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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-13
MONDAY, Feb. -. 1898.
WHAT'S BEHIND THIS?

What is the mysterious influence that is about
Ito destroy the federal trade commission?
Born during the first years of the Wilson admin
:stration, and acclaimed as one of the real accom-
.plishments of Wilson's time, the trade commission
has repaid its cost to the American people over and
over again.
To mention only two instances, there was the
commissions action in the famous Pittsburgh plus"
case which said to have saved the farmers of the
country $3OOoOOOO each year since it went into eff
feet say nothing of the saving TO every oryr user
of steel materials
And the revelations concerning the power in
dustry which probably will form the basis of Roose
vets new deal in a matter that means hundreds of
D.. millions of dollars to the people
Yet for some hidden reason this commission
the only one in the federal government primarily
concerned with the interests of consumers-is about
to be destroyed 1t is difficult to draw the basis of
the present hostility into the open but it seems to
have grown out Of certain practices initiated by
Commissioner Humphrey practices previously avoid
ed by the commission and practices that readily
can be terminated by the commission. Two new
members, to be named by Roosevelt, can take care
of that.
Economy, of course is the pretense under which
the commission is being destroyed
The whole cost of the federal trade commission
for the current year is $14465OO. For the coming
year, congress proposes to allow not more than
$78OOOO
To make clear that economy is only pretense,
there is the action to date couple of other items
The r. o. T. C. is to receive $3,84OOOO. Without
entering into any argument concerning the pro-
priety of this college activity, nobody contend
that its value is anything more than problematicaI.
That is to say, if we should have war it is to be
assumed the military training given these boys will
have been worth the expense.
It's just of those things you can't know about.
However-$3 $4,000 for that. Less than per cent
decrease over this years cost.
The prohibition unit. There's scarcely any need
to start an argument concerning prohibition It's
its way out. 1t has been costly and futile ex-
pertinent.
But for the coming year congress appears ready
to appropriate $8,44OOOO for the prohibition units
part-and its merely part-of the cost of prohibit
ton This is a reduction of only II per cent
There you. haye- it, Seventeen per cent cut in a
service that can not be useful to the people. Six
per cent cut in a service that may some day prove
it is useful Fifty per cent in an inexpensive service
that has been useful to the people since the day it
was organzed-useful in terms of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars.
ence that seems about to destroy this service?
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Just Plain Sense
. BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

>HINGs are now in so much confusion" writes
a mother, that it seems quite hopeless to try
to plan the future for ones children"
1t is, think, hopeless. And how can we be sure
that it is best that should so plan?
One of the tragic mistakes made bv adults is this
effort on our part to fashion our childrens world
after some plan of our own We fail to consider
that after We dead our boys and girls will have
to wrestle with problems of which we can have no
conception
How can we guess what the world will be like the
day after tomorrow? Will all these things which
now seem valuable and precious be worthless to
those who come after us? 1t may be-
We know this: Many of the most sacred causes
that our parents and grandparents battIed for have
become-trvial ard meaningless for this generation
To read the pious essays of Jonathan Edwards and
the Mathers is to understand that human thought
has changed and widened beyond even their deepest
understanding.
MOREOVER, the last twenty years has taught
NA us that the future is beyond our knowledge and
beyond any really intelligent control by us. The
kndest wises thing we can do is to permit our chill
dren to regulate their own lives to create their own
worlds
1t is, in short the only open to the modern
parent And it is futile for to dash ourselves
against this wall Of hard and solid fact.
1t is somehow sad that when God put into the
human heart parental pride and love- He did not
at the same time give faith. We seem in each
age beset by overwhelming fears-fears of what our
children will do when no longer here to give
them counsel.
The greatest gift We can bestow upon the genera
ton that follows after us, it seems to me- is
to teach them to stand upon their own feet To
guide to caution, to hope-this is the best any of
can do.
And the parent who realizes her inability to do
more, and VINO restraints herself from too much
loving meddling with the fate and future of her
children is the finest, the dearest, and the wisest
mother Of us all.
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NO PLACE FOR PATRONAGE

