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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05


and few in numbers. The plant may even wilt
and die
Whiting is merely the result of the cells of the
plant losing water by Transportation faster than it
can be replaced by absorption.
Growing plants adjust themselves to their environ
ment in many ways to insure a favorable water
balance.
The accompanying illustration (after one by E. S.
Clements shows the appearance under the micro
scope of two sections of leaves of the same type of
plant. The sections vertical that is they tshow
a section through the leaf from the upper to the
lower surface
At the top is the section of leaf growing in a
moist, shaded place The leaf is thin, the cuticle is
thin the spaces between cells in the mesophyl or in
terror of the leaf, large
At the bottom is the section of leaf growing in
dry intensely lighted place The leaf very thick
The cuticle is thick There are several layers of
palsade cells to protect the mesophyn cells These
cells in turn most compact with smaller air
spaces.
In other words, the leaf, growing in the dry place
has developed structure designed to cut transpra-
ton to minimum.
The water balance has much to do with deciding
whether plant will grow in a certain locality.
The natural locality In which plant grows is
known as its habitat Thus the desert is the habitat
of the cactus whereas a wet stream bank is the
habitat of the willow.
Plants grow in the habitat favorable to them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Plenty of Themes

DUT just let my vacation begin
ID and the news OF this day will
TEEN with suitable themes. Within
"a hours after I have pushed my
typewriter into the corner, Canon
Chase will make some sort Of fool
speech and Clarence True Wilson
will do a humdinger for the maya
zines.
Somewhere in the United States,
persons in authority grossly Will
violate the principles of free speech
The kittens will turn out much
more attractive than could possibly
be expected. A man named Glass
will marry a girl called House.
There will be shark scare along the
Jersey coast.
You see, if there was a shark
scare I could repeat my favorite
newspaper story about my first
managing editor, Shep Friedman.
Some local correspondent at Nave
sink sent a query reading: SHARK
seen off the beach. Can send 1000
words"
Friedman telegraphed back:
Swim out half mile. If shark bites
you, might use l00."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Il Seems Easy

WHAT I mean to suggest is that
w all sorts of subjects of fasci-
mating nature will keep cropping up
as soon as any columnist gets on the
temporary retired list.
Columnists do get fired, and &C.
casionally they die, but none resigns.
The lure lies in the fact that the
job seems so singularly easy when
you're not actually engaged upon it.
With my toes and some bacon on
a hook, dangling in Hale Lake, I
can think up half a dozen columns
in as many minutes, and since there
is no necessity Of actually setting
them down on paper, they seem like
brilliant inventions.
Not one of them is ever put to
the test. By the time I get back
to work all these notions have been
forgotten. The unwritten novel, the
play which the dramatist is going
to do some day and the columns
which are invented on vacation time
all attain to heights which the
written word can never reach.
Naturally I am going to spend my
entire vacation pining over the fact
that there is at the moment no
space for me to fill.
Quite a lot Of time viii be spent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

so useless to one who knows how
to eat intelligently.
The 18-day diet has the appeal
of the word llywood-America'
land of fantasy and mystery with
the appeal of beauty and adventure
and youth. True. even the 18-day
diet will not make the billoWy lady
of Lake Shore drive, who never does
a stroke Of work and who buys her
color in the beauty shop, either
figure or complexion like that of
Carlo, Gloria Swanson or Mary
Pickford, but for 18 days she will
have the thrill of thinking that it
might do so.
Last of all, the 18-day diet has
the appeal of false advertising.
glorified and exaggerated as gossip
always is in the retelling. 1t has
the claim that it was worked out
over five years by French and
American physicians and that they
said it was safe.
Those claims are, briefly and sue
clnctly-just HOOEY!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

as he increases his amount of caloric
intake beyond the needs of his body
for routine physiologic wear and
tear. But he won't stay on the diet.
He will get tired Of it.
The 18-day diet has the psyche
logical appeal of mob action. There
is the desire to be doing what every
body else is doing. There is the
thrill of competition.
One hears them going about and
asking each other: What day are
you on?" And the answer comes
ringingly: I'm on the tenth day
and I've lost five pounds That
answer is met by the challenge:
I'm on the twelfth day and I've
lost eight pounds"
But when the period is over the
diet fanatics will find themselves
craving chocolates or matted milks,
or juicy steaks with French fried
potatoes, and sugared ham dripping
with brown gravy, and back will
come the pounds again. 1t all seems
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

