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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

appealing to congress to modify the volstead
act.
Then the vote was 3 to l in the state, 6 to l
in the city and less than g to even in Man
haitian. Compare these with Tuesdays ratios
on ~out-and-out repeal Small doubt left what
the people Of New York want in 1893. when
they are given a chance to say. Even dry old
Nassau county went wet. Is to /.
Special credit for getting out the wet vote
should go to the Women's Organization for
National Prohibition Reform, whose leaders
worked early and late to convince voters of
the plain truth that repeal yet might be lost
by overconfdence.
The restoration Of personal liberty and
state rights will owe much to the leadership of
liberal ana courageous women who understand
the difference between prohibition and true
temperance.
With apparently close to two million major
ity for repeal, New York becomes a worthy
and inspiring sixth on the list that already
included Michigan, Wisconsin, wyoming,
Rhode Island, and New Jersey.
Il have been waiting since 1912 said Al
Smith, when he cast his vote.
The wait is over at last. Now let thirty
more states follow New York before the end
of 1888 and give us liberty, a relieved and
righted Constitution, and the assurance of
lightened tax loads.
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1t Has Not Worked Yet

A ND in this situation there rise
"A those who say. we have
beaten Germany with whips, and
now we will use scorpions" How
car this be called realistic think
ing? Hitler rose to power by as
surfing Germans that the whole
world consplred against the Ger
man nation. And now it is pro-
posed to undermine him by max
ing good up to the hilt his widest
claims of oppression from the out
side. Here is a letter from a man
in Cleveland, who writes:
"A year ago L met a German stu
dent in Paris. He amazed me by
saying that he intended to vote for
Hitler. He seemed a ~tolerably in
telligent young man, and 1 was
shocked and told him so.
He answered that he understood
America did not like the depression.
DO you believe that we German
workers like it?' he said. Amer
lea has had it only since 1929. We
have had it since the war. I be-
lieve that I should rather die
quickly by a machine gun bullet
than die a slow death through
starvation.
land that is what is happening
to millions like me in the Father
land. Anything is better than a
continuation Of present conditions
even war"
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A WOman's Viewpoint +: :

XXTHAT stories lie behind the
w wall of words that make the
biographies of our great men! 1t
takes only the most casual of read
ing to work up a lively curiosity
about their women.
The recent life of William Te-
cumseh Sherman, the narrative of
John Quincy Adams, the Marquis
James story Of Andrew Jackson.
and that greatest of them all-"The
Education Of Henry Adams will
suffice for illustration. Although
these men always spoke knowingly
of women, they spent very little
time with those of their own
households.
Mrsu. Sherman saw her husband
only upon rare occasions. Andrew
Jackson, loving his Rachel as ne
did, managed to be away from her
most of the time.
The pursuit of careers and OF
fame during hectic days occupied
our leaders and the making of wars
and of nations never is conducive
to conjugal bliss, as we conceive it.
A good many fulsome panegyrics
are written about the lives of all
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get along SO well is because they
saw so little Of each other?
1t is nonsense to think that such
women did not have important roles
to fill, or that their existence was
empty. On the contrary, they were
engrossed with the most intense liv-
ing.
Upon them, for months and years,
devolyed all the care of the child
dren-and in most instances there
were maryland the outstanding of
the family resources. While their
men were building a republic and
marching to battles and sitting in
legislative halls, they were doing the
real work of nation making-creat-
ing permanent homes and rearing
citizens.
And so I consider it a great pity
that we have so few records left of
what these wives and mothers ex-
perienced and thought and felt.
1t may be that our whole destiny
would have been changed if we had
preserved for posterity feminine as
well as masculine convictions.
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Breathlessness Is Heart Disease Symptom
VXTHEN a heart is unable to do

