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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Peace in Asia's Cocknit?

None too soon the dangerous clash between Rus
STA and China in that cockpit of Asia as Man
churia appears to have been halted.
According to dispatches from far eastern capitals
the Kuden government has agreed to the Soviet de-
nands for return to the status quo ante the mat
ter of the Chinese Eastern Railway squabble, and
Russian troops reported to be Withdrawing from
Manchuria.
In other words, the Manchurian authorities appear
willing that Russia shall replace the railway officials
arrested and imprisoned by the Chinese last July on
charges of attempting to communize China, after
which the two countries will settle their differences
amicably by conference otherwise.
It is very much to be hoped that the present truce
viii be followed by real peace between Soviet Russia
and republican China. China, at least, stands very
much in need of few years Of tranquility both do
nestle and foreign in which to work out her
destiny.
She now is almost the rocks. And the world has
every to fear no telling what if war should
come.
Fortunately nearly all factors in the situation
make for peace rather than
First, Communist Russia regards China and her
4ouooooOO people potentially one of her most fer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06

Already leading manufacturers
have produced apparatus which
provides only the intensity of SUM-
light and no ultraviolet radiation of
stronger character.
The British authorities are con-
WINGED that if ultraviolet producing
lamps are sold to the general public
they should conform to two condi-
tons:
First, they should give off no ap-
preciable quantity of wave lengths
shorter than 1900 angstrom units.
Second, they should be accom-
panied by printed instructions Civ
ing exact particulars regarding the
amount of time the lamp should be
used and the distance that the
body should be from the lamp when
it is used.
The public should also be warned
against using the lamp in i'll health,
except under the advice Of physi-
clan.
In other words, the ultraviolet
rays should be used for such pro-,
tective value as they confer on the
body through raising the resistance
of the human being to disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Still Pretty EarthY

OUCH an obliterating conception
~ would be all right, if people
didn't have so many little thinks to
think about, but it doesn't help a
mother very much when the baby
has whooping cough, or a father
when the pay check stops.
We're still a pretty earthly set of
creatures, compelled to Wrestle with
an earthly set of problems, and our
greatest need is kind of intelli-
gence that will assist us in solving
them, and kind of judgment that
will prevent us from causing un-
necessary trouble.
Sheer intelligence does not &C
count for the difference between
happy marriage and string of di-
vorces, between a citizen who tries
to do his duty and one who shirks,
betewen the expert who makes a safe,
and the one who cracks it.
There is a Shadowy something be-
hind the scenes, determining wheth-
er we use our ingenuity to create OF
destroy.
That something deserves more
consideration that it is getting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Has His Own Pride
TN spite Of all science and phil

IN spite Of all science and phil
d osophy have taught, the average
individual regards himself as an in
dividual, feels the urge of the ego,
and believes that he must settle
many problems alone.
You can teach him that he is a
mechanism, a product of environ
ment and a pawn of fate, until you
are blue in the face, but you can
not make him act on any such g.
theory when he is up against a
tough situation.
The best you can do, or more
accurately, the worst, is to destroy
his confidence on the one hand,
and furnish him with an alibi for
becoming a nuisance, or a criminal
on the other.
We would be wiser to pay more
attention to the way men act in
this respect than to the way they
talk.
Vocally, they may be ready to
visualize themselves as marionettes
of the cosmos, but when it comes
to doing things, they are not.
Does any one imagine that a
Litvinoff, writing notes on the
Russo Chinese situation, or a Dur
kin, taking some one for a ride"
in Chicago, or Sir Arthur Keefe,
fixing fees for an operation, re-
CARDS himself as "a helpless puppet
of evolution?
Not on your life, each and every
one of them acts on the idea that
he is boss of the job, no matter
what he breaches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Questions and AnSzUe1cS

