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ANNIVERSARY
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THE PANAMA CANAL
Aug. IS

.NN Aug. IS, 1914, the Panama
~ canal, the ship canal across
the Isthmus Of Panama, connecting
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was
opened to commercial traffic by the
passage of the government steam
ship Ancon, carrying the secretary
of war and 200 guests. The passage
was made in nine hours and forty
minutes.
From that time the canal has
been opened to general traffic, ex-
cept when the slides at Culebra hill
and at Cucaracha have interrupted
navigation At the end of the first
year, 1877 ocean-going vessels
passed through the canal, paying in
tolls $5,216,149. The tolls we're es-
tablished by the President at the
rate of $1.20 net vessel ton for
loaded vessels.
The canal is fifty miles long and
cost about $4,000, 900 to build. The
engineer to whom greatest credit
IS due for the success in its con-
struction is Colonel George w, Goe-
thals.
Both Colonel Goethals and Col
onel William G. Gorgas, through
whose work in sanitation improve
ments on the isthmus it was possible
to construct the canal under favor
able health conditions, were raised
to the rank of major general in
recognition of their services.
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- HEAA1II1 oIAVVlOI
Blood Cell Study Is Complicated

, throughout the world are spending
vast amounts Of time and energy
to find the significance of the vari-
GUS forms of white blood cells, to
identify these forms, and to deter
mine their exact relationships in
all sorts of diseases.
Experts on the blood can tell
from these relationships whether
the person concerned is suffering
from one type of infection or an
other, whether he has been poisoned
by some chemical element, whether
his blood forming organs are func-
tioning properly.
In the blood-forming and de-
stroying system the bone marrow
and the spleen are especially sig
nificant. Unquestionably the liver
and the gallbladder and their secre-
lions ere seriously concerned.
The whole mechanism is so COM
plicated and intricate that it will
require the best brains of thousands
of scientists for many years before
it is fully elucidated and fully
understood.
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Discovery
DR. BREASTED stresses

Hfb. 6rOGAO ELL stresses Cfl6 TACT
- that the expeditions are inter-
ested chiefly in study, not collecting.
He states:
Expeditions of the institute are
not concerned primarily in discover
ing and carrying away to America
the priceless relics of the older civ
ilizations.
1.-THE purpose of the work is to
discover and preserve the evidence
Of older civilizations and the relics
found are mostly in national mu-
seums of the countries now con-
trolling the territory.
1.-THE Cairo, Jerusalem, Bagdad,
and Angora museums are reposito-
ries under national governmental
control for such material, but a
fair share has been acquired by
the institute for study and display.
'These exhibits will constitute
one of the greatest collections in the
country, and will be open to the
public"
A unique workshop is being 10
Gated in the basement of the ORR
entail institute to carry on the ex-
tremely difficult and important task
of preparing and preserving the ex-
hibits. A staff of highly skilled eX-
perts will have charge of this work.
Another feature of the institute
laboratory will be the library. It
will be two stories high with Eliza
bethan Gothic oak-vaulted ceiling.
This library will house thousands
of books, meny of them rare and
expensive volumes, dealing with an
Gent history ana old cultures.
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BXCSS

indictment against the good doc
tors conception of art, his taste in
the theater and his motives as a
producer.
Likewise included in the ecclesi-
astical bans was Gilbert Seldes'
modern adaptation of "Lysistrata, "
a rowdy comedy from the old
Greeks.
It is manifest that on these spe-
cif1c questions of morals the laity
and the clergy do, for that matter,
not see eye to eye, or thigh to thigh.
Such Numerically opposite view
points are not unknown to critical
schools.
Very often what is Leiderkranz
to one esthetic nose may very
readily be roses of altar to another.
BY the same token what is SUI
premely beautiful Bible drama in
one country may be merely black
face caricature of Billy Sunday in
another.
Copyright. 1880. by The Tines
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1\1/1 AOO4 v lands

