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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
M. E.TracySays:

THE war debts were supposed to be taboo at
Il the economic conference now in session at
London, but they appear to constitute the chief
topic of discussion. A virtual default on pay
ments which came due right after the confer
ence was opened makes the discussion inevitable.
One finds it hard not to suspect that this
was foreseen by European statesmen, if not
deliberately rugged. At any rate, American dele
gates find themselves squarey up against an
issue which they hoped to avoid.
Instead of payments We get tokenS-toKenS
which smack of determined effort to force debt
reduction at time when it was supposed to be
shelved. Furthermore, there seems to be an
element of well-considered strategy and a con-
cert of action among debtor nations which hard
ly can be dismissed as accidental. In gang par
lance we have been put on the spot.
Worst of all, we can't do anything about it.
THE war debt situation has been shaping for
i a climax ever since the war ended, and that
climax has been visualzed by allied statesmen
as virtual cancellation Almost at the very out
set, they made up their minds that if they could
not collect from Germany, they would collect
from us.
and as the showdown comes, we are not going
to fight for $11 000,000,000
The best we can do is to keep the record
straight and write this denouement into his
tory for what it is-default While we are about
it. we might as we'll write off most of the other
aims in the same way
Outside of the recollectionS that We pulled
France and England out of a tight place, we
have little to show for the dead in France, the
care of veterans, and the oppressive taxes under
which we labor
Among other things, the war was supposed
to have been fought for 'the sanctity of
treaties" but it doubtful whether any period of
fifteen years in human history has seen so many
treaties strapped, evaded, or ignored as that
since the armistice was signed
lust before the economic conference opened
y England, France, Germany and Italy mi
tailed r-power pact to keep peace in Eu-
rope for ten years, and that, too, in spite of
the Kellogg pact by which all nations agreed
to outlaw war, the League of Nations, the world
court and several other agreements by which
general peace was supposed to be assured
The point of such an anomalous situation is
perfectly clear. Statesmen and diplomats have
little faith in their own solemn engagements.
Back Of the smoke screen of peace talk there is
such Snarl of intrigue to promote venal in
terests as this old world seldom has seen.
We are not dealing with open covenants
openly arrived at but with publicly advertised
pretensions which mean little, except as they
serve to conceal the real purpose.
| From what has occurred at London during
the last few days, it is perfectly obvious that
representatives of debtor nations are seeking
nothing but a settlement by which the United
States will be forced to pay a greater portion
/ of the war bill.
Though willing to discuss tariffs and cur
rency sterilization, debt reduction is their real
| objective.
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:: The Message Center ::


tribution system occupies public
property. 1t pays nothing whatso-
ever for this privilege, and likewise
has monopolized market handed to
it on silver platter without cost.
1t is thoroughly indefensible that
these values should be diverted to
the purposes of private gain. To do
so is but to divert and merge the
peoples own property into the cap
ital structure of a privately owned
enterprise, and then have the as
founding spectacle of the people
paying additional rates by reason of
this private absorption of public
property.
1t is probably impossible to evoke
the new utility law for the valuation
of public utility property in the
present hearing before the master
in chancery, but the public service
commission should seize the earliest
possible opportunity to make a util-
ity property appraisement under
this law.
This. would prompt an early in
depreciation by the courts, in case
of appeal, and would be an aggres-
sive effort to reduce public utility
properties to tangible property
values as their only rightful asset.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
KANSAS CITY MASSACRE

