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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
The Street Car Situation

Before any action is taken upon the pro-
posal of receiver, bondholders, and the insult
interests to take over the street car COM
panv on a financial basis to which these
interested parties have agreed, the city
administration and the people are entitled 10
all the facts.
The proposal, in general terms, binds the
city to a cost plus system OF operation
under which fares will increase or decrease,
according to receipts.
The Merchants Association has sug-
gested two very important questions They
want to know whether the part that goes to
the bondhoders is a fair valuation OF the
plant a. present and how much the large
insult power interests intend to charge for
electricity to run the cars.
The bondholders have not made an I'M
pressive showing on values. They say they
take a reduction of seven millions from the
face value Of their securities. That is mean
ingless. Men who invest in any business,
utility or otherwise, take a chance on loss,
either through bad management or for any
other reason. They want profits.
In the utility field, this has been espe-
cially true. Some men made millions. Bond
holders, after the water in stocks first was
turned into gold and then evaporated by con-
ditions, deserve sympathy.
Advocates of the plan paint bad picture
of what they have to sell to the city. They
saw that many miles of tracks must be re-
built and all repaired. They say that 300
cars must be junked and new ones bought.
The people who will be called upon to pay
fares can be excused if they forget what has
been lost and center attention on the value
of what is left. The power cost is even
more important. The power interests intend
TO control all industries. 1t Is possible that
the insult interests never intend to make
dollar of profit out of running street cars and
buses, if permitted to take what they want
as a charge for the electric power which
finally will all be furnished from their great
central stations.
But they well might be satisfied to make
the street car patron pay for electricity at a
price that would be very profitable.
This really is a proposal of partnership
with all the people. No partnership can sue
rnceed unless it starts off on fair basis.
Sympathetic as the citizens may be with
those who invested in securities in this
bankrupt company, they should not pay
exorbitant prices for junk.
A monopoly of transportation is not OBJ
iectionable, if transportation is furnished
Constant city control has its advantages.
The service at cost plus fixed profit is
not bad plan if honestly administered.
But such plan must start fair and re-
main fair. The price of electricity is most
important. The other matter to be investi-
gated is just what the present plant really is
worth.
The advocates of the insult plan have
advertised it as almost worthless. The one
better plan than private operation is public
ownership, much preferable to any program
that starts out loaded with unfair costs and
subject to unfair charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
Plymouth Rock

THERE need be no doubt OF his
i relationship to the Puritan
force and background. To this
group he belonged both by blood
and mental surge. And yet he was
able to lift some of the frailties OF
the clan into a true magnifcance.
For instance, he had almost not
a trace of any sense Of humor. Most
of US readily accept this lack as a
fault. I am a great deal less than
sure.
Good fighters and successful
fighters are not much helped by be-
ing able ever to see even a passing
ridiculous CLINT in the causes which
they hold most dear.
When I was in college it was said
that DR.. Eliot cnce had come out
strongly against baseball. He was
shocked by the idea that winning
pitcher upon occasion threw curve.
In all seriousness he contended
that this was intended to deceive
the batter and therefore must be
ranked as an unfair stratagenl
{. Perhaps this was no more than
part of ting Eliot myth, but the new
biography By Henry James does
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
M. E. Tracy
SAYS

The Dignity" With Which
College Highbroao Profes-
Sors Haze Banned Charity
Football Games Is Little
Short of Inhum0n.
A MoNG the most interesting
IA phases of the unemployment
situation is the Indifferent or adj
verse attitude assumed by college
Faculties toward the idea Of con-
tributing what would be no more
than their just share.
With few gratifying exceptions
they have answered the suggestion
of donating the proceeds of one
football game with dignity which
is little short of inhuman.
Can't arrange for an extra game
on account of examinations; can't
donate the proceeds Of one already
scheduled, because the athletic treas
ury needs the money; can't SERVE
an inch from the prescribed pro-
gram, no matter how many babies
cry for milk.
1t must be wonderful to have
such backbone in the face Of such
emergency.
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Rides Teddy