WE see by the papers that Mencken, the editor
w OF Mercury, has been taken captive by a liter
airy lady from Alabama and that Sept. g. he will
march down the aisle keeping step with Mendelssohn
and wearing lilies of the valley in his buttonhole.
E#
We congratulate the young lady from Alabama on
her achievement, if not upon her prospect of unend-
ing felicity, for it is impossible to visualize Mencken
as freside evergreen.
We may do him an injustice but from his writings
We judge him to be about congenial as hay fever
RUT for all this, the young person from Dixie is
II entitled to the crox de sguerre with all the
palms that go with it, for her victory is greater than
that of Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga or Mad Anthony
Wayne at Stony Point
1t was defiant battle of the single state that
Mencken held aloft, the most defiant of them all,
banner that didn't kiss the air as conventional ban
ners are expected to do, but snapped at it, snapped
at it like an alligator.
WE nope we are wrong about Mencken's qualities
w We hope he is burst of sunshine who can eat
a biscuit as hard as a doorknob and commitment his
bride and ask her how in the world she ever baked it.
We hope he be interrupted in the middle of
an essay and go to the grocery for quarters worth
Of lard saying he leaves: MY dear, this Is the
happiest moment Of my lfe!'
But doubt it.
Still you never can tell, for when these radicals go
in for a reversal Of form they go the limit.
1t is altogether possible that by the time three or
four little Menckens are dipping their fingers in the
jam and writing the wall paper this sarcastic foe
conventional life will be sitting in the chimney cor
ner cutting carpet rags and wondering what he will
say at the meeting Of the mite society.
ONE Iusty kid could take from Mencken all ideas
" Of his own Importance; one curly-headed con-
queror could make him eat every pessinistic page he
ever wrote, and We wish him no better fate than
to be led out into the fresh air of normal rational
wholesome understanding by his child.
We are not concerned about Menckens processing
faith or becoming foreign missionary. but we shall
watch his post-marriage reactions with interest.
Meanwhile his followers are in the grip of dsmay,
for the mighty has fallen: the leadi1E bachelor soon
Is 70 become the following husband
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Naive-and Idiotic

Amos w. w. Woodcock, new director OF prohl-
aition evidently has original ideas about en-
forcing the eighteenth amendment, the Vostead
sct and the Jones ve-and-ten legislative atrocity
Coming on to the scene after all coercve efforts on
The part OF the federal government TO make lovers
81 liberty Ike slaves have failed, woodcock pleads
with those who still believe in the bill Of rights to
take their punishment lying down.
The woodcock appeal is so chld-like in its SIM
plciyy so naive in its psychology and idiotc in
its common sense that it is worth preserving.
In asking the support Of all citizens. Mr.. Wood
cock says: To those who have been making the un-
lawful traffic possible by afording a market for
the contraband. may I suggest, simply and in no
sense ociousy for the decision is yours-is the op
portunity to obtain drink Of liquor in an unlawful
way comparable In importance to you to the oppor-
tunity to contribute to the ideal Of law-abding
nation2
TO the great mass Of American men and wom-
IN. I say give us your sympathy and help. After
all. who can object to a fair. honest, earnest and
lawful enforcement Of the law Of the land?"
Wen. Amos. you've got it of your chest. And it
win have about as much influence on liberty-loying
men and women in this country like appeal BY
George III TO John Adams. Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas jefferson. Robert Morris. Charles Carroll
isahn Hancock. Ebridge Gerry and other sS1uticu-
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

increase so rapidly in time OF In
lection that this form will constl-
tute rs to 80 per cent.
In certain diseases the number OF
white blood cells is reduced and the
physician examines the blood with
view to determining this fact so
his diagnosis may be more certain.
Another of the forms Of white
blood cell is n1ononuclear, because
it has only one nucleus. In many
diseases this form is reduced great
ly, and in other diseases decreased.
When Inflammation occurs any
where in the human body, the blood
brings enormous numbers of white
blood cells to the spot. They come
there and remove the degenerated
or broken down material.
A third form of white blood cell
called easinophile, because 1t stains
with a certain stain, is increased in
number in some diseases; unques-
tionably in infestation with the
pork worm called trichina.
The medical profession and
workers in research laboratories
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Questions and
AnSzCe7.S

