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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Good Men and Bad

While some people think it is easy to tell the diff
ference between good man and bad man, there are
times when it becomes pulling
Take the case of from Colorado for illus
traton. Newspaper reports describe him as "ruddy-
faced, gray-haired of so, who looks for all the
world like a cultured bank president or a kindly
physician"
We are told that he never smokes or drinks and
reads the Bible So by generally accepted standards
of goodness this ought to be what we call good
man.
Now comes the puzzling part of it. This mans
name is Ralph Fleagle. He is bank robber, and is
in Jail waiting for the great state of Colorado to hang
him by the neck until he is dead He the brains
of the gang that robbed bank at Lamar killed four
men, and got away with $238,0O0.
1t is possible that there is some man in Colorado
who smokes and chews tobacco, drinks hard liquor
and never reads the Bible; yet who wouldn't rob a
bank lay violent hand on a fellow citizen, much
less commit murder
But this ruddy-faced, gray-haired robber and
murderer who looked like a cultured bank president
a kindly physician, and who read the Bible and
never used tobacco liquor told the reporter that
when he captured he his way to New
York to invest his share of the proceeds of the bank
robbery in the stock market.
If he hadn't been caught, then instead of being
tell. But it makes it very difficult to tell
ofhand what the difference is between good man
and bad man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Needs Investigation

CENATOR BORAH denied that he
~ will propose an investigation of
the stock market. Yet it might not
be a bad idea, considering some of
the other things congress has been
investigating.
Not only is the stock market a
very important institution, but our
ignorance concerning it is little short
of monumental.
We still are unable to tell what
causes a crash, much less see it COM
ing, and We are fully as blind with
regard to booms.
Though there is no assurance
that congress could clear up the
puzzle, it might help Some by try
ing. The effort certainly would in
volve no greater waste of time and
money than have some other probes.
Il n
The real mystery Of the stock
market is its shakiness as COM
pared to the supposed solidity of the
structure back of it.
Stocks, as a general proposition,
represent interest in our biggest and
most substantial enterprises.
Those enterprises function with
surprising steadiness from year to
year. There is no considerable fuc-
tuation in their output revenue or
returns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
No Trick at All

A DELICIOUS menu of stuffed
IN olives, tomato soup and baked
beans can be prepared by any en-
ergetic person in ten or eleven min
utes. Canned asparagus contains
more vitamins than the fresh vari-
ETY.. Or maybe it is spinach of
which I am thinking.
Dishwashing is easy if only the
worker has enough imagination to
systematic it. And enough dishes.
Obviously great deal of time is
wasted by washing each dish three
times a day.
The better way Is to take a new
plate for each meal until suff1-
cient supply of used crockery has
accumulated to make it worth while
to roll your sleeves up.
To be sure, my very successful
amateur houseWifery was not COM
plicated by responsibilities of an in
FAINT. He was away, and he isn't an
infant. Still, I feel that baby
would not have bothered me much.
Most of the things which must be
done for children should not tax
even the meaneSt intelligence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14

Some of the hygienic practices
associated with high school and COL
lege athletics are so filthy that they
would not be tolerated for moment
in any other department of life.
1t has been found that the same
athletic clothing is worn without
washing for a long period of time
and in the case of track athletics,
not infrequently for four years.
On the football field, the common
drinking cup, water bottle and
sponge are used in an exceedingly
insanitary manner.
The general uncleanliness of ath-
letic clothing, locker rooms and
wrestling mats is largely responsible
for the spread of ringWorm and in
fections Of the skin.
The most dangerous feature of all
is the constant emphasis on winning
at any cost. To correct this en-
phasiS, there must be a change in
the point of view.
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the nforrner in the face of the attorney generals
objections and obtained conviction Besides acting
as defense counsel the attorney general took ap-
peal to the state supreme court which reversed the
lower body. The supreme courts opinion, written by
Hopkins mas struck many lawyers an amazing doc
ument in fact revolutionary
In the opinion of many lawyers, it gives the Gov
ernor or encouragement authority to promise i'm
munty before rather than after the commission of a
crime 1t permits these two elective officials to
dictate to the courts 1t transfers the administration
of justice from the bench to a prosecutors office,
which is, all too frequently occupied by machine
politician.
Judge Hopkins held that if the attorney general
Thought" the prosecution of Finch would be "det-
riment rather than aid to enforcement" Of the
dry laws it mot only his power but his duty to
take charge of that particular prosecution and con-
duct it to his best judgment"
In other words not only the prosecuting officials
of the county, but the courts of the state must fol-
low the direction of the encouragement. WHICH
raises the question whether if such before crime
immunity may be granted in connection with prohi-
bition enforcement it can not be extended to laws
against murder.
The Presidents law enforcement commission as
well the senate, might investigate this incident in
tration of justice in the United States.
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~ 49,
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| ANNIVERSARY
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BUCHANAN ELECTED
November IA

