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Rackgrnund Workers

"a man can 90 great deal of good in this world
he IS willing to let some one else get the credit
for it."
We have seen that admirable saying itself cred
tied to the late John Morley-and others. Probably
the man who actually said it first never got the
credit for it, and so illustrates part Of its truth
But whoever GOWNS" it, how equally and without
bitterness 1t belongs forever to hosts of cheerfuy
toiling men and women.
Permanent undersecretaries who carry on the real
work of government offices, whose resplendent
"chisfs" come and go and get all the glory.
Scientific workers in laboratories who accumulate
the data and do the patient experimenting from
which some inventor strikes the spark and becomes
immortal.
Background diggers feed statesmens minds and
help prepare the speeches and projects hailed as
"epoch- making"
Sometimes these dim toilers emerge and them
selves become famous. But many Of them lack the
'limelght gift" and go doing useful work that
earn no reward in the headlines
Without envy, without malice, without the discon-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-13
Follower Not Leader

MO matter how completely Presi-
Il dent Hoover may have changed
his mind about some things, par
ticularly prohibition, the man him
self has not changed. His speech
leaves no doubt on that point.
He is the same phlegmatic, slow
moving Standpatter that he always
was, capable of readjusting his at
titude when forced to do so, but
somewhat prone to confuse states
manship with politics, an engineer
at heart, trying to meet emergencies
by the blue print method.
Such a type of mind is not to be
regarded as valueless. 1t can be de-
pended upon never to make the
mistake of beng too radical, or i'm
pulsive.
1t also can be depended upon to
function reliably, if not brilliantly,
under compulsion. But it is power
less to move by itself. 1t needs the
force of circumstances, or the guild
ance of keener intellects.
Herbert Hoover never has been
the man by himself that he was
under Wilson. He is an able ex-
ecutive as long as some one else
furnishes the initiative and inspi-
ration. He can draw a wonderful
set of plans after some one has
given him the big idea, or do an
excellent piece of work after some
one in whom he has confidence has
convinced him it is worth while.
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Interestingly enough, it is found
that sufferers who engage in ath-
letics find in physical motion of
this character, in many instances,
an outlet whereas others find them
selves inhibited in their physical
activities as we'll as in their speech.
The Iowa investigators report
that suffering did not seem to in
terfere particularly with literary
work. Nevertheless, only some Is
per cent of Sufferers engaged in
such activities.
Less than 10 per cent, however,
wished to take up music, and
around 6 per cent to write, to take
part in debating, dramatic acting,
and oratory.
Obviously the latter performance
is not one that should appeal par
ticularly to a sufferer. Neverthe-
less, one sufferer finally reached
the point where he was able to play
the lead in play, an accomplish
ment to which he always looked
back as triumph in his career.
The evidence indicates that pub
lie speaking is not necessarily good
treatment for suffering.
1t does not seem to reduce the
severity Of the attacks, nor to help
the sufferer in any way.
Next-SOcial handicaps of the
sufferer.
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Copies Others Ideas

DRESIDENT HOOVER should
L have been first to perceive the
necessity for repeating nationwide
prohibition, and should have lent
his influence to the adoption of a
straightforward plank by his party.
Instead, he dawdled in an at
mosphere of heSitancy and Devil
derment, listening to drys one day
and vets the next.
His advisers were split, and no
group had power enough to dom
mate the situation. When the
Democrats came out with their brief,
clear statement, he caught the no
ton of what should be done.
In the same way, he caught the
notion that, while cancellation Oh
war debts was too unpopular to be
considered, they were bound to be
scaled down and that something
might be done to soften the effect
by arrangements which would in
crease our export trade. But the
original idea was not his.
President Hoover seems to think
that his record is the real issue in
this campaign. In an academic
sense, that may be right, but for
practical purposes, the voters should
look little deeper.
President Hoover's record was
made largely by those who had his
ear, by comparatively small group
of friends, associates and advisers.
That group is the real issue.
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Just Every Day Sense
It EFT US" cried the militarists. "be prenar
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

