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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Paralysis Relieved After incubation

not only by him, but by many for
the insane throughout the world.
AS a result, figures have been &C
cumulated on thousands Of cases
which indicate finally that malarial
treatment of general paralysis def
nitely increases the length of the
patients life and in most instances
produces improvement in the men
tai condition as well as in the
physical condition.
In addition to inoculating such
patients with malaria, attempts
have been made to control the dis
ease by producing fever in the pa
tent and by the injection of other
organisms similar to the malarial
organism.
While these experiments also have
been encouraging, at present most
of the evidence indicates that the
malarial treatment is superior to
the others that have been offered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
A Continuous Burden

Announcement that the state highway
commission will add 1000 miles to the state
road system is fine. But the announcement
also means that each and every year there
will be an added burden for the care and
maintenance of roads and that little has been
done toward obtaining a permanent type OF
road that will, at some future time, relieve
the citizens of the costly burden.
The condition of many roads during the
past summer, with detours in such condition
as to cost the owners of automobiles hum
dreds of thousands of dollars in repairs, IS
ample proof of the transient type OF the
roads that are being built.
A very few years see the finish of the
ordinary road and after that comes a new
bill for repairs, a bill paid by gasoline tax
that is as much tax as though paid through
the office of the treasurer.
The people are now paying approximate
ly twenty millions of dollars each year for
good roads. These roads are more than de-
sirable. They are economical when the saw
ing in the life of the ordinary car is consld-
cred.
But there should be time when this bur-
den can be lifted and the present commission
has apparently neither the vision nor the de-
sire to tackle this part of the problem.
This is shown by the nonchalance with
which it purchases d few millions OF dollars
worth of cement each year and is compelled
by public sentiment or fears to hand the con-
tracts to the lowest bidders.
Perhaps the cement road is the answer.
If it is the answer, then the state, if it is to
be a continuaLpurchaser should manufacture
its own cement.
The state has the raw materials. 1t has,
may it be suggested, the labor in the shape
of a continually increasing number OF idle
prisoners in the state prisons. The saving
of million dollars or more each year by
state owned and state manufactured &C.
ment for state highways would do something
to relieve the taxation burdens against
which the farmers of the state are protest
ting so vigorously.
1t may be too much to ask of state COM
missions that are more powerful than all
the rest of the state government and with
more money to spend than all the rest of the
state officials.
But some day there may come COM
mission with enough courage to recognize
the fact that the way to increase prosperity
is to place as small tax as possible on in
dustry and enterprise. One way of doing it
is to put that twenty millions of road money
into a permanent form and spend it with
as much care as the seasonal workers spends
his meager wages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Napoleon Far-Sighted

TINE necklace which Napoleon
Il gave Marie Louise on the birth
of their son is exhibited by New
York ieweler. Though a curiosity
in itself, it is more of curiosity,
because of the vanished glory it
symbolizes.
Not that there Is any less display
of jewelry than there was in
Napoleon's time, or that the pluto
Gratis of this age do not worship it
as enthusiastically as did the
aristocrats of his, but that it has
become more a matter of commerce
than politics, more an emblem OF
wealth than power.
With all his ambition and love
of pomp, Napoleon was not blind TO
the advent of new forces and the
dawn of a new epoch.
When he sold Louisiana to the
United States, he said he had some
thing that would one day humble
the pride of Great Britain.
He also said that within one
hundred years, Europe would be-
come Cossack or Republican, and
that China was a sleeping giant OF
whom those who walked her should
beware.
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communion regarding the minimum wage labor union
ISM workmen's compensation. crime. prison reform,
world peace the integrity of the family contemporary
esthetic problems and the like?
DR.. Ainsees program Of Christian unity Is q noble
and commendable one. But why not try to promote
union on the basis of conceptions of social justice
which should appeal to all honest and courageous men,
rather than on details of creed and ceremony, which
inevitably must put the movement on the rocks of
Journalism and discord?
Union and progress in religion are to be achieved
in facing forward toward pressing human problems
here and now 1t can not be attained by quarreling
over outgrown ritual Of antique origin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Modern Acting