XXTHEN a heart is unable to do
w its work successfully, it is not
able to take in the blood that comes
to it from the lungs and to push it
around the circulation. AS a result,
various symptoms develop.
Among the earliest and most i'm
portant symptoms Of weakness of
the heart is breathlessness on slight
exertion. Even healthy people get
breathleSS on exercise.
Thus, at the very earliest period
in heart disease a person may be-
come breathleSs too soon while ex-
ercising, and later become breath
less with relatively slight activity.
Therefore, n can grade the
breathlessness a oc with
weakness Of the heart by the
amount of exertion that brings it
on.
Anybody may become breathless
from walking too fast or by climb
ing a fight of stairs. On the other
hand. most people do not become
breathless while walking slowly for
short distances, or while sitting
quietly.
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FRIDAY. MAY 20. 1888.
WHY THE CHARITY?

Mr. MORGAN has the senate committee to
wi thank for revealing him to the country as
a great philanthropist. Hitherto Mr.. Morgan's
benefactions have been oyershadowed by those
of Mr. Rockefeller and other men of wealth.
But these other philanthropists have been
old-fashioned - they gave to the poor or to
public enterprises. Mr.. Morgan is original. He
lavishes his charity on the prominent and
well-to-do.
Mr., Woodin, for instance, then the head of
one Of the largest corporations in the country
and connected with the federal reserve, and
now secretary of the treasury. It would not
have occurred to the average philanthropist to
make a financial gift to Mr.. Woodin.
Why the charity?
1t could not have been because the
recipients needed money. The Morgans had
another list for that purpose - a loan list for
prominent men who needed money.
What then?
Sometimes gifts are made to create good
will. Was Mr.. Morgan trying to buy the
good will Of these gentlemen? If so, that only
deepens the mystery. Their good will for
what?
Mr.. Morgan has an explanation. He
intimates these gentlemen were friends. That
is not hard to believe. They must have been
friends. But the explanation does not
enllghten; it compounds the confusion, for the
obligations of such a relationship are
reciprocal.
One usually does not take without giving
something in return. AS Mr.. Raskob SO nicely
expressed it in his letter of thanks, Il hope the
future will afford me opportunity to
reclprocate."
OF course Mr.. Raskob would not reciprocate
as chairman of the Democratic national
committee, or Mr.. Mutt as treasurer of the
Republican national committee, or Mr.. Roberts
as a justice of the United States supreme court,
or Mr.. Adams as secretary of the navy, or Mr..
McAdoo as United States senator, or Mr..
Woodin as secretary of the treasury.
That would be dishonorable and these are
honorable men, most of them not holding
public office when they accepted Mr.. Morgan's
benevolence.
But, since obviously these gentlemen would
not misuse a position of public trust to repay
q personal favor to Morgan, how did they
reciprocate? Or didn't they? Is. then. their
personal obligation to Mr.. Morgan still
outstanding? If not, was Mr.. Morgan simply
a sucker?
Perhaps all these questions are misleading,
complicating a very obvious matter. Maybe
this form of charity is not new, as we
supposed.
Maybe it is SO customary for MI. Morgan to
bless Americas famous men with his
benefactions that he does it without thought or
purpose, and they receive his gifts in the same
gracious spirit, without question and without
obligation, other than a letter of acknowledge
ment.
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F.: The Message Center :

