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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
GOLD COUNSELOR"

Two striking and disquieting things emerge from
the testimony of Harold L. Stuart president of the
investment house of Halsey, Stuart g. Co., before
the senate banking and currency committee investi
eating the nl-starred insult finances
First is the readiness of radio broadcasting COM
panies to permit the broadcasting of apparently
censored financial advice" which is nothing more
or less than the advertising of investment concerns
"Old Counselor" who gave financial advice
during the Halsey-Stuart radio hour was, according
to the testimony University of Chicago professor
who received $50 a week from Halsey- Stewart for
broadcastng material prepared in the investment
firms Office.
And it was the president of the National Broad
casting Company. Mr. Stuart testified, who origi-
nally suggested the investment broadcast which
Halsey, Stuart & Co. sponsored.
How university professor could lend himself to
this kind of thing a university allow it, is
question. But, much more serious We think is
the responsibility of great broadcasting company
for not only allowing, but soliciting it.
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina said to Mr..
Stuart at the hearing:
Every time the Old Counselor, with his mellow
voice talked to the folks at the resde he mentioned
your company. And he did this to sell insult Sc
curities"
Mr. Stuart would not admit that the "old coun-
seor" recommended any particular securities But
there is no shadow Of doubt as to the very special
interest of Halsey-stuart in selling insult securi-
ties, from one deal in which the investment house
stood to make a proht-on paper-of some 1885,.
100000
Also, Attorney Pecora put into the record let
ter from one IT the firms customers wio' last
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IF there is anything aweeter than clean baby it
is a dirty baby
For this reason it is fun to get into the country,
where you can many children grubbing into
the earth, making mud pies building sand houses,
sitting flat in the dust. And somehow they appear
far more natural and happy than the wel-scrubbed,
spick and span youngsters in the rich apartment
house districts.
The child who misses the experience of digging
into the sod with his hands and of wallowing about
on the leaves and grass, misses just about the
blessedes thing that happens to mortal during his
life span. For We have a fundamental kinship with
earth that is not to be ignored lightly.
And how children do love being mussed and
dirty! But, Mother" protested our 9-year-old the
other day, whats the use of washing my hands
noY? They'll just get dirty again."
Its point was we'll taken. For his sticky little
IL hands which make so many dark marks upon
the white woodwork and maybe carry about whole
regiments of germs, after all, the hands of very
busy, very healthy. and very happy little boy So
why should mother distress herself about such in
consequentials?
Yet it seems to be the nature of mothers-who
at best are slaves to convention-constantly to be
interrupting a chld's absorbing play with inter-
minable admonitions.
We all make and then break good resolutions.
which the psychologists say is bad for our morals.
We can't seem to realize that the babies do not
worship the traditions of polite society as we do
and because of that freer and better individuals
than ourselves.
We forget that every minute Of every day is
filled with new and exciting adveOtures in living,
and that they do not have time enough to find out
all the curious things they are greedy to know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
Bearing Heat of Day

A ND so I could wish for a
L "A greater recognition of the I'M
common skill and even genius re-
quired for the composition of a
good light novel. These are not
works produced by those who
StOop a little.
The anguiShes of authorship in
the comedy field are just as great
as those who afflict the brain and
body Of such as go down in mean
streets for material. 1t is tradi-
tional that humorists are among
the NEST cantankerouS of COM
panionS.
Once visited the home town of
an author, now dead, who in his
day had rocked considerable
portion of the continent with his
WITNESSES. 1 said to neighbor,
'MK. +. must have been a most
charming person because his
amiability shines out from every
page"
He beat his wife and his three
children replied the man who
knew him. Nobody around here
would play golf with him because
he always cheated in his score, and
he swore frightfully over the
bridge table"
1 was surprised, though I should
not have been. Such things are
all but inevitable. A humorist is a
strange man who is blasted for the
Affections of the people.
Copyright. 1898. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23

