davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
REASON By FfERE5HSk hASDIs

A LITTLE thing like senate censure does not seem
"A to disturb Bingham of Connecticut, for he will
not resign and seek vindication as is implied by re-
election, the only thing a Of blood and pride
could do since longer service under such stigma
make him only senate outcast
Still he will not mind being dispatched to any
senatorial ST. Helena, since he is polar person who
never in his life carried a loving cup in his old kit
bag and his apparent indifference to the consequences
of being branded is but a later expression of that
high-hatiSm which has made him so unpopular with
his colleagues.
But along with Bingham's naughty contempt for
the condemnation of his brethren there may be a
dash of prudence; he may fear that he might not
be reelected
He may possibly remember that in the early
eighties Roscoe Conkling and Thomas Platt resigned
from the senate President Garfield refused to
appoint their collector Of the port Of New York.
TTOR that utterly grotesQue provocation Conklng
l. and Platt made dramatic exit from public life
and returned to New York, expecting to have their
honor massaged by triumphant reelection. but the
state OF New York refused to do it, and turned them
out to Craze in the bleak and barren pasture OF po
cal oblivion.
The most dramatic resignation and reelection of
national law maker In our history that of Pres
ton S. Brooks of South Carolina, member of the
house of representatives who assaulted Charles Sum-
ner of Massachusetts, he sat at his senate desk
because Sumner had make speech aSsailing Senator
Butler of South Carolina.
The house of representatives censured Brooks who
thereupon arose and resigned his seat and went back
to South Carolina, where he received as a hero
and reelected receiving every vote but six and thus
Endorsed and fumigated he returned to Washington
and resumed his public labors.
THE great disappointment in Bingham's case
arises from the fact that much expected of
him, for he had both heredity and environment on
his side, his father being missionary and his past
occupation being that of university professor.
Had these agencies functioned in his life as sci
ence assures they usually do. the senator from
Connecticut should have been model Of propriety.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
TT SEEMS TO ME By HfaW0HD BRoUS

ter man and along about next Mon
day I may get around to it.
Mr.. Balderson deals with that
most fascinating theme the f1ctional
quality of time. Early in the play
the hero uses the figure of a man in
a boat and above him another in all
airplane.
The man in the boat has just left
behind him a clump of willows.
They have faded from sight behind
twist in the river. A bend lies just
ahead of him. He does not know
what he will see when he has passed
that corner.
But the aviator sees both the will
lows and the farmhouse ahead
which is still concealed from the
| boatman.
Some believe that we are supers
in the infinite scheme who march
behind the backdrop only to appear
presently again and again before
the audience.
Yet if the procession marches only
forward the front rank which has
passed the reviewing stand is no
more out of existence than the COM
panies which are yet to come. Thus,
if one can but gain altitude enough
to see the whole of the panorama
that is no such thing as death.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12

ords. What has happened can not
be changed.
Some mathematician might write
some day play about two parallel
lines which can not meet because
Euclid forbade them.
Still even Euclid was forced tc
admit the possibility of an inf1nity
and SO in Berkeley Square" there
is the hint and promise that in
Gods time perhaps these two, sepa-
rated by the centuries, may achieve
the customary happy ending upon
some common cosmic plane.
And among other things the play
contains the finest acting perform
ance Of the season, which is given
by Leslie Howard.
If you plan to see only one play
this year, go to Berkeley Square.
If your budget provides two eve
nings in the theater, see it twice.
Copyright. 1929 bv The Times
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12

engaged, football shows an exces-
sively high incidence of injuries
and the same is true of boxing, la
crosse, soccer, and wrestling.
When the coaches we're asked
their opin IN, they pointed out that
some methods of coaching ignore
the hazards to life and limb and
look only to the winning of con-
tests.
In some places men are played
who are not conditioned properly
and in other places players are
kept in the contest even after they
are exhausted, because of lack of
suitable replacement material.
Finally, there is the charge Of in
adequate medical examination and
supervision of athletes and the
making of too rigorous schedules,
usually planned to build up at
tendance.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12

