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The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Idiotic Enforcement

The muddle- -headedness of which some policemen
are CAPABLE when they go out to enforce Sunday blue
laws, is something almost beyond belief.
In Philadelphia the other Sunday two working
boys clubs played baseball game, with group of
kids from an orphan asylum their guests No adj
mission could be charged. and fewer than ten
policemen were present to that no fee was COL
lected.
At the end of the fourth inning the boys tried to
take up collection from the crowd to pay the days
expenses-baseballs ground rent and the like. They
promised to give any surplus to the police department
to be spent on charity. But the police were adamant
AS soon as the hat started to go around the police
broke up the game and arrested the boys in charge.
Stunts like that simply silly. Blue laws" So
called are designed to prevent the commercalization
Of the Sabbath. game like this ought to be in
nocuous enough for any
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
k.mance Erifts on T.iver

The last Mississippi river packet steamboat line
has gene from Memphis Tsnn.-and if you have any
feeling at all for the color and romance of by-gone
generation that announcement is guaranteed to make
you little bit melancholy.
A few days ago the Valley Line Steamers, Inc sole
survivor of the Memphis packet lines. put its three
steamers up for sale and discontinued operations.
Memphis. result. is without packet steamer
service for the hgst time in than century
for the first time, matter OF fact since the MIS-
sissippi had any steamers at all
OF course there still is trafc the river The big
barge fleets are said to carry a greater volume OF
freight annually than the old-tme sidewhee packets
did in their heyday Furthermore, this kind OF trade
is increasing Enormous cargoes come down the river
each month"; to spill into the funnel at New Orleans
for shipment the east coast California and over
=Ses.
But who can get excited over barges and tugboats?
Those old steamers represented bit OF romance lett
over from more leisurely and coorful era than our
own. They we're survivals from generation which,.
in retrospect sometimes looks more attractive than
ours And Memphis was Tapped in the glamour that
they gave.
irving to imagine Memphis without packet steam
ers is like trying to imagine Gloucest Mass without
fishing schooners. 1t just isn't right. The picture
looks wrong Memphis ought to do something about It,
Probably it's a mistake to get sentimental about it.
After ALL the Mississippi valley is greater artery OF
commerce now than it was in Mark Twans day. Its
cities are more prosperous Life is easier for bigger
percentage of it's people. The railroad and the auto
mobile, which slew the packets, have certainly been
blessings to the valley to the rest of the country
But we have lost something, just the same. Our
modern age is efficient and progressve-but it gives
us no substitute for the cleaning white-paint-
brasswork packets of the old days 1t is in fact just
little bit dull The loss of Memphis river steamers
symboizes the tendency of the age.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02

EDISON ought to catch them
- younger. Of the forty-nine
smartest boys in America assembled
in East orange, N. j., the most
youthful already is Is. Far be it
from a slippered pantaIoon of 40 to
suggest that Is definitely establishes
lad in the sere and yellow as far
as future achievement is concerned,
but I insist that the age of f1exibil-
ity already is past. That is over by
six or seven.
In fact, future experience and
education is relatively trivial If
this theory is correct, as I believe,
educational processes in America
are ill-contrived. The average fam
lily spends hours in earnest consid-
Grafton of the question. Where
shall we send him to college?" or
the problem may be even more fun
damental one cf, Can we send him
to college?"
Naturally, such decisions are
worthy of earnest deliberation, but
they pale before the Importance of,
(which kindergarten shall we
choose for him?"
In most cases this vital query is
stressed lightly. Some school or
other is chosen because it is just
around the corner and Norah can
call for him and still cook luncheon.
If it is a place which suffices 60
keep a growing boy in fair spirits
and out of mischief, that is plenty
in the eyes of most parents. Yet
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
SCIENCE
San Spots Occur IN Cycles,
Which Are Approximately
EIeven Years Long.
-RY DAXID DIETZ-

