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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2. 1888.
A NEW LEAF
IA scRIPrs.HowARp NEwsPAPERl

TN its approach to the problem of its jobless, the
= United States has turned .over a new leaf
dissatisfied with Red Cross and charity handouts
soup kitchens and doles even with improvsed made
work projects at subsistence wages this country be-
gins today a nationwide system of unemployment
insurance, based upon industrys responsibility for
It's casuas. Under the new Wagner Lewis Doughton
Social Security Act taxes for unemployment insur-
are collectable as of on some 20 billions
Of pay rolls, covering about 175000O0 wage workers.
the first taxes to be paid year from this month.
The unemployment insurance clauses of the new
act are far from perfect So many classes
empted that only about third of all the gainfuly
employed are covered. Because the act guards the
states rights principle there will be checkerboard
of 40 different systems with only lowest common
denomination of standards. So far only eight states
and the District of Columbia have unemployment in
surance laws. Maximum benefits under these laws
range from SIS to $18 a week for from Is to 20
weeks in arr year. But since the Federal govern
ment gives credit to employers in states with ap-
proved laws up to 80 per cent of their taxes it is
expected that the states will waste little time in
passing suitable laws so to keep their tax money
at home.
There is nothing radical about this American
adventure. Compulsory unemployment insurance
laws operate in 10 European countries, voluntary
systems in nine. The offset method, by which the
Federal government hopes to bring all states into
the unemployment insurance picture has been used
for years here in the collection of estate taxes.
T%OO much should not be expected of the new
l. system. The word insurance" is misnomer.
Steady work and living incomes must through
social controls, industrial planning collective bar
gaining for higher wages, unified and cooperative
effort between management labor and government.
Even then, believe, we must hold reserves for
planned public works to care for the jobless through
longer periods of depression.
But the new way will cushion the shock of tenn
porary loss of jobs for these millions of families.
Senator Wagner estimates that if the United States
had had a uniform system of jobless insurance for
all the states with per cent pay roll tax it would have
braved the depression In 1929 with industrial
of more than two and a half billion dollars. Such
reserves of mass buying power might have shortened
the depression by years. saved billions in relief and
conserved the morale of millions of families. Enemies
of this system should realize that have spent
in the last two and one-half years than seven
billion dollars for relief.
We are catching up with Europe We have turned
a corner Herbert Hoover and the other sufferers
from the Golden Age" psychoss to the contrary,
will go back to the careless ways of social
unpreparedness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

REACH instinctively for the salt shaker when
hear that American women own 40 per cent of
the national wealth.
If it is true, however, that we can actually lay
claim to any such sum, you may be sure that men
managing it for us. Where the handling of
funds is concerned the average male Classics us
with children
Perhaps he's right. But for people who can't
always make change, women seem to have done
pretty well for themselves in a financial way Some
times looks as if it were the men who were dumb
about money matters.
In spite of this being the Twentieth Century
subservient in the business world Though
the courts have made many legal concessions, pub
enough to take care of an inheritance or invest saw
ings run corporation. That's why you invari-
ably find these stories about Woman Makes Good"
Widow Carries Her Husbands Trade given
front page position in the papers. They are on
par with the Man Bites Dog flash.
Moreover that the working woman doesn't have
a fair chance with the working man is common
knowledge. Lower wages, fewer opportunities and
simmer pickngs are her lot. Fortune Magazine dis
closed recently that woman, however remarkable
her ability, hope to very large annual in
come. The male still dominates in business and will
continue to do SO for time, dare say.
Once We have accepted this as true, we prove one
of two things Either we have pretty good business
sense after ALL we've made suckers out of lot of
men. How else explain that within less than half a
century We have taken possession of SO much ma
tional wealth?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
OUR LIBERTIES

