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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
The New Botany

COLD and drought resistant
" wheats and alfalfas, wilt-re-
sistant cottons, cowpeas, fax, mel
ons, sugar canes resistant to virus
diseases, potatoes resistant to these
and other diseases, are mong the
new productions, DR.. Woods said.
PLANT breeders are constantly
improving, developing and adjust
ing crop planaS to various limiting
factors and quality requirements, /"
he said.
Important investigators also are
being conducted into the other fields
Of botany. He continued
'We long have realized how fun
damentally important plant life is to
the existence of animal life. We
know that plants are able to COM
bine carbon. hydrogen, nitrogen into
forms available to animals. They do
this with energy absorbed from SUM-
light.
1--WE have known a little of these
products Of photosynthesis. starch,
sugar cellulose, pectin, organic acids,
and host Of other organic products
about which we know very little.
Recently our Investigators have
opened a new field in the so-called
vitamirs that are found to have ex-
tremely important relations to ami
NAL development.
They control growth and repro
duction, resistance to many dis
eases in animals and men. Almost
every year our investigators arc
bringing new aspects of these i'm
portant matters to light.
"Then there are other light rela-
lions that only recently have been
discovered; for example, the relation
of periodicity of light exposure to
the development Of plants.
In nature this is regulated by the
seasons and by day and night. We
have developed some control of rest
ing periods and growth, but flower
ing and fruiting in the majority Of
cases could not be controlled until
one of our scientists discovered that's
by changing the length of exposure
to light and darkness he could
change the Towering and fruiting
period.
"This is proving to be most help
full control in bringing plants to
bloom at desired period, either for
commercial or research purposes. 1t
is a new field in which there is re-
search vet to be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

washing the diapers in antiseptic
solutions.
Obviously in cases of irritation of
the skin such as have been described
the matter of first Importance is to
determine exactly the cause.
Usually with removal Of the
cause of the irritation, the disease
promptly disappears, particularly
after the physician prescribes a
healing lotion or ointment or some
other measure to aid healing and to
protect the skin during the healing
process.
In some cases in which the skin
has seemed to be especially irri-
table, various means have been at
tempted to decrease the irritation.
Among these are application of
ultraviolet rays to the point of
tanning, and sometimes the use of
Roentgen ray or X-ray to hasten
the activity of the cells and to over
come the itching.
The relief afforded by such meas
ures, however, is only temporary,
and it is important in every case to
determine the cause and to remove
the source of irritation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

body six days a week is a little diff
f1cult.
Some mornings I wake up and
the sun is shining and I haven't
anything on my conscience from
the night before, and get the
notion that maybe Pippa had the
right idea.
OF course, there may be some
evidence in the newspapers that not
everything is right with the world.
BY careful reading of the reports
from banquetS and Iuncheons and
so on I generally find that some
body has said something to which
l can take violent exception without
straining myself too much:
But every now and then I lose q
hate. It's extremely dangerous for
me to meet people. 1t isn't at all
unusual for me to run into some
body I've been hammering for
months or years only to find him
SO agreeable that rancor evaporates
and 1 am cut down in columnar
material.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
- AOOA Lands

THE state superintendent of public instruction an
Il nounces that the board of education may change
the school books once more, all of which is about as
welcome news as if to be told that foreign
foe was about to invade our soil
. This school book changing has reached the point
where the people should rise and tell their officials that
they are tired of being trimmed and fimned by this
unending monkey business; they should call for an
end OF the system which has plagued and pillaged
diana too long.
This year it is proposed to change the spelling
BOOKS the grammars the biographies the physologies
and some other books.
There may be some reason at distant intervals to
change some text books, but there's sane reason
now for changing any of the books mentioned above.
I Unless we've changed the way to spell there's
~ no earthly use Of changing the spelling books.
Unless we now spell cat with a *" unless we've
dropped the "P' from pneumonia it's only public
plage to take from the people hundreds of thousands
of dollars for new spoilers.
And there's changing the grammars I'M
less the rules have changed and "see saw and seem
have been reversed in their relationship.
If went" and gone" and lay" "laid" lie" and
lain have been turned around We ought to know
about Il, otherwise the old gramlnars are O. K.
THERE have been no geographical changes worth
mentioning since the World war and these have
been taken care OF in the biographies adopted since
the armistice, but now the people of Indiana fac
ing demand for new biographies It's an outrage
pure and simple.
We don't need any new biographies unless the con-
unents should get up in the middle of the night
and change places.
And there's no Justification for changing the
physologies unless our insides have been moved
around unless the superintendent of public nstruc
ton has confidential information that they to be
moved around.
We have pile of perfectly good. but discarded
school books at house and should like to hand
them down to the smaller kids but this colossal
sense tells we can't do it.
Its time for the people to speaA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
Sins Swim Past

