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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-27
Grundy's Boomerang

What foreign countries may do to retaiate against
the Grundy prohibtive tariff is well illustrated by the
action OF the German reichstag in overhauling the
tariff schedules of that country.
The rechstag voted to increase the levy on wheat
to possible maximum Of $3.50 ton with authori-
cations of further increases there are attempts from
abroad to dump wheat on the German market. Large
quantities of wheat stored in the United States were
especially envisaged,' says a cable dispatch from
Berlin.
The tariffs on barley. flour and sugar were in
creased similarly. government monopoly has been
established for corn, through which all domestic or
imported grain must be marketed.
Americas exports amount to around 10 per cent
of her production But this margin has been called
the countrys balance of prosperity"
In its final deliberations on the Grlmdy tariff bill
congress will do well to consider this angle of the
tariff problem with care. America can not expect
to impose virtual embargo on foreign importatons
and dump her own SURPRISES without hindrance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-27
Prohibition MYTH Breaks

PROHIBITION gained influence,
Il especially with women, because
Of the idea that saloons ruined chill
dren.
Give us a generation without
their maligned lure, we said, and
the boys and girls of America would
turn against old John Barleycorn.
Well, here are the students of
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Michi-
gan and other universities, brought
up with the speakeasy. instead of
the saloon, and much wetter in
their attitude because of 1t.
The London naval conference Is
breaking down for precisely the
same reason that other peace move
mentS are breaking down.
The world believes it can get
peace without paying for it, is will
ing to make agreements, provided
they bind no one to do anything,
and will cooperate if it can do so
without sacrificing one iota of SOW
ereignty.
The attitude is negative. What
We have in mind is peace, by prom
Using not to do things.
Every community on earth could
liberate itself from crime, if the
criminals only would adopt a SINH
lar method.
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All Bars Are Down

THE new superstition runs to
Il. easy shortcut methods, ed
ucation without study, wealth with
out work, leanness without exercise,
sobriety without Self-control.
The idea is that we can produce
a race Of super beings by the simple
process of inventing something, of
perfecting a system and operating it
by push buttons.
keeping up with Lizzie" has be-
come a tenet Of modern progress.
Old people are excused because
Of the way they were brought up,
but youth must conform.
The girl who doesn't bob her hair,
smoke and read risque books, suffers
from social taboo.
So does the boy who doesn't pet,
or carry a flask on his hip.
Opposition to the old morality has
developed into a crusade.
Belief in the legitimacy of divorce
degenerates into a clamor for free
love.
Man is a machine. we shout, a
creature of circumstance, a marion
cite of fate, but society, though
composed Of men, possesses both
will and wisdom.
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REASON By Ff fAHn2E

THERE is a possibility of genuine farm relief in
n Thomas A. EdSon's experiment, looking to the
extraction Of commercial rubber from golden rod
for 1t would take many to produce enough
to take care Of automobiles
Thus the gasoline drinking Quadruped may make
amends for the corn, hay and oats which it junked
when it put the horse out of business.
1t is great picture this fine old genius gives us
at the age of 49, seeking to add this great achieve
ment to his many gifts to the human race
His hair is white and the passing years have di-
miniShed his bodily strength but he works with the
enthusiasm OF older days.
XETHAT billowy laugh his energy in the evening
of life gives to the efficiency experts who seek to
turn out upon the bare pasture of unemployment ali
those who are over As to so.
Edison is worth more to the world than all the
efficiency experts who ever sat around a table to
reduce the salaries of all but themselves.
The Lord has been good to the United States by
giving it Thomas A. Edison and good to Edison be
giving him the genius which enabled him to drag up
the cliff of human progress.
His has been the greatest blessing; he has been
permitted to do the thing in life he wanted to do. =
Mr. Edison does not expect to live 100 years and
would not want to survive his usefulness.
He told us once upon time how his father came
to see him and said on leaving I'm tired of liv-
ing, I've seen you ana now l III gong 10 see VCuT
sister; then I'm going home and die" And he did.
WHAT pity Methuselah couldn't have been gath
w cred to his fathers early and Edison given his
centuries,
Methuselah didn't amount to much; he just sal
around and fought flies and grumbled that fried mush
wasn't as good it 500 years ago. that children
were not as reliable they 700 years before and
that statesmen not in it with those 900 years
previous.
II he could continue to hit all cylinders. think
what Thomas A. Edison could do with those $50 years
which mumbling Methuselah dropped into the dusty
hopper of uselessnessl
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symptoms are manifested in the
child.
Moreover, the earlier the symp-
toms are manifested, the more like
ly it is that the child will have
constitutions to seevral different
substances.
The forms Of sensitivity displayed
included all conditions mentioned.
A child Eorn in a family in which
numerous ancestors have had hay
fever is more likely to be affected
with hay fever than with asthma.
OF course, the thing that is in
herited is not a specific anatomical
disturbance, as occurs for instance
when one inherits the characteristic
of six fingers on one hand; here
the thing that is inherited is a
susceptibility to sensitivity, whether
it is horse hair, rabbit hair, chicken
feathers, pollens Of plants, or some
other substance.
Nature of the sensitivity then de-
ponds on the likelihood of exposure
to the special substances, and
secondary factors, such as diseases
of the sinuses, tonsils or adenoids,
and the occurrence of secondary in
fictitious diseases, such as measles or
Whooping cough.
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ANNIVERSARY
4t s
RONTGEN,S BIRTH