WEN the men who are capable
II of well-paced stories in the
farce comedy vein betray us upon
occasion. They, too, have COM
FUNCTIONS and want to play Ham
let. Every four or five years each
one of them brings out a book
written in deadly earnest.
AS far as I can remember,
Wodehouse so far has abstained.
but 1 fear that ne will not avoid
forever the temptation of showing
his public his serious side.
A full-bodied novel is a beautiful
thing. 1t may engross your atten-
ton, scarify your soul or even
move you to the resolution to be a
better boy. And I'm all for that.
There is, of course, the need for
each Of us to look at life directly
even though we are frozen into
stone. like those who gazed upon
the gorgon's head. Yet sometimes
I think we should be permitted
now and then to turn away and
see life through a glass lightly.
The trouble with a great book
is that it has within its plot and
Characterization the elements of
universally. There is sure to be
at least some portion in which a
page points precisely in your own
direction. The bitter woe of some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
Food Values Of Fruits Differ

IT thus is apparent that the
l. Concord grape, from the point
of view of food value, is poorer
in vitamins than either the Ma
laga or Sultana grapes.
The investigators point out that
a considerable amount Of the
vitannin is to be found in the
skins of the Malaga and Sultana
grapes, whereas the skins Of Con-
cord grapes usually are discarded.
The grape has, Of course, other
factors which make it useful
item in the diet. The use Of
grapes as a basis for wine is en-
tirely without merit.
They contain fruit acids which
have as an end result an alkaline
effect on the body. Their car
bohydrase value enables them to
furnish energy and they also pro-
vide fair quantities Of calcium
and magnesium and good guam
titles of iron.
If the skin of the white grape
Is taken, it serves also as a source
Of roughage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
Paint Industry
THE paint and varnish

TINE paint and varnish indus
l. try employs alcohol coming
and going. Alcohol is the base
of most varnishes, lacquers, and
enamels. 1t is also the principal
ingredient of most paint and var
nish remoVers.
AS the sale of paint increases,
SO does the sale of paint re-
movers. And, as a result. the de-
mand for commercial alcohol re-
ceives a double impetus.
Among the newest wood lac
quers are quick-drying ones
which can be shot on to furniture
with airpressure guns. These lac
quers dry almost Immediately and
many of them furnish brilliant
finish without the necessity Of
rubbing or polishing.
Another important use of alco-
hol is in the manufacture of
pyroxylin. This is plastic sub
stance made of nitrocellulose or
guncotton and goes by many
trade names, among the most
familiar of which is celluloid.
Buttons, billiard balls, combs,
vanity boxes, salt cellars, napkin
rings, children's toys and a great
variety of products are made to-
day from pyroxylin.
Alcohol is required as a solvent
in the manufacture of artificial
silk. Tt also is used in manu-
featuring many dyes.
Thus, alcohol may play a dou-
BILE role in the manufacture Of
many articles Of clothing, taking
part in the manufacture of the
silk and in the subsequent color
ing Of the silk.
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TINE Importance of g n

THE Importance of gr i n
l. alcohol to the bootleg indus
try is well known. But it is doubt
full if the Importance of this liquid
to legitimate industry in general
is as well appreciated.
It has been said that sulphurlc
acid is SO important to, the in
dustrial world that the Machine
Age well might be called the Age
of Sulphuric Acid. But in the M
portance and variety of its uses,
alcohol is exceeded only by
sulphuric acid and caustic soda.
Alcohol is used in manufacture
of varnishes, lacquers, shellacS'
enamels, celluloid. foodStutts,
drugs, medicines, dyestutfs ana
artificial silk. 1t is employed in
the printing and Photographic
industries and many others.
The great uses for alcohol grow
out of it's utility as a solvent. A
solvent is liquid which will form
a uniform fluid mixture with some
other substance.
Water is the best known and
most common solvent. Everyone
is familiar with ordinary sugar or
salt solutions.
Most chemical processes go on
best in solutions and so the begin
ming of most chemical man
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
In War Time