TINE fact that sun spots occur IN
Il cycles has engaged the atten-
ton of astronomers for almost a
century. Within the last few years,
the work of DR.. Harlan T.. Stetson
of the Perkins Observatory of Ohio
Wesleyan university has proved
definitely that radio reception inn
proves and declines with the sun
spot cycles.
Many authorities suspect that
there may be longtime changes in
our weather which can be traced to
the sun spot cycle, but this has not
yet been established.
S. H. Schwabe of Dessau was the
first to discover that sun spots oc-
Cured in cycles. He announced his
discovery in 1843 after twenty years
of study. During those twenty
years, he had made an almost daily
watch of the sun spots.
The systematic study of sun spots
was begun by Professor Max Wolf
of Zurich in 1880. He collected all
observations of SIN spots which
were available up to that time and
summarized them.
He devised system of counting
sun spots which took into account
both the groups of spots and the
number Of spots in the group. This
method is still in use.
The result of the daily count is
known as the wolf number" for
that day.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Stomach Gets Out of Place at Times

I opaque to the X-ray and then take
an X-ray picture or to look at the
abdomen with the microscope, with
the patient in a standing position.
Thus the exact location of the stom-
ach may be determined.
If the falling of the stomach has
been established for a long time, all
treatment must be palliative and
related to giving the stomach the
amount and kind of work that it
can do.
The diet must be regulated as
we'll as the amount of food, the
times the food is taken, and the
patients conduct before and after
eating.
If the condition is seen early it is
possible by the use Of various sup
portive appliances, by suitable ex-
ercises of the abdominal muscles by
massage and hygiene, by increasing
abdominal fat and lessening the
amount of fluids and food generally
to give the tissues a chance to build
up more adequate support for the
! falling organs.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tying the contents of the stomach
into the intestines after food is
taken, the difficulties accumulate.
Moreover, = the changed position
brings about changed positions in
other organs and causes pressure in
unusual places and these secondary
features of the disturbance also
bring about unusual symptoms.
Incidentally, women suffer far
more than do men with dropping of
various organs Dropping of the
stomach is seen in from 20 to 80
per cent of women as compared with
about per cent of men.
The symptoms usually associated
with dropping of the stomach are
those associated with lack of proper
activity of the stomach. There is
the sense of fullness, eructations,
early satiation on eating, and many
of the other symptoms associated
with dyspepsia.
in proper position is to put into it
OF course, the certain method of
finding out whether the stomach is
some substance which appears
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
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HARDING'S DEATH
August 2

On Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren
G. Harding died suddenly at a hotel
IN San Francisco. He had set out
on tour across the United States
and to Alaska in an effort to reas-
sure the farmers and reawaken en-
thusiasm for the administration,
and it was on his trip back from
Alaska that he became i'll.
The graVeness of his illness be-
came apparent when he addressed
the Seattle Press Club only few
days before his death. A writer
who covered the event wrote:
when the President appeared be-
fore the Seattle Press Club his
address was in the nature Of 2
yaledictory, in the sense that it
marked the Presidents farewell APP
pearance in public for an indef-
mite period.
$50 the people of the country may
as well make up their minds that
they will hear little and see moth
ing of President Harding for several
months"
The death of the nations chief
executive was announced in these
words: The President died in
simultaneously without warning and
while conyersing with members OF
his family at 7:30 p. m. Death ap-
parently was due to some brain
evolvement, probably an apoplexy.s =
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
1ALI AOO1 LANDS

