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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
WHAT is THE ANSWER?

The Hoover credit imitation exists but it can not
get beyond some Of the large banks.
The January report Of the federal reserve board
of New York just published points out that excess
reserves for all member banks rose well above $780,
000o00 Most Of the increase in excess reserves soon
was concentrated in New York banks which already
had large amount Of funds above their reserve
requirements"
Obviously there is no ge-theoretcaIy-of
credit, as there is none of currency. We have bill
lion dollars more Of federal reserve credit than a
year ago, and almost billion dollars more money
in circulation than in the boom. But there is IA
billion less in bank loans
Yet among the very banks which are gorged with
excess reserves are those to which the Reconsruc-
ton Finance corporation has been paying further
vast sums in return for railroad paper
If any outfit in the country has proved its friend
ship for the banks up to the hilt it is the R. F. c.
And yet even the sympathetic chairman Pomerene.
of the R. F. c. just has testified to senate COM
mittee:
i have the feeling that some of our larger banks
that are from rs to 100 per cent liquid ought to pav
a larger part in financing of these railroads.
That's where I have cause for complaint. I
think, when possible, the banks ought to carry these
loans.
Il agree perfectly that the banks have not done
their part"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
AMERICAN WASTE

every so often some American scientist cries out
against the mad riot of waste we have come to con-
slider necessary to machine age prosperity The
latest is Professor Ross Aiken Gortner University of
Minnesota bochemst
Dr. Gortner told fellow-scientsts at Atlantic CITY
that in the last century the tools of science have
wrested from the earth from one-tenth to one-half
of its available natural resources.
No country has been more prodigate of natures
gifts than America. At the present rate of con-
sumption, its iron, industrys basic metal, will be
exhausted in 100 years It's copper zinc tin and oil
will have disappeared long before that It's sulphur
will fail in fifteen years.
Recently, Stuart Chase indicted his countrys
wisdom with the charge that for every ton of wealth
America uses it wastes another ton. He found that
we have all but ruined one-third of cur original
land endowment.
Our gigantic forests will be gone in a decade.
Annually waste $50 million tons Of COAL one bill
lion barrels of oil, 600 million cubic feet of natural
gas five billion cubic feet of lumber wiIo life fish
cries and other resources in measured quantities
These, of course, do not include the wickedest
waste of all, the squandering of human lives What
economist can figure in terms of dollars the an
nual waste that goes with 100000 Jobess men and
women?
With 100000 children working for wages? With
slum housing, prohibition-bred crime, preventab
sickness and premature death, neglected old age,
and preparation for wars the widespread suf-
fering that comes from insecurity?
Conservation means not boarding but the wise
use, of natures endowments. Until now. conserva-
ton in this country has been chiefly conversa-
ton. Fortunately, President Elect Roosevelt has
shown that in this field he can act as well talk
Perhaps his New Deal will include some effec-
tive measures to save what industry's great orgy
has left of our natural and human resources.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
1t Seems to Me j.. by Haywood Broun

T AM not one who would have
4 this buy America" movement
extend to the arts, but I am a lit
tie curious as to why Noel Cow
ards Design for Living" should
be attracting more attention than
a much better farce comedy on
the New York stage called Good
by Again"
This statement is not intended
as a patriotic gesture. I merely
am induIging myself in that fam
tasy which is the right of every
free born American. They told us
in school that any one of us
might grow up to be a dramatic
critic.
AS a matter of fact, Allan Scott
and George Haight, for all I know,
may be just as British as Mr..
Coward, even though they have
chosen Cleveland as the scene Of
their drama.
Again, I must insist that if I
happen to rate Design for Liv-
ing" a good deal lower than the
New York reviewers, I am not
moved by any stern moralistic
urge. "Goodby Again" hardly is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
RETRIBUTION

