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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
OXCART AND PLANE WILL HELP DEPICT STORY
OF AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION AT PAGEANT;
HORATIO ALIEN g. DROVE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE
HonesdaIe, Pa, Where Initial
Run Was Made, viii CeIe-
brate Centennial.
BRITISH BUILT ENGINES
Developments Came Rapidly
After Early Experiments
on Crude Tracks.
BY H. III. SHELDON.

BY III. III. SHELDON,
Professor Of Physics, New York University.
Put yourself in Aliens place-Horatio
Aliens. A hundred years ago, on Au-
gust 8, 1929, he stepped into the Stour-
bridge Lion and pulled the throttle on
tie first steam locomotive ever to run
in America. 1t took nerve. Neither he
nor any of the crowd there to watch
him had ever run locomotive. It is
quite likely that he alone had ever seen
one operate. He had been to England
to purchase this one.
A lot of things might have happened.
Tt might have exploded. But this was
perhaps the least likely. 1t might have
been improperly assembled by inexperi-
enced American workmen, or he might
have been burned with escaping steam.
But more likely the rails might have
given way. flimsy things as they were,
for this locomotive bore twice the weight
they were intended for. And there were
sharp curves and quarter mile Of
trestle work over q canal.
on on Three-Mile Spin.
But he passed the first sharp curve
safely, crossed the canal, and was Off
for three-mile run over nearly straight
track through the forest. Clouds OF
smoke and steam followed in his wake
through the forest trees. It was q great
event for Horatio Allen. 1t was q
great event fer the Delaware q Hudson
Co. 1t was q great event for America.
The thing worked.
Years after In 1884. Mr.. Allen wrete
the following account of his trip:
when the time came and the steam
was of the right pressure and all was
ready took my position on the plat
form Of the locomotive alone, and with
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ing Of the General Assembly, viii be in
voked after August /, 1t was announced
this week by DR.. Hugh H. Young, chair
man Of the new Maryland Air Commits
sion.
Capt. Charles A. Mason, last night
named secretary-treasurer, was asked to
gather data relative to operators Of air.
planes and managers Of cir fields In the
State. He was asked to lay this before
the commission at its next meeting.
He also was asked to obtain all State
and Federal laws governing aircraft so
the commission may formulate regula-
tiens for Maryland and to study aviation
methods Of Europe.
Fines and imprisonment for Illegal
operators are included in the new State
air laws. A number of such operators,
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FLYING SCHOOL
OPENS AUGUST |
.Thousand-Acre Airport Will
Be Training Center for
Eight Clubs.

One of the largest flying fields oper-
ated for student instruction work Will
be opened August at ThouSand-Acre
Airport, two miles south CT Alexandria,
Va. The field will be the training CEN
ter for a chain of eight self-sustaining
flying clubs, the first of which has been
organized under the leadership of VIII
liam Gordon of the Washington Flying
Service.
The first club, known as The Hawks,
is to begin student training at the Viz
ginia flying field August l. A woman's
club also is being organized and Will
begin training as soon as a working
membership is enrolled.
Thousand-Acre Airport has been pur-
chased as part of the plant of the
Washington Air Terminals Corporation,
new owners of Washington Airport and
the Washington-New York Air Line,
which maintains a daily airplane pas
senger service between Washington Air
port and New York.
Uniform Training.
Each of the eight flying clubs is to
have a maximum membership OF 25
student pilots who are able to pass the
Department of Commerce physical and
mental examinations for pilots licenses.
Each club will own its own training
plane and will be internally managed.
The club instructors will be drawn from
the Washington Flying Service staff at
Washington Airport. Uniform training
schedules will be followed for the first
10 and 20 hours in the air. in accord
ance with the new training school reg
ulations of the aeronautics branch OF
the Department of Commerce, Mr.. Cor
don explained.
For students desiring advanced train
ing, instruction will be provided in va
rious types of airplanes, including four
place cabin planes.
1T is the aim of these independent
flying clubs" said Mr.. Gordon, Ito pro-
vide persons who wish to learn to fly
an opportunity to do so virtually at
cost.
To Establish Clubhouse.
"There is at Thousand-Acre Airport a
recently erected frame building with
electric lights and modern plumbing
which will be used as clubhouse until
a permanent club building can be con-
structed. In the new building there will
be lounging rooms, showers and dress
ing rooms an aeronautical library and
general club features. The expenses
of club maintenance will be apportioned
among the clubs. Lodging accommoda-
tions will be provided near the field for
out-of-town students"
Thousand-Acre Airport occupies site
which was surveyed by Army and arero-
nautical engineers IN 1918 and recon-
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mended as an ideal site for the Army's
greatest aviation center. The armistice
resulted in cancellation Of plans for its
development.
Under direction of the Washington
Flying Service three runways. each
5000 feet long and 200 feet wide have
been laid of and graded and now are
available for landing and taking on
in any direction. These runways oc-
cupy 200 acres of the site. The remain
ing 800 acres is suitable for emergency
landings and is being held for future
airport DEVELOPMENT
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Assigned to Embassy in Chile.