II EFT us" cried the miltarists "be prepared for
IL every emergency" We were With guns. with
tanks, with bombs the great United States army
route dand put to flight the tatered remnants of the
B. E. F. This feat probably will not 60 down in his
tory as another victory of Manila BAY No chronicler
VIII have the temerity to mention this exploit The
nag of our country forever must fly at half staff here
YeC we safely may count upon such results when
armed men go forth to suppress riots uprisings and
reVolts with the unarmed. For the man with a gun
always viii ind good to use it. lust as a ma
ton with great army will contrive eventually to oct
into osme kind of war.
The thing is as inevitable as election The
strengtn OF all tyranny comes gradually with the
knowledge of increased power
. HOW much better it would have been for America
II IN July, 1882, our army had been unprepared Had
we put our trust in diplomacy rather than in the
cavalry this blot would not mar our record
a MID all the arguments, who can say where the
L n olrect blame lies? No one perhaps The svn-
patny OF the country is with the soldier who was or
aereo 10 MS duty, as well with the bonus marchers
Inc only thing we are sure of is that bunder has
been committed, and a bunder that involves guns
nearly always termintes in tragedy
Two veterans are dead who not so long APO
marched forth to fight for America cheered on bv
the very militarist sentiments that the other day
struck them down.
Those preoccupied with the manufacture of arma-
mentS Will want TO utilize them OF this Won NAV be
sure. Yes, the army always is prepared And some
of Its Saes into enemy territory are as useless and
gnoble as the recent charge on Camp Anacostia
When we must pay for arms to kill our hungry
countrymen, then it seems TO mesthat the ultimate
charge against militarism has been written.
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TT CEENTC M ME HAYWOOD
L l. OHG1V1O ~ 1N1G O1 BROUN

NIT that I don't know just what
the language of labor is. I have
heard it from coal diggers who just
have received a cut in wages, and
it was not that of the flowers, but,
on the other hand, I have heard
other coal diggers take their troubles
to the Lord in language that would
receive the complete approval Of the
Methodist Board of Temperance
und so weiter.
'It is perhaps to be regretted,
but it is nevertheless true, that all
working people do not articulate
in the four letter words used by the
characters in Dos Passes very lively
1919 In fact, many a steel worker
of my acquaintance would arise and
flee, with burning cheeks, the
ordinary conversation among our
penthouse proletarians.
"And if our critic means that
Norman Thomas should mouth
MARKHAM maxims at the American
workers-Well, take look at the
luck in Communist 'agitprops' have
had with that.
mo, I suspect that the real grippe
the nec-Communists have with
Norman Thomas and the rest of
us Socialists is that we don't fit into
the picture that they carry around
in their heads Of the ideal revolu-
zionist.
"He is, of course, a lean, gray
faced youth, with burning eyes,
thrusting a fist up into stark sky.
That seems to let you out. (Me,
too, for the Daily Worker invariably
refers to me as red faced That
is all the red they will grant me-
Some day would like to have these
tough literary babies meet William
Zebulon Foster.
IF there ever was any one who
looked like the presiding elder of
the First Presbyterian church of
Marion, O., it is the same w. 2.
Foster, Communist candidate for
President of the United States.
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The Language of Labor

TINE language of labor is a
l. tongue in which orthodoxy is
even more difficult than Mr.. Cole
man has intimaJed. My morning
copy of the Daily Worker lies beside
me, and I find the editor, replying
to a steamftter who thinks that the
paper should print some proletarian
literature in the interest of greater
liveliness.
The Commissar replies mournfully
that only Germany and Russia are
producing proletarian fiction on a
large scale. There is none to be
found in America.
This seems to me rather a dirty
dig at Coruade Dresser, considering
all that he has done and, more par
-ticularly, said for Communism. And,
indeed, the Daily Worker is far too
modest. I have seen many excel
lent items of proletarian fiction day
after day in its news columns.
follow with special interest the
crimes committed by one specific
character, who seems to rank along
with Bill Skies and Simon Legree as
one Of the most complete villains in
modern literature. And the author
has hit upon an excellent name for
his creation. The fellow is called
Haywood Broun.
tcODysighs. 1882. b. Ths Tines
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Peoples Voice