4NObClQDCl IL
TO-DAY IS the Seventy-second an
Il niversary of the election of
James Buchanan to the presidency
Of the United States on Nov. IA,
1857
The electoral vote was: For Bu-
chanan, 174; for John C.. Fremont,
ia; for Willard Fillmore, g. Bu-
chanan had the vote of every slave
holding state, except Maryland,
which went for Fillmore. The vote
also gave him Indiana, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
In the executive chair, Buchanan
apparently was subservient to south
ern politicians and allowed their
threats of secession to influence his
actions.
After Lincoln's election, Buchanan
was more than ever anxious TO stif1e
the slavery discussion and in his
last message to congress pointedly
charged the north with having
brought about the existing crisis by
a discussion which had produced
its malign influence on the slaves,
and inspired them with a vague idea
Of freedom"
While holding that the states had
no right to secede, ne said that the
nation had no power to prevent It.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Discovered at Last

If there has been any doubt and perpleX-
ity as to the greatest influence in this state,
or perhaps all states, as far as the federal
government is concerned, it is no longer
mystery.
Congressman Vestal, who came into
prominence during the hooded era, revealed
the secret at the Armistice day dinner at
Anderson when he introduced General Ever
son as the speaker of the occasion.
Most modestly, he acclaimed, when
there came the vacancy at the head of this
bureau, at once thought of General Everson
as the right man and in fifteen minutes had
persuaded the President and the secretary of
war"
Of course, this inner view of how we get
this way was somewhat clouded by sugges-
ton from General Everson that perhaps
Governor Leslie had had something to do
with his selection and some of the soldiers
remembered meetings at Camp Knox.
But any man who can persuade President
Hoover and secretary of war in fifteen
minutes about any subject has remained too
long violet.
Those gentlemen who want high tariff
rates and have gone to unusual lengths in
planting their private agents in secret senate
committees must feel that they are mere
children in government.
There were days when the Vestal Virgins
ran an empire. Who can ask Whats in
nameY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Placing Blame

Opinions will differ on the wisdom Of Senator
Borahs suggestion that might be wise for the senate
to investigate determine the real causes OF the COLI
lapse of the New York stock market.
There can be little disagreement. however, with
his prompt and emphatic reputation of the sllgges-
ton that the tariff activities of the Democratc-Pro-
zressive Republican coalition major factor.
Borahs remarks were in specific answer to the
New York banker who said the fight the tariff had
bred disrust and uncertainty and brought about sale
of stocks and that talk of Investigations another
upsettng factor.
AS a matter Of fact, bankers, better than any one
else know that the country for many months was en-
gagged in an orgy of gambling in stocks and that prices
had been elevated far beyond reasonable levels.
They know also that the speculation continued in
the face of repeated warnings by the federal
board and that bankers themselves in many in
stances combated the restrictive which the
reserve board sought to apply.
Also. If they have read the newspapers in recent
months, they know that warnings and complaints
were voiced frequently in congress- many of them by
the much-despised members of the coalition, who
feared exactly what has happened.
Borah points out that the coalition has not at
tackled the protective SYSTEM but merely is seeking
to establish equality between industry and agriculture
under that system and attempting to prevent unrea
Eonsble increases in rates.
The bankers must have expected this If they had
any faith in the campaign pledges of Herbert Hoover
and his associates 1t is not revolutionary doctrine
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Who was the first President to oc-
cupy the White House in Wash
ington?
John Adams in 1900.
Is a passport required of an Amer
lean citizen who wishes to go to
Honduras?
No.
What is the meaning Of the name
Niagara?
1t is an Iroquois Indian word
meaning across the neck"
What steam pressure is required
for a 1-horse power engine?
The United states bureau OF
standards says: Horse power Is not
a matter of steam pressure. An
engine can be designed to develop
a given horse power at any desired
pressure. A l-horse power engine
is really q large sized model. and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Questions and AnS0'e1cS

such engines are generally designed
to run at rather low pressureS, not
over 100 pounds per square inch"
What is the origin and meaning
of the surname Stacy?
The English and French surname
Stacy is derived from the Greek
name "Eustace," meaning standing
firm" healthy"
Are there any women members
of the New York Stock Exchange?
How many memberships are there
and what do they cost?
There are no women members Of
the New York Stock Exchange.
Peggy Cleary of Watson & White,
Hotel Berkeley, New York, is said
to have offered $500, 900 for seat on
the exchange in March, 1928. There
are 1875 memberships in the ex-
change. The price Of seats is now
more than $500, 900.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
SCIENCE
Old Theory of Structure Of
Matter Has Receiued Some
SeUere Shocks IN Recent
Years.
By DAVID DIETZ

