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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
Glenn II. CurfiSS

= Probably not since the death of Wilbur Wright
has aviation lost such an important figure as Glenn
Hammond Curtiss, who is being buried today
Although he ceased active participation in the
world of aeronautics ten years ago, his influence is
as strong now as generation ago. when he made
his sensational fight down the Hudson from Albany
70 New York.
History will place CurtiSS next to the Wright
brothers. They invented the arplane. Curtiss popu-
larized it, He was genius at thinking up uses for
the flying machine.
He invented the flying boat. He was one OF the
pioneer pilots and had few peers as demonstration
His name has dominated the aircraft manufactur-
ing industry for twenty years
Just few days ago Curtiss few again over the
AIbany-New York route that he made famous In
1910 But instead of the imsy boxkite, with canoe
strapped beneath it. which he used on the first flight
he rode this time in a luxurious twenty passenger
transport, also bearing his name
Those two planes are the phenomenal milepoSts
In ytng progress in this country Pride in American
aviation also must be pride in Glenn H. Curtiss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
Readers of The Times Voice Vices

our vacant houses would be filled or
empty bread boxes of many idle
here would ne filled from local
merchants with local earned money.
A definite example of this prac-
tlce; a local married man, with a
wife and four children, buying a
home and paying taxes in this city.
is working every other week be-
cause the plant thinks they should
give every other week to a single
boy who lives at Shelbyville with
his parents, and takes his weeks
wages there to spend. Is that help
ing solve our unemployment prob
lem?
Drive by plants of this city and
notice tire covers on expensive auto
mobiles from Frankfort, Martins
vile, Greenfield, Noblesville, Muncie.
Anderson, Shelbyville, Franklin.
Mooresville, PlaiEfleld, etc. A great
many of those people have wealth
and some of it has been gained by
working at Indianapolis wages and
paying small town expense for liv-
ing.
An owner Of a business living in
this city or out of this city, but
adopting this policy, shows that he
is boosting the city where he is a
heavy taxpayer and is not trying to
take Indianapolis money some place
else to spend.
This can not be done by passing
laws. 1t must be done by business
policies.
JAMES A. STEPHENS,
1888 Shepard street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25

'ON July IS, 1905, the Lewis and
" Clark expedition discovered
the three forks of the Missouri
river and named them the Jeffer-
son, Madison and Gallatin.
The party, consisting Of Meri-
wether Lewis, William Clark and
twenty-seven other men, had start
co from the vicinity of st. Louis in
May of that year.
After reaching the three forks,
the explorers proceeded up the
Jefferson, crossed the Rocky noun
tains in September, then went down
the Columbia river and, on Nov. z,
came in sight of the Pacific ocean.
They spent the winter on the
coast and started the return jour-
ney on March %, 1905, and ar
rived in st. Louis in September of
that year, having Travelled a dis
lance Of nearly $500 miles.
For more than a year the ex-
plorers had been cut of from all
communication with the outside
world and suffered terrible hard
ships.
However, they collected a mass of
valuable information about the
physical characteritics of the
country, its climate and the Indian
tribes.
The expedition was commemo-
rated in 1905 by the Lewis and
CLARK centennial at Portland. Ore.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
Why the Hunt Might Lag

AL Capone, at his quiet retreat in Florida is quoted
as remarking tersey that the Chicago police know
perfectly WELL and have known all along, who killed
the reporter, Jake Lingle.
Capone ought to know if any one does but wheth-
his remark is correct not it is highly significant
pointing as it does. to the fact that there
many things in the background of this Lingle murder
that practically no one in Chicago wants to see
dragged out into the open.
1t may prove simple enough to convict the man
who fired the shot into Lnges brain; but to tell the
whole story of this murder it will be necessary to
wash great deal of extremely dirty linen in public
Some of this linen is owned by Chcagoans of
siderable prominence. #, and then, Chicago
to be just trie lackadaisical about catching
Lingles murderer, there may be reason for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
Led Reform Fight