Among the Office seekers bounding the Presi-
dent-eect and his patronage dispensers none is
more insistent than the campaign contributor who
thinks he has paid for ambassadorship 1t is an
old racket And too often he gets away with it.
That did not matter much so long as we were
one-horse country. The chief job of most of our
diplomats was to dress for court functions and to
gad-hand an occasional American taking the grand
tour But since the that has changed. We have
become the dominant nation in world affairs.
Our diplomats help determine peace or war, pros
perity or beggary. Their success depends upon
knowledge and skill-in international politics.
finance, economies. Training and experience count
Foreseeing this, Grover Cleveland and Theodore
Roosevelt began the slow process of building up a
professional service AS this body of career dplo-
mats matured later Presidents gradually promoted
the best of these men from secretaral positions to
head our missions abroad as ministers and am
bassadors.
Although the prize jobs at London Paris and
Berlin always have been saved for political ap-
pontees. today thirty-one Of the ifty-six foreign
posts are held by professionals. This is of the
fine achievements of the Harding Coolidge Hoover
administrations
To President Hoover especially goes the credit for
realizing that only highly trained technicans can
serve our country adequately in Latin America and
the far east For example, the services of such
men as Ambassador Clark in Mexico, Ambassador
Grew in Japan and Minister johnson in China-an
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Sinus Cases

IN a recent survey of this sub
Il ject, DR.. Louis Kleinfeld en-
phasizes the usual good advice to
keep the body above par as the
best method Of preventing infec-
ton Of the sinuses.
He advises avoidance of con-
tact with persons suffering from
colds, and the building of resis-
lance through high vitamin diets,
use Of nutritious foods, and suffi-
Gent sleep.
When possible, rooms should be
kept at a mild even temperature,
with sufficient humidity.
Persons with chronic sinus in
lection should avoid swimming
pools. A competent physician can
aid a person to overcome rapidly
an acute infection of the sinuses.
If, however, the condition be-
comes chronic, it may be desir-
able for the patient to seek a
warm, dry, sunny climate, but
even here he will need the atten-
ton OF physician capable of
aiding the evacuation Of pus from
the sinuses and Of getting nose
and throat into proper condition.
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heroes in sections where the battle
against the British took on the
aspects of guerilla warfare.
At least a dozen times word
went out that SANDING was dead.
Even more often it was reported
that he had fled to Honduras,
Mexico, or Europe. And yet it
now comes out that he main
tanned himself all the time in his
jungle Businesses.
Against band of irregulars not
numbered or well equipped, we
sent what is probably the finest
body of fighting men in the world
today. The terrain favored San
dino, but we hunted him with air
planes and raked his villages with
weapons of which he was bereft.
In all fairness it must be admit
ted that he showed great skill and
courage in managing to keep a
force in being.
1t is possible that government
in Nicaragua under the auspices
of marine supervision might come
closer to our ideals of democracy
than a free-for-all regime. But, as
it happened, SANDING didn't think
so. His decision should have car
ried more weight than that of
our President, congress or state
department.
After all, we are in no position
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Medical Aid Needed in

THE sinuses are cavities in the
Il bones Of the head which con-
meet with the inside of the nose
by means Of small openings.
The sinus in the cheek bone is
called the antrum, the one above
the eye the frontal sinus, and
deeper behind the nose is the eth
mold sinus.
Obviously. infectious germs in
the nose may gain access to the
sinuses through the openings and
infect the membranes which line
the walls.
The moment the opening of the
sinus into the nose becomes
blocked, the patient develops
headache and pain. The absorp-
ton of infectious material leads
to a rise in temperature or fever.
Whereas the ordinary cold tends
to clear up in three to five days,
infection within the sinuses causes
the cold to continue for weeks and
weeks.
Eventually the condition may
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-13
THE DOCTORS DILEMMA

