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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

public school officials will attend as
guests of the Research Club.
The Research Club is an outgrowth
of the Research Department. 1t was re-
Gently organized for the purpose OF pro.
noting interest in psychological ana
educational research. Miss Jessie La.
Sale. assistant superintendent OF
schools, is honorary president and Mrs.
Mildred Percy, president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19

Scientists are trying to learn why the
common musk, once the favorite per-
fume flower in every cottage in England,
has lost its scent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04

more frankly sold out to industrial feudalsm than
that OF Mark Hanna and william Mckinley. Coolidge
continued the caressing.
Hoover and Smith promised to make everybody
happy, In defiance of all economic laws and principles.
But it fell to the Sage of Palo Alto to assume re-
sponsbility for lifting himself and his nation by the
boot straps The practical results have been the usual
in such cases.
Neither the tariff nor farm board activity has
rendered any substantial aid to the farmers. The
tariff is only more Of the same medicine which has
brought them into their present desperate economic
indisposition.
According to Dodd, none Of the proposals now on
the horizon even scratches the surface of the real
problem. Only three possibilities really par
with the knotty issues to be solved.
The farmers may organize on a national scale,
carefully limiting production and destroying excess
products. Or they may adopt price-fxing arrange
ments to make farming actually pay. History, &C.
cording to Professor Dodd offers little promise that
either of these will work.
The alternative is capitalistic farming on a vast
scale by great farm corporations. These will limit
cultivation and hire agricultural workers. The small
independent farmer will gradually fade away and
we shall have a permanent agricultural proletariat
like unto that of the medieval manor.
The capitalistic farmer will not fight the capitalists
in manufacturing, commerce. banking ana tAalSpo1-
tahon. He will come to terms with them against
the workers of all classes Standards of living for
both city and farm workers will be depressed unless
birth control comes to their rescue, Dodd declares.
This is not too pleasant picture, but it seems
to accord we'll with the actuaites of history and
contemporary American economics. We may agree
with Professor Dodds conclusion that widespread,
wholesale and drastic changes must be made. The
time has come for statecraft and statecraft is the
most difficult of all arts and PHILOSOPHERS"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
A New Source of Danger

1t is especially reassurng to learn that Adolf Hitler
promises if he ever to power in Germany, that
he will do everything he to evade fulllment by
Germany of international treaties.
Since Hitler's Fascist party made such spectacu-
lar gain in the last election and since there
many strong rumors of an impending "putsch" or
forcible seizure of power, by this party the chances
of Htlers coming to power are not quite as remote
as one might wish; and if he does come to power
resolved to carry out the program he has outlined,
you may est assured that Europe will have plenty of
trouble.
1t is quite possible, of course, to argue pausibly
that many of the international treaties under which
Germany now labors are unjust and should be re-
vsed; but sudden, forcible revision such Hitler
advocates could mean only This Austrian pol
itican seems to rank now as the leading of
danger in all Europe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Without Inventions

A ND so the new age contributed
L n little of moment to the birth
day child. In her life 1880 would
differ by hardly the breadth Of a
fingernail from 1880. I wonder
whether she had a good time, No
body thought to ask her that. In
stead, she was faced with the ia
miliar query as to the younger gene
ration. 1 forgot what she said. 1t
could not have been important.
I've always wondered why every
person of more than 80 was sup
posed to have about him or her
some sage remarks concerning the
f1apper.
Perhaps it isn't quite fair to as
sumo that the rush of decades made
no difference whatsoever in the life
of the little old lady in New Jersey.
Although she had no personal share
in telephone or motor or radio, they
must have colored life about her.
Perhaps she sometimes saw a pic
ture show. The story didn't say.
One development of civilization as
we know it must have touched her,
Nobody can live so far away from
the trends of the day or be suffi-
GENTLY aloof not to have encun-
tered the tin can.
Indeed, it has always seemed to
me that the can opener plays an
even wider part in daily life than
the automobile, the radio, the tele-
phone, or any of the other i'm
provements of the last half century.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
VictorianS Never Knew