is not enough that actual reduction is imperative.
That policy certainly has the support of America.
But the statements of Hoover and Macdonald dur
ing the latters visit to Washington seemed to indi
cate that Britain while granting so-caled parity,
would insist on higher cruiser tonnage scale than
now maintained by the United States The net effect
of such naval Limitation" agreement would be for
us to build more cruisers.
We hope such will not be the Hoovers return
to an emphasis reduction, if it is statement Of
American policy for the London conference is most
welcome If the President will stand that policy,
with friendliness but with frmness the Macdonald
government should be brought around to reducing
British cruiser strength to the present American
tonnage.
The Presidents informal proposal that food ships
in war time be given the free status of hospital ships
appears to have more value aspiration than AS
a practical measure. Indeed he said the matter was
not under discussion and would not be at the London
conference
Starvation of and children, use Of poison
gas and all the other cruelties Of apt to be
practiced so long as fight, regardless of prior
treaty pledges
The only way to humanize war is to prevent war.
And that is what the President, with the overwhem-
ing support Of the American people, is trying to do
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The common notion that football
is the most hazardous was substan-
tiated by the fact that there were
$40 football injuries, 166 baseball,
13O basketball, eighty wrestling,
ssventy-four boxing and seventy
three track and field, notwithstand-
ing the fact that there were 1926
men playing basketball as compared
with 5,400 in football and 6,955 in
baseball
intercollegiate football, according
to the figures, is three times as
hazardous as interclaSs football.
Apparently twelve out OF every 100
football players receive injuries
during the season, usually in the
form Of fractures, dislocations and
chronic sprains that disable the
men for more than three weeks.
Considering the number of men
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12

DACK where the century began it
- was the custom for New York
dramatic critics to weep at first
nights. I remember when was a
boy all the ashcans in the neigh
borhood were plastered with the
poster of a local attraction which
boasted that Alan Dale had cried
throughout the third act.
But the younger reviewers who
came into the profession were more
hard-boiled 1t is true that Alexan-
der Woolcott confessed upon occa-
sion my honorable eyes were moist
with tears" This, however, was
largely literary device to indicate
that Woolcott had enjoyed the en-
tertainment.
And for the most part 1t is and
has been the custom of the critical
fraternity to sit dry-eyed In aisle
seats with hands conpactly clasped.
The critic even feels that it Is be-
meath his judicial dignity to ap-
plaud.
Nevertheless I confess that the
Lyceum theater must still be some
what damp with the tears 1 shed
during the performance of John
Balderson's Berkeley Square" This
may have been crude tribute, but
it was the only way had to in
dicate the fervent belief that I was
watching a play of true magnlf1-
cence.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
Their Last Chance

Under the law, three members of the
school board will serve until the first of the
year. Two other members remain upon the
board for two years.
The people of this city, one week ago,
emphatcally disapproyed of the policies and
activities of these members. The verdict
was at least five to one against their contin-
uing in power.
During the campaign, the members vlo-
lently protested that they had no selfish pur-
poses to serve and only wanted reelection as
a means of vindication. They did not re-
ceive the vindication. The people said they
wanted an entirely new and different board.
If these members wish to establish them
selves in public confidence and add any weight
to their claims that they had made moth
ing but errors of judgment, they have one
chance in immediate designations with an
understanding that the appointment of the
five members elected by the citizens commit
tee should at once take Office and replace
them.
The people have said very definitely that
they want these five to take charge of the
schools. They have said that they want
them to name the teachers and handle the
contracts and supervise the education of the
youth. They can not begin too soon.
The positions bring no salaries so that no
member can be said that he is being deprived
of any financial rewards, unless
Nor can any of them assert that they
must carry out a mandate from the people to
serve out their terms of office. To four of the
five the people have very definitely said that
they do not want any further service. The
fifth was not a candidate for reelection.
After so overwhelming vote of lack OF
confidence, it might seem that self respect
would urge these members to give up these
unsalaried jobs and disappear from the horl-
zon of the schools.
If any one member can suggest any
reason for not resigning, The Times would
like to print it. And if any reader knows of
any valid reason, after such a tremendous
vote. for the present members serving for
one day, it will try to find suitable reward
in the way of fame and publicity for the
reader and the answer.
1t is, of course, the last chance these
members have to appeal to public confidence
and engender any feeling that after all, per-
haps, they were not so bad, if they are good
enough to recognize the popular will.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
><ZZ1X%%SS~
!g1TlF1eH
|ANNIVERSARY|
Ii
THE SEWING MACHINE
November IL

