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SCIENTIST WORKS FOR YEARS
WITH NO HOPE OF REWARD

the time was that in the autumn the
cells migrated from the rivers Of
Europe into the Atlantic and that
in the spring the young cells came up
the rivers out Of the Atlantic.
Dr. Schmidt set out in a small
Ealing vessel equipped with dredges
to find the breeding place of the eel.
DIR. Schmidt continued his hunt for
the breeding place Of the eel for
eighteen years.
In his small ship, the Dana, he
cruised to Egypt. Iceland, the
Canary Islands and America.
So small was the Dana, that upon
his arrival in New York, seamen
were at first unwilling to believe
that he had crossed the Atlantic in
her.
At the end OF eighteen years, DIR.
Schmidt made the astounding dis.
covery that both the European and
the American eel breed in an area
Of the Atlantic between the Leeward
Isles and Bermuda. The newborn
American cells make for the Ameri-
can coast, and the European cells for
the European coast.
DIR. Schmidt's story is happy
one. He achieved his aim. But sci
ence is full of tragedies.
Many scientists have worked for
half their lives upon problems only
to have some other piece of research
anticipate or else invalidate their
own work.
IN RANGES, lemons and lines
X J may soon be grown in desert
III regions now considered too
arid for them. This is indicated by
experiments undertaken by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture.
The plan is to graft these fruits
on the Australian desert lime,
which grows under arid conditions.
mi HE Importance Of giving an
infant every chance to grow
~ normally is indicated by re-
cent clinical studies by DR. Arnold
Gesell of the Yale University
Psyche Clinic.
DIR. GeselI points out that the re-
tardation of one month during the
first year of an infants life has as
harmful effect as a whole years re-
tardation in a child of school age.
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Resurrection

EXPERIMENT has been tried of reproduc-
II ing on a small scale the conditions of life
on the world as taken as a whole.
An aquarium is stocked with balanced
population of small water animals and plants,
and then sealed up, so that nothing not even
air. can get in out of it.
Life goes on, generation after generation !;
the animals eating the plants and each other !;
the animals breathing in oxygen and breathing
out carbon dioxide and the plants breathing
the carbon dioxide, restoring its oxygen for the
animals to breathe and storing up it's carbon
for animals to eat.
The earth has such closed circle of life.
The same food materials are used over and
over again; the same breath exchanged be-
tween animals and plants The resurrection of
the body is continuous and universal process
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punctured a peaceful pedestrian.
The victim Of that gun flourish is
suing the city for damages.
In the present state of Indian
apolis society policemen. Of course,
must carry guns for something
besides ornaments. They must
possess the courage and skill to
use their weapons when occasion
demands. Local bandiUi can't al
ways be overawed by metal
badges, steely eyes and less lethal
police trappings.
But promiscuous use Of firearms
by policemen is a practice to be
condemned and should be stopped.
A peaceful citizen killed by a stray
bullet fired after a speeder or a
fleeing purse snatcher Isn't in posi-
ton to see the point Of such zeal
Gus law enforcement. AS far as he
is concerned the hasty trigger
finger Of the officer does more
harm than good,
Indianapolis. 1t is better to let a
dozen minor malefactors escape
than to perforate a bystander
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PLANT BREEDING
AND DEITY