carried around with the rotation Of
the earth, and except for the prog
ress made in one direction or an
other by the motors of the plane,
they remain in the same relative
position as when they take off
from the earth. This Is just as true
for plane flying in the air as it
is for a railroad train proceeding
over the surface.
How many lives we're lost in the
explosion at the Mather mine, near
Waynesburg, Pa?
It occurred about 4 D. m, May 10,
1928. About 200 men were trapped
near the mouth Of mine of the
Mather Galleries Company and 1875
were killed. Rescue crews and VOL
unteers succeeded in rescuing the
others. The mine caught fire and
burned fiercely following an eXplo-
sion which rocked the district.
Where and when was Tom Heeney
born?
Gisbourne, New Zealand. May
10, 1899.
Is Lois Wilson still playing in the
movies?
Yes. Her latest picture IS The
Ramblers."
What kind of work does a die
sinker do?
He engraves and hardens metal
dies, as for coming.
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tile fields Of operation and she Is well aware that any
imperalistic "capitastic" war against China now
would ruin everything.
Second, the Mukden government being virtually
autonomous and liking It. does not relish the prospect
of the government at Marking flooding Manchuria
With nationalist troops rescue" her from the Rus
sian invader. Mukden's position would be weakened
materially.
Third, the Marking government already has trou-
bles enough Of its own what with civil war or two
on its hands and an empty treasury without taking on
new ones in the guise of hopeless and costly war
with Russia
Fourth the japanese the real power behind the
throne at Mukden are as opposed to Marking sending
troops to Manchuria the Manchurian government
itself. She now is in the midst of a program of
peaceful penetration in and exploitation Of that
OF Asia and every year of peace makes her position
there all the stronger
Fifth, Washington, London and Paris, chief spon-
of the Kellogg pact outlawing war, are well
aware that If Russia and China, two other sigma
tories of the treaty, get away with such pal
pable violation of their pledges before the ink of
their signatures is hardly dry the authority of the
pact-which, after all, is entirely moral-wouId be
weakened sadly.
The Kellogg pact powers and the League of Ma
tons both have been emiss in not acting before now
1t IS true that China now has only appealed to them
citing Russia as the invader and aggressor, but
diplomatic pressure could and should have been
brought to bear On both countries months ago. mas
much as they have been virtually at war with each
other along the Manohurian border since mid-July
Disputes of the kind Russia and China are engaged
IN over the control of the Chinese Eastern Railway
bone of the present contention particularly ss-
ceptbe to adjustment by conference arbitration or at
the hands of the world court.
Both now should be told in plain language that if
they can't agree between themselves, it is up to
them to adopt one of the above alternatives or be
piloried as an outlaw nation before the court of
world opinion.
However, all signs now favor pacific settlement
which is very opportune For certainly ugly war
in Asia would not be a nice background for the COM
ing arms limitation and world peace talk at London
and Geneva.
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~ $50
ls1 TIt4e1
ANNIVERSARY
ElE2G4
ANTI-sLAvERY SOCIETY


ATINETY-NINE years ago today,
~ on Dec. 6, 1880, the American
Anti-slavery Society was organized
in Philadelphia by delegates from
the few state and city societies then
existing.
The society sought immediate
abolition of slavery, and its work
was for many years looked upon as
fanatical or at least hopelessly i'm
practical.
Members Of the society we're de-
nounced, its meetings broken up,
and rewards offered in the south
for its leader dead or alive. Con-
flicting opinion on the question OF
political action caused split in the
societysin 1910.
Nonvoters under Garrison gained
control Of the old society. Others
formed the American and Foreign
Anti Slavery Society, but the organ
ization had outgrown a society and
found a more conservative express
sion in the Liberty party and its
successors.
The parent organization CON-
tinued to exist until after the adop-
ton of the fifteen amendment in
1870.
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May Not Register

"TF We will abandon our principles,
IL scrap our platform, change our
name and throw out all the Jews
and Negroes in our ranks, the re-
spectacle element in the community
will support our candidates. That
is if the respectable element does
not forget to register, as so many
did this past year.
Cali this has happened, appar-
emily, because some one found out
that Norman Thomas went to
Princeton and uses a fork, and that
English is spoken at Our branch
meetings.
1.-THE irony Of 1t is that when we
do get into power, it will be the legs
Of the respectable element that we
will roundly bite. For we are no
petty bourgeois party of reform, nor
are we vastly concerned with moral
uplift, political housekeeping and
the other shibboleths of the reform
ers. We are out for revolution"
copyright. 1929. by The Tines)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Punnfhg

TITO clear the issue, I will state
Il Immediately that I never IN
dertook to say that Cantor's book
had not and would not continue to
sell prOdigiously.
Moreover, he is correct in main
tanning that he is faithful to a
well-known national tradition which
holds that belly laughs are both an
effective and suitable antidote for
tragedy. There are plenty Of clas-
steal examples in which comic re-
lief is used in this same spirit.
1 am stating an individual opin-
ion, perhaps a whim, in saying that
I don't like it, even if it has been
good enough for Shakespeare and
Eddie Cantor. 1t sennes to me a
swing of the pendulum beyond all
There ought to be
some ground between outlaws and
whimpers.
Cantor falls into error when he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
How many colors are there?