WE propose right nov to have our say about two
w bills pending before Congress, because if these
bills are made into law we shall probably not be
allowed to say it.
The measures, fellow Americans, are what are
known as the Federal Gag Bill" brace of danger
Gus assaults on the Constitutions Bill of Rights
falsely wrapped in the red-white andbue of patrio-
tsm They are:
/. The McCormack-Tydings bill to punish for
exerting mutinous influence upon the Army and
Navy" and for melting "the members thereof to
disobedience"
2. The Kramer Russell sedition bill, subjecting
citizen to 10 years imprisonment if he advocates the
overthrow of the American government by force or
violence"
The Mccormack Tydings military dsafection
biz has been called by Congressman Maverick and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
OTHER OPINION
On Controlled Production


There is a definite school Of
thought among economists that the
way to recovery lies in increasing
sales of both agricultural and nom
agricultural goods by keeping prices
as low as costs of large scale pro-
duction will permit.
On the face of it, that sounds like
a good arrangement for every one.
Certainly there is nothing novel in
the idea as far as the farmer is con-
cerned. 1t is the principle he has
generally followed. The novelty
would be in its application to nom
agricultural production. Take, for
example, the farm implement man.
ufacturers.
If they were to adopt the practice
of operating all plants at capacity
throughout the year. throwing the
output on the market when pro-
duced for what it would bring, and
if other manufacturers did likewise,
certainly farmers would be less
mindfd to cooperate in adjusting
their own production to demand
thsu I believe they are today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02

bers and surgeons were each to use
a pole, The BARRIERS were to have
theirs blue and white striped with
no other appendage; but the sur
geon's pole, which was the same in
other respects, was likewise to have
a galley-pot and red rag, to denote
the particular nature of their voca-
ton.
Q-Does the common juniper tree
bear fruit?
A--The juniper communis of Eu-
rope and America, bears dark blue
berries, about one-fourth-inch in
diameter, which are used in favor
ing gin.
Q-Can justices OF the United
States Supreme CourG retire on a
pension?
A-They are eligible for retire
ment with full salary after they
reach the age of 10 years.
Q-When did the last total eclipse
of the sun occur?
A-Feb. 1874, 1884. It was not
visible in the United States as it
occurred in the Pacific Ocean.
Q-Wllat are the ingredients OF
allspice?
At is the dried. nearly ripe
fruit OF pimenta oficinalis lindl, and
is thought to combine the flavor of
cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon.
Q-Is newsprint a hyphenated
word?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
TODAY'S SCIENCE
. BY DAVID DIETZ-

THE star of Bethlehem, we are
l. told, led the wisemen to the
bedside of an infant. The tidings
heard from the sky were said to
have been, "On earth peace, good
will toward men,"
In recent years, it has been FASH
ionable to blame many of the
worlds troubles on science. Science
has made war more horrible. 1t has
aggravated unemployment. The
scientist is pictured as cold and un-
feeling, interested only in his labo-
ratory, careless of the fate of his
fellowmen.
I have chosen, therefore, to preach
sermon in defense of science.
The situation was well summar-
lied by Prof. Albert Einstein in an
address before the students of the
California Institute of Technology.
why does this magnificent ap-
piled science which saves work, and
makes life easier, bring us so little
happiness?" he said. 1.-The answer
is: Because we have not yet learned
to make sensible use of it.
1T is not enough that you should
understand about applied science, in
order that your work may increase
mans blessings. Concern for the
man himself and his fate must al
ways form the chief interest OF all
technical endeavors. Never forget
this is the midst of your diagrams
and equations"
Science has not only brought the
world great technical advances, but
also a spirit, its own guiding spirit,
and in this there hope for man
kind.
The spirit of science is, first of all,
the wish to know, the urge to seek,
the desire to comprehend the uni
verse. To the true scientist, prac-
teal applications have always been
He has sought primarily
to understand nature and the uni
verse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
ADVISES THAT u. S. DO
SOME SWORD RATTLING

