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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
BACK TO NATURE

MOTHER EARTH is staid old lady. So after
1'A the American pioneers forced her into strip
dance, she retaliaed their by throwing dust
in their eyes.
That. in substance, is the brief in Natures case
against Man submitted by DR.. Paul B. Sears in
Deserts the March" published by the University
of Oklahoma Press
DR.. Sears heads the university's botany depart
ment. His book was written out of first-hand ex-
perience with the dust storms and the devastating
floods that followed in the Southwest.
To the pioneers, he says land was land, to be
mined until it could be sold for profit" But he
blames the resultant havoc on the system rather
than the individual.
Under the system of land allotments, any
planned and provident economy became well-ngh
impossible" DR.. Sears writes
'The same benevolent government which per-
mitted or even encouraged settlement the land in
the first place and practically gave it away will now
proceed to buy it back and transport the suffering
to fairer fields.
1.-The laws which govern the development of soil
and vegetation are as unacceptable the laws Of
conservation of energy and of matter upon which
they are based.
IF man destroys the old order he must take the
consequences There is no magic which will undo
the mischief he has wrought"
Predatory farming of unfit areas and depicting
of the soil through repetitious planting of single
crop must cease if our land heritage is to be pre-
served, he warns. But he also says that something
more is needed than manure anu letting the land
lie fallow for season or so.
Man must follow natures rules in handling
watersheds and restoring forests and grasslands he
declares new view of private property as trus-
teeship must be adopted, he says and the govern
ment punish delinquents and reward the good farm
ers-good in the conservative sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ITO paraphrase famous saying all know about
l. the Army AND Navy is what I see in the movies.
Having long since achieved maturity, however, I
realize our fighting forces bound to harbor a
few individuals less noble than the cinema pictures
them. On the other hand it is probable that the
majority are proud to subject themselves to the dis
cpne their education requires and believe sincerely
in the worth of their codes.
AT any rate the Army and Navy boys enjoy ex-
cellent publicity these days. .5cordng to the film
producers their ethics far superior to those of
the average citizen who plugs for living. and
have no desire nor any means at hand to disprove
the contention.
Yet as there unrolls before me record of their
education, their high and mighty behavior, their
patriotic fervor, wonder what the results for ma
tional good might be if fraction of what spend
on them could be used to give similar training to
the politicians who become our statesmen.
The politicians usually begin to serve their coun-
try with special education whatever for the job,
and sometimes their ethics peculiar.
1t should strike the taxpayer that part of the
vast sum spent upon our magnificent War Depart
ment is wasted unless the men who shape the poll
cies which they are to pzovect are also learned IN
diplomacy and possess equally Nigh type Of patri
otisn. Yet this, alas, Is seldom true.
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THE BUCK-PASSERS