Y ANSAS CITY seems to be well out in front
for the worlds title as the toughest city
Saturdays massacre was one of the boldest
acts of law defiance in the history of a nation
which surpaSses all others in violent crime
Kansas City has been tough city. and
politically corrupt city. for long time. But,
even with the kidnapping of the daughter of
the city's chief magistrate and this massacre
to its credit, the margin by which crime in
Kansas City exceeds in boldness that of other
cities is too slight for any of the others to
start feeling righteous. Supremacy in these
things can shift quickly.
The power of the gang is felt in every state.
In every city. The fight against the gang must
go forward on all fronts all the time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21

| (Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uietcs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or less.)
BY John F. White.
In the Indianapolis Water Com
pany rate hearing case before Mas
ter in Chancery Ward of the federal
court are some interesting features,
Notwithstanding the tedious detail
of procedure, not the least of which
will be the near quarter million dol
lar bill of expense to be handed the
rate payers later on.
Passing over the highly inflated
land values which the company is
trying to write into it's rate struc-
ture, there are two other items of
valuation so utterly devoid of any
thing of a tangible quality that
common sense and a decent regard
for ordinary morality can find no
grounds to justify the claim that
such presumptive values can be-
made a part of a rate base struc-
ture.
These two items of questionable
validity, particularly as belonging
to a privately owned utility, are the
much discussed water rights and
going values. In valuation to wa
ter rights, the ingenious engineers
and accountants, carefully led by
equally ingenious lawyers, are en-
deavoring to build up a value for
the company of more than mil
lion dollars, as Judgment" figure.
Of course, it could be nothing
else but theoretical Judgment"
figure, since there is nowhere any
thing of tangible nature on which
to base such judgment and, there
fore, of necessity it must be picked
out of the air, without any basis
whatsoever in substance or equity.
Water is a natural resource, and
in a running stream does not come
within the category of private prop
erty. There is no evidence of a pur-
chase price paid to any one, nei-
Their are there any constructive costs
involved in its creation. Whatever
it possesses in the nature of prop
erty'' is entirely public in character,
and any endeavor to convert it into
private asset is fundamentally
immoral, is a deliberate attempt to
get something for nothing, and in
SO far as such attempt succeeds it
does get something for nothing. No
confidence man ever performed a
more reprehensible act.
In addition to the broad public
nature of water as a natural re-
source in running stream, account
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21

must be taken of the fact that wa
ter rights" grow out of the further
fact resting on the existence of a
population of human beings living
in the confines of city, to whom
water is a necessity.
Otherwise there could arise no
such claim for water rights, which
in itself is conclusive proof of its
public nature as against the falla-
cious and wicked idea that it can
be Communicated by private inter-
ests for private gain.
Still more unWarranted, If pos
sible, is the two and a half millions
of dollars of presumptive value rest
ing in a so-called going value -
which the water company seeks to
write into its rate base.
Whatever there may be of any
substantial quality in the theory of
going value" as related to a public
utility, depends, not upon any acts
of the company, either in building
its plant or in developing it's bust
ness, but rests wholly in the priv
ilege granted by the city to serve it's
people.
The company acquires private
property for portions of its operat-
ing plant, but practically all its dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21

day, Harvard university will at the same time
honor its own discernment Of what constitutes
great liberal capacity and achievement reached
without academic aid
We doubt that Harvard ever made man
doctor Of laws who was more simply, truly,
and literally just that in his power TO show
millions of voters how to understand and deal
with laws
Dublin university and Columbia have given
him the same degree. But the whole country
will be glad to hear that conservative, careful
Harvard is proud to have him at her COM
mencement and to make it three times AL
LII. D"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21

the water from boats, from factories,
and from dumping of refuse.
All of these sources of pollution
must be controlled if water in bath
ing places is to be considered safe.
In addition to skin disease in
fections, such as ringworm, there
also is possibility of eye, ear, nose,
and throat infections which may be
partially due to chilling, softening of
the tissues by remaining long in the
water, and inhalation of con-
taminated water.
There seems to be no question but
that persons with active infections
of the nose and throat should he
barred from swimming pools.
The sanitation of bathing and
wading pools is so important that
those in charge should make certain
that they have had the advice of a
competent consultant before OPEN
ing the pools for widespread use.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
WEDNESDAY, JUNE n. 1919.
ACTING PRESIDENT BARUCH

