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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
Pneumonia Deaths Are Mounting

MORE persons die from pneu-
IV1monia in the United States
than from any other disease ex-
cept tuberculosis. In the ten years
from 1920 to 1890 the deaths from
various forms of pneumonia in this
country alone amounted to more
than a million.
1t is important, therefore, that
you do your best to prevent any
trace of the disease in your own
family this winter.
Control of pneumonia has not
been established completely by the
medical profession 1t was thought
for a while that the quarantine of
people with the disease would stop
it, yet this has not proved prac-
teal.
Means have been sought for de-
veloping NEGOTIATIONS against the
disease, but thus far all have been
ineffective. One attack of pneu-
monia does not protect. This means
that the immunity created by an
actual infection doesn't last very
long and the artificial immunity
created by incubation would not
endure long, either.
The most that medicine can do,
therefore, with the present state OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
WHAT PRICE JAIL?

TIVE county commissioners of a certain
l. Ohio county had difficult problem in
human values to determine this month.
Some time ago citizen of that county was
arrested for murder. He was tried, convicted,
sentenced to death, and lodged in the death
house of the Ohio pententiary For twenty
two months he stayed there, awaiting what
looked like certain doom, with other con-
demned men for mis- only companions
Finally, another man confessed to the
crime. The first man was exonerated and
was given his freedom, all stain removed
from his name. So finally he asked the
county commissioners for compensation for
those twenty-five months in the death
house, and they awarded him verdict of
$4,000.
How much money would it take to make
up for so long a sojourn in the shadow of the
electric chair? Does the sum agreed on seem
fair to your
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
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wholly dsapprOve you say you

"Air Is Real Substance of Life,
pointing out that man may live
forty days without food, four days
without water but can not live more
than three or four minutes without
air.
Air is vitany important and its
absence is immediate death, one
might say. However, food, water
and warmth, also are substances of
life and to have good health, one
might we'll add, sunshine.
On emerging from heated rooms
stores or street cars during the fall
and winter months, pause for a
minute and make especial effort to
inhale as much pure air as seems
possible in order to get more
oxygen into the blood stream, al
ways depleted by crowded rooms,
overheated or poorly ventilated
This precaution will prevent colds
in many instances and perhaps
other troubles.
Poisonous gases and germs are in
the air of crowded, overheated
buildings and street cars and at
tack those whose resistance is low
or subnormal. Also get as much
sunshine as possible, keep the feet
dry, sleeping rooms well ventilated,
build up your resistance-think
health and build health.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
BOLD. BAD MEN

THE big shot gangsters of the modern I'M
u derworld thrive on terrible regulations
They like to be known as "Machine-G Gun So
and-So,' much as the Texas bad man of for
mer days liked to be called 'the terror of the
plains" But very often their regulations are
more Observation-Disclosures than they really
deserve.
Joseph B. Keenan,, assistant United States
attorney general, tells a senate subcommittee
that the notorious George (Machine-Gun)
Kelly really is an arrant coward who had his
hands on machine gun only twice in his
whole life.
When Kelly was trapped at Memphis, says
Mr.. keenan,, he had better than a $3.50
chance to shoot his way to freedom. Instead,
he meekly surrendered, raising his hands as
high as the length of his arms would permit.
1t is rather important that facts of this
kind be brought out The really bold des-
perado moves in an ominous sort Of glamor;
the cowardly rat who hides behind a syn
thetic reputation has no glamor at all
And that's the kind of bad man" the or
binary gangster really is.
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Count Agdint La Guardia

r ET'S leave Mckee for the
IL moment and take up the case
Of Fiorello H. La Guardia. In a
campaign speech the other night he
most unquestionably became con-
fused in his FlynnS. I can not ac-
cept the notion that he pointed in
the wrong direction on purpose, be-
cause he is sufficiently versed in
municipal fights to know that an
immediate newspaper checkup is
imposed on every campaign utter
ance. I think that he merely said,
"Ah, Flynn-that's a word 1 know"
and proceeded to cut loose in quite
the wrong direction
am not the one to blame him
for his confusion. I once wrote a
column under the temporary de-
fusion that Rosalind was a character
in Twelfth Night" In spite of my
illiteracy I do know better than
that. And the very next day adj
mitted my fault very freely, although
not quite honestly.
I said that I had made the error
just to find out how many people
were reading the column, and the
eleven letters of protest which re-
ceived cheered me up rather ma
terially.
AS matter of fact, I did not
think the explanation would be &C
copied as literally accurate. Al
though I lied, I did not expect to be
believed, and that, think, takes the
curse off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30

