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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

also bring about greater possibll-
ity of transmission of germs from
one person to another, and also va
rious aches and pains due to I'M
accustomed postures.
DR.. Edgar Sydenstricker has point
ed out that differences in the racial
composition of a population, the
question as to how many live rural
lives and how many city lives, and
the distance from the city are all
important factors in determining
sickness and death rates.
Every one knows that sickness and
death rates vary greatly in different
parts of the country at different
times.
For example, at one time one city
may have a death rate of two to
100000 from typhoid fever, whereas
another city may have a death rate
from typhoid fever as high as six to
100000.
DR.. Sydenstricker points out that
people in New York between the
ages of so and SO died from Bright's
disease and nephritis at the rate
of ga, whereas in Wisconsin they
died from these cases only at the
rate of ia.
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Bv Farmer and His Wife.
We read in the papers and hear
over the radio to buy now and in
large quantities, as prices are going
up. Of course, now is the time to
buy, but what are we to use for
money?
We live on q small farm which Is
paid for and our income in almost
entirely from milk or cream and
eggs. We milk five cows and have
100 hens. Several years ago, the in
come from four COWS was about $40
week and our eggs kept us in
groceries.
Now, five COWS net us 81 week
and we sell our eggs for less than
l cent each Tell me how any farm
err who depends upon dairy products
for living, can buy in large guam
titles?
Here are q few of our problems.
Any one who shops much knows
that sugar is cheaper by the pound
in twenty five-pound bags than in
ten pound bags Beans are less a
pound in ten-pound lots than III
one or two-pound sacks. Graham
crackers cost 18 cents a pound box
and 80 cents for a tWo-pound box.
Soap is cheaper by the quarters
worth than by the bar. Now, when
I buy list of groceries, 1 lose sew
eral cents on each article purchased.
as I do not have the money to buy
a twenty-five pound bag Of sugar
and have any money left for other
necessities. Instead of twenty-five
pounds of sugar, I get ten pounds,
even if I am making jelly. buy one
or two bars of soap instead of a
quarters worth, one box of matches
instead of a carton, and one pound
of crackers, while l could save a
nickel on a tWo-pound box.
The other day my husband needed
pair of socks. The price was Is
cents each or two pairs for Is cents.
He needed two or more pairs, but
he had to lose the cents because
he didn't have the quarter to spare.
|, So 1 wish we knew how we or any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
It Seems
to Me
=BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-Americans
~ are in danger in Cuba. That
is too bad I would not have the
lives of any Of our citizens sacri-
feed in a cause in which we have no
direct concern.
And yet it seems to me that the
most important point to remem-
Der is that this is a private fight IN
which We have not been invited TO
participate. If it is Cubas within
to swing to the right or left, or
north, south, west. l can not see
that this is properly subject for
our soldiers or marines.
Many preposterouS and evil things
may be done in this new dawn. We
may not approve. But who asked us
to assume sovereignty over this ell
liptical empire? We came in first
of all to rid the islanders of the
rule Of Spain. In 1895 We an
nounced that here was a people ca
pable of self-rule. I tank that
nothing has happened which rea-
sonably should change our mind
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The meager savings, the small in
surance hardly will be sufficient to
see her through the period of her
deepest mourning.
There is something terribly wrong
with a world in which that kind Of
woman is forced by economic neces-
sity to give up the task for which
nature meant her, abandon her chill
dren and home to compete in the
business world against those so
much more powerful and educated
than herself
Frankly, I do not understand why
We deem it necessary TO give pens
ions to men who wear nations
uniform, while its mothers. whose
work is so much more important, go
neglected and unprotected. And the
unprotected mother always means
the unprotected child.
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Covering Too Much Area