The house in committee took a stand for decency
when it cut from the justice department appropria-
ton all funds for hiring stool pigeons and purchas-
ing liquor for evidence and them in a 2-to-1 vote
forbade the use of evidence obtained through wire
tapping
The houses cut in funds for prohibition enforce
nent for s1O25OOOO last year to $844OOOO this year.
a slash of 10 per cent is in line with its economy
pledges Its refusal of public money for deception
and snoopery Will ease some of the burdens the
American people must endure befor the nable
pertinent goes unhonored and unsung to its last
resting place.
We trust that the senate will prove an equally
responsive body. Signs so far are not suspicious.
Monday the senate finance committee approved the
unsatisfactory Judiciary committees beer-wine bill
as a revenue measure One doubts that this measure
for sos per cent beer and wine would bring in as
much tax as the more honest house bill
We will, of course, have prohibition until the
eighteenth amendment is repealed. But We need
not endure such criminal and crime breeding prac-
tees as the use of stool pigeons and wire tapping
Some three years ago, in his minority opinion
on the Seattle overlapping case. Justice Brandeis
warned against wire tapping and other illegal prac-
tees carried on under cloak of law
Crime he said, is contagiou. If the govern
rnent becomes law breaker, it breeds contempt for
law; it invites every man to become a law Unto
himself it invites anarchy
ITO declare that in the administration of GRIM
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Views of Times Readers

their share to the support of the
government. The small property
owner, who has been out Of work,
in some cases, for three years, and
the farmer, who, on account of
low prices for his produce, is oper-
ating at loss, no longer can hold
out to pay taxes.
They patiently have borne their
unjust burden of taxation these
many years. Now, unless the bur-
den of taxation is shifted where it
belongs, and our ubiquitous and
Anticipated" tax system revised, we
will lose our homes and our
schools for which we, the common
people, have fought and sacrificed.
Will our lawmakers have the
moral courage to pass the income
tax bill and save these two institu-
tions, on which our republic rests,
in spite of the pressure brought
to bear? We hope they are made
of such stern stuff as they claimed
to be when we elected them.
MRS. BERTHA RANDALL,
Noblesville, Ind.
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This is the second of three articles by
Or. Fishbein on sick headaches.
COMETIMES sick headaches
y come on without any warn
ing. but in most cases they are
preceded by a feeling of depres-
sion, by an unwillingness to work,
or to go about the daily affairs of
life.
Since there seem to be many
possible causes for headaches Of
this type. the attack on them must
be made from varying points of
view.
It is believed that they may on
occasion be associated, as has been
said, with eyestrain or disease Of
the SinuSes.
Obviously in such cases careful
examination must be made by a
competent specialist in diseases
Of the eyes, to make certain that
the vision is corrected properly
with suitable glasses.
It should be made certain that
the eyes are not abused by work
ing under conditions Of improper
Illumination.
The nose must be examined most
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
SCIENCE.
There's Silver in Films
BY DAVID DIETz

nut in Hollywood the movie
" makers always hope that
there will be gold in new film.
Sometimes there is a headache,
instead.
But whether the boX-office re-
turn from film consists OF gold
or headaches, there is always sill
yer in a film. AS a result, a kind
of silver mining has become a
collateral industry in the Holly
wood studios.
There is silver in all photo
grapic films and plates in the
form of silver salts, chiefly silver
bromide and silver iodide. 1t is
these silver salts which are SEN
sitive to the light.
When a Photographic film is
developed, the developing solution
reduces" or changes the salts
which have been affected by the
light to metallic silver.
Films, after they are removed
from the developing solution, are
placed, as all amateur photo
graphers know, in a fixing" or
"hypo" solution. This solution
dissolves out the remaining silver
salts.
This means that the image
which you see upon a photo
graphic film is composed of black
ened metallic silver.
1t also means that the "hypo
bath" contains a certain amount
Of silver in the form of salts
which it has dissolved off the film.
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a number of paddles are used to
agitate the solution.
The recovery of silver at Culver
City averages from 1900 to 1900
Troy ounces per million feet of
film.
Large cells, each containing 100
square feet of electrode surface
are used in the Culver City plant.
A current of 300 amperes is used.
The voltage is very low, however,
ranging from one to one and one
half volts.
THE adjustment of the bath to
secure good plating must be made
within critical limits" the Roch-
ester scientists say. Vigorous agi-
tation, together with the presence
Of acid, sulphide, and certain pro-
noting agents, is essential"
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If This Isn't USury, What Is?