Where was the first theater In
America built?
In Williamsburg, Va, in 1716, on
a site facing the Palace Green, a
narrow park running north from
Duke of Gloucester street, and, In
colonial days, extending to the royal
governors palace.
What are the coIors Of Princeton
university?
Orange and black.
Is Valparaiso on the west coast OF
Chile, farther east than New York,
and in Rome, Italy, further north
than New York?
Yes.
How can one get rid of morning
glory vines that keep coming up on
a lawn.
The only way to eradicate them Is
TO cultivate the lawn with come
other crop, or cover IL. with sod and
keep the grass closely showed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-15
BY Joe WILLIAMS


THESE are exciting days in the
L theater. For one thing, Mary
Pickford is coming back to the
stage. Only the historians of the
drama remember clearly that she
once was a child actress on Broad
way.
To most of us whose first con-
facts with what the awful old Gym
les call "the land of make believe
came with the early pictures in the
nickelodeons, Pickford still is mys-
tic symbol and a romantic tradition
She was a pioneering priestess in
a new art, an eloquent muteness
whose niche in the entertainment
world became as definitely fixed as
the Helen Modjeskas, the Maud
Adamses and the Laurette Taylors
who were more reVerently listed in
the theatrical records.
Your memory goes back long
ways to the days when you sat in
cane backed chairs in remodelec
butcher shops and sobbed while the
girl heroine with long curls d.
vided her last crust of bread with
her dying grandpappy in the first
Super-reel Of the tWo-reel Super
Biograph spectacle, directed by Da-
vid Wark Griffith, the eXtraordi-
narily masterful genius Of the silent
drama.
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MoIding of MoguIS

II SUPPOSE lot of captains of in
Il dustry and giants of finance who
have scared to middle-aged success
in our busy nlarts Of trade would
scott at the suggestion, but it must
be true that these little Pickfordian
sermons nodded the career Of more
than one restless youth.
Naturally, there have been youths
who were insensitive to the great
moral influences Of the earlier films,
just as there are youths today who
fail to see poetry in babbling brooks,
fairy-like magic in towering cliffs
and beauty in gas stations; but,
alas, this is life, and there seems to
be very little that either DR.. Cad
man or I can do about it.
OF course, We can suck in our
breath in a prodigious sigh and
shake our fine old heads from left
to right in great pity, but If you
think this will keep them of the
Tom Thumb courses after 8 p. m.
or from writing to Clara Bow for
autographed pictures Gin a bathing
suit, please, you do not know the
younger generation.
AS one Of the original Ptckford-
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A Three Way War

I EAVING out the background of
IL handitry and political chaos
which is leaving out a great deal
the war in China may be described
asa three-way affair, with the reds
gaining, while the northern, or
Peiping crowd and the southern,
or nationalist crowd, cut each
others Threats.
A few intellectuals may be in
spired by the honesty, if not we'll
digested idealism, and a few war
lords may know what the shooting
is all about, especially from their
own selfish viewpoint, but generally
speaking, Chinas trouble is rooted
in confusion.
Shocking as this may be to those
who hailed the advent of a Chinese
republic with such JOY nineteen
years ago, it is neither more nor
less than should have been expected.
Four hundred million people,
most of them burden-bearers, sim
ply can't be lifted from the tenth
to the twentieth century overnight.
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without upsetting it. The Sport
ing Monthly hailed this feat with
a great deal of enthusiasm.
It Takes TWO Years to Make a
Billiard Ball-Billiard balls must
be perfect in shape, size, weight
and smoothness or they are val
ueless. When the balls are made
from ivory the rough-shaped ivory
block is kept in seasoning room
for at least a year, and another
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-15
Booze and Autos