TNHERE can no question that in
Il the past North America has en-
! deavOred to control the destinies of
the other hemisphere as if it We're
some vaSSal state. We have tried
to reap in places where we have
not even gone to the trouble to SOW
dragons teeth.
And in such places as the ma
rines have landed 10 restore tran
quillity we have complained that
after our electives departed no
great amount of good will remained
upon our ledger. Why can't we UNI
derstand that all Americans, Latin
or otherwise, are proud peoples hop
ing and wishing to go along on their
own?
Whether we approve or disap-
prove is minor matter. Even if
our nudge or suggestion is con-
ceived in wisdom and wholly dis
interested, the person tapped upon
the shoulder is not going to like it.
And in spite Of the brave and
florid words used by American ora
tors upon suspicious occasions, it
would be ridiculous for us to pre-
tend that no self-interest had en-
tered into our policies regarding
those nations which lie below the
belt.
I think, in spite Of everything,
that a certain amount of romantic
idealism was incorporated in our
wholly unjustified and half insane
expedition into Cuba. 1t was after
the event that the money changers
mixed in and decided that possibly
dividends might be found in the
blood and toll of the young men
who volunteered.
I would not have again any such
sentimental and crazy adventure.
But isn't it possible to keep the best
and throw away the rest?
I was not very old during the
days Of Richard Harding Davis "A
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
and Remember the Maine" but
am certain the notion was not one
of American advantage and added
dividends for the United States. 1t
is undoubtedly true that If Cuba
goes into a complete and thorough
going upheaval, American business
interests will not get along so well.
Let us remember that We are the
people who originally struck the
match. Perhaps it was slow fuse.
All kinds Of things may happen,
Socialistic, Communistic, national
istic, and even so we should sit back
and say, "Ah" or oh, according
to our own political philosophy.
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Working Wives

BY r. X.
TUST 3 word in answer to Fair
- Play" about married women
working and keeping single girls
from jobs. Much is written on
that subject, but one never sees
anything about families of three,
four Or even five with all members
working but the mother. Most
children who 90 work and live at
home pay board, so why is it any
worse for a man and his wife to
work than father and two or
three children, who help at home?
No doubt Fair Play is mar
ried man whose wife can not get
job and he thinks that no other
married woman is entitled to
work.
[ am married woman who
works and at the end of the week
we do not have any more than
most families with only one mem
Der working and I don't doubt
that we spend just as much as
any one family can afford to.
So why not let the subject rest
for a while and find something
else to crab" about?
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Aren't We All?
DERFECTLY ridic

DERFECTLY ridiculous people
i have been elevated into Of
flee and even so I do not think that
we are in a position to say, Such
things must not be" The land of
Harding. Coolidge and Hoover can
not afford to be peculiarly snooty
concerning the island of Machado
Let us grant that the late and
unlamented dictator of the Pearl
of the Antilles was a little worse
than our pick of the puppies, and
still it is true that on an average
Cuba has kept abreast of us.
Surely it would be a little silly
for a country bearing around its
shoulders the depression of 1929 and
all its attendant consequences to bob
up beyond its borders and an
nounce, Just watch us and notice
how proper show ought to be run"
1t is obvious that many of Cubas
difficulties are of our own making.
1t is nonsense for us to beat this
people on the head with a tariff club
and then inquire, Why is it that
you seem so restive?'
But a problem more broad than
Cubas narrow strand cOnfronts us.
Here is an opportunity for the
United States to display TO all Cen
trail and South America the New
Deal and the new diplomacy. The
time has come to demonstrate that
Mr.. Monroe, once President of the
United States and now dead for
many years, did not precisely recog-
nize the future of our neighbors
down toward the equator and far
ther south.
Mr.. Monroe being dead, I think
he meant to say that we would not
tolerate land grabs or inflltration
by foreign powers. But we have
gone far beyond the original in
tent of any presidential proClama-
ton. We have constituted ourselves
the cop of America. No
body loves policeman. Still less
does anybody like roundsman who
serves the self-interest Of some alien
group.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

the national government than in most state
and city governments.
But they always have existed in greater or
less degree, and the legion very probably
could make a determined drive on them.
Such things can be eliminated from public
life only if the citizenry is alert vigilant and
weu-informed The legion could do great
service by seeing to it that the necessary
vigilance and knowledge are kept in existence.
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So They Say