FERRY BUCKLEY was supposed
~ to be a reformer and acquired
more than a local reputation by his
Scathing attacks on the Bowles adj
ministration in Detroit.
He not only became a recognized
leader in the recall campaign, but
took every opportunity to denounce
and expose Detroit'S underworld.
When he was shot down from be-
hind by three gunner who planted
eleven bullets in his body, folks
naturally assumed he had fallen an
innocent victim to that same under
world. Men on the streets called
for action, the county board of
supervisors and the city council Of
fered rewards, the Governor of
Michigan came across the state by
airplane, and every possible agency
of law enforcement was put to work.
Then came the whispers about
Buckley's alleged contact with rack
eteers, about large sums Of money
acquired in mysterious ways, and
about the possibility that he was
killed because of personal trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
The New Censorship

Customs officials used to have the power to prose-
cute book importers without trial by jury Senator
Cutting of New Mexico able to change this sys-
tenn through clause in the Hawley Smoot tariff
bill. He fought bitterly by Reed Smoot and
others, but ultimately he triumphed
The first case under this dispensation just has
come up A Seattle book dealer imported 100 copies
of technical book by great Dutch scientist, DR.. J.
Rutger. 1t is entitled Sex Life in Its Biological
Significance"
The books were seized by the customs officials
and action taken against the importer. Fortunately
he now will be able to invoke the aid Of jury trial.
instead Of facing customs officials and complaisant
judge.
1t is well that this is the first case to come up
under the new procedure.
To seize an obviously scientific book written by
world-famous authority and possible of perusa only
by educated adults exposes censorship in all its
posterous proportions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
Money for Amusements

The Very Rev. w. r. Inge, England's famous
gloomy DEAN" remarks thai what American spend
on Iuxuries in two years would pay of the British
war debt He estimates that Americans spend ten
and half billions on amusement annually.
Undoubtedly, the dean means that this is all
very deplorable; but for the life of us we can't see
why. Granted that deal of money is spent on very
foolish inane amusements; granted that we spend a
lot of money for amusement when we better might
be putting it in the bank so, that huge expend-
tre for recreation is to our way of looking at things,
good sign
At the very worst, it means that an enormous
number of Americans able to spend time and
money on recreation They able to forget about
the cares of the workaday world every often, even
If they don't always make their expenditures wisely
If we are leaving drudgery and monotony behind us
it is good thing no matter how fOoliShly we ctwhen
we look for amusement.
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Facts Sought on Liver Extract

he can maintain himself in fairly
good health. If he fails, his condi-
ton begins to get worse.
Statisticians for a large life in
Surance company recently have
studied the death rates from per-
nicious anemia in persons from Is
to "a years of age over the period
1921-1929.
The liver diet first began to be
used in 1926. There have been de-
ciSive decreases in the death rates
from pernicious anemia since 1926,
particularly as applied to women
beyond middle age.
In the age period from 55 to IA
years, the death rates have de-
creased 43 per cent among men and
SO per cent more among women for
the period 1926-1929.
The statistics will continue to be
studied, with a view to finding
whether use Of liver and liver ex-
tracts will result in a permanent
lowering of the death rate or in the
postponement of death from the
disease.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
ChaIdeanS
WE usually think of &C

