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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26

by u. L..
TINE Indianapolis Water Com
4 pany, with its long drawn out
hearing for increase of water
rates, is becoming intolerable, be-
cause of the great expense to be
paid by the citizen and taxed by
this would-be er-government
against the consumers of water,
the staff of life.
The technical staff of lawyers,
accountants and technicians
brought from New York and Chi
cago by Ransom, to guess at the
value of Indianapolis properties, to
squabble over the value of the
willow bushes along the canal, to
deny that two and two is four,
does not worry over the value of
their own services, to be squeezed
out of the consumers.
The water company is public
enemy No. l. 1t always mas fought
the public, while buying organs.
It should be eXterminated by
the people by purchase at a fair
figure or by condemnation. The
reconstruction finance program
could be helpful for this self
liquidating municipal enterprise.
The personnel of the water COM
pany is arrogant and abusive to
customers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
THE COPS DO WORK

A irate reader writes in to inquire what
L city policeman does, if anything, besides
bawl out unoffending motorists, to earn his
salary.
To the casual observer, it might seem that
the plodding copper does little to earn his
pay, but just slightly more than casual in
vestigation will prove otherwise.
Just for instance, looking over the police
activities in the last three or four days, these
matters rich in variety, might be mentioned:
Policemen wearing masks rushed to the
rescue of hundreds periled by chlorine gas on
East New York street last Friday. They risked
health and life as the fumes spread over a
wide area, loading victims into ambulances,
holding back crowds, and evacuating residents
in the zone of danger.
Two policemen chased a load of calves
which had escaped from a farmers truck,
finally rounding up the majority of them after
a wild pursuit through city streets.
Staged a baseball pool raid which Melted
slot machines. lottery slips, and thousands of
baseball pool tickets.
Beat the stork with only few minutes to
SPARE III IdCe 10 uOSplLdl WIN an 6ApeCUduG
mother.
Captured a sea lion which had escaped
from his pool on Keystone avenue, after a
scramble which led them over lawns, through
sheds. and down busy streets, one of the cop
pers being bitten as his reward
Stood on corners with the temperature past
the 95 mark and directed thousands of motor
lists safely through traffic.
Trailed down a suspect who, they say, con-
fessed that he had slugged motorist who
befriended him, causing wreck in which the
benefactor was killed.
Posed for pictures with pretty girls for
insistent newspaper photographers, answered
a thousand and one silly questions, brought
lost children back to their parents, kept bur-
glars away from homes with their radio patrols
and then did the routine daily work for
which they are paid and not so munihcently,
either.
So maybe the coppers may do something
besides bawl out unoffending motorists to earn
their salaries
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ed in The Indianapolis Times of
this date, has been received. 1t
would appear from your letter that
you do not understand the function
of the encouragement in matter
of this kind.
1t is my duty, as encouragement,
to defend the public service commits
sion in any action which may be
brought against it in connection
with any order or decision it may
make. In the case of the Indian
apolis Water Company, the public
service commission made a certain
order. The Indianapolis Water
Company, being dissatisfied with the
order so made, filed suit in federal
court to enjoin the enforcement of
such order. AS encouragement it
is my duty to defend the order so
made and to sustain the action of
the public service commission in
such federal court proceeding.
Hence, you readily will observe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

tent. In fact, 10 per cent of the
$1,000 teeth examined were found to
be subject to some decay.
Neglect of decay is responsible for
loss of teeth in the vast majority of
instances.
In almost 20 per cent of the stu
dents examined, there were found
graduating infections at the roots
of the teeth. Such infections can
be detected with certainty only by
the use of the X-ray.
In an attempt to determine the
value of the x-ray, the investi-
gators tried first to pick out the
infected teeth without this appara-
tus and then checked their obser-
vations, with the X-ray.
This study proved that half of
the teeth with infections at the
roots would have been missed if the
X-ray had not been used.
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MONDAY. JUNE 20. 1888.
BRING BACK NICKEL BEER

