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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
DT \ CNNT FREDERICK
NGI AOO1 LANDS

WYE have no desire to criticse the government at
w Washington, for it has trouble enough of its
own besides it has made many efforts to help con-
dtions in the country, but it would seem to man
up tree that big opportunity had been overlooked.
There are several major construction projects be-
fore the government which to be carried through
and it would appear as if the authorities should have
started these projects back when lean days broke
upon us so that labor might have had work at
time when it needed it most sorely.
For more than year we have known that some
thing like the existing hard times coming and
the President and the congress were in washington
in active eruption, if not in active operation yet
not genuinely constructive step taken to start
any of the great work before u.s.
TN the first place there is Mississippi flood relief
l. Several years ago, when the high waters drowned
lot of people along the mighty river, we heard many
assurances that this would be handled speedily by
hcod relief program which would avert such calam-
tiles in the future
Well the army engineers have been at it long
time, and while of course it's big job, and while
it may take more time to work cut their complete
scheme certainly it known that certain vast things
multitude of men who idle would be busy max
ing money and taking care OF their families.
According to almost all of the suggestions great
AeSSANoHS HluSI pe Quilt IN dozen StaCeS 10 nOlu
back the waters which now pile up in the major chan
mel and cause devastation Construction of these vast
reservoirs would give many clubs to throw at the wolf
of want.
THEN there is the inland waterway project. which
Il would give to other multitudes the employment
they need to live.
These great works have stood there. staring the
government in the face yet nothing done to begin
the actual construction to put the job.
It's not the business of government of course, to
give men living but it's the business of government,
insofar as 1t can do to to it that every man
has chance to make living and if it fails in this
respect IN cold and hungry hour. then it is falling
down in matter which is most vital.
So much for the past Let the government get
busy now and start every public work it has in
contemplation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
Millions Go Hungry
vTHOSE who regard overproduc-

NHOSE VINO regard oVerproouc-
Il ton of wheat as a serious
threat to farmers. especially in
America, are making the same kind
of blunder that Crookes did.
Like every other problem in
economic progress, this one hinges,
not on production, but on consump-
ton.
With half the human race under
fed, it is illogical to support any
theory which includes the curtail-
ment of any food supply.
This depression, whether as
measured by the slump OF business
in America, by the falling off of
Argentinas foreign trade, by the
two million unemployed in England,
by the arbitrary reduction of wages
in Italy, or by 1O1 other things
that might be cited, is due to the
simple fact that millions upon mil
lions of human beings are not get
ting enough to eat or wear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.


A strOno M ers Today Are
Seeking to Chart the Uni
verse as q Whole.
A sTRoNoMY. first concerned
"A with the solar system, then
reaching out to the stars OF the
Milky Way, and next exploring the
spiral nebulae beyond the Milky
Way finally has turned to the
most gigantic problem within the
view of man.
The problem is no less than the
problem of the universe in its en-
5irety.
Astronomers are seeking today to
chart the universe as a whole, to
understand its nature, to map its
structure. to divine its origin, and
to measure its extent.
A group of brilliant astronomers
both here and abroad has attacked
the problem, making use not only
OF the discoveries of the great mod
ern telescopes, but employing as
well the findings of the physical
laboratories and the work of the
great mathematical physicists.
Among the astronomers who have
done particularly important work
in this field are DR.. Harlow Shap-
ley, director of the Harvard observ-
atory; DR.. Edwin P. Hubble of the
Mt. Wilson observatory; DR.. Henry
Norris Russell Of Princeton univer-
sity; Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
OF Cambridge, England. and Sir
James Jeans, president of the Royal
Astronomical Society.
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CARLYLE'S FIRTH
December A