Editor Tines-In your views of
the people, Mrs. Martha SimpkinS
says she believes the young people
are as well off morally and physical
" as they were twenty-odd years
ago. I believe that at heart that
they really, truly are, and only are
trying to have what they call good
time.
But if Mrs. Simpkins is a truly
good sport, and can get some per-
sons who know the ropes we'll, and
go with them on an all-night trip,
say for instance Saturday night, to
every dance hall, roadhouse, speak
easy, cabaret, everything of the kind
that is open, they can get into, and
see all that there is to be seen, by
the Sabbath morning she will I'M
derstand why people want beer and
light wines legalized, not only for
the much-needed revenue, but to
save the morals of the people before
it is too late.
just because she does not see
these things is no reason they dc
not exist.
People do not ask for the saloons
return, but the woman who passed
them was no more Of a by-word
among the men who congregated in
front of them than they now are by
the crowd in front of the poolrooms
Some Of our womanhood do
things today that make the rest of
us blush because We are women and
what some Of these young girls are
going to tell their children I, for
one, don't know.
True, some who were confirmed
drunkards are trying to do right, but
even then they did have stuff that
was decent to drink, as such stuff
goes, but now a self-respecting hog
would not drink il. READER
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.
Astronomers Find That Sum
Spots Occur IN Cycles.

OpOtS occur 1n Cycles.
THE fact that sun spots occur in
Il cycles has engaged the atten-
ton Of astronomers for almost a
century.
Within the last few years. the
work of DR.. Harlan Stetson of
Perkins observatory, Ohio Wesleyan
university, has proved definitely that
radio reception improves and de-
clines with the sun spot cycles.
Many authorities suspect that
there may be longtime changes in
our weather, which can be traced to
the sun spot cycle, but this has not
been established.
S. H. Schwabe of DesSsu was the
first to discover that sun spots oc-
CURED in cycles. He announced his
discovery in 1843, after twenty years
of study. During that time he had
made an almost daily watch of the
sun spots.
Systematic study of sun spots was
begun by Prof. Max Wolf of Zurich
in 1880. He collected all observa-
lions of sun spots available up to
that time and summarized them.
He devised system of counting
sun spots which took into account
both the groups of spots and the
number of spots in the group. This.
method is still in use. i.
The result of the daily count is
known as the Wolf number" for
that day.
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Saws

HooUer's Speech Sho1cs That
He Is the Same Phlegmatic,
Sloa0 : Moving Standpdtter
That He Always Was.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-President
~ Hoover's acceptance speech
was illogically self-satisfied and dis
appointingly unoriginal. He APP
pears to have learned something
about war debts from his 1928 op-
ponent, former Governor AL Smith.
and something about prohibition
from the Democratic platform.
Whether he has learned anything
from the depression is not so clear.
He still believes in prosperity and.
having failed to preserve it, thinks
the American people should give
him a chance TO restore it.
He still sympathizes with the drys
but recognizes the necessity Of being
wet.
Virtually all the interesting sug-
gestions President Hoover made can
be traced to borrowed ideas or
changed opinions, and the changed
opinions come too late to be regard
ed otherwise than the products of
submission to pressure.
One can not read what the Presi-
dent says about changing the eight
zenith amendment, or solving the
debt problem, without suspecting
that he voices a synthetic viewpoint,
rather than his own.
AS some ardent Republican editors
have observed, his speech bore lit
tie resemblance to that of Cover
nor Roosevelt. Obviously, it was
not made on the spur of the mo-
ment, contained few rough spots.
and had every earmark of being
prepared carefully.
Indeed, its studied character was
so apparent as to leave the i'm
preston that it might have bene-
flied by some collaboration, if not
editing. Not that such a thing is
unusual, or would reflect on the
author, but that it scarcely reveals
a great leader.
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100000 of United States property
to his credit"
He led the advance in every
forward movement of his forces,
and always covered the rear in
retreat. For long time he fought
almost daily, dismounting his
force for battle when necessary.
Battles connected with his
name are Chickamauga, Ringgold
Gap, Macon, Augusta, Savannah,
Johnsonville, Bentonville and nu-
merous others. At the outbreak
of the Spanish-American war,
General Wheeler went to Cuba as
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Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
Eight Hundred Times Under
Fire-Brigadier- General. Wheeler
Q836-1906) resigned a commission
in the United States army to join
the confederacy, where he sue
cessively was promoted to the
rank of colonel, brigadier, cavalry
commander of Bragg's army, ma
jor- general and lieutenant-gen-
eral. He was very conspicuous as
raider in the Civil war, having
the destruction of more than S.
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EIeYen-Year CYcle