When you drink toast to your friends long life
be sure to add and 4nerry one" For many aged
in our land the added years bring anything but
merriment.
DR.. Francis Pottinger of California in his Mon
treal speech as retiring president of the American
College of Physicians, described the American doc
tors dilemma. Doctors, he said have been adding
years to mems lives, only to find that the added
years are insecure and unhappy
The Hoover committee on social trends found
that between 1900 and 1929 the average age at death
in registration states increased from 4738 to 5681
for men, and from 50,7 to 6O36 for women
But, while medical science was adding a decade
to lifes expectancy in thirty years social science
was permitting more than 100000 people past IS
to complete their lives in wretched county poor
houses
THE fact" said DR.. Pottinger, that the num-
Der Of people above IS has increased so markedly
IN recent years requires that our economic system
make adequate provisions for workers both during
their productive period and in their declining years
Otherwise public health measures become mockery
and work an injury rather than a blessing"
One of Americas immediate Jobs is to establish
universal old age pension systems
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Of them former undersecretares or assistant secre-
taries Of state in Westinghouse incalculable.
In Europe Ambassadors Gibson, Garrett and
others are key men,
The country sympathizes with Mr. Roosevelt as
he faces hungry Democrats who have not had a
grab at the patronage pot for so long But there
are plenty of political plums for him to distribute
at home.
Not one campaign angel, not one party hack
should be sent abroad this year. Not while the
world staggers, haf-blind, between peace and war.
The best diplomats available can be none too good
for The job today.
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A Place for Each

DR. JEFFRIES points out an
~ interesting fact concerning
the history of metal-cutting tools,
namely, that no one has crowded
out the others. Each, as it has
been developed, has found its
own important place in the in
dustrial world.
1.-THE point can best be elab-
Grated by comparing high speed
steel with high carbon tool steel,
DR.. Jefries says. 1.-The latter is
the foundation material Of the art.
Instead of long since succumb-
ing, there was more of it made in
1929 than in 1900, before high
speed steeel was commercialized.
Upon its introduction, high
speed steel was found to be a more
expensive material; furthermore,
in certain work it would not per-
form as well as the old tools, or
maybe just little better.
Consequently, carbon steel
maintained much Of its old ground.
What high speed steel really did
was to make its own place by
generating a new art, the art Of
rapid turning and cutting, and a
whole new industry Of machine
tool builders grew up to supply
the demand of this art"
The next discovery was stellite.
Some authorities thought that stel-
lite would crowd out the other
older materials. But it did not.
Since development Of the orig
inal stellite, many improvements
have been made in it and in high
speed steel as we'll First vana-
dium was added to high speed
steel. Then cobalt was added.
Recently, improved high speed
steels have beeen made by in
creasing the content Of both vana-
dunn and carbon.
AS a result, both stellite and
high speed steels have found its
most efficient territories.
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fries says, "a considerable number
OF men started studying the new
cutting material, finding where it
was best fitted, where most eco
nomical, and applying it there.
In numbers of places the mate
rial in cutting "uncuttable" sub
stances and such operations would
be sadly handicapped, if not i'm
possible, without il.
But the total number of carbide
tools absorbed for such duty is
only small proportion of the
total sold today. Most of it is
used in cutting soft gray cast iron
and in the manufacture of draw
ing dies
Important improvements have
been mace recently in tungsten
carbide tools. Some varieties use
cobalt binder. Others are mix
lures of tungsten carbide and
tantalum carbide.
Now comes ALLOY 548." It.
really is a whole family of allows
OF iron, tungsten and cobalt
Laboratory tests show that the
new alloy has qualities midway be-
tween high speed steel and ce-
mented tungsten carbide a fold
"here many tool experts say a
gap now exists.
NeXt-More about Alloy 548.
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SCIENCE
New Alloy Developed
BY DAVID DIETz