BRING BACK NICKEL BEER
DELEGATES to the Indiana constitutional
- convention for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment will meet at the statehouse today.
The convention will rank as an historic event
for Indiana, but it is merely an uninteresting
formality for most Hoosier voters. They are
concerned far more with the question of the
nickel glass Of beer.
With draught beer being sold in Ohio, ILL
nois, and other nearby states, the Indiana
brew devotee can see no plausible reason for
his inability to order up a schooner-and
there is none
With the repeal convention conclusion, the
last barrier reared by Governor Paul " Nc
Mutt will be RACED He stated repeatedly that
his main reason for opposition was that sale
of draught beer would smack too much of the
old-tme saloon and probably react against the
repeal movement. The repeal affair is over.
1t is time for the Governor or the courts to
act
Beer in bottles which at first sold for 20
cents, now is selling for Is cents Some brands
are selling for dime, others two for a quar-
ter. If a twelve-ounce bottle of beer can sell
for dime it seems that there is no tenable
argument against nickel eight-ounce glass
OF beer This price will bring it within the
reach of every one and will be another blow
against the illicit traffic in home brew and
hard liquor.
Bottled beer already has done much for the
temperance cause The dealers in alcohol,
whisky and gin admit it. The drinkers them
selves admit it. Even the drys are hard put to
deny it.
Questioning of the customers in any place
where beer is sold today in the city will reveal
that many of them are "off the hard stuff"
for the first time in years, satisfied that they
are getting good drink in the brew that now
is on the market. And they will tell you of
many others who have quit drinking alcohol
and gin in favor of three-two.
Draught beer will be a still longer step to-
ward temperance and undoubtedly will add
TO the revenues which already are reaching a
gratifying figure.
If Governor McNutt has any good argu-
ment left against draught beer, let him pre-
sent it now. If he has not let's have brew on
tap, for the several good reasons mentioned
above
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
A Woman's Viewpoint

THE NATIONAL REPUBLIC. -
= a Washington Cd. c. maya
zine, which announces itself against
All Subversive movements inimical
to American ideals, traditions. and
institutions" expresses no small
alarm at the student pacifist move
ment.
Without going too deeply into the
question Of what exactly is meant
by American ideals, traditions, and
institutions, it is interesting to note
that in this magazine, a least, they
do no signify concord or interna-
tional amity.
Sketching through the current
number. one gathers that our ideals,
as The National Republic" inter-
prets them, are fist shakings at the
rest of the world; that our traditions
are those that proved SO fatal to Mr..
Hoover; and our institutions conSti-
tute great army and navy.
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It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, June 26.-Charlie
IN Mitchell has been acquitted. I
don't know whether to laugh or
weep. I'm certainly not going to
applaud
And yet I can't pretend. with any
honesty. that I was thirsting for
the prisoners blood. A conviction
would have done very little to alter
the state of society. And, besides,
I never did want to see anybody go
to jail.
There is a school of thought which
holds that guilt is personal and that
a few stiff sentences vitally alter
human conduct. That is not my OBJ
servation. Sharp gentlemen of great
wealth merrily go out and get them
selves better lawyers. And get them
earlier. 1t would have been cheap
er for Charlie Mitchell to have hired
Make Steuer two years ago.
OF course, an interesting Erec-
edent has been established by the
Mitchell case. In effect, the jury
has decided he wasn't guilty. be-
cause he did what his lawyer told
him he could do If there is any
thing in the theory that guilt is per-
sonal, then it may be a good idea
next time to indict both counsel and
client.
hardly think it will prove sound
to set lawyers up as fathers Of con-
fession authorized to pronounce abb
solution for reckless f1nanciers.
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Railroad Company also gives an optimistic
report, in that five days now is the working
week instead of four, with prospect that
more men viii be employed in the near future.
Beer is giving work to more and more men,
in breweries and the many other industries
which benefit by its return
Jobs are coming back. They may not be the
soft money, cushy jobs of the delrious days
of 1928 and 1929, but they'll put bacon and
beans in the larder, and that's good enough to
suit any one who has been tramping the
streets hopelessly looking for employment,
for the last two years.
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, that it is not the duty of the attor-
ney- general to apply for or attempt
to secure reductions in utility rates
nor to take sides as between the
consumers and the utility except so
far as may be necessary to sustain
the action of the public service COM
mission.
The matters to which you refer
in your letter might be proper in a
proceeding before the public service
commission to secure a reduction of
rates, but unless such matters are
admissible for the purpose of SuS-
tanning the decision of the public
service commission, they you'd be of
no value in the present proceeding
before the master in chancery.
1t must be remembered that the
federal court has no power to fix
rates in this proceeding, but that it
is limited entirely to the question of
whether the order of the public serv-
ice commission shall be enforced or
enjoined.
If you or the indianapolis Times
has information or evidence which
would assist in the determination
of this question, I assure you that I
will be most happy to receive and
consider it.
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boobs? Do they believe the boys
will be ballyhooed to arms so that
the money interests may continue
their lush CRAVINGS?
Shall We ask the lads to die so
that the world may be made safe
for the armament manufacturers,
the armchair generals, and the dia-
mond- bedecked dowagers? Must the
people starve while the armies and
the navies Of the earth wax fat?
What sort of country, I ask you
in all seriousness, will we have to
defend when the common man has
no security, save what he can get
with bullets and no expectation ex-
cept obscure and horrible death on
a battlefield?
All this jargon of the jingoists
reads like a dead language. To our
boys and girls, who are wiser than
we were, it is without sense or
meaning.
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Tears of Mr. Mitchell