WE usually think OF accurate
beginning with the Greeks, but DR..
FOtheringham points out that the
Greeks owed a great debt to the
Chaldeans.
He thinks that Greek astronomy
had its foundations in the work of
two Chaldean astronomers in par
ticular. There names were Naburi-
annu and Kidinnu.
Naburiannu arrived at surprising
ly accurate values for the apparent
motions of the sun and moon in
500 B. G. Still better values were
calculated by Kidinnu in 1913 B. C.
The Greek astronomer Hippar-
chus is believed to have made use
of Kidinnu's calculations in arriv-
ing at his own.
The world has learned of Ma
buriannu and Kidinnu only within
recent years as result of the
translation and publication of a
number of previously unknown
Babylonian and Greek texts.
The world is indebted chiefly to
a group of distinguished German
Jesuits, Fathers Epping, Strassmaier
and Kugler, for this very valuable
service.
These texts tell of the two Chal-
deans, who, according to On. F'oth-
eringham, are entitled to a place
among the greatest of astronomers. .
Fotheringham further states the
Kidinnu was so excellent an
astronomer that he obtained a value
for one of the components enter
ing into the calculation of eclipSeS
which was better than the one
used by present-day astronomers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
SCIENCE
The Ancients Believed That
the Sun Was No Higher IN
the Heavens Than the
Clouds. =
BY DAVID DIETZ-

TINE ancients worshipped the sun
Il as a god, frequently as their
chief god. They realized what mod
ern science has affirmed, that life
upon this earth is dependent upon
the light and heat Of the sun.
But the scientists had no appre-
citation of the true glory Of the sun.
In many legends, the sun was a
shining chariot, driven across the
heavens by a sungod.
The sun was thought to be no
higher in the heavens than the
clouds. When the sky was filed
with clouds, they thought the sun
actually was battling its way through
the clouds.
We must not, however, be unfair
to the ancients. While it is IN
doubtedly a fact that these myths
Originally we're believed literally by
all, they gradually gave way to bet
ter beliefs before the end of the
Greek and Roman civilizations.
1t is probable that to the end of
these civilizations there were many
people who still believed them. But
the scholars and philosophers pro-
crossed beyond them.
This is not only true of ancient
Greece and Rome, but of ancient
Babylon as well. While the great
mass of people continued religious
worship based on solar mythology,
perhaps in many cases even losing
sight Of the origin of their pagan
worship, the astronomer priests de-
veloped a considerable astronomical
knowledge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
No Minor Matter

BUCKLEY is dead. He can not
- defend himself against charges
of blacknail and extortion such as
gangland knows how to frame.
But if he we're guilty, as the
whispering implies, would the
situation be better, would the MUIR
der be less reprehensible, or would
there be less excuse for public
alarm?
If gangland has reached a point
where it can put false reformers
at the mike, and false reporters in
an editorial room, we are con-
fronted with a serious problem,
indeed.
The machine gun is bad enough,
even if used only on rival
racketeers. but the ability to take
over broadcaSting and impose OH
big newspapers is worse.
AS a matter Of common sense,
we are up against brand OF law
lessness which goes much deeper
than a murder here and there, or
an occasional knockdown and drag
out for control of rum running.
Lawlessness is not only organiz-
ing, but organizing on a business
basis, for the express purpose of
running local politics in many OF
our great cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

tracts of liver were discovered which
gave the effects when taken in very
small doses.
Still later, Doctors Sturgis, Sharp
and Isaacs, associated with the Uni
versity of Michigan, found that ex-
tracts made from the wall Of the
stomach of the hog had similar
good effect.
When insulin was discovered, it
was heralded widely by the pub
lie as a cure for diabetes. Physi-
clans announced, however, that
inSulin was not curative in its eff
fects, but that it served as a sub
stitute for the secretion which was
lacking in the human body.
In other words, while it would
not cure the patient, it would pro-
long his life greatly and relieve him
of his disabilities.
Perhaps the same fact applies in
the case of the use of liver and liver
extracts in the treatment of perni-
cious anemia. AS long as a patient
takes his medicine as he needs it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
The South Speaks