Times readers are inUited TO express
their rietcS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 cords or less.J
BY w. H. Richards.
1t is amazing how many wrong
things have been suggested by our
wise rulers for restoring prosperity
to the American people, every single
n of them only a measure to make
matters worse. The one and only
right thing, the specialization of in
dustry for use of all the people and
profit of none, has been avoided
carefully.
In your issue of May 13 appeared
an editorial quoting Prof. Raymond
Moley, Sketching what he calls
President RooSevelt'S major poll
icy" 1t is a proposition that in
duStry move its plant to the coun-
try, where the workers a move
from tenementS and cluster their
homes on small plots around the
factories. They can then supple
ment their wages with homegrown
garden truck and stock.
A fine way indeed to raise the
standard of living of the workers.
Of course he means that a big cor
poration should build a factory and
a lot of ShackS around it which
they would rent to the workers,
charging plenty of rent, and then,
as the workers would have means
of raising their vegetables by work.
ing overtime in their gardens, and
as wages are based on the bare cost
of living, it would not be necessary
for the company" TO pay as much
wages.
Also, as the Company" would
own the whole town, it need not
pay in cash, but could issue scrip
that would only be good at the
Company store" where the work.
ers would be charged so per cent
more for their purchases than they
could buy them in other stores.
Such system now is in vogue in
the coal fields of Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky
and Tennessee, and there are no
slaves on earth so crushed under
the heel of the oppressor as the
men who go down into the earth to
dig coal.
The wise thing for the capitalists
to do would be to frankly admit
that their system has broken down
and surrender their plants which
they cannot run for profit and let
the workers try to run them with
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heart. Therefore, the doctor is
likely to find out best the extent
of the difficulty by carefully ques-
tioning the patient as to the ma
ture Of his breathleSsness.
The more serious tests include
walking briskly up a flight of forty
steps, one step at a time, OF hop
ping twenty times on the right foot
and twenty times on the left foot,
or some similar exercise.
A normal person, after such ex-
ercise. is able to answer questions
without interruption by the neces-
Sity for breathing, his pulse will
rise only ten or twenty beats a
minute, and the original rate will be
resumed inside of a minute there
after.
The person with failure of the
heart will have difficulty in an
swering questions and is likely to
have a much more serious rise in
the rate of the heart and a longer
time necessary before the heart
comes back to its usual rate.
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THE VOICE OF NEW YORK

TEN TO ONE in New York state, 40 to l in
New York City, so to in Manhattan.
New Yorks vote for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment exceeded all predictions and hopes.
Tuesdays b~alloting in that commonwealth
furnished figures that can not fail to impress
the nation and help turn the scale in doubtful
states, OF which drys claim Indiana is one.
Though interest was naturally greater in
the cities than in the rural districts, the re-
suits in New York are a fair measure Of how
much further the pendulum has swung away
from prohibition since 1926, when that state
held a popular referendum on the question Of
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Hitler and What Them

Nov, of course, it is easy to
~ point out that there is not the
remotest chance of Hitler's making
good his promises Of jobs for gen
tiles. But a drowning nation Will
clutch at a straw man.
And, more than that, 1t Will
clutch at another when the first mas
failed. And so the agitation 10 get
rid of Hitler will mean very little
unless it also faces the question,
After Hitler What?"
Here is a man who writes, Il am
an ardent pacihst, but 1 gladly
would welcome a war with Hitler %
They don't run wars like that. In
order to get at Hitler my pacifst
friend would have to shoot his way
through the boys Of the classes OF
1888 and 1884 and 1885.
Hatred not merely expressed in
denunciation and curses, but in real
action, such as the boycott" writes
DR.. A. COralnik, is most beneficial
for the real Germany for the
masses now frenzied by their emo
tons and blinded by their rage"
In other words. I am asked to be-
lieve that it is rational and reason
able to say to the German masses:
You have suffered much and you
are frenzied and blinded by rage
and passion and prejudice. To make
you wise and tolerant and calm we
intend to increase your economic
ills and force you deeper into the
mire."
To this old wooden-headed senti-
mentalist that Just doesn't make
sense.
Copyright. 1888. by The Times)
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Not Good in Either Case

