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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
JUsTIFIABLE OPTIMISM

THAT the new feeling Of optimism pre-
l. valent in this country is shared by i'm
partial observers overseas is made evident by
a speech recently delivered in the house of
commons by Neville Chamberlain chancellor
Of the exchequer for the British government.
Looking over the world" says Mr.. Cham
berlain, "one can see indications that the in
dustrial situation is likely to improve within
the next few months.
"a few weeks ago any one looking at the
situation in the United States could have
done 50 only with feeling of gravest anxiety.
Today, thanks to the initiative, courage, and
wisdom Of the President. change has taken
place which is almost miraculous"
Our optimism seems to be justified. We
aren't out of the woods, of course-not by
long shot. But we are, at last on our way.
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A MENACE TO THE CITY

a MENACE from which the city has been
IA virtually free for months again is assum-
ing serious proportions. 1t is the menace OF
the mentally deficient man or woman who
turns in false alarms of fire.
Four false alarms were turned in on the
north side early Friday morning. The first
was at Forty-sixth and Guilford; the second,
PARK and Thirty sixth: the third at Park and
rT,hirtv-second, and the last at Thirty third
and Illinois. Two young men, questioned, were
released.
Several fire companies and police squads
rushed at top speed from the scene Of the first
alarm to the second, third, and fourth.
The cost of this useless and perilous
deayor mounted into hundreds of dollars.
Scores of sleeping residents were awakened
Lives of policemen and fremen were periled.
No man who is fully sane will turn in a
false fire alarm. Any sane person easily can
visualize the appalling tragedy that might re-
suit. One need only recall the crash of Nov.
/ 1881, in which Lieutenant Lewis Stanley was
killed at Sixteenth and Central and several
Others injured, to realize what can happen.
The city council, on Nov. IS. 1881, passed an
ordinance which provided a maximum penalty
of $500 fine and maximum six-month- sem
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vi.

| a CCORDING to Mr. Matsuoka "the territorial
L \ integrity of China" as assumed by the nine
power pact, is fiction.
| Well, we guess it is and we guess that the in
dependence of Nachukuo, as advertised by Japan,
also is fiction.
Indeed, there would appear to be quite a few
1ctions with regard to the Far Eastern situation,
for some of which neither China nor Japan is
responsible.
How else. for instance, can the idea that the
western world ever intended to do anything about
it be described?
No doubt, men always have dwelt in an at
mosphere Of Dreams but they seem to have lived
in it with peculiar tenseness and gullibility dur
ing the last fifteen years.
There is the German republic going to smash
| in spite of all the high hopes, and the Russian
republic going right on in spite Of all the de-
pressing prophecies.
THERE is the League Of Nations, an admit
l. ted reality, but apparently doomed to loose
a member every time it attempts to settle hot
argument.
There is the Monroe Doctrine, which we
Americans regard as sacred for the western
hemisphere, but insist that no other government
or section of the world has a right to copy.
There is the notion that trade can be slim
ulated by tariffs and that as long as we refuse
| to call it war we maintain peace, no matter
how many people we kill or how much property
We destroy
There is the belief that outsiders can make
a government do what they want, If they express
! themselves vociferously enough.
But why go on? We have speculated and
failed, the trouble being that We started out
to prove certain theories instead Of making ex-
perimentS
Fiction or reality, we have assumed certain
things to be so, regardless of what human ex-
! perience seemed to indicate.
China was to be loved, coddled, and protected
as the good kid, no matter how wildly she ran
amuck
BY the same token, Japan has been looked
upon as the bad kid largely because of her
brightness and ambition.
A LII nations were willing to uphold" the in
"A tegrity of China provided it did not cost
them too much, but there was selfishness, as well
as dumbness in their attitude.
To begin with, each was afraid that some
Of the others might get too big a slice Of China
if she fell apart while all were intrigued by the
ease with which she could be brow-beaten and
exploited as long as she remained intact.
When China became republic the western
world calmly closed its eyes to reality and joined
of word
Christian form of government and become just
| like the most modern democracy over night, be-
cause she was lovable and accommodating.
/ Common sense suggested that several genera
tons of chaos would not see the transition COM
pleted, but We are not particularly long on COM
mon sense IN this scientific age.
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TOM MONEYS NEW TRIAL

