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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-07

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the
latter part OF his life, presented an
heroic and at the same time somewhat
| tragic figure. For the past few years,
| he had devoted virtually all his time
to the propagation of spiritualisnl, and
was recognized as one of the great
leaders of the world in this belief.
Because Of his association with this
| crusade, which he himself characterized
as an unpopular one, he gradually lost
some of his old-time literary friends
who saw no virtue in spiritualism and
| who were inclined TO look upon him MS
eccentric.
1t is not many years ago that this
broad-Shouldered Viking with his hand
some head and shock of iron-gray hair
was the idol of London drawing rooms
AS creator of Sherlock Holmes and
other great works he was an outstand-
ing inquire in the realm Of literature,
| and the world paid him homage
After he embarked on his spiritual
istic campaign, however, things changed
and he was not so much sought after.
Sir Arthur was grieved because his
| friends could not see eye to eye with
him, but he never wavered in his per-
suit Of the cause in which he believed.
He even opened psychic bookshop"
! and spiritualistic museum in Victoria
street in the shadow Of Westminster
Abbey. Here he created a center for
| spirttualistic literature and distributed
much of it throughout the world,
Shop Costly Venture.
Almost daily his huge bulk could be
seen looming over his desk in his shop.
This shop was Doyles own idea and it
| proved costly venture for him.
| Sir Arthur once told the correspond
ent that he spent thousands of dollars
! OF his own money to keep the shop and
the museum open. Still this adventure
! did not worry him. IT am in a position
to do IT," he said with q smile. II
might play wkh a steam yacht or own
race horses. I prefer to do this"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Wilbur. Should Choose

Stanford university trustees announce, as Presl-
dent Hoover recently predicted they would that Dr.
Ray Lyman Wilbur will continue to be president OF
that institution and will continue to be on leave OF
absence from 1t for another year, while he serves
as secretary of the interior.
The trustees have stopped Wilburs salary ana
have announced that the acting president Dr. Robert
E. Swain viii exercise all the functions and re-
sponsibilities of the position of president"
But these announcements alter Wilburs actual po-
sition before the public in no respect whatever
Whether or not Wilburs salary is stopped, whether
or not another man is in active control of the uni
versty Wilbur still is president of Stanford with its
s7OOOoOO investment public utility securities and
it's large public utility representation on the board
that has granted him leave.
Likewise Wilbur still is member Of the federal
power commission, now considering an unprecedented
proposal to exempt from all federal regulation and
control the Appalachian Electric Power Company, in
which some two million dollars of Stanford money
is invested.
1t is obvious that Wilbur, whether on salary or
not is as clearly allied with the university as ever
1t is equally obvious that the financial interests OF
the university and the public interest may conflict
sharply in this Appalachian company case.
1t remains just urgently desirable as 1t was
before the announcement of the trustees that Wilbur
relinquish one loyalty or the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Buying on Time

Many man on the street says that the business
depression was brought on or at least made worse
by installment buying which loaded consumers with
deferred payments which they were unable to meet
finally bringing their purchasing power to an end.
This is specious.
If industry had not needed to solicit purchases on
very generous terms to distribute its accommodating
products it would not have done so. Had industry
failed to market its surplus by this means, the de-
preston would have come sooner; that is all.
Installment buying is not in itself unsound There
is nothing wrong with the principle Of paying for an
article as it is used The trouble is twofod: Cd In
dustry overproduced by working longer hours than
was necessary; % Wages though increased, were
not made high enough to give the workers enough to
crz.4a the enormous quantities of goods that were
flowing from the machines. constantly speeded up
~ American technical genius.
If industry had not had the outlet OF instaHment
buying it would be worse of than it is Automobiles
electric refrgeraors and radios have not been placed
in too many homes. If the great industries which
produce these things are to prosper and keep their
workers employed, the market for these 'luxuries"
must be maintained and widened
The trouble is not that there have been TOO many
instalments for the pay envelope; the trouble is
that there has not been enough in the pay envelopes
to meet the installments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25