out of their homes landlords
w bankrupt mills, destroyed industry through
buying power the national
dollar The
40
while the who loaned profits by that
that is usuary. what is it?
depression started tried restore the
boosting stimulating
credits available but the those
doubtful loans o the taxpayers.
We trying to imitation jus as distinctly other
but while they cheapend took the Odfasoned
pice-boOstng.
may said relative these two
there getting from the
have put themselves in position to sell while
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The Jack Horner Touch
Ut is a superb second act en-

Vt is superb second act en-
u tirely surrounded by dough. It
is this mornings raisin in little
Old yesterdays bun, and I could
wish that when Noel Coward stuck
in his thumb he had remembered
to pull it out before he came to
the composition Of a really dread
full last act.
am never much amused when
the bright people in any light
comedy are empowered to score
again and again at the expense of
stOoges made Of straw. Indeed, I
feel that even in the highly di-
verting second act there is just a
tinge of excessive seIf-c conscious
ness of cleverness both in the
playing and the writing.
do you think the talkies will
kill the stage?" asks the young
reporter in the second act.
mo, think the talkies will kill
the taIkies," replies Noel Coward
in the role of the playwright
And when the young man goes
into a great and continuing GUT
faw, the playwright remarks, ut
isn't really as funny as all that"
I could wish that somebody had
said just that to Mr.. Coward at
some time during the third act.
incidentally, I quoted the lines
from memory and no doubt mac
curately, but the idea stands.
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Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IF it were not for the fact that so many people
Il are hungry and miserable and hopeless, this Pc
Rod of transition through which are passing in
the United States would be one of absorbing inter-
est. Indeed I think it is of absorbing interest to
those who, Ike I. A. r. Wyle, ca nregard life
"either as a tremendous adventure or as nothing"
It is because we do not have the vision of our
existence upon earth as an adventurous and daring
pilgrimage that we so often come to grief.
A large share of our present trouble has come
from our reluctance to accept change as an inpor-
tant part of living. The idea of different social
order frightens us.
We shring from the thought of adjusting our
selves to new ways, customs, new jobs. We
suffer from fatty degeneration of the spirit.
WET I feel sure that there is not Of us who at
l. some time has not experienced drastic change
in his individual life. One is compelled to leave
well-loved spot, to give up well-ordered plan of
living, to tear oneself up by the roots and trans
plant them in a place.
And how dreadful THAT can be in prospect and
how often it is happy event in retrospect
one leaves old friends, old ties, old ways 1t is
hard But always new and perhaps dearer ties are
formed new friends are found, new ways developed,
and all at once assumes a splendor it did not have
before.
How can this be? Because the person has had
the courage to adjust himself to alien surroundings
and he is repaid for that courage.
The last five years in America have been posi-
lively revolutionary in the changes they have
wrought. Nothing is as it was in 1928. We have
been pushed from the moorings of security which
we then thought durable and permanent and now
are sweeping over the precipice.
But we shall survive the precpice. too, in some
fashion. Everything today is pointing to that fact
For if all tall buildings RACED to the
ground all our sanctuaries destroyed; if all our cu-
ture were swept away, and left as bereft of
our possessions as Adam bereft of Eden, we
would still go
new life, new order would spring Immediately
from the old.
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white-haired boy of the Anglo
American stage. But I rather think
that it may be a pity when his oc-
casional descents into mere flash
mess are hailed as sheer brilliance.
Only a very jittery community
could be quite so enthusiastic over
Design for Living" 1t meets the
mood of a society which is very
loath to think a great deal about
realities. Many people rather
would listen to Nero than the
sound of fire engines.
But have contended many
times that the mere fact of Slight
ness should not be held against
either play, poem or novel. Shake
Speare himself did not feel under
any obligation to deal eternally
with Lears and Hanllets. And so
if 1 were reviewing Design for
Living" I would complain Of its
stodginess rather than its saIlies.
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Savi1lg of $4,000