HOW many coI0rS are there?
The new International Encyolo-
pedia says: Correctly speaking,
there are but six colors-three pri-
mary Of red, blue and yellow, and
three secondary of orange, violet
and green. All other colors are
compounds of these.
What Is the value of a United
States large copper cent dated 1927?
Three to 25 cents.
What are the premium on United
States dimes dated 1876 and 1888
and United States Nickels dated
1866?
They command no premium.
1 was born in America and mar
ried an alien? Am citizen?
If you married an alien after
Sept. %, 1922, you 80 still an Amer
lean citizen. Prior to that date a
woman assumed the citizenship of
her husband.
Why Is it that a person In an
airplane above the earth can not
see the earth revOIve under him?
Because he can not divest himself
from the earth's gravitational at
traction. The earth's atmosphere or
ocean of air which surrounds it Is
subject to gravitationaI attraction.
ike every other particEa of matter.
and consequently, the at~ belt, the
airplane and the man IN 1t are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
System Out of Tune

NUR attitude toward the nom
" existence of free will is about
like our attitude toward prohibition.
We simply do not drink as we vote,
which, more than anything else, is
throwing our educational system,
especially in it's higher branches, out
of tune.
One moment we stress intelligence
as all important and the next we
proclaim that We can't make use of
it as we would like, because we
have no say-so in the matter.
To sum it up, we're reasoning our
selves into a position where reason
fails to count, using our intellects
to prove that intellectually develops
through automatic processes, proph-
esying that science will produce
super minds, just as it has produced
typewriters and monographs, and,
apparently, with no nobler objective.
Without realizing it, we are not
only trying to dethrone God, but to
take his place as the supreme
product of creation, trying to rep
resent our inflnitesimal achieve
ments as the croWning glory of the
universe, trying to imagine that
mechanical ingenuity equals wisdom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
SCIENCE
By DAVID DIETZ
Scientists Face Difficult Prob
lem IN Reducing All Phe-
nOmena of the Universe to
a Common Set of Ld1US.
By DAVID DIETZ

THE aim Of modern scientific re-
Il search is to reduce all phe-
nomena of the universe to g COM
mon set of laws. Einstein's special
and general theories of relatively,
and his more recent field theory"
were all steps in that direction.
Additional theories, more bewil-
dering at first, no doubt, than either
relatively or the field theory" can
be expected, simply because modern
science has not yet realized its aim.
The thing which makes these
modern theories so difficult is that
We look to them for explanations in
terms of the familiar. Such expla-
nations can not be given. For these
theories are attempts to get behind
the familiar things and explain their
mechanism.
At present science is unable to
answer the question of what" in
many cases. 1t can only answer
"how."
1t can not tell what a light wave
is, or what an electron is, or what
quantrum of energy is. 1t only
can tell how it behaves.
Those who turn to Einstein'S
theories and expect a simple cate
gorical answer such as Gravity is
such and SUCH" are disappointed.
The theory gives no such answer.
The theory tells us that gravity is
the result of the way things happen
in the universe and then goes on to
explain the laws of behavior which
result in the phenomenon we call
gravity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
TT SEEMS TO ME By HF RRoGS

EDDIE CANTOR, the author,
II thinks that 1 was illogical and
unfair in attacking his recent stock
market book, on the charge that it
displayed poor taste.
"You spank me verbally" he
wires, "for poking fun at the recent
stock market crash through my
book, Caught Short Since when
have we testers in this country
stopped making light of catastro-
Plies?
Would you scold Charlie Chaplin
for his travesty, Shoulder Arms,
which kidded beautifully the late
war? Would you have stopped The
Better ole or Bairnsfathers car
toons If you could?
There must be a place in this
country for Caught Short at pres
ent, or it could not have reached
10000 copies at this writing.
CDR. Calvin Smith, eminent heart
specialist of Philadelphia, is recon-
mending the book to his patients
who we're hit in the market. Dozens
of letters from the finest minds are
pouring in every day, calling it a
boon to those financially crippled in
the crash.
when you write of the doings of
Gastonia and the Sacco-V anzetti
affair you deserve a great big kiss,
but when you chastise comedians
for the laughter they bring to the
American public in these trying
times, you deserve and get a great
big hiss from your fellow author"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
EinStein

MODERN development Of the
1VA atomic theory, however, made
the nineteenth century view no
longer possible. According to the
present view, matter itself IS elec-
trical in its fundamental nature.
The atoms of matter are con-
structed by tiny particles called
electrons. The electric current is
stream of electrons in motion.
When a body is positively or mega
lively electrified, it is in a state
where it has a shortage or excess
Of negative electrons.
Consequently, it became apparent
that the discrepancies between
Newton's law and the CIerk-Max-
well equations would have to be
reconciled some day.
EinStein made the beginning with
his theories of relatively. In devel-
oping these theories he went back
to the Clerk-MaXWell equations as
his starting point
AS a result, the absolute space and
absolute time which Newton postu-
lated, disappear. In their place APP
pears a connected space and time,
four dimensional "space-time" or
cOntinuum.
In this, only the speed of light
always appears constant, and meas
urements Of space and time vary
with the speed Of the observer so
as to keep the measured speed Of
light always constant.
The field theory" goes still fur
ther and develops one mathematical
formula from which the behavior of
both gravitational fields and electro
magnetic fields can be developed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Discovered
"VXTE New York City Socialists"
w writes McAllister Coleman,

