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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-26
A New Era Seen

A S instruments of war, these new
"A dirigibles are rather dis
couraging to contemplate.
They will be able to carry not
only enough dynamite to destroy
the skyline of New York, but five
airplanes in their maws. They will
have a speed of eighty-five miles an
hour and cruising radius of 10000
miles.
They will be as full Of anti-air-
craft guns as porcupine is Of
quilts and consequently not as help
less or vulnerable as some people
think.
But it is AS instruments of peace
that one prefers to dwell upon their
possibilities, as rangers of the sea
and desert, as carriers of good will
and enlightenment, as agents of a
broader perspective.
The millions who watched the
Graf Zeppelin circle over New York
when she returned from her trip
around the world beheld something
more than the end of great adj
venture. 1t was not a daredevil
stunt in any sense of the word, but
a feat performed with scientific pre-
cision, an achievement Of hard
headed intelligence, and, therefore,
the precursor Of a new era.
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DirigibIe Is Best

DR. ECKNER not only has
~ crossed the Atlantic half
dozen times, but the Pacific as well,
and circled the globe without seri-
Gus accident in a dirigible vastly in
ferior to those now under construc-
ton at Akron.
One need not be an aeronautical
expert to draw the obvious conclu-
sion.
For flights of 500 or even 1000
miles, where landing fields are
available in case of emergency, the
airplane has a great advantage, but
when it comes to crossing 5000
miles of deep water, the superiority
Of dirigibles is so apparent as to
leave little room for debate.
Airplanes, even of the better and
bigger sort, can be built in COM
paratively small plants, and at COM
paratively small cost.
When it comes to constructing a
785-foot dirigible, however, the pre-
liminary work runs into millions.
Before it could begin fabricating
the two dirigibles it is building for
the United States navy, the Good
year company had to erect a steel
hangar 1900 feet long, 300 feet wide
and more than 200 feet high, with
an eight-acre concrete floor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-26
An Amateur TYrant

Certain types Of politicians take revenge on public
criticism by trying to cripple the press There is
nothing new about that. It always has been so, and
probably always will be- But it is rarely successful
at least in a democracy where the public guards
free press as fundamental of all other liberties
That is why the hundred aud old political tricks
of intimidating newspapers fail
However Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana
has invented new trick. His amazing administra-
ton has aroused general public resentment. Lead
ing newspapers of the state, to their credit, have
criticised his clownish and dictatorial regime In
stead of reforming, he now is out to ruin the
papers.
He has devised a discriminatory tax bill, which
singles out the press. 1t is a tax sales effort,
and thus in effect tax sales No is offered
for this vicious measure. There it is. Long cracks
his whip and the state legislature is supposed to
knife the press at his command.
Our purpose in calling attention to this folly is
not to warn the legislature. We would not insult
the legislature by assuming that there is any danger
of it becoming party tc such perverson Of
justice.
We record this case merely evidence to the
public that petty official tyrants are alert when
old tricks are exposed, to devise new methods of
destroying the free lress.
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Wise and Timely
the Pacific.