The time is past for jailbirds be-
ing treated to lectures, games and
the cinema, making them better off
than jobless or laborers.-Hans
KERR, PruSSian cabinet member.
In the long run those in author
ity in a democracy are best of
when their acts are subjected to
constant and impartial analysis and
riticism-AIfred f. Smith.
If there must be economic war,
let the nations across the seas take
heed. The American nations will be
ready.-Plutarco Elias Gales of
Mexico.
State borders must to an extent
be disregarded and the United
States must be taken as one eco
nomic area.-Secretary Of War
Dern.
The present crime situation is an
irresistible growth produced by the
Iaxity Of officials-Judge Kavanagh
of Chicago.
1t is very difficult to determine
what is the limit or where the
beautiful ends and the vulgar begins.
Rufus G. Dawes, president OF the
Century of Progress Exposition.
History will show that my work
has been good.-Ex- President Ma
chado of Cuba.
The national recovery act Is
more than a war on the depression;
it starts us on course which, II
followed wisely, will guard us
against a tragic recurrence of what
has happened to us in the last few
years-Secretary of War Dern.
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MACCoRNnCK. PRISON REFORMER

NTODERNIZATION Of the Federal Indus
w trial reformatory at Chulcothe, O., and
appointment Of Austin H MacCormick as sup
erintendent mark another milestone in Amer
icas slow progress in the treatment OF GRIM
inals
The new institution is the best of its kind
IN America. Like the new federal Northeastern
penitentiary in Pennsylvania, 1t goes on the
theory that it is better business TO make con-
victs into good citizens than to turn them
loose as hardened crooks on society.
1t win take some 100 first offenders, segre-
gate. treat. educate. and train them. Doctors
will cure the bodily sick. nsychiatrists the men
tally sick. BY means Of the merit system, the
young offenders viii be graduated from
hsrsher to milder punishment and when fitted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
THE NEW VIGILANTES

NATIONAL COMMANDER LOUIS JOHN
y SONS advice to the New York conven-
ton Of the American Legion, urging the or
gsnization to fight necessarily TO drive graft,
corruption, fraud, and extravaganza out of
the national government points the way to
a new field in which the legion can be very
useful
The qualities mentioned by Commander
johnson happen to be far less prevalent In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
A Woman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

and the advice of all our best au-
thorities. and fashioned herself into
what we are told is the noblest Of
Creatures good wife, loving
mother. How many times have we
heard that this is the most excel
lent task to which woman may set
her hand and heart?
Z
MEL, now, I ask you in all
W seriousness, what is society
prepared to do to help this woman?
Briefly, nothing.
She has made a good home; she
has given encouragement and love
to a good man: she has borne and
was prepared TO devote her life to
the proper training of her children.
Now, all inexperienced as she is, she
must fare forth, and leave her
babies, so that they may have bread.
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one else can take advantage Of the
buy now slogan when we scarcely
can buy what we need each week.
Unless we soon get more for what
we sell, we will not be able to even
buy necessities.
Besides bare necessities, we still
enjoy a good show now and therA
although that has been out of the
question for a year or more. And
we still have an appetite for a lux
ury for our table once in while,
DO you think we ever will see
that time again?
By Reader For Years.
Congratulations on your article,
Get It Circulating" that appeared
in the Aug. % issue of your paper.
You hit the nail right on the head.
Since your paper has taken the
stand for fair and square deal for
every one, how about putting your
shoulder to the wheel and helping
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you say your vOtaire

the cause of the depositors who lost
their savings in the Belmont State
bank?
A good strong article published in
your paper might go a long ways
to help us secure our money.
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Remember the Name

