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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
The Value of the Crafts Flight

During the last year it has been the practice to
examine carefully outstanding performance in
aviation-such trans-oceanic Highland ask,
Now what earth is the practical value of that
stunt?' And, often than not, the question has
been hard to answer
The flight Of the Graf Zeppelin however, is differ
ent.
Dispatches from the Goodyear Zeppelin factory at
Akron, o., indicate that the dirgible makers there
all ready to build giant passenger drigbles for
ocean service. Regular routes planned, to reach
from California to Hawaii and from the Atlantic
coast to Europe. All that remains unsettled is the
financing.
But the 1nancers were cautious. They weren't
quite about the big drgibles So they waited to
watch the Graf Zeppelin fly around the world The
Akron believe that this flight will remove the
last obstacle, and will make regular commercial ocean
flying service reality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Jobs for the Indians

Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur seems
to be official with good deal of common sense.
When he took Office he found of his major
problems presented by the half million Indian wards
of the government Most Of them, living reserva-
TONS suffer greatly from sickness. Infant death
rates far higher among them than among whites;
the tuberculosis rate is appalling and doctors seemed
unable to find solution.
Secretary Wilbur, investigating, found that the
Indians great need simply job. Most reserva-
ton Indians are idle. Being idle they never have
enough money; hence they go hungry from birth to
DEATH and because of their chronic under nourish-
ment, easily susceptible to disease.
So Mr.. Wilbur is going to remedy matters by
providing jobs for them They are good workers,
and the southwest needs labor so badly 1t has i'm
ported 100000 Mexican workers in the last decade.
Mr. Wilbur believes that by hitchng the idle Indians
to these jobs he will go far toward solving the
Indian question"
1t is marvellous what common sense can do to a
supposedly knotty problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
)AILY HEALTH SERVICE

When their lungs we're examined
after death they we're found to be
full of fluid, and the blood was
found to be thickened.
The substance causing the de-
layed poisoning of this character
was nitrogen dioxide, a dark red
dish brown gas. This is perhaps
the most dangerous and insidious of
all gases.
When nitric acid falls on any
thing organic, nitric oxide is de-
veloped and this quickly takes up
oxygen from the air, forming nitro
gen dioxide or nitrogen tetroxide
Nitric acid will attack wooden
floor, any refuse, or any organic
material in its path and develop
these red fumes.
Various substances contain nitro"
and give off nitrogen dioxide when
they are burned. Anything made
of celluloid, such as X-ray films,
guncotton or dynamite, are eX-
amples of this kind of material
after the burning or incomplete
explosion of dynamite in tunnel,
or the spilling of nitric acid on a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Speculation Unabated

The recent action of the federal reserve board in
increasing the rediscount rate in New York from
to 6 per cent has failed to check speculation and
failed to reduce the amount of credit utilized in
breakers loans The supposedly drastic weapon which
the board reluctantly employed has proved ineffective.
The market collapsed at the time. 1t quickly re-
vived and now speculation apparently is going
merry as ever.
The board just has announced that brokers loans
total $6O85 OO0O OO a record for all time. This is
nearly S2OOOO0OOO more than at the time the board
increased the rediscount rate.
The board in a review of business and banking
conditions at the time verealed that in recent
months there has been a significant change in the
source of stock market credit Loans for account Of
others"-funds from private corporations and indi-
viduas attracted by high interest rates call money
have been the chief factor in the mounting total of
credit.
Recently, however, the board has found that the
increased demand for stock market credit has fallen
upon the banks directly. and that loans were coming
from all sections of the country. The Importance Of
this lies in the fact that one of the boards chief
liances has been pressure on the banks to restrict
this type of operation. Also the board found that
bank investments had fallen $700O00O00 below the
peak of thirteen months ago.
The situation is causing real concern in official
and some financial quarters. The speculative orgy
his gone far beyond the limits of safety, and the
huge amount of credit used in speculation is detr-
mental to legitimate business and industry it is felt
The question arises as to what the board do
about it further. For more than six months the
board has employed one weapon and another with
only transient success. There is little agreement
among bankers, economists, and officials on what
course should be followed, even on the wisdom Of
the measures already undertaken.
It is unfortunate that the bankers themselves
have not taken things in hand If the present trend
continues it is inevitable that congress will intervene
with corrective legislation We shall then hear much
complaint of government interference with business,
but many will believe that business has only itself to
blame.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
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WASHINGTON BURNED
Aug. "a