Capt. Ralph H. Wooten, Army Air
Corps, now at Fort Crockett. TEX. has
been assigned to duty as military at
tache at the United States embassy,
Santiago, Chile. Before proceeding to
his new post he will come to this city
for temporary duty under instruction at
the War DEPARTMENT
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It was said at the meeting, are IN the
State.
Other members Of the commission are
BENJAMIN II. Brewster, Sd, Of Baltimore,
Lieut.. Comdr. De witt g. Ramsey, q. s.
3. Reina Mercedes, United States Mill
tary Academy, and Clarence w. Wheal-
ton Of Salisbury.
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Draw Your Own Conclusions.

Among 90 men Just under . century
in age, 10 had never smoked, % still
were smoking and 80 had given up the
habit. Among 10 men over 100, three
bacco users and the other three were
former smokers.
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MARYLAND AIR BODY
PREPARES FOR WORK
Penalties for Illegally Operating
Plane to BE Invoked After
August ], Young Says.

Special Dispsteh to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July 27.-The penalties
for operating airplanes illegally In the
state, contained In the new Maryland
state air laws passed OF the last meet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
Aviation Grows

Two items, significant IN the affairs OF aviation
appear in the days news The first is the safe
arrival of the missing Western Air Express pasSen-
ger plane in Albuquerque. The second is the an
nouncement that after Jan. the Guggenheim fund
for the promotion of aeronautics will pass out of
existence.
Out in New Mexico Pilot James Dole ran into
a snowstorm Possibly he could have pushed through
flying blind. But he carried two passengers and
he took no chances He picked out cleared space
landed and waited for the storm to pass He caused
twenty-four hours of worry but he safeguarded five
lives His act gives to the large section of the public
still "unsold" air travel example of the caution
and consideration needed to make aviation universal
A little of such conservatism in the business and
publicity Offices of the air firms wouldn't hurt any
thing.
The second announcement, that of the passing
of the Guggenhem fund.- brings regret in the aero
nautical world. Probably no organization has done
SO much for aviation.
Its activities were numerous and constructive BY
its very nature free from politics and intrigue, and
sufficiently financed to ride difficulties, it con-
tributed greatly to the upbuildng of aviation.
After four years of life. the fund will to
exist, because aviation has outgrown the need for
further sponsoring" That we doubt.
Projects of the fund included the forming of many
aeronautical schools marking of thousands of cities,
establishment of model passenger airways and
weather services. substituting of many inventors 0e-
veopment Of fog flying sponsoring of 100000
safety aircraft competition, and lastly the endowment
of aeronautical library in the library of congress
to be the worlds finest.
Aviation we believe, needs at least five more years
of such help. No other organization is equipped to
give that help is the Guggenhem fund. We regret
the passing of this fine organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
T0HE Hoover panic las been and