RONTGEN'S BIRTH
I'M March 81, 1845, Konrad Won
~ Rontgen, German physicist
and discoverer of the X-ray, was
born IN Lennep, Germany.
He received his early education in
Holland and then studied at Zurich
After teaching mathematics and
physics at various universities he
was appointed ordinary professor of
physics at Wurzburg. 1t was here
that ne made the discovery for
which his name is chiefly known,
the X-ray.
The discovery came about by ac-
cident. Rontgen had been studying
the mysterious green light of a new
kind of vacuum tube when he sud-
denly was called away from his
laboratory.
Just before he left he laid the tube
on a book containing a large antique
key which was used for bookmark.
Beneath the book happened to be a
Photographic plate holder.
The plate meant nothing to Ront-
gen Until he exposed it while on a
walk one afternoon and noticed on
it the image of the key.
He reconstructed the laboratory
scene lust as it had happened origi-
nally anC achieved the same result.
Not moving what kind of light it
was which produced the image Of
the Key. Rontgen called it the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-27
Not So Dry

Senator Brookhart, in debate with Clarence OAR
row. declared New York eventually would be made
dry like Iowa"
Reference to the annual report of the commits
soner of prohibition showed that federal officers ar
rested 314 persons for violation of the liquor laws in
Iowa in the fiscal year 1929 and assisted state officers
in the arrest OF 627 Others No record shown for
purely state operations under its own dry law.
Federal officers also seized 90 distilleres SS stills
Of still worms and 1914 fermenters. They confscated
e445 gallons of spirits and considerable amount of
malt liquor and mash Iowa federal courts ter
minated more than 213 liquor prosecutions.
Iowa, no doubt, is much drer than New York.
But it's stin little bit damp We should judge.
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BRINGING LIn Susie