THE sun spot cycle is approx
4 mately eleven years long. That
is, it usually is that many years
from time of maximum sun spots
up TO a period of minimum and
back again to period of maximum.
However, the time from one maxi
mum to the next may be a longer
or shorter period.
Russell states, 1.-THE average IN
terval between maximum is lib
years, according to Newcomb; but
this is subject to great fluctuations,
the observed intervals ranging all
the way from 73 to Ill years.
THE rise to maximum is usually.
but not always, more rapid than
the fall which follows, the mean
duration of the two, according to
Newcomb, being 462 to 6.51 years"
wv. j. S. Lockyer has pointed out
that the rise is more rapid both in
actual duration and as compared
with the fall, when the maxima are
highest.
THE whole length of the interval
between minima, however, seems to
bear little relation to the intensity
Of the maximum"
During the period of sun spot
maximum, the sun is covered with
spots daily. On some days as many
as 100 spots are visible.
During the period of sun spot
minimum, spots are very scarce.
Sometimes an entire month will
pass without spot being observed.
There also is considerable vari-.
alton in the intensity of sun spot
maxima. Three or four cycles will
exhibit maxima of high intensity.
These will be followed by several of
low intensity.
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major-g general of volunteers in
command of a cavalry division,
adding the battles of Las Quasi
mas and San Juan to his past
laurels.
Altogether, Fighting Joe"
Wheeler commanded in more than
200 battles and was under fire 300
times. He had long and envia-
BILE record as congressman, and
was a United States brigadier-
general, retired, when he died.
Monday - Astounding Chest
Expansion"
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M TO-DAY SO
WORLD WAR !
ANNIVERSARY
~ ofNGN
PROFESSIONALLY RECOGNIZED
Aug. l3.


ON Aug. 13, 1918, Great Britain
~ recognized zecho-Slovakia as
an independent nation. It was to
be formed out Of certain Austro-
Hungarian states at the end of the
war, and the recognition was made
to encourage the operations of
Czecho-Slovakian troops co-operat-
ing with the allies in Russia.
At the same time, it was an
nounced officially in Vienna that
Austrian troops were being sent to
the western front to aid the hard
pressed German forces there.
Fresh French divisions resumed
the offensive on the Disc river. driv-
ing the Gemans back for more than
two miles on a wide front.
British, American and French
forces continued their gains in Pic
ardy, capturing thousands of prison.
ers and great quantities of ammu-,
milton and equipment.
German prisoners taken in the
previous month were estimated at
more than 100000, or the equiva-
lent Of ten German division.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FTSHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


