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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
Veteran Justice Demanded

BY James E. Van Zandt.
In a recent press dispatch from
Washington, published in The
Times, President Roosevelt made
public his opposition to immediate
cash payment of adjusted service
certificates. In listing his reasons,
the President emphasized the fol-
lowing statement:
1.-The adjusted service certifi-
Gates are a form of paid-up
endowment insurance of which
dependents would be deprived in
cash if paid now"
In fairness to the readers of
The Times and the World War
veterans in your community, The
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States presents the follow
ing facts in refutation of this
argument.
When Congress created the ad-
juSted service certificate in 1924,
these certificates represented an
average value of $1,000, payable
in 1945. At that time, the pur-
pose back of these certificates was
to give each veteran paid-up
endowment policy that would ma
ture 20 years later.
Two years after date of issuance,
each certificate carried a loan
value. Veterans in need of funds
were forced to borrow on these
certificates, paying compound in
terest on the loan. When I'M
employment conditions became
acute in recent years, Congress in
1882 enacted a law making it
possible for the holder of one of
these certificates to borrow so per
cent of the face value.
Today there are approximately
three and one-half million adj
justed service certificates out
standing. Government statistics,
quoted by Mr.. Roosevelt, show
that more than three million vet
Grams have borrowed the full so
per cent of the face value of their
certificates. These loans are being
made by the Federal Government,
at the expense of the veteran, for
the compound interest charges are
being deducted from the balance
that remains.
Unless these certificates are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

many of us taking chances of our
young lives. We might get hit and
be crippled the rest Of our lives, or
even lose some lives, just by trying
to get across Westinghouse.
The grade school pupils have an
officer to watch them across the
street, but as this would be impoSsi-
BILE at high school, there is no
reason whatsoever why we couldn't
have a stop light in front of the
school. Most pupils have their
arms full of books, and if one would
ever happen to stumble, crossing
the street, it would be good-by.
What a pityl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
MANS WISDOM

HARvARDs President James B. Conant
l. tells a convocation at Amherst College
that one Of the great threats to human So
ciety today is revival of the ever-recurring
suspicion Of mans creative intelligence"
The scholar. says President Conant. has
faith in the human mind-faith in its ability
to solve any problem which human association
can present.
Because of this faith, the scholar favors
the freest kind of research into social prob
lens and the fullest kind Of discussion Of
them-beleving, rs he does. that human in
telligence is capable Of finding the way out II
it is just given the chance.
But today a distrust Of this capebility Is
growing. Some people are rising TO protest
against this kind Of free inquiry. They call
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
BARNES ARTICLE, ON
RUSSIA is PRAISED.

BY H. L.
With gripping interest I read and
re-read DR.. Harry Elmer Barnes
explanation of the recent executions
in Russia. Long have I waited to
see The Times cast it's powerful
shafts Of light into the gloom of
those American misunderstanding
of Russia. Find Times of Jan. Is,
turn to the editorial page and read
the Liberal Viewpoint" Study this
brand Of truth for which Jesus and
Lincoln died.
DR.. Barnes points us to that
justice which the enlightened con-
science of the world will forever
praise and its great Creator must
forever bless!
"As for the truth, it endureth and
is forever strong; it liveth and con-
quereth forevermore."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

paid Immediately, they will be
valueIess to the veteran until Jan.
l, 1912, when he will be able to
borrow $1,000. One year later, he
will be able to obtain $3825. On
Jan. l, 1914, he will be eligible to
an additional loan of 1919. On
Jan. l, 1915, when these GER
tif1cates fully mature, the average
veteran will receive the miserable
sum of $68.50, all that will be left
as a result of compound interest
charge deductions.
In other words, through mere
driblets and interest charges, the
value of the certificate will be
destroyed. Neither the veteran,
nor his widow and children, will
possess any protection in the form
of an endowment policy or f1nan-
cial benefits.
Back in 1925, when these GER
tifiCateS were first issued, the
theory of insurance protection for
the dependents of veterans was
perfectly sound. But now that the
principal is being destroyed
through the issuance of loans, and
the deduction Of interest charges,
it is obvious that the original plan
is no longer practical. The So
called insurance protection which
Mr.. Roosevelt anxiously seeks to
preserve will be disSipated long
before 1945.
AS national commander of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, I speak for the
overseas veterans of this country
when I invite every patriotic
citizen to support this demand for
veteran justice. We are convinced
that our proposal offers the only
practical and constructive method
of administering nation wide re-
lief, stimulating industrial recov-
cry and simultaneously reducing
the national debt. 1t will
force the sum of approximately
,200,000,000 into the channels of
trade and industry, with resultant
benefits for the nation as a whole,
and Americas World War vet
Grams will receive the benefits
which Congress intended they
should nave when this obligation
was recognized in 1924.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
CITY HOSPITAL PRAISED
FOR AID TO FAMILY