TT is time that the community
Il realized this. In scores of mid
ding well-to-do families the daugh-
ter of the house is being trained in
business school.
'Of course, we expect that Susie
will be getting married soon, but you
never can tell. We think she ought
to have some training just to be on
the safe side"
Well, Susie's safe side, after she
has mastered tipping and stenogra-
ply, is the possibility that with q
very good break in luck she may be
able to get an arduous job paying
SIS. Conditions might be better all
around if there were fewer Susies
and higher wages.
am asked every now and then
by my theatrical friends to contem-
plate the terrible state of affairs
brought about by the stage hands
union.
The stock case Is Of the play
which requires just one set-"Time,
CllC PI CoCA4Cs ONS44SJ bIiS 14UI dry "
Colonel Mannering in his Long Is
land home"
This scene Is set at the beginning
of the run and even If THE
Crimson Paper Cutter" plays one
year on Broadway, you must have
stage hands-four or five of them.
They sit in the back of the theater
and play pinochle.
I am asked by my managerial
friends, Isn't that terrible?" The
only answer is that it all depends
on the point of view. Pinochle
isn't such a bad game and if
were a stage hand I would be all
for such arrangement. Certainly
I'd rather be an organized stage
hand than a disorganized Susie.
Terrible or not, no manager IS
going to come back stage and say,
Things are not so hot this week,
think I'll get along with two stage
hands instead of five" The stage
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1T seems to me that out OF the
l. present period Of depression
stenographers, clerks and book
keepers ought to learn a lesson,
White collar folk, more than any
others, need organization. 1t doesn't
even require a big panic to deprive
a typist of her job.
At the first sign of slackness the
boss gets panicky and the inevitable
remedy for even the slightest slump
is to fire a few stenographers. This
is supposed to encourage the rest.
1t takes a good deal Of training
and aptitude to be a first-class
stenographer. Probably it is true
that the real experts are seldom I'M
employed, but this hardly holds good
of the highly competent.
It is held against the unions that
by limitation of apprentices they
shut people out of any chance In
many trades. That is hardly an I'M
mixed evil. The fact that white col
lar workers get poor pay must be
based on the fact that there are too
many of them.
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Greenland

NOTHING more is heard Of Arc
L Y tic exploration for some hum
dreds Of years. The Vikings are
known to have crossed the North
sea in the sixth century, A. D., per-
haps earlier. 1t is probable that
the early Morse walrus hunters
reached Novaya zemlya, two islands
in an elongated crescent shape
stretching northward from the
northern coast to European Russia.
1t is also thought likely that these
early hunters reached SpitZbergen,
famous in recent years as the
jumping off place for the airplane
and airship expeditions to the north
pole.
The second Arctic explorer Of
whom there is any record is Ottar-
a Norwegian, who lived about $40
or 800 A. D.
He rounded the North Cape OF
Europe and discovered the Barents
and White seas. After Ottar's time.
many voyages were undertaken
from Norway to the White sea.
In the ninth century the Vikings
reached Iceland, in the tenth CEN
tury Greenland, and in the twelfth
what they called "Syalbard," now
generally assumed to have been
Spitzbergen.
The first report of Greenland
came at the end Of the ninth CEN
fury, when a Norseman named
Gunnbjorn nilsson was driven out
of his course by storm while on
his way to Iceland. He reported
sighting land.
The real discoverer of Greenland
was Eric, the Red. He and his men
were exiled from Iceland for murder
and set out to find the land which
Gunnbjorn had reported. They
reached Greenland about 982.
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breaker and with unfortunate consequent results to
the victims"
Silver cited typical cases where swinders care
fully avoided of the mails in selling stocks of
little or value, and could not be reached by the
federal government. State statutes inadequate
because the business was interstate and covered a
large area.
AS remedy, Silver proposes new federal laws.
The federal government, he says is the only agency
that can provide effective and unified measures
against this new type of crook.
There is a crying need Of federal laws making
1t crime to use the telephone, telegraph and radio
in furtherance of unlawful purposes, he says ut
should be made crime for person to travel. or
cause one to travel in interstate commerce. pursuant
to a scheme to defraud Congress has the power
to do IT,"
Doubtless there is abundant evidence to support
Silvers charges. Numerous instances of the kind
he described we're uncovered in New York and other
large cities during the stock market boom The
senate committee considering the creation of federal
communications commission well might give thought
to the subject.
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7 EluIe

THE ancient Greek was Pytheas
H. of MaSSilia, the first Arctic ex-
plorer. Many who think of Attic
exploration as something very mod
ern will be surprised to know that
we must go back to the ancient
Greeks for its beginnings.
Pytheas probably was a contem-
porary of Alexander the Great.
alexander lived from 356 TO 1913
B. c.
Unfortunately, Pytheas' own writ
ingS have all been lost and we know
Of him only through the references
to his writings made by Strabo, a
famous Greek geographer who was
born some 300 years later in 63 B. G.
PytheaS, in all probability, did not
cross the Arctic circle. Nevertheless.
geographical authorities feel that he
deserves the title of the 4irSt Arctic
explorer.
1t seems that he first visited
Britain and then proceeded to a
place which he called the Land of
Thule, which he said was six days
journey by boat from Britain.
There are various guesses as to
the identity of Thule. Some ALL
thorities, including Professor r. N.
r. Brown of the University of Shelf
field, believe it was Norway. Others
think it was Iceland or possibly one
of the Orkney or Shetland islands
off the coast of Scotland.
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That or DebeI Sea