WE said in the beginning, Here
w is people capable of ruling
on its own" and now we ought TO
make up our mind whether we
meant precisely that or whether it
was a sham and lie.
1t may be that the Cubans, I'M
impeded, may produce a government
which seems to us poorly founded
and disastrous in its consequences.
And still 1 think that all we have
a right to say is, That is a poor
thing. but their own"
If We had any other idea, then
somebody should have shouted to
Theodore Roosevelty halfway up
Kettle hill, Whoa, Theodore, come
back down again and let Butcher
Weyler rule the country"
Cuba never wanted any alien meat
chopper to control its destinies and
I think there is small reason why
it should applaud the substitution
Of some soft-spoken pawnbroker as
a substitute.
Copyright. 1888. by The Timesl
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Daily Thought
Pray that ye enter not into
temptation-St Luke, 2240.
MANY dangerous temptation
wi comes to US in fine, gay colors.
Matthew Henry.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
.INDIANANS IN ROW
OVER GOVERNORSHIP
Outgoing and Incoming Executives
Differ on When Authority Changes
to Make Appointments.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 9.-Harry
G. Leslie and Paul v. McNutt both in
sisted today they had the authority to
make appointments as Governor Of
Indiana.
Leslie, Republican, is just complet-
ing a four-year term of Office. McNutt,
a Democrat, takes over the guberna-
torial Office. Formal inauguration OF
McNutt was scheduled for noon.
Leslie came to the executive office
this morning and began making ap-
pointments. He ordered appointment OF
his secretary, Gaylord Morton, to a
four-year term as member of the State
Tax Board to succeed John j. Brown,
who died suddenly Saturday night.
Pleas Greenlee, secretary to the in
coming Governor, Immediately chal-
lenged the right of Leslie to make APP
pointn.ents today, contending McNutt's
term began at midnight last night. An
appeal was made to Philip Lutz, Jr.,
the attorney general, for an opinion.
Fred Weicking, deputy attorney gen.
cral, said court decision had held the
day begins at midnight.
1t was pointed out McNutt last week
took the necessary steps to obtain the
gubernatorial Office by being sworn in
at the county clerks Office in Bloom
ington,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
SIDNEY v. STRAUS
D|ESFR0M POISON
Head of JeWeIry Firm Had
Worried Over III Health for
Months, Friends Say.

Swallowing a chemical he had used
all his life in cleaning precious stones,
Sidney William Straus, So, president OF
r. Harris g. Co., jewelers., ended his
life early today at his home, 2305 Cali
fornia street.
His body was found, lying on bed
in his room, about 8 o'clock by his
wife Mrs. Alma Prince StrauS. Beside
an empty box nearby was a note which
read. Don't kiss or touch-deadly
poison"
Acting Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald issued a certificate of death by
suicide He fixed the time of death at
about 7 o'clock.
Worried Over Health.
Intimate friends of the family said
Mr.. Straus had been in i'll health re-
Gently and had been brooding over his
condition for the past six months. He
had been particularly melancholy at
night, it was said, his business having
kept his mind off his troubles during
the day.
This morning, when Mrs. Straus went
into her husbands bed room to call him
at the usual hour. she found him lying
across the bed, the empty box nearby.
She called DR. Edwin B. Behrend. who
ascertained that Straus was dead and
summoned Acting Coroner Macdonald.
Born in Baltimore.
Mr.. Straus was born in Baltimore on
December 30. 1880, the son of William
and Sarah Eiseman StrauS. He had
been resident of Washington fer 81
years and for quarter of century had
been connected with r. Harris & Co.
He had been president of the company
for about Is years, since the death of
his father-in-law, A d. Prince.
Besides Mrs. Straus. the jeweler is
survived by four daughters. Victoria,
Sylvia, Alice and Fleur He had no
other relatives, it was said.
Straus was a member of the Rotary
Club. Congressional Country Club and
the Woodmont Club. He attended the
Eighth Street Temple
Funeral arrangements have not been
made, but it is expected services will be
held at his late residence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
LEVULOSE, EXTRA SWEET SUGAR,
MADE FROM WILD SUNFLOWERS
Product of mi-Commercia Process Marketed Sixth
of Cost Year Ago.