THE possibility of Russian recognition comes
Il as a welcome relief to that SNUG, self
centered attitude which has guided this coun-
trys policy since the war and which is mainly
responsible for the idea that we Americans could
wall ourselves in and still be prosperous.
For one, however, would feel happier about
it had we not waited for depression to open our
eyes. Aluring as the probable trade advantages
may be, it is pretty raw to make them the prir-
ciple excuse for doing something which is in
strict accord with our best traditions.
Failure to recognize Russia has not only hurt
us, but complicated the whole international stu
alton This is because it was wrong morally.
You can't have good times as long as people use
political power to accomplish false impractical
ends
THE anti-Russia complex has amounted to
Il little but great delusion, born of prejudice
and fostered by selfish hopes. Many statesmen
both here and abroad thought they could smash
the Russian experiment by standing aloof. That
was wrong, even if true The Russians have a
right to experiment. The kind of government
they want is their business, not ours
1t took a major disaster to remind us of our
simple duty to convince us that we were not
ordained by God to run the world We should
take the lesson seriously. 1t reveals blind
spot in our vision We should remember that
the establishment of our own government Jared
the world Of 1776 quite as badly as the eStab-
lshment of Soviet Russia Jared the world in
1917. Had We kept that thought in mind, his
tory might have contained very different
chapter concerning the last dozen years.
We had nothing to fear from Russia as the
result plainly shows The Bolshevist regime has
turned out stronger and more successful than
most of us expected, but it has not affected our
institutions or conceptions. except by example
AS matter of common knowledge, more
N Americans have been sold on the doctrine
of Fascism than on that of Communism, though
the former is as much opposed to American
principles as the latter
We find it compatible with our traditions to
recognize Mussolini and Hitler, which is right
but WHY couldn't we have seen the Russian
problem in similar light?
Needing the business, We come around to the
idea that our grandfathers were not so dumb
when they made recognition contingent on a
governments responsibility rather than its form
but not without leaving ourselves open to the
charge of being commercially minded.
It's all right to be commercially minded up
to certain point, but not to the extent of SUBJ
verting principles which have been proved sound
by thousands of years of experience. One OF
those principles is that nothing can be gained
by trying to hurt people, especially when they
are working to improve their own condition.
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the substances that can be devel-
oped from the pheumoccucus. When
patients with pneumonia caused by
Type I, pneunoccucus were treated
with this solution, the deaths were
only 1915 per cent, as contrasted
with a death rate of 29.5 per cent of
patients not treated with this
serum.
Such statistics are very encour-
aging in the attack on this ex-
ceedingly fatal disorder. interest
ingly enough, the type Of pneumoc-
occus producing pneumonia in chill
dren varies from the type that pro-
duces pneumonia in adults.
Much Of the attack by modern
medicine on various type of infec-
tious diseases depends on making
the most careful and detailed study
Of the germs which cause the dis
ease. In laboratories everywhere
studies are being made of the nature
of the germ which causes pneu-
monia
1t seems likely that this condi-
ton will be brought under much
better control when the innumer-
able types Of pneumococci that now
are known are classified property.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
MONDAY. OCT. 30. 1888.
STEEL TRUST VS.. NEW DEAL

L
THE steel trust and its associates. appar-
emily, have not yet learned that there
Is a new deal, intended to protect consumers
OF this country and to put men back to work.
While IS per cent of the rail mills Of the
United States Steel Corporation are idle and
have been for two years, while thousands of
steel and railroad workers are unemployed,
the steel trust tries again to thwart the gov
ernments plan for increasing employment in
these heavy industries.
On Oct 3, after presidential conference
with the steelnasters, Joseph Eastman, fed
eral co-ordinator of railroads, wrote them in
viting bids on about 100000 tons Of steel rails
to be purchased by the carriers, chiefly with
government loaned money. 1t was the I'M
Outstanding that the steel companies would
submit base prices independently of each
other and without collision or consultation"
Seventeen days later these steel companies
submitted prices all their letters were dated
Oct. 20; each quoted a base price of $37.75
ton One offered to ref1le lower prices if a
competitor bid under it. All this time the
steel companies were operating under their
MIRA code of fair competition.
Co-Ordinator Eastman, speaking with the
authority of the President and for him, has
just rejected these high bids. Why2 Because
the steelmasters, in violation of the White
House agreement with Mr. Roosevelt, gave him
clear evidence of consultation and collision
in arriving at the new and uniform base
prices; because to Co-Ordinator Eastman and
the President it was evident that theirs were
'noncompetitive prices lacking the safeguard
to the consumer which competition provides"
Was the code to blame, as the steelmasters
limited? Manifestly not, for the code, as Mr..
Eastman pointed out, is by its own terms
code of fair competition" and mot intended
to eliminate competition
In his first letter and speaking then also
for the President, Mr.. Eastman suggested that
the steel companies should not ask more than
$35 a ton on rails. This was SIS below the
prices strangely maintained for a year. The
steel men proposed to cut the price by only
1925.
But, even though they have disregarded
the Roosevelt Eastman suggestion, the steel
companies have been given another chance to
put their idle equipment to work. to re-em-
ploy men IN Unelr own ana the railroad in
dustry. Mr.. Roosevelt and Co-Ordinator East
man have opened the way. The steelmasters
have been told that, if they will not make
the requested price concession, then all the
government asks is the right to full and
free" audit of their books and cost records.
Thus they can meet the governments
price or prove that their higher price is fair.
If they can not do one certainly they can
do the other If they refuse both, the way
Will be open for the government to invoke the
full power of the antitrust laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30