MYTH Mr.. Roosevelt away on we'll
W earned vacation, the acting President
seems to be Mr.. Baruch. And who is Mr. Bar
UGH? He holds neither an elective office, such
as President or Vice President, nor an appoint
i've Office, such as a cabinet member
He is party angel who has helped to pay
for the campaign That is not all, of course.
He also is personal friend of the President
he is to sit in the office Of Assistant Secre-
tary of State Raymond Moley. who has gone to
London, and is to pass upon acts and policies
Of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the
American delegation at the world monetary
economic conference.
To that extent he outranks the secretary
of the treasury. The contact of the secretary
of state with the President will be through
Mr.. Baruch.
But Mr. Baruch has other and even larger
powers. He is the sponsor for General John
son and Mr.. Peek, who hold Offices carrying
more dictatorial power than ever before
granted by congress in peace time.
General johnson is industrial recovery adj
ministrator and Mr.. Peek is farm relief adj
ministrator. Both Johnson and Peek defer
to Mr.. Baruch, who not only got their powerful
jobs for them but who helped to frame the
laws under which they operate.
All of which explains in part why in Wash
1ngton Mr.. Baruch is called the mystery man."
Certainly the President is within his rights
In choosing as a trusted adviser any citizen he
desires Mr. Baruch is no less within his rights
in declining the sundry cabinet and other
official posts said to have been offered him.
And yet the growing uneasiness in Wash
ington over Mr. Baruch's role is understand
able Under the American tradition of gov
ernment power is joined with responsibility
and both are supposed to be out in the open.
Mr.. Baruch has power without response
bility, and most of his power has been exer-
cised under cover. In the case of the London
conference, Mr.. Baruch has the power, while
the secretaries of state and treasury, not to
mention the official delegates, have the re-
sponsibility.
Assuming that Mr. Baruch is all-wise and
all-good, the way he is permitted to function
is disturbing 1t is bad precedent.
Those who control public office should be
subject to public control.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21

that Grandpa and Grandma are
half as dangerous for the baby as
these erratic dietitians and infant
experimentalists, who forever are
changing their formulas and their
advice, and whose sole concern is
to keep one jump ahead of every
body else in the invention Of rules
and regulations for bringing up
children.
After all, a generation of men and
women that brought up pretty fine
families on very little, who created
the best homes America ever has
had, and who came through mar
riage with decency and dignity, are
probably not menaces to the mod
ern infant.
Let us also consider the feelings
of the babies themselves in this
matter-but that's material for an
other column.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
Sanitation Crying Need of Bathing Places

TN joint report on the sanitation
l. of bathing places made by COM
mittee of the American Public
Health Institute and the Confer
ence of State Sanitary Engineers,
there are outlined certain minimum
requirements which should be borne
in mind by every one interested in
conducting or using swimming pools
or bathing beaches.
1t is well established that it is
possible to make bathing places
sanitary by determination, as this
will destroy the germs most fire.
quently found in contaminated wa
ter.
Recent developments indicate the
use of ammonia and chlorine for
disinfecting swimming pools pro-
duces more permanent disinfection.
One of the chief difficulties in sani-
tation of bathing beaches and SWIM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21

Q-Who was the featured pley-
er in Our Gang comedy, "Choo
Choo?" What is his age?
A-George Robert Phillips Nc
Farland, known on the stage as
"Spanky" He is years old.
GLOW much did the United
States pay to Spain for the Phil
ippines, Porto Rico and Guam?
A-$20,0O0,OOO
Q-Name the three highest
buildings in New York.
A-Empire State building, 1,248
feet; Chrysler building, 1,O46 feet.
and Cities Service building, $50
feet.
Q-Name the president and the
minister of foreign affairs of
China.
Ain Sen is president land
chairman of the executive council.
and Eugene Chen is minister of
foreign affairs.
Q-Is Bobby Jones a profess
sional golfer?
Ayes, he now is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
A Woman's Viewpoint :