NN Dec. 4, 1895, Thomas Car
" lyle, British essayist, historian
and philosopher, was born at Ec-
clefechan, Scotland.
Following his graduation from
Edinburgh university, he tried
teaching and the study of law,
but found them both uncongenial,
After making the friendship Of
Edward Irving, Carlyle decided I'd
follow literature as a profession.
With the publishing of his
Life of Schiller" and the
History of Frederick the Great,
Carlyle soon won fame for writing
literary portraits.
His chief work, however, was
Sartor ReSartus (''The Tailor Done
Over'), the title of an old Scottish
song. This work is a mixture OF
the sublime and the grotesque in
the authors opinions and philos-
ophies of the world.
Carlyle became lord rector OF
Edinburgh university. He declined
pension which Disraen offered
him. After his wifes death, Carlyle
lived quietly in London, devoting
himself to "reminiscences and ar
ticles. His contribution to liter
allure is summarized as fellows:
Carlyle exercised an unrivaleo
influence on British literature dur
ing the mid-nineteenth century and
on the contemporary moral, re-
ligious and political beliefs.
"HiS critical biographical essays
were the first to place the riches
of modern German thought before
the English-nading world"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
HEALTH SERVICE
Infants Bowel Actions Vary in Number

excess nervous action, there may
be much more activity of the bowels
than in the normal case.
The expert can tell much from
the color of the excretions. The
amount of bile may cause varying
from yellow to brown or green, or
even black, depending on the nature
Of the digestion and the type of
food, and whether there is bleeding.
It depends particularly on the
amount of bile and what happens
to the bile in the process of
digestion. A small amount of
mucus is not infrequent.
The solid material, in the case of
the infant, usually is curds contain
ing soaps and calcium salt, whereas
the presence of considerable
amounts of undigested starch may
cause a Shiny consistency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

U ADY ASTOR got a little mixed
L. up in her history at Thanks
giving day dinner given by Ameri-
cans in London. In responding to
the toast, 1.-THE Day We Celebrate, A"
Viscountess Astor said:
my ancestors were Teasing in
Virginia before your New England
forefathers sailed from old England,
but here am I refusing wine while
you are drinking it to the memory
of your. Yankee pilgrims. No Won
der they talk of Anglo-Saxon hy-
pocrisy."
And thereupon Nancy Astor add
ed, ''Those of you who believe as 7
do will charge your glasses with
water. and those of you who think
nobody is looking will charge them
with something else, and we'll all
drink to the American Thanksgiv-
inc -
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

there has been overfeeding, failure
of absorption, or too much bacte-
rial action.
The normal infant fed at the
breast is likely to have actions of
the bowels from two to four times
day.
However, some infants apparently
have only one action daily, whereas
others may have six and still be in
excellent health.
Obviously, the consistency and
nature of the excretion depends on
the type of feeding to a large ex-
tent The infant fed on cows milk
usually has less action than one
that is fed at the breast, but the
material excreted is likely to be
greater in amount and contain more
solid material in such case.
In the presence of infection OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
Nations Go Backward

XXTHAT Bolshevism has done to
w decrease consumption in
Russia, civil war has done to de-
crease it in China, the anti-British
movement has done to decrease it
in India, and unrest Or revolution
has done to decrease it in several
other countries.
From one cause or another, about
half the human race is unable to
buy as it normally would, much less
to increase it's demands in &C.
cordance with normal progress.
Instead of being twenty years
ahead of where they were in 1910,
the people Of Russia, China, India
and several other countries have re-
NAMED stationary. or gone backward
in the matter of providing them
selves, not only with modern con-
veniences, but with age-old
essentials.
Those nations that have developed
a commercial and industrial pro-
gram based on the idea of general
improvement are suffering in con-
sequence. Instead of increased con-
sumption, they find themselves con-
fronted with a falling market.
The proposition can be turned
around and stated in such way as to
prove overproduction, but that is
ignoring the basic ill-the i'll re-
vealed by cold, hunger, disease, and
suffering throughout half the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
Industrial Hari-Kari