T DARESAY we never shall have
l. done fighting over morality.
Nothing so arouses differences as
discussions over what constitutes
goodness.
Yesterday I heard from an en-
thusiastic correspondent that there
is now decided trend toward the
ld-fashioned, Il feel sure she
dubbed. that We shall see a re-
turn to Victorian principles"
I'm sorry I can't agree with her.
There is a movement in the direc-
ton of common sense. but none of
us would really want to dress our
minds in the stiff garments Of other
days.
Morals are simply our codes of
behavior and they alter just as
everything about us does. Even to-
days truths are not the same as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
Questions and
AnSWe rS

Q-Where is British Honduras?
What is the capital, and of what
nationality are the inhabitants?
At is a British crown colony
bordering on the Caribbean sea
and on the east coast of Central
America, between the Mexican
state of Yucatan and Guatemala.
The capital and chief port is
Belize. The population is COM
posed chiefly of Indians, only
per cent being Europeans.
Q-Could person travel to
South America through Mexico
and Panama by automobile?
A-There is no automobile road
through Mexico aud Panama to
South America, but the route has
been traversed by auto, with great
difficulty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

our knowledge, is to try to bring
about recovery in every case of the
disease. In this, medicine has been
aided greatly by the discovery Of
the fact that there are various types
Of pneumococci - the organisms
which cause the disease.
Moreover, it has been possible to
develop specific methods Of protec-
ton against certain types. Some in
vestigators have found that the
germs called Type T. and Type
II" are most often present in the
noses and threats of people who live
in families in which there are cases
Of pneumonia.
These germs are much less often
present in summer than in winter.
Apparently, also, there is some re-
lationship between appearance of
frequent colds among members of a
family and the appearance of pneu-
monia.
Not all types of pneumonia yield
equally to the serums that are
available. A Boston physician de-
veloped a concentrated solution Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30

happiness. Personally, I don't think
much of cur cherished surface
virtues, but I do not believe moral
fiber is something one helps to build
for oneself and that it is never
created on the theory that one does
as one pleases all the time.
We have seen men and women
seeking release from inhibitions and
troubles through many love affairs.
We have watched while marriage
has been made a sort of matrimo-
NAL exchange and runmage sale,
and what has it brought US? Very
little, except momentary excite
ments and additional sorrows. We
are all sentimentaliSts when 1t
comes to wanting "a happy ending
for our own life stories. And one
doesn't get happy endings that way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
The joy Of Confession

A ND so it seems to me that Flo
"A relic H. La Guardia, having
made a fearful blunder, ought to
admit as much or think up some
excuse which is very fancy. If he
fails to take what seems to me the
decent course after such a blunder
1 rather think that may abandon
the whole fusion movement and go
home to my old friend, Charlie SOL
ONION, on the Socialist ticket. And
that not a bad vote in any event.
1t is going to be tough for me to
get very excited the next time Bob
Minor wraps himself in the folds Of
the American Constitution and cries
out that his right Of dissent has
been trampled upon by the dirty
capitalists. If free speech means
anything at all-and think it does
the hardest fight must be made
for those spokesman whom you like
the least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
It Seems
to Me
.BY HAYWOOD BRoUN=


NEW YORK, oct. 80 don't
~ see why politicians refuse to
act like ordinary human beings.
Most of us are perfectly willing
10 admit in the light of another day:
That stuff I said last night doeSnt
go. Understand that"
The alteration may have ex-
planned on the ground of too much
Scotch, not having heard the origi-
nal question or a tough day at the
office.
But when a politician has made
a statement, however wild, he seems
to feel that this is his story and
he must stick to it. I can not re-
member a single instance in which
a candidate has frankly confessed,
We'll, if said that was just cock
eyed at the time said il"
Mr.. Mckee set down some very
silly things in a comparatively OBJ
scure magazine many years ago. But
instead of meeting this decidedly
irrelevant research with the COM
ment, Il said that when I was Just
young squidge knowing nothing
better" he has attempted to inter
pref his original indiScretion and
maintain that he was right all the
time.
Why must politician always be
right? OF course, he isn't. do
not think that elections depend
upon infallibility. Indeed, I pre-
dict a huge majority for the first
candidate who has the nerve to say.
OF course was wrong. The best
thing I can say in my own defense
is that i've changed my mind. And
mean to keep on changing it as
occasion arises"
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Praise for Two Martyrs

