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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
NUTS TO CRACK

IF human nature is still human the admin
istration at Washington must be lying
awake nights thinking on liquor real hard.
AS the post-repeal period nears two problems
have a tendency to promote official night
mare.
First with many of the states dry" for
some time after repeal is voted, prosperity for
the bootlegger will be just around the corner,
and such prosperity will be stimulated tremen-
douSly if the government taxes liquor high
enough to yield the income which government
badly needs and most eagerly desires. Compe-
tition Of legitimate trade with the illicit and
the latter having So to SO advantage a gallon
means sure enough problem. However, it
seems as If the government might greatly re-
duce, if not eliminate, the handicap against it
by certifcation of the quality Of the liquor
United States certificate as to quality, backed
by heavy penalty for counterfeiting, on every
container of liquor.
Secondly, the Democratic party is much
set against high tariffs In its recent national
campaign its spokesman attacked the "Grundy
tariff outrage" from every political stump in
the country. Yet England, Scotland, France,
Italy and practically all the rest of Europe are
stocked up nightly with wines and liquors to
be dumped upon Uncle Sam when he legally
quits the barrenness of the prohibition desert
and steps into the soggy mudhole of varied
chaotic liquor control; and naturally, our
wine-makers and distillers are going to march
an army" on Democratic Washington to de-
mand real high, if not prohibitory, tariffs on
wine and liquor imports.
At this point, too, enters the matter of tax.
tariff on imported drinks high enough to
protect" American distillers and wine growers
will be joyous to American bootleggers, whose
tribe seems bound to increase, in accord with
what glimpse we now get of future prospects.
However, let us hope for the best Possibly
nothing interferes with President Roosevelt's
brain trust thinking up code for Americas
illicit liquor traffic.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
WE'RE IT

"FF there is a European war, it will not be
- our war" Thus the conclusion of a Wash
ington editorial which despairs of League of
Nations, all peace pacts and present moribund
conferences as peacenakers
Verify, it seems wise to get our war bonnet
on straight The last European war wasn't
our war;" but we came mighty near paying
for it, having invested some two millions of
our best young men and about thirty billions
Of dollars in it. In final effects, it means
small difference whose monogram war bears.
The fallen heroes rot and the money vaniShes,
just the same.
Experience teaches that it is easy to make
foreign war our war;" to all intentS, pro-
vided that our past policy toward foreign war
is not radically improved upon.
Another Lusitania would make us a war
and heaven only knows to what overt act any,
or all, Of the fighting European nations would
resort in order to get us into the war. Villa
provoked us to invasion of Mexico. There's
Nicaragua. 1t will be remarkable if, as final
resort, some strong faction doesn't provoke us
to gunpowder interference with our god child,
Cuba. We had to lick the native Filipinos
to preserve the war loot we bought from Spain.
Behind our provocations are trade, or bust
ness considerations and there are few spots
in our imperialism which ugly foreigners can
not use as the illuminate for an explosion.
Thus the foreign potentialities, to say MOTH
ing of the jingoes and war prof1teers in our
midst.
We have tried, in vain, appeal to moral
obligation, resort to league covenant, treaties
and conferences on disarmament peace,
finance and trade adjustment. All were hope
less failures. For fifteen years, the experts
say, Europe has been preparing for another
war and the chances are ten to one that, in
most essentials, it will be "our war
But. we have not aimed our peace measures
at Europes pocketbook. very weak and
sore spot.
Suppose. for instance. that we notify
Europe that her war is not going to be 'our
war" for the simple reason that, upon wars
inception, We will suspend all of our export
trade with the fighters and prohibit loans of
money to them.
Absolute neutrality! We've tried every
thing else. Is there any other preventive?
Or, must the lives of millions of our youth
and billions of our wealth continue in jeop-
ardy because we cover in fear of drastic policy
and isolation?
Isolation? Europe already has got us about
isolated as her well-punched meal ticket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
THE LAST REQUEST

