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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
REASON By Ff GAsDls

NEW YEARS has lost more Of its original color
y than any other holiday.
Now it is just sort of P. S. to Christmas, but it
used to be rare occasion, ushered in by the grand
ball Of the in thousands of towns and then
New Years day everybody kept open house, a beau
tiful custom, but one that has vanished.
There were lights In the houses and evergreens
and smilax and mstletoe and there a punch bowl
in the paror, round which the buds Of the season
ranged themselves to hand glasses to the visitors,
many of whom already had sufficient cargo
Toasts were drunk and there was sort Of Cavalier
touch to it, foreign to life today the habits
of the Persans, but it had lure which makes one
regret its passing.
Somehow We are unable to work up any enthus-
iasm the calling out of all these troops by the
Governor of Kentucky to keep the people from lynch
ing that pair of bandits guilty of cold booded murder
THE scientists assure us that the discovery over in
Il China of bones several million years old
proves that man did not descend from monkeys,
which should be very gratifying to the monkeys.
And now sackett Of Kentucky leaves the senate
to become ambassador to Germany as Edge of New
Jersey left it to become ambassador to France.
We can not see how any senator could do such a
thing unless he has an overwhelming desire to live
in wet country or his ladies wish to hand out the
society taffy.
Nations are like children, they have their spats,
then make up and forget it.
Just few days ago the United States and Russia
swapping at each other through the International
fence and now they flying side by side, hunting
for the lost Alaskan aviators.
We will never get world peace until we arrange to
have enough people lost all the time to enable all
nations to participate in rescue parties.
THE Chinese nation made great mistake to let Its
l. people eat dogs just 1t Is trying to get the
world to recognize its equality world power
1t should have given its people porterhouse until 1t
gained place in the
The more we think it the more we feel that
the President named Ambassador Dawes as member
Of the London disarmament commission because he
concluded that Chicago entitled to q representa-
tive on her own account.
In addition to its many other blessings the radio
every night enables hundreds of singers to get rid
Of the stomach ache by broadcasting 1t.
California judge sentenced man to jail for
only ninety days for branding his wife on the face
and chest with q redhot iron.
The only explanation Is that the Judge is married
unhappily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
American Fascists

The disarmament of the Fascist League Of North
America may notice to similar groups that
divided allegiance among our foreign citizens
is not to be countenanced. For seven years these
overzealous friends of Dictator Mussolini have de-
Of 100000 Italo-American residents. There
have been boodshed factional strife and violent out
breaks wherever the question of Fascist and anti
Fascist raised. They now may be expected to end
The leagues sponsors repeatedly have denied that
it sought to dominate the lives Of Italo-Americans
to the end that they would render first allegiance
to Mussoln and their fatherland these proestatons
may be true, despite evidence to the contrary
That is beside the point however The very ex-
istence of aggressive Fascist group provoked re-
taliaon and the streets of American cities became
battle-ground for the clashing forces.
Count Ignazoine Thaon d Reve Italian subject
and president of the league declared there would
be need his organization until attacks on Fascim
ceased in this country.
His official reason for disarmament is that the
league has served its avowed purpose Of combating
Mussolni's enemies The military trappings which
the black shirts affected Di Revel said will be-
come exhibits in Fascist museum. 1t Is better so.
Secretary of State Stimson's hand does not appear
in the denouement. Di Revel insists disarmament
was voluntary and not promoted by warnings from
Washington Rome.
Nevertheless, the secretary Of states reported in
quiry into the aims and activities Of the league
doubtless served to discourage the movement If So
the administration merits credit for frowning upon
I'M American efforts of this Sort
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
Where Is Shearer?

Senator Shortridge's three-month delay in resunl-
ing the Shearer investigation becomes more incom-
prehensble to the public and many Of his colleagues
each day.
Now, if ever, seems to be the time to find out
whether selfish Shipbuilding interests employed the
big navy" lobbyist to prevent naval limitations.
Completion of the inquiry would, without any ques-
ton. improve the atmosphere surrounding the Lon
don parey in January.
Even Senator shortridge, committee chairman,
admits there are many important matters to be
cleared up Did the three shipbuildng cncerns hire
Shearer without the knowledge of Charles NJ Schwab
as he testified, did the two men have long con-
ference and definite understanding, Shearer said?
Did American admirals aid and abet the propa-
gandsts' efforts before during and since the Geneva
conference? Did our navy department accept the So
called Wiseman forgery genuine, and disseminate It,
In an effort to discredite the disarmament mover
The public is entitled to to these questions
These loose odds and ends" as Shortrdge refers to
them may contribute to the eventual Of the
movement to end the mad race for naval supremacy.
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Trouble in India

