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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
Training teachers

I'm studying methods for the i'm
l. proyement in the type of train
ing of chemistry teachers, a COM
mittee headed by Professor A. ]
Currier Of Pennsylvania State COL
lege has been investigating the
training received by more than 200
teachers now in service in Ameri-
can high schools. Foreign systems
of training teachers were also
studied.
I'm comparing the German re-
quirementS with those in our own
country" the committee report
stated, "'one is impressed with the
very high degree of specialization
and thoroughness in the training OF
the teachers in Germany.
Another interesting contrast is
the fact that the instruction in
chemistry and presumably all other
secondary school subjects is almost
If not entirely, carried on by men
teachers.
The standards set for the science
teachers of Germany may seem per-
hapS beyond realization in this
country because of racial and So
cial differences.
can approach to these standards,
however, throughout the United
States would raise the teaching OF
chemistry and other sciences to a
much higher degree of efficiency
than that which exists at the pres
ent time"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
More Wet Victories

The vets continue to make gains in the primaries.
Following their important victories last week in Mich
gan Colorado and the state of Washington this week
they have been favored by political developments in
New York, Connecticut and Delaware.
National significance is in the resignation of
United States Attorney Charles r. Tuttle of New
York and his sudden conversion to prohibition repeal
futile is the leading candidate for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination, and is supported by the
vets of his party to beat Governor Franklin Roose
welt, who recently came out for repeal.
If Tuttle should defeat Roosevelt. the latter prob
ably would be eliminated as the chief Democratic
presidential aspirant in 1882. Or even if Tuttle
should Roosevelt close race, Eastern Republic
ans generally would have an increased argument for
the presidential nomination Of a wet, like Dwight
Morrow of New Jersey, by the Republicans in 1882.
Though drys successful in some Republican
congressional primaries in New York on Tuesday.
Of their strongest men, Representative Dempsey of
Buffalo. congressman for eighteen years. was de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
The Biggest Dam

TIE S165 100000 Boulder Dam project actually Is
under way Secretary Wilbur yesterday drove silver
spike in the railway which is to be constructed from
Las Vegas New, to the dam site, formally initial
ing construction work
On this railway material is to be hauled for the
dam and for the town the Colorado river to house
the thousands of workers.
The project is comparable in magnitude to the
Panama canal and will require years for its compile
ton So far congress has appropriated SlO,6OO,OOO
for construction. This is to build the thlrty-mlle
railroad city for 1000 workers, temporary power
plant diversion tunnels to carry the water of the
river during construction work, and minor works
OF the amount required for constructions, $25,-
100000 has been charged against flood control Con-
tracts for repayment Of the remainder of the costs
to the government within fifty years. with interest
have been signed by Wilbur with the city of Los An
geles the METROPOLITAN water district and the South
ern California Edison Company.
The private power company has secured more
generous allotment of power than congress conten-
plated in passage Of the bill But the private COM
pany is given no part in management and no chance
to interfere with public development. The govern
ment will install the power plant and control its OPP
Grafton. Public and private agencies are to lease
generating units and transmit power independently
Aside from the power angle, over which there was
a bitter struggle for many years. the people OF the
southwestern states will be assured protection from
flood menace and water supplies for their cities
So, after many years of struggle and debate in
congress, a project which will do much toward the
upbuildng of the country at last is under way Mil
lions in the territory along the Colorado will benefit
immeasurably in years to come, and others will
benefit indirectly.
And with the government generating power on
gigantic scale, there will be a permanent yardstick
by which to measure the operations Of the growngy
important private utilities companies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
The Lame Ducks Will Return

This is about as good time as any to point out
that the lame Duck evil still is with us.
great many congressman and senators already
have been baked by the voters in their desire to re-
turn to Washington Many more will fall by the way
side in November. Yet all these defeated lawmakers
Will convene in December, empowered to continue at
the work of legislation for thirteen months after they
have been voted out of Office.
There no whatever for any further failure
on the part of congress to eliminate the lame duck
The Norris amendment, which would prevent man
sitting as lawmaker after the voters have announced
that they want of him, repeatedly has passed
the senate 1t should pass the house at the next
sion Not valid be cited in opposition
TO it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

antifreeze mixtures in automobiles,
and as a solvent for shellac and
Yarnish.
One Of the things that make
methanol or wood alcohol more
dangerous than other fluid poisons
is the fact that it vaporizes easily
and that inhalation of the vapors
can poison as well as taking into
the stomach. The poison is cunlu-
lative in its effects.
Obviously a lot of automobiles
standing in a closed garage with
the radiator mixtures boiling, when
the cars are brought in for the
night, will give off a lot of wood
alcohol into the air.
1t is not unreasonable to antici-
pate that the extensive use of wood
alcohol in automobile radiators
during the coming winter will yield
a considerable crop of cases of
blindness and death among garage
attendants.
Even if precautions and warn
ings are circulated, some accidents
probably will occur.
When wood alcohol is used as a
solvent for shellacS and varnishes
it also is a hazard. In large in
dustries such shellacs and varnishes
are used only in rooms with spray
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
Times. Readers Voice Vices