certain European circles they did not let the echo
"A die on the Presidents neutrality nnessaoe 70 cox
gress before they fell to bemoaning the effect
American policy would have on the Italo-Ethionian
situation.
The impression in London, according to dis
patches is that it is little further use now for the
League OF Nations to try to embargo oil and similar
Key materials to Italy if the United States as indi-
Gated intends to keep on doing business as usual,
with II Duce yboE
II we wished to be nasty we might reply that
Britain and the League first SHE'D away from the
oil embargo and made it's future application extreme
ly problematical The British stand is just trans
parent buck-paSsng.
Washington embargoed munitions ahead of Brit
ain and the League. and in many other respects has
gene further than the League to discourage the
italian venture in Africa at one time the Admins
traon stood ready to exert it's influence on the oil
companies to cut off shipments to the bellgerents
But the League did not go ahead. Why it did not
Is now known to the entire world. British For
egn Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, if not the British
government whole, became convinced that oil
sanctions meant with Italy, so the League, led
by Britain, backed down.
Since then the oil issue has been postponed
again and again. Today few believe embargo
will ever be imposedat least not before Mussolini
has acquired an ample supply
TINE impression given out in London therefore,
u that Americas new neutrality policy cripples
sanctions and mpedes the work of the League of
Nations is both dishonest and shabby.
Whether the Roosevelt Administration intended
it not its neutrality stand is precisely what Brit
ain and the League have been asking for since
the United States refused to become a member.
All along Britain has led in suggesting that
America clarity her position. Again and again,
when the question of sanctions before the
League, Britain has lodged the issues. Before she
could pledge the use Of her fleet in possible
League blockade she commended, she would first have
to know the United States policy.
Now Britain knows. She has all the assurances
she could reasonably demand. If Britain uses her
feet as the Leagues instrument to punish an ag-
gressor nation there is nothing for her to fear from
this country.
Indeed there is nothing to indicate at this mo-
ment that United States would not add oil to its
list of contraband, should the League helatedly do
likewise The neutrality bills now in Congress aim
In that direction
In any event, before Britain and other League
themselves should come clean. Let them go ahead
with sanctions. Let them embargo oil and other
KEY commodities Then If the League fails be-
cause the United States nullifes its efforts, their
condemnation may be justified. But meanwhile let
them stop their Machiaveian attempts to shift re-
sponsibility from where 1t belongs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
THE 1886 ROAD PROJECTS

MYTH state and Federal authorities co-operat-
" ing, 10000 Indiana men are to go to work
state road projects as soon as weather permits
This will be practical application of the New Deal
which everybody can understand.
Under its pay-as-you-go policy. Indiana has one
of the finest state road systems in the country.
This year more than 800 miles in n counties will
be improved.
The money spent for materials will give employ
ment in many industries while the money spent for
wages will not only relieve the unemployed but will
also help business in the cities and towns in which
they live.
This printing the pump effort can be applauded
by all who sincerely believe in helping willing work
men to help themselves.
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fathers, tho women in the end create opportuni-
ties for more jobs to be filled by men, because the
increased purchasing power they represent goes into
demand for more homes, more automobiles. more
articles of many kinds that otherwise would not be
bought, and therefore not manufactured"
Information collected by various government
bureaus fails to give definite answer 1t does sug-
gest. however Gin the words of one investigator
that displacement by women of the usual bread
winners" may have occurred in manufacturing in
dusries particularly during the more acute phases
of the depression.
The latest national figures are those of the 1880
census. They showed nearly II million working
women in the United States, Is per cent rise in 10
years In the previous decade the increase in work.
ing women had been only per cent.
Between 1920 and 1880 the greatest increases
occurred among women in professional pursuits, do
mestc and personal service trade and clerical occu-
pations. In $780, in 1920, domestic service ranked
first as woman-employing occupation.
From 1920 to 1880 the increase among gainfuly
occupied women (25 per cent? was greater than the
gain in the female population of 10 years ard over
(21 per cent?. The opposite true for men, who
10 per cent in numbers but only Is per cent In
gainful employment
study by the Women's Bureau of the Labor De-
partment showed, on the basis of the 1880 figures,
that men were gaining in II fields and women in 26.
ct rarely happens" said the Women's Bureau
report, that woman directly replaces man in
any occupation or that woman is discharged solely
to make place for man in normal times Rather,
industry conditions change to make the employ
ment of one sex preferable. The adoption of new
types of machinery in certain factories has led to
preference for women in some cases."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
OTHER OPINION
IKokomo Tribunel

Granted that the Governor was
justified in making it impossible for
Pleas Greenlee to use official powers
to machine his way into the COVER
norship nomination, it must be adj
mitted that there is some force to
the down-and-out patronage secre-
tary's contention that the Governor
was not so nicely scrupulous in
1884, when he allowed Sherman
Minton, now United States Senator,
to continue in his political job
while he was an aspirant for the
nomination for Senator.
The same point is made as to
Lawrence Sullivan, who was seeking
nomination for state auditor, and
Gus Mueller, who was seeking nom
nation for secretary of state.
In that rejoinder, Greenlee un-
equivocally challenges the Cover
nor's consistency. However, Min
ton, Sullivan and Mueller had po-
litjcal jobs at the time that imposed
duties other than dabbling in pat
ronage.
Greenlee should not forget that
he was patronage secretary and
nothing else. After all there is dis
tinction-and difference.
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ENOUGH FOR A QUARTET