Health Magazine.
FOR several years investigators in
L the University of Iowa have
been studying defects of speech, not
only from a mechanical point of
view, but also as concerns their eff
fects on human psychology.
Suffering is not as important, as
physical disability, as would be
the absence of sight or of hearing
or the loss of limbs.
1t is, however, focal point for
several disturbances of life and liv-
ing which may lead eventually to
emotional states that bring sorrow
both to their possessors and to the
associates of their possessors. =.
Some authorities differentiate be-
tween suffering and stammering
However, any disorder in the rhythm
of verbal expression which makes
speech halting and difficult may be
taken as phenomenon of this type.
In a recent investigation in the
University of Iowa. 80 Sufferers
ranging in age from to AZ years
were examined carefully.
1t was found that men outnum-
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IT had thought that the organiza-
ton Of workers into a party of their
own, with their goal the abolition Of
profit, rent and interest, might be
of some help. see was mistaken.
The thing is to play charades, with
Norman Thomas disguised as an OPP
pressed garbage collector, shouting,
T hell wit yuh, you soandso!' you
following after in the costume Of an
exploited Bayonre oil worker, carry
ing aloft a banner on which it is
written in the words Of Marx:
No matter how long may be the
series of periodical reproductions
and antecedent accum mutations
through which the capital now
functioning may have passed, it
always retains its primal virginity.'
1.-The last line probably will get a
laugh, and, as you know, a laugh
among the intelligentsia is worth
its weight in Mike Gold"
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What to Do NoW2

800, what are We to do? Ten
- million men and women are
out of work, and a good lot Of them
are on the starvation line. One way
out, but by no means the only way,
is to use an instrument the Ameri-
can worker understar s, narsely, the
ballot.
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tent that slows up effort they do great deal of
good in this world" regardless of who gets the
credit.
And honor to them, to their genuine if uncee-
brated achievements, to their unfagging zeal and
courage
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They're still arguing about whether John Hanson
or George washington the first President Of the
United States. If they keep that up much longer
the only solution will be for the supreme courts to
hold the Declaration Of Independence unconstitu-
tonal
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THERE used to be a person
L called parlor Socialist, but he
has gone-never to return, I hope.
His place has been taken by the
parlor Communist.
This young man or woman looks
over the parapet after the second
cocktail and remarks, eff I were
going to be anything, I'd be Com
munist."
Generally he or she never decides
to be anything, and so Mr.. Fosters
movement is helped only in desul-
tory way.
However, few of the gilded left
wingers do make motions, and many
write book reviews. I have at hand
report on this phenomenon from
McAlister Coleman.
A Comrade Contributes
"EROM my enforced exile in Ber-
L gen county, New Jersey,
where, as the Chamber of Com
merce says, opportunity calls but
where. as have discovered in the
last three weeks, nobody else does, I
rise to ask you where you stand on
this latest hoopla among our intelli-
gentsia?
"You undoubtedly have noticed
that lot of the critical clan, new
Republicans and tired humanists
have come upon Karl Marx, and are
shouldering their way over to join
Bill Fosters Barricade Boys. They
are pretty sore at Norman Thomas,
because he is not a combination of
the late Daniel De Leon, Gene Debs
and Jack Reed.
In the last New Republic, one of
them has piece saying that
Thomas is the son of minister, an
ex-minister himself and a gentle
man to boot. He also takes a side
swipe at you.
He doesn't bring the same charges
against you as he does against
Thomas, but he hints pretty broadly
that they may Turk in your back
ground some shreds of responsibility.
Anyway, you are not proletarian,
and Thomas speaks the language Of
labor only falteringly.'
s.
Each According to Needs
@T HAVE been around quite a lot
4 with labor, Norman Thomas
and yourself, and am here to ad-
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.=The Editor.
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great deal has been written about the fact that
the ancient Greeks didn't use the word Oympad
in referring to the Olympic games. The whole thing
could have been avoided by the simple statement
that none Of our sports writer's are ancient Greeks
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novelist says that he frequently fails to write 9
single WORD IN the first hour he works. Just an.
other argument for the one-hour work day.
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Hollywood star has been late at all four Of hi,
wedding gossip tells u.s. He ought to try new
best man.
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Hollywood movie star brags that she once re-
NAMED in hot bath for twenty-four hours Must
have been preparing for one of those hard-boiled
parts.
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Lunbago means that the blood is poor, a docto
tells u.s. Or that the lawn needs moving we nigh
add.