E. KUNDERD, Hoosier
IAI plant breeder, famed as a
S grower of gladioli and as
the originator of beautiful new
ruffled varieties. whose gladiolus
farm near Goshen attracts visitors
from all over the country. has quit
the church Of which he was a
member for many years.
The strict elders told him II God
wanted a new variety OF gladiolus
He would make 1t Himself. Scien-
tific plant breeding to improve old
and produce new varieties they be-
lieve to be a reflection on the per-
lection OF Creation and impious In.
reference with the Divine Plan.
Could bigotry be more absurd?
II the narrow brethren could
have their way we would not have
the prankish grapefruit. seedless
oranges. loganberries and other
luscious common fruits. The sweet
cantaloupe would be a Persian
weed bearing hard, acrid little
gourds. Hoosier corn would DO
wild teosinte grass.
Practically all of the fruits.
vegetables and grains which go TO
make up the food OF the human
race are. in their present form,
the result Of human improvement
on nature. Through untold
centuries man has by cultivation,
crossing. and scientific plant
breeding produced new varieties
and perfected plant species for his
use.
Without the Burbanks, the
Hundreds and their predecessors
back to the beginning, man would
be a nomad. drifting from place
to place and subsisting on wild
berries and the products of the
chase like any beast.
If Providence didn't expect man
to bend nature TO his use, TO make
a more beautiful gladiolus than
ever bloomed before, to produce by
crossing and breeding new and
more perfect rose. why was man
endowed with reasoning faculties
and such ability? q
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CHAPTER Is
Meet Mr.. Homo Sapiens

r you were to step up to the
stranger and address him as
- homo sapiens," he might
knock you down. Or If you were to
use that phrase in speaking Of a
member of the highway commits
sion, the board Of accounts might
call an investigation to see If 1t was
true and, If so, who got the money.
Yet, actually, there would be moth
ing out of the way about your re-
mark. For homo sapiens" is the
correct scientific title of the animal
which is sometimes dignif1ed by the
name of man" The phrase can
also be used correctly in speaking
Of a woman, some of whom are also
known as "homely sapiens."
Homo sapiens," in other words,
is ourselves.
Nature, 1t seems, tried out several
varieties Of men before she finally
settled upon us and was satisfied.
Looking around on the street car
any night, incidentally, you will see
men that make you think Nature
is pretty easily satisfied.
Anyway, the Neanderthal man,
who we met in our last chapted,
seems utterly to have disappeared.
He was evidently member of a
differen species from us and some
thing happened to him. Maybe the
weather was too cold for his cave
apartments; maybe disease overlook
him; maybe the prohibitionists drove
him to bad liquor. He disappeared,
as did the Piltdown men and the
Cro-Magnon men and several other
types Of early men.
And in the place of these trial
races we find Mr.. Homo Sapiens
starting life full Of hope and vigor
yet destined to fall victim to blue
laws and prohibition and bell-bot-
toned trousers and politicians and
saxophones and almost every other
conceivable ailment.
In spite Of this, homo sapiens
is the only one of the primitive
races which has survived, and re-
CARELESS of what you hear about the
younger generation, he gives every
promise of continuing to do so.
When first we make his acquaint-
ance he was living in caves, the rent
being cheap and the furnishings
quite inexpensive. And so he was
happy and could look every man in
the face. including the landlord and
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stock, but jack
asses are the laughing stock of the
world.
Wonder if men like women with
little feet because sooner or later
they expect to be stepped upon.
And it's natural that lots of nat
ural things seem unnatural.
If a girl likes antique furniture
she needs an antique bank account
for buying the blame stuff.
Everything isn't foolish. Maybe
eating yeast would pep up a man so
he could get out and raise some
dough.
They are still working on the gi-
gantic Stone Mt. Monument. Bet a
dentist could drill it in a week.
Some people get frantic every
time they see a little of the world.
Leaving footprints on the sands Of
time is considered harder than leav-
ing fingerprints at the police station.
Don't blame a girl for rolling her
stockings until you learn if there
is hole in the knee of one.
Our guess is the Dead Sea dropped
dead when some ancient girl APP
peared in a one-piece bathing suit.
And could you call a girl who sits
up and eatsi a big box of candy on
you stuffed date?
(Copyrigkt. 1925. NEA Service. Incl
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PLUNDERING
THE DEAD