By Jimmy Cafour0s
This talk about neutrality and
peace in due time clogs the appetite.
A respectable neutrality or a digni-
fed peace is really what the paci-
fists. both selfish and altruistic,
probably mean. It is evident that
Self-respect is too high a price to
pay for peace, and that even neu-
trality has its borderline. The
Lord once said, IF a man slaps
you on one cheek, turn we to him
the other cheek" And I am sure
that the Lord would have, said that
if this man developed habit of
slapping your cheek that you would
do we'll both to yourself and to him
if you punched him on the nose.
1t does not take much magma
ton to see our grandfathers ana
their forefathers bouncing violently
in their graves, rafting their bones
and crashing their teeth at some Of
our antics.
Japan roars and we listen. Ger
many shakes a battleship or some
new gadget at us and we wonder.
MuSsolini fires salvo and we scurry
to our mole hills of neutrality in
the land of peace. We dread war.
In fact we dread war so much that
it is becoming an obsession, trait
of our generation and inherent
characteristic of our times.
If our forefathers had taken the
attitude we take we hardly would be
an independent nation today. They
lived by God and by right and
feared no man. "By the Great
Jehovah and the Continental Con-
gress!" They feared the Lord and
kept their powder dry. They we'll
realized that the Lord helps those
that help themselves.
The time has come for Uncle Sam
to quit singing neutrality and
worrying about the peace of the
world. It's time now to put the
house in order, to buckle on his own
armor, to go into the international
market place and do a little sword
rafting on his own score.
1t is time for Uncle Sam to tell
some of the Hitlers and Mussolinis
and premiers and prime ministers
and dictators that they shall pay or
else. That they shall pay this ma
ton what they owe. to- Then the vet
Grams can get their bonus. What
Uncle Sam owes the veterans is but
a flicker aside of what the other
nations owe Uncle Sam.
Sometimes one sees a comparison
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
A PRAYER
BY GRACE M. COOK

This day seemed long and weari-
some,
The hours dragged by on feet of
lead;
The same old, tame old slow hum
drum,
Tonight the same old bed.
And yet there was the miracle
OF rising sun and falling rain,
And a fleecy, flying, sea-gull cloud
Seen through my window pane.
Dear God, let not this apathy
Of spirit rule my day again;
If loneliness I can not see,
Then stab my heart with pain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
ADVANCES MRS. COOLIDGE
AS G. o. p. CANDIDATE
By Martin r. Kuehn, Richmond

BY Martin r. Kuehn, Richmond
Recently Gen. Hugh Johnson re-
ported in The Times that most of
Roosevelt's recovery plans had gone
haywire. The 1886 elections were
approaching. He had scanned the
horizons and there was nobody
other than Roosevelt in sight. Not
even dark horse to cast a shadow
across his path.
Hugh simply forgot to look
around the corner. There are at
least SO men in the state of Ohio
alone who can smile as desperately
as my candidate Roosevelt. Some of
them have a better radio voice
Hardly one of them, however, would
be so reckless as to try to ride two
white horses running in opposite
directions. That's what my candi-
date Roosevelt has been doing.
I have been reading The Times
quite regularly for several years. AS
Roosevelt man read most of the
pro- Roosevelt editorials. But it has
seemed to me that the editor has
been just too much "all sweet and
light" in one corner. 1t seems to me
he's been neglecting his country. DO
you twig me?
Many Roosevelt admirers have
been doing him a disservice by
signing on the dotted line-it mat
tered not what the contents, as
long as it bore the New Deal label.
My candidate is in the market for
some honest-to-goodness criticism
from the pens of Mr.. Roosevelt's
friends. This, for the editor of The
Times.
Long ago The Times had a duty
to take Roosevelt to task for his
Nays Cts his Navy, isn't IT'D in
sulting gestures to Imperial Japan.
Why did The Times editor wait
until Senator Key Pittman, stool
pigeon of the New Deal, blasted the
f1imsy pretense of Roosevelt's
"neighborliness" policy? A big drive
has been on for months and months
to pit the United States against
Japan. Where have you been, Mr..
Editor?
For full year now British di-
plomacy has been taking Uncle Sam
for ride. Why did not the editor
of The Times announce in good
time that sanctions" was but a
misleading term for war"
Why did he not point out that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02