IN fact, there are two arguments
4 to be used against the economic
boycott. The first is that it seldom
is very effective. The second is that
if by any chance it can be made 10
works it constitutes a s%ingulariy
cruel and far-reaching weapon.
An effective boycott is a long
range gun. 1t is impossible to aim
it at an individual. You must shoot
at the mass. approximately one
half of the people of Germany
fought hard to keep Hitler from
coming into power. They did not
fight shrewdly and at the moment
they hardly e to be fighting at
all.
But it must be remembered that
radical leaders have been Jailed and
suppressed and exiled. Give them
a breathing spell and new leaders
will arise to organize these forces
and overthrow Hitler.
But a economic boycott will fill
hardest of all upon those Germans
who hate Hitler the most. The
worker always is the first person
to be ruined whenever a nation IS
driven deeper into depression. l
hardly can see the logic of getting
at Hitler by furnishing the German
groups which offer the best hopes
Of forcing him out of power.
Moreover, 1 think that the most
casual study Ct the German stu
alton shows that Hitler has been
pushed to the top largely by pres
sure from the outside. A sane, a
prosperous, and a contented Ger
many would never have turned TO
this charlatan.
Hitler was distilled out Of the
miseries and fears and agonies of
Germany. Anti-Semitism itself is
the product of frightened and des-
perate folk Who look about and seek
to find somebody upon whom to
pour the blame. Those who bear
scars are the readiest to in1ict them.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

One of the causes of breathless-
ness is a deficiency in the flow of
blood carrying oxygen to the head
and neck.
Another cause is the lack of
oxygen in the blood due to the
fact that the blood begins to COL
lect in the veins and in the tissues
farthest removed from the heart.
In the normal heart there is a
great deal of reserve power. What
the heart does while the human
being is resting is but a small frac-
ton of what it can do when it
must.
Sir Thomas Lewis considers that
the heart has ten times as much
power as is required for it's work
while a human being is sitting at
rest.
Most of the tests are based on
the fact that exercise brings on
breathlessness in a weakened
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I deserved distinction in the art of
depicting events in striking fashion.
But while The Light of Asia" was
a highly significant piece of work,
boldly executed, to my mind the
Talburt cartoon printed in The
Times a year or so ago. entitled
The Sermon on the Mount" was
not only the best / have seen from
his pen, but the best of its kind in
it's incisive and far-reaching signifi-
canoe, 1 ever have seen published.
Whole volumes were written into
this pyramid picture, made up of
all the grim and deadly habiliments
of war, portrayed in realistic bold
ness, and on its apex standing a war
veteran, with an American flag by
his side, selling apples as a means
Of eking out a meager existence.
1t "a a startling presentation of
the relentless realities, with the
soldier stripped bare of all it's
mythical glory, leaving him rem
carnated as a street corner venGer,
after the nation had used him to
defend it with his life, but now
denying him the opportunity. of
securing self-respecting and re-
m%unerative employment in its in
dustrial and commercial life.
Something like a counterpart to
this cartoon was a painting, by a
Russian artist, 1 believe, a number
Of years ago, depicting the horrible
results of wal in a huge pyramid of
grinning human skulls. I do not
recall the other details of this
astounding picture, which excited
world attention, but The Sermon
on the Mount" in vivid outline,
brought down to date a clearcut
and startling vision of the con-
tinued futility Of war in promoting
the welfare of mankind, and show
ing the cruel and devastating effects
not only on the participants them
selves, but also on vast numbers of
other members of the race.
The republication of The Sermon
on the Mount" might be quite time
ly, as a companion piece to The
Light of Asia"
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1t Seems
to Me
BY BROUN

NEW YORK. May 26.-As severe
a counter attack as I have
known in many months bounced OF
my head after the Hitler column
Of last week. I refer TO a piece
which began. I am OF the opinion
that the anti-Hitler agitation in
America has became somewhat hys-
terical and has gone too far"
l still think so. Most of the let
tiers call me an anti-Semite. while
the rest classify me as a wooden
headed se~ntimentaliSt. Now I'm not
an anti-Semite. And in this par
tlcular instance I doubt whether I
am either wooden-headed or senti-
mental.
Hitler is a fair target for singing
criticism. but some people in Amer
lea have urged that the United
States break of diplomatic relations
with Germany and many. more are
working to organize an economic
boycott. I am against both meas
ures. Breaking off diplomatic rela-
tons is an act of war. A boycott is
the next worse thing.
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WHERE THE HONOR BELONGS

