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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-30

which have been drawing much criticism, what
about its success first aid station for the jobess?
The entire unloaned fund, except for the $780,
100000 ear-marked for hunger relief, is available
for sehliquidating work aid projects This amounts
to some $4,000 100000 and will increase through
repayments.
Yet Of this sum only hfty-six self-iquidating
loans. totaling s1476sOOOo so far have been ap-
proved. OF this only s17793OOO has been paid in
cash.
Thus only about 7 per cent of money available
has been loaned for work relief and less than l per
cent has been paid out. Apparently the number OF
projects that be quidaed from tolls and rates
limited for pending are only IA Glass l" loan app-
cations, totaling s238.89O.oOO.
For hunger relief about one-half of the $780,
100000 available has been loaned in short term
handouts. Destitution is intense and Widespread
Even with the present onerous restrictions, Sen
ator La Toilette estimates that this inadequate re-
lief fund will be exhausted by July l.
This big federal emergency bank" either should
be abandoned, along with the federal farm board,
it should be reformed.
Three reforms are needed One is to change its
personnel another its administration, 6 third It's
scope Loans for relief should be administered by
board of experts and the fund repenished.
The term "self-liquidating" should be Hberalized.
Thousands of public projects await this change;
projects in slum elimination schools, reforestation,
reclamation parks, hydro-electric development.
Immediate construction along these lines would
tend to prime the pump of sluggish industry start
buying power and permanent improvements and
wealth to the nation.
We have the mechanism for reconstruction. Let
it be put to work.
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THE CHICAGO INQUISITION

One would think that Chicago's police and Judges
had their hands full holding the city against the
machine gun and pineapple" assaults of its listed
public enemies Apparently, however, some of these
guardians of law have found time in the last year
to do a bit of law-breaking their own.
The Chicago Civil Liberties committee in its 1882
report cites more than 800 violations of constitu-
tionaI rights by local police. These include illegal
arrests inhuman beating of prisoners, raids with
out warrants Fifty persons most of them arrested
without legal justification, reported having
been third degreed."
The Chicago inquisition appears from the report
to have been an unusually savage affair More than
100 arrests were made for distribution of Conmun-
list literature" although the Communist party legally
is on the Illinois ballot Numerous open air gather
ings of unemployed and others were broken up,
often with violence"
One Judge Francis Borrelli comes in for criticism
for "abuse of power" This judge is accused of hav
ing locked in his courtroom thirty spectators at
the trial of a obless demonstration and subjected
them all to an inquisition their personal and
political beliefs.
He ordered from the one lawyer who pro-
tested the high handed proceeding and ordered
fourteen other protesting victims arrested for dis
evicted three lawyers from his court after
having quilted and accused them.
Chicagos underworld has become a byword
throughout the world A much more unfortunate
reputation awaits that great city if she permits her
police department and her courts to lead in law
lessness.
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GET THE FACTS

doctor who decided that any study of his
patients disease must wait until the patient re-
covered would be ridiculous doctor.
The house appropriations committee is equally
ridiculous when docs not approve of the inltia
ton of new economic Investigations at this time,
and proposes abolishing the economic division of
the federal trade commission by denying it funds
for the coming year.
The commission wants to make study of
poration practices in the immediate past to de-
termine if it can what has been responsible for
the condition in which we find ourselves. The
commission proposes to do in a scientific and thor
ough way what committees of congress have been
trying to do in their spare time, thereby admitting
the need for such study if intelligent steps for
economic recovery are to be taken
If congress had exact data today about the
volume and extent of call loans, the effect of issu
ing bonds and stocks accompanied by stock pur-
chase warrants, corporation operations in the stock
market scrip dividend issues renvestment of earn
ings and officers bonuses underwriting and syndi-
cate operations and a variety of other things which
the commission proposes to put under the micro
scope congress would be foundering less in trying
to legislate on banks corporate reorganization and
other matters.
If congress had the facts the commission pro-
poses to unearth about the relationship between
antitrust laws and the petroleum gas, coal and
lumber industries, it might not spend endless time
debating these subjects, without accomplishing any
thing.
In another respect the proposed cut would n
tail serious loss. 1t would prevent preparation of
a report the four-year study of electric and gas
utilities which already has brought about important
reforms in these industries and is awaited as the
basis of holding company legislation.
The trade commission has been one of the most
useful and least expensive departments of the fed
eral government and is needed at present than
ever before If its highly skilled workers are al
lowed to scatter now, it will be necessary to re-
assemble them at considerable loss a little later
True economy dictates continuance of this work
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Science on Tiny Scale
BY DAVID DIETz