These, who for the last seven years
have conducted research in the prof.
ect, predict that if the process were
enlarged and put on a commercial
scale the sugar perhaps could be pro-
duced at 20 cents a pound.
LevuloSe, the scientists say, is
readily digested and is more than one
and one-haf times sweeter than cane
sugar.
Tests show that yield of about 100
tons of tubers per acre can be OBJ
tanned from the wild sunkower. Re-
suits based on the project show that a
ton of tubers will produce about 1870
pounds of refined eellulose.
By-products of the refining process.
particularly the residue from the press
ing operation, which is high in nitro
gen content, have possibilities as .
fertilizer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-09
LAND0N INAUGURATED;
G. o. P. CONTROLS KANSAS
Holds Slight Majority in Both
Houses of Legislature Con-
vening Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kans., January 9.-The
Republican party returned to control in
Kansas today with the Inauguration OF
Alfred M. Landon as Governor.
The 45-year-old oil producer succeed
ed Gov. Harry H. Woodring, Democrat,
who was defeated for reelection.
w. T. Markham, superintendent of
public instruction, is the one Demo-
cratic State official who holds over.
He was appointed recently by Gov.
Woodring to succeed George A. Allen,
ir., Republican, killed in an automobile
accident several weeks after his re-
election last November.
The Republicans hold slight MAORI
ties in both houses of the Legislature,
which convenes tomorrow
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Growing Sentiment for ReIa-
tons With Soviet Gov
eminent Is Voiced.
POLL OF 81 RETURNING
MEMBERS is TAKEN
Issue Won't Confront House-16
of Those Who Favor Move
Are Democrats.
BY WILLIAM w. CHANCE.

With recognition of Russia by the
United States virtually certain to be
considered seriously during the Roose-
yelt administration, there is a growing
disposition among leaders of the next
Democratic Congress to favor diplo-
matte relations with the Soviet govern
ment.
In the Senate, particularly. strong
feeling for recognition exists, an i'm
portant indication, since the Senate
alone may determine whether this
country shall renew the relations termi-
mated upon the overthrow of the
Kerensky government by the bolsheviki
in 1917 and the failure of the SovietS
to settle satisfactorily debts owed this
country by the old czarist and Kerensky
governments.
Confirmation of Envoy.
By simply confirming the presidential
appointment of an Ambassador to Mos
COW the Senate automatically would re-
establish diplomatic relations with Rus
STA. House concurrence is not neces-
sary in such a case.
OF the 81 Senators who will return
to the Seventy-third Congress. and
whose views on the long controverted
Russian question were sought, % def
nitely went on record for recognition,
20 declined to commit themselves and
only nine expressed opposition, some of
these attaching reservations.
The House, apparently destined to
have little or nothing to do with the
issue, was not so extensively polled.
Representative Rainey of Illinois, pres
ent majority leader and leading can
didate for the speakership in the next
Congress, is in favor of recognition,
however, and his opinion may be re-
garded as influential in the lower House
of Congress.
Borah May Revive Issue.
In years past Senator Borah, present
chairman of the powerful Foreign Re-
lations Committee, has been the cham
pion OF the Russian recognition cause
IN the Senate. Although in the next
Congress he will be Just another mi
nority Republican, he may be counted
upon to revive the issue in the event the
Democrats fail to take the initiative.
However. greater sentiment favor
able to Russia was found among the
Democrats than among the Repub-
hcans. Sixteen Of the % Senators
who went on record in behalf of
recognition are Democrats, while virtu-
ally all of the remaining six are in
surgents" or ''progressives" In this
group are Senators La Toilette of Wis
consin, Cutting of New Mexico and
Norris of Nebraska, all of whom sup
ported Roosevelt for President, and
Borah, who refused to come out openly
for either Roosevelt or Hoover. The
other two-Lynn j. Frazier and Gerald
P. Nye of North Dakota-have voted fire.
quently against Republican dictates.
OF the nine known oppositionists. four
are Democrats-King of Utah, Cope
land of New York, Sheppard of Texas
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