THE papers say that Mr.. Mitch
Il ell wept when the verdict was
returned, and the American reports
that "Steuer's face broke into wrin-
kles, and he grinned impishly, like
a boy who suddenly won all the
marbles in the game"
Still, Mr.. Steuer generally gets
the marbles That should be no
great surprise to him. Nor need it
be altogether a reproach. One Of
the things which undoubtedly
moved the jury to kindliness was
the fact that all of Charlie Mitch
ellis agates were in hook by the time
he stood up to the bar of justice.
Perhaps it will not be possible to
draw any very vital social lessons
from the trial. Maybe it merely
proves that Make Steuer is a good
lawyer and Charlie Mitchell a very
lucky middle-ageed man. But I can
not refrain altogether from hazard
ing few theories and venturing a
couple of generalities.
Mr. Mitchell was tried by what is
called a jury of his peers. In prac-
tice this would mean that the
methods of a big-or formerly big
business man were subjected to the
scrutiny of twelve minor entire
preneurs.
In theory, one might expect that
people who managed to get togeth-
er the money to pay an income tax
would be extremely bitter against
any wealthy person who hit upon
a scheme to pay none. To my great
surprise, it hasn't worked out that
way.
At parties and dinners have
been assailed violently by members
of my own group in regard to my
opinions about Mr.. Morgan and MI.
Mitchell. And the challenge has
been, Wouldn't you do the same
thing in the same placer"
, 1 imagine that it is inevitable
that the three-card monte dealer
always will have an admiration for
the man who sells mining stock.
But I mustn't change the subject.
The answer to the challenge is
probably, eyes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
Neglect of Tooth Decay May Be Costly

EOR some years the public has
l. been advised that infection at
the roots of the teeth is dangerous
to the general health and that such
infection is likely to be followed by
disturbances elsewhere in the body.
The diseases most commonly seen
are the rheumatic disorders, par
ticularly the condition known as
arthritis deformans; and also in
fections of the heart, infections of
the kidneys and ulcers of the
stomach.
Disturbances of the thyroid gland
and even infections of the nervous
system and the genital organs have
been related to infections in the
teeth.
Recently DR.. j. H. Arnett. a
physician, and L. NJ. Ennis, a dental
surgeon, co-operated to study the
teeth and the general conditions of
883 students at the Drexel Institute
in Philadelphia.
OF these students, 1893 were found
with carries of the teeth to some ex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26

