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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-08
LODGE TO BOOST FUNDS
Toy Golf Party Will Be Sponsored
by Eastern Star.

A fraternal golhng night open
to the public will be sponsored at
the Ripple Velvet Greens miniature
golf course, Sixty-thfrd and Belle
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HB BEOTS

ed on an idea, and an idea can
sink the biggest battleship that ever
f1oated.
There is no instrument Of war as
powerful as an idea. The Germans
fashioned a gun so mighty and so
shreWdly conceived that it could
drop shells into Paris from spot
more than twenty-seven miles
away. That's a long range for a
gun, but it's no range at all for an
idea.
You could fashion an idea, and If
it we're conceived soundly and
freighted with the truth it would
go to the ends of the earth. And
more than that-come back to you
again.
And in the next war-and there's
not going to be any next war-they
tell us that poison gas can be rained
down upon great cities and destroy
the lives Of all whom it touches.
. Yes, but even in the case of new
tangled gases, more vicious than
any yet known, it is possible to get
up above them or to take refuge I'M
derneath in thick vaults in the
ground.
Try those tricks on an idea-a
good idea. You can't get above
that or burrow beneath it. A true
idea will pierce through the walls
of the tTickest vault. And through
the thickest skull, for that matter.
Copyright. 1880. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Our New Officials

Today the state is served by two new Off
Gals.
The office of secretary of state passes into
the hands of Frank Mayr Jr. Mr.. William
son becomes state auditor.
Their predecessors paid the penalty of
playing politics instead Of giving service to
the people
Any other two citizens, fortunate or I'M
fortunate enough to receive the Democratic
nominations would have been elected. They
owe their prominence to the indignation Of
an outraged public which rebelled against
the practices and policies of the old machine.
The Times had some small part in arous-
ing that Indignation, but it gives no bond
for the new officials.
The Times believes that these Offices and
all offices should be conducted with no
thought of partisan advantages. Because
the outgoing officials held a different view,
they now go.
It would be unfortunate if the new off
Gals adopted any policy which duplicated
that of their predecessors. That way leads
to disaster
Inc LINES mas ITO lHCeIoSC III d hePuu-
ican party or in Democratic party. 1t has
a very great interest in Mr.. Common Citi
zen Of Indiana.
To the new officials, The Times offers its
best wishes for successful administration.
1t also offers to them the strict promise that
any derelictions will be as faithfully report
ed as were those of the officials they succeed.
The sign boards are quite plain. Poll
tics must be adjourned or the power will
be brief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Labor Secretary
be brief

President Hoover wanted to appoint William N.
Doak secretary of labor For two years he entertained
the desire The only thing that stood in the way was
the fact that the greater part of organized labor
seemed to have an active distaste for Doak.
The time was getting shorter and shorter. Jim
Davis couldn't be kept in this anomalous position
much longer a ten-year anomaly is almost unique,
in American politics; and in any case, Jim was
due to take his seat United States senator from the
great and sovereign state of Pennsylvania.
Then on Thursday William Green stepped in and
solved the Presidents problem. The President got
of those breaks that characterized the of his
careful predecessor Green president of the American
Federation of Labor, announced publicly that he
would oppose the appointment of anybody not a mem
Der of his organization.
OF course Green had been telling the President
this privately for time, but that was just be-
tween the two OF them. When he said it publicly,
however there wasn't anything for a President with
nickels worth of political sense to do but assert his
righI to anybody he pleased to his cabinet So
he named Doak
Doak will take Office with the knowledge that he
is more acceptable to Republican politicians than
that part of the population he is supposed to
sent Inquiry reveals that the railroad brotherhoodS
to one of which he belongs are little enthusiastic
over the appointment than the A. F. of L. unions.
They regard him as labor politician if you know
what that is they think of him politician first
and labor leader second.
At that, Doak may not make the President bad
political advisor in the field of labor. He is shrewd
and plausible. He may be able to persuade the Presi
dent now and then that it is good politics, if nothing
else to meet the desires of labor in matters of legis
lation and administration. He do this if he
doesn't devote his whole time to persuading labor to
meet the desires of the President.
This would be wise way, incidentally, in which to
start his in high Office For obviously he already
has the confidence of the President and it seems he
has the confidence of labor yet to get.
Other labor leaders haven't forgotten that Doak
ran out in 1924 when. led by his railroad
brotherhoods organized labor declared for La Fol-
ette. Doak declared for Coolidge.
Doak may have only two years in which to work.
He knows what labor wants-relef from labor injunc-
tions intelligent unemployment legislation, and
He seems to have the Presidents ear and he'll do well
to start talking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Questions and
Answers