it has become rather clear during the last week that
China is assuming stiff -necked attitude,
There two sides to nationalism in China, as
elsewhere. Chinese nationalism has been the hope
of the Chinese people. 1t has brought them nearer
national unfcation and freedom from the encroach-
ment of foreign powers In this has had the support
of enlightened public opinion in the United States and
Europe.
But the bellgerent and provocative side of ma
tonaism is a thing which the Chinese must re-
strain for their self-interest. They can not af-
ford in Manchuria for the very good reason
that both Russia and Japan have greater war
strength than the Chinese have. Regardless of the
outcome of Manchuran war; the chances are over
whelrning that China in way or another would
be the chief loser either to Japan or to Russia or
both
China is confusing two separate issues Tie ulti-
mate ownership and management OF the disputed
railroad and its present status It's status regulated
by the treaty of 1924 providing joint Chinese Russian
control. That status broken by Chinese seizure of
the road, must be re-estabished China can obtain
proper safeguards against alleged Russian abuses But
China must respect the treaty She can not be per-
mitted to overthrow that treaty by force.
With the treaty of joint control in effect again.
then China, in orderly and peaceful manner pro-
coed with her efforts to persuade Moscow to sell
trade Russia's rights in the railroad
Meanwhile, China is the last country in the world
able to risk military decision of diplomatic dispute
She is not strong enough now. She would get hurt
badly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

THERE is a tradition that fine
H. game futters across the path
when the hunter walks without his
gun. And I have found it much the
same when taking vacation from
the job of columning.
Next week, and after that another,
I shall be fancy free. In the year
and a half of unremitting and I'M
interrupted toll which is coming to
a close, the reader may have de-
tected now and then that was up
against it for a subject.
One writes of cats and fishes and
horned toads out of desperation. At
times it is as hard to pull out a
column as a tooth, and far more
painful all around.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Too Many MiSfitS

DR. HARRY DEXTER KITSON,
~ professor of education at Co
lumbia University, believes that at
least so per cent Of the working pop
ulation of this country are misf1ts
at their jobs.
Results of this maladjustment, he
declares, are poverty for the work.
er, a low industrial output, a gen.
eral raising of the cost of living
and crime.
No one can observe the enormous
turnover in employment, the con-
tinuous changing from job to job,
the chronic dissatisfaction of en-
ployer and employe without realiz-
ing what disagreeable amount of
truth there is in Dr. Kitson's obser-
vationS.
In an obviously mechanical age,
we have an educational system
which functions on the theory that
its most sacred mission is to flood
the universe with preachers and
poets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Love of Nature

WEAR after year I have planned
l. a vacation which should take
place entirely beyond the borders of
the New York district. But it never
works out that way.
Connecticut is very lovely in
August. Even dry spell, such as
the one which RACES now, can not
rob the woods of their bright gaiety.
1 know a lake set down among
white birches, and from it's shore
you cannot see house, barnIor filling
station. ! like to sit on the rocks
beside Diana's cove and watch the
big fish jump and listen to crows
circling overhead.
I could spend hours listening to
the crows circulating above Hale
Lake. I could, but generally I don't.
The first twelve and a half minutes
is stirring, but when you've heard
one crow you've heard them all.
And though know no fairer sight
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Youths Belief in Self

EDUCATION should heed the
IL warning, Youth is no longer
interested in the dry rot of vision
aries. 1t dreams as it always has,
but with a far different purpose.
The once glorious pastirne of sup
posing, guessing, specializing and
wising has grown dull.
For the first time in human his
tory, youth has learned to believe in
itself, to visualize a future that it
can help to shape and to discard
those weifd imaginings that leave
it out of the picture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Poker Calls

A ND have missed many glori-
L Nous moonlight night along the
ridge because Of my obligation to at
tend the weekly poker game. This
is a duty from which I feel that no
man in good health has a right to
take a vacation.
1t isn't fair to the other players.
1t isn't fair to myself. They might
get the idea that I am afraid of
them because things have been going
none too well of late.
Possibly with a little rest to
freshen me can show them some
thing different. At any rate. I will
not let the matter of some fifty
miles come between us.
Indeed, my secret wish always has
been to commute. I'd like to spend
my days out in the open spaces and
then return to town for the citv's
pleasant night call.
once 1 selected the ideal lob for
myself, and still want it. I would
like to be the shepherd Of the sheen
in Central park.
Copyright, 1929. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
~ 49,
87q6A4 F Is I7|t4le
ANNIVERSARY
44tE2
ENGLAND DECLARES WAR
Aug. s.