TODAY I boldly announce myself
II as radical and Red. I am
joining the rebellion organized by
NJ. E. Foster, editor of the Houston
Press-the Rebellion of Grandpar-
ents.
Although 7 have not yet reached
the fortunate state of being one,
all my sympathies go out to this
downtrodden and oppressed group
these men and women who are
haraSsed by scientists and doctors,
mingled by child-bearing authori-
ties, slandered by eolumnists, and
prosecuted by parents.
I believe that Grandpa and
Grandma are people and should be
treated as such. Much as they have
done for the good of us all, they
now are regarded with suspicion, if
not disdain. And for what? Because
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
TRUE DOCTOR OF LAWS
THE purpose of university is to encourage

THE purpose of university is to encourage
Il and develop the arts and sciences.
In a democracy there are few more i'm
portant sciences or more useful arts than that
of explaining to the people the principles of
self-government and making current issues
so clear to them that they can intelligently
apply those principles when they vote.
In this field of both science and art the
United States has produced no greater master
than Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of
New York, whose only college was his own
brain, industry and observation in public life,
but whose ability to simplify political problems
for his fellow-citizens long has been unrivaled
Therefore, in comforting the honorary de-
gree Of doctor of laws upon Al Smith Thurs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
1t Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. June 2l.-Loyaltv is
~ quality generally rated high
among the virtues. I think it would
be foolish to deny that it is adj
mirable to fight hard for those
things in which you believe.
But loyalty as it generally is in
terpreted usually means more than
that. There is at least the sugges-
ton that the loyal man will con-
tinue to cling even to those notions
for which he no longer has any re-
spect. do not see why conduct OF
this sort should be regarded as
virtuous.
And there are other objections to
loyalty in some of its more fervent
forms. There is an ailment known
as galloping loyalty. Victims of
this disease start in mildly enough
IN school, with the traditional de-
votlon to the Constitution, the flag
and the football team.
Presently, Lincoln, Washington
and the principal are added to the
list. And sometimes that's the END
OF 1t. 1 even have heard of here
tlcs who omitted the principal.
unfortunately, certain apt pupils
become loyalty addicts and then
there is no stopping them. They
grow into adults who stand up every
time the band plays Dixie. > Co
lumbia, the Gem of the Ocean" or
When It's Darkness on the Delta"
And if anybody discovers and
proves that the current mayor of
their own municipality is a crook
and a CRATER. they assail the re-
former by asking in shocked tones
how he has the audacity to attack
the fair name of the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
Questions and Answers

Q-How many Chinese males
and females are there in the
United States?
A-The 1880 census enumerated
59,S02 males and 1882 females.
GLOW many daily newspapers
are published in the United
States, and what is the estimated
aggregate net paid calculations of
English dailieS in the United
States and Canada?
A-There are 2,OO8 daily news
papers in the United States. The
estimated net paid circulations of
all English dailies in the United
States and Canada is 38,862,00
Q-Was Henry Ford ever a cam
didate for United States senator?
Ale was the Democratic can
didate in Michigan in 1918.
Q-When did the first train en-
ter the new Union Station in
Washington, D. c.?
A-On Oct. 81, 1907, over the
Baltimore and Ohio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
The Old Order

BY JOHN THOMPSON
Water pours over the dam,
Messy, rotting old dam,
Away in the distance sometimes I
hear
Plaintive, the cry of a lamb.
The sun sinks down in the west.
Emblazened, brilliant old west,
Away in the distance comes softly
clear,
The call of bird in her nest.
Twilight dims into night,
Patient, brooding old night,
Away in the shadows, .oud with
fear.
Things call and cry in their flight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON:

they like to snatch ki-s from the
baby every now and then. Because
their arms ache for cuddling ard
they are anxious to share in the
care and affection of their chill
dren's children.
Is that, I ask you. major crime?
l. You might think so when you
see the way a good many of them
cringe, when somebody holds forth
on how to bring up babies. In GER
tain benighted places, such as
heather China, grandparents are
held in high repute. but we have
gone to the opposite extreme of
looking upon them as nonentities
and nuisances. They are as much
traduced as the American mother
in-law, who remains the greatest
modern martyr.
And sometimes I'm not so sure
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
Rotary and Reverence