President Hoover indicates that he will appoint
timber conservation hoard similar to the oil
conservation board
1t is high time
The lumber industry like that of the oil men, has
been committing hari-kari slowly. Eager for quick
profits, the timber men have oVercapitalized, over
expanded, overproduced. Even before the slump,
the fir men of the northwest had expanded their
sawmill capacity to 80 per cent above normal con-
sumption. They slashed with destructive logging
methods. inadeqUately protected their forests from
fire, left barren wastes of stumps in place of
jestic forests
Out of 82200o000 of virgin forests, only one
eighth remains; and of the 100000 left the
timber men are cutting 100000 year. The toll Of
forests from fire has been appalling.
Attempts at reforesting the 80O0000O acres Of de-
nuded and otherwise available timberlands have been
pitifuIy inadequate
The anarchy Of the oil and timber men not only is
destroying their once golden industries but it hits
us all. In both it has resulted in waste Of
limited and fast diminishing resources upon which
our civilization depends
If the government really proposes now to act, it
should do so with courage and force. national
forestry and reforestation program must be evolved
and then firmly put into effect.
If it isn't done soon. it will be too late.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
Extending Space

IN the PtoIema1c system, the earth
a. was surrounded by a series OF
concentric shells or spheres of crys-
tai. The moon was located in the
first, Mercury in the second, Venus
in the third, the sun in the fourth,
Mars in the fifth, Jupiter in the
sixth, Saturn in the seventh, and
the stars, the fixed stars" as they
were called, in the eighth.
The Copernican system substi-
tuted solar system in which the
planets revolved around the sun.
But even so, there was no general
appreciation of the distances of the
stars.
Sir Isaac Newton, formulation of
the law of universal gravitation,
was the first to appreciate how dis
tant the stars must be. But it was
not until 1889 that astronomers
succeeded in measuring the dis
tances to the nearest stars.
These measurements showed that
Alpha Centauri, the nearest star,
was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES miles away.
Light travels about 5000, 000, 900, 600
miles year, and this distance is
called light-year.
The nearest star, therefore, is ap-
proximately four and third light
years away.
Recent studies have indicated
that the most distant stars in the
Milky Way or galaxy are about
10000 1ight-years away.
The nearest spiral nebula, how
ever, is 10000 light-year5 away,
and the most distant one known is
100000 light-years away.
According to Einstein, space is
finite and curved and therefore it
is possible to calculate a radius for
the universe.
Einstein calculates this radius as
about 84,00O,0OO,O0O light-years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
The Lone Feast

a S the single feast day of the
L A early settlers it was in all
probability an occasion On which
things were whooped up with a
will.
A nameless farmer was respon-
sible for this one red letter date in
the New England calendar. The as
sembly was about to establish one
more day of prayer and fasting
when he arose and said that he
thought the Lord might grow weary
OF too much whining and complain
ing.
After all, so the farmer said, con-
ditlons were fundamentally sound.
Or words to that effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
SAYS

No Human Being Can Make
q More Complete Fizzle
Than O Scientist Turned
Prophet.
TN 1901, Sir William Crookes, the
Il eminent British scientist, pre-
dicted that the world would face a
shortage of wheat by 1881, and here
We are, half scared to death because
there is so much wheat.
No human being can make a more
complete fizzIe than a scientist
turned prophet. 1t is the weakness
of his trade to deal with figures,
formulae, and slide rules. The one
thing he seems wholly incapable of
appreciating is the effect his trade
has produced on human progress
and that there is every reason to
suppose it will continue to produce.
To begin with, Sir William as
sumed that all the acreage avail
able for growing wheat had been
taken up. Then he assumed that
the best possible yield per acre had
been reached. Finally, he assumed
that wheat would go right on occu-
plying its relative Importance as a
source Of food.
He was wrong, as time has proved.
Not only has the wheat acreage
been increased by'1OO 100000 acres,
but easily could be increased by
100,0o0,000 more.
Not only that, but the average
yield per acre has been raised by
nearly two bushels, while the great
er consumption of fruits and vege-
tables has led to a proportionately
lower demand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBETN


Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TN the intestines, digestion goes on
L to modify the food so that it will
be absorbed and used by the body
for growth and repair.
Proteins are broken up into their
constituents, the sugars are absorbed
rapidly in the form in which they
are taken into the body, starch is
modified into sugars, and fats are
changed by the action of the bile.
In the presence of digestive dis
turbance, the absorption of fat is
likely to be greatly diminished.
BY an examination of the mate
rial excreted from the body, the
physician is able to determine the
extent of digestion and also whether
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
Daily Thought

Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God . and keep His command
ments.-Deuteronomy 2:11.
The virtue of Christianity Is ODE
dience.-J. G. Hare.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H FF0SS

right to New England. There it
was established, and there it was
celebrated in fitting fashion until
the alien influence of prohibition
crept in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
Members of Club

GONE Yankee should have chal-
~ lenged Lady Astor, or, better
yet, one of her ancestors. If FEAST
BILE, a contest should have been
arranged between some one of the
Langhornes and a hard-bitten,
hell-fire preaching Mather of Mas
sachusetts.
My money would go on the Puri-
tan. The easy-going gentry of Vir-
GINA had other diversions, but up
in the north liquor was the only
avenue left open for the relief of
inhibitions.
Any efficient Puritan preacher
could have drunk cavalier under
the table and topped it off with a
two-hour discourse on infant dam
nation.
Indeed, from the published &C
count of the dinner, it seems to me
that the Yankees respected the ira
ditions of their people in a manner
far more faithful than that dis
played by Viscountess Astor.
Thanksgiving belongs by every
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

many faults, but dryness was not
among them. Nor was indulgence
in rum limited to any single group.
I remember reading an account of
the liquor consumed by a ministerial
convention in Boston early in the
eighteenth century.
The wine list set forth in the
history would have done credit to
a class reunion at Yale or Prince
ton, and this conference of the
clergy was but small in numbers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

That 5-year-old boy in Kansas City who is re-
ported to read anything may be just the to dope
out your railroad timetable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

Dorothy still thinks that ping pong is one of those
generals mixed up in the Chinese civil war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

Write makes right" Sinclair Lewis well nigh
say when he collects that $4,000 Nobel prize.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

Passengers usually require liquor before going up
in airplane says British pilot. It's little ball,
after ALL that makes a kickoff and takeoff akin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

Erratic drivers who have mad to listen to cops
biting invecve probably will agree there are plenty
of raspberries in the so-called traffic jam.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

Lucky for the boys from Southern California that
the Fighting Irish" of Metre Dame are not playing
at an Orange festival.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04

What will be regarded as setup for the para
graphers is that an Ohio woman, rs, named FULL
love- recently married 25-year-old bus driver.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-04
Peoples Voice

Editor TimeS-In your issue of
Dec. 1, you published a short COM
munication over the initials j. P.
ON, regarding the Guinness family,
in which the writer of that contrihu-
ton states that the Guinness family
is of Ireland, not of England, that
they are makers of Irish" brown
stout and that everything good does
not come from England.
Our friend j. P. ON. is correct in
all three statements, but, while they
are Irish and operate a brewery in
Dublin, where they brew their cele-
brated Dublin Stout" the greater
portion of their income comes from
Great Britain England, Scotland,
Wales; they maintain a residence
in London, and, with honor to
themselves, their country, and their
king, they are proud to wear title
of nobility conferred upon them
/ possibly in consideration for mate
rial or financial assistance to their
favored political party) during the
reign Of Queen Victoria.
The almighty dollar in the shape
Of pounds sterling means as much
to the brewers of Dublin Stout" as
it does to the brewers O. Bass ale
or any other portion of the trade.
G. H. D.
Editor Times-Teacflers of the
south side schools especially report
that children come to school in
sufficiently fed. There being more
distress than ever, those organiza-
tons that are receiving various sums
from the Community Fund should
be asked to make a public report
showing just how these gifts are
being used for charitable purposes.
Let all contributions be used for real
cases of urgent need.
When normally returns, then the
former program may be resumed.
CHARLES H. KRAUSE SR.
674 East drive, Woodruff Place.
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Copyright. 1880. by The Times,
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A s trono n, c r S TODAY Are
Seeking to Chart the Uni
verse as a Whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