THIS is the asbestos age of the American people;
Il their statesmen simply can not set them fire.
They will sit through reel at the talkies
and see everybody from President Hoover down pass
N review and never clap hand
1t is something more than summer lassitude
We haven't heard a political giant cheered since
the World war, and outside of the candidates for
Office nobody in the land has named a baby after a
President in the last twelve years
All of which is wonderful thing for the babies
IN way it would seem as if there should be law
Il against naming the helpless after those who for
the moment loom large in public favor for it's ter
rible handicap to bear the name of some politician
who later throws down his echo by being caught with
the goods him.
And on the other hand the peace and tranquility
of the great would be promoted and then if their
names were not passed around SO promiscuously.
Every week some of Washngtons OF Lincoln's
namesakes sent to the penitenary the result
is far from satisfactory.
When you pick up the paper and read that George
Washington Heminway just has been caught stealing
chickens and sentenced to six months at the penal
farm it makes distinct dent in the hat of the Father
of this country as you visualize him, crossing the
Delaware
XXTHEN you turn to the next page and read that
w Abraham Lincoln Hopkins was apprehended
the previous evening in the act of removing spare
tire from the Lizzie of neighbor the reaction ut
terly fails to Synchronize with the reverence you
have always had for the preserver OF the nation.
So it's a good thing our ebbing enthusiasm has
given temporary immunity to the cradle well as
the PEDESTAL but it makes wonder what is at the
bottom of it.
Certainly the American heart has not turned to
a dill pickle
ONE disposed to ascribe it to the personalities of
~ our Presidents for since the World war they
have been emotion-proof neither Harding. Coolidge
Hoover having caused fellow-countryman to
bust glove. while Woodrow Wilson not what
you would call highly combustible.
And in the absence of the personal appeal we do
not applaud: have not the instructive homage for
constituted authority. found Europe; still rise
when the band plays THE Star-Spangled Banner,
but We do it as if We were ERYlng athne.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Readers of the Times Voice Vices

Editor Times-What is the matter
with our writer's of law, the lawyers
and officials who are supposed to
know what law is? Have they be-
come so foundered with knowledge
that they no longer are capable and
have no sense of justice, or are they
a class of people that can not see
anything but dollars and just play
vaudeville to get them without any
thought or regard for justice?
For example, we will take the de-
linquent tax law that has been run
ming for eleven years. In enforcing
this law they are selling liens
against the property for the amount
of the tax penalty and costs and
giving only two years to redeem it.
If the party is unfortunate and un-
able to redeem it, a deed is given to
the party who paid the amount of
the tax penalty and costs, thus con-
fiscating the property of the owner
and robbing the heirs of their lawful
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The late revised statutes published
in March, 1890, are very encour-
aging to the unfortunate heirs, as it
states that infants, idiots and in
sane persons may redeem any lands
belonging to them sold for taxes,
within two years after the expiration
of such disability in the same man
ner as provided in the preceding
section for redemption by other per-
sons.
The foundation of law is justice
Is robbing the infants, idiots and in
sane of their lawful inheritance and
means of maintenance, justice?
How do they expect infants to live
and redeem their property at COM
pound interest Of s per cent with
the purchaser of the tax lien being
given a deed for their property and
giving them nothing for it or the
use of it? The expiration of the dis
ability Of idiots is death. What
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
PerpIexed on Morals

EDISON'S ch-diScussed "des-
IL ert question" furnishes vivid
proof of how perplexed we have be-
come.
Eight people stranded with only
food enough for three to get out
of it, and what would you do if you
were boss?
A brilliant scientist of so. his
sociallv-inclined wife and 6-year-
old 81 l, two haIf-breed guides, one
58 and one 80; your fiancee, your
best friend, and yourself, with the
power to save three and doom five
In your possession.
Sea law, as practiced in clipper
ship days, would have enabled you
to answer for one Immediately. but
that law gradually is fading. We
are not beginning to doubt whether
captain should go first.
The idea that the strong should
save the weak gradually is giving
place to the idea that we should
consider what is best for society, as
though we could tell in our calmest
moments, much less when con-
fronted by life and death emer-
gency.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Latitude