MYTH Al Smith ready to sound off for the
" American Liberty League, former Gov. Richie
of Maryland crying about usurpation of states
rights and former Senator Reed of Missouri declar-
ing that the Democratic Party is dead, all that
needed was fourth defeated Democratic pTesiden-
tial asprant to form scrap-iron quartet.
That fourth man has arrived
Former Gov. Alfalfa Bill" Murray announces
from Broken Bow, Okla. that he has come to the
unanimous conclusion that the New Deal is waste
full and taxes are too HIGH and has formed an anti
New Deal organization all his own He calls it the
Association for Economy and Tax Equality. and adds
that contributions will be gratefully received.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
TO DISPEL A MYSTERY

IN letter to World War veterans in her district
- Rep. Virginia E. Jenckes 3D., Ind) urges that
they organize and demonstrate that they want the
bonus paid.
One paragraph of her letter says:
we have good chance of success but we must
overcome the argument of the opposition that our
veterans are not interested want to show the Con-
gress where the veterans in my district stand"
If the Hooser woman Representative is successful
in this attempt she might try to get the members of
the American Liberty League and the Republican
National Committee to disclose their stand on the
New Deal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
MONDAY, JANUARY 6. 1895.
CITY GAINS AN INDUSTRY

FOOD news for indianapolis over the weekend
- was that the long-unused Fairbanks Morse
plant would be rehabilited and put into operation.
Household electrical equipment will be made there.
1t is predicted that 500 persons will be employed
The Chamber CT Commerce was active in bring
ing about the decision to reopen the factory Efforts
OF the chamber in obtaining industries for the city
are not always appreciated by those who benefit
from them. The Fairbanks Morse case brings an
opportunity to recognize and congratulate the
chamber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
Your
Health
BIZ
DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

NEXT to calcium. among the
L Y minerals essential to your
body's growth and development,
comes phosphorus. Four-fifthS of
all the calcium in the body is close
ly associated with the use of phos-
phorus. There is constant bodily
reaction between these elements.
Phosphorus is concerned in cell
multiplication and cell movement. 1t
is involved in maintaining proper
liquid content of the tissue. It is.
important in regulating reaction Of
the blood.
Children particularly require
phosphorus, because they are grow
ing and forming new tissue.
If conditions in the body are not
favorable to deposit of phosphorus
and calcium in the bones in the
form of calcium phosphate, the con-
dition called ricketts, develops. In
this condition, the bones curve so
that the children become bowlegged,
and have twisted ribs and crooked
chests.
Vitamins also are involved in the
control of calcium and phosphorus
by the body.
THERE is also much phosphorus
i in the nervous system. This
once gave rise to the SuperSti ton
that fish is a brain food. since It is
known that the flesh of fish and
the tissue of the brain are both rich
in phosphorus.
Of course, the superstition is with
out any real scientific merit. A
moron could eat ton of salt mack
erel and still be moron.
Phosphorus is found in mothers.
milk to the amount of 3.5 milligrams
in each thousand grams. It occurs
in egg white to the extent of two
milligrams to each thousand grams,
and also in potatoes, wheat germ,
beef and milk.
Certain foods are much richer IN
phosphorus than are others. Among
the richest are tomato, cabbage, cu-
cumber, celery, beets, lettuce, car
rots, spinach, and milk.
Phosphorus occurs in foods in
many different forms, all Of which
seem of bodily use. Because of the
great Importance of phosphorus, it
is believed desirable to have a mar
gin of so per cent over the daily eX-
change in the body.
Usually, the daily exchange
amounts to 08 gram of phos-
phorus, or almost one-thirtieth of
an ounce. Thus the body needs
daily about one-fiftieth, or 2 per
cent, as much phosphorus as of
protein.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
SEEKS THE CAUSE FOR
HOOVER STATEMENTS