SPECIFICALLY, I know perfectly
~ we'll that neither Morris L.
Ernest or Harry Weinberger has
the slightest sympathy with Ger
many's anti-Semitic campaign. But
both gentlemen have had the cour-
age to stand up and say, ITO hell
with the Hitlerites, and, even so, 1
think the yhave right to speak"
I want to get in on the same side.
If Mayor O'Brien bases his refusal
upon a fear of disorder it seems to
me that such a decision rests upon
a lack of confidence in his own
police.
In a very belated and minor at
tempt to follow in the footsteps Of
my great idol out of all the dead Id
like to tag along with the tradition
of Voltaire and assert that free
speech must be preserved even when
it appears to the nose and eyes of
me and you and you to be simply
poisonous.
Copyright. 1898. hg The Timesl
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Indiana. Congratulations. But all
this should have been pointed out at
the time of the appointment of this
man, who had had no experience at
all with crime or with criminals. In
fact, his close friends, admiring him
for his integrity and his basic NOR
atty, might with good sense ques-
ton even his Sophistication.
A football player at Notre Dame,
several years in the furniture bust
ness left by his father, some months
in a brokerage Office at South Bend,
membership secretary Of the Hoosier
Athletic Club, work and certain po-
litical work last fall mostly in Lake
county, following in the footsteps
of Micky Hanrahan and doc" Nc
Ginty of the Republican state COM
mittee-all this is not the sort of
experience to direct state police in
the suppression of crime or the cap
ture of escaped convicts, desperate
in their battle for liberty.
The plumber group, dividing the
Spoils of last falls political victory.
selected this man for the wrong job.
That was a most serious mistake.
There were many he could have
filed acceptably, but not that of di-
rector of police.
And what is needed now for that
job, as you point out, wisely and
timely is a veteran schooled in the
way of criminals, able to direct men
with courage to capture them. The
state police force should be made
up of men from top to bottom who
know their business. Police knowl-
edge comes of long experience.
Frank J. Wright, D. C.
DR.. Morris Fishbein, whose writ
ings appear daily in The Times, re-
Gently discussed air under the topic,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
We Hope So

BY ]. Goodman.
After reading your editorial
Undermining Hitler" I felt that
you really placed a new word, to
the controversy. I heartily agree
with you that the only way to do
is to circulate Hitlers mad book
my Struggle" under conditions
that you outlined and let every
body see what a mad man he is.
I hope that your article comes
before the proper people and they
see that your idea is carried out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30
A Woman's Viewpoint {:
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

those we believed in yesterday.
There is no such thing as static
goodness.
And we never go backward, al
though now and then like the poor
frog in the well, We may slip to
lower levels in our efforts to move
forward.
q
ONE need not be a thorough
~ idealist, however. to hope that
we soon shall see improvement in
certain phases of conduct. The
question of sex promiscuity which,
without blinking facts. has been
steadily increasing since the war, is
one that could stand some intelli-
gent consideration.
The problem is not one of morals
only. It concerns itself with simple
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-30

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ t0ords or IesS.)
The Presidents speech to the
American Legion at Chicago has in
spired me to write this letter, trust
ing you can find room in your
Message Center to print it.
The Presidents words were thus:
"All able bodied veterans get out
and make their own living" We
will head my letter as can able
bodied veteran
On page 337 Of volume XVIII,
Book of Merit Of the Indiana His
torical Collections, you will find my
picture and war record. 1t shows I
have the Distinguished Service
Cross. I also have other medals
and citations that I merited in
France. 1t shows I was gassed and
received two slight wounds.
Until a few months ago, I have
been able to supply the proper needs
of my family and have not called on
my country for any special favors.
nor do want to. All I ask is job
"a chance to make a living for my
loved ones. Who will give this able
bodied veteran job so he will not
have to ask any favorS from his
country.
am a chauffeur and mechanic
willing to do anything to make an
honest living. 1 have letters OF
reference from indianapolis leading
men. If you can favor me in this
matter, I will be most grateful.
Editors Note-The Book of Merit OF
the Indiana Historical Collections gives
the following data on the writer OF the
AI Born Dec Dec. 2s, 1900 at Colt Ark, and
came to Indiana in 1914. Enlisted from
Tippecanoe county, July T.. 1917. A pri-
vate in the medical detachment OF the
First gas regiment, he served in France
Present in the battles of Chateau
Thierry, st. Michel, Muese-Argonne.
D. S. c. awarded Sept. 26, 1918, for
service near MOntfaucon. Citation sets
out that he rescued wounded and gave
first aid under heavy machine gun fire.
because of his efforts several lives were
saved and his personal bravery was
source of inspiration to the combat
troops, the citation said.
He was hOnOrably discharged March 1,
1919.