cost them jobs which they desper-
ately need.
For instance, it sounds well to put
restrictions on night work for wom-
en- and to say that mattresses, to
name one group, may be exposed to
many temptations if they are en-
ployed after 10 o'clock at night.
You may have noticed in the
chain restaurants that after theater
parties are always waited upon by
men. This may be the hardest part
Of the day, but it is also the period
in which tips are most generous.
Moreover, I hardly can see how a
woman is being protected against
temptation if protective law costs
her a job and leaves her destitute,
or whereabouts.
I'm all for welfare legislation, but
I want the provisions to apply equal
ly to men and women. This is not
only better for women, but in the
long run, better for men as we'll
When all sorts of restrictions are
placed upon the employment of
women, you create class of cheap
labor which, must take anything it
can get and underbid male workers
on daytime jobs.
There is an acute and crying need
for shorter hours, higher pay and
better working conditions, but 1
never have felt any enthusiasm for
a program which said, Here is SAL
vation,o and then offered merely
segregation.
Copyright. 1880. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
REASON BY Fn aagBis

GENERAL HERR GoURAUD of France, who came
" here to attend the American Legion convention,
declares that he sees world peace near.
We congratulate the general on his marvellous
vision
Lee Phillips heir to vast oil fortune, is working
in a Kansas City filling station to get the attitude
OF the customer.
He also is likely to get the attitude of the bandit.
Fate has dealt very harshly with Bishop Cannon.
Two years ago he was militant force, but now
he faces dismissal from various organizations and his
son is charged with passing bad checks.
Safe to say Raskob win not contribute to fund
to lift the pressure.
ID OBERT MILLS. a 12-year-oId boy in Nova Scotia,
IN prevented train wreck by waving the red lining
He is lucky that he wasn't arrested for being a
Communist
The Office of the Brazilian consul at New York is
thronged with young Americans who want to 60 to
Erazil to fight, just for the thrill of it.
All through history much of the patriotism" has
seen desire to hit the high spots.
1t seems we were wrong to think of the Eskinos
sitting round Pickering candle in ice cone eat
ing bubber for the sailors who go north to trade with
them report many families making $4,000 per annum
rom the sale of furs.
A ND they are real spenders handing out $500 a
n ton for coal and s375 for airplane rides.
1t ought be fertile field for the blue sky artists
who annually despoil countrymen Of hundreds of
millions.
DR.. L. G. Roundtree of Rochester, Mimi. states
that by cutting two small nerves along the spine one
can be cured of camn1y hand and given warm
clasp that win make the recipient tngle with
temperature
This should be interesting to the gentleman with
a gelatin clutch who desires to enter politics.
The candidate is hopeless II his handshake reminds
the public Of can Of fish worms
He must grab the voter with authority, impart-
ing the idea Of ruggedness and Eide jurisdiction
Otherwise ne IS doomed. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
They Found the Reds

The Ham Fish committee that is sleuthing the
s. A in search of reds is reported to have found the
prescribed color. if not in this country then in the
neighboring land to the south. Word comes from
California that while soourning in the sunny south
west some committee members slipped across the Dor
der to spend refreshing night in that far-famed
Mexican spa known Aqua Caliente
Doubtless they found there in that mecca Of tired
miionares and movie queens plenty Of the color
their eyes are attuned to see-red wine red chips,
the rouge ct noir Of dizzy roulette wheels the
mined lips and cheeks of dancing senoritas, the long
red mahogany bars CT nearby Tia Juana
No one will begrudgs the oyerworked investigators
their little adventure. It's dull job looking for
menaces. Besides, after all the time and money the
Ham Fish junket will cost him. Uncle Sam win want
to hear of all the reds there are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
That Neighbours Tomcat