TINE development of a new al
4 10y, hailed as an outstanding
event in the evolution of metal
cutting tools, will be announced
in the forthcoming issue Of Metal
Progress" journey of the Amer
lean Society for Steel Treating.
The new alloy, known as ALLOY
549," was discovered by w. P.
Sykes, of the Cleveland wire works
of the General Electric Company.
The allow was described at a
meeting of the society at which
Mr.. Sykes and DR.. Fay Jeffries,
consulting metallurgist Of the G.
E. Co. spoke.
Industry now makes use OF more
than 5000 alloys. Can alloy is
mixture Of metals) But the prog
resS of industry continually de-
mandS new ones.
ALLOY SAB" is regarded as the
most important announcement IN
the metal-cutting field since de-
velopment Of tungsten carbide III
1928.
Metal-cutting tools are Of fun
damental Importance in the world
of industry. Each time a new or
better steel is developed, there
arises the problem of finding an
adequate material for cutting tools
so that the new steel may be ma
chined-turned on lathes, drilled,
etc.
The problem is not unlike that
of the worlds navies; first they
hunt an armor plate that projec--
tiles won't pierce; then they get
busy developing a shell that Will
penetrate the new plate.
ALLOY 548" is the latest metal
cutting alloy. It's predecessors
have steel, high speed steel, stel-
lite, and cemented tungsten car
hides
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Questions and
Answers

Q-What is Cheddar cheese?
Amy double thick cheese
Inc grades commonly recognized
are: Full cream" made from
whole milk; skins" made from
skinned or partly skinned milk
and filled" in which foreign fat
is substituted for the natural fat
Of the milk.
Q-Give the family name of the
royal house Of Great Britain?
A-Windsor.
Q-Where is SebastopoI?
At is the southern seaport of
Russia, on the Black sea.
Q-Who invented the tuning
fork?
A-John Shore, in I'LL.
Q-who wrote the Call Of the
West?"
A-C. F. ]. Galloway, in 1916.
GLOW many hospitals are
there in the United States and
what is their bed capacity?
A-There are $685. hospitals,
having GOT, 1913 beds.
Q-When was Charles Evans
Hughes elected Governor Of New
York?
A-19O6.
Q-Can the President lend
money from the United States
treasury to a foreign country?
A-No.
Q-What is the official abbre-
Walton Of Pennsylvania?
A-Pa.
Q-What is isinglass?
At is made from a whitish,
tough, semi transparent sub
stance, consisting Of almost pure
gelatin, prepared from the Wis
cera, chiefly the air bladder, of
certain fish, such as sturgeon and
cod. Mica, a mineral substance,
sometimes is called isinglass be-
cause of its superficial resem-
blance to some kinds of gelatin.
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to oppose the theory of "Nicara-
qua for NicaraguanS." During our
own very stable Civil war, we bit
terly resented even the notion of
interference by outsiders.
Il
So Much for Nothing
7 DO not see that intervention by
Il our marines had anything at
all to do with the final peaceful
settlement between the warning
factions. 1t seems to me that
SANDING told the truth all along
when he said that he would COM
promise as soon as the invaders
left the shore of his native land.
And as for us-well, I must say
that at the best we were mis-
informed Naturally, I have no
means of knowing whether the
present am1ty is permanent, or
merely a phase of quietude in a
Central American state much
given to revolution. But if the
fires flare again I hope that we
will have the good sense to stand
aloof.
We left our dead-young men
from Kankakee, st. Louis, and
Sank Centre. And for what pur-
pose? Only Gcd and the state de-
partment know. Such things
should not be ever again.
Copyright. 1888. by The Tines
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Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