EDWARD RECTOR. promi-
r nent Chicago attorney who
died recently, bequeathed
$4,000, 900 to De Paw University
It was a notable benefaction for
the common good to further educ
cation, but how much of the be-
quest will be applied TO the high
purposes intended by the donor?
According to William c. Harri-
son, ex-secretary of the Indiana
State tax commission, inheritance
taxes assessed in Illinois and Mich
igan, in which States is the prop
erty of the deceased. may amount
to $500, 900. Each State will COM
pute and collect its tax on the
whole estate.
Forty-two per cent of the be-
quest. intended for education, may
be grabbed by the tax collectors!
That's outrageous, double taxa
ton with a vengeance. In the
degenerate days of the Roman
Empire rich private citizens, with
out immediate kin, were forced to
make the emperor their sole heir.
That was merely confiscation of
estates under another name.
Our present inheritance tax
methods would teach Nero, Cali
gula and Domitian that they were
mere pikers in plundering the
dead. We have made the tax col
lector the principal heir Of every
estate of considerable size.
The Rector bequest, If 1t only
shrinks half, gets off easy. In
several cases where the property
comprising the estate Of a de-
ceased person was scattered
through many States the total in
heritance tax assessed by the vari-
GUS States actually exceeded the
total value of the estate. An heir
not only received nothing but was
expected to pay for being an heir.
There is abundant Justification,
perhaps. for Inheritance taxea
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-15
Pleasure Riding
BY Hal Cochran

by ftdl OOcnTd0
- ATHER' s in the front seat,
r and mothers by his side.
- Sure, they're in the auto, and
they're gonna take a ride. Engines
runnin' splendid. though it's pullin'
quite a load. Out a-pleasure seekin'
as they're skimmin' down the road.
Sun is shinin brightly, and there's
not a hint rain. Everything seems
set to make their worries start to
wane. Greenest kind of hillsides
meath a sky that's clear and blue.
Ridin' in the open like all pleasure
seekers do.
Isn't that a picture that should
give man a thrill? Think of plea
sure touring with a lot of time to
kill Still there's something mars
it as the hours roll slowly by. When
the trip is over MON and pop will
heave a sigh.
Sittin' in the back seat there are
tiny ngsters-three! Gettin
kinda sleepy and are fussy as can
be. Maybe it is pleasure at the
starting of a roam. Still. it's even
more so when you get the kids back
home.
Copyright. 1925, NEA Service. Incl
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drawn from their bench whose erroneous bases
are leading us to dissolution.
jefferson, the author of the Declaration of
Independence and one of the chief men among
the founders of the United States Government,
was in position to know what he was talking
about. Maybe even we can we'll afford to listen
to his words, that now sound like words of
warning
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Words of Warning

- tremendous amount OF bureaucratic gov
M eminent and regulation of citizens from
Washington is one of the things that chiefly
characterize life in America today.
Also our Federal judges, with their lnJunc-
ton and contempt proceedings that short
circuit the jury trial system laid down In the
Constitution, are much in the imehght.
In his autobiography, started Jan. g. 1871,
Thomas Jefferson said on the first head:
at is not by the consolidation or con-
centration of powers, but by their distribution,
that good government is effected Were not
this great country already divided into States,
that division must be made, that each might do
for itself what concerns itself directly, and
what it can so much better do than distant
authority. Every State again is divided into
counties, each to take care of what lies within
it's local bounds; each county again into town
ships or wards, to manage minute detalls and
every ward into FARMS to be governed each by
its individual proprietor. Were we directed
from Washington when to SOW and when to
reap, we should soon want bread. 1t is by the
partition of cares, descending in graduation
from general to particular, that the mass of
good and prosperity Of all y
Of the Federal judges Jefferson had this
to say:
at is not enough that honest men are ap-
pointed judges. AL know the influence of in
terest on the mind of man, and how uncon-
sciously his Judgment is warped by that lnfu-
ence To this bias add that of the esprit de
corps, Of their peculiar maxim and creed, that
1T is the Office of good judge to enlarge his
jurisdiction, and the absence of responsibility
and how can we expect impartial decision be-
tween the general government, OF which they
are themselves so eminent part and an indi-
vidual state from which they have nothing to
hope or fear? We have seen, too, that contrary
to all correct example, they are in the habit of
going out of the question before them, to throw
an anchor ahead and grapple further hold for
future advances Of power. They are then, in
fact, the corps Of sappers and miners, steadily
working to undermine the independent rights
of the States"
jefferson commended that Federal judges
should not be appointed for life. He said, II
would not make them dependent on the execu-
tive authority but l deem it indispensable to
the continuance Of this government that they
should be submitted to some practical and i'm
partial control; and that this, to be impaired,
must be compounded of mixture of State and
Federal authorities | do not
charge the judges with willful and ill-inten-
toned error; but honest error must be arrested
when its liberation leads to public ruin. As,
for the safety of society, we commit honest
maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-15
STUDY AND
WORK