BY D. E. S. and Family.
Having heard many complaints
about the City Hospital and the
treatment of patients, we want to
come to the hospitals defense. We
have had sickness in our home over
a period of several months, were
unable to have a private physician
so we called a visiting doctor from
the City Hospital. He came time
after time and did all any doctor
could do, was very courteous and
kind and did not receive 1 cent in
payment. We want to express deep
gratitude and sincere appreciation
to the hospital for the kindness and
consideration to us in our time of
need.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
Capital Capers
by GEOEGE ABEL

THE Dean of diplomats, His Britannia Ma
l. jestys Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay
quite a mouthfuD is now reapng the reward of
his sudden series of gay parties this winter, in
addition to what he gains by his prestige as
premier envoy from overseas.
In other words Sir Ronald is being feted
himself, after having feted others. Ambassadors
are Fastening to do him honor.
The other night it was Ambassador Augusta
Rosso of Italy, who gave party for him, with
delicious Chiant and French wines, pastries,
arCichokes and salad created by an Italian chef
with sense of genius.
The next evening little Ambassador Saito of
Japan and Nine Saito prepared an occidental
menu for His Britannia Majesty's ambassador.
This week, two more foreign ENJOYS fall in line.
The entire program is delightful and holds
just that faint tinge of irony which is the cream
Of diplomatic life here. That is, that in the
first place-Sir Ronald is horribly bored by the
series of dinners he has to go to- He'd get out
of them if he could, but he can't. In the second
place. about 90 per cent of the ENJOYS who are
giving the dinners hate to give them. It's ex-
pensve, it's tedious and many ENJOYS either
secretly resent the English or find that Sir
Ronald'S wit and accent elude them.
Such are the penalties of diploiaatic life in
the gay, gay capital
TOUNT VAN DER STATEN PCNTEOZ, the
~ new Belgian ambassador, seems to the un-
prejudced eye an indication of good times ahead
for the Belgian-French bloc in Washington
He appeared here from New York in a de-
lightfu1 mood, smoked cigaretS with news
photographers, inspected his rather antique en-
basSy with complete good hunor (former
Ambassador Baron de Cartier de Machenne
would have turned somersaultS) and asked hun
dredS of questions
Observers noted he is dapper, we'll dressed,
witty, fond of Camembert, has charming smile,
wears pearl pins, and is ready for any one or
anything.
Its cold here" he shivered on arrival. 81
must admit don't like too much cold weather
Again he cnirped:
THE highway from New York to Washington
fascinated me. Tell me, are there any noun
tains nearby? I should like to motor in the
mountains"
He peered across the street from his embassy
at the palatial apartment house. 1875 Massa-
chusetts-av, where Andrew Mellon has an apart
ment
Mr. Mellon lives there" he was told.
"Ah," observed Count van der Straten Pom
thoz, looking over, "a very elegant little fiat Mr..
Mellon has,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
MIDDLE CLASS SOON
WILL BE FORGOTTEN
BY a Salesman.

BY salesman.
We statesmen have an axiom that
to ridicule a competitors product is
the quickest way to go out the front
door without an order. What
want to say is that your Westbrook
Pegler is taking a short cut to not
selling his line of gaE when ne ridi-
cules DR.. Townsend. Perhaps the
old doc can deliver the goods.
The big sales manager in Wash
ington, President Roosevelt. has put
out some hot bul,etir1a to pump the
pep into the boys, but I know, and
so do you, that If I lose my job to-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
GAME BIG BUSINESS

IT is bit difficult to translate into the dol
lars and cents standards of business life
the value of our wild game.
The National Resources Board has at
tempted to do it. Almost lost among larger
figures the Land Planning Committee inserted
a chapter on the need for conservation of our
rapidly dwindling stock of wild life.
The board recommends reservation of
100000 acres of land as game refugees to
increase and maintain wild life-whicn has an
additional value in destroying rodents and
insects.
The speed of the disappearance of wild
game is emphasized by the National Audu-
bon Society which has just appealed for a
national closed season on ducks during
1856.
Hunting and fishing Is already more than
a -billon-dollar business. 1t can be-
come even bigger. The National Resources
Board has done we'll to consider and provide
for this in its SO-year land use program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
SUGGESTS TRAFFIC AID FOR
WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL

By Reader.
I don't understand why we
Washington High School pupils do
not have better way of crossing
Westinghouse. We have to dodge
four or five cars, as a rule, and
then street cars, too. There are too
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
Congress may be y

Congress may be more liberal than the
President, with his program for social legisla-
ton, provided the people will remember this
in 1886.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
Daily Thought