A MOTHER interesting fact about
IA sun spot cycles is known as
Spoerer'S law of sun spot latitudeS
in honor of the astronomer who first
pointed it out.
Spoerer showed that when a sun
spot cycle is starting up, that is
when a minimum just has been
passed, the new cycle is heralded by
the appearance of few small spots
at considerable distance from the
suns equator. These spots occur
in latitude 25 or 80 degrees north
and south.
AS the cycle continues, more spots
appear. In addition, many of the
new spots occur in lower ATTITUDES
that is, closer to the equator. In
this way the two belts in which the
sun spots occur widen out.
Then as the maximum is passed
and spots become fewer in number
they cease to appear in higher lati-
tudes. Consequently, the sun spot
belts begin to shrink in size. But
the spots now are all in low lati-
tudec.
AS the cycle comes to a close, only
a few spots are left, but these are
a few degrees north and south OF
the equator.
The new cycle now begins again
at high latitudes.
AS rule, evidences of a new
cycle are in sight before the last
traces of the old one have COM
pletely died out.
The result is that at sun spot
minimum there usually are a few
spots scattered in four widely sepa-
rated zones. - A few spots belonging
to the old cycle a few degrees north
and south of the equator, and few
spots belong to the new cycle at dis
tances of about 80 degrees north
and south of the equator. =
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

BY DIR. MORRIS F1SHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
z ACH of the organs in the human
~ beings interior has place
varying within reasonable limits
which may be called its normal po-
sition. If the organ gets loose be-
cause the ligaments that hold it in
position are too long or too loose,
unusual symptoms may result.
Thus one hears of floating kid
neys, twisted ligaments, dropped
stomach and intestines, and similar
abnormalitieS of position of various
internal organs.
A stomach that has dropped
down out of position may get six
or seven inches lower in the alb
domen than it ought to be and still
not cause any considerable diff
Guilty.
If, however, it gets into a position
in which there is difficulty in emp
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Credit Due

FROM Yale, or Princeton, or Har-
Il ward your son may get an inn
posing facade, but the sort of man
that he is to be was determined long
before he came to the cloisture OF
any of these universities.
In later years he may mention
the debt he owes to Copeland OF
Harvard or Phelps of Yale. 1t is even
possible that in after-dinner orations
he will stress the fact that Princeton
made a man of him.
Or possibly his eyes may grow
moist with tears as he mentions
Cayugas waters and the cleansing
effect they had upon his soul.
But I believe the young man errs
in his estimates. He should remove
his hat not for God, for country
and for Yale" but rather for these
first two and Miss Blanks Day
School for Infants"
Wiser heads than those carried
by the average collegian have fallen
into the same mistake. Keats wrote
poem to celebrate the fact that he
came suddenly upon Chapman'S
Homer.
But there was nothing accidental
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02

TINE sun spot cycle is approx
Il mately eleven years long. That
is, it is usually that many years
from a time of maximum sun spots
up to a period of minimum and
back again to a period of max
imum.
However, the time from one max
imum to the next may be longer
or shorter period.
Russell states, THE average in
terval between maxima is lib years
according to Newcomb; but this is
subject to great fluctuations, the
observed intervals ranging all the
way from 73 to I'll years. x
'The rise to maximum is usually,
but not always more rapid than
the fall which follows, the mean
duration of the two, according to
Newcomb, being 4.62 and 6.51 years.
"W. j. S. Logger has pointed out
that the rise is more rapid both in
actual duration and as compared
with the fall, when the maxima
are highest. The whole length of
the interval between minima, how
ever, seems to bear little relation to
the intensity of the maximum
During the period of sun spot
maximum, the sun is covered with
spots daily. On some days as many
as one hundred spots are visible.
During the period of sun spot
minimum, spots are very scarce.
Sometimes an entire month will
pass without a single spot being
observed.
There is also considerable varia-
ton in the intensity of sun spot
maxima. Three or four cycles will
exhibit maxima of high intensity.
These will be followed by several of
low intensity.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Shall FitteSt Suryiye2

THREE generations ago the boys
4 were taught that the head of
such expeditions must stay unless
told that his going meant rescue.
Now we are not SO sure.
Whether jazz or intelligence is
responsible for the change, we are
beginning to wonder if those who
nave the strength should not save
themselves, if chivalry is a virtue, il
cavemen were not right.
Survival of the fittestr crops up
as natural corollary to the hypo-
thesis of self-expression-meaning
the fittest physically, not the fit-
test spiritually.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Confused on Morals