NOMMISSIONER ROBERT T..
~ HURLEY of the Connecticut
state police has theory of his own
regarding the part played by hooch
on automobile accidents.
First, he claims that men are af-
fected by it in three distinct ways.
Some get drunk, some become in
toxicated, and some are merely "un-
der it's influence.
He defines DRINKS as dead to the
world, declaring that they are hard
ly ever responsible for crashes or
collision. Intoxicated persons, he
says, though deprived of poise and
balance, usually can navigate by in
stinct.
But for those merely under the
influence" he has nothing but scorn.
They are the dangerous drivers.
The moral is perfectly plain. II
auto drivers want to take a drop
and avoid trouble, they should get
dead drunk, or at least intoxicated.
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Legs Still Useful

CCHEDULED to deliver a lecture
- in Durham, N. H, Clarence de
Mar missed his train at Harrison,
Maine.
He might have taken an automo-
bile, or an airplane, but he didn't.
Instead, he "hoofed it," thirty
eight miles to Portland, where he
caught another train and kept his
engagement.
In spite of the wonderful record
made by Hawks in his 1915 hour
flight from Los Angeles to New
York; in spite of the equally Won
derful record of Jackson ana
O'Brine, legwork comes in handy at
times,
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BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor. Journal Of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
MaPazine.

Editor. Journal OF the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TINE white blood cells are GER
l. tainly as significant as the red
blood cells for human health and
life. They are of many varieties
which are only beginning to be
studied and classified completely.
In times of infection, for instance
in appendicitis, the number of white
blood cells will be raised promptly
from $4,000 to $4,000 as compared
with the 5000 to 1000 that is nor
NAL.
One variety will be increased
greatly in percentage as compared
with the other varieties. This va
riety is called the polymorphonu-
clear white blood cell, because it is
a white cell with many nuclei.
Whereas normally it is present in
from SIS to so per cent of all the
white blood cells, the number may
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CurIs to CuticIe

TT is a far cry in any language
l. from Miss Pickford to Earl Car
roll. Indeed, it is practically a shrek
of outrage.
DR.. Carroll, as you may have
noted, was freed by the grand jury
yesterday on charge of sprinkling
SCOT on the lily pads of life.
His absolution, oddly, came only
a few hours after the Catholic the
alter group, led by Cardinal Hayes,
and supported by other religious
bodies, had returned scatching
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Daily Thought

Peace, above all things, is to be
desired. but blood sometimes must
be spilled to obtain it on equable
and lasting terms.-Andrew Jack
son.
And they shall beat their swords
into plough-shares and their spears
into pruning hooks Micah "a,
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Following is the explanation OF
Ripley's Believe 1t u Not" which
appeared in Thursdays Times:
Robert Manning and his Horse
Jumped Over a Dining Table
Manning performed this feat as
a result of dare by a group of
friends. After ascending a long
stairway, horse and rider leaped
over one of the dining tables
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ians. nothing would add more zest
to my existence than to have her
come back to Broadway in one Of
her ancient Geographic graphics.
1t would help matters, too, if
something of the old atmosphere
could be refashioned /. =. the tire
less, gumchewing piano FOUNDER
the apology between reels, zone
minute please" the hometown
baritone who tore off illustrated
songs, a breath-taking fashion plate
with a fountain pen, a pencil and a
silk handkerchief peeping out
proudly above the rim of his top
coat pocket.
Those were the days indeed, and I
trust no one will embarrass me by
asking for what?
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter-
estinR writer's and are pre-
scented without regard TO their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-15

|ANE of the most interesting
- pieces of work being done by
the institute in Egypt is known as
the Coffin Texts" project.
The experts engaged on this prof.
ect are nearing completion of the
task of copying the inscriptions on
the collection of ancient collins In
Cairo, DR.. Breasted announces.
The prehistoric survey is tracing
the geological development of the
Nile river, and in its effort to dis
cover vestiges of the earliest human
habltation of the valley, has pushed
the date of its occupancy back sew
eral hundred thousand years.
The Megiddo expedition, which in
1927 reported the discovery of the
stables of Solomon, is excavating
the mound which covers stratified
series of cities at the ancient battle
site of Armageddon in Palestine.
The Anatolian expedition is sur
veying the country of the ancient
Hittites in Asia Minor, which is rich
in stratifled city-siteS, and has COM
pleted the work on the area around
AliShar.
The Iraq expedition, which last
year excavated the Temple of Sar-
gon II and discovered the temple of
Sennacherib near Khorsabad, north
of Bagdad, is devoted to study of
ancient Assyrian and Babylonian
civilizations.
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This Is Still a Taco-Pcrty
Government: as One Weak
ems, the other Gains.
SAYS:

