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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

directly indirectly by its government the press OF
each country misrepresented and held up to public
contempt and ridicule the people of the other
countries.
Any understanding became impossible because the
various nationalties did not each other they
actually were but ugly caricatureS of people whom
it was a delight to hate.
Against such background the makers worked
and when the spark came the explosion followed
a matter of course.
The press of Britain and America, we are proud
to say is perhaps the most independent in the world
1t is unsubsdized for the most part and So If it WILL
it is in position to create such friendly under
standing between the peoples Of the two countries
woke armed conflict
In an interview with writer for the New York
Evening Telegram, Ralph D. BIumenfeld, chairman
of the delegation of visiting editors and president of
the Royal Institute of Journalism of Great Britain
said:
Working together, the United States and England
can accomplish more toward international peace
than any other force in the world"
And this, of course is true, but Sinclair Lewis
the novelist, recently told English audience, IF
Britain and America ever are to attain a real part
nership, it must be based on reality
What the author of Rabbit" and Main Street"
had in mind was typical squib he appears to have
seen in an English publication and which, apparent
ly, nettled him.
yale my college, mister" cultured Amer
lean was represented as saying to Englishman
land if We don't larn English thar, you can dog
my cats =. you've slobbered a bibful mister. Put
it thar" etc., etc.
Naturally we do not take such nonsense as this
seriously but'we do agree that when Americans and
British caricature each other they owe it to the
great cause of Anglo-Amercan amity to stick to
basic truth. Jerking the chair from under ones
grandmother is not fun.
Life scarcely would be worth living without our
little jokes at the expense of our friends across the
Atlantic, but they should be good-natured jokes and
contribute to the general understanding of one an
other rather than mutual contempt.
The English-speakng people of the world can do
much to advance world peace and understanding, as
Editor Blumenfed says, but only on condition that
they first learn to understand each other That is
a job which we suggest the press Of the two coun-
tries tackle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Overcome Ignorance

The struggle for human rights
has passed beyond the quarrel as to
who shall rule, Notwithstanding the
bleatings of Mussolini and Lenin,
democracy has taken firm root. 1t
may be modified as to mechanics,
but its principles have been irrevo-
cably established.
What men seek now is to take
advantage of the opportunities
which democracy guarantees-the
opportunities of free conscience and
free speech, which are important not
so much because they permit us to
voice opinions as because they make
it possible for us to discover truth.
The battle line of humanity has
shifted. We face the horizon,
rather than each other. The object
now is to overcome the limitations
and tyranny of ignorance, to break
down the barriers that have
hemmed us in, to pursue the I'M
chartered trails Of science.
We used to associate ideas with
words, used to believe that thoughts
were only genuine when expressed
in language. Now we are beginning
to understand that the whole struc-
ture of civilization rests on BRAIN
work, that everything we create is
but the translation of mind into
action, that the chair, the gas stove
and the radio set are no less repre-
sentative of intellectual achievement
than pictures, poems or orations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Demand for Facts

Enter the laboratory and exit the
lyceum, scholars are discovering too
much for debate to hold its place
in the sun. We demand facts,
rather than theories.
Politics, striving to swim in its
old-time glory, grasps at every
thing in sight to make a sensa-
ton. The result is pathetic. What
began as a high-minded discussion
of national problems degenerates
into a squabble over back alley gos-
sip and old wives tales, we are now
promised a congressional investiga-
ton Of whispering.
With that instructive sense of
value which comes natural to youth,
they turn to the real pioneers, to
the leaders Of human thought and
action, to those who really walk in
advance of the herd, reacting to the
spirit of Lindbergh, just as their
forebears reacted to that Of Daniel
Boone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Revolt at Innovation

Men wall at mechanical progress
as though it we're in the nature OF
sacrilege, as though it were opposed
to culture, as though it sprang from
a different kind of mentality than
produced Greek art and Roman law.
That is tradition crying for the
good old days. the papa complex
revolving sat innovation, the mem
cries o. childhood signing for the
repetition of familiar scenes.
The swiftneSS with which we have
progressed intellectually shocks us
even more than the speed and pow
er of those physical engines we have
brought into being. We find it much
harder to adjust ourselves to the
change of human viewpoint than to
that of mechanical appliances. Men
weep louder for old-fashioned
thoughts than for old-fashioned We
hicles, but to as little purpose.
We dwell amid revolution without
realizing it-revolution which is up
roofing age-old stereotypes and
overthrowing time-honored land
marks, winch is expanding horizons,
altering the relative value of the
cries and turning human energy
into new channels.
Those who permit themselves to
be daunted by fear and regret, or
who waste their time mourning over
the days that are no more not only
lose their chance to play a part in
the drama. but miss its stupendous
Significance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Cows Are Painted