What is the name of the motion
picture which "Amos and Andy"
have recently completed?
"Check and Double Check"
Where were the Olympic games
of 1928 held?
Amsterdam, Holland.
Does Will Durant, the author, also
manufacture the Durant automo-
biles?
William Grape Durant, the manu-
facturer of Durant automobiles, and
VIII Durant, the author, are sep
arate individuals.
Were the Mauretania and the
Lusitania built in the same year?
Did they make their maiden trips
about the same time?
They we're both built in 1907 and
the Mauritania made her maiden
trip in November and the Lusitania
in September.
What was the theme song to the
motion picture, The F1orodora
Girl?"
There was no theme song, but
the original 'Florodora" score, in
Guiding snatcheS of Break the News
to Mother THE Blue Danube" and
other kindred periodic waltz num-
bers, we're incorporated in the mu-
steal score of the picture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Advertising Policies

1.-THE firm which eliminates or radically curtais
its advertising this time the interest Of economy
is pursuing short-sighted policy" says DR.. julius
Klein assistant secretary of commerce. statement
to Sturges Dorrance, prominent New York advertis-
ing expert.
Advertising" explains DR.. Klein, sis to national
business at the present moment just what initiative
courage and resourcefulness are to an Individual All
signs indicate that we have reached the bottom of
the decline anG indeed in places we are grad
ually moving upward.
Never was there better opportunity for sound
management, coupled with advertising having a real
message, to help the business of the country get
started on its climb back to prosperity"
There is a good deal of sound sense in that The
business who cuts down his advertising in time
of stress hardly can have any call for complaint if
his sales fall off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Utility Statistics

Just as debate starts on the need for more regu-
lation of power companies, the census bureau says
it will stop publishing the gross and net earnings of
these and other utilities
The Industries publish their figures, the
bureau says and government statistics are
necessary.
Without impugning the honesty of the utility
companies, we're not sure of that The federal
trade commissions figures for interstate power move
ment in 1929 very much larger than those of the
National Electric Light Association. And the bureau
of labor statistics figures for average cost of
per kilowatt hour in 1928 larger than those of
the National Electric Light Association.
The census bureau has not, apparently been doing
very complete Job utility statistics in the past
But instead of doing less it seems advisable that it
should do more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
--
Water and Iron Important for Baby

able in the majority of cases. This
opinion is based on recent re-
searches.
The infant who suffers with
ricketts, or who seems to have a
tendency in that direction may re-
ceive special quantities of vio-
sterol, as the physician may pre-
scribe it.
Milk is one of the most perfect
of foods, but it lacks particularly
in vitamin G. Hence, all babies
fed artificially should be given from
one to two tablespoons of orange
Juice or tomato juice each day to
provide this vitamin.
Apparently both human milk and
cows milk contain sufficient
amounts of vitamin B to prevent
any shortage of this vitamin, as
infants ordinarily are fed.
The child that is undernourished,
and lacks appetite, may require
vitamin B feeding as the physician
will determine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
| DH A ONN FREDERICK
1\1/L AON/1 lands

COME of those who are sufficiently innocent to per-
~ sst in the belief that world peace can be attained
by passing law against urge President Hoover
to call the nations together and get them to grind
out the necessary legislation.
But trouble with this proposition Is that the law
against war will be joke unless there is prayer,
somewhere able to punish the nation nations that
that could do this would be an international army
And this brings us back to the same old idea of
having Uncle Sam go into partnership with other ma
lions to police the planet to send money, men and
armament whenever and wherever a majority OF the
nations belonging to the outfit shall decree
THIS is the identical proposition that the Arneri-
L can people so repeatedly have hit with club
whenever presidential nominees appeared, pledging
themselves to get us into turmoil all over the earth
and the people feel the way about it now that
they did in former years.
OF course without club behind such enact
ment, it would have no power than bay rum
advertisement painted on the Alps
If there be any force in agreements the world al
ready is amply taken Of for the nations solenly
have signed the kellogg treaty, agreeing to abstain
from war.
OF course, the average puts little stock in
~ the preventive value of this parchment since all
the nations that signed it Grinding out guns and
dS IL dStud1 udeC VI VIC opCA1S
of hostilities were fixed for January 1884,
If they must fight let them go to it, and If moral
suasion can't make them be good, then done,
for certainly will not put Uncle Sam into per-
anent coat of mail and take of his white beaver and
hand him steel helmet.
We wish they might cease being outlaws and be-
come civilized We wish they might be given sense
of humor, sufficient to realize the pathos of struggle
among q bunch of mdgets, infinitesimally small, in
the light Of time and eternity But if they just can't
keep their fists of other peoples faces then all
we can do is to sit tight and mindsour own busiiess.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
People Are Duped
MAYHEM Germany was compelled