Q-What are the time limits of
New Years Eve?
A-The evening or by extension,
the day before New Years Day. The
last evening or day of the last day
of the year.
Off the United States had a
population density as great as that
of Italy, what would be the total
population of the United States?
A-The density of the population
in Italy is 344 per square mile. Since
the area of continental United
States is 3.O26,78 square miles, the
same density would give it a total
population of 1,041 ,215 416.
O-What is the origin of the
striped poles to designate barber
shops?
A-During the middle ages, in Eu-
rope, BARRIERS were also DENTS and
crude surgeons. In those days,
bleeding was one of the commonest
methods of treating disease, and
from this comes the red and white
BARRIERS pole representing bandages.
In 1877, LORD Thurlowe, in a speech
In the House of Commons said, that
by statute still in force. the bar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
The HOOsier Forum
a0holly disapprove Of achat you soy-a1ad pOin
defend to the death your right to sag it-Voltaire

between the veterans of the Revolu-
ton and those of the late war.
Neither one got much out of the
mess.
However, there is this distinction.
The Revolutionary veterans knew
they were going to get nothing.
Because they knew there was
nothing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02

Peace in itself is not ideal 1t is state which
results from the achievement of ideals of the rule
of reason, justice and law within and among ma
tions.-The Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, arch
bishop Of Canterbury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
I our
Health
Bu
DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN

GONE people believe that use Of
~ chlorinated water causes steril-
ity and decrease in the birth rate.
Others have tried to blame the in
cidence Of influenza on chlorination
of water. Some people have asserted
that cancer has resulted from using
it.
There is not the slightest reason
to believe that any of these asser-
tions is true.
Chlorinatlon protects water
against dangerous germs. For that
reason 1t is commonly adopted by
all health departments to prevent
epidemics of diseaseNwhen a suitable
supply of fresh water is not other
wise available.
There are fanatics who flood
their bodies with fluids and in their
places of employment wear paths
from their desks to the drinking
fountain
nVEREMPHASIS on water is
" Just as bad as overemphasis on
anything else. Water in excess of
the body'S requirement in its chem
iStry is eliminated from the body
by the kidneys, if they are func-
tioning well.
If the heart or kidneys do not
function well, an excess of water
may be a serious detriment to the
human body.
The human body also requires a
certain amount of salt for its health,
and an excess elimination Of water
after undue sweating may bring
about severe headaches, abdominal
pains, or cramps, which are an in
dlcation of an unSatiSfied need of
the body.
If salt is added to drinking wa
ter for workers exposed to high de-
grees of heat it should be added in
the proportion of teaSpoonfui to
a quart of water. The fluid will
then be retained in the body to a
greater extent and the symptoms
are not likely to appear.
nOCTORS commonly recommend
SAAO AAAh4AlS Va 1dA &C
OF water when people are sick,
particularly with fevers. This is
done because fever increases greatly
the rate of evaporation of water
from the body surface, and water is
necessary in such cases to replace
the fluid that is lost.
The following foods contain more
than 70 per cent water: Beef iuice.
berries, buttermilk, calls foot Jelly,
cream, eggs, fruit juices, fresh fruits,
gruels, leafy vegetables, milk, she'll
fish, string beans, tomatoes, veal,
and vegetable juices.
These foods contain less than 80
per cent of water, as they are usu-
ally eaten: Butter, cakes, candy,
ready-to-eat cereals, coconut, crack
ers and biscuits, dried fruits, nuts,
popcorn, potato chips, pretzels,
farmers sausage, smoked bacon,
suet, sirupS and zwieback.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02

fTtmes readers are inuited TO eTpress
their Uiet0S in these columns, religious
controversies excluded. Make 1our letters
short. so all can haze chance. Limit
them to ESQ 11ords or less. Your letter
must be siQned. but names aoiU be
t0ithheld on re0ueSt.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
DAILY THOUGHTS