TT is little bit hard to see why any one
should have objected very strenuouslv
when that condemned murderer in Cali
fornias San Quentin prison was given a bottle
of good whisky to solace his last hours before
going to the scafold.
1t isn't, perhaps, exactly pleasant to think
of a man going to his death with his brain
muddled by the fumes of alcohol. But neither.
for that matter, is it pleasant to think of a
man being hanged under any circumstances.
No civilized person can contemplate Grim
inals final hours in a condemned cell with
out a feeling Of revulsion
Capital punishment still seems to be
necessary feature of our civilization But If
we're going to break mans neck with rope,
we might at least make his last hours little
more endurable by granting his last request,
whatever it may be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
NOT LICKED. YET

IT IS good to learn that the federal govern
l. ment has not yet thrown in its hand in
connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping
Attorney General Cummings says that "the
case never will die until we get our men;
and the ordinary citizen undoubtedly will ap-
plaud this statement, and hope that the fed
eral Investigators will eventually be able to
solve that tragic puzzle.
There have been, probably, more "impor-
tant" crimes in America than the kidnapping
of Baby Lindbergh. There never has been any
that aroused such wave of public indigna-
ton, or that made people realize so fully the
immunity with which some types of criminals
can operate. One Of the best bits of news we
could get would be an announcement that the
men who committed this crime had at last
been brought to justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
Germ Life Problem Is Difficult

on diphtheria. This began many
years ago with the discovery of
diphtheria antitoXin, which was
used not only to cure the disease,
but also, given Immediately follow
ing exposure, to aid in prevention.
Then the Schick test was discov-
cred and at the same time it was
found possible to prevent the dis
ease by injecting into the child who
had been exposed to mixture Of
the toxin, or poison of the germ,
and of the antitoXin.
Later, when it was found that the
toxin is an active substance which
stimulates the formation of resist
ing substances in the body, means
were developed for inactivating the
toxin by adding to it some formal
dehyde. This gave rise to the sub
stance called toXoid, which can be
injected into children with little or
no severe reactions and thus pro-
duce immunity against the disease.
Today campaigns are being car
ried out in many par.; Of America
leading to the possibility of pro-
tecting every child against diph-
liberia. In some cities from 60 to
rs per cent of all the children I'M
der six have been given this type
Of protection.
If this is carried on with the
greatest possible efficiency, it even
tually may be possible to stamp out
diphtheria.
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nize society in such fashion that labor, capital,
and the consumer will be safeguarded properly.
He IS particularly effective in his attack upon
finance capitalism.
Mr.. Segal indicates his realism and courage
by advocating the abolition Of political institu-
tons and the establishment of direct govern
ment through the new industrial organization
Of society. There is certainly much to be said
for the abolition Of a pre-industrial type Of
social control in an advanced industrial age.
Leon Samson, one Of the intellectuals
among American Communists, endeavors to
prepare the minds of American workers for
communistic age in Toward a United Front;
a Philosophy for American Workers" He be-
lieves, perhaps rightly, that communism will
be resisted in this country primarily because it
is regarded as an alien philosophy. Mr.. Sam
son strives to bring into clear relief what he
regards as the substantial socialistic tradition
in the history Of the United States He hopes
thereby to lessen any opposition to communism
which is based upon the assumption that it
is made in Germany and Russia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

der 81 and apparently 10 per cent are women
and girls. For four winters their lot has be-
come progressively more hazardous, their
morale has sunk to lower levels The emer-
gency relief administration is determined that
the fifth winter will find their condition i'm
proved.
The government is anxious that the states
cooperate with the relief administration to
furnish adequate and standardized shelter.
food work relief and constructive cultural op-
portunities for these transients," SAYS Morris
Lewis, head of transient relief work in Wash
ington. 80 far twenty-four states have met
our standards and are slow in complying
1--WE must hasten in setting I'D relief prof.
ects before winter sets in America can not
afford to neglect this problem much longer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24