.ON Nov. II, 1850, patent on the
~ first sewing machine to sew
curving seams was issued to Allen
B. Wilson, New York cabinet maker
and inventor He also introduced
the rotary hook and stationary
bobbin.
Wilson'S invention aided mate
rally in popularizing the sewing
machine which was just then be-
coming a real competitor Of hand
labor as the result of other inven-
tions by Walter Hunt, Elias Howe,
John Bachelor, Isaac Singer and A.
E. Gibbs.
AS the fundamental patents OBJ
tanned by these pioneer inventors
have graphically expired the most
satisfactory features Of the older
machines have been adopted by all
modern sewing machine manufac-
turers.
Today also is the anniversary OF
the birth, on Nov. II, ITO, of Joseph
Hopkinson, author of Hail Colum-
bia!"
And on Nov. u, IT'S. Americans
under Montgomery entered Mon
treal, CanaaA
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
Questions and
AnS7OerS

What is Alice Whites latest pic
ture? What will her next film be?
Her latest picture is Broadway
Babies" Her next will be "The Girl
From Woolworth's."
Who said "a rose by any other
name would smell as sweet?"
Shakespeare in Romeo and Ju-
het."
What is the longest hit ever made
in baseball?
There is no official record, but
Harry Heilmann of the Detroit
Tigers once hit home run which
was estimated to have Travelled about
6l0 teak
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
WhY AdieCtiVeS2

CUPERLATIVES are not amiss in
- dealing with the theater, for a
play tends to capture the spectator
utterly or leave him quite aloof. 1t
is we'll enough that books should
be Judged in mood of some tram
guilty, but a play deserves the
comment of those who are still hot
under the spell.
Even the newspapers are too
tardy in catching up the opinions
of their reviewers. 1t would be bet
ter, I think, to string telegraph
wire to the seat of every critic and
order him to write running story
like his fellows at the football
game.
am sure that Albie Booth of
Yale could not begin to thrill me
half so much as Leslie Howard did
in Berkeley Square" I am speak
ing only in the mildest manner
when I say that the play Is easily
the finest now to be seen in New
York.
1t is play of true distinction,
towering above its rivals in sea-
son which hitherto had offered
nothing more than few amusing
shows.
And since I like this play and
would do it good rather than harm.
so far as lies within my limited
power, I must add that it is by no
means depressing. was having a
fine time even during those scenes
in which I wept most cop!ously.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
Jury Just Guessed

XX7HAT is worse, the jury might
w never have been put right, II
the picture had not impressed a
photographer as queer, and even he
was unable to tell what was wrong
until he took the picture down and
looked at the back.
Nor did the proceeding end there
since it was thought necessary to
call up the artist to get ar
authoritative decision.
The artist said not only that the
photographer was right in declaring
the picture had been hung sidewise
but that it had been hung the same
way in previous exhibition with
out anybody being the wiser.
Such a masterpiece falls but one
step short Of perfection.
Now that we have had a picture
that can be hung sidewise without
destroying, modifying, or weakening
its message, all that remains is one
that can be hung upside down.
When we have attained that, the
realm of art will have been fully
explored, and there will be nothing
left for genius but to sit down, like
Alexander, and weep that there are
no more worlds to conquer.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
Argument Is FIinnSy