By Perry Rule. Bringhurst
A prominent Bible character said,
when I was child + thought as a
child and spoke as a child. When
became a man I put away my
childish things, and thought as a
man and spoke as a man."
A President of the United States
should at least be full grown man
mentally. But how is this-9Two
chickens in every pot-two cars in
each garage = prosperity is just
around the corner?
IF the Democrats are elected
100000 Mexican cattle with their
heads pointed this way will i'm
mediately come over the border
duty free. They are worth cents
a pound on that side and 4 cents
a pound on this side. The farmers
grain will rot in their barns for
want of a market. Grass will grow
in all the principal streets of our
cities" In the St. Louis speech, "the
depression was definitely over in
1932-the bank panic of 1888 was
based on hysteria induced among
depositors by the incoming Roose-
welt administration"
But he failed to say what kind of
hysteria and how it was induced
that caused the people to kick him
out bag and baggage.
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The HOOsier Forum
acholly diSopprove Of what yow soy-ond a0iU
defend to the death your right to say it.-Votaire.
1885 NA.

the Doctor seemed to be thinking
pretty straight up to the point
where the total income of the peo-
pie of the United States was called
to his readers attention. Then he
went completely haywire.
He had previously estimated that
Is billions of dollars per annum
| would be necessary to pay 5000 a
month pensions to ten and half
million oldSters. He compared this
sum to 40 billions stated as last
years national income and in that
way came to the infantile conclu-
sion that every person would have to
forfeit over half of his Or her in
come to support the plan.
This sort of thinking led up to the
ridiculous statement that every pen
sioner would be compelled to hand
back $1,000 of his annuity for taxes
to keep the ball rolling. How could
this be possible when only &c on the
dollar is the amount of the transac-
tons tax?
The tax is really a money circula-
ton tax, catching every dollar
changing hands every time it
changes hands. 1t will operate in
dependently of other excuses, some
of which in many cases might be re-
duced or even abolished when the
burden of public relief is removed.
Simply measuring the cost of one
years pension payment along side
the mean annual income of all
Americans to determine the ration
of individual taxation is Grass mis-
construction of the plans working
principle. I suggest that DR.. Pritch-
EFT read further in the official
pamphlet with view to acquiring
a clearer understanding of the plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

CT. LOUIS, Jan. 6.-Scientif1c re-
- search is moving forward at a
pace swifter than at any time in
history. This was illustrated here
last week by the unusually large
number of important advances re-
ported at the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Adj
vancement of Science.
Progress has been particularly
significant in six fields, a survey Of
the weeks proceedings reveal.
Some of this progress is certain to
reflect itself Immediately in prac-
tical application to the fields of in
dustry, engineering and public
health.
l. Cosmic rays. Papers by DR..
Arthur H. Compton and others
demonstrated the stage has been
reached where the rays can be used
as a tool to explore problems in
astronomy, physics, chemistry and
biology.
2. The Ductless Glands. Papers
by Dr. B. A. Houssay, South Ameri-
can psychologist, and various asso-
citation members, illustrate that
glandular therapy rapidly is reach
ing the point where it will be able
to prevent many diseases whose
cause is now unknown and to rem
edy many conditions of i'll health
which now yield only to surgical
treatment.
8. The ancient history of America.
Reports indicate that the basic
problems of prehistoric America
gradually are being solved.
4. Biology. Significant advances
are being made in the physical and
chemical mechanism underlying
life processes.
5. Electronics. Physicists reported
many technical advances in expert
ments involving the atom and its
constituent particles.
6. Weather. Important advances
have been made in an understand
ing of the cycles involved in the
causes Of the weather. Motion pic
lures presented by DR.. r. H. Cod
dard of rocket experiments in Mexi-
CO demonstrated that the rocket can
be developed into an instrument for
the exploration of the upper at
moSphere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
Questions and Answers