From Nebraska comes word of the bitter fight to
defeat Senator George w. Norris, who, disgruntled
Republicans assert "as as much right to call him
self a Republican as my Democratic neighbours tom
cat" --.s
Norris, it seems is standing on his record, as he
successfully has done for some twentyodd years, is
apologizing for nothing, and declares Il will wear
no mans collar, even if that man be the President
of the United States"
About three years ago the president of the state
university of another independent commonwealth in
the midwest published prayer for those in gov
eminent" It.was intended chiefly for the guidance
and inspiration of members Of the Wisconsin 1egs-
lature.
the principles described in that petition that it
pertinent to quote from it at this time:
Save us from the sins to which shall be subtly
tempted the calls of parties and the cries OF in
terest beat upon this seat of the government.
-'"Save us from thinking about the next election
when we should be thinking about the next genera
ton.
Save lis fron thinking too much about the vote
of the majorities when we should be thinking about
the virtue of measures, i.
Save us from making party an end in itself
when should be making its means to an end. .
Help us to make party our servant rather than
our master.
May know that it profits us nothing to win
elections If We lose our courage.
Help to serve the crowd without dattering
it and believe in it without bowling to its idola-
tries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Colonel and Judy

THAT contention seems to hold
Il true. The fundamental char
acter of the electorate has not been
changed. Each of the two major
parties has drawn its reasonable
share Of the new voters.
Like men, women are for a high
tariff or low tariff, states rights
or an increasing share of power for
the federal government.
1t has been held that in the profi-
bition issue women are largely in
clined to the dry cause. This may
have been so couple of years ago,
but the recent drift toward repeal
has been added by many prominent
women leaders.
I think, offhand, of Ida Tarbell
as one individual who has been
peculiarly effective in breaking the
back of Anti Saloon League conten-
tention. And here in New York
City, at any rate, there seems to
be no disposition on the part of
feminine voters to line up with the
noble experiment.
The vote was, among other things,
symbol. 1t did great deal to give
every individual woman ego salts
faction and feeling of equality. 1t
has done much to help women in
industry.
In this field the difficulties of the
feminine applicant have been to
some slight extent psychological.
Women are much too ready to ac-
cept lower wages than men for do
ing precisely the same sort of work.
They are not buoyed up by tradi-
ton.
They have not fought sufficiently
hard againSt the community's be-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Autoist Must Use Extreme Care

He must remember never to pass
a vehicle while going up a hill,
around a curve, or at crossing. He
must remember that the driver be-
hind him is entitled to know when
he plans to stop suddenly or turn
out. He Away must be alert as to
the movements of the driver before
him.
The driver in front may stop
suddenly, without warning. The
safe driver will not drive on the
left-hand side of the road, nor go
as fast in wet weather as in dry.
In an accident sustained by the
writer of this column, the car went
off the side of the road into some
clay which had been moistened by
a drizzling rain.
AS the car was brought back on
the road, a mass of clay came back
with the wheel, causing it to. skid
as though on ice.
The car skidded across the road
and, striking a shelf on the left
hand side of the road, turned over.
The result of the. accident was a
shattering of the glass, and an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25

arm resting on the window sill
was dislocated.
Moreover, the muscles and bones
Of several of the occupants of the
car we're bruised seriously.
Fortunately f1rst-aid kit was
carried in the car so that the
wounds resulting from the shatter-
ing of the glass we're treated
promptly. These wounds were
treated first of all by pouring on
liberal amounts of tincture of iodine
or mercurochrome, according to the
preference of the person wounded.
Then the wound was bandaged
tightly to stop the flow of blood. No
attempt was made at the roadside
to insert stitches or to cleanse the
wound.
When the patients reached the
hospital, the wounds were cleansed
and by the use of proper stitches
neat scars were insured
Had any considerable amount OF
soil from the roadside or of clothing
gotten into the wounds, it would
have been necessary to give injec-
tions of antitetanus serum to pre-
vent development of lockjaw.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Give Heed to the Freight

