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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
REASON By FR IASBIS

a FTER this committee gets through with it's in
L a vesugation of the tariff irregularities of the
firm of Bingham, Grundy & Co, we wish it would in
vesugate those United States senators who have
favored the country with cigaret testimonials
1t is said the next New York social register will
contain the name of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
but we can imagine Lindys caring one single whoop
about a little thing like that.
1t is poor business for our senators to make state
ments calculated to inhame east and west against
each other for such sectional consciousness is great
enough now without adding anything to it,
TINE physicians attending Clemenceau the Tiger of
l. France, had hard time making him cut out
athletics in his recent illness.
He would turn pale, whereupon they gave him a
blood TRANSMISSION, only to return and find him chin
ming himself, then he would collapse and they would
pump oxygen into him, whereupon he would lump
out of bed and skin the cat.
1t is strange the Chicago Tribune should go out of
its ways v defend Senator Bingham when it tore its
shirt Of. to go after Senator Lorimer when he was
accused Of doing things that likely to bring re-
proach upon the senate
TT seems strange that anybody should spend his
L days in dread at the foot OF smoking mountain
as these people near Mt Peee in the West Indies
but then most OF stay in the land where first
arrived.
Justice Hitz sentenced ex-Secretary Fall to serve
year for seeking to 6efraud his country of vast
oil lands and Walter B. Pierce of Terre Haute is SEN
fenced to serve one year for enbezzling Is cents
Our goddess Of justice needs a of proportion
Nine. Curie. the great French woman who dis
covered radium, embarrassed when honored In
this country and when she spc..e ner voice SO
low that few could hear her. but when an actress
demands almony, she can be heard for mile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Advances Culture

II REPRESENT" writes Lyon Ka-
N shin, "the society for the adj
vancement of culture. 1t is our de-
sire to make the nation culture and
intellect conscious To that end it
is our idea that the old rhetorical
question, How do you do?' be elm
mated and the greeting we suggest
be used in its stead.
1.-TWO people upon meeting greet
each other with how do you do?'
Immediately an embarrassed silence
INSTRUMENTATION generally is then
retarded and the intellect remains
unused.
On the other hand, mark the sug-
gestion for greeting that we offer,
You're looking well, how have you
developed yourself intellectually
since last saw you?'
II feel confident that the fine pos
sibilites for the beginning of an in
teresting conversation present them
selves to you upon contemplation
of this idea.
For instance, what would be your
immediate response to the question,
How have you developed yourself
Intellectually since I last saw you?' 3"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Free Seas nv NTsgic

The London 1ve-power naval conference will not
discuss the question of freedom of the That
definite assurance has been given to the British
people by Prime Minister Macdonald. To the British
this news comes as a relief To most Americans,
probably, it will be a disappointment.
One of the reasons the United States entered
the World war was to achieve freedom OF the seas.
That was the issue over which America and Britain
fought in 1912. That the dispute which almost
made us fight Britain in 1915 and 1916.
That is the purpose of our navy in the man-to
guarantee uninterrupted traffic of our commerce and
ships when belligerents try TO close the seas.
problem basic to international peace and to
naval reduction not be brushed aside safely as
lawyers quibbling, which Macdonald appeared to do
in his Guldhal address Saturday.
Nor this issue be left to disappear in the msts
of general peace treaties such the kellogg pact
nouncing When you remember that the prob
lem of the freedom of the seas, either or mill
tary arise only if bugles have been blown sure
" every and woman of common sense sees that
the swiftest and sures method of solving these prob
lens is to see that the buges of war never blow
again" said Macdonald.
The prime minister's optimism regarding the auto
matte and magical sef-soluon of this problem arises
from confusion between the causes and results of
war The free seas conflict is cause of war. The
war danger, especially between America and Britain
can not be removed until that conflict is removed
Perhaps Macdonald is wise in the decision not to
discuss this issue at the London naval conference
Progress be made only step at a time and
that conference will do well If it achieves naval
limitation agreement and nothing more
But it would be gain for peace if the American
and British governments and peoples persuaded them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
RANGE

ID ADIATION pressure, according
IN to Eddington's view, plays an
important part not only in the sun
but in all the stars. 1t should be
remembered that our sun and the
stars are very much alike. Our sun
is star, or to put 1t the other way,
every star is sun.
The sun and most stars are be-
lieved to be great globes of gaseous
material. They continue to exist,
according to Eddington's view, be-
cause they are in a state of equilib-
rum.
The gravitational pull Of the star
upon the material composing it
tends to contract the star If this
was the only influence at work, the
star would collapse.
On the other hand radiation pres
sure delivers an outward thrust. If
it were the only influence at work,
the star would explode and be blown
to pieces.
The reason the star stays in ex-
istence is due to the fact that radia-
ton pressure balances gravitational
pull.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
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ANNIVERSARY
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ARMTSTICE SIGNED
November IL