GO Tom Mooney is at last to have his day in
~ court! What the upshot of this surprising
new development in this famous long-drawn-
out case may be is beyond telling.
That it will be next to impossible for the
prosecution to gain conviction seems OBJ
vious; but whether such a result would bring
pardon for the charge on which the man is
now in prison is not at all certain.
A pardon for Tom Mooney has, in the past,
seemed to be one of those things which are
theoretically possible, but practically unattain-
able.
1t would be well, meanwhile, for friends of
the prisoner to remember that right now they
can do him more harm than good. BY keep
ing his case alive they have done him great
service; by agitating too fervently, now that
he has won victory, they can-so perverse
is human nature-cause a revulSion of feeling
that would make his release more implorable
than 1t was before.
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BUILDING UP BUYING POWER

JAMES D. TEW, president of the B. F. Good
rich Rubber Company has issued a state
ment declaring that as an industrialist he
heartily is supporting President Roosevelts
farm bill.
The interesting thing about this is that Mr..
TeWs rubber company uses vast quantities of
cotton, and will find it's manufacturing ex-
penses greatly increased if the bill boosts the
price of cotton as the administration expects
it to do.
I'VE feel very strongly" says Mr.. Tew,
that in the interest Of the farmers and the
welfare of the country as whole, it is our
duty to forget selfish interests and back up
fundamentally the efforts Of our President
in restoring stability to the economic life of
the nation"
For this project cuts both ways. 1t might
boost the prices of raw materials, but if it
did it would also add greatly to the farmers
purchasing power; and MI. Tew and his
brother industrialists might discover that if
their operating expenses rose their sales would
rise even more rapidly.
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SATURDAY. APRIL !. 1888.
CANCER GERMS

I TPSETTING to conventional ideas about
~ cancer is the announcement from the Ma
tional Institute Of Health of the United States
public health service stating that Drs T. J..
Glover and J. L. Engle have produced cancers
In guinea pig through use Of germ cultures
from a human breast cancer case.
This may prove to be the most important
news Of the year. It is certain that the claims
of these two physicians, not government sci
entists, but using Uncle Sans facilities with
the kindly cooperation of the public health
service scientists, will meet with opposition
from other cancer researchers and practi-
TONERS.
1t is important that such experiments be
checked and rechecked by Independent expert
ments. But from such research beginnings
have come the conquest of other dread dis
eases of the human race.
AS yet there is no hope for cancer cure or
treatment resulting from this work by Drs
Glover and Engle. Cancer patients only will
waste time and money by bothering them
Probably there are several different kinds
OF cancer. The Glover Engle discovery may
mean that one kind of cancer is germ-borne
and possibly communicable.
But it is much too early to draw concu-
sions. We only can hope for fruitful results
from the beginnings made
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01