Of ITS students who had infec-
tons at the roots of the teeth, five
were found with rheumatic disor-
ders or heart disturbance, forty-four
distinctly under weight and twelve
with disturbance of the kidneys.
Incidentally, similar percentages
were found among 708 students who
did not have infections at the roots
of the teeth, but it must be borne
in mind that there are other sources
of focal infection beside the teeth.
1t is quite possible indeed for an
infection of the throat, of the
sinuses or, in fact, of any portion of
the body to serve as a source for
contamination of other portions.
This investigation served again to
establish definitely the possibility Of
spread of infection from infected
teeth, but even more important to
show the necessity Of X-ray in
which there is suspicion of such
focus.
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So They Say

The university is a mating mill.
1t should be. With it's beautiful
campus, magnificent views, ada
cent lakes and the opportunities
students have to measure each
others worth, why shouldn't the
students fall in love?-Professor E.
A Ross, University of Wisconsin
sociologist,
Every person who consents to max
ing terms with the Japanese is my
inveterate and eternal enemy-Feng
Yu-hsiang, China's Christian gen.
eral.''
I've been so busy living that I
haven't had time to formulate a
philosophy of life.-Samuel Inter
meyer, noted lawyer, on his seven
ty-f1fth birthday.
Dictatorships are inevitable.-Pre-
mier Mussolini of Italy.
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=BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

There is announced, too, a new
enemy combating organization,
called the Paul Reveres," whose
president, we notice without sur
prise, is a lieutenant Colonel.
Yet these alarmiSts are, I fear,
much in the same positions as the
battlers against beer-their cause
already lost.
n
CTUDENT pacihsm is growing.
~ The demand for arbitrator as
a substitute for war is increasing.
And this is surely not strange, when
we consider the body blows that
platitudinous patriots have had
from sundry investigating commit
tees within the year.
Do these imprisoned Pauls now
riding so hotly after their elusive
enemies" imagine that the college
students are complete and utter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
Treasure
BY MARY B. MOYNAHAN

BY MARY B. MOYNAHAN
It's fairest when the day is young;
While still so fresh, and sweet
newborn;
It's cradle draped in rose and pearl;
Give me the lovely, untried morn.
The time of day most beautiful,
Is curtained round with cloth OF
dew
Before the folds are drawn aside,
Disclosing some unwelcome
The day has passed; but on the
way,
1t left its footprints deep i'm
pressed;
Then = heavy =. burdened - disap-
peared
Along the trail into the west.
o star-croWned night, the day has
gone
With load of tasks-and happen
ings;
All, welcome-thrice-thy gift OF
sleep
With brush Of healing, dusky
Wings
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26

trolled cotton production henceforth. AT the
same time, we regard it as a social blunder,
almost crime, to destroy cotton when
thousands millions maybe, are in need of
clothing.
Yet this is one of those heroic remedies
that the Roosevelt administration is offering.
May it restore the cotton south to
economic healthi restored south will con-
tribute to restoration of the entire nation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26
Changing the Setup

T ET'S meet the opponents of that
IL familiar adage, you can't
change human nature" on their
own ground. And let's say: mo,
you can't. Instead, We'll change the
setup."
I always have felt that, with a
few striking exceptions people are
true to those roles in which their
economic background has cast them.
A certain set of circumstances will
produce a TWo-Gun Crowley and
another a Charlie Mitchell. Putting
the economic situation out of the
way is far more important than
putting the individual in Jail.
There are no villains. 1t is
easier to get people excited about
some specific person than to rouse
them against system. We all want
to think of the world in terms Of
Uncle Toms and Simon Legrees. But
there isn't any Uncle Tom. There
isn't any Simon Legree. They, too,
are symbols of certain position in
the class array.
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From More Fortunate One.