Human ingenuity has done more
than provide us with a few creature
comforts. 1t has changed our atti-
tude toward romance, quite as dis
tinctly as it has altered our methods
of transportation. Great achieve
ments of the past no longer seem
great.
Once this was a land of expert
hunters. Now, as the hunting sea-
son opens, and as pasty-faced
clerks buy rifles, game bags and
corduroy Jackets, the farmers Of
Westchester County, New York rush
to protect their COWS by stripping
them with purple paint. Why
wouldn't it be a good idea to supply
them with talking horns?
Once an argument over the tariff
stirred men to the depths Of their
souls, but now it takes a death
ray" a picture flashed 1000 miles
through space or hundred-story
building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

Modern life offers too many
IV1 thrills for politics to be as in
teresting as it once was. The ora
tors had their hey-day when men
faced no greater adventure than to
walk off into the wilderness or to be
kicked by an OK.
What could Hoover or Smith say
to make the blood tingle, when a
mere woman flies an airplane five
miles up into the air, as Lady
Heath did the other day, or when
a giant dirigible is preparing to cross
The Atlantic Ocean.
Everything is governed by rela-
tivity. The law of comparison per-
mits no exception. We take our
drama where we find it. If science
can stage a better show than poll
tics, we allow it to claim the spot
light. That is not only progress, but
evolution.
When free government was In the
experimental stage, and men longed
for nothing so much as to liberate
themselves from the tyranny of class
rule, politics had something worth
while to offer.
That battle has been fought and
won. We pass on to broader visions
and bigger achievements.
History may repeat itself in prin-
ciple, but not in technique.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Your Voting Machines

You may not be aware of the fact, but you
own the voting machines on which you will
cast your ballot in November.
That is, it was your money which paid for
them
But when you may wish to look them over
and familiarize yourself with them so as to
cast vote in accordance with your wishes,
you discover that they belong to the Coffin
political machine.
There is a demand from many civic organ
izations that some few of these machines be
placed in public places and instruction given
in the manner and methods of pulling levers so
as to cast vote which represents the wish of
the voter.
The commissioners have decided that this
can not be done, although it has been done
before many times. They are afraid that you
will break up your own machines.
What they really fear, of course, is that
very many voters will not vote in accordance
with the desires of the Coffin crowd. They are
afraid that voters will smash the political, not
the voting, machine.
The Coffin machine depends on straight
party tickets for it's success. 1t knows that
any candidate who carries the Coffin brand is
destined to defeat this fall, unless interest in
Herbert Hoover and a fear to cast any but a
straight ticket is greater than the fear Of
Coffin.
The refusal to display these machines is a
confession and a warning 1t confesses that
the Coffin machine is afraid. It is warning
to all decent citizens against its candidates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
The Visiting English Editors

Fourteen distinguished British journalists are
visiting the United States guests of the Carnegie
Foundation for international Peace.
Public opinion today is the greatest single force
for peace there is and the press the greatest maker
of public opinion,
But the corollary of this axiom is just as true
The press can be, and not infrequently is, one ct
the worlds greatest mischief makers. Given abso-
lutte control over the press of any two countries be
they the best of friends war could be provoked be-
tween them in twelve months.
The press of the old world was just as guilty of
pasing the way for the European war as were con-
spirng or laundering statesmen. Usually subsidized
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Questions and AnSzG'eYS

in high repute. Milo of Croton, a
greaat athlete, for six years car
ried off the prize for wrestling in
the Isthmian and Olympic Games.
Japan claims records of the sport in
% B. C. when the Emperor match
ed two very strong men, named
Kehayer and Nimono-Sukune, for
a bout. The latter killed the for
mer, and thus came to be 'tutelary
deity of wrestlers in that country.
Wrestling tournaments existed in
England in the time of the Planta-
genets, but it appears to have been
the pastime of the lower orders on
~. After the early part of the
eighteenth century the sport de-
clined, and it was not until early
in the nineteenth century that an
effort was made to revive it.
What became of the Josephine
Ford, the airship used by Lieut..
Byrd in his polar flight
1t was purchased by Henry Ford
and is in Ford'S museum, Detroit.
What does A. d. after a number
stand for
For Ammo Domini. 1t means I'm
the year of our Lord"
What Is the immigration quota
for England, Northern Ireland,
Scotland and Wales?
34.007 a wear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
AMPUTATE THE CORD
RELIEF TO MILLIONS
DERBIES AND DOGS