A LCOHOL has its time uses
L n as well as its peace-tirne uses.
1t takes about a barrel of alcohol
to construct a 12-inch shell.
AS chemists have observed, ev-
cry alcohol plant is a potential
munitions plant. The modern ex-
plosives, smokeless powder, cordite,
and INT, all require alcohol for
their manufacture.
Alcohol also is required for
manufacture Of the Eliminates in
the percussion caps of shells. 1t
also is the basis for the manu-
facture Of most poison gases, par
ticularly mustard gas and tear
gas.
1t has been estimated that at the
close Of the World war so per cent
of the shells first contained some
form Of poison gas.
1t is usual to think Of the wag-
ing Of war as depending upon a
supply Of steel. But alcohol is as
necessary for war as steel.
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When 1t Is Written

HOPE to be sensitive enough to
i recognize the great proletarlan
novel when it comes along, and
trust that our literature never
will he confined wholly to Amer
lean tragedies, with no represen-
tation OF American comedy and
American farce.
Unlike the mighty Cnes Of the
earth, I have had comparatively
little solace with the good de-
tective stories" There are only
few which seem to me to fall
into this classification. After one
has gone through 1.-THE Compete
Sherlock Holmes a dozen times,
he will look long to find any salts
factory substitute.
AS far as I'm concerned, Poe IS
merely a mug compared to Conan
Doyle in the mystery field.
Nor am I at all sure that even
such a grewsome tale as "The
Speckled Band" is precisely the
prescription for any whose tenn
pies throb or for those who lie
awake beset with conscience
pangs.
It may be that the best escape
does not lie in the assurance that
life may be full of fearful excite
ment and mystery. A detective
story is not much good to you I'M
less it is taken with utter Seri-
BUSINESS, and in that case there is
the possibility of nightmare vista
tons involving long arms with
daggers popping over transoms.
There should be, of course, a
monument reared TO name and
fame of P. G. Wodehouse, and the
Subscriptions should come from
those whose affections have been
eased by the adventures of some
one of his English heroes of no
BILE birth and somewhat less eX-
allied brain.
But, although Wodehouse is
prolific, even his works hardly
will last the individual all the
way through the troubles which
are to be encountered in this
vale of tears.
have another favorite. and he
happens to be a local boy. In
addition to aspirin I am going to
put into the medicine chest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

NNE day, years ago, it was my
~ sad duty to go and say
prayer at the grave of a human
wreck who died by his own hand.
Through the avenues of a great
city of the dead we rode, four
blue coated policemen and myself,
to the far corner where we laid
our burden down with a prayer
to One who knoweth all.
Nearby, in the weeds, one OF the
bluecoats found the grave of
baby and beckoned us to see it.
The earth still was fresh over the
little sleeper, and at the head
of the grave the mother had set
out a sprig of "live-forever," as
it is called. Those big burly men
gathered about the tiny grave and
looked down.
Not a word was uttered, but
every eye was soft and dreamy
when we turned away. Some
thing had touched us deeply,
something more than the pathos
of a babe born in city slum to
sleep in the potter's field.
No logic, no learning prompted
that mother to plant a flower at
the grave of her babe. Her act
was as artless as it was lovely,
Done at the bidding of her heart,
following the faith of her race.
n
THIS is the account which life
i gives Of itself, when it is I'M
tutored and unspoiled. For me it
means much. All our arguments
rest at last upon something deeper
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23

NNE has to be a president or a
" prime minister at least to get
away gracefully with that familiar
attitude of condescending to "a good
detective story" Most of us are
willing to permit the great one his
moments of relaxation with 1.-THE
Mystery of the Onion Soup Muir
der"
When a man has sat up through
weary weeks with a budget, we do
not object if he woos sleep by try
ing to ascertain just who it was shot
the poisoned arrow down the dumb
waiter shaft. But the rest of us are
subject to certain self-criticism.
It may even come from the out
side. There is a growing school OF
critics who contend that life is real
and earnest and that fiction should
be the same.
And yet not all the troubles of
the world rest upon the backs Of
presidents and prime ministers. We,
too, have budgets to balance. The
literature of escape deserves a
permanent place in all the civiliza-
tons known to man or even poten-
tionally possible.
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Questions and
Answers @.