MANY of the Victorians lived
I'VE and died quite unaware that
a day would come when it would
be practically reproach even to
have existed in that period. They
had no notion of laundering down
the ages as synonyms for primneSS
and prudery.
hope there never will be a time
when I shall run shrieking out of
theaterS crying, "This is terrible;
call the police!'
I hate to contemplate year which
literature of the land will seem to
be too frank and free to be so much
as touched by any man of decency.
Against the fate of finding your
self a member Of the fogeys, two
remedies are possible. You may, if
you choose, died young. I've thought
of that and rejected the plan for
something which seems to me much
better.
1t is possible for every one of us
in youth or middle age to build
within himself a fine, rouSing fire of
radicaliSm. And if the blaze is built
of coal and other solid substance,
there may remain embers to warm
you during the last chimney corner
days.
None have i ever known who did
not find themselves edging toward
the right in the years past so. Or if
they did not edge toward conformity
they were pushed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Smoke Cheats City Folk of Sunshine

island was at least SO per cent on
some days.
The average percentage loss of the
whole year was 1856 for clear days,
34.6 for cloudy days, and 21.5 for all
days.
The loss of light depends, among
other things, on the altitude of the
sun and on the nature of the day.
light available, that is to say
whether from clear or cloudy sky,
and whether in the presence or
absence of strong wind.
The percentage loss OF light was
found to decrease as the velocity of
the wind increased. Apparently
strong wind is able to move the
smoke particles in the atmospheric
contamination out of the range of
interference.
Since sunlight has been shown
to be of definite Importance in the
maintenance of human health,
engineers of state and city health
departments have given greater con-
Sideration to the elimination from
the atmosphere of the interfering
particles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
For Nv Birthday

r DON'T think I would like to be
l. an old gentleman of 100 upon a
remote Jersey farm. I've cursed the
radio, the telephone and the taxi
cab a score of times. 1t never has
been proved beyond debate that in
vention has made men more happy
I don't know. But I will admit
that after an individual has become
accustomed to the gadgets :. prog
reSs he always will find it hasd to
set along without them.
I don't think I would like to be
an old gentleman Of 100 years in
either the country or the city. But
if the issue ever comes up I could
wish for metropolitan decline.
A club window is more pleasant
place in which to grow old than a
back porch. There, at least. one
car keep the Illusion of being one OF
the boys.
1t is not the aches and pains and
the various infrlnities of advancing
years which terrify me. Ny dread
accumulates against the day when
those about me may say, What can
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Sumner Running True to Form


"iust Judge" has emerged in Magistrate Gottlieb.
He dismissed the ridiculous charges against Simon
and schuster brought by John s. Sumner. The lat
ter had accused these publishers of selling an obscene
book when they offered for sale new edition of Dr.
Arthur Schnitzler's "Casanova's Homecoming"
The magistrates decision sane and statesman
like He admitted that the book might shock some
sensitive and naive readers and might be regarded
as sngularly innocent by others. Ones reaction to
it would be a matter of personal taste; cert1. ~
nothing to run into court about.
This perhaps is the most sensible statement made
by magistrate in censorship case in years. It's
implication is that need not feel it to
chase Judge every time read anything we do not
like. We can put the book down, even throw it in
the waste basket the fireplace
Judge GottlieD also threw cut another educational
hint to Mr. Sumner, when he suggested that the lat
ter stop in his crusadng long enough to take cogni-
zance of the fact that he is living in twentieth century
New York City and not in English hamlet in 1885,
But all this went Mr.. Summers head. He ran
as true to form as a machine He held out twenty
five copies of the book from those which he was or
dered to return the publishers and headed for the
district attorneys Office to get indictment before
grand jury-precisely what he did in the case OF
Pay Day. and other books.
There must be some way of proceeding against
Sumner in such instances Of persistent malice. Pub
fishers should not have to be harried from pillar to
post in such fashion. Morris Ernst Simon and Schus
ters attorney should adjust his spectacles and
the law books for some appropriate relief
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
A Federal Deficit?