A WAR-WEARY world was Wild
L y ly celebrating the signing Of
the armistice eleven years ago today.
The war came to an end on Mon
day, Nov. II, 1918, at II a. m,
French time; a. m, Washington
time.
Hostilities ceased three weeks
after the submission of a note to
President Wilson revealing Ger
many was anxious to make peace.
The armistice which was imposed
upon Germany by the allies and the
United States was signed by the
German plenipotentiaries at 5 a. M,
Paris time, and went into effect six
hours later.
The morning of Nov. II was cold
and foggy along the battlefront.
The minutes passed slowly. An oc-
casional shell told that peace was
not yet. Suddenly as the watch
hands touched II there came a mo-
ment of silence, and then curious
ripping sound which observers far
behind the lines likened to the noise
of light wind. 1t was the sound
of men cheering for miles along
the front.
Meanwhile, business was at a
standstill, as millions of people in
the United States joined in a noisy
celebration of peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11

you developed yourself intellectually
since I last saw you?" I insist
upon having the privilege of adding
very quickly, But don't tell me. 1
want to be surprised"
after noting your second back
humping of Ernest Hemingway in
regard to A Farewell to Arms 1
want to rise in rage and smite the
table," writes x. Y. z. You praise
him as beneficial example to those
Of the writing generation who love
too we'll the lowered phrase, the
bizarre word structure, the written
picture glowing with iridesecence.
Nov, darn it, a lot of people like
myself like to write and to read
hugely what other people have writ
ten. We are going to become dis
contented if they digest your phil
osophy in this particular.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Fear Ever Present

One war machine gave birth to
another. Each governments kept
track OF what its neighbor was do
ing, and then exaggerated what it
found out, for home consumption
The gossip was not only banded
about in ministerial circles, but was
written into school histories.
Each child was taught to look for
menaces beyond the horizon, to
suspect all foreigners as enemies,
and to accept war IS not only the
surest, but the most glorious, thing
in life.
Generally speaking, the American
people understood this situation.
That is why they hesitated so long.
When they finally decided to join
the issue, it was not because they
had been swept off their feet by
British propaganda, as some have
declared, or by sympathy for
Belglum, or gratitude toward
France or any other particular con-
sideration, but because they had
made up their mind that the Ger
man war machine must be crushed.
In this connection they visualized
the German war machine, not as an
fundamentally of a single nation,
but as the embodiment of
philosophy, as the front and
shoulders Of theory of statecraft
which civilization needed to discard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Passion Takes Toll

DASS1ON and patriotism COM
a b.ned to produce many ex-
travagant declarations in this coun-
try.
False charges and falser Illusion
mentS were paraded to stimulate the
proper spirit" as we called it.
Ruthless laws were passed and
those who did not shout on the
right key often were handled
roughly.
Nor have We entirely lived down
the effect of this excessive emotion
aliSm.
Tom Mooney still is behind prison
bars, though few people believe he
ever committed the crime for which
he was convicted.
All things considered, however, the
American people realized quite
clearly what they were about and
what they hoped to accomplish.
The fact that they refused to en-
ter the League of Nations, though
it was proposed by their own presi-
dent, is not wholly to their discredit.
They did not care to be made
party to the enforcement of such
an unjust treaty as that of Yer
sailles.
They had not fought to crush a
people, but a war machine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
IT SEEMS TOME By HF RFo{2S

a COLUMNIST is bound to have
L n his disappointments. Every
now and then he writes a piece
which seems to him above his av-
erage, and then hears nothing
about it.
I must admit that I liked the
article about the man who sent me
the threatening letter. 1 liked it
a lot and opened the mail in hope
of conf1rmatory opinion. But in all
the batch there was only d single
reference to that column, and it
merely said:
For any injury, without ex-
ception, you would receive 5000 q
week, With nurse or hospital at
tention, $500 week. Should an OPP
Grafton be necessary, amounts up to
$500 would be paid in addition to
the weekly indemnity"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Reads Too Much

"DY necessity you have to do more
81 reading than you really want
to. It's reasonable that you should
react joyously to plain, unadorned
writing. You are like the poor celeb
rity who, after a month of caviar
and old wine at official dinners.
shouts with rapture when he is
privileged to sit down to corned
beef and cabbage in a poor mans
hut.
But as far as I'm concerned,
here's to the sparkling original SIM
lie, the happy phrase, the glowing
word You, Mr.. Broun can have
your adjectiveless nouns and one
syllable verbs with which to con-
jure pictures in your brains.
1--WE poor thircters at the fountain
Of literature must have our am
broSia. More of it, and the smells
on the subway will seem more bear
able, and the milk at the lunch
counters less taSteless."
lCopyright. 1929. by The Times)
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.