No spot on the surface of the globe will deserve
or get such worldwide attention during the next few
months as India.
If the present agitation eliminates in the formal
adoption of a declaration of independence by the
tionalist group-as seems inevitabe-practicsly any
thing can happen 1t quite obvious that British
rule may be about to get the severes test it has had
since the Sepoy mutiny.
Just how extensive the demand for independence
may be is a matter for speculation. India has $780,
100000 inhabitants-but the majority unletered
and ignorant, neither knowing caring much about
the matter The British have had vast experience in
handling colonial problems, and the probabilities, of
course are that the approaching crisis will be handled
with COOL undustered competence
The immediate future however, likely will prove
trying time The situation will be well worth
watching.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By Hf RFo{S

riding a good horse up the side OF a
Mexican mountain"
Apparently, the workers are to
unite and overthrow their tyraEts
for no less a reward than the priv
ilege of a rear view of Mike Gold
galloping up an incline.
"One of the first acts of q work.
ers' revolution would be to decen-
tralize New York." explains Gold
1.-The city would inevitably shrink
to Inan-size under cooperative So
cial order.
Those dreamy-eyed architects
and Partisan futuristS who gloat
over skyscrapers and love to mag
inc a. city of nothing but vast sky
scraperS and five or six street lev
els, ETC., are not only foolish but
ignorant.
They are fools because human
beings can not permanently live in
this kind of artificial prison.
They are ignorant because they
do not see that skyscrapers are
made necessary only by capitalist
competition, and simply will not be
useful in real civilization; the
workers republic"
OF course, every man has a right
to his own conception of Utopia, but
Colds vision seems to me to violate
some fundamental principles which
have animated all efficient steps TO-
ward social cooperation up to now
The companionate state must be OF
urban origin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
HEALTH SERVICE
Soft Foods Best for Poor Digestion

servation Of Beaumont, using many
modern methods of study, and all of
them have confirmed the original
observations.
Recently Drs. M. J. Wilson, w. H.
Dickson and H. C. Singleton have
given new consideration to this
problem.
In checking what other people
have done, they point out that the
physical state of the foodstuffs is of
considerable Importance in deter
mining how quickly the stomach is
emptied.
Cruel leaves the stomach more
rapidly than dry carbohydrates or
cereals and large Jumps of meat are
retained much longer than minced
meat.
Anger, fear, and passion delay the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04

motions of the stomach. Smoking
and the drinking of water have
definite effects, as does also the TAX
ing of various drugs.
AS result of their experiments
in feeding food of various kinds, the
investigators are convinced that the
initial emptying of the stomach de-
ponds on two main factors: First,
the presence of normal movements
in the intestinal tract; second, the
consistency Of the food that is taken.
Liquid meals start to leave the
stomach as soon as they are swal-
lowed, whereas the more solid foods
do not leave for a longer period.
For this reason, it is customary
in diseases in which there Is diff
Guilty with digestion to feed what
Is known as q soft diet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
Questions and AnSzge1:S

How long did the body of Pres
hent Grant lay in state?
President Grant died July %.
1885, and the body lay in state until
Aug. 8, when it was placed in a
temporary tomb.
How is the word buffet pro-
nounced?
bouf-fay.
Do any fish have four eyes, the
upper ones for seeing in the air and
the lower ones for seeing in the
water?
The United States Bureau Of
Fisheries knows Of no such fish.
Where were the exterior scenes of
the motion picture "Evangeline"
filmed?
At Carmel, Cal, Point Lobas, San
ia Cruz, and in Louisiana near New
Orleans.
Where is Khyber pass? Why Is 1t
fortified?
Khyber pass, in Afghanistan, is
the principal northern pass into that
country from India, commencing ten
miles west of Peshawur and extend
ing for thirty miles northwest to the
plain of Jelalabad. It debouches at
Dhaka, on the Kabul river. 1t mar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04

deliverance will come through this
same instrument. Work can be put
in its place only by intricacies of
cooperation possible among the
tightly massed.
Nature has made a few successful
efforts to establish Utopian COM
monwealths, and it is to the bee
and the ant that we must look for
models, rather than to the lone wolf.
There will be again nation of
cliff dwellers. We must climb to
reach Utopia. Man has always
dreamed of heaven in the skies
above, and the time may not be
distant when he will reach up to
have it here and now.
downright. 1880 by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
Amendment Is Farce