The interstate commerce commission in granting
the right of the great Northern and Western Pacific
railroads to Join their lines and penetrate northeast
er California to form transcontinental through
railway via the northwest, has made wise and timely
ruling.
Entry OF the Hill lines into the precincts sacred TO
the Southern Pacific was fought by that company
with bitter and costly propaganda. Behind its OPP
position was apparent an aninus far out Of proper
ton to the actual of the new lineto South
ern Pacific investments.
The principle of absolute monopoly under regua-
ton was considered at stake, the Southern Pacific
basing its entire opposition the ground that it
amply served the district.
The L G. c. took saner view. 1t held that the
new link of 200 miles between the Great Northern and
Western Pacific actually served regions, opened
big timber lands, shortened distance between Cali
fornia and the northwestern states of Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming, and made accessible regions of
great scenic value. More than that it gave whole
some competition.
Competition within range, rather than monop-
oily, is in the public interest" the commission de-
clared
Herein lies the Importance of its decision. In
times of furious merging such these, it is impor
tant that the nation keep its head. We realize
the wastefulness of competition in public utilities.
But we need not go monopoly mad.
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spring to arms overnight without
loving care and close attention. To
what purpose, want to know, did
men pillow and rake and weed the
land to raise foodstuffs for the dust
bin?
And the monstrosity of this be-
comes even more evident when,
upon turning the page, I find an
other headline proclaiming, Mil
lions Dying as Famine Adds to
China'S Woes" Is this or is it not
a mad world?
This amateur economist is not
prepared to maintain the compli-
Gated problems of distribution are
easy and capable of being solved in
any given twenty-four hours.
But at least I will contend that
in world of such inequalities, tariff
walls are not likely to promote the
flow of trade which ought to find
its level in the same free way as
does the ocean.
At the moment any nation is
faced with two dangers. 1t may go
broke because it has produced too
much. Or again because it has pro-
duced too little. That just doesn't
make sense.
Copyright, 1880, by The TimesJ
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League of Pure Nations

Not only our virtues but American foibles
are shared by foreign countries. it seems.
When backwoods southern town puts science
on trial. the English naturally get a great kick out
Of "AGonkeyville" and what they call @the quaint
antics Of illiterate cousins, the Yankees" And
when the United States government solemnly bans
the importation of European classics obscene the
British mirth knows no bounds.
Perhaps, then, We may be pardoned a faint grin
over the Lord Chamberlains ban on the public per-
Torrance in England of Marc ConneTy's Pulitzer
prize play. THE Green Pastures" Not only is that
play generally accounted Americas finest Of the
year. but 1t has been received enthusiastically in
printed eorm by virtually the entire London press.
Canada has another notion Of the menace Of
Yankee culture Our neighbors to the north are
not afraid of classics. even of the contemporary
persod but they don't like our sex magazines and
say IKE even less the Augmentation" Of q tastes
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EDWIN w. WRIGHT informs me
~ that he has examined the tariff
bill with great care and that he is
unable to ascertain what duty is to
be levied on hair-shirts.
Can it be?" he writes, chat this
infant industry is doomed to face
alone the ruinous competition which
European industrial efficiency and
capital resources offer to poverty
stricken, happy go-lucky America?
Surely you will use your influence
to save the American hair-shirt in
dustry?"
My influence in the matter would
be inconsiderable and one far more
powerful than I already had done
for the domestic hair-shirt traffic.
Some little while ago President
Hoover announced that he had ia
ken to wearing one. 1t was not
known then that he purposed to
make it the national garment.
Nor do feel that there need be
any high protection upon sack
cloth and ashes, even though this
happens to be an infant industry
much favored by the present ad-
ministration.
At the time that Mr.. Hoover spoke
of his own personal hair-shirt, the
country should have been quicker to
catch the hint of what was about
to come. The whole history of hair
shirts and of those who wear them
reveals that the individual is sell
dom willing to go through the Or
deal alone.
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Don't View Measles as Trivial

ton, it is found that there are two
deaths of this kind for each thou
sand children who develop measles
"a health menace which merits
serious consideration.
Fortunately, medicine has devel-
oped method which is proving of
great value not only in controlling
the incidence of measles, but also
particularly in controlling the Sc
verify of the attack.
Children who have been exposed
to the disease may be given injec-
lions of blood from one of their
parents who has had measles and
recovered and this seems to mini
nize the severity of the disturbance
and in many instances to prevent
the attack.
Above all, it is important to re-
member that measles is a disease
meriting just as much careful con-
sideration as any oth"-- infectious
disease, and that it is not wise to
permit child suffering with the
symptoms to go without treatment,
to get up too soon after his illness,
or to be unduly exposed during his
illness.
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Discovery