THE amount of silver in the
a hypo bath in an amateur
photographers workshop isn't
enough to bother about.
The same thing holds true as
well for the average professional.
But out in the Hollywood studios,
where millions of feet of movie
film are developed, the story is
different.
Consequently, inventors have
been working for several years to
develop processes by which this
silver might be recovered. 1t is
not an easy task, for the silver
is present in the form of dissolved
salts.
Several methods have been tried
in the past, one of which changes
the salts to silver sulphide, which
is not soluble and therefore is pre-
cipitated from the hypo bath. The
silver then is reclaimed from the
sulphide by means Of smelling.
Recently, however, a process of
electrolysis, by which an electric
current is employed as in electro
plating processes, has been found
satisfactory.
In this process the silver is de-
posted in the form Of a coating
Of pure silver.
This method, tried out during
the last six months at the Metro
GoldWyn- Mayer studios in Culver
City, Cal, has resulted in the re-
covery Of 10000 Troy ounces of
silver, valued at $1,000, it is re-
ported.
The new method is described by
Messrs. K. Hickman, w. Weyerts
and o. E Goehler. all Of the East
man Kodak Company, in a report
to the American Chemical Society.
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THERE is, perhaps, no special
L reason why the two plays
mentioned should be considered
jointly, but it so happens that I
saw them on successive nights,
and I was impressed with the vast
effect which labels have upon the
minds of playgoers.
When the names of Alfred Lunt,
Lynn Fontanne, and Noel Coward
appear in a cast there is a DISPOSE
ton upon the part of both press
and public to clap hands instinc-
lively. And this tendency is rein
forced by the fact that in this case
Noel Coward is playwright as well
as player.
OF his high talent for the the
alter there can be no possible ques-
ton. At the moment he is the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
Questions and
Answers .

Q-What are paste jewels made
of?
A-Although imitation jewels
have been made for many CEN
turtles, the manufacture of paste
jewels has been stimulated enor-
mously in modern times. A spe-
cial kind of glass, known as
"strass" is used, which is made by
fusing white sand, red lead, borax
and several other elements. When
colored gems are desired, pieces
are crushed into a fine powder
and cOlOring substances added,
and the mixture then is fused
and annealed.
Q-When were secret service
agents first assigned 20 protect
the President?
-A-After the assassination Of
President Mckinley in 1901. Prior
to that time it was the custom to
designate guards for the President
only as occasion arose.
(Which heavyweight boxing
champion held the championship
longest?
A-John L. Sullivan, ten years.
GLOW many pensions are
being paid on account Of the Civil
war?
Those drawing pensions accord
ing to the last report are veterans
31,072, widows and children 139,-
924, and nurses 10.
Q-What percentage Of the pop
ulation Of the United States is
employed by federal, state and
local government?
About two million, or be-
tween IL and 2 per cent Of the
entire population.
Q-What was the original name
for Constantinople?
A-Istanbul is the old Turkish
name. 1t was changed to Con-
stantinople in honor of Constan-
tine the Great, and recently the
Turks have returned to the
former name.
Q-Were the Jewish and Roman
days calculated on tbs same
basis?
A-The Jewish day was count
ed from sunset to sunset and the
Roman day from midnight to
noon, and noon to midnight.
divided into watches Of four hours
each.
Q-Was Lew Wallace, author Of
Ben-Hur, an American?
Ayes.
(Which state first adopted
pensions for widows and children?
A-Missouri and Illinois enact
ed laws in 1911.
(Which state has the largest
number Of wild horses?
A-Probably Montana.
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Sick Headaches Hard to Trace