News that the federal treasury has finished the rst
quarter of the fiscal year with surplus Of $52OOoOOO
does not alter the possibility that congress may find
it necessary to abandon the per cent reduction ap-
piled to income tax payments this year.
= Revenues declined $145O00O00 from the CORE
spending period last year Expenses exclusive of the
public debt, increased $2sOOOOOO Thus the net loss
was close to $174OOOOOO Custom receipts alone were
$50 100000 less because of the tariff and world
wide depression.
Also, public debt retirement has been slowed up,
whereas during the first quarter of last year $751;
100000 was taken from ordinary receipts for the sink
ing fund this year but $65000000 devoted to that
purpose Had the rate of retirement been main
tanned, a sizeable deficit would have been shown.
President Hoover and Secretary Mellon remain
hopeful that the lower rate be retained and
a deficit avoided Much will depend the success OF
economy efforts and on business conditions during this
calendar year.
Income taxes during the first half of the current
year are paid on 1929 income. But bills for the last
half viii be met with payments made in 1881 on 1880
income and no can tell what the effects of the
stock market crash and the business depression will be
It is possible also that interest payments for
eign debts amounting to s1SOOOo0OO will be applied
to general expenses This would mean an abandon
ment of the wise and sound policy of applying these
funds to reduction of the public debt.
Federal finances are of course sound, but it is
clear that it will be nip and tuck to make the books
balance at the end of this fiscal year and next year as
we'll And If expenditures continue to grow as they
have for the last few years it is difficult 70 how
search for new sources of revenue can be avoided
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Popular Interest

CUBSEQUENT chapters in the
~ book are headed THE Embryo
in the Making" Repairing Animal
and Human Bodies 1.-THE Endocrine
Glands at Work." Masculine and
Feminine" 1.-THE Souls of Animals"
and "The Conquest of Disease"
1t will be noticed at once that
Professor Koppanyi departs from
the more conservative method Of
presenting biology and puts an en-
phaSis on certain phases which the
maker of a textbook would consider
not worthy of so much attention.
1t seems, however, that Professor
Koppanyi has judged popular in
terest correctly and he is justified
entirely in dealing at length with
subjects which the public wishes to
have dealt with at length.
Professor Koppanyi, in his chap
ter on the endocrine glands, lists
these various glands, such as the
thyroid and the adrenal glands, and
explains how they pour chemical
substances into the blood stream.
"The blood seeps through every
organ of the body" he writes.
when it leaves certain organs. such
as the pancreas and thyroid gland,
it has picked up chemical sub
stances manufactured in these
glands to be carried to all parts of
the body.
These chemical messengers, called
hormones, can stimulate distant or
ganS to increased activity.
1.-THE presence of these hormones
in the blood can be demonstrated
very simply. If, for instance, we in
ject the blood which comes from the
pancreas into the blood stream of
another animal, the amount of
sugar in the blood stream of that
animal will diminish, showing that
the sugar-blrning capacity has been
stimulated"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Flood of Light
IN the final chapter of the book.
l. titled 1.-THE Conquest of Disease"