Limit them to $50 qoords or less.)
From More Fortunate One.
This is a country of democracy,
FIRE speech, free press. Oh, yeah!
While on investigation at the city
hospital clinic last week, noted this
with Indignation:
A hum of conversation (not loud
enough to annoy any one) was going
on at the seats where the people
were waiting for attention or medi-
cine. A woman sitting at the phar-
macy window beloved back at them
in the tones some people use to herd
swine, Cut out the talk back there"
Free speech, free press. "a gov
eminent of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people" An old-faShioned
ideal of Lincoln's period. Lincoln
said, you can't fool all the people
all the time" A noted man said no
one has any more right to hurt an
others feelings by rude words than
to strike that person physically.
1t is gall and wormwood for peo-
pie to be forced to accept charity,
without being SO treated, One is not
supposed to talk when waiting at
the family welfare-one is not sup
posed to carry on conversation while
standing in line at the trustees
your charity might be cut off.
People are getting mighty tired of
being treated as stock because they
happen to be so unfortunate as to
belong to the "unwashed horde"
Lincoln believed always in kind
ness toward all. In these days of
poverty and hardships, the least we
can do is have kind word toward
those who are already suffering. To
add one more ache to their bleeding
hearts is cruelty. Having a person
dealing with the public in such
nasty, offensive manner is breeding
revolution fast.
Such a despicable person should
be removed. Courtesy costs no one
anything. 1t is stamp o, good
breeding, and courtesy is very neces-
sary in these days of fomenting and
revolving circumstances.
BY Philip Lutz Jr.,
Attorney General of Indiana.
To Warren E. Cox-Your letter of
June 20, a copy of which was print
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A Negative Noseg0y

THE best which can be said in
l. his defense is the same plea
made for Mr.. Morgan. 1t runs,
But he didn't do anything illegal"
I used to run into quite a different
story. 1t was said in favor Of the
competitive world that certain men
made great fortunes because they
were peculiarly qualified to assume
social responsibility.
After getting the money together,
they gave it back again, choosing
the right soup kitchen every step
Of the way.
But now I hear no more than,
They didn't do any harm" 1t
isn't good enough. Charlie Mitchell
isn't going to Jail, but I do hope
that public opinion will see to it
that this isn't quite a sufficient
recommendation for putting him
in the Hall of Fame.
(CoDyright. 1888. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26

We always knew those cosnlic ray scientists
would finally get around to something
practical. A Franklin Institute professor an
nounces the invention of an atom weighing
machine which is just the very thing for
weighing our bank roll.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26

Sing Sing lists circus contortionist among
its convicts. Doubtless he has promised that
he will go straight when he gets out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-26

Lead pencil industry announces it will
raise wages, because of better business. Per-
haps this is due to the harder figuring people
have to do these days
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Most workers are strongly in favor of the
proposed shorter week-except the two allowed
for their vacation.
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MR.. THROTTLEBOTTOM

TINE doings of Mr.. Throttlebottom touch
- bottom in the news, as government in
Washington moves from Capitol Hill to its
summer capital at the offices of the industrial
recovery administration.
Political dog-days find his activities de-
scribed in a stick from far-off Uvalde, Tex
The Vice-President is leaving the home town
for parts unknown.
Il expect to be gone from Uvalde a great
deal and therefore, will make or accept no
engagements for at least sixty days." ne
heralds
Being gone from Uvalde is obscurity indeed
The fogs of London, the heat of Washington
the worries of foreign and domestic affairs
bother him not. We suspect he has gone
fishing.
Who will envy him? His conscience is
clean of any wrong Cor other) doings, proof
against worries that plague the great. At the
worst he will be called upon, like Mr.. Curtis
to deliver a commencement address to junior
high school class, or, perhaps, be doctored with
an honorary degree
Have good time, Jack, you lucky beggar
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