GONE military minded persons in the Chi
~ cago area seem to have nourished a mis-
conception about the nature of Memorial day.
When plans for the parade were being
made, the G.. A. r. veterans assumed that
they would lead the procession. But the
commander of troops in that area announced
that if any regular army or national guard
units were to participate they must march at
the head of the procession.
The result was an argument between the
c.. A. r. and the military authorities which
didn't leave a very pleasant after-taste.
We might as we'll remember that Memo
rial day is, by tradition, first of all a day
for the Civil war men. In the north, it be-
loAgs to those who fought for the Union; in
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WELCOME NEWS

THE federal governments action in order
Il ing immediate investigation of sweatshop
conditions in the nation is welcome news t
every state.
1t is particularly welcome to the thousands
of women and children in Pennsylvania, where
conditions apparently are the worst.
Now Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
has ordered her department to investigate
wages, working conditions and child labor in
shirt factories throughout the nation.
With most Of these factories operating in
Pennsylvania, due to the rigid laws in New
York, Ohio and other commemorative, the in
vestigation will center primarily in the Key
stone state.
While sw%eatshops vitality concern every
man, woman and child in Pennsylvania, they
also affect the lives of every A-merican-from
Maine to California.
So long as ~sweatshops flourish in any one
state, the buying power of the entire nation is
affected. The Starvation wages that eweat-
shops pay, the employment of children while
unemployed adults tramp the streets is a ma
tional as we'll as state and local problem.
Hence, we particularly welcome President
Roosevelt's national recovery bill and the in
vestigation that the department of labor has
ordered.
These two progressive steps mean that the
federal government does not intend to see
helpless women and children continue as the
victims of industrial slavery, because of the
failure of legislatures to clean up their own
industrial house.
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Captive

BY MARY MAY
Alone on the sill,
Alone,
In a ciod of earth.
In a crock of stone
Not long ago
Alive,
In far fields, free,
With sisters five
Here is a ported lily.
Alone,
Dead, in a clot Of earth
In a crock Of stone
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Questions and

On what states are the towns
of Trask ard Traskwood?
A-Trask is in Missouri and
Traskwood is in Arkansas.
Q.-Is Franklin D. Roosevelt
the thirty-second or the thirty
first President of the United
States?
Ale is the thirty-second
President if the two non-consecu-
tive terms of Grover Cleveland
are counted separately; otherwise,
he is the thirty-frst.
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the southland to those who fought for the
Confederacy.
AS long as any Of those gallant old soldiers
survive, they belong at the head of the parade.
One would suppose that any army officer would
be proud to give them precedence.
To march behind them is an honor for any
military organization.
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by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON =

such women-but wouldn't it be in
teresting if we could have had a
few more authentic first hand re-
ports from the ladies themselves?
rs it not possible, also, that the
i reason these couples seemed to
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DAILY

The Lord looked down from
heaven upon the children of men,
to see if there were any that did
not understand, and seek God.-
Psalms 1872.
MO man is wise enough by him
IN self.-PlautuS.
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Mining town has erected a Chamber of
Commerce with walls made of coal. If it's any,
thing like some of the coal we got last winter,
it's really a f1reproof building.
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So far as available records go, there is moth
ing to show that a girl who grew up to be a
Stenographer ever won a spelling bee.
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The Democratic party in congress has a
working majority, but how much better it
would be if We had a majority working.
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Not one person in 10000 understands
money" says an eminent economist. Probably
it's because they've had so little experience
with the subject in the last few years.
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All Men Equal!

BY A. Sucker
NEWS from Washington GER
~ tainly is cheering to the aver
age man, with his ST, 300 to $4,000
a year income, who paid taxes
on this income to the government
this year and now faces the pros
pect of paying some more to the
state.
1t makes any man feel good to
know that he has paid $50 in in
come tax to the government and
that j. P. Morgan and some of
our other so-called biggest men
paid none.
And still they tell us to have
faith in government institutions
and trust all our business and DO
litical leaders!
Between the state and federal
income taxes and the busted
banks, it appears that faith is
about all we have left and that
certainly it is at low ebb these
daVS.