N the final chapter Of the book,
L titled 1.-THE Conquest of Disease"
Professor Koppanyi writes:
Science is like flood of light,
giving us the sight of things as they
are, without doubt or deception,
showing us the truth.
I'VE may use our knowledge of
the broad bases of reality that
science discloses us in many ways,
for good or for evil.
1.-THE practical APPLICATIONS of the
sciences are too numerous to detail.
Out of chemistry and physics came
the machinery which changed the
very character of civilization on
the earth, on the waters, in the air.
"Out of biology came modern
agriculture, with its more abundant
and better harvests in the orchards
and diaries, feeding millions as
they've never been fed before.
What is more, out of it came the
means of preventing, helping, cur
ing the sufferings of millions-mod-
ern medicine"
Professor Koppanyi traces the
development of medicine, pointing
out that the art of medicine is as
old as that of agriculture.
ut flouriShed under the unwashed
hands of prehistoric medicine men
and witch-doctorS,' he writes.
He tells the story from the early
DAVIS when "tha mora fantaS tic tho
belief, the more fervidly was it be-
Heved in" down to the modern ways
of scientific medicine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
1N1%1 AMI Lands

4 DOLPH HITLER, head of the German FascistS,
who is going to change things, has head like
a hickory nut and wears one Of those sweet little
shoe brush muStaches.
When he tells the world he will upset the Ger
man republic and form an empire and scrap all the
treaties Germany has made he sounds like high
powered automobile salesman.
We are not surprised that Henry Ford denies that
he is going to finance the German FascistS.
If Henry has any money to contribute to
politics. he should bring it home, for both the Re-
publicans and the Democrats are broke
EGS DIAMOND, New York gangster, thrown out
IL of several European countries, may file pro-
test with our state department.
Let us hope it be adjusted without involving
in another foreign
Jim Reeds friends will start presidential boom
for him, if he will give his consent.
Reed wouldn't run for President any more than a
hungry tramp would eat roast turkey.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts,, returning from
Cuba, states that there will be revolution in the
Pearl OF the Antilles unless We go down there and
keep the peace.
We've done almost enough for the cubans and if
they can't run that island, shouldn't police it for
ever; We should Just take it over.
IT'S surprising to read that Australia joined the
other dominions in asking the right to secede from
the British empire if she desired to do So for Aus
tralias nightmare is Japan and all by herself, she
would stand out against Japan for about five minutes
In these days when his far-fung possessions are
insisting the right of secession wonder if John
Bull ever thinks of the time when he did all he
could short of armed Intervention to help the south
ern states secede from this government.
Instead of passing the hat to get enough money to
buy trophy for Sir Thomas Upton. Bobby Jones
ought TO come across and give the old boy one Of
his many golf cups -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Farm Aid without Fear or Fancy

Can our agricultural problem be solved by eQuali-
cation fees credits attempts to stabilize prices
or fine phrases full of warm sympathy for the en-
batted farmer?
Not if we may believe Professor William E. Dodd,
one of our foremost historians most profound
student OF American agricultural problems today His
article on THE Long Trail of Farm Relief" in the
New York Times is one of the best examples ever pub
lished of historical perspective in current issues
Professor Dodd shows clearly enough that the farm
problem is nothing new in American life. 1t began
with Clay and his American System" A tariff was
laid to help American manufacturers, the assump
ton that the growth of American industry would
build big home market for American agriculture
Through domestic competition, it also would keep
down the prices of the manufactured products which
the farmer had buy In the end the manufacturers
proved the chief gamers. The farm market never
skyrocketed
After the Civil war manufacturers and merchants
fused their interests with bankers and railroad pro-
moters and produced the great merger-which is
American business today. Labor gradually forced
higher wages through organization but such gains
we're in large part Whitfield away by increased living
costs.
The farmer got it in the neck all around. His
group shrank in numbers and income BY 1912 the
little grievance which produced the notification con-
1ict of 1880 was now grown into nationwide eco
nomic order which made many thousands wealthy
and depressed millions of farmers the levels of the
eighteenth century English peasants
woodrow wilson made an heroic effort to curb the
growth of feudalsm in American business and to in
sure degree Of industrial and social justice But
his English proclivities led him to the World war
and he soon was associating with and dominated by
the very barons whom he had been fighting in peace
time
Dodd contends that Wilson's domestic program col
lapsed, and under Harding We went back to system
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