CIGNIFICANT of the changing spirit of
~ America is the labor conference in Wash
ington called by Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins
Through such representatives as Sidney
Hillman, Donald Richberg, William Green
A. F. Whitney, John P. Frey and others con-
suited by the administration, 100000 wage
earners have become vocal. Out of these Of
fetal conferences should evolve vital Amer
lean labor program, not only for emergency
relief but for basic reform.
Here union labor speaks to its government
not as an outside pleader, but as friend and
Co-Worker. So far, President Roosevelt's pro-
gram except in minor details has been labor's.
He backed direct federal relief grants and won
the forestation project
Now he is studying the practical aspects of
united labor's demand for a great public
works program, coupled with the shorter week
plan to absorb the millions of unemployed
and prime the pump of industry through re-
sumption of buying
Agreed are both labor and the adminstra-
ton that emergency measures will not suffice
The time has passed" Secretary Perkins
told the siXty-f1ve labor men, "for the gov
eminent to sponsor negative and static labor
policies. What is needed is a positive and
dynamic program"
The spokesman for some 100000 workers
have agreed on the general lines Of this dy-
manic program.
The rail brotherhoods and the American
Federation of Labor proposed Federal hunger
relief up to one billion dollars; labor repre-
Sentation on all relief boards; public works
program of possibly SIS 900, 100000 to be sup
plemented by federal loans to localities for
self-liquidating projects, like slum clearance;
minimum wage laws for women and minors
and general wage increases; unemployment
insurance by states and Wagner federal aid
bill for such insurance; child labor abatement;
mortgage relief for workers homes, 80 per
cent of which are mortgaged immigration re-
striction federal bank control; protection of
education; Black-Connery thirty-hour week
bill; national economic planning.
Particularly significant is the Hillman
plan. ut is necessary, as a measure serving
the interests of the whole public in this
emergency" in the judgment of his group
ito establish control over wages, hours, and
labor conditions on a nationwide scale.
1--WE, therefore, recommend that the Presi-
dent as an essential part Of his emergency
program, call upon congress for immediate
enactment of legislation which shall require
the secretary of labor to establish labor
board in any industry in which he shall deem
1t necessary to do So"
The advantage of this plan is that it would
restore mass purchasing power, which now is
desired by enlightened employers, but blocked
by sweat shop competition.
Restoration of buying power is the issue
for labor, the farmer, the professional man,
the business man. for everybody.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
STORIES OF ATROCITIES

THESE stories Of anti-Jewish atrocities on
4 the part of the Hitler government in
Germany are dreadful-if they are true; but
it might be the part of wisdom for us to re-
serve decision on. them for little while until
We get better idea which tales are based on
substantial facts and which ones are pure
rumor.
A little more than fifteen years ago we had
another crop of atrocity stories from Germany.
We went for them hook, line, and sinker at
that time-and have been ashamed Of our
credulity ever since. We don't want to make
the same mistake twice.
That the American people sharply will con-
denim any government which persecutes help
less minorities goes without saying. But we
might do well to defer the condemnation until
all the returns are in.
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GONE prohibitionists let their ar
- dor run away with their charity.
So when Memphis woman writes
that because this column has IA
vored repeal she hopes that my
best beloved will go down in the
booze gutter" I only can believe
that she hates whisky more than
she loves her neighbor.
Probably she does not actually
wish me or any one else such sor-
row. She is carried away by her
displeasure at the return Of beer.
What she apparently does not know
is that there also is such a sin
as intemperateness of the tongue.
It is disconcerting to find that
people who call themselves good"
can harbor such malignity and en-
terrain wishes that certainly do not
originate in Christian charity.
Such individuals have done the
cause Of prohibition immeasurable
harm. They have allowed them
selves to become prosecutors of those
who do not believe as they, believe.
The downfall of their movement,
which undoubtedly began in sin
certify, can be laid at the door Of
higotry.
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strong must be deprived Of all
rights so that the weak may be
protected. Consequently, we have
reared a pretty large majority Of
moral ineffectuals.
The sooner the mothers Of Amer
lea get to their proper jobs Of rails
ing boys and girls strong enough
to face and resist temptations, in
stead Of agitating the passage Of a
thousand and one measures that
forbid this, that, and the other,
the sooner we shall be nation of
men who will not be afraid to look
a scuttle of beer or anything else
in the face.
We have done frightfu harm
breeding fear into the natures Of
our children. Instead Of teaching
them moderation in all things, we
have frightened them with the bogy-
man Of booze.
The result is that they are lured
inevitably in its direction. Fear has
conquered them. Weakness has be-
come their chief vice. And 10 my
notion it's far worse one than
taking glass of 3 per cent beer
ever viii be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
Skill in One Line May Not Aid in Another

1t is pointed out that experts in
rowing, such as is required in deep
sea fishing, have great difficulty in
learning the type Of rowing required
III racing shells.
In considering the question of
training for special forms of dex-
terity, the investigators found that
eighty minutes Of training a day
yields about as much improvement
as three hours Of training day.
Hence, where rapid training was
required, the man could be trained
at one process in the morning and
at another in the afternoon with
out either interfering with the
other.
Some college athletes are known
to train for basketball in the morn
ing and for running events in the
afternoon, with considerable eff
cheney in both.
Once fatigue has come on, how
ever all types Of training are in
terfered with.
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CLEARING THE AIR
A BRIEF dispatch from New York the OF
L n dav read as follows.