significant, are those sections of
the report which deal with the eff
fects of athletic participation on
the bodies of those who take part.
In 1923, DR.. L. I. Dublin showed
that college men onsthe whole have
an expectation of life appreciably
above that of men in general, that
men who are graduated from small
colleges show a lower mortality than
graduates of large universities and
that athletes, particularly those
who have won their letter in ath-
leticS, have somewhat higher NOR
tality than other college graduates.
Men of high scholarship seem to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Questions and Ans0e7s
When and how did >the business

When and how did >the business
of fire insurance originate?
Certain forms of protection
against fire losses existed even
among the commercial peoples of
antiquity, especially the Romans. In
its present form fire insurance de-
veloped as an adjunct to the in
surance of marine risks AS early
as 1886 efforts were made in Eng
land TO establish it upon a separate
footing, but none of these seemed
to have borne fruit until after the
great fire of London in 1866. In
1867 the first Office for the insur-
ance of buildings against fire was
opened in London by Nicholas Bar
bon.
When did the great fires in Lon
don, England, and Baltimore, Nd,
occur?
The great fire Of London started
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Pound of Light

Ut is the chromosphere, which, in
n the opinion Of Eddington, is float
ing on sunbeams. In addition, he
believes that the violent motion Of
the solar prominenceS is due to the
push of sunbeams.
Eddington's view is based upon
the most recent findings concern
ing the nature Of light.
Experiments have shown that
light eXerts pressure. 1t is possible
with delicate measuring devices to
measure the push eXerted by beam
of light. The fact that light eXertS
pressure means that light possesses
weight or mass.
Professor Eddington says that
there is no reason why one should
not pay for his electric light by the
pound. However, a pound of light
would be a bit expensive because it
would take a vast amount of light to
exert a pressure equal to pound.
Eddington calculates that at present
rates for electricity, pound of light
would cost $50,OO0,00O.
However, the amount of light
pouring out of the sun is gigantic.
And Professor Eddington believes
that it exerts so great a pressure
that the light gases of the chromo-
sphere are gases which have been
swept up from the philosophers or
surface of the sun by the great out
ward rush of light waves.
This force exerted by the outward
rush of light is known technically
as radiation pressure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
SCIENCE
By DAVID DIEIZ---
The Whole Outer Region Of
the Suns Atmosphere Lit
orally Is Floating on Sun
beams.
Pv DAVTD DIRTY
on a sunbeam, long a

FLOATING on a sunbeam, long
n phrase of poetic fancy, now has
become one of scientific reality, &C
cording to Professor A. S. Edding-
ton, famous astronomer of Cam
bridge, England.
According to Professor Eddington,
the whole outer region Of the suns
atmosphere literally is floating on
SunbeamS.
The outer portion of the sun,
when examined with proper astro-
nomical instruments, is seen to con-
Sist of a number of layers.
First Of all, there is the so-called
surface Of the sun, from which the
light of the sun comes. But it must
be remembered that this surface is
gaseous. In fact, there is every
reason to believe that the sun is
gaseous to its very center.
The surface Of the sun is called
the photoSphere. Above the photo
sphere is a layer of slightly cooler
gases known as the reversing layer.
Above it is third layer known as
the chromosphere.
This consists chiefly of hydrogen
and helium and certain other gases
in an electrified or ionized con-
dition.
From the chromosphere arise
great tongues Of streamerS of gas
eouS material. These flaming
tongues, for they have a tenn
perature of about 5000 degrees,
sometimes, reach a height of $4,000
miles, ten times the diameter Of our
earth.
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outlive athletes and all graduates
as a group.
According to DR.. Dublin, the ma
jority of evidence tends to show that
it is not men or women of the best
physique particularly who live
longest, but that the men who spend
much of their time in the library
ana in the laboratory come out best
in the matter of longevity.
The studies of Dublin are con-
f1rmed by other investigators. In
the majority of cases, intellectual
superiority is associated with ply
steal vigor, but our college athletics,
as they have been conducted for a
generation and more, have not con-
duced to long life.
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at social responsibilities from the
same angle.
Custom has softened the edge of
how do you do?" save in very rare
instances. This formalized greeting
is never taken at face value as an
invitation to a conversation.
Hereabouts nobody answers, well
last Thursday I had touch of ton
silitis, but after a nice warm bath
that evening and q couple shots of
quinine and whisky l slept like a
top until 9:12 a. m. on Friday morn
ing.
For my breakfast I had two soft
boiled eggs, three minutes, and one
slice Of dry toast Then I took a
brisk walk around the reservoir in
Central park and that after
nOOr-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Merely Formal

