby. 1t is held against Al
Smith that he has upset the apple
cart by speaking out his mind. The
country, believe, has had its fill of
living on apples and the sauce which
is compounded from them.
1t should demand from it's public
men something definite in the way
Of pledges and of platform. When
a candidate promises to put chick
en- into every pot or to restore the
purchasing capacity of the farmer
he is merely tossing hay unless he
suggests some method by which he
means to do it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
Back to First PRINCIPLES in Veterans Relief

On Thursday April T. this newspaper said:
"Eor details that will make you pause and think
read the articles by Talcott Powell beginning in this
issue. Nothing you ever have read has been more
important to you and to yours
The position of this newspaper toward federal re-
lief has been made clear many times We are for more
general appropriations than now are being made to
those who by reason of war service are in need to
those who because of that service are mentally or
physically incapacitated; to those dependents who
survive the ones who killed in service; to all
who in any way are the direct victims Of the war
itself.
And it is in the interest of them as well as in the
Interest of the sovency of nation that we TODAY
cry halt to this blanket bonus"
We sincerely hope that you have read every sem
tence in every article that Powell has written If
you have, you have revealed the vital fault that
is inherent not only in the immediate bonus pay
ment plan. but in the whole present system of vet
Grams relief
1t is that the relief is not confined to the needs
arising from the war.
If resources of the government were unlimited #
would be ideal If every ex-solder no matter what his
trouble or whether it from war service or not
could be aided financially in time of economic
stress.
But the resources of the government are not un-
limited Therefore our opposition to the immediate
bonus payment Of over two billion dollars
Likewise as to the existing law governing veterans
ree1 such measure as makes it possible for an ex-
soldier, in event of illness in no way connected with
the war, to go to hospital at government expense
that is fundamentally unfair
1t is unfair. not just, to the taxpayer It is even
more unfair to those veterans who because of their
war service, are mentally physically incapacitated
unfair to their dependents unfair to the dependents
OF those who died in the service.
We repest-we are for more generous annronr,a.
tons for those. But such more generous treatment
can not be forthcoming from system which spreads
to the total appropriation under any such policy as
now prevails.
What is paid to the with a nonservice-con-
nected illness can not be paid to the man gassed in
the Argonne
The basic principle of relief should he service
connected relief That principle prevailed in the be-
ginning 1t no longer prevails. Timid and thought
less legislators have departed from it. step by steu
into system which represents cruel iniustices to
those who were the actual victims of the war itself
Continuation of the present policy of indiscrini
nate spreading of veterans relief means an ever
mounting expense which this nation, with budget
already unbalanced, can not stand That in turn
nltS directly at the wars real victims
Ihey will be the ones who will suffer when the
inevitable time of reckoning and retrenchment comes
In behalf not only of national solvencv. but Of
those who were the wars real casualties the whole
veterans relief policy must be renovated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
Entitled to Voice

THE United State government
l. has shown no disposition to be
inconsiderate, or exacting toward it's
debtors. It has met them more than
half way. None of them has ground
for suspecting that it intends to do
otherwise. There is no occasion for
the INTO try anything funny, or
phony.
The American people are not UNI
aware of the economic stress which
prevails throughout Europe. Neither
are they unaware of the possibility,
if not the necessity Of further re-
adjustment.
They feel that they should be
consulted, however, before any gov
eminent undertakes to write down,
write off, or postpone what is due
according to the agreements now in
force.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
Slower, Pleased

OUCH surprises as that which
~ was sprung on this country last
June do not set well with the Amer
lean people. They are accustomed
to think and plan more than three
or four weeks in advance with re-
gard to financial matters, especially
with regard to financial matters of
worldwide Importance.
AT the end of May, they had no
idea that Europe was in such a
desperate plight as to need a mo-
ratorium, yet a month later they
found that the stage had been so
set as to make a moratorium ines
capable, and as to force their own
President to propose it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
Business Methods
NE tablets found by Dr. Va

THE tablets found by DR.. Won
i der Osten show that the As
Syrians used a calendar with FIVE
day week. At this same period,
however. the Babylonians were using
a calendar with a seven-day week,
the forerunner of the present-day
week.
The tablets also give considerable
information about business methods
of AsSyrian merchants and money
lenders who visited the important
Hittite cities to carry on commerce.
First mention of the capital of
the Hittite empire, HattuSas, now
the modern city of Boghaz Koi, is
found in the tablets.
One of the tablets deciphered by
DR.. Gelb is a receipt from one bust
ness man to another which reads,
Il am returning herewith the one
half nina of silver which I owe you,
and if you again request payment,
I have the right to kill you"
Apparently diplomacy wasn't part
of business correspondence in the
day when baked-clay took the
place of the modern letterhead
The Assyrian money-lenders seem
to have doubted the ability of the
Hittites to repay loans and so
charged him rates of interest.
The tablets show that the rates
ran from so to 60 per cent. One
case is revealed in which 100 per
cent was charged.
In dealing with each other how
ever, the Assyrians charged interest
rates of only 20 to 80 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
Generosity Strained

THIS idea that Uncle Sam can
l. be depended on to propose"
himself out of house and home for
the sake Of helping other people who
won't even acknowledge that they
need help has been worked over
time.
If England, or any other country,
wants the war debt payment re-
duced, or Cancelled, the way to be-
gin is with a candid declaration to
that effect.
An attempt to evade the issue by
leaving provision for payment out of
the budget is little less than insult
ing.