NN the evening Of Aug. "a, 1914,
" British troops entered Wash
ington and burned the United States
capitol, department buildings and
White House. The vandalism was
made possible by the ridiculous I'M
preparedness for defense Of the
administration in Washington.
Landing of 1000 British troops
under General Rose at Benedict,
Md, created panic in the nations
capital.
acquisitions for militia were
sent hastily to neighboring states
and all the troops in the vicinity
were mustered out. The Americans
selected Bladensburg as the place to
meet the enemy, and toward this
spot there flowed an absurd array
of clerks; secretaries, cabinet Of
ficers, the President himself, militia,
the regulars and 400 sailors.
It was the presence Of these
fighting sailors alone that made the
conflict worthy of the name Of a
battle. Undismayed by the fight
of their friends, the sailors made
firm resistance until the British
got in their rear and they were
compelled to give up the struggle.
The British marched directly
from Bladensburg to Washington,
burned the federal buildings and
left soon after, completing their
campaign in less than week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Criticism

WHY don't you go back where
w you came from?" is the
scream raised against those who
stop short of. complete conformity.
There is no intelligence in this.
The visitor who comes to us a0d
says there is the land perfect in
each detail" must be devoid of any
vital utopianism. Patriotism does
not consist of a complete adher-
ence to the America which is.
I find higher fervor in all those
Of no matter what derivation, who
are committed to the nation which
can and will be. Loving a country
should be somewhat more COM
plicated process than eating an
oyster on the half shell.
And, again, I think it is folly to
complain that aliens maintain with
in our borders the language and
traditions of the homeland. This
is still far-fung kingdom, and it
should have room for many cul-
lures.
Surely 1t would not be a good
thing to take as material for new
citizenship clay soft enough to be
nodded into new forms within day
or week.
People of substance and sinew are
not to be changed so easily. The
melting pot never was intended to
be a boiling caldron fit for the
execution of short orders. There
is no rush. Why not let the stran-
ger simmer?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Questions and AnS7QerS

What is the difference in altitude
between Mt. Everett and Mt. Nc
Kinley?
Mt. Everett is the highest peak in
the world. According to the best
trigonometrical measurements, its
altitude is 90, 141 feet. Mt. Mckinley
has an altitude of 20,464 feet.
What is a travellers check?
Various agencies, such as banks,
travel agents and transportation
companies sell to travellers, checks or
drafts in denominations of $40, $40
md upward, which, when properly
Endorsed by the holder, can be
Cashed in all parts of the world.
What is the highest temperature
ever attained?
The United States Bureau of
Standards says that the highest
temperature attained is about $500
degrees centigrade, by carbon under
pressure. At this temperature all
substances vaporize.
What is the modern equivalent of
the Hebrew measure, ephah?
According to Josephus, the jew
ish historian, it was equal to about
nine gallons. Other sources give its
equivalent as approximately a
buShel
Is it proper to speak of setting
hen, meaning one that is Matching
eggs?
The correct term is sitting hen.
If tree falls in forest and no
one is within earshot is there any
sound?
Sound may be defined as a SEN
sation produced by air waves set in
motion and striking against the
tympanum of the ear. The waves o.
vibration may be conducted by any
other gas. a liquid, as water. or an
elastic solid. Taking this definition
of sound, he falling tree would
cause no sound because no sensation
could be produced if no tympanum
was present for the air waves to
strike. In physics however. sound
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
OEhVIOE
NITROGEN DiOXide Peril Proved

wooden floor, or some similar slight
mishap," say Henderson and Hag-
gard, "a workman inhales some of
the fumes for a time, but is little
Inconvenience.
He goes home and eats his sup
per feeling perfectly well. During
the night edema pouring out Of
fluid of the lungs develops and
before noon, or even before morn
ing, he is dead, drowned in the fluid
poured out in his lungs"
Because it is thought that the
thickening of the blood and its in
ability to carry oxygen are i'm
portant, injections of blood or of
salt solution are made, and some
times quantities of blood are taken
from the veins to relieve the con-
geStion.
Oxygen is given to relieve the
shortness of oxygen and the blue
ness. In such cases the person IS
given a mixture of oxygen and air
and without the carbon dioxide.
Particularly important is absolute
quiet and rest. Neglect of this re-
quirement results in death by sud-
dent heart failure not infrequently
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24