of the Powhatan confederacy. His
name was Wahunsonacock, but he
was commonly known to the whites
as Powhatan from his place of resi-
dence.
Odd Richard Halliburton swim
the Panama Canal at night or in
the daytime? From what points
did he swim?
Ale started from Colon on Aug.
II, 1923, and arrived at Balboa on
Aug. %. He swan during the day
Q-Is there any sound from a
falling tree in forest where no
one hears it?
Att would depend upon the def
milton of sound. The usual defni-
ton is that sound is a sensation
produced by air waves set in mo-
ton and striking against the tyn-
panum of the ear. Under that def
milton, there could be no sound be-
cause there was no ear present. In
physics, however, sound is defined
as form of vibrational energy
which occasions the sensation de-
scribed above, and under that def
milton, sound would be present in
the forest despite the fact that no
ear was present.
Q-When did cambridge Colby
hold the Office Of United States Sec
rotary of State?
A-From March az, 1920. to March
/, 1921, inclusive, in the Admiristra-
lion Of Woodrow Wilson,.
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WE STAND CORRECTED
Our Apology for Calling Re-
publican Mann a Democrat
The Editor.

The Editor.
The Editor:
There appeared in your pa
per under date of Jan. 2, ON
Page 8, an article under the
heading, EARL MANN IN
RACE FOR JENCKES' SEAT"
in which you stated that I am
candidate for Congress on the
D e m cratic ticket. Now,
whether some one gave you
this information to injure me,
or whether it was written as
a joke, or was written by mis-
take, I am not able to ascer-
tain at this time. However,
if it was written as a joke, I
must say it was a dandy, but in
either event I feel that you
should know the facts so that
you might run correction.
In the first place, I am a
Republican and intend to be-
come a candidate for Congress
on the Republican ticket in
the May primaries in the Sixth
Indiana District against whom
soever may seek the office.
I have been accused of many
things during my career in
politics. I have been accused
of being a regular and an ir-
regular. I have been accused
of being standpatter and a
progressive, but this is the first
time I have been accused of
being a Democrat. 1t is too
bad, however, that I could not
have received this accusation a
year Or two ago, when it was
much more popular to be q
Democrat than it now is, and
when I read this article I stood
in amazement trying to visu-
alize how my Republican hat
would look in a Democratic bull
ring, and have my friend, Col.
Werneke, as a political bed
fellow. 1t would indeed seem
more strange and bewildering
to me to run on the Demo-
cratic ticket and at the same
time be against the "Nude
Eel" Very truly yours,
EARL M. MANN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-06
A MAJOR SLIP

nUR neghbor Cincinnati offers one of the most
~ interesting municipal government studies of
modern times. Since the .irst of the year it has
been operating without Mayor, owing to the in
ability of the City Council to agree
That was a major slip of the political powers
If people discover they get along without Mayors
they may move to the conclusion that they can do
without some other officials. The United Press re-
ported that life was flowing smoothly in Cincinnati.
That was bad for people who make living filling
government jobs.
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boss to assure unity of design the
rest of us who live under this gov
eminent should do our part, wheth-
er it be to our fancy or no.
AS long as that gentleman acts
within certain bounds his authority
should be respected, his desires
should mean something, his orders
should be executed - and that
whether he is a Democrat, Re-
publican or a Socialist.
Republican House leader, Bertrand
Smell, lamenting over conditions,
took issue with the President for
broadcasting his opening address to
Congress. He said it was without
precedent. In other words, he
questioned the Presidents right to
do it.
The point is this: Regardless of
what the President had in mind the
request was not extraordinary or
outlandish. In addition, many peo-
pie like to hear the President. They
would do the same for any Presi-
dent.
Our Congressman acted lot like
battling babies.