pared with the time required and
the effort expended to arrive at
the same results by indirect
means.
Chemical micrurgy constitutes
practically an entire laboratory.
set up under the microscope. and
with certain limitations almost
any operation which can be con-
Quoted upon the laboratory table
on a particle the size of a hickory
nut can be duplicated with the
micro-manipulator on a particle
too small for the eye to see"
Biologists as we'll as chemists
are making use of the micro
manipulation. 1t makes possible
the detailed study of bacteria or
other microscopic organisms. or
similar study of the individual
microscopic cells which compose
larger organisms.
BY means of tiny glass needles
inserted in the micro-manipula-
tor, biologists can dissect one
celled organisms, such as the
amoeba, for example, singing out
special structures, such as the nu-
cleus, for detailed study or chemi-
cal analysis.
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Microscopic Tools

The tools used in the micro
manipulation are so tiny that they
can be seen only under the mi
croscope. The result of that fact
is that these tools can be con-
structed only under a microscope.
Commenting up investigations
to identify microscopic foreign
particles. DR.. Titus says, THE sue
cess or failure of such investiga-
lions depends in a large measure
upon the construction Of suitable
tools which must practically be
built anew for each investigation.
THE particles are handled by
small hooks similar in shape to a
buttonhook, made from glass and
measure on the order Of thou
sandth of an inch or less across
the opening"
Other tools include tiny pip
cites, microscopic counterparts Of
the ordinary syringe. These are
used in transf erring small
amounts Of liquid.
Another piece Of apparatus used
in these researches is the micro
distillation apparatus. 1t is the
miniature counterpart of a boot
leggers still.
This instrument makes possible
the distillation of material too
small for the eye to see and the
collection of the distillate for fur
Their study or Identification"
It also is possible to carry on
high temperature studies with the
micro manipulation, using tiny
heating elements made from plat
mum or tungsten hlaments or even
tiny oxyhydrogen flame.
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MONDAY. JAN. 80. 1888.
OLD AGE PENSIONS

In keeping with its platform pledge and cam
pagn promise, the legislature has before it mea-
sure to provide old age pensions.
The measure as drafted, is in keeping with the
experiences Of the many states which have found
in this plan for caring for the aged INDECENT not
only greater measure of humanity, but an actual
saving of money.
The poorhouse system invented in the days
of Queen Elizabeth and has changed little in 300
years
Under present economic conditions, there will be
an increasing number Of persons who reach the
years of unproductivty with savings. Their
crime is in growing old without money. The aims
house for them becomes but prison.
For years organized labor and the Fraternal
Order of Eagles have fought before the legislature
for passage of a law which will permit the aged
INDECENT to live out their lives in their own homes
Governor Leslie vetoed such a two years
ago The matter made campaign issue.
If there is any criticism of the measure, it is
because it leans toward the side Of conservatism
rather than toward lberality
No one with property obtain such pension
The amount of the pension is meager
In the many states which have such laws, the
plan has proved less costly than maintenance of the
pensioners in poorhouses.
Aside from that phase, the humanitarian aspects
of the measure should forestall any objections
criticisms
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Accurate Results

A NEW scientific term has
n been coined to describe the
sort of studies carried on with the
micro-manipulator 1t is mi
crurgy."
"Micrurgy," DR.. Titus explains,
lis a term derived from the
Greek, meaning explicitly small
work. 1t was used first by biolo-
gists to describe their study of
cellular structure.
While the methods Of chemical
micrurgy are not rapid in COM
parison with the usual procedures
Of chemical microscopy, and while
they require considerable patience
and manipulative ability, they are
accurate and quite rapid COM
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Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor Times; have noted with
pleasure the letters of Mr.. O'ConA
nor and Mr.. Hare in this column
recently in regard to the new one
man street cars. Pleasure first
in seeing an O'Connor rush to the
aid Of the downtrodden. as his
Irish forbears have done through
the centuries and pleasure in see
ing Mr.. Hare question his knoWl-
edge Of his subject and in general
make an artistic display of his
absymal ignorance.
A municipal utility, we have
heard, is supposed to be a corp
Grafton vested with a public trust.
So We have a right to be inter-
ested in it and, as citizens, ques-
ton its actions.
talked with two street car
men today. They told me-and
they are Working-that between
thirty-dve and fifty men are los
ing their jobs because of the new
one-man street cars and buses.
Should we take their word or Mr..
Hare's?
AS Mr.. O'Connor suggests with
no inconsiderable acumen, l from
still is /, and very shortly the
street car company will get rid Of
any employe who is a barnacIe on
its ship Of dividends.
One of the men I talked to told
me that a fellow worker who had
been employed for more than thir-
ty years was being let 20, but
I'VE don't dare say anything"
This country was not foundedA
by men who didn't dare" But
in this depression it is laundering
because Of men who don't dare"
Let's start a movement that VIII
end in the street car company
mot daring" not to send those
cars back to Pittsburgh and get
ting two-man safety cars instead.
J. P. BROWN.
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It Seems to Me . by Haywood Broun