TIVE Boston meeting, Secretary
L. Melons attitude, Borah's de-
mand for reorganization of the dry
forces, the South Carolina decision,
the promise of colorless report by
President Hoover's law enforcement
commission, and a thousand and
one other incidents only combine to
prove what mess we are in be-
cause of an amendment to the fed
eral Constitution which never
should have been adopted and law
which is practically unenforceable
Were it not for that stubborn
ness which prevents the average
American from admitting frankly
that he has made a mistake, espe-
cially where political opinion is in
volved, we might look for something
sane.
Because of that stubornness, how
ever, and the fanaticism which takes
advantage of it, we must forego
even that crunb Of comfort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04

rows in places to less than twenty
feet, and is enclosed in part by lofty
and nearly vertical cliffs. The pass
Is considered Of great strategic i'm
portance, being on the military road.
Its elevation above Dhaka Is 1870
feet.
What is the size Of the personnel
Of the United States army and
navy?
The appropriation act Of 192o-3o
contemplates an average enlisted
strength Of approximately 118,750
men in the regular army, and GAS
Philippine scouts. The navy per-
sonnet consists of $3.50 officers and
86,643 enlisted men.
Is there = poem called when My
Ship Comes In?"
Yes. Robert J. Burdette Is the
author.
What Is the value Of q United
States large copper cent dated 1886?
One to Is cents.
Who wrote THE Cruise of the
Shark" and who Is the publisher?
Jack London is the author. 1t Is
published by the Macmillan Com
pany, so Fifth avenue, New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
Skill
TOOTHED wheel is placed Il

TOOTHED wheel is placed IN
n the path of the beam at us
Starting point, splitting the beam up
into a series Of impulses. II tie
speed of the wheel is rlgnt' Ille
returning impulses reflected from
the mirror also pass between the
teeth of the wheel and register In
an eyepiece.
The velocity of light then can be
calculated from the speed OF the
rotating wheel.
The experiment sounds very SIM
pie. But it becomes not so simple
when one realizes that the speed OF
light is approximately 10000 miles
a second. A beam of light would
make the journey around the
earth's equator seven times IN
little less than a second.
Only an experimenter with the
consummate skill and the genius OF
Professor Nicholson is competent TO
perform the experiment.
He made his last determination
in 1927. obtaining figure of 186,284
miles a second. This was more &C
curate than any determination ever
made before.
But Professor Nicholson thought
he could do still better. He tried
using a base line between Mt. Will
son and San Jacinto, a distance Of
eighty-f1ve miles, but without good
results. The beam of light passed
close to the ground at places and
distortion resulted.
An attempt to use a f1fty-mile
base line between Mt. Wilson and
Santiago peak also proved unsatis-
factory because Of dust and smoke
from the city of Los Angeles.
This led him to formulate plans
for the present experiment in which
the beam of light will be reflected
back and forth within long line
of pipe from which the air has been
extracted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
Jury Drinks Brew

V7IVIDLY illustrating this aspect
' of the situation, the South
Carolina supreme court has just
ruled that jury may drink home
brew offered in evidence against a
person charged with violating the
prohibition law.
In the case under consideration,
the jury was accused of consuming
forty-nine bottles of beer during the
four hours which it deliberated.
If that establishes a precedent,
the problem of how to get a drink
without violating the law is solved.
All that thirsty citizens need do
would be to get themselves selected
on prohibition juries and call for
the evidence.
Small wonder that Senator Borah
Is moved to find fault, even though
1t does place him in the position
Of opposing President Hoover.
One would be more enthusiastic
about endorsing his stand, however,
If it did not smack of a chronic
popularity, not to say a WORKOUT
political trick.
Borah generally is moved to find
fault with something, and in many
instances his fault-finding seems to
forestall what the Democrats would
say If they were only little quick
er on their feet.
When the Republicans have made
a Dust, you usually can depend on
Borah to call attention to it and
demand remedial action.
Afterward, you usually can de-
pend on him to be satisfied with
whatever the Republicans do.
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In May
FUND of $4,000 has been fu

A FUND of $4,000 has been fur
"A nished to finance this new ex-
pertinent of Michelson's. The
Rockefeller Foundation furnished
$40 900 and the Carnegie Corpora
ton $4,000.
Corrugated iron pipe, three feet
in diameter is being used for the
experiment, DR.. Adams said. This
comes in sections sixty feet long.
I'VE set up a pipe line LOO feet
long and devised means of making
the joints air-tight by using auto
mobile inner tubes as gaskets," he
said.
I'VE then extracted the air from
the pipe with vacuum pumps. We
found that the line would hold a
fairly high vacuum for a number
of hours.
"As a result, we feel confident
that a pipeline a mile long will
work satisfactorily and we will start
assembling it soon.
"A system of mirrors will be
mounted in air-tight tanks at either
end Of the pipeline SO that the
beam Of light can be reflected back
and forth several times, making the
actual path travelled by the beam
eight or ten miles long.
AN arc light will be used for the
source of light. This of course will
be outside the pipeline. Its light
will be admitted through a window
in the tank at one end of the line.
Professor Nicholson is expected
to arrive at the observatory on May
l to supervise the final preparations
for the experiment.
1--WE feel confident that the ex-
pertinent will be satisfactory and
expect that he will succeed in OBJ
tanning still more accurate figure
for the velocity of light than he
did in 1897"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04