THE Hoover panic has been and
Il maybe it is gone. Many are
poorer and few are wiser. In call
ing it the Hoover panic there is no
intention to suggest that it was
brought about by the President or
that he could have done anything
to avert it.
Only the simple minded think of
these vast economic upheavals as
being brought about by some single
shrewd operators desire to sell
short.
Certain moralists are shaking
their heads at the moment and say
ing that it should be a great moral
lesson to all the small fry. They
should not gamble.
I'm not shaking my head, for
quite obviously the man who has
been hurt or ruined by gambling in
evitably will look for his money in
the place he lost it.
And yet do want to draw a moral
from Wall Streets blue Thursday.
The general sentiment seems to be
that this must never and can never
happen again. And yet have seen
no practical suggestion as to how
it is to be prevented.
The eyes of optimism are always
bigger than it's stomach. Sooner or
later there will be another period
of imitation and subsequent crash
and headache. That is as sure as
death and taxes,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
0vt of Control

THE truth of the matter is that
Il American industry is almost
wholly beyond the control of Amer
lean government. Mr.. Hoover took
occasion to issue a market letter,
which was distinctly bullish, and
the bulk of the market receded
frsctionally.
In other words, our chief execu-
tive, any chief executive, is not
bv any means the most important
man in the community.
The destinies of America are much
more sensitive to the control of New
York bankers than to Washington
senators.
This is not cited as necessarily g
sinister fact. New York bankers are
far more intelligent than Washing
ton senators. I would rather trust
nv we'll being to Mr.. Morgan than to
Mr.. Hef1in.
But 1 don't want to trust it willy
nilly to anybody. The frequent as
sertion that this is a democratic
country and the land of equal OPP
portunity is subject to grave ques-
ton.
We could have complete political
democracy and still be less than free
if we had industrial oligarchy. And
we have an industrial oilgarchy.
When the market was at it's low
est ebb on Thursday it was not in
the White House that men gathered
to say, what can we do to save the
country?" Much more appropriately
they went to Mr.. Morgan's offices.
And, on the whole, Mr.. Morgan did
a good Job. If it were the custom to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31

whether the friends or the enemies of progress are
in control of Marion county and this city.
If this city and much of this state is to be re-
deemed from the grasp of spoismen who have defled
it, this 5 time to give ground 1t is no time to
weaken 1t is no time to tenporize or yield to Sc
auctions of fine front behind which turks the enemy
of all progressive actions
The political machine has always stood in the path
of progress 1t has blocked progress in this city, 1t
has blocked progress by its power in the legislature.
Given any power it uses that power to hinder OBJ
struct and destroy the aims of those who would ad-
vance from the jungle lands of machine trickery,
intrigue and misuse of power.
The opportunity to remove this one foe of progress
comes next Tuesday The destruction of Cofanism
means progress.
The victory of Cofhnsm more heartache,
obstacles delay towards the goal Of justice
and equality!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
Solid Men STAY Solid

TINE men who are doing the
Il honest to God work in this
country, who are running its es-
Sential institutions, who are making
work and providing payrolls, have
had no time to sit in the customers
room.
Neither are they of temperament
to be swept off their feet by specu-
lative craze. They have not been
wiped out, and all they have to fear
is the psychological effect on the
buying public.
They are doing precisely the same
thing, and carrying out precisely
the same policies today that they
we're last Wednesday.
Their factories are running full
blast, their sales forces are on the
Job, their orders for raw material
are being placed, and their finished
products are being shipped accord
ing to schedule.
All they ask is that the country
does not get cold feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
Shall Progress Stop?