THIS must have been back in the
i era of the Spanish American
war, for I was a small boy at the
time. More than thirty years ago,
Gillette founded the school of what
we call modern acting. 1t seems a
simple conception, and yet he was
the very first hereabouts to act
upon it.
In the so-called golden age of
the American theater, it was GUS
tomary for a prominent player to
wait for what he called his "big
scene"
Up to that time he played as if
the second team were in. Once the
climax of the play approached, the
actor would let loose everything he
had. He'd sink both teeth into the
situation and worry it about, to the
intense delight of the audience.
William Gillette realized that the
chief performer might make himself
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HOOSAC TUNNEL
November u

ON Nov. 81, 1873, the Hoosac
" tunnel, piercing a spar Of the
Green mountain range in Massa-
cIlusetts, was completed at a cost
of about $2O,000,000.
The tunnel is on the line of the
Fitchburg railroad and passes
through a southern extension of
the Green mountains, known as
Hoosac mountain, at an altitude of
743 feet.
1t is four and three-quarter miles
long and was driven from the two
ends and from an intermediate
shaft 1923 feet deep. Work was
begun originally in 1855, and there
were many delays due to lack of
funds and the obstacles encoun-
tered.
The tunnel proper was completed
in 1873, but several additional years
were consumed in the masonry work.
The tunnel is twenty-four feet wide
in the widest part and twenty-five
feet eight inches high, and carries
two lines of railway track.
The maximum height of the Hoo
sac range is 2.400 feet and is reached
about mile south OF the tunnel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
SCIENCE
You May Not Think So, But
You Haze a Real Interest
IN PaleontOlogG {;
By DAVID DIETZ

DERHAPS. gentle and long-suf-
Il fering reader, you never guessed
that you had an interest in micro
paleontology or igneous petrogra-
ply. But if you belong to that
legion known as the auto owners OF
America, you have such an interest
just the same.
For the price Of gasoline is gov
erned by the supply of oil. The
supply depends upon the ability OF
prospectors to find new wells. And
of late it has been found that
micro paleontology and ingenious
photography, despite their formid-
able names, are very handy in locat-
ing oil.
Ten years ago the two branches
of science just named were the sort
sometimes called cultural" that is
they were interesting to those who
wished to study them for their own
sake. but without direct application
in industry.
They were to be classed with the
study of Greek, for example, rather
than that of steam engine design.
Today, as DR.. Charles N. Gould,
director of the Oklahoma Geologi-
cal Survey points out, the oil COM
panies of America are combing the
colleges of the nation in search of
people who are expert in them.
Paleontology is the study of the
fossils found in the rock layers OF
the earth. Micro-paleontology is
the study of those fossils which are
so small that the microscope must
be used in identifying them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Dream Fails to Be True

liver since rapid transit came
H. into existence we have assumed
that it would relieve congestion.
The first street car in New York
City, and in this country, for that
matter, made its appearance ninety
seven years ago.
Soon afterWard local paper
prophesied that it would decentral-
ize the community.
Instead of being cramped and
confined to a single lot of ground
and a close atmosphere in the city"
said the paper, IAN acre or two will
be purchased and a comfortable
house built at reduced costs, a gar
den, orchard, dairy and other con-
veinences follow; and the train of
railroad carriages will start from
Trinity church at 3 o'clock and will
carry passengers to Harlem and the
intermediate stopping places, with as
much facility and ease as they now
are carried to Greenwich Village"
II
After being fooled for nearly a
century, we persist in the blind
faith that rapid transit, whether in
the form of subways, or automobiles,
will decentralize our towns.
The more we have of it, the
greater our towns grow, and the
fewer people we have living in the
country.
Each census shows a steady drift
in this direction.
Not only our rural population, but
our small villages are disappearing
and rapid transit is the chief cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Truly Funny

r CAN add to my book list one of
l. the funniest satlres or burlesques
ever written. refer to, rs Sex
Necessary, or Why Do You Feel the
Way You Do?" by James Thurber
and E. B. White.
AT random, I quote from the
Thurber- White book: THE sexual
revolution began with mans dis
covery that he was not attractive
to woman, as such. The lion shas
his name, the peacock his gorgeous
plumage, but man found himself in
a three-button sack suit"
That's funny, and one of the rea-
sons why it is funny is the fact that
it also happens to be true.
Copyright. 1929. by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27