is described as that form Of vibra-
tional energy which occasions the
sensation already described. Taking
this latter definition, sound would be
present in the forest in spite of the
fact that there was no ear to hear
because the vibrational effects would
be produced The question resolves
itself purely into one Of definition.
Does a United States five dollar
gold piece dated 1911 command any
premium?
No.
Does the first day of spring al
ways fall on March 81?
1t may fall on March 20 or 81, and
the tendency is for it to fall slightly
later as the years roll by, as our
calendar error, which amounts to a
few seconds a year, gradually &C
cumulates into minutes. The occur
renee of leap years tends to correct
the tendency for the late arrival of
astronomical spring, but this cor
rection is not sufficient to keep it
from gradually slipping forward a
little bit.
Where a coin does not have actual
representation of a head embossed
on it, which side is heads and which
is tails?
Properly speaking a coin has two
sides, an diverse and a reverse. The
date on United States coins is on
the diverse side. and is referred to
as heads and the reverse as tails.
What will remove lime, deposit
from the inside of a teakettle?
A solution of thirty grams of
borax in one quart of water con-
tanning a few drops of aqua am
monia is said to be effective.
Who originated the expression,
after me. the deluge"?
1t is a famous expression that
originated with Nine. Pompadour.
1t has become a French proverb and
is applied to spendthrifts. There
is an old Greek proyerb to the
same effect
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
The Mystery of Death q

PROFESSOR E. NEWTON HAIR
l. VEY Of Princeton, N. j., causes
dead turtles heart to beat with
super-sound waves, while the Rus
sian scientist, Kouliabko, has caused
a human heart to continue beating
thirty hours after death.
But let us not hope too much, for
both the turtle and human being
remained dead.
There is fundamental difference
between life and its phenomena.
When we are able to make certain
organs Of dead men function as
Professor Hernandez thinks posi-
BILE, we shall still have long bridge
to cross.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Improvement

A VERY vital American tradition
"A is being violated by such groups
as now indulge in the popular pas
time of batting the foreigner within
our borders.
Most of the immigration restric-
tions are based partly on the con-
ception that the average American
is such splendid type that there
should be no further adventuring in
national chemistry. And beyond the
borders of Manhattan the reproacl
is general that the city is plague
spot because it contains so MANY
foreigners.
Somehow patriotism has become
confused with distrust and dislike
Of all aliens. I wonder what has
brought this evil thing about.
Once we glorified in the fact that
America was land of opportunity
for the oppressed peoples of all
lands. We helped and welcomed the
peasant who had the courage to IN
track himself and gamble on his
future in the new world.
Even now we speak with reverence
of our own pioneers, who pushed out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
RuthIessIy Cruel

IF humanity has achieved much
Il because of its believing moods, it
has also gotten into lot of trouble.
In some cases they have inspired
it to be ruthleSsly backward, and
in others ruthlessly cruel.
Witchcraft, the Mississippi bubble
and the tulip mania are only few
of the more outstanding examples.
Right now prosperity is the great
obsession; the idea that we have
discovered an Alladin's lamp, that
the secret of accommodating wealth
is to put three or four enterprises
together, issue stock and let specu-
latorS do the rest.
Putting capital in business" we
call it, seldom pausing to think who
will pay the freight, or the divi-
dends.
Six per cent has come to be re-
garded as not only unsatisfactory,
but unnecessary.
What we Think of now is IL per
cent. or rs, or if times are particu-
larly good, $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
The Eight on Pain

IRON the dawn of consciousness
Il men have struggled for nothing
so desperately as to escape pain.
suffering and death.
Though they have made no head
way against death, they have done
a lot to overcome pain and suffering.
Say what you will, there is no
such discomfort today, as there was
in the world thousand years ago.
One scourge after another, has
been eliminated-smallpox, yellow
fever, cholera, consumption.
Just now the cry is for a cancer
cure, because it has increased as
some Of the other dread diseases
have diminished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, who

~ is right about many things, al
though vegetarian, says that there
is no such thing as typical Amer
lean" Mr.. Shaw explains that this
country houses such numerous
divergent strains that the creation
of a common type is impossible.
He might, with equal truth, have
contended that there is no average
Britisher, Frenchman or German.
Man is still in the making, and it
would be a pity to see any branch
of the species grow standardized.
Accordingly, I have not the slight
est sympathy with recent move
ments in this country aiming at the
preservation and preferment OF the
Nordic strain above all others.
Some excellent scientists have de-
clared that there is no such thing
as Nordic, but, even If there we're,
it would not be enough for him to
say: Here is the perfected model.
Let's stop right here and cease
eugenical experimentation"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Give and Take