A LOVELY story of the middle
IN ages tells of famous clown
who entered church and found
it empty. Moved by a religious
impulse, he wanted to make an
Offering in honor of the Mother
of Jesus. He had no gold to give,
no gems, only the tricks of his
trade; they were all he knew.
So, approaching the altar, he
began to do his tricks in praise
of the Mother of Jesus. He did
them reverently, using his finest
art.
A priest, entering the church,
was Mortified to find a clown do
ing his tricks before the altar!
They were about to throw him out
of the church, but the Mother of
Jesus rebuked the priests and
blessed the clown-he had given
his best.
What makes an act religious,
if it be not its motive and the
spirit in which it is done? Any
act, not actually evil, if done as
for the will Of God, may be a sac
rament. George Herbert was right:
Who sweeps a room as for Thy
will makes that and the action
fine"
II
MANY kinds of life must be
1V1 lived, and no one kind has
a right to call itself alone re-
ligious. Handel wrote the Messiah
because what a man should do
comes out of what he is.
A man of science need not lay
down his implements of research
to be RESPONSIVENESS he hears g
far, clear call to do SO. Science
has its saints, too, and their serv-
ice and sacrifice often are sub
lime, putting pious folk to shame.
AL service ranks the same with
God" said Browning; and it is
literally true. 1t is better to be
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TINE turn of events in Nicara-
Il qua seems to me to be a tan
gible piece of evidence to prove
the futility Of force.
I am aware that starting out
with the same set Of facts several
editorial commentators have ar
rived at wholly different conclu-
sionS. 1t is argued that the end
Of rebellion in a much-distressed
small state was brought about
only by the intervention of our
marines and that whatever sacri-
fees were made are now crowned
with glory and justification be-
cause Of happy ending.
But this flies in the face of the
apparent facts. When SANDING
undertook to carry on civil war
in Nicaragua, he announced that
he fought not against his coun-
trymen, but against foreign occu-
patton. Indeed, on several occa-
slons he expressed willingness to
treat with the rival faction as soon
as the American forces were with
drawn.
And when the United States
marines departed from thos e
shores, Sacasa and SANDING did
manage to get together in sur
prisingly short order.
Why Any Dead?
XXTE left our dead and came
w home. The numbers killed
were trivial if you think in terms
of the adventure of the great war.
And yet it is pertinent to ask why
even one should have been Sacri-
feed in this far-of quarrel in
which, as far as can see, we had
no stake whatsoever.
Even the cynical argument that
it was necessary for us to protect
our financial interests does not
bite too deeply, for they were in
consequential. I'm afraid we shed
blood in defense of a doctrine
which has grown pernicious. In
deed, it has been twisted out Of
its original conception.
President Monroe was thinking
in terms Of territorial grabs by
European nations, and that has
grown into the notion that we
must act as roundsmen through
out Central and South America.
The plain fact is that in as'@m-
ing this function we are pleasing
nobody.
Certainly, in spite of epidemic
disorder, nobody in South Amer
lea wants our interference. We
are in no position to judge the
merits of the various quarrels,
and our intervention generally
will be hated cordially by both
sides.
It is true that Sacasa and his
partisanS welcomed us in the be-
ginning, but by now he must re-
alize that all the time there was
a better way. Certainly we were
a good deal less man accurate in
our official CO lmuniques.
1t was customary during the
occupation to :efer to SANDING al
ways as a bandit and as a man
with no patriotic purpose. Our
emissaries insisted that he was
bent upon nothing but the hope
of plumber, and it was urged
against him that he and his fol-
lowers lived OFF the land.
It Has Been Done
IN saying that, of course, we
l. overlooked the fact that so
did many Of our Revolutionary
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So They Say

One great trouble in Europe is
that each nation is so busy being
patriotic that it has not time to
get the others point of view
Count Serge Fleury, French for
eign office.
I'm too good a swimmer: I
couldn't stay down. - Harold
Wachtel, jobless New York sales
man, after trying unsuccessfuIIy
to drown himself.
Unless the Democratic party
recognizes that new economic con-
ditions exist in the world today
and that we must take a some
what different attitude on the
tariff, we are headed for difficult
ties.-U nit d Sta ties Senator
Thomas j. Walsh Dem, Mont.)
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a good butcher than a poor
bishop. A golden little book called
The Practice of the Presence of
God" was written by dish wash
er in a monastery kitchen, who
had learned to find God in the
midst of pots and pans, where we
need to find Him.
If we do our stuff, whatever it
may be, honestly and with our best
stroke, Interpreting our job in
terms of God and our duty to Him,
we are living a religious life.
1t is not the job, but the spirit
in which We do it, which makes
it sacred or secular. Our business.
if we think of it in the right way,
is our best contribution to the
kingdom Of God. What we call
divine service" is seeking our lob
in its true meaning.
downright. 1888 United Features
Syndicatel
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Nothing Less Than a Billion

On the whole it most enghenng discussion especially with
~ regard to the busted
farmers and the unemployed reading
other folks the whom
Whle the house staging this
senate was hauling Mr. Barry the Goals only
few of its members took money their
Mr.
for their
they would refrain doing they looking
the 531 members
only S13275O0 and that's just chicken feed in like these
No should anything
less billion, for
people
thousand much congressman Neither
Gay brickIayer
for