E7LEVEN Anderson boys re-
r ceived regular high school
III diplomas this week. having
graduated in the first cooperative
high school course to be completed
in Indiana. For the past two
years they have worked half.time
in the plant OF the Remy Electric
Company ana attended school half
time.
The success OF this venture in
cooperative schooling, combining
study and work, will doubtless
attract attention Of educators.
One Of the pressing school prob
lens is the better fitting Of edu.
cation to practical life. Too many
high school boys feel that their
school years are wasted because
after they roll up their diplomas
and go out and hustle for a Job
they have to start at the bottom
as unskilled laborers.
Manual training courses and
trade schools help to bridge this
bc-P b0NNtNh 0ANAaAAOh anu IVhHf
between theory and practice. But
at best Industrial training in
academic surroundings is a poor
substitute for the training in an
actual factory, where production
and profits. not scholastic credits,
are the goals.
A real wedding of school and
factory offers the solution. Half.
time in industry and half-time in
school will train both hand and
mind ofthe boy. At the same
time he is learning that all Gaul
is divided into three parts. and
other important things he is ac-
curing manual skill and practi-
cal training that will At him for
a better Job than assembling sand
witches In barbecue stand after
graduation.
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BY David Dietz
NEA Ser1Icc Writer
Ew people realize the devotion,

RI Ew people realize the devotion,
r the loyalty end the unselfish-
ness which the scientist-that
pioneer on the worlds last frontier
brings to his work.
1t Is doubtful if the sort Of legis-
lator who votes for anti-evolution
laws could ever understand the
ideals Of a scientist who spends half
lifetime upon some obscure
problem of research and gives the
results to the world without the
slightest hope of any monetary re-
ward.
An outstanding example of the
methods of the scientist is revealed
in the history of DR.. Johannes
Schmidt Of the Carlsberg Laboratory
Of Copenhagen.
In 1904, DIR. Schmidt undertook to
discover the birthplace Of the Euro
pean eel. All that was known at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-15
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON.

both as revenue measures and as
devices to prevent dangerous ac'
cumulations OF wealth. But when
each individual State grabs all II
can from every estate. without
reference to other assessments,
the levy becomes mere plumber.
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OFFICERS
AND GUNS

E7IRAM FISCHER, traffic
IH officer, in pursuit Of flee
ing negro through crowded
downtown streets late Wednesday
afternoon. fired a volley Of shots.
No casualties. The pursued was
wanted for insulting a woman.
Chief Rikhoff censured the Off
Ger for his target practice in a
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MANS IDENTITY SOUGHT
Middle-Aged Person Is Drowned In
Lake Michigan
Bv times Special

BV Times Special
LA PORTE. Ind. Aug. Is
Authorities are endeavoring 10 learn
the identity Of n middle.aged man
who was drowned when his canoe
capslzed off waverley beach in Lake
Michigan near here. The canoe was
about 500 feet off shore when seen
to upset.
Another unidentified man swan
out 10 the canoe In an effort 20
save It's occupant but was unsuc.
cessful. The canoe was bright red
and carried the initials n h"
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" I " W VI . "a
{ h o roughfare
which endan-
gered the lives
of innocent by
ISLANDERS. The
reprimand was
proper.
Another po-
liceman the
same day blazed
away because a
truck driver
failed to stop
after damaging
his auto in a
minor traffic ac-
cident. A few
months ago an
other Jealous
officer fired at
"a oV,aarlar and
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apartments, BARRIERS and haberdash-
ers and even plumbers.
In our next chapter I will tell
you the sad, sad story of how they
started.
NEXT-EvolutiOn Into Debt.
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Tom Sims SAYS