60 far my marines are all from
- memory. I haven't seen the
ocean for years and possibly it has
changed some since my day. Sooner
or later I shall have to take look
and check up on the pictures have
painted.
If they don't seem to tally, some
thing must be done about it.
Changes will have to be made.
suppose 1t would be simplest to
change the pictures.
Still, I have a deep affection for
my marine pictures and possibly it
will be just as we'll never to expose
them to the test Of salt water.
However, nobody has even seen
all the oceans or even the entirely
of one. Maybe in some distant,
forgotten corner of the ocean there
is a patch OF water precisely like
that which I have painted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-27
Catching Up With Crime

Federal statutes protect victims Of confidence men
and swindlers who attempt to carry their opera
tons through the mails But the law lagS behind
modern invention. and the crook has been quick to
turn this fact to his advantage.
This We learn from address by Edward
Silver former United States assistant attorney for
the southern district Of New York, who has handled
many mail fraud cases
THE criminal has been quick to utilize the tele-
phone telegraph and the rapid means Of transpor
tation TO further his unlawful game" says Silver.
The law has not kept pace with these developments
TO the satisfaction and enrichment of the law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-27
Russia Is IdoIator

HERE Is Russian Communism.
T. 4 ella ing to be the most coldly
rational creed ever promulgated, but
ready to immediate itself on the al
tars of a theory.
The churches are closed, and the
ikons smashed, but the red tomb Of
Lenin takes their place, the writings
of Karl Marx become a gospel, and
Stain enjoys the power of spiri-
tual as well as a political overload.
n
Neither is Russia the only ex-
ample of modern idolatry.
Here In America, though we still
have mass and the Bible belt, new
gods are arising, the god Of pros
perity, Of salvation by law, of ma
chine-male character. only to men
ton a few, and good intentions,
noble experiments; how enthusiast
tically we excuse things in their
name, and how complacently we ig-
more results that fail to square with
our Superstitious confidence.
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I Daily \
I Lenten Devotion
Thursday, March 81

IhurSdayI Marcn n
CHARITY FOR OTHERS
FEELINGS
Memory Verse-"Looking to thy
self, lest thou be tempted" (Gal-
atians GID.
Read-Galatians 6:l-10.
MEDITATION
Self knowledge should give one
charity. With all ones good reso-
lutions one plumbers and fails and
thrusts his fingers ofttimes into
the heart strings of a friend" But
a man does not wish to be judged
by chance misplays. He wants to
be interpreted in the light Of his
best. We all crave the magnani-
nous judgments Of others. Men,
frail and faulty. may by the grace
of God become wise and gentle.
In the closing sentence of a book
of stories of abnormal men and
women the author, a detective,
says: LAS in a dream I hear soft,
PARKWAY murmur-Let him that is
without sin among you cast the first
stone"
PRAYER
20 Thou to whom we look fol-
mercy in the hour Of our shortcom-
ings teach us to show the mercy
that we seek, and TO practice the
gentle judgments that We crave.
Out of our need for charity. we
would bring the mind of charity tc
our fellow-men. Amen"
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By DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of HySeia. the
Health Magazine.