ycrsasa in the number of lynchings is of the
most serious developments in our national me- Twelve
, victims were tortured and killed by mobs during
es,a last six months number equal to that OF the
Sntire year 1929.
We Americans have grown calloused 10 thlS curse.
Some years ago public revlsion caused recession OF
this wave Of sayagery Now the is rising again.
And the only response Of many otherwise decent
citizens is the cheap paint cts too horribe-dont
talk about it,
Two recent events, however have caused more
ebouebt on this tabooed subject than the ynchings
themselves. one was the reported campaign state
uent of Senator Cole Blease Of South Carolina:
rWhenever the Constitution comes between rue and
the virtue Of the white women Of South Carolina l
nav to hell with the Constitution"
The spectscle of a United States senator publicly
defending this barbarsm and thus melting potential
fnobs to crime probably has done more to shame the
pubc generally than has all the recent professional
agitation against lynching.
Blease's declaration has had also one direct and
immediate effect as significant as it IS hopeful. 1t
has provoked statements by Governors Of seven south
ar, states all condemning lynching, without quaf-
cation.
What these Governors say is not so important as
now they say it. They seem to speak with the sin
cerity and grimneSs Of men who are facing great
horror and are not afraid to fight
Here are parts OF their statements:
Governor Pollard Of Virginia. "Lynching is bar
barious While am Governor of Virginia, every
power vested in me by law will be used to prevent any
such blot on our civilization"
Governor Sampson Of Kentucky: Il am opposed
unalterabIy to mob law in any and all cases. If a
mob may settle one case it may settle all cases. The
Constitution must be respected and all the power of
the state will be Communicated to protect the most
humble citizen"
Governor Long Of Louisiana: Il have been Gov
ernor Of this state for two years and no white
or black has been lynched during that time. The
policy Of my administration has been to compel OBJ
servance Of the law"
Governor Gardiner VI North Carolina: I regard
unching and every other form Of mob yiolense not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
FREDERICK
lands
REASON By

IF this John Macdonald of Baltimore, whose teSti-
i naony sent Mooney, the San Francisco labor lead
parade in 1916 is in his right mind then we believe
his testimony that he testified falsely.
The fact that he was willing to return to Califor-
MIA and swear that he committed perjury when he
knows that it might send him to prison. perhaps for
the rest of his life, should the last doubt of
the genuinenesS of his statement, particularly when
there are many indications that Mooney was framed
DUT it is not enough for Macdonald to declare
D that he swore falsely.
He should go the whole route and uncover the con-
spiracy which induced him to do So no matter whom
1t may involve for it is an unspeakable crime for any
group to plot to rob an innocent man OF his LIB
srty.
This case involves not only the calamity visited
upon Mooney! it is also a calamity to the cause OF
law enforcement handicapped enough already by the
thousand and one obstacles which thrown in the
pathway Of just prosecutions, without the maudlin
sympathy for criminals which is bound to follow the
establishment of MONEYS innocence.
He will head fresh chorus of inSistence that all
the monkey business which handicapS criminal
prosecutions is necessary to safeguard the rights Of
the innocent when matter of fact the indictment
Of innocent is the most remote of possibilities
TT occurs in great cities only after an atrocious
i crime, when great reward is offered for the con-
viction of somebody and it occurs in rural county
seats hardly ever.
It is safe to say the guilty are acquitted thou
sand times where the innocent are convicted once.
Throughout the years we have been somewhat ia
miiar With the prosecution of crime in county seat
part of the time as q member of the bar, and in all
of the long stream of crime that has gone over the
dam in those years we know Of multitude, guilty
SIN, that escaped and of but single charge Of
felony where the defendant actually was innocent.
And in that case the prosecutor gladly asked for
verdict Of not guilty.
So If Mooney is turned loose we should not be
swept of our feet by maudln clamor that our
courts monsters seeking the lives of the innocent
whe in truth they are antiquated inefficient nstru-
mentalites for the punishment of the guilty and the
protection of the law abiding
lie the crusade for punishment swift and sure, go
forward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
They Have Brains