CCIENTISTS only recently have
- discovered that germs are like
human beings. And that is why
some diseases are so hard to cure.
The similarity lies in the fact
that germs change their nature
from generation to generation, just
as we do. Therefore, protective
vaccine made from one generation
of a certain organism may not be
able to protect you again infec-
lions caused by later generations
of the same family of organisms.
Furthermore, it seems likely that
certain types of disease may be
caused by combinations of germs
working together, as for instance a
virus working with an ordinary
germ.
This may be the case with the
common cold, in which various
types or organisms have been in
eliminated from time to time.
Recently, Investigators in Den
mark and in this country found
that a vaccine for whooping cough
made from the commonly found
germ, the Bordet-Gengou bacillus,
is not effective if made from old
organisms that have been raised in
tubes for a long time, but may be
quite successful if made from
organisms freshly raised from
species taken from the throat.
The worlds knowledge of germs is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
:: The Message Center ::
you your it-vOlta

eSty in his department and he
demands capability from every
member of his force.
The fact that Indianapolis is free
of gang members should prove the
efficiency Of our guardians of the
law. Some rowing gangster or
criminal may wonder into our mo
mean city" but you can bet your
bottom dollar he won't stay long
that is, alive.
When one thinks of the great
catches made by our police and
detective departments he realizes
it is nothing short of phenomenal.
There are the Jones murder SuS-
poets, the L. A. Jackson killers and
others too numerous to mention.
Any police department with such
men as Captains Petit, Johnson
and Ray and Sergeants Heuber,
Marks and Yoh should be lauded
to the skies. Who are we to
criticise.
Here's to our chief and to every
one of his men. Our thanks for
their success in making Indian
apoliS a place safe for every one.
Believe it or not, I'm Repub-
1ican, too.
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A Woman's Viewpoint !:

the deadliest foes Of Communism.
They are a great Christian militia
ready to uphold the spirit of the
Constitution. ID. A. R. club notes
will please copy
From their modest recommended
ton we gather that "the Silver
Shirt roster represents the cream,
the bead, and the flower, of our
Protestant Christian manhood"
Moreover the likeness of the ire
proachable Sir Galahad adorns their
escutcheon.
The Silver Shirts stand ready to
save us once again from the Jews,
the Catholics, the Negroes and the
Communists, and after that they will
deliver us up bag and baggage to
Herr Hitler, who according to their
literature, they represent in Ameri-
ca. Rather a dubious salvation if
you ask me. popping us into the fire,
just as they have snatched us from
the frying pan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

less than 100 years old. Yet of all
the knowledge we have, this is
among the most significant.
Today we know that there are
many varieties of minute organisms
and that their effects on other living
forms are tremendous. There are
germs of every shape and size and
many that are so small as to be
invisible.
There are, in fact, germs so small
that they can pass through the
pores of a clay filter. These are
called filterable viruses. Among the
troubles due to such viruses are foot
and mouth diseases and probably
also smallpox and poliomyelitis, or
infantile paralysis.
Interesting studies are being
made by chemists, who determine
not only chemical composition OF
germs, but from that the type of
sugars and similar materials on
which the germs must live to null
tiply. The control Of germ species
of various types is much simpler
when their habits are known in
such intimate detail
An example Of the way in which
knowledge about germs and diseases
progresses is the story Of the attack
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-In the
~ present campaign John P.
O'Brien has stressed the issue of
loyalty" But the word means Moth
ing without some definition. The
question must be asked. Loyalty TO
what?" And if the answer comes.
Loyalty to John P. OBrien,"
think We have a right to yawn or to
make other noises.
Even before this campaign I was
a dissenter. I thought it was silly
when I used to hear assembled hosts
sing, For God. for country and for
Yale" OF course, it would be
difficult to fit a melody to any such
affirmation as L am for the God
Of Spinoza, but not the God Of
Aimee Semple Macpherson, and I
am for my country except when its
would like Yale to win the football
actions seem to me unjust. and I
am game even though I think that
there is quite lot wrong with Yale,
in spite of the fact that Maine was
defeated by a score of IA to T."
All that, I think, is rather too
long for an anthem. 1t might be
simpler to say, I'm an agitator" In
recent years the word has been used
as term of reproach. And yet the
most casual survey must show that
all cauSeS-conservative or other
wise-have been furthered by agita-
ton. The chief complaint leveled
against the agitator is that he takes
people who are content with their
lot and makes them dissatisfied.
This Is the charge hurled against
labor leaders who organize strikes
in districts where unioniZation was
not heard Of before. And the man.
ufacturerS like to say, as in the case
of Ambridge, that everybody was
peaceful and happy before the
agitators came.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
A Divine Impotience