All go unto one place; all are Of
the dust, and all turn to dust again.
-Ecclesiastes, iii:xx.
WHEREVER I look there is
w nothing but the image Of
death.-OVid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22
The Message Center

Times readers are united to eDpress
their Utel0s in these columns. Make Jour
letters short, so all can have q chance.
Limit them to ESQ a0ords or Iess.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

received enough wages to buy the
things we really needed, to say
nothing of the things we would like
to have had.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

Euey Longs publication Of his song isn't
so much to be dreaded as the fact that he's
building a radio station over which he can
Groom 1t.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

A bank opened in Coulee Dam, Wash, and
was christened with a bottle Of ink although
it will still need plenty of money to grease
the ways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

If Lloyd George wants New Deal for
England. we'd be glad TO let him have some Of
our college professors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

Last years drought. the Weather Bureau
decides. was caused by excessively hot and dry
weather. That's a hot report, and dry, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

Jimmy Doolittle is one man who doesn't
live up to his name He's done everything but
little for aviation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

/ 1OhoHy disapprove of aOhat you sag and Wit
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItajre
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

Congress again may turn down the revised
food and drug bill, unless some one tells the
Representatives that it isn't the kind of bill
they have to pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

The League of Nations stopped a revolt of
the losers in the Saar, before Hitler could lay
his hands on them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

The really simple and yet vitally
important things are the details.
The rest is matter of combination.
Henry Ford.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-22

Dollar chasing is deplorable, but
it is Of minor importance COM
pared to the winning of war
Irenee du Pont.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-27
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

THE existence of a growth substance. possibly
L new vitamn Is indicated by a series of expert
merts reported by DR.. Roger J. Williams and Dr.
Bert Christensen Of the oregon State Agricultural
College.
The new substance. which appears to be neces-
Sarv for growth has been discovered in the course
or experiments with disease causing yeaSts and molds
which the two experimenterS have been carving on
IN conjunction with DR. L. B Kingery of the Unlver
sity Of oregon Medical School.
The experimenterS have been working with
pstnogenic yeast which grows with extreme rapdity
in suitable medium they report in Science. official
journal OF the American Association for the Ad-
vsnCement of Science.
In addition to the ordinary nutrients required by
yeast cultures this organism requires the addition
Of certain amino acids.
THE significant fact however is that the promo
i ton Of rapid growth requires the addition of
other substance which Is soluble in and which
apears be present in liver extract kale, alfalfa and
TO a lesser extent in milk.
Its effect Is striking in the extreme and becomes
apparent within two or three hours. they report
II is this water Souabe substance. whose nature
is as vet unknown which the eXperimenters have
termed growth substance
The experimenters believe that the sub
stance is probably OF great importance 10 all forms
Of life.
Since liver and kale the richest known sources.
have remarkable nutritive properties for higher ami
mails the latter being Of extraordinary value for pou
try and dairy COWS suspect that the growth sub
stance under consideration IS of Importance IN the
nutrition Of animals as we'll OF the organism which
We are using they say.
THE substance has tendency 10 be associated
with proteinS. such caSein and egg albumin.
and result they suspected for time that 1t was
unknown amino acid. This however did not
turn out 10 De the case.
They have succeeded however. in concentrating
the growth substance TO such an extent that one
part Of the concentrated factor gives a response
when added 10 100000 parts of culture medium.
They also report that the preliminary steps used
in the concentration Of the substance the same
as those used IN the preparation OF lactofavin
They have experimental proof. however. OF the
fact that tho growth substance with which they are
working is not lactOfaVin Exposure 10 light which
destroys the effect OF lactoavin does not affect the
new substance
They add, however can not be sure that pure
lactofavin Is not one factor concerted in the
response
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-27
Merely n SuTB1iSe, of Course

DERHAPS 1t went something like this.
As Governor of the great state of Ohio
think may fairly say that 1 have always been the
friend OF labor. That is the American system-be
friendly 10 labor. As Lincoln said. God must have
loved the labOrinS men. because He made so many
OF them Adam himself was laborer and the founder
CT the first trade union. Gains heresy was that he
went of to work on a job all by himself without
cooperating with his fellows.
And. speaking of Cain. I'm reminded of the
story of tn, bishop and the drunken 1t seems
this bishop walking to church on a Sunday
morning when he heard a man in the middle of
the road trying to pull tire off his automobile and
cursing and swearing dreadfully at his failure
to bulge it.
The bishop rebuked him and said, MY friend,
did you ever try prayer? The admitted that
he had forgotten that but he fell on his knees and
prayed earnestly for minutes, and then he gave
the tire mighty yank of it came Well. I'll be
damned said the bishop.
oh I forgot to say that the man who was
working on the automobile drunk And that
little story shows us that labor has every right to
use prayer and legislation and education. but when
it really gets into Jam there's nothing like that
big yank of united forces. And now in closing
want to tell YOU that the Democratic Party
Maybe that isn't exactly the speech the Governor
made the story he told. but I'll bet it was some
thing inst about as mild
,Copvright. 1880
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-27
He " ants a NeU Deal