Aug. s.
EIFTEEN years ago today, on
Il Aug. S, 1914, England declared
war upon Germany for violation of
Belgium'S neutrality.
On Aug. 2, Germany Informed the
Belgian government of its inten-
ton, provoked by alleged French
activities, to enter Belgian territory
and to advance up the Meuse valley
to attack France.
The following day, Belgium
reached its heroic decision to defend
its own neutrality and responded to
the German ultimatum with the
declaration she purpose to defend
her soil against German violation.
Belgium also asserted that she
had at all times been equally pre-
pared to defend herself against
France or Britain, and thus demol-
ished the whole German ediflce of
allegation that France was planning
to attack Germany through Belgium.
The crisis was reached Aug. 4,
when King Albert, in presence of
actual invasion, appealed to Great
Britain, Russia and France, to help
him defend his country.
Great Britain sent an ultimatum
to Germany, which expired at mid
night, demanding that satisfactory
assurances be furnished of German
determination to respect Belgium
neutality.
Admitting the invasion of Bel
GUM was in violation of interna-
tional law, German officials declared
there could be no drawing back.
Accordingly with expiration Of the
tine-linit Of the ultimatum at mid
night. Aug. 4, Great Britain declared
war on Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
NJ. E. Tracy
Youth Has Learned to Be-
lieUe IN Itself, to Visualize
q Future That 1t Can Help
Shape.
SAYS:

TT was my fathers wish" says
Il young Huston, winner of the
Edison contest, that I should pur-
sue classical studies, but somehow
the idea did not appeal to me as
vocation. When I looked around for
the thing which made life most in
tersting, I realized that science was
the solution for me-"
Who supposes that young Huston
speaks for himself alone, or that
the sentiment he expresses is not
practically universal.
Science not only represents
achievement, but romance and adj
venture. In that, lies it's appeal to
youth.
The fairy tale is dead, the poetic
instinct runs to action, virility is no
longer content with mere imagina-
ton and the idea that can not be
translated into comfort, or improve
ment fails to challenge ambitious
minds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
FLYING Records

A FEW months ago, after care
N full preparations, two United
States army f1iers set an endurance
record of $50 hours.
Shortly afterward two civilian
fliers from Texas raised it to 172
hours.
Then two Cleveland f1iers raised
it to TIA hours, and a little later
two California fliers raised it to
246 hours.
A week ago two st. Louis fliers
capped the climax by raising it to
420 hours.
Now two Chicago fliers start out
with the idea of raising it to TOO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Questions and
AnSzOeYS
What is phiIOmath?

What is philOmath?
One who loves learning, especially
mathematics. It is from the Greek.
Where and when was COrinne
Griffith born?
At Texarkana, Tex, Nov. 25, 1897.
What is the derivation and mean
.ag of the name Damaris?
1t is an English feminine name
taken from the Greek, that means
a COW.
Was the question of the social
status of the Negro one of the causes
Of the Civil war?
The two great issues of the Civil
war we're the economic question OF
slavery, and the political question OF
the right of state to secede from
the Union. Both issues were settled
by the outcome Of the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Education Wrong

MUCH of the trouble we are ex-
1vK periencing can be traced to
misguided efforts to interest youth
in things for which it has no
stomach.
The formal side of education
leaves our boys and girls cold be-
cause it does not reflect life as they
know it, does not conform to their
Interpretation and does not
harmonic with the march of events.
Some of them flee to jazz for re-
lief, some are discouraged and some
sink to the gutter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Graf Zeppelin Arrives

CUNDAY night. just as the sun
- went down against a cool sky
banked with clouds in the west, the
Graf Zeppelin nosed her way up
New York harbor, four days out
from Friedrichshafen, Germany,
with sixty human beings, two apes
and several tons of freight on board.
Millions of people gathered on
roofs, along sidewalks or in the
parks to view the spectacle.
They neither we're aWed nor be-
wildered by it. To them it was just
one more triumph of human mind
a triumph in which they felt that
they or their children would one day
participate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
The Chinese Gesture