WTE have attained a fair degree
w of success in systematizing
and co-ordinating our mechanical
knowledge.
There is general agreement on its
fundamental principles and how
they should be applied.
When it comes to morals, how
ever, We still are badly confused.
AS a matter of fact, the confusion
is increasing.
Not only the Mosaic, but the mid
Victorian ideas of right and wrong
are breaking down, with little Of
constructive nature to take their
place
Optimism suggests that we are
approaching the advent of a new
moral code, but there are equally
good grounds for suspecting a drift
toward chaos.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
TT CEEMG TN MD ~ HEYWOOD
L OAL1V1O ~ 1V11 D1 BROUN

and epoch-making in the contact.
At 5 or 6 some influence, known
neither to me nor the poet, worked
to Homerize young Keats and make
him the sort of person who would
be knocked into an inspiration by
the nodding bard.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02

chance have they to redeem their
property?
If it is not the intent of law to rob
any one, would it not be illegal to
sell property at less than its ap-
praised value? Would not the sell
ing of the lien against property for
the amount of the taxes, penalty,
and costs, and giving a deed to the
purchaser for the amount of the
lien, show the intent of the law to
be confscation and robbery?
H. D. ROBINSON,
Richmond, InG.
Editor Times-We note that Will
liam Green, American Federation of
Labor president, while in this city,
advised that every member become
committee of one to find out the
stand of every congressional candi-
date on the employment bureau bill
and the anti-iniunction bill" I am
only poor coal miner, now thrown
on the scrap-pile, being so years old.
When applied to one company in
this city for. job, the employment
manager said. "On account of your
age. your usefulness is past" AS
such, dare question this great Mr..
Green, though I know him person
ally. Why did he refer to only those
two bills? Would it not be better
for every member, or let us say,
every voter, to know the stand of
every candidate on every bill that
comes up? Why refer to the two
bills only?
I would say also. would it not be
well for Mr.. Green to instruct every
member that, when election for
officers in the organization comes
around, "every member becomes a
committee of one to find out the
stand of every candidate concerning
the welfare and strength of action
that should be taken in regard to
the organization.
II such instructions had been
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
NJ. E. Tracy
As a Matter of Common
Sense, No Man KnoCs HoW
He Would ARSlOer Edi-
sons Desert Question" if
Confronted With it jn
Reality.
SANS

A S method of picking geniuses,
n there is not so much to be
said for the Edison plan, but as an
event which stimulates a certain
number of boys to study, and GER
tain number of older people to clid-
gel their brains, it has proved a
bowling success.
Edison has the faculty Of asking,
not only difficult, but searching
questions, better still, he is inter-
eSted in the original native facul-
ties, the type of mind that accepts
knowledge as something to be used.
His questionnaires make the ay-
erage high school and college exam
nations seem pale and inSipid, They
call for something more than can
be parroted from textbooks, but
something that the average individ-
ual is likely to meet during life.
What Edison seems desirous to
know is the kind of men boys are
going to make, not only as engineers
or scientists. but as citizens and
members of society.
1t would be just as we'll if our
educational system gave more heed
to that side of the question.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02

given years ago, and the members"
had taken notice accordingly, some
of those holding Office today draw
ing big salaries from their unfor-
tunate members" now would be
among the unemployed.
Green shouts about increase in
union membership 'in the south, u
but he did not mention the loss of
the 100000 or 4OO,0 union soft coal
miners. Why did Green have to go
south and forget those miners who
built the United Mine Workers of
America and made William Green
what he is today? What did Viii
liam Green and John L. Lewis do to
those miners in the 1922 strike
They divided the miners and lost
the strike. They since have been
very good friends and have helped
each other in keeping the miners
divided, until today very few are left
and those left have no faith in
Lewis or Green.
Leave Green in Office, and the
American Federation of Labor will
become what the United Mine
Workers Of America is today under
the leadership of John L. Lewis.
S. A. NELSON.