Gus acids produces injury to trees
and plants and is a definite detri-
ment to health.
In sections of Chicago, New York.
Pittsburgh and other large cities it
is impossible to cause an evergreen
tree to grow.
A part of the injury to health is
due to the loss of daylight or ultra
violet rays. Some of the injury to
health must be due to inhalation
of the particles that have been mem
toned.
Representatives of the United
States public health service recently
have made available the result of a
simultaneous record of daylight
made in New York on the roof of
the United States quarantine hos
pital on Hoffman island, nine miles
south of Manhattan island, where
the air was comparatively clear.
Results of the study of the loss of
daylight measured by photoelectric
cell indicate that the average daily
loss at the lower end of Manhattan
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
A Power Surprise

TT will surprise some folks, ard
4 particularly those who imagine
we have more than enough water
power for all our electrical needs,
to learn that it has been found
necessary to build a great steam
plant within twenty miles of Nj
agara Falls, but such is the sad
truth.
Sadder still, that steam plant soon
will be producing great deal more
electricity than all the water plants
put together on the American side.
and rs per cent of what the widely
advertised Ontarion system could
produce if run at full capacity,
which it never has been.
AS a matter of fact, considerable
power is being purchased on this
side from the Ontarion system, but
even so, it thus far has failed to
find market for its full foad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Bright Exception

NNE bright exception should be
" noted, Clarence Darorw is still
what the world calls dangerous
man." Certain respectables shudder
as he passes by.
Yet, even Mr.. barrow, now that
his hair begins to whiten, may be
found at times in not altogether un-
friendly debate with prohibition adj
vocates and parsons.
The radicaliSm of veterans CONF
to be accepted by the world at large
as an eccentricity rather than a
conviction. If it were not for the
newspapers, growing old would be
far more tragic than it is.
AS things stand, the hospitality
of the front page, or thereabouts, is
a refuge for those who linger on be-
yond their time. The simple matter
of touching 100 years is enough to
assure any logged life sitter of the
privilege of an interview.
The centenarian will be asked to
answer a few simple questions, and
the answers duly will be noted.
But this will be small comfort to
me. If on the morning of my Tooth
birthday the nurse knocks upon the
door to say, "the gentlemen of the
press are waiting and would like to
ask you few questions, / shall
reply, with voice both shrill and tart,
send them homep" or viii know
in my heart that neither they nor
the readers of their journals really
care whether 1 made the trip on
water or mixed spirits.
Men who outline the regime which
brought them along so far are de-
ceived. Not a soul really is interest
ed to know whether it was cold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
Water Power Lacking

TT generally is agreed that hydro
l. electric systems should be de-
veloped wherever practical from an
economic standpoint. not only be-
cause Of the added power they
would produce, but because they
serve the double purpose Of con-
serving the coal, oil and gas supply
and controlling rivers.
But this should be accepted as in
cidental to the power problem, not
as the ail-important factor. A
power policy. whether considered
from an industrial, economic or po-
litical viewpoint, must include all
other methods of generation, to be
fair and effective
In the first place, there is not
enough water power to go around.
In the second, it would not be
available to many sections, even if
there we're. No matter how ade-
quate our rivers might be for GER
tain localities, there are others
which could not be reached.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
INVESTIGATIONS made in sew
Il eral large cities since develop
ment of the realization that little
sunlight actually comes through
the smoke clouds have revealed the
fact that city dwellings can not
depend on the sun for ultraviolet
rays.
Studies made by the department
of physics of the University of Chi
cago and the health department Of
the city of Chicago some years ago
indicated, that sufficient sunlight to
be of value comes through the
smoke of Chicago only for two
hours a day during three months
of the year.
Contamination of the atmosphere
by smoke from. the chimneys Of
private houses, office buildings, in
dustrial plants and boats is a Sc
rious matter in several of the large
cities of the United States,
The presence Of particles of SCOT
and ash and of the vapors of vari-