Gracie,s sister and her mothers the district
attorneys wife,
THE lady you shot In the leg?'
yeah"
what happened thenf"
IT fen IN love with Mary Ann Murphy"
Them"
MARY Ann Murphy fell in love with me-"
AFTER that?"
Mrs. Murphy found out about it and bell
lered. She said didn't have no culture. She
liked an artist by name Of Payson Hopper that
drives the grocery wagon. An artists q guy
that likes art. This Payson he was expert
on dancing on account Of his mother'd sent
him to Q school where they teach them things
I don't like Payson. didn't like him from the
first"
HAS he . daughter by name Of Susie, per-
haps?"
Nav: he amt married"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07

IAN right. Go on You ran away from
homer"
Yeah. run away from home. sold
papers and things. After that got q Job
driving . truck for Big Mixes beer gang.
shot Big Mike in the left lung"
IN wager he had little daughter"
"Yeah; her name was Martina"
"You make q habit Of shooting persons with
daughters By name Of something or other, don't
your"
yeah; occasionally. You see. Big Mike, he
slapped his little girl and I told him he
shouldn't He told me to close my duck farm
and went for his gat got mine first Then
damned on account Of Mixes the kind Of fell
low what carries grudges."
Then you came down to OLearys Corners?"
yeah: come to OTearys Corners and
started a taxi business. I started making
money. Then met Mary Ann Murphy. She's
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ssTHEN. I take it, you didn't shoot himp"

GGT.HEN, take it. you didn't shoot himP"
NAV; wish had. Men him courted
Mary Ann Murphy and Mary Ann decided
she liked me. She made fun OF Payson and
so did Mr.. Murphy. Mr.. Murphy was for me,
but MRS. Murphy wasn't. Then got in good
with her on account Of the Woman's Club
entertainment.
AT first was IN good anyway. bought
hundred tickets SOS the committee could hire
orchestra and things and Mrs. Murphy she let
me come to the house. Then men Payson got
into argument over something and after he
got up MRS. Murphy was sore at me again.
Payson. he was helping her direct the show"
There's q missing link in your story. What
happened just prior to Payson's getting up?"
81 knocked him down." qy ess
"Oh" ,r
yeah: and Mrs. Murphy told me to beat it
and not come back. Then Mr.. Murphy met me
outside and said he could love me for what
did and told him wanted Mary Ann to love
me and not him. Well, Mary Ann, she seemed
to love me just as much as before, and felt
good"
"Then?"
'They they had the entertainment at the
Woman's Club. Mary Ann sneaked out and
went with me- She said Payson'd wanted to
take her. but she'd rather be with me. She
dressed in something pink and she looked
Swell i 1cIC Eed1 SOOd just S1etkI1B py LeH ray"
son, he come out on the stage and made .
speech.
"MARY ANN giggled and said he looked -
fish. She said Paysond asked her to
marry him and wouldn't she look fine dragging
around a kluck like that with her? I said she
sure would and We both laughed. We ate some
tatfy and was having a good time Then the
show started"
Then you ceased having q good timer"
yeah"
81 take it that it wasn't good show"
"It was terrible"
THAT led up to the shooting AFFAIR.""
yeah"
you ought to be dramatic critic"
NAV; I'm better truck driver"
I'VE won't argue. On with the story"
THE music started and a little boy came out
and gallumped"
"Eh?"
Yeah; galumped. He was q red-haired kid
I'd seen around the station. He was always
fighting with the rest of the kids. felt sorry
Continued on TaUenty- first Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
BY Gladys Parker.

Mrs die