MAYHEM Germany was compelled
w to disarm at the point of a
gun. the civilized world was led to
look upon it as a step toward gen.
eral disarmament. Once the threat
of her military machine had been
removed, people were told, and once
France had been made to feel Sc
cure, humanity would convert its
swords into plowshares.
The point was of course that adj
jacent countries could believe they
were threatened by Germany Just
as long as they wanted to, and
France could remain scared just
as long as she felt like it. It was all
a matter of pure imagination, and
was left that way on purpose.
Of all the contracting parties,
Germany alone made specific prom
ises and put herself in a position
where their fulfillment could be
forced. The others we're left free
to bubble, sidestep and evade, yet
plain people, especially in Amer
lea. accepted their ambiguous
pledges in good faith, which is
where plain people we're fooled
gloriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The infant that is being fed arti-
f1cially should also receive water
between feelings, and this is Of
special importance in warm
weather.
After the sixth month of life, DR..
Marriott recommends that one
tablespoonful of PURGE Of spinach
be given to the infant once each
day to supply the pigment and the
iron for the hemoglobin, or coloring
matter of the blood.
It is generally well known that
vitamins are essential to proper
growth and for resistance to disease.
Practically all infants living in the
temperate zone should receive Vita
minis A and B regularly.
This may be supplied in the form
of One-half to one and one-half
teaspoons of cod liver oil three
times each day. Vitamin D may
be given in the form of viosterol,
but cod liver oil, as such, is prefer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01

irving to put the odium of obstruction upon the pro-
gressves The public mind is being prepared By
propaganda so that, in event of bitter fight and
legislative jam, the public will blame the progressives
But the fact is that the chief danger of effective
obstruction is from the c. o. P. old guard and Demo
cratic conservatives. The major pending issues IN
addition to the annual appropriation bills still are
in the legislative mill solely because of conservative
obstruction in the past.
The Wagner unemployment relief bills have been
blocked for two years by the administration. Muscle
Shoals was blocked for years by the old guard then
pocket-vetoed By Coolidge, and then delayed again
last spring by the Republican dictatorship in the
house after the senate had acted.
Likewise, the conservatives long have prevented q
fair hearing for the anuinjucton measure The Nor
ris amendment, eliminating lame-duck sessions OF
congress- of which the present is sorry example, has
passed the senate several times only to be killed by
house reactionaries
That leaves only the world court-another matter
which would have been disposed of last year had it
not been buried by the administration. If the adj
ministraton will cooperate in passing the long over
due unemployment, Muscle Shoals, anti-injunction
and lame duck legislation plenty of time will be left
for the world court.
Not much time is needed for here is another issue
which has been debated for years. The minority can
be given the necessary time to restae its opposition
and no time need be wasted advocating court mem
bership, to which large majority of the country
and the senate already committed thoroughly
Then the vote can be taken.
There will be no special session of the new con-
gress unless the administration makes one necessary
1t is up to the administration, which was ordered in
the November election to reverse its legislative policies
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Congress Opens

Congress opens today in haze of hot air about
coalition and attempts to force special session next
March This. hot air comes from leaders ma
neuverng for party advantage in the next presidential
election It should be discounted at the outset
Behind the political barrage the facts of the Sit
uation are fairly clear. No one wants to jam this
short session and force a special session. The Re-
publcans want to escape long as possible the new
congress, IN which their power will be reduced.
The Democrats are in no hurry to undertake the
responsibilities and political perils involved in their
increased strength And politicians of both sides are
smart enough to know that the public opposes an
extra session and will make it unhealthy for any
group which forces one
Naturally the conservatives of both parties are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Let's Tend Own Business

IF Europe were not facing a
l. multitude of troubles which are
distinctly European, and if we we're
not facing a multitude Of troubles
distinctly American, the case would
be different.
There has been no time since the
war, however, when both Europe
and America better could afford to
mind their own business and give
each other a rest.
We can do little, if anything, to
clear up the hopeless snarl caused
by Mussolini, Bolshevism. 1.-The treaty
of Versailles, and it's hangover of
backstair diplomacy. Europe can do
even less toward curing our ills.
Whether the European situation
is full of dynamite, as some people
seem to think, it certainly is full
of hokum. Outside of Germany,
which was forced to scrap her
military stores and reduce her
military establishment to 100000
men, the disarmament program has
run to battleships, with France
promising not to build too many if
she is permitted to maintain the
largest land force in Europe.
Twelve years have not given us
time enough to get over the largely
manufactured emotions of 1917. We
still are inclined to regard every
thing France does with sympathy
and everything Germany does with
suspicion, and even so, DR.. Groener,
the German defense minister, has
not made a wholly unfavorable i'm
preston here by his bitter attack on
the disarmament program and the
way it is working out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01