a ILL my sins of the past fort
N night swan before my eyes.
Each was using the Australian
crawl and clipping through the wa
ter at a record pace.
I remembered the night when I
failed to get to bed until 2 in the
morning. 1 was reminded Of the
afternoon my copy was half an hour
late. And there also was column
about what the ship news report
ers probably would ask Einstein,
which had the misfortune to ap-
pear some little time after Elm
stein actually had arrived.
1.-THE trouble with you," my boss
went on, is that you don't get mad
often enough"
81 have no complaints" I VEN
tured. "All things considered,
have been very happy in your en-
ploy."
This he brushed aside as irrele-
want.
"All your best columns have been
written when you were mad at
somebody. I liked your Bishop Man
ming piece. I more or less gath
cred that you were annoyed about
something. You don't mind my
being frank, do you?"
But now it was too late for me
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BECSS

to confess that, next to spinach,
frankness-perfect frankness-is the
commodity I like least in the world.
That is, frankness touching on me
and my writing and my painting
and my figure. But it was too late
to develop that attitude. SO nod
ded again, but with less enthusiasm.
'WeI," my boss went on, "since
this is confidential and I'm sure
you won't let it go any further, 1
don't take any interest in that dog
of yours, Corporal Flagg."
Captain Flagg," I objected.
Il wouldn't care if he we're a
colonel. And as far as I'm con-
cerned, you don't need ever to paint
any more pictures. And I'm not
exactly consumed with curiosity as
to whether you caught two bull
heads in Hale lake or no bullheads
at all.
81 like your stuff when you go out
crusading about something. That's
your best line. I'm speaking to you
frankly. I'm sure you won't be Of
Tended"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
Plant Disease

NNE Of the most important adj
" vances which science has made
in the field of agriculture has been
in the attack upon plant diseases,
DR.. Woods says:
"A new science, phytopathology,
has been developed in our efforts to
cope with these diseases. First
progress along control lines was in
the use of fungicidies.
1.-THE United States department of
agriculture and the experiment
stations have led the world in this
development. The same is true in re-
gard to insect pests. The warfare
grows more intense every year.
1.-THE increasing ease Of COM
munication between hitherto iso-
lated regions has made it possible
for many fungous and insect para
sites to move TO cultivated plants
related to their wild hosts. With the
improved food conditions, they
multiply enormously and become
major pests.
Plant lice, 1eaf-hoppers, grass
hoppers, cr1cketS, potato beetles, are
all well-known examples of those
that have moved from mild to cul-
tivated plants.
The cotton boil weevil, the pink
boil worm, the Japanese and Asiatic
beetles. the corn borers, the Mediter-
ranean fruit fly, and others too num-
erous to mention, are some that have
been brought in.
Here, free from their enemies,
they have become & serious menace
to our agriculture. Most of them
can not be eradicated, so the best
that we can do is to import their
enemies when those enemies are
not likely to be injurious, and also
to develop other means of suppress
sion and control.
This involves a careful, detailed
study of the life and habits of all
these pests, but it is the only hope
Of keeping them successfully in
check in highly developed agricul-
tural regions.
THE Aame is true of plant para
sites, rusts, smuts, mildews, BAG
terra and hosts of others"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
u2ZZE-T ~
ls1TF9e
| MNNlVGR.SARgY

CROSSING OF DELAWARE
December Is

OGCEulDEI EO
I'm Dec. 25, 1776, George Wash
~ ington, after being driven from
New York by the British, made his
famous crossing of the Delaware.
Washington secretely had trans
ported $500 men across the river,
then full of floating ice, and after
marching them nine miles in a
binding snowstorm, fell on the
British in the early monring at
Trenton, N. j.
Colonel Rail, who had been left
in charge OF British forces by
CORVALLIS, was surprised COM
pletely. He had not slept of the
effects Of his Christmas day earous-
al and was incapable Of meeting
the invaders.
AS a result, Washington captured
more than 1000 prisoners and large
quantities Of arms and ammunt-
ton.
Though it was a small battle, It
proved significant one. because 1t
kindled new hope in the hearts of
dispirited and despairing patriots,
end completely upset the plans Of
Howe, the British commander.
After this battle, Washington
marched on to Princeton to sur
prise and rout the army of Corn
wallis, who had left Trenton just
before Eashington's unexpected
visit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
ITO you like frankness?" said my
- boss.