PROFESSOR JEWETT, in an adj
L dress in 1920, told of the events
which led up to Halls discovery of
a satisfactory method of manufac-
turing aluminium in 1886. He said:
my great discovery has been the
discovery of a man. When went to
Oberlin in 1880, on my return from
four years Geaching in Japan, there
was a little boy about IA years old
who used to come to the chemistry
laboratory frequently to buy a few
cents worth of glass tubing or test
tubes or something of that sort.
mot knowing anything about the
boy, 1 made up my mind that he
would make mark for himself
some day, because he didn't spend
all his time playing, but already was
investigating. That boy was Charles
M. Hall.
"After he had entered college and
was part way through the regular
course, I took him into my private
laboratory and gave him a place by
my Side-discussing his problems
with him from day to day.
Possibly a remark of mine in the
laboratory one day led him to turn
his attention to aluminium. Speak
ing to my students, I said that if
any one should invent a process by
which aluminium could be made on
a commercial scale, not only would
he be a benefactor to the world,
but would also be able to lay up
for himself great fortune.
Turning to a classmate, Charles
Hall said, I'm going for that metal
And he went for it.
about six months later, he came
over to my Office one morning and
holding out his followed hand said,
Professor I've got it. There in the
palm of his hand lay dozen little
globules of aluminium, the first ever
made by the electrolytic process in
this country"
Hall was 81 years old at the time.
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IPoIIyanna'

A FEW years ago there was com
IA plant about the spread be-
tween great wealth and poverty in
the United States. Although pros
perity was moderately well distrib-
uted, certain statesmen had the
feeling that democratic institutions
were being endangered by the enor-
nous amount of wealth and poverty
concentrated in few hands.
The administration of President
Hoover has done great deal to cor
rect this condition. The tariff seems
designed to place us all on the same
level.
Even the monster fortunes are be-
ginning to dwindle under the
shadow of our Chinese wall. Give
the Republicans few more years
and there is no reason why any
American citizen will not be able to
look each fellow countryman in the
eye without feeling in any sense in
ferior.
In this Utopia, to which the noble
experimental is leading, Mr.. A can
face Mr.. B and say in all fearless
frankness, I'm broke" He need not
be ashamed, for hack will come the
answer, so am l." Then indeed will
all men be created free and equal.
Upon the cabinet, at the moment,
there devolves the duty Of optimism.
I rather suspect that President Hoo
yer has tossed aside all the books
which we're sent for that White
House library and kept but one.
This one book seems to be the
favorite and the constant compan-
ion Of himself and all his associ-
ates. Its name is 'sPollyanna."
Shrewd Republican leaders have
discovered that American business
is actually enthusiastic about the
tariff. It merely pretends TO pine
because Of loss Of foreign markets.
And this high degree appreciation
is evidenced by Wall Street, the
barometer Of business.
It is true aat stocks did not pre-
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Cost Is Millions

BESIDES the hangar, great deal
ID of experimental work was neces-
sary to determine the best kind Of
materials and the most economical
form of structure.
Had only one dirigible been or
dered, it would have cost approx
mately $5,OOO,O0O.
The two are being built for
100000, or 100000 each.
In size, they are nearly twice as
large as the Graf Zeppelin, but in
quality the difference is even
greater.
Where the Graf had a gas ca
pacity of 100000 cubic feet, each
of these dirigibles will have a capac-
ity of 100000, which means lift
ing power of approximately 200 tons.
Since the dirigible itself weighs
about seventy-six tons, it will be
able to handle a load, including fuel.
equipment, ETC., of more than 100.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

but of a secondary complication In
the form of broncho- pneumonia,
which is a form affecting the tubes
in the lungs rather than the lung
substance, and which is the cause
of death most frequently entered
on death certificates.
DR.. Bolduan points out that in
such instances the physician fire.
quently is called in after the signs
and symptoms of measles have dis
appeared and after the child dies
the certificate gives the cause of
death as pneumonia without men
tioning the measles.
When a study is made of pneu-
monia deaths in children under s.,
it is found that they show a varia
ton which is parallel to the deaths
from measles.
In years when measles is preva-
lent an average of 1,200 more
deaths occur yearly from pneu-
monia than when measles is not
prevalent.
When the figures are estimated
for children under years of age
rather than for the entire popula-
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LORD KELVIN''S BIRTH
June 26