TINE football controversy ramped
i while I was an undergraduate.
and Theodore Roosevelt, the most
popular alunnus of the university,
came charging into Cambridge to
tell us of the strenuous life and to
pay tribute to "the best sport OF all
intercollegiate football"
The white teeth cleaned and
clicked together as he said it, ana
all we youngsters cheered with great
approval.
And now feel that Teddy was
wrong and that the old Puritan had
the right idea. Intercollegiate foot
ball may be many things, but it is
not a sport for those who are COM
PEELED to bear the brtlnt Of its regi-
mentation and rigors.
Not even the popularity Of a
Roosevelt was enough to make DR..
Eliot give way an inch can not
think of any man in q hundred
years of American life who ever
stuck more consistently to his guns.
Though not a profound thinker
under any precise definition which
I know, Charles Eliot rose almost
to a dazzling glory through the so
lidity OF his incersity. have heard
many orators since, and some have
move me while others left me cold
and yet, this old gentleman with q
ramrod back and glacial exterior
stirred me most of all.
He was superbly debunker in the
fact that he was spotlessly guilty
of all the minor tricks which CREEP
into public speaking. He had not q
gesture to his name, nor did he
ever crouch and shoot low, vibrant
whispers over the edge Of the plat
form at his audience.
You know you've heard. "Remem-
Der Washington at Valley Forge,
and the orator of the occasion act;
as if his phrases constituted a price
less confidence. Eliot would take hi:
place in the middlesQt the platform
plant his heels close together. fold
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
'XXTHEN a good cause has been
wv defeated the onlv question its

"XXTHEN a good cause has been
wv defeated the only question its
advocates need ask is, when do we
fight again?"
This is a quotation from a letter
written by Charles w. Eliot at the
age of Sc. He wrote to young
friend of his who just had turned rs.
The name of DR.. Eliot came into
my mind today because I happened
to see g review by Lewis Gannett OF
a new two-volume life Of the great
Harvard educator.
It is good for anybody to be re-
minded every now and then Of
Charles w. Eliot, for he was, I be-
lieve, one of the great men of our
time. At the moment the impress
sion prevails that Calvin Coolidge is
the most typical Of all New En-
CHAMBERS.
If 1 we're making an argument
for Puritanism (and that is unlike
Iy) 1 hardly would base my case on
such minor figure, but bark back
to man of the authentic stature Of
Charles w. Eliot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
SlnugneSS Is Shock

a Ia time when every branch of
"A the government, every business
organization, and every charitable
agency from Maine to California is
cooperating to relieve what obvi-
ously has become a critical situation,
the smugness with which our higher
educational institutions sidestep
their part comes as a surprise and a
shock.
Snarkey, the pugilist, offers to
stage a fight and contribute his en-
tire share of the purse, but he is
not highly educated, which makes
his conduct excusable.
Sharkey, you understand, has a
vivid idea of how poor people live.
He gathered it from actual con-
tact, not from reading beautifully
written books by social experts who
were guaranteed their pay from an
endowment created by some rich
man, or from some public fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TIME publicity given in the press
l. to the use Of the device for
artificial respiration developed by
DR.. Phillip Drinker of the Harvard
School of Public Health has given
it an unusual interest in the public
mind.
In San Francisco two patients
simultaneously required the appa-
ratus when there was only one
available and the physician had to
make a choice as to which patient
should have the chance for life.
AS a result, newspapers in San
Francisco conducted a campaign to
provide every large hospital in the
city with one of these mechanisms.
In Chicago a nurse who developed
infantile paralysis has been kept
alive for several weeks, spending
practically all her time in the res
pirator, and is now able to breathe
spontaneously for fifteen or twenty
minutes when outside the machine.
It seems likely that eventually she
will make a complete recovery.
Doctor Drinber just has made
available a record of cases up to
June, 1880, indicating the useful
mes of this device for the saving Of
life in various types of diseases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
Some Sympathy | eft

THERE is a type of education
L. which hanks back to life, which
admits the realities of human exist
ence because it can't do anything
else, and which is able to retain a
degree of sympathy for that reason.
We don't rate it very high in our
scheme of things, don't glorify it
with graduating exercises, or GER
tify it with diplomas, but when the
Four Horsemen ride abroad, that
type usually can be depended on tc
do it's full part
Why can't the other type-the be-
frocked, degreed. exalted type?
Does it fail to realize the trouble We
are in, or doesn't it care?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08

Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe It Or Not" which
appeared in Fridays Times:
A Blue Streak-The conception
of space is finite only in a mathe~
NAUTICAL sense. Thus, it has been
suggested by Minkowski, Einstein
and others that space may be fin
tie and yet unbounded, for the
reason that anything travelling
through cosnlic space never would
come to any "jumping-off- place, "
and yet the total volume Of space
might be known to be less than q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08

tance which anything would travel
in straight line before arriving
at the point of origin is of the
order of 5OOOOO,OOO,0OO light-years,
or about 3x1 ,024 miles.
OF course, these estimates can
not be put to test. because the
greatest distance our most power
full telescopes enable us to see is
less than 1900 of this distance.
Reference, philosophy by Way
of the Sciences" R. H. Dotterer;
Macmillan Company, 1929
Monday-"A Good Epitaph."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
HighbroWS 10 Blame

nON'T blame the men who would
II do the playing, or the under
graduates and their friends who
would buy the tickets, for there is
not football team in this country
that would cringe at zero weather
or q snowstorn to do its part.
The flies in the ointment mostly
are Phi. DIS or M. AS, who have
become so saturated with the me
chanism of higher education that
they are willing to let millions go
in want rather than see it vary one
iota from the charted course.
We are confronted with an as
founding revelation Of what great
learning really stands for when it
comes to helping some poor devil out
of the ditch.
To call a spade spade, we seem
to have filled a good many heads
at the expense Of O. good many
hearts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08

certain number of cubic-light-
years
The doctrine of the f1nitude of
space is a part of the famous doc
trine Of curvature Of space" and
involves the assumption of one or
more dimensions in addition to
those recognized by the traditional
Euclidean geometry.
In accordance with this theory,
a straight line, instead of being
infinite in length, would return to
the point Of origin. 1t has been
estimated that the greatest dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
Questions and
Answers

What was the title Of the silent
screen version of ''Moby Dick?"
Who starred in it and who starred
in the sound picture?
The silent screen version was
called Tho Sea Beast" Recently
it was produced asa sound picture
With the title, ''Moby Dick" John
Barrymore starred in both versions.
How many watts do stations
WEAF and WIZ use in broadcast
ing?
Station WEAF broadcasts with
$4,000 watts; WIZ with 10000.
Where Is Mt. Wilson observatory,
and who Is the director?
The director is DR.. Walter 8.
Adams, and the observatory is at
Pasadena, Cal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08

state as fact that part of DR..
Eliots opposition to college football
lay in his horror against the prac-
tice Of directing the attack at the
weakest spot in the opponents line.
This was less than chivalry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
Touch Of Emotion

DUT it would, of course be fool
- ish to pretend that no color Of
emotion ever crept into his voice. I
heard him for the last time more
than twenty years ago.
At 70-odd he announced his in
tention of retiring from the pres
idency of Harvard university. None
of us in the college knew him well,
but we gathered about his frame
house and shouted until he came out
to make us a farewell address.
Naturally, when l speak Of Dr.
Eliot 1 remember the flaming birth
mark which married his face. But
it didn't really mar it. He made
that bright splotch seem like red
badge of courage.
Standing straight and firm, he
told us that Matthew Arnold once
said that no man should remain as
headmaster of an English public
school after he could no longer go
upstairs three steps at time.
Copyright. 1880. BIZ The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one Of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to thei!
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this DaDer.-The Editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
Daily Thought

He that hearkeneth unto cOun-
sci is WiSe.-ProYerbs 1915.
Good counsels observed are chains
of grace.-Thomas Fuller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08

received unusual support from the press Of the
country.
ALI that she lacks--f that is lack in the judy
ment of President Hoover-is political pull
Miss Abbott would make the sort of secretary Of
labor the country needs. If there is another whose
qualifications for the job equal to hers the name
has not yet come to public attention
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-08
What is 4 dowager?