seems to be followed by an at
tack.
Apparently not all cases are
due to such sensitivity, but con-
siderable number may be.
IN some instances the attacks
L seem to come when the di-
gestion Of the person concerned is
not working properly.
In these instances, it is well
to have a thorough study of the
gastro-intestinal tract to make
certain that there is neither con-
stipation nor a residue Of putre-
factive matter in the bowel.
In other cases, the glands of
internal secretion may be in
volved, and it is necessary to
make a thorough study of the
body, with a view to determining
that all glands neither are over
functioning or underfunctioning.
This is merely an indication of
the necessity for studying every
case Of recurrent sick headache
with all means known to mod
ern medical science.
Next-Relief for sick head
ache sufferers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
Others Accept Initiation; We Do Not

OTHER nations have initiation
" proper by adjust money values to service
and commodity values We
we argue deliberately
the value They
sary money position is something
like that Of the lone ryman who said that he
virtually impossible
what they We have allowed encouraged
TO
the process maintaining money though it de-
stroyirg capital in other lines.
exactly happening
people protect
call
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-02
So They Say

It's natural that member
should want to know what his
secretary will look like. Some, you
know, are very particular.-South
Trimple, clerk Of the house Of rep
resentatives, explaining photo
graphic file of applicants for Sec
retarial jobs with congressman.
The sales tax is a painless"
tax. And that is why it is danger
Gus tax. 1t operates like creep
ing paresis, like monoXide gas. The
taxpayer is not conscious that he
is paying.-United States Sen
ator Thomas P. Gore (Dem.,
Okla).
More wealth has been dissipat-
ed by unwise political action since
the armistice than was destroyed
during the entire course of the
World war.-Professor William B.
Munro, historian and political eco
nomist.
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Siluer-P Plating Cell

TINE device used to recover the
l. silver is known technically as
a silver plating cell.
THE first successful silver plat
ing cell to be operated in a motion
picture laboratory was the air.
agitated unit butt by Frank Gar
butt and associates at the Para
mount studios in Hollywood" the
Rochester scientists report. This
is a long, rectangular wooden box
containing alternate carbon and
monel metal plates.
THE solution which flows
through in a rapid stream in the
space below the plates is agitated
vigorously by air blasts.
The device has given excellent
service and reflects the greatest
credit on the inventors who had
few facilities for chemical re-
search"
The installation at the Culver
City studies does not use an air
blast which now is believed to have
a number Of bad effects. Instead.
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Best IN Town

A ND I would like to touch
"A rather difidently upon just
one more point before ending my
argument that Design for Living
has been praised quite a little be-
yond it's worth. I have never held
that the theater should always deal
with normally.
The variations in human be-
havior and philosophy are infinite
and interesting. But I am little
fretful when a play seems to de-
clare that departure from the
norm is of necessity the bravest
and fire5t jest in the world. I
think there are better jokes.
I like the humorous concept up
on which "Goodby Again is
founded a great deal better. 1t is
in its own way just as bawdy and
a great deal heater in its economy
Of construction.
Of course, nobody has asked my
opinion, but for my taste Osgood
Perkins and Sally Bates are CIV
ing in this same entertainment
the best light comedy perform
ances now on exhibition in this
town of New York.
Copyright. 1s3s.>by The Tines
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inal law the end justics the means and to declare
that the government may commit crimes to secure
conviction of private criminal would bring terrible
retribution."
Every city today is undergoing retrbution from
bad law, lawlessy enforced. Congress, by the ef-
fective method Of cutting appropriations, can elm
mate some Of the lawless enforcement.
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likely to earn a place on any
white list, since it deals intimate
ly, cheerfulIy and jovially with a
lecturing author who finds that
it is convenient to take his secre-
tary along. Her name is Anne.