June rs
ON June 26, 1924, Lord Kelvin
" civilian Thomson), British
physicist and mathematician, called
one of the greatest scientific intel
lects of the latter half of the nine
tenth century, was born at Bel
fast, Ireland.
Kelvin studied at the Univer stiles
of Glasgow and Cambridge and also
under the famous Regnault at
Paris. Because of his valuable con-
tributions to science during this
time, he was appointed professor of
philosophy at Glasgow university
when only %. He held this post
for f1fty-tl1ree years.
One of Kelvin's earliest papers
dealt with the age of the earth. By
his studies in the conduction Of
heat Kelvin showed that the earth's
age was not unlimited, but that it
was within twenty millions Of years
old. The resulting controversy
among scientists has lasted untl the
present day.
Kelvin's most popular achieve
ment perhaps was his invention of
a mariners compass that was free
from the magnetic action Of the
iron Of the ship. He later adopted
the absolute system Of measure
ment based on the centimeter, the
gram and the second.
The unit of electric energy
known as the kilowatt hour first
was defined by him. Kelvin was
knighted chiefly in acknowledge
inent Of his services as engineer
to the cable company wf1i9 iraug-
urated transatlantic tele ply.
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How MXDoH1,1i'
|KnOWNW:RIbR2
FIVE QUESTIONS A DAN-f
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

1. Complete the verse: Sufficient
unto the day :"
2. How did Paul refer to the love
of money?
8. BY what rites was Molech wor-
shipped?
4. What king saw the handwriting
On the wall?
5. How did the phrase, spelling
the Egyptians originate?
Answer to yesterdays queries:
l. with what measure We mete,
it shall be measured to you" Mark
4:24.
2. Job, when he learned Of the
death of his dear ones and the loss
of his goods; Job 1:21.
8. He was stoned to death; Num-
bers 1926.
4. Simon Peter; Luke $40.
5. Death; Romans 6:23.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TT commonly is assumed that
l. measles is one of the trivial dis
eases of childhood, that every child
has to have it, and that it is not to
be compared in it's effects with such
diseases as diphtheria or scarlet
fever.
In the weekly bulletin of the New
York department of health, Dr.
Charles Bolduan recently has made
available some figures concerning
the extent of measles in New York
City as compared with other dis
eases.
The annual death rate per 100000
people for New York City from 1908
to 1917 was for measles IA, for scar
let fever IA, and for diphtheria %.
For the period Of 1918 to 1927, it was
for measles 8, for scarlet fever 3,
and for diphtheria Is.
One of the difficulties of inter
preting these figures, however, lies
in the fact that many people who
have measles do not die of measles,
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Romance

TINE story of aluminium is one of
Il the most interesting romances
in modern science.
A century ago, Wohler, the great
German chemist, heard that
Oersted, the famous Danish chemist,
had separated aluminium from one
of it's compounds, aluminium
chloride.
Wohler tried Oersted's method
and was unsuccessful. He then pro-
ceeded to invent a method Of his
own.
But the method was an expensive
one. To produce aluminium by it
would have meant a production cost
of $3.50 pound. And so aluminium
remained scientific curiosity from
1927, the date of Wohler's expert
ment until 1886.
During that time some expert
mentation went on and it would
have been possible in 1856, for ex-
ample, to produce the metal at $40
pound. But that price still was
far above the range of commercial
possibilities.
For the next chapter OF the story
we must go to Oberlin, O., where
serious minded, studious boy named
Charles M. Hall lived. Hall was
the son of a minister. He was of
New England ancestry.
Hall liked to experiment and gave
all his spare time to what he called
his scheme"
Hall became a student at Oberlin
college and there he came under the
influence of Professor Frank Fan
ming Jewett, professor of chemistry
and nineralogy. Jewett, a Yale
graduate, had stTdled chemistry in
Germany and later had been pro-
lessor of chemistry at the Imperial
university of Japan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-26
Odds Too Great