TN other words, DR.. Robinson be-
Il lieves that it is revolutionary
for an undergraduate to make Jokes
about the Rotary Club. He seems
to have vague notion that the
organization is mentioned some
where in the creed or the Consti-
tuition.
I think that the head of New
York'S largest public institution of
higher learning should be called to
task by the taxpayers for gross IA
voritism.
OF course, people sometimes get
carried away at banquets, and. as
DR.. Robinson stood on the dais
bearing across his chest a badge in
scribed Call me Fred" he hardly
can be blamed for entering into the
spirit of the festivities.
Still, want to know how he
stands on the Moose and the Odd
Fellows. If it is evidence of Com
munism to take Rotary lightly.
what should be said of those dam
gerouS syndicaliSts who fail to re-
spect the Elks or the Woodmen of
the World? And if any students at
City college lack proper reverence
for the knights of Pythias, I want
to know why they don't go back
where they came from?
1t should be a thrilling sight next
November, when DR.. Fred B. Rob-
lnson stands in the great Gothic
chapel and, lifting his umbrella on
high, calls on the assembled I'M
dergraduates to rise in token of
their loyalty to Country, college
and Kiwanis."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
GaHOping Loyalty

THE most conspicuous case of
L galloping loyalty which 1 have
observed recently is the personal
property of DR.. Frederick B. Robin
son, president of the College of the
City of New York. IN the begin
ming. the only compulsory reverence
IN the curriculum was require
ment that every graduate should
have faith in DR.. Robinson. That
still is the first and great command
ment.
But other stipulations have been
added. 1t now is essential to reveus
the officers training corps and the
national officers of the D. A. R. And
in speech just the other night, DR..
Robinson impulsively included the
Rotary Club.
Education's big umbrella man was
talking about radicaliSm in Amer
lean colleges and his own philosophy
OF remaining liberal, vet insistirS
on discipline" He asserted that all
the commotiOn in his college was
caused by professional agitators who
either were Communistic or Social
iStic, and to cap the climax of the
lnlquities instilled into youth bv
these malcontents he mentioned the
TACT that Your own organization.
the Rotary Club, and your very good
fellowship have been held up TO
Scorn by them"
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So They Say

The man who keeps everything
not worth remembering often at
tians the university degree.-George
Bernard Shaw.
The inertia of the intelligent is a
more immediate and serious menace
than the violence of the mob.-Rev.
Ralph w. Sockman, New York.
I venture the statement that the
lamentable things happening in
Germany today have their seeds in
unfortunate clauses in the Treaty OF
Versailles.-Owen D. Young, author
OF the reparations payment PLAN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-21
First and Last Thinqs

II THINK the Whole episode is a
l. tragic Illustration of the con-
sequences Of galloping loyalty. The
man who tries to be loyal to too
many things at the same time
spreads himself thin. And in the
process the original loyalties get
lost in the welter.
Thus Frederick B. Robinson. who
was appointed to train the youth of
a great metropolis in the way of
learning and of understanding, COM
pletely has forgotten his funda-
mental obligation. The shepherd of
the flock has become the herder of
a hundred sacred COWS.
downright. 1898. BY The Times)
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine

ming pools is the spread of ring
worm infection of the feet.
To control such infections. the
floors, walks and springboards
should be cleansed thoroughly with
a disinfectant solution, such as one
containing one-half of 1 per cent of
available chlorine. Sodium hypo-
chlorite solutions and also solutions
of sodium thiosulphate have been
found valuable.
Outdoor bathing places are likely
to be contaminated, either directly
from the water 81 pply, from con-
taminated materials washed into the
water from beaches, Or directly by
the bathers.
Harmful contamination may come
also from sewage which gets into