DUT think there ought TO be new deal in
ID surfing freedom for at least few familiar words
which accepted in the most austere circles.
tember
When hell goes out over the ether 1t falls upon
the of three classes Of people Some accept the
existence OF the kingdom Others regard It as a
symbol And the rest think it's a joke. So for
The life of me- I can not understand why believers,
mOdhcatiOnsts and skeptics could not all combine
IN taking the word he'll" each in his own particular
stride If such place exists it certainly deserves
mention. II It doesn't where the harm in it? And
OF course. anything that is said about hell" goes
coub!e for It's cousin damn do not think that
mlcrophOnes should be sealed against them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-27
A Patriotic DHtg

E'VEN the ChldS restaurants those erstwhile prin1
and monastic beaneres where formerly the
calories had been scheduled in four decmals oppo-
site the hash and prunes the menu like the
Monday batting averages Of the jor leagues now
became gay groggeries combining the principal ele-
ments of the od-faShioned pam-room and the
oriental kootch at Coney Island. Mattresses who had
worn the traditional trained nurse habit bossomed
out in musical COMEDY costumes and the familiar
nickel and tile, which had always suggested nothing
quite so much as an operating room al Bellevue was
masked under theatrical gauze and scenery remi-
niScent of the follieS.
Beer forgotten and I doubt that the
brewery has sold enough in the last Is months to
water a fern The Democrats most of them
strangers in town and the responsibilities
of their jobs, taken unaware and decided that
revenue measure, it their patriotic duty to get
cockeyed and stay that way long their endur-
ance and money held out.
Not only that but that pernicious nuisance, the
dashing hostess swung into action, inviting dis
cordant and rival elements to and get drunk
together and perhaps fight little and hardly
lady in town with two chairs, couch and corkscrew
but considered herself a dashing hostess The female
of the species stood manfuy to the bar. pouring
have about her husbands business and the husband.
his growing large and important as his alcoholic
content rose, would shoot off his mouth, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-27
The Gorernor's Shocking Yam

IN all fairness to the young at the radio sta
ton he gave other reasons besides the mention
of the bad place" justification for shutting off
the Governor. According to the press reports, the
production manager said that the Governor also
told a dirty joke about a bishop and a drunken
man"
I've never heard that one and I must say it
doesn't start of very DrOmisngly In all prOba-
bility 1t wasn't very blue anecdote after adjust
= faded heliotrOpe- Radios notions about what is
ribad are fairy archaic Let see if We can possibly
reconstruct the anecdOte Just on the material we
have IN hand-a bishop and a drunken man. It
must have been used to illustrate some point in an
address on labor The Governor was talking to A
labor audience. and its fair to assume that the
anecdote was favorable TO trade-union policies
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-27
They Arrays DO That

THIS is not to say, OF course, that washington
i was tee-total under Harding Coolidge or Her.
bert even though Herbert did discern the risk Of
lushing in statesmen with serious responsibilities
and tried to drive them up the pole with pledge
of abstinence But after the sad consequences Of
the secret souse parties of Hardings Ohio rum pots
the Republicans made drinking a comparatively
minor business. True, many of them got drunk on
OCCASION but it done recreation not as voca
ton. The supply Of Maryland corn was steady and
fairly reliable and the Republicans. being by tradl-
ton the governing class in Washington, we're
familiar with the habits of life in town.
Of course the females talked too much, as they
always do but not as much as the new crop, and
LIQUOR was not an important embarrassment to the
government
1t is to the credit of the New Deal that the hypoc-
risv has been abolished and that Presidents Sec
rotary attending a party need not nowadays sneak
out to the pantry and wrap himself around a quick
one behind the door as of Mr.. Hoovers piouS
helpers used to do until his host day got sore
and told him You can drink with my guests like a
man or not drink at all" But still it isn't necessary
to drink all the liquor in sight and squirt 1t over
party with garden hose.
Admitting all the merits Of an occasional slab OF
rum and the necessity for mans breaking training
now and again with resounding crash, still con-
tend that the best work is not to be obtained from
people who regard their term in Washington as
mere social outing After ALL there is work to be
done; after all people talk too much and make rash
commitments when they tight and after all with
90 million people still out of work an Administration
composed too largely of pub-crawers Is likely to
earn itself bad with the country, If 1t hasn't
already.
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