ERANCE will ask the naval con-
Il ference for a radical reduction
in capital ships, on the ground that
they are designed for offensive
rather than defensive, warfare, and
that while naval limitation is de-
sirable, it should apply to the Of
fensive categories first.
This is a bit of casuistry designed
to Offset the possible demand Of
England for abandonment Of sub
marines, to which France always has
been opposed.
According to the French view,
submarines and cruisers are purely
defensive, but the history of the war
would have to be written to prove it.
In the war, capital ships we're
CONSPICUOUS for their inactivity,
while submarines did most of the
hell raising.
What part submarines may have
played in the defense of Germany
was, overshadowed completely by
their operation against allied mer-
chantmen.
There never was another case in
which any particular branch of a
countrys navy wrought such havoc.
Where capital ships destroyed one
ton of the enemies property, subma-
rines destroyed one hundred, and
they did it far from home.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.
by DAVID DIETZ =
Important Step Is Taken to
Bring Back the Old Family
Doctor.

NNE Of the most romantic figures
" in the history of America is the
country physician of a generation
ago, the old family doctor" Not
only was he a romantic figure, but
he was a stalwart and useful one.
Frequently. he was more than
medical adviser to the members of
the family. He was a counselor on
all family affairs, true and trusted
friend.
Within recent years. there has
been a tendency for the old type
of family doctor" to disappear. As
greater and greater knowledge of
disease and its treatment has been
amassed, the tendency has been for
medical students to specialize.
This is only natural. The most
interesting phase of any subject is
always the newest.
But many authorities in the field
of medicine have felt concerned
over the decline Of the general
ractitioner. They have felt that
while the world needs specialists, 1t
also needs general practitioners,
men of the type of the old family
doctor"
There has been a fear that rural
communities might find themselves
without adequate medical service.
An important step to bring back
the Importance of the family prac-
titioner just has been taken in Bos-
ton with formation of the New Eng
land medical center.
One of the chief activities of the
new center will be the training of
family physicians for the smaller
New England communities.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
M. E. Tracy
The Republican Machine Has
Become Dem0rdlizeds and
the Neat Congress May Be
Anti-AdminiStrdtion.
SAYS:

WHAT people get mad about is
w one thing. What they do
afterward Is quite another.
The dry Protestant west, we are
informed by the United Press, is
likely to coalesce with the dry
Protestant south, and it all grew out
Of row over the tariff.
Stranger still, the first effect of
this coalition is to weaken the
Hoover administration, though it
was what gave him such a smashing
victory last year, and Senator
Borah, who was his chief advocate,
is boss of it.
Little prophetic instinct is re-
quired to realize that something
more serious has happened in
Washington than disagreement
over tariff rates.
To put it mildly, the Republican
machine has become demoralized,
and if the process continues much
longer, the next congress will be
anti administration.
One hundred nineteen individuals
face trial in North Carolina as the
result of recent labor troubles.
Eight of them are deputy sheriffs,
charged with murder.
The rest, Ill, are trade unionistS,
charged with lesser offenses.
Meanwhile, seven labor leaders
have gone to jail.
Such is the net result of an
agitation started to better the lot of
workers who are notoriously under
paid, and it does not square par
ticularly well with our boasted in
telligence.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
Between Centuries

THE tragedy inherent in "Berke-
J. ley Square" is that of man
who projects himself back into the
eighteenth century and falls in love
with a girl of that time.
But though he loves her, he knows
that it must be frustrated ro-
nance. He can not marry her, for
he is familiar with the family rec
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
New Trend