A mans face may be his fortune.
So may a woman's. Then a vanity
case holds a lot of fortunes.
Only time a mans hair will really
stay parted Is after he has parted
with It forever.
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All other questions will receive per.
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They are going
to make a little
money out of
wheat If prices
don't go against
the grain.
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Now Is the time to put coal in the
cellar If you can get prices out Of the
attic.
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Most returning vacationists have
changed so much they have very
little change left.
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Statistics show every fish weighing
over 10000 pounds has gotten away
lots of times this summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-08-15

H ors q S and
cows and pigs and
such are valuable
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How many commercial and bank
failures were there In the United
States from 1921 TO 1928. inelusive7
The figures arc as follows: Com.
mercial failures. 1921, 1889; 1922,
1855, and 1928. 1878: bank fail.
ures, 1921. 4o4; 1929. 277. and 1929.
SIS.
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A Thought

For we brought nothing into this
world, and it is certain we can carry
nothing out Tim. 6:7, 5.
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What was the hundred years
war?
The struggle between France and
England from 1887 20 1853. inter.
rupted by intervals OF peace. The
first period CS37.1360l was concerned
with the claim OF Edward III on
England TO the French throne
through his mother, Isabella. daugh.
ter Of Philip w. as against that OF
Philip VI OF France. This period
ended with the peace OF Bretigny
and included tho English victories
Of Crecy Poiters and Calais. Charles
V OF France renewed tho war in
1869 and hostilities continued until
the treaty Of Troyes Q420l. Charles
V won back much OF the territory
lost in the earlier struggle, but
Henry V of England was victorious
over Charles VI at Agincourt, and
was nominated as his successor 60
the throne OF France. Henry VI,
who renewed the war, was defeated
by the French through the inspired
aid OF Joan OF Arc. BY the year
1853 the English were driven from
France and Calais was all that re.
NAMED 10 them.
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That is true plenty. not to AVE,
but not to want riches.-St.
Chrysostom.
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What was the Confederate Of.
hcer Thomas J. Jackson called
"Stonewal Jackson7"
This is an allusion 20 his stub.
born defense OF a position In the
first battle OF Bull Run.
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Furs will be
most popular this
coming winter
among those wild
animals which
haven't been
trapped yet.
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Where Is the Indian Riverf
This is an inlet on the east coast
OF Florida. length about 100 miles.
II is connected with the Halifax
River by canal. and with the sea
by the Indian River inlet. on It's
banks are popular winter resorts.
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How many laws and resolutions
have been passed by Congress
since its first session in 1889? How
many were passed by tho last Con.
gress7
Congress has passed $4,000 laws
and resolutions since that time. OF
these S0,3i0 were private measures
and 1880 public acts and resolu-
lions. or these 1924 were laws.
The recently adjourned session OF
Congress enacted 632 public laws.
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nlngs family l. william Jennings
Bryan's mother was Marian Eliza
beth Jennings before her marriage.
Is the ROLLER pigeon" the result
OF cross breeding7
Yes. This breed like the tum.
bier and other similar breeds OF
pigeons. originated from a certain
form OF inbreeding and crossing un.
III the desired results were achieved,
after which they became a distinct
breed
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Can gophers be kept in captiv.
ity as pets, and what kind OF food
should be given them?
Gophers eat grass. roots. vege.
tables and nuts They can be kept
in captivity. although they do not
make especially good pets, The bot.
tom OF the cage or pot must be OF
some hard substance like cement or
metal TO prevent their burrowlng
through 10 liberty.
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We All V ant
Quickness
Editor Times

- I goHy,
= s s:: 1 lon,
you lifts der
more der big
dings vat ISIS
venting on eff
ferry day yet,
gifts you der
idees dot der
PEBBLES vat vas
madeing inves-