A FTER all, if there is wisdom in
IA our national tradition of the
benefits of assimilation it should not
be a one-sided process.
That we can teach the immi-
grant certain things I would not
deny, but he does not come to us in
tellectually empty handed. He goes
to school to learn about us. and we
should have classes where the ma
tive-born can learn about him.
The really vital thing which is
American does not consist of Orders
or of statutes. 1t is a vision of per-
reliability, and some hunky wait
ing his turn at Ellis island may look
across the water and see towers and
turrets climbing into the SKY high
above the last stone set down by
the men who were before him.
Copyright. 1915. BY The TtmesD
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Human Destiny

CTILL, the experimenting must &c
~ on, and if human destiny i'm
plies anything, 1t is increased
knowledge.
Omar Khayyam's idea that we
might as we'll knock off and play be-
cause we can not unravel the mas
ter knot of human fate," is not only
futile, but unavoidable.
Man is so constituted that he must
go on, for even though his efforts to
solve the mystery of creation may be
hopeless, he improves his own lot by
trying to do it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Elusive Cancer Cure

d EWARDS and prizes aggregat-
IN ing some three million dollars
await the genius who discovers a
cancer cure.
1t is only sensible to realize that
this will stimulate quacks, as we'll
as scientists, and that if we do not
look out, a gigantic fake will be
perpetrated.
Dread of disease, together with
the marvels of recent progress has
produced dangerous spirit of
credulity.
People are in mood to believe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
1T SEEMS TO ME By H RrouN

from the Atlantic seaboard to open
up the wilderness of the interior.
1t is stupid to overlook the I'M
doubted spiritual kinship between
the Daniel Boones and the Cahars
and Levitskys, who venture here out
Of the depths of southern Europe.
It's a long way from Odessa.
We should be flattered at the
compliment which is paid to us by
all who put their packs upon their
backs and turn their faces to that
west which lies across the ocean.
1t is quite true that many who
come to America bring manners and
customs unlike those which prevail
among u.s. What of it?
The very radical doctrine Of our
founders seems to have been that
man was pretty swell fellow, need
ing no more than an even break to
bring forth good fruits. So we of
the cities are not the cynics if today
we reaf1rm that faith and fight the
doctrine Of America for Americans
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Times Readers
Voice Vieze,S

Editor, Times:f gangsters and
racketeers run rampant. it Is not
because this country lacks the
competent ant brave men to subdue
them. The pllice can function ef-
ficientiy only when they have the
moral support Of the public. 1t Is
not possible that the indifference
Of the people is due 20 the de-
terioration of the moral quality
worship of the almighty dollar and
material success?
Yours for freedom and iustice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24
Madness of Desire

NEITHER is desire based on sex
l Y attraction the only kind that
drives people crazy.
Greed, ambition, and even. reli-
gion Itself can develop the same
kind of unreaSoning madness.
Anthony bartered the world for
Cleopatra. while Octavius would
have none of her, yet each equally
was obSeSsed with the idea of getting
what he wanted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24

onal relations is very great he has right to express
MS opinions With the persona views and fortunes of
this gentleman the public is little concerned.
But the public is very much concerned With the
fact-if it is fact-that great steel and shpbuildng
corporations employing undercover lobbyists and
propagandsts for -mongering
The Shearer should help to establish the
truth or falsty of that serious charge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24

Right NoaO Prosperity Is
the Great ObsesSion-We
Think We Haze Discovered
an AIaddin's Lamp.
SAYS:
A MOTHER of eight and her para

A MOTHER Of eight and her para
"A mour are hanged in Canada.
Having become infatuated with
each other, they could see no way
out, except to kill the formers hus-
band.
1t is the Snyder Gray case over
again, a sordid, threadbare episode
such as has occurred innumerable
times.
Love, especially of the sex sort,
laughs not only at locksmiths, but at
anything else which stands in the
way, common sense included.
All this woman or Mrs. Snyder or
Mrs. LIE Bout, or scores of others
needed to do was run away, and get
divorced.
Freedom of action means little to
people who have become crazy with
desire, and so does hanging.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
IN the Cleveland Clinic disaster,
l. the patients could be divided into
two groups; those who died imme-
diately, and those in whom the
symptoms were delayed for several
hours,
The ones who died Immediately,
succumbed probably to the effects
of carbon monoxide, cyanide gases
and nitric fumes. They died, as
has been described in previous ar
ticles in this series, by the immedi-
ate shutting off of the breathing
and complete asphyxia.
The second group who died were
extremely interesting because at
first they seemed to be unframed.
Some of them went home and sud-
Only became i'll a few hours later
and died before they could be great
ly helped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-24

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 paper.-The Editor.