VOU now can make colored ice
l. if you have the right kind Of
machine and know how So, too,
you can phone from New York to
Australia at the rate of SIS a min
ute if you have the price.
Next Monday the king of Siam
will phone his ambassador at
Washington from Bangkok. What
he will say might easily be of more
importance, but nobody thinks of
that.
We are more concerned with the
vehicle these days than with the
freight it carries. The big idea is
to make faster time transporting
things, even if the things are not
SO good.
In spite of all the speedy trains,
trucks and steamships, many people
are hungry, and in spite of all the
telephones and broadcasting sta
tions, many people lack information
and ideas.
Little more attention to the freight
probably would do no harm, even
if it meant a little less to the car
rier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25

1T has been said by some that the
l. nineteenth. amendment, which
gave women the ballot, has been a
disappointment.
Commentators who hold this view
explain that people vote just about
as they did when elections were left
wholly to men.
I can see no reason for disap-
pointment in that fact, and I admit
the fact. What else should any
body expect? Indeed, what else
would anybody desire?
Women have not done all they
might with the ballot, but neither
have the men, and am pleased to
observe that the mental and emo
tional processes. of human beings
are strikingly similar, irrespective
of sex differences.
During the fierce campaigning
which went on for suffrage, few
feminists made the claim that wom-
en- should be allowed to vote be-
cause they we're better than men. It
was a much stronge argument
that they were just as good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
A Relative Term

nISCUSSING the important
~ problem OF feeble -mindedneSs,
DR.. Todd points out the necessity OF
distinguishing between the individ-
ual who is insane and the indi-
vidual with so narrow a margin of
mental equipment that, under mod
ern conditions of life, he hangs ever
in the balance between social eff
fectiveness and social failure or, it
may be, social antagonism."
Feeble-mindedness," he contin-
ues, always must be a relative
term, for there is implicit in it a
reference to the social environment
which the person in question is
called upon to meet.
Stress of life fuctuates with Geo.
nomic and industrial conditions.
Observations carried on during and
since the war indicate that the de-
gree of stress is mirrored in the
mortality of the time.
eve find that in such year as
1917-18 the pauper burials in Cleve-
land are those of men of very poor
physical and of low mental caliber
as measured by relative cranial ca
pacity.
In a period of industrial distress
such as that of 1922, much bet
ter types and larger brains are
found among the pauper burials.
THE unfit measured even by so
crude a standard are selected by
relative social status rather than
physical characteristics.
Were there adequate random
mixing Of population, feeble-mind-
edness never would get q grip on
humanity. This may be the reason
why feeble-mindedness has not be-
come greater menace in the his
tory of man"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
nv DIR, MORRIS FTSHBETN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
INCREASING speed of motor cars,
L congestion on roads, and many
other factors have added to the
hazards Of motor travel.
Motor accidents are reported in
increasing numbers. Both the num-
Der of deaths and the amount of
incapacity brought about by such
accidents show increasing figures in
the available statistics.
The manner in which accidents
occur have been studied by experts
with a view to issuing cautions
against them and a number of rules
have been formulated which, if
carefully observed, will aid in pre-
venting many cases.
The safe driver has to look out
for every one else as well as for
himself. He has to bear in mind
that a car going more than fifty
miles an hour is not in control. He
has to realize the special danger of
crossings, intersections and schools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Consider the Bee

~ ENERALLY speaking, we are
" overloaded with rolling stock,
especially in this country. What we
need more than anything else is
freight to make it worth while,
freight in the form of goods and in
telligence.
We are transporting too little, and
some OF what we are transporting
might just as well be left behind,
Too much useless motion, too
much useless noise, too much going
hither and yon for no reason, too
much purposeless activity.
A fly in the kitchen covers as
much ground in a day as does a bee
travelling between it's hive and the
flower bed. The bee makes honey,
the fly nothing but specks. We could
stand little more of the bee com
plex.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Welfare legislation