1t Is only a Blind Mistaken,
Faith That Rapid Transit
VIII Relieve the Congestion
IN Our Cities.
SAYS

ID EMEMBER when the balloon
IN ascension and parachute de-
scent" was the big thrill at county
fairs and circuses?
How far away it all seems, with
couples dropping half mile to give
the wedding ceremony a kick.
We used to believe that human
beings couldn't fall more than few
hundred feet without losing con-
seriousness.
We would believe it still If some
good sport hadn't proved us wrong.
y
Progress owes a lot to good sports.
1t takes nerve to try anything
first, especially when everybody be-
lieves at can't be DONE"
The man who goes off into the
wilderness alone deserves credit, but
not SO much as the man who defieS
mass opinion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Questions
end AnS1Ogrs

What is biology?
The science which deals with the
origin and Life history of plants and
animals.
What people conquered Spain
held it for several hundred years
and gave it a splendid civilization?
The Moors, conquered Spain and
established a capital at Cordova
which was the most magnificent city
in Europe during the golden age Of
the Omrniad dynasty.
How can one exterminate reaches?
One of the most common methods
is with ordinary borax q part of
borax to parts of finely pulverized
chocolate), sprinkled freely about
the places frequented by reaches.
Or It may be mixed with any food
that seems to attract the reaches.
What cities in italy were COM
pleteIy destroyed by a volcano?
Pompeii and Herculaneum were
destroyed by an eruption Of Mt.
VesuviouS in 70 A. D.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Confidence in Future

TTNTIL recently, mass opinion was
~ reactionary, clinging to what
was old, doubling what was new.
Now it seems to be going to the
other extreme, looking aSkance at
what is old, worshiping what is new.
Confidence has seized upon the
future, rather than the past.
In these days, we look ahead, in
stead of backward, bet on improve
ments that are just around the cor
ner, and take it for granted that our
children will be better off than their
grandfatherS.
There probably is as much danger
in overriding the new viewpoint as
there was in OVERRIDING the old one.
We can not afford to ignore hui
man experience, or put too much
faith in our own deductions.
Just because we have learned to
do certain thing doesn't mean that
we understand its effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27

stand out from the rest by virtue of
wholly different method. He rea-
soned that if audiences tended to
signal out the one who made the
most noise, they might likewise no
tice the actor who made the least.
Accordingly, Gillette developed his
famous whispering technique. His
enunciation was excellent and he
never fell into the modern error of
talking for the first five or six rows
of the orchestra. In those days,
people actually sat in the second
balcony.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Daily Thought

o ye simple, understand wis
dom; and, ye fools, be ye of I'M
derstanding heart.-PrOverbs 8:5.
We can sometimes love what we
do not understand, but it is impossi-
BILE completely to understand what
we do not love.-MrS. Jameson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
The Best

THE creation of the master detec-
Il tive was a splendid piece of
portraiture. Its chance to survive
rests upon the evidence that in spite
of competition, nobody ever has done
a more fascinating detective.
Within the last four or five years
there have been no lack of mystery
stories. Everybody has taken a
hand in the game and Van Dimes
Philco Vance has come forth as the
kingpin of investigators. Yet Phil
cos most magnificent efforts are as
but child's play compared to the
triumphs of Sherlock Holmes,
Conan Doyle created not only the
best detective in English literature,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27