DRESIDENT ORTIZ RUBIO of
4 Mexico thinks we have wasted
enough time and talent in proving
that airplanes can not cross the
Atlantic except under the most
favorable conditions, and has fer
hidden army aviators to engage
in it.
Mexico derives little benefit from
long-distance flights outside the
country, he says, while they en-
danger the lives of aviators who
are needed for work at home.
The same thing is true of every
country on earth.
1t was a good thing, perhaps, to
test the airplane as a possible
trans-oceanic vehicle, but what has
occurred during the last four years
should convince any one that the
odds are too great, especially when
contrasted with performances of
the dirigible.
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and pocketbooks of Canadians by the advertisements
in our publications.

and pocketbooks of Canadians by the advertisements
in our publications.
For a long time the Canadian government has
been bordering ways and means OF keeping its peo-
pie undefled by this Yankee menace. Now it has
hit upon the obvious notion Of putting our publica-
lions on the same Illicit plane as we put Canadian
liquor.
A treaty is being negotiated whereby the Wash
ington government, in exchange for Ottawas support
in preventing export of liquor to this country agrees
to prevent shipment to Canada of any American
publications of any kind deemed undesirable by
Ottawa
Now that the Washington government Is pro-
tecng us from foreign products and foreign nations
are beginning to protect themselves from our prod
ucts, presumably the millennium should not be de-
layed long.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Getting to Work

VXTHEN a cabinet member tries
w to convince us that we really
are more affluent than we had sup
posed, he generally ends his grafton
with a few stern words Of advice. 1t
seems that all America needs to do
is, 'get to work.
I wonder if this is the sole secret
of hard times. Some who had jobs
and now have none are not con-
scious of any laXity in effort. And
in newspaper, I observe the head
line: vegetables sent to dump as
prices remain high"
And in the bank of this same
head I again am struck with the
information: 100000 pounds
wasted in single week when over
supply clogs market"
Now somebody worked and worked
hard to raise that 100000 pounds
of vegetables.
The humbIest radish does not
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Capt. Kingsford- Smith

hearty welcome awaits Captain Charles Kings
ford-Smith in the United States after his fight from
Ireland. None will greet him more warmly than
American ayiators, for they rate him among the
greatest. His California Australia flight, they will
tell you, was the most marvellous combination of
navigating and blind flying ever accomplished
They give him great credit for two reasons: The
hardships and discouragements he has surrounded
and the slow precision and sanity with which he has
gone about his undertakings.
The Australian is poor man. When ne left
California two years ago on his epochal westward
fight he lacked the money to pay for overhauling
his motors, but declined to avail himself of certain
balyhoo opportunities that would have provided the
money.
He has been two years flying around the world
His Judgment, aviators say, has been perfect. He
always has carried radio He has picked expert
navgators.
brave, unassuming man, one of aviation's finest
figures his fellows in America were pulling hard for
him in his effort to reach New York. They are glad
that in any case, he came down safely on this side
of the ocean.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By HE RFH4S

cisely bound upward when the tariff
measure went into effect, but there
is an explanation for all that. The
traders of Wall Street are depress-
ing prices on purpose. They are
rendering themselves bankrupt.
Why?
Republican leaders say the decline
has been engineered just to dis
credit Mr.. Hoover and the Repub-
lican party. Brave Democrats are
ready, it seems, to wear rags to elect
somebody to Office.