A BEAUTIFUL theory, but it
N leaves one fact out of con-
sideration.
Some of the brainiest boys we
have are leading gangland, some Of
the most persuasive statesmen, some
of the shrewdest executives, some
of the clearest thinking political
highbinders.
They not only know what they
are doing, but they have devised a
rigid code to back it up-a code
which appeals TO youth because it
supplies an objective, even though
the objective may be bad.
Gangland is not bossed by a crowd
of nit-witS Who rob for pastime, or
kill for blood lust. The PROPOSE
ton is essentially profit-taking in
purpose, and is based on carefully
worked-out plans.
Scores Of gangsters have not only
gotten rich during the last ten years,
but have lived to enjoy it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
FRED S. GALLOWAY,
4121 Rockville road

Editor Tirres-To the Business
Industries Of Indianapolis:
A great deal has been said about
Boosting Indianapolis" but can
that be done with so many Indian
apolis citizens walking the streets
looking for work? indianapolis
business pleads for our people to
deal or buy from home industries
and at the same time hire people
from other cities and towns to work
for them and leave our own tax
payers walk the streets looking for
work. We encourage every one to
buy homes here and at the same
time employ people living in small
towns who have moved there or
live there because they can do so
cheaper than living here.
Look at interurbanS, buses and
automobiles coming into this city.
each morning from neighboring
towns loaded with workers who
have jobs which belong to citizens
of this mo mean CITY," Unless we
protect our own citizens first, we
are placing an inducement to live
in surrounding towns where living
is cheaper and will have to have a
larger charity fund to take care of
our own people who have been in
duced to come here and become citi-
zens.
Take for example 500 out-of- town
people earning $40 a week. They are
taking $4,000 out of this city each
week that should go to 500 families
in this city and would be spent here
for the necessities of life. If
people realized that this city was
boosting THIS city first and must
live here or not wcEk here. then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
ECIipSeS
.HE ancient Chaldean 3

THE ancient Chaldean aStrono-
Il mer priests were particularly
interested in the study of the mo-
tons of the sun and the moon.
They made excellent progress,
realizing from the aspect of the sky
just before sunset or after sunset
that the sun changed its position
with relation to the stars.
This discovery of the apparent
path of the sun among the stars,
which we now call the ecliptic, was
an important discovery and bears
testimony to the ingenuity Of these
early astronomers.
OF course, they did not know, as
we now do know, that this appar-
ent motion of the sun really was
due to the motion of the earth in
its own orbit.
They also studied the motions of
the moon and learned from their
studies of the moon and sun to pre-
dict eclipSes.
They discovered the eclipses &C.
CURED in cycles and that any given
eclipse was followed by another
similar one in eighteen years and
eleven days. This period, after
which given set of eclipSes repeats
itself, they named the Saros, a term
which is still used by astronomers
today.
The usual number Of solar
eclipses within Saros is seventy
one, though it may be two or three
more or less.
A study of eclipse records shows
how old astronomical observations
were in Chaldea.
A reference in the AsSyrian
eponym canon, a passage which re-
fers to a year in the Assyrian
chronology which has been identi-
fed as 1853 B. c., says, "Insurrection
IN the city Of ASSur. In the month
Swan the sun was eclipsed."
From TAT B. G. on, a canon of
astronomical observations was kept
in Babylon. All eclipseS were re-
corded in it.
It was this canon, according to
DR.. j. K. Fotheringham of Oxford,
famous authority on ancient astron-
omy, which led to the discovery of
the SaroS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

ONE of the great discoveries of
~ modern medicine in recent
years has been the knowledge
that the use of liver has a definite
effect on cases of pernicious ane-
mia. Formerly, practically all these
cases were fatal within short
period.
When it was discovered by such
fundamental workers as Whipple of
the medical school in Rochester, New
York and Minot, Murphy and Cohn
of Harvard University Medical
school, that the feeding of liver
stimulated the regeneration of blood
corpuscleS, cases that were going
rapidly downward began to improve.
Soon it was found that the eating
of raw liver or even of cooked liver
was a strain on the appetite and
digestive mechanism even of the
person with this disease. Then ex-