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, 1929-11-27
Boom

THE result Of all this, says DR..
Il Gould, is that these sciences
are "on the boom"
young men and women have
learned where these subjects are
we'll taught and today the men who
teach them well are oVerWhelmd
with Students" he says.
I'm some of our American uni
versities, in the departments of
geology and paleontology are over
crowded, and, on account of in
adequate teaching personnel and in
sufficient laboratory facilities, are
turning away students who desire
to enter"
1t is interesting to note today how
the oil industry is r-0lIing Use of
the latest findings Of science. not
only in the fields Of geology and
chemistry, but many others as well.
Among the subjects to which the
industry is turning its attention is
that Of seismology, the study of
earthquakes.
Seismology has shown that earth
quake waves travel with different
speeds through different types of
rock formations. So here is an
other clew to that great mystery
which concerns the oil industry
the structure of the rock layers on
the earth.
"Pity the poor student" says DR.
Gould in summing up the amount
OF knowledge which the oil indus
thy now demands in young geolo-
gists entering it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine,

TINE first recognizable descrip-
Il ton of a case of general paral-
ysis appears to have been published
about 1898.
In that description, the decisions
of gradeum, followed by the symp-
toms Of paralysis and complete in
sanity, are fully emphasized.
Perhaps the two most important
observations concerning this disease
were those of the EngliShman Mott
and the japanese investigator No
guchi, the first of whom indicated
and the second of whom proved
that general paralysis invariably
was the result of infection of the
human body by the same organism
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
Question

EGNEOUS photography is the
Il science of identifying sand grains
under microscope. DR.. Gould ex-
plains why the identification Of
sand grains and microscopic fossils
have become of Importance to the
oil industry.
Expert biologists a few years ago
discovered that certain types Of
sandstoneS, when occurring under
certain conditions, were oil-bearing.
That is why it became important
to be able to recognize these types
of SandStoneS.
It becomes quite important, he
points out, after drilling operation
has gone down 5000 feet into the
earth without striking oil, to de-
termine whether drilling should be
continued or not.
ut is no unusual occurrence" he
says, latter a certain ledge of sand
stone has been encountered, for
drilling operations to stop, machin-
cry to stand idle and Workmen to
loaf on the job, while sand sam
pie from the bottom Of 5,000-foot
we'll is sent hundreds of miles to
the laboratory where the petrogra-
pher makes his tests.
1.-THE question as to whether an
other $4,000 or $4,000 shall be
spent in the deep hole, in addition
to the $4,000 or 100000 already
expended, frequently rests upon the
determination of the particular type
Of sand grains under the micro
scope"
Microscopic fossils are studied for
the same reason. They help in iden-
tifying the various rock layers
through which the drill is passing.
Larger fossils can not be utilized,
because they are smashed by the
drill as it pounds it's way down.
Only those already of microscopic
size escape destruction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27

What is the longest river in the
world?
Not counting the Missour!-Miss-
issippi as one river, the Nile in
Africa is the longest river in the
world.
Was Cuba ever owned by the
United States? What is her present
political status?
Cuba became an island possession
of the United States after the Span
ish-American war. 1t is now an in
dependent republic, and a protecto-
rate of the United States by virtue
of the Plat amendment, which was
condition precedent to granting
independence to the people of Cuba.
The amendment is part Of the Or
ganic law of Cuba.
Is the famous race horse, Man o
War still alive?
Yes. He is serving in the stud a,
Samuel D. Riddles breeding farm ir
Kentucky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-27
eaders Looked Ahead