WE are such stuff as dreams
w are made Of" wrote Shake
speare. And the modern physicists.
under leadership Of Professor Albert
Einstein, seem intent upon proving
that Shakespeare was right.
EinStein launched an attack upon
the substantially of the universe
when he showed that space and
time were not the absolute and in
variable things they had once been
supposed, but that measurements of
length and the rates of clocks
changed with the motion Of the
observer.
The universe becomes weird, with
space curving OFF into a mysterious
fourth dimension. If you keep on
going far enough in one direction
in space, you would find yourself
back at the point where you had
started.
Time, according to Einstein, is as
eerie as space, for two events which
appeared simultaneous to an OBJ
server on the earth would not APP
pear so to some observer on a dis
tant nebula moving away from this
earth at tremendous rate Of speed.
But the dent which Einsteins
theory made upon time and space
is mild compared to what his work
in the field of relatively and related
fields has done to our older notions
of matter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
WiII-O-The-WiSD

And now science has captured the will-o-the- wisp
and set him to doing kitchen work for the farmers
wife.
We refer to the discovery that boiler of corn
stalks and sludge will give off gas that burns like
hydrogen, and be piped to the kitchen stove and
made to fry eggs and SUCH And the gas they tell
is the that makes those mysterious blush
marsh lights" or the wil-o-the-wisp.
But now the little fellow is bottled up in one Of
the Aladdin lamps of science and comes out genii
to do the masters bidding.
Is this, wonder the first of another of those
little things like Edison's electric light bulb?
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REASON By Pf aaSbTs

CENATOR BINGHAM of Connecticut is censured;
y Senator Blaine of Wisconsin is accused of using
capital policeman for a chauffeur while Senator
Brookhart of Iowa is summoned before District OF
Columbia grand jury to tell what senators drank liquor
at party.
God help the senate of the United statesl
We svmpathize with queen Marie in her political
troubles because she placed her country the side
of the allies during the World war, even though the
king was a Hohenzollern
Being an English woman this was the natural
thing for her to do but it took barrel of personality
to put it across.
These Americans make che tired when they go
to Europe and make speeches, telling how their
country should offer sacrifices for Europeans, Dr. John
H Finley otherwise very estimable gentleman, just
having told the Scotch that should take our Euro
pean debt money and it to educate the children
of the world.
IF Uncle Sam is to play Santa Claus with that money
let him hand it over to our disabled soldiers their
widows and their orphans and there's any left give
it to other deserving Americans who are broke.
We do not have to cross the Atlantic to find
people who need help.
There are 5000 lobbyists in Washington, which is
just 5000 too many.
Every senator and representative is elected on a
platform, promising certain things to the people, and
these should be their only obligations.
BY keeping or falling to keep those platform prom
ises, they should stand or fall.
If the folks back home are interested in any sub
ject, they have only to write to their leaders, in
dviduals organizations, and those leaders will
respond with alacrity
We should like to all senator's and representa-
tives agree to listen to no suggestions except those
which come from the people who elected them.
OUCH course would make 5000 Washington loafers
~ go to work, and it would also purify political
life and restore the old party system which at
its worst was lot better than the group influence
system which we have now.
message from Minnesota assures the nation that
Mr.. Youngquist. who is to take Mabel Willebrandts
job, is fine golf player, peach in tennis game,
an ornament,t TO any parlor and superb dancer
So you may rest assured the country is safe in
the hands of Mr.. YoungQuist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Come Out of Kitchen

TAKE, for instance, the fearful
Il amount of time which women
waste over cook stoves. Why are
they not more alert to realize the
time saving escapes made possible
through modern invention?
Slack mindedly they wait for
watched pots to boil when they
easily could take something just as
good from a can and warm it in a
very few minutes.
Nor is this mere fantasy. I've
tried it. Left alone in three
story brown stone front without
outside aid of any kind, I ran the
house for almost ten months with
out half trying. The usual schedule
of busting and cleaning was adj
hered to, I'll admit.
But women tend to sweep and pol
ish things too much. 1t is my feeling
that room should be freshened up
bit twice year, whether its needs
it or not.
Bedmaking is the simplest thing
ever encountered once you get the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Waves

pUT within recent years, there
0have been disturbing factors to
upset the Bohr theory. The ennis
sion of light is not as simple as it
seemed. Sometimes the emission of
a quantum of light seems to be the
result of the simultaneous Jump of
two electrons.
There were other difficulties. Why,
for example, could the eIectrons re-
volve only in certain orbits? Why
not in any orbit at all?
In addition, while many expert
mentS seemed to prove that light
consisted of quanta, no one could
disproVe the fact that light behaved
as waves.
The climax came recently as the
result Of experiments that seem to
prove that electrons, which had
hitherto been supposed to be little
distinct particles, at times behaved
as waves.
And so the theory of wave me-
chanics grew up, the result of the
work Of De Broglie, a F'renchman,
and SchroedInger, a German.
According to this, the atom is not
the miniature solar system of Bohr,
but a vague pulsating sphere Of
electricity, something like an ex-
panding and contracting balloon.
The reader will ask: Which is
right? Is light a wave or a guam
trum? Is the electron particle or
wave?
The modern physicist, to the
amazement Of the reader, will an
sWer Eyes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Bohr Atom