than in the demolition of straw
men. st. George is remembered
because he killed a dragon and
not an earthWorm.
And so l would suggest to the
growing school of writer's who
want to destroy faith in the ex-
listing system that they will do
more for the cause if they cease
picturing the struggle as one be-
tween a pure white proletariat and
an utterly sable capitalism.
Even the rebels themselves may
remain a little unconvinced if
their armor is made a shade too
shining, and the rulers of Amer
lea have more to fear from those
fictioniStS and playWrights capa-
BILE of opening their defense with
few well-aimed jabs than from
the boys who rush in leading with
the right hand.
From the mere point of view of
tactics, I think that the radical
cause is gravely in need of more
footWork and finesse. There will
be contempt and accusations
heaped upon the head of any one
who feints for an opening and
fails to rush right in pell-men.
He will be accused of pulling his
punches and of lacking heart.
But in the long run, the worth of
the rebel who calls his shots will
become apparent.
I have read vast amount of
radical literature in the last three
or four years. I am familiar with
most of the Socialist and Comu-
mist publications, and I am moved
to wonder why the advocates of
new world so generally have aban-
doned humor as weapon of at
tack.
1t is quite true that wrongs and
injustices exist which are not to
be swept away by genial satire,
but it still is highly effective on
the skirmish line.
Russia, in recent years, has de-
veloped a few humorists in it's
propaganda corps. 1t is wit of a
grim sort, to be sure, but it is a
variation from straight central at
tack. Many Of the worlds great
est leaders have been humorless,
and in some cases the secret of
their power has resided in the fact
that they couldn't see a joke and
kept ploughing ahead.
But 1 think it is difficult in
many lands to win millions to
this asceticism.
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testing against it, only makes it
the more painful. We have to
swallow it finally, so why put it
off?
Often a very little thing will
darken our lives for days and
even years, if we let it do so. There
is a way of training ourselves
to throw off what is little before
it becomes big.
Too many of us make imaginary
pills which we are not asked to
swallow at all, which is sheer
folly. Only one thing is more
foolish, and that is to chew our
pills, whether real or imaginary, to
the last without swallowing them.
1t makes life bitter, gloomy and
ill-tempered, and that is not life,
but form Of death. Let us take
our medicine, have it down as soon
as may be, and forget it.
Copyright 1888. United Features
Svndicate)
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BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

light YEAR-OLD Larry had something on his
II mind. He approached his mother cautiously.
Mother" he said 81 want to ask you something.
want you to tell me all about this boy and girl
business"
Startled but determined to be staunch his mother
prepared to face the question in the manner ap
proved by our best psychologists.
YES, son, ask anything you wish" she replied,
using smile of the sort warranted by the occasion
when the facts of life first present themselves for
maternal explanation
We'll, then" Larry burst forth st want to know
why boy can't hit girl who's hit him first. What's
the reason for that?"
And may ask what you told him?" inquired
oh" said Larrys mother, 7 was so relieved that
went into details on the subject. I explained all
about chivary and the dependence and weakness of
women and that he should just stand back and say
to the girl am boy much bigger and stronger
than you are. I could hurt you very much, but be-
cause you are girl and weaker and because gentle
men never strike women shall not hit you"
THIS did not entirely satisfy Larry who had been
Il belabored by small feminine fists, any more.
feel sure than it will ever contrive to diminish any
girls beligerency 1t is part of the unnatural code
that has been built by the thing call civilization
This concept of chivalry beautiful as it may be-
can be very CALLING to girls big well as little and
have no doubt that there are many occasions when
the men despise it.
Anyway it is interesting to speculate as to how
much the idea has had to do with the development
of our feminine tendency to unsportsmanship where
living is concerned.
1t seems to natural that little girls reared in
the tradition might be expected to grow into women
who would expect quarter and give none in later
matrimonial bouts
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Worse off Than a Year Ago

A/E have succeeded making banks railroads life
w companies and enterprises
moment but only the
every hand.
In spite OF all that has been done to mobilize the power
government IN behalf of industry
ton today than we were one No knowledge
CURED to that something different
problem
alton of and
than things they years
and they today greater
the United
Reckless as German initiation have appeared resulted
definite industry
her difficulties Germany able people
modern homes greatly plants
a splendid industrial structure
Her rehabilitation reflected the o
take than hundred million dollars
from last
Drastic sterilization of the franc onefh its
value have seemed France financial
abandonment the
credit, stimulated British trade throughout the world.
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TIE FROZEN R. F. C.