A STATEMENT issued by the ad-
N ministrative board Of the new
center says, "The formation Of the
New England medical center will
mark crystallization Of a new and
significant trend in medicine.
During the last fifty years the
trend has been entirely in the di-
rection of the scientific control of
disease, and has resulted in the de-
velopment of great hospitals, great
laboratories, and great teaching
centers. 1t has been a period Of un-
precedented progress and immeasur-
able benefits.
"Yet during this period, a serious
and widening gap has appeared In
the medical structure.
Modern scientific medicine has
acted as a magnet to draw the great
majority of doctors into the large
centers as specialists, laboratory re-
search men and teachers.
Fewer and fewer men have gone
into the smaller communities Of
New England to become practicing
physicians. The old family doctor
the backbone of the medical pro-
fession-gradually Is dying out.
Thus while medicine has devel-
oped to a greater perfection than
ever, its development has been un-
balanced. We have enough doctors
in the large cities, but far too few
IL, tho Y1lro1 dicfrintc
1--WE have superlative medical re-
sources, but they are not accessible
to a large proportion of people.
1.-The New England medical CEN
ter, through its program of bringing
back the family physician and in
jecting the ideals of the family ply
sician into its treatment of the sick,
will help restore a much-needed
balance"
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
A Parachute Record

CIXTEEN persons, one Of them a
- woman, jump from an airplane
at Roosevelt field.
This not only establishes a record,
but sets a precedent.
Time was when a single parachute
descent was more than enough to
thrill spectators at an average
county fair.
From now on they will be demand
ed in droves.
If the law of diminishing returns
operates according to schedule, the
public soon will cease to get a real
kick out of it, unless some one is
hurt
Art certainly is growing simple.
1t makes no difference these days
whether a picture is hung sidewise.
Indeed, to be . great picture, it
must contain such qualities as will
satisfy the spectator, no matter how
it is hung.
Neither is this a matter Of per-
sonal or impulsive opinion, but finds
| Judgement in the decision Of an ex-
pert jury which awarded a prize
without ever suspecting that the
picture drawing it was not in proper
position.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12

Editor journal OF the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
A SPECIAL committee undertook
IN the survey for the Carnegie
Foundation of the entire question
of hygiene of athletic training.
In twenty-five universities and
colleges selected to represent con-
ditions over the United States,
43,923 male students were found to
be engaged actively in thirteen
branches of athletics. Among this
almost $4,000, there were 1920 seri-
Gus injuries and accidents during
the year, including chronic sprains,
dislocations, conclusions, fractures,
collapses and internal injuries.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Cf
one of Americas most inter
eSting writers, and are pre-
sented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude cf
this naper.=The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
In It's Place

"DERKELEY SQUARE" has the
ID advantage of dealing with a
transcendental theme and so the
spectator doesn't so much forget the
price of Nevada Consolidated Cop
per, as gain, a mood in which the
money doesn't seem to matter.
] came away resolved to be bet
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
Daily Thought

And while they are drunken as
drunkards, they shall be devoured
as stubble fully dry.-Nahum 1:1O.
Man has evil as we'll as good
qualities peculiar to himself.
Drunkenness places him as much
below the level Of the brutes as rea-
son elevates him above them.-Sir
G. Sinclair.
How many tablespoons are there
in cup?
Sixteen.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-11-12
Many Football Players Injured
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

This is the second of four articles by
Dr.. Morris Fishbein on the hygiene Of
athletics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-28
T, B. WRIGHT PASSES
Old Time Printer and City
Clerk Candidate Dies.

Funeral services will be held at 2
D. m. Saturday for Thomas 3.
Wright, So, of 642 Division street,
who died at his home Wednesday
afternoon after a long illness.
Burial will be in Memorial Park
cemetery.
Mr.. Wright was a Democratic
candidate for city clerk four years
ago. He was printer employed at
the William B. Burford Company
and had been member of the In
ternational Typographical Union
thitry-five years and also a men,
Der of the Old Time Printers Club.
He was active in fraternal affairs
and formerly was secretary OF the
Comanche Tribe 1913, Red Men. The
funeral services will be in charge OF
the Red Men.
Survivors, in addition to the Wild
ow, are; three daughters, MIS-.
Ruth Howe, Mrs. Joyce Davis ana
Miss Grace Wright, and a son.
Thomas B. Wright Jr., all OF In
dianapolis, and sister, Mrs. Grace
Webster, Terre Haute.