Negotiations between Russia and China over the
Chinese Eastern railway dispute seem to be getting
nowhere.
It is not enough that these governments have
skated over the original danger. The dan
ger remains. And it will remain until the dis
putsnU reach an agreement. The entire Manchurian
situation Is dynamite.
Whatever may be the merits and dement's of the
conflicting charges and claims of China and Russia,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
We Still Need Cavalry

While the army general staff goes over its budget
to where army expenses be pruned without
hurting the efficiency of the army whole, num-
Der of people suggesting that one way of saving
money would be to wipe out the cavalry branch.
On the surface, this looks like good argument.
Cavarymen can't fight in trenches, and trench war
fare seems to be the thing nowadays
Yet the cavalry still has it's uses. In mountainous
arid country it is still valuable of the service
Moreover there ar. competent military men who as
sert the allies could have won the late war much
if they had had enough cavalry troops to throw
INTO action at the right moment
1t is too to disband this ancient organization
If we maintain army on modern basis, it still
must include cavalry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
FIiVVer AirpIane

HENRY FORD and the General
IL L Motors corporation were
thought to have reached the limit
in the manufacture of low priced
automobiles, but James V. Martin
Of the Martin airplane factory,
Garden City, Long Island, an
nounces he has perfected one which
can be sold for 5000, in a water proof
packing case than can be used for
a garage, which weighs only 600
pounds and which will make fifty
miles on a gallon of gasoline.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Castles in Air

THE poets dream has come to
Il earth, finding its way to the
place where real people live, hold
ing real promise for anxious mothers
and big-eyed children.
1t no longer is necessary for us
to build air castles in order to Sus-
tain hope.
We can now project them on the
background Of our fancy with the
idea of actually occupying them
some day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

known a S t n e
water balance.
Plants a t t a | n
t h e ir maximum
growth in height
and the largest
and greatest num-
Der of leaves only
if the rate of the
a b S or p t i o n
is higher t h a n
that of transpira-
ton.
When transpira-
ton exceeds abb
sorption, the plant
is stunted. The
leaves are small
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
1T SEEMS TO ME By H R4oTS

with the newspapers. When there's
no work to be done, it's great fun
to turn to the various editorial pages
and read the columns of the many
talented young men engaged in this
racket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Daily Thought

Thou shalt do no murder, Thou
SHALT not commit adultery, Thou
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear
Ealse witness.-St. Matthew 1918.
THE things which belong TO 9TH
l. ers please us more, and that
which is ours, is more pleasing to
others.-Syrus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
Water Balance Needed
No. 426

TINE healthy life of growing plant depends in
l. large part upon what is known technically as
the water balance.
plant absorbs water through it's roots. 1t loses
water by Transportation, that is, by evaporation from
its leaves
The amoent of water in the cells of the plants is
determined by the balance between the rate of alb
sorbtion and the rate of Transportation. This is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE 18-day or Hollywood diet
l. has a strange psychological ap-
peal In the first place it has the
magic of numbers-the appeal of
doing something for certain def
mite time working toward a certain
definite goal.
But what are you going to do
when it is ended? I asked the ques-
ton of my favorite bookseller, who
answered that he was going to begin
to eat again and to watch his
weight. AS soon as it begins to in
crease he is going back on the diet
again.
1t will increase just as certainly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

than looking up Tie lake, where it
bends round pickerel point, there
does come time when I get little
restless. 1 want to get on the tele-
phone to find out how United States
Steel is behaving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

Mob Appeal Spurs Diet Fad

This is the fourth of six articles in
which DIR. Morris Fishbein, the nations
foremost writer on health topics, tells
how the various reducing diets that are
so popular now look in the eyes of medi
cal science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

The custodian of safety deposit vault in Chi
cago bank says that spooners invading the cool
vault in increasing numbers. Probably they have a
feeling of security there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

Minnesota has discovered several cases of rum
running by airplane. Aviation certainly is making
great strides in American commerce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-05

Mr.. Edge has been named ambassador to France.
He'll have to be pretty sharp to put anything
those foreign diplomats.