Editor Times-Four years ago
when Butler college built the field
house on Forty-ninth street, Off
Gals established a business area,
inasmuch as foodstuffs are sold
therein as well as tickets for SWIM
ming, football and what not.
This neighbOrhood was in need
Of a community center, and this
business block of Buffers made the
lots across the street valueless for
anything but business purposes.
The growing community repeat
edly petitioned that business rooms
be permitted in this square, there
being no such conveniences within
mile or more and places in that
location would not damage property
as much as in any other adjacent
blocks. Residents north, south and
east of the college would be bene-
flied.
Influential business men. city
officials and many other unbiased
citizens, as we'll as the majority of
property owners, say that Forty
ninth street is the logical place for
business in that district.
Why, then, should Buffers repre-
sentative, who lives in a different
section of the city, oppose and an
tagonize these good people, some of
whom have lived in that location ali
their lives reared their families
there, and now find their property
deprecated by this unsightly field
house?
How could a desirable business
center opposite the field house Gin
jure the morals Of our students, .
as asserted by this official? Under
present conditions, these boys and
girls pile six, eight and ten on au-
tomobiles and go, who knows where?
The cafeteria is on the grounds
privately owned and operated, serves
food to the students, but prices are
higirand the majority go as far as
Forty-ninth and Pennsylvania, For
tieth and Boulevard place, or Thir-
tieth and Illinois. to get something
to eat. TIMES READER.
Editor TirneS-In answer to Mr..
Won Bank, 40 North Arsenal ave-
nue., of Sept. y, about "Ipe-men
dce-men) yelling their wares
and keeping him from sleeping
at o'clock in the morning
Doesn't Mr.. Won Bank know
that these men have to earn an
honest living and to do it they must
get out early, as 'the early bird
gets the worm?" Mr.. Won Bank.
do you work nights, so that you
must be in bed at Ga. m? If not,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
The La Toilette BOYS

Notring moro dramatic is offered in politics this
year than the nomination yesterday OF PM La
Toilette by Wisconsin Republicans. The nomination
is accepted as equivalent TO his election as Governor
in November.
Phil La Toilette at the age Of 80 becomes
Governor of great state His brother, aged 80, al
ready is United States senator from that state
And these are the sons Of the man who scarcely
dozen years ago subjected to such bitter ABUSE
BY The American people as seldom has befa1en any
American statesman Poetic justice would seem to
be served by the honors heaped upon the sons
Perhaps the voters Of Wisconsin had some such
idea in mind some such feeling their hearts; but
there is more behind this triumph than a senti-
mental impulse There Is more behind it. too, than
the dynamic campaigning ability Of young Phil ren1-
nscent in many ways Of the old man at his best on
the stump: more behind it than the cool common
sense and political experience Of his slightly older
brother Indeed, there always seem to be more De-
hind the La Follettes than appears on the surface
Progressive movements rise and recede in other
states 1t may recede one day in Wisconsin, where 1t
now has endured three decades. But the day OF Its
departure is likely to be distant while the sons follow
one cardinal principle of politics taught by the father
That is the principle Of keeping the voters OF the
state fully informed The ground never is unpre-
pared in Wisconsin when the La Folettes take the
field in campaign years Inc VoteIS AuO" VIC Aoo0'
Through the long winter evening the farmers have
been absorbing facts and figures bearing on state
and national issues facts and figures furnished by
the La Folettes in whose honesty at least they have
learned to trust AS result, the voters can not be
confused easily.
KohIer, rejected by Wisconsin Republicans after
one term proved an able energetic campaigner. The
odds-as seen from the outside-seemed in his favor
TOO much La Toilette" That would beat young
Phil, said the political forecasters. And it would
have been easily understandable had the voters SAID
to themselves: This La Toilette family wants TOO
much"
But the voters of Wisconsin had seen that the La
toilette family-fatter and mother and sons-neVer
had wanted anything particularly for themselves
except the opportunity to their state and coun-
try, and that given the opportunity they did serve
the state and country with extraordinary zeal and
ability.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
SCIENCE
American Chemical Society
Starts Campaign to Make
KnoacIedGe of Chemistry
More Widespread.
by DAVID DIETZ