THE greater minds always have
Il perceived the shadow OF COM
ing events.
Indeed, that, more than anything
else, perhaps, is what made them
great.
The leaders of today, whether in
politics, trade, or finance, are those
who realized what was coming, and
who made their plans. accordingly
the Rockefellers, who foreSaw what
oil meant; the Carnegies, who APP
preciated the value of steel; the
Wrights, who believed that men
could fly, though every one said it
was impossible, and the real estate
men who were not deceived as to
the effect of rapid transit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
WLLS-W|GHFMAN
TEAM BROKEN UP
1923 Champions Won't Pair
for Doubles Play at
BrookIine.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK, August 1.-THE
M breakup Of the 1928 national
VI championship women's doubles
4 combination of Helen Wills and
Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wight
man of Brookline, Mass, was revealed
today with announcement that Mario
RE Morrill,, Dedham, Mass, will be Mrs.
Wightman's partner in the title tour
nament at Forest Hills next week.
Miss Wills has not yet entered the
doubles event, although she is expected
to do SO before the draw is made on
throughout this season. both in
Europe and in the Wightman Cup
matches here. Miss Wills has paired
with Miss Edith Cross of San Francisco.
third in the national singles ranking.
but in the international series with the
decisively in straight sets.
Miss Cross Is Entered.
Miss Cross. who shared runner-up
honors last year when teamed with Mrs.
L. A. Harper. also of San Francisco,
has sent in her entry for next week S
play in doubles as we'll as singles, but
without designating partner.
With Miss Wills and Mrs. Wightman
not defending their 1928 title, the
threat of British monopoly of dou-
bles honors increased, as this pair was
considered about the strongest that
could be put together in this country.
The English will rely upon two for
midsble teams-Mrs. Phoebe Watson
and Mrs. Peggy Saunders Michel,
Wimbledon champions; and Mrs. b. Z.
CoveH and Mrs. Dorothy Shepherd
Barron. runners-up, both of which
teams won their matches in the Wight
man Cup series. Helen Jacobs never
has paired with her fellow Californian
and rival, Miss Wills, and would not be
available. as she has entered the
doubles with Miss Betty Nuthall, young
English star, as her partner.
Singles Matches Scheduled.
The schedule for the singles matches
which will open the tournament in the
stadium at Forest Hills on Monday att
ernoon, is as follows. =
2:3O p.m.-Ethel Burkhardt. San
Francisco, VS.. Marjorie Morrill,, Ded-
p.m.-Helen Jacobs. Berkeley.
Calf. VS.. Penelope Anderson, Rich
mond, Va.
$3.50 p.m.--Mrs. Phoebe Watson,
England, VS.. Josephine Cruikshank,
Santa Ana, Calf.
4:3O pm.-Helen Wills, Berkeley,
vs.. Katherine Lamarche, Sea Bright,
N. j.
p.m.-Betty Nuthall. England.
VS.. Cecilia Riegei, Philadelphia, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
9TH INNING MISPLAY
COSTS POLICE GAME

= After pitching top-notch ball for
nine innings during which he had ai-
lowed the Chevy Chase Greys but three
hits. MaZurski, Police nine twirler, yes
terday saw victory flguratively slip
through his fingers at center field.
Rinker, holding down the center post
for the oficers Of the law. dropped the
ball in the final session with two out.
His error let in the only run scored.
Chevy Chase 'Greys registered a 10 win
as result.
A busy week lies ahead of the Po-
licemen.. Tomorrow they 60 to Camp
George Meade to play the Tank Corps
the Lorton Reformatory team at Lor-
ton, Va: wednesday they go to Fort
Washington and Thursday they have a
tentative game carded with the Browns
Corner team at the American League
Park. Saturday, the Police squad will
play Walter Reed Hospital mounds
men ut walter Reed, -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
DEITY
NuTAALL-
Yanks Buy Frisco Hurting
Ace in Deal for Big Coin

SAN FRANCISCO. August II (A).
Vernon Left" Gomez. sensational
pitching find of the San Francisco
Seals, was sold today to the New
York Yankees for an unannounced
price. He will report after this sea-
son.
Secretary George A. Putnam Of
the Seals said the l9-year-old left
handler was sold for big money"
the deal to include two players to be
turned over to the Coast League
team. Scout william Essick repre-
scented the Yanks here.
Young Gomez. pitching his first
year in the coast circuit, has i'm
proved faster than any prospect I'M
covered here in years. His record
to date includes IL successive wins
and a total Of IS victories. He Is
leading in strike-outs. Last season
the Seals had him farmed out with
Salt Lake City in the Utah-Idaho
League. His home is in Rodeo, Calf.