A widow, especially of a ruler or
noble, in possession of a dover or
jointure. The word is principally
used now to designate the widow Of
q deceased sovereign.
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY H BFoSS

his hands and talk. It is still the
best way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

an Illuminating talk on the various
means by which music was being de-
veloped in this country.
Following her remarks, Miss Synder
played one Of the most ambitious pro-
grams of this series. Her technic and
musical understanding were fully equal
TO the severe demands made upon it.
Her tonal variety was excellent. The
peak was reached in her rendition of
the Toccata and Fugue In D Minor"
tBach- Tausig). Her other numbers
we're the too rarely heard Variations
Serieuses" (Mendelssohn). "Berceuse."
"Etude opus. IS, No. q" "Etude, opus
IS, No. IL" Chopin; "Ref1ets dams
leau'' (Debussy) and "Rhadpsody, No.
XIII" Giszt).
The closing joint recital of the festi~
val being given by the pianists' club will
be tomorrow evening, commencing
promptly at O'Clock, when Felian
Garyia will present Katharine Morrison,
and LaSalle Spier will present Virginia
Shull
The public is invited. C. r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
DRILL HONOR WON
BY COMPANY A
Eugene Roberts of D. C.
Leads Victory in r. o. TIC.
Unit at Maryland U.
ny stan Correspondent of The star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, May e.
Company A, commanded by Eugene
Roberts. a Washington boy. won the
company drill, the main honors, In the
competition of Reserve officers Train
ing Corps unit at the University of
Maryland today.
The Gov. Ritchie Cup went to the
winning company and Capt. Roberts re-
ceived the University of Maryland Saber.
The first platoon of Company D. led
by Robert w. Lockridge of Edmonston.
Md, captured the alumni cup for the
best drilled platoon, while Corpl Theo-
dore Bishoff, a Washingtonian. won the
. class of 1899 gold medal for being the
best drilled student. Sixty students,
10 selected from each company, took
part IN the individual competition.
William j. cinnamon of Easton, Md,
cadet lieutenant colonel of the unit, the
ranking student officer, was awarded
the John Brown belt, given by the mill
tary department for the student who
has done the most for the department
during the year.
The Sd Corps Area silver and bronze
medals for the leader and runner-up
In gallery shooting went to Willis T.
Frazier and Morton Silverherg, both of
Washington.
Cadet commissions we're awarded to
the following: William j. Kinnamon,
Graef W. Buehnn, James D. De Mari,
Luther Harper, William H. Heintz,
Philip A. Insley, Melvin Rooms, Foster
e. Lipphard. Robert W. Lockridge,
William l.. Lucas. j. Donald Nevius,
John T. O'Neill, E. j. Roberts, w. w.
Siddall and John N. Umbarger, most of
whom are from Washington
The presentation of the awards was
made by DR.. Raymond Allen Pearson,
president of the university. after which
the regiment was reviewed by him Maj.
Robert S. Lyle, head of the depart
ment of military science and tactics,
and a number of invited guests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
NJ u S &c
HoBLEy-sNypER RECITAL.

An enthusiastic audience assembled in
"A the auditorium of the Columbia
Heights Christian Church, 1885 Park
road northwest last night, to greet two
young members of the Washington
Pianists' Club In joint recital. These
were Dorothy Hobley. presented by
Amelia Olmsted. and Sophie Snyder,
certificate teacher of the Peabody Con-
Servatory of Music, Baltimore present.
ed by Austin Conrad
These recitals marked the fourth
evening of a festival of pinoforte music
given by this club, whose membership
consists of advanced students in the
master classes of teachers. and whose
festival is a contribution to National
Music week.
Miss Hobley is promising young
high school girl of Is years, of decided
talent, well trained. Her interesting pro-
gram included prelude and F'ugue, G
Minor (Bach), Sonata" Opus 81, No.
3, third and first movements Beet
hoven; prelude. G minor, 'Mazurka,
A-Flat Major Chopin: Nightingale,
"Gnomenreigen" OiszD, and Africa
Fantasia" (Saint -Saens). She played all
of her numbers with ease and true
musical feeling, the climax being reach
ed in the seldom heard Saint-Saens
number for orchestra and piano, In
which she was ably assisted on the Sec
ond piano by Mrs. Olmsted.
At the close of her recital the guest
speaker. Mrs. Joseph L. Stoddard, gave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Bankruptcy Pleas Filed.