IN one respect women voters seem
L TO me to have been less efficient
than might be reasonably expected.
They have been fooled into sup
porting a good many discriminatory
laws which were presented under the
engaging name of welfare legisla-
ton"
TT takes a certain amount Of
courage for any progressive person
to say, Il am against welfare legis-
-Iation.'' Indeed, he, or she, need not
be trapped into that position if he
only will bear in mind the fact that
legislation which applies to only one
sex almost always carries with it
peTfalty.
A law can not be aid to protect
women If its immediate result IS to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIEIZ-

\
More Efective Method Of
Measuring Human Cdpac-
ity Is Needed.
rTHE chief need of the world to-
i day is a more effective method
of measuring human capacity and
of removing the disabilities which
limit and reduce its adequate ex~
preston.
So says DR.. T. Wingate Todd, oil
rector of the Brush Foundation, uil-
der whose auspices the first Con-
ference on Adolescence Research was
held in Cleveland Oct. II and IL.
The theme of race improyemeno
is not a new one DR.. Todd says
ut has attracted definite attention
for nearly a century and a hail.
though the adoption of measures
with this specific object in view
have been of slow growth.
1.-THE spectacular efforts at sterlll-
cation Of the unfit and crude birth
control are by no means the most
effective. Less striking but more IN
accordance with public feeling are
the work of the health councils, the
school medical service. the asset
ated charities. infant prophylaxis,
maternal health and maternity reg
ulation and mothercraft, which to-
gether already have produced a ma
terial improvement.
Race improvement is as much a
social problem as a medical one.
1T is difficult to segregate the M
huences respectively of heredity ana
environment and perhaps the most
satisfactory solution is the combin-
ing of both as problem OF herl-
tage"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Woman Reporter

CPEAKING for the trade with
- which I am best acquainted, I
see no natural superiority in the
male newspaper writer.
Fortunately, in certain Journal
iStic instances women have con-
quered custom and have obtained
the right to do what used to be
called mans work. and to receive
mans pay.
I remember prohting personally
on account of the quaint notion
that men write with more author
ity" than women. I got my first
job as dramatic critic on account of
this error
The paper on which worked ap-
pointed a young woman to the post,
and she did excellently. But after
a month or so the managing editor
began to worry. He said in an ex-
ecutive conference that he was
afraid it was a mistake.
People who are picking out the
shows they want to See he ex-
planned, ARE more likely to take the
advice of a man. They are more
ready to trust his Judgment"
Accordingly, the young woman
was transferred to the Sunday de-
partment and I became the critic.
To add authority to the post of dra-
matte reviewer, the managing edi-
tor selected a lad Of "a who had
the visible qualifications for the job
except the fact that he seemed to be
a pretty good baseball writer. But
he happened to be a man.
I have certain prejudices in favor
of that rosy-cheeked youngster who
by executive ukase became an au-
thority on the modern drama.
I think that on the whole he did
we'll with the job, but he never
should have had it in the first
place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
No PanaCea Seen

THERE can be no general panacea
L for race improvement, Or. Todd
says. Methods must be practical
he adds.
"Our methods clearly must be
controlled by adequate medical
knowledge and social understanding.
I'm the first place our children
must be we'll born. That means
proper spacing in the interest OF
both parents and child. 1t means
the spread and increased efficiency
of the prenatal clinic and the safe
guarding of maternal health.
In the second place our children
must be well nurtured. That means
DEVELOPMENT of the infant pro-
phylaxis clinics and fostering the
agencies which devote themselves to
physical health and mental we'll
being among our young people.
Above all, it calls for unrelaxing
effort to continue the Improvement
of our social and industrial Or
GanlZatlOn.
"By human liberation and SYM
pathetic understanding much can be
accomplished. The very stability
and predictability of response which
are so characteristic of mankind
give us clear ground for optimism
ut is quite obvious that, apart
from the general measures for ply
steal and social betterment outlined
above. we can expect no specific
progress unless we have quite def
mite standards toward which we
can work.
I'VE must have some means Of
assessing the worth of our popula-
ton. present and future. We must
know its original value and must
register the influence upon it of the
adventures Of life"