VT is curious that American COM
l. munities should pass fierce and
cruel laws against persons profess
ing a belief in Communism. The
circumstance that such legislation
violates traditional constitutional
liberties may be waived in favor
of the principal fact that the sect
is not numerous and is made up
almost entirely of immature chalk
writer's.
The Communist party in America
possesses not single leader Of the
slightest significance. However, it
is not without articulate adherents
One of the most expansive is Mike
Gold, who edits the New Masses.
Now Gold passes on questions of
form and precedence and serves the
left wing movement as a sort OF
Dolly Gam.
Not so long ago he publicly ex-
PEELED a comrade who was caught
being photographed in a dinner
coat. Each night, before retiring
Mike Gold, in secular prayer, asks
himsel, Have I or have 1 not been
a good little proletarian today?"
One might suppose that it would
be easy for millions and millions OF
us to qualify as members of the
working class, but Communism is
among the snootiest of sects and
maintains its own limp leather So
cial register.
The barbados which are to be
erected when the great day comes
will be manned by only such toilers
as can present a letter properly
countersigned by Mike Gold.
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Right on Technically

A CAPTAIN, eight British SOL
IN diers, and four civilians were
indicted and brought to trial in con-
nection with the famous Boston
massacre.
All were acquitted of the charge
OF murder, but two of the soldiers
were convicted of manslaughter
and, after pleading benefit of clergy
were burnt in the hand"
incidentally, John Adams, after
ward President # the United States,
acted as counsel for the defense.
1t requires no gift of prophecy to
foretell that, regardless of the in
vestigations which may be ordered,
or the trials which may result, no
harsher verdict can be looked for in
the Newport case.
AS a matter of fact, Secretary
Mellon already has vindicated the
coast guardSmen; as a matter of
law, they technically we're within
their rights, and as a matter of
common knowledge, the prohibition
problem has come to hinge on tech
nicalities and official support more
distinctly than on anything else.
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WASHINGTON'S MESSAGE
Jan. 4.

|NN Jan. 4, 1870, George Wash
~ ington issued his first annual
presidential message.
Before congress, in his first
message, Washington laid an en-
inently judicious series Of sugges-
lions of laws and provisions, which
we're at once made the basis of leg
islation.
Washington refrained from ally
ing himself with either of the two
parties, Federalist and Democratic
Republican, then forming under
Hamilton and Jefferson. On the
contrary, he strove to reconcile the
differences between the two leaders
which he saw in the future must
inevitably bring about wider differ
ences among the people.
Today also is the anniversary
Of Utah's admission to the Union,
on Jan. 4, 1896.
And on Jan. 4, 1899. President
Mckinley sent the treaty of peace
with Spain to the senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
Heaven Upward

MATURE Is even more cruelty
L Y competitive than any system
devised by man. Only captains of
industry, anarchists and other con-
firmed individualists picture Utopia
as sort of laissez-faire larchmont.
The rest of us realize that human
minds can not be NEEDED effectively
without the rubbing of shoulders.
The state of my dream will con-
tain cities more vast than any Of
us have yet known.
The machine may seem at the
most tyrant of man but in the end
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-04
SCIENCE
Velocity of Light VIII Be
Mcnsured in Series Of
Tests by famed Scientist.
BY DAVID DIETZ-
DETERMINATION Of the '

DETERMINATION Of the We
n lo~ity nj light more accurate
than ever before made VIII De maze
this sumner At the Mt. wilson OBJ
.ervabory IN California. Prof. a. a
Nicholson. famous American sclen-
DIST Who lust recovered from an az
tack Of pneumonia. win conduct the
experiment. despite the TACT VilaI
ne Is n years old
Preparations for the experiment
are now going forward at Mt VII
son DR.. walter s. Adams, director
Of the observatory revealed here az
the annual exhibition Of the car
oeeie institution OF Warrington
The observatory is one of num-
Der OF famous ones maintained 0y
The institution.
Professor Nicholson, known TO the
world of science as the high priest
of light" began his study Oh tIe
velocity of light while an instructor
AT the naval academy at Annapo4lS
Ten years ago, he began a ne"
series of experiments at MI. Visor
He measured the speed OF beam
Of light from Mt Wilson to a peak
in the San Antonio ridge, distance
of twenty-one miles.
No method has ever been oeVlseo
to measure the speed OF a beam OF
light in one direction. 1t is neces-
.arv to send the beam to a mirror
at the distant point and reflect II
back to its starting point.
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H07g the q. S. Grezg

little group :traggng strung aIong the
Atlantic seaboard the United States has
occupying the Of the North and
with all territory embracing more
than three million hundred and thyeght square
The of the territorial expansion of the States be-
1870 and 1929 contained Washington
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