Russell c. Bennett 1921 Seventh
street, clerk at the Chestnut Farms
Dairy, today filed a petition in the Dis
trict Supreme Court to be adjudged
bankrupt He lists his debts at $1,270.55
and estimates his assets at 5000. He is
represented by Attorney William E.
Carey, jr.
A similar application was filed by
Harry T.. Brockson. a salesman, 1418
street. He says he owes $3,051.18 and
has assets of S75 Attorney John j
Carmody appears for him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
MASEFIELD IS NAMED
AS POET LAUREATE
Celebrated Briton Who Roamed
World in Hobo Fashion Is
Honored by Empire.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 9.-John Masefleld,
the celebrated English poet and writer,
today was appointed poet laureate.
The new poet laureate is known as
the "hobo poet."s He has roamed the
world hobo fashion, and once was a
porter in a New York saloon. He Is 35
and has a wife and two children.
His struggle for success was of many
years duration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Another Air Recruit for Indy.

AMHERST. Mass, May 9 R.-Col.
Lindbergh evidently has made another
Morrow air-minded. His brother in
law, Dwight w. Morrow, jr., decided to
fly home from college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Low Phone Rates Mothers Day.

NEW YORK, May 9 (P).-Mothers
probably will receive more transatlantic
telephone calls than ever next Sunday.
A reduction in rates goes into effect
Mothers day.
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When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

EARLE-John Barrymore in
THE Man From Blankley's." At
II a. M, 1910, 2:3O, 4:45, 6:10,
8 and $50 p. m.
PALACE-Lupe Velez in Hell
Harbor." At 1875 a. M, 2:O5,
4:43, 1887 and 9:58 p. m.
FOX-Janet Gaynor an d
Charles Farrell in High Society
Blues" At 1853 a. M, 1922,
4:43, 1887 and 9:59 p. m.
COLUMBIA-"Paramount on
Parade" with IS stars. At II a.
m, l, 3:10,. $40. 7:20 and 9:3O
p. m.
RIALTO-Betty Compson in
''The Car of Broadway" At
1887 a. m, 1877, 1897, 5:37, 1887
and 9:37 p. m.
KEITH'S-Bert Wheeler and
Robert Woolsey in "The Cuckoos. j."
At 11:18 a. M, 1:20, 3:20, 500,
7:25 and $3.50 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Mau r / c e
Chevalier in THE Big Pond" At
11:41 a. m, 1:41, 3:4l, SAL, TAI
and 9:41 p. m.
LITTLE-Corliss Palmer in
Damaged Souls" At 1880 a.
M. 1880, $3.50, $50. 1870 and
$50 p. m.
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nerves have made him monarch
of Broadway's underworld. Dis
guised by a laughing mask, ne
operates through an office during
the day and a cabaret after
dark. Attracted to both big and
little bankrolls he urges Connie
his favorite dancer. to dine with
a newcomer named Grant. After
dinner Bradley shows the naive
boy around town, later taking
him to his apartment for a game
of cards. Won by Grants
friendly innocence he makes him
his first real pal.
Grant proposes to Connie, who
sights his inexperience, as an
objection. Whereupon Gran t
produces a reporters badge and
discloses the startling fact, he
has been called across the con-
tinent to trap the gambling
czar.
Bradley loses at poker. due to
marked cards, and refuses to pay
His enemies return the badge,
that slipped from Grants pocket
during the game, and leave with
threats of revenge. Bradley de-
cides Grant must pay the price Of
stool pigeon, but is moved
down by a machine gun as he is
about to see his order executed
Grant faces the problem of keep.
ing a friends trust, or fulfilling
the flaming dream of every real
operator.
John Wray. remembered as the
chilling menace in New York
Nights" plays the suave under
world boss. Betty Compson as
the sophisticated beauty, sings
THAT Homestead Steady of
Nine" in an enhancing manner,
and John Harron enacts the re.
porter with charming realism.
The supporting cast includes
Claude AlliSter, Wilbur Mack
King Baggot and Edmund Breese
Organ overture, two comedies
and newsreel enlivened by the
winning voice of Graham Nc
Nance, complete the exciting pro
gram.