REPORTS from the political headquarters of both
uarties state that this year the poll of voters shows
an unusually large number of voters who listed
as doubtful"
That means that either these skilled political work
erx have been unable to determine the attitude of
the voters or that the voters themselves may not have
made up their minds.
Such a situation is far from bad. 1t is good in
fact But what is important is that between
and next Tuesday all voters find the real answer to
their doubts and make up their minds if they have
not done So on a basis that will benefit the city and
themselves
The issue in this election is not whether Re-
publican or a Democrat shall be chosen as mayor. 1t
is far more fundamental than that.
For the past five years, perhaps in spirit OF
revolt the people of this city, for the first time in
better local government
They have met with obstacles. They have been
Asbuffed But they have moved ahead. They know
that the obstacles must be overcome and can be con-
squered.
The real issue is simple. Shall the people sur
render to the forces that have fought against progress
or shall they use this opportunity to crush and rebuke
Ahe proven enemies Of progress?
Shall the news go out to the state and the nation
lat the people of Indianapolis have surrendered or
at they have gained victory the gang they
We fought for the past five years?
This decision means much to the people of Indian
Ills and Of Indiana The League of Women Voters
taken up crusade for the revision of the Con-
ution. To a large degree the of these
alnsh and intelligent women win depend on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
No Major Industry YeIpS

INSTEAD of worrying over the
a paper profits wiped out, we ought
to feel treasured by the fact that not
a major industry has even squealed.
When you come to think of it, the
outstanding feature of this break is
the resisting power displayed by
American business.
Not an important fire drawn, not
pivotal bank closed, not big fac
tory shut down.
Twenty-Five years ago, one-fOurth
the slump would have led to general
decentralization, as the record of
1907 proves.
n. r.
The United States has grown dur
ing the last twenty-five years, and it
has grown in no respect more dis
tinctly than in it's capacity to sepa-
rate stock gambling from the real
thing.
If margin buyers have multiplied,
so have those who buy for invest
ment, and who are in a position to
hold what they buy.
The latter have not been very
hard hit, because they will get their
dividends as usual.
Only spectators have been wiped
out, and as a general proposition
they care nothing about business,
and contribute little to it. except
through what they purchase to sat-
isfy their appetite, desire and vanity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
HEALTH SERVICE

severe, the person may vonit and
have nausea.
Whenever infection of this type
occurs in the body, the number of
white blood cells begins to increase
rapidly, since these cells are of i'm
portance in overcoming the infec-
ton.
According to the virulence of the
germ, the extent of the trouble
varies. The bone may be destroyed
and pus may extend up and down
the canal, stripping the covering
away from the bone.
In case the infection happens to
be in child and near that point of
the bone from which the bony It's
sue grows, the growth of the bone
may be interfered with seriously.
When the condition occurs,
prompt surgical attention seems to
be the only certain method of Sc
curing recovery. There is an old
rule in surgery that the way to ham
ole puS is to let it out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
Surgery Best Bone Infection Cure

The surgeon opens up at once the
skin and the muscle tissues and eX-
poses the bone at the point at which
the infection is most severe.
He then permits the infectious
material to escape, cleans the area
thoroughly, and, if possible, scoops
out and removes all of the broken
down and infected bony tissue.
Obviously the X-ray is of the ut
most Importance in determining be-
fore the operation the extent of the
injury and the point at which the
operation is to be done.
One Of the chief reasons for oper-
ating as soon as possible is to avoid
the spreading Of the infection by
way of the blood to other bones
than the one in which it originally
occurred.
There are cases of osteomyelitis
in which numerous bones have been
infected one after the other, because
the individual has failed to develop
resistance to the disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
Are We Free2

DOSSIBLY Americans don't want
l. freedom, but only the semblance
of it. Maybe we are content to say
America is free" in the same mood
in which we say America is dry"
Under our present economic struc-
ture, industrial democracy is far
more important than political de-
mocracy. The chief charge against
Socialism is that it would cause a
stagnation of all ambition. Indi-
vidual choice would be destroyed.
1t may be so, I am not commit
ted dogmatically to any economic
philosophy, but it does puzzle me
when find people believing that
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness are not at least gravely i'm
paired in state where industrial
power is so highly concentrated.
copyright. 1929. hv The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
SCIENCE
Brush Foundation VAL Seek
to Establish Record of
Progress From Birth to
AdulthO0d.
BY DAVID DIETZ-