II HAD hoped, writes R. L. T.,
L "that the recent election might
put you in your place, but find you
just as conceited as ever. Is there
no hope?"
I'm afraid not. On Dec. 7 will
attain the ripe age of ~, and in
these advanced stages of life it is
much too late to expect any great
amount of change in an individual.
He can't be taught new tricks.
If to R. L. T. I seem to SWagger,
1 can only say that it required a
great deal of practice for me to
reach this stage of seeming self
sufficiency. Of course, it's a device.
There is no closed season for the
protection of columnists, and since
we are always exposed to attack, it
is necessary to keep the head up
constantly.
To lower your guard for even an
instant is to invite a sock on tine
law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
DEPRESSED Head

r DON'T think I'm really what you
Il might call enthusiastic about my
self, but I'm not antagoniStic, either.
I assert that this is not fault, or,
at least, not the worst sort of fault.
Swelled head may be bad, but it
isn't as harmful all around as de-
pressed head.
I mean that people who don't
think very much of themselves
generally aren't much good. The
man who gets to feeling that he's
just poor worm will function in
the world as a poor worm.
I've been trying to go along with
out using the phrase "inferiority
complex but that's what I'm talk
ing about There wouldn't be so
much cruelty and meanness in the
world if We we're all a little bit
conceited.
A conceited man generally is kind.
He feels warm and friendly to him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
A New Condition

DUT the march of scientific dis
ID covery and the consequent ar
rival of the machine age have
brought about new condition to-
day. DR.. Mcpherson says:
Opposition to the study Of sci-
ence gradually gave way, and inter-
est grew apace, so that the present
century and especially the last dec
ade has witnessed a growth in the
appreciation of chemistry and in the
provisions for its study in our
schools and colleges far beyond any
expectations.
Laboratories, a number of them
costing in excess of $1,000,000 have
been built and furnished with all
equipment necessary for instruction
and research.
1.-THE enrolment has increased
correspondingly. In the twenty-nine
universities belonging to the Asso-
citation of American Universities,
there were registered in one or more
courses of chemistry during the last
year more than $4,000 students.
According to the statistics COM
piled by c. j. West Of the National
Research Council, the number Of
graduate students engaged in re-
search in the various fields Of chem
istry increased from LOO in 1924
to 2,498 in 1923.
"Of this latter number, 1900 were
candidates for the masters degree
and 1928 for the doctors degree.
"a recent bulletin published by
the federal Office Of education lists
statistics of more Than 1000 colleges
and professional schools.
Counting but an average Of fifty
students in chemistry in each Of
these Ga very conservative estimate)
the number Of students of chemistry
in these institutions exceeds 10000,
to say nothing Of the large number
of such students in our secondary
schools"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
Table the Court

CTILL we hear the cry that
~ France must be guaranteed in
her security, that Germany has
fallen down on reparation pay
ments, and that little can be done
to make the peace movement real
until America comes over and takes
her place in a ring which is being
built up, not only to defend the
south bank Of the Rhine, but to
keep Mussolini, and Soviet Russia
in their places.
Under such circumstances, would
it not be just as well to table the
question of whether we should enter
the world court for few months,
especially since it could not be dis
cussed properly without delaying, if
not precluding, action on the bills
and measures Of which we stand in
desperate need.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
SCIENCE
Rapid Rise of Chemistry One
on the MarUels of Modern
Education.
BY DAVID DIETZ-


TODAY. a chemical laboratory is
i considered a necessary building
upon every university campus. Yet
it was only about $50 years ago that
college authorities first concluded
that chemistry was of sufficient i'm
portance to justify its inclusion in
the curriculum.
Some interesting facts about the
rapid rise of chemistry and its in
huence upon education are pointed
out by DR.. William Mcpherson, pro-
fesSor of chemistry and dean of the
graduate school at Ohio state uni
versity and president of the Amer
lean Chemical society.
Early in the last century, chem
istry was a required study in the
course of liberal arts at Columbia,
Harvard and Princeton" he tells.
This newborn infant, however,
was not received with any great
cordially into the family of studies
that had long constituted the essen
tialS for the baccalaureate degree.
Its growth was impeded in many
ways, and there were times when
there was some fear as to whether
it would survive the rigors of doubt
and suspicion to which 1t was ex-
posed"