A BRIEF dispatch from New York the other
n day read as follows:
Major w. E. Gladstone Murray Of the
British Broadcasting Corporation arrived
today aboard the liner Majestic en- route to
Canada, where he will aid in recognizing
Canadian broadcasting along the lines of the
British system, which bars advertising"
The average American radio fan, reading
this, is likely to murmur, Lucky Britishers-
and Lucky Canada" and to wonder, idly and
wishfully, if it wouldn't be possible to bring
Major Murray south of the international line
for while, after he gets through with his job
in the Dominion, which, after April 1, will
casting period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
Wait for Me

BY MARGUERITE V. YOUNG
Wait for me, oh, wait for me,
Towns Of France and Germany!
I'll be coming by and by,
Do not let your beauty die!
Cobbled, winding, climbing street,
Wait for me, still entreat;
Churchly spires and colored roofs
Gathering small donkey's hOOfs!
Goethe's sWeethearts round and fair
Washing linen in the square;
DO not go, please stay awhile,
l must travel many mile!
Book Of beer to look upon,
Sitting, doing in the sun;
Francois Villon, let me be
OF thine ancient company
Wait for me, oh, wait for me,
Towns Of France and Germany;
I'll be coming by and by,
Do no let your beauty diel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
Side Street Honor

NUR return to independence and
~ individuaHsm has not been con-
Quoted over the most honorable Of
all highways. On the contrary. it
has been a sort of hitch-hike jour
ney down a side street, with the fell
low who knocked us fat-the de-
pression-giving us the lift we
needed.
Prohibition began to stagger and
reel seriously for the first time when
some Of our leading citizens came
out boldly against it. Men like Al
Smith and the late Dwight Morrow.
And women like Mrs. Sabin. Up to
that time a person of prominence
who indicated a tolerant view
point became a ready target for the
Bishop Cannonaders.
It was page-one story when
John D. Rockefeller il, came gall
| Looping out on the field to run with
the ball. Junior was a little bit late.
The game was almost over. With
less than minute TO 60 the vets
already led by some thirty-five
states
1t was a nice gesture, though, even
if it did leave some Of the skeptics
wondering whether Juniors newly
acquired enthusiasm for repeal could
in any way be associated with its
possible effect on the ticker.
think one of the reasons why the
nation has recaptured some of its
old respect (say, boy, how are those
Yankees coming along9 is due to
the recent willingness of the big
shots to speak their minds publicly
on controversial subjects. This
hasn't always been so, as any vet
eran news reporter can tell you.
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The Ball Changes Hands