A PROGRAM for the populari-
"A cation Of knowledge Of chemis-
try has been launched by the Amer
lean Chemical Society.
One of the chief aims of the drive
will be to spread a greater popular
knowledge of chemistry among
women. To this end, study groups
in chemistry are being organized
among the women's clubs Of every
state of the nation.
Organization of these groups is
under direction of a committee Of
which DR.. Harrison Hale of the
University Of Arkansas is chairman.
Its members include Mrs. John D.
Sherman of Denver. former presi-
dent of the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs, and at present
chairman Of the department of the
American home of the federation.
A study course in chemistry has
been worked out for women's clubs.
This has made possible, it is an
nounced, through gifts of Francis P.
Garvin of New York, president Of
the Chemical Foundation.
/ An announcement says, 1.-THE
course is nontechnical and is de-
signed to give that newness of vision
and awakening of interest which
result from a knowledge of what
this all-important science is doing
and may do for us.
1t has been arranged with the
hope that the women Of the United
States may come to see the funda-
mental Importance OF chemistry in
the life of America today"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
II VERY one fears wood alcohol.
Il enough cases of blindness and
death have resulted and been wide
ly reported in the press to cause
intense fear among the public.
Even the most persistent con-
sumers of bootleg of unknown
ancestry can be caused to Shudder
by the insinl alton that the molasses-
colored fluid in the bottle may have
some of the dangerous wood
alcohol in it.
Until recently, practically all the
dangerous wood alcohol or methyl
alcohol used in the United States
was produced by the destructive
distillation of wood.
Through modern chemical re-
search, it has become possible to
produce metlyl alcohol from water
gas and hydrogen at price so low
that it is trif1ing as compared with
the previous cost of this substance.
Hence the newer synthetic wood
alcohol, under the name methanol,
is being urged for many industrial
uses, for which it formerly would
not have been considered.
Among these uses particularly are
the possibility Of adaptation to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
She Has No Pull

one of the encouraging signs Of the times Is the
growing demand for woman in the Presidents cab
met.
This is all the more significant because it rather
generally is agreed that wonlans suffrage, after
decade has not produced the great reform In Amerl-
can politics predicted by the more extreme sutra-
ests It is not that women have failed in politics
indeed it is far too early to evaluate their specific
political service-but that far they think and vote
pretty much the same as men do.
With women providing SO large a share of the
national VOTE it has been necessary for the politicians
to give them liberal representation on the party
campaign committees. But this representation has
not been carried into the cabinet
The women leaders are allowed to help win cleo
lions without sharing the Offices That is not
the case in foreign countries, where women long
have held cabinet Offices
Why the United States is so far behind the times
in this regard is not clear but it is clear that the
public is beginning to resent this political slight to
women.
AS evidence of this is the spontaneous nature Of
the popular movement in favor Of appointing Grace
Abbott secretary of labor to succeed James j. Da
WIS., who is about to resign to- conduct his senatorial
campaign in Pennsylvania
A surprisingly large number of newspapers from
coast to coast, including many conservative papers
which hitherto opposed the idea of woman in the
cabinet, are urging her appointment.
Of course, this unusually wide tribute to Miss
Abbott is not chiefly because she happens to be a
1t is rather the direct result of her long and
brilliant social worker and government
administrator.
Her wide experience in the department Of labor,
and her present achievement as chief of the chill
drens bureau have made her the logical successor
head of the department. The fact that she is a
is important when women have cabinet
representation, but 1t is secondary to the fact that
she is the best fitted person for the job
Miss Abbott, so far as any one can discover, has
only one serious handicap as cabinet possibility.
She is not politician and has no political pull.
She is merely a great government expert, who
has been too busy at her job to think about
party politics
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
Plain Hypocrisy

DOOTLEGGING grown to the
ID proportions of a gigantic in
duStry while we pray at the national
shrine, and millionaire gangsters
charged with vagrancy because our
judicial system can do nothing bet
ter. Twelve thousand murders
year, with half the murderers never
caught, much less convicted, while
one of every thirty people, women
and children included, is arrested
for some petty offense.
Sixteen billion dollars, or one
sixth Of the national income, &C
cording to one authority, going as
tribute to theft, forgery, graft or
embezzlement. though our prisons
are so oyercroWded as to provoke
rioting among the convicts. One
third of the population, if not more,
toasting the Constitution in bev-
erage which it forbids and some of
them telling us how good the very
law they break is for other people.
How can a conscientious father
train his son to be truthful and
sincere under such circumstances,
much less to respect the Constitu-
ton?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
Some Queer Capers