IRON the standpoint Of abstracs
Il liberalism, Senator Norris re-
nomination by the Republicans OF
Nebraska may be triumph, but
from the standpoint OF practical
politics it merely gives Gilbert H.
Hitchcock, his Democratic opponent,
a better chance.
And that epitomizes the general
situation
No matter what causes Repub-
lican bolt, or how much we can
find to commend in the attitude Of
its leaders, it serves no purpose so
distinctly as to help the Democrats.
This is still a two-party govern
rnent. AS one weakens the other
gains.
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Stock market authorities class cosmetic manu-
facturers Of the depression proof" industries
Because, perhaps they keep stiff upper lips.
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Want a MaStodon7
XXTANT to buy mastodon skele-
w ton for $4,000?

XXTANT to buy a maStodon skele-
w ton for 100000?
You soon will have the oppor-
tunity, if reports from Czecho-Slo-
vakia are correct.
The worlds greatest mastodon
cemetery just has been discovered
in Moravia, so tbs said, and scien-
fists are preparing to exploit the
find, which suggests that CONNER
cial acumen is no longer confined
to America.
Neither is the price high, accord
ing to preliminary statements.
First, the bones have to exca-
waited; then they have to be washed;
then impregnated with glue; then
shellacked, and then assembled as
the mastodon wore them.
Here is chance for those inter-
ested in real antiques.
What is an ebulliscOpe?
An instrument to determine the
proportion of alcohol in mixture
by its boiling point.
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SCIENCE
Seven Expeditions of the
Oriental Institute Nol0 Are
Searching in the Near East
for Evidence of Eariy
Civilizations.
BY DAVID DIETZ

DLANS to expand the program OF
L the Oriental Institute Of the
University of Chicago have been
announced by DR.. James H. Breast
ed, its director.
The institute now has seven ex-
petitions in the Near East searching
for evidence of the earliest civiliza-
ton.
At the same time, a laboratory
costing $1,50o,000 is being built for
the institute on the University Of
Chicago campus from funds fur
niShed by the international educa-
ton board.
Forty-six experts are with the
seven expeditions now in the field.
More than 1000 natives are en-
ployed by them as diggers to un-
earth the ruins on prehistoric sites.
Four parties are in Egypt, and
one each in Anatolia, Assyria and
the Hittite country. The Epigraph-
ic Survey, near Luxor on the Nile,
is copying the inscriptions on the
temple of Medinet Habu. The first
volume of facsimile records will be
published shortly, it is announced.
Both the Geographic Survey and
the Architectural Survey, which is
reconstructing the design of the
temple Of Rameses III and other
structures are quartered in Chicago
house at Luxor.
Chicago house is the name given
the institutes Egyptian headquar-
tiers, located at Luxor.
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New York doctor is advising people to keep cool
by thinking of next winter. What's the usep Even
then we've got to think about our heat
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Even anglers can become irritable in hot weather
as witness the one who held piece of bait before
colleague and asked, "Is it worm enough for your"
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Just Rats

CHICAGO police are becoming
~ Jealous, if not efficient, in en-
forcing the law against carrying
arms.
They picked up a citizen the other
day because he had shotgun in
his fiivver.
What is your buSiness?' asked
the judge, when he was brought into
court.
"Externlinator," was the reply.
Gang or big game?" queried the
judge.
"RatS!" answered the prisoner.
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year of the most painstaking
seasoning is required after the
block has been cut to approx
mately its ultimate size. When
the balls are made from cheese
the time required for seasoning
and shaping is practically the
same.
misunderstanding Green Cot
ton.
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Haywood Broun, who conducts this
column, is on his vacation. During his
absence Joe Williams, sports editor of
the New York Telegram, will pinch hit
for Rroun.=The Editor.