DUT things might be much diff
ID ferent with How have you
developed yourself Intellectually
since I last saw your" That's a
much longer question and more spe-
cef1c than the convenient stencil now
in use.
The other fellow quite possibly
might take you at your word and
undertake to tell you. Suppose he
had read book. There would be
no breakaway until an entire re-
sumo of the plot was spread upon
the record.
Now if I agree to use, "How have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Saws Who

I'M terribly afraid I wouldn't be
l. good at that game. Unless I had
the luck to think up something
snappy, I'd probably try to get by
with simple "Oh, YEAH" Or
plain, Nix crackin. "
Kashin's suggestion involves dan
gers Of which 1 am afraid he is IN
aware Or possibly we do not look
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those If
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers, and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude #
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
IN the furore created by the re-
n cent report on American COL
lege athletics of the Carnegie
Foundation for the advancement of
teaching, most of the attention has
been paid to those portions of the
report having to do with the re-
cruiting and substituting of athletes
end commercialism that has rem
dered college sports a problem.
Equally significant, if not more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Daily Thought

And every man thai striveth for
the mastery is temperate in all
things.-1 Corinthians 9:24.
There is no difference between
knowledge and temperance; for he
vino knows what is good and en-
braces it, who knows what is bad
anG avoids it, is learned and tenn
perate.-Socrates
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
World Makes Advance

TERTAIN statesmen, like Mac
~ Donald, BRAND and Hoover,
have accepted the idea Of disarma-
ment as practical.
While that may not look like
much of a triumph compared to
what extreme pacifists desire, it
represents real step in advance.
twenty-five years ago, any states
man daring to take the position of
these men, would have been laughed
to Scorn.
Say what you will, a new note
has crept into the conversation of
humanity regarding war.
Great minds no longer regard war
as unavoidable, as the chief bust
ness of statecraft, as the primary
object of government.
That there will be more or less
Of it until the end of time, they
readily concede, but that nations
can reduce it by adopting a diff
ferent attitude, they no longer deny.
We get clearer idea not only of
what happened, but why it hap
pened, as one Armistice day sue
ceeds another.
Trained armies led to the erup-
ton of 1914, or more accurately,
perhaps, the spirit that brought
them into being.
1t took propaganda to get the
taxes. and justify the CONSUMPTION.
The peoples Of Europe never would
have paid such a price unless they
had been convinced they were in
danger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11

What is the population OF the
world?
The estimated population Is 1,74s.-
100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
Are aIbinos a race of people?

1t is not the name OF a separate
race. but is applied to any in
dividual in whom there is con-
genital deficiency in the coloring
pigment of the hair, skin o. iris
Of the eye.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11

selves that such naval agreement in itself can pre-
vent 1t will be only one small STEP
The larger and more important step Of agreeing on
freedom of the seas then must be taken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11
- DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Grind Generally OUTLINES Athlete
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN

This is the first of a series of four
articles by DR.. Morris FiShbein on the
hygiene of athletics,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11

sweeping 436 acres, destroying 1920
Sept. 6, 1866, and burned four days,
houses and many public buildings
and ninety churches, including st.
Pauls cathedral. Property loss was
estimated at between 100000 and
100000 pounds sterling, an enor-
nous sum considering the low values
of that time. The great fire in Bal
timore occurred Feb. 8 and 9, 1904.
The approximate loss was sec, 900 900.
What Is the meaning of the word
soviet?
1t is Russian word for council
or committee.
What Is heat lightning?
More or less vivid and extensive
flashes of electric light without
thunder. seen near the horizon,
especially at the close of a hot day.
1t is ascribed to far-of lightning
flashes reflected from the higher
strata Of clouds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-11

Great Minds No Longer Re-
gard Var as Unavoidable,
as the Primary Object of
GOUernme nt.

A RMISTICE day comes in good
L n time. Not only the clerks in
Wall Street, but the senators in
Washington need a rest.
If anything, the senators need it
more. They are fatigued to the
point of frazzled nerves, as it would
seem. Can't even stand the wise
cracking of Mr.. Moses, while such
an old war horse as Smoot throws
up his hands and offers to let the
coalition forces write the tariff bill.
The coalition declines, and thu
you are.
China celebrates Armistice day
with another decisive battle, "
though what it could decide is hard
to guess.
Coming closer home, we find Ger
many celebrating it with a Nation
alist drive to spoil the Young plan,
while France backs Tardieu and
Mussolini beats the tom-tom.
Still, the outlook is not hopeless.