THE agitator in all fields OF
l. human endeavor is the person
who insists. sometimes with vio-
lence, that the world as 1t stands is
not good enough. This insistence
partakes of a very necessary quality
Of life. Contented organisms have
already felt the touch of degenera-
ton.
In man or beast or microbe life
consists of the desire to push out
wider borders, to grow and move
and explore domains which have
been barricaded. Posterity has
picked practically all its heroes from
the agitators. They are the saints
and the holy men Of our religions.
And, since this process of honor
ing the despised and the criticised
has become so universal, we might
sharpen our wits enough to refrain
from hasty condemnation of all who
would shake us out of lethargy.
They may be nuisance. But they
are the corpuscles of the corporate
being through which the waste and
the stagnation of the status quo is
turned into living tissue.
(Copyright. 1893. by The Tinaes)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER

TIME present crisis calls for both reahSm
i and vision. On the one hand, we need
IN cooperate with whatever may reIeVe I'LL
mediate misery and suffering. On the other
hand. we should be able to visualize WhaV
may lie ahead of us if we have sense enough
n amply our intelligence to the thorough
going reconstruction of human society.
n q. Wells is far and away our most pro-
ductiye Utopian. In this, his latest volume
.-rbe Shape or Things to Come" he once
,,,ore nroves that he has no close rival IN
ability to size up the potential future OF man.
The present book is his most extensive COM
nlete and thoughtful Utopia.
Tracing the history of the world Tor lVo
veers following the outbreak OF the Worlo
war he arrives at an ideal society in winch
both capitalism and nationalism are absent
We shall attain the world-state and an
economic system devoted to service rather
than to profit. Speculative piracy will be a
thing Of the past.
In the interval however, we must pass
through the ordeal of another terrible World
war which breaks out in 1910. 1t lasts for ten
years. Out of the ruins there arises new
civilization which. at last, justifleS the life OF
mankind on this planet.
Though the book will offer little assistance
IN the way of helping us with the new deal 1t
will provide encouragement by indicating that
something much better may lie ahead of us.
Professor Overstreet has gained an enviable
reputation as a facile and effective popularizer
of progressive psychological and philosophical
conceptions. In his present volume, I'VE Move
in New Directions" he reads the obituary Of
the capitalistic system, its profit motive and
its rugged individualism. With it must go
the associated emotions OF cupidity, bigotry.
prudery and oppression.
A new social order must be created which
will rest upon five elements, bodily health,
education In sane human relations, adequate
esthetic and intellectual appreciation, intelli-
gent mastery OF the work problem through
proper vocational guidance and adequate lei
sure, and finally. true understanding of the
fundamental purpose of life.
The book is dedicated frankly to the thesis
that We have reached a turning point in civili-
Eation, but the author holds himself suffi-
GENTLY to generahties so that he is not likely
to get into any trouble with authorities.
Robert Segal has composed an enthusiastic
program in Tricpoly-or Glass war-to recog-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
Wilson the AgitdtOr