If We have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, We shall say unto
this mountain, Remove hence to
yonder place, and it shall remove;
and nothing shall be impossible
unto you-St. Matthew 1920.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02

EAITH evermore looks upward
Il and describes objects remote:
but reason can discover things only
near-sees nothing that's above
her.-Quarles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
TINE trouble with wild game

TINE trouble with wild game is
u that it is out of the average
persons line of eating habits. "A
Nimrod once brought back deer
from Canada and presented us with
what I suppose should be called a
haunch of venison. Well, we &C
copied it with thanks. I do not
remember how we disposed of it;
probably to the firemen. The next
day the hunters wife called up and
asked us to dinner. Too dense to
decline, we arrived to find the re-
mainder of that deer-or most of
it-carried in state to the table. So
we had to choke down venison after
all.
FORTUNATELY, the guests were
= not solemn about it. They
saw the humor of group of every
day Indiana citizens saving away
at deer. Irrepressible Kenneth
Merrill was in the crowd, as I re-
call, and he dubbed this great dish
from the forests of the North "the
ancient withers of a Patagonian
puma"
Merrill, by the way, has a curious
hobby. Wherever he goes he hunts
up the principal church, or cathe-
dral, and gets permission to play
the pipe organ. He has played or
gans all over America and Europe.
For manufacturer of plumbing
supplies to play the organ in ST..
Paul's, London, is quite an achieve
ment. But he did it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
Questions and Answers

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when addressing any question of fact
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Times Home Service Bureau. 1913 Thir-
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Legal and medical advice can not be
given. nor can extended research be I'M
dertaken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02

THIS is the time of year when
\ huntsmen come home with
more rabbits than they can use and
give them to their friends. If you
watch closely you will see men 60
ing home from their Offices with
rabbits, wrapped in newspapers,
under their arms. In the SUMMER
it's fish; in the winter it's rabbits.
Although ones family may have no
tolerance for rabbits, one must be
polite and accept with feigned joy,
at the same time praising the
proves of the hunter. That's what
he wants anyhow.
Long ago I developed a fine pro-
tective technique in this gift bunny
business. My natural thrift pre-
vented my dropping the unwanted
rabbits over the railing of bridge.
So I made practice of stopping at
the nearest fire station and passing
the delicacy along to the firemen.
That rid me of the rabbits and
raised my standing with the fire
men. They naturally thought T had
shot them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02
Squaring
The Circle
Ws%b
McCREADY HUSTON
MY chronic insomnia has enabled

MY chronic insomnia has enabled
Ava me to digest the many "bests"
of the old year selected by the
knowing young men on the Indian
spolis newspapers-best films, best
football players, best everything. I
would like to find out who started
this "best" business. This morning
at 3, when I awoke and could not
go back to sleep, 1 had a good time
checking up on whatA had been best
and why.
was left with just trace of
gloom, however. What is going to
become of us if there is no credit
to the wheel horse, the fellow who
is just good but who can not hope
to be rated best?
THIS is a genuine problem in
- psychology. I have a little
friend, boy, who at 10 does not
look forward to the pinnacles. He
has plenty of latent talent, which
education may bring out. But when
asked what he wanted to be when
he grew up, he answered, "Just
plain man." There is wisdom from
the mouth of a babe.
Time was when to be just plain
man was desirable ambition. But
now, when everybody is graded, the
good, plain man may be made to
feel inferior, which is one of the
worst fates that can descend upon
human.
Another boy of considerable wit
a lad who, by the way, persisted in
a motor wreck not long ago-was
asked the same question so many
times that he became irritated. The
son of distinguished lawyer, he
astonished the head-patter by say
ing that when he grew up he
wanted to be a wiper in a round
house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-02

T REACH instinctively for the salt shaker when
hear that American women own 40 per cent of
the national wealth.