GOMETIMES one wonders how wa
~ can stomach our own incon-
siStencies, how we can erect such
costly monuments to those who gave
the republic form in the beginning,
and at the same time treat their
political philosophy with such con-
tempt. To those who take theirs
AmericaniSm seriously, Constitution
day has become an occasion for
apologizing, not only to those whose
sturdy character and honesty az
purpose made it possible, but to an
outside world, which Is puzzled
whether to laugh or weep at th@
queer capers we are cutting in the
name of freedom, justice and de-
mocracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
Americas Place
THE announcement indicates tn

TINE announcement indicates that
Il the American Chemical Society
is interested not only in spreading
general knowledge Of chemistry, but
also in getting the women of Amer
lea to give some thought to Amer
ica's place in the international
chemical situation.
The society's announcement says,
students will discuss the question
whether we are only at the sun
rise of Americas chemical devel-
opment' and what may cause an
eclipse American chemical indie
pendence is also taken up"
The study program made public
by DR.. Hale embraces twelve, topics
in the general field of American
chemistry as follows:
"Chemistry-the Ball Bearings of
Progress" Water, Sanitation and
Medicine" Feeding the Family"
Clothing the Family" Painting
the Picture of Progress" "Fuel for
Fire and for Force" Dinner Plates
ana Oraln FlpeS, Rubber, 'Elec-
.tro-chemiStry and the Kitchen,
Gold, King of Metals, and Iron,
the President" 'In Peace and in
War;" American Chemistry and
the Future"
1.-THE growth of all food depends
upon chemistry" the announcement
says. whether the diet of today is
more Wholesome than that of fifty
years ago is among the problems to
be taken up by the women students,
who also will be called upon to crit
1cize conStructively the food used
in the average American family, in
a poor family, and in a rich fam
lly.' The uses of chemistry in peace
are stressed"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
1T SEEMS TO ME BY H EXS4}S
THERES never much to write

THERES never much to write
Il about the yacht races for the
America cup unless you happen to
be an enthusiast. Yacht racing is
hardly crammed with action except
for the initiated. and that I never
was.
Still the life of a yachting expert
is not to be sneezed at. This is
no task calling for steady hand,
an eagle eye and plenty of copy
paper.
We were the guests of a de-
stroyer in the last brush, long years
ago. 1t was possible to go below
and take your ease. for when you
came up on deck again the boats
still would be there-and, as far as
1 could tell, in the same relative
position. In fact, I always had to
ask, (Which ones ahead?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
Meeting at Infinity

4 T such times as the yachts hap
IA pened to be on diverse tacks
there did not even seem to be a
Semblance of contest. One would
be headed for the broad Atlantic
and the other for home and f1reside.
Each appeared intent upon it's own
concerns.
Among us laynen there was a GER
tain contempt for the toys. have
not sailed through any typhoons,
nor has salt spray frozen fast along
by whiskers, and yet I was as in
dignant as all the other gentlemen
of the press on certain afternoon
when we steamed past the Hook
into a gentle ten-mile zephyr, only
to find that the cup contenders did
not dare venture out and put them
selves at the mercy of such a raging
gale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
An Eyewitness

a T any rate, the eyewitness ac-
"A count which I wrote out of
afternoon papers and Imagination
won me high praise from my man.
aging editor. He said my descrip-
ton was so realistic that he almost
felt as if he had been there him
self.
The news story deserved higher
praise than that. Had I been frank
er would have met his compliment
with the answer, ut was so good it
almost made me feel as if I'd been
there"
Naturally, said no such thing.
There is an old newspaper rule, and
a shrewd one, which runs, Never
give managing editor an even
break"
Copyright. 1880. BY The Tfmesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18

How do aIIigators differ from
crOcOdiles?
True alligators differ from croco-
diles in the following respects: The
feet are less webbed: the head is
shorter and flatter; the long first
and fourth teeth Of the under jaw
fit into pits in the upper jaw, and
not into notches between the teeth,
and this causes the whole head to
be broader and the snout more OBJ
fuse than crocodiles.
Who wrote the march, "Stars and
Stripes Forever"
John Philip Souss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-18
Lip Tribute Not Enough

TUNES have changed, of course.
4 We drive automobiles where
the father rode in wagons, or even
oxcarts, and read in a blaze of cleo
trio lights, where they strained their
eyes in the weak and yellow fame
Of candles.
But governments and constitu-
tons still depend on the same kind
of honesty and straight thinking
they always did, and law still is
no stronger than the sentiment be-
hind it. We can set aside all the
days we like, and go into all the
stilted ceremonials a vivid imagina-
ton can contrive, but unless we
keep the Constitution somewhere
near what we believe, and unless we
are willing to obey the statutes we
enact, the lip tribute won't get us
very far.
This idea that we can be great
by leaning against tombstone, or
virtuous by censoring some other
mans work, has its risks, and not
the least of them is hypocrisy. The
worst thing about hypocrisy is that
it fools no one so completely as
those who practice it.