Association ana OF hyKc1as ING
Health Magazine.
TOR some time the belief has been
IL growing among those giving
special attention to hay fever, asth-
ma and food senSitization, that the
condition tends to run in families.
For this reason DR.. George w
Bray of the asthma clinic Of the
hospital for sick children in London
investigated 200 consecutive cases
coming to that clinic with this point
in mind.
Particular attention was paid to
the appearance in any of the fam
lilies of asthma, hay fever, eczema.
hives and migraine. Types Of asth-
ma associated with kidney or heart
disease and inflammation OF the skin
associated with occupation were ex-
Guided as not being related to the
specific SenSitivity.
Inquiry was made as to the rec
ords of 4,152 relatives, which would
be about twenty relatives for each
patient.
All cases were children under IL
vars of age. 1t was found that
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EUer Since the Dd1On of Con-
seriousness 1t Has Been Our
Unhappy Fate to Build
Castles in the Air.
SAYS:

IRON his yacht off Genoa, Mar
L conf sends radio impulse across
10000 miles of sea, and closes a
circuit in Sydney, Australia, which
sets myriads of lamps ablaze.
In Buffalo, an old Indian squaW
tells how she murdered a woman
whom she scarcely knew, because
Of fear that the latter would be-
witch her.
1t is hard to realize that such
extremes can exist in the same age,
but they do, always have, and prob
ably always will.
We are imaginative beings. We
could not help dreaming if we
would. Since the dawn of con-
seriousness it has been our unhappy
fate to build castles in the air.
Some Of the castles take shape in
brick and stone, while others
crystalize in superstitious beliefs.
In either case, we become slaves
to the system they represent; in
either case we justify the loss of our
independence by the thought that
we are helping humanity, and in
either case we are victims of a faith
which runs to dogma.
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Slump

IN my own favorite job of painting
l. I must admit that business is not
so good. 1 haven't sold picture
for six months. Not even Tempest
on a Wooded Coast"
I used to sell that two or three
times a month. Never for very much
the top price was $235. There
seemed to be q point at almost every
party at my house at which some
body would get the notion that he
wanted to buy Tempest on Wood
ed Coast" I always asked cash.
But it seemed to be the sort Of
picture men forget. When the pur-
chaser went away he always left the
painting behind him. 1t may be
that my meter is not yet estab-
lished. Already a few branches have
been eliminated.
People who look at my landscapes
say, mo, you don't seem to be a
landscape painter" And just as
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TT SEEMS TO ME By HB BEo15%

much has been said for my still
lifes.
My own belief is that I'm a marine
painter. All my latest work deals
with the ocean. There are advan-
tages. The ocean does things in a
large way.
There are no tiny knicknacks, such
as leaves and branches to bother
you once you begin to paint the
sea. And in the matter of color,
the ocean is exceedingly obliging.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ
We Must Go Back to the
Ancient Greeks for the
Beginnings Of Arctic En-
pl0rGti0n.

A N ancient Greek, courageousIy
L n sailing his little vessel north
ward into unknown regions, was
startled and amazed to find himself
confronted with phenomena such "a
he never had dreamed Of.
Suddenly the sea became con-
gealed. making It impossible for his
boat to move. while ahead OF the
boat he saw great dark wall rising
out of the sea.
He was convinced that he had
reached the northern end of the
world and that the CONCEALED sea
and the dark wall were to keep mel1
from falling over the edge.
His courage, 1t seems, was tenn
pered with discretion and wisdom
and so he made no attempt to go
! farther north.
Scientists today have a fairly good
idea Of what had happened to this
ancient Greek. In northern lati~
tudes, the surface of the sea some
! times is known to become covered
with layer of ice an inch thick in
single night.
Such a layer would explain The
CONCEALED sea" It would be thick
enough to prevent any further
movement by a small boat such as
the ancient Greeks used.
The wall undoubtedly was the
dense mass Of fog known as frost
smoke" which settles upon the
ocean in high ATTITUDES both when
summer gives way to the cold OF
autumn and again when winter
gives way to the warmth of spring.
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ideals and opinions expressed
n this column are those Of
one OF Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this paper.-The Editor.
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The chest measurement Of the recruits in the
united States navy is the largest of any navy in the
world according to latest statistics 1t will be in
ereSting to observe the result of another measurement
following the London conference.
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A piece OF news that will be cheering to irish
men the world over is that bricks now may be made
as big as the side of a house
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hands would laugh at him. They
can afford to laugh. They have a
union scale.