"VKTE New York City Socialists"
w writes McAllister Coleman,
"these days are receiving enough
publicity to make us all a bit dizzy.
Reporters have discovered the Rand
school.
"a tabloid photographer took our
pictures while we were having an
executive committee meeting. Where
as for two years have been talking
Socialism over our radio station,
WEVD, I always had figured that 1
was talking to myself. Now 1 get
letters saying that I am obviously
crazy and should be denied the air.
Things are picking up.
Kindly old gentlemen who have
thought of Socialism in terms OF
Daniel lie Leon and Herr Most
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06

write long letters to The Times,
and to you, for all I know, saying
that we ought to reorganize as a
moral uplift movement.
Myself, I am buttonholed by
members of my class at Columbia,
now who have decided that I have
no evil intentions upon the veloci-
pedes of their young, and who are
eager to tell me just how to make
the party safe and sane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06

speaks as if laughter were always
an indication of happiness. He has
been around the theater long
enough to know that at times an
audience laughs because it is acute
ly uncomfortable. 1t is quite posi-
BILE to roar at the antics of a COM
edian and dislike him intensely.
The well-known poem has ex-
allied the man who can smile when
everything goes dead wrong. But
that doesn't mean that he must
cackle. And if I'm the fellow who
happens to be in trouble, I'd just as
soon he wouldn't show all his teeth
in his silly grin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
BY DIR. MORRIS FTSHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

Health Magazine.
A S winter comes with foggy days
IA and less and less sunlight,
the manufacturers of artificial sun
light lamps make greater and
greater efforts to sell these to the
public.
There is a general impression,
we'll supported by scientific evil
dence, that a reasonable amount Of
sunlight is good for humanity in
the vast majority of cases.
No one yet has produced a ma
chine which will produce in the
home all effects of outdoor sum
light. Outdoors one gets the fresh
air, the exposure to the breezes,
the exposure of the skin, and other
climatic features in addition to the
light itself. Indoors, he gets only
the light.
In both Great Britain and in this
country serious consideration is be-
ing given to the question of limita-
tons that should be placed on
lamps sold to the public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Newton

ITO realize the necessity of Elm
l. STEMS field theory" we must
go back to the time of Newton. Sir
Isaac Newton formulated his famous
theory of relatively to explain the
way in which objects behaved in the
universe.
His law Of universal gravitation
stated that every object in the uni
verse attracted every other object
with a force directly proportional to
the products of their masses and
inversely proportional to the dis
lance between them.
1t should be noted that his law"
said nothing about the real nature
of gravity. 1t merely described the
behavior Of gravity.
Newton's law was sufficient in
general to explain mechanical phe-
nomena. 1t explained. for example,
the motions of the planets around
the sun. 1t did not, however, COM
pletely explain the motions Of the
planet Mercury. 1t also explained
the tides and the falling of objects
to the earth's surface, and so on.
But Newton's law did not fit the
facts in the field Of electromagnetic
phenomena.
As a result, during the early part
of the nineteenth century, scientists
held that there was an essential diff
ference between matter and cleo
tricity.
Matter was held to be ponderable,
while electricity was governed i'm
ponderable.
NeWtonS law was held to govern
matter while another law, expressed
in the Maxwell equations, was
considered to govern electro-mag-
netic phenomena.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06
Daily Thought

Cast away from you all your
transgressions, whereby we have
transgressed; and make you
new heart and new spirit: for
why will We die, o house Of Is
real?-EzekieI 1881.
II we did not first take great
pains to corrupt our nature, our
nature never would corrupt U.s.
Clarendon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06

Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
eSting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-06

Is Man a Free Agent or q
Machine? You Can't Take
Your Oa0n Guess.
SAYS:

CCIENCE is developing a super
~ mind, says DR.. Constantine Eco
mono of the University of Vienna.
A perfectly safe statement, since
none of us will be here to see it
proved, or disproved.
Not paus:ng to argue the point,
science would be doing no more than
her duty.
Considering some of the problems
science has created, we need a SUI
per-mind.
Existing conditions, however, sug-
gest that we are more likely to get
it by way of adding machines, wire
less photography and other me-
chanical devices than through eX-
pansion Of the brain.
Some people think that we have
more mind than We can use wisely
as it is, and that what we really
need is more conscience.
Other people say that conscience
is a by-product Of the mind, and
there you are.
The whole speculation goes back
to the question of whether man is
a free agent or a machine.
Such savants as Will Durant and
Clarence Darrow being unable to
settle it, why should the rest of us
worry? Yet who can help it?
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tile fields of operation, and she is well aware that any
mperiastic" "capitalistc" war against China now
would ruin everything
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w. <. Henderson iron manufacturer and radio
announcer of Shreveport, La, may be bankrupt
financially but not imagine his ever becoming
short on vocabulary.
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