Odd Indiana ratify the lame
duck amendment.
Ayes.
Off property is sold for Bar
rett assessments, how much time
is allowed to redeem it?
A-Two years. There will be no
sale of property for any kind OF
tax in Marion county in 1888.
Off President ELECT Roosevelt
had been assassinated, who would
have been our next President?
A-Vice-President- Elect John N.
Garner would have been inaugur-
ated as President.
O-Is Bill Cummings, the In
dianapolis race driver, dead?
A-No.
O-Give the source of the quo
tation: "a fool and his money are
soon parted"
At is attributed to George
Buchanan, tutor Of James vi Of
Scotland, who made the statement
to a courtier, after winning a bet
as to which one could make the
coarser verse.
O-How many Negroes are
there in the United States navy?
Are any of them commissioned
officers?
A-There are ass Negroes in the
navy at the present time. None is
a commissioned officer.
O-What is the airline distance
between Panama and Miami2
About LIS statute miles.
O1How much did it cost to
build st. Peters church in Rome?
A-The cost, including the
seventeenth century additions, was
about forty-eight million dollars.
O-Why did the United States
adopt the smaller-sized paper cur
rency?
A-For convenience and econ
omy.
O-what is the heaviess sub
stance?
A--Osmium, metal, which
weighs twenty-five and a half
times as much as an equal volume
Of water.
Q-How old is Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison, widow Of the former
President Of the United States.
A.-She is IA.
Q-Who was John Barrymore S
leading woman in "Moby Dick?"
A-Joan Bennett.
(Which article of food is
mentioned most frequently in the
Bible?
A-Bread, but the word fire.
quently is used to refer to 1ood in
general.
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THERE is a tendency on the
i part of many people to take
it for granted that al the men,
bers of various species of fruits
and vegetables are equally rich in
certain food values.
This is, of course, more true
than the opposite belief which
would accredit to any single fruit
or vegetable virtues well nigh
magical in character because OF
some special food content.
Thus, spinach has been over
stressed as a source of vitamins
and minerals, whereas other vege-
tables have been neglected. Actu-
ally, most vegetables provide GER
tain food values for which they
are desirable.
L is well recognized that the
citrus fruits are an excellent
source of vitamin G, but this vita
min also is found largely in to-
mato juice and in most Of the
fresh fruits.
MISS E. P. DANIEL and Miss
Iva Hazel E. Munsell. chemists in
the bureau Of home economics OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
So They Say

I know nothing whatever about
politics.-Newton D. Baker, for
mer secretary Of war.
Man loves vengeance and he
calls vengeance justice.-Clarence
Darrow, famed Chicago attorney
and foe Of capital punishment.
In his middle COS q man has
right TO be a Narcissus, and look
back into his life and preen him
self.-William Allen White, En-
poria (Kan) editor on his 65th
birthday.
People are tired Of salacious
pictures and although they may
not be in a mood for my sentl-
mental tomboy pictures Of pre-
war days, they are keen on the
wholesome, clean kind. - Mary
Pickford, screen actress.
Everyone has to bluff sooner or
later in life and college is a good
place to learn how to do it.-Pro-
lessor E. H. Ebey, University OF
Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23

Friends of Mr.. Sweeney" "I'H
Show the Town" and white
Pants Willie" by Elmer Davis.
wish somebody in every coun-
try would establish a yearly prize
for the best light novel of the
year. We are suffering greatly
from underproduction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23

the United States department of
agriculture, recently have reported
the results of an investigation
which they made of the vitamin
content of Concord grapes.
Their studies seem to show that
the pulp and juice portion of the
Concord grape is poor source of
vitamin A, poorer even than the
Sultana and Malaga grapes (pre-
viously studied which also con-
tanned but small amounts Of this
Yitamin.
Moreover, the edible portion Of
Concord grapes contains very
small but detachable amounts of
vitamin B, whereas the Malaga
and Sultana grapes are fair
sources of this vitamin.
The latter two varieties also
contain small amounts of vitamin
C, whereas large amounts of Con-
cord grape pulp we're unable to
protect guilsea pigs on a vitamin
C-free diet against scuTvY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
japanese Victory Held Certain