HOOVER and Smith will do well
1 4 to cease firing until the world
series between the Yankees and the
Cardinals is settled.
n II
New York City could end the pro-
duction Of indecent plays if she
would line the guilty parties up and
publicly fumigate them.
=
The head of the new Chinese na-
zion and our minister over there
are deadlocked over dispute as to
which nation shall salute the others
flag first, but it won't make much
difference a hundred years from
now.
r.
1t must have been a queer sensa-
ton to Mayor walker when he was
admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court at Washington to have the
judges serve on the reception COM
mittee.
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Deluxe misery alone wins the
front page. Few of us notice the
paragraph tragedies buried under
other news way back in the news
papers.
Tawdry escapades are routine.
Men and women in drunken brawls.
Dope addicts being sentenced.
Nothing is said about what becomes
of their children.
Take Mrs. A. for instance.
Mrs. A. found an outlet for her So
cial ambitions in a blind pig, her
suppressed desire being exclusively,
but fervently alcoholic.
Nor was she able to discipline her
self to the legendary state where
she could take it or leave it alone"
When she started to drink she did
the job thoroughly and in work.
manlike manner, leaving home for
several days at a time. There was
child of and baby. This fact
fretted the neighbors. The hus-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Thumb-NaiI Sketches

band, a Woodworking man, finally
took a hand himself. He took his
wife's clothes and hid them.
She awoke one morning to find
herself entirely bereft of suitable
garments. But this did not battle
her ingenuity and determination.
Through their windows neighbors
saw a strange sight. Mrs. A. was
hurrying down the street clad only
in her husbands raincoat and his
rubber hip boots. Thus para
doxically attired on this sunny aft
ernoon, she was headed for the
usual wet Sociable.
The neighbors telephoned the po-
lice. While her case was being tried
in court on charges of drunkenness
and child neglect, and her sentence
was served, the babies we're being
safely boarded in the Indianapolis
Orphan Asylum, an institution
ready to serve in this emergency be-
cause of YOUR COMMUNITY
FUND.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

Of professor of natural history and curator of the
natural history cabinet of Pava.
When he arrived at Pavia, ne found that the cabi-
net, museum should call it today, existed
chiefly in name only
He went to work, however, and succeeded in build
ing up marvellous biological collection heading macy
expeditions in person.
With the passage of time, his fam grew create
and greater But he decided that he wanted
to sec more of the world he obtained leave of alb
Sence for a years trip to ConStantinope.
But meanwhile his enemies at home were busy
Spallanzan had little collection Of scientific speci-
mems at his home. His enemies published a tract
which they sent all Europe. accusing him of
stealing specimens from the Pavia museum and hid
ing them in his home.
But when he returned to Pavia his students went
to the gates of the city to him. With cheers and
shouts, they carried him to his lecture hall at the
university.
The investigating committee cleared him OF guilt
though De Kruf adds lit is today not perfectly
that he wasn't little guilty.
Spallanzani returned to his microbe hunting
He died from apoplexy in 1899.
De Kruif tells u.s. I'm Pavia there is modest little
bust of him and in the museum near by. If you are
interested, you may see his bladder
What better epaph could there be for Spaanzani? What
relic could perfectly suggest the whole OF his passion
passion which stopped at nothing which
despsed which laughed hardshpS which
feeble pretty fitness Of things?
bladder diseased. Well. have out
dead you hear him whisper dying.
Ma you'll find astonishing fact about diseased
bladdersI That the spirit of Spalanzani.
This the soul of that cynical sningy curious
reasoning that discovered
things-but that built
Fsraday Psteu for Arrhenus and Emily
Fischer and Ernest Rutherford to work in"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Reason

ONE Of the horrible things in
~ American politics is the end
less effort to appeal to groups OF
foreign born and their descendants
to vote an eastern hemisphere hang
over rather than a western hemi-
sphere independence.
We got rid of this for a little
while, thanks to the World War
but since then we have become the
same old international biological
garden.
There should be some way to am
putate the umbilical cords of all
Europeans who come here to stay.
Lady Astor, Virginia girl now in
the British parliament, is right IN
SAYING the naval rivalry Of nations
makes a mockery of the Paris con-
ference which "outlawed war"
After singing Justify ut Amt
Coin to Rain No More" the night
ingales knock each other down.
rushing for the umbrella counter.
AL Smith was wise to trade his
brown derby for dog.
If we had to wear one or the
other, we'd much prefer to wear
the dog.
ultra has the lowest death rate
~ of any nation on earth, 1908
per 1000, all of which is due to the
fact that after chasing out the
Spaniards, Uncle Sam wound the
yellow fever mosquitoes clock.
A PENNSYLVANIA milk man cut
inches off a cows tail because she
switched him in the face.
We understand his feelings per-
fectly, but he went a little TOO 1aI'
The Amalgamated Mortgage Wri-
tiers of America will be astonished
to learn that King George of Eng
land has bought only five automo-
biles in twenty years.
y u
The death of this Texas bog,
caused by his being compelled 70
crawl over an electrically-c charged
bedspring while being initiated into
a fraternity, proves that smart
alecks should be sent to feeble
s-.i,,dad l,O,nes rather than uniVer-
sites.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Many Can't Tell Traffic Light Colon"

subject, DR.. S. j. Beach points out
that there is a loss in such persons
Of what is called central vision.
BY day if we catch glimpse of
an object to one side we can, by
looking directly at it, see it much
more clearly. At twilight, on the
contrary, it becomes still less dis
tinct to the direct gaze.
Persons with total color blindness
see objects as lighter or darker, but
are unable to distinguish the shades
having to do with the spectrum.
Such color blindness tends to ap-
pear in families, so that heredity
seems to play some part in its de-
velopment.
Unfortunately there is little that
can be done for person with such
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
By
Frederick
lands