a N intensive study of children to
N chart the course of physical
and mental growth is being under
taken by the Brush Foundation of
Cleveland.
The institution, founded by the
late Charles F. Brush, inventor Of
the arc light, with an endowment of
$500 900, was organized to study the
problems of race betterment.
by intensive investigation of nor
NAL children we expect to establish
a record of progress from birth to
adulthood, punctuated by observa-
tons on the inception and matura-
ton of those powers and qualif1ca-
tons which are of especial signifi-
canoe in the greater progress Of our
civilization" says DR.. T. Wingate
Todd, chairman of the board and
director of research of the founda-
ton.
DR.. Todd also is professor of
anatomy in the Western Reserve
university medical school and one
OF the worlds beSt-known anthro-
biologists.
The physical side of the child
study will be directed by DR.. Todd.
The mental studies will be con-
Quoted by DR.. L. Dewey Anderson,
formerly psychologist Of the bureau
of education experiments Of New
York, now director of psychological
research for the Brush Foundation
and an associate professor at West
>ern Reserve university.
The research upon which Doctors
Todd and Anderson are embarking
will take long years of patient work,
for 1T means the careful examina-
ton of the same hundreds of chill
dren year after year and the care
full charting of the changes which
take place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
T rats

THE psychological side of the
4 study presents just as many
interesting problems, Dr.. Anderson
points out.
Adults are found with definite
personalities, bodies Of traits which
they have somehow acquired dur
ing childhood.
Under DR.. Anderson's direction an
attempt will be made to discover
when and how the child acquires
the traits Of honesty, pugnacity.
timidity, perseverance and inquisi-
tiveness, and the ability to distin-
guish between right and wrong.
"All We know at present." he
says, "is that adults have these
traits and babies don't.
1--WE desire to learn when these
traits first make their appearance
in the child's personality"
An important part of the study
will be an attempt to discover the
relative parts played by heredity
and environment in the mental
traits of child. -e
DR.. Anderson hopes that the
studies of the Brush Foundation
will throw light on the situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
Questions and
Answers
Who is Cappy Kicks?

Who is Cappy Kicks?
The hero of a series OF fiction
stories by Peter B. Kyne.
How many accredited hospitals
are there in the United States?
The American Medical Associa-
ton listed 7,103 in 1927.
Are John Gilbert and Gilbert Ro-
land brothers?
No.
What is the full name of the
President of the United States?
Herbert Clark Hoover.
How long did the Boer war last?
IT began Oct. II, 1889, and ended
May 81, 1902.
How many city letter carriers and
rural mail routes are there in the
United States.
There were 81 ,293 city letter car
yzers and 1925 rural routes in the
&lited States In 1928
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
Growth

DR. TODD points out that the
81 measurements of p h ysica
growth is a difficult process. This
is because different parts of the
body mature at different periods.
"The ear bones" he points out,
are OF fully adult size at birth.
THAT part of the nose which ia
responsible for the sense of smell.
and the central part of the Jaws
which lodge the cutting or incisor
teeth are both completely grown at
6 months.
The eyeball is perfected soon
after birth and increases in size
very little after the first year.
'The brains is at least four-ffths
it's adult size at years.
by ii years all the permanent
teeth, except the cratic wisdom
teeth, are all in place and the
fingers fully grown, with their bones
completely formed. BY 10 years the
sex organs have reached maturity
and at 20 the limb skeleton is fully
grown.
These are gross features, but
other more subtle ones are still in
process of development. The chest
is scarcely adult at 25, the foot
shows gradual modification till IS.
1t is doubtful if that part of the
brain which registers experience
has reached its limit of growth be-
fore co."
DR. Todd also points out that
there is an interesting pattern of
skull growth.
Imagination, rife from 4 tot
years, is registered by appropriate
changes in that part of the BRAIN
case covering the ideation centers
of the brain" he says. Thereafter
the Uranium expands in that zone
which enclose the area of the brain
devoted to registering and retaining
memory and experience"