The governments great emergency blank"
known as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
was formed to beat hard times. 1t is not doing
its job.
In creating this sSsOoOOOOOo credit pool, con-
gress had three purposes. The first was to pump
funds into sick banks, insurance companies, rail-
roads and other corporations. The second was to
extend job relief aid to states and cities through
self-lquidatng loans The third was to make
emergency loans to communities to feed and shelter
the destitute.
Passing over for the moment its business loans.
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This is the first of two articles by
DR.. Fishbein on undulant fever, until
comparatively recently regarded as a
curiosity in the United States.
WEARS ago, British soldiers
i quartered on the island of
Malta developed a disease in cpl
demic form which was called
Malta fever. Later, as the disease
spread about the world it became
known as Mediterranean fever.
Finally, it was called 'undulant
fever" because of its intermittent
character: that is, the fever went
up and down in waves.
The menace of undulant fever is
not the menace of epidemics of
yellow fever or even of influenza.
It is a disease which insidiously
creeps into a population and
gradually affects increasing num-
berS Of people.
Fortunately, it is likely spread
slowly, if at all, in American COM
munities because milk is the most
important medium in transmitting
the disease.
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Undulant Fever Is InsidiOuS Disease

Apparently the condition is
more likely to be spread by goats
milk than by that from cattle,
particularly since goats milk is
not usually as well controlled in
its assembling and distribution as
is the milk Of cows.
Moreover, the infection is more
generalized among goats than
among cattle.
From ten to fifteen days after
the person becomes infected with
this disease, he has the usual
symptoms associated with an in
fectious disorder-weakness, tired
ness, chilliness, loss of appetite,
general aching. chills and fever.
The condition develops slowly
so that frequently weeks may pass
before the person who is infected
considers himself sick enough to
call a physician.
He is inclined to believe that
he has something like persist
ent cold or rheumatic condition
and that it is hard TO break up.
Next-Precautions against IN
duIant fever.
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A COMPLETE chemicl labora-
n tory, so small that it can not
be seen without the aid of a mi
croscope, is the latest weapon with
which science is attacking the
problems of industry and the Sc
crets of nature.
The device, known to scientists
as the "micro-manipulator, was
described recently before meet
ing of the Rochester section OF
the American Chemical Society
by DR.. Robert N. Titus, micro
scopist for the Eastman Kodak
Company.
The mirco- manipulation is used
for a number of purposes. One is
to identify the exact natures of
impurities or foreign matter so
tiny that they can be seen only
with a microscope.
Another is to learn the exact
nature of chemical reactions by
performing them with microscopic
amounts of chemicals. Still an
other use is to identify the COM
ponents of complex materials
which are mixtures of microscopic
particles.
Among the materials studied
are rubber, milk, and various col
loids.
The workbench of the micro.
manipulation is the little platform
or stage" upon which the micro
scope is focused The experiments
are carried out in tiny dishes of
glass or metal placed upon this
stage
At either side of the stage are
small metal pillars Tools clamped
into these pillars are moved by
means of levers which in turn are
actuated by micrometer screws
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Whom he would destroy he first
has made eloquent.
This seems to me by all odds
the best technique for the propa-
gandists. He needs, of course,
rage and passion, but they must
not get out of control to the
point where he loses his sense of
timing and of distance.
That section of the jaw where
aneSthesia lies is hardly as wide
as the knuckle line, and before
anybody can knock out a rival
he first must measure his man.
There was an Irish propagan-
dist, greater in his natural equip
ment than Shaw himself, and he
left his mark upon his day and
those which came after, and yet
Dean Swift upon occasion wrote
ineffectively because rage blinded
him and he threw punches which
landed only on the shoulder blades
or sWished through empty air.
He scored more frequently in
the land of Lilliput than when he
took his readers to the kingdom
of the horses and decided to swing
from the floor, l think that in
both propaganda and the prize
ring a 1rSt-class boxer always
can beat a slugger.
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Harmed By Things We Worship

LII three comparison
Much of this back the absurd
dollar and huge gold stand for security
AS matter Of both helped
abroad and business at home.
The manipulation had
o and consumption not only nations but within
in other countries, though for very different purpose
While they the money tighten
debt
increased the former and discouraged the
Our whole has make
comparison to commodity and service remedy
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So They Say

The wish must have been father
to the thought but it takes a long
time to kill off a bird like me.
james j. Walker, ex-mayor of
New York, commenting on rumor
of his health.
Present economic conditions
make birth control imperative.
DIR. Eric NJ. Matsner, medical
director, American Birth Control
League.
Youth is not afraid of the jig
saw puzzle of present-day life.
Ida M. TarbeIl, writer.