THE voters of the State of New
A. York should be pardc ned If
they become bewildered amid the
deluge of gubernatorial Roosevelts.
Teddy was elected Governor on
the Republican ticket, then his son
ran on the same ticket and was
defeated, and now Franklin Roose-
Welt is running on the Democratic
ticket.
Il n
It is a great relief to millions Of
people that Gene Tunney and his
lady finally got married.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

a defect of vision. Because they
are adapted to the dark rather than
to the light, it has been found that
cutting down of the light with
shaded lenses helps the vision.
DR.. Beach described one patient
who was able to thread needle and
do some sewing, the family telling
her the colors of the thread which
she was able to remember by having
each color in a certain place in Z e
workbox. She was also able to dis
tinguish by varying degrees Of
brightness.
Persons who are color blind are
sometimes able to distinguish be-
tween red and green signals on
roadways through their variation in
brightness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
GONE people are unable to dis
~ tinguish between red and green,
others between blue and yellow. The
common form of color blindness is
that involving the red and green
distinction.
The blue-yellow difficulty is much
rarer. Some people, very few, are
totally color blind. They are I'M
able to distinguish between colors,
everything having about the ap-
pearance of objects seen by a nor
NAL person at twilight.
In a recent investigation Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
This Date in
i. s. History

Oct. 6.
l865-North Carolina repealed Sc
cession ordinance and abol-
ished slavery.
1S9S-United States troops prepared
to occupy Havana, Cuba.
1912-Nicaraguans surrendered Le-
on, their last stronghold, to
United States Marines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

the post OF pro-
lessor in the
U n i v e rsity of
Pavia. De Kruif
characterizes it
as the ancient
but rundown"
university.
The empress
wanted Spallan-
zani to booster
up the fame Of
the university
He was smart
enough to realize
it and drove a
sharp bargain.
Finally he &C
cepted the post
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Reasoning Is Cynical
No. ia

THE world was at the feet of Lazzaro Spallanzan
Il once he had proved by his beautiful expert
mentS that microbes could not arise spontaneously
but like other living creatures had to have parents
Maria Theresa empress of Austria, sent COM
mission of diplomats to call upon him and offer him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

After all these years of trying, you'd think thered
be at least one citv in America that would succeed in
getting all its downtown streets torn up at once
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

What does the surname Clayton
mean?
1t is an English family name de-
rived from a locality, "clay town."
What is Edward BOk's address?
Merton, Pa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

One heart-rendering thing about this election-it
will part those two wonderful friends the Senate and
Charley Dawes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

We heard Senator Curtis cussed in one of his
speeches the other day when bothered by a heckler
He must be out after the golfer vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06
Daily Thoughts

Pride gOeth before destruction
and a naughty spirit before a fall.
PROV. 1913.
THE infinitely little kRye a pride
i infinitely great aire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

Paris says that skirts should be forty centimeters
from the ground. But it's safe bet that some flap
per in this country will hers at forty-one Just to
be different.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

You can get an answer to. any answer
able question Of fact or intormatlon oy
writing to Frederick M; Ksrby. 9ueStlon
ington bureau. 1922 New York Ave.
Warrington. D. c.. inclosing, 2 cents IN
stamps for reply. Medical and legal
tended research be made. All ether
questions will receive personal reply.
nsgned requests cannot be answered,
All letters are confidential you are
cordially invited to make use OF THIS
What is the value of a John
Ericsson Memorial cent, grey lilac
United States postage stamp?
It is catalogued as selling at 10
cents uncancelled and 6 cents can
celled.
What is meant by "tempering"?
Tempering is the art of impart-
ing to metals, by means OF heat
treatment, a definite degree Of hard
ness. The term is now applied al
most exclusively to certain kinds OF
steel, which are used in the manu-
facture of tools.
What is the history of wrestling?
1t is common to all nations, and
has been brought to a science IN
countries as widely separated as the
United States, Turkey, India, China
and Japan, each of which has its
own laws and methods for the sport.
The ancient Greeks held wrestling
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-06

Famous last lines: "They told me it would cost
5000 to alter that fur coat bought last fall"
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David DIetz on scIenc