TINE objective of Jeho loosely
ganized
country against further invasion.
they will be able
take possession OF eho within month
victory
believe
outside a by zeal the whole wide
world believes anything intervention other nations
stop Japan 49,. ,
situation stands forth vivid illustration OF
been about but because of the promises to END
humanity new order merely by
offering advi exploded definitely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23

In simple language Japanese delegates
telling world OF
western concepts principles Mnchran problem all wrong
and carried will add the discomfort and unrest
prevailing
More than that they plainly diplomatic language
that the
policy.
the issued at
Geneva japanese anchan southwark march
mand and with equipment mobn
ed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
SCIENCE.
Alcohol Is Vital Fluid
BY DAVID DIETz

ufacturing processes is the making
of solution.
Next to water, alcohol is the
most useful liquid for the crea-
ton of solutions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23
Ideahsts Are Pursuing q Rainbow

OUR rainbow when they suppose that
~ for 10000 be persuaded to take
council which lacks physical power TO back
them
Japan employ the word war is but
optimism with which humanity Is try
deceive itself
going nations behave decenty fulfill their
obligations respect others prescribed by CODE
without the establishment OF international police body any more
small village Without
the local court.
that things be done grand scale with
authority and sacrifice than they be done small scale
merely suggests lack of logic.
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than argument-the intuitions of
the soul, and if they are invalid
we are dreamers walking in a
dream.
That mother was wise beyond
her knowing, and her simple faith
has helped me more than all the
philosophers. She believed what
her own heart taught her.
At Newport News, after the
Civil war, Longfellow found a
nameless grave with the inscrip-
ton: "a Union Soldier, Mustered
Out" That was all, and the poet
added: Here was a man who
gave his all, his life, his name,
that the Union might live"
Man, dying for an ideal and
future his eyes will not see, proves
his eternal life, prophesies his
destiny.
Let us believe in life, knowing
in part, at least, it's possibilities
and to what fine issues it ascends.
That in man which faces death
and dehes it for the sake of an
ideal, attests our victory over
death!
Copyright, 1888. by United Features
Syndicate Inc)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23

Heavy concealed profits for investment houses
in securities they recommend to investors from
supposedly fair, impartial standpoints Of appraisal
"Old Counselors" to broadcast the virtues of these
investment houses which broadcasts the invest
ment houses write themselves; banks, like the First
National Bank of Chicago that violate the spirit of
the law by lending to a great utility group many
millions OF dollars more than they legally could
lend to single borrower-al these begin to stand
out already as lessons and warnings from the In
sull smash.
They point, we think, to stable doors that need
locking before more horses lost and before more
"Old Counselors' with mellow confidence inspiring
voices are turned loose the radio to advise" and
shepherd American investors
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character or other becomes your
very own. When a reader en-
braces a masterpiece, he must be
prepared to play the role of the
Spartan boy with the fox.
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NJ. E. Tracy Says:
TALK WILL NOT STOP WAR

JAPANESE delegates at Geneva gave out the
- following statement last Thursday
The japanese government can not conceal
its apprehension that an unrealistic and theo-
retical decision taken by the committee Of nine
teen would make extremely difficult the task of
restoring peace and tranquility in the far east,
since such course can not fail to have serious
repercussionS the general situation in that
~ IF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-23

This leads to the second serious disclosures In
the Stuart testimony-the practice by which invest
ment companies sell to the public securities in which
they are interested without revealing that interest
Mr. Stuart told the senate committee that in his
opinion banking houses should declare their own
interest in securities they SELL but he said this was
not customary at the time the insult securities were
being marketed.
1t was anything but customary. Nor is it the
rule now.
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August asked: For - sake. Is there any issue
that Halsey- stuart sold me that is not going into
default?"
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Daily Thought

For thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I will both search my
sheep, and seek them out.-Ezekiel
34:11.
MAN can not choose his duties.
1YL George Eliot.