I got the impression that maybe
he would be hurt if I said mo" and
so I nodded with enthusiasm.
We'll, then, you won't mind my
saying that of late the column has
been a little thin. And I think I
know the reason"
was going to suggest that maybe
I was not putting enough of myself
into it, but just then he tossed over
a clipping in which somebody had
taken the trouble to ring all the
IT'S" and "my's" with a red pencil.
I counted quickly and they ran up
to a total of seYenty-nin
That's still ten less than my rec
ord" I said stanchly.
Don't bother about that, an
swered my boss. I'm used to your
fondness for the first person per-
pendicular; it's something else Z
want to talk to you about"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I read in your pa
per last week where you thought
that the courts did not give justice
to couple of men found guilty Of
bombing and wholesale murder OF
innocent people. You say they
were not guilty. but didn't the Of
flcers of the law catch them and
convict them, before they placed
those bombs for the Preparedness
day parade, with bombs to blow up
places that were being built or that
already were built?
don't believe that the people
and the courts Of California gave
justice soon enough. If those men
had been put behind bars the first
time they were caught with dyaa-
mite, there would be few more
people living in California today.
1 don't seem to know how to take
you. A few years ago you con-
demned the Ku-Klux Klan, an or
ganization Of protestant people whe
we're not guilty of bombing or
murder, but were painted the dirt
lest class of people living, because
they went out and spoke freely Of
their rights.
Also, if you are as strong for
justice as you tell your readers, why,
in the name Of this good city, don't
you get cut and inspect the char
ity organizations of this city? I
read where the Community fund
got $40. 600 over the quota it asked
for, bat still poor people in this
city are going hungry because these
cllarity organizations won't turn
hose the money they were given to
feed the needy.
I know Of families who have gone
to the Family Welfare for help, who
have been turned down and sent to
their trustee, who in turn sends
them back to the charity organiza-
ton, whose officials tell them they
can't do anything for them because
they have asked someone else for
help.
Now if you believe in justice. why,
In the name Of this city, don't you
look for it in your own city, in
stead Of playing politics as you do
and rave about the way the govern
ment is run? READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
Job Not Complete
MORE than half Of humanit,

MORE than half Of humanity
Iva still lacks a speaking &C
quaintance with what we regard as
ordinary necessities. Neither is that
half confined to the swarming plains
Of Asia or the Jungle depths of
Africa, as some seem to think.
There are millions right here in
America living without bathtubs or
screened windows, not to mention
electric lights, hardwood floors, and
washing machines.
The fact that we are driving four
times as many autos as all the rest
of the world put together, or that
we have twice as many telephones,
does not mean that we have done
such complete job.
If every able-bodied adult in this
country were to work eight hours a
day every day in the year for the
next 100 years, we could still find
something to do.
knowledge increases consumption
as well as production. OF the two,
consumption is the more important.
1t is not what some of us raise
or make that counts, but the way
many of us can use it.
What western civilization needs,
especially in America, is less of the
ostrich and more Of the missionary
spirit.
No nation can grow by walling it
self. in living down on the lob and
living off its own shelf.
Success means responsibility as
well as privilege.
No matter how well off they may
be, those who quit are lost.
The problem is not to curtail pro-
duction, except in spots, but to pro-
mote consumption, particularly
among people who have not caught
up with the procession.
We could do lot in that direc-
ton if we had the will.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
Questions and
Answers

Where is the largest stadium I'm
the United States?
Grant stadium at Chicago which
seats 125,000.
Is the dog Rim Tin-Tin still liv-
ing? What is the name of the
last picture in which he appeared?
He is living and his latest pic
ture is Rough Waters"
What is the rarest and most valu-
able stamp in the world?
The British Guiana one-cent
magenta of 1856. There is only one
known to exist, and its present value
is about $4,000.
What is the population of Rome,
Italy?
The official estimated population
for June 30, 1923, was 877,289.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
SCIENCE
Science Has Mddt ~ Tmpor-
taat Advance IN It's Va. on
Plant Diseases.
BY DAVID DIETZ.