OUR theories of the structure Of
~ matter, the so-called atomic
theory, reached a high point in the
so-called Bohr atom.
DR.. Neils Bohr of Copenhagen, n
pupil of the famous Sir Ernest
Rutherford of Cambridge, pictured
the atom as sort of miniature solar
system.
According to his theory, which
was based largely on the expert
ments of Rutherford, the atom has
nucleus like the central sun of
our solar system. Around this
nucleus, electrons revolve just as the
earth and other planets revolve
around the sun.
The atoms of different chemical
elements are differentiated by the
sizes of the nuclei and the number
of electrons revolving around them.
Thus hydrogen. the simplest atom
of all, has nucleus consisting of
one positive electron or proton,
while one negative electron revolves
around it. Uranium, the heaviest
known atom, has a heavy nucleus
composed of both positive and mega
tive electrons, while ninety-two neg
ative electrons revolye around it.
Einstein, about the time he first
suggested relatively, also made an
other bold suggestion. Many ex-
periments had seemed to indicate
that light consisted of waves.
Others, in the field of atomic phe-
nomena, indicated that light con-
sisted of little particles of bullets,
called quanta. Einstein's suggestion
was that physicists go ahead cour-
ageously on the basis Of the guam
tum theory.
This Bohr did, picturing the
emission of quantum or bullet of
light from an atom as the result
of the jump of an electron from one
orbit to another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Holding a Baby

CONSIDER, for instance, the
~ popular notion that a man does
not know how to hold a baby. What
difference does it make how you
hold them? Except that right side
up is little better.
There is almost nothing to learn.
According to my calculations, there
are 152 distinctly different ways of
holding baby, and all are right.
AT least all will suffice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14

WHY Is all this not rehected
w more faithfully in stock
prices?
Why Is the market subjected to
such amazing ups and downs, when
values back Of it have already COM
paratively little, or not at all?
Why should shares in Steel,
Radio, General Electric, or a
hundred other institutions have
gone up as they did last spring and
summer, and why should they be
coming down as they are now, when
little has happened to the business
involved?
What is 1t that makes the diff
ference. that causes the speculative
element to play such an important
role, that leads to such an in
applicable disregard of value as in
dicated by volume of trade and
earning capacity?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-14
Blamed on Politics

IF manipulation" fails to explain
Il it, how about politics, as Fred L.
Kent suggests.
In his opinion, the anti-tarif
coalition in the senate is largely to
blame, with its rebellion against the
old guard, its refusal to take Joe
Grundy's word for what is needed,
and its insistence that the farmers
get more of a show for their money.
People have become frightened, he
thinks, because of the talk at Wash
ington. Look for industries to take
slump if the rates proposed by
Hawley and Smoot are not granted,
foresee general unemployment, if
not bread lines.
Senator Borah does not like MI.
Kent's theory any better than
bankers like that of the parIor
economists.
If the stock market can be shaken
so badly by debate on the tariff,
he argues, it is not as solid as it
should be.
One can deny the premise, with
out destroying the conclusion.
One also can put q pretty good
argument to the effest that it was
bull market that led to the tariff
debate, instead of the tariff debate
leading to a bear market.
Easy money on Wall Street has
not made the farmers feel any hap
pier in their lot.
If the tariff makes it possible for
one crowd to get rich by sitting in
front of blackboards, they are Won
dering whether the tariff could not
be employed to take the backache
out of corn patch, or at least
provide better compensation.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers. and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or advancement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor,
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This is the last of four articles by DR..
Morris Fishbein on the hygiene of ath-
BY MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal OF the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TN a survey of the hygiene of ath-
L letic training, che special COM
mittee, working under the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, emphasizes its conviction
that athletics if properly conducted
may be made to contribute signifi-
cantly to the physical health of
students.
They point out that exercises in
general, and athletics in particular,
are not a panacea for all forms of
Ill health from fiat feet to melan-
cholia.
Another point of view is that ath-
letics are in the nature of rene
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Daily Thought

Arise, therefore, and get thee
down, and go with them, doubt
ing nothing; for have sent them.
The Acts 1920.
The inventory of my faith for this
lower world is soon made out. I be-
lieve in Him who made it-Mme.
Swetchine.
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knack. In the morning you pull the
sheets down, and at night it is only
necessary to pull them up again.
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It's a Mystery

VXTHY is all this not reflected
w more faithfully in stock