HERETOFORE, prohibition has
L 4 had all the better of it in this
respect. Some very nice old lady,
like Mrs. Ella BoOle, would spray
the town hall with a lot Of sanity
sophistries, and because she es-
poused a quasi-religious cause no.
body would dare give her a stiff talk
back.
If some ordinary bird who worked
for living and had a family were
TO get up and crack, Il guess what
you say about Satan and Demon
Rum is right, lady, but what's the
harm in a man having a glass of
beer once in a while?"-if this hap
pened he would be Kissed out Of the
place amid cries of Drunken sot!"
But it is somewhat different when
the Al Smiths and the Mrs. Sabins
and their kind start talking back to
the white ribboners. It's different
because it has a splendid effect on
a large percentage of the citizenry
who might otherwise remain I'M
concerned or unpersuaded about the
principle involved
No one questions for an instant
that there are many sincere and
intelligent opponents Of liquor in
this country, and I suppose it is
just one of those unfortunate things
that so many spokesnne of prohi-
bition happen to be a cross between
Huey Long and a chronic case of
govt.
I dislike to appear rude or ungal-
liant, but Garry Nation was the only
woman I ever saw who caused me to
shake with fear. AS q child I lis
tened to her start a speech in a
public square in the south. She
looked so formidable and fierce in
her sullen black dress that I turned
and fled.
I Fundamentally believe Mrs. Ma
ton made Of me an early patron
of the beverage parlors. Instinc-
lively I must have concluded that
if such unpleasantness accompanied
abstinence I wanted no part Of it.
I think I succumbed at the age Of
10. But for that blighting exper-
fence I am sure I would have held
out resolutely until I was 10, any
how.
downright. 1898. by The Tines
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THERE is a general impression
- that a person who has acquired
special skill in one type of work
quickly will acquire skill in similar
efforts; for example, the idea that
an athlete particularly efficient in
rowing or baseball also will have
great ability in golf or tennis.
All sorts Of evidence may be de-
veloped for and against this point
OF view.
1t is known that Babe Ruth,
while not a second Bobby Jones,
still is able to play a good game Of
golf, and it has been asserted that
Babe Didrikson, famous woman
athlete, played her fifth or sixth
round Of golf in "a.
There are records of great ten
mis- players who took up golf rather
late In life and did well at it.
On the other hand, there is no
evidence that football players and
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3: The Message Center

fellows would get cut off. They will
not cut one of them off.
The overseas veterans thought the
war was over in France, but no
body seems to care. AS Senator
Robinson says, rob the veterans
who need the money and give to
some other class of people. The
Times knows better than to say
that the big fellows on the ball team
with big jobs get cut off. It's the
veterans like myself, $12 and $18
men, who gets his pension cut. /
know a camp man who never went
overseas who admits he still gets
his $50 a month.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

oarsmen necessarily are exception
ally proficient in other games.
Recently in Great Britain the in
dustrial health research board has
made some controlled tests to find
out whether one kind of manual
skill or dexterity can be transferred
to another type of effort.
AS a part of the method of test
ing, special prizes were offered for
deXterity in either Of two manual
performances.
However, it was found that there
was no transfer of dexterity, and in
not once case was training in one
process found to be Of special value
when taking up a different process.
In fact, there are some instances
in which habits formed in one type
of deXterity have interfered with
good work in another.
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Questions and
Answers .

Q-What is the largest interior
body Of water in the world?
A--The Caspian sea.
Q-Was crucifxion the regular
method Of capital punishment
in the ancient Roman state?
Ayes.
Q-How much wheat was pro-
duced in the United States in
1881?
A-8o2 ,271 900 bushels.
Q-Where is the paper money
of the United States made2
A-Bureau Of engraving and
printing, Washington, D. G.
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It Seems
to Me
BY JOE WILLIAMS
CBattinr for Haywood Broun)

NEW YORK, April Certain
y ly no one can argue with Gret-
ia Palmer, Times Special Writer.
when she writes that Mrs. Charles
Sabin has charm. Or that some Of
Mrs. Sabin's girl friends in the
Prohibition Reform Organization
have charm. But
Well, when our Gretta goes fur
Their and broadly implies that the
ladies, plus their charm. made re-
peal the probability it is today, I'm
afraid she is putting on a little too
much rouge, and some imprudent
gaffer should tell her so.
Admittedly, the ladies. charm or
no charm, have made vital contribu-
tons. but this drive against the saw
dust souls and the narrow minds Of
the nation has not been confind to
any limited era; it has been a some
what general drive. Ofhand. I can
name at least two or three men who
volunteered at the first roll of the
drums.
When the history of the ultimate
death of prohibition is written. 7
have a notion that the coroner will
lay the homicide at the weary feet
of the depression. More than any
one other factor it was this pinch
faced specter of want that gave the
nation a new grip on its manIness.
There has been more liberal legis-
lation enacted in this country in the
last twelve months than in the last
fifteen years combined, and in prac-
tically every instance the need Of
revenue influenced the result. It is
much more simple, for instance, to
get beer for taXs than for tonSils.