HOW experiments in plant breed
i 4 ing have produced new types
OF corn, wheat, sugar cane, cotton,
grass, clover, fruits and flowers were
described recently by DR.. A. F.
Woods, director Of scientific work
OF the United States department OF
agriculture.
The new plants have been the re-
suit Of the application of scientific
methods to agriculture and of new
point Of view upon the part of sci
entists interested in the subject Of
botany.
THE old botany was largely the
naturalists' interest in the orders,
species, and varieties of plants as
they occurred in nature" he said.
plants as we'll as animals. every
where were considered as fixed en-
titles that might vary a little under
changing conditions of environment,
but always remained within the
fixed bounds in which they were
created.
This viewpoint has been changed
as the result of research. We still
have the families and species, but
they are more or less plastic in the
hands of the geneticist.
/ I'VE have learned that the he
reditary characters are carried in
the chromosomes of the germ. plasm
nucleus and that these chromosomes
are made up of smaller bodies not
much larger or more complex than
some Of our chemical molecules.
I'VE have learned that these have
definite relation to each other in
the chromosome and that this def
mite relation controls the form and
activity Of the individual resulting
from the egg cell.
"Regrouping can be produced by
crossing or hybridization or can be
brought about by other means, such
as certain forms of radiation, thus
producing mutations in enormous
numbers from which selections may
be made"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

What Western Civilization
Needs, Especially IN Amer
Tea, Is Less of the Ostrich
and More of the Missionary
Spirit.
MORE jobs through a shortened
1V1 working day; higher prices
through the arbitrary curtailment
of farm crops; better business
through the exclusion of foreign
goods, and so on, ad infinitum.
No matter how good each PROPOSE
ton may look by itself, the scheme
as whole is all wet.
While it is true that modern in
duStry has led to overproduction IN
certain lines and that mechanical
power has involved the decrease, If
not the extinction. of certain trades.
it is not true that all people have
been provided with the comforts and
conveniences Of civilized life even IN
the so-called civilized countries.
Furthermore, civilization was not
attained by building barbados or
quitting in the middle of the after
noon, nor can it be preserved that
way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard 20 their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this naner.=The Edifnr- !.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FTsHBEIN

by external causes, particularly industrial
chemicals.
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TT IS generally recognized that
4 numerous chemical substances
used in industry may affect the
skin, with the production of erup-
tions, Invitations, change of color,
or other symptoms.
Painters, plaSterers and dentists
are known to suffer due to erlp-
tions from turpentine, lime and
similar chemicals. Not infrequently
a secondary infection occurs on the
spot that has been irritated and
thereby lowers the resistance.
Specialists in diseases of the
skin sometimes find that henna,
which is incorporated in hair dyes,
will cause eruptions resembling
those due to the chemical found
in dyed furS.
Eyebrow pencils which contain
mascara Or various coal tar products
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

dealing with criminals. 1t is for real graft
fication that NJ w. Stephens has revived the plan
under the name of the bureau of human relations.
He will conine his efforts at rehabilitation to the
less hardened types of criminals There more of
this variety at large than well be handled and
the prospect of DEMONSTRATING and discipning them
is far brighter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

Was Lefty" Grove credited with
winning any games for the Phila-
delphia Athletics in the 1929 world
series?
No. He pitched in the second and
fourth games, but did not pitch a
complete game, and was not credit
ed With any victories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

Congress must be taking the unemployment situa-
ton seriously considering the idle chatter going on
there now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
Daily Thought

The meek shall inherit the
earth.-PSalmS 37:1I.
Weakness is the grace which, from
beneath Gods footstool, lifts up a
candid and con1ding eye, accepting
Gods smile of fatherly affection,
and adoring those projections which
it can not congratulations
hlk14llAAtuA- y.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

High school girls in Maine are playing football.
And according to the fashion experts, they've got
pretty good lines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25
Hating on Schedule

T WENT away, not exactly Offend
4 ed, but bowed down under the
weight of a great responsibility. The
assignment to be mad at some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

This is the first Of a series of articles
by DR.. Fishbein on skin diseases induced
by external causes. particularly industrial
chemicals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

ME state superintendent of public instruction an
4 nounces that the board of education may change
the school books once more, all of which is about as
welcome news if we were to be told that foreign
foe was about to invade our soil
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-25

Copyright. 1880. BY II
The Indianapolis times., 1930-03-04

Today's article, telling bow Harry
Sinclair conducted himself while In the
District Of Columbia Jail. concludes the
series Of six which former prisoner IN
that institution has written regarding
the oil mans confinement there.