TAKE the case of Woodrow Will
4 son. When he returned from
Paris and began to preach his theory
that salvation from international
disturbances lay in the League Of
Nations, he qualified as an agi-
tator. I happened to be in favor
of the agitation which he conducted.
Nevertheless, it would be foolish to
deny that he went into communities
and endeavored TO place in the
hearts of men a dissatisfied feeling
about foreign relations which had
not been there before. These COM
munitieS were content with the old
order of national rivalries, or, rather,
they gave small heed to them.
And so I deny that it is an in
trusion to tell socially manned or
wounded person that he labors I'M
der a disability. A striking case was
much reported in the instance of a
young man who had been blind from
birth. The anti-agitation school, in
all logic, should have been against
the operation which gave him sight.
Never having seen the passing show,
he could not have worried about it a
great deal. And yet it was within
his due that a window into the
world should be opened up for him.
In somewhat similar fashion it
seems to me an excellent thing that
men should take occasion to tell
workers in backward communities
that SIS a week is a pitiful wage,
even if it is the rate to which they
have become accustomed.
And going back into historical
precedent, it easily can be main
tanned that Jefferson, Washington,
Franklin; Patrick Henry and the rest
were agitatorS. It was not in the
mind of every colonist to rebel I'M
der the slogan mo taxation without
representation" In all truth. MANY
of the inhabitants of the original
thirteen states suffered no palpable
burdens under British rule. They
had to be aroused to their disabiI-
tiles.
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(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their viet0s In these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ aoordS or less.)
BY Frank J. Wright, d. C.
Your Mr.. Tracy, who writes so
interestingly, marvelS that a mi
nority in every community, men live
to be 10 or 80 and even 80 without
serious illness or major operations.
He wants to know how they do it,
what is their secret or their ability
to avoid, or resist disease? He adds,
I'VE do not know, and the worst Of
it is, we are making comparatively
little effort to find out" He Sug-
gests that physicians study these
men and their health as much as
they study disease.
Mr.. Tracy has raised question
worth while. One has but to stop
for a moment and think and its
Importance becomes a real vital
thing. A truth found by single
soul will carry conviction to a null
titude, and Mr.. Tracy, by his ques-
TONS suggests a truth. Let him
continue to comment, to carry this
important health question to his
readers. Something good will come
of it.
To answer Mr.. Tracy's questions
would entail too much space in this
paper. However, it is the writer's
opinion that he can answer the
questions pretty much to the salts
faction of any inquirer giving the
questions thought. AS a drugleSs
physician for twenty years, he has
given study to health as much or
more than to disease.
Should one aspire, as I have, to
correct or assist nature to repair the
human body, he first should under
stand the workings of the body
when operating perfectly. The same
logic would hold good in the repair
of any machine, one should under
stand that machine as it runs per-
fectly. Let Mr.. Tracy ask himself
this question, what operates the hu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24
HOBOES, OLD AND NEW

ID ALPH DALTON, president of the Hobo
IN Fellowship, says that his is member Of
a vanishing tribe. The familiar and pictur
eSque knights itinerant who neither toiled nor
did they spin, who spoke a language of SYM
bols as mysterious as that of the birds they
seemed to follow. who lived gypsy lives on
handouts and jungle fare are disappearing
from the roads The modern pace is too fast
for these leisurely parasites
But the new hobo is here. He is a creature
of the mass production age. His army num-
bers more than 100000. He roains not from
wanderlust, but in a vain search for work.
The government estimates thai more than
80 per cent of the depressions transients are
sincere job hunters. Fully is per cent are I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-24

TINE most reassuring aspect OF
our life on this planet is that we
have certain noble citizens who al
ways are ready to protect the
dumber element. You may be ignor-
ant. your knowledge of world affairs
may be limited, but these organized
saviors will look out for your in
terestS.
Hence, while you and have been
careless with no thought Of danger
from without, the Silver Shirts Of
America" modified to save us. An
official statement from their head
quarters says so. Now isn't that
Just too wonderful of them? To be
sure, they can't do it entirely for
nothing, and so, in much smaller
type, they ask How much are you
willing to do for us?" THE usual
ten-spot would be about right,
wouldn't it, Majors Pelley and
Powell?)
Probably you are not aware Of it,
but you are in deadly peril. There's